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Hi everybody , yay , oh my gosh , you guys . Thank you so much

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for showing up to like the late night . Well , this is

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the late night for me because I'm old , but like I don't know

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, if it's late night for another rest of you

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, DesiQuest after hours .

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That's right . Oh , oh , oh , yeah . Okay , that's podcast number two . Yeah , I'm

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gonna say that that's gonna be me and Jasmine , okay , because

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that's a whole different vibe

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. I guess , I guess , you guys

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You guess I just got cut from the podcast .

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Nooo , because you got the Tea Kettle , the

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Tea Kettle is your .

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baby .

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Alright , I'm just filling in for Omar

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.

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No , you're more than You're

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in upgrade , frankly , oh .

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Let's be honest , we beat up on Omar because it's fun , but oh , we shouldn't

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.

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And also he is so lovely and you can , he's the sweetest

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thing on the planet

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?

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Yes , Like I don't even . He's

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such a muppet like the most delicious sweetheart .

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He's a muppet .

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And not a muppet in like the British term , where it kind of means

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like , because he's also wicked

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smart . What's the British term about ? That A Muppet

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is kind of , at least in my experience , a Muppet is a little

1:04

bit of someone's like oh God , there's such a Muppet Like

1:07

they're like , so not smart .

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It's an idiot . Okay , you

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were saying that in a nice way .

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I didn't want to use the word , but we went there . So there

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we going , and now , apparently , I have

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a different accent too .

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I don't know why .

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Should I introduce the podcast ? We

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should , because there are so many people who are gonna

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be listening to this and not in this room and I have

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no idea what's going on .

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Right , okay , so welcome

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. This is the Tea Kettle podcast

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live at PAX Unplugged . Give it up

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, give

1:40

up , woo Woo . I

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just have to describe to those

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listeners at home Anjali , running up

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and down the aisles , kind of exposing herself

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.

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I'm wearing a high neck sweater . I

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may just be shoving my bosom into people's

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faces , because it has a microphone attached to

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it .

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Yeah , nobody seems too upset , so I hope we're

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doing fine , anand

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.

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We have a superstar in the room

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. You gotta give up your so look back there .

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We'll start with this . Anand Shah is one

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of our executive producers . Woo

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, he's the one executive producer

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you don't see on the show . I know , and I know

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Everybody else is on the show .

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I feel like , can we like next season ? Yeah , I said next season

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it's gonna happen . I swear . Okay , I

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said it there fore it's happening .

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Not only did you hear her first , I just heard

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it here first .

2:31

So congratulations , when I want something , I

2:33

get something . And so we're having a second season

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, and apparently I'm a childish

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British whiner . But

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I hope in the second season we can drag

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Anand on for a little guest part .

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Okay , I mean Does

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Anand want that ? Should we ask him ?

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Is he going to speak to me ? I'm scared . Now he's

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like hi , no , please stop talking to me and leave me alone

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.

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Less attention .

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Less attention . Got it , got it , got it , got it . But

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we are so happy that he is here because we don't

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get to see him as much because we're all on the West Coast

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, that's right . So this is very fun to be over here on

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the East Coast hanging with all of you Very excited

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. Thank you not only for being

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here present , but thank you for supporting the

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show . How many ?

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backers do we have in this audience ?

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Amazing . That's all the hands .

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By the way , audience at home , they're raising their hands . That's why you

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couldn't hear them .

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Yeah , that's it , it was a lot yes so many hands

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, you guys , so many hands , they're like , they're like

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a good 850

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people in this room .

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Oh , my gosh , oh my gosh

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, you heard it , that's it , that's it , that's

3:32

it

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, that's it , that's it . Ok . Ok , that

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was . Why

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do we not have video ? Now this is an explicit

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show ? No , it's not At this point the first time you're

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allowed , but the second one you're in trouble

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?

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Come on , I just want people to be heard .

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Yeah .

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Let the voices ring out . It feels like 850

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people it does , and that's what matters , and

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we feel the love from the community

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that you guys have created surrounding this

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show and this game is so

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incredible , and especially

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since the launch .

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Yeah , I feel I never

4:06

felt so supported doing a

4:08

show I mean , like usually you do a show

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. I mean , I haven't done a lot of crowdfunding in the

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past , so this was my first crowdfunding effort

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period , but I think also

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because of the goals

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, the mission of this show in particular , right , it

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was especially . Not

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only were you obviously supported by people , but I think people

4:25

really got behind the concept of like , hey

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, I wanna see brown

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people representing themselves around

4:32

the table as the stars of a show and

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living in a mythos that

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is our , from the mythology that

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we grew up with , and I

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could feel that coming through the

4:47

internet screens . It was really palpable

4:49

in a way that I didn't expect . It was really

4:51

moving . So thank you everybody here who supported

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everybody at home and supported us . It

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brought me to tears many , many times and

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I'm one of those guys that's like no , I should never cry

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, cause that makes me feel weak . But then I did

5:03

a lot .

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Usually it's because I beat him up .

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That's usually why he's crying . So it's really wonderful

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.

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No , you are such a I'm very excited

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and , without spoiling anything , there is a

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gorgeous scene that Sandeep

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has in an upcoming episode that

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I know you from working with you on

5:23

set . What do we change the name

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to Wizard School Dropout Wizards School Dropout yeah so

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, and I know you both . You and Anand both from there , and

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so I know you as this comedy guy . I

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know you as a super fun comedy guy and

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to see the

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vulnerability that comes

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out from someone the

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first time you get to see it and the first

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time you get to see , no , I'm doing it the

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first time you get to see that vulnerability

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underneath all of that

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is just breathtaking and I'm so

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excited about that scene . It's

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a really special one .

