[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi, everybody, and welcome to Sneaky Geek. For those of you who are just coming to this show for the first time, because we've been on threads since then, Sneaky Geek is a show about being a geek. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: That's pretty. Yeah. Do you like stuff? Do you like geeky stuff? Boom. We're here for you.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: I feel like this show is specifically about. Well, it is about understanding certain aspects of, like, what geeks are into. It is also about understanding geeks themselves.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: Because we talk a lot about geek culture without getting too into the weeds of, like, problematic Greek, problematic geek cult, problematic geek culture.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Right.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: Which is a surprisingly difficult phrase to say. Yeah. And that's basically. That's basically it. That's basically the entire, like, that. That's our shtick. If you're new, Congratulations, welcome on. We're happy to have you if you've.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Been here for a while. Tommy, welcome back. What's going on, guys? How you doing?
[00:00:51] Speaker A: Welcome back, regular dudes. Okay, cool. Then we should be rolling. Yeah.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: Did the thing. The thing. Yeah, yeah, there it is. Okay, cool.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: It's gone.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Okay. See, we're not that rusty.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: No.
And. Oh, no, no. Still going.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: I forget how long that is.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: And we're back.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: That's good.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: I have been told specifically that our theme music should be shorter, but I also like the idea of us just talking through it.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: And just being like, no, this is just. We're just gonna deal with it.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: It's casual.
[00:01:25] Speaker A: My name is Bryce Rankins and the esteemed colleague of mine next to me doing quick fact checking with his laptop is Brian Romero. Yes. Con season is upon us. Yes.
[00:01:36] Speaker B: When is Con season? Give us those dates.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Con season, I think varies depending on who you are. It does.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: It's kind of like there's so many cons going on all the time. Sometimes we go to them, sometimes they're close, sometimes we might travel to one, but it's kind of whatever right now.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: We.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: We just went to one last weekend. We have another one coming up.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: So we also went to a pop up, which was kind of like a tiny mini mini convention.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: Like, wait.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: You know, so. But like, I feel so our main cons are kind of bookended, bookended, bookend, bookended, bookended bookended by WonderCon and SDCC.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: San Diego Comic Con.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: There might be one or two in the middle in our quote unquote, off season. But yeah, those are kind of our big ones that we hit. And even the smaller ones, medium sized ones in around those.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And depending on if something falls in, like Celebration was in. Was supposed to be in August one time.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Right.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: And that would have been a much bigger con than we usually do in the fall. But fall is when schools are back in session. There's, you know, New York Comic Con happens at that time, but we don't go to New York Comic Con typically, you know, depending on when your big cons are that for us, WonderCon is kind of our big con starter. But we got a couple of preludes.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: Yeah. So the first one I want to talk about before we get to wondercon is this Gundam pop up that's been going around the country for like, possibly even the world for like two years.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And we've seen it being advertised and we were like, oh, that sounds really cool. When it. Whenever it comes around here.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: Yeah. I saw somebody talking about like, oh, at the Irvine Spectrum, there's a Gundam pop up. You should check it out. And I'm like, Irvine Spectrum's not far from us.
That's like what, a 15 minute drive? It turns out it's a 40 minute drive. I do not know geography down here at all, despite having lived here now for seven years. But the Irvine Spectrum, once you get to it, is a fancy ass mall.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice outdoor mall.
[00:03:35] Speaker A: It is a lot of cool little shops. It's not as fancy ass as like something you might find in Vegas where there's like Prada stores.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: No, but it's definitely up like seeing a Hot Topic, I was like, that's not. I mean, there's a box lunch. There's no Spencer's Gifts.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: No.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: So it's not that kind of mall. But it also doesn't have like a Prada and a ysl. So it's also not that kind of mall. But it is upscale. It's upscale and it's nice. And apparently they have an ice rink there in the winter and there's a hello Kitty cafe on. On the premises somewhere.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: There's a Ferris wheel.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: There's a fun wheel because it is not made of Ferris, I guess. I don't know.
I don't know how fun wheels work. And I'm not gonna look into it. So trademark deal with this. It could be a trademark thing. It could have something to do with iron. I have no idea. Anyway, so at the ice rink space, that's where the Gundam pop up was. And for a small kind of pop up, like, I got a bag, I got swag, I got merch, and I got to do an interactive Thing. So. And if we had decided to go back again and actually try the card.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Game, which was the plan.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: And then also to heading like it had almost everything that a con has.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: Just, you know, very condensed and no panel.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: But honestly, like, it was really cool. I went in, I. I built a little model kit which was probably about 3 inches tall. And I bought some pretty cheap gun. Gunpla model kits.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Like decent quality, like cheap price wise.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: But they were, they were the one 144, which is not the smallest they make, but it's got a decent chunk of pieces, a couple of runners, which is pretty detailed. Yeah. For those of you who don't know model kits, runners are the things that you pull all the little pop. All the little plastic things out of. And they were selling nippers, which are the little scissor thingies. They had a bunch of super expensive merch also. But I was not gonna be buying that.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: That line was so long.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: That line was not long on the day I first went. But I went, had such a blast. And then found out there was a card game the next day that they were only previewing on weekends. And I was like, brian, we gotta go.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: So we went and then we did not get into the card game.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: No.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: Because those people showed up literally at 6 in the morning.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: To light up in line for a popup that doesn't open till 10 in the morning.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: The people who worked there were from all walks of life, but there were several who were film industry people. And I really feel like that contributed to what a tight ship that pop up was actually running. Because it is. Running a set is often like running an event.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: So there were a lot of really cool people. People from the art department, lighting department, props department, like set deck person in there too. Set deck person. Yeah. And I really like. I, I don't know, I just wound up making a bunch of friends with these people. And I really liked, like just the whole experience. They were all really nice. They were really informative. There was lots of cool stuff. And it was all to advertise the new Gundam show. Gundam movie that dropped at the end of February. Yeah. Which is like gq, which I think is just called gq Gundam. I don't know, it's.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: It looks really cool.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: It looks really cool.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: And the last big Gundam thing that I remember them putting out was Witch from Mercury, which was also very cool. Like Gundam, I think Gundam. Because it's a 1970s show.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: People assume like, yeah, it's mature. It's got some adult like type themes, but I don't think people realize.
This is sneaky. I can swear I don't. I don't think people realize how fucked up Gundam is. Oh yeah. Like Gundam is a mess.
Like the first episode of the Witch for Mercury is a little kid, like syncing up with a Gundam and then going into battle and not knowing what she's doing. She's just like, I just gotta get them all. And she's just murdering because she's got such a good sync with the suit that she's in and just naturally, hundreds of people dying on the battlefield and she's just like, look what I can do, look what I can do. Yeah. So. And then iron blooded orphans. Like there's a whole bunch of betrayal and murder in that. Like the show is a serious, like.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:46] Speaker A: Trauma in an anime.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah. So Gundam was one of my first animes.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Really?
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Gundam in Dragon Ball Z.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: That makes sense.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: And Pokemon. But. Yeah, but I see why I feel.
[00:07:57] Speaker A: Like stuck out longer.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, but it's just like because I was what, seventh grade? I think seventh or eighth grade. I think Tate showed me a few of their other friends. But was it Gundam Wing? Yeah, yeah. Gundam Wing.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: Oh, Gundam Wing is definitely a more palatable experience for child.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: But it, after a while it's like, oh, there's so many other shows. And then I got like a little overwhelmed. And then I got super in on Dragon Ball Z and then I was too cool for school and I'm gonna, you know, go away from that.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Then we hide from our geek selves the origin of this entire podcast.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah. But I found my way out of it. We're good.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Yes, we're all good. We've recovered and now we're just as geeky as we were before. Yeah. My first time ever seeing Gundam, I was a kid. I was at my cousin's house, My cousin Michael. My cousins Michael and Steven. Yeah. Who both. Anytime a big Gundam thing happens, I like, we all call like, bro. You're not gonna believe this. I remember waking up and it was like on. On like Midnight Run or something like that. And that's kind of all I knew about it until Endless Waltz, which had a dope theme song, which I think was put on a mix CD that my friend Charles made for me or something. And then I watched in this waltz because somebody lent me the dvd.
I think it's probably bootleg. And that's kind of all I knew about Gundam Wing until the Origin came out, which was the prequel series that came out during. I think it happened during the Pandemic somewhere around that time.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember you watching that.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's so good. And then that led me into regular Gundam, which is Mobile Suit Gundam, which is the 1978 show. And now I'm at Zeta Gundam, which is four years after the original, and, like, six different shows after the original, because that whole universe is one thing, but this is not a Gundam episode. So we're going to move on from the Gundam.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: Yeah. We didn't get to play the game.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: Hopefully there's demos at WonderCon, which is coming up, but we'll see. Get to that in a minute. So then Saturday rolls around two weeks later.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: And you come knocking on my door as you're putting in laundry, and you're like, hey, you want to go to that Star wars convention thing?
[00:09:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: Tell us what. How did you even find out about this?
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Yeah, so.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: Because I found out about the Gundam pop up with just a random Instagram ad.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: Right.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So I remember last year, if not the year before, I just saw some random ads about the Inland Empire or the Inland Empire Strikes Back Star wars convention.
[00:10:15] Speaker A: The Inland Empire is a section of California in the southern part, but it's not quite to, like, San Diego. And it's in, like, high desert.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:25] Speaker A: On your way to Barstow so that you can get to Vegas east, but.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: Then still south, so it's still south of Orange county kind of. It's. Yeah, it's its own little spot.
