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Dragon Con Talk with Charles McFall · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning, eleventh day of August. I'm Wes, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Got a guest this morning talking with us
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  Speaker 2: about Dragon Con coming up Labor Day weekend in downtown Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: He is the spokesperson for the convention this year, Charles McFall. Charles,
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  Speaker 2: I guess we should start for those people who don't
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  Speaker 2: really know what they would be getting into when they
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  Speaker 2: attend Dragon Con. Maybe they don't really quite know what
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  Speaker 2: the convention is. Tell us what is Dragon Con?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Wes. Everybody can hit you with the facts, right.
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  Speaker 3: We got five host hotels across the four city square block.
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  Speaker 3: It's five days of costuming and fun people and things
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  Speaker 3: to do. But I gotta tell you, for me home,
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  Speaker 3: it is what you make it. Do you like science,
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  Speaker 3: We've got science for you. We've got space tracked, science tracked,
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  Speaker 3: all kind of stuff. You've got your kids, you want
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  Speaker 3: them to do some cool things. We have kid character meetups.
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  Speaker 3: We have a whole kids track. I run a digital
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  Speaker 3: media track myself because I was a lifelong podcaster and
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  Speaker 3: digital media creator. And we have everything's a call withent
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  Speaker 3: a con so you can find what you love at
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  Speaker 3: dragon Con. You want to watch people, we got the
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  Speaker 3: people for you to watch. Amazing costume designs and funting
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  Speaker 3: and celebrities and bands. It is the thing you want
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  Speaker 3: to make it and it is just it is the
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  Speaker 3: highlight of my year every year.
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  Speaker 2: I like that you mentioned kids because obviously some people say, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I hear that this is a convention that
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  Speaker 2: goes on all hours of the night. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: the ongoing joke where people say, well, what time does
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  Speaker 2: it shut down every night, and he say, well, Monday.
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  Speaker 2: It shuts down on Monday, like that's when it closes down.
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  Speaker 2: And people think, well, you know, maybe after hours maybe
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  Speaker 2: you know, isn't quite right for the kids. And it
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  Speaker 2: obviously depends on where you are at the convention sort
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  Speaker 2: of what your interests are. But there's a lot for
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  Speaker 2: kids to do during the day, and I like to
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  Speaker 2: mention to people. Gaming is a big component of dragon Con,
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  Speaker 2: and that covers all ages. That covers you know, adults
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  Speaker 2: that want to play games that they've been playing since
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  Speaker 2: they were kids, and of course kids have their own
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  Speaker 2: games and there's you know, lots of things for them
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  Speaker 2: to do while they're.
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  Speaker 3: There, oh a thousand percent. And gaming is is let
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  Speaker 3: call every clinic or every facial tissue cleenex. Right. We
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  Speaker 3: have tabletop games, so you do all the role playing
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  Speaker 3: you want to dabble. We get entry level tabletop games
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  Speaker 3: all the way up to the complex stuff. We have
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  Speaker 3: hard games where magic gathering tournaments are happening and those
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  Speaker 3: kinds of things. Then you've got regular board games that
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  Speaker 3: are we've grew up with and that are new. You
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  Speaker 3: get video games ranging from the newest technology to classic
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  Speaker 3: games like Monopoly and things that we grew up with.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I played video I play Monopoly Go, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking video games there with. But it's We've got
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  Speaker 3: every video game from the early Nintendo on up to
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  Speaker 3: the current systems. We have VR systems, and we even
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  Speaker 3: have simulators where you can go fly your own spaceship,
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  Speaker 3: like Star Trek style kind of thing going on. And
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  Speaker 3: I believe I might be a little mistaken on this,
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  Speaker 3: but I believe we actually have some escape rooms this year.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. That's another aspect of gaming that I hadn't even
