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ladies and gentlemen

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welcome ben he's going to give us a talk

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about how he can get by with a lot of

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help from his friends yeah

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well uh all right so i i did plan on

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having a few other things for this talk

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but things happen

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uh so i've instead wrote a little script

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for myself and uh we're going slideless

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so that's gonna be fun

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uh yeah and i'm i've got the uh the beer

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farmers accompanying me for when i

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inevitably break down and need a bit

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more support

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[Laughter]

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uh so yeah hashtag here for you exactly

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exactly uh and have been many years well

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a good few years

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since i've known you

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cool so i thought i'd uh i

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popped this talk in uh first of all i'd

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like to say welcome to everyone to my

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talk uh this is i get both a little help

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from my friends

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or alternatively wow some paramaniac

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from the north may to b sides and it's

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freaking awesome

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how the title works uh so

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first thing a little bit about me i'm

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ben dougherty i'm a team leader over at

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uh team leader of engineering over at

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gorham cyber

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uh i'm quite an empathetic person and

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what i mean by that is i bounce off the

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energy in a room nothing makes me

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happier than being in a room full of

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energy

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uh it's

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my drug of choice really that that kick

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of everyone working towards one goal and

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that's what i love about cyber really uh

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i did plan this talk a little

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differently uh to how it's turned out i

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had a full script set up i had obs

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scenes and things going across the

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bottom and all of that but

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unfortunately some gates decided to

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break into my shirt and make me laptop

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with all that along with other stuff so

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hey these things happen but plan b time

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uh it's time to run over it this is the

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version with 0.05 of the research uh a

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lot more of the uh

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energy and yeah skimming over a few of

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the difficult bits that are just a

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little bit too difficult to go into so

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my talk i need uh i get by with a little

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help from my friends what do i mean by

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that well

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i'm here to talk to you all about the

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story of

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an odd

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fire-liking guy from the north that

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somehow managed to make a conference uh

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it's and it wouldn't have happened with

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without well a lot of people sitting

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that you can see on the other side of

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the screen

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uh it's uh it all starts with the chat

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with the guy in the office next door to

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me

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this is many moons ago in a far

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different company to what i work at uh

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work out now

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uh andrew waite uh he was a security guy

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at where i'd worked at that time uh we

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got chatting about security we got

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chatting about the things that we know

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and he mentioned b-sides london so i

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thought right

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i'll cool down i'll go down with him

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i'll see if i can swing it from work

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work managed to cover it uh and when i

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got there it was just like

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wow

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i found my community i found my people i

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was nowhere near the smartest guy in the

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room i'm not normally but it's nice to

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know that you're nowhere near the

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smartest guy in the room and the energy

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in the room of everyone that was there

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for the same goal to see awesome talks

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to make everyone more secure and to just

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have a good time and catch up with their

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friends it was really something that

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yeah i want to bring this back i mean uh

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besides events and other community brand

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events like uh beer con

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like uh

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the many many many uh b-sides events uh

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like steel khan like forty-four con that

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kind of stuff those events are really

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what kind of

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brings it to me and makes me happy to go

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to makes me

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joyous to go to

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uh it's everyone being in there working

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towards the same goal and went to the

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same room and i as soon as i saw i

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wanted to bring this home i want to

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bring this to newcastle and i don't want

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to show everyone

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that hey we can do it we can make

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something

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that thought

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it was in my head i didn't really know

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many people it was there i was a lovely

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security consultant i had a couple of

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friends in the field but nothing much

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but that's kind of where my journey

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started uh it's been a couple years

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after that and uh

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after i'd started chatting with a few

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people here at twitter and started

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that's here on twitter and just started

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kind of trying to make make myself a

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little bit known uh i was

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chatting at 44 con 2019 uh with jenny

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radcliffe and chris morgan sitting

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outside the ilec

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i think it was

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either just before or just after i

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showed cyber sex stew how to spit how to

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play with fire properly actually

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spinning fires would be a glorious thing

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to try and mix with infosec uh and

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jenny was just chatting about how uh how

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she'd set up and how she'd start to run

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the b-side specs we started talking a

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little bit more uh and by the end of the

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conversation she gave me her contact

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details and she was happy to mentor me

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and guide me towards

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helping with b-sides she'd give me the

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information that i needed she told me

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who to talk to she told me everything so

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as all the b-sides organizers out there

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know the crucial part of the process is

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the jack chat

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this is something that everyone knows uh

