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Okay, so what was your favorite part of Hard Fork Live?

I mean, there are so many things I choose from Kevin.

I think one thing comes to mind was when I showed up at the venue, and they had no idea who I was and didn't want to let me in.

I went right up to the security. I said, hi, Casey, I'm here to co-host the show and they said, who?

I said, oh gosh, am I going to have to pull up in. That's why that happened. Dang it, Roos, you got me again, you scoundrel. My favorite part was definitely, so we had this,

you know, bit where we're changing out of our regular pants into some mechanical robot exoskeleton

pants for a demo. And we had practiced this the day before during rehearsal in sort of like an

empty backstage area.

And I'm taking off my pants and I look up and there's Patrick Collison, just looking at my

fleshy pale thighs.

I know.

Yeah.

What I have like Silicon Valley is great thinkers and leaders.

And there we are.

Our trousers dropped.

And he's thinking,

what kind of show is this exactly?

Yeah, so suffice to say, you know,

if you weren't backstage on Hard Fork Live,

you didn't see the whole show.

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