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Hi, I am so glad to be recording and podcasting with you right now because that means that last week is over. I attended three conferences in one week. There's something

about January where the sex toy industry, the porn industry, all the different industries feel like January is the time to have their

conference. So I started out by going to the ANME trade show, which is a, all the distributors and manufacturers of sex toys and

all the buyers for companies they all get together talk about their sex toys

look at the sex toys talk about the sex toys, look at the sex toys, talk about the sex toy is schmooze, and that was really fun.

I saw a lot of cool toys. One, it's funny to say with the one that really sticks out in my mind is from Fun Factory.

They have a new dildo that they put, basically they put kegel balls inside, you know

what is the ball within the ball that shakes when you walk?

They put a couple of those within their dildos so that when you're using it, yeah, the

weight of these heavy balls inside shake around and I think that that's just so simple like why didn't

I think of that you know why hasn't that always been a thing and so I like that a lot

but I always been a thing and so I like that a lot. But I for some reason my social anxiety was just on such high alert this past week that just non-stop talking to people, meeting people, business cards.

I don't even know what I want to do.

I don't know why or what I want to do necessarily.

I just want to keep up with the toys with what the industry what's happening

I'm just like I just want a blanket to hide under. That was the hey it's okay. I learned how to play poker. They had a

carnival night where there were lots of games they brought brought in pool tables, they brought in poker tables, and I walked in just saw everyone having a great time.

There was a bull that you could ride, and I saw some people that I knew and I walked to the corner of the giant tent that had no one in it except for a poker table and a dealer who looked very bored.

And I was like, will you just teach me how to play poker?

And he was like, oh, definitely.

So I, yeah, I was surrounded by sex toy enthusiasts and manufacturers and engineers and designers and I just

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