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Geeky Destinations That Make Us Happy · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger Drunk Collider podcast, the
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Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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Speaker 1: I'm Aerial cast and with me as always is the
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Speaker 1: spooky and spectacular Jonathan Streeland.
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Speaker 2: What's the BUZZZ? Tell me what's a happen?
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Speaker 1: Then? Well, sag After has asked all of their members
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Speaker 1: not to dress as characters from Stricken Work for Halloween
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Speaker 1: and posted on social media. I guess you could if
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Speaker 1: you don't post on social.
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Speaker 2: Media, but yeah, yeah, it's a I mean, the negotiations continue.
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Speaker 2: Like I read up on some of the stuff that
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Speaker 2: was going on where they had even like the sag
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Speaker 2: After folks had even reduced some of their requests and
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Speaker 2: it was after they had made the reduction that the
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Speaker 2: studio has walked out and said, you're being unreasonable, And
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Speaker 2: I'm like, that's not how negotiations work. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're technically stalled right now. But saying after it
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Speaker 1: is saying, hey, dress up is your favorite characters from
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Speaker 1: non stricken work like animated shows?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, or literature? What hasn't already been adapted into a movie?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like there's like four books out there that I
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Speaker 2: think still haven't been turned into a movie yet.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could dress as a character
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Speaker 1: from the book and not match what was in a
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Speaker 1: TV show or movie.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, or you could just walk around and tell everyone, no,
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Speaker 2: this is just the book version.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that gets a little bit tricksy.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, we're the only reason I'm even joking about
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Speaker 2: it is because you either laugh or you cry.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. I'm still hopeful that the studios will
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Speaker 1: see the segaff is not going to be bullied and
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Speaker 1: that we will see a resolution soon. But maybe I'm
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Speaker 1: too much of an optimist.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm hopeful too. I mean, it's been going
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Speaker 2: on for almost one hundred days now, and of course
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Speaker 2: the WGA strike went for nearly one hundred and fifty days.
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Speaker 2: So my hope is that we're closer to the end
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Speaker 2: than we are the beginning. Absolutely certainly, I hope that
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Speaker 2: because there are too many people out there, We've said
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Speaker 2: time and again, too many actors out there who are
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Speaker 2: not making the big bucks. They're not the Robert Downey
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Speaker 2: juniors of the world, pulling in like multiple millions of
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Speaker 2: dollars per appearance. They're you know, sometimes when you add
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Speaker 2: up all the money they make from acting, they're barely
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Speaker 2: scraping together the money they need just to keep insurance.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm really hopeful that in soon as well,
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Speaker 2: because there are too many people who are you know,
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Speaker 2: they're life hoods are on hold, and that's I can't
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Speaker 2: even imagine, Like if that were happening to me, I
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Speaker 2: don't know how I would be functioning right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can get so like if you
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Speaker 1: might be able to get stage work. There's not a
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Speaker 1: lot of stage work in like if you're an Atlanta actor,
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Speaker 1: but you might be able to get some stage work
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Speaker 1: because that's separate, or you might be able to get
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Speaker 1: voice over work. But yeah, it is hard for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. I know some of my friends who
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Speaker 1: are in like AATSI are going to TikTok and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that to try to get something.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, because obviously this has an impact well beyond
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Speaker 2: just the actors, right, it impacts everyone who works on
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Speaker 2: these productions. Like even though the writers and the directors
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Speaker 2: have both had new agreements with the AMPTP, it's not
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Speaker 2: like they can jump into the work and so yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's a big deal. But saying that aside, before
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Speaker 2: we jump into any other geeky conversations, just curious, Ariel,
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Speaker 2: what you've been up to?
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Speaker 1: Telling my phone to stop ringing if anybody heard that,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, God, what have I been up to?
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Speaker 2: It wasn't meant to be a tough question. I apologize no.
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Speaker 1: Like I performed with Artsy at Dragon Con and that
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Speaker 1: was yesterday, but it was also a month ago.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the beginning of September.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm still working on the short film non Union.
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Speaker 1: It's an independent project that I was working on. I
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Speaker 1: need to do some adr for that, but it's in
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Speaker 1: the process. I'm in a staged reading of an original
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Speaker 1: script in December, so that's fun.
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Speaker 2: That's cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And otherwise I'm just it looks like it's not
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent certain, but it's looking like the foster
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Speaker 1: cat might be my cat, now, gotcha. So just dealing
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Speaker 1: with the fun of all of that, craziness of all
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Speaker 1: of that. What have you been up to?
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Speaker 2: I have been editing another podcast that I'm not on, Yes,
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Speaker 2: that friend of the show, Shaye Lee launch called Kaddy
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Speaker 2: Womple with the Shadow People. Kaddi Womple is to venture
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Speaker 2: outward without a clear idea of what your destination is,
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Speaker 2: but you're doing it purposefully, like you're setting out. You
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Speaker 2: don't know where you're going, but you've got purpose. So
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Speaker 2: she launched this show. It's a very like I think
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Speaker 2: if it is sort of Welcome to night Vale mixed
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Speaker 2: with a little HB. Lovecraft mixed with a whole lot
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Speaker 2: of Appalachian tone to it. And I just finished the
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Speaker 2: edit for the fifth episode in that series, which changes
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Speaker 2: over to a new protagonist. She's got several different arcs
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Speaker 2: planned for this overall series, so we're kind of going
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Speaker 2: into arc two, and it meant that I got to
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Speaker 2: play around a lot with new sound effects and new
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Speaker 2: music cues, and I'm worried that by the time we
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Speaker 2: get to like the third or fourth arc, it'll be
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Speaker 2: mostly sound effects and music cues and occasionally I'll let
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Speaker 2: Shay talk.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've listened to a little bit of Cotty Womple,
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Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it. So far, I haven't had time
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Speaker 1: to listen to it a lot. I plan on actually
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Speaker 1: listening on my way to the final final game of
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Speaker 1: Calamity at the beginning of next month.