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who's part of these sites it's uh you

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get to talk to jack daniel who

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is uh someone that i've always massively

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looked up to uh even getting in the

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early d uh the early years when i was at

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visa massively looked up to him getting

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a sit down and have an honest chat about

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these are what's gonna go wrong on your

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b side this is how it's gonna fail don't

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spend any of your own money on it

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remember to get sponsors in all of those

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glorious don't don't put your name on

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credit things when you're not going to

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you don't know if you've got money all

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those glorious things that i totally

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ignored

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and he was particularly worried about

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the time scale

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uh at the time that was uh a little bit

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after uh 44 con 2019 so that was

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mid to late september and we were

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planning on uh

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having it in

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apparently gone uh september november uh

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to plan on having b-sides in november i

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think it was november 13th off the top

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of my head or is that because i said

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and it was about nine weeks by that time

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he really didn't think we'd be able to

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pull it off we'd be able to get the

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people in and he warned me you know

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don't don't tie yourself to it don't do

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that so

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now that we've got authorization it's

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time for me to kind of go right we'll do

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it and if anyone that knows me when i

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say we'll do it it's happening it may be

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a little bit late it may sometimes be a

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little bit different to what was

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originally designed but it's happening

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uh and that's

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when things started so what do you do

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first you reach out you reach out on

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twitter you reach out to the community

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you ask people for help

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uh and that's where

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one of the people that

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has kind of really really helped me all

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along the process sam has had stepped in

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and uh and phil had stepped in to kind

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of help me run it uh sam she asked for a

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sponsor form and then said oh is there

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anything we can do to help

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oh silly mistake

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so she ended up roped in as one of the

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organizers with me uh there was phil who

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uh who runs quite a few of the north

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east uh cyber fest north east a few

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things like that chipped into right i'll

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give you a hand organizing it so we had

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our little team uh there was a lot more

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people and as i've said there was a lot

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more research version of this and there

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should be a load of names going across

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the bottom but it's not going to happen

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i will give everyone credit anything in

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the end but hey

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yeah so now we had some people who

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wanted to run a thing next we need the

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so same again i'm this kind of person i

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went to my friends

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i tried looking around for venues i

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tried looking around for things and i

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thought right let's let's think a little

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bit off the uh off the reservation here

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another off my plot yeah that's my plot

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somewhere around that lines uh and i

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reached out to one of my friends who'd

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uh who ran a skate park in the area

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so we had our venue we had a indoor

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skatepark in the middle of november with

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no heating but we'll get back to that

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uh we had them offering to do it for

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essentially the cost of covering what

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they'd lose that day with being shut

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which was awesome of them and better

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still because they were friends they

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didn't ask for a deposit

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or other things like that but they

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probably should have but hey

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i was blagging everything at this point

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we had very few sponsors involved we had

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nothing kind of there

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so yeah that's we had our venue we had

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somewhere to put it currently was a

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little bit odd but we had somewhere so

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what did we need now

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well we needed money

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and that's the difficult bit finding the

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sponsors but again that was made easy by

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friends friends were reaching out to the

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companies that they worked for uh people

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were reaching out to other people that

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they knew in recruiting other people

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that they knew and that kind of thing

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and they were working together to

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really find and help me get this off the

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ground uh quite a lot of friends

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including some of the beer farmers

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themselves

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uh chipped in money off their own back

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to get it running which really

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made me want to do it so much better

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because it wasn't just a semi-faceless

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organization it was a friend that put

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money in and really wanted to help make

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something good so yeah it's

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it's kind of i mean the sponsors that we

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had in that first year there's x being

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burmest tag box nte octopi moon on a

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stick

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uh octopi research well yeah moon on a

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stick uh harvey nash and sharp

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recruitment all people giving their

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hard-earned money the valuable time to

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make it come true to make the dream of

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this weird madman who thrown them up out

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the blue and said here give me some

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money i want to run something give me

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some money worked

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so

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once we had a little bit of money sorted

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out

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i wasn't i was freaking out about uh

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about being essentially really badly on

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the hook for all of the money for the

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conference

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but i still was

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things hadn't cleared stuff like that

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but hey uh so

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under the what what else do you need for

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a conference you've got

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your venue you've got your sponsors

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you've got

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your people your team uh oh i totally

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missed it you've also got your villages

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so tim from uh from lockpick and village

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uh tipped him from lockwood village he

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pulls around a lot of the uh uk events

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uh it's

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offered up said right yeah i'll i'll

