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Dragon Con Spokesperson Jo Garland · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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  Speaker 1: Carol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, fifth day of August. I'm Wes,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining me. My guest today is a dragon
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  Speaker 1: Con spokesperson.
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  Speaker 2: It is Joe Garland. Joe, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing with We are coming.
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  Speaker 2: Up on the dragon Con number forty. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: that coming up in just a minute. But when people
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  Speaker 2: hear dragon Con and they don't really know exactly what
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  Speaker 2: it is, they think about, oh, it's a sci fi convention,
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  Speaker 2: or they think about one of the big corporate conventions.
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  Speaker 2: Dragon Con is not a big corporate convention, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot more than a sci fi convention. So for
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  Speaker 2: those folks that don't really know what it is and
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  Speaker 2: these things pop in their head, I guess we'll just
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  Speaker 2: kind of begin For those uninitiated folks, let you define
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  Speaker 2: what is dragon Con?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, dragon Con is the largest multimedia pop culture
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  Speaker 3: convention in I would say the galaxy. We focus on everything,
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  Speaker 3: like you mentioned, sci fi, but also fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, music, film,
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  Speaker 3: and just about everything in between. It is, I like
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  Speaker 3: to say, the most fun you can have over Labor
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  Speaker 3: Day weekend in Atlanta. It is a very well internationally
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  Speaker 3: known convention that was created by fans and still to
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  Speaker 3: this day is ran by the fans. It happens every
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  Speaker 3: year over Labor Day weekend September third through the seventh,
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  Speaker 3: which is a little weird for us this year. Normally
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  Speaker 3: Labor Day is like the last couple of days of August,
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  Speaker 3: but we are squarely in September this year, and we
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  Speaker 3: sit in downtown Atlanta over that weekend across five host
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  Speaker 3: hotels and a couple of the buildings within America's mart.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy four thousand fans usually join us and are roaming
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  Speaker 3: around those wonderful hotels and spaces in between. And it's
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  Speaker 3: everything from fans and dealers, artists, guests, professionals, performers, and
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  Speaker 3: of course our volunteers. It's an ability for you to
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  Speaker 3: step off the planet and find your pack.
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  Speaker 2: You touched on some of the fandoms represented, and I
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  Speaker 2: love the fact that there's things that you don't normally
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  Speaker 2: think of a convention like this that are included. And
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  Speaker 2: that includes actual scientists that will be in the building,
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  Speaker 2: professional wrestlers that will be in the building, live music
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  Speaker 2: covering multiple genres. You know, voice actors that aren't just
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  Speaker 2: there meeting fans, and that's one of my favorite things
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  Speaker 2: to do is watch fan meet a voice actor for
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  Speaker 2: the first time. There's a lot of tears sometimes because
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  Speaker 2: there's this connection that they have. But also some voice
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  Speaker 2: actors that are doing things like voice acting clinics is
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  Speaker 2: something that's often happened there. There's a skeptics track. There's
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  Speaker 2: just a lot for whatever your fandom happens to.
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  Speaker 3: Be absolutely and you touched on some great ones. Some
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  Speaker 3: of my favorites are the attending professionals that you wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: think about attending a sci fi or fantasy type convention
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  Speaker 3: when you think of culture, I wouldn't necessarily think about
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  Speaker 3: a scientist learning how to terraform future planet growth and
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  Speaker 3: space exploration. But low on Thehold, there's a whole panel
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes it's people who consult on some of the
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  Speaker 2: TV shows that you like, and the people that are
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  Speaker 2: there to work on these shows to say, yeah, your
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  Speaker 2: science is accurate or no, your science is way off.
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  Speaker 2: So there's always that overlap between science and science fiction.
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  Speaker 2: They feed off of each other there and that's really
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  Speaker 2: cool to have represented at a convention like dragon Con.
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  Speaker 2: This is the fortieth dragon Con. It started in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty seven, and here we are at number forty, so
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  Speaker 2: makes it extra special. When anytime you get anniversary that
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  Speaker 2: ends in a five or a zero.