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  Speaker 2: really thought about, and I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: you know. They they've grown to love these escape rooms.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure a dragon, especially as a Dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: themed escape room, that would be pretty surreal, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: For the kids also, I'm talking as an adult all
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  Speaker 3: these cool things and kids can do that as well
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  Speaker 3: obviously and introduce them. I introduced my children to card
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  Speaker 3: games and those kind of things at Sons myself, but
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  Speaker 3: that whole kids track, and there's lego panels where they
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  Speaker 3: actually build and play. There are creat there's so many
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  Speaker 3: different kid creator panels where they can go make stuff
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  Speaker 3: that they then take home with them. So it is
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  Speaker 3: it is a very family friendly environment.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of things to take home, you mentioned the host hotels,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a convention that is different than others
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  Speaker 2: and that it takes place almost exclusively in the host hotels.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's America's Mart. That's where the vendors are
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  Speaker 2: ye and that's where there's lots of stuff you can
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  Speaker 2: take home.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it changes from year to year, but
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  Speaker 3: there's at least three to four floors in the America's
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  Speaker 3: Mart where you have the comic vendors, you have the
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  Speaker 3: book vendors, you have the cool stuff vendors, you have
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  Speaker 3: the fun collectible stuff vendors. You've got everything you can
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  Speaker 3: think of and stuff that you will never thought of
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  Speaker 3: that will blow your mind there.
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  Speaker 2: And when we talk about the host hotel, each hotel
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  Speaker 2: sort of kind of has its own theme and has
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  Speaker 2: some different aspect of the convention taking place there. And
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  Speaker 2: when we talk about hotels, sure, you can go outside
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  Speaker 2: and walk across the street to the next hotel or
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  Speaker 2: the convenient hamster tunnels that connect all the hotels and
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  Speaker 2: you never really even have to go outside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the habit trails, as they're called, is a connect
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  Speaker 3: the most of the hotels together, specifically the Hills and
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  Speaker 3: the Marriotte and the Hyatt, and then you actually have
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  Speaker 3: to Struts Street, but you can go from the Courtland
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  Speaker 3: parking deck across a trail straight across up to the
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  Speaker 3: America's Mart building. Yeah, you can follow these trails that
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  Speaker 3: are covered from the environment, so you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: get rained on, and you can go through most of
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  Speaker 3: the hotels without ever having to go outside.
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  Speaker 2: Rained on or extra sweaty. You mentioned you mentioned parking
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  Speaker 2: in that Let's talk about parking. That's always one of
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  Speaker 2: those things when people come up for one day or
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  Speaker 2: they're coming up for the whole weekend. People are looking
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  Speaker 2: for those places to park have their car being a
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  Speaker 2: safe spot for the weekend. And then folks that come
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  Speaker 2: up maybe just for one single day, looking for the
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  Speaker 2: best place to park so that they can maybe on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday get to where the parade's going to get started
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. So parking always a concern at the convention.
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  Speaker 3: It is, and our biggest piece of advice is to
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  Speaker 3: go with commercially owned parking lots, so that is the
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  Speaker 3: one they have the signs out that have been there
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  Speaker 3: for a while, to have the machines that you pay,
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  Speaker 3: so sometimes they'll bring the people out. We're not saying
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  Speaker 3: don't pay the people, but they're definitely top up parking
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  Speaker 3: lots that you have to be careful with. But in
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  Speaker 3: our four block radius there are tons of great legitimate
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  Speaker 3: parking deck and open parking lots that are there for
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  Speaker 3: you that will still keep you close to the com.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the charity aspect of dragon Con. Every year,
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con partners with a nonprofit and may a significant donation,
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  Speaker 2: not just financially but also through volunteers and other other resources.
