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If You Missed NYCC, Then Don't Miss This Podcast! (The ForAllNerds NYCC 2026 Recap Reaction & Faves) · For All Nerds Show

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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the security staff who was there every
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: morning asking where.
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  Speaker 2: The fight board was at.
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  Speaker 1: Tight that y'all hadn't set it up yet.
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  Speaker 2: She was tight.
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  Speaker 3: A recommendation for a versus.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: So shout out to her.
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  Speaker 4: For All Nerds brings the people together for real.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: And what's up, y'all? Welcome to a very special episode
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  Speaker 1: of the For All Nerds show.
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  Speaker 2: It's your boy, DJ Ben-Amin, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 1: Insaba, your Scott Stunner's black hole sunspot professor next up
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  Speaker 1: here in the spaceship tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And as always, I'm joined by.
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  Speaker 4: Tatiana King, the Grand Duchess of Tech, also known as
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  Speaker 4: Beretta Scott King, Ned Slanders, Fear of Zod, Gucci Mane DeLorean.
• 0:56
  Speaker 4: Stopped doing something strange for some change and dark chocolate phoenix.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And, of course, the far-septer prospector in the one piece.
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  Speaker 4: The Grogu onesie. Nice. We're together here today. Hey, everyone.
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  Speaker 5: It's Portia, a.k.a. Captain Planet, a.k.a. Sabrina the Gym Leader Witch.
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  Speaker 5: Don't make me call Kadabra, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 4: Raekwanda Maximoff. That's who I am tonight. Nice. Very good.
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  Speaker 4: Good one.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice. And some other superstars. You might have seen
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  Speaker 2: them in.
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  Speaker 1: Some photos at, you know, New York Comic Con this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and various other places on For All Nerd Show.
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  Speaker 1: But first, Joel, reintroduce yourself to the fan fam.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's up, everybody? It's Joel, the social media maestro, a.k.a. SideLockAndDropIt, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 3: Homosexual Superior, a.k.a. Gore the God Butch Queen, a.k.a. The
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  Speaker 3: One Doing the Bending, a.k.a. Shang-Chi and the Legend of
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  Speaker 3: the Ten-Piece Wings, with a side of Mambo Sauce.
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  Speaker 2: So you're doing the bending?
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  Speaker 1: Right, yes, yes!
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  Speaker 4: That's how you clear. That's how you clear. My God,
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  Speaker 4: Janet's face appeared to materialize in my head.
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  Speaker 2: So you're the one doing the bending?
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  Speaker 4: And that last one with the mambo sauce, very DC,
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  Speaker 4: very DMV, love it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: All day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. All day.
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  Speaker 1: And, of course, returning the sound god himself.
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  Speaker 2: What up, y'all?
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  Speaker 6: This is John Luna, a.k.a. the sound god, a.k.a. cosplayer
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  Speaker 6: number 4122, because I was not the first and I
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  Speaker 6: was not the last Carl cosplayer at New York Comic
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  Speaker 6: Con 2026.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness. There were so many of y'all. Yeah. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's so funny because I was with Luna
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the times, like, when we were doing
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  Speaker 4: cosplay content. And he would go, oh, hey, Carl. He'd, like,
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  Speaker 4: the other Carl would say, oh, what's up, Carl? And
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  Speaker 4: then it was happening, like, over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: My gosh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was telling Luna that on my way to
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  Speaker 5: the con, I saw someone in the costume and I
• 3:08
  Speaker 5: understood who it was because I saw his video that
• 3:11
  Speaker 5: he posted his costume that he's throwing together before he
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  Speaker 5: went to the con.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I understand this reference.
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  Speaker 1: For everyone wondering why I've suddenly transformed from sweatshirt to t-shirt,
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  Speaker 1: it's because I was boiling in it because I am
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  Speaker 1: suffering From the affliction commonly known as Con Crud. And
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  Speaker 1: while one of my favorite parts of every New York
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  Speaker 1: City con since Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze, has been released
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  Speaker 1: is getting to meet people and talk to people, there
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  Speaker 1: is also what comes with that, and that is pain
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  Speaker 1: and agony sometimes after. Actually, last year and the year before,
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  Speaker 1: I did pretty well. I've not had a case of
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  Speaker 1: being down bad after a con like I am today
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  Speaker 1: in a while. But I don't know. This year, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't work out that well. And yeah, I'm a bit
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  Speaker 1: hurt right now, y'all. So I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Damn. Yeah. You got to take that V serum, man.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't gotten sick in years. Like Ben Amin was saying,
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  Speaker 4: we just finished 2026 New York Comic Con. It was
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  Speaker 4: probably maybe the most successful Comic Con we've had thus
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  Speaker 4: far in terms of everything we got to do. We
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  Speaker 4: had a blast. Shout out to the whole fan fam here,
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  Speaker 4: because I'm so happy that we all were able to
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  Speaker 4: be physically together in the rooms doing amazing things. We
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  Speaker 4: had things like the fight board going on. We had
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  Speaker 4: cosplayers that we were interviewing. We had interviews with creators
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  Speaker 4: and writers and all sorts of people. We saw the panels.
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  Speaker 4: We saw all the things. We did everything. And I
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  Speaker 4: think we just really all in general just had a
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  Speaker 4: really big blast.
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  Speaker 1: What was your favorite part of New York City Comic Con?
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  Speaker 1: Before we get into, you know, the stuff that everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows about, let's get into, you know, personal things that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, only we can talk about.
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  Speaker 3: I think for me, like, it was just really nice
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  Speaker 3: to be with you all. Like, we're always together on Zoom.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just really fun to all be together in
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  Speaker 3: person and just, like, laugh and kiki the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: But I think, like, one of my favorite things that, like,
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  Speaker 3: I attended was at the con portion I got to
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  Speaker 3: go to an Apothecary Diaries panel, which is, like, an anime,
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  Speaker 3: and the, like, voice actors of that anime were there,
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  Speaker 3: and they did a, like, live dubbing over, like, the
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  Speaker 3: anime scene, and I had never seen that before. I
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  Speaker 3: just didn't want to watch, because, like, The girl that
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  Speaker 3: was Maomao, the main character, she was all like cute
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  Speaker 3: and bubbly, but her character is like very dry and sarcastic.
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  Speaker 3: So she would get up on that mic and then
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: just be like, oh, okay. So that was really cool.
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  Speaker 3: And just like the energy in the room was really
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  Speaker 3: fun from all of the otaku.
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  Speaker 4: It felt like a New York City Comic Con exclusive.
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  Speaker 4: And I love that.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I love whenever, like, you being at the con
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  Speaker 5: actually means something. And, like, you can't, it's not an
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  Speaker 5: experience you can have, like, just randomly anywhere that you
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  Speaker 5: have to be at New York Comic Con this year,
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  Speaker 5: at this time, in this panel to have that experience.
