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Happy Hour #238: Post Dragon Con (Anney's Version) · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie.
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  Speaker 2: And Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production
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  Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour.
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  Speaker 1: As always, if you choose to drink or whatever you're
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  Speaker 1: choosing to do, please do so responsibly. Samantha, are you
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  Speaker 1: sipping on anything?
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  Speaker 2: I am drinking on some bubble water.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Which is interesting because I feel very energized.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: We should be the opposite.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, we'll talk about that more in a second. I
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: am sipping on my old classic red wine. And we
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: have to say, the time is coming for our voyage
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: with our friends at Virgin Voyages. We are going on
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: stuff at sea. This is a five-night adults-only sailing trip.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: That is bringing together not only us, but fellow podcast,
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: stuff they don't want you to know and stuff you
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: should know. We're going to be having live podcast recordings
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: on the ship. We're going to be participating in events
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: and we're going to be out and about. It's going
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: to be really fun. Samantha and I were just talking
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  Speaker 1: about the things we're excited about, the foods we're excited about,
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: the food. possible dancing. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that they had some like boy band dance
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: classes and I'm thinking, yeah, that might be for us.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is for us, in fact. So we're
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  Speaker 1: excited and we would be so excited to see you.
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  Speaker 1: That would be so fun to get to meet you
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  Speaker 1: and talk to you and just hang out. That would
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  Speaker 1: be a lovely time. So it's from October 2nd to 7th, 2026.
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  Speaker 1: And it's from New York to Bermuda. So if you
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  Speaker 1: are interested, you can check out virginvoyages.com slash stuff. But yes,
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: it is coming up. And we are working on our topic.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a fun kind of Halloween topic. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be cool.
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  Speaker 2: Good and spooky.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm excited. So we're recording this on September 8th.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: which is the day after DragonCon, because this episode is
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  Speaker 1: my post-DragonCon review. And I was there yesterday. It feels
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: like a year ago, but it was merely yesterday. But
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: the episode is coming out way later, because we are
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  Speaker 1: preparing for this voyage. So we're trying to get ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So something might come out about this year's DragonCon later,
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: or I might find out I got COVID-19. Our cyclospora.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: And later, the whole tune of this might change.
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  Speaker 2: But not measles, right? You won't get measles, right?
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  Speaker 1: No, I have that shot. Okay, good, good, good, good.
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  Speaker 2: Making sure.
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  Speaker 1: My mom was on top of that. No, so right
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  Speaker 1: now I feel great. But it could be a couple
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: days from now I'm going to be kicking myself. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to put the date in here. So... Everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows in case I come back at a later date. Like, okay, well.
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  Speaker 2: JK.
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  Speaker 1: All right. But that's why I'm feeling so good. That's
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: very rare because it's a five-day event wherein I got
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: very little sleep. Very little sleep. But I did sleep
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: very well last night. I slept nine hours. Cool. It
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: was fantastic. Oh, I see what people are talking about. But, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So this is my annual post-DragonCon review with the top
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: costumes and everything like that and some things I noticed.
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  Speaker 1: If you somehow have missed it, DragonCon is a huge
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  Speaker 1: event in Atlanta. It is a big fantasy sci-fi convention
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  Speaker 1: that happens over Labor Day weekend. It has grown from
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  Speaker 1: one hotel with like a thousand people coming the first
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: year to 75,000 people at least this year and five
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: host hotels and a bunch of secondary hotels. It was
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: packed out this year and it was the 40th anniversary
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: of DragonCon. So I don't know if that was a
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  Speaker 1: part of it or if it just is because this
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  Speaker 1: has become more mainstream, like this kind of convention. But
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  Speaker 1: it was crowded. This is the only time I've ever
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  Speaker 1: attended DragonCon and had to abandon the badge line.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Because the line was so long. It has never happened
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  Speaker 1: to me before. I've been going at least 10 years,
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  Speaker 1: I think. That has never, ever happened to me. But
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  Speaker 1: there was a certain point because also we were experiencing
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: a heat wave.
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  Speaker 2: It was so hot.
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  Speaker 1: Here in Atlanta, there was rain, like sudden rain, heavy rain.