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Speaker 2: And just for y'all who don't remember, Calamity is one
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Speaker 2: of the LARPs that Ariel plays.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's coming to an end. We have one more
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Speaker 1: three day event and then that's it. We might have
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Speaker 1: like an in play party afterwards if we all survived,
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Speaker 1: but we might all die and destroy the world. So
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Speaker 1: but I plan on listening to it more than But
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Speaker 1: I like it so far, and I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: having a a fight between sound effects and music and
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Speaker 1: Shay could be entertaining for an episode.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a little so like certain episodes,
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Speaker 2: I'm a little more restrained, but in others I'm underscoring
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Speaker 2: a lot more with music and sound effects. And the
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Speaker 2: new arc has a character who her very nature is
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Speaker 2: one that prompts sound effects, so yeah, it's getting used
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Speaker 2: a lot. Like even in the first episode, I thought, oh,
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Speaker 2: I'll be using this one sound effect or one type
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Speaker 2: of sound effect at least once an episode. I think
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Speaker 2: I must have used it, not the same one, but
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Speaker 2: the same general kind of sound effect at least five
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Speaker 2: or six times in just that first episode. And every
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Speaker 2: episode is going to have it because sometimes it's a
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Speaker 2: plot device, so it's going to be a lot of that.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it's a lot of fun to
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Speaker 2: work on because since I'm not in it, I don't
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Speaker 2: mind listening to it, and I can pay really close
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Speaker 2: attention and say, oh that that sounds like that's a
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Speaker 2: great queue for some sort of soundscaping. And if it's
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Speaker 2: something that I'm in, I can't stand listening with that
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Speaker 2: level of attention.
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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, Jonathan. Are you saying that we need
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Speaker 1: to hire an editor?
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Speaker 2: No, because fortunately our podcast doesn't require the heavy hand
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Speaker 2: of editing that a narrative fiction podcast does because we're
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Speaker 2: a conversational like Peak behind the Curtain. Yeah, I do
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Speaker 2: edit the show, and occasionally I have to cut something out,
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Speaker 2: but it's pretty rare. Like normally, it's just if there
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Speaker 2: was like a technical glitch, or you know, maybe like
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Speaker 2: an emergency vehicle went past one of our houses and
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Speaker 2: it was really loud, stuff.
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Speaker 1: Like that, or I cuss, or i'd name the name
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Speaker 1: of a stricken property during a strike, or.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, once in a blue moon, I have to do that,
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Speaker 2: but I mean it's really rare. I mean I also
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Speaker 2: have been known to say things where I thought, oh wait,
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Speaker 2: that's a little too casual for this here podcast. And
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Speaker 2: casual I mean vulgar.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a problem when you and I, when
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Speaker 1: you know someone for so long, you sometimes forget that
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Speaker 1: other people are listening to.
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and Ariel, what's kind of funny, Like you
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Speaker 2: and I have known each other for so long, but
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Speaker 2: I think it was a while before you and I
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Speaker 2: were like cussing like sailors in front of each other.
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Speaker 2: But that's the thing is that I don't cuss like
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Speaker 2: a sailor all the time, but when I get in
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Speaker 2: certain moods, I my inner editor takes the night off.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been trying to at least make my cussing
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Speaker 1: more creative.
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Speaker 2: I fail a lot, but well, I mean on that.
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Speaker 2: On that note, so you know, Shay and my partner Becca,
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Speaker 2: we're all gonna go down to Disney World later this year,
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Speaker 2: and I ended up getting like a pass to six
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Speaker 2: Flags over Georgia for the first time in ages. And
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Speaker 2: Shane and I have gone a couple of times, and
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Speaker 2: as Charal runs, I keep turning to her and saying, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we're going to practice now. Because Shaye makes Shaye and
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Speaker 2: Becca together put me in the dust. When it comes
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Speaker 2: to casual vulgarity, and they're not They're not common or
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Speaker 2: nasty or anything like that. That's just that's just the
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Speaker 2: way that they communicate. But I told Shane, like, we're
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Speaker 2: going to be around a lot of kids, and I
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Speaker 2: want to make sure that we're able to have conversations
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Speaker 2: that don't have a colorful metaphors dropped every other word.
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Speaker 2: And so far she has done okay, but she's gonna
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Speaker 2: need to crank that up to perfect before we get
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Speaker 2: to Disney.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't I can't say I've not dropped
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Speaker 1: some bombs at Disney.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: I was watching TikTok the other day and apparently the Land,
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Speaker 1: not the World has has like these cute little robots
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Speaker 1: that walk around now in their galaxies edge, and I
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Speaker 1: hope they make it to our galaxies edge.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw those little like bipedal, like not even
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Speaker 2: knee high robots. I mean they look they look pretty short,
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Speaker 2: maybe knee high, but they were really small but absolutely adorable.
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Speaker 2: It's almost like being followed by ducklings, robotic ducklings, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: I would love to see those make their way to Orlando.
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Speaker 2: It's complicated as well because there's like a whole bunch
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Speaker 2: of different like IP ownership rules that are in play
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Speaker 2: in Orlando versus in Orange County out in California. So,
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Speaker 2: for example, I'm not going to talk about any Stricken work,
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Speaker 2: but more generally, when it comes to Marvel, Orlando only
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Speaker 2: has a certain number of Marvel properties that it can
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Speaker 2: even use in parks because Universal owns in perpetuity the
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Speaker 2: rights to other Marvel characters to use on in parks.
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Speaker 2: On the East coast, it's not the case on the
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Speaker 2: West coast, but on the East coast that's the case. However,
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Speaker 2: there's also these crazy rumors going around about Universal potentially
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Speaker 2: acquiring Warner Brothers Discovery sometime in the future, which then
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Speaker 2: brings up the question of, well, does that mean Universal
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Speaker 2: could start to incorporate like Looney Tunes characters and things
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Speaker 2: of that nature into their parks, except those rights are
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Speaker 2: owned by six Flags. So, like I, as I was
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Speaker 2: looking into this, I just thought, man, intellectual property is
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Speaker 2: so complicated.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And like even as a musician, Yeah, my
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Speaker 1: band does fun covers of songs, right, We write some
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Speaker 1: of our own stuff, and we do a lot of
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Speaker 1: public domain stuff, but we do some fun covers too,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, ah, man, I want to share these.
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Speaker 1: I don't even want to make money off of them.
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Speaker 1: But it's still like just mind boggling on where can
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Speaker 1: I put this? Do I need to get rights? Do
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Speaker 1: I need to get do I need to pay I'll
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Speaker 1: pay someone? How much? Where I'm not making money off? Like? So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: IP is it's important, yes, but it's very confusing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because this also gets into the whole sticky world
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Speaker 2: of things like AI generated content. Can someone own the
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Speaker 2: IP to AI generated content? If that AI was using
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Speaker 2: someone else's work to train itself, does that mean that
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Speaker 2: they technically are dependent upon that? Artists like it just
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Speaker 2: it's just getting more complicated as time goes on.
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Speaker 1: Which did you watch? This is going to only apply
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Speaker 1: to a very small subset of our listeners. But did
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Speaker 1: you watch the latest breaking news on Dropout TV?
