July 31, 2018 • 50 mins
In Episode 18, Dani and Ify go over their favorite moments from this year's San Diego Comic Con! The two dive in on all the announcements and happenings that made a splash at the Con! From Shazam!, Aquaman, Glass, Godzilla, and Clone Wars to panels, events, and even a giveaway - Ify and Dani give you a thorough run down of the best of the best.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Right, how's it going, y'all. Welcome back to another episode
of Narrative sent Time. If you wide away and sitting
across from me is Danny Fernandez. So this is coming
out on Tuesday. It's been like a week and a
half since Comic Con, a week ish. Hopefully we are
fully recovered. Yeah, one can only hope. I actually don't so. Um.
(00:33):
For those of you that don't go to concert or
something called the con flu, people normally get sick after conventions.
Aside from the fact that you're like packed like sardines
in a can with so many people and touching so
many things, but also just like I think your body
is like exhausted. This makes it. This is like a
really negative. What I was going to say, though, is
that I always get sick before because I'm always stressed
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out trying to host and work and shoot stuff before
comic Con. So I always get sick the week before
Comic Con, which I did, so that I'm not sick
after when everyone else is sick. So I feel like, no,
that's not it. It's because my body has already developed
those antibodies or whatever. Yeah, no, it's I think it's
like a combination of that. I think it's a combination,
(01:14):
especially in San Diego, where it's super hot outside, go
inside and it's like blasting cold. It's just the perfect
combination of events to make sure that you're sick after me. Luckily,
I didn't spend too much time on the floor places
most comic cons. I'm not on the floor that much
unless there's something I really want to buy. But unfortunately,
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and we'll get to it, all the pops that I
would have wanted sold out in fifteen minutes. I didn't
even have a shot. Then I was talking to Kyle
and his brother isn't a DBS fan, but had like
he could have picked him exclusive. Yeah, he could have
picked him up for me, but he didn't know anyone
who wanted it. And I was like, oh, okay, alright, breathe.
But you know one thing that's fortunate for me is
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as a like sneaker head and so on who wear streetwear,
I'm used to re sale being like one to two
hundred dollars more. Well, funco pop resales are easy. Compared
to that, it's like, oh, I have to pay forty
bucks for something, Okay, that's no problem. Like my first
pair of Easy I've spent five on Well, that's why
you got to be I feel like we're friends with
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some people that either Funko or the one that I
know that sold out that crashed Um. I see you
put it in our notes that Crash Funimation site is
the West from Dragon Ball Super. Crashed Funimation are good
friends at Funimation who we're working very hard to try
and get those exclusives for people. People going crazy. Yeah.
I mean it's so funny because I do often sleep
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on how popular weis is as a character because there's
so many I feel like in this new rendition of
dragon Ball dragon Ball Super, there's just so many dope
new characters that's like, who who do you want? You know?
I think the same thing would happen if a Chomp
of Figure came out, you know. Yeah. What I was
going to say for people that don't know is that
they had set up an exclusive like so that you
wouldn't have to necessarily stand in line, like you could
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apply early to be a part of to get comic
con exclusives, which is a huge and when we say
exclusives are like toys, figures, merchandise that is exclusive to
comic Con, where you're not going to be able to
get it other places, or you'll be one of the
first people to own it. So yeah, it's crazy. Yeah,
so what I mean? You were every panel? Which was
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which panels did you do? Just as a recap for people,
I did People of Color and Comics at sky Bound.
That was moderated by Hector Navarro, who I love dearly.
I also did a live version of my show Natural
Selection a nerdis House. Oh yeah, if he was in
the audience, um, laughing and heckling. Uh, both those things.
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You were a live program is so great because we
had a live studio audience, but we also were live
streaming to everybody, and so we had technical difficulties, as
you do when you're when you are dealing with live programming.
So I hosted that. I host a show called Natural
Selection at noticed its debate show, and then when I
did Brown Girls and Gaming, which was moderated by Danielle
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Radford at sky Bound, I had a panel called Most
Dangerous Women where we actually debated about the representation of
women and a lot of the films that have come
out this year and not all not all that great,
some of them even Superhero One. Some of them didn't
fare so hot. Some of them didn't pass the Bechdel test.
So that's great, But shout out to becktel cast here
(04:28):
on our here on our network. Check out that podcast
about the representation of women in media and film. And then, um,
I don't I don't know. I feel I've talked too much. Now.
I did a bunch of panels. Where I did, I
did a bunch of panels. But what I wanted to
say was that it was very humbling. I used to
go to Comic Con when I was ten, back when
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my family was living in San Diego, and I would
stand in line to get the Dragon ball Z voice
actors to sign my VHS tapes. It was a lot
different back then. It didn't fill up the whole con.
