It's Dragon Con weekend and Adam is heading to Atlanta to mix with celebs, nerds, gamers, and gawkers, so we figured this week we'd talk everything conventions. Along the way we get our cosplay on, meet celebrities, challenge our listeners to a fight, get fired up about germ warfare, stick our arms deep down in the dice hole, and find ourselves needing to apologize to John Ratzenberger... a lot.

Talking Points:

• Dragon Carn 2016! (00:00)
• Stewart, Shatner, and pewter! (04:25)
• Merch! (07:55)
• Celebs and togetherness! (15:45)
• Overcoming crowd anxiety! (29:05)
• Health concerns! (32:10)
• Gettin' nasty! (34:30)
• The Dice Hole! (39:00)
• Our ideal cosplays! (41:12)
• The smell! (48:19)
• Steampunk! (50:37)
• TWAIkN panel/college appearances! (54:16)
• Closing thoughts! (57:25)

As always, we'd like to thank Laura Cooper of the webcomic XP for our show's art, everyone who contributed to this week's show for contributing, Bensound.com for our outro music, and you the listener for sticking with us! If you like what you hear, consider subscribing and rating on iTunes, sharing our sampler, or becoming a TWAIkNtributor!