WonderCon Recap feat. The Bitches of Dathomir!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi, everybody, and welcome to another wonderful episode of Sneaky Geek. And today we are gonna be talking about Wondercon. But first, we gotta roll that whole theme song thing, so we should do that, and we're good. Okay. So, hi, everybody. Welcome to Sneakygeek. We are talking today about Wondercon 2024, which is the time that we're in here. It's actually 2024. It doesn't feel like 2024. Saying, it feels really weird, and I'm not comfortable with that. But anyway, we're here talking about Wondercon, and we are joined by the bitches of Dathomir. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Hello. [00:00:42] Speaker C: Two thirds of the bitches. [00:00:43] Speaker A: Yeah, two thirds. [00:00:44] Speaker D: Two thirds. [00:00:45] Speaker C: Two thirds. Bitches. [00:00:47] Speaker A: So let's get some introductions underway. Who wants to go first? [00:00:51] Speaker D: I'll go. [00:00:52] Speaker A: Hooray. [00:00:53] Speaker D: Hello. Thank you so much for having us. I am Frankie, one third of the bitches of Dathomir, also known as Frankie Syndula. If you've met me in person, and I don't really know what to say about myself. Let's see. Introducing. I. Oh, my favorite Star wars entity is rebels. And then currently, like the rest of the world, enjoying bad batch, even though my heart is being ripped out every single episode. [00:01:20] Speaker A: Dude. [00:01:20] Speaker C: Right? [00:01:21] Speaker A: I think I'm two episodes behind. [00:01:23] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Bryce isn't caught up, so I'm midway. [00:01:26] Speaker A: Through that two parter with Doctor Emery. [00:01:28] Speaker D: Okay. [00:01:29] Speaker C: Yeah. So we won't super cry right now. [00:01:31] Speaker D: These. These are the things I need to know. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Yeah, it's good. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I am caught up on X Men, though. I don't know. You guys are watching X Men. [00:01:40] Speaker B: I'm not watching first. [00:01:43] Speaker A: That's okay. That's okay. What other entities are we into? Other than. Other than Star wars? [00:01:49] Speaker D: Let's see. Wildlife is a big part of my life. And as far as fandoms go, really, just all of it. [00:01:59] Speaker B: All fandoms. [00:02:00] Speaker D: I know. All fandoms are things that I enjoy. I spend a lot of time just kind of keeping up with pop culture, and it's pretty fun for me. [00:02:08] Speaker C: Cool. [00:02:09] Speaker A: It comes with the podcast territory. [00:02:11] Speaker D: It's true. [00:02:12] Speaker A: And Rachel. [00:02:14] Speaker D: Hello. [00:02:15] Speaker B: My name is Rachel. I am the other one third of the bitches of Dathomir podcast. My name is Rachel of Jakku, Instagram, and TikTok. My favorite part of star wars. Gosh, I don't really have one. I really love all of it. I'm thoroughly enjoying the high Republic novels right now. Completely obsessed. Mostly our podcast talks about the high Republic, so I feel like I can also talk about the high Republic all day, any day. It's just so great. So candy and non Star wars fandom. I'm a huge lord of the Rings fan. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Nice. [00:02:50] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And then I'm not a really big Marvel fan, but I watch everything that comes out. All the shows, all the movies. I just don't, like, binge watch them, like, over and over again. And I'm terrible at character names, so luckily, one of my friends is a huge marvel head, so I always ask her for all the information. [00:03:09] Speaker A: Nice. Okay, well, we should actually talk a little bit about your podcast real quick, since we started by going, we're here with the bitches of Dathomir, not being like, we're here with Frankie and Rachel. So let's talk about what the bitches of Dathomir is. [00:03:23] Speaker C: How did you guys get that started? What? Kind of, like, got all that going? [00:03:27] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:03:28] Speaker B: So we were reading the high Republic, and we're completely obsessed with it. Then the three of us. Jen is the other one third. We're talking about how cool it would be to turn our passion into a podcast, and we were just shooting around different fun names. We all really love sluts. At one point, we were like, jabba the sluts was our funny name. And then bitches of Dathomir popped out, and we all love Dathomir. That's the name that ended up sticking. And we are a print media podcast, so we talk books, comics, like, magazine, short stories, and we're currently talking about the high Republic because that's pretty much what's out and what we're passionate about. We are currently addressing phase three in our second season and really enjoying it. [00:04:18] Speaker C: Yeah. Thanks, your guys. Last episode was great. I think it was, like, keeping you updated, Rachel. Like, this was funny. This was funny. [00:04:25] Speaker D: This was. [00:04:27] Speaker C: I think I was listening. I had, like, I don't. Five or six minutes to go, and I was at the gym, and I looked to go, and somebody said something, and then I just started, like, busting up laughing, and I'm like, yeah, well, here we are. Yeah. [00:04:41] Speaker D: Usually when we record Jen, who's not here, she. She's our editor, and she messages us the whole way through all the things she has to cut out because we will go on for hours about all the silliness. [00:04:53] Speaker A: Same. [00:04:53] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Editing takes a while. [00:04:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Editing is the worst part about podcasting, in my opinion. But, yeah. Let's talk about Wondercon this year. [00:05:05] Speaker C: Did y'all go all three days? [00:05:07] Speaker D: No, we just went Saturday and Sunday. [00:05:10] Speaker C: Okay. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Do you. Have you guys been to. You guys been to wonder con before? Though, right? [00:05:14] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Third year. [00:05:17] Speaker D: Yeah. Three for three. Maybe four. No, wait, what year is it? 2021. [00:05:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:22] Speaker D: 123-234-2022 and through now. Oh, yeah. Because we did Wondercon, and then Star wars celebration was immediately after. [00:05:32] Speaker C: Yeah, right. It was a real quick turnaround. [00:05:34] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. [00:05:35] Speaker C: That was a good year. [00:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah, that was a really good year. Oh, my God. [00:05:40] Speaker A: That was the year we discovered the s'mores. [00:05:42] Speaker C: Yes. [00:05:43] Speaker A: More on that later. [00:05:44] Speaker D: Oh, that's right, the s'mores. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:49] Speaker A: So, okay, well, then Wondercon was interesting this year for everybody who didn't get to go. It was on Easter weekend, which was not something that happens very often. I mean, last weekend of march. But, you know, Easter moves all over the place. And Wondercon apparently is more stable. [00:06:09] Speaker C: Yeah. We didn't realize it was Easter weekend until like a week before. [00:06:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:13] Speaker C: And we were looking at our calendar, and then the family was like, what are you guys doing for Easter? And I'm like, when's Easter? Like, it's next weekend. Like, oh, shit, we shouldn't have done that. I'm gonna go to a con. [00:06:25] Speaker D: I realized it. Some of my family got mad at me, and I just said, the only person I care about who has risen is Mal. And they got mad at me for that one. I love it. [00:06:41] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:06:46] Speaker D: It didn't go over well. But, you know, I met you all. Yay. [00:06:50] Speaker C: They should know by now. [00:06:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's true. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I definitely got out of some good family drama. [00:06:57] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:06:59] Speaker C: So it worked in your favor. [00:07:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wondercon. Because my first wonder Con was in San Francisco back when it was up there, and that was long ago. I did not plan on going to Wondercon. I was at a fencing tournament with my college fencing group. And so we were up there doing a fencing tournament, and somebody was like, oh, Dale is over at Wondercon. We should pop by Wondercon and, oh, I should get it down. Oh, yeah. So we go to Wondercon to meet Dale Barry, who wrote. He writes tales of the midnight cutter, which is like an indie comic, but he also taught all of them how to do how to fence. He taught them all how to fence. So he was like part of that whole crew. And we went there. And then while we were there, I met Peter Mayhew. And I was so excited because he's the first person I've ever met in my life. I mean, one, he's Chewbacca, but also, he's the only person in my life I've ever met who had hands significantly larger than mine because I have really, really big hands, and, like, we put our hands against each other, and every single, like, all of his last joints, like, went above my. This is a podcast, and I'm currently demonstrating about an inch past each of my fingers, which are already very long, but his hands all the way around, like, he was signing everything with, like, a mini sharpie, and it was just like, this little thing. And then he set the sharpie down, and I was like, that's a full size sharpie. He's just gigantic. [00:08:24] Speaker D: Wow. [00:08:25] Speaker A: I had him because I don't know if you guys ever watched in living color with Jim Carrey and all that, but he had, like, this whole bit where he, like, frames an autographed picture of Chewbacca and accidentally hits his hand after it's been frozen with nitroglycerin and, like, shatters his hand, and he screams out, like, the iceman cometh, or whatever. So I was like, I, too, need a framed autographed picture of chewbacca. So this is my. [00:08:50] Speaker B: That is so awesome. [00:08:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:53] Speaker D: Holy cow. [00:08:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it was nice. So. [00:08:56] Speaker D: And you were just there for fencing? [00:08:58] Speaker A: And I was just there for fencing. So I was like, okay, cool. And then Brian, a few years later, was like, hey, you want to go to Wondercon? I was like, oh, yeah, what is it in San Francisco? And he's like, no, it's down here now. And I'm like, okay. And then we went, and it was great, but it was much busier than this year's con. And I feel like the last couple of years have been kind of unusual anyway, because we were in this post pandemic time where people weren't wanting to travel very much. And, you know, there were mask regulations in 2022, but there weren't in 20. 2023. [00:09:30] Speaker C: Then we had the strikes. [00:09:32] Speaker A: So, like, we had the strikes, and that was getting in the way, although we didn't have the strikes. Last year's wonder call because it started afterwards. [00:09:38] Speaker C: Yeah, but things started slowing down. [00:09:40] Speaker A: But things were slowing down. [00:09:41] Speaker C: We definitely felt it this year. [00:09:42] Speaker A: And then this year we have. There's, you know, nobody's working. [00:09:46] Speaker C: Yeah. So there weren't as many projects shot in the last six to eight months because last year's strike. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:09:52] Speaker C: So there weren't as many things to promote. But it's also Easter weekend, so, like, did people just not book and it was raining. Yeah. [00:09:59] Speaker A: Which also, I'm sure, limited a lot of, at least, like, locals from going, like, I'm not going over to. [00:10:05] Speaker B: Well, I remember talking to my local comic shop and they were saying that they expected Wondercon to be back to pre pandemic crowds, and I was really surprised to see that it wasn't that crowded. [00:10:18] Speaker C: Yeah, it did not happen. Yeah. [00:10:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Once I realized it was going to be rainy and Easter weekend, I was like, that's probably not a great sign. But also, Wondercon was real cagey about who was gonna come this year, you know? [00:10:32] Speaker D: But we're spoiled, though, because we went to SF Fan expo this past year, and they went crazy with their marketing. So I kind of am just like, not everything is gonna be like that. And that was just in November. [00:10:45] Speaker C: Yeah. I feel like LA Comic Con did something similar back in December where, like, it was huge. That was the first one I went to, but everyone I talked to said it was way bigger than it usually is. [00:10:54] Speaker B: La. [00:10:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Oh. [00:10:56] Speaker C: But I don't know. I haven't gone before. [00:10:58] Speaker A: But then, like, a few. I think it was two years ago, we went to Ontario Comic Con and we talked to Tim Zahn. I talked to Tim Zahn for, like, 20 minutes. [00:11:05] Speaker C: Yeah. You became besties. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Yeah, we were buds. We talked about, like, all sorts of stuff with, like, how he makes various creative decisions for thrawn, mostly about language stuff. Cause I'm a language nerd. But in that whole time, like, at one point, he offered to pay for something for me so that I would pay him with the card and he would pay with cash because Chris Claremont wasn't accepting cards. It was, like, a whole thing. And all of this. This level of interaction at a con with, like, a signing typically isn't very common. And now this next Ontario Comic Con coming up, they're, like, throwing everybody out. Like, there's so many guests being the entire cast. [00:11:44] Speaker C: Rebels and co wars. [00:11:46] Speaker B: Are you gonna go insane? [00:11:48] Speaker C: I'm hopefully gonna go at least Saturday, Sunday of a concert in San Diego that I don't want to miss. But I'm like, maybe I'll go for, like, an hour to Mike. That's way out of the way. Going to Ontario and then all the way down. [00:11:59] Speaker A: So. [00:12:00] Speaker C: Yeah, so hopefully at least Friday. Sorry. Saturday. I think it's only a Saturday. Sunday con. [00:12:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:06] Speaker D: When I heard the cast of rebels was there, I kind of got really sad. But there's no way I can swing going, oh, yeah, Ontario. [00:12:13] Speaker B: Yeah. I typically work Saturdays, and I can't take off another Saturday. I've taken off too many recently. [00:12:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Gotcha. So real quick, plug your comic shop. What's your comic shop that you're. [00:12:24] Speaker B: I go to amazing comics. They're the best. [00:12:26] Speaker D: I do miss them. They are the best. They're amazing. They are. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Are they in Long beach? [00:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they're in Long beach. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:35] Speaker B: They have two, actually, two locations, one in Long beach and the other one in west Westminster. Yeah. [00:12:41] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. That's why. So I go to the one in Westminster every once in a while. [00:12:46] Speaker D: That one is much smaller, but same, folks. [00:12:48] Speaker C: Oh, right. [00:12:48] Speaker D: On comic polls. Same access. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Very cool. Yeah. Our one in Fullerton, the comic book hideout, which I have been to. [00:12:57] Speaker C: That one. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, that one's. That one's huge compared to the other one. [00:13:03] Speaker B: It used to be even bigger because I used to go to that one when I was a kid, and it was like, double the size. So it's definitely a lot smaller than what it once was, but still pretty quick. [00:13:12] Speaker C: Most are. Yeah. Fat collectibles. They definitely downsize over the years. [00:13:17] Speaker A: They used to have a full statue of the Hulk or whatever inside. Yeah. Wow. [00:13:21] Speaker C: Who did fat collectibles? [00:13:23] Speaker A: Was it the Hulk? It was. [00:13:24] Speaker D: I bought the Hulk. [00:13:26] Speaker C: I don't know, but they had a really big shop up the road here on harbor. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Euclid. Sorry, I was confused. [00:13:32] Speaker C: Yeah, it was huge. And they end up shutting down. They had one in Huntington beach, too. That. But now there's. They have their main one in La Habra, but. [00:13:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:40] Speaker D: Oh, I've been there. [00:13:42] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good one. Yeah. [00:13:44] Speaker A: Anyway, so let's talk about this con. What did you guys want out of this con? What were you guys there for? Like, everybody kind of has their, like, their must dos and their. This would be cool. Or I want to make sure I stop by such and such booth. Like, did you guys have a plan? [00:13:59] Speaker D: I had. Well, if I could ever have my shit together and write down comics I don't have, which Rachel is very good at writing things down when she needs something to look into. Yeah, I got a whole shopping comics with Rachel. She sometimes remembers the comics that I don't have. I do. It's true. So getting comics that I knew I didn't have was pretty important to me because the comic scene where I currently lived near Sacramento is just not great. [00:14:33] Speaker A: Actually. [00:14:33] Speaker D: It's terrible. And other than that, just mostly being back at Wondercon, it's kind of like my feel good con and just seeing people that we know a lot of. Long beach was my home base for nine years, so just knowing people in that area is just super fun and just connecting and networking. [00:14:53] Speaker C: Yeah, I get that. Yeah. I think Winter Con is probably one of my favorite favorite cons. [00:14:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:58] Speaker B: I love the convention center it's at. It's so beautiful, and I think everybody is just so nice, and everybody dresses up, and it's a great vibe. [00:15:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Even this year, like, with it being smaller than usual, like, I still had a really good time, and everybody else seemed to have good, even though it was raining, too. But, yeah. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't go into the con expecting anything, just because I already know what to expect from that one where, like, I would go see a panel or two if I wanted to. I really like going to the her universe panel, where they talk about the fashion show that they have at San Diego Comic Con. I always enjoy watching Ashley Eckstein talk, and she's just great person. And then the Star wars meetup. Those were the two have tos. [00:15:43] Speaker C: Yeah. I was so bumped. So we saw the Star wars meetup, but I didn't get to go over there. But we were meeting up with our friend Mary, and she knows everybody, so we're just kind of pal around with her. And then one of her friends was in the big old photo with you guys, and I didn't realize what time was going on, but I had my cerveza crystal shirt that I got, and I'm like, oh, I could have just, like, walked right in and, like, totally missed opportunity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was bumming this. [00:16:08] Speaker D: The crazy thing about that shoot is that it felt like it was 3 hours long, but it was only, like, 25 minutes. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:14] Speaker D: I looked at the clock afterwards, like, the main one. Like, they did a bunch of pre shoots, and then they finally got the big one together, and it felt like we were sitting. Cause I was on, like, the lower level. I was on my knees next to, like, that. Like, you know when you're kneeling. I was in that row, and, like, my knees were killing me, but I was just like, we're having fun. We're doing a weird dance. We're Star wars posing. We're doing whatever. And then when I finally got up, I was like, oh, that felt like we were here for hours. [00:16:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:40] Speaker D: So the nice thing is that it was a cool photo, and I wish it was in front of the fountain in front of the I do, too. Convention center. But this, we'll have to do that rain. [00:16:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Yeah. That was when it. When I realized it was gonna rain, I was like, there's gonna be so many cosplayers inside. [00:16:56] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:16:57] Speaker A: Because they all go to the fountain. [00:16:59] Speaker D: And, yeah, it wasn't crowded. That's what tells you about all the cosplayers were inside, and it still was kind of a comfortable. [00:17:06] Speaker C: Yeah, we can still walk around. [00:17:07] Speaker D: Sickness is not a complaint. [00:17:08] Speaker A: No, no, it's. It was unexpected, for sure, but certainly not something I was. I was upset about. But it does. I get concerned because I know Comic con international charges an arm and a leg for their booths, and I know so many people who have booths that, like, I was asking everybody, like, hey, did you make table? Did you at least make table? And they're like, okay, we made table on Friday. We're okay. We just didn't get as much as we would have liked. And I'm like, that's okay, as long as you didn't lose money on this. Yeah, like, that's what I want to see. [00:17:38] Speaker B: Was Friday more crowded than Saturday? [00:17:41] Speaker C: I don't know. It was pretty light on Friday. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Light on Friday. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Okay. We managed to do the entire show floor on Friday, which really happened. It took us the whole day. [00:17:49] Speaker C: Yeah, but we did it. [00:17:50] Speaker A: But this was a way more social con than I've ever had before. Normally, I. When I first started going to cons, I was like, show floor, show floor, show floor. And then I decided that walking, for me, about any con is the shuffle when your feet are just only moving a little bit. This is a podcast I'm indicating with my fingers, and my hips are just killing me at the end of a day. And so being able to take full strides is very important for me. But now that I've seen everything on the show floor, for the most part, I know there's certain booths that it's like, oh, hey, it's that guy. Oh, it's that guy. We don't buy from him anymore. He's a jerk. Things like that. There's a specific video game guy that we love, and there's a specific video game guy we do not love. And then there's one where it's like, we like your booth, and we like your other people, but we won't buy from you specifically because you're difficult. But, like, you, you just get, you know. You know these people, especially when we've been around this for a while, but for me, like, I've become much more. I'd like one or two panels a day then. And sometimes it's like, oh, cool, I'm gonna go to the anime room, and I'm gonna watch some random ass anime for, like, an hour just so that I can be off my feet and, like, not really thinking, which is nice. Sometimes I'll go there and I'll draw, that kind of thing. But this con, I only went to one panel, and it was a showing for. It was the Star Trek Discovery episode, the new episode of the. Of their final season. And there was a q and a, but I left before it started because I didn't realize there was a q and a. Like, as I was walking out the door, I hear, hey, how was that, everybody? And I'm like, ah, crap, there's somebody talking. Dang it. I could have sat longer. [00:19:33] Speaker C: Yeah, there was only like, maybe two or three panels I really wanted to see this year. No, there's like maybe two or three each day, but through the whole weekend. And then I ended up not seeing any of them, so I was kind of bummed. So I wanted to watch the Ashley Eckstein one. Her husband walked by us at lunch. That was cool. [00:19:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:49] Speaker C: And I wanted to hit up the. The lord of the Rings, the. The animated movie that's coming out that the one ring.net was, was doing. Yeah, I want to go to that one. And I totally forgot about it. And. Yeah, yeah. Cuz you guys were telling me about it. Yeah. [00:20:02] Speaker A: So normally when we do these recap episodes, we do talk about the panels we saw, which means that we're basically gonna defer to you now. What panels did you see what they like? What happened? [00:20:11] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. You guys saw a couple good ones and then, like, a couple bad ones. [00:20:15] Speaker D: Or we had one that was pretty soured, but it was made better because we ran into Vanessa Marshall immediately after. [00:20:22] Speaker C: Oh, hell yeah. [00:20:23] Speaker D: So who is the voice of Harrison Doula? [00:20:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:26] Speaker A: Nice. [00:20:26] Speaker D: Okay, I'll just talk about that. We walked into a. [00:20:30] Speaker C: Give us the tea. [00:20:31] Speaker D: I'm going to. And I'm gonna just say the title of it because I guess it is what it is, and there's no way to talk about it without saying the title. So it was just called the Starship SmackDown. And it looks super interesting. And the point of Starship, or. Yeah, Starship SmackDown is these self decided experts will pick out of a hat between Star Trek and Star wars, and then it'll be a movie, and then they have to talk about which destroyer would beat each other from the movies. And it was like just base knowledge on what the ships are capable of and what kind of worlds we know they bring down. And like, yada, yada, yada. [00:21:08] Speaker C: That almost sounds like a fun, like, bar game to do, like a trivia sort of thing. [00:21:12] Speaker D: Yes. [00:21:13] Speaker A: Like super fight. [00:21:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:15] Speaker D: Yes. Yes. So the mediator was like, we're actually not gonna do that because that's a specific to comic Con San Diego game. So we're gonna change it and just make it about the movies. So the first guy, when it was the first question, he went in hard on, like, analyzing Rachel, you can, like, chime in. He analyzed the heck out of the two ships. And I was like, yes, this is interesting. I've never thought about these things. And then he got corrected, and he. The guy was like, whoa, whoa. No, no, no. He was like, you can take a. You can take a comic con out of the starship SmackDown, but you can't take the smack. Whatever. Starship SmackDown out of you. And so then they changed it, and it just went super downhill. And it was just a bunch of folks on the stage. Pretty much any movie or production that had a female lead, they just had nothing good to say about it. And we know the game, we know the conversation. It's. It's. It's not new, but, yeah, it just kind of sucked. That's not what they advertised and that it happened at a con. [00:22:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's not. [00:22:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Wow. [00:22:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I feel like they could have compared and contrast the two films in a much more. What's the word? I want to say, like, not biased way where you can say, like, this is, like, the story arc and things like that, but it was very much like, that was not how they were going to have this conversation. [00:22:32] Speaker C: Oh, that sucks. [00:22:33] Speaker D: And I think the biggest bummer, which finally, Rachel and I were texting, and our friend was next to us, and he didn't know that we were like, we're leaving. But I told him, like, hey, we're going to go if this gets more uncomfortable. The thing that bummed me out the most is that the moderator's son was in the panel, and he was, like, maybe 15 years old, and he already was speaking like this. I was just like, dang, it's just another generation of just. Just kind of. I don't want to say narrow minded, but just, yeah, that biased. That is just a little mean. [00:23:03] Speaker C: So we kind of Internet. [00:23:04] Speaker D: We left. It's the Internet that you think doesn't happen in real life. It's just like, you know what I mean? Like, you never meet those people. That's not true. We do meet them, but. [00:23:14] Speaker B: Yeah, but not as frequently at cons, because getting outside. [00:23:20] Speaker C: Yeah, most people are pretty welcoming at Con. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:22] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [00:23:23] Speaker C: That's why we like going. [00:23:24] Speaker D: So I guess we'll just start with that. And it was. It was terrible. And we ended up leaving and wanted to go look at Funko's and because we went to straight to Funko's in the back of the con, Vanessa Marshall was just sitting there, and we. I don't think we would have seen her if we didn't leave that panel early, so. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, man, these guys hate female captains. That's for no good reason. [00:23:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Oh, look, a female captain that everyone loves. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:23:49] Speaker D: Yeah. But it's arguably amazing, serendipitous, and she was so cool. And we have not met before, but, like, locked eyes to the point where she, like, thought she knew me, so it was just, like, a lovely interaction. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Was that while you were in your, like, hera? [00:24:04] Speaker D: No, I was in my path of the open hand gospel. She loved it, but if you don't know, you have to explain it. [00:24:13] Speaker C: Right. [00:24:14] Speaker D: So she was into it, but I had to tell her what it was. [00:24:17] Speaker C: Oh, that's cool. [00:24:18] Speaker B: It's so great. [00:24:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, no, she's super nice. I met her once. She came in to do a podcast with one of the Marvel guys, so she comes out. I knew she was coming in. I'm like, oh, my God, she's coming in. That's cool, because she was doing Gamora for the Guardians animated show, but, like, I knew we're from rebels, so we just kind of, like, shot the shit for a little bit and. Yeah. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Was this a relatively long interaction, or was it just sort of like, hey, how's it going? Or did you guys actually get to chat for a little bit? [00:24:43] Speaker D: It was, like, more. Oh, my gosh. [00:24:45] Speaker B: Really, really long. I was so shocked by the whole situation, especially because, like, when we walked up to her and we're like, oh, actually, Frankie did. She's like, hi, Vanessa. And she was like, who, me? [00:24:59] Speaker D: I asked her, and she was, like, looking at me as if there were, like, seven vanessa's at the table, which. [00:25:04] Speaker A: Vanessa are you talking about? [00:25:06] Speaker D: There was only one female presenting person anywhere near. [00:25:12] Speaker B: So anyway, it is so great. [00:25:15] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:25:15] Speaker B: We actually talked about our story of going to that weird panel, and it led us to hearing her story about how she was looking for a Harrison doula comic, and she was asking about it, and some, like, rando guy in the background was like, we don't have a hera comic. And was, like, being super derogatory and rude about it. And she's, like, wanted to say, well, Harris and Doula is here, and she knows that there's a comic. [00:25:44] Speaker C: Right. [00:25:45] Speaker B: I loved it. It was so great. [00:25:48] Speaker D: Yeah. Yes. But that was. That was one panel that we went to, and it ended super well. So, yeah, I won't go back to see those panelists again. [00:25:57] Speaker A: Right? No. [00:25:57] Speaker C: Good to know. Yeah. [00:25:58] Speaker A: Yeah. That's not. Okay. [00:26:00] Speaker C: Well, now I'm, like, curious. Like, what comic was it? [00:26:03] Speaker D: She was on the COVID of a not rebels related comic, so she was trying to tell. She was just asking for the Harrah variant. [00:26:10] Speaker C: Yeah, for the variant cover. Yeah. [00:26:11] Speaker D: And the guy in the back of the comic shop was just, like, total sass. Like, why would there be a Harris in Doula comic? And she's like, wow. First of all, that's not what I asked for. Second of all, what a dick. [00:26:22] Speaker B: I know. It's so awful. [00:26:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:25] Speaker A: But how was the Ashley Eckstein panel? [00:26:27] Speaker D: Lovely. [00:26:28] Speaker B: Yeah, the fashion show is really fascinating, and the whole panel just talks about the process on how to apply, and they always invite prior fashion shows winners to come on stage and talk about their experience so that future applicants kind of can kind of get an idea of what to expect and what to look for. And it's just a nice time when we get a chance to see new designs that are upcoming. They showed off some cool Star wars outfits, and then, like, I think a couple jackets, a sweater, and then a dress. Oh, yeah. They had this really interesting, like, reversible dress. [00:27:07] Speaker C: Anything with pockets. [00:27:09] Speaker D: There were pockets, Joyce. Mm hmm. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Double pockets. [00:27:14] Speaker D: The second girl is a major storm fan, and her fashion show winning outfit was storm couture, so she put out some storm jackets. [00:27:25] Speaker A: Cool. [00:27:25] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:27] Speaker D: I think I walked away from that panel. You know how, like, when you learn about new hobbies and you're like, yeah, I want to get into that one day. Like, we're all like, we can build a droid. Yeah, no, that's totally the thing I could do. I left that panel, and I was like, you know what? That is one thing I know I have zero interest in getting into, but I will love and support from afar, but I do not need to enter a, like, high stakes fashion show. [00:27:52] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:27:53] Speaker D: No. [00:27:54] Speaker B: And I don't even know if it's, like, entirely high stakes. Cause Ashley tries to make it as welcome to everyone and how they all work together. And it's not cutthroat, but I agree. And I love to make clothes, and I like to make costumes and sewing and stuff like that. But even still, for me, like, I don't know, that just seems so stressful. [00:28:11] Speaker C: Right. Yeah. [00:28:12] Speaker B: The whole process all the way around. So, no, thanks. [00:28:15] Speaker D: I think I'll go to that panel. If I'm at Wondercon, I'll go to that panel every year because it's just like a nice introduction into the San Diego Comic Con for the next year. [00:28:23] Speaker C: And I was gonna say, it's been cool seeing the way that whole fashion shows, like, blown up the last five, six years. I remember they first started it. They're like, oh, yeah. Like, Ashley Einstein started her own thing, and some people were just, like, writing it off. I'm like, oh, that's cool, if that's your thing, whatever. And then, like, every single year after, it just got bigger and bigger. And they had kept having to move rooms to bigger rooms, and then it was from, like, midday, and now it's like, end of the first day. It's just a huge blowout. [00:28:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it feels like it's. It's comparable to the masquerade at this point. Yeah, yeah. [00:28:53] Speaker D: I think it also blew up with everyone and their mother watching clone wars over the pandemic. [00:28:58] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:29:00] Speaker D: And learning who Ashley Eckstein is. [00:29:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:03] Speaker A: Did you guys do another panel other than that? [00:29:07] Speaker B: We did. Yeah, we did the torn panel, which is the one ring.net. And I originally thought it was just going to be on the new and upcoming animated film called the War of the Rohirrim, but it ended up being. [00:29:18] Speaker A: Excited for that one. [00:29:19] Speaker B: I am so excited for that one. So cool. But they ended up talking about a couple other things, too, like a upcoming book that is the collected poems of Junior Tolkien. [00:29:31] Speaker A: Cool. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah. So apparently these have never been released before, so that will be really great. And then there's also a new video game called Tales of the Shire, which looks super cute. [00:29:45] Speaker D: It's making me want to get a PS five just to play that game. Yes. [00:29:49] Speaker B: Yeah. I love that you just basically hang out around the Shire and just kind of, like, wander around. It doesn't seem like a very stressful game, which, like, most of the games that I play are high stress, like, the last of us, or, you know. [00:30:03] Speaker A: You'Re like, I'm prepared to not be hurt, please. Yeah. I want my biggest problem to be the Sackville Baggins is not, do I murder this dog? [00:30:11] Speaker C: Oh, I know. [00:30:12] Speaker B: Totally. [00:30:14] Speaker D: They compared it to Animal Crossing in that it's just meant to be like a. But, like, shire music and. [00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah, there's been a lot of that, like, casual, like, it's true meditative, almost chill game. I mean, Stardew Valley was huge, obviously, in Animal Crossing and harvest moon and all those, and they just dropped Harvest Moon 64, and I think harvest Moon on the super Nintendo on the Switch virtual console. So, like, there's been this kind of surge of it and then I don't know about you guys, but every single time I get on any third party wiki, from Wikipedia to memory Alpha to any of those, that dang Palia game, which is like. Is always being advertised at me every time. And I'm just like. I think I even have some rendition of it. And I was like, yeah, this is. I don't even know what. There's. So there's like six of you. It's really weird. So it'll be nice to have one that's a little bit more, dare I say, high stakes because it's representing a brand and you don't want the token estate man it mad at you. So they have to do it. Right. Then again, Gollum came out, and then. [00:31:18] Speaker C: Again, Golem came out, so they may. [00:31:19] Speaker B: Not think about that one. [00:31:21] Speaker C: Right? [00:31:21] Speaker D: I don't think I know what that is. [00:31:23] Speaker A: So they made a Gollum game. We talked about it on the podcast when the announcement came and we were interested, but when the game dropped, it's. [00:31:31] Speaker C: Like one of the worst game. [00:31:34] Speaker A: Early PS three graphics, lots of problems with it and everything. Every mission is basically the same. And, like, the voice acting was questionable. Like, every. Every step of the way, there was a quality control person who did not do their job. [00:31:51] Speaker C: So there's a big problem there. [00:31:52] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:31:54] Speaker D: I'm looking at the COVID of this. I think I've seen this. I don't have any video game console, and since I left Long Beach, I don't have roommate access to games anymore. [00:32:03] Speaker A: That's how I play my ps five, which isn't my ps five. It's Brian's. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Oh, perfect. Yeah, yeah, I. That was a video game that once I heard it was gonna be really terrible. I didn't even give it the light of day. I was like, no more. [00:32:16] Speaker C: But, yeah, it dropped. I didn't even know it dropped until, like, months later. I'm like, whatever happened to that golem game? And then, like, I looked it up and just horrible reviews. I'm like, oh, that's why I didn't hear about it. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Yikes. [00:32:27] Speaker A: If it goes on the virtual store for, like, $2, I might. [00:32:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:32] Speaker A: Just to be like, I have to. [00:32:33] Speaker D: Know, you know, it lowers the expectations because you've paid virtually nothing for it. [00:32:38] Speaker C: Yeah, sure. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:32:39] Speaker D: You know what they did say in that panel? They officially announced that Lord of the Rings will never be remade again. And I didn't know that. Did you know that before? [00:32:49] Speaker A: No. [00:32:50] Speaker C: There's been rumors going around that they want to redo the movies, which is, like, way too soon. [00:32:55] Speaker D: There's a huge contract. Like the family, the production. [00:32:59] Speaker C: Oh, good. [00:32:59] Speaker D: They will. It will never be remade. [00:33:01] Speaker C: They're perfect. [00:33:02] Speaker A: When do we get the Lord of the Rings? Special edition with extra aliens? [00:33:07] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Honestly, they remade it. Like, give me some tom bombadil and adjust the. The ghosts at the very end. I can't remember their names. [00:33:19] Speaker B: Oh, the ghosts. Are you talking about the cursed? Yes. [00:33:25] Speaker A: The people who didn't answer the call. [00:33:29] Speaker C: From Acotar with green dead men of Dunharrow. Sleepless night. [00:33:34] Speaker D: Dunharrow. [00:33:35] Speaker B: I was gonna say Dunedain, and I was like, that's not the word. [00:33:37] Speaker A: It's not the Dunedine. What are the Dunedain. [00:33:40] Speaker B: Dunharu? [00:33:42] Speaker C: I think so. [00:33:42] Speaker D: Dunedain. Dunedain is his family line. [00:33:45] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't think they were Dunedain. Word. The Dunharrow. High clifftop overlooking hold of Dunharrow. [00:33:54] Speaker A: The dead of Dunharrow. Yeah. [00:33:55] Speaker C: Dead men. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Refuge. [00:33:57] Speaker A: Oathbreakers. [00:33:59] Speaker C: So many names. [00:34:01] Speaker D: Ghosts that we want to edit in the future. [00:34:03] Speaker A: They're numenorean. [00:34:04] Speaker B: Wait, so why didn't you like those dead duns for me? [00:34:10] Speaker A: The way they came in at the very end and just sweep everything. It was like, cool. So all you guys had to do was hold them off from getting to the white city. And now everyone's dead. It was very, like, we just. Anakin destroyed the station. Now all the battle droids are dropping. That's that. Like that to me, I was like, I would have liked them to come in and actually, like, if they'd come in and just been like, throats and just killing, that'd be one thing, but instead, just a bubble in my throat. Instead, it was just like, here's a wave that's only hurting the bad guys. And to me, I felt like, you. [00:34:49] Speaker C: Want some close ups of it. [00:34:50] Speaker A: I want them to turn the tide of battle. I don't want them to just end it. [00:34:54] Speaker D: Be the reason the battle ended. Yeah. [00:34:56] Speaker B: Yeah. To me, it seems like they took a lot of. Of what happened in Return of the king and tried to, like, shorten it. Because there's just so much that goes on in that book. [00:35:06] Speaker D: Right. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:07] Speaker B: From, like, the end with going back to the shire. Like, I was really bummed that didn't happen. [00:35:14] Speaker D: You're right. I have not thought about the enslaved Hobbit so long. [00:35:20] Speaker A: I wouldn't mind a series that exclusively was like, and here's the enslaved Hobbit story. [00:35:26] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [00:35:27] Speaker A: Like, that'd be a fun. That'd be a fun, not chill version of the Shire game. Like, let's just. [00:35:35] Speaker D: You have to, like, go through a door. [00:35:36] Speaker B: What if this game is actually that you're like, tales of the Shire starts all out cute and happy, and all of a sudden, Saruman pops out. [00:35:48] Speaker D: Fire. [00:35:48] Speaker A: You play as Saruman, and it's actually just a farming simulator. And you're just like, go do it. No. Your Hobbit's feeder bleeding. What do you do? Give them bandages? Tell them to tough it out. Your product yield will go this much. [00:36:05] Speaker D: That's amazing. [00:36:05] Speaker A: Maximize profits. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:09] Speaker A: But I would have liked to. I don't know. Tom Bombadil, for me is where the book I had to stop in fellowship of the ring. This is, of course, when I was 14 years old. But I was like, I can't. Literally. The characters are falling asleep. Everyone is falling asleep here. And Nicole always gets on me for this. She has a whole shirt that says, I believe in Tom Bombadil. [00:36:30] Speaker D: Yeah, I love it. [00:36:31] Speaker A: And she's like, but Tom Bombadil's like, the God of the forest. And I'm like, yeah. And he's so boring that even the characters can't stay awake. Like, I don't. We get it. He's gone, Junior. Move on. [00:36:45] Speaker C: Yeah. Those books are my next. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Has a fun song, but he has fun. [00:36:49] Speaker C: He's a fun dude. [00:36:51] Speaker A: I like to party as much as the next guy, but I don't know that I need to tell three day long stories with my weird. [00:36:58] Speaker C: That's why we have a podcast. Yeah. [00:37:02] Speaker A: Tom Bombidal is just a podcaster. And that's why he's so tall today. We have hobbits on and we're talking about the leaves. [00:37:10] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:37:12] Speaker A: So Bilbo leaves. What's up with that? [00:37:17] Speaker D: Bilbo just puts the ring on and leaves. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Can we. Can we pull that clip up? Can we pull that clip up, please? [00:37:25] Speaker C: Yeah. So those books are next on my list of audiobooks because I have the Andy Serkis. The Andy circus red books. Yeah. So I did. I did the Silmarillion first, which was a choice. [00:37:35] Speaker D: You did that without the in hand? [00:37:38] Speaker C: Uh huh. [00:37:39] Speaker B: How did that go? [00:37:40] Speaker C: It was 21 hours, so. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Oh, no. He did that with the. The Andy Serkis version. [00:37:45] Speaker D: Okay. [00:37:45] Speaker B: But still, how did that go? [00:37:47] Speaker C: It was cool as hell. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Some. [00:37:49] Speaker C: But, like, the first, because the first book that they were. The first part of the book that he read was the letter from the. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Editor that parts great. [00:37:56] Speaker C: It was cool. And it was like. It was like, oh, here's the prologue here. It's just a letter, but it was an hour, hour and a half chapter. It was great, though. It was so good. It was fascinating. [00:38:05] Speaker B: Wow. [00:38:05] Speaker A: I love his letter to his editor that they also include. And Andy Serkis does a voice for J. R. R. Tolkien. That is not his narration voice, but it's like a voice explaining why the samaritan is, like, important. [00:38:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:24] Speaker A: And it's just this, like, eight page letter he sent to be like, listen, we need this. This is important. Here's the whole lore of everything summarized. And it kind of spoils a lot of the book a little bit. [00:38:36] Speaker D: But, yeah, if you're listening, maybe it's good that it's. I feel like that book, I needed it to be in hand. [00:38:43] Speaker C: I kind of wished it would because there are some times where I'd be driving around because that's where I listen to my audiobooks. And then I'd be, you know, focusing on the road. And then, like, get back to it. I'm like, wait, what happened? Like, rewind it a little bit. [00:38:55] Speaker D: Probably the entire series is like that. [00:38:56] Speaker C: Yeah, but it's. It's. I. I've been so spoiled for so long with Mark Thompson and the Star wars audiobooks because it's, you know, there's the sound effects and the music and then. I really wish they would have done that with the Lord of the Rings books with him. It's just him reading, and it's great. But it's just like, oh, I'm. [00:39:16] Speaker D: I'm just like, wookie sounds in the background. Or, like. [00:39:21] Speaker C: The best part is if, like, in the Star wars books, if they're in a spaceship and they're going in space and they're just talking, you hear the rumble of the engines. [00:39:28] Speaker D: Yes. [00:39:29] Speaker C: And. [00:39:35] Speaker D: It'S every. Yeah, I love that about the audiobooks in Star wars. So, I guess. [00:39:39] Speaker C: But. So I made it through cimmerillion, and it was. It was good. There was a lot. It was dense. It was really good. Went through the Hobbit. I'm like, cool. Okay, I need a break. Let me go back to my Star wars stuff now and then. There's just been so many Star wars books coming out lately between the high Republic and I guess the current level of stuff. So, like, Rise of the red blade came out last summer, and then I did. Or I'm in the middle of the new one, the living force. So I'm going through that. And. Yeah, that's been pretty good. [00:40:06] Speaker B: That's awesome. How are you liking that book? [00:40:08] Speaker C: It's really good so far. I really like the author because he did a lot of the expanding universe stuff. [00:40:14] Speaker A: Who is it? [00:40:14] Speaker C: John Jackson Miller. [00:40:15] Speaker A: Oh, John Jackson Miller did a new dawn, didn't he? [00:40:18] Speaker C: Yeah. So he also did a new dawn. So he's written in both the Hera. [00:40:20] Speaker A: Which is really cool Canaan book. That was my very first Star wars audiobook. [00:40:24] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:40:25] Speaker A: That was my intro. I made Mark Thompson sign my copy, actually. [00:40:29] Speaker D: Oh. [00:40:29] Speaker A: Cause I kept running into him at Wondercon. I always. It was so weird. [00:40:33] Speaker D: Not, I've never made Mark Thompson do anything. [00:40:35] Speaker B: I've never seen Mark Thompson. I'm so jealous. [00:40:38] Speaker A: We see him all the time, like. [00:40:40] Speaker C: Six or seven times in one day. And it got to a point where it's like, dude, we swear we're not following you, man. [00:40:47] Speaker A: Like, I'll walk past him in, like, a booth or something, and I'll be like, a wild Mark Thompson appears. And, like, he'll turn and be like, hey. And like, it's. He knows it's us to