There wasn't as many people, weren't really as many lines
and stuff. And to be asked to be on panels
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is it just makes me feel like my voice is important.
And you know, we got to meet a lot of
Nerdificent fans and just daily sightguys fans and just coming
up and letting me know that if he both you
and I that are our voices matter and are important
in this nerd dumb So Yeah, yeah, thank you guys
for being so dope. Yeah, it was fun time. This
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was definitely a good time for me, probably my like
first time super professionally doing it. Like I've always had
like a pro badge and like I've done a few
panels before, but this is like the first time I
like moderated a panel and like for a big company,
which was funny because it was sky Bound, which if
you were listening to last week's episode you know that
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you know they came from Image, and I talked to
them about that and how they are carrying over for
the Image kind of philosophy of letting it because just
like Image, sky Bound, the creators of their brand get
to own their ips as well, and they're they're really
excited that, you know, they got a little shout out
on the episode and also that, uh that we're kind
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of talking about that and both me and Danny work
with sky Bound now, and I was like, I don't
know if we mentioned that that yeah we're we're like
now it's um but yeah, no, it was like super
cool to do that, especially because like that's like the
big the big thing. I mean, everything is big at come.
Being on a panel is big. But like when you
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get to do the moderating that you know there's someone
used to have a monopoly on it, and now I
feel like a few spots are going to open up
without trying to sound too messy. Then also I was
shout casting and hosting an off site activation. They have
this thing called Experience in San Diego where they had
an e sports stage and people could three people would
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play with a professional Fortnite player and it was and
we had raffles. Then it was like a legit raffle.
I want to be like, I wish more people were
able to enter, but it was literally impossible because the kids,
like kids, kids had that thing lock because pretty much
the raffle what we were giving away, I said it
so much that I remember it. And we were giving
away three four Hurts curved monitors, three g t X
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ten seventy graphics cards, and also one d X Racer chair,
six boxes of the Dominion board game, six Roku Expresses,
and eight Lucid sound headphones, which I think are great
if you are an adult and above like, I'm I'm
losing my mind at the idea of a eight year
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old getting a g t X ten seventy, like is
gonna build it. I mean, because the thing is like
if your parents like a like a supercomputer nerd, they're
gonna set that up for you. But if not a
parents are gonna be like what and will they even
know that they'll be able to sell it almost a
thousand dollars because of the crypto minors, you know, selling
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like it's it's insane, And I think we genuinely thought
it would be an older base, but we underestimated how
big the Fortnight is for kids. And when the kids
found out that they had a chance to play with
pros and actually have a chance, a better chance that
when they were lining up, like the experience didn't open
up till eleven, they were lining up at like ten
o'clock and then waiting, then running to the table, then
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lining up because because they would open like a ten thirty,
but we wouldn't start to leven and they would be
just a line around we every time, every day we
had to like sign ups filled up after ten fifteen minutes,
and lots of times we didn't even make it that
far because of how long a game with a pro last,
because you know Fortnite can last anywhere between thirty seconds
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to thirty minutes, but we have a pro player, it's
always lasting at least thirty minutes. But like at first
were like these kids, but then it became heartwarming when
we found out like two main things made it hard warming.
One these were like some of these kids first wins
ever at this game, and you know, so like they
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are losing their minds because like this game that seems
so hard to them that they thought they'd never be
able to win. They just would lose it, and they
would be so happy because this pro player got them
the chance to get a win. And to the parents
really loved him because they were on this huge kind
of tightan tron up there and talking and the parents
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were like, is there a way we can get the
footage for this? It was like it was wild. It
was like, oh yeah, I forgot I think in the
same way like Comic Con was humbling. Also, it just
makes me realize how big video games are, like the
like if I told my parents when I was a
kid that I wanted to play this video game and
get a win, I don't think they'd understand how important
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that is for me now. And I feel like a
lot of parents now get it, and we're super excited
to help their kids have this win. Yeah, gosh, I
was really proud of you. I liked seeing all the
stuff that you were doing. What I was proud of
you too. Yeah, I was seeing you up there there.
This house was a cool thing, I think, uh uh,
(10:10):
you know, because before it was at Pecco Park out
in the sun. Yeah, and this kind it was like,
I really don't remember my top broke. Oh my gosh.
So if we're talking about behind this, and we'll get
into some of the trailer drops and things that some
of the big news that happened at Comic Con in
this wrap up, but just you know, we like sharing
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our personal experiences. So I had a zip up top
and my zipper broke in between my panels. Um, it
was my fault. Well, I was wearing a one piece
and if y'all when you have to go pee, you
gotta take that one piece all the way off. It
looks good, especially when it's add out. It looks good.
