022.3 - Saturday, at the con, I think it was the 28th of July

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, and welcome to Stinky geek. My name is Bryce Frankens, and this is my co host, Brian Romero. [00:00:04] Speaker B: Hey, there. [00:00:05] Speaker A: And we are here today with another exciting episode of our what happened at Comic Con quadrilogy. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Day three. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Day three, which is super exciting. However, we had a slight audio issue. We want to warn you. [00:00:20] Speaker B: A lot of audio issues. [00:00:21] Speaker A: We've been having a lot of audio issues lately, period. We've had mics dying out. It's expensive to run Adobe audition on multiple computers, so recording sometimes requires you to be on audacity, which isn't the greatest. No. No, it's not. And it's actually awful. So for you out there who are thinking, you know, maybe I could have a podcast. Don't do it on audacity, because you'll just be filled with. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, so this episode, we recorded on three different microphones. My Bob Barker microphone, the microphone we normally record on, and this, like, boxy task cam. This microphone was attached to a computer that was faulty. The task cam managed to not pick up people the way it was supposed to and did something at a weird hertz level, which was strange. And then my one mic, my little Bob Barker mic, picked up me and everybody else in the echo chamber. [00:01:18] Speaker B: Yeah, the tiniest mic that we have was the best one that. [00:01:21] Speaker A: Yeah, so that happens. [00:01:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:24] Speaker D: So, yeah. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Enjoy this episode. [00:01:26] Speaker B: Yeah, we have a couple special guests on. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Yeah, we got two special guests. We got Reed, and we got Nick. Nick is no stranger to the podcast, but Reed's new. [00:01:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:35] Speaker A: And both of whom were at Comic Con with us occasionally doing their comic. [00:01:40] Speaker B: Con things, doing very different things. So we'll kind of get a little overall story of what everybody did. [00:01:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:47] Speaker A: Pretty insightful stuff. [00:01:48] Speaker C: Pretty great. [00:01:49] Speaker A: Enjoy. [00:01:50] Speaker B: Here you go. [00:02:14] Speaker A: Hi, everybody. [00:02:15] Speaker C: Hi. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Hey, how are you? Everyone's got a lot of energy. I'm really glad about that. Yeah, we're really moving. Cool. [00:02:23] Speaker B: So much energy. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Did some calisthenics. Welcome to Sneaky Geek, everybody. And we are on day three, which is Saturday now, of Comic Con. And by on day three, I mean weeks later, we got together to talk about what happened on Saturday in hopes that we could still remember what was going on. So, with us this time, we have Nick, who is a longtime friend of the podcast. [00:02:45] Speaker E: Hey, guys. [00:02:47] Speaker A: And our new friend of the podcast, Reed. [00:02:49] Speaker C: I'm a new friend. I'm Reed. Hi. [00:02:52] Speaker A: Good work, Reed. You're doing great. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Thanks. [00:02:58] Speaker A: All of us went to Comic Con all four days. [00:03:00] Speaker C: Yes. [00:03:00] Speaker A: Cool beans. How do you guys feel about financial decisions that shouldn't be made, because that's. Anyway, so we were there on Saturday, and Saturday was freaking packed. [00:03:14] Speaker B: It was busy. Like, I know it's supposed to be, like, the busiest day still. [00:03:18] Speaker E: Yeah, Saturday is prime time. [00:03:19] Speaker B: That was nuts. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And I spent a ton of time shuffling behind people on Saturday, and that is not my idea of a good time by any means. It's hard to stop and see things. And vendors are like, are you buying? Are you not? If you're not, why are you standing here? And whereas on, like, Thursday and Friday, they're totally fine with it, the fact. [00:03:41] Speaker E: That you could actually go to a vendor and actually see what they got someone sounds bitter. Yeah, dude. Yeah, because I missed out on a lot of things. [00:03:53] Speaker A: Yeah, because you were working in a booth. [00:03:55] Speaker E: Everybody was working on a booth, but I saw a lot of cool things. [00:03:58] Speaker A: But the fact that. [00:03:59] Speaker E: What I was saying was the fact that you could actually go near a vendor. [00:04:04] Speaker A: It took a while. It took a long time to get there, for what it's worth. And I had to walk as though I had a walker and was like an old man because everyone in front of me was also taking tiny steps. And as a guy with long legs, that's a really awful place to be. [00:04:19] Speaker B: No, it's still pretty difficult. [00:04:20] Speaker A: It's still pretty difficult. [00:04:21] Speaker E: Think about that. [00:04:22] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm used to long steps, and instead I'm taking, like, four steps for every step I would normally take. And I don't think my body was prepared for that. [00:04:28] Speaker D: You look like those videos of little animals with the teeny feet that, like. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Walk very fast, like Stewie. [00:04:38] Speaker E: Shuffle. [00:04:39] Speaker B: Yeah, between the slow walking. And then people hit you with their. [00:04:42] Speaker E: Bags and stuff on a sweaty spandex. [00:04:46] Speaker A: Sweaty spandex? Yeah, for sure. Especially with the advent of morph suits for cosplay, that really makes for a lot of, I'm sure, some crevices. I honestly don't want to shame anybody for the way they handle their cosplay. If you want to just go buy the morph suit and make it work, then buy the morph suit and you make it work. But if you're. [00:05:06] Speaker D: I think about morph from the X Men for a second. [00:05:09] Speaker A: No, there were just a ton of people dressed as morph. [00:05:13] Speaker D: Morph research. [00:05:15] Speaker A: We're crazy. Yeah, no, but I don't know. As much as I don't want to shame them, I'm also like, you just bought a one piece and then wore it and zipped it. [00:05:27] Speaker E: Added a few extra things. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Now, if you added a few extra things. Props. Props to you. Literal props for you. But yeah. Anyway, lots of sweaty spandex, so to avoid the lines. Reed, you basically didn't go into the show floor that day. [00:05:40] Speaker D: No, I just stayed at wired lounge. [00:05:43] Speaker E: What? [00:05:43] Speaker D: Do they have a wired lounge? [00:05:45] Speaker B: I think we talked about. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Yes, we did. [00:05:47] Speaker D: Drinks, food, donuts. It's a fan experience. So you have a ton of. Just fans there. Tons of good cosplay a couple of times there. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. And every time I have friends coming up being like. I'm like, should I go downstairs? [00:06:00] Speaker B: They're like, don't. It was like walking dead down. [00:06:02] Speaker D: They're like, don't go down there. [00:06:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just there's people shuffling. You're afraid you're going to get touched. [00:06:07] Speaker E: Was that the day when you had sent me the video of the dancing Jedi dude? That guy still there, the entire. [00:06:15] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:06:16] Speaker A: He wasn't dressed as a Jedi day one, but he and I danced together on day one. He actually lives in Glendale. I know. We should totally get him on. He was great. And his friend lives. His other friend, Sarah, she lives around the corner from. Yeah, she lives, like, in my neighborhood. [00:06:36] Speaker E: He was getting down. [00:06:37] Speaker A: He was having a damn good. And then he and somebody cosplaying as Ray had, like a dance off using their lightsaber. So they were, like, dancing while also dueling. It was super cool. And the music was awful. Still, DJ number two was just as bad as dj number one. [00:07:01] Speaker B: Because it was the same dude. [00:07:02] Speaker A: No, it was a different dude the second day on Saturday. It was a different dude. No, it was equally awful. They worked together, I think, because I saw Friday's DJ walking up to help him unload. That's what it was. Yeah, no, he was there, but he was not responsible for the awful music on day two. I don't think the Peanuts theme played on day two, but it definitely played on Friday. [00:07:25] Speaker B: Not even a remix, just a straight up. [00:07:27] Speaker A: Just straight up. Like just peanuts playing on piano? [00:07:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:31] Speaker D: Which killed the mood so hard. [00:07:34] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:07:34] Speaker A: But at the same time, Trio was playing. [00:07:38] Speaker C: Wow. Yeah. [00:07:40] Speaker A: No remix. Like original. [00:07:42] Speaker B: Anything behind it? No beats? No, just straight up. [00:07:47] Speaker D: So there's like a dance floor in the middle and then around it is just like a surrounding area with, like, food tables, drinks and all that. [00:07:53] Speaker A: What sort of school did you go to that there were food tables at your high school dance? [00:07:56] Speaker E: One in San Diego. [00:08:00] Speaker A: We did not have punch. We had water bottles underneath the tables and there was nowhere to spike a damn thing. [00:08:08] Speaker E: I think if you had a drink you'd have to drink beforehand for us. But even then they breathalyze you randomly. [00:08:15] Speaker C: Really? [00:08:16] Speaker A: Wow, that's hardcore. [00:08:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. [00:08:18] Speaker A: That's how we do it up in Chi town. [00:08:20] Speaker C: Shit. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Don'T mess around. [00:08:24] Speaker E: No, we're not laid back like you can. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Well, there was no breathalyzing happening over at the wired lounge. No, sir. [00:08:31] Speaker D: Drinking age. Okay. [00:08:34] Speaker A: Now, they did wristbands and stuff to get in. [00:08:38] Speaker D: How old are you? [00:08:39] Speaker E: Old enough. [00:08:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:41] Speaker A: No, they checked ids and once you were in, like, you were away from all of the maddening crowds and they limited how many people were coming in, which was nice. [00:08:49] Speaker B: Yeah, there was a line. [00:08:51] Speaker D: I never waited more than 5 minutes. [00:08:53] Speaker B: To get into wire. [00:08:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:54] Speaker A: Even when there was a long line down the hall. I think it maybe topped out at 7 minutes for us. [00:08:58] Speaker B: No, we got there like, shit, there's a line. We were in within 10 minutes. [00:09:03] Speaker A: Shout out to Tom. Day two, still hooked it up with my Tom Collinses. [00:09:07] Speaker D: It's like a bug. They come, they eat, they leave. People come in, they eat their food, drink, and then they leave. [00:09:12] Speaker C: Not. [00:09:12] Speaker A: I stayed as soon as. Well, because we went there because we were like, screw people. People suck. We're tired of human beings. [00:09:21] Speaker B: Okay, so Saturday we ended up. We walked the floor a little bit, but we had a couple interviews that we had to do, which you'll hear about later, but. [00:09:28] Speaker A: Well, Brian and I were also really exhausted because we. So that we. [00:09:31] Speaker B: This is the podcast. And reach made a very surprising face. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Yeah, we did some cool interviews, but we started Saturday on lowered energy because Friday night we went and we watched the show after the party, and we walked down gas lamp, and we saw the worst that alcohol can do to a human, short of seeing a dead guy. We saw everything that booze can do. Well, it was gas lamp during party season. [00:10:04] Speaker E: Like Mardi Gras level a little bit. [00:10:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I would have preferred if it was a little bit more like Mardi Gras level so that we could have seen the fun side of drinking at gas lamp, but instead we just saw the worst side of drinking at gas lamp. [00:10:16] Speaker D: I think they closed down the streets, though. [00:10:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:18] Speaker A: And it's cool because you had people, like, street performers in the middle of the street. It basically became the strip, which I thought was super cool. We had a guy who was, well, the con players were there and they were playing Steven Universe music for me. And I was like, hey, I love this song. And he's like, oh, you like Steven Universe? They went through like four songs right there for me. They usually play like Bebop tracks, zelda tracks, things like that. And they go, that's what they do. [00:10:38] Speaker E: We didn't. [00:10:38] Speaker A: But I got their card. [00:10:40] Speaker B: It's fine. [00:10:40] Speaker A: And then we had a guy who did, like, a mega man remix on the keyboard in the middle of the street playing guitar. [00:10:47] Speaker B: But he also had a snare drum and a bass drum. [00:10:50] Speaker E: Like a smaller one. [00:10:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:51] Speaker E: Like, all three instruments at the same. Yeah, it was really cool. [00:10:54] Speaker A: And he had things looping, too. So he'd start the loop on the. [00:10:58] Speaker E: Piano with all three instruments? [00:11:00] Speaker A: No, he'd start the loop on the piano while pressing with the drum doing the beat. And then he would switch over to the guitar and play with the loop. It was fantastic. So cool. [00:11:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:13] Speaker A: So Gaslamp's really cool. And we did the Chuck Jones art gallery early evening. [00:11:18] Speaker B: Yeah, this isn't the. [00:11:20] Speaker A: No, no, this isn't the show. But at 02:00 in the morning, the show happened. And so we wound up not getting home until, like, not getting to even where we were staying until 03:00 and then we wound up going to Denny's and not really getting into bed and falling asleep until, like, four. And I was like, I can survive on 4 hours. I have an autograph I'm trying to get. Tomorrow. I will be there. And so I left. [00:11:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:43] Speaker A: I was like, I can handle this. And so about 12 hours later, my body was like, hey, remember when you turned 30, you jackass? But we'll get to that. But, Brian, you showed up shortly after I did. [00:11:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:54] Speaker B: So that day, we all kind of rolled there. [00:11:56] Speaker A: We rolled separately. [00:11:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:58] Speaker B: So I woke up. You were already gone, I think. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I left probably around 845. [00:12:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:04] Speaker B: And so I was up at, like, I think because I heard you up and around. I heard you leave. And then I got up, ate some quick breakfast, went to go see if Tate was up. Dude was still out. And so I was like, oh, okay, well, I guess I'll head over to the con, too. So I did. And, yeah, we walked the floor separately, and then we randomly ran into each other. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we ran into each other on the floor. [00:12:24] Speaker D: They were like, oh, hey. [00:12:25] Speaker A: And I was like, oh, cool, we're hanging out. Well, and I had texted you because you knew I was coming back to the floor, so I failed to get my first autograph. The ticket didn't pull, so it is what it is. I thought getting there before the line would mean that I would get an autograph. No, it meant that I would get a raffle for an autograph, and I failed. So I went around and I tried to get into the panel, and the line to, because it was the Steven universe panel, and even the Ada line was, like, several hundred feet. And I was like, man, that is insane. Okay, so I gave up on that, and then I went back. Well, the problem was it was an indigo room, but it was indigo room at the beginning of the day. So everyone in line is not just there for Steven universe. They're in line for everything for the rest of the day, which I freaking hate. It is one of the biggest problems. [00:13:13] Speaker D: With the light panel ever. You're waiting for Marvel resident evil? [00:13:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:20] Speaker B: Well, one of my first comic cons that I went to was an X Men comics panel with some of the writers and stuff. Like, I wanted to go because that's my jam, but I couldn't get in because everybody was waiting for the true blood panel. Five panels later, and there's all these people dressed up as Sookie Stackhouse. [00:13:39] Speaker A: Some of it was great. [00:13:41] Speaker B: So, yeah, they don't clear out the room, so it's a big problem. [00:13:45] Speaker A: So. But with that, I was like, okay, I'm not doing that panel. So then I go back over to see if I can get another set of autographs, which were also really important to me, and I fail at that one too. And I'm like, damn, two for two. That sucks. And I'm walking back, and then I see this sign, and it says, steve Bloom. And Steve Bloom's my favorite voice actor of all time. I freaking love Steve Bloom. Like, Spike Spiegel reignited my love of comics and cartoons. I adore this man. And I see the sign, and I'm like, oh, where do I get a ticket for that? And then I realized there's, like, three people waiting to talk to him, and he's just posted up. [00:14:17] Speaker B: He's just hanging out. [00:14:18] Speaker A: So I got asked to let the line go because I talked to him for, like, 15 to 20 minutes, and he's just the coolest dude. And so I wound up getting his autograph and chatted with him, and I'm possibly going to take his voice acting class and stuff. So that's pretty cool comic con moment, then that's like redemption for everything else. [00:14:40] Speaker B: That kind of thing kind of happens over there where you have a set plan. [00:14:44] Speaker A: It might not go through, but then. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Something else equally as cool, if not better, happens. You're still kind of bummed you missed what you missed. [00:14:52] Speaker A: Sure. [00:14:52] Speaker B: But at the same time, if you didn't miss that stuff, you wouldn't have had that really cool experience. [00:14:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:57] Speaker A: That's what you make of it. And you need to be willing to roll with the punches for sure. [00:15:03] Speaker B: And that's kind of how the day started out. Like, he went separately. I went, yeah. So we went through all that. Then we randomly ran into each other, and then we're just walking the floor a little bit. And then we get a text from tay, like, hey, are you guys up? Like, you guys getting ready to head out or what? [00:15:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:19] Speaker A: No, he said, do you want me to wake up? [00:15:21] Speaker C: Mr. [00:15:21] Speaker A: I can operate on 4 hours of sleep all smug and Brian's like, we're both here. [00:15:28] Speaker B: We're both here. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Dude, it's eleven. [00:15:30] Speaker B: Bryce was here first. [00:15:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:32] Speaker A: No, I was ready to rock. [00:15:35] Speaker D: How many years have you guys been going? [00:15:36] Speaker A: This is my second year. [00:15:37] Speaker B: This is my 6th or 7th. [00:15:39] Speaker D: Nice. [00:15:40] Speaker E: Four for me. [00:15:41] Speaker C: Wow. [00:15:42] Speaker A: 1818 years I lived down there. [00:15:45] Speaker D: That's what you did during summers, you would go to Comic Con, you could walk up to the door and buy. That's what happened to buy a ticket. [00:15:52] Speaker B: I went first time in three. And that's exactly what we did. [00:15:54] Speaker D: I walked into, I think, an x two panel 5 minutes before the panel started. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Oh, that's cool. [00:16:00] Speaker D: You try and do that now, there's no way. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Not a chance. Not a chance. [00:16:03] Speaker D: Two days. [00:16:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:06] Speaker E: The craziest part about waiting in line, at least for the merch side of things, is that you wait in line the day before. Similar situation you have with your autograph, but you're not guaranteed to get a ticket to go into the vendor. Vendor funk hotel Hasbro. [00:16:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:24] Speaker E: Four souls are waiting in there 24 hours in advance, sleeping on the ground for a chance. [00:16:29] Speaker B: For a chance, yeah. [00:16:31] Speaker A: And for me, I don't think I'll push for the. I'm not really that big into autographs anyway. I don't typically get very starstruck. I got a little starstruck with Steve Bloom because I was like, I've been wanting to talk to you for ten years because I saw him at Anime Expo, like, ten years ago, and I really wanted to hop up to the front of the panel, and he got out of there too quick, which is not our experience with the Star wars books panel, which was awesome. [00:16:50] Speaker B: That's how we got some of our interviews. [00:16:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:53] Speaker B: After the panel, they were outside talking to people, hanging out, and we. [00:16:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:57] Speaker A: My favorite audiobook narrator and the woman who wrote one of my favorite Star wars books, actually. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Which you guys will hear pretty soon here, hopefully. [00:17:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Brian, what were you there for? Because you got there pretty early in the morning. Did you have any set plan on Saturday? [00:17:13] Speaker B: No, I was just up and I. [00:17:14] Speaker D: Think there was a few panels in. [00:17:15] Speaker B: The afternoon I wanted to hit up, but I still hadn't seen a lot of the floor and I was just kind of walking, just scoping some stuff out and I think I was going to try. Oh, that's right. Because we hit up the DBZ, like big old thing outside. [00:17:28] Speaker A: I thought we did that on Sunday. [00:17:29] Speaker B: We did both. [00:17:30] Speaker A: Oh yeah, we did. [00:17:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Because that was the day we did the figurines. And we checked out all the figurines at the DBZ outside booth, which was super cool. My first real anime was probably Sailor Moon, to be perfectly honest. Let's be real. Like Saturday mornings, it's like 08:00 in the morning, whatever. It was on. But the first time I was like, I want to watch this anime and called it an anime. And it wasn't like Pokemon or something like that was Dragon Ball Z when I was in 7th grade or something like that. But I quickly went into the much deeper side of anime and wound up with angel sanctuary and Helsing and crap like that. But DBZ has this little special place in my heart when it was like, that was the first show because I think I watched Akira maybe before that, but going around there, it was like, oh my God, I feel like I'm in 8th grade. Like Charles. [00:18:21] Speaker E: In the Cartoon network. It pretty much has a place in all of our. [00:18:25] Speaker C: Oh yeah. [00:18:26] Speaker B: And it's cool because it recently came back with Dragon Ball Kai, which is reedited