But I remember seeing ads about it and like, oh, that's kind of cool. Like if they got their own Star Wars Con. And I remember seeing something for it last year and we were doing something else. So I was like, oh, okay, I'll, you know, maybe next year. And then next year, AKA this year rolls around and like, oh, we got a free weekend and saw a few friends and. And old crew members that we worked with on Mandalorian. Boba Fett were going. And our buddy Justin, Star wars props on the Instagram shout out to him. Yeah, he's working with a lot of the actors and some of the crew, and he. He got him in on that con. And so they were doing some signings and autographs and they did little panels like, oh, this sounds really cool. Like, I got nothing going on. I might as well go out and check it out. And yeah, so that's kind of how that came to be. And knocked on your door was like, hey, man, like I mentioned it, like a Week ago.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: But like, yeah, you did. You brought it up at some point. And I was like, oh, yeah, that is coming up. And I just paid no mind to the actual date that it was actually.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Because what is time? And yeah, same. Yeah. So we end up rolling out there and it was so much fun.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Honestly.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: It was. I didn't know what to expect from it.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: No.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: And the vendors were great. The panels were really cool. Got to see some of her old friends and.
Yeah, no, it was a good time. The weather was a little warm, but, like, still good. The park was great.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: Let's address the park real quick. So, I mean, I came to this. I think the selling point for me was the crew.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Like, you were like, oh, yeah. There's like, Maria's going to be there, Lauren's going to be there. And I was like, oh, okay. I actually really like them.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: And I would love to see them again.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: Right.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: And in. I mean, as much as I don't love quoting the Big Bang Theory, but like, why are you going so far for this? Because it's a con.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Like, I know I'm gonna have at least a good time. Yeah. So we get there and as we're looking for parking in the middle of like, Riverside, Downtown Riverside.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: We see that.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: Well, first, there is no parking.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: There's no. I mean, crowding was. Yeah. First of all, I was like, well, that's a good sign. And you know, it's all there because every one of those people has a bumper sticker.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Or you see the cosplayers and it's like, oh, that's our people. We're in the right spot.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: So when we go to park and Balon's skull is like getting fully dressed up in all of his black armor. And I'm just like, buddy, it's so warm out.
[00:12:48] Speaker B: So hot out.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: What are you doing? But the con is. And like wearing uncomfortable hot clothing at a con. I see it all the time. And we go to San Diego comic con. It's 90 degrees outside. We know that the AC is going to be blasting. This is not that this is outside. This is like easy ups and Coleman camping. Pop ups.
[00:13:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: And like not middle of the day. And not even like rented pop ups. Like, we're at like some party in a backyard. Like, it's literally just easy ups.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Whatever the vendors brought.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Whatever the vendors brought for.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: And then palm trees and other big trees that are there. But there was a couple.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: Yeah. There wasn't a lot of shade.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: In the middle of the day we.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Did get there at 11:30. So, like, it was. It was.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Yeah, we did.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Sun was right up overhead, and this was. This might have been the equinox, too.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: It was pretty damn close to it.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: So.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Yeah. So anyways.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: So, yeah, it was hot outside. It was. And it was. It was an outside con. And honestly, when I saw that, I was disappointed. I was like, oh, we're not even in, like, I don't know, like, a banquet hall or, like, the Kiwanis Club or something.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: You know, and once we got in and we were kind of walking around, I was like, no, this is.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: This is really nice.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: This is working.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: Yeah, this is working.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: And once the shade came.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: Yeah, there was a nice breeze going, and the shade. Eventually, I mean, the sun started going down and. Yeah.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: But no shade for the line was rough, but.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's the cool part, too. Like, there was a line to get in.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: And also a very good sign.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: A very good sign. Yeah. But there was a lot of people there and a lot of cosplayers with really cool cosplay going on. Again, we saw the Baitland skull getting ready in his car. We're like, okay. Yeah.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: And I have to say, like, overall, just with the panels and the. Like, we were kind of thinking about how they put this whole thing together, because I did have some interactions with the guys who actually ran this thing.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get that later.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: All of the aspects of this, aside from the location, which wasn't really that bad.
[00:14:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Like, other than my sunburned neck, which, had I known, I think that was funny.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: We didn't know. Yeah.
[00:14:48] Speaker A: Had I known, I would have at least put sunblock on and. Yeah, it would have been fine. But other than my sunburned neck like that, that whole con was run really tight.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And the vendors that we talked to. Cause they're like, hey, this is our first one. Have you guys been here before? Kind of thing. They're like, yeah, this is like our second one or our third or whatever. And they're like, yeah, we like coming out here. It's good. And we know our audience, and our audience knows what they want from us kind of thing. And they had nothing but good things to say about it, which is always a good sign.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: Yeah. And regarding the vendors, also, when we were at Celebration years ago, when looking at all the vendors at Star Wars Celebration, I remember thinking to myself, the only people who are here are some sort of official merch or, like, vintage toys.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Or a Funko Pop booth or Funko Pop or sorry. Or like 20 Funko pop booths.
[00:15:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
For real?
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: And this, there were artists, there were like people. There was a guy who strictly did stickers.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: There were people who made like, who did cosplay type stuff and pins. Yeah, pins.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: There was a book booth, but they had, but it was, they also had like old pizza boxes. They had.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Any promotional material?
[00:15:55] Speaker B: Any promotional material which I've never seen before.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: Yeah. This guy had a Star wars pizza box. He had like a grocery bag with jar Jar Jar.
Like if it, if it was part of the promotions of Star wars, like this guy knew about it and wanted to have it.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: And that's all he did. So like he told. I talked to him a little bit. He had like a lot that he had bought from Japan.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: A marketing overseas is insanely cool.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: But he had like four different people, people who were all shipping to him like Simon in one, like one box basically. But he was going to be getting a whole bunch of other stuff. So cereal boxes, anything from like cups from fast food chains, all that stuff. All that stuff. The booth diversity was one of the.
[00:16:38] Speaker B: Best I've seen in a Star wars con.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: Definitely. Yeah, definitely. Which I really, really appreciate it.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's, that's the one thing I've never loved about Star Wars Celebration is just it's all action figures or it's Funko Pops.
Yeah, that's kind of it.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Especially I mean more like local vendors. Obviously you have the, the licensees and stuff. They, they have their own really cool booths and pop ups and experiences. But seeing the locals were really cool.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: And it's cool to see people who made their own enamel pins.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Like the artists were great.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: What's that guy's name, that artist?
[00:17:09] Speaker B: Blank Slate Designs.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: Blank Slate Designs make their own pens. And at anything official you, if you're going to get pins, it's either going to be some pin trader from Disney.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: Or it's going to be the fig pen store which is blown up. Blown up but also so expensive.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: And his pens are small batch and custom design. Custom designed. Some of the things that are happening on his stickers are individual to literally every individual sticker.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Lots of really cool stuff like that. And so it was, I don't know, it was just really nice. I felt like all of those people, almost every single one of those booths deserved to be at a place like Star wars celebration or at WonderCon or at SDCC. And I don't know that all of them do, but Book guy was super cool because he had an NPR Star wars script for the radio production of the book adaptation of. So they adapted Star wars into a book. A novelization. There's a novelization of every Star Wars. We know this. They're great. They often have scenes that we all wish had stayed in the movie.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: The novelization was then, in the. In the 80s, adapted to a radio play, and the dialog changed so that things could be explained that couldn't be shown because radio. And then that script was recorded. And you can actually find these on vinyl. They. They do.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:18:34] Speaker A: But the script for Empire Strikes Back was in there, and what I didn't know when I purchased it, by the way, Spoilers. I purchased it, and it was like. It was like 10 bucks.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: 10 bucks?
[00:18:44] Speaker A: Yeah, it was great.
Inside each chapter, key scenes, had the storyboard picture within it.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: Or Ralph McQuarrie.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: Or Ralph McQuarrie. Like, concept piece or something.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: Which do, you know, we're all about?
[00:18:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm all about concept.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: So and. And storyboarding. Honestly, both. Like, I'm all about any pre visualization.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: I love it. So to get the radio play, which has its own rich history of, you know, existing, which is cool. And get to see some, like, free storyboards snuck in.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: It was so rad.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it was funny because, like, I was going through the booth, and I think you were. We're both on other. Because it was a big booth. Like, it was one of the bigger ones there. I was going through stuff, and you're like, hey, if you see any, like, books or scripts, I'm like, oh, this one right here, I got you.
[00:19:26] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: And that was it. Yeah.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I got that. And then I got a prima guide, because I love old strategy guides. I got a prima guide to Battlefront, and I almost. Battlefront 2. Star Wars. Battlefront 2 for the PlayStation.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Classic.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: Almost didn't get it. What ended up selling me was I realized I don't think I've actually beaten Battlefront 2 on the 501st campaign.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Really?
[00:19:46] Speaker A: And so I was like, this will help. And I don't like looking things up online because, like, when I was a kid, I never got to do that. And as an adult, when I get stuck, I found for a while, it was just too easy for me to just get online and look.
[00:19:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: And it took out the joy of figuring things out.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: But then you also, half the time, see spoilers, and you're like, no, I just wanted this one. One part.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: And my typical go to is I will find somebody who I know I can trust to give me a hint without being specific.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I've done that before.
[00:20:13] Speaker A: So, like, I texted Krista this week about Ocarina of Time and I'm like, I can't figure out how to get the damn Song of Storms. I know this is going to be a thing. Anyway.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: So I. She eventually was like, go to this place again. Just.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: Maybe you didn't do everything you think you did. And then I did. And of course that was the answer. Yeah.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: And I think I did that with you like two weeks ago. For Pokemon. For the. The thirsty. The thirsty security guard outside of.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: You're like, oh, there's a vending machine somewhere in a very large store. I know where to go.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: Anyways, vendors were great. Cosplays were cool.
Huge, chewy walking around. A really cool Vader. The balance skull, of course.