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It's such a function of . I mean , I think the TTRPG

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format really lends itself well to that , which

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I didn't fully appreciate

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. I mean , obviously I'd seen

6:04

enough of it and I was like I wonder if I'll go there , cause I

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am my crutch is comedy

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. Yeah , it's like it's- .

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This is apparently the international symbol For

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comedy . Everybody dances with their elbows when they

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do comedy , right To the left and the right .

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Yeah and so like . Listen , I was born

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and raised in New Hampshire . I was the

6:21

one right , exactly the chuckles mean everything

6:23

like exactly how I felt the entire time Was

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, you know , I was the only brown

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dude within a thousand miles

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, it felt like . And so to

6:33

build a tough skin , it was like , oh

6:35

, you just crack jokes about everything . You know you're kind

6:37

of like that's the way

6:39

you sort of kung fu

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away anything that would sort of approach

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you know your heart

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you know , in a hurtful way , and

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if you could do that , then it showed you owned it , and

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then you , and then people were more comfortable around

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you as a result , and so then

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it lessened any of those blows and it made

6:57

it feel like , oh , you can , you

6:59

can razz on each other , you can chum with each other , and so that's

7:01

, I think you know , has

7:03

always been my go-to . So now , doing this show

7:06

not

7:08

around , you know , predominantly

7:10

white people or people that aren't Indian

7:13

or South Asian it was a different

7:15

, it was just a different

7:18

experience . Obviously I felt

7:20

like I was exposed in a way that

7:22

I hadn't , you know sort

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of expected .

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Yeah , I think also , like you were

7:28

saying , specifically this genre

7:30

of entertainment , the TTRPG , actual

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play , whether it's live or whether

7:36

it's recorded . One

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of the nine gazillion things I love

7:42

about it is that it allows

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you to have the highs and the lows of

7:46

life and really explore

7:48

all of that . And it's such a constant

7:51

reminder that even in life you

7:53

can be laughing your ass off one minute and

7:55

then something can completely shift that .

7:57

And then you can go like oh , and then fucking , Luis Carazo comes in , and then Luis Carazo

7:59

comes in , and then three sentences

8:02

and you're fucking weeping . Yeah , exactly .

8:04

And all the girls are like hi

8:07

, and he's like I'm gay and I'm sorry , guys , you're

8:10

not my type , but I'm a lovely human being .

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We love Luis so , so much . Oh my God .

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He's so , oh , what a lovely human . But

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obviously everyone who is here I am assuming

8:18

has had some experience with

8:21

TTRPGs but maybe not everybody

8:23

who's listening has and I

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hope that everyone who is listening takes

8:29

at least one chance

8:32

to play some kind of tabletop role-playing

8:34

game to put yourself into that

8:36

experience with a roomful of friends

8:38

a roomful of fun people who

8:40

care about you and love you and want you

8:43

to succeed , whatever that

8:45

looks like . Because so

8:47

? Okay , this is one way , this

8:49

is another reason .

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I love TTRPGs .

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Okay , so how do I say this without sounding like a douche ? I

8:57

just used the word . I

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don't know if I'm supposed to say that word anymore .

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I'm an old Indian woman .

9:02

I'm allowed to say anything . We'll , bleep douche , you

9:04

can bleep that , thank you , thank you . So

9:07

I was in London and I was at

9:09

the Critical Role Live play there at Wembley and

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I realized I was talking , but

9:14

I was talking with Matt before the show

9:16

and they were all a little nervous

9:18

, understandably . But what

9:21

I realized in that moment is

9:23

that I had seen musicians play there because

9:25

of Rick . I had seen Rick

9:27

is my husband and , yes , I'm going to brag about him , he's

9:29

a musician , he's played Wembley Aha , the end , I

9:32

didn't know that's cool , yeah , twice Sick . But

9:35

so I've seen musicians play there . I've

9:37

seen sports matches there

9:39

, but to see

9:42

one of these live plays

9:44

there is a completely unique situation because

9:46

when people are playing sports or when musicians

9:48

are there , there is always someone in the

9:50

audience who

9:53

is not looking for them to

9:55

fail , but if they don't

9:57

make the goal or don't make you know , if something

9:59

goes wrong , they are ready to jump on them

10:01

. When someone rolls a natural

10:04

one in a TTRPG people

10:07

are excited and supportive

10:09

. There's no failing Like you'll hear the oh , but

10:11

it's not at you , it's

10:13

not at the player , it's

10:16

for the character . And then

10:18

you're excited to see where the story goes and

10:20

it's fun . And if they're laughing

10:23

, if the audience is laughing , or if the people are playing

10:25

, you're playing with they're laughing , they're laughing with you . That's

10:27

the thing , because you're not there to win .

10:30

Hey , so sorry to interrupt , but

10:33

the rest of this episode is for

10:35

our Patreon subscribers only . So

10:38

if you'd like to hear the rest of this juicy

10:40

conversation , let me tell you it gets juicy

10:42

. There's another 50 minutes 50

10:45

, 5-0 , of this conversation over

10:47

at patreoncomcom .