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come and run the lockpicking village

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lizzie chipped in and say right i'll

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come on the mental health hackers jenny

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you'd popped up say right i'll offer

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i'll i'll do a keynote for you ian who

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is sadly missing i'm sure he's on his

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way running to give me a hug uh chipped

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in and said right i'll keep i'll do the

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lock note for you as well so it was it

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was really just one of those things

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where everyone that i'd started to meet

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as i was growing had just come up and

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said right yeah i'll help i'll help i

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want to help you build this i really

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want and it's it's that that means so

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much

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when you're trying to set up events like

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this

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uh

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scroll down

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so

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we come to the part that's kind of the

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most important bit the speakers and

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again we ran a cfp over i think there's

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three or four weeks

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ridiculously short time scale

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ridiculously badly planned uh

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google uh form to fill in for it oh it

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was it was it was barely running barely

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getting everything but it worked and we

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got enough to enough people to fill up

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the one track that we were planning and

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then we got small people so we thought

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we'll open up another track so we had to

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work out where we're putting the other

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track put the other track in

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and it was uh

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it was awesome i mean we had a load of

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spat i did have the number in front of

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me but it's not my list now but we had a

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load of speakers there

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uh we had a lot of people reaching out

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on their personal accounts to get more

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people involved in these more people

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coming down to the b sides i mean at

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that point i think b sides newcastle had

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about 100 followers give or take uh on

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twitter which is nothing uh but yeah

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it's really

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it was trying to uh

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trying to get there uh we decided where

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we're gonna put the second track

363
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it ended up being quite close to the

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wrestlers but again we'll come to that

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one later on

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uh and we started to feel that it was

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going to work and work well

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so on other finishing touches

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many people who've organized conferences

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will know what what's the most important

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thing food

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you get them fed they tend to be happy

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you don't feed people they tend to get

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grumpy halfway through especially if

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you're doing something in a warehouse

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with no food places around and nothing

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in walking distance apart from

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mcdonald's which

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i'll leave that open as to whether that

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counts as sustenance uh but yeah so so

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what'd they do again more friends more

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people came in i put a shout out

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to a few people that i knew and said

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look are we able to do anything is there

385
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anyone got a food van that comes down

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there's a limited kitchen but we can

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maybe try and do that see what we can do

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and uh it ended up uh some of my friends

389
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who ran their own pizza truck a log five

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pizza company come down and give us some

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freaking awesome pizzas

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funny

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uh

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but it dawned on me what would people do

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while eating their pizza

396
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of course they'd want something to do

397
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they're not just gonna sit around so

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run a wrestler

399
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don't put a wrestling event on that's

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gonna work i was uh i was walking

401
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through with rico and rosa uh the owners

402
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of uh dynamics the venue that we put it

403
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at uh and there was a lot of grunting

404
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coming from one of the corners

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and

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initially i thought this was a bit odd

407
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lots of shouting slapping and grunting

408
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but hey you know what happens in a

409
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warehouse stays in a warehouse uh but on

410
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a plate more investigation it was a

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wrestling gym

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so agreements were made pizza was traded

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and all of a sudden we had a nice

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wrestling show something odd we can't be

415
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normal we put b sides in a

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that's a freaking uh

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skate park in the middle of november

418
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it's it's gonna be cold uh yeah

419
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so with with all the people involved it

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was gonna absolutely kick ass

421
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and then the problem started

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uh

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we didn't have projectors projector

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rentals freaking expensive so me being

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me yeah

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everyone's well known owned by a rocket

427
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person

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uh shipping company

429
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uh

430
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we ordered some projectors 60 quid

431
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projector what could go wrong

432
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uh no speakers ah speakers with the mic

433
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25 quid what could go wrong

434
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uh recording again

435
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i had a few laptops

436
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now they're gone but hey uh so hey order

437
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a few cameras sweet should work great

438
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got some cheap cameras sorted

439
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so

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that point we've got everything we

441
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thought right

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everything's there let's throw the

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tickets open

444
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so we threw some tickets out there this

445
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old

446
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we threw a few more out there they sold

447
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a few few more out there that's all for

448
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all them out and they went i was like

449
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what the hell

450
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there's 250 people coming to this event

451
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it's an event

452
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uh time to panic

453
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burnt panic we did as people who know me

454
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know i do a very good headless chicken

455
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impression uh but in the end it worked

456
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everyone pulled together we had

