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Happy Hour #134: Year of the DragonCon · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm welcome to stuff I've never told you, a production
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  Speaker 2: of iHeartRadio, and today, welcome to another edition of Happy Hour.
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  Speaker 2: As always, drink responsibly if you choose to do so, Samantha,
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  Speaker 2: Are you slipping on anything?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm keeping it real casual with my coke zero? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: coke cherry zero.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, not a.
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  Speaker 3: Sponsor, not a sponsor, not a sponsor. Well, currently, what's
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  Speaker 3: a more refnerator? Needed a little pick me up and
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  Speaker 3: this is the best way to do it for now
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  Speaker 3: without coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that sounded so sad.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's like after twelve, so I can't have that
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  Speaker 3: much caffeine. I have to learn that amount of caffeine.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of rules in place around Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: well I am sipping a hot Toddy because guess what,
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  Speaker 2: everyone I have COVID?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get COVID? I got COVID?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I love if we're celebrating this instead of like.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I go fine, I really do you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no.
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  Speaker 2: The last time I got COVID, I talked about this
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  Speaker 2: and it's like it's also sad.
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  Speaker 1: I treat it like a vacation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like wearing fuzzy socks.
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  Speaker 1: I know. But I did go to bed at nine
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  Speaker 1: thirty last night.
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  Speaker 2: But I had a very intense Star Wars dream, and
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  Speaker 2: I kid you not, I was like flailing about and
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  Speaker 2: I pulled a muscle.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a good dream? At least it was a
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  Speaker 1: really good dream. Okay, okay, no rigretts, my friends.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, I'm really buffed because last year I didn't
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  Speaker 2: get COVID and like everyone around me did.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we did this year.
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  Speaker 2: The new booster for the COVID vaccine comes out at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the month. Yeah, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: reason I didn't get it last year is because you've
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  Speaker 2: gotten that cod. I'd gotten it right before and it
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  Speaker 2: was so close. But alas here I am.
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  Speaker 3: So you have no symptoms.
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  Speaker 1: Are you just tired?
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired, and I'm like the same as last time, sneezing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's my thing.
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  Speaker 3: You were in good spirits because before before you uh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe you're just faking it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You right before you were more tired. You've seen more
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  Speaker 3: tired than you do now.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I feel energized and I don't know what to
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  Speaker 2: think about that.
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  Speaker 1: I really really don't.
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  Speaker 2: The op for you, I don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 2: but yes, I'm very fortunate.
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  Speaker 1: I feel pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: But that does lead me into what I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: talk about today where I got COVID, which was Dragon con. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is I've talked about it before, but in case
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  Speaker 2: you don't know, this is a convention that's been held
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  Speaker 2: in Atlanta since the eighties over Labor Day weekend. It
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  Speaker 2: is now spread where like used to be Friday to
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  Speaker 2: Sunday and now it's like Thursday to Monday.
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  Speaker 1: But Wednesday's trying to get in there too.
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  Speaker 3: We saw all the tiktoks and like Wednesday was happen? Like,
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  Speaker 3: what is happening? You missed that on a full day Annie.
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  Speaker 1: I know next year, Samantha, we're gonna have to work
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  Speaker 1: even harder to cover.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a two week thing from.
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  Speaker 2: I know. So as for usual, after I go and
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  Speaker 2: I do stay at a hotel room there, which I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to have more information about later, because I had some
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  Speaker 2: fun times.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: Going to recap some of my favorite things that I saw.
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  Speaker 2: I will say we were discussing before. I like to
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  Speaker 2: guess what I think is going to be the big costumes,
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  Speaker 2: and I was guessing.
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  Speaker 1: I guess a couple. I would say.
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  Speaker 2: There wasn't like a breakout costume. There was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fallout, which is I thought there would be. There
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of Olympics. Oh there there was. There
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  Speaker 2: was a raygun break dance off and it was very
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  Speaker 2: funny and I kind of felt bad at how much
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  Speaker 2: I laughed at it, but it was very funny. There
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  Speaker 2: was a huge SpongeBob contingent.
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  Speaker 3: So I saw muscular squid Yes, handsome squid Word.
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  Speaker 2: Handsome Squidword was there. No, that's why he's called is
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  Speaker 2: he that's his name.
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  Speaker 3: I just know muscular. I call him the muscular because
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  Speaker 3: he's not handsome.
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  Speaker 1: He's freaking out he.