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  Speaker 2: And each year it's always a different nonprofit. This year
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  Speaker 2: it's the National Alliance and Mental Illness of Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no ME Georgia is very important. Mental health is
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  Speaker 3: such a key factor in our lives. I myself have
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  Speaker 3: been a paramedic for almost thirty years and I see
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  Speaker 3: the effect of mental health in the latter off, in
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  Speaker 3: our society and in our people. So we're very happy
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  Speaker 3: to partner with NOMI Georgia that provide trained volunteers and
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  Speaker 3: leaders throughout Georgia, provide peer led education programs, support groups
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  Speaker 3: and all kinds of materials and solutions at no cost
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  Speaker 3: to participant. So no ME Georgia is really doing a
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  Speaker 3: big job in Georgia at helping keep our mental health
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  Speaker 3: up the stuff so we can be healthy human beings.
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  Speaker 2: Working as an EMT, you know a lot about the
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  Speaker 2: importance of blood drives and the fact that we're always
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  Speaker 2: short and always dragon con the annual blood drive is
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  Speaker 2: always a huge event.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, lifestyleth has partnered with us for a very long time.
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  Speaker 3: Last year we had four thousand donors, over ten thousand
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  Speaker 3: units of blood components put together. And I will say,
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  Speaker 3: not only is it a good cause, it takes very
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  Speaker 3: little bit of your time to donate there and make
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  Speaker 3: a difference in the world, because you're right, we're always
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  Speaker 3: short on blood products in the medical world. You get
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  Speaker 3: a very unique and collectible shirt for doing it. And
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  Speaker 3: I find that not only do you get when I give,
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  Speaker 3: I get that satisfaction of helping. I get something cool
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  Speaker 3: to take away. And who doesn't like something cool.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody likes something cool, especially if it's a free souvenir
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  Speaker 2: for dragon Con that you can take home and go, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: I did something to help. And also, at least for
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  Speaker 2: part of the day, you get to wear that thing
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  Speaker 2: on your arm, and that's that's a nice little way
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  Speaker 2: because if you give, you have that on and you
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  Speaker 2: pass someone who also has one on, there's an acknowledgment
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  Speaker 2: usually because people who are doing it know the importance
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  Speaker 2: of doing it, and it's really nice to be able
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  Speaker 2: to sort of have that moment as you're passing each
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  Speaker 2: other somewhere at the convention.
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  Speaker 3: It's in the most air conditioned space that we have
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  Speaker 3: and all the conventions. If you get hot and eat
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  Speaker 3: a rest, give the blood at the same time, you'll
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  Speaker 3: cool off and you'll feel better.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we always talk about when we talk
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  Speaker 2: about DragonCon the importance of hydrating when you're there at
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  Speaker 2: the convention, so that will at least motivate you to
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  Speaker 2: pre hydrate before you give blood and then remember to
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  Speaker 2: follow up and hydrate after the fact, because there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that will, you know, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of forget to drink, or forget to eat, and sadly
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  Speaker 2: sometimes forget to shower. We always remind people that too,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to stay all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But that's all motivation to give blood and reasons to
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  Speaker 2: do all of those things.
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  Speaker 3: It is indeed, it is. Indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about some of the fandoms represented this year,
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  Speaker 2: and I know we hit on some of the things
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  Speaker 2: that the convention is and sometimes these specific fandoms that
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  Speaker 2: get represented are big draw every year. This year, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we've got an anniversary Back to the Future. Some of
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  Speaker 2: the stars from Back to the Future will be there. Also,
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  Speaker 2: nice representation for Star Wars this year. We haven't always
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  Speaker 2: had that at Dragon Con, so that's really nice. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the more recent projects, obviously Mandalorian and the latter
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  Speaker 2: sequel trilogy starting to get some representation too. Star Trek
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  Speaker 2: is always represented well. William Shatner will be back. Cast
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  Speaker 2: from Bones will be there, the magicians, the Aero Verse,
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  Speaker 2: x men, ninety seven voice actors. There's a lot to
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  Speaker 2: see this year.
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  Speaker 3: You just said it all. I I mean, heck, what's
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  Speaker 3: your favorite? What are you looking forward to most?
