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Happy Hour #184: Post Con · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told you, protection of iHeartRadio, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: another edition of Happy Hour. As always, whatever you're choosing
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  Speaker 1: to do, please do so responsibly. Samantha, are you doing
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  Speaker 1: everything responsibly.
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  Speaker 2: Bubble water, because I'm all weird medications, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Very smart, very responsible? Yes, and you yes, I have
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  Speaker 1: my red one. I am very I've been lucky recently
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  Speaker 1: in what we've got to discuss in terms of I'm
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  Speaker 1: a huge nerd and I love talking about nerd things.
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  Speaker 1: And today we're doing my recap on jack Con twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Mine are spoilers for the last of us to buy
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  Speaker 1: the Oh really yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, I can't help myself. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So if you've somehow missed it, Dragon Con is this
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  Speaker 1: huge convention in Atlanta. Next year will be its fortieth year,
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  Speaker 1: and it is just a place where people come and
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  Speaker 1: they cosplay and all kinds of very funny nerd things happen.
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  Speaker 1: This year, they had seventy five thousand people. According to them,
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  Speaker 1: it was very, very busy. And today I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to go over some of the things I saw, some
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  Speaker 1: of the things I really liked. So one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that happened this year was I'm kind of a
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  Speaker 1: I'm an old pro at this point.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've been there, I've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: You can never see everything dragon Con has to offer,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like I've seen the major things. I
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  Speaker 1: had two newbies this year, so I got to show.
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  Speaker 3: Them around and kind of maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Wax poetic about my expertise or to go. And I
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  Speaker 1: went to the vendors Mart. I haven't done that in years.
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  Speaker 4: I just thought controversy about the vendors Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's I've always known the Mart is
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  Speaker 1: a mess, and plus like how much money you have
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  Speaker 1: to pay to get in where you get placed, how
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  Speaker 1: much money you have to earn to make it worth it.
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  Speaker 3: I will say we went. We got in this huge line.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like the Batman at six Flags if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen that, like in a warehouse.
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  Speaker 3: We were underground.
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  Speaker 4: Is that America's Mart?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: They had us in some kind of parking garage. It
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  Speaker 1: was a whole thing. But we got in and it
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  Speaker 1: was fun. And the people I went with, the newbies,
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  Speaker 1: they're coming back, and that warms my my hall.
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  Speaker 3: They liked it so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I don't think we explained this, but
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  Speaker 2: like the vendors, Mart is not in the same spot
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  Speaker 2: as the actual convention. There is a thing called America's
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  Speaker 2: Smart which has like wholesale for other stores essentially, and
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  Speaker 2: it's like what three or four buildings, it's pretty big.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's four buildings. I think the main there's two
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  Speaker 1: main ones that are used.
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  Speaker 2: There are like wholesales that happened twice a year and
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  Speaker 2: people can get in with refel and it's intense.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's very intense. It's very crowded. There's a
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  Speaker 1: reason I stopped going right And I.
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  Speaker 2: Know, like my partner the one year he went with y'all,
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  Speaker 2: they were trying to get into there and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: and then they waited till the very last minute because
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  Speaker 2: they knew people were trying to sell things fast and
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  Speaker 2: not as crowded.
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  Speaker 4: So just insiders.
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  Speaker 3: I used to do that. Outsider.
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  Speaker 1: I used to do that because Dragon con currently, I
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  Speaker 1: think things.
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  Speaker 3: They try to change it.
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  Speaker 1: But currently it's a Thursday to Mondays situation, and the
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  Speaker 1: convention ends Monday at four pm. And I used to
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  Speaker 1: stay Monday and I would go to the mart and
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  Speaker 1: that's when they were selling things at a discount. But
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  Speaker 1: that's also when a lot of stuff was sold out,
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  Speaker 1: so true. Yeah, you got to make your you got
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  Speaker 1: to make your decisions. This year was also a very
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  Speaker 1: big year for ribbons and gifts. I know I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this before. People like to hand out ribbons that
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  Speaker 1: are very comical. I got some that I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they mean. I hope they're not offensive. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they are, but I don't know the meaning.