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  Speaker 4: So it felt exactly like that. No, that was enjoyable.
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  Speaker 3: And it definitely had that, like, con community feel because, like,
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  Speaker 3: the random strangers about, like, oh, do you watch this anime?
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  Speaker 3: You should watch this one. So it was just, like,
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  Speaker 3: cool to nerd out with other people.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 6: I was going to say, uh, like obviously being with
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  Speaker 6: the team was like the highlight, you know, being together. Um, but, uh,
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  Speaker 6: you'd think going to these panels with like the, the
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  Speaker 6: author for dungeon crawler, Carl was like the, another highlight
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  Speaker 6: for me. But when I was walking around, uh, talking
• 6:40
  Speaker 6: to cause players getting like, they would ask me what
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  Speaker 6: I am. And I would explain, you know, with passion,
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  Speaker 6: what I was, but, but, Interacting with other cosplayers who
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  Speaker 6: are passionate about the things they are cosplaying as was.
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  Speaker 1: Such a treat to see, to just share.
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  Speaker 6: In that flow of passion.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: So, yeah, that for me, just listening to people explain
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  Speaker 6: their love for why they're dressed up the way they are.
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  Speaker 2: Was really nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think for me that passionate energy is what...
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  Speaker 4: kept me fueled because this has been over 10 years
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  Speaker 4: of attending New York Comic Con now for me. And
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: as you can imagine, sometimes it becomes jaded, especially when
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  Speaker 4: you have to work or you're not exactly doing the
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  Speaker 4: things you used to do, like running back and forth,
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  Speaker 4: seeing all the panels, seeing all the people. But what
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  Speaker 4: has continuously thrilled me has always been the cosplay. That
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  Speaker 4: is my highlight every year. And it's because of what
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  Speaker 4: you all had talked about. And you meant it in
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  Speaker 4: different ways, but I am also applying that to the cosplay,
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  Speaker 4: like the community aspect of it, the family aspect of it. We,
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: you and I, Luna, we interviewed a father daughter duo
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  Speaker 4: that did an amazing cosplay, a Yu-Gi-Oh cosplay. And I
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  Speaker 4: know that if you guys go on YouTube right now, youtube.com
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  Speaker 4: slash for on their CV, you will see that beautiful,
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  Speaker 4: beautiful work that they did. And again, the time that
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  Speaker 4: it takes for people to go into it, like, and
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  Speaker 4: not just building the costume itself. Sometimes it's just the idea.
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  Speaker 4: Cause it could be a really easily built costume or
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  Speaker 4: it really, you know, didn't take too much quote effort,
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  Speaker 4: but the fact that you even had this idea and
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  Speaker 4: that it was clever, like that, I love seeing that.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I also love seeing like little niche things. Like
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  Speaker 4: for my strong, bad fans, there was a giant truck
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: door that was there. I thought that was amazing that
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  Speaker 4: that was insane. And of course, like two people knew
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  Speaker 4: what that was, but that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like, like you said, having that passion for something that
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  Speaker 4: you're a fan of and, You might run into the
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  Speaker 4: one or two people who also know about it, but
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  Speaker 4: y'all both geek together. Like, that's really cool. And that's
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  Speaker 4: what makes, to me, New York Comic Con the strongest.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to say, out of all of the
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  Speaker 3: cons that I've been, like, New York has always been
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  Speaker 3: my favorite cosplay. And yeah, like, even when I went
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: to San Diego Comic Con, I was just like, hmm.
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  Speaker 3: I just felt like I saw, I keep seeing better
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  Speaker 3: at New York. And to build on your thing about, like,
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  Speaker 3: the community, I thought it was really cool, all of the, like,
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  Speaker 3: cosplay meetups.
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  Speaker 4: That were happening.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a video of, like, all the Filipino cosplayers. Yes!
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  Speaker 4: That, there was a Puerto Rican parade.
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  Speaker 3: A Puerto Rican one, yes.
• 9:16
  Speaker 4: We caught the end of that, yeah. Yeah, and you
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: can only do that in New York, to be honest
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  Speaker 4: with you. Like, yes, there's all these other cities and
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: states that do the thing, but, like, New York has
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  Speaker 4: that special sauce and that special magic. And then when
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  Speaker 4: you combine it with something like fandom and the passion
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: that we've all been speaking of, it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. So,
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: and really, as much as it could be, like, physically
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: hard to get through the con, you know, you get
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: sick or, you know, physically, your feet hurt, everything hurts.
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: Everyone is generally on the same wave when it's like
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: everyone's there to have a good time.
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: No one's there to disturb you. Everyone's trying to be respectful.
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: Generally speaking, like everybody's just there to be. happy and
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  Speaker 4: i think that's what i really appreciate it's always a
• 10:04
  Speaker 4: happy cloud as opposed to a dark cloud whenever i
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: go there yeah and where else are you gonna see
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  Speaker 4: a failed attempt to break it The Guinness World Record
• 10:13
  Speaker 4: of Spider-Man, but listen, we tried.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: We were robbed.
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: We were absolutely robbed.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were absolutely robbed, y'all. And that was definitely
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts. I have so many from
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  Speaker 1: this year. I think this was my... I feel like
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  Speaker 1: every year it becomes my favorite New York Comic Con
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  Speaker 1: because the last few years there's been so many amazing
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  Speaker 1: things happening at each one. But definitely the Spider-Man Guinness
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  Speaker 1: World Record.
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  Speaker 2: Attempt was one of my favorite parts. That was so...
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: fucking hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: It was for, for those don't know, know about it.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: It was literally, I have to remember, and I'm going
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: to find it, the name of the people who did this,
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: but it was a costuming company that said, look, we're
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: trying to break the record. We're going to give you
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: a free costume. Just show up here at this time
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  Speaker 4: and get online at this time. And we're just going
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: to try to make it happen. And like, The audacity
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: to just do something random like that, right? Like, yes,
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: it's promotion for the company, but it didn't feel like corporate, right? Like,
• 11:11
  Speaker 4: it felt like they was really trying to do something
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: for the community and something. And also probably because it
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: was free, right? Like, but it was something that anybody
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: could do, right? People of all walks of life, all ages,
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: all sizes, all everybody. Here's a costume. We're going to
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: try to make something shake. And we're going to try
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: to make something positive shake.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: That's the other part. Right. Like it was nothing else
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  Speaker 4: to it. And I see why you love that so much, Ben,
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  Speaker 4: because it was just a nice it was joy and
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: camaraderie there. Right. Like our whole team was in Spider-Man
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: suits and we was just sitting there like you saw
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: the pictures of us waving, having a great time. And,
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: you know, the CEO was on stage was just like,
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: are we going to try? Right. Like it was like
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: it was no it was like it was important, but
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: it was also no pressure. yeah and and it and
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: it and while it did not work out it still
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: felt like it.
