Convention Attention – NYCC 2025 Recap With Brad Filicky!

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Hi, this is Kevin Conroy, and you’re listening

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to the Geekcast Radio Network. This is Kevin

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Conroy, and I am the goddamn Batman. This is

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Geekcast Radio. I am, of course, GFG and Mike.

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And for the first time in this podcast, second

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time on the network, for a New York Comic -Con

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2025 recap, joining me is none other than Mr.

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Brad Flicky. Hello, sir. How are you? Hey, great

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to be here. How are you doing? I don’t know if

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I should answer that question. rather uh rather

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loaded question fully fully loaded rather stocked

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you might say we are as i said recapping new

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york comic -con 2025 and we are going to get

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brad’s experiencing brad’s expect folks i can’t

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talk anymore brad’s experience in attending the

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con as this is convention attention only on geek

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cast radio How many years have you been attending

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New York Comic Con? Was this your first time,

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second time, 20th time? 19th. I’ve been going

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every year. Every year since the start in 2006.

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Wow. It’s so different. Even back then, you could

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tell there was something big brewing, but now

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there’s queue lines, and you’ve got to tap in,

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you’ve got to have reservations, this and that.

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Back then, you could just walk in, walk into

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any any panel room and you might, you know, and

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standing really close to you on a panel is Brian

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Michael Bendis, who was huge at the time. Just

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walking into a panel on Stephen King’s Dark Tower

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comics, things like that. It’s been amazing to

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kind of watch it grow. And there are, you know,

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ebbs and flows within those years where. Things

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were huge. Things died down a little bit. Dealing

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with things like, you know, during the Great

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Recession, there was a lot less swag, you could

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tell. You know, and at the height of Marveldom,

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which was kind of the height of the whole nerd

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culture thing, you know, before superhero fatigue

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set in, it was just, you know, just massive.

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So it comes and goes, you know, but every year

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there’s just. So much to do, so much to see.

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It’s the highlighting of my year. It’s something

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that I look forward to. It’s like coming home.

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I just absolutely love it. I can see myself going

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to this until I’m 70, 80, things like that. Definitely

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love it. So you’ve got about another 15 years.

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Yeah, as they keep putting them out, I’ll keep

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going. Yeah, for sure. I would love to go. Any

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of them. I would love to. But they’re all just

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too big for me. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, I was just

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going to say that’s the thing. And a lot of people

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feel the same way. And that might be the one

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thing that pulls me away from it years down the

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road is when I don’t want to deal with the crowds.

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You know, you go you go through the the show

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floor, you go through on a Saturday afternoon

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and it’s hard walking. It’s like sardines sometimes.

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So when my patience with that is at its max,

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then I might say, you know what, I don’t need

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to do this anymore. But until then, you know,

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I’m holding out. I mean, you know, you just get

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yourself an Amigo or you have Tony Stark build

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you a superstar Amigo and you just start honking

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that horn. Get out of my way, you young snappers.

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I was here first. I was here 50 years ago in

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2006 when it was still good. You know, I joke

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with my girlfriend that when I’m 80, she’s going

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to have to wheel me around in a wheelchair. But

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I want to go to this panel. But no, but I want

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to go to this panel. No, I’m wheeling you around,

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so we’re going where I want. You’re supposed

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to go left, but the thing is right. Right, exactly.

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Yeah, no, I mean, so what I mean about it being…

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too much and too big for me. Yes, it is about

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the people and about the overstimulate. I don’t

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do too, too much stimulation for me is, is the

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thing. But what I mean about it being too big

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between, and I know New York is obviously a slightly

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smaller than San Diego. San Diego is, is the

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mega, but I, I need these conventions for me

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to like, Oh my God, I have to go to that. I need

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a catered experience for a specific fandom that

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I love. So take BotCon, for example. If BotCon

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had a specific Generation 1 Beast Wars Beast

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Machine, if they had a specific thing for each

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day that I could just… go for an hour, hour

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and a half kind of thing. If New York or San

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Diego or whatever, the big, big ones had like

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New York specifically, if New York had, this

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is, well, it’s the 26th anniversary now, but

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last year was the 25th anniversary of Batman

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Beyond. If they had a all day Saturday specific

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Batman Beyond lineup, That was just Batman Beyond

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events. I would go to those events only. And

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then I would go back to my hotel room. Either

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that or I would fly home. Or whatever. I don’t

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need everything. Like I don’t. At this point

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in 2025. Almost 2026. I’ve been sitting here.

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In front of my screen. covering conventions for

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our lovely podcast network here, the Geekcast

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Radio Network. And for other people, I remember

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sitting on a call with Radio Free Cybertron back

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in 2012. It was a six and a half hour podcast.

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I sat on there for six and a half hours discussing

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San Diego Comic -Con 2012. It’s just the way

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we do it when we can’t attend these things. And

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I’m not saying that… Going to these things

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is a bad thing. I’m just saying for me, in order

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for me to really get excited, like I don’t need

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to see it all. I want a specific tailored thing

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to just one part of my, like, yeah, just one

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part of what I love versus a. golden corral of

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everything yeah i don’t think you’re alone in

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that because there’s been a rise over the past

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you know maybe starting like before covid a little

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uh specialized cons like i went to a sopranos

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con um they had an office con not too long ago

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so there are those really specialized conventions

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that have been popping up here and there for

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me personally i My tastes, I got to say, my tastes

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are so broad with those things. I’m always going

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to find something every day that I want to go

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to. The flip side of that is that generally you’re

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going to I’m going to find two things that I

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want to go to happening at once. So I kind of

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got to make the decision which one I want to

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see more this year. That was kind of one good

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thing about this year is that that didn’t really

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happen too, too much, maybe once or twice. But

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I think I had to leave. Ronda Rousey has a graphic

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novel coming out, and she was doing a panel,

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and I had to leave that a little early to go

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to the Invincible panel. I had to leave, but

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this didn’t have anything to do with any scheduling,

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but I did have to leave the Marvel television

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panel before they got to the Vision Quest stuff,

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which I’m a little bummed about. Yeah, I just

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think that generally I always find things that

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I really want to go to or things I was like,

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oh, you know what? I want to learn a little bit

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more about that. There’s a movie coming out in

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January with Chris Pratt called The Mercy. I

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went to a panel about that. There’s a new FX

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show called The Beauty, which was based on the

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comic series. And it’s produced by Ryan Murphy.

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Didn’t really know much about that. Went to that

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panel and learned a lot didn’t really know much

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about this new animated to be original coming

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out called breaking bear Where a bear has to

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sell meth to save his forest, which was just

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kind of funny premise, but uh, yeah Okay, I came

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around to breaking This is just for you because

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hopefully the listeners already know the history

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because my buddy Ryan and I covered all five

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seasons of Breaking Bad after I finally got talked

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into looking at the show. So I’m one of those

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straight -edge people. I’ve never done drugs

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a day in my life. I was taught to avoid drugs

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at all costs. Drugs are bad, kids. Don’t do drugs.

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Which, yes, kids, don’t do drugs. But I just…

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I just looked at that when I first heard about

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Breaking Bad when it debuted. I was like, oh,

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okay, so it’s like Weeds, but with a guy instead

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of a female lead. Okay, I don’t care. It wasn’t

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that I disliked it. I wasn’t trying to judge

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it because I hadn’t seen it. I just was like,

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I don’t care. It’s not for me. It’s not whatever.

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Years later. I eventually came around, gave it

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a try, absolutely dug it, thought it was a great

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show. Great. Now you’re telling me they’re trying

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to do a cartoon version with… Oh, God. I already

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have… Brad, I already have… I was born with

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brain damage. I don’t need more brain damage

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from a cartoon bear who does math! Yeah, well,

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the footage they showed… It’s definitely not

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for kids. Obviously not. It kind of reminded

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me of a mix between Brickleberry and some of

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the Fox animation family kind of drama sitcom

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animation shows like Family Guy, Simpsons, a

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mix of all that. My first thought was since it’s

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an adult animated show for adults, not adult

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folks in quotation marks. My first thought was,

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Oh, it’s a, it’s, it’s breaking bad, but Archer

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style, but okay. No, no. It’s, it’s, yeah, it’s

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a little, a little bit beyond the Archer style,

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even though I love the Archer style. Right. Yeah.

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Yeah. Oh boy. Oh, boy. All right. So did you

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attend all three days or four? Four days, yes.

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Okay. Yeah, I never like to miss a day. So I’m

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always there. I always forget about the – sometimes

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it’s five days because they’ll do Wednesday night

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preview night, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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And I just always think, oh, conventions, it’s

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weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. That’s why

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I say three days. Yeah. Well, it works out for

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me because – I generally work evenings so that

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I can go during the day. During the day, yeah.

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And then so I don’t really have to miss any day.

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I mean, I might have to leave early one or two

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days, but I can generally go every day. Yeah,

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absolutely. I wouldn’t mind. I did go to San

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Diego 2023, and I did like the preview night

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because it gives you time to really see what’s

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on the floor. They don’t have any panels. So

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then you can kind of get an idea of where you

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want to go, what you want to see on that night.

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And you can go to panels and then go where you

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have to go, you know, during, you know, on the

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show floor. So I do, I, if they did have a preview

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day, I would go on Wednesday too. I’m always,

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I always wonder if they’re going to expand, but

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they, but they’re sticking with a Thursday through

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Sunday so far. And I think that’s the thing.

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Like, and again, I’m not sitting here saying

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New York is smaller than San Diego, but I mean,

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every time i hear san diego comic -con i think

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like the disney world of conventions and i always

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feel like and i know this is backwards because

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i’m flip -flopping the coasts here san diego

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is the disney world and and new york is kind

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of the disneyland you always hear more people

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wanting to go to disney world and you always

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hear that disneyland is more like the hometown

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kind of like the less like there’s a lot of i’m

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sure there’s a lot of people out in california

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that go to disneyland not saying there isn’t

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i’m just saying that you are like what’s the

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first thing anytime anyone wins a damn super

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bowl i’m going to disney world ain’t nobody saying

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they’re going to disneyland like yeah In my entire

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lifetime, I’ve never heard any NFL quarterback

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say that they’re going to Disneyland. They’re

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going to Disney World. So the point is that San

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Diego is larger and New York is kind of like

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the little brother, which means that they’re

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not smaller. They are smaller, but they’re not

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less important is kind of my point. Yeah, I break

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it down like this. I think, well, I think San

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Diego, they’ve just been there a little longer.

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I think that the studios are willing to put a

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lot of money into San Diego to promote movies.

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It’s summer, you know, so they can get a lot

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of their summer, things like that. Whereas New

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York, it’s become over the years, I think, known

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as the big TV con. Like they had the first panel

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for the boys. umbrella academy uh i tried these

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there’s any you know a lot of those um the netflix

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shows like sabrina and uh haunting of hill house

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things like that it was it’s like a big tv thing

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and i think that the networks are a little they

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have a little less money to spend when it comes

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to those like the tv panels you know and another

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thing is like it is just weird to see you know

00:15:54.360 –> 00:15:57.289
we were talking Before we started recording about

00:15:57.289 –> 00:15:59.629
the idea of superhero fatigue and these conventions

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and how, you know, that might be drawing a little

00:16:01.750 –> 00:16:04.450
people away a little bit. The first two years

00:16:04.450 –> 00:16:07.389
after COVID, they had a Paramount sponsored a

00:16:07.389 –> 00:16:13.049
big open bar party on Saturday night in like

00:16:13.049 –> 00:16:16.690
on the roof of the Javits Center. And the past

00:16:16.690 –> 00:16:19.070
two years, they did not have that. So it’s kind

00:16:19.070 –> 00:16:20.970
of seeing interesting to see what they’re willing

00:16:20.970 –> 00:16:26.299
to shell money out for. It is kind of nice. It’s

00:16:26.299 –> 00:16:29.820
kind of fun being a member of that audience because

00:16:29.820 –> 00:16:32.159
it’s like you go to those conventions and you’re

00:16:32.159 –> 00:16:33.799
like, OK, what do you have to sell me? Show me.

00:16:33.840 –> 00:16:36.559
Show me. You feel like we’re the tastemakers.