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  Speaker 2: I should have a debate about what they are and
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  Speaker 2: ask people what do they think that means.
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  Speaker 3: I've been told it's based on the movie Clue.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I know that movie. I can help.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I hate you so much, I want to
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  Speaker 1: burn I hate her so much, I want to burn
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  Speaker 1: your face.
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  Speaker 4: My face. Yeah, yeah, it is a classic line.
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  Speaker 2: It's not offensive, just rage, the rage, the written and
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  Speaker 2: then she just they just met with she could never
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  Speaker 2: say it out loud.
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  Speaker 4: I love this and it's one of the best comedians
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  Speaker 4: in there.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, go ahead, keep going. I'm very trun to
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  Speaker 3: hear that.
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  Speaker 4: I have heard that one.
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  Speaker 3: I was just worried because I didn't know what it
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  Speaker 3: was from enough. I really hope this is not so
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  Speaker 3: you know it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if people hand out ribbons, you put them
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  Speaker 1: on your badges. They have a cult of the ribbon
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  Speaker 1: and they have a ribbon contest to see how long
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  Speaker 1: it goes, and they people have so many ribbons and
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  Speaker 1: it'll drop down like three four stories.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a video of a dude and the person
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  Speaker 2: who was making the video was not the owner, and
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  Speaker 2: they were like, we couldn't never see who it belonged
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  Speaker 2: to because it was so long. This is Missus White's
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  Speaker 2: line Madeline Kahn, who is an icon. She is an
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  Speaker 2: icon in the comedy world. But moving, Yeah, it needed
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  Speaker 2: to be good.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I appreciate that. Thank you. I'm glad you helped
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  Speaker 3: solve this mystery for me.
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  Speaker 4: You were good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I had one of my friends. She got a ton
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  Speaker 1: and part of that is like she was handing out gifts.
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  Speaker 1: So this has become another thing where you hand out
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  Speaker 1: little trinkets or just all kinds of stuff. But she
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  Speaker 1: was handing out gifts. People loved them, they absolutely adored them,
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  Speaker 1: and so she got a lot of ribbons in return.
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  Speaker 2: That's an art form to be able to do a
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  Speaker 2: good gift or meme and have people love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all they would. It was so sweet. They
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  Speaker 1: were so excited and people are putting them like all
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  Speaker 1: over it. You could just find them resting anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was a whole thing. So that was
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  Speaker 3: really fun.
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  Speaker 1: I did I forgot to put this in my mini
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  Speaker 1: outline that I have up right now, but I did
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  Speaker 1: mention previously that I'm always worried about a violence gun violence.
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  Speaker 3: At dragon Con, they had.
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  Speaker 1: A lot more police than I'm used to a dragon Con,
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  Speaker 1: and they have this thing where they like peace keep weapons,
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  Speaker 1: which is like they mark them somehow that they're not
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  Speaker 1: actually weapons.
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  Speaker 3: This is the first time this has ever happened to me, Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: I had to go and get my lightsabert my lightsaber.
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  Speaker 2: Is there an actual function functioning lightsaber that's a weapon?
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  Speaker 3: Is there a thing?
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  Speaker 1: There is a functioning lightsaber that like one dude has made,
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  Speaker 1: but it's very clearly not with a plastic thing.
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  Speaker 3: I wasterrestic they.
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  Speaker 2: Stop your arm like from the Buckey outfit.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, no, they made me get my lights.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, well it could be deadly. I see it. I
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  Speaker 4: see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could hit somebody with it. It would sting
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  Speaker 1: mildly but anyway, that was something new. I noticed something
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  Speaker 1: fun Dragon Con does is all the hotels, the host
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  Speaker 1: hotels are themed. Uh so this year there was a
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  Speaker 1: Jurassic Park theme, there was a how to Train Your
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  Speaker 1: Dragon theme, But my favorite, of course was the horror
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  Speaker 1: movie theme. And they had a whole wall where people
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  Speaker 1: were writing their favorite horror movies and it was just
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  Speaker 1: I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: That was so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing I love always people getting really excited about cosplays,
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  Speaker 1: Like people get so excited.