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  Speaker 3: It makes it special absolutely, And we're really excited for
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  Speaker 3: our fortieth this year. We have lots of fun things
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  Speaker 3: in store. We've made some fun changes, added some new panels,
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  Speaker 3: some new directions, some fun new faces, and we spent
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time digging into our archives just to
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  Speaker 3: pull out some of those old photos and walk down
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  Speaker 3: memory lane. I mean, this thing did. Like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: it started in nineteen eighty seven with Pat, Henry and
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  Speaker 3: a few friends getting together trying to solve the how
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  Speaker 3: do we support each other's fandoms without having to go
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  Speaker 3: to one hundred different conventions? And they all threw in
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  Speaker 3: three hundred dollars and went to work, and forty you know,
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  Speaker 3: Dragon cons later, we're still here celebrating that same spirit
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  Speaker 3: and that same drive to celebrate our fandoms.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the number of people who attend the members
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  Speaker 2: You're not buying a ticket, you're buying a membership for
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con each year. That's another way it's different. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean to be critical of the corporate conventions.
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  Speaker 2: It's just different. This is just something different, and there's
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  Speaker 2: an ownership to it to the people who attend. It
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  Speaker 2: makes for great people watching when you have that many
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  Speaker 2: people who are there. My favorite like things that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really get talked about with a convention is the great
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  Speaker 2: people watching. But it's it's fantastic cosplaying that takes place.
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  Speaker 2: It's elite level cosplay. This is one of those conventions
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  Speaker 2: every year that people say, I have to get my
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  Speaker 2: cosplay together for dragon Con and be ready for Labor Day,
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  Speaker 2: which is another unique part about it. And I like
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  Speaker 2: to think about all of these fantoms we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that it takes place over these you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's technically it starts on Thursday and it goes through
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day, but people have started getting there, you know well,
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  Speaker 2: and truly Sunday Monday, you know, a whole They like
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  Speaker 2: to spend a whole week there, but officially it's Thursday
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  Speaker 2: through Monday. So you have all these fandoms that are
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  Speaker 2: there and all these events taking place, and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of right in the middle of this giant costume party
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  Speaker 2: that goes for the entire time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. You know, costume contest may not have originated
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  Speaker 3: with dragon Cons, but the quality, the caliber that shows
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  Speaker 3: up has definitely been you know, dragon Con setting that
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  Speaker 3: that tone across the fandoms. You know, way back when
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  Speaker 3: in the eighties you had a lot of the evening time,
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  Speaker 3: you know, mass parade style, everybody kind of showing off
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  Speaker 3: their best costume at one of the costume contests in
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  Speaker 3: the evening and then maybe during the day you'd see
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  Speaker 3: a person or two in costume. But a dragon Con
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  Speaker 3: is it is a all day every day. There are
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  Speaker 3: people done up everything from simple T shirts and you
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  Speaker 3: know deep cut cosplay where you wouldn't even realize it,
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  Speaker 3: but it's it was a janitor from the game sims
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  Speaker 3: in you know, nineteen ninety nine, all the way to
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  Speaker 3: those very ornate, over the top, fully mechanical lit up
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  Speaker 3: all you know, done to the full ex sustent and
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  Speaker 3: using fabrication in a way that we have never thought
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  Speaker 3: we would. Across the entire weekend, there are people that
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  Speaker 3: spend time over the year building their entire library of
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  Speaker 3: cosplay that they will where throughout the weekend and it'll
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  Speaker 3: start the am costume, lunchtime costume, and nighttime costume. And
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  Speaker 3: then on top of that, you also have a plethora
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  Speaker 3: of opportunities to participate in a costume contest, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: a you know, we call them the hallway contest where
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  Speaker 3: it's the last minute drop in, everybody has a picture
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  Speaker 3: and people vote all the way to the very large masquerade,
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  Speaker 3: where it is a full on production. It's not just
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  Speaker 3: the costumes, it is sketches and singing and really showing
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  Speaker 3: that full breath of what you have done to embody
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  Speaker 3: that character.