00:16:36.580 –> 00:16:40.220
So, you know, that that’s that’s always the fun

00:16:40.220 –> 00:16:43.419
thing about about the cons as well. Yeah. Show

00:16:43.419 –> 00:16:45.519
me what you got. There’s nothing like any. And

00:16:45.519 –> 00:16:49.639
again, because we live in a world where the Internet

00:16:49.639 –> 00:16:56.740
is the world. www worldwide web we get it you

00:16:56.740 –> 00:17:00.980
know we’re even sitting at home like i mentioned

00:17:00.980 –> 00:17:06.660
earlier six and a half hour live stream san diego

00:17:06.660 –> 00:17:10.220
2012 learning everything as it happens even though

00:17:10.220 –> 00:17:13.180
we weren’t there no seriously like if you’re

00:17:13.180 –> 00:17:17.150
gonna do something the weekend of the con as

00:17:17.150 –> 00:17:19.029
someone who is at home if you’re going to do

00:17:19.029 –> 00:17:21.009
a live podcast if you’re going to do a live video

00:17:21.009 –> 00:17:23.569
stream if you’re going to do a live whatever

00:17:23.569 –> 00:17:26.089
live reaction to whatever the news is that’s

00:17:26.089 –> 00:17:32.150
coming you get to learn like if this was 2005

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i don’t think it would be the same obviously

00:17:36.049 –> 00:17:38.990
internet whatever but i don’t think we would

00:17:38.990 –> 00:17:42.910
have the same access that we have now like you’d

00:17:42.910 –> 00:17:46.309
still have the same access but youtube was just

00:17:46.309 –> 00:17:49.650
starting back then yeah it felt more special

00:17:49.650 –> 00:17:53.990
i remember because it wasn’t youtube was just

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starting 20 years ago and the thing about well

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you wouldn’t have new york but because new york

00:18:01.170 –> 00:18:05.009
started in 2006 right yeah right You wouldn’t

00:18:05.009 –> 00:18:07.150
have New York. But the point is about the convention

00:18:07.150 –> 00:18:12.390
coverage, about getting the experience even though

00:18:12.390 –> 00:18:15.490
you weren’t there, is that you’re right. It felt

00:18:15.490 –> 00:18:19.849
more special because you had to have a friend

00:18:19.849 –> 00:18:22.789
tell you what happened. You couldn’t do what

00:18:22.789 –> 00:18:25.430
we do now where it’s like… It wasn’t instantly

00:18:25.430 –> 00:18:29.650
on YouTube. Yeah, exactly. So when New York Comic

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Con started out, it was in February. It was always

00:18:33.529 –> 00:18:36.890
around Mardi Gras for like the first two, three,

00:18:36.990 –> 00:18:41.670
I guess, two or three years. And we were the

00:18:41.670 –> 00:18:48.150
first audiences to see the Dark Knight trailer.

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And that was before it went on YouTube. Yes.

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Now, the Marvel’s Wonder Man trailer the day

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before the panel. Which I still can’t figure

00:19:02.069 –> 00:19:03.589
out why they did that. I don’t know if that was

00:19:03.589 –> 00:19:06.730
a mistake. It’s somebody’s part. But the Wonder

00:19:06.730 –> 00:19:10.390
Man TV trailer was released the day before the

00:19:10.390 –> 00:19:14.349
panel. So, yeah, you know, and with San Diego,

00:19:14.470 –> 00:19:18.329
I find myself Saturday night, you know, if I’m

00:19:18.329 –> 00:19:23.569
not here in New Jersey, I start to media for

00:19:23.569 –> 00:19:25.329
all the new trailers and stuff that comes out,

00:19:25.369 –> 00:19:27.049
especially when they have all those big panels

00:19:27.049 –> 00:19:30.380
at Hall H. It’s so much easier now. Yeah. To,

00:19:30.619 –> 00:19:33.819
to, to feel included in those, those things.

00:19:34.039 –> 00:19:37.380
Yeah, absolutely. Because they, they either film

00:19:37.380 –> 00:19:39.700
them or someone who is there, we’ll film them

00:19:39.700 –> 00:19:42.420
and, and, and throw them up on YouTube. And we

00:19:42.420 –> 00:19:44.859
now live, you know, like I said, 20 years later

00:19:44.859 –> 00:19:48.380
on like 2005, YouTube was 10 minute clips or

00:19:48.380 –> 00:19:50.980
less. If you couldn’t get your YouTube video

00:19:50.980 –> 00:19:55.180
under 10 minutes, you were, you were SOL. Fast

00:19:55.180 –> 00:19:58.160
forward 20 years, you have YouTube streamers

00:19:58.160 –> 00:20:02.480
going for four plus hours for whatever they’re

00:20:02.480 –> 00:20:04.140
doing. It doesn’t matter what they’re doing,

00:20:04.200 –> 00:20:06.759
but you have four, five, six hour streams and

00:20:06.759 –> 00:20:14.559
it’s like, holy crap. Wow. Exactly. So, but yeah.

00:20:14.700 –> 00:20:17.440
All right. Where do you want to start? Thursday,

00:20:17.579 –> 00:20:21.980
Friday? I mean. We can start Thursday. Okay.

00:20:22.319 –> 00:20:27.829
Yeah, I can. Go day by day. Thursday, I started

00:20:27.829 –> 00:20:34.690
out at the Vertigo panel because I’m a huge Vertigo

00:20:34.690 –> 00:20:40.289
fan. I was so excited when they announced that

00:20:40.289 –> 00:20:44.849
they were coming back. So I went to that panel

00:20:44.849 –> 00:20:48.049
to see what they had to say. Some cool new series

00:20:48.049 –> 00:20:53.509
coming out. There is They had to reiterate that

00:20:53.509 –> 00:20:57.250
they’re still doing the black label, so those

00:20:57.250 –> 00:21:00.029
are going to concentrate on more adult. Yeah,

00:21:00.049 –> 00:21:02.529
they’re separate though, right? Yes, yes. So

00:21:02.529 –> 00:21:04.569
Vertigo is getting kind of back to what it was

00:21:04.569 –> 00:21:15.289
in the 90s and early 2000s. There’s a, which

00:21:15.289 –> 00:21:19.630
is actually black label, but there’s a Gotham

00:21:19.630 –> 00:21:22.980
City Sirens. new series coming out love hurts

00:21:22.980 –> 00:21:25.259
that’s on black label that’s kind of like uh

00:21:25.259 –> 00:21:29.819
an r -rated almost rom -com each is four issues

00:21:29.819 –> 00:21:33.859
each issue is going to be a season oh wow black

00:21:33.859 –> 00:21:36.099
canary announces that she’s getting married and

00:21:36.099 –> 00:21:38.039
there’s a lot of things that happen over the

00:21:38.039 –> 00:21:42.099
next year within the four issues. There’s a series

00:21:42.099 –> 00:21:44.960
coming out called Crying Doll that deals with

00:21:44.960 –> 00:21:50.460
being in New York during the AIDS crisis. Ram

00:21:50.460 –> 00:21:59.619
V has another Magic Bay series coming out. Just

00:21:59.619 –> 00:22:05.200
bear with me here because… I just want to get

00:22:05.200 –> 00:22:08.460
the titles right. It’s called Black Tower, The

00:22:08.460 –> 00:22:11.579
Raven Conspiracy. So that’s going to be fun.

00:22:11.700 –> 00:22:15.500
It’s just fun for me because it reminds me of

00:22:15.500 –> 00:22:18.019
what got me back into collecting comic books

00:22:18.019 –> 00:22:21.000
back in the 90s was Vertigo, like towards the

00:22:21.000 –> 00:22:23.900
late 90s with Sandman and Preacher. So it’s just

00:22:23.900 –> 00:22:29.680
fun to have those smaller titles coming, you

00:22:29.680 –> 00:22:32.430
know, those kind of like creator -owned. Titles

00:22:32.430 –> 00:22:36.190
coming back. So that was a fun panel. Then I

00:22:36.190 –> 00:22:40.829
went to the panel on this movie called Mercy.

00:22:40.910 –> 00:22:43.670
It’s coming out in January, starring Chris Pratt

00:22:43.670 –> 00:22:48.589
and Rebecca Ferguson. Chris Pratt is a detective

00:22:48.589 –> 00:22:52.990
that gets arrested for murdering his wife. And

00:22:52.990 –> 00:22:56.670
this AI program gives him 90 minutes to prove

00:22:56.670 –> 00:22:59.480
his innocence. So he has to use… surveillance

00:22:59.480 –> 00:23:02.059
footage and everything to put it together because

00:23:02.059 –> 00:23:04.700
he’s stuck in a chair the entire time. And if

00:23:04.700 –> 00:23:07.420
he can’t prove his innocence in 90 minutes, he’s

00:23:07.420 –> 00:23:12.839
executed. Yeah, he’s dead. I’m going to have

00:23:12.839 –> 00:23:17.240
to see a trailer for this thing because admittedly,

00:23:17.240 –> 00:23:21.099
I’m not the biggest Chris Pratt fan. I don’t

00:23:21.099 –> 00:23:25.319
dislike the guy, but… Out of all the Chris’s,

00:23:25.380 –> 00:23:31.079
he’s my least favorite. Yeah, he’s had a little

00:23:31.079 –> 00:23:35.440
bit of a rough go of it. Again, I don’t dislike

00:23:35.440 –> 00:23:38.700
the guy, but Star -Lord rubbed me the wrong way.

00:23:39.460 –> 00:23:43.960
I don’t care for the character. He’s just too

00:23:43.960 –> 00:23:48.900
arrogant. It’s the character more than him. I

00:23:48.900 –> 00:23:51.759
know it’s not his fault. He was just acting as

00:23:51.759 –> 00:23:57.240
the character. He was a good voice for Mario.

00:23:58.359 –> 00:24:03.619
Surprisingly. About the best I can say. I’ll

00:24:03.619 –> 00:24:10.660
have to watch some of his other movies. Do you

00:24:10.660 –> 00:24:13.019
follow Boss Logic? Please tell me you follow

00:24:13.019 –> 00:24:18.099
Boss Logic. I do, but not as… diligently as

00:24:18.099 –> 00:24:20.940
i should but yeah okay well you you you hopefully

00:24:20.940 –> 00:24:23.200
you’ve seen this and hopefully i’ll i’ll find

00:24:23.200 –> 00:24:25.960
this after the show when i say all of the chrises

00:24:25.960 –> 00:24:32.380
he did a poster all of the it was pratt hemsworth

00:24:32.380 –> 00:24:38.640
evans just all of the chrises that were christening

00:24:38.640 –> 00:24:44.700
everywhere at the time So that’s what that reference

00:24:44.700 –> 00:24:49.019
is for. But yeah, no, I don’t know if I’ll watch

00:24:49.019 –> 00:24:51.140
the movie, but I at least want to see the trailer

00:24:51.140 –> 00:24:54.759
for it because it kind of does sound cool. Yeah,

00:24:54.779 –> 00:24:58.220
yeah. It feels, I mean, I don’t know if you’ve

00:24:58.220 –> 00:25:00.759
ever played the Arkham games, but there’s certain…

00:25:00.759 –> 00:25:05.460
No, but I’ve seen them. It reminds me of stuff

00:25:05.460 –> 00:25:07.200
straight from the Arkham games. So it seems like

00:25:07.200 –> 00:25:11.250
it’s very… inspired by the video game world,

00:25:11.329 –> 00:25:14.230
which is cool. It looks okay. I mean, the panel

00:25:14.230 –> 00:25:17.990
was fun enough, but I’m not completely dying

00:25:17.990 –> 00:25:21.390
to see the movie. But yeah, it was still a fun

00:25:21.390 –> 00:25:25.250
panel. Then I went… There was an announcement

00:25:25.250 –> 00:25:28.430
that they were giving away free ice cream to

00:25:28.430 –> 00:25:32.950
promote the Fantastic Four DVD, so I ran a few

00:25:32.950 –> 00:25:36.359
blocks away, got some ice cream. Then I went

00:25:36.359 –> 00:25:38.880
to, they had this little installation for Welcome

00:25:38.880 –> 00:25:42.619
to Derry, where you go into this house and scary

00:25:42.619 –> 00:25:44.220
things. It’s basically like a very contained

00:25:44.220 –> 00:25:50.420
haunted house, which was kind of fun. Then I

00:25:50.420 –> 00:25:52.599
walked the show floor a little bit, ended up

00:25:52.599 –> 00:25:56.339
going to the Alien Earth panel, which was cool,

00:25:56.380 –> 00:25:59.279
but they booked it as a screening and panel.