It was really cool. They had a nice little photo.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: Sakura was there. Yeah, it was cool.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Really cool. Little Photoshop or Photoshop photo areas. And they had speeder bikes away, which I really like. Yes. Yeah.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: Because I didn't have to worry about, like, people getting their Instagrams and worrying about whether or not I was in their way.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: I like when they're sequestered.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah. But it was still center to. Out of the way.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: Well, the ones on the side.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: Of like the. The entryway or the. The hallways inside the Death Star and things like that were out of the way. But you're right. The speeder bikes.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: But the speeder bike was such a cool photo.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: And they were in the middle, which is really cool.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: And they were like homemade speeder bikes.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: They look great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they had a really cool, like, mini stage set up and they had panels going on and the. Every. In between every panel there was a giveaway.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Which we'll get into later. The panels were fantastic. Really fun. We missed the first one with Maria, but we. We go way back, so we're cool. We chatted with her, hung out.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: The DJ was really good. Played some like, solid rock music occasionally.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: Just stopped to show us another Star wars scene.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: A whole, like a whole scene. So we saw like the pod race and duel. The Fates.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Grievous. Grievous fight.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: Yeah. The Obi Wan, Anakin duel heroes. Yeah. Which at classic Star wars fan fashion, everybody quoted every line.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: And then, you're my enemy.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: As we were playing Uno.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: Oh, my God. So we sit down with this. I. I see they Were, like, trying to find shade. And we finally find one table because the droid makers took up all the tables.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: They have a lot of equipment.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: They have a lot of equipment, but.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: They were there for a while.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: They were there for longer than they needed to be very cool people. And I love you, Kenny. You're great.
Anyway, so we finally go to sit down by these people, and we're, like, having small talk with them.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah, no big deal.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: You finish your food. I finish my food.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And then this lady's like, oh, you're done eating, and just starts dealing. She. She busts out. Star Wars Uno just starts dealing between me and her. And I'm like, oh, oh, no. I want to get up and. And walk around more. I. Oh, oh, no. She's like, cool, we're gonna play Uno. I'm like, you're not dealing in Bryce. You should deal him in too. And he's. And luckily, you're like, oh, yeah, Yeah.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: I was actually, like, kind of happy to not move for a second just because I was so. I was so over being in the sun.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: That's fair.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: I got down to Uno. Sylvia. Sylvia tried to pull a fast one on us, like, three times.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: Where she'd be like, no, no, no. We reversed it this way. Isn't it my turn now? And we're like, no, no, no, lady, come on. No, now we're watching. We know what's going on.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: We're very adhd. We're very distracted by Obi Wan Anakin fight going on and everything, walking around. But, no, no, no. This is business, lady. This is business.
[00:23:41] Speaker A: I stand on business. Anyway, none of us won Uno.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: No. And it was funny. It got to a point a few times. I'm like, okay, we've been sitting here playing for 15, 20 minutes at this point. I'm kind of over it, but I don't want to be rude. So I was trying to help you out a couple times.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: I was also trying to help you out.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: There's definitely a few times I could have thrown down a. The. The draw. Two draw fours. I'm like, I gotta save these to when it's going the other direction so I can give it to her.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah. So we can get out of here quick. Once she started throwing things at me, like, skip and draw. I was like, yeah. Oh, lady.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: Oh, it's all right.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: We're enemies now.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: If you're not with me, you're my enemy.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: And then. Yeah. So Obi Wan Anakin fight ended. And then the.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: The skeleton crew. Crew.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: Show Skeleton Crew. Crew. Yeah.
They had a panel. There was three of them there.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: Yeah. It was Wimfern and Neil.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Who are played by Ravi Cabo Conyers Ryan Kira Armstrong and Robert Timothy Smith, respectively. And honestly, they hold court pretty well.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: They were. Yeah. Yeah. You can tell they've. They've been doing this a couple months by now.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: And so they've kind of gotten their.
Their legs underneath them with this.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Definitely like it. That sort of job definitely comes with a certain level of. Of coaching.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:24:55] Speaker A: Public appearances and things like that.
[00:24:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: So I'm sure they've got that going on training. Honestly, like, even. Even when we were just like talking to him a little bit over at the booth and when we were hanging out with Lauren and they were nearby, like, they're. They're still kids.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: Which I really appreciate. Although Ravi's a little bit more of. It seems to me that he's a little more of a veteran to the, to the business. Because he was in Kanto.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Which I didn't realize until Animal Boy. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: But yeah, they. They were really cool. And that was a pretty, pretty good panel.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah, like 20, 30 minute panel.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Look, they were, they were interviewed by the guys who were kind of hosting the whole thing. I mean, the questions were a little softball, but, like, I don't expect you to be like, you know, super.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:40] Speaker A: Grindy. Like, I'm giving me the deets.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: This one episode where you guys went to this one planet, there's this one creature and you know, that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: But they were cool then. They were, they were funny. And honestly, they were super sweet. They were real nice kids.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: You know, we didn't buy any. We're not autographed people. I know, I know a lot of people are. I know the, the VCN people are just gung ho for autographs.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: But for me, I'd much rather just have a brief, you know, hey, you really did an excellent job. I don't want to make them work, but they also get paid for autographs, so, you know.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: Maybe. Maybe feel a little better.
[00:26:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: But yeah, they were, they were really cool. I. I specifically got a chance to tell each and every one of them, like, right. It's like, hey, your performance was seriously, like, that was some incredible work.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: And because they were. They. Well, they're amazing. Hard work. It's hard work doing all that stuff. It's hard work being on a set.
[00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially those sets. And they even talked about it working on the volume and how different it is.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: Yeah. I bonded with, with the, with, with, with Ryan, with, with Ravi.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Oh, Ravi. Yeah, yeah.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: Over the, the volume and, and both of us having like a, like you.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: Both got a little sick.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: Robbie admitted that he walked into the volume like more than once.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Actually into the, into the wall.
[00:26:55] Speaker A: Wall of the LEDs.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: He said that.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: I'm like, oh, that's a scary one.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: That's an expensive.
[00:27:01] Speaker A: Yeah, that's an expensive bump fix.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: I mean, I've been there. I walked into a glass plating plated window once. Gl. It was a sliding glass door on a set and I did not play it off well though. I really tried.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: It's hard not to.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Yeah. During the, the panel, Ryan mentioned going into hyperspace on the volume, how cool it was. I'm like, yeah, I saw it on Mandalorian and I cried. Yeah, it was amazing. But yeah, and it was cool to.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: Hear their like Star wars journey too. Cuz like each of them, you know, they all got introduced to Star wars by their parents, which I feel like that's a very common thing.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: But it was cool to hear each of their individual stories. They very affectionately refer to what their parents favorite part of Star wars is and how that differs from their own.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: Yeah, that's cool.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: It was nice. Yeah. Panels were good. There were demonstrations. Laura, Mary Kim did a demonstration with Ming Chu, who was the who who both have stunt doubled for Ahsoka and for the Ahsoka show and for the magistrate, et cetera. Yeah, they did like a demonstration and taught kids how to do like there was a couple of cosplayers did it.
[00:28:04] Speaker B: Yeah, a couple cosplayers who did it. Yeah. Yeah, it was really fun. Really cute that the two little girls go up there and.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: No, the little girls were so adorable. But I felt so bad for the both of them. Like, like not for the girls. The girls were having a great time. The people, the Lauren, Mary Kim and Ming Chu, trying their hardest to teach 4 and 5 years very distracted 4 year olds how to swing lightsabers at each other. Like of the two ways it could have gone, it went very well. It went very well. Like it could have. We could have ended up just having a swing into the face, you know?
[00:28:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: But instead it was like timid. I don't want to smack the swords until you're reaching out to smack the sword. Like very careful. Very, very many looks to mom to make sure that they were doing correctly by the four year olds.
[00:28:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: But that one. Yeah, that. That was a really fun one to watch.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: And then Carly King.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: Who's. She's an influencer. She's a cosplayer. She does lots of really rad, like, saber technique stuff.
[00:29:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Such a badass.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: Yeah, she's a badass. And she knows her stuff too. Like, she just put a video out talking about, like, Mara Jade and legends and all that stuff. So, like, she's one of us. Hell, yeah. Yeah. Super cool.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: She end up going up there with. With.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: She went and did a demonstration with them, but she also taught some skills.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Yeah. She had her own mini panel to.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: Yeah. And some of the kids, some of the. The cosplayers who went up to do Lauren and Ming's demonstration had already done her, so they were like throwing in some of the little tricks that they. That she had thrown them.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: It was a cool mix and match and. Yeah.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a really girl power.
[00:29:31] Speaker B: Especially in this month of International Women's Month.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: Yeah, we were about it.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Yeah. And then at the end of all that, you got. You got a glass. And we talked to some cool vendors.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah, we, we. I waited to buy stuff because I'm like, let me see what else is around. But also like, WonderCon's next weekend. I don't want to drop a whole bunch of money right now because I might next weekend. So I got to pace myself. So I was like, yeah, we're. We're going to finish up with the panels and then say our goodbyes to all the cast and the crew that we, we. We saw and what we know, we're sitting there talking to Lauren and you're just like, bryce, My name's Bryce. And you book it, you take off and we're like, what's going on?
[00:30:06] Speaker A: Which is such a me thing to say. Like, anytime somebody. And because I get mine, because people call my name out in class, like when I'm substitute teaching or when I'm on set. Like, if anybody ever calls up my name, like, I love just being like, that's me. I'm Bryce. Like, so as soon as I heard, like, Bryce, I was like, wait, like, not even. Not even, like, jokingly, like, it just sort of instantly came out.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: That's me.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: I'm Bryce. Why are they calling my name?
[00:30:30] Speaker B: Have you heard the story yet? No, There's a Nicole here.
[00:30:33] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: And she hasn't heard the story yet. Cool.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: You're not getting picked up at all, dear.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: I have not heard this story yet. That is, in fact, true.
[00:30:45] Speaker A: Thanks.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Got it.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: Watch I'm gonna listen to this later and be like, oh, she was picked up perfectly.
[00:30:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Keep it all in.
There we go.
[00:30:56] Speaker A: Anyway, so.
[00:30:57] Speaker B: So Bryce runs off like, what's happening?
[00:31:00] Speaker A: Because my name is getting called by two, like randos on the stage.
[00:31:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:04] Speaker A: And I realize.