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  Speaker 5: Mattered jazz wears was the name of the costume.
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: Shout out to jazz wears for for the attempt shout
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: out to mr guinness as i kept calling him in
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: his face he hated that it was a guy literally
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  Speaker 4: in like a blue outfit in a vest that said
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  Speaker 4: guinness world records and i said well go ask mr
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: guinness if we could do this and he was just
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: like why is she calling me that but i'm like
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: i don't know your name sir but And.
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  Speaker 2: Then people started yelling out, recount at him.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, I started that, by the way.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: And my man said, my man said, I'm going home.
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: I'm an anarchist. I was just like, recount! Apparently, so
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  Speaker 4: first of all, the record was like 485 or something
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 2: 685. Sorry, 685.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: Sorry. And we had 690 or so, but 26 people
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: got deducted or eliminated or whatever. And I'm just like,
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: y'all BSing.
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  Speaker 2: Were they turning away? We had it.
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: So was it?
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: They were turning away people throughout the day. They were like,
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: there's a specific costume that you can wear.
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: It was a specific.
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  Speaker 2: You had to be Peter Parker.
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  Speaker 4: You had to be Peter Parker specifically. It was a
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: specific one. Not a Tobey Maguire one. It was very, very,
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  Speaker 4: very specific. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I had seen that.
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  Speaker 6: Like an all chromed out Spider-Man was like looking all
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  Speaker 6: sad or outside being.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't count.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't count.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry dude but uh but yeah it was it was
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day that was very actually
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  Speaker 4: beautiful yes it was a nice memory.
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: I learned a new appreciation for the spider-man wearing masks
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: because holy i do not know how y'all wear that mask.
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: I cannot see i could barely breathe my eyelash was
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: folding over i was so upset but i had a
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: good time it.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Was a good time yeah i had a great time
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: uh like i say even though i am suffering y'all
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  Speaker 1: can hear it in my voice right now It's still
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts of every con, like I said,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: since this book has come out, is meeting people, even
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: though it can be quite exhausting sitting there saying, Jimi
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Hendrix in space battling an evil intergalactic empire using the
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: power of his music. I feel like one of them
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: old dolls that you pull a string on and I
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: say this phrase.
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  Speaker 3: It's a snake in my boot.
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: Eventually the phrase became very short, Jimi Hendrix in space.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all you really need.
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  Speaker 1: And I just love seeing people's reactions to this book,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: getting to talk to, you know, fans, family, all these
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  Speaker 1: different people. That's the best part, honestly. And then it's
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: really cool getting to show it to like people like
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Dennis Cohen, who is somebody who I just admire on
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: a level, you know, unreal. And I got to gift
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: him with a book at the last. He's a writer who,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: you know, is basically one of the milestone founders. everything
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: you know i cannot give him enough credit for like
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: i told him to face like blazing the trail this
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: book honestly my career none of this for all nerds
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be here without people like him right so it's
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: such an honor you know he was like oh you're
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: selling it i'm like bro this is you you know
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: there's no way i'm not giving you this book yeah
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: so that was really beautiful like last time at baltimore
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: i got to give art adams a copy and arthur
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: adams is If not my favorite artist of all time,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: he's definitely in my top three. And I feel like
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: he doesn't get near enough credit when you talk about
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: the 90s and people like Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, all
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: those types who get all that credit.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I feel like art influenced all of them.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: And so last time I got to give him one,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: and this time I saw him and he's telling me
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: how his son is reading it right now and he's
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: loving it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was amazing. You know what I mean?
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: And it was just so fire- moments like that.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: And then just to top off all the just people who,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I talked to whether or not they bought
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: the book, you know, they'd be like, Oh, this is dope.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get it later. I'm broke.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: I can't get it right now. And then thank you
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: to everyone who did because it was unreal, like the
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: amount of people. And it's something that's really stunning to
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: me because the book is now two years old and
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I sold more copies this weekend than I've done at
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: any con ever.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: So, That's it.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: It was it was unreal, man. Thank you. Like it was. Yeah,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I'm still in shock over a lot of it. Yeah.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: And I also want to thank everybody, all the supporters
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: who came by. I mean, it was so many people
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: this year that came by the booth to say what's up,
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: to take pictures, to buy things, to just be in
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: good company with us. We appreciate you. I did want
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: to shout out a few of you guys. Latasha Richards, Breezy.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Dub Deuce. Thank you.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Mark, who has been listening since the
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Chico Leo days.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I blessed him with one of Luna's rings right here
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: because you deserve it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Like, that's insane. You know? Yeah.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was it was really incredible. And again,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: it just just.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: We don't take East Blue Drew.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: He stopped by and he's a wild boy on YouTube.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: But shout out to him.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: We don't take anybody for granted or any of this
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: like support for granted whatsoever. So it really did. We
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: were telling you guys to your face, but it really
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: does and did mean a lot to us that you
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: actually stopped by and came through because like the energy
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: and the and the passion that you like lend to
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: us really matters for us as well.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you shared your favorite thing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: I didn't share my favorite thing I'm impossible y'all I'm
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: so sorry like I'm generally I don't have favorites for
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: anything I don't have a favorite I don't have a
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: favorite anything but I have favorites and I think like
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: as an overall experience like as Ben was saying like
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: this is like probably one of my favorite years of
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: being at New York Comic Con There are different moments
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: that stand out to me that I just like really
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: am glad that I had. Being with the team, like
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: all the team and just like we all had our
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: own moments like with each other.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: That was fun.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: I think being able to spend time like really like
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: just interviewing so many different authors, it really kind of
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: came together well.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Out of like the last week or so.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: And I knew that everyone was just kind of scrambling
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: and trying to get their con schedules together. And so
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: it was really nice for it all to come together.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: I was able to speak to four different authors who
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: were just signing up tables or whatever, and they were
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: down to come do interviews afterwards. So I was so
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: grateful for them to being ready for like impromptu interview, like,
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: let's go, let's go do it. So stuff like that,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: being on the floor and like, Checking it out. Because
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: every year New York Comic Con adjusts who's on the floor,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: what they're doing, what's being presented. So being able to
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: see the changes and what's there now versus what used
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: to be is interesting.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a favorite.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: It's just like my brain appreciates change and seeing the adjustments.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: And I think doing the battle board this year was,
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I feel like, way more interactive and the fight board
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: is way more interactive than the previous years. Like Joel
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: and I had like a discussion about how like the
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: forum component of it became like the most fun part.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Like there'd be like, people would be like, well, I
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Like theoretically this person could do this, but he also
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: was once a God. And then they're like a whole, like,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: instead of just being like talking to us about it,
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: then we start a community forum about the fight board.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: And that was really fun.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: And then that's how that, it got a lot of
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: engagement to, I think kept putting people to the, like,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: The Instagram, like, if you want to see the fight boards,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: come check it out. And so I got to know
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: a lot about, like, who is.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: In the audience, what their opinions are at New York
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Comic Con.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: If you want to know those opinions, you can see
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: them in our stories or the final post we probably
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: will do for the fight board.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: But it was, you know, it's very.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Intriguing and fun to know, like, as we're talking about
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: the passion of people in this place.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: We all know that we're here because we love certain
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: stuff that's going to be available to us at this
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: con and knowing that someone else shows your fervor for
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: something or even more so for something you're like because
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: like as we were at the Apothecary Diaries I was
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: like look I love to watch the anime, but do
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: I have the manga?
