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Do Go On

532 - Dashcon Failure

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Facts, Comedy, History, Fact

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, a group of Tumblr users decided to put on a Tumblr convention. Except they had no idea how to organise a convention ...


This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 05:28 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).


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Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas


Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present. 


REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://fanlore.org/wiki/DashCon#cite_note-21

https://dashcon2014b.sched.com/

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/18/us/tumblr-dashcon-social-media-2010s-cec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashCon

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/dashcon

https://www.nerdandtie.com/2014/07/14/dashcon-a-perfect-storm-of-incompetence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqy-KDJAUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgxeX2dCnQ




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Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy Block. Happy Block. And what better way to celebrate Block? And 10 years of do go on than hitting the road. We are doing some shows around Australia and New Zealand. All the shows have sold out. So we've added extra shows in Perth, Brisbane, Auckland and Wellington. Yeah. So exciting. So exciting. You know, you never know. You never know people are going to want to come. And people are coming all over Australia and New Zealand for us.

0:25.6

That's right.

0:26.2

And if you want to come to go to dogoonpod.com.

0:30.0

We'll see you there. Hello, welcome to another episode of Do Go On.

0:48.6

Adelaide, how you doing out there?

0:53.5

Thank you so much.

0:54.5

My name is David Warnigke and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.

0:58.1

Hoor!

1:00.1

Wow.

1:01.7

We live to Pod and here we are.

1:06.2

Well, don't make me look down. Jesus.

1:09.1

Let's keep talking.

1:10.0

That's well, it's very good. Quick question. How good is it to be alive? Okay. I was clearly asking you, Dave, but he didn't want to answer. Fair enough. We haven't been here for years. Yeah. The three of us together. Yeah. I think the last time we're at the wine museum or something. Yeah, does that still exist?

1:28.5

Okay.

1:29.5

Okay, great.

1:30.0

Great.

1:32.3

This feels more our speed, to be honest.

1:32.9

Yeah.

1:35.0

Upstairs, Rhino, thank you very much for having us at this fantastic comedy venue.

1:38.0

Now, we always start by asking,

1:39.1

give us a round of applause if you've ever heard the show before.

1:43.7

Fantastic.

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