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the things I enjoy the most
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  Speaker 2: about Dragon Con other than you know, like you said, home,
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  Speaker 2: being there with friends, meeting new people, people watching. But
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  Speaker 2: I always enjoy the reaction that the voice actors get
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  Speaker 2: when they meet fans. And I always always like and
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  Speaker 2: I've had conversations you know, with Rob Paulson over the years,
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  Speaker 2: and Bill Farmer and you know, some of the really
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  Speaker 2: great voice actors, and you know, they had had Tom Kenny,
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  Speaker 2: SpongeBob especially, we had a great conversation about this. And
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  Speaker 2: it's for some people, it's tapping into a specific moment
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  Speaker 2: in their life, whether it's from their childhood or it's
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  Speaker 2: a connection that they have maybe with their kids, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just really tapping into that. And I always equate
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  Speaker 2: it to if you've ever seen those videos of like
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  Speaker 2: a mother singing to a young baby and the baby
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  Speaker 2: just cries, and there's just something in the soul that
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  Speaker 2: gets connected by the song or by whatever it is,
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  Speaker 2: they're hitting a very specific place I think inside for
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  Speaker 2: someone and it gets that reaction from that baby. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that also happens with voice actors. They're seeing
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  Speaker 2: them in person for the first time maybe and they're
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  Speaker 2: hearing that voice come out of a face that just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look like the right face, and they're just connecting
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  Speaker 2: with some specific moment maybe in their in their life.
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  Speaker 2: And it's always and the voice actors are I mean,
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  Speaker 2: everyone does a great job I think for the most
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  Speaker 2: part when when their fans come up, but there's just
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  Speaker 2: something about the voice actors when they get that time
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  Speaker 2: with a fan and they especially with kids, they really connect.
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  Speaker 3: It's magic. It really is. You see their face by
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  Speaker 3: that and on both sides of it, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: and it is just some magical moments that are very
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  Speaker 3: natural and like you take the path, it's a little
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  Speaker 3: off beat, right, It's not just the on screen TV actors,
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  Speaker 3: it is the voice actors. And we absolutely have comic
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  Speaker 3: book artists like Shandra Free who wrote The God Machine,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got great are authors. You can meet your
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  Speaker 3: favorite authors there like Jim Butcher and Bab Mgoo. We
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  Speaker 3: have everybody that can have a fandom is represented, so
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  Speaker 3: you will find your favorite person at dragon Con. Hey
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  Speaker 3: get to meet them and get a picture. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes, you know, we were talking about kids earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Kids maybe they have an interest in comic books in
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  Speaker 2: a way where they say, hey, I'd like to be
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  Speaker 2: an illustrator or I'd like to you know, maybe one
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  Speaker 2: day they're interested in arts and they want to write.
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  Speaker 2: It's an opportunity to talk to some of these people
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  Speaker 2: that have done this as a career and get that
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  Speaker 2: advice and tips on ways that maybe they could make
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  Speaker 2: this a legitimate career option for those kids.
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  Speaker 3: And most, in my experience, most artists, comic book artists,
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  Speaker 3: painting artists, every artist that is there at Artists Salt.
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  Speaker 3: They love to give you their time of day. They
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  Speaker 3: love for you to come by and talk to them
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  Speaker 3: and have especially kids ask questions about hey, how do
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  Speaker 3: I get started doing this? It's again, it's an other
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  Speaker 3: magical moment. They light up, they're educating, they're connecting, and
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  Speaker 3: you see some really cool art and possibly buy some
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  Speaker 3: cool things to take hold.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about memberships. Dragon Con is a convention that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't sell you a ticket they sell you a membership,
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  Speaker 2: they want you to be part of it, kind of
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  Speaker 2: help own the convention. This is a convention that is
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  Speaker 2: about the members it's not about a big corporate thing,
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  Speaker 2: and it's one of the other things that sort of
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  Speaker 2: separates this from other conventions. So let's talk about memberships.