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I don't. Do I have the light novels? I don't.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Do I know this one thing that was released two
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: years ago in Japan that was a limited edition drop?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: So as the different people around us were talking about
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: the figurines and stuff, I was like, oh, I'm a fan,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: but I'm not that big of a fan, and that's okay.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: And I know that exists for so many things.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: I caught myself sometimes fanning out about something with someone else,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: and they're kind of like, Okay. And I'm like, okay,
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: we're all here. We're all going to do that. We're
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: all going to have one thing that we're more into
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: than the other person. And we just kind of allow
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: each other to be big fans. And I think that's
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: the best part of the community aspect of like, we
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: don't all have to like be the same kind of
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: fan and we don't have to judge each other about
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: like what we're into. It's just all about like, let
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: me give each other space to just be who we are.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: And I love that part.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I also want to say about the cosplay, because like
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Tatiana said, and it's interesting now because I remember years ago,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: when I saw somebody in an Invincible cosplay and I'm like,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you're Invincible. And he was like, thank you for knowing
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: who I am. You know, and now there's a million
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Invincible cosplays. So now I'm still like, cause I love that,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you know, like, and even though I don't know anime,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I love like the most random comic book people and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. So before Invincible was random, but now
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: he's not so random. But like this year I saw
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a young woman in the Terra costume, who's a Teen
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Titans villain, anti-hero or whatever. And it's straight from the comics, Tara.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, you know, it's like little
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: details like that that were so good. And then just
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: all the random ones. Like, there was this Doctor Strange
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: who had Dormammu as a hand puppet. And he's going
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: around talking with the hand puppet as Dormammu and then
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: talking as Doctor Strange. And he's also had a woman
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: with him who's dressed as the Defender's Hellcat.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And it's like... She said, even she.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Said, I've only seen one other person do this cosplay.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: So it's all those little ones that are just so
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: cool to me.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I love when people stick to the bits.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. Yeah, I like when people are in character.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And they stay in it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I love it. That Doctor Strange is Dormammu. He stayed
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: in it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: And shout out to this little kid who I called Asdralathus.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And he didn't want to wear his helmet because his
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: face had got scratched. And he was, I mean, so cute.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Like, so tiny.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And but when I started shooting him, he went from
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: smiling to, you know, gave.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Me a full Galactus.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And I was so happy I didn't fall out laughing
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: because it was so adorable.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: That, you know.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I would say one of the other really important and
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: incredible things that happened was, again, just we mentioned just
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: meeting up with supporters and even people that we've interviewed already,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: like shout out to Tony Weaver Jr., who stopped by
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: the table a couple of times, lent his support, talked
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: to him for a little bit. Big, big, big shout out.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you. And graciousness to Josh Johnson at Josh Johnson
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: comedy on IG specifically. If you don't know who that is,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: you might want to look him up. He is a
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: prolific comedian. A lot of people are having, are knowing
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: him now or, or getting to know him. He's been
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: a host. And I think intermittently is still a host
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: on a daily show amongst other things. And he, you know, we,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: we reached out. I found out when I saw that
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: he was at comic-con, I was like, holy shh I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: trying not to cuss uh can you please come by
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: the booth you know I dropped them a couple of
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: DMs and just said hey we're at D43 blah blah
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: blah and then literally it was like maybe five minutes
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: before he showed up I was talking to my Portia
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I was talking to Portia and I was like Portia
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: you know I DMed them and I saw he had
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: three million followers I don't know if he gonna show
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: up right literally five minutes later, they pull up with
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: his people in tow and they're like, yeah, we were
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: looking for you.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: So it was really great to see. Again, we always
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: tell everybody, but it's for real. Shoot your shot, right?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: You never know. And the fact that he pulled up,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: he's a very gracious person. He's very nice. He's very
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: open and interested in what other people are doing. And
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: he is a fan himself. He likes comics. He likes
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: everything in fandom. So he was literally going to to
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Boots to support people buy the merch like I know
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: everybody we would try hey take this take that he
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: said no I actually want to buy it so he
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: bought it out of his own pocket right like got
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: his wallet and swipes right so Ben Amin got that
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: sale right so it's not only like Like, yes, he
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: could just show up because he's famous and be like,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm here. Just give me your shit.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: But he wasn't he didn't do that. He insisted that
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I'm going to support you financially as well as lend you.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: And that's nothing. He lent us his platform. So if
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: you haven't seen it yet, he's already posted us a
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: couple of times. He posted Ben's book, Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: He posted it just as his collage of books and
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: things that he bought. And he posted a brief interview
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: he did with both Ben Amin and myself there. that
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: featured both the graphic novel as well as for all nerds.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: So that was huge for us. And again, just another
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: way for people to discover us, learn who we are,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: learn what we do here. Everyone who's already watching us
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: know how lit it is over here. And this is
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: just the beginning. So thank you again to Josh.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me reiterate that. Right. I was texting Tatiana earlier.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like when we record the show and,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm always thinking of what's next and I'm
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: always thinking, So I don't realize things happen sometimes or
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I forget things that I say on this show. And then,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you know, Josh Johnson comes over and he interviews us.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And then he goes on to interview. Shout out to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Stephen Harris and shout out to David Crowns and who
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: are two table mates and, you know, legends in their
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: own right. And so then he goes on and, you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I've seen him interviewing Steph Williams the day before and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: all that. So I was like, OK, maybe a post
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: says maybe you won't, you know, move on. Got to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: sell the next book. And then today when he does
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: post it, I'm just sitting there like, yo, what the fuck?
