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Let's Talk About Dragon Con 2024 · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Show Monday morning at twelfth day of August. I'm Wes,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for joining me. Had kind of a crazy day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I got to go into all of it. It
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  Speaker 2: was a crazy day yesterday. I'm hoping for a better
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  Speaker 2: day today. Started my day with a flat tire. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 2: the flat tire was found at home. Didn't happen while
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  Speaker 2: I was driving around. So it's always nice when you
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  Speaker 2: can deal with putting on the spare with a home
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  Speaker 2: field advantage. So I was you know, that was my
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  Speaker 2: church yesterday, because you know, you find out and then
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  Speaker 2: you're like, well, I still want to go to church.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I went to church yesterday. I was thankful
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  Speaker 2: when I went inside and I got a stool and
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  Speaker 2: I sat on the stool while I well, I changed
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  Speaker 2: the tire. That's nice. This is one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: I took a moment to say thank you that this
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  Speaker 2: didn't happen on the side of the road. So I
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  Speaker 2: had that and I was thankful that I was able
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  Speaker 2: to get the tired dealt with and get a replacement
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  Speaker 2: in there. So we're back in good to go as
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  Speaker 2: of yesterday and back on the on the road today
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  Speaker 2: for school drop offs with it, So that was good.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing that happened yesterday is I had an
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  Speaker 2: interview for the Dragon Con pregame show. That show will
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  Speaker 2: be released later this month. We it's a show that
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  Speaker 2: airs on two hundred plus radio stations around the state
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  Speaker 2: of Georgia and on Saturday and Sunday, the weekend before
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend. And I talked with one of the
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  Speaker 2: celebrities will be there, one of the guests, and it's
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  Speaker 2: Catherine Tate. You may know her from the Doctor Who series.
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  Speaker 2: You may know her from a little show called The Office.
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  Speaker 2: She's a much bigger star in the UK where she's from,
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  Speaker 2: but Doctor Who and The Office are things that propelled
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  Speaker 2: her into recognition here. Maybe she's not quite that household name,
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  Speaker 2: but when I say she was in the last two
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  Speaker 2: seasons of the Office since she came in, you go, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I know exactly what you're talking about. Well, remember her
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  Speaker 2: from the Office. I had a great talk with her
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and I'm excited to say that she is part
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  Speaker 2: of this year's DRAGONCN pregame show. I like to tell
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  Speaker 2: you when I have the interview in the can. That
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  Speaker 2: makes it a lot easier to be able to say
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  Speaker 2: I've done it. It will be part of the show.
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  Speaker 2: And when I've got a definite confirmation on an interview
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  Speaker 2: and then I do it, that's when I feel comfortable
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  Speaker 2: telling you. So my full interview with her will be
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  Speaker 2: part of the pregame show this year. I've already done
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  Speaker 2: an interview with Ross mar Kwan, my buddy. I had
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  Speaker 2: him on the show a few years ago we won
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  Speaker 2: the Gabby Awards. We talked this year, I've already done
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  Speaker 2: that as well, and we saw he actually was was
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  Speaker 2: in Columbus and he and I kind of hung out,
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  Speaker 2: got a chance to chat, and we thought, well, let's
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  Speaker 2: just record this. We're going to talk about you coming
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  Speaker 2: to Dragon Con. We're going to talk about this award
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  Speaker 2: we've been carrying around while we were hanging out, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, he knew about the award. I was texting
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  Speaker 2: him pictures of it the night that I want it,
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  Speaker 2: but I wanted him to know, you know, you're part
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  Speaker 2: of this too. Planning to do that as well with
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  Speaker 2: Rob Paulson, who will be at dragon Con this year
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  Speaker 2: one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle voice actors, and
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  Speaker 2: he was part of that show that year as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to definitely take that award to dragon
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  Speaker 2: Con this year. So I'm looking forward to I got
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  Speaker 2: some more guests that coming. Maybe later today I may
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  Speaker 2: be able to be more comfortable in announcing them. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really excited about the possibility of those other guests. I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to having the show finished and aired and
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  Speaker 2: waiting for you. The dragon Con pregame show available for
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  Speaker 2: you as well. So also someone else that I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: about introducing to you in the past, the dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: pregame show. I have had my good friend Dan Carroll,
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  Speaker 2: who had been in a role of the spokesperson for
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con. He's kind of stepped into some other things
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  Speaker 2: and he's kind of working on getting some new people
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  Speaker 2: into the spokesperson role. And one of those people joins
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  Speaker 2: us this morning. She is in the title spokesperson for
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con, and we're gonna talk this morning about dragon Con.