So when we get. When you get to the con, you pay your 25 bucks if you haven't pre registered. Because it was like 20 if you pre registered. So again, 20 bucks for a con? Are you freaking kidding me? Have it in the park. Have it in the park every single day. I do not, like, absolutely no judgment. 25 bucks.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: It's still good. So I get when you. When we get there, they gave us all two tickets and we were supposed to write our info on one and then keep the other one so that if we weren't around when they called the raffle, then they'll call us. They could call you. So they go around and they drop. Or they had several items just on a table.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: There's like five or six, like, really cool statues, action figures, and each one.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: Had a little box that you. You just put your thing into. And I saw the Ahsoka statue that. There was a picture of this Ahsoka statue on Google when I looked up cool Ahsoka poses.
[00:31:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: I first got my iPad and I was like, I think that's the statue.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:59] Speaker A: So I threw my ticket in there. Cuz I used that same statue for my, like, very first digital painting that I ever did.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I put mine in the, the, the Mando and Grogu one. I was like, oh, do I want to do the Boba Fett, like, Tamora Morrison one? Or the. Or the Mando and Grogu. I'm like, bread and Latif for my guys.
[00:32:17] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:32:18] Speaker B: Plus Grogu is my dude, so yeah, I'll do that one.
[00:32:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And I saw, I saw the Ahsoka one and I was like, I am like, this is a very cool statue. Also, it didn't hurt that that statue had a few less.
[00:32:29] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely a little more empty.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: So I was like, yeah, I'll do it there. And I didn't even really think about it. Like, I glanced at the other ones and I didn't.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: They're like, cool, let's go to the con.
[00:32:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And then I moved on. So I threw it in there. So I'm in the middle of talking with, with you and Lauren, and then suddenly I hear Bryce, Bryce, Bryce. They're like singing my name. And I'm like, there's Not a lot of us.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:49] Speaker A: Like, Bryce, is it? There's more Bryces now, certainly, than there were when I was a kid. That's definitely a more popular name than it used to be, but, like, yeah, one of the odds. So I run up, and I'm like, I'm Bryce. And then he turns and he shows me this statue, and I realize we're calling the raffle.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:05] Speaker A: And I'm like, I never win these things. And he's like, yeah, where's your ticket? I cannot find my ticket. I cannot find my ticket at all. And they're like. It's like, it's. It's probably fine. And I'm like. And then one of them goes, well, what's his phone number? So I give him my phone number, and immediately he's like, oh, yeah.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: That's it. That's it. I mean, they're like, it's probably fine. And I'm like, but I want to find it. At this point, I'm mad because I've lost my ticket, and I feel irresponsible, and I should have it. I never found the ticket. I have no idea where it was. It probably fell out of my pocket when I was playing, you know, booter.
[00:33:38] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: When I was getting cheated and hustled in uno by Sylvia. Anyway, so I. I get the box, and eventually I show him my id, and he's like, shout out to Bakersfield, because he thinks I've driven all the way from Bakersfield. And I'm like, no, no, no. Hey, hey. Let's calm down here, buddy. Like, I feel bad because, like, he's having a good time. He's just up there riffing. And I'm like, hey, Xnay on the Bakersfield Bay. Yeah. I'm like, I didn't drive that far.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: I have pictures.
[00:34:05] Speaker A: Is that me getting the box?
[00:34:07] Speaker B: Huh?
[00:34:07] Speaker A: I didn't. I haven't seen these yet. Yeah, we should post those on the. On the Instagram.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we totally will. Yeah.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Check out the Instagram photos.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: That. That's him trying to find his.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: So this is a podcast.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:18] Speaker A: Brian is currently sliding through photos with Nicole.
[00:34:21] Speaker C: He looks very excited.
[00:34:23] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: Oh, and then there's the one. That's the one. Yeah. And then he.
[00:34:28] Speaker A: I haven't seen. We signed his photos. I just lived it.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: Anyway, so I get this box, and I come back, and Lauren is like, that's super cool. And I'm like, I don't win. Like, I never win raffles. Like, I don't put in for I don't pay money for raffle tickets. Usually.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: But, like, if I get put in for a raffle at all, it rarely pans out for me. Now, Eminem in a jar counting contest. I kick those ass. Like, it's not. But it's not a raffle. That is a test of skill, and it is a skill I have.
There is a clock in my parents laundry room that I earned with a lot of really simple and yet technical math.
And it also, I think, has, like, Cialis written on it or something.
Cause it's a promotional.
[00:35:18] Speaker B: You would.
[00:35:20] Speaker A: I won it at a bit of.
[00:35:22] Speaker C: This clock reminding you of your mortality.
[00:35:26] Speaker A: I won it at one of my very first cons when I went to get out of school to one of those and a job fair.
I was like, wait, I can leave this job con. I can leave campus for jobcon. I'll go to jobcon. Anyway, so I went, did some jobs and didn't get one, but I did get a clock.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: You got a clock?
[00:35:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. For something. I don't even remember what it was called.
TikTok.
Anyway, so I never win these things. So I tell Lauren I'm like, I never win these things. And somebody is like, well, she might as well sign it.
[00:36:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: And she was like, yeah, you already signed it. I'm like, hell, yeah. I'd love for you to sign up.
[00:36:05] Speaker B: Because Lauren played Ahsoka Mocap in Clone Wars.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: So the pose that I chose, I chose because it was the closest thing I could find to a realistic pose. A realistic Ahsoka doing the. The. One of the poses from the Siege of Mandalore.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:24] Speaker A: Stuff. So when she was like, do you want me to sign it? I was like, are you freaking kidding me? Like, you. It's you. And you. Like, yeah, this is you. Like, this is the most. One of the most incredible fights I've ever seen. Like, of course I don't gush this to Lauren. I don't want to, like, think. I'm like, you got to play cool.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: But I'm like, it's in my, like, top three lightsaber fights, for sure. Anyway, so she signs it, of course, and she's, you know, very gracious about it, and it was really cool. And then we went and bought your glasses, and I talked more to the blank slate guy.
[00:36:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:56] Speaker A: Who I. I mean, I picked that guy's brain. But he was also just so cool.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: He was really cool. Yeah. I mean, that's. That's the nice part about these smaller cons and these local vendors is like they're all about talking about their processes and yeah.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: I learned things about ordering your products from overseas from what type of sticker paper to get from the. From the sticker guy who had all the popsicles with the bad gumdrops.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: Those are good.
Like he was really cool too.
[00:37:19] Speaker C: He did Wonky eye gun.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:37:22] Speaker A: So all of like he did a bunch of anime characters as. As ice cream on a stick with the gumdrop eyes. And every couple of characters their eyes would be just a little bit off kilter to just, you know, to be that. So. So ice cream.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: Yeah, the taste.
[00:37:38] Speaker C: Multiple things at once for them to be a real ice cream.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Right. Yeah.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
Anyway, so yeah. Then we bought the last of the merch with you and then we headed out. Headed out. We did not stop at book off on the way.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: No.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: Partially because we forgot about it, but also because that's a financial decision that you should not do if you're going to a con next week.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: Yeah. No.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: Is there anything else you want to say about Star Wars Con?
[00:38:03] Speaker B: It was great. I had a fantastic time and I can't wait for next time.
[00:38:07] Speaker A: I same. I'm down.
[00:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: Like I'll bring sunblock next time.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: And if they do it in the same park, there's so much room for activities and just more places to grow and they could easily just take out a few of the. The, the picture taking spots and put in more vendors.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And.
[00:38:23] Speaker B: Or moves things around. Anyways, there's so much room and it's a great park. Nice part of town.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:29] Speaker B: Everybody was super cool.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: The drive wasn't horrible because of the time of day we left.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Even. And it was straight down the 91. And you know how that is. And if you don't know how that is, it's not great.
[00:38:38] Speaker A: It's not great.
[00:38:39] Speaker B: But this wasn't bad.
[00:38:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Honestly, don't. Don't knock the small cons.
And it's funny that I say that because the first time we ever had I ever talked about WonderCon on this show, I titled the episode WonderCon the Little Con with Big Dreams. And WonderCon is not little.
It's. It's huge. But it is nowhere near as massive as SDCC. But when like SDCC and Anime Expo and WonderCon are like the three cons that you've gone to the most, WonderCon kind of feels like the smallest. And honestly, much like our hometown, it's got that small town feel without. Even though it's got thousands of people.
[00:39:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:19] Speaker A: Like you don't you're not so overwhelmed by just the sheer size of it. You know, it's still one of those cons where you can't see everything. Which on the pro side of the Star Wars Con, we literally could watch every panel because there was only one panel stage. But WonderCon is not so small.
[00:39:37] Speaker B: Right.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: It's definitely the smaller scale of like the big Cons and it's run by Comic Con International, so there is that. Pretty similar wondercon is this week.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:49] Speaker A: Which is very exciting.
[00:39:51] Speaker B: I am very excited for it. I'm looking forward to this. For months.
[00:39:54] Speaker A: I. I feel like every now and again something will happen and I'll be like, comic Con exists and I'll get really excited about Comic Con. But like, for the most part, until we're really close, I don't really get that excited for cons.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:40:13] Speaker A: But with this week, like, the more I keep thinking about it, the more I'm like, oh, my God, WonderCon's happening. Oh, my God, we're going to WonderCon.
[00:40:18] Speaker B: I need this so bad.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: Like, I seriously could use this so bad right now. Yeah. Freaking mainline that WonderCon shit right now. Like, let's go.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:26] Speaker A: So WonderCon's happening. And as you have. If you've listened to the podcast before, you know that WonderCon is kind of your more comic centric print media artist. TV is probably as much as you're going to get. Occasionally you'll get a movie that is like really pushing it, I wager. We're probably going to get a bunch of until dawn promotion stuff because that's coming out and they've got a whole panel. It's a horror video game that's a choose your own adventure kind of thing.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: Oh, cool.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: Has a lot of celebrities in it. A lot of like, big name actors in. In it with Mocap Ward was in the first version of it from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:40:59] Speaker A: And I think Justice Smith is in this newest game.
