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[SPEAKER_04]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had to get it again, and now he'll be a quiet with us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We will start the show.

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[SPEAKER_04]: T-M-O-S, classic, Friday, flashback.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, a big weekend in DC.

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[SPEAKER_04]: First of all, you guys had the Schnee, the snow, and I know Rob, you out in Leesburg didn't get as much as some of the people east of the Beltway, and... No, but we still got about three inches, and a lot of people described it as the perfect snow, because it was light, it was fluffy, it was beautiful, but did not stick to the road.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So no, no traffic whatsoever.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It did do one thing though.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It made them postpone the Football championship game in Hampton from Saturday to Sunday because I guess I didn't want people driving the snow is getting worse As you went towards Hampton.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's a you're the Tusk Aurora Huskies are a Saturday team

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, it's not some or not a Sunday team Rob.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not so much that is Robert had a basketball game on Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we couldn't go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What was the result?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Did they win?

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[SPEAKER_03]: They did not win the final score.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was 40 to 27.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It started with 33 unanswered points by Highland Springs.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I just thought, man, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so proud of them for making it to state.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But what a long ride home That had to be a great season though.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Great season.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That, you know, the Tusk Aurora Huskies, let's put our hands together for a great football season for them.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Almost.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry, Huskies.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Almost.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_04]: What a great season it was, and they did play the game on Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_04]: In Hampton, at the Hampton University Stadium, they went down there.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think maybe you were their good luck charm, though?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Do you ever think about that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I would never say that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I just know this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm safe.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You're safe.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You're safe, I'm safe.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry about that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So, uh, did was at the usual hype machine and the usual insanity that surrounds Washington DC when we get to know.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, because it was on the weekend was a little cool.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they kept emphasizing the fact, they said, well, this won't at least mess with the brush hour, because it's, uh, gonna happen overnight Friday going into Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm not a particularly early riser.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So when I got up at about 830, and there was not a flake on the ground,

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[SPEAKER_04]: Do you sleep till 830?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I did on, uh, God, I'd love to sleep till 830.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I did what that would be like.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, five days of seven, I get up pretty early.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no, but I mean, you didn't, but even on the weekend, I can't pull it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You can't love to, oh, I can't, I probably do.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Today, I did a quarter or seven, which is a almost a record.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Wow, the little guy came in at about five, crawled into bed with this and we all, we all zed out after this.

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[SPEAKER_05]: My mom says, as you get older, you just keep on waking up earlier and earlier.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Sleep less.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm reasonably sure because the old folks around here like walk their dogs while it's still dark Yeah, my mom was in a five-am every morning.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, what are you doing ladies?

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[SPEAKER_04]: She goes I can't remember my mom got up at like 4.35 o'clock for almost all of the life Yeah, I'd love to be able to go I look back at the days the restaurant owning days You know when of course when you go to bed at five

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[SPEAKER_05]: You're not going to get up at five you've got rest for on tour hours.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, but you know what waking up at like 11 or 11 30 is not a cool You know and your day is gone.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You've lost a quarter of a day by doing that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll take I'll take early morning with that But even with that with the you know having beers at night and not eating I think this is now I don't know how many days but without having any kind of animal products Right Mike's megan

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[SPEAKER_04]: megan my my vegan my my vegan so vegan means no eggs no eggs right now what are you going to do about fruke's uh i think that put them on i see let let me tell you the way i look on ice there's going to be christmas dinner right and there's going to be uh i'm not going to you know i'm not going to uh basically put my guess cathy and fall and our next door neighbor through the idea of you know doing all vegan

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that you, you know, the guy that is really into this.

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[SPEAKER_04]: One of the guys is married to a woman who has thousands of recipes and is very well known for her amazing vegan cooking.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And she has dinner parties where people all over.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This guy is not letter of the law.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that when you're doing this, the first couple of weeks are, you know, we want to see what your body, how your body responds to it and how your body feels.

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[SPEAKER_04]: any kind of really like I've been on thousands of diets like like weight loss diets where you know I go insane this is not that case I've lost three pounds on this and I'm not obsessing at it just the point I'm trying to make it a lifestyle I don't feel I don't feel great yet

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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't feel bad, but I don't feel that great, and I feel like maybe there's a little withdrawal going through this with not, but I don't know whether that's true or not, and we're trying it for two weeks, and we're going to see how we feel at the end of two weeks, and then we'll go forward, but it's not like...