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  Speaker 1: So Atlanta. Yes. But it was when people were trying
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  Speaker 1: to pick up their badges on Thursday, which is when
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  Speaker 1: the day it starts. And I think that's when the
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  Speaker 1: line was the longest. And I mean, people were passing
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  Speaker 1: out from heat exhaustion. It was... It was really bad.
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  Speaker 1: But people were saying a lot, and just the rain,
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: huge downpour. So we had to wait until Friday. We
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  Speaker 1: woke up at 7 a.m. to go get our badges.
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  Speaker 1: And the line was an hour long, even so.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I drove down, I think it was like
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: two streets over from where the badge pickup line. I'm
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: not sure. I could be wrong, but Piedmont Road. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So I was going down to my class around, like,
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: 9 o'clock, and I saw a line wrapped around. I
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: was like, what?
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. And that was insane. And I think I
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: had texted you, and you were like, yep, it took
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  Speaker 2: me an hour. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: I heard some people saying three to five hours it took.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: Well, so is it true? So I heard, because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my feed was full of DragonCon for all my social medias,
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: That a part of the issue was that the computers
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: went down?
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: That's what I heard as well. I can't verify it
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: outside of what I saw on social media or Reddit.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: But yes, that is what I heard. I also heard
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: that just the influx of people. I was telling Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: when I used to go on Thursday, it was not crowded.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: It didn't used to be. It used to be really
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  Speaker 1: low key and I would go and it was like
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: nobody there and it was kind of lovely. Thursday is
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: now like they're already full swing. In fact, Wednesday has
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  Speaker 1: become the new Thursday. Exactly. So I don't know if,
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: I think it's probably a combination of things, but I
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  Speaker 1: did hear that as well, that the machines went down.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: When we got our badges, everything went really smoothly. And
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  Speaker 1: I actually had a friend who came later that day
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  Speaker 1: and she didn't wait at all.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: On Thursdays?
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: No, she came on, she came later on Friday.
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: On Friday, on Friday. Gotcha, gotcha.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Man, Friday feels like such a long day because I've
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: never woken up that early at DragonCon to get a badge.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: It's like, wow. Yeah, but it was Friday. And we
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: did have some good luck with lines. We didn't wait
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: at all to get into the Mart. Amazing. The Mart
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: is where you buy all of your nerd.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always run, like, always overcrowded. That's surprising.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: It's like, The longest line encounter. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: The Dragon Con gods were with us, but there was
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: no line. Later we saw it, and the line was
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: three hours long. But that was awesome. And then the checkout.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: When you check out of the hotel, everybody's usually trying
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: to get out at the same time. And the wait
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: for the elevators, which is kind of a notorious Dragon
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Con thing, that you'll be waiting for the elevators. None.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: The four of us with all of our stuff got
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  Speaker 1: one elevator to ourselves. There was nobody else in the elevator.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. But we also woke up early because
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get out before the checkout crush. I
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: think that's the earliest we've ever left. Because I used
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: to be like, I paid for this hotel until 11
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to be staying until 11. This year
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  Speaker 1: I was like, we're leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot handle this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. Yes. But it was awesome. That was really great.
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, the heat wave really put a damper
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: on some things because I think there were some events
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: that were canceled. Popular events, too, like the burlesque show,
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: which is huge. It was canceled because they were worried, basically,
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: that the HVAC system couldn't keep up with the amount
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: of people that would be in the room. And it
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: was so hot. And that there would be heat exhaustion,
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  Speaker 1: so they canceled it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: I think that the parade attendance as the parade marchers,
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: I think it was actually less this year, even though
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  Speaker 1: it was the 40th, because it was so hot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but I wanted to tell you this, Samantha. I
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: learned an interesting fact okay about the parade it is
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: always led by a woman bagpiper oh yes yes named
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: jannie warts i hope i'm pronouncing that right but she
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: always starts it she's a fantasy author who traditionally yeah
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: has opened the parade i love that yeah i just
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: i when i learned that the crossover I need to
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: tell Samantha this. And that's because of our, at this point,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: past episode on women and bagpiping. That's why I was thinking.