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  Speaker 2: For twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: We have five day memberships available, so those are the
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  Speaker 3: ones that will get you everything from Thursday to Monday.
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  Speaker 3: You get in and out of all the events, all
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  Speaker 3: the hotels, all the panels. It's for me, it's the
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  Speaker 3: best thing for your buck. But we also do sell
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  Speaker 3: single day ticket so you will need to check on
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  Speaker 3: DragonCon dot org. You go to the store and check
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  Speaker 3: and see. Of course, you can get some QR codes
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  Speaker 3: on site. We don't sell them on site, but you
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  Speaker 3: can get the QR code and go to the store
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  Speaker 3: at any time. And we have eternal membership. This is
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  Speaker 3: the one that you for a lifetime. You pay one
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  Speaker 3: time and you come back to the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 3: So there's all kinds of ways to access the amazingness
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  Speaker 3: of dragontonk.
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  Speaker 2: Charles, thank you so much for your time. Looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to seeing you're soue my friend.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, ask. I appreciate the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: screen door to your garage door system that you can
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  Speaker 2: put down and you can use your garage space as
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  Speaker 2: a sort of outdoor but indoor. You know, if you
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  Speaker 2: like to work on your own cars in there, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe you just want a little man cavid you'd like
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  Speaker 2: to be able to open the door up and not
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  Speaker 2: invite all the insects in. They can do that for
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  Speaker 2: you as well, and again they do after hours calls.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing worse than that thought of having your car
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  Speaker 2: trapped inside your garage and your garage door won't open
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  Speaker 2: and you need somebody to come help, And they do
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  Speaker 2: right after the break. All right, so for decades there's
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  Speaker 2: been a debate do you eat more protein or do
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  Speaker 2: you eat more carbs? Well, a new social media trends
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  Speaker 2: suggests something different. It's just eating more or fiber. They
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  Speaker 2: call it fiber maxing, and as you'd expect, it involves
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  Speaker 2: eating a maximum amount of fiber, and as you'd also expect,
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  Speaker 2: it probably involves a lot more gas. The idea is
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  Speaker 2: to incorporate as many fiber rich foods like fruits, veggies, beans, say,
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  Speaker 2: there you go, and whole grains into meals as possible.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is fiber supports gut health, hormones, blood sugar,
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  Speaker 2: regular bowel movements. Bloating is something that can happen, which
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  Speaker 2: of course eventually leads to the aforementioned farting. Everything can
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  Speaker 2: balance out in the end as long as you drink
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  Speaker 2: plenty of water. The trick is to go slow, build variety,
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  Speaker 2: stay hydrated, and listen to your gut. And that can mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, listen to what your gut is telling you
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  Speaker 2: on the inside. It can also reference the aforementioned farting.
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  Speaker 2: A new ice cream flavor is making waves because it's
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  Speaker 2: inspired by breast milk. No, it's not April Fools today,
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  Speaker 2: it's not April Fools related. It is breast milk ice cream.