00:25:59.440 –> 00:26:01.960
And basically they just showed the pilot episode,

00:26:02.160 –> 00:26:04.900
which I’d seen. I felt like, well, I’ve seen

00:26:04.900 –> 00:26:06.460
this. I don’t need to be sitting here for an

00:26:06.460 –> 00:26:09.119
hour to get to the panel. But the panel was really

00:26:09.119 –> 00:26:13.180
cool. It had Sidney Chandler and the guy, I’m

00:26:13.180 –> 00:26:16.119
sorry, I’m blanking on his name. It was an alien

00:26:16.119 –> 00:26:24.240
who was in, oh, no, I’m sorry. That was Long

00:26:24.240 –> 00:26:32.000
Walk. But the guy who played the cyborg. He was

00:26:32.000 –> 00:26:34.420
there. So that was a good panel. I just wish

00:26:34.420 –> 00:26:38.700
I didn’t have to sit through the pilot again,

00:26:38.759 –> 00:26:42.079
even though it was pretty good. Then I went to

00:26:42.079 –> 00:26:47.380
an anniversary panel for Mr. Robot with Rami

00:26:47.380 –> 00:26:52.700
Malek and Christian Slater. Nice. Which was good.

00:26:52.900 –> 00:26:58.220
And that ended my Thursday. Got into every panel

00:26:58.220 –> 00:27:00.519
that I wanted to. Didn’t have an issue. So that

00:27:00.519 –> 00:27:03.720
was nice. I was stupid this year. I didn’t apply

00:27:03.720 –> 00:27:08.819
for my press pass until a little later. And what

00:27:08.819 –> 00:27:11.259
that meant was I got approved, but I didn’t get

00:27:11.259 –> 00:27:14.200
my badge until after reservations had gone up.

00:27:14.299 –> 00:27:16.940
So by the time that I went to reserve for these

00:27:16.940 –> 00:27:20.819
panels, they were all closed out. So I had to

00:27:20.819 –> 00:27:24.299
sit in standby lines because the press pass doesn’t

00:27:24.299 –> 00:27:28.460
get you in the panels. But the first few days,

00:27:28.500 –> 00:27:30.880
Sunday I had a little issues, but every other

00:27:30.880 –> 00:27:33.980
day I had no issues at all with getting into

00:27:33.980 –> 00:27:38.599
anything. Then Friday I started the day. I’m

00:27:38.599 –> 00:27:40.900
a huge Stephen King fan, so there was a Running

00:27:40.900 –> 00:27:44.680
Man panel. Now, this panel was a little lackluster

00:27:44.680 –> 00:27:46.880
for me only because I’ve already seen the movie.

00:27:47.099 –> 00:27:50.960
They did pre -screenings a few weeks ago that

00:27:50.960 –> 00:27:54.240
I got into, so I had already seen it. But it

00:27:54.240 –> 00:27:58.640
was cool. Penny, what’s her name, Amaroff, hosted.

00:27:58.960 –> 00:28:02.859
And I always see she has fun things to say. Edgar

00:28:02.859 –> 00:28:04.619
Wright was there. I’m a huge Edgar Wright fan,

00:28:04.700 –> 00:28:06.660
so it was cool to see him talk about the movie.

00:28:06.740 –> 00:28:10.339
Glenn Powell was there, which he’s such a huge

00:28:10.339 –> 00:28:13.259
star right now. Everybody loves seeing him. He

00:28:13.259 –> 00:28:18.440
was there. And Lee Pence was there. They had

00:28:18.440 –> 00:28:21.920
a good time promoting. So it was a fun panel,

00:28:21.980 –> 00:28:25.470
but I had already seen the movie. which I do

00:28:25.470 –> 00:28:28.009
recommend to people, even if they’re fans of

00:28:28.009 –> 00:28:31.329
the Schwarzenegger version. It’s definitely worth

00:28:31.329 –> 00:28:34.089
checking out. Then after that, I went to the

00:28:34.089 –> 00:28:38.109
DC Comics Gotham City panel, and they also talked

00:28:38.109 –> 00:28:42.230
a lot about that Sirens series. There was a lot

00:28:42.230 –> 00:28:47.069
of stuff coming out of the Absolute Batman and

00:28:47.069 –> 00:28:50.130
launching a new Batman number one with Matt Fraction.

00:28:50.809 –> 00:28:54.319
I still need to read that. Yeah, I love his work,

00:28:54.400 –> 00:28:59.500
so I’m going to… I have definitely given up

00:28:59.500 –> 00:29:02.200
on the idea of monthly comics. I just stick to

00:29:02.200 –> 00:29:05.019
the trades, so I’m excited when that first trade

00:29:05.019 –> 00:29:11.339
comes out. Yeah, I’m the same way. I can’t do…

00:29:11.339 –> 00:29:17.140
In general, I can’t do monthly. I do with the

00:29:17.140 –> 00:29:20.119
Skybound stuff because I do another podcast.

00:29:21.019 –> 00:29:26.079
Somebody else’s podcasts. But generally, yeah,

00:29:26.099 –> 00:29:31.059
I prefer the trades over the monthlies because

00:29:31.059 –> 00:29:35.279
it’s just easier. You have the whole story. Yes,

00:29:35.480 –> 00:29:38.920
and it’s so expensive. And I hate trying to store

00:29:38.920 –> 00:29:44.039
comics. They’re heavy. They’re just hard to store.

00:29:45.400 –> 00:29:54.579
I much prefer the trades. There’s an Absolute

00:29:54.579 –> 00:29:58.079
Catwoman series coming out. They talked about

00:29:58.079 –> 00:30:01.839
that a little bit. That basically sums up what

00:30:01.839 –> 00:30:06.680
was going on with the Batman world. Then, let’s

00:30:06.680 –> 00:30:10.740
see, what was the next panel? There was some

00:30:10.740 –> 00:30:12.539
pretty cool things for Resident Evil Requiem

00:30:12.539 –> 00:30:15.670
at the booth. That was kind of fun. Yeah, a lot

00:30:15.670 –> 00:30:18.809
of show floor stuff. It is of note, too, that

00:30:18.809 –> 00:30:21.509
the last couple of years, DC did not have a booth.

00:30:21.690 –> 00:30:25.549
But this year they were back. They had the Peacemaker

00:30:25.549 –> 00:30:30.650
costume displayed, some exclusive shirts. So

00:30:30.650 –> 00:30:35.890
it was nice to see DC back. Then I went to the

00:30:35.890 –> 00:30:38.589
panel on the X -Men comic. It was just a lot

00:30:38.589 –> 00:30:42.049
of stuff that’s coming off the Age of Revelations

00:30:42.049 –> 00:30:48.079
that’s starting now. There’s a new Expatriate

00:30:48.079 –> 00:30:52.960
X -Men series, a new Rogue series, a new Magic

00:30:52.960 –> 00:30:56.980
series, Deadpool, a new Cyclops series, a new

00:30:56.980 –> 00:31:03.700
Storm series. Then I went to Ronda Rousey’s panel.

00:31:04.140 –> 00:31:07.579
She’s got a graphic novel coming out. I was just

00:31:07.579 –> 00:31:10.220
curious. I always found her interesting and always

00:31:10.220 –> 00:31:12.839
wondered what her connection was to this world,

00:31:12.880 –> 00:31:16.430
but she’s always loved comics. So, yeah, she’s

00:31:16.430 –> 00:31:20.109
got got a comic coming out with a character called

00:31:20.109 –> 00:31:23.170
Mother, who is basically based on her, but with

00:31:23.170 –> 00:31:28.190
a lot more violence and guns. OK, so, yeah. And

00:31:28.190 –> 00:31:30.549
then to the Invincible panel, which was which

00:31:30.549 –> 00:31:35.650
was cool. Kirkman was there and Stephen Young

00:31:35.650 –> 00:31:43.450
and Gillian Jacobs. They. They released the you

00:31:43.450 –> 00:31:46.549
know. For trailers for each season, they have

00:31:46.549 –> 00:31:50.930
the Burger Mart. They showed that new trailer.

00:31:51.349 –> 00:31:55.130
Lee Pace was on that panel as well. He’s voicing

00:31:55.130 –> 00:31:59.849
a character for that. Then there was the Bloomfest

00:31:59.849 –> 00:32:03.609
panel where Jason Bloom talks a lot about stuff

00:32:03.609 –> 00:32:05.769
that’s coming out. For me, this panel was fun

00:32:05.769 –> 00:32:08.430
because, again, I’m a Stephen King fan and Black

00:32:08.430 –> 00:32:11.359
Phone is based on a Joe Hill story. his son,

00:32:11.519 –> 00:32:16.599
so Joe Hill was there at the panel, and some

00:32:16.599 –> 00:32:24.940
of the cast of Black Phone 2, Ethan Hawke. They

00:32:24.940 –> 00:32:27.259
also had, this was a surprise too, is they also

00:32:27.259 –> 00:32:31.940
have a gaming division, and Robin Fink from Nine

00:32:31.940 –> 00:32:33.700
Inch Nails, who plays guitar for the live band,

00:32:33.960 –> 00:32:36.640
came out to, he’s got a game coming out called

00:32:36.640 –> 00:32:41.309
Sleep Awake, which sounds… Really cool. It’s

00:32:41.309 –> 00:32:45.569
like a reverse Nightmare on Elm Street in a way

00:32:45.569 –> 00:32:50.269
like you can’t fall asleep. Oh, nice. Yeah. But

00:32:50.269 –> 00:32:51.750
that game looks cool. But it was just cool seeing

00:32:51.750 –> 00:32:57.029
him. I didn’t know he had any foot in the gaming

00:32:57.029 –> 00:32:59.569
industry. So that was a complete surprise. So

00:32:59.569 –> 00:33:01.190
that was kind of cool as a Nine Inch Nails fan.

00:33:02.849 –> 00:33:07.109
They talked about… They ended the night when

00:33:07.109 –> 00:33:12.119
Matthew Lillard came out. They did a little talk

00:33:12.119 –> 00:33:18.019
on Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, which, I mean,

00:33:18.039 –> 00:33:20.839
I don’t know. I mean, I didn’t mind the first

00:33:20.839 –> 00:33:22.920
one, but the fact that so many people liked it

00:33:22.920 –> 00:33:24.380
and it did so well when there was all these other

00:33:24.380 –> 00:33:26.859
films that should have done better than it didn’t.

00:33:27.440 –> 00:33:32.140
But I’ll go see it. So that was my Friday. Then

00:33:32.140 –> 00:33:36.960
I started Saturday by going to the It Welcome

00:33:36.960 –> 00:33:39.910
to Derry panel. where the scenes they showed

00:33:39.910 –> 00:33:41.990
were really cool. So that just really got me

00:33:41.990 –> 00:33:46.450
even more hyped for this. And as a Stephen King

00:33:46.450 –> 00:33:48.390
fan, they’re bringing the character Dick Holleran

00:33:48.390 –> 00:33:52.150
back, who is in The Shining. But what a lot of

00:33:52.150 –> 00:33:54.150
people don’t know is that he was actually in

00:33:54.150 –> 00:33:57.789
the book as well. So that stays true to the It

00:33:57.789 –> 00:34:00.289
book. So I think that’s kind of a cool angle.

00:34:00.799 –> 00:34:05.039
So that was a fun panel for me, and I just loved

00:34:05.039 –> 00:34:09.159
the footage they showed. Then the Marvel TV panel,

00:34:09.239 –> 00:34:13.119
where they talked about the second season of

00:34:13.119 –> 00:34:16.800
The Amazing Spider -Man, the animated show. And

00:34:16.800 –> 00:34:20.719
they brought the showrunners on for X -Men 97

00:34:20.719 –> 00:34:23.820
to talk a little about the second season. They

00:34:23.820 –> 00:34:27.590
showed a sizzle reel. They showed this was a

00:34:27.590 –> 00:34:30.090
reel, and then they also like, oh, by the way,

00:34:30.150 –> 00:34:32.949
season three, we’re working on that too. Yes,

00:34:32.949 –> 00:34:36.550
they did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That news was everywhere.

00:34:37.449 –> 00:34:40.570
Yeah, that’s funny because they didn’t, that

00:34:40.570 –> 00:34:43.389
scene, I can’t tell, but now that it did blow

00:34:43.389 –> 00:34:45.030
up the internet like it did, I think that that

00:34:45.030 –> 00:34:46.789
was somehow planned. They announced that. Oh,

00:34:46.789 –> 00:34:49.989
of course that was planned. Yeah, yeah. Like,

00:34:50.050 –> 00:34:52.949
you want more? You can’t have any more, but wait,

00:34:53.090 –> 00:34:55.269
there’s more. Yeah, because, oh, you know what,

00:34:55.309 –> 00:34:57.230
come to think of it, It wasn’t a question from

00:34:57.230 –> 00:34:58.469
the audience or anything. It was just, like I

00:34:58.469 –> 00:35:01.070
said, what about season three? And then, boom,

00:35:01.190 –> 00:35:04.489
it was off to the races. Yep, off to the races.

00:35:05.150 –> 00:35:09.030
And then they showed the trailer for Daredevil

00:35:09.030 –> 00:35:12.039
Born Again, which was very cool because… They

00:35:12.039 –> 00:35:14.659
brought Charlie Cox out and Kristen Ritter because

00:35:14.659 –> 00:35:17.639
Jessica Jones is coming back in the second season.