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  Speaker 2: I love this, Okay, so I love SpongeBob. I know
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  Speaker 2: a lot about SpongeBob. Handsome squid Word is an episode
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  Speaker 2: where squid Word basically goes wild on cosmetic surgery.
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  Speaker 1: And there was someone dressed as a handsome Squidford there
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  Speaker 1: and he was amazing. He was a hit. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: There was someone dressed as Pearl, who is mister Krabss
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  Speaker 2: whale daughter. But the reason I liked her so much
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  Speaker 2: is that she for the like bill of the whale.
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  Speaker 2: She used like a laundry basket.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, yeah, it was super cool.
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  Speaker 1: It was super cool.
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  Speaker 2: But then there was a group of like really obscure
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  Speaker 2: SpongeBob references, and one of them was my favorite. He
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  Speaker 2: was a Schmitty urbon Man Jensen.
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  Speaker 1: He was number one. If you're a SpongeBob fan, you
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  Speaker 1: will get it.
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  Speaker 2: But basically he's a dead body with like the two
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  Speaker 2: beer the hat with the two beard cans on the side.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he has a name. Yeah, I just assumed he
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  Speaker 3: was like an extra in the restaurant all the time.
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  Speaker 3: When i'm they have like crowd moments, so I do. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is my nanny era where the kids loved SpongeBob,
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  Speaker 3: so I hated it. I guess it was my mid
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  Speaker 3: twenties late twenties when I was a nanny with the
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  Speaker 3: kids and they loved SpongeBob SquarePants and they would watch
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  Speaker 3: it all the damn time. And it was during the
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  Speaker 3: era where I don't think it was ever new. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was reruns at this point, but they were
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  Speaker 3: still relevant, and so I would hear it and I
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  Speaker 3: would see clips of it. So it was one of
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  Speaker 3: those things that was constantly going. And I know any
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  Speaker 3: of the mothers or any caretakers out there, no, when
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  Speaker 3: you have something running constantly, not because you were watching it,
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  Speaker 3: but because the other the kids are watching it, it
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  Speaker 3: starts driving you crazy. So for me, even though I
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  Speaker 3: don't hate it, and I would rather than watch that
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  Speaker 3: than like children and children's shows where they freak me out,
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  Speaker 3: like Teletubbies or something. Thank god it wasn't that or
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  Speaker 3: badly made sitcoms on Disney Channel like I would much
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  Speaker 3: rather have watched SpongeBob. But any way, in that letter,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know what's happening. Is this actually
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  Speaker 3: funny or is this an existential crisis that children don't understand?
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  Speaker 1: Is it right?
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  Speaker 3: And so therefore it's just driving me crazy. But with
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  Speaker 3: that so I know bits of SpongeBob, I can't this
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  Speaker 3: is all new to me because I don't. I think
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  Speaker 3: I remember the squid Worth Yeah episode, I think so,
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  Speaker 3: because these are all are any of those Spongebobs new?
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  Speaker 3: Have they kept going?
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  Speaker 1: They?
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  Speaker 2: Some of them are new, but most of these costumes
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  Speaker 2: are from season four and earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So that would have been way back when Right.
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  Speaker 1: Started.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not making this up. Great, great, right am I? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So so I do know of these things, but still like,
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  Speaker 3: I would have never known this dude's name, and I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know he had actually part oh.
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  Speaker 1: When my friend and I saw him, we both avoided
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  Speaker 1: in a shout.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a movie? Does it come back? Or is
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  Speaker 3: it just the retro thing that people just like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: let's do this again.
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  Speaker 1: There are still new shows.
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  Speaker 2: There is, in my opinion, even a creepy CGI show
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  Speaker 2: that's called SpongeBob.
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  Speaker 1: Summer Camp or something.
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  Speaker 2: So they're still making new stuff, but I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of it is a lot of that stuff isn't
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  Speaker 2: as regular as what was happening in the early SpongeBob days.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, there was a lot of SpongeBob costumes this year,
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  Speaker 2: and I went back and watched SpongeBob afterwards because I
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  Speaker 2: was just like, I gotta go watch that episode so good.
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  Speaker 2: There were a lot of what we do in the shadows.
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  Speaker 2: I went one day as laslow when at the Gay
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  Speaker 2: Pride Parade, and that's when I got my ribbon. I
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  Speaker 2: got a ribbon in the wild if you don't know.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of conferences like this, they hand out ribbons
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  Speaker 2: that are sort of u Sometimes they're like achievement based.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they're quest based, like if you go find this,
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  Speaker 2: you get a ribbon. Sometimes it's just if you give
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  Speaker 2: somebody something. Sometimes they're literally just impressed with your costume.