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  Speaker 2: One of the non contest versions of an event that
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  Speaker 2: you can show off your cosplay is the parade, and
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  Speaker 2: that is what dragon Con has called for many years
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  Speaker 2: their gift to the city of Atlanta. I like to
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  Speaker 2: say it's really a gift to the whole state of
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  Speaker 2: Georgia because of how many people come from around the
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  Speaker 2: state to participate in it as well as to see
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  Speaker 2: the parade. And it's one of those things where you say,
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  Speaker 2: if you come one day, if there's only one day
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  Speaker 2: that you come to dragon Con, I tell people Saturday
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  Speaker 2: is the day, because you can start it with the
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  Speaker 2: parade and then you can get into the other activities.
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  Speaker 3: Going on absolutely. You know, if you ask anybody about
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  Speaker 3: dragon Con, the parade is usually the first thing that
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  Speaker 3: pops up in a conversation. Saturday morning, you will see
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  Speaker 3: people with their chairs and their blankets lining Peach Tree
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  Speaker 3: Street for hours before it starts, you know, at ten am,
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  Speaker 3: but I've seen people out there at six and seven
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  Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning staking claim to their location so
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  Speaker 3: they can get a great seat. And it's wonderful to
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  Speaker 3: see when you see seventy five thousand plus people all
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  Speaker 3: lining a street a mile long just to see us
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  Speaker 3: walking by, representing the true heart of dragon Con, which
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  Speaker 3: is the costumes and the people and the fandoms themselves.
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  Speaker 3: It's always fun to see, you know, the different genres
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  Speaker 3: be presented, but also things like nether World. They do
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  Speaker 3: a giant float every year covered in monsters and creatures
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  Speaker 3: and things running them up in the street. And then
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  Speaker 3: generally the Ghostbusters are either right in front of them
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  Speaker 3: or right behind them, and they'll interact and play and
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  Speaker 3: generally somewhere in there suddenly you have spartans walking by
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  Speaker 3: or cardboard superheroes. But it's a wonderful representation of the
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  Speaker 3: heart and the passion and the spirit that is Dragon
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  Speaker 3: Con and it happens every year on Saturday, and then
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  Speaker 3: afterwards everybody disperses and finds a thousand things to do.
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten to know some of the Spartans over the
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  Speaker 2: year and years, and they tell me, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whenever you're ready, And I'm like, I got about twenty
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  Speaker 2: years before I can look anything close to what you
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  Speaker 2: guys need me to look like to be part of
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  Speaker 2: the Spartans. But you know, I appreciate the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they believe in me. You know, that's oh yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty special, just the fact that they have that
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  Speaker 2: kind of confidence in me. I want to talk because
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about some of the different fandoms and things. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: one of the other things that we should at least
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  Speaker 2: touch on is some of the different celebrity guests will
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  Speaker 2: be there. The Walk of Fame is a big part
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  Speaker 2: of why some people come. They say, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: want to come and meet all of the performers or
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  Speaker 2: actors that are going to be there from you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever whatever a voice actor or whatever a TV show
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  Speaker 2: or movie. H This is again this year, the representation
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  Speaker 2: spreading over a lot of different things. Star Trek, Battle Star,
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  Speaker 2: small a lot of small Ville people, including Superman and
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Who, Firefly, Resident Alien. There's even a Hobbit that's
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  Speaker 2: coming who happens to also be the sag after a president.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a it's a great reverence. And that's not
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  Speaker 2: even that's just scratching the surface. There's a lot more than.