I looked like it was funny. Hector was like, are
you a character from Overwatch? Like it was just like
a cool looking racer. It was like to to give
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credit to that and also help people image. It did
look like a sexy widow maker like romper. Yeah, yeah
it was. It was a short, little um one piece
with like shorts and stuff. But you had to you
had a zipp it. So when it was my zipper
broke on my way to host my live show that
was in front of a live audience and live stream
to thousands of people, and I couldn't get it to
go back up. So I just basically, if you can
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imagine if he put it good, I think when he
said the dress that j Lo wore, the dress that
j Lo war with it like going all the way
down to her navel, that's what I looked. I mean,
And I had to like we week because it was me,
Danny Erica Ishi. We were walking there at that big anime,
sweat behind my head the whole time, and then we
(11:37):
got there and she put a shirt on. Danny was like,
I need a shirt. Well, I didn't have tape, Iffy,
and you know, in those situations, something might pop out
and so um, something anything. And it's really funny because
everybody was like, no, dude, but that's fun Like I
personally don't care. I don't really care, but I can't
speak for everyone on the live stream watching they might
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have cared, so you know it is against twitch t os.
You're also like, yeah. It just also reminded me just
how little I know about women's clothing, because I'll see
shirts like that and I was like, oh, I didn't
realize it needs to be secured. I just thought it
was just the strength of the clothes that kept them together.
You know, That's what I always believed. I was wrong.
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How are you getting around? Because those it was packed?
Like I It was funny too, because coming from Wednesday
to Saturday, it was wild seeing how incrementally more packed
the sidewalks cat and it was rough. Yeah, everybody was
using the service called bird was that Oh yeah, thank
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you for bringing that up. It was as a scooter.
It's a scooter service that's popular. I don't know if
they might have it in your town, but they haven't
in San Diego, where you can rent a scooter like
and just drop it off wherever you get this app,
you just hop on you scooter wherever you need to
go and then you leave it or you can keep
renting it if like you're planning to scooter back. Yeah,
it's yeah, there there was two Bird and Lime and
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they had bikes, but no one wanted the bikes. Everyone
was on the scooter. And I saw one in Korea Town,
so one had a Bird, and I lost my mind.
I was like, oh this It was like you know
when you like buy a car and you look and
it's your car and you love it, and then you
see the that model on the street. That's what it
felt like when I was like, oh did this exist?
(13:27):
And I just never saw it? But yeah, I wrote it.
Once it goes super fast, at least the Lime does.
The Bird apparently doesn't go that fast. The Lime zooms.
I was worried also because apparently like you're supposed to
wear helmets, but like the city was laxed. But I
think and I knew this because I just know how
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bureaucratic infrastructure works. As more people came, they got more
strict because if when it's Wednesday and it's like a
handful of people kind of just going and there's not
much traffic, you're like whatever, But when there's tons of cars,
tons of people, and then you have these jackalopes on
the like people were just riding in on the sidewalking,
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Like no, that's not. You gotta be on the street.
And I know why you don't want to be on
the street, because you don't have a helmet, and that's
why you shouldn't be riding it, right right, right. Yeah,
I didn't even step on one because I'm terrified that
I'm going to get hit by a car, which has
already happened to me when I was walking across the
crosswalk in college. Um, I don't wanna even add any
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more elements to make that happen. Uh. Yeah, so I'm
a little I'm a little scared of it, but yeah. Um.
The other thing that I saw that was cooled was,
of course, because I'm a big Dragon Ball Z person,
they had an interactive dragon Ball super area that was
outside the Marriott, which was connected to the convention center,
and so you could ride Nimbus, which is the cloud
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that Goku rides from dragon Ball Z. You could play
Dragon Ball Fighters, I believe you could play there. You
could like take all these photos with Vegeta and Goku,
and it was was really neat. It was so cool.
Another thing, like you were saying, it was so cool
to see young people, young and old people getting so
excited about it and the people working it were like
really working it. There was a lady, an older lady,
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that was doing the photo booth and she was like,
now do your hand like a maya, and now do
it like this, Like she posed me in a billion
different ways, and I just was like, this is so
cool because this is what I grew up with, and
it's just I'll never not be geeked out by. They
also changed all of the elevators in the Marriott to
Dragon moll Z characters, and I just thought that was
so neat. Yeah, that's that's the first off and foremost.
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That's my biggest regret was not making it to that. Yeah,
I kept missing it. Also, I just literally was either
doing the panel or hosting the thing, so I just
didn't have like I was going to have like two
hours to kind of walk around and do my Nerds stuff.