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Speaker 2: I did not? Oh, so this is the breaking news
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Speaker 2: for those who do not know explain the premise of
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Speaker 2: the show for everyone.
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Speaker 1: So breaking news isn't. First of all, I'm gonna just
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Speaker 1: say not for the faint of heart. That is a warning.
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Speaker 2: Not kid friendly at all, not.
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Speaker 1: Some adult friendly either. They go all kinds of places,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes it's a lot of potty humor. Basically, someone
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Speaker 1: writes a newscast and then they put four news anchors
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Speaker 1: for actors as news anchors in different positions to read
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Speaker 1: the ticker tape of that newscast that was written, and
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Speaker 1: the goal is for the writer to get the actors
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Speaker 1: to laugh, and whoever laughs the most loses the episode
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Speaker 1: and sometimes has to do like a dare or something, yeah,
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Speaker 1: based off of it.
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Speaker 2: Not always, but occasionally, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Not always, but occasionally. And these actors, the writer is
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Speaker 1: also an actor, and they all know each other very well,
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Speaker 1: and so sometimes it's inside jokes. Sometimes it's really vulgar.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes the entire episode is just dogging on one
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Speaker 2: specific person who's part of the broadcast.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but those people usually get the other people back.
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Speaker 1: But this latest episode that came out last week was
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Speaker 1: they called it an AI generated script, and I didn't
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Speaker 1: realize that it was not actually AI generated because it
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Speaker 1: got real meta and kind is scary if you think
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Speaker 1: an Ai wrote it, gotcha, But no, it was it
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Speaker 1: was grant. But that being said, phenomenal episode.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and I've seen a few of those things
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Speaker 2: where it's a piece that was purportedly created by AI,
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Speaker 2: and in almost every case, I'm pretty sure it was
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Speaker 2: someone either. If it was partly created by AI, it
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Speaker 2: was just like little bits that were heavily edited into
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Speaker 2: something that was more funny and more you know, tight.
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Speaker 2: But often I'm pretty sure it's just someone who's writing,
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Speaker 2: like they're writing as they're putting their brain as if
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Speaker 2: if I were an absurd AI, how would I write this?
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Speaker 2: And then they write it as opposed to an AI
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Speaker 2: actually creating it. That being said, like the way generative
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Speaker 2: AI is now, I think some of those things could
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Speaker 2: be done for real. It's just back when I was
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Speaker 2: seeing them, it was like five years ago before Generative
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Speaker 2: AI was anywhere close to what it is now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, And like I was watching John Mulaney on
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Speaker 1: Hot Ones the other day because he recently did an
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Speaker 1: interview on there and I missed it, but I went
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Speaker 1: back to watch it because he had a comedy special,
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Speaker 1: which where that falls in streaming and stricken work, I
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Speaker 1: have no idea, but I trust him because he's a
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Speaker 1: writer and he's an actor. I think he's a member
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Speaker 1: of all those guilds. But he was talking about how
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Speaker 1: part of comedy is it being delivered by a person?
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Speaker 1: So like, there are some there are some, he said,
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Speaker 1: there are some solid AI jokes, but I wouldn't cross
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Speaker 1: any of them into the realm of good. And if
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Speaker 1: they are good, it's still lacking the human deliveries.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think. I think that's largely the case
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Speaker 2: with most of the AI generated stuff, is that it
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Speaker 2: tends to lack something. But part of that is me
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Speaker 2: wondering how much of my own bias am I bringing
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Speaker 2: to it? Like if you brought me, you know, ten
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Speaker 2: short stories and five of them were written by you know, competent,
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Speaker 2: good human writers, and five of them were written by AI,
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Speaker 2: would I sight unseen otherwise be able to tell the difference?
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Speaker 2: And I don't know, Like, I don't know if I
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Speaker 2: would you know, after the fact, if you told me,
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Speaker 2: or if you had them labeled already, or even if
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Speaker 2: you were really deviant you had mislabeled some of them,
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Speaker 2: would I perceive it to have been? Oh yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: clearly a machine wrote this, and that machine happens to
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Speaker 2: be named you know, Derek, And then I feel badly
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Speaker 2: for Derek. Sorry, Derek's out there. I picked you because
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Speaker 2: that's the go to name that my brother, my brother
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Speaker 2: and me uses.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like, of course this will always change.
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Speaker 1: There are tells, right, so if you listen to enough
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Speaker 1: AI generated scripts, you might start thinking they sound similar.
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Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, And anyway, let's you know, us kind
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Speaker 2: of meandering around. And of course the reason why we
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Speaker 2: are still meandering is due to these strikes and that,
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Speaker 2: you know, it limits what we can talk about. But
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Speaker 2: we also were chatting thinking about chatting about some other stuffs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, which you had a wonderful segue into and I
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Speaker 1: just completely ignored it, which is talking about geeky places
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Speaker 1: we've been right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't really even thought of the segue. I
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Speaker 2: didn't even think of it as a segue. So it's
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Speaker 2: funny that you pointed it out because my brain did
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Speaker 2: not connect those two dots.
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Speaker 1: But yes, so we both missed our genius.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine, my genius. No one misses my genius.
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Speaker 2: Trust me, we're all glad. It's go. Oh you're so sweet. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I thought we'd talk a little bit about some of
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Speaker 2: the geeky places we've been to, like things that we
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Speaker 2: went to specifically because it appealed to our geek nature.
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Speaker 2: Obviously ones that don't directly connect to stuff that's like
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Speaker 2: promoting a film or television series or whatever like that.
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Speaker 2: But you know, we talked about Omegamart recently and the
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Speaker 2: Mele Wolf installation and how awesome we both thought that was.
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Speaker 2: And I was just thinking, like, what other where are
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Speaker 2: some of the other places we've gone to. So, for example,
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Speaker 2: one of the ones I would rattle off doesn't exist anymore, sadly,
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Speaker 2: but it was called Sidetrack, and it's the sort of
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Speaker 2: thing that it's in a lot of different cities where
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Speaker 2: it's a science museum geared toward toward kids and teenagers,
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Speaker 2: and it's all meant to demonstrate specific elements of science,
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Speaker 2: mostly physics, but other stuff as well, and you learn
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Speaker 2: by getting your hands on the stuff and exploring and
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Speaker 2: playing with things. And I remember loving that place and
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Speaker 2: being heartbroken when it shut down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love Sidetrak too, And there are other
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Speaker 1: options out there in Atlanta, because that's that's where I
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Speaker 1: visited Sidetrack. Like I've been to the Boston Museum of Science,
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Speaker 1: right and yeah, and like I haven't been to the
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Speaker 1: one in Pittsburgh because i'd have to borrow a kid
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Speaker 1: to do it, I think, but Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Carnegie
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Speaker 1: Mellon has like a children's science center too. That's really cool,
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Speaker 1: because Carnegie Mellon does a whole bunch of science stuff.
