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where basically we gathered at this

restaurant called "D's", or we

called it "Freaky D's", at like 2am,

and basically 20 or 30 of us piled into

the restaurant and we'd have our caravan

of cars all set together, and

that was our group of people.

There are some hijinks that I can't even

imagine mentioning on the documentary,

that can happen on a long 9 hour drive

from the Denver area to Las Vegas.

When you're driving, to get there,

especially from the west coast,

you have to drive through the

middle of f***ing nowhere.

And it certainly adds to the experience

when you roll in, and it's just after

sunrise, or just about sunset, you really

have no idea what time it is, and there's

Sin City, and of course you're playing

"Viva Las Vegas" by the Dead Kennedys

or something like that. It does

add to the experience I think.

"Actually, here comes the Hack

Bus now." "Pretty awesome!"

It kind of blows my mind that everyone's

so excited about going to a BBQ

six miles away from the con that have to rent

a taxi for, or go to the store and get food.

I don't know. I just feel like the BBQ

is this misfit love child of DEF CON,

because everyone's, "There's this thing that happens over there

and they're grilling alligator and elk and all this crazy meat."

"Why can't we ever go? Where is it?" And that

kind of adds to the mystery and fun of it.

Man, did I never expect that to become

something a thousand people strong, now.

To me that shows an awesome community

and spirit, and an effort of

"I want to see my friends and hang out with them and

I wanna do something simple, like eat some food."

You know, it's not at the con, there's

no crazy music, it's just a BBQ.

Ever since I was in town around DEF CON

10 or 11 you see those signs in the

airport, "Come Shoot a Machine Gun."

Which, you know, is fine for me,

I've done that, but a lot of my friends

said, "Man, I'd love to do that!"

Well, I said, let's just go out in the desert,

I'm sure we can find a nice group rate, and

and we'll shoot out in a sand pit, and

everyone had a blast, and they said

"Boy! This was great, you

want to do this again?"

So now, there's just this well

known, public shooting spot,

way out on the Lovell Canyon

Rd, where anyone can go and

shoot what they want, as long as they

police up the area. And we use it and it's

again, much like DEF CON itself,

getting popular and growing.

Now we have canopies and tables rented, that I arrange.

There's a small per head fee,

just to cover that. We had a hundred people on

the line last year. We've got damn near that

many registered this year. We're going to

stay safe and see what we can make happen!

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