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  Speaker 3: Just that, oh one, you touched on, some ones that
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  Speaker 3: I was actually going to speak about too. We do
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  Speaker 3: have several like Allent you Dick from and his crew
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  Speaker 3: from Resident Evil or Resident Evils, Good Lord, Resident Alien,
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  Speaker 3: as well as you know Nathan Fillions, so you have
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  Speaker 3: a cross that we're between two different fandoms there. You
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  Speaker 3: mentioned Sean Aston. Not only is he a Hobbit, but
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  Speaker 3: he isn't the original Gooty, so you've got some throwback
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  Speaker 3: there to some wonderful eighties glory. But also we have
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned earlier the vo Artists. We have an entire
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  Speaker 3: crew coming from the amazing Digital Circus that seems to
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of people really excited, and we're excited
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  Speaker 3: to have them as well. Not to mention things like literature.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, a dungeon crawler Carl seems to be taking
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  Speaker 3: over the bandwidth everywhere and Matt Dunnman, the author, he'll
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  Speaker 3: be there. So it's this wonderful ability to not only
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  Speaker 3: you know, represent your fantoms and celebrate your fantos, but
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  Speaker 3: go face to face with those who helped embody those sandems.
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  Speaker 2: Memberships instead of tickets, memberships cover you know, you can
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  Speaker 2: get anywhere from one for the whole event, or you
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  Speaker 2: can get some single day ones. The single day ones
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  Speaker 2: tend to get grabbed up, so it's always always tell
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  Speaker 2: people like when they say, well, when should I get
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  Speaker 2: my single day, you should have gotten it yesterday, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just to make sure you got whatever day
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  Speaker 2: you want.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, we tend to cap out on our single
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  Speaker 3: days very quickly. They just recently hear went on sale.
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  Speaker 3: So definitely, definitely, definitely recommend going to DragonCon dot org
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  Speaker 3: and grabbing your Saturday only if that was what you're
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  Speaker 3: planning on doing. Otherwise, by all means, jump in and
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  Speaker 3: grab that five day even if you aren't able to
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  Speaker 3: go full till every single day. Just the ability to
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  Speaker 3: be involved in the world that is dragon Con for
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  Speaker 3: those days makes it so much more fun. But the
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  Speaker 3: great part is is it doesn't matter whether you come
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  Speaker 3: five days, one day or three days, you will find
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  Speaker 3: your people, You will find the thing that makes you excited,
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  Speaker 3: and you will find something new that you didn't realize
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  Speaker 3: that maybe you didn't know you had a fandom for,
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  Speaker 3: but now you do.
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  Speaker 2: And other than going to America's Mart where the vendors are,
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  Speaker 2: which is something that you know so many people do.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell because there can be quite a line
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  Speaker 2: for that, but it moves really quickly and you get
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  Speaker 2: in there. But other than going to America's, you almost
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  Speaker 2: don't even have to go outside into the Atlanta heat,
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  Speaker 2: which is great because the hotels are all connected by
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  Speaker 2: the tunnels in there, which is also another selling point
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  Speaker 2: for this because you can kind of be indoors other
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  Speaker 2: than when you venture out to buy your stuff at
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  Speaker 2: the vendors halls, which is a must that you have
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  Speaker 2: to do. And I want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about giving back. DragonCon prides itself on giving back. One
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that you guys do that is through
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  Speaker 2: this huge blood drive that takes place over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, every year we host our blood drive that
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  Speaker 3: benefits lifestyleth Last year we broke records with a donation
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  Speaker 3: of over ten thousand blood components, and every year it
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  Speaker 3: seems like we get more and more people that sign up.
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  Speaker 3: And it's at the bottom of the Hyatt Hotel. You
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  Speaker 3: go online and you can either go through DragonCon dot
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  Speaker 3: org and participate and then click the link out to
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  Speaker 3: the Pay It Forward blood drive, or you can go
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  Speaker 3: directly to their website as well and put in your
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  Speaker 3: time to donate blood while you're at dragon Con and
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  Speaker 3: every year get they create a one of a kind
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  Speaker 3: tea shirt to represent that year, and they are solely
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  Speaker 3: for those who sign up and donate blood, blood and
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  Speaker 3: blood components.