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Speaker 1: We do have other ones like tell Us Science Museum
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Speaker 1: and the Children's Museum and even parts of the High
20:47
Speaker 1: Museum of Art, but none of them are quite the same.
20:50
Speaker 2: Yeah.
20:52
Speaker 1: I used to leave Sidetrack with a fully covered face
20:55
Speaker 1: of paint because they have painting station.
20:58
Speaker 2: I always loved, like all the electricity related exhibits, including
21:03
Speaker 2: ones where you know, you would pedal a bicycle in
21:06
Speaker 2: order to power a light bulb and it would teach you,
21:09
Speaker 2: like how much physical activity was needed in order for
21:12
Speaker 2: you to power the what was essentially a generator a dynamo,
21:17
Speaker 2: and in turn that powered the light bulb. Chicago has
21:22
Speaker 2: the Museum of Science and Industry, and y'all, if you've
21:25
Speaker 2: not been, if you live anywhere close to Chicago and
21:28
Speaker 2: you haven't been, you've got to go for one. I
21:31
Speaker 2: believe that's the one remaining building from the World's Fair
21:37
Speaker 2: in the late nineteenth century when the World's Fair was
21:40
Speaker 2: in Chicago and they were showing off things like alternating
21:43
Speaker 2: current for the first time to the wide public. That
21:47
Speaker 2: was one of the buildings that was constructed for the
21:49
Speaker 2: World's Fair, and as far as I know, it's the
21:50
Speaker 2: only remaining one in the city of Chicago. But the
21:54
Speaker 2: museum itself is phenomenal. I loved it when I went there,
21:57
Speaker 2: and again, like I went as an adult. It's meant
21:59
Speaker 2: for younger folks, but I still got a lot out
22:02
Speaker 2: of it just going and delighting in at fern Bank
22:05
Speaker 2: here in Atlanta, another great museum that has some elements
22:09
Speaker 2: of the Science Museum in it.
22:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to Chicago next year, so I will
22:15
Speaker 1: need a reminder of that.
22:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely right, It's absolutely phenomenal. You'll you'll love it. Yeah. No,
22:23
Speaker 2: I just think about all those then I think about
22:26
Speaker 2: some of the other geeky ones that are I would
22:28
Speaker 2: argue far less educational, but sometimes just as interactive and
22:33
Speaker 2: often goofy is all.
22:36
Speaker 1: Heck.
22:36
Speaker 2: So, for example, Ariel, do you do you happen to
22:40
Speaker 2: know where I honeymooned, what city I honeymooned in. I'll
22:45
Speaker 2: give you a hand. It's not in America.
22:49
Speaker 1: Hawaii.
22:50
Speaker 2: Hawaii is in America and the US a city and
22:57
Speaker 2: it is in America.
22:59
Speaker 1: So no one both counts Paris.
23:03
Speaker 2: Oh no, but it is connected by it. There you
23:06
Speaker 2: go London, a honeymoon in London. So we did some
23:11
Speaker 2: We did some really goofy tourist trappy stuff while we
23:15
Speaker 2: were there. We've been to London several times and part
23:18
Speaker 2: of me still loves going to like the tourist trap
23:20
Speaker 2: kind of stuff occasionally because it's always got like a
23:24
Speaker 2: charm to it. So one of the things we did
23:26
Speaker 2: we did the Jack the ripperteur at night walking around Whitechapel,
23:30
Speaker 2: which was really interesting. But the other thing we did
23:34
Speaker 2: was they had a museum called the London Dungeon that
23:38
Speaker 2: was supposed to be all about like torture and prisons
23:43
Speaker 2: and stuff, so think of like a wax museum, but
23:46
Speaker 2: with the sort of medieval torture theme and a little
23:49
Speaker 2: bit of haunted house elements worked into it. And it
23:55
Speaker 2: was the cheesiest thing, and I loved every second of it.
23:58
Speaker 2: It was way over price, especially for where we were
24:02
Speaker 2: economically at that point, but I still very much enjoyed
24:06
Speaker 2: the whole experience. It was so goofy uh and uh
24:11
Speaker 2: and morbid, and I loved it.
24:14
Speaker 1: So, you know, I just got back from Saint Augustine.
24:18
Speaker 1: I went on a vacation there, and they had a
24:21
Speaker 1: torture museum and they had a pirate museum, and I
24:24
Speaker 1: couldn't bring myself to go to either. Because I've worked
24:27
Speaker 1: at the Renaissance Festival for so long, I hear it
24:30
Speaker 1: like this is lost its appeal.
24:33
Speaker 2: I have been to the Pirate museum, and I think
24:35
Speaker 2: you would have fun there, though I've been to that.
24:39
Speaker 2: I've been both to the pirate museum and they also
24:40
Speaker 2: have a shipwreck museum. But yeah, the Pirate Museum over
24:45
Speaker 2: in Saint Augustine is fun. It's not quite as cheesy
24:50
Speaker 2: as what you might think, especially coming from Ourmaizonce Festival background.
24:54
Speaker 2: It's got some of that to it, obviously, but I
24:57
Speaker 2: don't think they go whole hog. I mean, for one thing,
25:00
Speaker 2: they're not very far from the actual fort of Saint Augustine,
25:04
Speaker 2: which is also a fantastic place to visit.
25:08
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also in Sant Augustine is a Renaissance Festival, one
25:13
Speaker 1: of the gee places I used to visit before I
25:15
Speaker 1: worked there. Not really educational, but fun. They also have
25:20
Speaker 1: an arcade museum in St. Augustine.
25:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that there was like a pinball museum.
25:25
Speaker 2: That's not too because I was looking around at different
25:27
Speaker 2: stuff and I saw that there's also a pinball Museum
25:31
Speaker 2: of up in Blue Ridge, Georgia, which I went to.
25:34
Speaker 2: It was cute. I did not get to go to
25:37
Speaker 2: the Pinball Hall of Fame over at in Las Vegas,
25:41
Speaker 2: Nevada when I was out there, but I have seen
25:44
Speaker 2: videos of that. The one in Blue Ridge is one
25:46
Speaker 2: of those places where you pay a flat admission fee
25:50
Speaker 2: and then everything's on free play. The one in Las Vegas, though,
25:53
Speaker 2: they go old school. You have to bring money and
25:56
Speaker 2: get tokens in order to play the pinball machines there.
