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Show #201 The Pros at a Con · Because Fuck You That's Why Podcast

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  Because funck you. That's why it is a founding member of the odd Pods
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  Media Network. Awesome, five A four A three, let's just give you.
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  Oh, I was like waiting for you to do the numbers. Is
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  your hand? Oh all right? I supposed okay, yeah, five?
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  Hello, welcome, Yes, take the rain? All right? Go ahead?
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  Okay, hello and welcome to b F. I t w if we
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  sound a little weird, well we are. Sorry, it's just weird.
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  Is you knew that right? If you've been listening all along, you knew
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  that. Yeah, you guys, I'm letting all you take the rings because
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  I have something of a cold that has been plaguing me for weeks, but
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  did not stop me from making this trip, which is awesome. I'm glad
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  you made it. Yes, guys, yes, it would have been a
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  weird brotherly time with you. Cool but uh yeah. But if we sow
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  weird, it's because we're talking out a phone. Why are we talking out
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  a phone? Well, we're not in our studio right now. Why are
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  we not in our studio? Well, it's because we went on a trip.
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  Trip trip. I spoiled that. Sorry, you set up a bit.
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  We didn't hear it. On a trip. Maybe you didn't understand if
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  you didn't say that name of the place. That's true, I didn't.
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  Yeah, it's still still not a spoiler unless he puts it in the title
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  of the episode like he always does. I won't remember to do that or
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  not, so have a guest already by that. It's also subtle. Context
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  went down like a hammer in the face. Yeah, it subtle as a
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  hammer in the face. We've gone to MAGFest. In fact, we are
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  still technically there still. Yeah, technically it's our last day, but we
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  would love to talk to you guys about our trip. Yeah, let's start
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  it out. First of all, what is MAGFest. Well, it's music
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  and games festival. I've talked about it a couple of times before, and
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  it's basically a twenty four hour venue where you can just come in, hang
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  out, play video games, check out panels, go do whatever. There's
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  tabletop room you can play board games, the board game room, the arcade,
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  the venue, all that stuff, the giant console room. Those are
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  all open like twenty four hours, so you can just go down play video
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  games to your heart's content. At four in the morning if you want,
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  that may be the best time to do it whenever we go, Like everything's
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  friggin full. But we did manage to get some gaming in while we were
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  at it. But I'm jumping in at any event. There are concerts,
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  there are performances, there's guests of all stripes, there's a lot of voice
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  actors usually come to these things. And yeah, it's without going into too
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  much more detail, it's just a really fun convention that ties both music and
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  gaming together in a really neat and really kind of open arms and progressive kind
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  of way. The vibe is immaculate at MAGFest. Everyone is cool and anyone
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  who has shown the error of their ways pretty quickly. So yeah, that's
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  basically the basic rundown of what MAGFest is. Super simple. Yeah, and
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  the the short button is that I have been going for years, and I
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  have been trying to get these dipshits to come with me for years. I
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  mean, how to years was it? You said five? Allowed more than
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  five more than I was. I want to say it's closer to seven.
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  I'd like my excuse to be somewhere amongst those five plus years there was a
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  pandemic, so that I'll just go, I mean that is fair. They
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  did not as for the other years, Well, you know, if I
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  recalled the dam what's your excuse they did not skip? I mean they might
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  have skipped twenty twenty one, I think they might have. I remember twenty
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  twenty two they you had to have the vaccine, you had to have proof
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  you had the vaccine, and you had to wear a mask the entire time.
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  It was not allowed to go mask us under any reason. And there
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  were fewer people there that it was about ten thousand, which actually for me
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  was like heaven, that's perfect. Nothing was you know, overfull. You
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  can always get in to do something like there wasn't any issues with that at
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  that particular cont Now since then, obviously it's gone back up to its twenty
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  grand people in one venue kind of numbers. So yeah, So occasionally you
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  might find, you know, all the Pimel machines taken, or you might
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  find a freaking irritating every single board game table in the tabletop room taken,
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  super irritated on a bitch, we'll get but what can you do? So
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  anyway, So that's that's the basic history. This year, I did successfully
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  manage to get these guys come. CJ was supposed to come with us as
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  well, Magnus cock thunder you might know about it. But unfortunately he got
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  sicker than I am. I just have a cold. He has the full
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  blown play like he wound up with a fever. Got the magnus Syphilisphilis is
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  gonna be the title of this one. There were no idea so he unfortunately,
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  which sucks because it would have been It would have been more fun with
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  him around, would be good top But and to make matters worse, like
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  every year I go and I see very specific friends who come to Manifest all
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  the time. My buddy map en Rude meaning to have on the show forever
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  and uh and previous guest George LaDou, Yeah, the voice actor Shredanair who
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  did our voice acting episodes so much that was fun and he is an absolute
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  delight and a gentleman through and through and absolutely love that man. Uh and
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  he he was not invited this year for a couple of reasons. MAGFest Versus
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  was pausing for a year. I think the people behind MAGFest Versus needed to
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  take a break. They were burned out, I think. And one of
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  the things George L. Dude does at MAGFest every year is voice the villain
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  of them, so they're probably going to save him for that. And it's
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  also very obvious that the voice actor guests that they asked to appear this year
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  are not straight old white men, correct as they have been, any of
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  them, not any I can tell any of them that in Arantine this year
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  there is a straight middle aged white man. We hung out. We'll get
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  to that point. The old the only old white men there were us seem
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  right. No, So yeah, there's your context. There is the MAGFest.
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  But we had to get there, and our trip was not nice,
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  wasn't it. I think so? I mean, what what the the sadness
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  that we were getting our other buddies to go with us. I think the
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  trip itself out here down here, I should say, from Buffalo was pretty
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  uneventful. I think we did good, Like I enjoyed it. It was
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  like what six to seven hour dry. Yeah. The scariest part was leaving
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  Buffalo because oh yeah, this is so weather. The weather in Buffalo was
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  insane. It got worse after we left. Oh yeah, because it was
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  a foot we left. Yeah, everybody, everybody who lived in Buffalo decided
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  to let me know how bad it wasn't Yes, as if I haven't lived
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  there, years of my life. I hit it myself. But getting on
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  getting out of the Buffalo area was fine. We went a little east first
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  and we started. It just got lighter and easier from there, and the
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  traffic was fine. Yeah, it no no real issues. It wasn't until
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  we got close that things started to slow down. But by then we were
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  so close that it was like minute, it's not a big deal now.
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  Before we actually got into the d C type area, we were at here
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  in National Harbor, we stopped to get some food because we were grub hungry
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  at one point and we needed to eat something. Yeah, so we pulled
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  into just a little plaza just to get some food, and we saw Chinese.
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  Yeah, we saw a Chinese at first, but it turned out they're
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  refurbishing or re renovating or something. Yeah, they were. They were closed
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  and they were gonna open. They were gonna open with a new name.
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  And it was like, oh, well, what else they got? And
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  we managed to stumble onto the geekiest pizzeria in Pennsylvania. Somehow, we just
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  managed to find the fucking I think it's called Brothers. Yeah, the brother
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  Brothers Pizzeri was well, brother Pizzeri. We have the menu. We just
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  do not have the menu on us right now. I think it's in the
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  car stick. I believe it is called Brothers Pizzeria. It's little pizzeria in
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  a plaza, especially a way if you if you want to get there,
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  take the exit to you Come Town. Yes, that's there, you come
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  before or after East Cockysville. I believe it's before, Yes, yeah,
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  you comes down was first? Then was first we saw was first for Cocky
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  Yeah, you take the eggs to Cometown and you will find a small plaza
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  fill those stories and Brothers Pizzeria. And when we walked inside, we saw
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  a massive collection of geek para from the Nerdus geekyest stuff video games like master
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  chiefs, helmet like collectibles. There was a reproduction of the Game of Thrones
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  thrown and the Eggs with the dragons and three dragons, and there was a
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  little dragons the eggs. There was a giant statue of Deadpool as if he
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  were in the video game Fallout us like he wore a power helmet it and
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  he was in his full Deadpool armor with helmet. Helmet was colored red and
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  black like assume it's pretty amazing, uh, And he judged us while we
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  ate, yes, partially harshly, and there was a lot of really neat
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  stuff, like all the whole place was plastered and they had arcade games.
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  Yeah, at the run of the place. It was wild. This place
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  was incredible. It was discovering a head jests. It's not like it felt
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  like an omen like we're heading to a geek con. Here's here's a geek
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  pizzeria to go with it. Dude, it wasn't even in the same state.
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  It was like the hell like what it was so totally rand loved it.
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  But yeah, but eventually it was good too. Oh yeah, no,
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  the food was actually really good. I got to look at that.
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  You toyped pizza broccoli because I'm pepro because I'm a blad white guy. Well
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  after marriage faulted on pizza tags. We made her away to the capital.
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  It's air and what a bland assholes something I will do it. Eventually we
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  made it down to our nation's capital. Didn't we close the way by?
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  We waved so we said high, Yeah, we were here not too long
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  ago. We don't need to soil yourself with us again. We gave it
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  the old American Saloon and the river. We looked off across the atomic,
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  but Aaron got us an amazing Airbnb, Like I'm really really pleased. Yeah,
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  this is basically like a suite, you know, it's like a small
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  apartment for the post part. And we originally had one. It was gonna
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  be it was gonna be just the four of us, the three of us
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  TGIC and then Zia's eternal almost came with us. Yeah, so I had
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  to find it. I had to find a different place than had five people
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  in it that could support five people. And this one was available, and
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  and it was cheaper than the one we had before, which is great.