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  Speaker 2: So we welcome in Joe Garland.
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  Speaker 3: Hi glad to be here with So.
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  Speaker 2: Dragon Con is this massive event. I mean to limit
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  Speaker 2: it to the term convention seems small when you consider
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  Speaker 2: how big it is and how many things that it
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  Speaker 2: actually encompasses, and it's been going on for decades, Yet
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  Speaker 2: somehow I meet people who don't really know what dragon
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  Speaker 2: Con is. So I like to begin the show every
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  Speaker 2: year with the question, for the uninitiated, what is dragon Con?
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Probably my favorite question, and that's also the most commonly
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  Speaker 3: asked question for me. And what dragon Con has always
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  Speaker 3: been is the largest multi genre pop culture convention that
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  Speaker 3: happens every year Labor Day weekend in downtown Atlanta. We
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  Speaker 3: cover everything from science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, film,
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  Speaker 3: and it's all ran by stands. So it's five days
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  Speaker 3: of fellowship and fun, music, costuming, people watching, shopping, gaming,
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  Speaker 3: and of course the largest parade in the Southeast.
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  Speaker 2: And you mentioned the people watching because cosplaying is such
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  Speaker 2: a big component of it as well, and it really
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  Speaker 2: is sort of all of these genres, all of these
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  Speaker 2: fandoms all rolled into one, and they're all there in
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  Speaker 2: this giant, NonStop costume party that seems to go on
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  Speaker 2: and on and on and on all hours of the
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  Speaker 2: day and night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, cosplay has become one of the focal points of
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  Speaker 3: dragon Con, and it is also one of the places
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  Speaker 3: some of the largest cosplay influencers out there will showcase
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  Speaker 3: some of their newest pieces. I have seen Yah Yahan
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  Speaker 3: walking in our parade showing off her latest creation, and
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  Speaker 3: then that creation the following year is now in her
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  Speaker 3: merchandising and patterns. So it's definitely it's a fascinating human
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  Speaker 3: experience to watch not only your fellow friends and family
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  Speaker 3: members dressing up, but then also see your favorite sandems
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  Speaker 3: come to life in a way that we have never
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  Speaker 3: seen before.
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  Speaker 2: So as far as location goes for this, and I
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  Speaker 2: try to tell people when it's a series of these,
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  Speaker 2: you know, four star hotels that are all connected by
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  Speaker 2: these hamster tunnels, you never really have to go outside
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  Speaker 2: except to go to America's Mart, which is all so
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  Speaker 2: part of it. You guys completely take over America's Mart
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  Speaker 2: with the vendors and all of the things that you
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  Speaker 2: can purchase while you're there. Sometimes there's exclusive things to
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con from some of the vendors. I know some
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  Speaker 2: of the hot items they list kind of at the
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  Speaker 2: last minute and then people rushing to get those. But
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  Speaker 2: you basically never really other than to go to America's Mark,
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  Speaker 2: you never really have to go outside, and I always
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  Speaker 2: tell people it's kind of like being on this very
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  Speaker 2: nerdy cruise ship.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I like to say it's the five days of
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  Speaker 3: the year that you can step off planet. So you're right.