00:35:17.679 –> 00:35:22.300
The crowd went nuts when they saw her in the

00:35:22.300 –> 00:35:24.239
trailer. I think that’s such a great thing. She

00:35:24.239 –> 00:35:28.059
was so good as that character. And they had fun.

00:35:28.179 –> 00:35:30.239
They had pretty good chemistry up there talking

00:35:30.239 –> 00:35:34.280
about it. It seems like she was happy to be back.

00:35:34.579 –> 00:35:42.239
Other than Iron Fist, the Marvel Netflix… The

00:35:42.239 –> 00:35:48.039
shows were good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I would like

00:35:48.039 –> 00:35:50.179
all those actors and actresses to come back and

00:35:50.179 –> 00:35:53.239
play those characters. Absolutely. I don’t think

00:35:53.239 –> 00:35:55.360
you’ve ever had a better Punisher than John Bernthal.

00:35:56.000 –> 00:35:59.280
No matter what you think of the character. Yeah.

00:35:59.380 –> 00:36:04.500
Yeah, absolutely. And they talked about Wonder

00:36:04.500 –> 00:36:07.739
Man and showed that trailer. Ben Kingsley there.

00:36:08.039 –> 00:36:11.789
He came out because he’s he’s being well. Whatever

00:36:11.789 –> 00:36:13.670
his character’s name is, but I always call him

00:36:13.670 –> 00:36:20.929
the Mandarin. He’s back. I appreciate his willingness

00:36:20.929 –> 00:36:25.230
to come back. Because he sure doesn’t need to,

00:36:25.369 –> 00:36:31.230
but I like it. He deserves to come back and actually

00:36:31.230 –> 00:36:35.780
be the character, though. Because, look, I like

00:36:35.780 –> 00:36:39.739
Iron Man 3 specifically for the music and some

00:36:39.739 –> 00:36:43.059
of the actual visual moments and stuff. But that

00:36:43.059 –> 00:36:46.659
villain twist was so friggin’ stupid. Well, that

00:36:46.659 –> 00:36:51.440
still to this day, even though it kind of redeemed

00:36:51.440 –> 00:36:55.280
itself in The Legend of Shang -Chi, but that

00:36:55.280 –> 00:36:56.599
was one of my least favorite things that they’ve

00:36:56.599 –> 00:37:00.280
ever done in the MCU is what they did with the

00:37:00.280 –> 00:37:03.949
Mandarin. Yeah. But I ended up loving the rest

00:37:03.949 –> 00:37:06.650
of the movie. I was able to look past it. Yeah,

00:37:06.710 –> 00:37:08.849
that’s the only thing that is wrong with that

00:37:08.849 –> 00:37:13.130
movie is that villain twist. That was so stupid

00:37:13.130 –> 00:37:17.010
because everything else leading up to that was

00:37:17.010 –> 00:37:20.070
great. I was like, okay, so they’re going to

00:37:20.070 –> 00:37:22.309
bring out the ten rings. They got the rings.

00:37:22.469 –> 00:37:24.690
They’re doing this. They’re doing that. Wait

00:37:24.690 –> 00:37:31.010
a minute. Who’s this Joe Schmoe white guy? Who

00:37:31.010 –> 00:37:35.809
the hell? Get him out of there. Your puny weaponry

00:37:35.809 –> 00:37:40.070
is infectious against me, Iron Man. The power

00:37:40.070 –> 00:37:42.349
of the heart fills me with a strength beyond

00:37:42.349 –> 00:37:47.750
your comprehension. Oh, man. Then I went to the

00:37:47.750 –> 00:37:50.730
Breaking Bear panel. New animated show coming

00:37:50.730 –> 00:37:52.510
out on Tubi. Brandon Fraser was there because

00:37:52.510 –> 00:37:55.550
he does the voice. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie

00:37:55.550 –> 00:37:59.449
Murphy, and Elizabeth Hurley. Of all people,

00:37:59.550 –> 00:38:03.969
they were all there. And it was just funny because

00:38:03.969 –> 00:38:07.110
the moderator asked, is this your first con?

00:38:07.289 –> 00:38:11.050
And of course, the only person who said yes was

00:38:11.050 –> 00:38:15.030
Elizabeth Hurley. She seemed so out of place.

00:38:15.090 –> 00:38:20.550
Like, this is so totally not her scene. But she

00:38:20.550 –> 00:38:23.289
was a good sport. But that turned out to be a

00:38:23.289 –> 00:38:25.309
fun panel because I kind of just went because

00:38:25.309 –> 00:38:28.019
I was… kind of curious because i hadn’t heard

00:38:28.019 –> 00:38:30.179
and i saw who was going to be on the panel i

00:38:30.179 –> 00:38:32.320
thought oh that’s interesting like what am i

00:38:32.320 –> 00:38:37.760
seeing buffy uh faith to faith uh -huh that that

00:38:37.760 –> 00:38:41.400
was kind of a fun panel uh then there was the

00:38:41.400 –> 00:38:46.119
mortal combat 2 panel uh keith urban showed up

00:38:46.119 –> 00:38:49.280
i think this panel was kind of planned before

00:38:49.280 –> 00:38:51.559
they ended up pushing the movie back because

00:38:51.559 –> 00:38:54.539
now it was supposed to come out I think in November,

00:38:54.599 –> 00:38:58.079
and now it’s not coming out again until next

00:38:58.079 –> 00:39:02.440
year. So they were kind of stuck not being able

00:39:02.440 –> 00:39:07.500
to talk about too much. I still haven’t seen

00:39:07.500 –> 00:39:11.400
the first one for the new live action. Yeah,

00:39:11.539 –> 00:39:16.599
it is what it is. For what it is, I enjoyed it.

00:39:16.739 –> 00:39:19.420
But it is Mortal Kombat. I love Mortal Kombat,

00:39:19.639 –> 00:39:25.869
but it’s a little hokey. the whole story so once

00:39:25.869 –> 00:39:29.570
you get past that you’re you’re solid and uh

00:39:29.570 –> 00:39:33.570
it’s funny i think somebody asked oh why was

00:39:33.570 –> 00:39:37.010
it delayed and the director was there too and

00:39:37.010 –> 00:39:38.409
he said well basically we’ve been showing it

00:39:38.409 –> 00:39:40.610
to test audiences they liked it so much that

00:39:40.610 –> 00:39:42.809
we want to keep adding more kind of summing up

00:39:42.809 –> 00:39:46.929
what he said which i found kind of ridiculous

00:39:46.929 –> 00:39:49.050
but you know whatever i’m still gonna go see

00:39:49.050 –> 00:39:51.550
it i’ll still look forward to it that’s dumb

00:39:51.550 –> 00:39:55.650
they liked it so much they want us to they liked

00:39:55.650 –> 00:39:58.769
it so much we want to add more no they liked

00:39:58.769 –> 00:40:01.550
it so much that should tell you okay we have

00:40:01.550 –> 00:40:06.309
a perfect movie here let’s release it now no

00:40:06.309 –> 00:40:11.969
don’t and stop don’t add more bullshit cut the

00:40:11.969 –> 00:40:15.710
bullshit release it now you know i think the

00:40:15.710 –> 00:40:19.119
first one felt kind of like a mid -budget movie,

00:40:19.340 –> 00:40:22.440
like Spawn. Remember Spawn back in the 90s? Kind

00:40:22.440 –> 00:40:26.139
of like that. And I think what he was trying

00:40:26.139 –> 00:40:28.519
to say is that basically we want to make it look

00:40:28.519 –> 00:40:34.320
more like a top -budget blockbuster. Okay. All

00:40:34.320 –> 00:40:39.280
right. Let’s go to the tape here. I’m going to

00:40:39.280 –> 00:40:41.920
go to something that’s 30 years old because that’s

00:40:41.920 –> 00:40:45.139
what I know, and that’s only just because. Or

00:40:45.139 –> 00:40:48.019
even the first Mortal Kombat movie. No, I’m not

00:40:48.019 –> 00:40:51.199
going to go there just yet. I’m going to reference

00:40:51.199 –> 00:40:54.480
that, but Goldeneye is 30 years old this year.

00:40:54.559 –> 00:40:57.500
Goldeneye had a $60 million budget. It had a

00:40:57.500 –> 00:41:04.099
box office of $356 .4 million. $60 million budget.

00:41:06.429 –> 00:41:11.050
That to me says, hey, okay, this is James Bond.

00:41:11.110 –> 00:41:13.170
This is James Bond’s return. He hasn’t been on

00:41:13.170 –> 00:41:17.679
screen in six years. Since 1989? Yeah, six years.

00:41:17.920 –> 00:41:20.059
Because Timothy Dalton, License to Kill, was

00:41:20.059 –> 00:41:22.579
the last one. It’s been six years. Pierce Brosnan

00:41:22.579 –> 00:41:24.280
is going to be the savior. He’s going to be the

00:41:24.280 –> 00:41:27.460
return. He’s going to bring Bond back. Great.

00:41:27.519 –> 00:41:31.900
Awesome. Fine. Fun. We made $356 .4 million off

00:41:31.900 –> 00:41:35.300
of $60 million. That’s awesome. That’s all you

00:41:35.300 –> 00:41:38.000
need. I have not seen the new Mortal Kombat,

00:41:38.159 –> 00:41:41.199
the first one. I’m not judging the film. I’m

00:41:41.199 –> 00:41:44.659
just saying. All right, the 2021 film. I’m not

00:41:44.659 –> 00:41:47.579
judging it. I’m looking at the numbers. It had

00:41:47.579 –> 00:41:51.599
a $55 million budget. It only made $84 .4 million.

00:41:51.820 –> 00:41:54.840
It did make three times its budget back, almost

00:41:54.840 –> 00:41:58.659
four times its budget back. So it made money.

00:41:58.739 –> 00:42:05.199
It isn’t like it lost money. The 1995 film, 30

00:42:05.199 –> 00:42:07.460
years old. Say what you will about that film.

00:42:07.599 –> 00:42:11.489
But that film had, oh my God. What did I just

00:42:11.489 –> 00:42:17.929
say? The current one had a… The 2021 film had

00:42:17.929 –> 00:42:23.090
a $55 million budget. Oops, I’m going backwards.

00:42:24.389 –> 00:42:30.190
The 1995 film had a $20 million budget. It made

00:42:30.190 –> 00:42:38.960
$122 .2 million. I get it. He wants… it to

00:42:38.960 –> 00:42:44.139
be a bigger budget film but in my personal opinion

00:42:44.139 –> 00:42:48.800
as long as whatever your budget is as long as

00:42:48.800 –> 00:42:51.860
you make that money back and turn a profit off

00:42:51.860 –> 00:42:56.519
of that fine as long as the fans are happy as

00:42:56.519 –> 00:42:59.780
long as you make money and your fans are happy

00:42:59.780 –> 00:43:07.900
fine not everything has to be an Avengers 2012.

00:43:08.000 –> 00:43:10.940
Not everything has to be 2012. Not everything

00:43:10.940 –> 00:43:13.940
has to be Infinity War and Endgame. Not everything

00:43:13.940 –> 00:43:19.400
has to be… Yep. Exactly. Film is going to be

00:43:19.400 –> 00:43:24.199
better if they stop with that. Because these

00:43:24.199 –> 00:43:26.119
films, it’s going to be… You know how almost

00:43:26.119 –> 00:43:30.139
nearly impossible it’s going to be for Avengers

00:43:30.139 –> 00:43:34.690
Doomsday? Even if it makes a billion dollars

00:43:34.690 –> 00:43:37.769
because of marketing and everything that went

00:43:37.769 –> 00:43:40.389
into it, they need to pull back because so many

00:43:40.389 –> 00:43:42.230
people are not going to the movie theaters anymore.

00:43:42.550 –> 00:43:44.969
They’re waiting for streaming. They’ve got to

00:43:44.969 –> 00:43:49.869
find a way to make these films on a lesser budget

00:43:49.869 –> 00:43:52.449
so that they can redefine what a success is.

00:43:52.510 –> 00:43:57.059
Because if not… You know, we’re doomed. And

00:43:57.059 –> 00:43:59.320
that’s what’s happening in the video game space

00:43:59.320 –> 00:44:02.000
because these games are so expensive to produce

00:44:02.000 –> 00:44:06.619
and they take so long that it’s not worth doing.