But are Activation was so successful that the experience asked
us to extend it an hour and I was like, okay,
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but I want to go do Nerds stuff. But one
thing that I remember when I went to the Funimation
party the first day that they were so excited about
is that anime was in hall age and I didn't
consider that that like all this time in hall Age,
we really anime really hasn't had that much of a presence.
I'm sure like that they might have done it a
year or so or any time, but since in recent memory,
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that's the biggest kind of anime hall age event that
we've had in a while. And that's really cool, not
only that you know it was anime, but also that it's,
you know, kind of like an anime that anime s
announce try and look down. It's like, oh cool, Like,
I'm sure you like your niche anime, but it's not
gonna Yeah, and just to remind people of what hall ages,
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it is the biggest hall where they do all of
the trailer drops. Anytime that you see like the cast
of Wonder Woman or Aquaman or whatever, it's going to
be there in hall Age, people will spend the night
overnight trying to get in. It's always so completely sold out.
Impact and Yeah, and the fact that they had the
dry Conball supermovie that's coming out there and it was
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also packed for that, and they had the voice actors
there is incredible. That just shows how big that fandom is.
If you're sleeping on it, it is huge. Yeah, And
I think I want to also echo because you're shouting
out the people who were into it. Definitely, I want
to shout out they kind of because a lot of times.
And it was funny because Milana vine Troupe was talking
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about this how she was voice of squirrel Girl. Yeah
she's a voice of squirrel Girl. Um. But also she
when she she said her first comic Con experience was
getting paid like a hundred bucks today to act in
this and so yeah, these all those like activations that
those interactive things are actors who are doing it, and
so it's so fun to see them commit, and it
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is funny when they're paired with someone who doesn't want
to commit as much. So I went to the d
C Experience activation and for the Doom Patrol, they had
this room where like it was supposed to be a
chief lab and it's like a scientific lab. And this
guy was given it his all, like if there was
an oscar for activation was like, yes, welcome to my lab.
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And he was doing it. It was great. And then
he goes like, what are you cooking up over here?
And then the other person acting the boom was like, okay,
so here is zebra popcorn and this is like just
totally flat, not in character. But I was like, oh man, yeah,
it's so funny. And then did you get bombarded by
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the Godzilla one at all? That one where they stopped
so they had a Godzilla activation where they had it
was pretty huge, and I felt bad for the scientists
because they had people in like the giant like yellow
has met suits going around scanning things. And then a
person in the sue would come to you be like,
have you seen Godzilla activity? And I was this was
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out on the street. And what's funny is I was
with my friend Ash blogg Itt and Brett Eagleston who
were all like actors too, so weird, you know, because
we love the arts are participating like yeah and we
are yeah of course that. And then the second, the
third one I want to shout out is the Jack Ryan,
which they were pushing so hard, which I don't know
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the Vinn diagram of like comic book nerds, and it's huge.
Well it wasn't just it is um the guy that's
in Jack Ryan. Who is it? Jim Oh? Is that
who did said it? Yeah? John Krasinski, Yeah that's that's Jack.
So yeah, they had the whole Jack Ryan experience. That's
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so funny for him to be dead pan employee to
like Jack Ryan. Uh yeah. Like they had these guys
in all black, which it was kind of creepy until
you remember you were at comic Con. They will pull
out a paper with a Manila envelope a message from
Jack Ryan. And the first time I was like oh,
and the second time I was like noted. And it's
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so fun to play along with nerds, I do. I think.
I was in the middle of the street and there
were Sci Fi was having an entire band, a drumline
and everything, and it was they were playing theme from
like Spider Man, and they were just having so much
fun and people were dancing in the street, and it
was like, this is the best part of of nerd
dumb like this, this is why we come here. Also
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because no one's behind a screen. Everyone is face to face.
There's no fighting and arguing and saying awful horrible things
to each other. It's just fans being nerds being nerds
and geeking out and being you know, all dressed up
and stuff and just enjoying these interactive experiences. So I
really I love the fact that we have cons because
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I think it kind of brings everyone back to where
how we started. Yeah, I was super good. Um, but
with the number one thing that's the hugest attraction for
STCC or San Diego Comic Con for people who like
to say things that are really long. Are all those trailers,
all those reveals and everything that's coming out. And we'll
jump right into that after these messages. Welcome back. Hope
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you enjoyed those messages. We're about to jump into the
fun stuff, the stuff that we were all talking about
when it happened. Uh, And I think we'll jump right
into it. But Danny wants to kick things off. She
has a few things to say. No, No, I was
just going to say something about because the first step
on our docket is the Shusam trailer. And David Sandberg,
who is the director for it, he previously worked on
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Lights Out and Annabelle Creation, which a lot of people
actually liked. I find his story so fascinating. Have you
watched the Lights Out short? Oh yeah, it's so great.