the point where now if we see, we would like, well, not now because it's been like a year. But, like, by the end of the con, if we make eye contact, he's like, that's neat. [00:41:06] Speaker C: But Bryce also, like, we, we were on our way to go. [00:41:10] Speaker A: We were going to California fish grill, and we were talking about the, the jizz movement and all about jizz. And we were walking past and I was like, I'm pretty sure that was Mark Thompson. Yeah, another Mark Thompson sighting. And then I was like, I kind of want to stop him and ask him if he'll sign my book, but I don't want to bother him. [00:41:28] Speaker C: I'm like, dude, just go. Like, we see, we keep seeing him. We're friends now. Just go. [00:41:32] Speaker A: Just go. And, like, at some point, got a trading card of himself, like, made. And he, like, gave it to me early on in the con. He's like, for people who actually recognize who I am, and I'm like, oh, this is amazing. This is great. So I was like, hey, me again. [00:41:45] Speaker C: So you turned around and ran back. [00:41:46] Speaker A: I did. I had, I had to book it to get back to him. [00:41:49] Speaker C: Like, if you don't go now, like, you're gonna miss him. You gotta run. [00:41:52] Speaker A: You're right. This was celebration. [00:41:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:53] Speaker A: Yeah. This was celebration at Anaheim convention center. [00:41:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:57] Speaker A: They blur together because, you know, Anaheim convention center, spring. So I run back. I talked to him briefly. Like, I tried really. I don't, I don't like gushing, obviously, when I, when I meet people who, you know, it's their job and as somebody who also works in the industry. I'm pretty good at not gushing. When I met Steve Bloom, I was like, I have to gush for, like, 30 seconds. As soon as that's done, we're good. And then we talked for, like, 20 minutes. That. But that was at Comic Con years ago. But with Mark Thompson, I was like, hey, like, I know I run into you, and we chit chat, you know, in booths or whatever, but, like, you were actually my very first Star wars narrator, and it was this book. Would you mind signing this? And we chatted a little bit about his thrawn. I. I don't know what compelled me to do it, but I did my impression of thrawn, which I will say is actually pretty good. [00:42:45] Speaker C: Pretty good. [00:42:45] Speaker A: And. But I'm all excited. My voice is all too high. Now, the line I used was because when Brian. Brian got passed over for a promotion, like, years ago at a job he hated, and it worked out. [00:43:00] Speaker C: I ended up working on mandalorian season two because of it. So it worked. [00:43:03] Speaker A: It was a very good thing. But I called him. All right. I recorded a speech I wrote because I was in the middle of reading Tim Zahn's first thrawn book in the current canon. Like, I made a whole speech to Brian about circumnavigating the. Circumnavigating the chain of command or something. And so, like, I called him. I put. Or I put the theme song from rebels for Thrawn with, like, the organ over it. And then I just sent Brian, casually, this audio clip of, like, admiral thrawn being, like, circumnavigating the chain of command requires forbearance. And as soon as I paused on the requires forbearance, which, when I'm not, like, hyper and excited, my voice is actually considerably lower than this, and I have proper breathing technique. It actually sounds better. I promise. Let me see. I'm gonna see if I can do it one more time. I'm excited. [00:43:58] Speaker D: Sorry. [00:43:59] Speaker A: My heartbeat right now is allegedly 80, which I don't buy it. [00:44:03] Speaker C: Coffee. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Coffee. Circumnavigating the chain of command requires forbearance. Nope, still not coming out. [00:44:11] Speaker C: It's fine. [00:44:12] Speaker A: No worries. [00:44:13] Speaker D: Anyway, you can't do anything like that. So great job. No, I can't either. [00:44:16] Speaker A: But as soon as I stopped on the like requires forbearance. That's, like, such a thrawn thing that Mark Thompson does throughout that entire book of pausing before he chooses the right word. And he and all the guys around him started busting up and I was like, cool. This wasn't weird. Yeah. Thanks for not letting it be weird, guys. Yeah. [00:44:39] Speaker C: And then he comes running back like, guys, guys. [00:44:40] Speaker A: I got it. I did my impression, and it wasn't embarrassing at all. No one cringe. [00:44:47] Speaker C: Yeah, that was good. That was a good day. [00:44:49] Speaker A: It was a good day. That was such a great con. And at that con, we discovered the s'mores at. [00:44:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:54] Speaker A: The Marriott, which is what we do. [00:44:56] Speaker C: We met you guys. [00:44:57] Speaker D: Yeah, that's where we're met. Except not really, because there was a weird Instagram story. [00:45:04] Speaker A: Oh, my God. All right, we might as well talk about how this happened. So Brian and I have been. For those of you listening at home, Brian and I have been slowly expanding our Instagram network. What have you. And Brian had made friends with stacks rebo through, I think, London celebration, right? [00:45:29] Speaker C: No, I think it was. I think it was through here. [00:45:30] Speaker A: Was it through Wondercon? [00:45:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:32] Speaker A: How did you know? You saw her celebration? [00:45:34] Speaker C: We saw her on stage get up and do her dance dresses. Max rebox. [00:45:39] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:45:41] Speaker A: So, my bad. So we were talking, and we were hoping at some point to run into her, and then Brian was like, I think they're here. I think they're in the lobby, like, here with us. Like, at the. The cafe restaurant, whatever. You posted a picture. [00:45:57] Speaker C: I'm like, that's like. [00:45:59] Speaker A: And it was a picture of Frankie with freaking salacious crumb, like, on her head. Like, this weird salacious crumb hat that is, like, this rubberized plastic thing. [00:46:11] Speaker C: It looks really good. [00:46:12] Speaker A: It's super cool. But it's. It's so, like, very. Like, it's. You can't deny it's you. You can't. There was no way. And so I, like, walk over just looking, and I see this salacious chrome hat, and I'm like, how do I start this introduction? [00:46:26] Speaker D: Well, and I saw you, and Rachel had salacious crumb on her head at the moment, and I was Hera, and you were. Rachel was ray, and so Rachel had salacious, and I just saw you stare and then look at your phone and then stare, but then you were like, that's not who's in the picture. [00:46:43] Speaker A: I'm like, maybe I've made a mistake. Wait a minute. How many salacious crumb hats are going. [00:46:47] Speaker D: Around this con right now with the exact wall? Because none of us had moved. [00:46:51] Speaker A: So finally I walk up, and it's the weirdest way to say it, but I just show Frankie the phone, and I'm like, is this you? Have you seen this boy? Anyway, so I show the picture. And she's kind of like, yes. How? Yes. Who are you? [00:47:09] Speaker D: Yeah, that was a good night. My favorite part about that was because you all were like, oh, yeah. We recognize the wall in the background. And I turned around, I was like. Like, it's just like a. [00:47:18] Speaker A: It's a fucking wall. [00:47:20] Speaker D: Like a green wall. [00:47:22] Speaker A: There was. But, I mean, there was a green wall with a U and a salacious crumb hat, which was just 3ft away from you. Now. [00:47:30] Speaker B: Who else has green walls, right? [00:47:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Not I. [00:47:36] Speaker D: No, that was. That was a good time. That was amazing. I'm like, mind you, I was 100% sober. [00:47:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:44] Speaker A: Same like, I had. I don't think I'd had. Oh, I guess I'd had r1, but I was not. Yeah, yeah. And I'm just sitting there like, I. Okay, look, this is weird, but, like, we know each other from the Internet. How do I convince you that we aren't, like, complete strangers? It worked out, but it wasn't by far, my least graceful. It was certainly less graceful than my introduction to Mark Thompson. I'll put it that way. [00:48:11] Speaker B: Well, it makes you feel better. I didn't hear a thing because it was so loud. [00:48:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:18] Speaker B: And I was just kind of like, what is happening? [00:48:21] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, yeah. I had the ear covers on. I was listening to Sandy and Stephanie, and I was just like, uh huh. Yeah. [00:48:33] Speaker A: Oh, because of your hero. [00:48:34] Speaker D: Because I was in my hair goggles, I couldn't hear anything. [00:48:39] Speaker A: So I just show you a picture of yourself, and you're like, why? [00:48:42] Speaker D: When you were next to me, I heard you. But when you went across the table, like, I think you came back, like, there was a couple interactions. [00:48:49] Speaker C: He went because I was back at our other table, because we had, like, there's probably, like, eight or nine of us that were at the other table. And the s'mores finally came after, like, 30 minutes after we ordered them. [00:48:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:00] Speaker C: Wow. And after I ordered him. So I kept having to go back to the bar and be like, hey, man, do I need to go back there and help out? And just like, graham crackers on a. [00:49:08] Speaker D: Tray, like, hey, man, we all know how this works. It's just a marshmallow. [00:49:11] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Shouldn't it cut up the apples, too, or, you know, all help. It's fine. [00:49:16] Speaker A: I've seen the bear. I can do it. Yes, chef. [00:49:18] Speaker D: See the bear corner? [00:49:20] Speaker A: I can make a smart corner. [00:49:23] Speaker C: Cousin, where you at? But, yeah. So, like, I remember Bryce was gone for a little bit, and I kept having to go back and forth and we were just hanging out, and then he finally came back. He's like, they were cool as hell. And I'm like, wow, you're there for a while. Yeah, it must be. [00:49:34] Speaker D: Aw. [00:49:35] Speaker C: Yeah. And then we were getting ready to leave because we were all getting hungry. Like, oh, we still haven't actually eaten. [00:49:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:42] Speaker C: And then I'm like, no. Like, I still want to meet everybody. [00:49:44] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Because we had to go to the mannequin restaurant. [00:49:46] Speaker B: Yes. [00:49:47] Speaker D: That was the conversation I couldn't hear at all. I just kept hearing the word mannequin. [00:49:51] Speaker B: And I was so confused. Like, what is a mannequin at this restaurant? Like, why would you go there? [00:49:57] Speaker A: We go there because he treats us well, and he gave us free nachos that night. [00:50:02] Speaker D: I saw that on the. On the social. [00:50:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:50:05] Speaker C: That's one of our favorite. [00:50:06] Speaker A: That was how we became friends. And then I was like, wait, I gotta get Brian and introduce. Hang on, Brian, come back. We have to go have another one of these weird conversations. I have to make sure that this first impression is as strange as possible. [00:50:17] Speaker D: I just remembered that I had no words. [00:50:21] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:50:23] Speaker D: Also, my favorite part, other than you just showing me a picture of me, was at the very end because you. You had known about the other podcasts, and then we were, like, sitting and talking, and you all were, like, a minute away from leaving, and someone's like, well, do you follow their podcast, which is bitches of death and me? [00:50:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:50:38] Speaker D: Cause we, like, buried the lead on. [00:50:40] Speaker A: That because we've been talking about all the cool things you guys do with saving birds and swimming with sharks and stuff. [00:50:45] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, oh, yeah, we have a high republic podcast. We're like, oh, shit, you do? [00:50:52] Speaker A: Because we just. We had. We have just started ours, you know, two months ago. At that point, it was, like, couple weeks old. [00:50:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:59] Speaker B: Oh, that's awesome. [00:51:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:01] Speaker A: And then, you know, you said that it was like, oh, my God. Like, because it's such. It's such a niche thing that when we first started, we were like, okay, where are the, like, main high Republic ones? And we'd listen to a couple of them. We were like, okay, we know what's already being done. Like, we know that there's a few out here. What have you. And then when we heard yours, because I went, I think I listened to. I think, like, that Monday, I. At least I was on my way to. And I was like, I have to know. I have to know. And then I listened, and I was like, oh, my God. Brian, they're us. [00:51:34] Speaker C: They're basically us. [00:51:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. We're so excited. We're so excited. Can we be friends? [00:51:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:38] Speaker B: I love it. [00:51:39] Speaker D: Also, we did decide that this is a neutral term, but we just say high Republic girlies, and everyone is included in the word girlies. [00:51:47] Speaker C: I dig it. [00:51:49] Speaker A: I would love to be a high republic girly with you. [00:51:51] Speaker D: You are. You are a high republic girly, because stars is for everyone. [00:51:55] Speaker C: Yeah. Yes. [00:51:56] Speaker A: Hundred percent. [00:51:56] Speaker D: And when we went to celebration last year in London, that's where we met our, like, international crew of high Republic. And that. Did you go to any. Did you see any of that when you were there, Brian? [00:52:07] Speaker C: The high Republic stuff? No, and the only thing I saw were just random people in high Republic garb. I was like, hell, yeah. [00:52:17] Speaker D: There was a lot of niche phase two things. So if you weren't on phase two, like, you had to be in the moment, but there was a whole crew of people who just dressed up as basically the book of convergence, which is so fun. [00:52:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm almost done. I'm 82%. [00:52:31] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. [00:52:33] Speaker A: I understand the scorpion thing now. [00:52:35] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:52:35] Speaker D: Yay. [00:52:36] Speaker B: When I handed that to you, I. [00:52:37] Speaker D: Was like, man, that was really weird, but I'll figure it out. [00:52:40] Speaker A: So he had just, like, kicked one off, and they talked about how one was poison and one was not and that she was, you know, of the file fire scorpion. So, like, I knew vaguely that it was related, but, like, like, the next. [00:52:55] Speaker C: Two days, you came up, like, I totally get it now. [00:52:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Like, I was reading it, and I was like, yeah. Oh, my God. Cuz, like, within the week, like, so many scorpion related things were happening in the book. [00:53:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:53:08] Speaker C: And then I read the book right when it came out, so it's been a little bit. And I'm like, it sounds really familiar, but, like, I can't quite pinpoint it. And he was so fresh on it. You explained the whole thing. I'm like, oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. [00:53:18] Speaker A: And I've already read path of deceit, so, like, I'm very familiar with the path of the open hand and the mother and all that stuff, because convergence is so. It's. It's another one of those instances where it's like, here's where this book start. This is a podcast. I'm overlaying my hands, and here's where this book is. And sometimes they're real close, and sometimes they're not. [00:53:37] Speaker C: And, yeah, Republic loves to do that, especially phase one. [00:53:42] Speaker A: Phase one, they to a fault. [00:53:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:53:44] Speaker A: Anyway, so that somebody, they dressed up as the book convergence. So somebody was Axel. And somebody was there an axel? [00:53:52] Speaker D: I don't remember. [00:53:53] Speaker C: Somebody. [00:53:54] Speaker D: There was no font Axel. [00:53:56] Speaker B: I know he is. [00:53:57] Speaker D: There wasn't an axel. No, there was. It was font or fantastic. And he was under all the scorpions and Ziri. It was very. That person gave everyone. Yeah, exactly. So that cosplayer gave scorpions to everyone. And I actually hadn't put on that outfit since celebration last year, so I found the scorpion in my pocket. [00:54:21] Speaker A: Wait a minute. So that's a scorpion from a font whose zen you regarded it gift freely excited me given. I'm so honestly, I feel I actually love it even more now. My international scorpion. Scorpion. It's sitting, it's right behind Brian. It's on the desk right there. It's in the little wooden thing there. It's in the wooden piece of wood. [00:54:46] Speaker C: Oh, up top. I'm like, let me pull my. No, it's, it's wireless. [00:54:51] Speaker B: I might even find that photo, too. [00:54:54] Speaker C: Yeah, this guy. [00:54:55] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. Anyway, she was just handing them out. Or the fontu. [00:55:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:00] Speaker A: I want to be Axel Greylark. That sounds like a blast, right? [00:55:03] Speaker C: You pulled off easy. [00:55:04] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:55:05] Speaker A: There was a line in, this is such a tangent, but I have wanted to tell somebody about it. I almost messaged you online, actually, when it happened. You can always message, but there was a line where the ship is going down. And he's like, I'm a good pilot, but I'm not that good. And Fantuzen is like, well, look at you. You finally learned a little bit of humility. And he goes, oh, and my inappropriate sense of humor is finally rubbed off on you as well. [00:55:35] Speaker D: Oh, you have so much to read. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And then like, two, like three days later, after laughing hysterically and being like, that's it. Axel Greylack's the best. It's like, oh, Axel Greylock talking to the mother. And I'm like, why would you do this to me, Axel? Why? Chaos? [00:55:54] Speaker C: Why? Big time. [00:55:58] Speaker B: It's so good. [00:55:59] Speaker A: Yeah, he just got, he just took the stinger to the chest. And I was falling asleep listening to it, and then I woke up and I'm like, oh, four chapters have passed. I really need to go backwards. But I'm like, right there at the end. [00:56:14] Speaker B: Here's that cosplayer. [00:56:16] Speaker A: Oh, sick. [00:56:17] Speaker C: I totally missed it. [00:56:19] Speaker D: How did you find them? [00:56:19] Speaker A: Oh, they're so huge. [00:56:21] Speaker B: They're massive. And then the two of them together. [00:56:23] Speaker A: You didn't tell me they're as big as my face. [00:56:25] Speaker C: Oh, that's cool. [00:56:28] Speaker B: Love it. [00:56:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:29] Speaker D: She's just the mound of a Scorpion. [00:56:32] Speaker A: She is. [00:56:32] Speaker D: She's in the font. You. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:56:38] Speaker B: Zeri's wedding dress is supposed to be, like, a reddish color. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:56:42] Speaker D: Because that was a fanfic drawing. Right. And then they created the fanfic drawing. [00:56:47] Speaker C: That's cool. Yeah, yeah. I definitely saw some high republic people walking around, and then definitely for the panel, I was in there for that. [00:56:56] Speaker D: That was when they were so shocked how many people were in the room. [00:56:59] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. It was so rad. Yeah. [00:57:03] Speaker A: I went to the high republic panel at celebration they had. Yeah. In Anaheim, and this is a Wondercon podcast in case anybody was losing track at home. [00:57:14] Speaker D: But there was a geode cosplay stop in 2022. [00:57:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:21] Speaker D: And it wasn't han in carbonite. [00:57:24] Speaker A: No, it was a giant. It was a geode like board that they had handles on, and these two guys just shuffled it around. [00:57:31] Speaker C: It was so good. [00:57:32] Speaker A: Claudia Gray was losing her mind. [00:57:34] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:57:37] Speaker D: I don't remember that. [00:57:39] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:57:40] Speaker A: I didn't know any. Like, I had only read the first couple of comics at that point. [00:57:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:45] Speaker A: And then they're like, let's throw the splash page up. And spoilers for everybody who's listening to our other podcast and isn't fully caught up. There's just the starlight beacon on fire, and I'm like. And then they, like, show the nameless, and I'm like, I don't know what any of this is, but I absolutely am down to read now. Thank you. Yes. This is. This is one of those rare times that I actually really benefited from. [00:58:08] Speaker D: The spoilers had come out January 2021, and. Okay, okay, okay. Because I started. Rachel, you started pretty much when the. When the book came out. But I read light of the Jedi in June 2021. [00:58:20] Speaker B: Yeah. I read the book when it first came out, and then. But the comics came out around the same time, too. I was doing, like, the first week or two. [00:58:26] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been. Yeah, I've been in since the beginning too. [00:58:30] Speaker D: It's so fun. [00:58:31] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:58:32] Speaker A: I read the comic when it came out, and then I was like, cool. I know what this era is about, but there's a book. I guess I'll read the book. Yeah. Like, at that point, it was like, cool opening ceremony. [00:58:44] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:58:45] Speaker A: Trandoshan, Jedi Nito. [00:58:49] Speaker D: Yeah, I know. [00:58:50] Speaker B: That first comic is, like, so calm in comparison to everything else. [00:58:55] Speaker D: Jedi knight trials. [00:58:57] Speaker C: Yep. [00:58:58] Speaker A: Great. [00:58:59] Speaker B: Okay. [00:58:59] Speaker A: Oh, look here. He has not changed. [00:59:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:03] Speaker D: You can just cut this whole segment and just put it in the other. [00:59:05] Speaker C: I was thinking that, like, yeah, bonus episode. [00:59:10] Speaker A: Anyway, back to Wondercon. You guys cosplayed at Wondercon, and neither Brian and I have. I mean, I've cosplayed, like, once or twice. I cosplayed in the early two thousands at anime Expo, and I cosplayed with Nicole. Yeah, one day. No, I wasn't able to because it was, it ended up being just nicole. I couldn't because I was. No way I was gonna wear Wurtz cloak at San Diego. [00:59:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:37] Speaker A: I was like, I'm not putting this fleece blanket on me in 90 degree weather. It was a really hot year. It was just before we started having, you know, flood California instead. That was back during dry California. So what was, I mean, we've had cosplayers on before, but, like, what was cosplaying like this year, given that, given the weather and given the population? Because I feel like part of the problem with. Part of the reason that I, that cosplaying is kind of daunting for me is how often you get stopped. [01:00:04] Speaker D: Oh. [01:00:05] Speaker A: And I feel like that happens more when there's more people, but maybe it happens less. It depends on. Yeah, it depends on what I'm there. [01:00:13] Speaker B: For, but, like, and it depends on the cosplay. Ray doesn't get much love. I will admit that, like, it's very rare that someone will come up to me, and if they do, there tend to be, like, little girls or other cosplayers. Other cosplayers. I know. I love the little girls. They're so cute. There's this one that I see every year at Wondercon, and it's just magical. And then the other ones that stopped me tend to be the kylo Ren cosplayers. [01:00:38] Speaker C: Makes sense. [01:00:40] Speaker D: The first year I did Hera was, when was that wonder? That must have been Wondercon 2022 or celebration. Pick one. I don't know. Same three week period. [01:00:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:52] Speaker B: I think it was celebration. [01:00:53] Speaker D: Celebration. People looked at me and they were like, oh. But then once they figured out that I was, like, a Disney bound of hera, then they were like, holy cow, you've changed the game for, like, the hair up cosplay, because it was either, like, your full Twilik and you've got the cool laku, you've got the whole green skin. Yeah. Or there was, like, just the nice touch. And then I started seeing more and more of the hera bound. But that timeline came out as Hera became Hera in live action. I've noticed way more, way more hera. [01:01:26] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:01:27] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Definitely. [01:01:28] Speaker B: It could also be that more people are watching rebels because of the live action and are now knowing who hera. [01:01:34] Speaker A: Well, yeah. When you tell everybody, hey, watch this new show, and it's secretly season five. [01:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:01:40] Speaker A: Oh, wait, there's four more of this. I can get chopper every episode. [01:01:43] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [01:01:44] Speaker D: Yes. So that's always fun. And I get a lot of compliments because people don't. They're intimidated by going full Twilik. [01:01:52] Speaker C: Mm hmm. [01:01:52] Speaker D: So that's always really nice. What's funny is that I don't even super love that outfit, but I have fun in it. [01:01:59] Speaker C: Nice. That's what it's about. [01:02:01] Speaker D: Yeah. And then, Rachel, did you. You only went once. One outfit this year. [01:02:05] Speaker B: Yeah, one I did. [01:02:06] Speaker D: This year I did. I went path of the open hand, kind of the niche. Phase two, high republic. [01:02:12] Speaker C: Right. [01:02:13] Speaker D: Just a cult member. I wasn't even. [01:02:14] Speaker C: Anyone in particular still worked really well. [01:02:18] Speaker D: Rachel and I did that for celebration last year where we met all of the, like, folks who played anyone from the past, like the mother, Marta, Yana, a couple other people. But we just heckled in the entire great hall of celebration. The force will be free, and people just either gave us nasty eye. Anyone who was nice to us or said nice things, they got a gift from us. [01:02:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:02:41] Speaker D: Gifts freely given. But other people, they were like, what con are you here for? [01:02:46] Speaker A: I'm so bummed. [01:02:47] Speaker C: I missed you guys. Or, I mean, I missed, like, a lot of the higher public people. I definitely saw them walking around, but I wasn't there for the meetup. Or I think we just walked by to get food as the meetup was finishing up, and I was like, damn it. [01:03:00] Speaker D: Okay, so the. The meetup was actually at the same time as the Clone wars anniversary. [01:03:05] Speaker C: Yeah, you know what? That's what it was. We had a party to go to, and we wanted to go to the Clone wars panel. We saw people starting to gather. I was like, we got to go. Because I was. Yeah, yeah. I was. Either it was you that. And at the last. I've been to three celebrations now, and each one, I've gotten a tattoo. So I was like, oh, must have missed a few things. Walls on the table, but, yeah, yeah. [01:03:28] Speaker A: There'S a great picture of all of our celebration crew being like, oh, yeah. And Brian's, like, on his stomach, almost getting my. [01:03:35] Speaker C: My grogu on my cat. So I was, like, on my stomach, and, oh, hey, guys. Yeah, yeah. [01:03:41] Speaker A: We didn't see a lot of. Oh, go ahead. [01:03:43] Speaker D: Oh, I was gonna say back to Wondercon. Sorry. Anyway, I was solo culting around this convention that day. [01:03:51] Speaker C: Nice. [01:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah, we didn't see a lot of high republic in general because we were both on the lookout. Like, hey, if you see any higher public, take some pictures so we can put it on our Starlight archive podcast. [01:04:01] Speaker C: We saw one. [01:04:02] Speaker A: We saw Tabor. [01:04:03] Speaker C: Yeah, that's. [01:04:04] Speaker A: The only person we saw was tabor. And I thought we might be able to get a little bit more, but every other Jedi was in prequel or Skywalker era. [01:04:14] Speaker B: Who was the master from young Jedi adventures? [01:04:18] Speaker A: What? Oh, that would have been so cool. [01:04:21] Speaker B: What's her name? Master Zia. [01:04:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that's what it is. [01:04:25] Speaker D: Wasn't there a bell Zedaphar was there? [01:04:28] Speaker B: I didn't. [01:04:29] Speaker A: I think there was a bell zed afar and I. But he might have been a kai. [01:04:35] Speaker C: Oh. [01:04:36] Speaker A: Because Bell, Zedaphar and Kai are relatively similar. [01:04:40] Speaker B: And then is it lies or lise? [01:04:45] Speaker C: Liz. [01:04:46] Speaker B: Liz. [01:04:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's Liz. [01:04:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I saw Liz too. [01:04:49] Speaker C: I've only seen, like, half the episodes. [01:04:52] Speaker D: Okay. [01:04:53] Speaker A: We watch the second half. Cause that's when it starts getting really, like, tired. [01:04:56] Speaker C: We go to the Starlight beacon on the last episode. [01:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's so good. [01:04:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I think Kevin Scott wrote the one with Belle and Ember and Solomaru shows up so badass. [01:05:06] Speaker B: I know, it made me cry. [01:05:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Salamaru I don't have. [01:05:12] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess there wasn't a lot this time around. [01:05:16] Speaker A: My niece loves Spidey and his amazing friends, which is very much the same animation style kind of thing. [01:05:24] Speaker D: Okay. [01:05:24] Speaker A: So when I go visit her, I'm like, hey, we're gonna watch Star wars. [01:05:27] Speaker C: I'll do that with my nephews. [01:05:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like. I know you'll like it. Literally just like Spider man. Yeah. [01:05:32] Speaker B: And does she? [01:05:34] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, she doesn't watch shit as far as I know, without me. But, like, her avatar on our Disney plus account is Spider man right now. So she's pretty hardcore. [01:05:44] Speaker D: Stat. [01:05:45] Speaker C: Oh. [01:05:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:05:46] Speaker C: Gotta love nubs. Speaking of nubs, I'm excited for the free comic book day coming out, cuz it's nubs in court. [01:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:53] Speaker C: On the COVID So, girl, of course it's May 4. [01:05:58] Speaker D: Mm hmm. Free. [01:05:58] Speaker C: That's gonna be it. That's gonna be fourth. Yeah. Comic book days this year. [01:06:02] Speaker A: It's May 4. It happens every couple of years. That freak. It's the first weekend of May, so. [01:06:06] Speaker C: That'S gonna be a busy day. Yeah, let's go to the hideout. Okay. [01:06:12] Speaker B: I might be able to pick you up a copy. I think I can. [01:06:14] Speaker D: Okay. [01:06:15] Speaker C: We could. [01:06:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I got. Yeah. [01:06:21] Speaker C: The comic book shop. We go to, comic book hideout in fortune. That's our crew. [01:06:25] Speaker B: Nice. [01:06:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:27] Speaker A: Anyway, speaking of, I gotta go record a promo with them this week. Yeah, I do all their. I do, like, a lot of their video content, and I'm gonna have to start doing a lot more of it soon because their current video guy is in film school, and he's coming up on finals and stuff, so he's getting busier and busier, which means I get more opportunities to hang out. Yeah, but. Okay, we've covered cosplay. We've covered. [01:06:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I got one. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Panels. [01:06:54] Speaker C: Did you guys pick up any merch or buy anything while you're over there? Any cool figures or. [01:06:59] Speaker D: Yes, tell us. I got. Not a lot, but I got my first funko pop, which is of Maz Kanata. I think funko pops are incredibly creepy. [01:07:11] Speaker C: I've never been super into them. I have a decent amount. I have a good amount, but, like, I never run out to get them. Cause I'm like, the beady eyes are weird to me. [01:07:18] Speaker D: Yes. [01:07:19] Speaker A: My general rule is if it's not a human. [01:07:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:22] Speaker A: Or if it's wearing a mask. So, like, I have bo Katan and Mando and Boba Fett. [01:07:27] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Yeah. [01:07:29] Speaker A: I also have almost every Ahsoka pop. [01:07:32] Speaker D: Oh. [01:07:32] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:07:33] Speaker A: Because when Ashley Eckstein was first starting her universe, she went by the her universe booth and signed, like, every single Ahsoka pop. And they were going for, like, $20. [01:07:45] Speaker B: Wow. [01:07:45] Speaker A: And $20 for a pop at all is, like, usually a decent amount if it's, like, rare or whatever, but, like, with a signature, I was like, yeah, I'll grab that. And then somewhere along the line, I saw another one, and I was like, sure. And now there's, like, seven of them that they're just in my little stack of fun. [01:08:03] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. You can kind of see mine. Mine are all above Bryce and the bookshelf right there. Most of them. [01:08:08] Speaker B: Oh, cool. [01:08:09] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:08:10] Speaker A: Next to Steve Bloom's signature, which is also friend. [01:08:13] Speaker D: Yeah, that's all I bought at Wondercon. Did you buy any things? Would you. [01:08:18] Speaker C: Yeah. So I. I always end up getting comics, and I'm. I'm almost done with my expanded universe comic collection. There's a few things I was missing from the tales of the Jedi, so I found a whole bunch of those. Paid a little more money than I wanted to but, like, they had it, and it, like, completed my collection, so, like, all. I'll treat myself. It's fine. And in the last couple of cons, we've been getting a lot of just prints. I've been getting a lot of prints. So I got a really cool x Men print. Still looking for a fancy frame for that one, but I also got a bad batch one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:08:51] Speaker A: Brian, tilt your head to the left. [01:08:54] Speaker C: My left? Oh, yeah. [01:08:56] Speaker A: That is concept art of a dilophosaurus in the gaudiest frame you could possibly imagine. [01:09:02] Speaker B: I don't know what I'm looking at. Oh, I see it now. Cool. [01:09:06] Speaker A: I went to goodwill and found, like, the most absurd frame I could find. And then I put it in there. [01:09:13] Speaker B: I love it. [01:09:14] Speaker D: Wow. That is so fantastic. You know what? I don't pay any money for frames. I don't care what they look like. [01:09:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:09:22] Speaker B: It depends on the print. For me, I have a couple prints that I will put nice frames in, but for the rest of, like, my more common, like, just going to any of these cons, I'll just put them in regular prints, like our frames. No big deal. [01:09:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:36] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [01:09:37] Speaker C: That's been my big project. Just last week is like, I went to Michael's, and I've had. I've had a couple of them just sitting in my room, just out. I'm like, no, I need to get these framed and, like, put up. So I went to Michael's the other day and, like, bought some frames, but they're the crappy ones. So the 13 by 18 prints or the frames are actually twelve by 17 and change. So, like, they don't fit. So I'd take them all back yesterday, and I found a few more that hopefully work, but, yeah. So it's been a journey this week. [01:10:02] Speaker B: A lot of the artists in artist alley of cons tend to create their prints in very odd dimensions that you can't just get a standard print and put it in. So it really sucks. [01:10:13] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, we got some really cool ones. And he was there. Wondercon. We got a bunch of his stuff at Comic Con last couple years, but his prints are, like, 13 by 16 or 19 something. [01:10:27] Speaker A: And those long, skinny frames cost a lot. [01:10:29] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. [01:10:30] Speaker D: Because you almost have to get them custom made every time. [01:10:33] Speaker C: Right? [01:10:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I have a really nice last of us poster that's signed, and it's, like $120 frame. [01:10:41] Speaker B: Wow. [01:10:41] Speaker A: And I'm like, yeah, eventually, this will not be in this drawer, but for now, this will just sit here and hopefully doesn't get touched. But, like, that dilophosaurus print actually goes beyond the dimensions of that, but because it's mostly fits in there, I was like, yeah, okay, that'll do. It's still on its plastic sleeve inside that frame. Oh, wait. [01:11:03] Speaker C: Really? [01:11:04] Speaker D: Cool. [01:11:04] Speaker A: Yeah, looks good, but it works. Anyway, Rachel, did you get anything? [01:11:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I got a variant edition of Star wars high Republic issue one from phase three. It's the one with the nameless standing over Kiev, and she looks terrified. And it's wonderful. I absolutely love it. And then I also got the Star wars omnibus by Jason Aaron and, yeah, the 2015. I have been so, like, I haven't gotten into Star wars comics until recently with, like, higher public, so I'm very far behind with the main Star wars line, Darth Vader, etcetera. And so I've been looking to try and get into it. So I saw this omnibus at Wondercon, and I was like, this is it. So, yeah, that's what's good about it. [01:11:53] Speaker D: Very excited. [01:11:54] Speaker A: Yeah, that's super cool. [01:11:56] Speaker D: Was that at the amazing comics table? [01:11:59] Speaker A: How funny would that have been? [01:12:01] Speaker B: No, because every time I ask them about if they're gonna be at Wondercon, they say that they will, but they're mostly selling hats for whatever reason. [01:12:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:10] Speaker B: And, like, a couple. [01:12:11] Speaker C: Kayla got a couple hats from there. [01:12:13] Speaker B: Amazing comics. [01:12:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:12:15] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [01:12:15] Speaker D: They have, like, a huge, weird hat stand, but, yeah, she was super. [01:12:18] Speaker C: She's like, I need to get some hats. So we're like, okay, cool. [01:12:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's funny. [01:12:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:12:26] Speaker B: No funko pops for me this year. [01:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I came close, but I did not buy any funko pops. Yeah, you did. [01:12:34] Speaker C: Look at a couple of them. [01:12:35] Speaker A: I did. Well, there wasn't a couple. There was a couple of ahsoka ones that I didn't have already, and I was like, do I need this right now? Probably not. I'm not desperate to fill up that box right now, and I don't even have them on display right now. They're just safe in a box. What I really need are funko pop box protectors. That's what I should have bought, but I did. Brian was like, hey, I found a booth that's selling higher public comics for, like, a dollar. And so I grabbed. I bought them all out. I just went through. I found every single one. I was like, cool. [01:13:02] Speaker C: Yeah, that was Sunday. So they. I bought a few on Friday that I found, actually, a couple of variants, which was nice. [01:13:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:07] Speaker C: And then I told him about it. [01:13:09] Speaker A: I got the second printing of the Halcyon legacy book. Yeah, we. [01:13:13] Speaker C: It's got burry on the. On the COVID Yeah. [01:13:15] Speaker A: It's burry argo with. But it was the black background instead of the white background. [01:13:18] Speaker C: Looks better than the white background. [01:13:19] Speaker A: So I don't know. I like them both. We have a weird. I don't want to call it a love hate relationship, but there's definitely a lot of jokes made at the expense of the Halcyon Cruz. [01:13:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:13:30] Speaker A: And just like, that whole decision. [01:13:33] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [01:13:34] Speaker A: But. So for me, there's, like, a special place because we. We used to, for a long time, our friend Reed, who has been on our Wondercon episode a couple of times, Reid and I would say we'd, like, find something, be like, oh, man, that's crazy. Because if you bought 400, like 400 of those, it would be the same cost as the halcyon cruise. [01:13:52] Speaker C: Yeah, we could. At the Halcyon cruise. Yeah. [01:13:54] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. You know what? [01:13:55] Speaker D: I am manifesting that. That whole experience just comes to LA. There's space for it. Yeah. [01:14:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Just pick one of the millions of empty buildings in Los Angeles and just put it in. [01:14:05] Speaker D: There is space on the Disney lot for it. [01:14:08] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:14:09] Speaker B: That would be so cool. [01:14:11] Speaker D: That's. That's what I'm manifesting. [01:14:13] Speaker A: If they had made it something that could be moved, I think that would have added to that gimmick in such an interesting way, too. [01:14:21] Speaker B: Like a travel place to place. And you, as the halcyon is traveling through space. [01:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's like, oh, yeah, we're. Look, we're replicating, though, because they have that room that replicates the nearby planets, like fauna and flora. [01:14:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:35] Speaker A: And it's just an outdoor garden area kind of thing. [01:14:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:39] Speaker A: But it, like, it'd be cool because in Florida, you're gonna get something different than you might get in, like, California or if you did it in, I don't know, Chicago or Tokyo or whatever. Yeah. Like, it'd be cool to have done that, but you have to. The cost of moving it would be so much, but it would also kind of be justified by the cost to go there instead. [01:15:02] Speaker D: It's true. [01:15:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:04] Speaker A: But, yeah. [01:15:05] Speaker B: So did either of you go? [01:15:07] Speaker C: No. [01:15:07] Speaker A: No, no. [01:15:08] Speaker D: Okay. [01:15:08] Speaker C: And then at the time, I was working for Disney and I thought they'd like, oh, maybe I'll get a discount. Nope. [01:15:13] Speaker A: No, they wouldn't discount anything. [01:15:14] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it was. And then even when they cut the price, it was still crazy expensive, so. [01:15:19] Speaker D: We were like, no, unfortunately. Yeah. The people that were going were still paying that price, so. [01:15:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:25] Speaker A: Or they were. Because they were influencers who are being asked to go. [01:15:29] Speaker D: That's a good point. [01:15:30] Speaker C: So they got free. Those bitches must be fucking nice. [01:15:36] Speaker A: So we did get. Or I did get one book that I've been searching for, for literally years. I have the dark horse. Clone wars. [01:15:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:15:48] Speaker A: And there's nine of them. And I finally found book seven, like, eight months ago. It was. I found book five books, and it was like, book five, book seven, and book eight and book five and book eight were between five and $10. And book seven they wanted $80 for. [01:16:07] Speaker C: It's called book off. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we go all the time. [01:16:11] Speaker A: Yeah, we're great. I have a rule that I don't go to book off more than once a month because that would be very dangerous. But I was at book off, and they were. It was $80, and I was like, I know I'll find this for cheaper. And a booth had it at Wondercon this year for 25. And I was like, I still don't know why this is so expensive. It's just a trade paperback. [01:16:33] Speaker C: It might be like a first appearance. [01:16:34] Speaker A: Or somebody, but it's still. It's a trade, so it's not there. [01:16:39] Speaker D: Maybe they only, like, you know, a couple thousand or something. [01:16:42] Speaker A: Yeah. For whatever reason. I mean, in that particular trade, has a great cover of Anakin and Obi wan. But that trade, I got it. It was $25. The collection is now complete. Excited? [01:16:55] Speaker C: Yeah, actually, yeah. It was the same booth that I got a lot of my comics at that finished my collection. So, like, I made friends. Yeah. [01:17:00] Speaker A: Because he texted me, and he's like, hey, just so you know. [01:17:03] Speaker C: Like, they. [01:17:03] Speaker A: This is your one you're missing, right? Is this the one you're missing? And I'm like, now I'm missing seven. And then I, you know, type in clone wars in my phone, and I look at my pictures, and I'm like, no, that's the one. That's the one. Quick, tell me where it is. Help me. [01:17:16] Speaker D: My comic series that I am on the hunt for, which are extremely rare, is the Canaan series. [01:17:22] Speaker C: Yes. [01:17:22] Speaker D: And I have been very, very slowly collecting them all. I think I have five or six out of the 13. [01:17:29] Speaker C: Okay. [01:17:31] Speaker D: Five or six or seven out of. See, Rachel keeps track of Rachel's. [01:17:35] Speaker A: Like, not according to my spreadsheet, honestly. [01:17:38] Speaker D: It's because she's very kind, and she'll pick it up for me if she sees it. So she's like, I have to go. Like, I'm just not as good as you Rachel, I'm sorry. [01:17:47] Speaker A: That's what Brian is for me. Brian will message me for new warriors. Right? [01:17:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:17:52] Speaker D: Rachel probably has a whole thing on her phone that's just like, shit. Frankie needs. [01:17:57] Speaker C: Part of my list for Bryce too. [01:17:59] Speaker A: Yeah, because, like, he would go to a shop and he'd be like, hey, I'm at a shop in Colorado. What are you looking for? And I'd be like, I still need this issue of, you know, Lois Lane and these issues of the new warriors. [01:18:11] Speaker D: That's impressive. [01:18:12] Speaker A: You know, and this and this. [01:18:14] Speaker D: I would just say, I don't know. And she go, I think you need this. You were right. [01:18:20] Speaker B: A lot of it is mental because I don't have it actually written on my phone. [01:18:24] Speaker D: So thanks for putting that in your mind for me. [01:18:27] Speaker A: Thanks for saving space, holding space for missing comics. [01:18:31] Speaker B: I think I might need an updated list because I totally thought you had all the Canaan comics. So now I have to, like, add that to my brain. [01:18:38] Speaker D: Well, let's just. Okay, let me. Let me reset and make sure. [01:18:41] Speaker C: Right. [01:18:42] Speaker D: I don't. Okay. I didn't need to stop talking, cuz now I don't know. They're right behind me. [01:18:49] Speaker C: She's trying so hard not to get up and look. [01:18:51] Speaker D: Oh, God, I'm not gonna do it. But anyway, I did not see any of the KDen comics that I think I might possibly, potentially need. [01:18:59] Speaker C: I also look so missing a few there. And. Yeah. Didn't find any either. [01:19:03] Speaker A: But now we know. So if we run into any, we'll that you show a message. [01:19:09] Speaker C: They are. [01:19:09] Speaker D: Yeah, some of them go for like 140. And I'm like, yeah. Because they literally. They did not make. [01:19:15] Speaker C: No, they didn't. [01:19:16] Speaker A: Did you at least get it in trade so that you could read it all? [01:19:18] Speaker D: No. So this all started because I had got the second one, I think so. [01:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah, there's two of them. [01:19:24] Speaker D: Yeah, there's two trades. [01:19:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:28] Speaker D: And I had been searching for the first one for like a two years. And then finally I asked our comic shop, I was like, do you think you'll ever get this? And he was like, no, that book is like, so hard to find. [01:19:38] Speaker C: Yeah. I ever find my real hunts? [01:19:39] Speaker A: No. [01:19:40] Speaker C: You know what, I did see a cana book at the book off in Garden Grove last month when I was there. [01:19:44] Speaker D: The second one is all over the first one. [01:19:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:19:48] Speaker A: For the train. [01:19:49] Speaker B: Second one is like super cheap, but the first one is super, very expensive. [01:19:53] Speaker C: Interesting. [01:19:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:19:55] Speaker C: Good to know. Yeah. Hopefully see them. I'll pick them up. [01:19:58] Speaker D: Should I gate kept that a little bit until I finished my collection and. [01:20:01] Speaker C: Then told, oh, we'll cut all this. Yeah, yeah. [01:20:03] Speaker D: I'm just kidding. [01:20:04] Speaker A: I'm just kidding. [01:20:05] Speaker D: I don't care. [01:20:05] Speaker A: No, no. [01:20:06] Speaker D: I'm not actively collecting anything. So we're good. I'm not