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Speaker 1: So gen Con returned to any for the twenty second year,

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Speaker 1: drawing tens of thousands. They have five hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: exhibitors and nearly thirty thousand gaming events that are taking

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Speaker 1: places around the clock. Seventy five thousand people expected to

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Speaker 1: come in and it has been sold out. And guess

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Speaker 1: what gen Con twenty six scheduled for July thirtieth to

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Speaker 1: August second. I thought, yaha, ya yah, they weren't coming here.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Well, we've been told twice they weren't coming anymore.

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Speaker 2: I think one when the riff for a thing happened, right,

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Speaker 2: and then the abortion thing. I thought, both times they

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Speaker 2: said we're out of here, out of here, yeah, but

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Speaker 2: then you're here, and then they're here. We're still here. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like they just they choose casey this as well.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like they choose places to have conventions based

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Speaker 2: on incentives, ease of access, proximity to the for many

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Speaker 2: of your patrons. It's almost like the politics doesn't have

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Speaker 2: anything to do with how they actually choose where to

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Speaker 2: put up on.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about the ease of access right now.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying introduction in terms of the like the Midwest,

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Speaker 2: like it's in the center of the country. Normally, on paper,

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis does a good job with the events, of course, obviously,

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Speaker 2: like we said,