But like to me, whenever people, whenever people are like, well,
I can't make a difference, Like I don't have a
whole production team and all this stuff, I'm like that
man made a three minute short of his wife in
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his apartment and it launched his career from me got Annabelle.
Like if you look at his IMDb, it's really just
he worked on a couple of other things, but like
that is what went viral. So go if you're want
to be filmmaker trying to you know, anything, just trying
to start out, whether it's in horror, sketch, comedy, or whatever,
go look at that because that three minute short change
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this man's life. And anyways, now he's the director of Shasamne. Yeah.
And what's interesting too that something of note that I
noticed is a lot of these directors have a history
in horror. So you you have, you know, Shazamne with
David Sandberg who did lights Out, like you said, but
then James One he started and Saw. I was for
some reason, I was looking up the history of the
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Saw movies because I actually am an unabashed Saw fan.
And he also did the Conjuring and then he did
another superhero movie called Furious Seven. So so and I'm
excited too because you know, you know, some people are
like I don't see wise man, it doesn't matter to me.
I like you know that that we have a person
of color directing, you know, this Aquaman story. You know,
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we're we're mixing it up, We're giving shots to you know,
people of color who you know normally don't get big
shots like that. I mean, James One definitely is not
a plucky young director. He has a storied resumes, so
so it's not like they're really taking a chance. But
it is cool to see them mix it up a bit.
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And I'm I do like a lot of people have
been saying, you know, because look, we all know d C.
Everyone feels how they feel about their movies, and but
people are like, I'm gonna trust James Waren and I
trust both these directors, and I think these are going
to be great movies. I do want to say about Aquaman.
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So before Comic Con, THEE had released the poster for it,
and somebody had edited it so it looked like because
in the poster he's surrounded by a bunch of aquatic life,
and someone had edited so it looked like a Lisa
Frank poster, and you thought it was I thought it
was real. I thought it was real, and I know
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people were dunking on it, and I was like, I
am so excited to see this film with like pink
and purple's and like rainbows, and I I truly thought
that it was that it looked magical, it looked cool,
It looked like a mixture of like if Disney had
taken over one of these properties type of thing. And
then um, I found out that it wasn't real. So
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that's fine. It's dark, but I was I was kind
of excited to see a bright also, just like him
being I was like, oh, maybe he'll like write a
dolphin and being pink and be like anyways, people, people
are going to be mad, I said this, But yeah,
I mean, look looking at that first scene in the
trailer where he's standing against the aquarium wall and the
animals are like leave him alone. I don't think you'd
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be far off in that. So so just think of
that when you think. I like that we get Mira,
and Mira actually in the DC comments was a very
fun character for me, especially because she got a red
lantern ring, which was built of her rage in the
split between her family and like her love for Aquaman.
So I mean, obviously were we may not make it
(25:03):
to red lantern stuff in the next five years, but Mira,
I really enjoyed her as a character ever since that
kind of happened. Amber heard, yes, yeah, So so hopping
back to the sham trailer, Uh, did anything like stand
out for you? If he? I really like, you know,
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seeing it? I think the best description of it was
big meat Superman, which I think this, this franchise needs.
D C has been too dark. It would be fun
to lighten it up with something lighthearted and interesting, especially
since we were going to get the dark epic film
with Aquaman, which I love that that we do have
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black black Manta and they pulled the mask because very
few times, like people didn't know, specifically me, I didn't
know for a while black Manta was black until they
pulled the mask off. He very very rarely pulls it off.
And I gotta say, I'm super excited. And also Jason
Momoa being Jason Momoa, I know it's it's peak Jason Momoa. Definitely,
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it seems like what's cool about mixing it up because
I will say Snyder and Nolan has kind of had
a chokehold on the d C series. It seems like
it's only been them, and that I think might have
been part of the problem whether no matter how you
feel about their films, love them or hate them, you
gotta admit that, like the reason they don't bleed together
is because you've only had like two people touching it.
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So to have these two new directors kind of with
their I mean, the last time we have a new
director cough cough, Patty Jenkins, like it was a smash hit.
It's not even to say that necessarily Snyder or or
Nolan is bad. I mean, Nolan has like the definitive
Batman movie trilogy. But when you are letting just two
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directors do all of the movies, they bleed together because
every director has their own style. When you splash in
some Patty Jenkins, some James want I mean so Patty
and James want to, you know, it'll it'll mix it up.