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's not anything other than fun because the the stuff we're eating I was not somebody believe it or not that had to have the the you know the hamburger and the steak and all that I would do it when I never thought about it and and I don't think about it now what I do miss when I'm going on any kind of a diet

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[SPEAKER_04]: I hate giving up like carbs.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I cannot stand giving up carbs.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So that is something that is much more painful than giving up me.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It hasn't I guess the point I'm trying to make.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It hasn't been all that big a deal and I'll let you know at the end of the two week period how we feel and whether we're going to roll with this thing and.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, there's so many people, I got so much blowback on this from both people personally and people on social media, that when that happens, it motivates me to do it more sure you understand how that was some people like, oh my god, if you're going to do you probably watch one of those vegan propaganda films, I said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

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[SPEAKER_04]: you know, so we'll see what happens.

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[SPEAKER_04]: How do you know?

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's better for you and people go off medication before it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm only in one.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I give it a shot, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Have you accepted or tried some sort of milk substituted?

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's trying like almond milk or something.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, we've had soy and almond milk for in our house for a long time.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And by the way, there's, I think it's either almond or soy.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I forgot which one it is.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Makes a hell of an egg not really, really vegan friendly egg not, which is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Is alcohol vegan?

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[SPEAKER_04]: make a Miller the Miller products are there's a list of what what alcohol is wine is not as commonly vegan as you would think it's kind of I don't know I haven't listen this is all new to me and I haven't even I haven't read enough nor have I committed to it enough to to really I don't necessarily that here's how I want to roll with this I don't necessarily

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think that what I want to do is, and I'm sorry, if for those of you that don't like, you know, animals being heard or something like that, I'm doing this for inflammation.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And if my body is less sore, my jaw is sore, my jaw is sore.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Inflamed, I'm going to see if that's the truth.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And right now, I would say there's not a real dramatic change yet.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So we'll see what happens with that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And if I happen to do weight loss too, that's fine.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But I'm not, as I said, it's not all that hard.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I love certain things that are

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[SPEAKER_04]: vegan and I don't have that that big a problem and we're probably going to back off of the process stuff too because really There's such a huge industry vegan industry of fake meat and fake stuff.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We went to a vegan restaurant And that was you know delicious kind of like an Asian themed restaurant and that was great

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[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's not iguana right now because you can't do it there, but the uh, but I will tell you one thing that I would give up, and this is my one negative for the vegan I am Believe it or not a man of larger carriage.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I am not that big a farter I get some you know being in the middle of Walmart, you know, and just us in there.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god I have to go outside.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's it's it's and conscious the same way.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's it's it's pretty intense.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's it like back draft like everybody's got to get out of the way

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's it's different and it also seems to be getting better by the day so I don't know But it's that's my vegan update.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's that's what I would think that the gas is coming because of the Increase in vegetable intake.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, probably But they say that the vegetable intake fards are not as rancid as like a beef based fart well Then I urge you to because I describe something that came out of my body yesterday has smelling like a like a dead hamster

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[SPEAKER_04]: that's sorry that's the only way that I can use to describe it but I will tell you that the vegan lifestyle they say it's hey we made it through the first weekend and uh we'll see what happens when we start when did we start last Tuesday or Wednesday?

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[SPEAKER_04]: it seems to me Wednesday you and now Wednesday was the weekend so that's the thing we push yeah so Wednesday will be the first full week and uh you know keep it always the best dish you had the best vegan dish

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[SPEAKER_04]: I have to tell you my favorite vegan dish is simply beans and rice.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I love brown rice and beef, I love brown rice and beef, I love brown rice.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, about 1,000, and by the way, you're at there is my, because when that is, and I'll have that for lunch today, and then it'll be like, hey, nice shot, Phil.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, it'll be that kind of thing, so that'll make it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: the fact that it's it's the way it is not like that you could really go place we got to take a break when we come back anime anime anime I want to hear all about anime 2017 Christmas in Japan Oscar has made a couple of comments about it and that's what we're doing Tony's soul

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[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So how about the Japanese anime convention when we come back on the Michael Mara show.

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[SPEAKER_04]: T. M. O. S. Classic.