and redubbed version of Dragon Ball Z. Like, the original run was 280 something episodes and now it's down to like 180. [00:18:39] Speaker A: They cut that much fluff and screaming. Really? They probably just removed 40% of the screaming. [00:18:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Goku turns Super Saiyan on Namek, whatever. It normally took like ten episodes for that. It was supposed to be like 5 minutes to the planet Blue and it's only like four episodes now. [00:18:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:57] Speaker B: So it's really cool. So that made a big old resurgence with just the property itself. And then they're doing dragon Ball super now, which they were. [00:19:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's on. [00:19:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:05] Speaker A: Right. Which is hosted by Tom, who's voiced by Steve Bloom. It's just all comic Con all comes. So we did the DBZ booth. We walked around, we played the game. We played the video game. [00:19:18] Speaker B: They had a mobile game that was set up. [00:19:20] Speaker A: That mobile game was sick. That was really cool. It was a really cool fighting game. [00:19:23] Speaker B: Fighting game. [00:19:24] Speaker E: DBZ fighter. [00:19:25] Speaker A: DBZ fighters. [00:19:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Super cool. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Those graphics are freaking. [00:19:29] Speaker E: I mean, that's essentially what I would picture a true fighter. Buddha Kai and all the classics for PS two, fantastic. But at the end of the day, what you see in DVZ Fighter Z. Yeah. [00:19:42] Speaker B: And it looks the show. [00:19:43] Speaker A: Well, it's cool because it looks like the show and with the cell shading and all that kind of stuff going on for it. But also, moves have really short cinematics when they happen, so it's not just like a big wave, like in Marvel versus Capcom, there's a big wave of stuff that changes the background, and then a giant thing happens, and you're just kind of stuck and hope you can block it before it starts. In this, it's like suddenly we change angles and the whole camera shifts real quick, and it's super fast, and then it gets you right back in so it doesn't take you out of it. But it also doesn't feel like you're just doing a side by side, scrolling back and forth fighting game. Really, really well done. [00:20:21] Speaker D: Was this on the show floor? [00:20:23] Speaker A: This was outside? [00:20:24] Speaker C: Okay. [00:20:24] Speaker B: Yeah, this was right behind. [00:20:26] Speaker A: Right by the Marriott area. [00:20:27] Speaker D: My hotel looked over it. [00:20:29] Speaker B: I could see it, so it was really cool. So we did that for a bit, walked back in the floor. [00:20:34] Speaker C: That's. [00:20:34] Speaker B: We had our interviews, so we kind of got ready for those. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Yeah, we prepped a little bit. [00:20:40] Speaker B: We were sitting there prepping, and then Seth Green walks by with his. [00:20:44] Speaker A: Seth Green had, like, four guards and then, like, two other people who weren't in suits with sunglasses. And it was the strangest thing. [00:20:51] Speaker D: Were those non suit sunglasses people friends, or also were. [00:20:55] Speaker A: They were part of it. Yeah, I think they probably fan out and keep an eye on external things. I don't know. [00:21:06] Speaker B: Our Saturday was kind of mellow. [00:21:08] Speaker A: It was just the crowd was driving me bonkers. [00:21:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:11] Speaker A: Kept getting bumped into, kept bumping into people. And when someone bums into you and they're like, oh, hey, dude, sorry. You're like, no, man, it's cool, whatever. When someone doesn't, it's like, well, you know what, buddy? I hope that something horrible happened. Calm down, calm down. And it's at that point where you start realizing you're, like, getting angry at people for really dumb, pointless crap that you go, you know what I want food, maybe booze. And to be in a place where I can sit on a couch. [00:21:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:35] Speaker D: Luckily, most of the fans are always, in my experience, very nice. Everyone there's all there to have a good time. Super positive. [00:21:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:43] Speaker A: The only time they really get annoying is when there's free stuff being given out, they start to get a little snippy. There was Phoenix over here shaking. Yeah, he's seen it. He's seen it. Well, the one that I didn't realize was a problem was there's people who will be who heavily hint that they want what you have in an almost pressurey sort of way. And so they're like, oh, I didn't get that pin. I got the two can pin. And I'm like, yeah, I really like it because this is the first year I've ever displayed the free pins I was getting. But I was like, well, I'm getting these free pins, and I always just put them in a bag. I hang my lanyards in my room. Why not deck them out? So I put all them on, and this woman was like, yeah, I really like that pin. And I was like, yeah, cool. I'm really happy about it. And she kept going. And I was like, you're making me uncomfortable. [00:22:28] Speaker C: Come out and say it. Yeah. [00:22:29] Speaker A: And then later on, on Sunday, I don't want to go too much into it, but we were at a big giveaway on Sunday, and this dude was, like, practically trying to snatch things out of people's hands. It was crazy. [00:22:43] Speaker E: You spend so much money at the end of the day, and I think that's where that mentality comes from. Okay, I'm here. I'm at this big place. I spent x amount of dollars to get into the gun. Okay, what can I compensate for the time? [00:23:01] Speaker A: And I understand. I totally get that. It's like, when I walked out and I had a couple of things. I had free comics from a couple of booths. I had commemorative stuff. I was like, took a step back. [00:23:13] Speaker E: What's exclusive? [00:23:14] Speaker A: Yeah, well, there was that. But I mean, at the end of the con, when I walked away, and I was like, oh, shoot. I walked away with some really cool stuff off. Like, I got some swag. Years ago, brian would come home from comic Con and be like, dude, I have way too much swag. [00:23:25] Speaker C: Have some. [00:23:26] Speaker A: And he'd divvy it out to his friends. And the last two years I've been going, and last year, I came out of it, and I was like, I paid for pretty much everything I have here. Not much of it is exclusive. So why did I spend money there when I could probably get it later? That felt weird. But walking away this year and having a couple of free things, it really felt like I kind of got my experience worth. I was like, oh, cool, I have some stuff. And then what did I do? I went home and I said, these are for you. These are for you. These are for you. Because I don't need these. I have extra copies. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Whatever. [00:23:56] Speaker A: You become the hero, and I'm okay with that. So what panel did you, did we go see a panel on Saturday. We wanted to, and we wound up missing them. So we went to wired instead. Yes, we got our interviews. We interviewed Ming Chen. We interviewed DK Johnston. We interviewed Chen. [00:24:13] Speaker C: Yeah. That's awesome. [00:24:14] Speaker B: So, yes, we met at the party and me and him, I saw him. I'm like, oh, you're comic book. Yeah, I watched it for years. He's like, yeah, we just got canceled. I'm like, I started, blah, blah, blah. He's like, oh, so what do you got going on? I'm like, oh, I'm here just hanging out and we've got a couple of interviews. Why do a podcast? Do you have a podcast? I'm like, yeah. He's like, I would love to be on the podcast. [00:24:36] Speaker A: And I'm like, okay, you asked me to be on my podcast, and it. [00:24:42] Speaker B: Turns out him and a couple of the calm movement guys open up their own podcasting studio on the east coast there. And they're all about it, and they're all about promoting. [00:24:50] Speaker A: Yeah, if you want to start a podcast, you can actually go to these guys and show you how to set. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Everything up, what equipment you need. [00:24:56] Speaker A: They'll run you through the editing process. Like, they'll get you in recorded and live. [00:25:01] Speaker D: What a great resource. [00:25:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And they're all about. And they're all about helping, and they'll. [00:25:05] Speaker A: Jump in on your podcast with you, too. [00:25:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's very cool. Yeah, it was great. So, yeah, met him, did the podcast there. While we were doing the podcast with him, we had another guy show up. [00:25:13] Speaker A: He's like, heard you guys talking podcast. Heard you guys talking geek. You mind if I introduce you to this cool app? And then that I created, we talked. [00:25:20] Speaker B: To a dude and created this app. [00:25:22] Speaker A: That you look up key issues. [00:25:24] Speaker D: Key issues. [00:25:25] Speaker A: First appearances, you look up a character and you're like, I looked up apocalypse the other day, and it was like, boom, here's every x factor that he showed up in initially. And then here's the issue where they introduces him as a child. Here's the x force when he comes in as Evan Savanur. [00:25:41] Speaker B: So it was really cool. So, yeah, you guys will hear that pretty soon here. We're going to put all those into one episode. Yeah, we did the interviews and they were like, we need some free food. [00:25:50] Speaker A: We need some booze, because people are driving me nuts. And so we got out of there and that, honestly, I probably would have been happier if we'd done panels that day, all partially because I like sitting. [00:26:04] Speaker D: What was the weather like? [00:26:05] Speaker E: I can't remember. [00:26:05] Speaker D: Was it hot? [00:26:09] Speaker A: It got really hot midday, but it cooled down super fast. And I know it cooled down super fast because it winds up ruining my night. [00:26:15] Speaker D: Yes. [00:26:17] Speaker A: So we had a ton of stuff to do in the evening when we left where. When we left the wired lounge. When we left the wired lounge on Friday, we went down the staircase. I wanted to make a cool exit, so I didn't take the elevator. [00:26:34] Speaker D: So, yeah, crazy crowd. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Yeah, the elevator had a huge line, and we were like, forget it. I'm just going to go around the staircase. So we start taking the staircase down. Just before the staircase, we noticed there's a door to the pool, and we're. [00:26:44] Speaker B: Like, and you don't need a key card. [00:26:46] Speaker A: And so we're like, cool. Tomorrow, bring your trunks. So I wear these. This is a podcast, and I'm pointing to my three in one shorts. Love them. [00:26:53] Speaker C: Very nice. Yeah. [00:26:53] Speaker A: So I wear my three in one shorts that act as swim trunks and dry really, really quickly. And I walk in, and I'm like, you guys ever been on that subreddit act where you act like you belong? Today is the day. And I walked. There's a security guard over there, and I'm like, let's do this. And I walk down, I sit down next to a dude on a bench and just start talking to him, and he's like, hey, man, how you doing? You enjoying yourself? [00:27:14] Speaker D: I'm like, yeah, man. We talking. [00:27:15] Speaker A: By the time he leaves, he's like, hey, man, you guys have a good weekend? [00:27:18] Speaker D: And that was George Lucas. [00:27:19] Speaker A: And that was George. [00:27:23] Speaker C: Oh, no. [00:27:23] Speaker A: What a great story, that man. Albert Einstein. [00:27:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:28] Speaker A: So random guy leaves. Not George Lucas, but he leaves. And then a group of guys come in who had been who. They sat in hall h all day on Friday. [00:27:39] Speaker D: I don't want to meet them. [00:27:42] Speaker A: They just went to every panel and told us all about it. They were like, we wanted to be at pretty much every one of those panels. [00:27:46] Speaker B: It was a pretty stacked. [00:27:48] Speaker A: So that's. [00:27:49] Speaker C: That's what they like. Yeah. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Bryce, he first went, like, just feet in the pool. [00:27:54] Speaker A: I just wanted feet in the cool. I needed to relax. My feet were hurting. That was the other thing is I left in a hurry because I wanted to get those autographs, and the dress shoes that I wore from the night before wore down the top of my toes. And so they were kind of hurting. And so I was like, I can't wear my tennis shoes. It's going to hurt too much. So I put on flip flops. I figured I'd go home. Midday mistake. I have back problems, and flip flops aren't good for them. [00:28:15] Speaker D: Pool sandals or like rainbows? [00:28:18] Speaker A: Like rainbows, but not well put together. So either way, every time you take a step, you're having to curve your toe down, and that's just clenching your calves, which are already way too tight and causing you problems. But this is not about that. So I'm like, I need to get my legs in some water. I just need a time went on. [00:28:36] Speaker B: Bryce just slowly ended up in the water, and pretty soon he's like, I'm going all the way in. And boom, he was in. [00:28:41] Speaker A: Suddenly I'm swimming situation. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he did that. I'm like, well, suddenly cool. [00:28:48] Speaker A: So Tate just read his comics, and we. [00:28:51] Speaker B: I put my legs in and then got my knees wet, kind of like. But I. [00:28:55] Speaker A: Next thing you know, us and these other dudes are chilling in the jacuzzi. [00:28:58] Speaker B: The original plan was just to be in there for 20 minutes, tops. And then we were going to head back. [00:29:02] Speaker A: We were there for like an hour and a half. [00:29:04] Speaker B: We're going to head back, change, record this podcast. [00:29:07] Speaker C: Yes. [00:29:08] Speaker B: And then head back out and meet up with everybody who was going back. [00:29:12] Speaker A: Yeah, because we were going to all meet at coin op, and it was one of two places we were going to go to coin op or we were going to go to the bayfront. And Tom Kenny was hanging out at the bayfront. So we were like, okay, we might actually just go to the bayfront instead. And then I got invited to an after party at the end of the wired lounge because we met the director guy. We met the director of the haunting in Connecticut. And, yeah, super cool dude. Super cool dude, australian. And he was like, hey, get this guy the info for the after party. So we're like, okay, cool. Like, we're going to go to this other place, different after party after dark. So we go through all this crap, and we've got a whole plan for what the evening is going to be. And then we go to the pool. All the way in the pool. And TMI. But I was wearing cotton short. I was wearing cotton undershirts. I was wearing, like, boxer briefs. So midway down my thigh, all the way up to my hip bones are soaking wet, and they continue to stay wet long after my shorts. We. Then we go to get food, and we're trying to find something cheap, and we wind up not agreeing on what we want. But we both, like, Brian and I want mexican food, and Tate wants pizza, and there's a mexican food place and a pizza place right next door to each other, both legit. So we go and eat. [00:30:24] Speaker D: Can I make a plug real quick? [00:30:25] Speaker A: By all means. [00:30:26] Speaker D: Gaslam pizza is the best pizza in the gas lamp. And every time I've gone there, I've seen some sort of celebrity every single. [00:30:34] Speaker A: How close is it to cheeseburgers and beer? Cheeseburgers and cold. No. Cheeseburger and cold beer. Like the restaurant. Cheeseburgers and cold beer. [00:30:42] Speaker E: That's really the restaurant? [00:30:42] Speaker B: That's really the name of the restaurant. [00:30:44] Speaker D: Gaslam pizza is, like, platform nine and three quarters. You just kind of like, oh, is. [00:30:48] Speaker A: It that little place? Is it little? [00:30:51] Speaker D: Yeah, it's very tiny. [00:30:52] Speaker A: Oh, dude, we went there last year. Amir and I did. While you were. While you were working. I do, too. It's seriously so good. It's, like, on a corner. [00:30:59] Speaker D: You can't find it unless you're looking for it. It's magical. [00:31:02] Speaker C: It is. Yeah. [00:31:03] Speaker A: We were on our way toward that, and then we wound know looking for the mexican food place instead. We got some seriously good fish tacos, though. [00:31:11] Speaker D: San Diego mexican food is. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Oh, that's. [00:31:14] Speaker A: It's so good. It was so good. And they had orchata, which was, like, super authentic. Oh, so good. Normally, it gets a little bit too, like, spicy for me at the end. And this was. Yeah, normally not spicy, but, like, too cinnamony. [00:31:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:28] Speaker A: I say spicy not in the hot sense. Yeah, not in the hot sense, but in, like, the. Why is this on my tongue? Like, calm it down. [00:31:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:38] Speaker A: So then I start shaking. I start shaking. I start, like, convulsing, like, I'm freezing because the temperature dropped down to, like, the high sixty s is cold. You're by the bay, and I'm in wet shorts, and they're not drying, and so we get home. [00:31:56] Speaker E: Sounds like an experience. I'm pointing to reed because it sounds. [00:31:58] Speaker D: I had a very similar situation on Splash mountain. [00:32:03] Speaker E: That's a bear that's off from. But, yeah, reed basically felt the same pain you were. [00:32:10] Speaker D: Yeah, we're brothers. [00:32:11] Speaker A: And your hips start hurting. And mind you, my hips and my legs and my back are already kind of sore because I'm wearing flip flops all day. And so I start kind of shuffling, and I start. My body temperature. I can't warm myself up. Like, I'm trying, and I feel like I'm just so exhausted. [00:32:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:29] Speaker A: And I'm so exhausted that I honestly think that my body was just too tired to fix it. And so I get home, I get into a shower. Mind you, it took me, like, I'm shuffling all the way to the uber. Like, the guy's, like, practically helping me out of the car. I feel like I'm an old man. I shuffle into the uber, I fall into this backseat, and then he's like, you guys party hard. And I'm like, no, I'm just really old. So we get back into the apartment. I go upstairs, and I get into the bathtub, and I fall asleep. [00:32:57] Speaker C: In the bathtub? [00:32:58] Speaker A: Yeah, with a shower water in it, and just trying to heat my freaking hips and body back up. [00:33:05] Speaker B: And meanwhile, we're like, yeah, we're going to rest up for 20, 30 minutes. We're going to head back out. [00:33:09] Speaker A: I come back down in pajama pants. [00:33:11] Speaker B: This ain't happening. [00:33:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:12] Speaker A: I come back down in pajama pants, and I'm like, first of all, I hereby starts with that. I hereby officially renounce flip flops as a legitimate form of footwear. He's like, you okay? And I'm like, no, I'm not okay. And I'm, like, deliriously, like, ranting at him. Like, I'm drunk. And I'm like, I'm stone cold, cold sober and chilly by this point. After, I'm not as chilly, but I'm hurting, and my stomach's killing me. And Brian looks at me, goes, you got conflu? And I'm like, no, wait, you didn't. I feel like conflu is this mysterious. Sometimes it's a virus. Sometimes it's just a bad experience, and your body just hates you so bad. [00:33:58] Speaker D: Last year. [00:34:00] Speaker A: Can we talk about con flu? Because this all leads up to what I was wanting to talk about, which is, like, this weird anomaly that happens at cons when you're trapped with thousands and thousands of people. [00:34:12] Speaker B: You end up picking up some sort of flu cold, who knows what the hell? Something you pick up something where you feel like shit and your hands are. [00:34:20] Speaker D: All over the place. Freebies, table food. [00:34:23] Speaker A: And you're eating, and, like, you're snacking on granola bars you've been keeping in this bag full of things that have all been manhandled by other people. [00:34:31] Speaker D: Not a great place. Not a lot of places to wash your hands. [00:34:33] Speaker B: Not a great, healthy spot. [00:34:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:37] Speaker A: So, yeah, I wound up taking a muscle relaxer because my body just wouldn't unmove. Prescription. I have a prescription. Calm down, audience at home. I don't have a problem, but I take one and I'm like, I'm going to be back in 8 hours. I'll be okay, but I have to go to sleep now. And he's like, when did you take it? And I was like, just now. And he's like, you mean all that rambling wasn't under the influence of that? [00:34:59] Speaker B: I'm like, you're just kind of like delirious from your pain meds. [00:35:02] Speaker D: He's like, I haven't taken it yet. [00:35:04] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I was that. Pardon my language, but I was that fucked up. It was so bad. [00:35:11] Speaker D: Do you have the con flu? [00:35:12] Speaker A: I don't know. The next morning I woke up honestly feeling hungover. [00:35:18] Speaker D: Probably just exhausted. [00:35:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it didn't go on for the next day. The next morning I wasn't feeling good until probably noon or 01:00. If it was con flu, it hit me and was out in like 8 hours. But I was absolutely exhausted. I was dehydrated. I was exhausted also, at Comic Con. [00:35:39] Speaker D: You got to make sure you're drinking a ton of water. [00:35:41] Speaker A: Ton of water. Because you're walking the whole time and you're in a humid, like, contained space. You're sweating. [00:35:46] Speaker E: The whole workout in itself. [00:35:49] Speaker A: It is. It is. [00:35:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:51] Speaker B: So that was kind of our Saturday. You were at the wired party all day. [00:35:55] Speaker A: But what happened after the wired party? [00:35:56] Speaker D: What did you do after that? Hilton Bayfront. [00:35:59] Speaker A: You did go to the Bayfront? [00:36:00] Speaker C: Bayfront. [00:36:00] Speaker D: There was like a little bar downstairs, pool area. [00:36:03] Speaker C: Sorry. We hung out there last year. [00:36:04] Speaker A: Was there an artist in the hallway? Like there was last year? I didn't. At the hill, there were paintings. [00:36:09] Speaker C: Cool. [00:36:09] Speaker E: I did not see the artists hanging out. [00:36:11] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:11] Speaker E: We were interacting with them previous year, but yeah, no, there were paintings there. [00:36:16] Speaker A: It was a brazilian guy last year, wasn't it? [00:36:18] Speaker E: Him and his girlfriend. [00:36:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. [00:36:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:20] Speaker A: I wonder how they're doing. I'm sure I have the card somewhere. [00:36:24] Speaker D: I ran into a guy, though, at the hill Bayfront, who I camped out in hall h with like five years ago. Immediately recognized me. I recognized him like one of those. [00:36:32] Speaker B: Oh, that's cool, Mark. [00:36:33] Speaker D: He's like, Reed. [00:36:33] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:36:34] Speaker D: What's up? It was a beautiful moment between two hall hrs and after we came down, I saw him the next year in there, but I didn't see him in line. I was like, how'd you get in? He was know there's a situation. And anyway, I'm here. [00:36:46] Speaker