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  So I was like, okay, yeah, signing me up. So I
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  changed the reservation. We got this place. It looked good from the pictures,
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  but when you get here it's it's actually like, wow, this place
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  is a decent apartment. It's a decent Apartment's bigger than my apartment at home.
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  Yea. And it basically cost us double our part because we were splitting
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  it before we were splitting it for a way, is it basically cost us
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  forty dollars per person per night. Yeah, that's not bad like that that
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  was that was nothing. When you're looking at it like a convention, hotel
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  room or yeah, hotel room a convention, They're going to be outrageous.
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  They more than double these things on purpose because they know people were coming to
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  this ship. Oh yeah, if we got in a room at the actual
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  Gaylord almost was the name of the resort, it would have been four times
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  that much, been one hundred and sixty per person per night. Yeah,
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  literal thousands. And it's one of the reasons I do not do cons anymore,
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  because I'm like, yeah, it's for no reason other than they want
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  more money because they could survive obviously fine doing what the regular toss because they
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  do it for every other month, no problem. Well when the cons come
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  by, it's like nope, referring to the hotel have been the cons are
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  what bring in that revenue. But this place is awesome, Like, I'm
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  very impressed with everything in here. We we've got two bedrooms and there's a
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  bed in the living room. I'll pull out couch bed. Yeah our bedroom
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  bed, Yeah, yeah, very big. I barely notice, Like I
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  sleep in a corner and I'm looking at the bed and it looks like I
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  haven't touched the other like three just like a corner flap. I get in,
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  I close it. It looks like nobody's touches bed. If I had
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  a deckl Every time see me has offered me to enjoyed him his bad this
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  trip. You could have paid for breakfast this morning. I could have paid
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  for the trip again. Probably, I felt so bad for Aggie because because
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  I went full urban survivor and decided to couch surf instead, which was fine,
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  Like the bets were huge, he had more enough for him to come
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  and join me if you wanted, But he knows what's gonna happen? Are
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  you sharing a bed with me? But he stayed out on the couch.
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  And the only downside of this place is we couldn't find any extra blankets.
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  The only extra blankets are these little throw blankets. And we're on the two
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  kingsides beds, and everything else is a sheet and the comforter. So we
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  give Augie the two little blankets. I give him two like pillows. So
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  in the bed, I'm like five foot nine, so I need two of
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  these blankets to fully cover my body. Once one covers from down past my
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  features like a half a foot to about above my knee covers the rest,
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  Yes, yes, so you know it's awesome, but yeah, it's just
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  it's wild. But yeah, I've been enjoying it though. And again,
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  as I said, I've gone full like urban survivalist. I've been doing everything
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  for making sure we have like anything good about me, checking everything, make
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  sure we have everything clean, nothing's like out of place. I even boiled
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  some motherfucking water so we had purified waters. I don't trust their goddamn taps,
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  my own taps. I'm not gonna know that's fair places, especially this
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  place. They just had a warning and telling people, yeah, boil your
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  water. Oh really yeah. I saw it on the news and I was
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  like, oh, I thought that's why you were doing it. No,
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  no, you we're just doing thank god. Yeah, but thanks for telling
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  me that, because I feel justified and not crazy. Yeah at all,
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  not crazy at all. But at this point I think Aaron was gonna go
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  and chill out for a bit, and Aggie and I got ahold of our
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  buddy Chad. Yeah. Yeah. I was a little napery after the trip,
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  and I was thinking about it until long drive in a car. I
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  wanted to take a nap, but I was weirdly energized by you know,
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  getting in and finding the place, and it was cool, a very nice
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  place, very cool Salaka Hotel six. This is awesome. Didn't wind up
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  taking that nap, but they went out and you picked up Chad yep,
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  John Medus on the Metro or we went Menimental train station from the Metro and
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  then we went north. It was pretty awesome because we had to get our
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  medicine, so we went out to our dispenser here, got ourselves a bait,
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  got some joints, and then we busted back to the house to chill
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  and we just hung out for the night pretty much here, like we just
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  all you and I smoked and then we got food and we just now,
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  really we really didn't do anything ordered in I'm trying to think, like,
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  I don't remember I got really stone, you can't he got I got stupid
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  high, because I mean it's a long time. But I guess that's all
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  excuse all of the same. Oh. Yeah, So we call it in
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  for the night after fitting our good friend Chad farewell yep, uh and yeah,
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  and then we prepared ourselves for the next morning for our first day at
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  MAGFest. Yeah, Thursday, Thursday morning, mag day one. Should we
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  take a break, but I believe it's about time for us to take a
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  break, so we will return for our first day at MAGFest. After this,
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  to b FY tw talks about MAGFest. We are back with our Day one
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  of MAGFest. Day one to backfist. I only remember day one a bag
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  best because for one reason, is currently the picture in my hand. Oh
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  yeah, one of the best things there. One of the smartest things we
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  did. Yeah, we got in, we parked, who walked to the
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  venue and I was like, what do you guys want to do? You
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  guys want to get breakfast or coffee? So we didn't have coffee in the
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  air VNBA and we didn't bring any I did not think that far. So
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  we were like, well, let's get let's get something. And we're like,
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  it's going to be horribly expensive because we're in the hotel. Actually coffee
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  there not that not that not much more expensive than it would be in any
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  other Starbucks, at least at home. More expensive. Yeah, it was
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  actually more expensive than this Starbucks was social. So yeah, I got myself,
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  like, I got myself a venty hot chocolate. I got myself a
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  blueberry muffin and an apple turnover. It all costs like fourteen bucks. And
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  then we got and I was like, for a hotel, that's pretty good.
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  Yeah, it really breakfast. And we got two and I was full
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  and I was happy and I was I was caffeinated up yeah, and was
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  only like twelve bucks smooth or yeah. So like we got to like Venti
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  mochiado caramel bullshit, I don't know, screaming with caffeine in it, and
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  it was like it was like five seventy five something something like six. It's
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  like six bucks a piece, and it was like, wow, that's way
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  cheaper than like the eight dollars we spent back home for something similar. But
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  yeah, we sat down, we drink our extremely warm coffee. Oh yeah,
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  apparently thirsday's coffee. The coffee and my hot chongol were steaming, scalding
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  hot. So I discovered all the nerve endings of my tongue are dead.
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  Because while they were bitching about their liquid hot mag bind their mouths, I
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  was chugging it like it was water. Either my coffee wasn't as hot as
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  ears or yeah, my tongue as fucked. It was hot, but it
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  was good. I was. It took me a while to be able to
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  drink it, which I had to let it sit open for a long time.
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  We were almost done drinking by the time or her we got to really
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  start sipping on his. Yeah, it was. It was. It was
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  upsetting how hot it was. But the inside of that area, that mean
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  massive thick of like an amphitheater inside. Yeah, the acoustics like people were
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  singing and they music going that was bouncing off all the walls and it sounded
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  great. Yeah, like it didn't even sound like. The acoustics are incredible
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  in there. Yeah. Absolutely. So it's a great place to just eat,
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  sit and eat breakfast and then we went and we're like, well,
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  what do you guys want to do now? And like we walked around for
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  a bit and we're like, oh, everything's still closed. This this was
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  massively disappointing because I was like, let's go over to the to the you
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  know, we we we registered, Yeah, we had got registered. It
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  took us like two seconds and that was literally just walked into the line and
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  then walked out of it. It did not take long. We went to
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  the expo halls, all of them were closed, didn't open until two pm,
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  and we were there ten o'clock was registration right, Yeah, we made
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  it in at nine, so we were we got registered super early and super
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  easily, did not have to wait long. No, And even as we
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  were exiting, the line wrapped around the XO hall like all the way down
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  crazy quick. So we we definitely made the right move there, and and
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  we walked around and see what we could see, and all the other expo
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  halls were still being set up, so we're like, oh, nothing's open.
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  All right, Well, we checked out. The museum also closed later
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  today. I was like, well, this is disappointing. What about the
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  tabletop room Tabletop rooo's got to be ready. So we eventually rolled over there
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  and sure enough it was ready. They got and there weren't a ton of
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  people in the so we had been pretty much the entire selection to our you
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  know whatever, our choice. So we rolled in and we're like, yeah,
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  let's play Scythe because Aggie and I like Scythe and Stevie had never played
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  it before. And then and Stevie steam rolled us. Yeah. So the
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  thing is, Aaron and I have played slide a couple of times before,
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  once I was on the show Masters of Boredom. Yeah CJ. Yeah,
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  uh, then again in private because the game that much. Yeah, great
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  play. I played it a third time with my mother. I like it
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  that much. It's awesome. This would be the fourth or fifth time I've
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  played it. And this mother fucker guy, I've never played this before,
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  which I haven't ye never to be fair, as far as we know,
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  as far as we know, as far as I know, he's never played
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  anymore. Seriously, it's the only thing we can be sure of as far
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  as he knows, he's never played it before. But anyways, Yeah,
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  so we started playing or like explaining the roles to it was like okay,
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  okay, and we're like, oh, it takes a while for me to
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  really get the count. Yeah, yeah, confused, there's a lot to
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  do. By turn two, you're like, okay, I think I got
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  this. By turn three, probably you weren't able to do it, move
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  completely out of your own non assistant. By turn four you made Aaron and
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  I am nervous. Yeah, it didn't didn't take a long heed yeah out
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  of him, all of his workers out and gained a start immediately four turns
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  in to gain a single star is the insane like speed run kind of cool.