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[SPEAKER_04]: uh welcome back to the show whoa whoa it is time for uh the update uh we were telling you because they were a fine sponsor uh anime 2017 because folks in Japan really really a big deal I know Pony was looking forward to it and Oscar uh was going out of curiosity uh and to support the client the down the support of the industry uh one perk about living in the cities that when something is in the city you really have no excuse for not going because you can drop

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[SPEAKER_04]: if you've got the time you can take some time and get down there.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So I, we'll get pumped.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We know Pony is going to love it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But you, you have never experienced this type of world.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I have never been to an anime show.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I've never really peaked into the cartoons.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I actually have gone as far as to

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[SPEAKER_03]: And a lot of people dress up at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, but they're not limited to Renaissance costumes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you'll be walking down in the Renferre, and you'll see someone dressed as a storm trooper.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I said, you know, that doesn't fit in, but it's just an outlet for their crazy cosplay wishes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And that's what I sort of feel.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Do you feel that that has gotten more prevalent as the years ago that people tend to, I mean, I've noticed that people sent, you know, cosplay and dressing up and the Renaissance festival and all that's a people love to wear costumes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Why Halloween is grown in popularity.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like it's almost like you've put a safe place and environment turn that off turn it off where they thank you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like a safe place to act out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Not gouts.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Were there any knockouts?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You'd have to ask him.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Knockouts everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_04]: First off.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I was actually Renaissance Festival.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, the Renaissance Festival.

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[SPEAKER_04]: There's a lot of busty women.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I get it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I would do I know what you mean.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You don't have to tell me twice.

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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, you old rice and beans.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, all right.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, look at the wench with the meat.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh-huh.

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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you very much.

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[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: My cider isn't hard anymore.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to apologize to the anime community because I was completely wrong.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Don't be too rough about that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: No, there was a dark side to the anime show where Pony and I walked around one of the kiosks and we said, oh, why are those ladies just covered up because they're too sexual, right?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, but for them.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Makes way way way explain explain explain explain so you when you when you say a kiosk, they had pictures imagine a small card show with anime toys everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Right, but when you say that the chess were but they had the bar through the chess because they couldn't show it on a piece of paper covering the chess because on the convention floor you couldn't have that you can have that right, but but there was it a poster or the poster was not a live action just trying to get right around exactly what so when you say a dark side you're talking about kind of a borderline.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But it's not the majority of the show.

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[SPEAKER_05]: This is a commute and pony you settle down.

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[SPEAKER_05]: This is a community of people and I didn't want to say this.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They're at just a land of people that love Japanese cartoons.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And they're nice and they're not bullies and when you say you don't know something or you question the the fact that they bought a seven hundred dollar doll They don't get mad at you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They explained you why it's a collectible.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Why it means so much to the community Why they go to Japan once a year?

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[SPEAKER_05]: I've stood in line for an hour to go to the made cafe was it worth it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe not an hour.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'll say half an hour worth it and these maids call you master if

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[SPEAKER_05]: I thought yeah, they like master come with me and then all right hold on, yes, oh, yeah, oh, it's cool hold on me I want it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I want it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I want it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I want it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's about the main cafe.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the main cafe We're we're the maids hot.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, are they hotty maids?

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[SPEAKER_05]: They recruit them

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[SPEAKER_05]: from the anime community to come and it's almost an honor to be asked to be made so they fly in the maids do you think there was some imports Mike there's definitely some really yeah honey uh any any comment on the uh made cafe I didn't go to the made cafe but okay where they were in cattiers

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[SPEAKER_03]: Some of them weren't kidding.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, did the reason you stayed away from the cabinet of the main cafe Because you don't have any desire for any kind of fun at all Or did you see that you're chosen you would lose control?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I had already eaten and the group that I went with was ready to leave by that It's a classier hooters.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it's all it is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a classier hooter She's a great man.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They get they're in character He's the wrong person to ask about this event.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I took a deep dive.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We're ready to go

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know there's a lot of fun things, but we don't want to get caught in that Saturday mid-afternoon traffic.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go home.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go home.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So you stood in line and went to the main cafe.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I went to the arcade.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I went to a symposium where essentially we heard about a man at arms and how they make that YouTube series and how they make those weapons.

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[SPEAKER_05]: The weapon forger.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you were more excited than I would be about the sword guy you went to see the fat stagmer is his name right.

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[SPEAKER_05]: He's a man amongst men.

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[SPEAKER_05]: He makes real weapons and he may see a big burly guy as he like big is a blacksmith from like old timey days.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And he's making beautiful swords out of the floor.

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[SPEAKER_05]: This was a big ball room where people were sitting there listening about their craft and they're training how they make the TV show and Pointy I sat down like well, I stayed for another 40 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Listen to that guy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's about off of the hall awesome And then Tony checked his watch and said I got it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: God if you want it if you want to met stagmer sword how how much is it gonna set you back?

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[SPEAKER_05]: they don't, they are so one-off, like one of a kind, you don't sell them, and the real weapons.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They're absolutely real weapons.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How do you, you don't get them at all?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Where do they go?

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[SPEAKER_05]: No, they go on television, and they're part of their collection.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They don't sell them.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They don't sell them to the common folks.