[00:41:02] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:41:03] Speaker A: But, yeah, you might get a. You might get a movie.
[00:41:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: But like, for the most part, it's. It's a smaller con.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:10] Speaker A: You know, because. And it's not just smaller con because of the size of the con, but it's a smaller Con because of the. What they're actually focusing on.
[00:41:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Comic Con tends to be a little more pop culture Con studio. A big studio. Yeah.
[00:41:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:22] Speaker B: There's not a lot of big studios.
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Yeah. There's not usually a Marvel booth at WonderCon. Not an official one, anyway.
[00:41:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: DC doesn't typically do anything.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: Not anymore. They Used to.
[00:41:31] Speaker A: They did for a while. Marvel might do, like. Marvel Television used to be pretty big at Wonder Animation.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:37] Speaker A: Marvel Animation. We usually get some updates on what was going on with X men. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. always had a panel.
[00:41:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:44] Speaker A: But in recent years, I feel like it's shrunk down quite a bit.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm really looking forward to this one. I just went through all the. I've been trying to keep track of, like, the. The artist and the panels going on, but it's like, oh, I. It's harder to do that, you know, a month out, because they just add more as we get closer to it. So went through about an hour. Hour and a half ago and went through some stuff.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: And last year was really weird because they didn't release the panel schedule until like, a week before.
[00:42:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: It was. It was also raining, and on Easter Sunday. And, like, the strikes were going on. The strikes were going on, so they.
[00:42:19] Speaker B: Really didn't know who could show up.
[00:42:21] Speaker C: It was all up in the air.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: Yeah. This year's different.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Everything was very. This year, not the case. Three weeks ago, we started getting panels. Or two weeks ago.
[00:42:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: About a month, people started announcing that they were going to the Con.
[00:42:34] Speaker B: Yeah. We got a lot. A lot more of that, which is really cool.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: Yeah. And if you've never been to WonderCon or Comic Con, those Cons have their own app that is put on by Comic Con International. And every single year, I go, how do I change it to the new Con? Because you have to, like, download the new Con.
[00:42:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:42:54] Speaker A: There. And so you done that yet? Oh, yeah. Because you're doing it on your computer. So what you're gonna do, we're just gonna walk you through.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Oh, you're talking about the app. App. Yeah. So there's a. There's an app for the convention, and then there's an app for panels.
[00:43:08] Speaker A: Oh, no, there's an app for the convention.
[00:43:10] Speaker B: Oh, it's in there, too. Yeah.
[00:43:12] Speaker A: Yeah. So you're gonna get the Comic Con pan or the Comic Con app, and then to get over there, there's a. There's a refresh button in the corner, and it'll tell you that, like, oh, hey, you're missing. Like, this needs to be updated, and it'll provide the update. And then you're gonna have to go through and actually download WonderCon's like, things so that your whole thing is back up to date.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: I'm gonna do that right now.
[00:43:36] Speaker A: You should.
And then you can go through and add friends, but right now I don't have any on here because friend profiles. So yeah, you got to go through all that stuff. But once you're in there, if you go into panels, you can filter down the pan or you go into events, you can filter whether you want to see autograph signings or panels or game demonstrations or screenings, anything like that. Yes, Nicole, Just the two and a.
[00:44:05] Speaker C: Half star review rating.
This app has this.
[00:44:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm gonna tell you right now, I don't like this app. Yeah, I don't like the way it's run. But in the last two years, despite its really stupid non automatic update thing, so that you. Because you have to have the like specific con loaded because all the information is like housed within those files. Yeah. Despite that problem, the app has severely improved compared to what it used to be.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:44:34] Speaker A: And.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: Oh, I can link the accounts. Cool. We're good.
[00:44:37] Speaker A: Yeah. And then you can link your account.
[00:44:38] Speaker B: My schedule showed up.
[00:44:39] Speaker A: And your. And your schedule will be in there. And then what's cool is you have your friend group and you can look at everyone's calendars and see what everyone's doing. So you can see, oh, hey, you're going to be a panel at this. At this time. I'll go to my panel at this time. Or you can go, hey, like, I have a panel at this time. I can't come to lunch right now, you know, because sometimes you want to get lunch with your buddies who you haven't seen in a while because sometimes you make conference. I feel like a lot of our con friends won't be there this year because celebration is a month away and everyone's saving their money as much as possible.
[00:45:11] Speaker B: Is that too.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: But I am really looking forward to seeing a lot of those people again because you just, you wind up seeing the same people and having those conversations. And sometimes, sometimes it's exhibitors. There's certain exhibitors that like, I just, you know, I get to talking with them like I did at the Star Wars Con last week. And every year I go back and I'm like, oh, hey, you're here. And they're like, oh, yeah, hey, what's going on? I haven't seen you in a while. You know, but there's like Ming Chen remembers us because we had a good lengthy conversation with Ming Chen. Like, so they, they remember at least the interaction well enough, which is nice. So at least I've made some sort of an impression. But they're meeting thousands of people, so I'm not that worried about it. So. Yeah, you know, the. Some of the smaller exhibitors especially will remember who you are and.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: And they'll have some good conversations.
[00:45:52] Speaker A: You know, they'll be happy to see you. And it's. It's nice. It's nice. It feels like kind of a family reunion, but like you're spending all your time with the cousins that you only see at family reunions.
[00:46:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. That's a good way to put it. Yeah.
[00:46:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
And then, you know, and you kind of get caught up. You ask them how the cons going. Yeah. You know, the usual. You buy stuff, if you can buy stuff, and then there's some panel. It's funny. There's some exhibitors that you're like, oh, I don't go to that guy anymore.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: Yeah, no, for sure.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: That guy overcharges for his PS2 games.
[00:46:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:20] Speaker A: You know, or you go to another guy and you're like, that guy's always got really good guidebooks.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:25] Speaker A: Or like old Nintendo powers or something.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: Or they got the cool, like, mystery magic cards.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, or they're working on a particular project and you're just a teeny. You're just a little bit invested in it because you've been watching this grow over the years and you're like, wait, how many books do you have out now? Yeah, that's crazy. Or like, how far is this game coming? Oh, my gosh, that's wild. Like, you know, things like that. So I like, I like the personable and I get that also at sdcc, but you just don't have time.
[00:46:55] Speaker B: No, that's. And it's so big. There's so many people. And WonderCon's definitely smaller.
[00:46:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: People wise, which is really nice.
[00:47:01] Speaker A: Like, last year I spent basically a whole day going person to person to person to just like, make sure I saw and talked to everybody.
[00:47:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: It was exhausting. And like, comic, like cons are tiring, but like trying to cram all that in and trying to cram in your panels and trying to cram in seeing the whole exhibit floor. Like, I think this year I'm resolved to not see the whole exhibit floor.
[00:47:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:26] Speaker A: I think, I think the days of the Snake, especially with your foot right now. Yeah.
[00:47:33] Speaker B: I need surgery soon.
[00:47:35] Speaker A: The. The snaking is not something that I necessarily want to do.
[00:47:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is nice. And that kind of plays into. There's actually a decent amount of panels this year, like, I would love to go see and check out.
[00:47:47] Speaker A: So you looked at your panels earlier today. I only Just I. You've looked at the panels for a couple weeks. I literally only looked at the panels today.
[00:47:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think I'm working most of Friday, so I don't think I'll be able to go Friday, which is kind of a bummer. And Friday is typically for me, like the. The beginning of the snaking day. I'll check out the floor and see what booths are around and see what.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: You want to come back.
[00:48:08] Speaker B: You want to come back to. Or maybe. Or it's just like, oh, like this is the only place I've seen this figure or this art piece. Like, I. I gotta get it now.
[00:48:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:17] Speaker B: Because I've done that in the past. I'm like, maybe I'll come back later and I'll come back later and it's gone. It's like, no. Yeah, yeah.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: But sometimes it's good to do that. Be like, yeah. You know?
[00:48:25] Speaker B: But like, did I really need that?
[00:48:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's a tough one too, because sometimes you'll go, and then later in the day you're like, I still really want it. And you go back and it's gone.
[00:48:34] Speaker B: Yeah. That's the worst times.
[00:48:35] Speaker A: You'll go and you'll be like, I'll come back. And then later in the day you're like, I didn't need that.
[00:48:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:41] Speaker A: I was excited to have seen it and held it, but I don't need that in my house.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: Right. Yeah.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: You know, which is how I've always felt about that Ahsoka statue. But now it's in my house and I can't imagine.
[00:48:51] Speaker B: Got it for free without it. Yeah.
[00:48:52] Speaker A: Seriously. So good. So cool. So you can move the eyeballs.
It's so articulate.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:59] Speaker A: So I've got my panel schedule at least for Friday.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:02] Speaker A: And it's packed. But I also star everything I'm interested in, which I wish there was like a maybe option so I could be.
[00:49:10] Speaker B: Like, ah, like a half a star.
[00:49:12] Speaker A: Yeah, half a star.
[00:49:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: There's. There's a couple, like writing for animation and Monster Horror and Comics and Film, or Monstrous Horror and Comics and Film. Like some things that, like, if I need a place to sit and I want to sit somewhere where I'm enjoying myself.
[00:49:26] Speaker B: Right.
[00:49:27] Speaker A: I might go. But then I saw Dan Slott is doing a spotlight.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: And there's a bunch of these little spotlight ons.
[00:49:33] Speaker B: Yeah. It's really cool this year. Yeah.
[00:49:34] Speaker A: So I'm really excited for the Dan Slot thing and I'm probably gonna do that.
[00:49:38] Speaker B: I want to do that one too.
[00:49:39] Speaker A: Maybe catch the tail end of if.
[00:49:40] Speaker B: I can get there. Wait, what is that? Friday?
[00:49:43] Speaker A: That's at 2:30 on Friday. Yeah, I'm also like anything storyboarding. There's a lot of Tolkien stuff this year.