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  Yeah, So we were like, we're like and then when you were
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  like, when my beck moves, it takes all these people, they were
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  like yeah. And then he marched north. Yeah, so we just started
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  carrying. He just started carrying this massive lump of workers with him wherever he
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  went, and he would just be like, I need seven iron plates,
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  more like seven sweet Our jaws would drop, Yeah, I need to make
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  another back next, and then he's like, Okay. For whatever reason,
• 25:45
  he got nervous when we started exploring outside a little areas they were in because
• 25:51
  we were trying to go towards like the middle area to get the special warehouse
• 25:55
  car, the factory car, and get some of the quest cars. Really
• 26:00
  cool benefits for having something in there and grabbing up some of the resources that
• 26:03
  was not afforded to us in our little area. I would just you have
• 26:06
  to grab them. Yeah, he took it as a thread. I'm America,
• 26:14
  he played, but he played them like the American. Yeah, like,
• 26:21
  oh there coming for me, get him now. And that motherfucker saw
• 26:23
  oil and it is ingrained in his brain. If there is oil in them,
• 26:38
  ll I need them. We gotta take it. I'm American. Play
• 26:44
  your flag there. It is so fun. I've never really put that together
• 26:47
  at all until you started explaining what was going on. I'm like, holy
• 26:49
  shit, I am an asshole. Oh we need to get this resource for
• 26:55
  our little town and let's go get so he's gotta cross this little river.
• 26:59
  Oh ship, look all those next comedy and he crushed us. He went
• 27:03
  straight for my dude where I was sitting in the factory. Crushed that person,
• 27:07
  sent them back the base, not even a contest. You sure,
• 27:12
  yeah, immediately marches towards my base, another one of my macs. Immediately
• 27:19
  when's the whole game? Because he just crushes us. There was nothing you
• 27:23
  could do. He was. He was one step away from starting a fight
• 27:26
  with my hometown. Like this is I had a one dude in one tip
• 27:30
  point and your character managed to just sidle up there and just staring at you
• 27:37
  across the border, like try it you. I think I had three victory
• 27:42
  points stars that entire game. Yeah, I had had. I had four,
• 27:48
  He had what six? He had six? Yeah, I don't even
• 27:51
  know what that means. And I think at the end of the game,
• 27:53
  I had like he had like ten or twenty coins more than either of us.
• 27:56
  Yes, and he had terry. Yeah he his resources were the ones
• 28:03
  that did it. He quite literally crushed us. Yes, you have enough
• 28:06
  peop right away. It's like those those resource games. Get as many people
• 28:11
  as you can and just ship. We were playing a little fun, little
• 28:15
  mel resource game and Steven was back over there playing Warhammer. Okay, first
• 28:22
  of all, you just give me, give me mets. Yeah, we
• 28:26
  gave him. We gave him him like you gave him. Are meant to
• 28:32
  kill things. It was even funnier is that there's a bunch of roles that
• 28:36
  you play besides like the factions like you do with the Crimeans like I said,
• 28:41
  yeah, there's a bunch of roles you could play. I was playing
• 28:42
  like industrial. You were playing something I don't remember. Yeah, you were
• 28:48
  playing Patriotic, which I thought was hilarious until you start using it properly,
• 28:53
  and that's what this is no longer funny stopping so I'm like, no,
• 28:59
  that's funny. Ended that game feeling like we'd been hustled. Yeah, we
• 29:04
  literally somebody had us. They played You didn't hear this part because you were
• 29:10
  in the bathroom. I walked up the Arab like, so I think he
• 29:14
  fucking hustled us. Dude, like yeah, it was like a fool shark.
• 29:18
  He's like, I've never played this game. Let's make a friendly wager.
• 29:26
  He just absolutely stopped us, absolutely stopped us. We didn't even get
• 29:30
  close. I've never seen anything like that. Yeah, it was at any
• 29:34
  time he played, I've never I had fun playing, and it was.
• 29:38
  It was a good fun like day one coffee caffeine, great time playing borgains
• 29:44
  with my buddy's, great time. I was so worried that after they came,
• 29:48
  like, oh, they're going to be pissed at me all weekend.
• 29:57
  Oh my god. It's like we've never played. Oh my god, you
• 30:02
  know we still had fun. Yeah, your culture, you leave it at
• 30:10
  the table. Yeah, but you remember, Yeah, you can see like
• 30:15
  the next time we place, I am not going to don't don't. I'm
• 30:21
  like, I've never played this before. You on your face, don't worry.
• 30:26
  We will get to that. However, there was more that went on
• 30:30
  that day. That's all I really remember. It was so good. Yeah.
• 30:34
  After that, more panels did in fact open up. I don't quite
• 30:37
  recall the whole adventure too though. I think at that point the stuff was
• 30:42
  starting to open. And did I give you guys the tour at that point?
• 30:48
  Yes, I remember I started. Yeah, I started showing you guys
• 30:51
  around and I was like, hey, there's stuff over here. I show
• 30:55
  you guys the expos we saw the Danny Debato exhibit. Shy about this is
• 31:03
  amazing. Okay. The whole time I'm texting our other rooming cybernetic, I'm
• 31:11
  like, dude, who's a dandy DeVito Shrine? And he's like, I
• 31:15
  have questions? And all I could respond was I wish I had the answers.
• 31:23
  How it started? Why start? I mean, I know why I
• 31:27
  started, Danny the Vito Bowl. It started right. I have no idea.
• 31:33
  I have no idea what this came about. I've been out of the
• 31:34
  con like scene for like ever, and I don't know if it's something just
• 31:40
  to this con or if it's something that a lot of them do. Now
• 31:42
  what So any idea about the Danny de Vito Shrine, None whatsoever. So
• 31:47
  it's just it's a mystery. I am an old man, and I am
• 31:51
  frequently out of the loop. If you are a frequent Bagfest goer and you
• 31:56
  know why Danny DeVito Shryan is there, please send in a voicemail or bus
• 32:02
  and explain it to us. We're actually genuinely interested. We are. I
• 32:06
  love Daddy DeVito's I know why. Please, Although I know I made me
• 32:12
  your own punishment here, Oh god, please don't call and simply leave the
• 32:15
  word egg. No, that doesn't I mean, I'll just ignore it and
• 32:25
  move out to the next I mean, that's fair, that's fair anyway,
• 32:30
  We're not conspiracy. So yeah, I showed him around. The stuff is
• 32:34
  starting to open up. I had a panel I wanted to get to at
• 32:37
  like two thirty in the jam space. Oh yeah, oh them space was
• 32:40
  cool. I was this okay, seriously, like all straight, Like,
• 32:45
  I love this idea. This concept is amazing. Tell everybody with the jam
• 32:50
  for going space. So anyone who wants to can come down and bring an
• 32:52
  instrument or they can play one of the instruments that are there and you just
• 32:58
  jam together like you jam sessions together with with with actual like uh what the
• 33:05
  calloss? No sheet music? Oh for actual video game tunes. When we
• 33:10
  walked in, when we walked in, there was like a jazz fusion jam
• 33:15
  of the Airman theme from Mega Band two. Uh. And it was awesome.
• 33:21
  It was hot, Like the drum guy got a solo, the bassis
• 33:22
  got a solo that was neat. It was just all you people off the
• 33:28
  front and the projectors projecting the note the sheet music. Yeah, it was
• 33:31
  It was cool, like just the concept, like there's a lot of people
• 33:36
  here with a lot of interest and everything. But I have the idea of
• 33:37
  like, yo, what if people want to bring their instruments to hang out.
• 33:39
  We should just have an area where anyway can come and play it,
• 33:42
  not just like oh it's the band only, or we got to be on
• 33:45
  the stage or you have to be a guest. That is so smart.
• 33:47
  That was it. And then shortly after that ended and it became what was
• 33:53
  it, video Game music Charades, Yes, which was funny. It's kind
• 33:58
  of a misnow where it's actually raids video game topics and stuff like that,
• 34:05
  but it is. But you have to you have to incorporate an instruments somehow,
• 34:12
  either by playing it or by using it as a prop. So everybody
• 34:16
  these instruments and only occasionally when they like play a note or some notes to
• 34:21
  try and get something across, but they're trying to get the audience to guess
• 34:24
  like a phrase or a character or even just a single word or how many
• 34:30
  people got into one note. It was actually pretty pretty impressive that the audience
• 34:36
  got almost every single one of them right. Really yeah, Like they they
• 34:39
  were timed so they only had like a minute. Oh, I mean,
• 34:43
  well that makes sense, you've got so many, you got so many to
• 34:45
  get through. But it was genuinely impressive that the audience almost never missed.
• 34:52
  So yeah. And it was hosted by my favorite bisential gargoyle and yours Erki.