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: You know, like it happened and it happened quickly.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And that's so cool.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: And to see like, cause you know, we get a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: lot of love from our community and our family and stuff,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: but oftentimes there's a lot of people who are like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: outside of our world and friends of mine who don't
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: really understand what we do over here or don't really
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: get it or don't see it even because it's just
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: not in their algorithm or whatever. But for somebody like
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that to post it where I know everybody is going
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to see it, you know, it's incredible. It's like when
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Drake was, you know, I guess shining us out, dogging us, whatever.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Drake. Yeah, I love it. You know, give me
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: all the strays in the world, Drake. Ayo, you know, but.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Like, I'm just saying, you know.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: No, I get it. It's like, a look is a look, right? Like,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: because my thing is once, regardless of how your entry
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: point was for us, the fact is once you hear
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: and you see, you experience foreigners, you're like, oh, they're dope.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah it's impossible to resist so yeah that was just
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: amazing yo like absolutely amazing for you know him to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: sit there and talk about jimmy andrews purple haze yeah
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: talk about for all nerds yeah for him to post
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it you know is it's wild work man so you.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Know that's like 48 hours right less yeah yeah I
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: think that's probably what's getting you. So like, not only
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: did it like, like you, yes, you were late on
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: the uptake that it occurred.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: But the fact that the results of which of that
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: conversation of that interaction was immediate.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: So it's also like that thing.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Like, you know, just because somebody interviews you does not
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: mean they're going to actually post it. You know, so
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: it wasn't like, I was, you know, I was like, okay,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: that happened. Hopefully he posted, you know, and he's, he's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: interviewing a mad people. You know, I'm like, how many
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: posts did he do about Comic-Con?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So, We'll see.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And for him to post that like quick, you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: was that's like really dope.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Really shout to you, man. Thank you so much.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Like cannot say thanks enough because that type of shit
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: is crazy. Like I said, I love seeing every person,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you know, but to see people who will bring us
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to new people is really, you know, wonderful.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: So that's like everybody each other up because if you
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: think about it, the artists and the creators that we interview.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: And so it's like, we're putting them on our platform.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: And then Josh Johnson puts us on his platform. It's like,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: they just, we just continue to all elevate each other.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: That's the pyramid scheme I like.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: And I gotta say, I can't even imagine how excited
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: you guys were because I had, I had actually left
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: to go to the common side effects panel to see
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: the season two premiere.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: So, my phone, they like, they, you know, the phones
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: were not out, the phones were off. And I got
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: out to Tatiana's message that he had stopped by.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: And I love Josh Johnson.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Like I saw him through the game changers, um, comedy
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: show or whatever. So like, literally I'm like, what, you know, like,
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: like I hit, I hit a Ric Flair on the
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: way out, you know? So I can't even imagine like
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: how exciting it was at the time. Like I just,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: it just came out, you know?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: So that was really cool.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: It was shocking. It was like, he said, Dr. Adam,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: when he walked up, it was like, oh, fuck.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Like, here he is. So Ben put on them shades
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: real quick. And like I said, Ben is so composed
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: and chill in the video. And me, admittedly, I was like, oh,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: this is great.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I was having a great time.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: I was excited. Like, ah, yeah, you know, the commercial
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: is on, right? So... It was just so funny rewatching that.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: And again, just re-experiencing that when Josh reposted it, just
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: because again, I just got so excited. like people are
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: gonna see us people are gonna learn about us and
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: learn about this whole crew and what we do here
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: and now you're gonna be even more tuned in than
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: you already were right like i i just i get
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: just blessings find blessings this year And.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: You can't say more about Josh's team, too. Like, they
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: were so nice to talk to. Like, they were just, like, friendly. And, like,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Josh was, like, the whole energy. Like, that one finding
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: out that it was real as it is conveyed, like,
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: whenever you see him online, like, in person. And then
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: that's the kind of energy he has with the people
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: with him as well. Like, you love to see that
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: kind of stuff. And I feel like that's also kind of, like,
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: what's going on with We're all nerds, right? Like, if
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: y'all met us, y'all met, like, us. You didn't meet, like,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: a fake facade of us. We are exactly who we
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: say we are, how we present to be online.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: You don't know all our biz. You never know everyone's biz. Like,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: you know, like, don't be parasocial. Don't do that. But,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: you know, like, that is a real thing.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: So I think, like, every time you meet a creator
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: that gives, like, that who is exactly who you think
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: they are, you kind of appreciate that.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Because you don't want to be... supporting someone who is
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: actually the.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: Opposite or like have built up this opinion about someone
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: or something that is going on and then be find
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: out later that it was not worth like the support
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: or the effort. So I really appreciate anytime that kind
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: of energy, that authenticity and like he genuinely just is
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: like effusive and like his team is also like, that
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: was also just really great. I want to, before I,
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: I forgot my favorite moment. One of the authors that
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: I interviewed, I've loved her debut trilogy, Chelsea Abdullah. And
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: she offered, when I told her my book premise that
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: I'm working on, she offered to be my blurb. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: I was like, oh my God! So now I have
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: a blurb for whenever I finally get a book out
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: and publish it. So that was really endearing and heartwarming
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: for me.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's amazing. I love that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: That is. That's wonderful.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it just reminds me just... even from
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: the very first time I attended New York Comic Con,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: New York Comic Con is also about connection. And it's
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: about connections in lots of different ways. It's about connections
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: in terms of what your personal dreams may be, connection
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: with people who like the things you like, or the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: things that you've never seen before in your life. You
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: get to connect to it and learn about it and
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: become a new fan. I'm a new fan of Carl, right? Like,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: you know, in the whole Dungeons and Dragons, like Luna
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: put me onto that. So, I just think that I
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: love to hear that, Portia, because, again, it's just more
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: of what we try to speak about on this podcast.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: especially if you're a creator, putting yourself out there as
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: hard as that may be and putting yourself in the
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: vicinity of like-minded people, reaching out, saying hello, right? You
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: don't have to have everything together to get started, right? Like,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: you know, do it scared. Like, rest in peace, Jazz Fly. Like,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: just do it. Just get it done, get it out there,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: and you never know what can come of it. And
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: I think that is, again, another just really beautiful reason
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: why we still attend your Comic-Con.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah you never realize like how big the impact of
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: even just a small connection can be yeah it's something
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: that i've always loved about i've owned this on my
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: third year but even those like small interactions that i've
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: had it's it's always so um important to me when
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: like people remember me like when i like just seen
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: genicia and like oh i only had that person and
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: like she still remembers me every time even like it
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: trips me out when i was walking on the show
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: floor and i saw steph and she was like oh
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: hey like how are you doing gave me a hug
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: and everything so it's like Even those small connections, even
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: though you don't think they're that significant, people latch on
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: to that. People remember that. Like, you continue to see
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: these people in these spaces, and so you can continue
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: to build those relationships as well.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta say, this is so weird.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Like, I love meeting people, and at the end of
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the con, there was this person, Siobhan, I think their
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: name is.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: And they were sitting.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Across from us at the end, and we were all
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: standing up there, and I didn't speak to them, so
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: if you're listening, I'm so freaking sorry, and I've been
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: thinking about it since, because We had a great interaction
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: when you were talking about the book and everything. And
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: at that point, I was just freaking exhausted. And I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: just had no social energy left. But I really loved you.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: You were such an awesome person. And like I say,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I can't talk enough about that. Because it's like sitting
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: there talking to people about the book and them being interested.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: And then all these two twins came by, I think, Thursday.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: And they were in a cosplay. I didn't know what
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: they were. But while we're taking pictures, people are shouting
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: them out. So they look great. And they were just,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you know, these two short little women and so hype
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: about the book. And then on Sunday, one of them
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: came back. They said their other twin had to work
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and they were Guy Gardner that day. And they were like, yo, yo,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: it's a dope Guy Gardner too. I got them on video, everything.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And they were like, oh, I started a book and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it's awesome. You know, she was so hype. And so
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: that was just amazing. I was like, please hit me
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: up when you finish. And they told me they would.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And So it's just stuff like that is so cool, man.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Like I can never get enough of that. Like I
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: want to write more. And on that note, shout to
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Steph Williams. Like I've always said this, I will punch
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: people in the mouth over this woman, Rachel Sawyer, same thing. Like,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you know, they really made some moves for me this
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: weekend that I'll be forever grateful for. They've been in
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: my corner helping me out a lot over the last
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: few months and year. And, like, life-changing shit that was just....