457
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speakers

458
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filling the swag bags before the event

459
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we had people printing stuff off at last

460
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minute everyone who was involved in it

461
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chipped in uh it was

462
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it was it was good i mean we get on to

463
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the the day of the event so near the

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event pitch up it's knee tables

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minor problem

466
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sort it again managed to get in touch

467
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with a local church borrowed some tables

468
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off them happy enough got that done

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so i got back and i got informed on the

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other problem while i was there oh yeah

471
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uh you forgot to set up your stages oh

472
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okay okay so standard room only all

473
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right everyone fixed that they went they

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looked around they found benches they

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found chairs they found stools they

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found camping things they sat on the

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side of half pipes and we made it work

478
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it was the only conference that i'm

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aware of where the attendees have built

480
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the venue essentially

481
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we had people running around hammering

482
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nails into walls and all kinds so we

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could get screens up and

484
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it was insanity but it was

485
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possibly my favorite event i've ever

486
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been to and i mean i only caught three

487
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talks out of it alive the rest i watched

488
00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,079
catch up uh but yeah only caught well no

489
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i didn't they never got recorded i only

490
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caught a few few talks live on it but it

491
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was awesome uh

492
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oh yeah i forgot about the cold it was

493
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freaking cold

494
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we did warn everyone we said put a

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hoodie on we said put a jumper on we

496
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said it's maybe not the warmest of

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events and we even got a heater rendered

498
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a heater a little bit of a tip check

499
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sizes of things

500
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peter arrived it's about that big of

501
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course you can't see that's about that

502
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big

503
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it's not the biggest of things

504
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uh but we set it up at the village area

505
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we got that going uh dr king has quickly

506
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annexed it uh but hey

507
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and it provided heat for maybe two or

508
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three people okay

509
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it worked it was part of the event it

510
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was there it was part of the feel of the

511
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event and

512
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i mean

513
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yeah it's it was awesome anyway back to

514
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the day we had dan card reach out uh

515
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beforehand offered to build us an

516
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awesome ctf

517
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uh

518
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they went off it was the only bit that

519
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went off without a hitch they managed to

520
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find and steal the only airtight room or

521
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the air windproof room let's see and uh

522
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with a few laptop fans spinning they

523
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even managed to heat it which was pretty

524
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good for them

525
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no one else but good for them

526
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they had a great event and it was the

527
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ctfs i mean i was playing a few of them

528
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after the event pretty cool stuff uh dan

529
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really kind of kicked us out the park

530
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the villagers were working and set up

531
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lizzie at the metro village nice and

532
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chilled timing core had the lock-picking

533
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village sorted the sticker stand was

534
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there our sponsors chop and harvey nash

535
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were holding down the fort in the

536
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recruitment village there was cv

537
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workshops there was great hint for you

538
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advice and i was walking around my first

539
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event that i'd organized having that

540
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feeling of

541
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i helped do this

542
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i pulled everyone together i i

543
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seems a little bit me centric that

544
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little bit but it's it's to to walk

545
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around to get that feeling of

546
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accomplishment that feeling of

547
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this is awesome all of these people here

548
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they've put their time in they're

549
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talking to other people people having

550
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conversations it just makes you so happy

551
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on the inside

552
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uh i mean

553
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yeah uh

554
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yeah so always running well they

555
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proceeded the talks were awesome all was

556
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good then i realized about lunchtime

557
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cameras never got set up

558
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a little bit of a scary one there so we

559
00:18:34,799 --> 00:18:37,200
uh i bought it around trying to fix the

560
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,880
cameras trying to get things up

561
00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:40,559
absolutely no hope the lighting was

562
00:18:40,559 --> 00:18:43,039
ruined the camera shot was massive

563
00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:46,320
nothing got recorded and that's my big

564
00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,559
that's my big regret and that's that's

565
00:18:48,559 --> 00:18:50,880
my only big regret about 2019 b-sides

566
00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,200
that nothing got recorded but i kind of

567
00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,679
get over it by saying it was

568
00:18:55,679 --> 00:18:59,600
it was the woodstock of b-sides events

569
00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,440
if you were there you were there

570
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,039
if you weren't you missed out and it was

571
00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:05,280
 awesome

572
00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,520
i'm sure come come many a moon's time

573
00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:08,960
there'll be people pretending they were

574
00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,760
there because it was there

575
00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,080
but anyway while i was trying to uh

576
00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,080
trying to fix the cameras we had a

577
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,080
wrestling show and that was freaking