00:44:06.780 –> 00:44:10.920
And it’s going to be the same way with film if

00:44:10.920 –> 00:44:14.260
they don’t rein it in. I can’t believe we’re

00:44:14.260 –> 00:44:19.019
in Phase 6 already. Yeah, I know. I cannot believe,

00:44:19.400 –> 00:44:22.539
like, Fantastic Four is the first film in Phase

00:44:22.539 –> 00:44:26.360
6. And then Brand New Day is in July next year.

00:44:26.500 –> 00:44:30.420
And then Doomsday and Secret Wars are December

00:44:30.420 –> 00:44:34.400
of 2026 and December of 2020. Wait a minute.

00:44:34.460 –> 00:44:36.800
You mean to tell me they’re not going to do any

00:44:36.800 –> 00:44:41.219
movies between December and December of 26 and

00:44:41.219 –> 00:44:48.460
27? Yeah, I don’t see how. Okay, fine. But that’s

00:44:48.460 –> 00:44:50.659
weird. Yeah, maybe they’ll squeeze out that Blade

00:44:50.659 –> 00:44:54.639
movie finally. Yeah, right. They might have given

00:44:54.639 –> 00:44:58.900
up on that completely. I don’t know. I know you’re

00:44:58.900 –> 00:45:00.980
going to mention this. You haven’t mentioned

00:45:00.980 –> 00:45:03.840
it yet, but they’ve got Vision Quest late this

00:45:03.840 –> 00:45:07.940
year. Yes. Neighborhood Spider -Man Season 2

00:45:07.940 –> 00:45:11.239
and 3, late 2026. I’m just looking at dates,

00:45:11.239 –> 00:45:13.079
man. I’m not trying to steal your thunder from

00:45:13.079 –> 00:45:15.559
the convention. Oh, no, no. That’s fine, because

00:45:15.559 –> 00:45:19.340
I wasn’t. Just like, Marvel, what are you doing?

00:45:19.869 –> 00:45:22.389
Yeah, I had to leave the panel before I saw the

00:45:22.389 –> 00:45:26.030
Vision Quest stuff. Oh, no! Yeah, so the fact

00:45:26.030 –> 00:45:30.610
that you’re filling that piece in, that’s actually

00:45:30.610 –> 00:45:35.050
good. Well, like I said, I’m on the Marvel Phase

00:45:35.050 –> 00:45:39.449
6 Wikipedia page because I was like, wait a minute,

00:45:39.590 –> 00:45:42.909
we’re already on Phase 6. I can’t believe we’re

00:45:42.909 –> 00:45:47.010
on Phase 6 and Phase 6. only has four films,

00:45:47.050 –> 00:45:50.030
and that means we get one film this year, which

00:45:50.030 –> 00:45:52.630
we’ve already gotten in Fantastic Four First

00:45:52.630 –> 00:45:56.630
Steps. We get Brand New Day in July of next year,

00:45:56.750 –> 00:45:59.690
and then Doomsday closes out the year next year.

00:45:59.909 –> 00:46:03.329
I mean, look, I get it. We’ve talked about this

00:46:03.329 –> 00:46:05.250
already in this episode. We mentioned it about

00:46:05.250 –> 00:46:08.889
superhero fatigue, but I’m just sitting here

00:46:08.889 –> 00:46:13.559
thinking to myself, Marvel. like i get it they’ve

00:46:13.559 –> 00:46:16.280
slowed down i get it doomsday and secret wars

00:46:16.280 –> 00:46:20.699
are two very big things i get the plans don’t

00:46:20.699 –> 00:46:26.019
get me wrong i understand it but it just it feels

00:46:26.019 –> 00:46:33.000
weird not to have what we had from like 2013

00:46:33.000 –> 00:46:38.420
to 2017 where marvel was every like and i get

00:46:38.420 –> 00:46:41.380
it i’m perfectly fine with the slowdown it just

00:46:41.380 –> 00:46:46.139
on paper looking at this wikipedia page four

00:46:46.139 –> 00:46:51.760
projects in two years it just it looks strange

00:46:51.760 –> 00:46:55.199
to me that’s all but i’m kind of hoping i’m kind

00:46:55.199 –> 00:47:00.920
of hoping that dc You can kind of fill that vacuum

00:47:00.920 –> 00:47:04.159
with some good movies. Hopefully Supergirl will

00:47:04.159 –> 00:47:12.300
be good. I guess Man of Tomorrow will be the

00:47:12.300 –> 00:47:15.400
third movie coming out. I still have my doubts.

00:47:15.480 –> 00:47:17.119
Everybody’s talking about this Swamp Thing and

00:47:17.119 –> 00:47:20.800
Clayface movies. I will believe it when I see

00:47:20.800 –> 00:47:23.780
it. I’ve been covering DC for so long, I know

00:47:23.780 –> 00:47:29.719
not to get your hopes up. It’s not DC’s fault,

00:47:29.760 –> 00:47:31.579
but there’s times when you should not get your

00:47:31.579 –> 00:47:36.960
hopes up. Yeah, so obviously Superman was this

00:47:36.960 –> 00:47:40.800
year, July 11th, 2025. Supergirl is June 26th

00:47:40.800 –> 00:47:48.659
of next year. Clayface is September. No. DC,

00:47:48.880 –> 00:47:54.260
please, do not do this. Do not do this. Change

00:47:54.260 –> 00:47:59.090
that damn date. Change that goddamn release date

00:47:59.090 –> 00:48:03.150
right now, DC Films. James Gunn, I don’t care.

00:48:03.369 –> 00:48:07.769
Whoever, I don’t care. Clayface should not release

00:48:07.769 –> 00:48:11.070
on September 11th, 2026. But that’s what it says

00:48:11.070 –> 00:48:14.989
here. That it’s releasing on 9 -11. No. No, don’t

00:48:14.989 –> 00:48:19.409
stop. I will believe it when I see it. I understand.

00:48:20.269 –> 00:48:29.429
But, like, no. I mean, it’s not… Off topic,

00:48:29.550 –> 00:48:32.369
but so much of the time I don’t think Warner

00:48:32.369 –> 00:48:34.929
Brothers has any idea what they’re doing. James

00:48:34.929 –> 00:48:39.510
Gunn does, so there’s that, but I don’t know.

00:48:40.250 –> 00:48:43.769
The upper management at Warner Brothers just

00:48:43.769 –> 00:48:51.139
has no idea what’s going on. And again, folks,

00:48:51.239 –> 00:48:53.119
I know we’re off the convention thing, but this

00:48:53.119 –> 00:48:55.099
is just the way these podcasts go sometimes.

00:48:55.360 –> 00:48:57.860
But this is all superheroes. It’s going to tie

00:48:57.860 –> 00:48:59.980
back into comic books eventually and conventions

00:48:59.980 –> 00:49:04.360
and whatever. I’ve seen so many clips and so

00:49:04.360 –> 00:49:06.760
many behind the scenes and so many interviews

00:49:06.760 –> 00:49:09.340
of Superman. I don’t even feel like I need to

00:49:09.340 –> 00:49:11.579
watch the movie because I’ve seen it all. I know

00:49:11.579 –> 00:49:15.559
how the movie goes. I know what happens. And

00:49:15.559 –> 00:49:17.820
it’s not that I was spoiled on it or anything.

00:49:17.980 –> 00:49:21.099
I’m like, I’m not that person. Oh, my God, you

00:49:21.099 –> 00:49:24.699
spoiled it. I could never. I’m not that person.

00:49:25.719 –> 00:49:28.719
Spoilers don’t affect me. Because half the time,

00:49:28.760 –> 00:49:34.320
if you tell me. Batman Beyond is Terry McGinnis.

00:49:34.320 –> 00:49:37.260
Well, yeah, I knew that 26 years ago. Whatever.

00:49:38.059 –> 00:49:41.119
Whatever. And I’ll forget it 20 minutes later,

00:49:41.239 –> 00:49:45.219
even though I knew it 26 years ago. I know how

00:49:45.219 –> 00:49:47.639
the movie begins. I know what the Superman’s

00:49:47.639 –> 00:49:49.659
beginning, middle and end is. I know that crypto

00:49:49.659 –> 00:49:52.380
is there. I know that Supergirl shows up like

00:49:52.380 –> 00:49:55.739
there. There’s no surprises in me in Superman.

00:49:55.760 –> 00:49:58.880
I have no experience. I have no there. There’s

00:49:58.880 –> 00:50:03.780
no like I need to now wait until. like right

00:50:03.780 –> 00:50:06.659
before watching supergirl next year to watch

00:50:06.659 –> 00:50:10.599
superman because i’m so entrenched in in all

00:50:10.599 –> 00:50:13.480
the news of it and all the whatever is like i

00:50:13.480 –> 00:50:15.539
need to have some distance from it right now

00:50:15.539 –> 00:50:21.159
at this point but like i don’t know like i trust

00:50:21.159 –> 00:50:24.760
the man but you know i don’t know dude i just

00:50:25.960 –> 00:50:29.340
from what i saw of super the one little clip

00:50:29.340 –> 00:50:32.340
dude where’s my dog what you do with my like

00:50:32.340 –> 00:50:35.599
i like her she’s fun yeah she looks like she’s

00:50:35.599 –> 00:50:38.420
gonna kick like i’m very in and again coming

00:50:38.420 –> 00:50:42.099
from a from a guy who grew up i was four years

00:50:42.099 –> 00:50:47.820
old when helen slater was on screen in 1984 with

00:50:47.820 –> 00:50:50.820
with the original supergirl movie i love the

00:50:50.820 –> 00:50:52.980
super i don’t care what anyone says about that

00:50:52.980 –> 00:50:57.369
damn movie i love the original Supergirl movie.

00:50:57.550 –> 00:51:00.650
Anytime she has ever shown up in any Superman

00:51:00.650 –> 00:51:07.289
media, just, yeah, whatever. All right, where

00:51:07.289 –> 00:51:11.510
are we with the recap here? Saturday, Sunday.

00:51:11.789 –> 00:51:18.750
Yeah, then I, after the Mortal Kombat 2 panel,

00:51:18.849 –> 00:51:23.469
I went to a panel on The Beauty, which is a new

00:51:23.469 –> 00:51:30.730
FX show. Created by Ryan Murphy of Monster and

00:51:30.730 –> 00:51:34.929
Glee and fame. So he has a new series coming

00:51:34.929 –> 00:51:41.750
out based on an image comic. Basically, you take

00:51:41.750 –> 00:51:46.429
a shot and it will automatically bring you to

00:51:46.429 –> 00:51:51.050
your complete genetic potential. So people are

00:51:51.050 –> 00:51:52.449
getting beautiful, they’re getting smart, but

00:51:52.449 –> 00:51:56.519
the problem is that you explode. After 850 days.

00:51:57.000 –> 00:52:00.400
So you’re having how they seem with like these

00:52:00.400 –> 00:52:04.480
supermodels exploding. So two detectives have

00:52:04.480 –> 00:52:13.199
to go and research it. Yeah. Yeah. So Evan Peters

00:52:13.199 –> 00:52:15.199
and Rebecca Hall play the detectives. They were

00:52:15.199 –> 00:52:19.619
part of the panel. Anthony Ramos plays like an

00:52:19.619 –> 00:52:23.400
assassin. uh he was there uh ashton kutcher who

00:52:23.400 –> 00:52:25.780
plays the owner of the company that comes up

00:52:25.780 –> 00:52:28.840
with the shot he was there ryan murphy was there

00:52:28.840 –> 00:52:31.260
to talk about it so that was that was a fun panel

00:52:31.260 –> 00:52:33.340
i’m kind of looking forward to the show i think

00:52:33.340 –> 00:52:35.139
it’s going to be it’s going to be a lot of fun

00:52:35.139 –> 00:52:38.159
now my first joke when you said the title of

00:52:38.159 –> 00:52:41.460
the show i’m like beauty i guess there’s no beast

00:52:41.460 –> 00:52:45.800
oh wait they die after 850 days that’s the that’s

00:52:45.800 –> 00:52:56.199
the beast yeah yeah exactly It does look like

00:52:56.199 –> 00:53:00.880
it definitely has that Ryan Murphy flavor to

00:53:00.880 –> 00:53:02.940
it, but I think it’s going to be good. Ashton

00:53:02.940 –> 00:53:09.239
Kutcher was talking like he does a lot of I mean,

00:53:09.260 –> 00:53:12.280
I guess he’s come out of a lot of flack lately.