• 35:01
  Yes. Erki. She is a voice actress and and a I don't
• 35:08
  know what you call it, like a content streamer, I guess she she
• 35:12
  does a lot of live role playing playthroughs, a lot of D and D
• 35:16
  some vampire, she does a lot of stuff for a dropout dot TV,
• 35:22
  which you should be a member of if you're now already. And uh,
• 35:28
  and she's just a phenomenal human being. And I was so excited to see
• 35:30
  that she was coming to this. It was like the like everything else that
• 35:34
  I was coming to see MAGFest usually has gone and I'm like, oh,
• 35:37
  here's this new thing. Oh, by the way is going to be here.
• 35:40
  I'm like, Okay, that almost makes up for it makes up for
• 35:44
  it by itself, because she is a goddamn delight. And I enjoyed watching
• 35:50
  me in sanity because it was insanity. It was absolute insanity. Like at
• 35:54
  first it was just like very simple, like you know, prospects ideas and
• 35:58
  things like Mario getting a power simple okay, And then it turned things like
• 36:05
  they got spicy. Oh, they got difficult. They started mixing things together
• 36:09
  and it was like the Ace Attorney objects to Manicuma and Daniel Rovo was one
• 36:15
  of the things. Oh my god, Yeah, it got why to be
• 36:17
  obscure. It was holy cram. So yeah, there was some really cool,
• 36:23
  some really cool charades being played nice and and again Erica was a goddamn
• 36:30
  delight and she mentioned she was going to do signings later on and I was
• 36:35
  like, cool, I'll look into that. And and yeah, I think
• 36:37
  that that was. That was the first of two. I can't remember what
• 36:40
  the second panel was, I think at that point. But the break,
• 36:45
  we took a break between you guys did not go to this, you guys
• 36:47
  somewhere else. So we went to medicate outside away from everybody, because that's
• 36:52
  what we needed to do. Yes, and it is recreational and medical.
• 36:59
  But what we ended up doing is vandalizing some stuff. Oh yeah, vandalism
• 37:05
  place. Now I must understand, do you want to explain the vandalism.
• 37:09
  It's not we're not It's not like spray peating things. There's actual vandalism.
• 37:15
  Plaquins hung up around the place, banners all dotted throughout this place, and
• 37:21
  very specific banners that you could vandalize, like literally like hey, draw here,
• 37:27
  vandalize here, don't do the hotel. They'll never invite us back.
• 37:30
  So we took it upout ourselves and the several stickers we brought with us to
• 37:36
  stick every we had a quest. So again, if you've gone to bad
• 37:42
  best. You probably saw our stickers there. It is the black and red
• 37:46
  hydrate or d drate with a little b fy t W in the back bottom
• 37:51
  right corner on every single one. Well it wasn't that first panel. Yeah,
• 37:59
  we just went through and just frea game tagged everything we could. I
• 38:02
  was just like cannon stuff to people and I completely coincidental, though I did
• 38:07
  see all the people writing hybrade or hydrade all of mine that banners as well.
• 38:12
  I can't contextually place the time frame, so I have no idea if
• 38:16
  they were on there before we did ours or after, so I'll just say
• 38:21
  that everybody just had a good idea and hydrated. Yes. Well anyways,
• 38:27
  Yeah, so we were off doing that lawyer and was enjoying his panel.
• 38:30
  But then what did we do after the I don't really actually remember what happened
• 38:36
  after. You see, at that point Stevie and I were high, So
• 38:39
  there goes armit. Yes, Eddy, real question is what happened after that?
• 38:45
  I know we explored around. Yeah, I got out of three and
• 38:49
  the next thing we did was Dave Damino's panel at five point thirty. So
• 38:52
  in between in between must have done other things. Yeah, so we went
• 38:57
  to the arcade. To the arcade, that's where we went. That's what
• 39:00
  it was. Yeah, do you guys want to take a break here or
• 39:04
  do you want to keep going? We got two more days to get through.
• 39:07
  That's true. Okay, we gotta get through this. Stay quicker.
• 39:09
  There was so much to do. There was so much to do. We
• 39:13
  went to the arcade, which is a warehouse full of arcade, and a
• 39:15
  warehouse like straight up holy crap, like done nicely, but everything you could
• 39:22
  possibly think of from arcade youth like back in the days, man like,
• 39:28
  it was everything, pinball like stand ups. There was an air hockey table
• 39:31
  I saw. It was all the shooter like guing games. Yeah, it
• 39:36
  was cool man. Lots of co op which was nice, so you can
• 39:38
  play with a lot of people. It was just a shame that we got
• 39:42
  there when we did, because every last arcade was taken. Yes, oh
• 39:45
  my god. We couldn't do anything that first time we got it. Opened
• 39:50
  it two. We got there at four. They were already full. Yeah
• 39:53
  nothing. I mean, everything you could play for free, didn't cost anything.
• 39:55
  Yeah, everybody had a machine already already patchful. So I think what
• 40:02
  we did is we walked to the other side. Yeah. Yeah, we
• 40:06
  went through the went through the indie the indie section. Yes, there were
• 40:12
  a few other options there. We wound up sitting down and playing Cannon Commander
• 40:15
  or was it, well you played it? This this canon Custodian, that's
• 40:22
  what it was, Yes, by Ai Bon Games, by our good friend
• 40:25
  Mark Miller from lil He's the guy who runs lil Con believe it or not,
• 40:30
  and he is at medcost every year as well. And we caught him
• 40:36
  hawking his game and you know, with his uh, with his h the
• 40:39
  guy who's doing programming for it, and we're like, yeah, we'll check
• 40:44
  it out absolutely. And I sat down to play it, and I thought
• 40:45
  at first, oh, this is just Missile Command. I didn't think anything
• 40:50
  of it. I'm like, this is Dismissile Command. It's gonna be that
• 40:52
  good. I had high hopes, but I'm like, all right, maybe
• 40:55
  I'll have to let this guy down gently. So start playing. You know,
• 40:59
  you get into like the round two, round three of the different enemy
• 41:01
  show ups, start doing different things, and I'm like, okay, that's
• 41:05
  that's a little bit more creative. I like it. Just keep playing.
• 41:08
  Round five comes up freaking Boss commands. Boss fight comes in. I'm like,
• 41:15
  oh snap, this is kind of awesome. So I start fighting the
• 41:19
  boss, and I take the boss out without losing too many of my little
• 41:21
  pods. And then you know, they start getting into like round six,
• 41:25
  round seven, round eight. The enemies start getting a little bit more when
• 41:30
  more convoluted, like these giant spiders that come down and take multiple hits to
• 41:35
  take out. There are these little grabby baskods who run along behind you and
• 41:37
  you have to drop grenades behind you in order to stop them. Uh.
• 41:42
  And you know, all the while you're trying to shoot all these things up
• 41:44
  top, you're getting power ups, power ups that actually do things where you
• 41:47
  like you turn your beam into a laser, you can actually wipe enemies off
• 41:51
  the screen, or you get like a bomb that takes out a certain contection
• 41:54
  of the screen. All the while, these enemies are getting more and more
• 41:58
  convoluted. Round ten comes around another box. This one's harder and it's got
• 42:04
  a much more different week spot and I'm like, okay, keep going,
• 42:07
  and it just gets more and more and eventually, like I'm starting to go,
• 42:10
  I can't cover everything. And I was like I was fighting for my
• 42:15
  like and I was hanging on you were doing so good to get down like
• 42:19
  one pod. Yeah, I would get down one left and pull it back
• 42:22
  and I'd be like, all right, I'm saving. I wound up getting
• 42:25
  the new high score first try. We'll check in. You were there for
• 42:35
  a while, Yeah, Yeah, it was cool. I played for a
• 42:37
  while. It was a lot of fun, and I was like, Okay,
• 42:40
  maybe there's more to this game than I gave it credit for. So
• 42:44
  yeah, it was definitely one of those where you sit down and you think
• 42:46
  one thing and then you're biting. By the time you're done light You're like,
• 42:49
  no, this is entirely another thing. It's very well done. Yeah.
• 42:52
  It was very impressive, very very It was genuinely, genuinely fun.
• 42:57
  I dug it. I absolutely dug it. Hell yeah. Uh. And
• 43:00
  then we went from there to the console side. Oh yeah, and we
• 43:04
  checked out the consoles and this is a room full filled with CRT TVs and
• 43:09
  old school consoles and oh my god. Yeah, and again it's an entire
• 43:16
  warehouse full of them, and you can do everything like PlayStation PS three,
• 43:21
  PS four. There's like, you know, even modern consoles are there,
• 43:24
  so you can play what pretty much whatever you want, because they have a
• 43:28
  ton of games and if you want to, they have a ton of them
• 43:30
  out already. But if you want to swap one out, you can just
• 43:32
  ask somebody and then they'll swap the game out for you. It's so cool,
• 43:37
  right, Yeah, so it is absolutely wild and we just sat down.
• 43:42
  I think I can't remember what we played the first time we played Street
• 43:44
  three age two. Was that we came back and play the later, Yeah,
• 43:47
  but we played something for a little bit in that first time. I
• 43:51
  can remember at one point again, I played Twisted Mountain, Yes, but
• 43:54
  that was the second day. I don't remember when what it was. The
• 43:58
  second day, so we played something, but obviously we didn't take too much
• 44:01
  stock in it. It was Burnout or was that the second group game?