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  Speaker 3: So I did go one day as the.
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  Speaker 1: Winter Soldier, kind of a lazy version because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do the whole thing, but I had the harm on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the basics, and like people would just like,
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  Speaker 1: oh this fucking you know, be so excited. My friend
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  Speaker 1: went as this character from SpongeBob that I knew was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a hit, and it was within ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes at least I would say eight to ten people
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  Speaker 1: had shouted at her.
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  Speaker 3: He was number one. Yes, I knew.
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  Speaker 1: She also went as Princess Mononoke, and that's where she
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  Speaker 1: was handing out the gifts and that it was clear
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  Speaker 1: that that costume meant a lot to a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: so she got a lot of pictures taken and she
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of gifts and it was really cute.
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  Speaker 3: It was really sweet.
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  Speaker 1: And then yes, I did go as disco Luke, which
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  Speaker 1: is my my go to and it was fun because
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten people. I've like started to slowly get people
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. A lot of people still think
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  Speaker 1: I'm like some version of Wonder Woman, or I got
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  Speaker 1: Sabre for the first time, which I hear is a wrestler.
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  Speaker 1: That's a new one for me. So I still get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of I don't know what you are, but
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  Speaker 1: you look good.
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  Speaker 4: You need to have So.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a dude with a ribbon that they would
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  Speaker 2: mistake his character. So when they would mistake his character,
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  Speaker 2: he would sit, I'm not so and so I'm this.
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  Speaker 4: You needed to have that.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of a rest at Dragon Con is
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  Speaker 1: like when somebody confidently guesses your cosplay incorrectly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I think this was a whole mix up, but they
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  Speaker 1: some guy asked me, who are you? I've seen this before,
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  Speaker 1: and someone next to him said, oh, she's Reptar and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no, what, No, But I think she
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  Speaker 1: was thinking he was talking to someone else.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only thing I can make.
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  Speaker 1: Sense of that interaction, but I never got to correct it,
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  Speaker 1: so he was just like, oh, reptar, No, not reptar.
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  Speaker 2: That was a weird translation of reptar. Yeah, the helmet
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  Speaker 2: with the wings. I guess maybe if you were.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I should get a ribbon like that.
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  Speaker 1: I've been meaning to do something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think next year you should print one out and
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  Speaker 2: then give it to him, just so that when they're wrong,
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  Speaker 2: you just have nope, I'm disco look and then put
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  Speaker 2: a little link.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. I like to do that. I would,
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  Speaker 3: I would.
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  Speaker 1: I had on my dragon con list from last year.
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  Speaker 1: I needed to print a business card where they could
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  Speaker 1: say in a QR link.
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  Speaker 2: So a ribbon ryb because people attach it. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a shame thing. But at the same time, a.
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  Speaker 4: Reward it's black called world ward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, all right, next next year, I also need
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  Speaker 1: to I need to improve some things wear and tear.
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  Speaker 3: My costume is scene.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I found it interesting when I was watching the
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  Speaker 2: videos I was on the prowl.
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  Speaker 4: I will say.
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  Speaker 2: For all of any of the cap pop DNA hutters,
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  Speaker 2: you specifically because I was like, you're so like unique
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  Speaker 2: that I was like, surely I never did see you.
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  Speaker 2: I was sad about that except for like friends, friends
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  Speaker 2: of friends, but in just like generic, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: these people. I saw one that was the Ramen Cups
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  Speaker 2: from Cap Pop DTA Matter, and I loved it because
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what that is? That is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see too much more until it popped up
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  Speaker 2: on events and I saw the single long event that
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  Speaker 2: happened there, and that apparently was like roomful. They had
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  Speaker 2: to cut people out and people were up and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: they need to do it in a bigger room next time.
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  Speaker 2: And then they had a dance party specific two Okapa
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  Speaker 2: Demon Hunter O. So I was like, okay, they had
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  Speaker 2: actual memorials for Genus.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I saw it.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, yes, but I didn't see.
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  Speaker 2: Too many people until like they I think there was
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  Speaker 2: one that finally showed a group of them.