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: One of our recent episodes, whether it's future or past.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Yes. Again, we're recording this way in advance.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: Right. We're all over the schedule. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I did appreciate that there was increased diversity this year.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: I talked about this last year where I was happy
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  Speaker 1: about it. And it had continued this year. There's a
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: huge range of ages. Just enormous. And I really loved
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: seeing just the kids being so happy, but also older
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: adults being so happy and having fun. And that was
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: really cool. Both me and a good friend of mine, Katie,
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: had interesting interactions with exes. But that's kind of, that
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: comes with the con. You have to.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You have to share.
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  Speaker 1: But they weren't bad. They weren't bad.
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  Speaker 2: Good, good.
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  Speaker 1: But I did have a creepy encounter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: And we have talked about harassment and stuff at cons
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: and what that looks like. And so the last night,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: probably I was out at 2 a.m. I was with
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. And this guy comes up
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: to us and he asked me if my good friend
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: was a woman. was my husband and then he kept
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: asking me how old I was and then he wanted
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: a picture and he was like make it look like
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: she's my girlfriend and all of this stuff excuse me
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: yeah it was really creepy and then my friend later
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: like I hate that I felt too uncomfortable to just
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: be like no because I was worried he would get
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: like violent.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: Or something right legitimate.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Later my friend was like first of all If I
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: was your husband, how dare he?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: How dare he ask for your picture and say, make
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: it look like she's my girlfriend? If you think we're... Together.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: She had all of these grievances, and so we had
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: a good time having a little bitch and wine about that.
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  Speaker 2: Good. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So I have more of my final thoughts at the end,
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: but before we get into that, I wanted to go
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: over the top costumes. Yes, that I noticed. I would
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: say that Samantha and I's predictions from our pre-DragonCon happy
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: hour were mostly right. I have to say, I'm not
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: sure if it's because I'm not familiar with the Odyssey,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: but I didn't see too much of the Odyssey. Really?
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: But I did see a huge Trojan horse group. Oh.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: But it could just be because I could mistake that
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: kind of costume for a bunch of different things, and
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen the Odyssey. So that was one I
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay. But the biggest one, in my opinion,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: by far, was Dungeon Crawler Carl, which we talked about
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: with Genevieve. on our recent episode about books and editing
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: and publishing and all of that. I'm so glad we
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: talked about it on that episode because I would not
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: have known what it was otherwise.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: You would have been confused.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: I would have been very confused, but luckily I knew
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: what it was. Prepared. Yes, and it was everywhere. And
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: I think there are a couple of reasons for it.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the popularity. I do think that for
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: the main cosplay, you could do that pretty low-key. So
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: that's accessible, that's easy enough. It doesn't have to be,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: because some were much more elaborate.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: The dedication to having Princess Donut was fantastic.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, some of the other characters, absolutely. Not easy at all.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: And I want to make it clear, I'm not judging
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: the easy characters. I have plenty of low-key, easy cosplay,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: so I'm not judging that. I'm just wondering if that's
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: part of why it was so popular. Dolly Parton and
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Tim Curry? Yeah. We were right about that. Tim Curry,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: especially as Rocky, like Rocky Horror Picture Show Tim Curry. Yes, yes.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't personally witness this, but two of my friends did.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: But there's always a huge contingent of inflatable dinosaurs, like T-Rexes.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: And my friends saw them dancing to 9 to 5.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so cute.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: That's so great. And I've mentioned before, there's a Hall
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: of Shrines. And so there's three main, there's five hotels,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: and then three of them are connected via sky bridges.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: One of the sky bridges has like a Hall of Shrines.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: And this year, the Hall of Shrines is, was more
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: somber than it usually is. Like, usually they're very funny.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And there were some funny ones, don't get me wrong. Like, Odyssey,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Matt Damon meme, whatever that is. This year there was, like,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton and Jim Curry and, like, Catherine O'Hara.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And there were some, like, really big voice actors
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: who died, too.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so it was a lot more like that
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: this year. Bad Bunny Grass from the Super Bowl halftime show. Huge.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: So many people.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: That was awesome. I don't know this one, but we
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: were able to figure out what it is. It's Vultrumites,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Vultrumites from Invincible. I don't know, but it was huge.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Project Hail Mary, which I have to say I didn't
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: mention in the episode, but afterwards I texted Samantha and
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: I said, I wonder. Yes, it was huge. There was
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of, a lot of, Different types of Rockies.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: My favorite one was the one in the, like, it
