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And so the air conditioner wasn't really doing a lot. Yeah,
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By cash happy to book my good news story is about math.
Because I know you love math. Oh my gosh. So there is a new 13
sided shape called the hat.
Now, no, I've looked at the shape. And this does not look
like a hat.
I know it looks like a little t shirt with a little think about
it. A little picture of this is from the good news network.org
The miracle that disrupts order mathematicians invent new
Einstein shape. link in the show notes. The question was, is
there a shaping that could interlock with itself? Ad
infinitum. Infinity and forever? With without replicating the
pattern? A pattern? And yeah, yeah, the answer is yeah. So
wait, what? What's the Yeah, the if you look at it, and then
it'll be in the chapters file. And it will be Oh, my gosh,
yeah. So it is a shape that interlocks with itself. And it
can always keep skipping and locking and you try and look for
the same pattern anywhere on it. And it never replicates the same
pattern. Are you sure that that's what the article says?
You get it out? Figured it out? You find the pattern? Yep.
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than that. Oh, that one's a little different to oh, they're
all
these two are the same.
Oh, that's just a small section of it. That's part of it. That's
not
it is the Einstein tile.
Anywho it's really weird looking. It's like it looks it
looks like what it looks like I said it looks like a virus. It
looks like a Triforce with a virus right? It looks like a
Triforce they got scared they got scared as well it's like a
Triforce across Scary It's like a wiggly wiggly try forces. That
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redirect to podcast index.org/apps/app
as same thing, a new podcast. Yeah. So yeah, there's a whole
bunch of cool ones up there. So yeah, that's that's that's it.
That's,
that's good for their news segment.
So you are what is called a cosplayer.
Yes, I am. What's a cosplayer? Someone cosplays. I wanted you
want me
real quick. A long time ago. I was looking at the South
Carolina license plate. And there's a picture of a Palmetto.
Yeah. Okay. And I was like,
Oh, thanks. It's
a palm tree. And I was like, Oh, cool. There's a palm tree on
that license plate for South Carolina. And your mom was like,
that's a Palmetto. And I'm like, it is what that's a palm tree
sweetie. What's a Palmetto and she's like Palmetto like, like
I'm just a complete moron for not knowing what this is. If you
are looking at a palm tree and a Palmetto next to each other,
you're like, This is the same thing.
None of them are next to each other. No, if you haven't seen a
palm tree and a little bit Okay.
I don't know how many palm trees I've seen in real life. In real
life. We've seen a few because we went to Hawaii that one time.
They had did have palm trees. They didn't have like a couple
here what else they had in Hawaii.
They had Oreos. Do you remember
the pineapple place? With the no ice cream? The dove land
or the the EU, you load the Elan presentation. The loaded pistol
doing
the backwards
it's been a part of our show for a while. Not sponsored. So,
cosplay. I went and looked up the history of cosplay. Oh, it
goes way back. Yeah. Then the priests toy Oblivia pre 20th
century, masquerade balls were features of Carnival season in
like 15th century. And I mean, it goes way back. And one of the
cool ones that I read about was in 1877 Jules Verne sent out a
whole I gotta get I gotta, I gotta get I gotta get back to
where I'm not saying as much. Well, I'm seeing a lot. Yeah, we
got to stop it's
good job. Jules Verne sent out 700 invitations to an elaborate
costume ball, where several guests showed up dressed as
characters from his novels like a pilot. And that that was that
was back way, way, way back. But then, of course, in the same
Wikipedia page. Oh, they say the first people that dressed up as
fictional characters. And like, you literally just said that
Wikipedia isn't wrote by one person. But they saw
they should look and they should be concerned. No. I expect
excellence from my free websites that are crowd sourced.
Excellence.
What is it? What are they say? I don't know. Isn't a trustable
source?
No, it's not you need to what you have to find out. It'll work
though. Okay. for a school project, the little
numbers. They tell you where they got that information. So
then you have to go to that site and see if it's a reputable
source. This that I just said about Jules Verne comes from a
book called cause play a history. Builders fans and
makers who bring your favorite dot dot dot and it's on page
something or other page 12 About Jules Verne. So well I got how
reputable is that however reputable. This author is and I
have no idea. So
I got a good little little page from kiddle.com or Kiddle
kids.kiddle.co. Okay, and it was actually pretty good. I read it.
It's cosplay is a short way of saying costume play. It is an
act of dressing up to look like an anime manga video game
Japanese rock or J pop character. I personally does
this is called a cosplayer. Cosplay can be divided into two
parts basic cosplay and masquerade cosplay. Both types
of cosplay involve trying to physically look like the
character including speaking like the character of memorizing
quotes and so on. masquerading where the masquerade usually
refers to the cosplay competition where cosplay is
given cosplayers demonstrate their skills in creating
costumes putting on skits and technical matters. Even though
cosplaying is originally from Japan. There are a number of
cosplay communities in Malaysia, China, United States in
Indonesia, and the Philippines. Because of the popularity of
Japanese animation movies and popular culture in those
countries. Cosplay communities often hold events such as
parties and conventions, some of the best cosplayers can be found
amongst all of them.
