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Happy Hour #182: Pre-Con · 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.
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  Speaker 3: I never told you a question off by Heart Radio,
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  Speaker 3: and welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. As always,
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  Speaker 3: if you choose to drink or whatever you choose to do,
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  Speaker 3: please do so responsibly, Samantha, or are you doing whatever
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  Speaker 3: you're doing responsibly?
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I'm always responsible. I got my bubbly water
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hyped and ready to go, very caffeinated, very caffulated.
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  Speaker 2: Oh exciting. Okay, well, this is a hyped and ready
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  Speaker 2: to go episode. Like us, this is.
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  Speaker 3: A tradition that we do around here where I have
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  Speaker 3: a pre dragon Con episode and after dragon Con will
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  Speaker 3: be the post, and hopefully the post will be a
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  Speaker 3: happy one. So around here in Atlanta, there is this
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  Speaker 3: huge convention called dragon Con. If you've listened to the
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  Speaker 3: show for a while, you've heard us talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: But it is a pretty large convention where it takes
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  Speaker 3: place over Labor Day weekend. And I've been going since
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  Speaker 3: I was in college, and it's a whole thing. It's
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  Speaker 3: a big whole thing. And I you know, every year
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  Speaker 3: this time comes around and it's a wonderful, stressful time.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'll say.
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  Speaker 3: About it because I stay in a hotel. It's hosted
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  Speaker 3: in five host hotels, and it's just easier if you
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  Speaker 3: have a costume. Are you cross playing with someone to
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  Speaker 3: stay in the hotel, And so it feels like I'm
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  Speaker 3: going away for a huge trip, even though if without
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  Speaker 3: traffic it would.
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  Speaker 2: Take me ten minutes to get to this hotel.
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  Speaker 1: With traffic, it's about thirty to forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and then during dragon Con.
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  Speaker 1: You can't cross anywhere, or actually your car cannot go
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  Speaker 1: anywhere near there because you may ask for my time
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  Speaker 1: hit a Lord of the Rings character.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's walking around everywhere, and you get distracted because they're
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  Speaker 3: in these amazing costumes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought they were filming something here because the
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  Speaker 1: costumes were that good.
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  Speaker 3: It's that's my favorite part of Dragon Con. I think
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  Speaker 3: the costume game. I've never seen it at any other convention.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's amazing. But yeah, it's a whole thing,
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  Speaker 3: and it's been interesting going over time, and I know
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  Speaker 3: that people have.
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  Speaker 2: Been going longer than I have would have, like an
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  Speaker 2: even more. Well, it used to be this.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be a really like it was big,
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  Speaker 3: but it was mostly it was very niche nerdy like
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  Speaker 3: sci fi and anime stuff like that, and now it's
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  Speaker 3: like anything goes cosplay wise, what you might run into,
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  Speaker 3: which I enjoy, but it's gotten way. It's way bigger
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  Speaker 3: than when I was first going. It was not like this.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you get there and then you've got to
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  Speaker 3: check in and it's this whole thing and it takes forever,
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  Speaker 3: and you got to protect your costume pieces because you
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  Speaker 3: don't want them to break. You don't want to forget
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  Speaker 3: all of your supplies to fix your costume if it breaks.
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  Speaker 3: Because there is a cosplay repair station. But this is
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  Speaker 3: in downtown Atlanta, which is like our tourist area. There
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  Speaker 3: are no grocery stores near there. There's a CBS.
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  Speaker 1: There's a giant CBS, and it.
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  Speaker 2: Because we all go there, it's picked over.
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  Speaker 3: So basically me and my friends try to bring in
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  Speaker 3: all of our our drinks and all of our snacks
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  Speaker 3: and all of our cosplay repair kids and kits and everything.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just very unwieldy and it's this whole thing
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  Speaker 3: and it takes a while. So the getting in process
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  Speaker 3: stresses me out. Once I get into the hotel, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's lovely it's very lovely, but then you've got to
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  Speaker 3: go get your badge and that can take that can
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  Speaker 3: take a minute.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really hot right now, so not looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to standing out in the.
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  Speaker 1: Dr and there might be some thunderstorms, Like it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, it's storming as we record this.
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  Speaker 2: If you hear any thunder, it's stormy right now.
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  Speaker 3: Unpredictable, it is, it is, And that's a big thing
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  Speaker 3: at Dragon Con. There's a lot of things you have
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  Speaker 3: to take into account, and one is heat. For if
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  Speaker 3: you're going to dress up. I've always been like, we
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  Speaker 3: got to think about the heat. You're also going to
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  Speaker 3: be standing a lot, so you got to think about
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  Speaker 3: your shoes. And I'm much more of a comfort person.