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  Speaker 2: Another aspect of the way dragon Con gives back is
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  Speaker 2: partnering up with a nonprofit every year. This year that
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  Speaker 2: partnership is with Hope Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so you mentioned Hope Atlanta. They are our charity
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  Speaker 3: partner for this year and we are They are working
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  Speaker 3: to permanently transform lives in communities by ending homeless homelessness
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  Speaker 3: across Atlanta and the Metro We decided that this year
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  Speaker 3: that was going to be our great partner and we
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  Speaker 3: are going hard to hopefully break records again. Last year,
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  Speaker 3: dragon Con raised over three hundred and twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: for Nami Georgia, and that was the way I look
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  Speaker 3: at it. It's absolute proof of when you put thousands
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  Speaker 3: of fans to unite behind one cause, it absolute we
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  Speaker 3: creates magic. We've turned a shared love for fandom into
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  Speaker 3: a powerful tool for good that we do every year,
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  Speaker 3: and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger every year.
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  Speaker 3: So this year we're excited to see if we can
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  Speaker 3: break those records again and really be able to send
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  Speaker 3: one wonderful donation over to Hope.
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  Speaker 2: Aglima Dragon Con happens in September this year for Labor
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  Speaker 2: Day weekend. We're excited. It's coming up fast. Joe Garland,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: you just want a little man cavid, you'd like to
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  Speaker 2: be able to open the door up and not invite
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  Speaker 2: all the insects in. They can do that for you
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  Speaker 2: as well, and again they do after hours calls. There's
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  Speaker 2: nothing worse than that thought of having your car trapped
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  Speaker 2: after the break. The month of August means a couple
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  Speaker 2: of different things, Pumpkin spice season being one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: It always seems like it's a race now to see
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  Speaker 2: who can get their pumpkin spice products out the fastest.
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  Speaker 2: Starbucks announcing that the Pumpkin Spice Latte will be back
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  Speaker 2: in stores on August twenty fifth, alongside the classic favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Starbucks introducing new pumpkin themed beverages, including an iced pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: cream shaken espresso pumpkin spice chai and an iced pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: cream macha. So if you're into that August twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 2: that's your time, that's your day, that's when it all
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  Speaker 2: gets underway. Still seems so early for getting into that,
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  Speaker 2: but I know it's gonna all kind of happen quickly
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  Speaker 2: September and October, so I get it. They want to
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  Speaker 2: get as much out of that as they can. August
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  Speaker 2: also means something a trend called the August scaries, and
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  Speaker 2: mental health experts say that it's a real thing. Much
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  Speaker 2: like the Sunday scaries before the start of your work week.
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  Speaker 2: August can trigger feelings in stress sadness because it signals
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  Speaker 2: that summer is winding down, routines about to change. Experts
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  Speaker 2: say that our brains prefer predictability, so the thought of
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  Speaker 2: returning to school schedules, busier workdays, shorter daylight hours can
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  Speaker 2: actually create anxiety, even when those changes are positive. Social
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  Speaker 2: media users have been describing August as the longest Sunday. Ever,
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  Speaker 2: the good news is that experts recommend focusing on what's ahead,
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  Speaker 2: maintaining healthy routines, planning fun fall activities to help ease
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  Speaker 2: the transition I think the more you think about all
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  Speaker 2: the burn months, you think of the positives that come
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  Speaker 2: with it, But there is that anxiety that's built into it.