And when you do get that dark d C it'll
pop because of that. And it just you know, you
just can't put a whole bunch of iceberg lettuce in
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a salad. You need some tomatoes, you need some carrots,
you need some onions, and that's what what's going to
make a good salad. And I think that's been the
difference and why it seems like kind of like Marvel
took the lead because from the jump, Marvel had so
many hands and so many different parts of their salad,
where we're finally getting to the other parts of the
d C salad. So I'm really excited to see what
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they came from. Where they're coming from, and it seems
like they're going to pass the torch um and you'll
see what I mean in just a second. Well, um,
I did want to say Gail Simone, who is a
noted comic book writer but also for a Wonder Woman specifically,
she actually tweeted and was like, so, was d C
the winner of the con because it feels like that
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I almost thought it was a joke. I mean, the answer,
first off and foremost is yes. But all so d
C was running against no one because we didn't have Marvel,
Star Wars didn't really have a presence, and besides that,
all the other brands pretty much had established series. So
I do think they won, but they had no one
really up against them, I hear you. But it still
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could have been horribly received, you know the trailers in there,
but instead everyone seemed to get very excited about them.
So yeah, they've they've they've definitely did good, you know,
because they because you're right, DC could have just been
by themselves and still lost the con you know, but
they are constantly talking about they did come out with
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the dope trailers and all you heard about Wish Zam
and Aquaman. I was talking about this earlier, I think,
on Candy Dinner because we were wondering why Marvel isn't
coming out with anything because there isn't a D twenty
three that year, because that's usually why Marvel kind of
holds there reveals, and I came to the conclusion it's
because Marvel can't talk about anything without oiling the next
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Infinity War because if you think about it, we have
one movie than Infinity War. Anything we'd see behind that
is going to kill it. I mean just literally anything,
because every movie you talk about confirms that that person lives.
So to keep with the lore of Infinity War, you can.
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We definitely because they have a three contract deal, three
part of Jolla and Peter Parker. But I feel like
people like I don't want to call him plebs, but
rag folks aren't checking in on that. I still think
even like I don't want to say my mom, but
like I feel we'll say, my older brother, because he
doesn't really follow this stuff. I feel like he at
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least would be like, oh no, wait he that Peter Parker,
that new One only got one film, He's probably going
to get a couple more. I don't even feel like
that's a spoiler. I just feel like that's common math
is those newer characters that they just introduced that made
the millions are probably not getting killed off. But to
move on to a glass was another trailer that dropped
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m Night Shamalan, who I have a little story here.
If he did, I tell you he did? You read
what I wrote next to it? Currently Danny's hotel roommate. Yes, um,
he had the room across from me at Comic Con
and it was funny. Yeah. He Actually one of my
girlfriends was trying to slip. I gave her my badge
so that she could have it for the day because
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I was on these panels off site and she was
trying to stick her badge back under my door and M.
Knight was like so fascinated. He was like, what are
you doing? And I came out in like my gym
clothes with like a bathrobe on, and he had like
the rest of the members of Glass standing right there,
and we all just like didn't go in our room,
so we're all just standing there talking and then they
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asked to take a picture with one of my friends,
and I don't know, it's little things like that. Danielle
Radford said that she was in the elevator with I Forgot,
a famous comic book artist, and she was like, I
just had a I just had like a five minute
conversation with them about comics. And it's like little things
like that when you're at comic con where everyone's kind
of on the same level, everyone's excited about the same things,
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everyone's in the same area. That it's that's also cool
as you you're around some of your favorite creators. Oh,
it's super fun. Glass. I'm super excited about mostly because
I kind of watched Unbreakable bit by bit, like it
definitely wasn't like a movie that I fully ingested until
I saw Split, and then once that connection was made,
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I was like, Oh, I need to go back and
really watch Unbreakable because I like, I'm curious in m
Night Shamalan's superhero universe because it seems very different, very grounded,
and it feels like the most accidental, perfect take of
like superheroes in a real world, and so I'm super excited,
I don't you know, And I feel like these movies
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I thought are his most successful movies. So I'm also
not like worried about the quote unquote history of you know,
his movies, because Unbreakable was amazing, did well. Split was
a surprise smash hit. So now it's going to be
interesting to see him focus in on this. It's great. Yeah,
I'm excited for it as well. I know there are
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so many fans of this franchise and to kind of
see it all come together. Split was a little bit
hard for me. Just this is so fascinating because we
talked about my most dangerous women thing is that whenever
a woman is hurt, just to be hurt. Like people
argue with me about this a lot, but it's Gayle
Simone actually is the one that created the website women
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in Fridges, which if you haven't checked it out, please
it'll change how you look at media. It is. It's
originally from Green Lantern when he comes home and finds
his girlfriend has been literally fridge. She's been stuck in
a fridge, killed and stuck in there, and so Gail
made a list of media that either a woman is
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murdered or maimed or hurt in some way to further
the story of a man or the character development of
a man. But also just in general, I think a
lot of times, a lot when we talked about this
on the panel, a lot of times filmmakers use rape,
like rape of a woman as her back story, like
that's her character story, that's what made her her. And
I don't always agree with that, and so at times
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it's kind of put me at odds with films that
it's been difficult for me to enjoy. And this is
me personally, so I don't need people disagreeing with how
I feel about it. You can feel about it your
own way. But I just know, as a writer and
someone that's been around this media film and television and
screenwriters so much that it is used too often. I
feel like as a that's all I'll say. And so
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I mean, I think the equation is there, and it's
pretty simple to figure out that when you have men
writing women, you only have a limited perspective. And so
when you think of like what empowers women, I think
men often don't have the answer because obviously only someone
who was a woman would know what would empower you.