578
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:19,360
awesome i caught some little bits from

579
00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:20,400
over the top when i was sitting on the

580
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,240
top trying to sort some cameras out

581
00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,640
uh still to know who won but plenty of

582
00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,440
people look confused as hell uh why was

583
00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,840
that there so job done on that one

584
00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,000
uh the second part of the day rolled on

585
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,600
no more awesome talks

586
00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,919
took us towards the end of the day uh we

587
00:19:35,919 --> 00:19:38,480
had our other stage that had to share

588
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,160
their sound with the wrestling uh

589
00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,160
practice so uh

590
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,919
there was a few odd grunts and things

591
00:19:43,919 --> 00:19:45,760
like that coming over at inopportune

592
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,200
moments but hey

593
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,240
uh

594
00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,760
and we got we really uh

595
00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,640
yeah it really started to uh start to

596
00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,160
look good and then as the light faded

597
00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,159
another problem popped up

598
00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:03,919
we had a minor issue

599
00:20:03,919 --> 00:20:05,760
if we switch the lights on no one can

600
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,520
see the the uh

601
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,600
screens on either one

602
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,600
and there's only one circuit of light

603
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,440
for this whole warehouse

604
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,440
so what's the solution switch the lights

605
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,039
off

606
00:20:17,039 --> 00:20:19,360
so towards the end of the day we shut

607
00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:21,280
down a few of the other villages left

608
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:22,480
mental health building because it had

609
00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:23,520
its own likes it was a little bit

610
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,720
indoors uh and thought sorry we'll just

611
00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,799
do it with the lights off uh so that

612
00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:30,480
that kind of gets to

613
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,960
get to my kind of major memory of the

614
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,760
event and uh it was kind of thanks to

615
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,000
one of the uh on the beer farmers who's

616
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,840
see it's still empty

617
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:41,120
get yourself running you should be here

618
00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:42,240
by now

619
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:43,120
uh

620
00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,520
and that was watching ian

621
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,480
give his origin talk essentially while i

622
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,480
was sitting on the edge of a half pipe

623
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,799
so well sorry sorry watching ian

624
00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:55,360
silhouetted against the screen because

625
00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:56,640
obviously you couldn't see him you could

626
00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,799
just about see the projector

627
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:01,120
i was sitting on the edge of a half pipe

628
00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:03,440
i was surrounded by friends and i really

629
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,320
felt at home that was

630
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,720
that was just the best feeling

631
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:09,760
and that

632
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,360
that's the feeling that makes me do

633
00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:13,520
b-sides again and again and again and

634
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,760
it's going to keep me going it was it

635
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,520
was awesome

636
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,280
uh

637
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,200
all right so what where'd it go from

638
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,000
there we had 2019 the bag weird guy

639
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,520
community pulled together and we all

640
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,159
made it happen uh so we started planning

641
00:21:28,159 --> 00:21:30,080
for 2020 thought right 2020 is going to

642
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,600
be our year it's going to be excellent

643
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,120
then the venue polls

644
00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:34,159
because they're going to get read about

645
00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:35,600
dinner housing thing and then we've got

646
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,679
another venue who also counsel on us

647
00:21:37,679 --> 00:21:40,080
because a reservation without a deposit

648
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,080
gets trumped by a wedding

649
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:42,960
hey

650
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,440
uh and then kobe happened

651
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,559
which kind of everyone that's

652
00:21:46,559 --> 00:21:49,120
sorry mocked everyone up uh you know

653
00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:51,679
it's it's yeah so

654
00:21:51,679 --> 00:21:53,840
to be honest i started panicking

655
00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,320
i started locking down

656
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,559
i didn't know what to do i wasn't

657
00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:00,320
reaching out for help i wasn't asking

658
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,080
and i wasn't doing what i should and

659
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,440
that's where happy hour kind of came

660
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,919
into the fruit came into the fray so on

661
00:22:05,919 --> 00:22:08,480
happy hour i met people i met great

662
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,280
people i'm at people like scott i met

663
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,000
people like jen i'm at leonard i'm at

664
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,600
chrissy i'm at jer mark david nicos ivan

665
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:18,640
james

666
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,159
the list goes on and should really be

667
00:22:20,159 --> 00:22:21,440
scrolling along the bottom but hey we

668
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,559
covered that

669
00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:23,760
uh

670
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,039
and

671
00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:28,000
they really helped out it was

672
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,360
i was talking about the planning and it