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: looks like a D & D dice to me. You know,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: when he's in, like, his little device. His little tank. Yeah. Yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I love that. There was, like, a puppet one that
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: somebody had. There was a lot of the Brian Gosling
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: sweater from that. So that was big showing. World Cup
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: stuff was big as well. I saw a lot of Hollands.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: One had the raccoon. Yep, yep, yep.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: The taxidermy raccoon oh no that raccoon yes not jimothy
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: but there was.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Jimothy we'll talk about jimothy later but yes um there
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: was a lot of people dressed as like the tartan
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: army or like they had cones um traffic cones there
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: was a lot of pro canada stuff i have to
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: say really yeah yes one we didn't guess but i
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: thought about later i wasn't sure but toy story was
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: pretty big obsession yes yes yes yes there was a
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Nikki with the flowers at least one Nikki with a
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: cat like carrying around the cat there was somebody dressed
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: as the one wish willow there were people in like
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the work outfit that they have for the music store
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: there were a bunch of Nikki's which makes sense that
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: makes more sense than anybody else but yes so that
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: was there Another thing I don't know, Amazing Digital Circus.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: But that was a big one. It's like teeth. It's
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: like an animated show with a guy with big teeth.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, I have seen that. Okay.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Yes. Has been Hotel. Mrs. Frizzle.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, yay.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of Mrs. Frizzles. I just said Mrs.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I get that mixed up all the time.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But yes, there were a lot of Mrs. Frizzles. There
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: were a lot of Leon from Resident Evil 4, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure why, but Resident Evil, I guess it's
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: in the zeitgeist because the new movie is coming out
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and people are getting excited, but a lot of those.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So there were, like, in the kind of broader category,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: there was pretty good showing of classics like Star Wars, comics,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings, I would say. I'm not someone
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: who knows a lot about anime, but I have my
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: anime expert who is with me, and she sent me some.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: She said One Piece, Hatsune Miku, Demon Slayer, Apothecary Diaries,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Jujutsu Kaisen. So those were there. And this brings us
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to my honorable mentions, which are ones that I wouldn't
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: say there were a lot of, but like stood out
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to me. This, my favorite one, probably. was this group
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of J. Jonah Jamesons. So J. Jonah Jameson is the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: guy in Spider-Man who's always like, get me pictures of Spider-Man.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And he's played by J.K. Simmons in the more recent movies.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But it was a group of about 10 people dressed
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: as him. And they had newspapers that said, like spider-man
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we've got you and they all have the cigars and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: every time they saw spider-man they would just so enthusiastically
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: be like it was like the best it made me
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: laugh so hard I think it's the only picture I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: took of a costume.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: You sent me that one, yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I loved it. It was so funny just how they
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: would immediately pop up. Spider-Man! I loved it. Another thing
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I sent you, and this was a thing I was
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: hoping to see, was Buff the Hutt from The Mandalorian
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and Grogu. So I ran into one in the wild separately.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: But I missed this. Apparently they had a whole parade
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of them. Just inflatable buff the huts. Yeah, Rada. Rada
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: is his real name. But I like buff the hut.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I feel like it gets to the.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Point for people who don't know. If you say Rada
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: to me, I just look at you.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Exactly. But buff the hut, you're like, ah, yes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Yes. So there was a whole parade of them. There's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of conga lines at Dragon Con where big
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: groups will go through the three main hotels. And so
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: there was one of those for them. I saw the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Mulan concubines. That was good. I really liked it. Perfect.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: There were people dressed as lettuce in Cyclospora. There was
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: no Taylor's version. No. That I saw. But there were
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: people dressed as lettuce and the psychospora was giving out
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: free hugs. There was a Jimothy. I did not see,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but I know that the person who did the cosplay
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: is like a famous cosplayer. Oh. Yeah. A Darth Vader
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: drinking out of a pink bucket. That made my day.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: That was so cute. Yes. Oh. Somebody did dead Bitch McConnell.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And he was doing like, you know, Weekend. What is
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that movie called?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Weekend at Bernie's.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Weekend at Bernie's. And so it was like that picture,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: but it was a dead body. That's amazing. Yes. Yes.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I also saw somebody doing a cosplay I've long wanted
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to do, which is the Qui-Gon Jinn meme. So this
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: is a meme where it's a behind-the-scenes photo from The
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Phantom Menace where George Lucas is talking to Liam Neeson,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: who plays Qui-Gon Jinn, who is in full Jedi attire.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And he has a white layer of zinc on his nose.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And he's holding a rainbow umbrella. And he has this
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: bandage around his head to keep the sweat out. And
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: it's just the funniest....