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  Speaker 2: But I got this ribbon because she liked my hat.
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  Speaker 2: She's a cowboy hat, rainbow cowboy hat that lights up,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, checks out. It's the phrase from the Day
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  Speaker 2: the Earth Stood Still, like the first thing the alien says.
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  Speaker 2: And I was reading all about it because of course
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what what does this mean? And it's
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  Speaker 2: it's uh. They one of the most famous sci fi
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  Speaker 2: phrases of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: That was cool, I will say. I was talking to
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  Speaker 2: my friend Katie, who's been on the show. I have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of friends Katie it's been on the show.
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  Speaker 2: On the show, she likes anime a lot. She was
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  Speaker 2: picking out a lot of anime stuff, and sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if I'm not picking out on big cosplay contingents
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  Speaker 2: because I just don't know that fandom. So I think
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  Speaker 2: she said a lot of has been hotel, which is
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  Speaker 2: not anime but I don't know it, but she said
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  Speaker 2: that was there in force, and a bunch of anime
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  Speaker 2: random stuff I saw. There were a bunch of Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swifts and Travis Kelsey's. There was a really good everything
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  Speaker 2: everywhere all at once, like huge group that had like
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  Speaker 2: every It was awesome nice. There was somebody dressed as
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: Doug Demodome from The Fairly Odd Parents. And if you
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  Speaker 2: don't know Doug Demodome, he like wears a white tuxedo.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of imagine how I like Colonel Sanders, but
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  Speaker 2: he wears a huge top hat and people don't know
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  Speaker 2: him say this tall hot guy. And even during the parade,
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  Speaker 2: the Dragon com parade, they were like, it's the best costume,
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  Speaker 2: and one of them said the tall hat guy, it's
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  Speaker 2: Dug Demodome, sir. Of course that was a really good one.
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  Speaker 2: You could just see his hat like movie through that course. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there was somebody dressed as Sean from Hot Ones and
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  Speaker 2: he had all the hot sauces. Oh yes, yes, and
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  Speaker 2: he was handing out little mini hot sauces. That takes money,
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  Speaker 2: I know, and I thought this was really clever. There
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  Speaker 2: was somebody dressed as something from Dungeons and Dragons. This
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  Speaker 2: all happened very quickly on the elevator, and he was
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  Speaker 2: handing out little things with fireball, because that's a spell
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  Speaker 2: in Dungeons and Dragons fireball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was clever. I liked that a lot. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then there were a ton of memes, so many memes.
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  Speaker 2: There were people dressed as the beer bottles Servesic Crystal,
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  Speaker 2: which was the thing that I think in May went
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  Speaker 2: viral about these old Star Wars commercials where they like
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  Speaker 2: put in serves Crystal.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. Yes, that was really good.
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  Speaker 2: I was bummed because I wanted to carry around to
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  Speaker 2: Servesic Cristal, but I couldn't find any, and then I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna make some, and then I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: But next time, next time.
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  Speaker 1: There was somebody who was.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: Board, which is a popular gift.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, that was good. There was a really good Ratatuia
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to send you, Samantha. It had the like
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  Speaker 2: chef's hat and it had the mouse inside was moving
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  Speaker 2: and there were lights so it was like a shadow pattern.
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  Speaker 3: Where Yeah, I think I saw that.
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  Speaker 1: It was really really cool I liked that. There was
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  Speaker 1: a Mandalorian clicker.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you never did send a picture of that because
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  Speaker 3: I never saw it, but I saw so.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the helmet when I checked in, and then
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  Speaker 2: I saw it again when I checked out. I never
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  Speaker 2: saw it, but it was like the the Mandalorian's helmet,
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  Speaker 2: but on one side, the like the cordeous EPs was
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  Speaker 2: busting out.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good one. I saw not one, but
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  Speaker 1: two Dune popcorn buckets.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And when she said that to me, is life size,
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  Speaker 3: not like the costume, not like just carrying around literally
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  Speaker 3: they were dressed as doing popcorn. I was like, what
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  Speaker 3: is this. It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: It was very good.
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  Speaker 2: There was also a Deadpool and Wolverine popcorn bucket.
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  Speaker 1: Other yes, there was.