673
00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:30,720
was probably about a week before the

674
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,720
event was meant to happen and the

675
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,480
planning was in a disarray everything

676
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:35,840
was ruined

677
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,159
and i was in a bit of a state on happy

678
00:22:38,159 --> 00:22:39,520
hour and

679
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,159
scott and cole reached out and they said

680
00:22:42,159 --> 00:22:44,400
look we want to help you make this work

681
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,480
want to help this event work we want to

682
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,799
help you we want to help help everything

683
00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:51,520
running so if it hadn't been for them

684
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,520
stepping in at what

685
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,200
i i've got down in my notes a week but

686
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,320
i'm pretty sure it was something like

687
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,799
three days

688
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,400
maybe two uh the that uh yeah we managed

689
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:03,760
to pull it together

690
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,120
we put on a great conference again we

691
00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,760
managed to do two days we doubled the

692
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,559
size of it uh we did one and a half

693
00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:13,919
tracks because we did one track on

694
00:23:13,919 --> 00:23:15,600
monday and two tracks on the other day

695
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,840
we got scott in to do won the present

696
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,280
and sam was in presenting the other

697
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,280
track and we kept it open we we kept it

698
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,960
as much of the feeling of the b-sides

699
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,559
newcastle as we could

700
00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:28,640
uh it's

701
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:29,919
it was

702
00:23:29,919 --> 00:23:32,320
yeah it was getting

703
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,280
sorry i've lost my space on my notes uh

704
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,960
yeah that a huge response everyone

705
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,960
chipped in and it was really a community

706
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,640
effort and that's when the community

707
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,720
started feeling really like a family

708
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,000
everyone was looking out for each other

709
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,320
everyone was helping out uh it was a

710
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,080
case of right what can we do to help

711
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,159
what can we do to bring it in and we got

712
00:23:50,159 --> 00:23:52,240
it to run through we had some awesome

713
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,360
keynotes

714
00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:56,559
uh we had

715
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:58,960
where was it we had the beer farmers

716
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,320
kicking us off with our keynote on the

717
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,240
first day was the first year was that

718
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,400
the yeah we had anyway we had the beer

719
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,400
farmers we had charlie sims we had sean

720
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,279
wright

721
00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,320
uh we had

722
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,039
re-redacted come in and do the closing

723
00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:15,919
keynote on it uh and we really reached

724
00:24:15,919 --> 00:24:17,919
out there uh at the time the many hats

725
00:24:17,919 --> 00:24:21,120
club really helped us out as well uh

726
00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:24,400
yeah uh but yeah we were really

727
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,840
for the first time really kind of

728
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,360
starting to realize that hey this this

729
00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:29,039
pandemic crack

730
00:24:29,039 --> 00:24:30,640
still do things we can still run

731
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,400
comforters we would still be

732
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,799
bb side events at that year i believe we

733
00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:37,760
were the only post covered

734
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,320
uk b-sides event to have ran that year

735
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,640
uh and i wasn't gonna not run it there

736
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,440
was no time in that where i genuinely

737
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,200
thought that's not gonna happen if it

738
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,880
would have been me sitting there ranting

739
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,520
at you all for for eight hours that's

740
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,159
what would have happened

741
00:24:54,159 --> 00:24:57,360
but yeah it was it was awesome uh i mean

742
00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,200
we had that's where we start to get some

743
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,279
of the little bit more order twitches in

744
00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:02,799
so we decided how could we keep the

745
00:25:02,799 --> 00:25:04,480
oddness well i know a few people at the

746
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,799
bartette association so hey two grown

747
00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:09,279
men beating uh each other up

748
00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:10,720
one kneeling down and pretending he's in

749
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,559
a hall and all of that yep yep yep

750
00:25:12,559 --> 00:25:14,880
sounds exactly right so yeah we got them

751
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,039
into a talk at lunch uh i was chatting

752
00:25:17,039 --> 00:25:19,279
with uh with one of my friends adam uh

753
00:25:19,279 --> 00:25:20,799
and he had some contacts and managed to

754
00:25:20,799 --> 00:25:22,320
get frank white to come over and talk to

755
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,799
us uh he did the lunchtime chat why

756
00:25:24,799 --> 00:25:26,799
hacker should get involved with space he

757
00:25:26,799 --> 00:25:28,559
went over the overview effect and all

758
00:25:28,559 --> 00:25:30,720
kinds of awesome talks that really

759
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,000
i'd thought it existed but i didn't know