B: All right. [00:36:47] Speaker A: I don't know how you handle that, but all right. [00:36:49] Speaker D: Yeah. I was like, I don't know. You're here now. Don't give me the backstory. Better off not knowing. But it was a nice moment to be like, oh, hey, that is cool. Two passing wins, right? Two fish passing in the night. [00:37:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:02] Speaker E: Two ships passing in the night. [00:37:03] Speaker C: No. [00:37:04] Speaker D: Two fish passing in the night. [00:37:06] Speaker A: They don't remember a whole lot. [00:37:07] Speaker D: Little comic Con guppies. [00:37:10] Speaker A: That's fair. And you're in a really, really fucked up school that doesn't have any plan. There's no defense. This isn't instinctual. It's just sort of a mess. [00:37:21] Speaker D: Comic Con is kind of like, you remember that first scene in fighting Nemo when all the fish are kind of, like, running into each other? There's, like, different freeways. [00:37:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:30] Speaker E: It's a big ocean. [00:37:32] Speaker A: It is. Except it's honestly more like a containment tank. Like, they've all been dumped from the sky. [00:37:40] Speaker D: I'll tell you what. [00:37:41] Speaker A: Comic Con does have some real bad smells in it once in a while. [00:37:45] Speaker E: Get me started. [00:37:46] Speaker A: You're just like, oh, boy. Bo is going. [00:37:49] Speaker D: A lot of people sweat. [00:37:51] Speaker A: There should be, like, a deodorant booth. I don't understand how. Gillette. Gillette, if you're listening, they would literally clean up. [00:37:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:00] Speaker C: Oh, man. [00:38:01] Speaker E: You can't bring razors into the conclor. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Gillette makes deodorant. [00:38:08] Speaker D: Bring swords and access. [00:38:10] Speaker E: Yeah, but you have to get that check. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to get peace ties. You know what I liked about the peace tie people? So, peace ties, basically a mark zip tie that says, hey, we've checked this weapon. It's not actually deadly, or we've at least attached it to the person. [00:38:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:27] Speaker A: Weapons check. So, they call them peace ties, or at least that's what the cosplayers called them back when I was a young lad back in the day, but I watched a guy who was cosplaying as Negan, and he wanted to have his bat over his shoulder, and so they piece tied, like, zip ties all the way up. They zip tied all the way up, like, a chain of them so that he would have the ability to lift the thing and it would go that far. I'm like, frankly, he couldn't swing too far with it, but he could walk around with it on his shoulder, and it wasn't forced to stay on his hip because Lucille. He wanted lucille to have that. [00:39:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:02] Speaker A: So, yeah, I think they're really accommodating in that they're like, we know that this policy doesn't actually help anybody, but it's the thought that counts, so let's just make it work. What did you do, Nick, Saturday? [00:39:15] Speaker C: Anything? [00:39:16] Speaker A: You worked the booth? [00:39:17] Speaker E: As you guys know, I worked, so I didn't really get to do know, being an exhibitor, you have access to the floor early, which is nice. So I did some walking around the. [00:39:27] Speaker A: Video game area on day zero. On Thursday or Wednesday. Sorry. On Wednesday. [00:39:32] Speaker E: No, on Saturday. [00:39:32] Speaker A: Oh, on Saturday. Oh, early in the morning. [00:39:34] Speaker E: Early in the morning before you have to work and set up the booth. So I went over to the Capcom area. [00:39:39] Speaker A: Capcom area was super cool. [00:39:42] Speaker E: Remake. You guys know I'm a big video game guy, so that. [00:39:45] Speaker C: What? [00:39:47] Speaker A: Dude, why don't you tell us these things? [00:39:51] Speaker E: We can talk about e three. That's a whole nother thing. You son of a. Yeah. I didn't really get to experience the way you guys got to experience it, just kind of casually strolling around. But I did get to see the chaos. I was in the midst of it. I like to say comic Con is like the Walking Dead when the main characters are stuck in a situation where it's just overrun by zombies. Especially when people want free stuff too. The hands. [00:40:23] Speaker A: The hands, you see, might as well make that velvet rope, like a don't open dead inside door. [00:40:30] Speaker E: Especially when they open the gates. [00:40:32] Speaker A: And I was like, yeah, that's actually. [00:40:35] Speaker E: Kind of fun to watch. [00:40:37] Speaker B: That was cool. [00:40:38] Speaker E: Last time I was opened. Yeah, the comp floor is now open. And then you just start seeing. [00:40:46] Speaker B: You kind of look at each other like, oh, shit, here we go. [00:40:49] Speaker A: Here it goes, people. [00:40:50] Speaker E: Retail Black Friday. [00:40:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's retail Black Friday. Yeah. [00:40:53] Speaker E: But, yeah, Saturday was cool, actually. Before I met up with Reed at the Hilton Bay front, I went off to little Italy. I don't know if you guys ever ate there in San Diego. It was fantastic with my coworker and his wife. And we just had some good dinner. But it was much needed after Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, like Bryce, I was pretty much spent at this point. I sat down with a whiskey at the bayfront. Was like, this is my life. [00:41:19] Speaker D: We just kind of like. It was not like a party that we did. It was very much a decompression. [00:41:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:25] Speaker B: Oh, totally. [00:41:26] Speaker D: Just being. Talking about what it was like this year. [00:41:29] Speaker E: Wasn't the dude there. There was a guy walking around drinking white. [00:41:34] Speaker D: He looked like if Jason Momoa played the dude. [00:41:38] Speaker A: Dude, I think I saw that guy. And my first thought was, why isn't this dude dressing up as like, oh, there was another dude who was dressed up, and I was like, you look exactly like Rick Grimes. You've made a terrible error. Like, why are you dressed this way? And I think he was dressed as Aquaman. And I was like, no, you need to be Rick Grimes. And you guys have all messed this up. [00:42:01] Speaker D: He's like, I can be whatever I want to be. [00:42:03] Speaker A: I know I'm being Aquaman. [00:42:04] Speaker D: I'm being awesome. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Good, you be Aquaman. [00:42:06] Speaker E: But take Emex song. Be what I want to be. [00:42:11] Speaker A: We'll ask that question when we start streaming Mario party. And I have to start screaming words again. [00:42:18] Speaker D: We also saw a guy who looked like he was cosplaying as me. He had a hawaiian shirt. Hawaiian shirt. Have I been going this long? Oh, yeah. [00:42:28] Speaker A: You're an icon of comic Con. [00:42:30] Speaker D: Have I been going this long that people have started cosplaying? [00:42:33] Speaker E: It's like Suds Mackenzie. [00:42:35] Speaker C: It is very exciting. [00:42:36] Speaker D: I've been going for as long as I have, and I get to take somebody or go with somebody who's never been before. [00:42:40] Speaker A: It's like going to Disneyland. [00:42:41] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:42:42] Speaker D: You get to experience it through their eyes for the first time. There's nothing quite like, you walk into the floor and it's Eddie's stopping. [00:42:48] Speaker B: You're just like, it's overwhelming, dude. [00:42:50] Speaker D: In videos, until you actually stand in there, it's like going to New York and you actually see the buildings and you actually experience it and the culture and everything. It is wholly immersive. And if you're a fan of media, comics, video games, anything, you, the popular art, once in your