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  Speaker 3: The way that they have built these hotels in downtown Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: they do have a system of tunnels that connect each other,
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  Speaker 3: not all of them, and some of the tunnels have
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  Speaker 3: been removed or be commissioned, and even for safety reasons,
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  Speaker 3: they do shut down some of them just to kind
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  Speaker 3: of help with the flow of traffic and preserve that
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  Speaker 3: fan experience. But you can spend the majority of your
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  Speaker 3: time just walking between the buildings without ever going outside. However,
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  Speaker 3: I always recommend going outside because that's where you will
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  Speaker 3: see just a plethora of people walking around interacting with
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  Speaker 3: each other, as well as the local businesses and the
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  Speaker 3: surrounding supporting hotels. They all seem to kind of get
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  Speaker 3: in the dragon Con spirit and have their own specials
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  Speaker 3: and events. They doy decorations, their own games. So it's
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  Speaker 3: the whole downtown area with our five host hotels, the
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  Speaker 3: two buildings for the America's Mart, and then the surrounding
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  Speaker 3: area really does just become its own little ecosystem for
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  Speaker 3: dragon Con.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't really lived until you've dined in at
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  Speaker 2: Hooters surrounded by people in cossplay, you know. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they're everywhere. There's like twenty Klingons at this table. There's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of Wookies over here. I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 2: real Hooters experience that people don't talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Very true.
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  Speaker 2: What is new for twenty twenty four other than we
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  Speaker 2: can actually talk about the movies and TV shows that
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  Speaker 2: the actors are in, because that was very, very much
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  Speaker 2: a hamstring situation last year where we couldn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: But what's new for this year other than that? And
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to that in a little bit, But new
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  Speaker 2: things for twenty twenty four?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, last year was definitely an interesting exercise, but we
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  Speaker 3: got through it and it was a wonderful representation of
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  Speaker 3: how we can flex and really figure out how to
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  Speaker 3: navigate these moments in time, but do it successfully and
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  Speaker 3: still preserve that dragon Con spirit. This year, I am
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  Speaker 3: personally excited that we're celebrating fifty years of Dungeons and Dragons,
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  Speaker 3: So of course you're going to see a lot of
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  Speaker 3: parties and programming and events happening focused around D and D,
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  Speaker 3: as well as the vo artist for Baldersgate and a
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  Speaker 3: few illustrators and writers for the gaming world as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a lot kind of doubling down in that world.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of new music coming through this year, lots of
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  Speaker 3: new artists as well as just a constant stream of
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  Speaker 3: new guests being announced every day that just seems to
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  Speaker 3: keep getting bigger and bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I'm glad that you teed up the guests
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of fandoms will be represented this year,
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  Speaker 2: and it was so difficult last year to not be
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  Speaker 2: able to mention all of the projects because sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: know people from maybe one project, but you don't know
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  Speaker 2: them from some of the other things that they've done.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes those other things that they've done are the
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  Speaker 2: things that you really want to talk about, and it's
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  Speaker 2: really hard to not be able to say, oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: You know Alan Tudick, who's coming back this year, and
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  Speaker 2: I've had him on the show before and he was
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  Speaker 2: there last time talking about con Man, and now he is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, mainly there with the representation from Resident Alien,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, like last year, you'd be able to
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  Speaker 2: kind of say it's Alan Tutic, but you couldn't go
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  Speaker 2: back and talk about con Man and some of the
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  Speaker 2: other stuff that he's done. It was really difficult to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was definitely an interesting an interesting way to
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  Speaker 3: navigate our fandoms about talking about our fandom. So it
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  Speaker 3: was more of like the suggestion of you know that
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  Speaker 3: one thing you did that one time on that one show.
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  Speaker 3: I really like this.
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  Speaker 2: You were so good in that dramatic role that you
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  Speaker 2: had that one time in that particular thing. Well, let's talk.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned Resident Alien.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a great, a large contingency for Star Trek
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  Speaker 2: this year, Star Wars getting represented Doctor Who, the four
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  Speaker 2: O G Ninja Turtles, and April O'Neil will be in
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  Speaker 2: the house. We got seventy five percent of the of
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  Speaker 2: the Hobbits showing up.