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  Speaker 2: The new flavor, created by Frieda and Oddfellows ice Cream Company,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't actually contain breast milk, but it does mimic the
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  Speaker 2: taste using ingredients such as milk, cream, sugar, and colostrum
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  Speaker 2: from cows. The combination is designed to provide a sweet,
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  Speaker 2: slightly salty, and smooth taste with hints of honey. A
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  Speaker 2: limited run of breast Milk ice Cream currently available on
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  Speaker 2: the Freedo website, where customers are encouraged to latch on fast.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good slogan. I like it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about the ice cream though. I don't know if this
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  Speaker 2: is the kind of tapping into some nostalgia that we
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  Speaker 2: really companies are going for. But maybe maybe this does
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  Speaker 2: that very thing, take some back to the very very
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  Speaker 2: early days. A new Harvard led study has found that
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  Speaker 2: eating French fries regularly could significantly raise your risk of
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  Speaker 2: developing type two diabetes. Specifically, just three extra servings a
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  Speaker 2: week were linked to a twenty percent higher risk Interestingly,
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  Speaker 2: other forms of potatoes like baked, boiled, or mash did
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  Speaker 2: not show the same effect. The way that potatoes are
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  Speaker 2: prepared seems to matter a lot, with frying adding unhealthy
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  Speaker 2: fats and compounds that may contribute to the risk. So
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  Speaker 2: there you go. New research from the Animal Kingdom is
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  Speaker 2: providing an interesting look at the social lives of female gorillas,
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  Speaker 2: and as it turns out, they're just like us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like celebrities gorillas. Scientists spend twenty years tracking gorilla groups
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  Speaker 2: in Rwanda and found that just like female humans, they
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  Speaker 2: form tight bonds with other girlfriends. Researchers surprised to see
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  Speaker 2: that when a female gorilla moves into a new group,
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  Speaker 2: she often seeks out another female she already knows, even
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  Speaker 2: if they've been apart for years. This is nice that
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  Speaker 2: familiarity helps them climb the social ladder in the new group,
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  Speaker 2: and also suggests that gorillas form real, lifelong friendships. Scientists
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  Speaker 2: say this behavior isn't just important for gorillas, it may
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  Speaker 2: also shed light on how human social structures evolved. Shoppers
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  Speaker 2: love big box stores because they have everything you need
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  Speaker 2: under one roof, but also because they have very lenient
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  Speaker 2: return policies which allow shoppers to rent in quotes instead
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  Speaker 2: of buy. Technically it's not really allowed, but many people
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  Speaker 2: have purchased price the items just to use them once
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  Speaker 2: and return them with a fake story about it being
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  Speaker 2: defective or that they didn't need it. This practice has
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  Speaker 2: become known as weekend rentals. Whether it's buying a TV
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  Speaker 2: and returning it after a sporting event, or an air
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  Speaker 2: conditioner that you return after the heat wave breaks, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe something that you wear to a party and then
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  Speaker 2: return it. Retail experts say weekend rentals have become very common,
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  Speaker 2: especially with inflation squeezing household budgets. Employees at stores like
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  Speaker 2: Costco say the most commonly returned items are seasonal and
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  Speaker 2: very predictable items like snowblowers, air conditioners, holiday decorations, and
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  Speaker 2: portable generators among the things commonly returned. And finally, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been saying a decent amount about cats lately. It's
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  Speaker 2: not that I don't like cats. I promise you I
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  Speaker 2: like cats, just fine. I'm allergic to some cats, some
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  Speaker 2: long haired cats. Maybe that's part of what maybe makes
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  Speaker 2: it sound like I'm being overly negative. It's just you
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  Speaker 2: can be both a dog and a cat person. All right,
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  Speaker 2: that's what you can be. I'm at this phase in
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  Speaker 2: my life. I am much more of a dog person,
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  Speaker 2: but I got nothing against cats. And just to prove it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing this cat story for you. A you gov
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  Speaker 2: poll says twenty one percent of people say that they're
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  Speaker 2: cat people, compared to forty nine percent who said that
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  Speaker 2: they're dog people. This isn't a backwards way of me
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  Speaker 2: slamming cat people, That's not it. Twenty six percent said
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  Speaker 2: they have no preference between cats and dogs. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go to this where a pole was done. Total Vets
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  Speaker 2: did this and they ranked, according to research and polling information,
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  Speaker 2: the best cities for cats cat owners. They factored in
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  Speaker 2: things like cat adoptions, cat cafes, vets, and cat friendly rentals,
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  Speaker 2: and they say the best cat city is Miami, Florida, Orlando,
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  Speaker 2: tewond Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and then Atlanta at
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  Speaker 2: number six, Denver, Minneapolis, Tampa, and Riverside, California rounding out
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  Speaker 2: the top ten. The worst city for cats, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: New York, followed by Memphis and New Orleans. That'll do
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