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  Speaker 2: There's just a lot going on in those months and
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  Speaker 2: kind of have to do some planning in some cases
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  Speaker 2: for some of that. Twenty six years after Gilmore Girls
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  Speaker 2: first hit TV screens, one of its most famous names
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  Speaker 2: is making a comeback in nurseries. According to New Baby
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  Speaker 2: Named Data, Laurel I is one of the fastest rising
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  Speaker 2: names for newborn girls in America. The name jumps seventy
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  Speaker 2: spots in the Social Security Administration rankings, climbing from number
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and three to number three hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: three in just one year. In twenty twenty five, nine
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty six baby girls named Laura, up from
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred eighty six the year before. While there's no
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  Speaker 2: way to prove they're all named after Laura le Gilmore,
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  Speaker 2: many of today's new parents grew up watching the show
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  Speaker 2: and maybe paying tribute to stars Hollow's favorite mother daughter duo. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I know some Laurelies that are named definitely
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  Speaker 2: after the characters. So single people going on dates using
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  Speaker 2: color coded spreadsheets to track their love lives. It's happening,
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  Speaker 2: logging everything from a date's height and shared values to
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  Speaker 2: awkward moments and deal breakers. Daters are using custom exceell
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  Speaker 2: files and new apps to spot toxic patterns. They also
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  Speaker 2: filter out bad matches figure out ways that they can
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  Speaker 2: determine what they really want in a partner. Some relationship
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  Speaker 2: experts warn that scoring dates on a digital checklist can
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  Speaker 2: make romance feel shallow. People who are actively dating and
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  Speaker 2: using the spreadsheets say that analyzing the data helps them
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  Speaker 2: date smarter and avoid repeating past mistakes, ultimately leading them
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to find the one.
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  Speaker 1: So in many.
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  Speaker 2: Cases, you move out and your stuff doesn't necessarily move
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  Speaker 2: out of your parents home, And if you have parents
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  Speaker 2: that have boxes of your stuff still in their home,
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  Speaker 2: you're not alone. New survey found that nearly half of
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  Speaker 2: Americans still use their parents' home as storage space, with
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  Speaker 2: the average person keeping about nine boxes of belongings there.
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  Speaker 2: It's especially common among Gen Z and millennials, but even
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  Speaker 2: forty six percent of Gen xers admit they're doing it
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  Speaker 2: to yes. Researchers say nostalgia is a big reason why
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  Speaker 2: many people hold on to old possessions because they remind
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  Speaker 2: them of important memories, life experiences, and personal milestones. Psychologists
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  Speaker 2: say that it's not really about clutter. It's about emotional
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  Speaker 2: attachment and fear of regretting throwing something away. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: those old yearbooks, trophies, and keepsakes aren't just stuff. They're
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  Speaker 2: pieces of our personal history. Yeah. Yeah, and you know
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  Speaker 2: there's some hoarding going on. I mean, it's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of hoarding. You can call it whatever you want
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  Speaker 2: to call it. You can water it down a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but the reality is, you know, there's some hoarding. If
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  Speaker 2: you think you need more protein in your life, some experts,
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  Speaker 2: they think, again, protein is, you know, available in so
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  Speaker 2: many places and people consuming it. But there's a new
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  Speaker 2: study suggesting that most of us may not need nearly
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  Speaker 2: as much as we're getting. Researchers reviewed more than three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty studies and found that for people who
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  Speaker 2: aren't very active, eating less protein could actually provide some
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  Speaker 2: health benefits, including better blood sugar control, lower body fat,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and healthier aging. The key is activity level. Experts say
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  Speaker 2: protein still import it for athletes and highly active people
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  Speaker 2: and older adults trying to maintain muscle mass. But if
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  Speaker 2: your biggest workout is walking to the refrigerator, all those
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: extra protein pack products may not be doing a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot for you. Researchers say protein recommendations should be personalized
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  Speaker 2: based on how active you actually are. They say you
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  Speaker 2: have it because it helps you feel full and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. But yeah, I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people overdoing it. It's my opinion that'll do it. For
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  Speaker 2: the twenty ninth. It'll be aired on about two hundred
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  Speaker 2: into nearby states, and you can hear guests will be
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  Speaker 2: attending the dragon Con convention. It is the largest popular
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  Speaker 2: arts convention anywhere in the world, and on the pregame
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  Speaker 2: be attending. This year's guest list includes Star Trek, Doctor Who,
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  Speaker 2: Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Starship Trooper, Smallville, and more. Coverage of
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  Speaker 2: the guests who will actually be attending this year. Some
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  Speaker 2: of them have been on multiple shows, including Ross mar
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  Speaker 2: Kwan from The Walking Dead and The Marvel Universe. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I've interviewed William Shatner, Evangeline Lilly who was the Wasp
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