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Picture.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I love it. But somebody went as that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Nice. Yes.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Yes. Somebody, there was a group of Galaxy Quest people
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and they had the big rock and they were just
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: pushing it around. That was fun. There was a group
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of people who were doing the 300, but they were
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: doing Marta.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This is Marta.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: This is Marta, which is our local um, public transport
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So that was fun. There was a Coors night.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: There's somebody who was a night, but it was all Coors. Uh,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: there was a hot ones, uh, and they had all
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the sauces.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. There, that was cool. There was a dick in
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the box, which is a little wild display they had going, um,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Some of these costumes are a little bit not safe
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: for work, if you know what I mean. But that
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: was interesting. I also love somebody. It was a woman
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and she had like a watermelon bra. And my friend
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: who was walking with me said, look at those melons.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: And I was like, that's exactly what she wanted. That's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the exact thing. There were some people dressed as AO3 tags,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: which is a popular fan fiction site. So I liked that, too.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: So those were my big costumes. Those are the things
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I noticed.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I know that there was definitely a big group of
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Widow's Bay, because I saw people doing the Patricia's Party,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: quite a bit of that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Yes. And I was telling Samantha, unfortunately, I haven't seen
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Widow's Bay, so I didn't pick up on that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Which makes me sad, because I'm like, when you see it,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: you're going to be like, oh, oh.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like looking back.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Because there was definitely a lot of Patricias. Patricia, she's
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: an it girl.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: The it girl. Okay.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I need you to watch it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to watch it. I would love to watch it. Honestly.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Then next year, maybe. I could be like, oh, there
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Well, I was wondering, because I did ask you sinners,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: because I know it was last year, but at the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: same time, with it coming back with all the Halloween houses,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: were the sinners still pretty relevant or big?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they still had, I'm pretty sure you saw it
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: over social media last year, but this year they still
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: had the kind of installment. Okay, I wonder. Like the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: burning and the banjo. Yeah, because some of the cosplay's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: costumes get really big and they have like sets.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And Sinner's had one last year and they had one
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: again this year. Nice, nice. Yes, yeah. So this brings
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: us to kind of my wrap up and just things
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: that I liked, things that I saw. So this is
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the first year I went to the secret food court.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: There's a secret food court.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, you did?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, it was very on a whim. But I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: was stuck in a line and I was like, there's
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the secret food court. My friend was like, here we go.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: We're going to the.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Secret food court.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And it was really cool. Okay. Good to know. Good
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to know. This is the first time I've ever... gone
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to the Hilton. I guess there's a trinket exchange in there.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. But it was the final night,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and I didn't want it to end. And I had
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: one friend that was like, I'll stay up with you.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So I said, let's go do a final walkthrough through
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the hotels. And it was such a wonderful adventure. We
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: saw this huge inflatable Bowser trying to go up the stairs.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: It was great. And then we saw this huge inflatable
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: dragon bigger than the inflatable Bowser trying to get into
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the rave. That was fantastic. So we were seeing all
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: these really fun things. And we ended up at the Hilton. Which,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: by the way, not sponsors. I didn't know. At this time.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: But yes. Yes, that is where the final stop is.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And there was like an exchange of trinkets. And it
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: was so cool. I love it. I think it's like,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: because a big tradition now is to hand out ribbons
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and to hand out little trinkets or something. And I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think it's, you know, it's the final night. I didn't
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: get rid of all my trinkets.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I just put them on a table. And so that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: was really cool. I think that was one of my
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: favorite things I did this year was this random adventure
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: where I discovered that and there is a lot of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: random stuff you can discover there are games that you
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: can do there's a a popular it's a guy who
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: has like a mimic chest from dungeons and dragons and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you can like go and roll and see what prize