[00:49:49] Speaker B: Yeah, there's so much with War of War Herum that was out in December. Y. December.
[00:49:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:55] Speaker A: Y.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: What is time? And then the new Hobbit game coming out on the Switch.
[00:50:00] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:50:00] Speaker B: Or I think it's on other platforms. I just have the switch. That's where I'm going to play it on.
[00:50:04] Speaker A: But the new Hobbit game.
[00:50:05] Speaker B: Yeah, new Hobbit games.
[00:50:06] Speaker A: Probably better than the Golem game.
[00:50:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Which apparently came out and everybody was.
[00:50:09] Speaker A: Like oh yeah, remember when that time we recorded a whole episode about it and then didn't know the game came out because no one wanted to talk about it.
[00:50:16] Speaker C: That's bad when nobody even wants to complain about it. They just want to forget about it.
[00:50:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:50:22] Speaker A: It was quite the letdown. But yeah, there's like a celebrating Tolkien reading day thing. There's upcoming things in Tolkien. A bunch of them are being hosted.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: By One Ring.net, the OneRing.net yeah, classic page.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: Brian, describe the One Ring.net to us.
[00:50:37] Speaker B: Like one of the best and oldest Tolkien websites. They got news, they got updates, they got interviews with producers and it's kind of the one stop shop for anything Lord of the Rings these days. And since I've been going to that website since shoot 99, 2000.
[00:50:57] Speaker A: So video games, movies, books, anything like that.
[00:51:03] Speaker C: I love that the world got the Internet and one of the first things it did was say we need to be real nerdy about.
[00:51:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean it's just like the force dot net. Yeah, the Star wars version. Yeah, I mean different, different crew. But like that was. Those were the two pages I went to quite a bit.
[00:51:19] Speaker A: See, I didn't know about the force dot net.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:51:21] Speaker A: Which sounds to me like a combination of Wikipedia and hyperspace.
[00:51:25] Speaker B: They had really cool forums. Yeah.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: Anyway, anyways, yeah, Tolkien stuff.
[00:51:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. To some of the panels. I and even some of the games. I've played some of the card games over. I Lear learned really learned how to play Lorcana out there. I played magic. Been really into Star Wars Unlimited lately and they have a all day league play and then even after hours at the hotel. How much depends on the game. It's usually 15, 20 bucks. You, you get a couple packs. You'll win a pack every time you Win nice little tournament. I know the, the after hours game. You get like a random pre constructed deck and then you get two booster packs to I think boost things up and kind of make a little more your own. And then you win a booster pack every time you win.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:52:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And everybody's those things. Everybody's really cool. It's not super competitive. They're there for the fun of it. So if you're new and need to learn how to play or you're kind of rusty and you want to, you know, get back into it, like it's the perfect spot. But yeah, I have that on my list. I got the, the Dan Slott thing. There's a panel called Art Heels and it's got a bunch of Star wars crew from the movies. An ILM talking about matte painting and the CGI work, but kind of how it I guess relates to mental health and stuff. So like. Oh, that's, that's kind of cool. Like if I'm around I might check that out.
[00:52:42] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:52:44] Speaker B: There's also yar, the Pirates of Star.
[00:52:46] Speaker A: Wars panel which is put on by the legal people.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they're going to talk about all the different kind of pirates in and out of the movies and the shows, probably the books hopefully. But it's like that's, that's just a fun panel.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: It sounds like Star Wars Privateers. Oh, I want Star Wars Privateers.
If you don't know the difference between a privateer and a pirate. A pirate steals and, and offer actually has a very democratic system of governance. They work for themselves, but they work for themselves and they are.
[00:53:18] Speaker B: Hondo is a pirate.
[00:53:21] Speaker A: Yeah, Hondo is a pirate.
[00:53:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:23] Speaker A: You know, the pirates from Skeleton Crew are pirates, but a private basically runs on all the rules of pirates but works for the government and hunts pirates.
[00:53:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Like a, like an ocean mercenary.
[00:53:35] Speaker A: Yeah, but is, but it still acts very much like a pirate. Yeah, like definitely. Still swashbuckling still.
[00:53:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:45] Speaker A: When do we get Star wars privateers? All I'm asking.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean I guess that's kind of andor. No, not really. No, that's just more imperial.
[00:53:52] Speaker A: It would be cool also because privateers are kind of a symbol of this is going off the deep end. But I'm running with, we're going in, we're going there. Privateers are kind of a sign that your government is not fully in control and a little bit desperate because the people that they're hiring to do this sort of thing.
[00:54:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:08] Speaker A: So it would show some cracks in the early new Republic. Oh, if they had intentionally gone with privateers.
[00:54:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:17] Speaker A: Although if the privateer was not necessarily fully government sanctioned and was stead, like.
[00:54:22] Speaker B: At the end of Mandalorian Season three.
Such as, like the Mandalorian in the end of Mandalorian Season three.
[00:54:28] Speaker A: In what way?
[00:54:29] Speaker B: That's kind of what he does. He goes up to. To Teva and he's like, hey, I'm kind of going away from the bounty hunting kind of thing, but if you have anything for the New Republic, let me know.
[00:54:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. Mando might be our first privateer.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: Oh, we'll find out in the movie.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's rad. That's a super rad thing.
[00:54:52] Speaker B: Anyways, going more down on my list. They also show anime throughout the day.
[00:54:55] Speaker A: Just like Comic Con, there's an anime I'm very excited about.
[00:54:58] Speaker B: So Cowboy Bebop, they got a couple showings of that. I don't know what episode, but that might be something cool. Just like, hey, I need to get off my feet. Let's go watch an episode.
[00:55:05] Speaker A: As long as it's not Pierre LeFou. So speaking of Bebop.
[00:55:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:55:08] Speaker A: The creator of Bebop is doing a new show, right. And I think the claim is that despite all of the. Despite it being thousands of years apart. Shamploo, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy. And apparently this new show, Lazarus, technically all take place in the same universe.
[00:55:27] Speaker B: Really.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: Which is kind of neat. But this new show is called Lazarus, and they're doing a sneak preview of.
[00:55:32] Speaker B: It, which Saturday, right?
[00:55:33] Speaker A: I think it's Friday night. Yeah, yeah. And Lazarus, the.
The only thing we really know about it is like Mappa is involved, which is a really big anime studio. And it takes place in 2052 and a character named Dr. Skinner. This is from the Wikipedia. Character named Dr. Skinner has discovered a miracle drug called hapna. And in 2055 he announces that the drug has a three year half life.
So soon everyone who took it is gonna die. So he's like, hey, sorry, we're all doomed, like. And so a task force of five agents is assembled to find Skinner and create a vaccine for it. And the vaccine is going to be called Lazarus.
[00:56:21] Speaker B: Interesting.
[00:56:22] Speaker A: So that's a. It's a very high sci fi kind of plot, which is really cool. It seems to be deviating very much from the style of story that maybe Bebop had. But like, it's pretty on brand with like Samurai Champloo. But if. If Shinichiro Watanabe is involved, then it very likely means that there's a heavy influence of music in it as well.
[00:56:46] Speaker B: Oh, we love that.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: I'm very excited about. Because he basically treats his anime like Kabuki theater and every fight is set to a song.
[00:56:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: But like, Cowboy Bebop has, like, four discs of music.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: You know, if you still measure music in discs, which I do, but it has, like six soundtracks.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Right, right.
[00:57:04] Speaker A: Like, there's a lot of remixes in there and stuff. But like. Yeah. Lazarus people are very excited about it.
[00:57:09] Speaker B: Yeah. They're showing the first two episodes.
[00:57:11] Speaker A: I think it is being produced by Adult Swim, which a lot of people are Adult Swims.
[00:57:16] Speaker B: Lazarus sneak peek screening.
[00:57:17] Speaker A: I think a lot of people are a little skeptical about it because of that. Because the last couple of Adult Swim sponsored anime did not go so well. Uzumaki, first episode. Great. Second episode. What happened? Major budget issues. The Rick and Morty anime is.
[00:57:33] Speaker B: I watched the first episode and it was boring. Yeah. I was not.
[00:57:37] Speaker A: It's very rare that I just don't care that I didn't finish something.
[00:57:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And we love Rick and Morty.
[00:57:43] Speaker A: And it was like. Obviously it wasn't a comedy, but like, it. I didn't love the art style. It was hard to follow at times, and I kept zoning out.
[00:57:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:52] Speaker A: And I don't do that typically.
[00:57:54] Speaker B: Right. Yeah.
[00:57:54] Speaker A: So it was a really, really. It was weird. It was a weird thing. So hopefully with the. With Mapa and Watanabe being involved, it's. Yeah, it'll be a nice.
[00:58:04] Speaker B: What's up?
[00:58:04] Speaker A: Reversal of that trend.
[00:58:06] Speaker B: Yeah. We'll do a part two, and we'll break everything down of what we saw and didn't see.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: And Watson, Nicole, what are your plans for the. For your panels, if you can go on Friday?
[00:58:16] Speaker C: I think I saw something about a true crime panel which is interesting to me. I didn't really get a chance to look deeply into the schedule yet, to be honest with you.
[00:58:27] Speaker A: Flying by the seat of your pants.
[00:58:29] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:58:30] Speaker A: Classic Bryce style.
[00:58:31] Speaker C: Live on the edge.
[00:58:32] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:58:32] Speaker C: Skin of my teeth. That kind of shenanigans.
[00:58:35] Speaker A: For sure.
[00:58:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:58:37] Speaker A: And then, honestly, I barely looked at my Saturday schedule.
[00:58:41] Speaker B: There's still a lot on Friday too. So there's. There's a set decorators. A Marvel set decorators panel they got somebody from.
[00:58:50] Speaker A: Which means they'll be pulling in cool props and showing them off, hopefully.
