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Hi, everyone. Welcome the Knows Death. We were at the Darkside, New Jersey. So we wanted to let you know all about our experience before we play our live episode that we did there. Yeah, it was really cool when we showed up. It was this huge convention with lots of vendors.

They had food and performers. Got to hear some music getting played. And then there was other things going on, like people that hang from their skin. I don't understand how that happens. Kind of skews me out, but it's also really fascinating to watch at the same time we have a whole didn't we do a

whole dissection on people who do body suspensions and stuff and the whole science behind it I did

write about it at some point in the grocery maybe um yeah it's it's a little bit much for me to

to look at that but the other ones were cool that um the person that was

working with fire yeah i feel like that's really like what what is that called like i really

don't know in today's day and age because in circus times wasn't it like a fire breather or something

yeah it was it was cool though i mean we couldn't it like a fire breather or something?

Yeah, it was cool, though.

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