good. [01:20:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:20:11] Speaker C: Actually, speaking of our good buddy Reid, there's a booth that had a bunch of Ralph McQuarrie concept art, but it also had film strips from the movie of where the scenes came from or where they ended up being. And one of our big inside jokes with our buddy Reid and our buddy Nick. [01:20:28] Speaker A: This is the same person who we laugh about the halcyon Cruz price with and ask everybody, when's that next Gaia album drop? Yeah. [01:20:35] Speaker C: Yeah. It's gonna be fire. But we love the sheep squad, we call them. But it's the dudes and, like, the penis hats that are walking down the ramp in return of the Jedi. [01:20:46] Speaker A: And there's only one penis hat. [01:20:48] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. The rest of them are the weird looking hats. [01:20:53] Speaker A: I don't know. Shells. [01:20:55] Speaker C: Oh, man. [01:20:56] Speaker A: I'm on it. [01:20:56] Speaker C: Yeah. Like, they. They walk down with the emperor in. [01:21:01] Speaker A: The movie, and they're the imperial dignitaries. [01:21:04] Speaker C: Yeah, pure dignitaries. I don't know how this happened, but we. We're just like, look, remember these guys? They're hilarious. Well, then you see him in the movie for maybe 5 seconds, and then that's it for the rest of the movie. But they have these, like, promo pictures they've taken. I mean, do it for everything but. [01:21:21] Speaker A: For the DK visual dictionary. [01:21:23] Speaker C: Yeah, but it looks like they're about to drop the most badass rap album of, like, 83, and she's nothing to fuck with. Yeah. Is that the picture you're pulling up? [01:21:33] Speaker A: I'm trying to. Yeah. [01:21:34] Speaker C: So that's been, like, a weird inside joke with our group. So I walk by this booth and look at all these concept arts, and Ralph McQuarrie is just amazing. Anyways, but I saw this one, and it's of the emperor and the imperial dignitaries, and I'm like, I have to have it. And so I saw it on Friday. I'm like, I'll come back. So early on, I'm like, I don't want to carry this around and get it all messed up. I'll come back Saturday. At the end of the day, I'm like, hey, do you guys still have that? He's like, we have one left. It's like, oh, thank God. So I picked that one up, so I was very happy about that one. [01:22:06] Speaker D: You got that at this Wondercon? [01:22:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:22:08] Speaker D: Oh, wow. Yeah, good. Wow. We stayed on topic for the same convention. [01:22:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, did you find it? [01:22:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no, I'll get. I'll get these boys in here. Just a minute. [01:22:20] Speaker C: Yeah. So the sheave squad. [01:22:24] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [01:22:25] Speaker A: Yeah, this dude on the right, though, like, yeah, yeah. [01:22:29] Speaker B: That is ridiculous. [01:22:30] Speaker A: This guy lost a bet with the rest of the dignitaries. [01:22:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:22:36] Speaker B: Like, is that his head or his hair? [01:22:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:22:40] Speaker B: Or is there just like fabric that's fo. [01:22:43] Speaker D: That's like foam, right? [01:22:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I keep making jokes that, like, if, if, like, we're gonna. We're gonna make all these hats and like, do a full bar crawl wearing these things. Yeah, but like, at Comic Con, there was a guy dressed as one of them. [01:23:00] Speaker C: That's right. [01:23:00] Speaker A: And all three of us at different points ran into him and we're like. [01:23:04] Speaker C: Oh, my God, this is amazing. [01:23:06] Speaker A: Like, it was like he only was there to cosplay for our benefit. Like, we're the only ones who are gonna be so excited about him. [01:23:11] Speaker C: Yeah. And we were. [01:23:13] Speaker A: We all treated him like he was this celebrity. Like, oh, snap. Did you guys see the guy? And it was like, yeah, I did. Here's a picture of us. And he was like, yeah, I got one too. [01:23:23] Speaker D: He probably took four photos that day. It was always with your friend group. [01:23:28] Speaker C: Yeah, well, so the shitty part with me. So I saw him as I was going up or the escalator, I was like, no, no. Yeah. But it's funny cuz I'm up to date on most of the comics and they appeared in one of the arcs two or three months ago in the main Star wars line. There was a whole bunch of them on there and I was like, holy shit, guys. [01:23:49] Speaker A: It's a bit like, it's something only for us. [01:23:51] Speaker D: If I ever come across that moving forward, I will let you know. [01:23:57] Speaker A: Yeah, the sheet, we call them the sheave squad. [01:24:00] Speaker D: Yeah, that's perfect. [01:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Like last year we. I don't know, we have this weird, like we love referring to, especially in that group we refer to Palpatine as Sheev. When they were like an evening with the emperor at Celebration 22 and we were like, I believe you mean a sit down with sheev. [01:24:19] Speaker C: Yes. [01:24:21] Speaker B: That's a missed opportunity, that game. [01:24:23] Speaker A: That is exactly what Reid says. I did go to a sit down with Sheev and it was actually excellent. It was one of the many times during celebration where somebody did an impersonation of George Lucas. [01:24:35] Speaker D: Yes, we were there. Right. That was in the main stage. [01:24:39] Speaker A: Yeah, at the main stage. Did you guys also go to a sit down with sheev. [01:24:42] Speaker D: We did. We were very close to the front, too. [01:24:45] Speaker B: I think we were in the front row. [01:24:47] Speaker A: We were up on a balcony because. [01:24:49] Speaker D: Oh, we were in the front row. [01:24:50] Speaker C: Wow, nice. Yeah, we got there a little bit late, so we were up in the balcony, but. [01:24:54] Speaker B: Gotcha. [01:24:54] Speaker C: Still good seat. [01:24:54] Speaker A: But it was like watching an opera and, you know, lean over. Talk about tragedies of various former Sith as you do. [01:25:03] Speaker B: My favorite part was him saying, but not saying he was gonna be on the next upcoming show. [01:25:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:25:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:25:10] Speaker C: Yeah. I love. He just keeps popping up, and he's so good every time. [01:25:14] Speaker B: He always is. Yeah. [01:25:16] Speaker A: The way he yells Ezra Bridger when he's like, at the very end when they're doing the world between world stuff, and he's just like, Ezra Bridger. Like, yeah, so good. The freaks me. It's one of those things that just lives rent free in my head, that whole scene. Remember when Tim Curry was the emperor for a hot second? [01:25:38] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:25:39] Speaker B: Wait, what? [01:25:40] Speaker A: Was Tim Curry the emperor during the zillow beast arc? [01:25:43] Speaker C: Yeah, late Clone wars. Because I think the original voice actor passed away. [01:25:48] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [01:25:50] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:25:52] Speaker A: Tim Curry. I don't remember what happened, but, yeah, for, like, a brief portion of Clone Wars, Tim Curry is. Is chief Palpatine. [01:25:59] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [01:26:01] Speaker A: So strange. [01:26:02] Speaker D: So weird. [01:26:02] Speaker A: So bizarre. Anyway, that is in a roundabout way of getting there. Our experience at Wondercon, very Star wars heavy, like usual. I mean, you invite two Star wars podcasts together, what are we gonna talk about? [01:26:16] Speaker B: Like, a little bit about Lord of the Rings? [01:26:19] Speaker A: I did see a Star Trek episode. The new Star Trek episode is very exciting. [01:26:24] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:26:25] Speaker A: The. Basically, it started out like a Star Trek, like any Star Trek movie does, where it's like, where is everybody? Let's go find them all and bring the gang back together. And it was. It was really cool. It was. I'm really interested where it's going. And there was, like, a new model of data that showed up in the first episode, and he went by some other name, Hank. I don't know. I remember what his actual name was. But, yeah, so there was. There was Star Trek there, too. And that's my Star Trek portion for this episode. Now we've covered that. [01:26:58] Speaker C: Oh, you know what? I did play a bunch of Lorekana. [01:27:01] Speaker A: That's true. Oh, cool. [01:27:02] Speaker C: Yeah. So I, like, I got some cards, but these are really cool. And then they were selling out everyone, like, well, I want more cards now. And I had a couple friends that were playing, too. Like, no, you have to get into it. Super fun. So I did, and. But I I just more collected the cards, but I'm like, I really want to play. I played magic and dragon Ball super and Pokemon and stuff, so my cool. No, I want to learn how to play this and just haven't gotten around to it. Net at Wondercon, they had basically, you buy in for $30. They give you a deck and a deck box, and then you just pop in and out and play as you want to during the whole weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:27:37] Speaker A: So the game table section of Wondercon can be really fun. [01:27:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:27:41] Speaker A: Like, there's miniatures painting over there. You can demo new games that haven't come out yet. If you're into tabletop games at all, like, that's a good place to go. You can also, there were a few people over there who were doing 30 minutes and 1 hour campaigns. [01:27:53] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:27:54] Speaker A: If you've never played, you know, a D and D or Pathfinder kind of thing. So there was a lot of. A lot of that going on. [01:28:00] Speaker C: Yeah. Played, like, six rounds of Lorcana, and, yeah, it was really cool. And they taught me how to play, which was really nice. And if you won a game, you got two cards, and if you lost a game, you still get one card, which was really nice and did that. I almost played Star wars unlimited. The new Star Wars ECG just came out last month. [01:28:17] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [01:28:18] Speaker C: But people were kind of busy, and they're like, oh, like, I would play, but I'm going to a panel right now. Like, all good. But those cards are really hard to find right now, so. But everybody says it's really fun. [01:28:27] Speaker B: So explain why those are. Those cards are so hard to find. Like, is it just a production issue? [01:28:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:34] Speaker C: They basically just didn't print enough, and they didn't expect how big it was gonna be. [01:28:38] Speaker D: Who didn't expect that? [01:28:40] Speaker C: Right. Like, okay. Either for either game, Lorcana and. And unlimited. So. But both games are apparently, like, really fun, and everybody's loving the Star wars unlimited game, which is really cool. And they've been announcing the new set that's coming out in July. I think it's gonna be mandalorian focused. So cool. One decks gonna be din Djarin. The next one that's paired with it is Moff Gideon. [01:29:02] Speaker A: Cool. [01:29:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, yeah. [01:29:05] Speaker A: Very neat. What else did you guys do? Did you guys, like, find some other non Star Wars y thing? He said, bobbing his head back and forth. Sorry. I started having fun watching it. It was like, this is all right. [01:29:16] Speaker D: I was doing that earlier, I was kicking my feet, and I was like, I wonder what I look like right now. Let's see. Not Star wars, which is a segment we have on our podcast. [01:29:30] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:29:33] Speaker B: And I still struggle with that one. [01:29:35] Speaker D: And we know it's happening every week. Okay. I will say that because the. The rain was there, and it just, as we already determined there wasn't a lot of people, it was just kind of nice. When you needed downtime, you got it exactly where you wanted it. [01:29:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:29:50] Speaker D: But I feel like I spent a lot of time meeting new people. That's all I can think over. Oh, I watched the marvel meet up. I was there for a long time. [01:29:59] Speaker C: Okay. [01:30:00] Speaker D: Like, over an hour. [01:30:01] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [01:30:02] Speaker C: Yeah. We saw the last bits of the spider people meet up. [01:30:06] Speaker A: Yeah. And I saw. I saw the Marvel meetup where Wanda on stilts was walking around. [01:30:11] Speaker D: Yes. It was so cool. We were all in the same place at the same time, I think. [01:30:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:30:18] Speaker C: I think I saw her at the La comic con, too. [01:30:20] Speaker D: Oh, really? [01:30:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:22] Speaker B: That's last one. [01:30:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:25] Speaker B: Mm hmm. I didn't see her at that one. Yeah. My friend, who's a really big Marvel person, I went with her to the Marvel meetup, and so I was taking photos of her and her with some of the friends that she made. So that was my non Star Wars y accomplishment. [01:30:42] Speaker A: This was a really social con for me. This was by far. I spent more time running into people. [01:30:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:51] Speaker A: And catching up with people who I hadn't seen in a while. You never realized just how many people you start to just get to know at some of these booths, and some of them are people we work with. I know a couple of, like, the comic shop and those kinds of, like, al and godaddy o comics and Steve's booth with. With Dave. And then during 2021, I want to say, when the shot was going around and everybody was getting vaccinated, I wound up way over in, like, Inglewood. For whatever reason, that was where the appointment was that I could get. And I was stood in front of a guy who did storyboards on Batman, and he has his own comic. [01:31:29] Speaker D: What? [01:31:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he did Batman in the animated series, and I saw the blue, non photo blue pencil on his sketchbook that he had in his hand, and I was like, sir, what do you do for a living? [01:31:38] Speaker D: Who has that? [01:31:39] Speaker A: And I was like, I know what that is. And so his wife was like, show him. Show him the stuff. And so starts flipping through, and I'm like, oh, my God. Like, can I talk to you? Can I pick your brain a little bit. So we kind of became friends, and then, you know, so I ran into him, and then artists that I've spoken to, and then I also picked a lot of brains. Like, in artist alley, if I saw somebody who did, who had an art technique that I wanted to know more about, I would just be like, hey, can I chat with you about your process for a little bit? And I did a lot of that. And then, you know, you run into them the next day or the next day. And, like, a few indie comic writers that I tend to always buy from, like, the guy Sebastian Jones, who does all the Niobe stranger comics. Booth. It's the big giant booth. One of the books was written by him. And what is her name? She's gonna be in the acolyte. She was rude on Hunger Games. [01:32:28] Speaker C: Amanda La Stenberg. [01:32:29] Speaker A: Yeah, Amanda Stenberg, I guess, was a big part of the creative process for one of those books. And so I stopped by there, and the writer and I always end up chatting. And so he gave me a poster and a free book, which was cool. And then I signed up and joined his Kickstarter thing, and he signed a couple things, which was nice. He's just such a. He's such a nice guy. He's so charismatic. And I'm like, I just want to support you. [01:32:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:32:51] Speaker A: Like, and there were some people who I saw who I was like, oh, shoot. The guy who writes Kanto, like, he and I talked for 20 minutes last time. I. And there he goes. [01:32:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:32:59] Speaker A: David, I think, is his name. Yeah. But, like, we stopped and talked to Leilani. [01:33:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:33:06] Speaker A: We saw juju. [01:33:07] Speaker C: Did you see Skip? [01:33:08] Speaker A: We ran into skip. There was a lot of running into it. [01:33:11] Speaker C: He's a prop master. I met him while I was working on mix dish, but he ended up becoming the second unit prop master on Obi Wan. He's on Abdel and lynching now, which is amazing. [01:33:21] Speaker B: Okay, cool. [01:33:22] Speaker A: Anyway, this would be a good time to, I think, wrap this bad boy