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  Speaker 2: There was a Han Solo cup, which is an oldie
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  Speaker 2: but a gooddy, somebody wearing the hot dresses Han Solo
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  Speaker 2: wearing a sold cup nice.
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  Speaker 3: And then cicadas a whole really yes, yes, I saw that.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what is this.
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  Speaker 2: There was a bunch of people dress as cicadas and
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  Speaker 2: they had really funny signs and they would just like
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  Speaker 2: kind of scream at you when you would walk by.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the signs said like, I woke up
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  Speaker 2: after seventeen years for this, and one of them said
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  Speaker 2: I'm a screamer, and he would just randomly go ah.
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  Speaker 3: It was so good. I wish I could say in
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  Speaker 3: your reaction when they scream at you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: But they also had like the regular non screaming cicada sound,
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  Speaker 2: but they were that was a good costume.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And then there was a group dressed as the menu
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  Speaker 2: people from the Menu Oh, yeah, which I thought was
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I wouldn't have thought of that,
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  Speaker 2: but cool.
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  Speaker 3: Did they dress up as a small scene.
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  Speaker 1: I think somewhere more stresses this, more seed you.
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  Speaker 3: I think that would be the most recognizable scene.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, right right.
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  Speaker 2: I think the person who dressed is oh, gosh, I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember name, but Anya Taylor Joy's character.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she looked like her, so I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 2: Like I just was, oh, and then I saw, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a whole group.
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  Speaker 3: There's a group of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that would only really work if you had
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  Speaker 3: a group of them, because just seeing her be like,
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  Speaker 3: oh look.
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  Speaker 1: Ale, yeah, but no, it was a whole crew.
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  Speaker 3: I love when they come in cruise, like that, and.
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  Speaker 2: There are some costumes that really work far better if
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  Speaker 2: you're in a crew.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I did see that.
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  Speaker 2: Being said, I did see a really good evy from
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  Speaker 2: the Mummy last year. I saw like the whole group
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: yeah from the Mummy, but I still I know the
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  Speaker 2: Mummy enounce that.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I know you, I see you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then that brings us to me yeah, Disco Luke.
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  Speaker 2: So this was a really fun year because there I
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of pleasant interactions. There's a guy who
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  Speaker 2: I met the first time I dressed this Disco Luke
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  Speaker 2: and was just so be amused by the whole thing,
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  Speaker 2: and I explained everything to him and all of this,
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  Speaker 2: and now every year he comes up and finds me
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, oh my god. But this year he
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  Speaker 2: came up to me while I was talking to a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of people and he was like, I will never
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  Speaker 2: forget this cosplay because of you.
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  Speaker 1: This is Luke Skywalker and.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone was like it is, Yes, he's educating the people
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's another guy who I run into every
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  Speaker 2: year who does like Luke Skywalker cosplays, and he came
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  Speaker 2: up and we had a great conversation about it, and
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  Speaker 2: he was telling all of its people about it.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. And then there.
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  Speaker 2: Was a guy who came up to me and he
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  Speaker 2: knew it exactly what it was, the costume down to
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  Speaker 2: the year.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, is this from that nineteen seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: German interview? Like, oh my god, was ready?
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  Speaker 3: It was ready.
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  Speaker 1: It was so great. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Because I've gotten I get a lot of like, are
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  Speaker 2: you the Golden Snitch?
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  Speaker 1: And then wonder Woman.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, okay, the Golden Snitch. I can kind of
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  Speaker 3: see that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I flutters yeah. And then I guess Wonder Woman
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  Speaker 1: wore something similar in the newest one. Oh really, I think.
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  Speaker 1: But a couple of people came up to me were like,
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  Speaker 1: Wonder Woman. I was like, it's actually not. It's a
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  Speaker 1: disco loop Skywalker.