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  Speaker 3: That one was recently, that was an announced last night
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  Speaker 3: on our town hall. So excited we'll have Proto Marian
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  Speaker 3: Pippin all running around together, really really happy when they
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  Speaker 3: get to join us. It brings a whole other level
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  Speaker 3: to like the fantasy tracks. So they have several parties
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  Speaker 3: that happened revolving around Lord of the Rings. So to
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  Speaker 3: be able to have them participate is just like another
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  Speaker 3: level of fun.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as memberships go, and you were talking
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  Speaker 2: about sort of the fan driven aspect of it, dragon
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  Speaker 2: Con doesn't sell tickets. Dragon Con has memberships And as
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  Speaker 2: far as memberships go, folks can learn about membership information
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  Speaker 2: plus see the full guest list on dragoncn dot org.
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  Speaker 2: What can you tell us about memberships for this year?
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  Speaker 2: I know that numbers were adjusted year to year since COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Are we looking at about the same number from last
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  Speaker 2: year or will there be more memberships available this year?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, as you mentioned post COVID, we kind of
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  Speaker 3: have initiated that annual cap just to kind of help
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  Speaker 3: protect that fan experience and make sure our fans have
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  Speaker 3: the room to really move around and enjoy that show.
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  Speaker 3: So last year we did cap at seventy thousand, and
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  Speaker 3: we did sell out of a lot of our single
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  Speaker 3: day or double day passes or badges. This year we
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  Speaker 3: are increasing only slightly just to help, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: protect that fan experience. But they are limiting again those
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  Speaker 3: categories that we have for single tap passes like the
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  Speaker 3: Friday or the Saturday days single days, and then like
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  Speaker 3: your Friday, Saturday, Saturday, Sunday days. Highly highly recommend that
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  Speaker 3: you do go to DragonCon dot org to make sure
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  Speaker 3: you're purchasing that membership as soon as possible, because we
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  Speaker 3: are already starting to see these members and as we're
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  Speaker 3: getting closer, they tend to disappear faster, So highly recommend
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  Speaker 3: making sure that you grab that before you go to con.
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  Speaker 3: As well as on Saturday when you go to see
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  Speaker 3: the parade, that was always the day that definitely had
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  Speaker 3: that doubling down of people grabbing a badge that day
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  Speaker 3: to join into the fund. Since we have started capping
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  Speaker 3: capping single day passes, we always say, you know, grab
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  Speaker 3: your pass for Saturday before you go to the parade
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  Speaker 3: so that there's no delay, you don't have to wait
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  Speaker 3: in line to try to get your badge, and there's
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  Speaker 3: no disappointment.
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  Speaker 2: That is a pro tip right there, because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people go, oh, the parade was fun, now let's
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  Speaker 2: go get a badge, and they go, why are there
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  Speaker 2: so many people in line? So that's a good pro tip.
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  Speaker 2: Another thing about dragon Con is the service back. And
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  Speaker 2: we talked about the parade, the parade is always sort
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  Speaker 2: of referred to as dragon CON's gift to the city
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  Speaker 2: of Atlanta. I think with so many people that come
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  Speaker 2: in for the parade, it's really a gift to the
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  Speaker 2: state of Georgia, you know, I mean so many people
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  Speaker 2: do travel in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean dragon Con has definitely become that place
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  Speaker 3: that everybody wants to be for Labor Day, and we
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  Speaker 3: have people that fly in from all over the world
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  Speaker 3: are volunteers. I have several in my department alone that
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  Speaker 3: come in from out of state or even out of
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  Speaker 3: country just to spend those five days with us. And
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  Speaker 3: the DragonCon Parade is that definite representation of not only
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  Speaker 3: the people that come for the weekend, but those who
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  Speaker 3: just want to be in the excitement but not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: spend the entire five days. It is one of the
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  Speaker 3: three events that happens, and it is a mile long.
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  Speaker 3: It starts, you know, goes down Peach Tree, wraps its
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  Speaker 3: way around past our hotels and lands at the Marriott,
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  Speaker 3: and it is, as you mentioned, what are the ways
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  Speaker 3: we do give back to the city because it is
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  Speaker 3: a glimpse into dragon Con. It's a view into what
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  Speaker 3: we do in the hotels without having to go into
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  Speaker 3: the hotels. But I will say the parade starts at
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  Speaker 3: ten am. I see people lining the streets as early
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  Speaker 3: as seven am.