up. [01:33:25] Speaker C: Okay, that works. [01:33:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:27] Speaker C: Perfect. Well, it's great having you ladies on with us. We definitely need to do this again. [01:33:31] Speaker D: Thank you. I agree. [01:33:33] Speaker C: And we'll actually do a high republic podcast of both or one of ours and actually talk a whole thing of high Republic, because we can do that. As you saw earlier, I am powering. [01:33:44] Speaker A: Through the phase two relatively slowly, but I'm gay. I'm building up speed. It's moving. [01:33:52] Speaker C: There's a lot of books. Yeah. In phase one, there's a lot of comics. [01:33:58] Speaker A: Yeah. So. And I just. We just found a list that actually breaks it down chapter by chapter, which I shouldn't do that because it's going to mean so much work for me. But it's my favorite thing. [01:34:09] Speaker C: Yeah, that's how Bryce is. [01:34:10] Speaker A: I watched clone wars in absolute chronological order. It was like, yep, we're in episode five. Now we jump to season three, because I want heavy to be introduced at the right amount of time so that I can actually feel bad when he goes, you know, things like that. Like, I was reading a fallen star. No, it wasn't a fallen star. It was midnight Horizon. Horizon. And I was. I got to the point where the beacon was going down. [01:34:36] Speaker C: Oh. [01:34:37] Speaker A: And I went, nope, I'm jumping to the comics. And so I read through all the beacon going down in the comics, and then I went and I finished fallen star. Because for me, if there's a major event that's happening, going right back to, like, 40 minutes before it happens is so jarring, and I'd rather just go back and be like, yeah, let's just do this right now. Plus, I needed a break. [01:34:58] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [01:34:59] Speaker A: I mean, don't get me wrong. I loved wreath and Ram. Jamaram's, like, weird teenage bromance that they've got going on. I adore them so much, and Ram has gone through such a interesting journey. But, yeah, now that I've seen this list of phase two, I'm like, oh, man. [01:35:17] Speaker C: Yeah, I found it on Reddit this morning. [01:35:19] Speaker A: Maybe I do need to take a break. I need you to, like, copy paste that and delete all the parenthesis in it. [01:35:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:35:25] Speaker A: So that I can do it without any spoilers. [01:35:26] Speaker C: There's only one spoiler on there. [01:35:28] Speaker A: There's a. But there's a couple that, like, I could figure it out. If I see the name of it, I'm gonna know what's happening. Like, oh, here's a big debacle. And I'm like, okay, well, if I know there's a debacle, then I know this isn't gonna go right. Like, you know, let that go. [01:35:40] Speaker C: Oh, just told me batteries. [01:35:43] Speaker A: Well, good for you. [01:35:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:35:45] Speaker A: I'm glad you have some. Some time left, right? [01:35:48] Speaker C: Okay. [01:35:48] Speaker D: I'm just wondering, can you hear us? [01:35:50] Speaker A: So, yeah, let's. [01:35:54] Speaker C: Just ask if you can hear them. [01:35:56] Speaker D: No, that's my favorite part about this. [01:35:58] Speaker A: I'm gonna put this back in. [01:35:59] Speaker D: We're just engaging as if you can. That's okay. [01:36:03] Speaker C: Okay. [01:36:03] Speaker A: I got enough time. [01:36:04] Speaker C: Oh. [01:36:05] Speaker A: Let's power through this before this thing dies. [01:36:06] Speaker D: Okay. Okay. [01:36:08] Speaker A: Okay. So that, I think concludes our Wondercon recap. Slash Star wars celebration, London recap. Slash Star wars celebration 2020. [01:36:16] Speaker C: We do a celebration recap. [01:36:17] Speaker D: Let's get to know each other. Recap. [01:36:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:36:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:36:21] Speaker A: Honestly, the best part of this con was the social aspect for me. Like, I realized midway through, I was like, I'm getting frustrated because the cons not becoming what I was hoping it would be. And I was like, I need to just go with that flow. Like, what is this con really, this weekend? And it very much became clear that this was, let's meet new people, let's expand. Let's actually meet some of these people we know on the Internet. Let's go approach random people and ask them if this is a picture of them. And so, yeah, I was, for me, it became such a highlight. And then, of course, meeting you guys in that whole table at the end of Saturday, I was like, you know what? It honestly, I was so tired by the end of Saturday that I really was like, oh, man, tomorrow I'm gonna roll in there late. And I was so re energized by our little meeting. So thank you so much for being cool cats, especially meow, especially Sandy, who as she wandered around. But there was something really cool about that whole space. Anyway, this year, you know, I, somebody made, like a full functioning clank from ratchet and clank that was just like this little robot sitting on their table. And I'm like, what the hell? Like, the creativity and some of the people. And there was so much cosplay happening. And I think because of the rain, a lot of the cosplay, which is normally outside had to be reintegrated to the rest of the con in a way that it sometimes doesn't. [01:37:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:37:52] Speaker A: Which I really liked. So it was just a very, there was very much a, trust me, you're among your people going on in that building. Definitely. It was really nice. [01:38:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:38:02] Speaker B: So I thoroughly enjoyed Wondercon this year, definitely for meeting you guys and meeting other people. And I agree about having the rain bring everybody inside and also kind of like congregating people all into one space more so that there's so many times where I've heard someone say that there are at Wondercon, but I just never saw them. And I think it's because Wondercon has so much space. It's outdoors, indoors, multiple floors. So it was nice having it all kind of more immersive. [01:38:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And sometimes you run into people and you're like, I ran into one guy and I was like, dude, I love your cosplay. Both of you guys. And then later, I heard him speak, and I went, q, I know you. We've. We've hung out at the shop, and, like, he's a regular at the comic shop. I just didn't recognize him because he was in cosplay, and I'm like, sorry, I didn't realize you were also invincible. Like, but, like, I sat there, I walked right past him. I was like, dude, you look great. Both of you guys. Excellent. And kept on walking. And then later, I was like, we already talked, but, um, hi. We have actually hung out for, like, an hour once, just shooting the breeze at the comic shop, hanging out with funky. [01:39:11] Speaker C: Oh, that's awesome. [01:39:11] Speaker A: But, like, it's. It's really easy to miss people at the cons, usually. And I think because of how much the worlds were all forced together and everyone was out of the rain. It was pouring on Saturday. [01:39:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:39:22] Speaker A: So there was, like, there were some really cool in the rain cosplay shots that took place at that fountain. [01:39:28] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [01:39:29] Speaker B: Oh, really? [01:39:29] Speaker A: I haven't seen any of them, but the. The majority of the cosplay did come inside. Yeah, it was, it was nice. [01:39:37] Speaker C: Yeah. Solid con all around me. [01:39:39] Speaker D: To come home to socal. [01:39:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:39:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Come home to sunny southern California, where it's pouring rain and everyone's gone for Easter. [01:39:50] Speaker C: Well, it was funny because our good friend Tate flew in from Texas, and he hasn't been in California for a couple years. And, of course, the weekend he came in, it's all, yeah, yeah. [01:39:59] Speaker A: We're like, Tate, you've got to come to Wondercon. It's such a different vibe from Comic Con because we go to Comic Con with Tate usually, or at least we used to when he lived in California. And so we're like, you gotta come to Wondercon this year. So we like making. He gets a ticket, he's getting ready to fly out, and then two weeks before, we're like, oh, my God, it's Easter weekend. [01:40:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:40:17] Speaker D: Oops. [01:40:18] Speaker C: And then it's like, oh, it's gonna rain. [01:40:19] Speaker A: The whole, oh, it's gonna be raining. [01:40:20] Speaker C: Oh, man. [01:40:21] Speaker A: Oh, Tate, this is such a weird wondercon to start you on, but okay. [01:40:25] Speaker C: Still had a great time, but, yeah. [01:40:26] Speaker A: He had a great time. [01:40:27] Speaker C: Cool things. [01:40:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:40:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:40:29] Speaker B: Yay. [01:40:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:40:29] Speaker D: Well, I just wanted to thank you for having us, and thank you for being so kind and friendly online and in person. Been a lot of fun. [01:40:38] Speaker C: Yeah, same with you guys. [01:40:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Thank you so much. This has been so wonderful. [01:40:43] Speaker A: As our friend, as our friend Reid put it really early on, in our podcast, we quote it all the time. We quoted all the time. Being at a convention is like being in a giant room filled with thousands of potential new best friends. [01:40:58] Speaker D: It's true. [01:40:58] Speaker A: And when. Especially when you can link up on something as niche as the high Republican. [01:41:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:41:03] Speaker A: We were like, yes. Our people. So we were. We were just so excited. I mean, and the best part was, is we were like, oh, cool, our people. And then at the end of the conversation, you're like, oh, and by the way. [01:41:16] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:41:17] Speaker A: We have a podcast, and it's a Star wars podcast, and it's high Republic, and we love Dathomir like mind. [01:41:27] Speaker D: Boom, boom, boom, boom. [01:41:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And we save birds and swim with fish. Yeah. [01:41:36] Speaker D: There are no lies. Yeah. [01:41:40] Speaker A: All right. Where can we find you? Where can we find you? On the Internet and see you and hear your wonderful insights to the high Republic. [01:41:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So you can find us on TikTok at the Bitches of Dathomir podcast and. [01:41:56] Speaker D: Instagram bitches of Dathomir podcast, as well as any and all major podcast streaming platforms. Bitches of Dathomir. We are on our second season and having fun. [01:42:06] Speaker A: Are you guys working through phase two right now? [01:42:08] Speaker D: We. [01:42:09] Speaker B: Phase three. [01:42:10] Speaker A: You've jumped into phase three already? Okay. I've been. I'm starting at the beginning. [01:42:14] Speaker D: Our most recent episodes have been on the tales of light and life, so it's kind of the in between. So very soon, we're gonna be starting on in, like, the thick of phase three. [01:42:25] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [01:42:26] Speaker A: Nice. [01:42:27] Speaker C: Yeah. I dig how you guys broke up these last episodes with, like, just one short story at a time. [01:42:34] Speaker D: We talk. [01:42:34] Speaker B: Thank you. [01:42:35] Speaker D: We talk so much, and it's so hard because we love it. We think about not. We think about, like, compiling, but then we're like, no, we're here to, like, really jump in and dive into these. You might as well characters and conversations. [01:42:46] Speaker A: We finally started doing our spoiler full episode of wave one. [01:42:51] Speaker C: Phase one or one episode? It's not one anymore. [01:42:54] Speaker A: It's not one anymore. [01:42:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not one anymore. [01:42:56] Speaker A: We got through two books, and we're like, we still got a third book and a third book and the rest of the comics. [01:43:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:43:03] Speaker A: Let's take a break. [01:43:05] Speaker B: It's so hard. Yeah. Our high republic phase one mega sode was a mouthful, and the way we prepared for that was just so nightmarish. I don't wish that upon anybody. So bringing it down and doing one at a time is so much better for us, and I'm sure for people. [01:43:22] Speaker C: Listening, but that episode turned out great. Like, that was my listening on my drive to and from Arizona. [01:43:29] Speaker B: Oh, good. [01:43:29] Speaker C: Mega. [01:43:29] Speaker B: So, yeah. [01:43:30] Speaker C: Yeah, feels great. [01:43:31] Speaker A: You guys were with them all the way to Arizona. Good work. [01:43:33] Speaker C: Yeah, thanks. [01:43:35] Speaker D: I don't even. That was so long ago. That was before we had any equipment. We did that on a phone in our kitchen. [01:43:41] Speaker A: Nice. [01:43:42] Speaker C: Yeah, we know how that goes. [01:43:42] Speaker A: We know how that goes. There was. There was a time. [01:43:45] Speaker D: Yeah, good times. [01:43:47] Speaker A: So be sure to follow them on wherever you listen to your podcasts. Just type in the bitches of Dathomir and then go find them on instagram and go find them on the TikToks. Are you guys on threads? [01:43:59] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:44:00] Speaker A: You guys should make the jump to threads. Threads has been really, really great. [01:44:03] Speaker D: No, we are. My account has a number. It's the less than 1 million account made. I have just never gone on it since the date. Since the hour that threads was announced. [01:44:14] Speaker C: Right. [01:44:15] Speaker A: Oh, wow. You were ground floor and then walked out. [01:44:17] Speaker D: Yeah, I think I just said, I love Star wars. Bye. [01:44:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's become, like, a really interesting community because so many people are there. Like, they refer to the other short form text platform as the other place. [01:44:32] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Yes. [01:44:33] Speaker A: And, like, people just aren't mentioning. Yeah. Back before I left the other place. But, like, the other day, Kevin Scott was like, I really missed. Like, I really am glad I'm over on threads, but I kind of miss my Twitter community. And then Christina Ariel got on there and was like, hi, republic fans, assemble. And, like, all these people started flying to Kevin Scott's threads. [01:44:51] Speaker C: She's the best. [01:44:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:52] Speaker B: We ignore that. [01:44:53] Speaker D: July 5, 2023. Hello. Yeah. [01:45:01] Speaker B: Cause there was a moment on our podcast where we had asked Frankie about threads, and I was like, oh, yeah, we have one. How's it going? [01:45:08] Speaker C: Totally there. [01:45:10] Speaker D: Okay. I'll get back on it. [01:45:11] Speaker A: Yay. [01:45:13] Speaker B: I guess that means I will, too. At some point on my personal this. [01:45:17] Speaker A: Week, threads has been the X Men 97, like, support group, because X Men 97 was real rough this week. But I wager after this week's bad batch, it'll just switch right back over to that, and everybody will be like, oh, God. [01:45:29] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm not okay, by the way. [01:45:31] Speaker A: I know, I know, I know. I'm only, like, two behind, which is way better than I was, so. Yeah. [01:45:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:45:38] Speaker D: Okay. Okay. [01:45:39] Speaker A: This is. I will. I will let you know as soon as I am. We'll just all panic together. [01:45:45] Speaker B: Great. [01:45:45] Speaker A: Okay. Well, Sneakygeek is available everywhere you listen to the bitches of Dathomir, and it's available for talking to, et cetera on threads and on Instagram. Sneakygeekpodcast. And of course you can always listen to our other podcast, the Starlight Archive podcast. And if that's not enough higher up information for you, then definitely go over and check the bitches of Dathomir out because they've been doing it a lot longer than we have. And with that, I think that's everything we need for this episode. [01:46:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:46:13] Speaker A: Thank you so much, Frankie. Thank you so much. Rachel. [01:46:15] Speaker C: Yeah, thank you so much. [01:46:16] Speaker A: Thank you so much, Brian. [01:46:17] Speaker C: Thank you so much. Bryce. [01:46:18] Speaker A: Thank you so much. Dilophosaurus picture behind him. 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