• 44:08
  Yeah? We revenge. That was actually fun. That was a lot of
• 44:13
  fun, incredibly high speeds and like knocking guys off the was that was that
• 44:23
  was That was cool And then we rolled from there to a panel run by
• 44:29
  former guests of the fy t W. That was awesome. Yeah, has
• 44:35
  been going to Manifest for a lot longer than me. He was part of
• 44:38
  a group called X Rank Studios that made these fabulous absolutely wonderful little video game
• 44:46
  style movies like they made River City Rumble, that was they made Resident Horror,
• 44:54
  both of which I highly recommend. They are cheesy as fucking hell,
• 44:58
  like obviously do not expect Hollywood type plan, but I mean, the heart
• 45:04
  of these guys is absolutely there and the the I absolutely adored those movies.
• 45:10
  So they've been coming to MECAS forever. This is I think one of the
• 45:15
  first times that Dave's got in his own panel. Really, yeah, I
• 45:19
  think this. And he did a panel called the Not Quite Triple a voice
• 45:25
  Actor, and he talked about his experiences making a living as a voice actor
• 45:30
  in a non massive market for for voice actors like New York, LA or
• 45:36
  Dallas Fortworth, Texas. So it was it was a fascinating panel. I
• 45:42
  thought he was great. Yeah. No, he goes over like so many
• 45:46
  helpful tips about about what microphone to get use, many many options option want
• 45:55
  to avoid, all sorts of really full information, and he has the entire
• 46:01
  presentation available online at a moment's notice, so you can just look it up.
• 46:05
  Yeah. Uh so, and then after that we decided to go get
• 46:08
  some dinner. Yeah, we were like, we went to we went to
• 46:13
  that Chinese place, so we left. Yeah, like, what was it
• 46:16
  called? It was something like it was Kung Fu Kitchen cum Yoo Chen,
• 46:21
  which is honestly a very silly name for what is actually a really nice restaurant.
• 46:25
  It was really good both aesthetically and the food was delicious. Yeah it
• 46:31
  was. This was a chopsticks place, and he had met with chopsticks and
• 46:35
  I did my damn you did my job job. It was amazing. I
• 46:39
  ate chicken chopsticks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you did a great
• 46:44
  job with that as well. You got chicken Google. It's amazing. Yeah,
• 46:47
  genuinely, as a guy who has a cold, probably should have gone.
• 46:52
  But I got the the crispy sweet and sour port, which had a
• 46:57
  honey glaze on the top of it as hell. Yeah, oh my god,
• 47:01
  stuck to my damn teeth. But it was so good. But there
• 47:07
  was so much food. There was a lot. There was so much it
• 47:09
  was a goddamn pile. Like I was unbelievable. I was like, I'm
• 47:14
  a big dude and I could eat, but damn, I was expecting like
• 47:19
  a stamp. I didn't even finish half of it. I didn't finish half.
• 47:22
  This was this thing looked like the bowl, like I don't mean this
• 47:27
  to be like it looked like a kitchen sink. Well you know, it
• 47:30
  looked like they took a vase and open wide. It was cool. But
• 47:39
  no, no, it was great and it was delicious, so much of
• 47:43
  it we happened. It was so good. It was so good. We're
• 47:45
  having that leftovers tonight for sure. I had some spicy pork fried rice thing,
• 47:51
  which I felt the next morning. It looked good. It was freaking
• 47:52
  amat. It had spot. You had a kick to it at first time,
• 47:55
  and all of a sudden, I'm like, oh yeah, I liked
• 48:00
  my spicy sween there, my crispy sweet and sower pork. But there was
• 48:05
  so much of it, so choch, so much of it, Like holy
• 48:07
  shit, I couldn't believe it anyway, So yeah, we ate. It
• 48:12
  was reasonably priced too as well, so I hope we ate there. Brought
• 48:15
  the food back leftovers, and then we played video games, wind out for
• 48:20
  the night until we want down for the night, and went to bed.
• 48:22
  Yeah. The first night was really chill, yeah, like not no real
• 48:27
  issues, not too many people. Yeah nice. So we'll get into day
• 48:30
  two, but we're going to take a short break. I think, yeah,
• 48:32
  we will take a short break and get into day two and strap it
• 48:37
  as since to be a long one. Right right now, we can go
• 48:40
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• 48:45
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• 48:49
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• 50:01
  same way as Day one. We like the way day one started, so
• 50:04
  yeah, we did the exact same way. It's a good Day one.
• 50:07
  We got line at the cafe, we got coffee, I got blueberry muff
• 50:10
  and apple turnover. We sat, we ate breakfast and it was delightful and
• 50:14
  also not scalding hot anymore, no regular warm. Yeah, I think they
• 50:19
  just it was literally perfect. I absolutely adored it was. And we went
• 50:23
  down walk quicker. This time we went for board games again and this time
• 50:27
  I picked out Lords of Water because see we hadn't played that either, No
• 50:30
  h, I played that. Yes, so once again this is the refut
• 50:35
  and I had played Yeah, this is the worker replacement one. And you
• 50:38
  have to complete quests using workers that you get to find fighters and ages and
• 50:45
  rogues and yeah tubes, and you're looking to complete quest to game victory points
• 50:51
  to win the game. And each of us is just basically like an NPC
• 50:55
  who hands out quests if you want no exactly don't makes sense. So we
• 51:04
  played, and once again, Stevie got Aggie and I very nervous once again
• 51:07
  because he just started playing aggressive and he's slapping me with a mandatory quest and
• 51:13
  I'm like, you, son of a thing. I'm not going to say
• 51:15
  I got a lot of heated at the table. Well, well here's what
• 51:19
  I got. But there was definitely some friendly yeah. So I started being
• 51:23
  friendly to Oggie and giving him stuff and see who was like, oh all
• 51:30
  right. I gently slapped him back with a mandatory question that was not as
• 51:35
  bad as what had given me, but just just a little slap on the
• 51:40
  nose and be like, behave and to be fair, every card I had
• 51:45
  was an aggressive card, and I'm just like, this sucks. And for
• 51:51
  pretty much the rest of the game, we all kind of helped each other.
• 51:53
  Really, all right, I'll go to your place and give you We'll
• 51:57
  help each other. We all just kind of stopped fighting you ever, started
• 52:00
  playing with each other, and we had a blast. It was it was.
• 52:01
  It was a lot closer than I thought it would be with everything being
• 52:06
  equal. I think I think Stevie's bonus points was very nearly took the took
• 52:09
  the win. You were like seven points behind me in the end. I
• 52:13
  think he was he was, yeah, but he was, yeah, but
• 52:20
  he was. He was good though. He got really far in especially we
• 52:22
  were all above hundred. That's right, it was you because he had a
• 52:30
  ton of endgame bonus points and almost come. I got I got the Bard
• 52:35
  where you get you get like plus four points for every piety you completed,
• 52:40
  and I completed every piety and warf request. I could get my hands off.
• 52:45
  He came so close, he almost took it, but I was just
• 52:50
  seven points ahead him and won the game. It was It was a lot
• 52:52
  of fun. I really dug that. And then we moved on from there.
• 52:57
  I think we just kind of messed around. We did for a little
• 53:00
  bit. The next thing I had to do was the signing, which is
• 53:04
  that Yeah, because you went to the signing, and we wanted to go
• 53:07
  to the VR cookoff, because there's there's a VR cookoff. I just wanted
• 53:10
  to go to the tournaments at noon, yes, And I was like,
• 53:14
  I don't know what I want to do. I'll just float around, I
• 53:15
  guess, right. So we checked that out and it was pretty cool.
• 53:17
  Because the VR cookoff was pretty fun. There's all these different sections of people
• 53:22
  playing against each other the whole it was the whole time, Tho, I
• 53:28
  can't putting that ship out freaking like get pink eye somehow that's not happening,
• 53:37
  there's not I'll watch round VR. But knowing then now, I would be
• 53:42
  like, Okay, I'll bring my Oculus next time and I'll look it up
• 53:45
  to there like that. Yeah. It was kind of cool because a lot
• 53:47
  of places, including the game area the consoles and stuffs, to bring their
• 53:52
  own consoles and controllers, which is awesome. Absolutely could the same with the
• 53:57
  land the computer land room. Yeah, your own everything and network and playing
• 54:00
  games with other people in the same room. It's a lot of fun.
• 54:05
  It's so smart. And then we went to the Mortal Con or we would
• 54:07
  we would looking for the Mortal Kombat tournament, which, yeah, it was
• 54:12
  an outworld or some ship because it was an anywhere else around there, but
• 54:22
  in the survivors came back later, yeah, they were walking around. Yeah,
• 54:24
  So instead we stared at the qualifiers for a Smash tournament. Yeah,
• 54:30
  there was a Smash tournament qualifiers going on at that time, so we said
• 54:36
  there and just watched that for a while. It was awesome cool, it
• 54:38
  was pretty bad. I did call my shot by the like, that's my
• 54:43
  game. Ye all, you would probably destroy all of us in there.
• 54:45
  You've got Mortal Combat, part's got street Fire. I'm like, I grew
• 54:50
  up playing that game. And at that point, you know, I had
• 54:53
  to back outside so I can medicate again. And while we're out there,
• 54:57
  I found two suspicious motherfuckers. It looked like Bob. So we had a
• 55:02
  couple of cosplayers out there, and I'm like something about jungle, right,
• 55:07
  So I got a photo with them and they were we were smoking. It
• 55:12
  was very bad, so they were pretty cool. And then at that point,
• 55:15
  I think is when we started to meet back up. Yea, because
• 55:16
  we met back up again. While they were down there, I went and
• 55:20
  I explored the museums. Yeah, oh yeah, you went to the museum.