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  Speaker 4: I was like yay.
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  Speaker 2: But I saw a lot of like reminiscent costumes like
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  Speaker 2: that that I'm like, Oh, they're bringing these back, Why
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  Speaker 2: what's happening.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking some.
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  Speaker 2: Of them had to relay with the actors, but there
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  Speaker 2: just seems to be a lot of throwback and did
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  Speaker 2: I just imagine that?
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, you didn't, No, you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: And I have my list of what I saw.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to note before I move into that,
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  Speaker 1: there are a couple of things that I saw this
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  Speaker 1: year that I really liked.
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  Speaker 3: One is, we can always do better, and.
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  Speaker 1: There were like some instances that were clear where we
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  Speaker 1: could do better this year. But there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: more diversity this year. I have to say it has
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  Speaker 1: gotten better. There was a lot of men God's playing
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  Speaker 1: as women, which I enjoyed. And then there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of kids stressing up, which I always lost.
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  Speaker 4: That's all that too.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, more kids coming. I did see
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  Speaker 2: a perspective. So the little controversy that I had seen
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  Speaker 2: was that a dude a group, an art group for vendors,
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  Speaker 2: came in without disclosing their art was AI Oh and
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  Speaker 2: they've been going to several different cons and apparently a
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  Speaker 2: big company in Florida that have been doing this. And
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  Speaker 2: the minute that Dragon Con found that out, they were
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  Speaker 2: kicked out immediately because they were like, Nope, we can't
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  Speaker 2: have this. You didn't disclose it was AI art, And
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  Speaker 2: like people were pissed and like like and they were
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  Speaker 2: really defensively like, well you didn't tell us, we had
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  Speaker 2: to blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: They're like, I think it's fairly.
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  Speaker 2: Noted for events like this you have to disclose at
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  Speaker 2: the very least that it's AI And it got public
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  Speaker 2: like recognition and dragon Con being like, all right, way
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  Speaker 2: to stake your guns because the Bailey's why are you
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  Speaker 2: not disclosing it?
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  Speaker 4: But that was that was.
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  Speaker 2: One of the big controversies I So I was like, well, bam,
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  Speaker 2: huh dragon Con. Standing on business, yeah, they've got a
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  Speaker 2: they've got when you like get a pass.
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  Speaker 1: The rules are quite long, so I would only imagine
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  Speaker 1: what it's like for a vendor. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them were very clear like, oh, snowy I in this,
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  Speaker 1: So that's interesting to know, interesting to know. Okay, so yes,
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  Speaker 1: let us move into some of the big things I saw.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, Now this being said, I did have a
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  Speaker 1: discussion with my friends where I tried to ask them
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  Speaker 1: what they thought, because there is kind of a bias, right, like,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: if I don't know a costume, then I won't pick
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  Speaker 1: up on it as much. There is one I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that even though I didn't know it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, this is the biggest costume here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it is. And I will talk about
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  Speaker 1: that a second. But so we're going to go through
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  Speaker 1: some of my biases for a minute, where these are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that there weren't that many of but I did.
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  Speaker 3: I was like that one. And then we got to
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: start with the last of us.
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  Speaker 4: I saw one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, so there was I saw a
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  Speaker 1: Joel with a golf club sticking out of me nil
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  Speaker 1: and it was great. And then I saw an Abby
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  Speaker 1: and a Joel and an Ellie from the second game
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  Speaker 1: in a Joel and the Abby saw the other Joel
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  Speaker 1: and confronted him and he was like, I'm so sorry,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: please don't do this, and she was like raising her golf.
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  Speaker 1: It was excellent. I loved it. I wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: at least one Abby and one one golf called Joel,
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  Speaker 1: so check. Yes, I did see a lot of what
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  Speaker 1: we do in the shadows, A lot of really fun
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  Speaker 1: fun takes on that.