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  Speaker 3: I see some people doing these things and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: that is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you did it. I would never ever
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: They look gorgeous, but that looks painful.
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  Speaker 3: That looks painful. That is the price to pay. And
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  Speaker 3: they look great, so good on them. But even when
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  Speaker 3: I was doing the Winter Soldier, like that was a
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  Speaker 3: real pain to get in. It didn't hurt, but it
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  Speaker 3: was like just a whole process and so I'm happy
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  Speaker 3: with my very simple discolue outfit that is generally very
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  Speaker 3: comfortable and very.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't get hot.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest issue is the sequence sometimes rub my skin raw,
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  Speaker 3: but other than that, it's not so bad. I did
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about my friend Katie who's been on
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  Speaker 3: the show. She is going as a SpongeBob character, Smitty
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  Speaker 3: Werbin jaeger Man Jensen, who he if you're like me
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  Speaker 3: and you love SpongeBob, he's the guy with the soda
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  Speaker 3: cap that has the two like bubble things on the
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  Speaker 3: side like a beer. Yeah, and he was number one.
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  Speaker 3: That was his saying, I'm very excited about this. Well,
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  Speaker 3: this is what I love. I love the niche costumes.
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  Speaker 3: I love that people will recognize it someone. I guarantee
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  Speaker 3: you someone will shout at her. He was number one.
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  Speaker 3: It looks great too, It's very fantastic. She also is
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  Speaker 3: the one that makes bracelets to hand out at events
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  Speaker 3: like this, and she has a lot of bracelets. But
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  Speaker 3: I went on the reddit today. I never go on Reddit,
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  Speaker 3: but I was checking something out because I have a
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  Speaker 3: friend who wants to go last minute. I was sharing
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  Speaker 3: to see if anybody has like badges that they can't
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  Speaker 3: go anymore and want to trade or something. People are
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  Speaker 3: excited and I didn't This is new to me, but
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  Speaker 3: I guess people do this thing now where they post
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  Speaker 3: like these cards that show what they're going each day
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  Speaker 3: and each night, so it'll be like, during the day,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to this character.
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  Speaker 2: During the night, I'll go with this. And people were
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  Speaker 2: just posting all of that. But other people are making
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  Speaker 2: bracelets and handing them out now.
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  Speaker 1: So oh, she started a tram. She did.
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  Speaker 3: Another big thing at dragon Con is ribbons, which we've
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  Speaker 3: talked about. I don't think that's unique to dragon Con,
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  Speaker 3: but I've never seen it anywhere else. But this is
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  Speaker 3: where people will hand out ribbons for either nothing at
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  Speaker 3: all or just like they like your costume or standing
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  Speaker 3: in line together or something like that. Like they have
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  Speaker 3: very clever usually names, and people are bringing the ribbon
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  Speaker 3: game this year. I just so many posts about I
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  Speaker 3: was a little taken aback. Oh, guys, they are very excited.
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  Speaker 3: I've only the most ribbons I've ever gotten in one
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  Speaker 3: dragon Con was poor and one of the most from
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  Speaker 3: a company, so I kind of don't feel like that counts.
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  Speaker 1: They just give it away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we ate at that restaurant and they gave us one,
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  Speaker 3: so I was like, okay, sure, just said the restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't gotten a rib until recent years, so it's
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  Speaker 3: I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Another thing I like to do is predict what the
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  Speaker 3: big costumes will be, the big costplays as discussed. I
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  Speaker 3: do think K Pop Demon Hunter.
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  Speaker 1: Will be huge. I'm excited. I want to see those costumes.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna take tons of pictures from me.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that one's gonna be huge. I
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  Speaker 3: think and Doors gonna be really huge. Dancing mon Mathma.
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  Speaker 3: I really hope someone does it, and I think someone will.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've noticed this in recent years though, like
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  Speaker 3: it gets kind of fragmented after that. I was thinking
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  Speaker 3: maybe Fantastic four would be big, maybe Superma be Thunderbolts.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it gets so fragmented it It used
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  Speaker 3: to be like there were the I could predict, like
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  Speaker 3: the five huge ones.
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  Speaker 1: I bet Agatha, a little bit of Agatha is going
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  Speaker 1: to come through.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you think it's a good like.
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  Speaker 1: Who doesn't love being a sexy dark witch?
