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So let's explore the Dork Forest and Dorkdown for a while. So tonight is a joint venture between Nerd Night and

the Epic Nerd Show. Ian just came up to me at one point last year and said, hey, do you want to

try something different for Nerd Night? And I said, oh, and so that's how the magic happens. So

it's going to be interesting tonight. So the origin story of Nerd Night, what it usually is on a normal evening is we have a couple of presentations about any given number of topics. And, you know, you drink and socialize. And it's kind of like TED talks with beer, if you will. It started in Boston, New York, and it's gone global. So it's in all of these cities, and this is by no means a comprehensive list.

It's just exploded, especially in Germany, where apparently there are quite a few nerds.

We...

Yay!

So we started up in Toronto in 2010, and we got news of in New York, if you guys are interested in going as well, you'll know at least one person who's there.

In Brooklyn, there's going to be the Global Nerd Night Fest.

So bless you, all of those cities that you saw there, basically anybody's invited.

And it's in an effort to get a lot of people to talk to

each other from different cities because we don't have a lot of crossover.

Everybody's kind of independent.

So they're gathering everybody there.

And as you can see, it's August 16th to 18th.

It's $100, but as you can see here, this last line here, lots of free and greatly discounted

beer. That's actually been revised since I did this presentation. It's lots of free beer. So

Brooklyn, yeah, we all got emails, the international bosses got this really excited email about

Brooklyn Brewery just decided to sponsor it and give everybody

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