760
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,679
how to explain things and yeah he's

761
00:25:35,679 --> 00:25:38,159
really is his talks were awesome we

762
00:25:38,159 --> 00:25:40,240
managed to broadcast over twitch and

763
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,720
youtube and the only reason we managed

764
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,360
to get anything done was the crew that

765
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:47,279
all chipped in at essentially the last

766
00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:50,000
minute everyone stood up everyone

767
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,840
put time out of their day put the effort

768
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,520
in and really worked together and that

769
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,440
that's where you get to it's the whole

770
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,320
community bringing things in and being

771
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,559
one big family and getting things done

772
00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,960
it's uh i mean there was issues with the

773
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,039
stream there was issues with the

774
00:26:05,039 --> 00:26:07,120
recordings i mean i stupidly record the

775
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,279
whole thing as one chunk don't do that

776
00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:11,039
that that leaves you with a 14 gig video

777
00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:13,279
file which doesn't edit well on like

778
00:26:13,279 --> 00:26:16,320
eight gig i5s first jedi fives of that

779
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,600
uh and ten plus year old zeons no so

780
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,720
things like things like that the

781
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,559
recordings took a while to get up but

782
00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:24,240
they were there it was an improvement

783
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,640
over last year and because everyone else

784
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,799
had reached out it was the real feeling

785
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:30,400
of everyone pushing towards the goal so

786
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,080
we actually managed to get all of it

787
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,679
kind of sorted out

788
00:26:33,679 --> 00:26:36,320
uh it was awesome i mean

789
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,640
we had sponsors reaching out that we

790
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,919
were reaching out to them and like the

791
00:26:39,919 --> 00:26:42,559
last days before the event and they'll

792
00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:44,240
come back right we can't sponsor but

793
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,919
here's a prize we can't sponsor but

794
00:26:45,919 --> 00:26:47,520
we'll help you with licensing we can

795
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,880
help you with this we can help you with

796
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,640
that and it really did feel like

797
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,320
everyone was just pulling together for

798
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,159
the for the main goal

799
00:26:54,159 --> 00:26:55,039
so

800
00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:56,480
where do we get to after that and i'm

801
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:57,760
skimming on because i know i'm chatting

802
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,679
a bit too much uh but we get to 2021

803
00:27:01,679 --> 00:27:05,279
uh we are we were proudly the first live

804
00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:07,919
b-sides event after call vid

805
00:27:07,919 --> 00:27:09,760
it's it was

806
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,440
awesome we had

807
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,880
yeah we didn't have as many turn up as

808
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,799
we sold the tickets for yes a few people

809
00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:16,480
dropped out judy covered which totally

810
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,760
understandable a few people dropped out

811
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:18,880
because they just didn't feel like they

812
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,360
could get there

813
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:23,520
but to help that we ran our platform on

814
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,360
gather james one of the guys that i've

815
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,080
met on happy hour uh i found this

816
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:29,919
platform was working with it and it's

817
00:27:29,919 --> 00:27:31,679
awesome platform so we had that and the

818
00:27:31,679 --> 00:27:33,600
interactions that we had on that we had

819
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,520
the feeling that it started bringing the

820
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,520
the b-sides flavor back to the online

821
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,159
ones uh we had all kinds of companies i

822
00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:41,360
mean

823
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,279
the sponsors from last year colin over

824
00:27:43,279 --> 00:27:45,440
at jumping uh sorry from this oh colin

825
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:46,880
over at jumping rivers without him we

826
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,399
wouldn't have had a venue

827
00:27:48,399 --> 00:27:50,080
uh it was only because they'd got

828
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,080
involved that we managed to get as cheap

829
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,360
a price as we did on the venue we

830
00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:54,640
wouldn't have been able to afford it

831
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,080
plain and simple

832
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,600
uh it was

833
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,440
people like that reaching out and saying

834
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,039
right look here here's a solution for

835
00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:02,320
your problem have you tried this have

836
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:03,760
you tried that do you want to do that

837
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,520
and that's really kind of

838
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,919
the crux of it the the crux of the the

839
00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:10,559
talk really uh

840
00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:13,120
reach out when you need help

841
00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:16,080
and the right people and then that

842
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,279
you'll find people will reach back

843
00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:21,360
people will say no i want to help out i

844
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,840
mean i am if any of you want to run an

845
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,919
event i'm more than happy to help out to