• 55:22
  Yeah. You guys eventually went to the museums too. Yeah. Yeah.
• 55:25
  Eventually I went up to the Console museum and looked around. Pretty much
• 55:30
  everything was taken, but I did manish to spend some time with the Steel
• 55:34
  Battalion. What game I remember that? You remember? It's like a game?
• 55:40
  Yeah, full rig oh, it's got like two big joysticks and it's
• 55:44
  got tons of I remember. See, It's like it's like actually piloting a
• 55:50
  mech with all these switches and things, and you even just starting up your
• 55:53
  mach requires like a sequence of button presses to get it to swell an aircraft
• 55:58
  like yeah, yeah, and only by holding the star button down will it
• 56:01
  actually starts, Like you have to prime me. Yes, yes, that
• 56:07
  sounds it was. And if I could have figured out how to move,
• 56:10
  I probably would have enjoyed it. But I couldn't figure out how to move.
• 56:14
  I could turn, I could turn me look around just fine, but
• 56:15
  I could not move, and I eventually got destroyed by something I could not
• 56:20
  see behind me, and I was like, what the fuck? So that
• 56:23
  was probably user error. I could have used like a tutorial sequence. I
• 56:28
  was in the middle of somebody else's game and somebody left and I just just
• 56:30
  stepped up and was like, all right, I might play with it.
• 56:34
  But I had a blast. I'm like, this is so cool. I'm
• 56:37
  like I should have bought one of these when I had a chance. Goddamn
• 56:38
  it. Man, I looked around. The Arcade Museum is actually kind of
• 56:45
  anemic. It's kind of a disappointment. I don't really know why they still
• 56:49
  have it, because they might as well have put those games in the actual
• 56:52
  arcade, and the actual arcade is a better arcade museum than the arcade muteam
• 56:57
  is. I mean, there's some cool old stuff in there. They have
• 57:00
  the six player side by side x Men that actually puts two monitors together,
• 57:07
  but it's seamless. You can't tell. It looks like it amooks almost like
• 57:10
  one for on screen. Yeah. Yeah, that's a really famous machine.
• 57:15
  There's a couple other ones I had there that were pretty cool too. But
• 57:19
  eventually I met back up with you guys, and that's when you pointed out,
• 57:22
  oh, hey, you should register for this timing. Oh yeah,
• 57:24
  because I was like, I did not. I did not realize. But
• 57:27
  you have to be registered you want to get auditor. There's only so many
• 57:30
  spaces, which I get, Beau. They don't want their desk to be
• 57:31
  sitting out there forever too. So it was like, got me that thing,
• 57:37
  and I you the line and I hung out and I waited for for
• 57:39
  Eric to get there. We went back to the game. She was fifteen
• 57:44
  minutes late, which which is normal for our I've heard it's pretty normal for
• 57:50
  our gremlin queen. But everybody there knows and understands that accept this this,
• 57:53
  so we just kind of nodded our heads and it's okay. But I have
• 57:59
  now come to recognize her run when she is late. Her run is iconic.
• 58:02
  When she is her shoulders, her shoulders are in tight, her head
• 58:07
  is forward, her legs are rapidly moving, but never more than fifteen degrees
• 58:10
  out. For the first time, it's like a fast shuffle. Yeah,
• 58:14
  it's like it's an extremely fast shuffle. It is adorable. So absolutely enjoyed
• 58:20
  that too. So you saw her shuffle again. We saw her coming in
• 58:23
  from the hallway looking at her on trying to find out where she can it
• 58:30
  go and everyone, are you looking for you? She's like, yeah,
• 58:32
  I'm over there. It's so funny. But I got I bought both of
• 58:39
  her things. I bought a pin and I bought her poster. I had
• 58:43
  her sign her poster, and she was really sweet, really nice. Uh
• 58:46
  and I really enjoyed the experience, not as much as you did the next
• 58:50
  day, but we'll get to that. Uh. Yeah, And I walked
• 58:52
  off because I didn't want to. I didn't want to spend a lot of
• 58:55
  time with her. I didn't want to keep her when I do. She
• 58:59
  had so many other people to see, so I was just very kind of
• 59:01
  like, thank you very much, and I just walked away and I said
• 59:06
  I hope you had a good manifest And that was pretty much it. And
• 59:07
  then I met up with you guys and then we were like, well,
• 59:10
  it's about three o'clock. Do you want to see if Dave is down for
• 59:13
  a meal? Yeah, because we couldn't eat with him the day previous,
• 59:16
  so I called Dave, let's say let's go get food. Yeah, and
• 59:20
  Dave was like, yeah, perfect timing. We just came out of the
• 59:22
  thing and we're looking for something to do and we're like, yeah, let's
• 59:24
  kind So we went and we ate at the public House, which is really
• 59:29
  it was interesting. It was different. It's different than I remember. I
• 59:32
  don't remember automatic ordering being a thing. Yeah. Basically it was like contactless
• 59:37
  ordering. So essentially they put qrcos on their tables and you would scare them
• 59:42
  with your phone and would take you to their website and you could see their
• 59:44
  menu. From there, you could order your meal. Yeah, I phone
• 59:47
  your phone either individually or you could do it as a group and then you
• 59:52
  basically you basically opened a tap effectively, and you order the food and don't
• 59:59
  even have to talk. They literally just show up. But you like,
• 1:00:00
  they'll come up to the table and did somebody order the pepsi and some Yeah,
• 1:00:05
  and then they give me the pepsi. Yeah, same thing with food
• 1:00:07
  and they'll come up with the table. I just know which table it is.
• 1:00:09
  It was kind of odd. Yeah, I don't know that. Yeah,
• 1:00:15
  like I didn't hit it and it I get it during a pandemic.
• 1:00:17
  Yeah, perfect. Yeah. There was only one minor snag with the meal,
• 1:00:21
  and that was that I ordered a root beer and did not know that
• 1:00:23
  they their machine. Their machine was broken. It happened the CAG the CAG.
• 1:00:29
  They needed to replace it and they couldn't. So I eventually said,
• 1:00:34
  you know what, it's fine, I won't have a root beer. I'll
• 1:00:36
  just do the I'll just take a coke and it'll be fine. Uh,
• 1:00:37
  and that cop ought to be straight away. They took the root beer off
• 1:00:40
  with a bill and they didn't charge me for the coke. So so,
• 1:00:45
  all in all the pleasant experience, but hanging out with Dave was the real
• 1:00:47
  priest. Yeah, yeah, really, absolutely fantastic. Dave is such a
• 1:00:54
  delight, and we we talked over like our studio, that we can do
• 1:00:59
  it. We talked so much about stupid technology. I talked to him a
• 1:01:02
  lot about the Fane audio book that I would like to become a thing and
• 1:01:07
  needs to I need to do a kickstarter because I don't have the money for
• 1:01:08
  it. But kickstarter will probably help fingers crossnock on Wood succeeds. Uh.
• 1:01:15
  There'll be more about that later, but we're we're very much, very close
• 1:01:19
  to launching that, so keep your eyes on this face. But we talked
• 1:01:23
  a lot of business, but we also had some fun talking about Harrison Ford
• 1:01:29
  who should play him, only to find out that Dave has never seen an
• 1:01:32
  Indiana Jones movie. Oh maybe we should cut that one. People send him
• 1:01:39
  letters. Don't want his face to get melted off like that. Nazia d
• 1:01:46
  yees, Oh my god. Yes. So we had a great time at
• 1:01:50
  the restaurant, and then after that, we're a couple of animals I wanted
• 1:01:53
  to catch, and we caught them and they were right after one after another.
• 1:01:57
  The first one was ten Years of Task Spot, which for those who
• 1:02:00
  don't know tas Spot is an automated speed running machine basically so crazy and speed
• 1:02:07
  runs games and breaks them to the point that you can execute your own code
• 1:02:13
  and start doing even more insane shit like The last one he talked about was
• 1:02:19
  the try four percent run of I think it was Ocarina of Timely in sixty
• 1:02:23
  four Legend of Zelda game. He broke the game very specifically to such a
• 1:02:30
  point that they were able to stream video straight to the n sixty four over
• 1:02:37
  controller courts two, three, and four, And so they showed a scene
• 1:02:42
  that didn't exist from Breath of the Wild on a Nintendo sixty four really running
• 1:02:51
  through the hardware and had everyone on Twitch type the words here together, as
• 1:02:59
  you know, try to heal after the pain of the pandemic, and so
• 1:03:02
  the words here together just kept popping up all over the screen rapid fire,
• 1:03:07
  like insanely insanely uh, beautiful moment and gesture in a video game to have.
• 1:03:16
  But otherwise, like they just talked about it, they didn't show it.