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like it's gonna be more like there
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  Speaker 3: will be a handful of these things.
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  Speaker 2: There will be a handful full of lasts to you.
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  Speaker 3: I hope I see an abbey with a golf club,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think they're gonna be like big contingents.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of K pop. Demon Hunter was our big animation.
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  Speaker 3: So mmm, not that I could people come through squid games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: maybe people with Squid Games. I feel like Inside Out
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  Speaker 3: too is a huge animated hit, but I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna be I know people who have dressed as
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  Speaker 3: the emotions from that, but I don't think it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a huge Maybe Star Trek. I was thinking maybe
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  Speaker 3: Star Trek because something happened this year with Star Trek
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  Speaker 3: that I was like, Okay, maybe maybe that'll be a
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  Speaker 3: big one. And I feel like Star Wars in general
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be sinners, Oh, sinners probably.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can have some sinners in there too.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Because I was thinking about there's usually on Thursday night
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  Speaker 3: there's a big horror cosplaying, so I was trying to
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  Speaker 3: think about which ones might be there, so that one,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if it'll be anybody from What's Her name
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  Speaker 3: Gladys from Weapons.
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  Speaker 2: I could see that. I could see that it's a movie,
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  Speaker 2: so clearly you don't. But she's got a very she's
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  Speaker 2: she's a very iconic.
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  Speaker 3: She's striking, so I can see people coming ast her.
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  Speaker 3: But that just came out, so that would be a
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  Speaker 3: last minute, last minute costume.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what's playing this week? And I sent
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  Speaker 1: my partner a message the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Charles,
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  Speaker 1: like they really relaced it this week. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see it desperately because it's going to throw back some memories.
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  Speaker 1: But I wonder if that's going to bring back some
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  Speaker 1: like love for TV I can turn.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen them at Dragon Con before, I've seen some
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  Speaker 3: people play them. Another thing is like I was looking
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  Speaker 3: through the guest list of.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrities who are going to celebrities.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's why I thought there might be star
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  Speaker 3: checks because Simon Peg is there. Oh, but also so
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  Speaker 3: Back to the Future Christopher Lloyd is there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and then I forgot Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so sometimes Chrisma Carpenter.
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  Speaker 1: Charisma Carpenter is gonna be there. That's that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So sometimes if there's a celebrity like that, then
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of people will calm as what they're known for.
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  Speaker 1: Several big celebrities that I was like, Wow, okay, Dragon
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  Speaker 1: con stepping it up.
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  Speaker 2: John Boyega is gonna be there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, So that that definitely could influence it.
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  Speaker 3: I could see a bunch of back to the Future especially,
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  Speaker 3: but we shall see and I'll report back.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm excited. I need the pictures.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so bad at taking pictures.
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  Speaker 3: We discussed for a meeting with Joey.
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  Speaker 1: Because like, I don't think Katie's going to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pictures either, because she enjoys her time perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: Is Ramsey old coworker? Is he good with pictures? I
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  Speaker 1: think he's good with pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he's better than me.
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  Speaker 1: I him. I need you to take me to send
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  Speaker 1: you every two hour reminder. Yeah, I mean I take
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  Speaker 1: it today.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is I always have my phone in my boot.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, but I do have a fanny pack.
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  Speaker 3: I bought a fanny pack last year that matches the
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  Speaker 3: Disco Luke outfit.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe I will bring that.
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  Speaker 3: It will be way easier than the boot. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: a whole thing. Yeah, I need to check my lightsaber.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't fixed my costume yet, and it's rapidly approaching.
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  Speaker 1: That's a panic coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little.
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  Speaker 3: There was a post on the reddit that was like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it's coming, It's really coming, but don't freak out.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be fun and you're going to be fine.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, that is another thing I think
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  Speaker 3: about every Dragon con is both gun violence and illness.
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  Speaker 3: And there is another wave of COVID happening right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so gotta think about these things.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hopefully all will go well and I will report
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  Speaker 3: back the wondrous costumes I see and the wonderful time
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  Speaker 3: I have. Well in the meantime, listeners, please let us
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  Speaker 3: know if you have any predictions for what will be
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  Speaker 3: a lot of cosplay that I see. Are if you've
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  Speaker 3: been to a convention recently, because I was like, I
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  Speaker 3: could just look what other conventions are.
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  Speaker 2: Doing and I like to guess.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, or if you're cosplaying as anyone, Yeah, let us know.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks as always to our super producer Christina or executive
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  Speaker 3: producer and your contributor Joey. Thank you and thanks to
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