00:53:15.150 –> 00:53:18.289
Yeah, not exactly canceled, but I think he was

00:53:18.289 –> 00:53:22.889
treating people bad. But he talked a lot about

00:53:22.889 –> 00:53:25.710
the social implications of what the show was

00:53:25.710 –> 00:53:29.869
trying to say. Because he’s kind of in that tech

00:53:29.869 –> 00:53:32.409
world, too. He’s invested in a lot of these tech

00:53:32.409 –> 00:53:35.150
startups. So he had kind of a little bit of that

00:53:35.150 –> 00:53:37.150
experience bringing it into the character of

00:53:37.150 –> 00:53:44.730
the owner of this evil company. Okay. I do think

00:53:44.730 –> 00:53:47.170
I’ll be watching that. I think that comes out

00:53:47.170 –> 00:53:51.510
in January. That’s what Murphy, that’s, I don’t

00:53:51.510 –> 00:53:53.570
know his name off the top of my head, but now

00:53:53.570 –> 00:53:57.110
I recognize Nip Tuck. Of course. Yes. That was

00:53:57.110 –> 00:53:59.869
one of his first shows. Yeah, absolutely. Again,

00:54:00.550 –> 00:54:03.909
you mentioned his name and I’m like, how do I

00:54:03.909 –> 00:54:06.550
like, if you’ve mentioned Ryan Gosling, you mentioned

00:54:06.550 –> 00:54:08.989
Reynolds, you mentioned any other Ryan. I’m like,

00:54:09.070 –> 00:54:12.900
okay, sure. I know that guy. 9 -1 -1, 9 -1 -1,

00:54:12.920 –> 00:54:16.619
okay. He did those two shows too. Yeah, I know.

00:54:16.659 –> 00:54:18.800
I’m looking, right? I’m like, oh, okay, cool.

00:54:19.480 –> 00:54:22.219
All right, very cool, very cool. Yeah, and that

00:54:22.219 –> 00:54:26.340
was my Saturday. Like I was saying, they used

00:54:26.340 –> 00:54:29.699
to have after parties, like an open bar. One

00:54:29.699 –> 00:54:32.739
year it was Yellow Jackets. One year it was just

00:54:32.739 –> 00:54:36.699
their scary Halloween shows. But they didn’t

00:54:36.699 –> 00:54:39.119
have that this year, so that was a wrap on Saturday.

00:54:41.019 –> 00:54:45.159
Then Sunday, I tried to go to the last Airbender

00:54:45.159 –> 00:54:47.400
panel, but that was the first panel that I got

00:54:47.400 –> 00:54:55.380
shut out of. I did go to the X -Men cast reunion,

00:54:55.539 –> 00:55:01.480
which was James McAvoy and Elliot Page. So that

00:55:01.480 –> 00:55:03.559
was fun. But that was the only panel that I went

00:55:03.559 –> 00:55:08.840
to on Sunday. And then it was just a lot of walking

00:55:08.840 –> 00:55:10.139
around the strip floor, walking around Artist

00:55:10.139 –> 00:55:13.280
Alley. a little bit. That’s always fun. I was

00:55:13.280 –> 00:55:18.280
hoping that James Tynion would be there with

00:55:18.280 –> 00:55:23.559
his tiny onion. But I didn’t see. They could

00:55:23.559 –> 00:55:26.179
have been there. I just did not see them when

00:55:26.179 –> 00:55:28.119
I was walking around. So I don’t think they were,

00:55:28.179 –> 00:55:30.679
but I can’t say for sure. And the show floor

00:55:30.679 –> 00:55:33.980
got crazy on Sunday. Usually Sunday it’s a little

00:55:33.980 –> 00:55:35.940
easier to walk around, but it was really, really

00:55:35.940 –> 00:55:40.599
packed. I don’t know if it’s how they schedule

00:55:40.599 –> 00:55:43.239
the panels on Sunday. There was also a Fiona

00:55:43.239 –> 00:55:45.579
and Cake. I’m an Adventure Time fan, so I was

00:55:45.579 –> 00:55:47.619
going to go to that panel, and that seemed a

00:55:47.619 –> 00:55:52.739
little crowded, so I didn’t go to that. So just

00:55:52.739 –> 00:55:58.639
a lot of show floor for the rest of Sunday, and

00:55:58.639 –> 00:56:04.800
that was the con. Very cool, very cool. All right.

00:56:04.840 –> 00:56:07.099
So what was your favorite part of the whole thing?

00:56:08.539 –> 00:56:11.340
I would say my favorite part is because I am

00:56:11.340 –> 00:56:14.619
a Stephen King fan. I liked all the Welcome to

00:56:14.619 –> 00:56:17.940
Derry stuff and Running Man. And I really liked

00:56:17.940 –> 00:56:21.639
that Joe Hill showed up at the Blumhouse panel.

00:56:22.239 –> 00:56:26.179
So that was fun for me. And just the overall

00:56:26.179 –> 00:56:30.559
experience was pretty good. Even though I was

00:56:30.559 –> 00:56:32.920
stuck on the standby lines, I didn’t feel like

00:56:32.920 –> 00:56:37.719
I spent… The whole time online seemed to be

00:56:37.719 –> 00:56:40.019
pretty efficient. And there were a few years,

00:56:40.039 –> 00:56:44.219
probably like around 2014, where almost every

00:56:44.219 –> 00:56:46.820
single panel I tried to get into was shut out.

00:56:47.139 –> 00:56:49.179
That’s when it was growing to the point where

00:56:49.179 –> 00:56:51.559
they didn’t know how to deal with it. So it’s

00:56:51.559 –> 00:56:55.480
kind of nice to see that stuff in the past. So

00:56:55.480 –> 00:56:58.400
just the overall quality of life experience with

00:56:58.400 –> 00:57:01.179
the con was pretty good. Just shut out of that

00:57:01.179 –> 00:57:07.949
one panel. Yeah. Oh, actually, and my girlfriend

00:57:07.949 –> 00:57:10.429
and I did try to go to the One Punch Man screening,

00:57:10.570 –> 00:57:12.070
and that we were shut out of, too, and that was

00:57:12.070 –> 00:57:17.650
also on Sunday. So a lot of stuff on Sunday seemed

00:57:17.650 –> 00:57:23.090
to be very packed. Yeah, and you would think

00:57:23.090 –> 00:57:27.670
that Sundays at the con, unless it’s panels or

00:57:27.670 –> 00:57:30.130
screenings, usually Sunday is kind of like cleanup

00:57:30.130 –> 00:57:33.460
day. Yeah, it’s usually pretty mellow. Sometimes

00:57:33.460 –> 00:57:35.760
find good deals with some stuff at the end of

00:57:35.760 –> 00:57:41.019
the show. Yep. But yeah, it was very, very busy

00:57:41.019 –> 00:57:44.039
up until the end. You want to tell the James

00:57:44.039 –> 00:57:47.599
McAvoy autograph story? Oh, yeah. My friend came

00:57:47.599 –> 00:57:49.539
in from out of town from Pittsburgh. She’s a

00:57:49.539 –> 00:57:53.539
really big fan. So she decided just to… She’s

00:57:53.539 –> 00:57:57.280
not your typical Comic -Con audience type. So

00:57:57.280 –> 00:57:59.679
it’s funny how those autographs get people in.

00:58:00.199 –> 00:58:02.039
I never had the experience, and she was like,

00:58:02.119 –> 00:58:05.320
oh, can you help me find my way around and do

00:58:05.320 –> 00:58:08.900
the autograph thing? And I’d never done it before,

00:58:09.099 –> 00:58:12.860
so I kind of had to find my way to it. And yeah,

00:58:13.719 –> 00:58:18.739
it worked out pretty smooth. She ended up running

00:58:18.739 –> 00:58:22.639
up at the end of the panel where he was on and

00:58:22.639 –> 00:58:24.840
trying to take a… picture but he grabbed her

00:58:24.840 –> 00:58:27.039
phone and took a selfie so it’s almost like you

00:58:27.039 –> 00:58:29.019
didn’t need to pay you got that you got that

00:58:29.019 –> 00:58:30.460
picture you almost don’t need to pay for the

00:58:30.460 –> 00:58:33.780
for the photo op but those things are really

00:58:33.780 –> 00:58:38.039
really popular that is not something that i’ve

00:58:38.039 –> 00:58:40.940
ever participated in that’s not it’s a big draw

00:58:40.940 –> 00:58:44.119
for a lot of people but i feel like if i have

00:58:44.119 –> 00:58:48.440
150 dollars to buy some graphic novels and like

00:58:48.440 –> 00:58:51.519
a couple t -shirts i’m gonna do that rather than

00:58:51.519 –> 00:58:55.139
a photo op That’s just how I look at it. It just

00:58:55.139 –> 00:58:56.960
doesn’t seem to be worth the money, but that

00:58:56.960 –> 00:58:59.659
was, you know, just pretty efficient as well.

00:58:59.699 –> 00:59:01.760
Um, from what I can tell, cause I’d never done

00:59:01.760 –> 00:59:04.659
it, but yeah, yeah, they did that. We all went

00:59:04.659 –> 00:59:06.699
pretty smooth. How was the stat? Did you have,

00:59:06.760 –> 00:59:08.980
like, I know not a lot of people have a run in

00:59:08.980 –> 00:59:11.340
with the staff, but how was it staffed? Like

00:59:11.340 –> 00:59:14.900
what was. How was all that? Was there any issues

00:59:14.900 –> 00:59:18.599
or anything with that kind of stuff? No. They

00:59:18.599 –> 00:59:21.860
were very nice and told me exactly where we had

00:59:21.860 –> 00:59:25.360
to go. Very cool. Is this the right standby line?

00:59:25.480 –> 00:59:31.179
Yes. I had a friend with an ADA badge that he

00:59:31.179 –> 00:59:34.239
had some slack getting let in at one entrance

00:59:34.239 –> 00:59:38.300
and he got into an altercation with one of the…

00:59:38.800 –> 00:59:41.460
Staff security guys. But other than that, yeah,

00:59:41.539 –> 00:59:44.980
the staff’s always been, I find, pretty good,

00:59:45.019 –> 00:59:48.559
which is a good thing to say because it would

00:59:48.559 –> 00:59:52.320
be very easy to get annoyed with constantly getting

00:59:52.320 –> 00:59:57.639
barraged with dumb questions. So, yeah, I have

00:59:57.639 –> 01:00:02.079
no complaints about the staff at all. Yeah, absolutely.

01:00:02.400 –> 01:00:04.320
I mean, that’s the thing. That’s one of the reasons

01:00:04.320 –> 01:00:06.519
why we do. That’s one of the reasons why I like

01:00:06.519 –> 01:00:10.019
doing convention attention is to point out to

01:00:10.019 –> 01:00:12.800
anyone listening that may want to go to New York

01:00:12.800 –> 01:00:16.119
or San Diego or Emerald city or Rose city or

01:00:16.119 –> 01:00:19.480
whatever ones we end up doing on, on this thing

01:00:19.480 –> 01:00:23.179
is if you’re going to these things, Hey, you

01:00:23.179 –> 01:00:25.659
know, the staff is there to help you, but also

01:00:25.659 –> 01:00:28.320
be courteous to them. They’ll be courteous. You

01:00:28.320 –> 01:00:31.619
know, it’s the old standard, you know? Say nice

01:00:31.619 –> 01:00:34.559
stuff to people. They’ll say nice stuff to you.

01:00:34.639 –> 01:00:37.159
Don’t harass them, but if you have questions,

01:00:37.400 –> 01:00:40.599
just be polite about it and that kind of thing

01:00:40.599 –> 01:00:45.780
and whatever. If you put good deeds out into

01:00:45.780 –> 01:00:48.260
the world, the good deeds will come back. Don’t

01:00:48.260 –> 01:00:54.219
start none, won’t be none. All right. We just

01:00:54.219 –> 01:00:58.579
went back to playground rules. Holy cow. Here

01:00:58.579 –> 01:01:04.409
we go, folks. Is there anything you think that

01:01:04.409 –> 01:01:09.530
the staff or the organizer, I mean, the organizers,

01:01:09.630 –> 01:01:12.130
but like, is there anything you think read pop

01:01:12.130 –> 01:01:14.769
specifically for New York? Is there anything

01:01:14.769 –> 01:01:18.809
they could change for next year? I think they

01:01:18.809 –> 01:01:22.369
might have to reevaluate Sunday because it was

01:01:22.369 –> 01:01:25.710
so packed. I don’t know if it means kind of putting

01:01:25.710 –> 01:01:27.510
some of those panels. I mean, you have to have

01:01:27.510 –> 01:01:30.230
something. on Sunday, obviously, but you know,

01:01:30.309 –> 01:01:34.949
I, I, I think it was obvious that avatar was

01:01:34.949 –> 01:01:37.989
going to be a huge panel. So, you know, I, I

01:01:37.989 –> 01:01:39.949
don’t know how to, where they could have moved

01:01:39.949 –> 01:01:42.909
that to make that a little more, uh, efficient,

01:01:42.969 –> 01:01:45.809
but that’s, that’s really, I think really with

01:01:45.809 –> 01:01:47.409
that, we just might’ve gotten there too late.