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[SPEAKER_05]: No, they make money off being awesome on YouTube.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And now he's starting on, he's starting to show what danger it is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We did, did he display some of his sort?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Mike, this guy is such a swinging dick that he walked in with no weapons and just did a power point and talked about how they make the program.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, it was so cool and you think it was cool.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was great They could have put it in a different room though because the room right next door was this like huge Concert K-pop karaoke.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you really big

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[SPEAKER_02]: Was the other room it was like Jay pop karaoke and people what is Jay pop karaoke that's like Japanese pop music and it was really loud So like every five to ten minutes someone would ask a question and the audience would be like

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's in a boom, boom, boom, boom, like clapping.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, what about what about the cosplay people?

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[SPEAKER_04]: The people in costume that we're walking around the floor.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is what I, this would be the reason I would take a cab down town and get into this event.

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[SPEAKER_05]: If you are, this is exactly how do you make a fool.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Open, come and I'm starting.

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[SPEAKER_04]: How long does it take to forge the sword to this thing?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Don't force in your mom's face, but you'll burn the house down.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Tony, it's time to leave.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think so too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: A couple things was looking for someone.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I always, I would size up the costume in, if it was a dude, if I recognize the character, and there were a handful of Overwatch characters, which I, one of the games I played.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's your game, then, too.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll see your picture.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You got your inner nerd.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I took.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I would actually like a stalker walk down to a long hotel ballroom hallways because I saw one of my characters from Overwatch walking away.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You're following me.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm like, man, I really got to go find Genji.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Let me go find him.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And then he went into like a back.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I don't know if it was a dress room.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So like I sat down and I was like, well, I'll just wait to see if it comes back out.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And then he came back out and I stopped like, you moron for take a picture.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Was he thrilled?

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was so great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Was he thrilled that you had that interest?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, I found out two things people do not want do not accept payment for pictures.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They're super nice They don't want to get paid for it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's like a it's a pass.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So it's not like time square It's not a time square.

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[SPEAKER_04]: These so these are these are just people that dress up and get the satisfaction out of going piece of it

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[SPEAKER_05]: Some of the costumes, various gay, the shorter shorts I've ever seen on women, for a winter Wonderland, which it was snowing on Saturday, a lot of women in the snow taking photo shoots in there, in their Santa, slash Japanese, slash anime outfits where their cleavage is showing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How would you rate the cosplay?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I would give it a 10, I mean, there were some really, really great costumes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: 10 out of 10 knockouts?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There is something I briefly want to get to.

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[SPEAKER_05]: How much time do we have?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you have five bucks.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I'll get first.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I found out that there isn't a don't side to this in 18 and up, right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: So, and for anybody out there, as far as anime is concerned, it's a great place to go people watch.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It is certainly interesting.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They have, and if you're an arcade fan, they had all these Japanese games.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I definitely paid played Street Fighter 5 and got my ass kicked by some little kid, but it was fun.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I sat down with a handful of guys and they were telling me more about the made cafe and how it works and how it's like an honor to be a part of that and in Japan this is how they made cafes and one of the guys he says I am I'm actually a host and I said oh I thought he was a host at the made cafe because I thought it was just women right because now there's another side to this where you can be a host on

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[SPEAKER_05]: And essentially imagine going to a lounge area and you're in a host like a bottle host or a bottle hostess, right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: This is this is getting the old hooker cafe and it's so I sat there and I was like, I'm like, what do you do dude?

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[SPEAKER_05]: He's like, well I go and you know, people come there for companionship and I was like,

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[SPEAKER_05]: companion.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I said now, but like nothing to fair, he's no, it's like open and you're hanging out.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I said, so you come into the cafe or you go, you go into the lounge.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Just to sit with the hostesses or host.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Or men or the men, men, men, it's mostly men, women that want to hang out with men, mostly or men that want to hang out with the depends on what your preference is, right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: This is women that want to hang out with women that want to hang out with men and they're all good looking men from what I can see, right?

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[SPEAKER_04]: And where did you with you, but where did you, my homo erotic friend, bump into this individual?

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[SPEAKER_05]: The best looking guy there and I said, hey, is this seat open and we started talking?

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[SPEAKER_05]: No, I didn't do that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It was the true guys that were showing me around telling me more about this anime world, right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And he said, I gotta go and I'm like, where you're going?

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[SPEAKER_05]: And because we just sat down at the make effort, I'm a host, and he broke some, uh, some, I guess culture down for me from that war.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Was he an Asian guy?