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  Speaker 2: And then at one point I the Dragon Conway is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times you end up waiting for people
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  Speaker 2: and then they never show up. And at one point
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  Speaker 2: I was waiting for people and I was by myself
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  Speaker 2: and a bunch of people came up to me, and
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  Speaker 2: I think, like, when you're alone, people feel more comfortable.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like coming up. But I had I had
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: a whole slew of people coming in asking about it,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: taking pictures.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Love is great.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Of course they did.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: It was great. I love it. It does need repair though.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: It took some hits.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Oh really costumes, it's hard with the wings on the helmet.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Somebody knocked it really good.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Do some repairs. It needs even further care. I feel
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: like every year I'm like, I'm gonna take care of you,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and then I don't.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: It is impossible. It's such a crowded space it is.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: There's so many things happening. You have adult beverages and
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: lots of friends.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: It was packed. It was all right, so just some
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: random other stuff. I have to say.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I felt like an expert this year at dragon Con.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I normally feel like pretty good about it, but she
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: was like, damn.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I got this down.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: When why are you not an expert? Like this.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Was a smooth okay.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: It better, even better, No no hiccups, no dram No.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: No, not really I did so.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: As you know, getting a room at Dragon Con is
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: a whole mess. Uh, It's like, it's really difficult, and
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: so I had a through various reasons. I had an
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: extra hotel room and uh it was just gonna sit
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: empty essentially. But I ended up finding someone who I
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: knew who wanted it and it all worked out.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Yep, that sure did. So that was awesome. It was
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a dragon Con miracle.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: And then yeah, I saw a bunch of a bunch
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: of friends, a bunch of people hadn't seen in a while.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I liked that they all seemed to know, like, oh,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: this is where we'll find her.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of a lot.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: More ribbons this year getting handed out, and a lot
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: my friend Katie made a lot of bracelets friendship bracelets,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and that helped with the ribbon exchange.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Oh nice, So how many did you end up getting?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Again, I only got two, but she got like ten,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: plus my friend Horissa got like six.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe people were getting a lot. I would say.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I talked about this last time, but I think it
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: continues to be more diverse.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: It was a lot more diverse this year.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Nice. I did see a great TikTok of all the
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: black women like who love cosplay and it was a
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: pretty good group in The costumes were awesome.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, it was definitely. I love it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to see it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: But they were they do like these dragon Con does
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: these like get togethers and you can just see like
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: everyone dressed is this or everyone from here? And it
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: was a lot a lot of diversity in it and
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yay. Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I'll also say I have fiction has really got mainstream
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: because they have ribbons.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: It is. I think it's on everybody's at least in
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: there like peripheral, like they know it's there, yes, and
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: they have like they're starting to wonder how it may
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: have impiltrated their own life because like if you're figuring
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: out some of the things that laid love the movies,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: the comedy, any of the books may have started as
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: fan fiction. M h. It's a lot.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I love it, it is, but it was just it's
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: just interesting to me because I was like, oh, this
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: is a ribbon, okay, well, and then I say, this
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't a bad thing, but it was. I've talked before,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I think last year about like working on my boundaries
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: around food and stuff like that. And another one is
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I've become very much like, go do what you want
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to do, and I'm going to do it I want
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: to do, And sometimes that can lead to some tension
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: just because it's understanding. Yeah, I guess because to me,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I'm a very like yeah, go do what you want
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to do. But to other people that can feel like,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: but I want to do it with you, but because
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: there are schisms now and my my friend group's fandoms,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: it just ain't going to work.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: It is not going to work out.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And this is something I want to come back and
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: revisit in a future episode. But that was I think
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: it was fine, but there were definitely some moments of like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you know, I won't be going.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: To that, do not ask me to. Yeah, but it
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was good.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: COVID and all here I am and had a really
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: really good time in the costume cosway has always was
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the best part and it was amazing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: People are so creative and I love it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you had fun. I'm sorry you have COVID.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I'm glad it's not too harsh.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's one of those things where.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, even before I when I was telling you,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: like this probably is you take a certain like.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: It's almost like forty sixty and sixty is definitely going
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: to get it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but so.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Far as long as you're staying at home now, everybody's
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: doing their treatments if they need it, and hope everybody's safe.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: And catching it really like meaning like knowing that they
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: got it, not catching it really you know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I told everybody I did the text of you know.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Nobody know it has arrived. COVID season is here. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: am positive your your you need to check. I'm glad
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: you have fun.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I did, thank you, yay. Yeah.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: It's funny because every year, and like before it, I'm
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a little dreading because it's just a lot of work
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: and like getting in there, into the hotel room and
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: all of that, and then you're always tired afterwards. But
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I will say no one got sick in terms of hungover,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: go over aside, but like everybody did really like we
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: had a good time and that didn't happen, got out.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I'm already like I've got my tickets for next year.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: It's funny how immediately after I'm like, ah, yes, I can't.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Wait, secured, you can't wait to go again.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Ah that's fun.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was a good time. But as always, listeners,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: if you have any cosplay you would like to share,
• 24:18
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• 24:22
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• 24:26
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• 24:30
  Speaker 2: look up later, I'm like, how did I miss that one?
• 24:33
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