26:01
Speaker 1: So I mean this one was nice because it was
26:03
Speaker 1: like you paid twelve bucks a person or something like that,
26:06
Speaker 1: and you got a wristband and you could play all
26:08
Speaker 1: day and then you can leave and then you could
26:09
Speaker 1: come back. That's the same.
26:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fantastic.
26:13
Speaker 1: And they had some games that weren't pinball, but it
26:15
Speaker 1: was largely pinball, and I spent most of my time
26:18
Speaker 1: on the doctor who won There is a yeah, except
26:22
Speaker 1: for the ball kept getting stuck and after the third
26:24
Speaker 1: time I got stuck and I had to get the
26:25
Speaker 1: guy to help me. I was like, I'm gonna step.
26:28
Speaker 2: Away forget get it.
26:30
Speaker 1: But the fun Spot in New Hampshire is like a
26:36
Speaker 1: four story arcade.
26:38
Speaker 2: Wow.
26:39
Speaker 1: It's kind of like between the city and I say
26:45
Speaker 1: the city. There are cities, but like it's kind of
26:47
Speaker 1: between Manchester. It's like on your way from Manchester to
26:51
Speaker 1: Lake Winnipesake and it's it's just giant and they've got
26:55
Speaker 1: like the original pong machine there and it's really really cool.
27:01
Speaker 1: I think it was featured in King of Kong at
27:03
Speaker 1: one point.
27:07
Speaker 2: That's cool.
27:07
Speaker 1: I haven't watched King of Kong, but our friend Kate
27:10
Speaker 1: tells me that great geeky place. You know, a lot
27:16
Speaker 1: of the places that I've visited that are geeky, that
27:18
Speaker 1: aren't like rip bwoys, believe it or not, are things that,
27:21
Speaker 1: like I personally find geeky. So one of my favorite
27:23
Speaker 1: things to do is to go up to Delanaga during
27:25
Speaker 1: gold rush days and hit like the gold mines and
27:28
Speaker 1: pan for gems.
27:30
Speaker 2: I like going into the Carolinas and doing ruby mining,
27:33
Speaker 2: which is the same sort of thing where you're getting. Essentially,
27:36
Speaker 2: what they do is they dig up big buckets full
27:39
Speaker 2: of dirt and they give you the dirt to sift through,
27:41
Speaker 2: and you can either get just this is literally dirt
27:45
Speaker 2: we dug out of an area that we know has
27:48
Speaker 2: some gold and or gems in it, but there's no
27:51
Speaker 2: guarantee that any of that is in your bucket, or
27:54
Speaker 2: you get the seated ones where they have purposefully put
27:57
Speaker 2: in gems and or gold in your I don't do
28:00
Speaker 2: the seated ones, I want to be clear, but I
28:02
Speaker 2: think it's good to have for the kiddies.
28:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I think seeded buckets are good for
28:07
Speaker 1: the kids and for me, and like it. I wanted
28:09
Speaker 1: to be a gemologist or mineralogist for a long time,
28:13
Speaker 1: kind of both, because you know, I would do that.
28:16
Speaker 1: I would go up to Lake Superior and find agates
28:19
Speaker 1: and always be like, what is this rock? What is
28:21
Speaker 1: this rock? I'd love going. I still love going to
28:23
Speaker 1: museums that just have all kinds of rocks and gems
28:26
Speaker 1: and stuff in them. The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
28:31
Speaker 1: is really cool to me.
28:32
Speaker 2: That s actually of it.
28:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I prefer unseated as well.
28:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair, that's fair. I think I think that's like, like,
28:41
Speaker 2: I don't mind if I don't have anything, because for me.
28:43
Speaker 2: It's the looking that's the fun part, right, Like if
28:46
Speaker 2: you find something that's awesome. And I once upon a
28:49
Speaker 2: time I had a little film canister. Kids ask your
28:52
Speaker 2: parents what a film canister is. But once upon a
28:54
Speaker 2: time I had a little film canister that had like
28:57
Speaker 2: seven or eight tiny little rubies in it that I
29:00
Speaker 2: had found when ruby mining. Nothing worth really writing home
29:04
Speaker 2: about at all, like nothing that would be valuable, but
29:07
Speaker 2: it was cool to do. I was gonna mention kind
29:11
Speaker 2: of in the vein of those pinball machine arcade museum
29:14
Speaker 2: type things. There's a museum in San Diego I've been
29:18
Speaker 2: to called muse Mechanique, and it's all like coin operated amusements,
29:25
Speaker 2: which includes pinball, but it also includes stuff from like
29:29
Speaker 2: the turn of the century where you'd put a coin
29:31
Speaker 2: in and you'd see a little like metal horses running
29:34
Speaker 2: on a track, or there'd be a haunted house version
29:37
Speaker 2: where like ghosts would pop out and like it would
29:40
Speaker 2: be a short, like maybe thirty second minute long kind
29:44
Speaker 2: of tableau that would play out in front of you
29:48
Speaker 2: for the coin. I also remember there was one where
29:50
Speaker 2: it was cowboys sitting around the fire and if you
29:53
Speaker 2: put a coin in, they tooted a lot.
29:58
Speaker 1: Okay, kind of reminds me. I don't know, I've never
30:01
Speaker 1: been to House on the Rock, but it kind of
30:02
Speaker 1: reminds me of stuff that I would see there.
30:04
Speaker 2: Yeah. I haven't been there either. The only reason I
30:07
Speaker 2: even know about is from the novel American Gods God.
30:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might be a little creeped out to go there.
30:15
Speaker 1: It's a weird like oddities place.
30:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't even know it existed until I read
30:20
Speaker 2: that book, and I thought, how is it that I've
30:22
Speaker 2: lived so relatively close, like it's not that far away,
30:26
Speaker 2: it's not like it's on the other side of the country,
30:29
Speaker 2: and yet never known about it.
30:32
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Another geeky place that no longer exists but
30:37
Speaker 1: I used to love is Disney Quest.
30:40
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Yes, where you would go in and
30:42
Speaker 2: they had all the really immersive video game like experiences,
30:47
Speaker 2: some of which are connected well I guess they're all
30:49
Speaker 2: connected to animation, but anyway, they were all like like
30:54
Speaker 2: you would be like you were simulating going down a
30:56
Speaker 2: river on a raft or the pirate battle was my favorite.
31:02
Speaker 1: The pirate ship battle was your favorite. Mine was the Uh.