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: And, like, Regine, it's like.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Their selflessness is really hard to, you know, get past, like,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: for me, where I'm like, God damn, like, that's some.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Y'all are both such amazing people, you know?
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Because I even said to Regine, I was like, I
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: don't want to step on any toes here. And she's like, Ben,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: all this happened simultaneously.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? We all get... We all
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: gonna eat. Yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: And that's just, you know, I'm trying not to cry
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: right now because it's so.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: That's why I can't look at you.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: It's so unreal, man.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: It's very special.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: And I feel like that's something that I really appreciate
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: that you and Tatiana have developed here is that like, I,
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: y'all have had these relationships with these people for such
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: a long time. And so like, like, and including us
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: and like, and bringing them in and us getting all
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: getting to know them as well. Like, Um, they are, like,
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: we're seeing the extension of, like, love and, like, connectivity
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: that these, that you've already established. And they're, how they're
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: building out space for y'all and y'all are building out
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: space for them. And it all comes together. It's just,
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: it's all community. And there's no, like, second guessing. So, like,
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Joel being recognized by Janicia or Steph, of course, like,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: of course, of course you were. Because, like, that's who
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: this community is, right? Like, this is who we all are.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: We're all adding to each other, right? We're all opening
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: space for each other. We're like one step closer to any,
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: for one person is for everyone. Like we're all looking
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: for each other here. So I really just, I love
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: that all.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: I met some people.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: As I was in the press room and different folks
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: from library stuff to other podcasts and Pink Riot, and
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: I was like, I heard Ben talk about Pink Riot before,
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: didn't know who that was, and I met them.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, this is so cool. I
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: met Bri. And I'm like, okay.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: So it was just meeting the people that I've been
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: hearing about and seeing that, again, those relationships have been
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: established and just deepening it a little bit or having
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: a bit more understanding of it. It feels like we're
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: It's like we're building something, but the something isn't necessarily undefined.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: It's just that its community is the blanket word. And
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: how it shows up for us is how it's going
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: to show up for us. And I love that we
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: can see that every time we network. Network doesn't have
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: to be such a nasty.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Awful word.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: It can actually be really good. I also want to
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: make sure I give a shout out to Jonathan and
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Kevin C. Those are our boys, the twins. They always,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: every year, come through with the cosplay, with the activation themselves. Like,
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: And I just, off a whim... Stuntin' on them. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: just happened to walk... Like, I was literally thinking about Kevin.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I was so happy you saw them.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Kevin, Jonathan, I was literally thinking about y'all for, like,
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: two days straight. Like, where are they? Where are they?
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: And we were doing cosplay interviews upstairs, and I almost
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: was back at the booth, and then I said, wait
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: a minute!
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Is that them?
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: And I said, wait up! And I started yelling and screaming.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: They were like, what's up? So... uh, again, just, I
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: love y'all so much and it really matters that y'all
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: are there and y'all are, y'all are existing and out there.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: And again, not stopping, always doing a thing like that
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: matters so much.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Especially Kevin.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: He sent me a long message, a long voice memo
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. And I know he had
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: like a really rough summer. His mother was ill and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: she's doing better now.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: So yeah.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Shout out to them. And it was, you know, it's like,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And there, you know, he's so apologetic and stuff. And
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, bro, you know, life, life. And, you know,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I get it, you know, and I know your fam
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and your community and we love you. And like I say,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just all, cause I know they missed. Cause even
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: one year he missed in the last three years, they
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: both missed it. And they hit me up like, Oh,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: we missed it. We're so sorry. And I'm like, yo, bro.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Cause they're like, you know, we can't make it. And
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I'm like, don't be sorry to me. I'm just happy
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you're here. And you know, you'll be back next year.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: And they were here this year. So I was happy
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: to see them in the mix. doing their thing, stunting
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: on them with their cosplays as always. I know they
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: had two straight days of fire, so shout out to y'all.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Love y'all so much, man, for real.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: One last note is never underestimate how much appreciating somebody
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: to their face means.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: That's something I noticed.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Each time we gave love for a cosplay or anything,
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: like anything, it was it was so deeply appreciated. Even
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: just listening to people sometimes that we could see they
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: were very appreciative, just to be able to have a conversation.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: I saw a Brienne of Tarth that was like crazy good.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: So good, Brianna.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: I captured it. I want to put it to the
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: thing in the Dropbox. But it was so good. And
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: it looked comfortable, too. And she admittedly, she's like, yeah,
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: sometimes I sleep in it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: I was like, it looks like you just sleep in it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: It was so good. And I was like, did you
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: make it yourself? And they were like, yeah. And I
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: was just like, oh, my God.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: So... just she was like effusive. They were like very
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: thoughtful about it all. And whenever I kept saying like,
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: it's so good. Like the textile work is good. The
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: embroidery is good. Like every component of this is good.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: And they're like, thank you so much. Like, I just
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: wear this costume and it's really nice that someone actually
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: appreciates like all the work that I put.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Into this thing.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: And it's like, everyone there is doing a lot of
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: work to be there. If they're in an artist's alley,
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: they did a lot of work to be there. If
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: they're one of the press or content creators, they did
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: a lot of work to be there. If they are
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: security staff, they did a lot of work to be
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: there and also make sure everyone is safe there. If
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: you're there at the con, you're flying in from all
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: over the place. You're doing a lot just to be there.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: And so I think that's why the energy means so
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: much because it's like we all, you sacrifice something. just
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: to be able to show up and present yourself in
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: this space. And that means something. So to be able
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: to like, just give a little bit of love along
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: the way means so much. And like, you can see
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: it a lot.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Of the time.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the security staff who was there every morning,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: asked him where the fight board was at. And y'all
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: hadn't set it up yet.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: She was a recommendation for a versus from her. So
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: shout out to her.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: For all nerds brings the people together for real.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's so beautiful. Like y'all said, seeing the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say community, but debates that developed
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: around the fight board.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. The fight board was too popular. I
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: was like, where are all these people coming from? Joe
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: called them the forum.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Like we had a fight board forum.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: So, you know, definitely something we're going to bring back
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: and later, you know, as we go forward, it's going
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: to be digitally. We're going to, we're going to keep
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: building this out to be, you know, even bigger, even better.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: So thank you everybody.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: Those crowds went from two people talking to 20 people.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Literally 20 people arguing deeply over the virtues of, you know,
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Gandalf the White versus whoever he was against.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: That was the one for me. Gandalf versus Darth Vader
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: was tough.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Darth Vader, yeah.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Like, I voted for Gandalf and then immediately regretted my vote.