01:01:47.489 –> 01:01:50.510
Uh, you know, so overall I think they’ve gotten

01:01:50.510 –> 01:01:56.670
really good at, uh, running a smooth machine.

01:01:56.849 –> 01:01:58.570
Like they know what they’re doing now. They kind

01:01:58.570 –> 01:02:06.550
of got everything together. I, I just, I wasn’t

01:02:06.550 –> 01:02:08.309
thrilled with how the reservations work just

01:02:08.309 –> 01:02:11.170
because I was shut out when I tried to go in.

01:02:11.710 –> 01:02:14.889
Right. Granted, that was probably my fault, but

01:02:14.889 –> 01:02:16.230
it just seems like one of those things, like

01:02:16.230 –> 01:02:17.650
if you’re trying to buy concert tickets and they

01:02:17.650 –> 01:02:21.469
sell out in a minute, you just never get lucky.

01:02:21.650 –> 01:02:26.010
So I don’t know how. I don’t know how to do,

01:02:26.050 –> 01:02:30.030
you know, to manage that. Yeah. I mean, they

01:02:30.030 –> 01:02:32.150
can always come up with a better system of how

01:02:32.150 –> 01:02:35.469
to do, to do it. I mean, that’s, you know, I

01:02:35.469 –> 01:02:38.489
mean, and then they try things, they try new

01:02:38.489 –> 01:02:40.230
things like every year, do they sell four day

01:02:40.230 –> 01:02:43.690
passes? Do they just sell them the Thursday,

01:02:43.869 –> 01:02:46.130
you know, the individual day passes it’s, you

01:02:46.130 –> 01:02:51.510
know, they, they keep trying. Yeah. Hey, as long

01:02:51.510 –> 01:02:53.429
as they keep trying and as long as they don’t

01:02:53.429 –> 01:02:55.929
trust the artificial intelligence, trust the

01:02:55.929 –> 01:02:59.570
actual intelligence, people. Yeah. Use the actual

01:02:59.570 –> 01:03:02.510
intelligence, not the artificial crap. Exactly.

01:03:02.550 –> 01:03:06.170
No artificial butter around here. Yeah, exactly.

01:03:09.190 –> 01:03:12.230
Final thoughts and what other cons are you going

01:03:12.230 –> 01:03:16.429
to in either this year or next year? I’m planning

01:03:16.429 –> 01:03:21.110
on going to the Big Apple Con, which is like

01:03:21.110 –> 01:03:23.869
a smaller con at the New Yorker Hotel. That’s

01:03:23.869 –> 01:03:28.090
November 22nd. That’s a fun little con, but that’s

01:03:28.090 –> 01:03:31.530
like for those really old guys that were buying

01:03:31.530 –> 01:03:33.670
Zap Comics back in the day that remember when

01:03:33.670 –> 01:03:35.730
the very first Comic Con was held across from

01:03:35.730 –> 01:03:38.829
Penn Station in the 60s. It’s like that really

01:03:38.829 –> 01:03:42.429
old school history of Captain Marvel panel type.

01:03:43.219 –> 01:03:46.719
But it’s still fun. It’s a lot smaller. That’s

01:03:46.719 –> 01:03:49.400
in November. Not that it’s a con, but it’s still

01:03:49.400 –> 01:03:53.820
kind of fun. I’m trying to get into Toy Fair.

01:03:55.280 –> 01:04:00.019
If you do, let me know. Yeah, I will. I usually

01:04:00.019 –> 01:04:04.219
come from the D .C. It’s funny because that’s

01:04:04.219 –> 01:04:08.800
such a professional con that you can’t buy any

01:04:08.800 –> 01:04:13.809
of the toys you see. It very much feels… work

01:04:13.809 –> 01:04:16.610
rather than something that I’d go to anyway.

01:04:17.530 –> 01:04:21.289
I think that’s in March and then I really want

01:04:21.289 –> 01:04:23.570
to go to BookCon. I found out because BookCon

01:04:23.570 –> 01:04:27.610
actually had a booth at Comic -Con and it looks

01:04:27.610 –> 01:04:31.409
like I ran into somebody on the train who was

01:04:31.409 –> 01:04:35.710
at the con and she was saying that it was already

01:04:35.710 –> 01:04:38.829
sold out so hopefully I can get a press for BookCon

01:04:38.829 –> 01:04:42.679
because BookCon was great. uh they they did like

01:04:42.679 –> 01:04:47.820
two years in new york then they did one year

01:04:47.820 –> 01:04:49.780
in chicago and then two more years in new york

01:04:49.780 –> 01:04:52.619
and then they shut it down after covid and now

01:04:52.619 –> 01:04:54.880
they’re bringing it back so i’m really looking

01:04:54.880 –> 01:04:58.019
forward to that there’s i don’t think i’m going

01:04:58.019 –> 01:05:01.420
to try for san diego this year next year or next

01:05:01.420 –> 01:05:07.079
year i mean yeah i i um off the beat off the

01:05:07.079 –> 01:05:09.840
subject but it coincides with like a family reunion

01:05:09.840 –> 01:05:11.800
thing that my family does so i try to go one

01:05:11.800 –> 01:05:15.059
year san diego one year to the family reunion

01:05:15.059 –> 01:05:16.920
thing like that so i don’t think i’ll be going

01:05:16.920 –> 01:05:20.480
to san diego next year so that’s so i think that’s

01:05:20.480 –> 01:05:23.320
it a slight chance that i would go to c2e2 because

01:05:23.320 –> 01:05:26.679
my niece does live in chicago so that’s always

01:05:26.679 –> 01:05:29.280
a possibility so we’ll see but yeah right now

01:05:29.280 –> 01:05:31.699
it’s definitely I’m going to try for Big Apple

01:05:31.699 –> 01:05:34.739
and BookCon and Toy Fair. And, of course, Comic

01:05:34.739 –> 01:05:37.420
-Con, New York Comic -Con next year. Yep, yep.

01:05:37.699 –> 01:05:40.639
New York Comic -Con next year. Very cool. Yeah,

01:05:40.659 –> 01:05:43.340
and overall, as far as final thoughts for this

01:05:43.340 –> 01:05:47.980
year, I wish there was more new stuff. There

01:05:47.980 –> 01:05:50.800
were just a few too many of the reunion panels.

01:05:51.039 –> 01:05:53.800
There was, like I said, the Mr. Robot anniversary

01:05:53.800 –> 01:05:56.860
panel, the X -Men. There was a Matrix panel.

01:05:57.500 –> 01:05:59.860
I think Hugo Weaving and Lawrence Fishburne.

01:06:00.000 –> 01:06:05.099
Those panels are fun, but I’m more into the panels

01:06:05.099 –> 01:06:11.019
about stuff that’s coming up. That was my one

01:06:11.019 –> 01:06:14.219
quibble this year. Just that Sunday was a little

01:06:14.219 –> 01:06:23.079
oddly packed. I love it. I cannot see me not

01:06:23.079 –> 01:06:25.099
going. I haven’t missed a year yet. Don’t plan.

01:06:25.630 –> 01:06:28.090
on missing and i go to the you know there’s certain

01:06:28.090 –> 01:06:29.869
friends that i always meet at the con and every

01:06:29.869 –> 01:06:32.670
year it’s the same thing this year sucks i’m

01:06:32.670 –> 01:06:34.769
not going next year this is too much and they

01:06:34.769 –> 01:06:37.550
always end up going me i’m very optimistic there’s

01:06:37.550 –> 01:06:39.349
enough to be cynical about in the world that

01:06:39.349 –> 01:06:42.369
yep going to the con is not something i’m going

01:06:42.369 –> 01:06:44.650
to be cynical about it’s just everything i love

01:06:44.650 –> 01:06:50.190
explodes uh you know and and it’s it’s it’s frustrating

01:06:50.190 –> 01:06:53.039
because you get really inspired but you, you

01:06:53.039 –> 01:06:54.559
know, you’re talking about overstimulated, but

01:06:54.559 –> 01:06:57.480
you’re just like, you had this nerd stuff for

01:06:57.480 –> 01:07:00.719
four days, just screaming at you and you’re so

01:07:00.719 –> 01:07:03.599
inspired, but you’re also so tired. All you want

01:07:03.599 –> 01:07:06.400
to do is sleep for a week when it’s done and

01:07:06.400 –> 01:07:09.920
not watch one superhero show, you know, and just

01:07:09.920 –> 01:07:14.280
kind of recalibrate and recharge. Um, so yeah,

01:07:14.340 –> 01:07:17.760
that was, yep. That’s, that was my, my New York

01:07:17.760 –> 01:07:21.590
comic con 2025 experience. There you go, there

01:07:21.590 –> 01:07:24.730
you go, folks. Well, we got one more thing. Just

01:07:24.730 –> 01:07:28.610
one more thing, folks. You’re pretty strong for

01:07:28.610 –> 01:07:32.730
some clown who thinks he’s Batman. I am Batman.

01:07:33.110 –> 01:07:37.449
So, in their infinite wisdom, when Funko announced

01:07:37.449 –> 01:07:40.710
their New York Comic Con exclusives this year,

01:07:40.829 –> 01:07:43.630
I was and I wasn’t really paying attention because

01:07:43.630 –> 01:07:47.650
Funko usually does mostly anime exclusives and…

01:07:48.079 –> 01:07:50.380
The only anime I really care about is Yu -Gi

01:07:50.380 –> 01:07:53.760
-Oh! The original Duel Monsters, Kaiba, Yugi,

01:07:53.880 –> 01:07:58.179
Joey, all that, whatever. All that stuff. Fine,

01:07:58.280 –> 01:08:01.719
whatever. But if they do anything Batman Beyond,

01:08:01.880 –> 01:08:05.679
I basically sit up straight, stand at attention,

01:08:06.000 –> 01:08:10.219
whatever. And originally, it was supposed to

01:08:10.219 –> 01:08:15.380
be a shared exclusive with… Some store, I don’t

01:08:15.380 –> 01:08:19.960
even remember, there’s actually a photo out there

01:08:19.960 –> 01:08:23.060
of somebody actually receiving a Batman Beyond

01:08:23.060 –> 01:08:27.579
damaged, and I’ll talk about that in a minute.

01:08:29.140 –> 01:08:31.600
It’s what the pop is. I’ll explain it in a minute.

01:08:31.680 –> 01:08:35.000
The pop isn’t damaged. It’s a thing. I’ll explain

01:08:35.000 –> 01:08:38.260
it in a minute. They received it with the shared

01:08:38.260 –> 01:08:41.180
sticker on it because originally it was supposed

01:08:41.180 –> 01:08:46.479
to be shared at the like 11th hour Funko switch.

01:08:46.560 –> 01:08:53.800
Oh, this is now going to be show only. No, don’t.

01:08:53.800 –> 01:08:59.170
And stop Funko. I know this thing isn’t going

01:08:59.170 –> 01:09:01.890
to skyrocket in value. I mean, I’ve looked at

01:09:01.890 –> 01:09:07.170
it on eBay. It ranges from like $150 to $190.

01:09:07.810 –> 01:09:14.250
The MSRP on it was $40. Yeah. No, I get it. Fine,

01:09:14.470 –> 01:09:17.489
whatever. But here’s the thing. So here’s what

01:09:17.489 –> 01:09:20.750
people were confused about with this. What people

01:09:20.750 –> 01:09:24.420
were confused about was… When Funko first showed

01:09:24.420 –> 01:09:28.100
it off with their official promo, New York City

01:09:28.100 –> 01:09:33.180
2025, curiosities and oddities. This is the official

01:09:33.180 –> 01:09:37.539
image, and it looks like he’s not, but it looks

01:09:37.539 –> 01:09:42.819
like the red marks on his head, it looks like

01:09:42.819 –> 01:09:48.560
blood. Yes, it does. It’s not blood. It’s not

01:09:48.560 –> 01:09:56.020
blood. So this specific pop. is from the… I

01:09:56.020 –> 01:09:57.640
forget what the episode title is off the top

01:09:57.640 –> 01:10:00.319
of my head. It’s from the Robert Vance episode.