31:05
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a stricken work, but
31:07
Speaker 1: basically the Space Ranger themed bumper cars where you could
31:14
Speaker 1: roll over pham balls that were asteroids and your car
31:17
Speaker 1: would pick them up, and then you can put load
31:18
Speaker 1: them into a cannon and shoot them at other cars
31:20
Speaker 1: and if you hit the other cars in their target,
31:22
Speaker 1: they'd spin around.
31:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my favorite. They used to have something
31:25
Speaker 2: like that at Six Legs once upon a time, But
31:29
Speaker 2: my memory of that is so old that it had
31:32
Speaker 2: to have been like ten or fifteen years ago, probably more,
31:35
Speaker 2: because it's not like I go to Six Legs that often.
31:37
Speaker 2: This year it's the most I've been at six Flags
31:40
Speaker 2: since the last like twenty years combined, so.
31:43
Speaker 1: I've gone every once in a while. I used to
31:46
Speaker 1: go all the time when I was a young kid
31:49
Speaker 1: because my biological father worked there. So a lot of
31:52
Speaker 1: my memories are of old stuff like that. And I'm like,
31:55
Speaker 1: does it even still Like I don't even know if
31:57
Speaker 1: the looping starship is still there?
31:58
Speaker 2: No, it's not, Okay, so neither's the regular ship that
32:04
Speaker 2: just would do the big swing. That's yeah, like the
32:07
Speaker 2: big pirate ship type thing would it was just a
32:09
Speaker 2: giant swing. I love that one because I love the
32:12
Speaker 2: I love the airtime you would get But yeah, that
32:15
Speaker 2: one's not there, or at least I didn't see it
32:17
Speaker 2: the last time I was there. There are like eight
32:19
Speaker 2: different versions of the tilta World kind of ride all
32:24
Speaker 2: in one section. I'm just like, man, I can understand
32:28
Speaker 2: why they don't have any food booths here because all
32:31
Speaker 2: the rides scramble.
32:33
Speaker 1: You does it just smell like vomit everywhere.
32:36
Speaker 2: You know what. I try not to think about it,
32:38
Speaker 2: and I just put my head down and march right through.
32:41
Speaker 1: That being said, I've been to Kenny Wood more in
32:44
Speaker 1: the past seven years, and I've been to six Flags Way.
32:47
Speaker 1: What is a theme park in Pittsburgh or right outside
32:51
Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh. It's cute, Okay. They have this place called
32:55
Speaker 1: the Potato Patch where they'll take an entire potato and
32:58
Speaker 1: ribbon it up and then or up and then put
33:01
Speaker 1: like gravy on it for.
33:01
Speaker 2: You, which I can't tasty. Yeah, you with your night
33:05
Speaker 2: shades sensitivity, you can't really do that.
33:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is tasty. I've done it, and I've
33:11
Speaker 1: regretted it, but it's tasty.
33:12
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, sometimes in a moment of passion, of
33:15
Speaker 2: potato passion, you throw caution to the wind, then you
33:19
Speaker 2: go ahead and eat yourself of potato and you'll just
33:21
Speaker 2: say I'll deal with the consequences later.
33:24
Speaker 1: Yes.
33:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been to Cedar Point, which is considered to
33:28
Speaker 2: be like the roller coaster capital of the United States,
33:31
Speaker 2: and man there's some great It was years ago when
33:34
Speaker 2: I went, but man there's some great coasters there too. Yeah.
33:37
Speaker 2: These are the sort of like my geeky When I
33:39
Speaker 2: think of geeky places, I think of a few different categories,
33:43
Speaker 2: like places where I get to learn about stuff, usually
33:46
Speaker 2: through participation of some sort, or ones that are really
33:53
Speaker 2: historically significant and I get to walk through history, like
33:56
Speaker 2: the Alamo, for example, is one that I associate with that.
34:00
Speaker 2: Or I think of ones that kind of bring out
34:03
Speaker 2: the inner child in some other way. And to me,
34:05
Speaker 2: like I thought about this as we were kind of
34:09
Speaker 2: brainstorming what we're going to talk about, I was trying
34:11
Speaker 2: to think of what's the connective tissue to me that
34:14
Speaker 2: makes these things kind of geeky, And I think ultimately
34:17
Speaker 2: it's that they all sort of tap into a sense
34:21
Speaker 2: of curiosity. And I think of curiosity as being a
34:24
Speaker 2: very childlike not childish, but childlike quality and people who
34:30
Speaker 2: tend to consider themselves geeks tend to maintain a sense
34:36
Speaker 2: of curiosity throughout their lives.
34:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I feel like that is very true. I
34:42
Speaker 1: also feel like a lot of these places, even if
34:44
Speaker 1: it's just walking through like the Alamo or you know,
34:48
Speaker 1: to Loom in Mexico and visiting some structures, right, it's
34:56
Speaker 1: a feeling of like being a part of it too.
34:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's so different from just reading about it, right,
35:03
Speaker 2: to actually see and to get a feel for what
35:07
Speaker 2: it really was like, even on a very superficial level,
35:12
Speaker 2: because obviously you know, you're not when you're at the Alamo,
35:15
Speaker 2: You're not being attacked by an army or anything. I
35:18
Speaker 2: hope that it certainly didn't happen when I was there.
35:22
Speaker 2: They but like that also reminds me of King John's
35:28
Speaker 2: castle in Ireland, not that he ever went there, but
35:31
Speaker 2: he has a castle named after him, and the castle.
35:35
Speaker 2: When I went to Ireland, I went to visit this castle,
35:38
Speaker 2: and they had a combination of things that I think
35:43
Speaker 2: speak directly to my love of geekiness, which is one,
35:46
Speaker 2: they had a bunch of displays, and they were very
35:51
Speaker 2: wide displays, but they were stood up on end so
35:56
Speaker 2: they're very tall, right and narrow, and they use those
35:59
Speaker 2: in like fake doorways and windows so that a character
36:04
Speaker 2: would appear and talk to you and they would, you know,
36:09
Speaker 2: explain things like how you would mint coins in the
36:11
Speaker 2: medieval era, or what the job of the stable keeper
36:16
Speaker 2: would be like back during the era when the castle
36:19
Speaker 2: was first built. And that was really neat. I was like, wow,
36:21
Speaker 2: what a cool use of technology. Like they they didn't,
36:24
Speaker 2: you know, they don't have to have an actor here
36:26
Speaker 2: tell the same story forty times and then get interrupted
36:28
Speaker 2: or anything. They've got this this video stuff going. But
36:32
Speaker 2: the other element was they had rooms filled with like
36:36
Speaker 2: costume pieces and props and or just stuff and you
36:43
Speaker 2: could just pick it up and put it on and
36:45
Speaker 2: play with it. So like there was one point where
36:48
Speaker 2: there was a rack that had swords stood in it,
36:53
Speaker 2: and the swords were supposed to be chained to the rack,
36:56
Speaker 2: but the one I grab, I pull and there's no
36:58
Speaker 2: chain on it and I completely pull the sword out
37:01
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, this is not this would never
37:04
Speaker 2: work in the US.