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So you're I think it comes also from just the
toxic masculinity of like, if you endure some hardcore pain
or you endure some suffering, you come out stronger. And
then the next part of the equation is what is
the worst thing a woman can endure? And then you
have your plot device for Game of Thrones. Um, yeah, yeah,
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you know, like it definitely is that, and I feel like,
you know, it is kind of overused and it is
kind of you know, hard. I mean, there's been dope
films that have found new ways to implement it, like
that on a film that had like this overbearing special
agent Dad that kind of uh, you know trained, like
you can also be trained and stuff. You don't have
to be scrappy because you got like kidnapped and you know,
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had all that stuff going. So I definitely know what
you mean. And if for those who are like what
it's because split is literally surrounded. The whole motivation is
this guy has kidnapped these uh all these teenage women
and you find out that that one of them, you know,
one of them was raped by her uncle. Yeah, and
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I just I'm like, does that is that necessary for
the story? I guess is my that's the only yeah,
because like literally it's like the you know, like the
the big reveal at the end and the reason like
he doesn't hurt her because she's already been hurt. Yeah. Yeah,
I don't know. I just you know, I respect a
lot of the a lot of filmmakers, and I'm just
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saying I see it a lot, and that's all that's
my commentary as a woman. I just see it. I
see it often, and I could talk about other films
where they've done that, and to me, it's like, I understand,
um that you're trying to get a reaction or or
if there's you feel like there's a purpose. Is there
another way? I don't. I feel like we're going to
go so off topic now dealing with this. But I'm done.
I'm done with my my little things. So what I
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was gonna say is I'm really excited for for everybody.
It's hard for me at times to enjoy films when
I feel rape is it just used for And I
understand that it happens in real life. I just think
it happens too often in media as a backstory necessary
for women. Anyways, moving on, UM, yeah, we'll just uh
knock out the movie that I'm most excited about, which
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is Godzilla, King of Monsters. I love Kaiju, I love
big monsters, and so I'm super excited that we were
introducing more monsters for the King of Monsters to fight.
We get Mathra, We're getting all the bangers, King Guidra. Uh,
you know, who knows. Maybe we'll get a new m
F Doom album, King Guidra album. I don't know. It's
gonna be tight. And of course in the footnotes will
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have links to all these trailers if you have yet
to see them. But it's gonna be fun. TV stuff
is gonna be very easy because lots of these trailers
are for already established shows. So if you don't know
black Lightning, pretty much all of the d C TV
shows are getting a season another season. That's what it
was about Iron Fist. They rightfully so didn't push it.
(36:56):
I guess we can slowly touch on the small controversy
they had. Did you hear about that about which one
about Iron Fist? No, let me see a Jeff Lobe
who was a producer on it, and a comic book
writer came out in the karate kid outfit and was
doing like a like offensive kind of white dude doing
karate bit that he was called out for by one
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of the actresses, which might have been part of the
bit basically trying to lampoon what everybody hates about Iron
Fist without actually presenting any I don't know solutions to it.
And so that that was something people were buzzing about.
I don't think it had like a huge big outcry
about it, but it was some It was something that happened,
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and so just pointing that out, Riverdale getting another season,
Star Trek, Discovery Orville Walking Dead's both of them another season,
better call Sault really excited season four The Gifted. But
the big news was the announcement of a new season
of Star Wars clone Wars, which I thought was done.
You know, people were very excited. Yeah, yeah, and so
(38:01):
so it's gonna be super cool. But I think that
is a sign of DC winning the con because you know,
that news came out. I didn't hear about it till
I was looking at all the wrap ups. So the
fact that the d C trailers and news kind of
shadowed Star Wars. Even though it's one Star Wars announcement,
I think it's pretty big because that it is a
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very popular Star Wars animated series. But there were lots
of new shows and then a few toys I want
to talk about, but we'll get to that after these messages.