01:10:00.500 –> 01:10:04.239
It’s from the episode where Bobby Vance and Robert

01:10:04.239 –> 01:10:10.020
Vance… It’s from the episode Lost Soul from

01:10:10.020 –> 01:10:13.420
Batman Beyond from the TV show. In that episode,

01:10:13.659 –> 01:10:18.279
Lost Soul, Robert Vance was this character that…

01:10:18.279 –> 01:10:22.460
He’s one of these characters that… I’m an old

01:10:22.460 –> 01:10:26.439
man. I don’t want to die. I want to live forever,

01:10:26.560 –> 01:10:30.260
which means I’m going to upload my consciousness

01:10:30.260 –> 01:10:34.140
to this computer, and I’m going to wake up 65

01:10:34.140 –> 01:10:37.130
years in the future. Because that’s when Batman

01:10:37.130 –> 01:10:40.569
Beyond takes place. 65 years from whenever now

01:10:40.569 –> 01:10:43.710
is, but technically it takes place in 2039, which,

01:10:43.710 –> 01:10:46.529
holy shit, folks, we are not that far off. Yeah,

01:10:46.670 –> 01:10:50.449
we are not. We’re not that far off. So when people

01:10:50.449 –> 01:10:52.890
first saw the glams for this, they’re like, oh,

01:10:52.930 –> 01:10:55.250
my God, Batman Beyond bloody bow. I’m like, it’s

01:10:55.250 –> 01:10:59.029
not blood. What it is is it’s the tech parts.

01:10:59.130 –> 01:11:04.470
It’s a damaged suit. it’s when batman was fighting

01:11:04.470 –> 01:11:09.130
the the technology he was fighting vance and

01:11:09.130 –> 01:11:12.829
fight and vance was taking over his suit so that’s

01:11:12.829 –> 01:11:15.470
what the red lines are so if you look on the

01:11:15.470 –> 01:11:19.029
on the um if you zoom in there i’m looking like

01:11:19.029 –> 01:11:23.270
yeah so if you um damage yeah yeah if you look

01:11:23.270 –> 01:11:26.350
at it closely you can tell that it’s damaged

01:11:26.350 –> 01:11:28.989
it doesn’t it doesn’t have a feel like blood

01:11:28.989 –> 01:11:31.250
it doesn’t yeah if you look at it far away it

01:11:31.250 –> 01:11:34.390
looks like blood but yeah it’s it’s very much

01:11:34.390 –> 01:11:37.250
here i’ll send you a zoomed in shot it’s very

01:11:37.250 –> 01:11:42.050
much it’s very much tech damage from uh the vance

01:11:42.050 –> 01:11:46.449
computer virus type thing taking over the suit

01:11:46.449 –> 01:11:49.010
i kind of understand why people looked at the

01:11:49.010 –> 01:11:51.229
head and was like oh my god there’s blood no

01:11:51.229 –> 01:11:55.310
it’s yeah it’s very more geometrical yeah on

01:11:55.310 –> 01:11:59.229
the body On the body than it is on the head.

01:11:59.609 –> 01:12:04.390
So my problem with this is that Funko originally

01:12:04.390 –> 01:12:07.590
said, guess what? We’re going to have this as

01:12:07.590 –> 01:12:09.590
a shared exclusive. I’m like, okay, fine. It’ll

01:12:09.590 –> 01:12:11.810
be a shared exclusive. It’s not going to go anywhere.

01:12:12.050 –> 01:12:14.350
It’ll be whatever, whatever, whatever. And then

01:12:14.350 –> 01:12:16.449
at the last, like I said, the 11th hour, they’re

01:12:16.449 –> 01:12:18.569
like, show only. And I’m like, oh, crap. That

01:12:18.569 –> 01:12:20.310
means I’m going to have to shell out at least

01:12:20.310 –> 01:12:23.989
$100 or $150 for this thing because I can’t go

01:12:23.989 –> 01:12:28.090
to the show. I remembered in the back of my mind

01:12:28.090 –> 01:12:30.770
you were going and then I was like, oh, crap.

01:12:31.029 –> 01:12:33.569
I had surgery and a bunch of other things happened

01:12:33.569 –> 01:12:35.810
and I just didn’t even think about it. But you

01:12:35.810 –> 01:12:37.909
want to talk about lines and this thing is limited

01:12:37.909 –> 01:12:40.449
to a thousand pieces. And I’m like, oh, God.

01:12:40.789 –> 01:12:43.130
You just make these things so damn difficult.

01:12:43.369 –> 01:12:47.289
You had to pick the one thing, the only thing

01:12:47.289 –> 01:12:52.189
that I wanted from your catalog to make show

01:12:52.189 –> 01:12:55.300
only in a thousand piece thing. And with exclusive,

01:12:55.479 –> 01:12:59.380
with cons like that, I don’t even bother. Because

01:12:59.380 –> 01:13:02.279
they’re all sold out anyway. It’s just not now.

01:13:02.399 –> 01:13:09.340
In fact, changing the subject slightly, my girlfriend

01:13:09.340 –> 01:13:14.079
is a really big Hello Kitty fan. And Kid Robot

01:13:14.079 –> 01:13:19.539
was having this plush taxi with a taxi driver

01:13:19.539 –> 01:13:22.859
Hello Kitty. And it said pre -order. So I thought,

01:13:22.920 –> 01:13:26.750
okay. You can pre -order it, and then you don’t

01:13:26.750 –> 01:13:29.890
have to worry. So I told her, I said, I’ll go

01:13:29.890 –> 01:13:32.390
up the first, before I realized it was going

01:13:32.390 –> 01:13:34.189
to be also on pre -order, I said, I’ll go up

01:13:34.189 –> 01:13:37.569
to, that’ll be the first thing I do, is I’m going

01:13:37.569 –> 01:13:39.609
to run to that booth because I know that those

01:13:39.609 –> 01:13:42.689
exclusives go. And then once I found it was pre

01:13:42.689 –> 01:13:45.630
-ordered, I was like, nope. So she comes to the

01:13:45.630 –> 01:13:47.569
con the next day, and she does her thing for

01:13:47.569 –> 01:13:49.449
a little bit. I meet back up with her, and she

01:13:49.449 –> 01:13:52.880
has the plushie. I was like, I couldn’t believe

01:13:52.880 –> 01:13:54.180
they were selling it. I was like, I’m so sorry.

01:13:54.239 –> 01:13:57.060
I would have gone and gotten it for you had I

01:13:57.060 –> 01:13:58.880
known that they were selling it, but I just figured

01:13:58.880 –> 01:14:00.640
it was pointless because it was going to sell

01:14:00.640 –> 01:14:04.600
out too fast, so just order it online. And I

01:14:04.600 –> 01:14:09.199
do this, maybe it’s a bad habit, but if there’s,

01:14:09.199 –> 01:14:12.279
like, they do giveaways, like sometimes t -shirts

01:14:12.279 –> 01:14:17.380
or hats. Like for Mortal Kombat, they did Johnny

01:14:17.380 –> 01:14:22.280
Cage sunglasses, so I always go back and… I

01:14:22.280 –> 01:14:24.560
put it on eBay just to see what I can get for

01:14:24.560 –> 01:14:26.840
it, or I see what it’s going for on eBay. And

01:14:26.840 –> 01:14:29.180
I never really had much luck with it. In fact,

01:14:29.260 –> 01:14:32.619
I’ve got stuff behind my couch from 2024’s Comic

01:14:32.619 –> 01:14:36.000
-Con, like two Venom posters for the movie. I

01:14:36.000 –> 01:14:37.960
should throw those out because nobody wanted

01:14:37.960 –> 01:14:43.460
them on eBay. But yeah, those exclusives, and

01:14:43.460 –> 01:14:49.560
especially the Pops. There’s not many that I

01:14:49.560 –> 01:14:54.390
got. In every con catalog that Funko puts out,

01:14:54.449 –> 01:14:58.390
I maybe want… three things out of the entire

01:14:58.390 –> 01:15:02.550
catalog. I’m perfectly fine waiting because I’m

01:15:02.550 –> 01:15:06.229
perfectly fine saving my money up and I know

01:15:06.229 –> 01:15:08.909
I’m going to pay extra on the aftermarket. That’s

01:15:08.909 –> 01:15:12.229
fine. As long as they don’t skyrocket to $200,

01:15:12.390 –> 01:15:17.029
$300, $400, $500. I know this thing. I already

01:15:17.029 –> 01:15:20.149
have a search saved from eBay. I’ve already looked

01:15:20.149 –> 01:15:22.989
at it. I know I can get it, like I said, somewhere

01:15:22.989 –> 01:15:27.500
between $150 and $190. And I know there are more

01:15:27.500 –> 01:15:29.840
important things I need to be spending my money

01:15:29.840 –> 01:15:33.119
on right now. I’m not buying it right now. I

01:15:33.119 –> 01:15:37.100
just wanted to search for it to see what it was

01:15:37.100 –> 01:15:39.739
going to like. I wanted to know what the ballpark

01:15:39.739 –> 01:15:42.399
was in the back of my mind. So I can say, okay,

01:15:42.479 –> 01:15:46.119
let me set this over here for now. I’m perfectly

01:15:46.119 –> 01:15:49.579
fine waiting. And hopefully maybe it’ll go down

01:15:49.579 –> 01:15:51.600
and I can get a deal for it at Christmas time

01:15:51.600 –> 01:15:54.199
or something. I highly might. Yeah. I mean, a

01:15:54.199 –> 01:15:55.899
lot of those things, people will put like the,

01:15:55.899 –> 01:15:57.520
you know, like the t -shirts and hats, people

01:15:57.520 –> 01:15:59.880
will show that up for like $50 because they’re

01:15:59.880 –> 01:16:02.340
exclusive. You wait a little while and they go

01:16:02.340 –> 01:16:04.000
down. Pops a little different because they’re

01:16:04.000 –> 01:16:07.119
so, yeah, they’re very, they’re very, but yeah,

01:16:07.239 –> 01:16:11.760
I, I didn’t notice this year. Good. Sorry. That

01:16:11.760 –> 01:16:15.800
at cons Funko takes up so much real estate. There’s

01:16:15.800 –> 01:16:19.939
everybody selling pops. They’re all over. this

01:16:19.939 –> 01:16:23.039
year that died down a little bit but now there

01:16:23.039 –> 01:16:25.260
was a whole lot of labubu of course but that’s

01:16:25.260 –> 01:16:32.399
oh god i don’t even want yeah like uh i’d rather

01:16:32.399 –> 01:16:36.899
i’d rather reawaken labamba than talk about labubu

01:16:36.899 –> 01:16:42.829
yeah All right, folks, I think that’s going to

01:16:42.829 –> 01:16:44.770
do it for this episode of Convention Attention.

01:16:45.430 –> 01:16:48.069
Previously to this, the last episode was our

01:16:48.069 –> 01:16:51.850
Top 100 Animated Series nominees, the 1990s edition.

01:16:52.350 –> 01:16:55.789
Coming up next will be our 2000s nominees edition

01:16:55.789 –> 01:16:58.750
of the Top 100 Animated Series nominees. We are

01:16:58.750 –> 01:17:00.930
not doing an ad break because I’m too lazy, so

01:17:00.930 –> 01:17:02.869
we’re going to go right into the outro. Do you

01:17:02.869 –> 01:17:04.470
have anything you would like to promote before

01:17:04.470 –> 01:17:08.060
I run through the outro, sir? You know, let me

01:17:08.060 –> 01:17:09.539
get back to you on that. Maybe when we record

01:17:09.539 –> 01:17:13.579
another podcast. I want to promote the dcnews

01:17:13.579 –> 01:17:19.779
.com podcast, but that’s been on a bit of a hiatus.

01:17:20.060 –> 01:17:22.560
I mean, you can still promote it. It’s still

01:17:22.560 –> 01:17:26.279
there, right? Yeah, so definitely keep checking

01:17:26.279 –> 01:17:30.420
that out for older episodes. And I’m never on

01:17:30.420 –> 01:17:36.300
X, really, so I don’t really tweet a lot. I can’t

01:17:36.300 –> 01:17:41.479
stand TikTok, so I’m an old man. I refuse that.

01:17:41.640 –> 01:17:47.560
I don’t. I have Twitter because it will always

01:17:47.560 –> 01:17:49.939
be called Twitter. You should not name a social

01:17:49.939 –> 01:17:53.420
network a letter. Letters do not equal names

01:17:53.420 –> 01:17:57.520
to me. I mean, unless you’re a famous musician

01:17:57.520 –> 01:18:00.180
that unfortunately has been gone for a while.

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DMX. That’s perfectly fine. That’s at least three

01:18:03.329 –> 01:18:06.130
letters, not just one. You know, Facebook and

01:18:06.130 –> 01:18:09.289
Blue Sky, those are my three. And Instagram,

01:18:09.529 –> 01:18:13.569
those are four. I’m limited myself to four. I

01:18:13.569 –> 01:18:19.189
never get into Mastodon. I never get into Bumble,

01:18:19.210 –> 01:18:22.689
Rumble, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah. No, no.

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