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: Like.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Because once you heard the arguments, people was like, oh,
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: I didn't even think about that.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: It's more because I haven't read the books. And in
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: the movies, Gandalf's powers are so ill-defined. You know, he
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: like shows up, he waves his wand, and everybody's like, ah!
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: But I feel like that ain't gonna work on Darth Vader.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: You know, I feel like that, ah, and he can
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: be like, uh, choke step, you know. And you know
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: what's so funny?
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: It's like, we would have these conversations, and we would
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: adjust in real time and be like, movie Gandalf.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: You know, like.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Because people would ask, well, which one are you referring to?
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: The ultimate link.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: Like, you know.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: We had write-in votes. We had Beyoncé versus K-pop D.O.P.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: And there was a write-in for Rihanna. And you're like.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a few write-ins on that that I
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: won't name, but I was like, nah, I'm not going
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: to disrespect that.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Anyone else on the fight board get completely smoked Powerpuff Girls.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Versus the Viltrumites.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: The Viltrumites had a good seven votes.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that was deservedly so.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: But it wasn't just Viltrumites. It was literally all the Viltrumites.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: It don't matter. It's the Powerpuff Girls.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: They said, nope.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Nah. They came up and said, is Bubbles mad?
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we said, Bubbles is mad.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's over.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Bubbles is mad.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Them little girls is demons. Like, no, I'm not. Bubbles
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: is taking 50 rounds.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: For real.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: For real.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Bubble Solos are sisters. Bubble Solos sisters and then the Viltrumines,
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: you know?
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: You said Batman versus Mamdani, but also, like, wasn't Katara
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: versus Iceman also kind of a suite?
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Which is wild because I'm like, y'all are doing
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: a popularity contest at this point. Katara can bloodbend.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Iceman's an Omega mutant, but he's a sucker.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: And, like, I'm rereading so many X-Men books and in
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: so many runs, He is just never, like, he's an
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Omega Mutant, and it's always, I finally made it. He's
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: always been a sucker.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: No, it's always, it's.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Always like, I finally made it. Like, 15 years of,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I finally made it. You know, he's like, now I'm ready. Oh,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: he's one of those.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: You know, Katara knew she was that girl from the
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: beginning and kept being that girl.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: It was, like, very generational differences. Because, like, all the
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: younger kids who, like, are big Avatar fans were all
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: voting for Katara. But then it's like, their parents were like.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: You don't know what that's meant.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: You don't know war.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I voted for Katara. Like, I barely know who she is.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: And I was like, Iceman, he's a loser.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Like, sorry.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Sorry, fam. Like, he's losing against most anybody.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: I think the biggest generational gap showed with the Wonder
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: Woman versus... Captain Marvel.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Captain Marvel.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Because.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: um there were it was a lot of men who
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: had very formative experiences with linda carter who were like
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: oh it's gotta be wonder woman.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I say wonder woman because she's a god because she
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: cuts people you know like because she ain't to be
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: played with but then somebody did point out that you
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: know catamarva could sit in space and laser her from
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: space so it's like.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: That's i'm like.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Debatable. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know on that one.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: It was a good one. Wonder Woman got invisible jets.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: You know, she got ways and means. Yeah, yeah. I'm
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: not putting anything past Wonder Woman.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: You just mentioned it, Portia. Shout out to Mom Donnie
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: who handedly beat Batman. I wanted to definitely mention that. Yeah.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: It wasn't even a contest.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the second time I seen that go
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: down because at Baltimore, we ran that same one at
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Even in Baltimore... whooped on batman with.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: No problem yeah even baltimore.
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: They're like we're a different city but we ain't haters.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah we ain't now we understand who's winning this billionaires
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: going down yeah that was pretty much their same sentiment
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: in baltimore boy yeah so shout out to that shout
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: out to mom donnie always yeah we needed to do
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a nicks versus someone boy it's gonna be a team Yeah, now, like,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Knicks versus... The Fantastic Four? Now they're washing them. You
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: got to go, like, Justice League. You know, somebody's got power.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: You're saying the Knicks are washing the Fantastic Four?
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think the Knicks are washing the Justice League.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: In 2026, it's tough.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Especially at New York Comic Con, the Knicks are washing everyone.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Like, I can't imagine, you.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Know, Powerpuff Girls might get washed.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: You said the Monstars?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: The Knicks versus the Monstars.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Definitely watching the Monstars.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: That'd be hilarious.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I would love to see that one.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Who is Jordan's team? What were they called?
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: The Toon Squad?
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they might watch the Toon Squad. Wow. That's a battle, though.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Even with Toon Magic?
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Jordan.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: That would be one, boy. That would have had people tied.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: You should put a poll out for that one. You
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: would have people tied. What about Michael Jordan? I'll do
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: that during the live. What about Michael.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: Jordan Space Jam versus LeBron Space Jam? Those two. Don't
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: even talk about it. Not the movie. Let me be clear.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I try and give LeBron all the love, but no.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: We don't talk about Space Jam.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't talk about that LeBron movie. I even
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: watched it. I don't even know. I did.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: That's why I said I might be talking about the movie.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: We're not going to compare that, but the teams.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Is Bugs on this team too?
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: How's that going to work?