[00:58:54] Speaker B: Well, depending on who's there, maybe. Yeah. So the. We have set decorator from Loki, Ms. Marvel, and Agent Carter.
[00:59:05] Speaker A: Ooh, Agent Carter.
[00:59:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Period piece stuff, which is really cool.
[00:59:09] Speaker A: And TVA is kind of period piece and at least it's inspiration. Yeah, sure.
[00:59:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then kind of high sci fi with it. A little bit of fantasy sprinkled in, but yeah, futurism. Yeah, yeah. So that, that might be cool. I saw one for you. Stored the storyboarding for commercials, TV and more. Thought you might be interested in that one. The first TMNT movie. 35th anniversary.
[00:59:30] Speaker A: I do have that down.
[00:59:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:32] Speaker A: It's during celebrating Tolkien and right after storyboarding. So, yeah, so we'll see.
[00:59:36] Speaker B: We'll see the Star Wars Force Awakens 10th anniversary with the editor, Marianne Brandon.
[00:59:41] Speaker A: Oh, cool. Might be kind of cool. Yeah.
[00:59:43] Speaker B: See what's up and. Yeah. And then we have Adult swims, Lazarus sneak peek, and then I put on a Star wars trivia party at 9pm we'll see. We'll see how we feel at that. Late. But our good buddy Leilani Shu, who plays Tika the Jawa in Mandalorian and she's also an Obi Wan, is going to be co hosting that.
[01:00:03] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[01:00:03] Speaker B: Yeah. So I was like, oh, I gotta go. Gotta go see the homie.
[01:00:06] Speaker A: And if you're not feeling all of that, there is the Bikini Bottom Bash. Oh, snap. With Tom Kinney and the High Seas.
[01:00:14] Speaker B: Shoot, I totally. I knew but I missed it on here.
[01:00:17] Speaker A: A concert sort of thing. Yeah, it's a night of music, laughter and animated mayhem according to them. And they will be teaming up. Tom Kinney and the High Seas will be teaming up with Radioactive Chicken Heads for an unforgettable live concert event. And it's also gonna have Luis Carreno, who is the Spanish voice of Bob Espunja.
They will also have. And this is probably the most important thing, DJ Lance Rock.
[01:00:48] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:00:51] Speaker A: So if you're down to go Yo Gabba gabba with the spongebob crew.
[01:00:55] Speaker B: You know it.
[01:00:56] Speaker A: Yeah. So two spongebobs. Double the sponge, double the bob, as well as dj lance rock and two bands.
[01:01:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that sounds great.
[01:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, that one's at 8:00 on Friday.
[01:01:08] Speaker B: Cool.
[01:01:08] Speaker A: So that sounds pretty cool.
[01:01:09] Speaker B: Good to know.
But yeah, Saturday, like has a pretty solid lineup too. There's another storyboarding storyboarding scream. Screams and laughs. Yeah. Yes.
[01:01:20] Speaker A: Storyboards for army of Darkness, Zombieland, Cabin in the Woods, Renfield.
[01:01:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that sounds cool.
[01:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:26] Speaker B: Right up your alley.
[01:01:27] Speaker A: Yeah. No, seriously, like, these are.
These are some pretty like rad previz visuals. If they. If. I mean, I'm assuming they'll be showing them too, but I wonder if any of them will have Like a book or anything like that. Maybe sometimes that happens, which is really nice. When you go to a panel and they're like, hey, by the way, at this booth, like, there's this book you can go buy. And then it turns out, like, there's a rad storyboarding book.
[01:01:53] Speaker B: Sometimes even give away their books.
[01:01:54] Speaker A: Sometimes they do. Yeah.
[01:01:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: I've won my giveaway for the. For the decade. I don't think I'm going to manage to score anything.
[01:02:00] Speaker B: Not with that attitude.
[01:02:01] Speaker A: If I listen, if I. If I downplay my chances, the universe will seek to correct me. It loves proving me wrong.
Mark Waid is also doing a.
[01:02:10] Speaker B: He's got quite a few panels.
[01:02:11] Speaker A: Does he really? I only saw the one.
[01:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So he's got the 50 answers in 50 minutes.
[01:02:15] Speaker A: That's the one I had.
[01:02:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And then just after that is DC Superman with Marks.
[01:02:18] Speaker A: When I started skipping because I wanted to go to lunch with somebody. Oh, I don't know who, but I was like, I should probably leave this section of my.
[01:02:25] Speaker B: That's fair. We'll get hungry around then. Yeah, that sounds really cool. Dan Slot and. And Mark Wade talking about their Superman books.
[01:02:31] Speaker A: Like, yeah, Mark Wade's Superman Birthright is, in my opinion, one of the greatest Superman stories ever told.
[01:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:38] Speaker A: Like, and there's some shots from the new Superman trailer that very much remind me of Superman Birthright, and I'm wondering if they're going to be pulling from that in a way that wouldn't be surprised for man of Steel.
[01:02:50] Speaker B: Right? Yeah. They're definitely going more comic booky with this. In a good way.
[01:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:55] Speaker B: Yeah. But then on the Marvel side of things, there's the world of X Men 92 and X Men 97. They got some of the voice actors and I think a couple producers and. And there's a few other panels with. With that crew throughout the weekend, which is really nice. So after that, we have a Lord of the Rings previewing upcoming projects.
[01:03:13] Speaker A: You and I are on a wavelength today, buddy.
[01:03:15] Speaker B: I.
[01:03:16] Speaker A: So far, other than the Dan. Other than the second one.
[01:03:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:19] Speaker A: Quade One. We've been. You've been mentioning my schedule.
[01:03:22] Speaker B: Okay, how about the two Legends?
[01:03:24] Speaker A: All right, go on.
[01:03:25] Speaker B: Okay. It's Jim lee and Todd McFarlane.
[01:03:28] Speaker A: Todd father.
[01:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah. So I was just like, what does the two. Is it a new anime or is it a new show? No, it's Jim Lee and. And Todd McFarlane just chatting it up.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: Honestly, which I'm all about two of, in my opinion, some of the most wholesome men in Comics.
[01:03:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:44] Speaker A: Right now. Yeah.
[01:03:46] Speaker B: Good stuff. I'm excited for that one. And then really cool. At 3pm there's the LA International Children's Film Festival program number seven.
Last year I worked on a short film that we shot on the volume, the mini volume on the Disney Burbank lot, the Infinity stage they call it.
And that's actually being screened at WonderCon.
[01:04:08] Speaker A: That's so cool.
[01:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm go check that out. That's it. 3pm 3 to 5. But I think that one's probably gonna be closer to like 3:30, 4:00.
[01:04:16] Speaker A: But okay.
[01:04:17] Speaker B: I'll have to check with. Check with the peeps and try to figure stuff out. Go check it out. But yeah, we, we shot that on the volume on the Infinity stage.
[01:04:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:04:26] Speaker B: Which a lot of short films don't do because it's hard to get that kind of access. So like it was, it was a really cool project to work on with.
[01:04:32] Speaker A: That high quality of a volume.
[01:04:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's been winning some awards at the. And little circuits going around. So. Yeah.
Seems pretty neat. And then after that we have How Props Become Icons and our good buddy Skip, who I worked with on Mixed Ish, who went to go on and do Obi Wan and he's the prop master for Abbott Elementary.
[01:04:55] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:04:55] Speaker B: He's on that panel talking about props and how they become icons with some of his buddies.
[01:05:00] Speaker A: And honestly Skip is.
[01:05:02] Speaker B: Skip's the man.
[01:05:03] Speaker A: Skip's a great dude.
[01:05:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I love that guy.
[01:05:05] Speaker A: He's easy to listen to. Like he's a very entertaining guy and he's a fan.
[01:05:08] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[01:05:09] Speaker A: So he, he's gonna really appreciate Dalek.
[01:05:11] Speaker B: In his house and. Yeah.
[01:05:12] Speaker A: Does he really?
[01:05:13] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm really excited just one, just to hang out with that guy. Haven't seen him in forever. Good dude. But just to see what they have for that panel. Yeah, he's always got really cool stories.
[01:05:23] Speaker A: If you are curious about the until dawn film, there is an Until Dawn Film panel at about 4:30 and I do have that down just because filmmakers and cast talking about what they're going to be doing. I thought that would be kind of cool.
[01:05:37] Speaker B: Which is interesting because there's also a Behind the Camera House, an entertainment industry mixer going on at that time.
[01:05:43] Speaker A: Oh really?
[01:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Also at the same time, another cowboy bebop screening. Oh. So yeah.
[01:05:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Unlike because Comic Con is so huge and it is the convention center and two hotels, there's a lot of extra rooms that you can go do stuff in and there's not so much of that in WonderCon.
[01:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a little bit, but not as much.
[01:06:03] Speaker A: Yeah, not to that level. Like at Comic Con. Like, you can basically there's a whole block of hotel rooms. Not hotel rooms. They're not hotel rooms. There's a whole block of like, banquet rooms in the hotel that you can just pop in and be like, oh, I don't. I'm not really into this anime. I'm gonna go next door and watch a different one.
[01:06:19] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:06:19] Speaker A: And this one not so much.
[01:06:21] Speaker B: Right.
[01:06:21] Speaker A: But still good to know where those things are. And again, if you don't want to leave, but you also don't want to sit out in the heat or the cold or whatever. Yeah. Whatever the weather's got going, knowing where those things are, where those panels are is a really nice kind of backup plan to. To sit down so that you're not trying to find uncomfortable seating next to the hot dog stand.
[01:06:40] Speaker B: Right.
Yeah. That's all I had for Saturday pretty much.
[01:06:44] Speaker A: You didn't have Young Indie to Young Annie.
[01:06:45] Speaker B: Oh, shoot. So, yeah, it didn't show up on.
[01:06:49] Speaker A: Here is the Young Indie Chroniclers podcast are going to explain how the exploration of young Indiana Jones and the themes of that led to the eventual young Anakin storyline in. In the prequels. And they're. They're kind of doing their like, deep dive. That's cool. Which I love a good deep dive. Like, oh, you went down a rabbit hole. So I don't have to love it. Let's go.