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you get and you can add modifiers if you do
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: like push-ups or something oh okay yeah you have to
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: get over a 14 to get something good But yeah,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: there's just a bunch of stuff like that that's really
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: fun that you can stumble on. This year, we put
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a sign on our hotel door. That was of Luke Skywalker, obviously.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: And we got offerings because of it. People leave stuff
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: outside of our door.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, cute.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like little trinkets. We got a knitted potholder. Yeah,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, very, very cool. You can find a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: bunch of this stuff online. out and about too. So
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I sent Samantha a picture, but I found like a
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: tiny one wish willow. It has a stick inside of it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And I found it. Yeah, it was so cool. And
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I found it like on one of the elevator notice things. Also, yeah,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the ribbons, if you don't know, people have these ribbons
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that you could attach to your badge and that's called
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a beard and you can get a really long beard.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And they have a contest on Sunday to see who
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: has the longest beard. And it's gotten up to 10
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: stories at least.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was insane. So there was videos of that.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I was like, whoa. It's wild. So this year, this
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: is the most ribbons I've ever gotten, which is not
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: impressive for me. I think the most I've gotten before
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: this is two. But one of them I got was
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: from the show Traders, the reality show Traders. And we
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: were in the elevator with this guy, and he had
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: all of my friends and I reach into this bag.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And everybody else got... traitor but I got murdered and
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: then he handed me a letter and it was like
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: wax sealed and I opened it up and it was
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: like dear boy whatever you have been murdered sincerely the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: council fantastic like moments like that are so fun and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: then somebody had like they were throwing these parachutes down
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: from a top floor and everybody's trying to catch them
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and eventually we finally caught one And it just had
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a worm, like a worm.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: That's funny.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Like you'd get at a fishing store or something. It
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: was funny, though. So we did catch that.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: If you go back and listen to last year's, I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: talked about how it was fun to have a new
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: friend and show her around and how it was kind
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of rejuvenating. And she came back this year, and it
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: was still really fun because, you know, last year we
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: didn't get to do everything.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: It was nice that she had such a good time.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: She came back and this time she's already got her
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: badge for next year.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Nice. BT dubs, that worm, I think they were fishing
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and they caught you.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought too.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm pretty sure that the minute you said we
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: caught one, I was like, no, they caught you.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Because we were trying to figure out if it was
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: from something. And it's like, I think they're just fishing.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I think they're just fishing.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: And they got you.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And they get to watch all of us trying to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: catch it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Like going at it. You know, people were talking about it, like, no.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah. I did go one night out of cosplay. Oh?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And I have to say it was actually kind of nice.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I've never, I can't remember the last time I did that.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: But it was nice to be able to, that was
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the night I took the picture of the J. Jonah Jamesons.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Because it was easier. I didn't have all the stuff. Yeah, yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: that's difficult. Yeah, yeah. So that was cool.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: But yeah.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I had a good time. I feel really good right now.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Hopefully I don't get COVID.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Cross your fingers.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Cross my fingers. Well, as always, thanks to everybody who
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: listens to these, even if you didn't go. I hope
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: it's interesting. I just like seeing... I love seeing the costumes,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: but I also like seeing what's in the culture right now,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: what is happening right now. Yeah, and it was fun. Well, listeners,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: if you would like to write in, we would always
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: love to hear if you were there. If you have costumes,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: cosplays you want to talk about, let us know. You
• 32:04
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• 32:08
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• 32:10
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• 32:14
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• 32:15
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• 32:18
  Speaker 1: to our super producer, Rima, and our executive, Bruce Amaya.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 32:22
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• 32:24
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