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: It's cool magic, man.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I'm taking old Bugs. I'm taking old Bugs every time.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Not digitally rendered Bugs.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: No.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Look at us. Fight boarding once again.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: You can't let go of it.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: You can't escape the fight board.
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: I really love that one Magneto versus Toph. And that
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: one person came up and said, well, first Magneto is
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: going to try to recruit her.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: And I said, well.
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: Magneto is just going to spend time talking and trying
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: to get her on the team.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: You're not wrong.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: Especially like grandma's Toph, like old lady Toph.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: That is so, that's a great withdrawal because shout out
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: to the person who came up. It was, oh man,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I can't remember the brother's name. It was him and
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: his wife. And they walk up and he's wearing Gucci shades,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: first off. And so his wife is like, let me
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: tell you, he's a soccer coach and all his kids
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: call him Gucci man. So we need the Gucci Mandalorian shirt,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: first of all. And then he sees the Magneto is right.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: And this brother starts screaming about how he was telling
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: his wife on the way up there that Magneto is right.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: And on the.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Drive up there, unbeknownst to the shirt, he is screaming
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: about how Magneto is right. And he said that same
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: line about God amongst incense and all this stuff and
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: how Magneto is and he already is who he is.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: And he was just going off and his wife was like, yeah,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying?
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I know his wife was sitting there like, But at
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: the same time, she was like, I'm buying these shirts
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: for him because he needs them.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: That's a good wife.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: But it also sounds like the booth was made for him.
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: He was manifesting his opportunity to come by.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: That was the craziest shit to me. Like you said,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: we are just non-player characters in this man's life. His
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: shit straight manifested what he needed.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: This is the final point in his five-point thesis.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: At some point, he's going to say, dunk an egg,
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: and it's like, uh-huh.
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Like, the world is dynamically generating as he's thinking of things,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: and it's like, here we are. You know?
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Straight up.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: We are just bits in the ether at first, and
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: then it's like, he walks up and just.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know? Would you like to.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Buy a shirt? Yeah, would you like to buy a shirt?
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Hedges in space.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: The world is yours.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Where'd this chat bubble come from, you know?
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: We're going to kill Ben. Calm down. He's sick and
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: we're about to take him out.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Drink your tea, Ben.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: He's saying drink your tea.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: Ben is reminding me of The Walking Dead when they
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: told the girl to look at the flowers.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: Go look at the flowers.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. No, no.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: Was it Lizzie?
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah. No.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: And that always reminds me of the fact that in
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: maybe first or second grade, My drama teacher had me
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: portray Of Mice and Men, and we did the scene
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: on stage during a, you know, like, nighttime play production
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: of me shooting an older kid in the back of
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: the head.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: That's how Of Mice and Men ends. So, yeah.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, first and second grade, I promise you.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: Wow. That's much too young for that, but okay. And
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: first and second grade, we did Lion King.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I know. I'm over there shooting a fifth grader in
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: the back of the head. Yeah. Theater, you know?
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, let me tell you, I love the role, but,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you know, looking back, it was a bit excessive. Very extreme.
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: That's wild.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: The Vision Quest will be up this week. Marvel did
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: announce that it's coming out a day early, so our
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: review will probably be a day late.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: We wasn't prepared for that. Yeah, look.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with y'all. Y'all probably get something, though.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: I'll probably do a quick review of something so we
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: have something up right away so y'all know how we
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: feel about it.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Some other news.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Marvel talked about Marvel Zombies coming out for the next
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: few years.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: We can't get a Blade movie. Why?
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: I would much rather animated Blade than no Blade.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: I would rather animated Blade than Marvel Zombies.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: Anything. Anything else that's coming out, I don't... Where is Blade?
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: Why can't we have him?
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Where is Blade?
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: On that note, though, shout out to Chris Lamberth, because
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: him and I recorded a video review of this, and
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I did not get a chance to edit it, and
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I might have to re-record because it's late now, but
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: please go see Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, which
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: will be in wide release this weekend by Bassam Tariq,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: starring Mahershala Ali. It's fantastic, y'all. Like, it's one of
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: those films that you need to see. I don't know
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: about theaters, but, you know, supporting the theaters you can.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: But it's definitely one of my favorite films of the year.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: And one of those films that it's like, you will
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: never expect how it is. That's how I can, that's
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: all I can say about that. It's one of those
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: endings where I've been thinking about ever since And I
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: think it's so beautiful and such an ill message and such.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: A risk taking.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Like I went to a screening where Bassam was there
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: and a lot of the questions were about the ending and,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: you know, what it all means and everything. And I
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: thought it was really brave of him. And to be
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: able to stand through what I know were numerous notes
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: from all kinds of studios and all kinds of people
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: and to say, no, I'm sticking to this message. that
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: in this action movie, this is how we're going to
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: end it. And the message that goes along with that
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: is really ill. And if you want some fire action,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: let me tell you, that movie has it, boy. Mahershala
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: puts in work. Like, man, I'm like, it made me, like,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: I walked out of it and I think I texted
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: in the group chat.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I was like, you know, Marvel fumbled. Yeah.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Because we could have had a blade with these two
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: working on it.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: It would have been insane. Absolutely insane. I also want
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: to shout out to Jeff Tramiel and Zeno Robinson. Your
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2 is dropping January 13th, 2027.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: That's right around the corner. That's actually one day before
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: my birthday. Looking forward to seeing that. What other major stuff?
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: I know there was some stuff. Oh, there was a
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: preview of X-Men 97 Season 3. They showed Rogue and
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: Gambit's wedding. That's coming back in 2027 as well.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: We were upset about season two.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, hopefully season three, you know, gets better.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: You know, that's all we can say.
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: Have we heard if they're going to give us season
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: four yet?
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: At one point, they were.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Supposed to do unlimited seasons in this joint.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I thought.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Did they confirm? Yeah, and that was before Marvel decided
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: not to do any more TV or not to do
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: shows that much, so.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: But now they're doing the zombie special. And I know
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: it's been season two. It's still a hit. And I
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: think four was already confirmed. Yeah, four has already been confirmed.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Now five, I don't know. But four was confirmed when
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: they confirmed three. So they're already rolling.
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: I feel like what we got with season two is
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: definitely because they did not confirm if there was like
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: a season three. So I'm hoping what we disliked about
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: season two will not be a part of three or
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: four because we know that there'll be a next season
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: coming and they won't try to like cut it short
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: and kind of wrap it all up at the end
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: of the season.
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Hopefully also it's not just Bo DeMaio, you know, not
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: beating it, you know.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: So many pieces.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: So many pieces. I mean, shout out to his OnlyFans.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: You know, he working that, though.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 54:57
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• 54:59
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