[01:07:15] Speaker B: Topics that I love.
[01:07:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Two things that I love. Indiana Jones and Lord of the.
[01:07:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:07:20] Speaker A: Lord of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars.
[01:07:23] Speaker B: Of course, sign me up. And then of course are given s'mores.
[01:07:29] Speaker A: And then of course at the end of the day, if you happened to be in the area and to go over to. As you're exiting the WonderCon front doors and you go to your right to the hotel. Yeah. You'll find the Marriott and the Marriott has excellent drinks and not so excellent prices, but a fantastic s'mores for your table where you roast the marshmallow on your table.
[01:07:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:07:53] Speaker A: And we have been doing this since Star wars celebration in 2022.
21212.
[01:08:01] Speaker B: Either way.
[01:08:02] Speaker A: In the. In the mid times.
And you should go do. You should go get s'mores. You should go get s'mores. And you're. And obviously feel free to join us. We'll be in our usual spot on the outdoor patio.
[01:08:14] Speaker B: Unless it's weathering. Unless we'll be inside.
[01:08:17] Speaker A: In which case we'll be inside because.
[01:08:18] Speaker B: That happened last year.
[01:08:19] Speaker A: That did happen last year. So come look for us. Find us. It's a fun game.
[01:08:22] Speaker B: Yeah, we're very loud.
[01:08:23] Speaker A: We are very loud.
[01:08:24] Speaker B: We got a solid crew.
[01:08:25] Speaker A: We'll probably be around all of the people we love, which could include you.
[01:08:31] Speaker B: That was smooth, right?
[01:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it was really good.
And then Sunday.
[01:08:37] Speaker B: Sunday.
[01:08:38] Speaker A: Sunday is great day for bargains. If you're gonna go shopping, bring your cash.
[01:08:42] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:08:43] Speaker A: Because cash is king and it's easier to haggle when they can see the cash in hand. So bring your cash and go get some deals because they don't want to have to take that stuff home.
[01:08:52] Speaker B: It's heavy.
[01:08:53] Speaker A: It is. Don't go to the tower. They're charging way too much.
[01:08:56] Speaker B: I got a few panels and things.
[01:08:57] Speaker A: That I look at Sunday schedule. So this is all news to me.
[01:09:01] Speaker B: So interesting one. First off, 10am mixer for science minded geeks.
[01:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:09:08] Speaker B: As someone with a science master's degree in the geek world, like, I'm like, oh, that sounds kind of cool.
[01:09:13] Speaker A: You know, I'm something of a scientist myself.
[01:09:16] Speaker B: It was right there.
[01:09:18] Speaker A: Nailed it.
Yeah.
[01:09:20] Speaker B: So like. But yeah, so it sounds kind of cool and something new and different. And then a couple other panels that, like, might interest me. Might interest you. One of them is alternate career options in video games. Oh, yeah, that one's at noon. Breaking into voice acting for games and animation.
[01:09:34] Speaker A: You know, I love that.
[01:09:34] Speaker B: Yep. X Men fandom panel. Mutant voices. A few different voice actors from the shows will be there.
[01:09:40] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:09:40] Speaker B: Including the ones from the last panel we just talked about the art of voice directing at 3:30.
[01:09:47] Speaker A: Understanding voice direction, like from this, from the perspective of a voice director sounds extremely valuable.
[01:09:54] Speaker B: Right? Yeah.
[01:09:55] Speaker A: Good to know.
[01:09:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And then one of the last ones, WonderCon Talkback.
And I don't know if they've done this before, if they have. Yeah, yeah. But it's just some of the people that put on the con, like, will come up and be like, hey, what did you guys think about this year? What didn't you like? What did you like? What do you want added? What? You know.
[01:10:13] Speaker A: Yeah. So we can go up there and be like, hey, the app is improving. It's still terrible.
[01:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah, but you're getting there.
[01:10:19] Speaker A: But you're getting there. And we are still better than Reed Pop.
[01:10:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And then the last one I have on the list, 4:00pm, the 25th anniversary of Emperor's new Groove Pants.
[01:10:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Is David Spade gonna be there?
[01:10:33] Speaker B: No, but the director the writer, character designer, head of story, story artist.
We'll be talking about all that good stuff.
[01:10:43] Speaker A: That's cool. Yeah, I love a good story artist and that story artist. That whole team went through a lot to make every.
[01:10:50] Speaker B: We were just talking about that because.
[01:10:52] Speaker A: The director, who is probably coming up there, is not the one who started that film.
[01:10:55] Speaker B: Right. That's a whole nother podcast. I got it.
[01:10:58] Speaker A: I got it in. Yep. We got. We did it. Honestly, that's all you need. We don't need to say anything else.
[01:11:02] Speaker B: Website, everybody. Yeah, yeah.
But, yeah, that's. That's my WonderCon weekend. We were talking the other day. It's like, I don't have a whole lot of White Whale books that I'm looking for anymore. I've kind of got what I wanted. There's not a lot of action figures.
[01:11:17] Speaker A: I'm running out of space.
[01:11:18] Speaker B: I'm running out of space. I don't have an office anymore, so I don't have things to put in.
[01:11:21] Speaker A: My office I want.
[01:11:23] Speaker B: Except for art. And then we realized, oh, we've kind of switched. I've switched over to art pieces, and.
[01:11:28] Speaker A: I've also switched over.
[01:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's just. Like I said, it'd be nice to just see everybody again.
[01:11:35] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a few booths that I like to make sure I stop by. I always like to stop by Sebastian Jones's Stranger Comics. He's independent and just a really nice guy. He does Niobe and all of the stuff that happens within there, which is all, like, based out of the Pathfinder, like, character development, which is neat. But I'll go to him, and then I try to. If Fuzzy has a booth, I go stop by Fuzzy. If. If Dale Berry is there, I'll go to Dale Berry. If I go see Dale Berry. Because Dale Berry's comic, he's been in, doing indie comics. He was actually why I went to my very first WonderCon, because we found out Dale was going to be at WonderCon when it was in San Francisco, and we went actually to go see him. That's where the whole How I Met Peter Mayhew storyline. Oh, yeah. And for those of you who've heard the previous episodes of our podcast about WonderCon. But if Dale Barry's there. Keith Foster. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Although I see. I see Keith all the time because he goes to my comic shop.
[01:12:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So I hide out a lot. Or frequently enough that we see him frequently enough. It's always nice to see him at the con to see how he's doing. There. And.
[01:12:40] Speaker A: Yeah, but, yeah, just there's a few people who I like to go and I like to support, and there's some that I, you know, completely forget to even think about until I see him at the Con. I'm like, oh, my God, I love that guy.
[01:12:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:12:51] Speaker A: You know, so I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited for that. I'm. I feel like I'm not going to see the whole floor this time. I'm probably going to do a little bit more panels than I usually do. Granted, I say all this, we'll see what actually happens. Yeah. In three days time, I might get whisked away by some friend of some sort that I. That I wind up spending my whole day with. I don't know. I've got a few for sures. I, like we talked about in our last episode, you know, there's a few things that it's like, I really, really want to do this. And then there's a few things that it's like, I really want to do this, but if we don't, I'll live.
[01:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:13:23] Speaker A: And then there's. I want to do this, but it's only because it's there.
[01:13:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And if I don't. Yeah, whatever.
[01:13:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And then there's like, if, If I don't have anything to do, I'll go do that.
[01:13:34] Speaker B: Right.
[01:13:34] Speaker A: You know, so I like that sort of schedule. I don't know who all's coming, who might be there with us.
[01:13:39] Speaker B: Friend wise.
[01:13:40] Speaker A: Friend wise. Yeah. Who might show. Show up and I'll be like, oh, actually, I'm going to go spend some time with them because I don't get to see them very often, that kind of thing. But yeah, I'm excited for the weekend. Yeah, I'm excited for our first big Con of the year. I think we really revved up to it in a way.
[01:13:56] Speaker B: Nice warm ups.
[01:13:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Nicole, what are you excited for for this weekend?
[01:14:01] Speaker C: The food.
[01:14:03] Speaker A: The food.
[01:14:03] Speaker B: Food. Food trucks.
[01:14:04] Speaker C: Food trucks. I love the food trucks.
[01:14:06] Speaker B: They got some good ones.
[01:14:07] Speaker C: I love the food trucks. I just wish that they were more moderately priced.
[01:14:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[01:14:11] Speaker B: That's a thing.
[01:14:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Bring snacks so that when you go to the food truck, you're not compelled to spend $80 for a small meal.
[01:14:19] Speaker B: Yeah. We got a whole podcast on things you need to bring to a Con. Our last Comic Con podcast.
[01:14:24] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:14:24] Speaker B: Go check that out. If you haven't heard it, this one.
[01:14:26] Speaker A: Was much more of a, like WonderCon Prelude advertisement sort of thing, so you're welcome. Comic Con International Sponsor us? I mean, yeah, if you're down, just, you know.
[01:14:38] Speaker B: So, yeah, we'll probably do a part two. Yeah, we'll see what we actually do. We'll see what merch we actually buy. Well, maybe we'll get a couple people that we. We met there or just some friends that want to hop on and kind of give us their story.
[01:14:51] Speaker A: And. Yeah, hopefully it feels more like a sequel to this episode and less like a smash cut to what really happened, but we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Cons are crazy. All sorts of things could happen.
[01:15:03] Speaker B: We can get Ron Howard on the next one and, like, do the narrator voiceover.
[01:15:06] Speaker A: Oh, my God. The dream price.
[01:15:10] Speaker C: Are you crying?
[01:15:11] Speaker A: What if he said yes?
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[01:16:14] Speaker B: Pretty quick, hopefully.
[01:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah, no, we're feeling. I'm feeling pretty confident about that one.
[01:16:18] Speaker B: Thanks for listening. Have a good con.
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