 Morning, John. One of the things I saw a lot mentioned in the census, as I've been reading through it, is that people want to hear more about our adult lives doing the things that we do. And another thing that I know just about the world is that we celebrate our own successes and other people's successes, but we don't talk about failure at all. And it's kind of a taboo topic. It's hard to ask other people to talk about their failures, and it's hard to talk about your own. And it makes it feel like failure is unique, and when you experience it, like no one else ever has, because no one else has ever talked about it. Well, John, as you know, I am currently in the midst of something of a failure. So I have this company that aims to celebrate nerdy things in the world by taking them off of the internet for a little bit of time and into the real world. VidCon, of course, being the thing that started this all off, but we also want to celebrate other nerdy things that people are passionate about. In particular, I started NerdCon Stories because stories are this amazing thing that defines culture. It's how we build our culture, how we decide how we're going to talk about ourselves and our world. And this is the way in which NerdCon Stories this year will not be a failure. We sold about 1,000 tickets, which means that there is going to be a huge, diverse, interesting group of people celebrating storytellers and stories. There's a ton of community-generated and community-focused content. So it's not just about the big names that are going to be there. It's about all the people who are attending the conference, all being the reason that all of the people who are there are attending. But we budgeted the conference to have 3,000 attendees. That's how many we sort of needed to make it work financially. We have 1,000, so at this point in our NerdCon Stories, which I, as a human person, own, is stands to lose a lot of money. Now I can afford this, and NerdCon's not going to go bankrupt. I'm not going to go into debt. But it does sting. I'm learning a lot through this whole process, but I do wish it was a slightly less expensive set of lessons. Ah, talking about it is not a good feeling. That's why people don't do it. You want to portray to the world this image of, like, ah, so good at the th- but not, nobody's like that, nobody's lives are like that. Last year at NerdCon Stories was such a wonderful experience for me, and I'm very sad that I can't be there again this year, especially since it's probably going to be the last time NerdCon Stories happens. And I think this year it's going to be a fantastic time for everybody who's there, and really that's, like, isn't that the thing that matters? If you'd like to attend the event, or even just check it out, see maybe if you'd like to, it's in Minneapolis, and I know lots of people can't go for all kinds of very good reasons just to say to you, make sound financial decisions. You, right there, you are your first responsibility. But if you're interested in checking it out, I've created a discount code, DFTBI, 20% off, 20 bucks off, because, you know, what do we gotta lose? So I'm not proud that I made a bunch of, you know, thought errors, or just misunderstandings of how this event could go. And I might make a video over on Hank's channel discussing all of those mistakes so that you don't have to explain them to me in the comments. I know. But I'm very proud of the idea of this thing and the thing that we put together. And I'm very glad that it's going to be a thing that happened in the world. We've got John Green Yoga Adventure happening one morning. We've got opportunities for in-depth conversations with professional authors. Live gaming, community-sourced content, a live episode of Dear Hank and John, though the Hank isn't going to be there. Workshops on zines, puppetry improv, podcasting, and panels on diversity, adaptation, even tabletop gaming. As I list these things, I totally get that Nerdcon Stories is a really weird event and that probably doesn't work in its favor. This is among the mistakes that we're made. But it's also kind of the reason we're not going to pull the plug on this thing. I'm going to keep it alive. We're going to do it, even though it's going to lose me a bunch of money. This show must go on because it's different and I think special. Maybe that's the thing that we could all be going for. We're all going to fail sometimes. We're going to make stuff and it's not going to work. Even when we fail, is there a way to eliminate the shame of that and instead make it a failure you can be proud of? John, I'll see you on Tuesday. I'm going to be okay. A video on Hank's channel, more in-depth.