37:05
Speaker 1: This is King of England.
37:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, which I'm sure the Irish would be really thrilled
37:12
Speaker 2: to say that King of Ireland.
37:16
Speaker 1: Sorry, that's as you said, you pulled a sword out,
37:19
Speaker 1: that was just pulled out. I thought the sword in the.
37:21
Speaker 2: Stone and it was King John's castle and John was
37:24
Speaker 2: the King of England. So but yeah, it was like
37:29
Speaker 2: there were so many places in Ireland that that fit
37:31
Speaker 2: that description of where, Like I can't tell, I can't
37:36
Speaker 2: really get my finger on the motivating factor behind it
37:41
Speaker 2: being so kind of haphazard, Like I can't tell if
37:45
Speaker 2: it's just charming, if it was done intentionally, if it
37:49
Speaker 2: was done due to a lack of resources, But whatever
37:52
Speaker 2: the purpose, it ended up being a real fun time.
37:57
Speaker 1: Nice. Nice. We should start wrapping this episode up, But
38:02
Speaker 1: I have I have one more question for you, going
38:06
Speaker 1: back a little bit to like keep Parks. What what
38:08
Speaker 1: is your opinion on roadside carnivals?
38:17
Speaker 2: Uh, I always want to go to them, and then
38:21
Speaker 2: when I'm at them, I'm questioning my decisions that led
38:24
Speaker 2: me to that point, Like I like the idea of them.
38:28
Speaker 2: I haven't been to one in a while. Like the
38:31
Speaker 2: closest I've gotten to are like big state fairs, which
38:35
Speaker 2: you know obviously are temporary events and they will construct
38:40
Speaker 2: rides and everything for that and they're essentially using the
38:43
Speaker 2: exact same equipment that you would find in the traveling carnivals.
38:47
Speaker 2: But for some reason, it feels like maybe there was
38:50
Speaker 2: a little more attention to detail given for all of that,
38:54
Speaker 2: Whereas whenever I'm at one of those roadside ones that's temporary,
38:58
Speaker 2: I'm always thinking, huh, I wonder if all the bolts
39:01
Speaker 2: are as tight as this one or.
39:04
Speaker 1: So.
39:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like, I like the idea, and certainly
39:09
Speaker 2: I've written like some of my favorite ride experiences were
39:12
Speaker 2: at those sorts of attractions, but it has been a
39:15
Speaker 2: while since I've been to one. What's what about you?
39:18
Speaker 2: What's your what's your take on the roadside carnival?
39:22
Speaker 1: So I like them. I tend not to do a
39:24
Speaker 1: bunch of the really really scary rides there because I'm
39:26
Speaker 1: scared enough of doing them at like a Legit regularly park. Yeah,
39:32
Speaker 1: but like a lot of the smaller rides, I like
39:34
Speaker 1: getting some of the fried food I enjoy doing, like
39:37
Speaker 1: the fun houses and the mirrors, or like the little
39:40
Speaker 1: one where like you're you're in a car and you
39:43
Speaker 1: go around on a bumpy and you get sick.
39:46
Speaker 2: They're kind of like a tilted World, Tilted World type
39:48
Speaker 2: of thing, yeah.
39:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, or or a Turkish twister. I guess that's not
39:52
Speaker 1: a good name for it anymore. The one where they
39:54
Speaker 1: the cycling where they put you in and you stick
39:56
Speaker 1: to the wall.
39:57
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Like I always think of that as the
39:59
Speaker 2: well the one I think of as the gravitron, which
40:01
Speaker 2: is the interior one, right, like you're inside a structure
40:05
Speaker 2: and you lean back against a padded a padded surface
40:10
Speaker 2: that's on wheels so that when it spins around it,
40:13
Speaker 2: that goes up the track and your feet leave the floor.
40:17
Speaker 2: But there's also the one where it's just on the
40:18
Speaker 2: giant arm and the arm goes up in the air
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Speaker 2: and you're just like, please, I hope I didn't eat
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Speaker 2: too much at Thanksgiving this year because I don't want
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Speaker 2: to go flying off.
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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do those as much now that
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Speaker 1: I'm an adult. But the one ride that, no matter
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Speaker 1: where I encounter it, I do not like is the
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Speaker 1: planes that are on the chain that like tilt out
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Speaker 1: when you sit in them, because I have nightmares about
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Speaker 1: falling out of those where I'm hanging on to the chain.
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Speaker 2: Did I tell you the story of how I terrified
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Speaker 2: Becca on a ride something that's similar to that.
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Speaker 1: No, okay, do tell now in front.
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Speaker 2: Of Yeah, all, it's a Disney ride, and so I
40:56
Speaker 2: will be a little careful with how I describe it.
40:58
Speaker 2: But it was a ride that was new to me
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Speaker 2: by the time when we went there, and it was
41:04
Speaker 2: a ride where you ride a magic carpet. Can you
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Speaker 2: imagine what property it's connected to? All right? So this
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Speaker 2: particular ride, it's similar to other very simple rides that
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Speaker 2: go in a circle, and then you can pull a
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Speaker 2: lever or push a button and make the car go
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Speaker 2: up or down. Right, you can control the height at
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Speaker 2: which you are going around in a circle. And that's
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Speaker 2: all this ride does is go around in a circle,
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Speaker 2: except the magic carpet one at Disney World has one
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Speaker 2: control that controls how high you go, and then the
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Speaker 2: back seat has a second control that controls the pitch
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Speaker 2: of the carpet so you can tilt it. So I
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Speaker 2: had one arm behind my partner and the other hand
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Speaker 2: I had in front of us controlling the vertical stuff,
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Speaker 2: and I reached back with my fingers to touch the
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Speaker 2: other control and I used it to change the pitch
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Speaker 2: and scared the hell out of her. She thought the
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Speaker 2: ride was coming down. I was like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: it was me. It was me. It's a miracle that
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Speaker 2: we're still married today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I rode a similar ride the last time I
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Speaker 1: went to the House of Mouse. That was you get
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Speaker 1: into a package erm who does feather aided flight? And
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Speaker 1: my controls didn't work because I was going to face
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Speaker 1: my fear on this children's ride of going up high
42:23
Speaker 1: because the astro orbiter, I can't do, yes, going it's
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Speaker 1: too tall, and you do you feel like you're going
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Speaker 1: to fall out of this thing. So I was like,
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Speaker 1: and I end up like holding on to the side.
