today we are live at NerdCon Nerdfighteria! Mostly I thought to myself, John how soon is it going to be before I
think that my hair cut now is ridiculous oh my goodness this is so exciting
You guys, don't tell all of the other events that I've ever done, but this is the best event ever
don't you want to name your kid after an inside joke from the internet's 237th
most favorite podcast good morning it is the morning of NerdCon day two so I'm
about to head into the city i'm planning on going to a panel on mental health today
there's the closing ceremonies and I'll probably you know swing around the expo
hall a little bit too and hopefully meet some cool people and also just enjoy
being with the nerdfighter community I'm waiting for the train to get into boston
so now is as good a time as any to talk about NerdCon yesterday so I went
to a lot of podcast recordings including holy fucking science and the Dear
Hank and John which was a lot of fun to see those recorded live so I swung around
the expo hall a little bit there was some really great science hands-on
activities i also started making a zine or zine if anybody knows how to
pronounce that please let me know in the comments hopefully I'll bring that back and
finish it today and just looking forward to today
well the way we respond to each other is so important ya know, there's so much shame
affiliated with the way we feel, ya know, so it's like every conversation that you have with somebody
you know just trying and create a space and you're allowing them the safety to express
We, are at the closing ceremony. That doesn't mean that it's over though
It just means that it will be over in two hours
[Beep Booping noises] That was buttfartman for 'Hey everybody this is buttfartman'
Three species of fungi were discovered in 1991 around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
and make chemical energy from radiation with help from a molecule that is also in humans
Claire from the future here thinking back and reflecting on NerdCon
NerdCon was absolutely amazing it was so wonderful to be physically with the
community of people who have followed the vlogbrothers for 10 or so years in some
cases it was also a really community centric conference VidCon is of course
community centric but it's also a lot of focus on the creators and being there to
see the creators and while there was a little bit of that at NerdCon a lot of
it was just about being with community which was a really nice change of pace
don't get me wrong I love VidCon but it was really nice being in a
community-oriented conference I got to talk with some viewers meet some new
people say hi to some other scicomm ladies it was really really lovely and
it was really motivating in a lot of ways to keep going with creating so I
hope it will happen again and it has me looking even more forward to VidCon this
year