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  Speaker 3: That's a very big couple's costume.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about, like the cost teams that always
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  Speaker 1: have like at least two people. I feel like what
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  Speaker 1: we Do in the Shadows is one of those. But
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Cursed Hat, which I love. I did
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  Speaker 1: see an office cup the World's Best Boss, which I
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  Speaker 1: thought was just a funny costume that somebody came as
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  Speaker 1: the cup. There were some people dressed as the Burglars
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  Speaker 1: from Home Alone, and they were hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: I saw that they were a hit because I alway
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  Speaker 4: saw them several times.
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  Speaker 1: They were very because they would go up to you,
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  Speaker 1: but like I say, you, I do. They were very interactive,
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  Speaker 1: so that was fun. Also, the people in the inflatable
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  Speaker 1: dinosaur suits, they are hit every year. They come in
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  Speaker 1: all different shapes and forms and colors and patterns and
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  Speaker 1: they are amazing and we were lucky enough to accidentally
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: run in on their gathering. There's a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: cartoon characters, so there were a lot of like throwback
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  Speaker 1: cartoon characters. SpongeBob was a big one, fairly odd parents,
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  Speaker 1: pretty big and very niche characters within these shows, so
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  Speaker 1: that was really fun. The Mummy, yeah too. The Mummy
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  Speaker 1: was big. The Mummy was big. There was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun interactions with different Mummy characters.
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  Speaker 3: I really enjoyed that, and I was all kind of
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: knowing the lines.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so is it his name Odette? And is that
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: the character? Yeah, he was actually there. He was actually there,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: So I wondered if that was Like I'm sure they
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: also loved the movie because that's never going to end,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: but I wonder also because he was there.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think so.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Like I said, when people see a certain actor is
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: going to be there, a contingent of actors is going
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: to be there, then that costume might be more. But
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of people from the Mummy this year,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and they were really fun. They were like quoting the
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: lines and it was excellent. I happened to run into
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: a Wallaweigi Warrior just a train of people.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: It was excellent.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of Sinners, a lot of people
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: from Sinners. There was kind of a whole like building
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: thing that they brought from Sinners and that was really cool.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Gladys from Warriors, which I knew, I knew she would
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: be there. She was there.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: And here's one of my favorite interactions I had.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: So we were on the elevator with a family like
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: two kids, young kids, and.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: On walks.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Terrifier as Santa oh No with blood coming out of
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: his eyes in his mouth and he's holding a decapitated head.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: He looks down at the kids, doesn't break eye contact,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't move, looks up at the parents, looks back down
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: at the kids, and then turns around, and the rest
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of the elevator ride was in silence. What was the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: kid's reaction, Well, eventually the parents were like they seem
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: on face.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Good on that dude, though, or the person was like,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: you know what, I think I've already traumatized them. I'm
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: gonna go ahead and I'm a back out. I'll let
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: you go.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I don't wanted to be stuck with y'all. It was excellent.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: It was so funny, Like the silence say that.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Descended when he stepped in the elevator was epic because
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: we were all like, that's.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Amazing, hystorical, ill everything about that.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Kids, Oh my gosh.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: All right, So those are my what I would call
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: my biases. What I saw a lot or stuck out
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to me. Here's what I'll say, there was a lot
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of The one that I was referencing earlier was Expedition
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: thirty three Clear Obscure, which is a French video game.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I had no idea I've heard of this game, but
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't recognize the costume. This was by far the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: one I saw the most. I think it's because it's
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a pretty simple costume to pull together. And I say
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: that with no judgment, but it's it's essentially like a
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: red and white shirt and a French baguette and a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: French hat. But my goodness, there were so many people
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: dressed as that that we had to look it up.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: We had to figure out what is this? So that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: was number one K Pop. Deeph Hunter was really big,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: mostly roomies. There were a lot of roomies of all ages,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: like very cute kid and some g News And as
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, there was a g New shrine. So there's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: like a skybridge hallway where dragon Con tradition is.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Because we make these shrines. Uh. That was one of
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: the ones that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: The one I saw that had one hundred dollar bills
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: in front of it. I was like, what why.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know shrines they written more elaborate as the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: years have gone on. If you know anything about dragon Con,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: there's also several cults of dragon Con, the cults of
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the Marriott Carpet, but also there's the cult of John
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and John was a cardboard cutout in front of the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: FedEx that just turned into a shrine.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: And now there's a whole cult. There was also a