• 1:03:20
  So I was like, oh, I wanted to see videos, Yeah,
• 1:03:27
  I don't want to see it there, And then the last panel was
• 1:03:30
  again Eric, she was on it. Oh my god, that was so
• 1:03:32
  good. It was an It was a panel called I Said What, and
• 1:03:37
  it was basically like half quiz, half Q and a like these these apparent
• 1:03:42
  these podcast hosts. I don't know who this podcast, has never heard of
• 1:03:45
  him in my life, but they apparently came up where they would ask these
• 1:03:53
  voice actors. They would give these voice actors a line, no context,
• 1:03:58
  just the line and no livery, just like as bare bones they could,
• 1:04:01
  and then the voice actor would have to guess what character of theirs said that
• 1:04:06
  line because it was the voice line that they had said at some point in
• 1:04:12
  their Yeah, and they started with softballs. Pretty much everybody got there their
• 1:04:15
  opening one right, except for poor Erica. It was kind of funny,
• 1:04:19
  but to be fair, they told her that they also could have quolled for
• 1:04:25
  her years upon years, hundreds and hundreds of hours of role play sessions,
• 1:04:30
  which is absolute you know how hard that would be a lot of character.
• 1:04:40
  Yeah, well, things you'd come up with too, Like most of the
• 1:04:44
  other sort of like lines they did not write for Erica, there'd be things
• 1:04:47
  that she came up with, Like, you know, so, I don't
• 1:04:51
  wonder if it might actually be easier if you're like oh, I came up
• 1:04:55
  with that line that was mine. You know, maybe it didn't win.
• 1:05:00
  Imagine her. He didn't wind up coming up. So there was a lot
• 1:05:01
  of fun as they tried to guess their lines on this. There was a
• 1:05:04
  short Q and A. They had people lined up to ask questions. They
• 1:05:09
  all answered them and it was a pretty good panel. It was a great,
• 1:05:12
  great panel. And this is where this is where Stevie found out who
• 1:05:15
  even was. Yeah. I was like, it turns out he's been playing
• 1:05:18
  as her. He called duty forgotten his whole months months. I just like
• 1:05:27
  when I got that purple knee on hair and shit, I was like,
• 1:05:29
  oh, I'm gonna play this one. This is awesome. I'm just like
• 1:05:30
  kicking ass. He's got like an eye patch and ship. I'm just like
• 1:05:33
  destroying people. And come to find out it's like, oh, this is
• 1:05:35
  her. Oh fuck, Yeah, that is so cool man, Like we
• 1:05:39
  all have a connection to the same person different like different reason games and voice
• 1:05:44
  acting, but you know, different reasons in those. Yeah, and that
• 1:05:46
  right there gave you me that extra Oh shit, I want to learn a
• 1:05:49
  little bit more about her and like to see what else. So I started
• 1:05:53
  deep diving a little bit more. I'm like, it's kind of cool.
• 1:05:55
  Yeah, I've been out of the voice. I think, like look up
• 1:05:57
  game forever, like I've done it so long. So that like wound down.
• 1:06:02
  Day two, we came back to the airbnle we played video game.
• 1:06:06
  You'll it starts with coffee and board games that ends with a video game.
• 1:06:16
  It's like a break all right, and a lot and real quickly we can
• 1:06:23
  do day day three. Yeah, day three you seem to go buy it
• 1:06:25
  way faster. Yes, it was definitely a widening down day. Yeah,
• 1:06:29
  and once again started with coffee words same as that coffee is because I was
• 1:06:32
  like my stomachs doing good getting the same thing again. Played a different board.
• 1:06:38
  Yeah, we played Ascension, which Stevie destroyed us at yet again,
• 1:06:44
  and this time we saw it coming and we were just kind of, oh
• 1:06:46
  that was the card game. Yea. Yeah, we're just we're just gonna
• 1:06:50
  We're just gonna let it happen. It's fine. Stevie absolutely destroyed us in
• 1:06:55
  that game and we just kind of let it be. Uh And from there
• 1:07:00
  hebe wanted to go get Eric's signature himself. Yeah, So it was I
• 1:07:04
  think right before we left the Airbnb I was like, fuck this, I'm
• 1:07:10
  signing up to get her autogram. So I jumped on my phone real quick.
• 1:07:14
  I signed up for her noon fifteen. I think it was Moon fifteen
• 1:07:18
  on the signing and I was like, all right, cool, well what's
• 1:07:21
  started heading over that way? And we did, and then that's where we
• 1:07:25
  broke off because I was going to stand in line, yeah, and while
• 1:07:28
  they went and did what they did. So I stood in line for a
• 1:07:31
  bit and I had my cane. It was cool, and then they ended
• 1:07:33
  up. I was pretty it up in front. I was like first fifteen,
• 1:07:36
  yeah, and then they split the line in two. They said,
• 1:07:39
  oh, this is for who's going Now, We're gonna make an art line
• 1:07:42
  right here next to you for Eric She. I was like, oh shit,
• 1:07:45
  so I move over and I'm like fifth. I'm like okay, so
• 1:07:47
  I'm from from like fifteen to fifth. I'm like this is kind of cool,
• 1:07:50
  and I'm talking to somebody else and we're just like bullshitting. And they've
• 1:07:53
  only been to MAGFest once before. It was a couple behind me and they
• 1:07:56
  were only here for like a day, and I loved it so much,
• 1:07:59
  and they came out this time still, I went a ball and they said,
• 1:08:00
  this is our kind. It was really neat talking to them for a
• 1:08:02
  bit, and then the people are heading up in front of me and it
• 1:08:08
  was my time to go, and I hobble my little broken ass up to
• 1:08:11
  her table and she's like, oh my god, thank you so much for
• 1:08:14
  waiting so long. Wow, it's okay. I was really excited for a
• 1:08:18
  couple of reasons. Why I found out really who she was, and I'd
• 1:08:21
  like to say, characters all the damn time. And two because I brought
• 1:08:25
  our signage book that I used to bring to all the conventions, Like you
• 1:08:28
  the anime North I haven't. Yeah, so this book, I don't know
• 1:08:32
  if you guys ever seen the anime. It's called Death Note. Check it
• 1:08:38
  out. It's really good. It's only two seasons, I think. Yeah,
• 1:08:41
  it's like twenty four episodes. It's awesome. It's really good. Pretty
• 1:08:45
  much, if you write a name in this book, that person dies how
• 1:08:48
  you write it or whatever. So I've had multiple actors, voice actors and
• 1:08:53
  whatnot getting people sign this book throughout the years and years. So I brought
• 1:08:57
  that with me. As i'm holding it, I'm about to handle her the
• 1:08:59
  book and she almost stands up like no, no, no, no,
• 1:09:02
  no, no, no no no, not putting my name in that book.
• 1:09:06
  And I started to laughing. I was like, listen, listen,
• 1:09:08
  there's the story guy that explained her to the story. She's like, okay,
• 1:09:11
  I'll do it for you. And I opened it up and what I
• 1:09:13
  was using for a bookmarker inside the book was our hydrate or diedraate new logo
• 1:09:17
  button that had to be a Y on it. And I was like,
• 1:09:19
  oh cool. And I was like, oh, this is for you,
• 1:09:20
  and she took the button. She's like, oh my god, this is
• 1:09:24
  great. I'm going to keep this. And I told her about the podcast,
• 1:09:28
  told her about how I was big in the Call of Duty and stuff
• 1:09:30
  and how you were into dangan Ropa and you spoke with her yesterday or whatever,
• 1:09:34
  and she's like, I saw your tweet earlier this morning. And I
• 1:09:36
  was like, that's cool because she liked that. And then from that point
• 1:09:42
  I thanked her for everything, like hooking all us all up and stuff,
• 1:09:45
  and she's like, I'm going to make sure I keep this so I can
• 1:09:46
  remember your podcast. I was like, I really appreciate it. We had
• 1:09:49
  two hundreds and stuff. It was really cool. Apologies, I had a
• 1:09:54
  diametic sorry, but no, it was cool, like she laughed about and
• 1:09:59
  everything. We talked for like a like maybe another thirty seconds. It was
• 1:10:01
  really neat, like we're there for a little bit. And then I walked
• 1:10:04
  away, said thank you and whatnot, and met up with you guys at
• 1:10:08
  that point. Yeah, and she wrote inside the death note on her page,
• 1:10:14
  I will never I'll never die. I'm good on it forever. And
• 1:10:18
  I was like, that's amazing. So that made me so happy. And
• 1:10:23
  that's when I met up with you guys at that Yeah, I hobbled over
• 1:10:27
  to where you guys were playing video games, I think, yeah, yeah,
• 1:10:30
  Doggie and I were doing our own thing. We played some pinball and
• 1:10:34
  I rolled around for a bit on some of those machines. I found one
• 1:10:38
  of that didn't quite work, kind of a it's a very popular machine though
• 1:10:44
  it's a Valley's Theater of Magic. It's really really solid pinball table when it
• 1:10:47
  works. Part so we had but we had some fun with that, and
• 1:10:53
  then Stevie rolled up and then we were like, okay, we're getting close
• 1:10:57
  to the time to the video improv. Oh yeah, and this is the
• 1:11:04
  extra studio guys so good in collaboration with guys called Whose Role is It Anyway?
• 1:11:12
  I think, which is like an improv a d n D slash podcast
• 1:11:17
  slash performing event. I don't know exactly what they do, but they're all
• 1:11:20
  pretty good. They did some fantastic impro It was funny as hell. It
• 1:11:26
  was the audience members come up from recidly every schop yeah in the end one
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  right, yeah, pretty much and it was done so well yeah, and
• 1:11:35
  they were all you can do they did it, and then Dave up there.
• 1:11:42
  Yeah, like somebody you know, Dave is an incredible solorious Oh my
• 1:11:53
  god, that impression was on what was great? It was delightful, lifeful.