846
00:28:25,919 --> 00:28:28,720
show you where i've went wrong uh i mean

847
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,880
the the beer farmers helping out with

848
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,039
every event i've done

849
00:28:33,039 --> 00:28:34,960
uh and being there for the shoulder to

850
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,240
cry on in a lot of the situations as uh

851
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:39,840
as scott's rather wet shoulders would

852
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,399
tell you uh but yeah being there as a

853
00:28:42,399 --> 00:28:45,120
friend and being there for it really

854
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,399
i mean

855
00:28:46,399 --> 00:28:49,600
before i found myself my community in

856
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,000
cyber and my family in cyber

857
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,039
i was

858
00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:54,640
that weird guy that liked playing with

859
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,039
things that that liked oh it

860
00:28:57,039 --> 00:28:58,159
why are you plotting bits on your

861
00:28:58,159 --> 00:28:59,200
network why are you doing that you meant

862
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,720
to be an itg you meant to play around

863
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,880
with computers i was that weird fire

864
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,000
spinning guy and with the family that i

865
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,559
found through infosec i'm not

866
00:29:08,559 --> 00:29:10,480
i'm one of the one of the brothers when

867
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,880
i've got millions brothers in infosec

868
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,480
well thousands of brothers and sisters

869
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,640
in infosec and we all pull together for

870
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,200
the same goal it's all about

871
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,799
being better

872
00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:22,720
getting better and growing with each

873
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,880
other and that's

874
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,799
i know it's been a bit of a choppy talk

875
00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:29,279
but that that's pretty much it

876
00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:31,440
i mean we're going to go on to 2022

877
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,279
we've got the same venue booked for that

878
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:35,440
double the space booked we've got so

879
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,840
many ideas in the planning

880
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,000
i mean speaking of ideas in the planning

881
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,600
all of the event things we were thinking

882
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,360
about the previous ones they're all

883
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,120
still there we're still thinking about

884
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,880
trying to do the highest hack i've still

885
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,760
got a iot catapult sitting in my garden

886
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,520
i've still got other things like that

887
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,279
that are going to be tied in i mean

888
00:29:53,279 --> 00:29:55,279
duckless ships will be back it will be

889
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:58,000
rebuilt at some point but hey until it

890
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,360
gets to the point where we can all be

891
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:00,480
100

892
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,720
in a big area without masks without that

893
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,240
then it's just

894
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,000
i can't wait a bit but everything's

895
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,600
still there everything will be planned

896
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,240
and we'll get done but yeah i mean to to

897
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,840
wrap up i think one of the most

898
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,600
important things i need to say

899
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,679
is thanks to the beer farmers

900
00:30:15,679 --> 00:30:17,919
i mean all of from your members

901
00:30:17,919 --> 00:30:21,120
individually to together as a group you

902
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,360
have always supported me he has always

903
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,200
supported b-sides newcastle and he's

904
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,120
always been there for us and that's a

905
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,559
massive thing to me that that's

906
00:30:28,559 --> 00:30:29,679
something that

907
00:30:29,679 --> 00:30:31,760
it really means a lot and from about my

908
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,840
heart thank you guys you're awesome keep

909
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:34,840
doing what you're

910
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,360
doing that's brilliant and it means a

911
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,600
lot to hear that but it also means a lot

912
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:40,559
to me

913
00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:42,720
to have the opportunity to support

914
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,399
you know and we know putting on

915
00:30:44,399 --> 00:30:48,000
conferences isn't easy this morning's

916
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,480
challenges have demonstrated that but

917
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:51,440
again

918
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,480
a fascinating story and anybody that's

919
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:55,679
looking to

920
00:30:55,679 --> 00:30:58,000
create an event of their own a i think

921
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:58,960
you'd agree

922
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,720
do it

923
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:01,840
be

924
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,200
maybe plan it

925
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,640
if you didn't mention too much around

926
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,360
planning um that was jack's

927
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,720
biggest biggest biggest planet

928
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,600
yeah

929
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,039
but three which is the point of your

930
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:13,919
talk

931
00:31:13,919 --> 00:31:15,519
use your community

932
00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:18,399
that's what it's there for so listen ben

933
00:31:18,399 --> 00:31:20,000
fantastic story

934
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,679
you're a great guy and under the

935
00:31:21,679 --> 00:31:24,080
circumstances of this week

936
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:25,440
we're really grateful that you you were

937
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,440
able to join us thanks man

938
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,279
thank you thank you it's been a pleasure