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Jesus that got destroyed.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I went back away from that one, but whoa, it
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: was destroyed and shoved behind the side.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I found it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, Yeah, I don't need
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to step being on that one. Uh. But yes, there
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: were and I have failed in my task to you, Samantha.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I took zero pictures I know of anything.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Not once I thought about texting you and I was like,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think you'll get it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's difficult when you have like your drink and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I have the gloves, and that the phone is in there's.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: A lot you're also a spectator, and that that there's
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: so much going on. You shouldn't you should be in
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: those moments.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I rest assured they were really good and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of them.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I saw a lot of the boo boos, which I.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Was like, oh, I did not think that would be
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: a thing, but yeah, okay, that makes sense.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's I saw a lot
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: of things that I was like, Wow, I'm surprised you
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: were able to pull this together so quickly.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: So quickly.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I saw Teletubbies and then one haunted Teletubby and I
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: was like, Nope, don't like that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's good. Okay.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Another thing I saw a lot of, of course Star Wars,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: but in particular obi Wan Kenobi was having a year.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a year for obi Wan Kenobi.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I like the Sesme Street ones. Yeah, that was a
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: thing for me.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: That's good stuff.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I saw an obi Wan that looked so good. He
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: looked like obi Wan from like episode two. Maybe he
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: was getting so many ribbons. He was on the floor
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and he was just trying to attach his all of
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: his ribbons. And this guy, like this whole group but
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: led by this guy dressed as Darth Maul, came up
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to him. And if you don't know, obi Wan and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Darth Maul have a very they're they're big enemies. Uh
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and Darth Maul famously is always trying to kill obi
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Wan and cannot. So oh, this Darth Maul approaches this
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: obi Wan and they proceed to do this ritual. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: don't know how to describe it, but they like laid
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: out an old Marriott carpet, They poured some tea, and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: they sat in these seats and it happened so quickly,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: like they just unfolded these tables in these seats and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: they poured this tea, and this obi Wan guy was
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like okay.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: And just say, did he know what was going on?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I No, I don't think he did.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: He went with it, though I have a video of it,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and I'm still confused as to what was happening. But
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it was a very amazing, Like I love that you
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: can stumble upon these things. I'd be like, what happened there?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but yes, obi Wan had a big ear.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. I have to say, there's more Taylor Swift
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: than I thought there would be. Also had a big ear,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Squid Games pretty big. And then there was a lot
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of anime. And I feel bad about this because my
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: good friend Katie, who went with me, she typed out
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this whole list of anime characters that were there because
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not that familiar with the anime.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: But I feel like we're going a bit long already,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: so I'm not.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Going to go through all of them. But I will
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: say one that, even though I don't watch anime, I
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: noticed was Demon Hunter and she was the one that
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: told me she's like, oh, that's demon Hunter, which is
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: kind of like a blue black plaid.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Situation.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: But there was a lot of anime there, and she
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: gave me quite a long list, so anime having a
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: big ear, Yeah, but those were my those were my
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: big standouts. There's a lot, like I could go on
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and on about the random ones I saw that I
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: was just so tickled by or impressed by how creative
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: they were.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I did run into Holly, come with your friend, Holly.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: You just run into all kinds of people there that
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you were like, Oh it's you. I haven't seen you
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: in a while. But I had a good time I could.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: How would you rate this experience out of all the experiences?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I would write it very highly. I think it's it's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: different because we've been doing it so long so and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: also I'm older, so it's kind of a lot more
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: downtime than I used to have at dragon Con. But
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: it was great and I do love seeing all of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the things people come up with and all of the nerdery,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and I love sharing it with new people. So that
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: was really fun. And I'm excited that they're already like
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: we're coming next year. So yes, yes, yes, Okay, well,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: thank you so much to you Samantha and Christina for
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: helping me to not work during dragon Con. Thanks to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: everybody for listening to this all of our nerd contents.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And yeah, if you were there, if you saw any
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: favorite costumes or anything you want to shout out, if
• 26:42
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• 26:44
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• 26:45
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