So on that it basically is just saying anime manga video games,
and you scroll down and I couldn't read anymore. I was
looking at Japanese rock J pop things like that, but it
doesn't. I mean, that's not necessarily for I mean, I guess
I'm just speaking from the website we've been to that's
true. But it's pretty much all pop culture. You will dress up
like everything that dress I bought chair just when we fly.
We go to
the pop culture conventions. We don't go to the anime
conventions. We did one time.
Yeah. There were characters that were not anime characters.
That was also sort of a convention convention. Like
there was
Yeah, stuff and folks just want to dress up in the one that
they've been making. Yeah.
Speaking of which, I'm making a costume currently. Oh, that was
crunchy. You coughed and it was crunchy, and I could hear it.
Y'all couldn't hear it. But just imagine. Anyways, there's a
character named Hudson a Miku. She has really long blue hair, a
blue tie, gray vest, and a black skirt and black boots. You've
probably seen her before if you're on the internet. But
she's ever she is everywhere, believe me. Which is kind of why
I've been putting off doing this costume. But I finally caved.
And I was like, You know what? No, I'm gonna be fun. And I'm
gonna do it.
Well, that's, that's one of the things if you want to do the
character, you shouldn't let a bunch of other people doing that
character stop you from doing that character. Yeah,
and that's kind of what a lot of these websites had in common
about saying, Don't gate keep cause plays, because it's not
your character. It's not like you're telling people don't
cause play this character, right? I'm the one who's well
can
cause me this for a while there. Everybody was dressing up as
Harley Quinn Yeah. And people still do and people right and
everybody was like, everybody's Harley Quinn's like, yeah, they
wanted to dress up like Harley Quinn. Let them dress up like
Harley Quinn.
People dress up like spider man. And then they do a little little
fun thing. Yeah, they pointed
each other with each other. You made the motion but you forget.
Oh, this is audio.
You can see me that's all that matters. But no
and you do what you want to do, you know?
Yeah, I looked up some of the world's biggest cosplay
conventions. Okay, Anime Expo is the yeah is the most big. I am
Expo it was a yearly convention currently held in Los Angeles
Convention Center. Anime Expo has grown significantly over the
last few years and is currently the largest anime and manga
convention in all of North America. Wow,
I think that's the one that had all the problems last year,
I think so. It is the second largest running anime convention
as of 1992. So it's been the are the second longest running anime
convention. As of 1992. Wow. Anime Expo has seen very many
premieres of shows movies and bands, and has the incredible
ability of bringing stars from all over the US to one
particular location. Comic Con international course.
That's not strictly cosplay, though.
Yeah. Or kind of what I like about Comic Con.
I like the one that we go to. And then we're gonna go to this
year's Galaxy con. And it is all civil of fandom is what they
call it, right? And it's basically all of pop culture. So
you'll have a huge Star Trek contingent and a huge Star Wars
contingent. Bunch of anime stuff, a bunch of video games
stuff, just anything that you could be a fan of. Isn't there?
Thought about getting a booth? Just just for fun. It actually
costs about the same as going
for a wait for a weekend for three, three. Yeah.
No, no, no. Anyway, we're not gonna get it. I'm not gonna do
it. It was just a funny thing. I was just gonna sit there at a
table behind Yeah, not sell anything. Not sign anything.
They're like, hey, what do you sell? Because like people Yeah,
just two people. It'll be fantastic.
Umbrella, an umbrella and meet us but just look like a crazy
person
or dress up in a real fancy outfit. Yes.
Victorian dress on have an umbrella and then put me this
behind you and like Comic Sans.
people be like, Are you a cosplayer? Like no one know what
that means? What does that mean? Where am I? Oh boy. What year is
this?
Comic Con International. San Diego, in San Diego. So the San
Diego Comic Con began its journey to stardom in 1971, a
small group of comics movie and science fiction fans that
includes shell Dorf, Kin Krueger and Richard Alf, came together
to form the very first comic book convention in Southern
California. Originally, Comic Con was a one day event. And the
purpose at that point was just to raise funds and generate
interest for a larger convention that can be put there in the
future. The success of this event led to the first full
fledged three day Comic Con, which was held held August 1
through third 1970 at the US grant hotel with lots of famous
guests. A little over 300 attendants packed into the
hotel's basement for the groundbreaking event in enjoy
games, videos programs and panels. This will be outline its
successors would follow for convention in the future. Yeah,
that's good. No, that's like nothing.
Yeah, and conventions have become this whole thing. We
weren't always convention season. At the one of the
conventions of the anime commit the Queen City anime con that we
went to in Charlotte. I almost got to do a panel. I was just
gonna make when we went to a panel about something
a panel about Harajuku fashion, right? And
it was she wanted to go to it. I was like, Okay, I'll go I'll go
sit with you because you know, your kid and I need parental
guidance here. So um, then I went and Isn't that was doing it
didn't show up. Right. A lot of people didn't show up because
that was during the dark times. And a lot of people didn't show
up to a lot of things.