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  Speaker 2: Also a good pro tip you want to get there
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  Speaker 2: early to get your spot, and there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great spots along the way along the path of
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  Speaker 2: the parade, so you do have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: flexibility there. Now, as far as other things that dragon
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  Speaker 2: Con does, there's a lot of service projects that go
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  Speaker 2: on year round. Because dragon Con is it's fan driven,
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  Speaker 2: it's membership driven, but it's also about there's a service
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  Speaker 2: component to all of it. One of the things that
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  Speaker 2: happens during the convention every year, of course, is the
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  Speaker 2: blood drive. If you could talk a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the blood drive is definitely one of those
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  Speaker 3: things that has happened and it become a staple of
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  Speaker 3: dragon Con every year. It's in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 3: hyatt and it starts and goes every day during con
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  Speaker 3: so you can go down, give blood and then continue
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  Speaker 3: with your con experience. We partner with Lifeself, so everything
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  Speaker 3: that is donated at the con goes directly into those
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  Speaker 3: blood banks to help pretty much all of the Southeast.
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  Speaker 3: We also do a lot within the community itself. Throughout
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  Speaker 3: the year leading us to dragon Con. We support several
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  Speaker 3: of our local Atlanta communities, the Shelters, the Open Hands Atlanta,
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  Speaker 3: and we also do have programs like the dragon Con
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  Speaker 3: Superheroes where our volunteers step up throughout the year to
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  Speaker 3: then add their hands and their support to these communities.
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  Speaker 3: The Blood Drive is one of my favorites. You do
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  Speaker 3: have events that happened throughout dragon Con itself that the
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  Speaker 3: money is being collected for the charity that year, and
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  Speaker 3: this year it is the Atlanta Foundation for the Our
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  Speaker 3: the Rightist Foundation, Sorry, and everything that we do in
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  Speaker 3: each one of our departments, each one of our parties,
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  Speaker 3: and all of the buckets that you see around the convention,
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  Speaker 3: all of that money does go back into the supporting
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  Speaker 3: charity for that year.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Garland looking forward to seeing you at dragon Con. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: and this year's show is sponsored by Columbus State University's
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  Speaker 2: Coca Cola Space Science Center. They have been sponsoring our
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con coverage for years and we appreciate that and
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  Speaker 2: then giving the s the opportunity to go back to
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con this year and sponsoring that for us. So
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  Speaker 2: we're I want to thank them again and always excited
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  Speaker 2: about their involvement in the Dragon Con pregame show. Today's
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  Speaker 2: show brought to you by Columbus State University's Coca Cola
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  Speaker 2: Space Science Center, inspiring and educating the youth and future
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  Speaker 2: STEM leaders and STEM career holders that really of all ages.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they do it for school age kids as
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  Speaker 2: school age kids visit the Coca Cola Space Science Center,
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  Speaker 2: but they also do it through their university programs where
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  Speaker 2: you can learn engineering, a stra me, physics, and the
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  Speaker 2: careers in space and STEM fields are booming right now,
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  Speaker 2: and you can learn more about maybe getting your degree
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  Speaker 2: on their website CCSSC dot org. While you're there, also
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  Speaker 2: incredible collaboration that they do with the Schwob School of
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  Speaker 2: Music from Columbus State University called Music under the Dome.
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  Speaker 2: It's unlike any concert experience that you can get anywhere else.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those things that when you're watching it
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  Speaker 2: under the Dome. Check out upcoming dates for the shows,
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  Speaker 2: and also check out when the next Astronomy Night's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Where you can get outside. Sometimes you do it at
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  Speaker 2: events also on their website, it's CCSSC dot org. As
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  Speaker 2: how would you feel about women only cars on subways
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  Speaker 2: and trains. Well, it's a policy that's starting to be
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  Speaker 2: used by transit systems in Japan, India, Brazil and some others,
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  Speaker 2: and according to a new U goov survey, more people
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  Speaker 2: in the US support the idea than oppose it. No
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  Speaker 2: surprise here, women were more likely to strongly support the
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  Speaker 2: idea than men. Young people were the most in favor.