• 1:12:00
  Imagine that you're playing love Connection. Yes you kind of you kind of
• 1:12:04
  get what Dave was doing. It was so good, so good, it
• 1:12:09
  was so good god. So yeah, so we had fun. We saw
• 1:12:13
  Dave one more time. I signed his copy of Fame, which was awesome.
• 1:12:17
  She brought all by himself and I signed that, so that was like,
• 1:12:20
  that was me. And then he signed Stevie's Death No. Yeah,
• 1:12:25
  so I got Dae as well, which was great because it just right after
• 1:12:30
  Eric. Yeah. So Dave wrote to my Brosky Stevie keep on rocking the
• 1:12:35
  mic and geeking out with me about said Mike's and I was like hell yeah.
• 1:12:42
  I I every now and then have a tendency to just like message Dave
• 1:12:46
  like yo, you got time to talk shop, and usually it's like yeah,
• 1:12:53
  And I was like all right, No, we talked for like five
• 1:12:54
  minutes. It's been cool, like connected that. It has been fun.
• 1:13:00
  Yeah. Yeah. And after that we just kind of we wandered around.
• 1:13:03
  We wanted to see if there's anything else we wanted to do, because there
• 1:13:06
  was. There was another panel after that, but I wasn't terribly interested in
• 1:13:10
  it. Oh yeah, it's a video game named that too. And also
• 1:13:13
  it was filling out fast, right, Yeah, that's one of the more
• 1:13:15
  popular ones. I don't know why they don't put it in like a bigger
• 1:13:18
  venue, like that should be in panels. One that should be in a
• 1:13:21
  face room, because it's always standing room only every time I go to it.
• 1:13:26
  You think this year, I was like, you know what, I
• 1:13:29
  can give it a pass. I usually don't know the songs anyway. They're
• 1:13:32
  usually from newer games, which kind of stinks for me. The one more
• 1:13:35
  retro, not even I mean, the only current game I play. It
• 1:13:39
  is like like Call of Duty, and it's just like I feel I can
• 1:13:42
  reliably I can reliably name songs from video games I like from the PS two
• 1:13:46
  and Xbox Era on back, but anything past that is a little bit more
• 1:13:51
  difficult. So it was just like, it's I probably won't enjoy it as
• 1:13:56
  much as others. So I was like, I'll give it a pass.
• 1:13:58
  And I was like, is there anything else you go want to do before
• 1:14:00
  we leave? Because there's you know, once we leave, we're probably not
• 1:14:02
  going back for Sunday. So we were like, let's see if we can
• 1:14:08
  play board games. Our game place was full. It was absolutely packed,
• 1:14:13
  ridiculously filled. We could have sat at three different tables we wanted there weren't
• 1:14:17
  playing with other people. There were a few individual seats open here and there,
• 1:14:21
  but sitting the three of us together with nyon impossible. Keep it bye
• 1:14:27
  is Saturday, it is the peak. Ye, people who couldn't come on
• 1:14:33
  Thursday Friday because they were working are now going to be there. And yes,
• 1:14:36
  yeah it was. It was as full as MAGFest. Well that's okay
• 1:14:41
  because as I said it earlier on in our episode, we are white old
• 1:14:45
  men. Yes we were. We got today, so we were. You
• 1:14:53
  know what, We're just going to call it an early day. We've had
• 1:14:56
  as much fun as we can pack into MAGFest this year and to all this
• 1:15:00
  stuff. There's extra stuff that I would have liked to have done, but
• 1:15:02
  only if they'd been here, and they weren't here this year. So I
• 1:15:06
  was like, you know what I got. I got to meet Eric.
• 1:15:09
  She agreed. We all got signatures, and I got a bunch of I
• 1:15:14
  got a bunch of merch. Oh yeah, one of those points when I
• 1:15:16
  think, I think one of those points when you guys were separated from me.
• 1:15:21
  Like I took like a half trip through the Fender area and I dropped
• 1:15:26
  eighty five bucks. I bought a ton of prints. I am bringing them
• 1:15:31
  all home and putting them up immediately. So good, Like I got,
• 1:15:36
  I got rid of a lot of merch. Yeah, it made me happy
• 1:15:39
  as fun. Like seriously, I'm glowing the fact that we loved today and
• 1:15:43
  nothing, it was nothing left. He gave it out to everybody, everybody
• 1:15:45
  I could were like it was cool, Yeah, it was. It was
• 1:15:50
  a fun time. Is it my first time here at Macfist. I gotta
• 1:15:54
  say the same. It was really nice. Compared to other conventions I've been
• 1:15:58
  into the past, this was seems more my speed. Yeah, agreement,
• 1:16:02
  it's a very It's the thing I love the most about MAGFest is it is
• 1:16:06
  very is very chill vibe. It is is a very everybody's got to be
• 1:16:12
  cool, uh, you know sort of attitude. So everybody, everybody's helpful,
• 1:16:15
  Everybody is nice and pleasant, and it's very easy to strike up a
• 1:16:18
  conversation with a stranger, which I don't usually do. I mean, the
• 1:16:24
  at MAGFest, I feel a little bit more comfortable doing it because I know
• 1:16:27
  people are more likely to be cool. I mean there's always going to be
• 1:16:30
  an asshole or too yes, you know that never happens, but MAGFest attendees
• 1:16:34
  and staff and security are going to make that person see the air of their
• 1:16:40
  ways pretty quickly. Tell there's there's not a lot of tolerance for for being
• 1:16:45
  a jerk, and that's a lot of tolerance for the intolerance. Yeah,
• 1:16:47
  exactly. And everything is very progressive and cool, uh. And there's so
• 1:16:53
  much to see and so much to do. Just walking around with the cosplay
• 1:16:57
  that was all around us was incredible. Well, that one the first day
• 1:17:01
  we met this woman riding him around. My god, it was absolutely amazing,
• 1:17:06
  incredible, everything more particulated and it was everything I boot this new.
• 1:17:15
  Yes, it was pretty amazing. So yeah, so MAGFest has an absolutely
• 1:17:20
  immaculate five. It is always a pleasant place to be and there there is
• 1:17:26
  a lot to do. Granded sometimes they're taking up, but it just means
• 1:17:29
  you have to wait a little while, which is fine. There's always as
• 1:17:31
  long as your patient, you will get a chance to do the thing you
• 1:17:34
  wanted to do. So it's nice. I would say plane ahead, especially
• 1:17:41
  because I say about that until I've looked in I say plan ahead if you're
• 1:17:45
  going to go to a panel show up half an hour early. It's just
• 1:17:46
  the smart thing to do. Another good thing is to bring a small backpack
• 1:17:51
  or a small thing that you can keep light food and snacks in because keep
• 1:17:57
  buying them from a store, expect it in the In the hotel can be
• 1:18:01
  pricing. Yeah, the the Starbucks fees are reasonable. Everywhere else is not.
• 1:18:08
  Yeah, so yeah, so that's a thing to be aware of.
• 1:18:12
  You should always have liquid on you some kind generally speaking, and of course
• 1:18:16
  bundle up and stay warm because it is always in like the third or second
• 1:18:20
  week, so it's always gonna be fucking cold. I don't know what possessed
• 1:18:29
  them to choose this time of year, but maybe it was just because it's
• 1:18:31
  not a lot of other counts going on this year. Probably availability, yeah,
• 1:18:35
  it's probably available forever. And also, yeah, just be prepared to
• 1:18:41
  enjoying music at a moment's notice. That third that third day of coffee,
• 1:18:45
  we were sitting listening to an entire choir in order. It was the first
• 1:18:50
  thing they did was the Halo theme, which was for absolutely all the years
• 1:18:59
  playing Halo, and they had an electric guitar to playing the electric guitar.
• 1:19:01
  Yeah, perfect. It was just it's just it's such a lovely place and
• 1:19:09
  so much music. Just you're just walking down toward the expo halls and you'll
• 1:19:13
  hear somebody playing something you know, or you'll be heading back to the lobby
• 1:19:17
  to getting ready to leave and there's a string court tap playing for some reason.
• 1:19:23
  It's just it's just Macfest the way it is. The music is everywhere.
• 1:19:27
  It's delightful as out it really is. I would definitely come back here
• 1:19:30
  again. Yeah, I would definitely drag your asses back here. Hopefully when
• 1:19:35
  Matt ben Ruine is back, and George la and we'll just make it a
• 1:19:43
  we'll do the trifecta. And da he's not back, we can just drag
• 1:19:50
  him along. I'll we got table. Oh my god, not kidnapping a
• 1:20:02
  voice. Yeah, he's a friend. I'm pretty sure we've already run long.
• 1:20:10
  Oh yeah, I definitely run long. And I don't know about you
• 1:20:12
  guys, but I'm exhausted. Yeah, I'm sorry to talk about. Finally,
• 1:20:16
  that was b F I t w's adventure through MAGFest. I hope you
• 1:20:20
  all enjoyed listening. I hope you all who were listening attended as well.
• 1:20:26
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• 1:20:30
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• 1:20:33
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• 1:20:38
  know? Yeah for sure, Uh, Aaron, you might do in the
• 1:20:43
  side off this. Oh I see, I can never remember. No,
• 1:20:54
  I don't think I won't. I think I won't. Goodbye everybody, It's
• 1:20:58
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• 1:21:19
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• 1:21:24
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