Yeah. Oh, the dark, dark dark dark times of the
big goof. Yeah. And so the the person who worked there was
like, sorry, everybody, there's not going to be an OE the person
cancelled and we're not able to do a panel. Does anybody want to
do a panel? Does anybody know a lot of stuff about something?
And I was gonna get up and do a podcast panel about podcasting
about your hobbies. And but Leila was like now
I'm surprised Dragon Con isn't on here.
Dragon Con is for fantasy stuff.
Yes. So I guess not cosplay conventions, which,
which people dress up anything with con at the end people dress
up. Podcast conventions people dress up like podcasters
I actually dress up. Oh my gosh, I have
ideas. A cardboard. Sure SM seven V. Seven V.
Dressed up as a pair of headphones.
dress up as a dress up as a podcaster. Like, you have to
turn your pockets inside out because you're broke.
I can have a stick with a little pouch on the back.
Like backing up into the happy hobo from the old TV shows. Oh,
wow. Oh, okay. So when I was looking up the cosplay, and
we're talking about the old timey stuff. In like the early
1900s, one of the first people to like win a prize for a
costume that they made of a fictional character was Mr. And
Mrs. William Fell from Ohio. They went to a skating rink, a
masquerade at a skating rink. And one of them was dressed as
Mr. skyjack. And I'm like, What the heck as a Mr. skyjack. So I
look, I click the little link on Wikipedia. And it took me to Mr.
skyjack from Mars. And this was a little rabbit hole I went
down. Basically, it's a dude from Mars with a big weird
looking head. And he makes observations on earth. Like he
like sends notes. He's taking notes on Earthlings. And it's
pretty funny. And it reminds me there's a comic strip out now
and I can't remember the name of it. But there's these aliens and
they're, like talking to each other and trying to understand
humanity. And it's very funny. Very just observational humor.
So I forgot to tell when I was talking to my me my costume. I'm
gonna add lights to it.
Oh, yeah, it's where it's gonna be epic. Yeah, we're working on
it pretty good. She's getting my expertise on hooking up strings
of LEDs. Yeah, he's helping
me with. I have ideas for what I'm doing.
She's going to have a belt full of battery pack.
Oh my gosh. That's gonna be so heavy. It's gonna be so hot. I'm
gonna go to the causeway lounge. I think I am gonna have to take
my way off. We can.
We can actually be heavy. We can actually rig up a little mini
air conditioner system for you too, if we got batteries. If you
get too hot, because it's gonna be in July.
Plus, they sell the little things so you can put like
around your neck like the fan necklaces, remember? Yeah,
there's
there's a couple of options. green walls. You also just take
some frozen peas and a cooler and just like a bunch of frozen
peas. And then just like put them on your back. You can be
peekaboo. I don't know what that means. Oh, come on. No yellow
polka manga. Let's
make it a pawn. Oh, oh, P Kumiko.
Yes. Yes, jeez. Oh my gosh, oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Okay, so
Mr. skyjack is a Martian. And this, this couple have to do
dressed up as Mr. skyjack and got got an award. And I went and
looked at Mr. Skaggs. There's a link in the show notes to the
Wikipedia, you can actually find some of them. They're all in the
public domain now. Which is kind of cool. So we're gonna, I'm
gonna go kick around and look watch observational humor from
the early 1900s. I think it's going to be an interesting
rabbit hole for me to go down. Oh, yeah. There. Yes. 1030. It
is 3030 at night. And we are about to hit the 30 minute mark.
I think we can. Probably tomorrow we could probably wrap
wrap up cosplay is a cool thing. It's fun. And
I didn't know how to signal you to like to like Wrap It Up
wrap 30 we need we need like a little lights. But once we're in
the studio, we'll be looking more at each other. Yeah. And
we'll be able to lay hands on one. Yes, that should be soon.
We're good. done. Oh, I was gonna say on. I forgot what I
was gonna say. Oh, the I was gonna say open for extremely
long day. And we got a big day tomorrow so we get some flimsy
going to do and we'll take lots of pictures. That's one of the
things that cosplay conventions. Oh my gosh, do you know how many
times I heard the words? I liked your cosplay?
Especially to me Good grief. There
was so many people running around to each other I like you
guys me I like I like your cosplay oh I like your cosplay
and it's just a positive
place it's very positive. It's all about the community,
everybody's positive. Everyone likes to hobbies.
It's a hobby. It's a hobby that a lot of people are into which
is there's a lot of people that will help you out and a lot of
it's a good, fun fun thing to do. Once you learn skills like
sewing and whatnot
and cosplaying it doesn't have to be all about sewing and
printmaking. You can just order your Causeway and awake and
you're good. You don't have to get a week.
But Lou likes it. She's a DI wire.
I'm a DI wire DIY or die by brownie Oh, man when a noun
goes to conventions. He does Kylie Jenner
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