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[SPEAKER_05]: An Asian guy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Look like he knew where was he, where was he hosting?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Was it another, was it a room or something upstairs?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Another ball room.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So to speak.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_04]: the way we can I let me in a rupture say can I ask Pony this before you only got a couple minutes here Pony is there like a subculture here is there like if you dig deep into this can you like find you know In sweet 13 14, you know, you can go up and find I mean do they do are you aware of anything like this or

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very much aware of the host club type situations in the maid cafe type thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's basically you have the maid cafes where you have girls in character that are taking care of guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you have a host type situation where there's guys taking care of girls.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And by taking care of, I mean, just like sitting down with hanging out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Pretend I was the best friend.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That was the food in the maid cafe.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it was great.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They had like, was it Japanese food?

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[SPEAKER_05]: They had that, but they also had, you know, your American fair, you could choose whatever you'd like.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That deal with the making of your order.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, in tradition of St. Tan tradition, I got chicken fingers.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I asked one of the girls if they get hit on all the time, right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: And she says they never get hit on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: because the guys are so intimidate built on respect maybe no just intimidate by these objects you do have it to be respectful throughout the whole experience with the cosplayers and stuff oh really yeah they're very well that's going to make I you know what I don't mind that at all I think that's kind of neat yeah one around say hey knockout come over yeah

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[SPEAKER_04]: So you would say, but I'll ask her on the sexually charged meter on a scale of 1 to 10.

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[SPEAKER_04]: How how sexually charged was the whole environment?

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[SPEAKER_05]: I would say a solid seven.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So not not over the top.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Not over the top.

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[SPEAKER_05]: A bunch of horn dog uses people that like this anime and they also saw like a handful of like parents that were in the lobby because they're just putting up with their anime kids.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They're anime kids.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But definitely if you were a dad and you were doing with this, you're like,

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[SPEAKER_03]: And to be clear, the children are not actually anime.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They're real children.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Teenagers.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They bring the kids.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let them put money on a scale of 1 to 10.

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[SPEAKER_04]: How do you rate the whole thing?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I'd give it a 10.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I had a blast.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It was a 10 show.

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[SPEAKER_05]: As such, everybody had a seven.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So the host do exactly the same deal for women where you go in and the guys pretend to be the girl's best friend.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I said, well, how do you know when to go?

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[SPEAKER_05]: And he's like, well, when they stop paying like or buying drinks or doing anything like that, I said, oh, so it's like a hooters.

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[SPEAKER_04]: He said, yeah, I think it's fascinating.

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[SPEAKER_04]: What a fascinating bit of culture, though.

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[SPEAKER_04]: A lot of fun, a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to be the fruit cake here?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's do the fruit cake.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You can read the letter, you can read the letter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What's your bacon fruit cake now this is an unprecedented day for the fruit cake Trouble because it's treble fruit cakes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We've never done this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I read the letter.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It goes like this One fruit cake makes me quiver two fruit cakes make me shake three fruit cakes make me tremble and Talking to the men of my dreams make me quake

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[SPEAKER_03]: Please, I beg of you, provide me the quivering shaking and trembling joy that only you and treble fruit cakes can bring Christina in Buffalo, New York.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is for three fruit cakes and we call Christina right now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I like this letter because she seemed to embrace the import of the fact this is three fruit cakes at play, which would mean that she's there and if she's not, somebody's going to get four fruit cakes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm very disappointed at the last time.

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[SPEAKER_04]: There's me too.

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[SPEAKER_04]: There's more.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There's remorse though, Mike.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_06]: There's remorse.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Bring back talent.

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[SPEAKER_05]: What is this Christina's first Christina's Christina?

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is on this phone, boss and over.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I'll leave her Christina, please.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Christina, this is Michael Merritt.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think you might want to tell me why I'm calling?

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[SPEAKER_06]: Because I want to freeze through cakes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You have gotten our very first triple fruit cake victory my God, and you will be receiving three Delicious fruit games from Rob's be-wank and I got this will you share them will you keep one for yourself and gift to of them What are the destinations of these fruit cakes?

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[SPEAKER_06]: I will keep two of them

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[SPEAKER_04]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Good call.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not sure where the third's going to go.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Very good.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know what?

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[SPEAKER_04]: If they went to the Omera household, the third Carlo would keep one, Mike would keep the other, and the third would be a Cosplay cage fight.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I mean.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I like that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that would be fine.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Kristina, thank you so much for being at your residence or your work and knowing that we were calling about fruit kicks and because of that, you received not one, not two, three fruit kicks.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Merry Christmas.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Merry Christmas.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Kristina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What more?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure you check out the Michael Maribona Show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Get it at Michael MaribonaShow.com.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Michael Maribona, radio entertainment.