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Speaker 1: We're actually using our canvas today, so Jonathan can see.
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Speaker 1: I'm just like grasping like this the entire time on
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Speaker 1: the right.
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Speaker 2: It's incredibly informative her performance.
42:42
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so I tried to do it, but my
42:45
Speaker 1: control was broken and I couldn't get more than maybe
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Speaker 1: three feet off the ground.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you don't really. I mean the only time
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Speaker 2: you would go up is in that one part of
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Speaker 2: the ride where like everybody did you go up when
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Speaker 2: everybody else went up for the very end of the right,
42:57
Speaker 2: not even then? Oh wow, and that I've got two
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Speaker 2: of those, right, they've got.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's air conditioned in the queue, which is lovely.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's so much better than what it used to be.
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Speaker 2: Like that was the ride that all the little kids
43:12
Speaker 2: wanted to ride. But because the capacity of the ride
43:16
Speaker 2: is so small and each each cycle lasts like a
43:20
Speaker 2: couple of minutes, it's not super long, but it starts
43:23
Speaker 2: to add up when you're you know, five hundred people
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Speaker 2: back in line and only like twelve people get to
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Speaker 2: go at a time, It's it gets rough.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I wasn't there for me, so it's fine.
43:38
Speaker 1: Everybody else had fun. But yeah, I'm sure there are
43:43
Speaker 1: a lot more geeky places that I've gone that I'm
43:45
Speaker 1: just not remembering offhand. I was always the person who
43:51
Speaker 1: is trying to get involved. I always wanted to be
43:53
Speaker 1: involved in whatever that sky thing was.
43:57
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, like, I'm okay with some stuff,
44:00
Speaker 2: but active is more rewarding, I think, you know, like
44:05
Speaker 2: I feel the same way. The other places that come
44:08
Speaker 2: to mind are ones that, like Kennedy Space Center is phenomenal.
44:13
Speaker 2: Everyone should go there if you get a chance. It
44:15
Speaker 2: is inspirational to see how enormous these machines are that
44:21
Speaker 2: have taken people to outer space. It is like it
44:25
Speaker 2: makes me well up because I get so emotional just
44:28
Speaker 2: thinking about how much work went into making that happen
44:31
Speaker 2: and how phenomenal an achievement that is, because we just
44:34
Speaker 2: don't even think about it now, like we've got people
44:37
Speaker 2: up in space in the International Space Station, and it's
44:39
Speaker 2: just like, you know, it's been generation more than a generation,
44:43
Speaker 2: a couple of generations since we send people to the Moon,
44:46
Speaker 2: So it's easy to just sort of take it for granted.
44:49
Speaker 2: But when you see that stuff in person and you
44:51
Speaker 2: think about it, it's just to me, it really gets
44:53
Speaker 2: me emotional. And then I also get emotional when I
44:57
Speaker 2: go to really cool roadside places and Florida, like Gator Land.
45:02
Speaker 1: I haven't been to Gator Land. I'm glad that makes
45:05
Speaker 1: you emotional. I have, however, been to the Kennedy Space Station.
45:08
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. But my first trip to Disney
45:10
Speaker 1: and it was in fifth grade and we stopped there
45:12
Speaker 1: as well, and I remember taking a bus down and
45:16
Speaker 1: I remember getting astronaut ice cream yep, Like we drove there,
45:19
Speaker 1: but then we had to take a bus down. But
45:21
Speaker 1: I like it was really incredibly cool. Yeah, no, it
45:24
Speaker 1: was super neat.
45:25
Speaker 2: It's super super interesting. And yeah, we're planning on stopping
45:31
Speaker 2: by there on our trip when we go later this year,
45:34
Speaker 2: we're gonna stop by and go to the Kennedy Space
45:36
Speaker 2: that are, assuming that the weather is all right on
45:39
Speaker 2: the day we're going, because it is. It's just one
45:43
Speaker 2: of those experiences that I think really is again, it's
45:47
Speaker 2: like educational and there's stuff to do, and like I said,
45:52
Speaker 2: like when you see what people are capable of achieving
45:56
Speaker 2: when they work together for a goal that most people
45:59
Speaker 2: would have said was impossible when they were first trying
46:03
Speaker 2: to do this, it's just it'll take your breath away.
46:06
Speaker 2: It's phenomenal. But yeah, that's kind of a I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure we could both come up with like dozens
46:12
Speaker 2: of other examples if we sat here long enough, But
46:15
Speaker 2: we both have stuff what we need to do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, Lego Store in New York. It is technically
46:22
Speaker 1: a store, but it's so much more.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I haven't been there, so I'll take your word
46:28
Speaker 2: for it, but I'm sure it all snaps into place.
46:32
Speaker 1: Very very clover. If you all have been someplace that's
46:36
Speaker 1: cool and geeky that we haven't mentioned, and you want
46:38
Speaker 1: to share. Let us know. I'm always looking for places
46:41
Speaker 1: to travel to personally, you know, at least getting back
46:46
Speaker 1: into it now. But we love to hear from you.
46:50
Speaker 1: And so if you do want to write us, Jonathan,
46:53
Speaker 1: how do they do that?
46:55
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to go to your closest children's science musicum,
47:00
Speaker 2: and you're going to find a device there that will
47:03
Speaker 2: slowly build an electrostatic charge in your body. You're going
47:08
Speaker 2: to have to put your hands on that device and
47:10
Speaker 2: it's going to make every hair on your body stand
47:13
Speaker 2: on end, but you still have to keep on holding
47:15
Speaker 2: on to it until you can feel almost like a
47:18
Speaker 2: tingling sensation in your teeth and you'll be able to
47:23
Speaker 2: taste the electricity. And at that point, I'm going to
47:27
Speaker 2: need you to close your eyes count to five, and
47:31
Speaker 2: then when you open your eyes, you will see static
47:35
Speaker 2: that will take the form of my body and I
47:38
Speaker 2: will ask you what your question is, and you will
47:42
Speaker 2: ask it and I will answer you, and you'll awake
47:45
Speaker 2: with a shock.
47:47
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were either the hero or villain
47:50
Speaker 1: of the comic book Young Dylan.
47:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm more like middle aged Dylan.
47:59
Speaker 1: Not here, so uh, there's anyhow, Yeah, and if you
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Speaker 1: don't wanna if I don't know why you wouldn't want
48:07
Speaker 1: to go to a science museum and experience electricity, Jonathan.
48:11
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