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  Speaker 2: It says about fifty six percent of adults under thirty
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  Speaker 2: supported women only cars, to thirty two percent of Americans
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  Speaker 2: sixty five and older. Overall, forty three percent of Americans
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  Speaker 2: support the idea of reserving a trainer subway car for
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  Speaker 2: women only, and only thirty percent of Americans were Again,
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  Speaker 2: seven percent said they weren't sure. I think the obvious
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  Speaker 2: question that we need to stop and think about here
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  Speaker 2: is we have entered into a time period over the
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  Speaker 2: past few years where gender has become fluid, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where all of this thought falls for that
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  Speaker 2: as far as the subway cars, because if gender is
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  Speaker 2: fluid and you're going to have a you know, women's
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  Speaker 2: only subway car, then obviously you're going to run into
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  Speaker 2: these situations where you're going to have well, okay, that's
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  Speaker 2: a guy standing over there, and if he says well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a guy, that kind of goes against the
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  Speaker 2: whole spirit and idea of it. I don't know. It
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  Speaker 2: just seems to me like one of those things that
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  Speaker 2: could get complicated in some countries. Sure, they could probably
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  Speaker 2: do this and not have any controversy, but when you've
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  Speaker 2: got guys wanting to use the lady toilet's target, it's
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  Speaker 2: been controversy. When you got guys wanting to shower and
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  Speaker 2: the women's shower air at the gym, it's been controversial.
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  Speaker 2: And these are things that have really come up and happened.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't know how that would
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  Speaker 2: work exactly, but I guess I understand in spirit what
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  Speaker 2: the idea is, and this might have been something that
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  Speaker 2: could have worked. I don't know, ten or fifteen years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe are you overloaded with stress? Well,
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  Speaker 2: they say switching to the Mediterranean diet could help. According
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  Speaker 2: to a new study, researchers from a Binghamton University in
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  Speaker 2: New York found that people who embrace the Mediterranean diet
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  Speaker 2: this is whole grains, seafood, fruits, veggies, beans, they say
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  Speaker 2: they reported feeling less stressed and mentally distressed compared to
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  Speaker 2: those eating on typical Western diet foods like fast food
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  Speaker 2: and sugar retreats. Everything that they say about Mediterranean diets
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  Speaker 2: is that it's positive that you lose weight and that
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  Speaker 2: you're healthier. And I know people who've lost a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of weight doing it. I think they felt better doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how long have they came up or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: but I know at one period of time that they
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  Speaker 2: were able to do it. I don't know what it's
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  Speaker 2: going to do for your stress level, but I would
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  Speaker 2: think if you're eating healthier, you're feeling healthier, it probably
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  Speaker 2: in there. It seems like a good idea. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: judging because I know there have been days where my
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  Speaker 2: kids will say, can we please just have a pop
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  Speaker 2: tart before school? And sometimes you just don't want to
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  Speaker 2: fight it. You got to spread them out though you can't,
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  Speaker 2: you can't give them. I would argue that we're telling
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  Speaker 2: you that the Mediterranean diet makes you feel good and
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  Speaker 2: less stressed, that giving anybody fruit loop bagels is probably
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  Speaker 2: going to do the opposite. That's all that I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: You do what you want to do. I'm not judging you.
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  Speaker 2: You do whatever you want to do, that's all. America
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  Speaker 2: is becoming more and more frustrated with the cost of college,
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  Speaker 2: leading many more high school graduates to go directly into
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  Speaker 2: the workforce instead of going to college at least maybe
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  Speaker 2: having that gap year or whatever, trying something so with
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: more people looking for jobs without college diplomas, a Harvard
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  Speaker 2: Business School survey completed data to determine the top US
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  Speaker 2: employers for high school grads based on competitive wages, benefits,
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  Speaker 2: and opportunities for career growth. They say that they founded
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  Speaker 2: at Chipotle, Low's, Walgreens top employers for high school graduates.
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  Speaker 2: Other notable companies included Best Buy, Chewy, foot Locker Gap, Goodyear,
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  Speaker 2: P and C Financial, and Starbucks. So there you go.
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