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So, if you guys have questions for us, you should come on down to these mics up at the front, and we'll try and answer them.

All right, you're first.

Yes, all right.

I expected a rush.

Thank you so much first for coming to Seattle, and it kind of reigns into my question.

I guess more of a comment on just sort of a – I find – I'm an actor and a puppeteer

here in Seattle, and kind of experience what I find is like sometimes an East Coast biased

when it comes to cultural

and artistic ventures, which in itself isn't such a bad thing, but it seems to have a odd

trickle down where everything needs to either come from the East Coast or specifically New York

to even be reflected back into places like Seattle. I don't know if you've experienced or have any thoughts on just all of the kind of

national culture coming through a single place and then how does that, you know,

affect even just local culture and artistic endeavors.

Thank you.

It's a really good question.

I mean, I wish that we could, I wish we could go on a Culture Gab Fest road trip and like, you know, do the 50 states and dip our toes. And it's just so fun to be in a different city and to get a sense of what, you know, what is going on, what is going on culturally, what is going on in terms of the fashion. And, you know, we did a segment a couple weeks ago about the hipster and what it means to be a

hipster and whether hipsterism is over. But the hipster we had in our heads was a very particular

New York hipster. And of course, there's a different breed of hipster in every major city in

America. And I wish we had more perspective on that. I mean, one of the virtues of Slate is that

we are virtual, so we can have correspondence from abroad. But technologically, as we put the podcast together, sometimes it just has to be the three of us in the room that day. But, yeah, no, I think you're really right about this sort of myopia of the media in putting New York in L.A. front and center all the time.

Yeah, it's tough. I mean, we're stuck in New York. I mean, that's where we produce from.

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