life, like at least once, you got to make the pilgrimage down to San Diego for it. [00:43:08] Speaker C: It's great. [00:43:08] Speaker E: It's an experience. It's celebration of pop culture, which we say this world needs now. I think we've celebrated to this point. What I'm trying to say is, it's great that we're recognizing it. [00:43:22] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. [00:43:24] Speaker A: Well, and somebody asked me, why do you like Comic Con so much? And it wasn't like, why do you like Comic Con so much? But it was like, frankly, it's just how our conversations go. She's like, well, what do you like about it? And I said, when I watch a show like Steven universe, when I watch a show like Doctor who, when I watch a show like Dragon Ball Z or any of those guys, I feel like I'm ten again. I don't have to worry about my bills. I don't have to worry about my deadlines. I don't have to worry about what I have to edit. I don't have to worry about whether or not I'm paying rent with this job or this job, et cetera. I can throw all that away, and I can just enjoy the fact that I feel like a kid and this is like a giant convention celebrating that feeling with everyone else who's on the same page and who can all get excited with you. So you see something and you can start geeking out about it, and the person next to you is geeking out about it, and then the two of you just become instant best friends for, like, the next minute and a half. You buy your stuff, and then you walk away. [00:44:17] Speaker D: Like around 250,000 potential best friends. [00:44:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Yes. [00:44:23] Speaker A: That is such a great way to put it. And also 250,000 people that you could totally hate for their awful opinions on things. [00:44:33] Speaker B: You don't talk to them too long. [00:44:35] Speaker A: Yeah, but you get enough to get the best of people, hopefully, and you can bond over the fact that you guys do agree on one thing, and that is that you both like this thing you're at the booth at when you have a guy come up and he's like, well, I don't really like this model kit, blah, blah, blah. You're like, okay, cool. And then you walk away and you're like, I don't have time to deal with this human. And then you walk over to the other guy and he's like, dude, did you see the such and such? And you're like, yeah, I did. We're bffs right now. Sometimes it's the person selling you the merchandise, and sometimes it's the person buying the merchandise with you. And sometimes it's like you see a guy who's carrying the same thing you did, and you're like, what did you get in yours? Like the mystery boxes. Oh, yeah, mystery boxes. Instant conversation with mystery boxes. Like, what did you get in your mystery box? And they're like, oh, I got this. At one point, I asked a girl and she sat down, opened it up, and was like, I got this. I got this. I was blown away also because I didn't get the mystery box this year, and it was ten times better than last year's mystery box. But, yeah, it was just super cool. 250,000 potential best friends. Such a great way to put that. [00:45:34] Speaker B: I don't know if you guys heard the Clone wars is coming. [00:45:38] Speaker A: What? I know clone wars is coming back. Did you hear clone wars coming back? [00:45:42] Speaker D: I didn't hear that. [00:45:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I heard it. [00:45:46] Speaker B: So we were in that panel. [00:45:49] Speaker A: We cried. [00:45:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that's Friday. [00:45:52] Speaker A: That was Thursday. [00:45:53] Speaker B: Thursday. [00:45:53] Speaker A: It was Thursday. [00:45:54] Speaker B: But anyways, same situation there where we're in this panel and they make this huge announcement. [00:45:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:00] Speaker A: And I'm next to some teenage cosplay gal. I don't have any reason to discuss anything with this girl other than the fact that we're both really excited for clone wars and we're, like, high fiving and just super excited, hugging each other and high fiving. [00:46:13] Speaker B: And once the panel was over, we got let out. Like, we found friends, like, actual friends we know. And we were geeking out with them, and then their friends we hadn't met yet, and then some of our friends, they hadn't met, and then we were just in a big old group of happiness. [00:46:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:26] Speaker A: And then every Star wars cosplayer is getting just bombarded because everyone's just so excited that, hey, you're cosplaying the show that we're all losing our minds over right now. There was, like three barraces, and they were all getting there, and there were some old temple guards, and it was just so great. And I feel like when you get pumped up for that one particular thing that you're there for whatever panel you saw or whatever, suddenly seeing the character, even if it's like a half ass cosplay with a morph suit, you're like, yeah, you like this thing as much as I like this thing, and probably more because you're willing to dress like it. Thanks. [00:47:00] Speaker D: Everyone's so comfortable, like, talking to each other. I remember standing next to a guy with his spawn statue, turns to me, looks at me. I look at him. He's like, man, something about that cape, isn't it? [00:47:12] Speaker B: You're not wrong. [00:47:13] Speaker E: No, but it's not even just, like, the big panels and big announcements. There's a lot of little things at Comic Con that you can go check out or go to a smaller panel. Actually, Saturday I went to a panel about, it was essentially a toy panel where the people talking are in the toy industry. And this topic this year was like, what's the toy industry looking like now that toys are us? [00:47:39] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:47:41] Speaker A: No, it's great what they say. Are they scared? [00:47:46] Speaker E: No, they're saying toys will live on, play will live on. So now it's just regrouping and figuring out now that this, we don't have. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Kb, we don't have toys r us. [00:48:00] Speaker E: How is the landscape going to look? They're not too concerned. It's just like, yeah, so you got to figure it out. But, yeah, it's great to just see the things that Comic Con has to offer in terms of hobbies, interests, and what you want to digest and pick and choose, which is fantastic. [00:48:21] Speaker C: Definitely. [00:48:21] Speaker A: Well, that was our Saturday. So you did do something other than be in the booth. You went to a panel? [00:48:27] Speaker C: I did. [00:48:27] Speaker E: I got one panel. Cool. [00:48:29] Speaker A: More panels than we did on Saturday. [00:48:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Well, awesome. Well, thanks for joining us. [00:48:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:35] Speaker B: Guys, we'll be back for our Sunday breakdown. [00:48:38] Speaker A: Stay tuned for that Sunday breakdown. Thankfully, was considerably, will go considerably faster. I think not a lot happened on Sunday. [00:48:46] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of. Yeah, we'll get there. [00:48:48] Speaker A: We'll get there. [00:48:49] Speaker B: Or did we do a lot of stuff? [00:48:50] Speaker A: We did do a lot of cool stuff on Sunday, now that I think about it. [00:48:53] Speaker D: Shit, look at that tease. [00:48:55] Speaker E: That was a tease right there. [00:48:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:57] Speaker D: That's like a lost style ending, right? [00:48:59] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:48:59] Speaker B: Except we'll figure out where the polar bears came from and what the hell's going on with that damn smoke monster. [00:49:04] Speaker A: What is with the smoke monster? [00:49:06] Speaker D: Aliens, I'm telling you, safe. [00:49:13] Speaker A: All right, thank you guys for listening. We will catch you on our Sunday podcast.