Welcome back everybody. Okay, So there's a couple of new
shows I want to talk about. There's one that I'm
(38:44):
gonna talk so much about, so let me just run
through the first. So we have the Mayan m C show.
It's basically a spin off of Sunset Anarchy based off
of the character Ezekiel Rays, who was part of the mines.
It's going to follow them. I'm very curious that what
they're gonna do with us, because the whole device, if
you didn't know what Sons of Anarchy was that it
was Hamlet. So that was kind of what made it
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so good and cool and interesting. Some very curious, Uh
if the characters they built have the substance to really
carry on a spin off series, or if they're going
to do another like Shakespeare, which I actually think that
would be the most interesting. If they found a way
to make this also follow a classic Shakespearean story. Listen.
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I just want you know, I don't know how many,
how much they've already filmed, but I would love to audition.
Just get me, get me in the room. No, but
I I will be watching it. Yeah, they didn't promote
it as much. I did see. I did see though
that they had a big they run it out like
what it was a hotel and like the whole backdrop
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of of the hotel was a poster for this, So
it was like several stories long. Yeah. Um, moving on
to Disenchantment, Yeah, it seems like it's going to be
a fan to see based comedy from Matt Growing Uh
of Theis and Futurama. So you know, at first I
was like what because I'm you know, uh, I'm paused
on Matt after that week response to that up who controversy.
(40:13):
I mean you could you can, you could disagree, but
you could also have a better response and than why
you mad? Uh, that's not not that's not gonna pass
anymore because I think think it through. You don't have
to do the change, but you can consider what's being said.
But then I saw who's voicing. We got Abby Jacobson
from Broad City and Eric Entrey and I think I
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might be in because those are two of the funniest
people and I'm really excited to you, uh see what
they're gonna cook up. Then after that, we have Roswell
News New Mexico based, you know, basically the Roswell show
that was adapted from the y novel by Melinda Mets
called Roswell High. Uh. It lasted three season. It was
(40:54):
pretty popular, then it went away. They're trying to reboot
and they're going to age up the character and see
and they said they want to tackle tackle modern issues,
so I'll see how you know, uh, police brutality and
uh and all that makes its way into Roswell New
Mexico other than I don't know whatever the kids talking
about whatever those kids on the daily is that guys
(41:15):
talking about however, that's gonna get into that. And then
we have DC Titans. I'm just rushing to get to
hear no no, no, I'm sorry, did I take it
from you? You can no no no, no no no
no you could you can announce if you please you. Um. Yeah,
So the Titans official trailer dropped in very dark, which
they kind of They already warned us that it was
(41:35):
going to be dark, that it was going to be
It's it's fascinating, Like you said that, d C. At
least for the movies Shism and aquamaner using horror directors,
and then for Titans, it definitely opens the whole thing
looks like it could be a horror film. By the
way that it's shot. We already knew that it was
going to be having, you know, more heavy topics and
(41:57):
things that they were going to be dealing with, especially
with the death of Dick's family. So yeah, but we
did not see Robin saying f Batman while murdering multiple assailants,
just totally forgetting the code that Batman has repeatedly forced
upon all his Robbins, and it's funny. Man. People did
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not like it. The ratio. I felt bad because the
d C uh it was like DC Titan writer's Twitter
account was like, what do you guys think of the trailer?
That ratio was wild? I think it had like double
digit retweets and like seven hundred plus replies, and people
have been mad about it. I mean, one thing that
(42:41):
I was really kind of annoyed by is like, obviously
I wanted to see how they were going to handle
Beast Boys transformations. We don't see that in the trailer.
People are mad about Starfire actually producing Fire. Not that
big of an issue to me. What's so funny. One
thing that's been genuinely hilarious to me is like a
lot of people are like, uh, the way she's dressed.
(43:02):
She's dressed like a sex workers. Like have you seen
Starfire's design? Also, she looks way more modest than Starfire's design. Like,
so I think that she had to delete some of
her social media because of awful people, right, because because
people were being racist about her because she's black. Just
so everyone knows, Starfires is yellow. She is an alien.
(43:26):
She does not have a race, but somehow, And that's
what I'm talking about what ownership is. Like people will
see an alien and be like, oh, this person is white.
And the first the second thing is a fan art
of Starfire that has her as a white person, like
you see, Like, that is what we talk about in
the kind of unfair ownership of characters. There is a person,
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there is an alien and alien who is yellow, and
you've went and told yourself that this person is Caucasian.
And when the creators of the show goes, no, we're
gonna have her played by a purse, a woman of color,
a black woman. You want to be mad and not
only be mad butt her, but write her and be racist,
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and then to constantly like, oh, she's dressed like a prostitute. Dude,
her outfit is literally a skirt in the halter top.
So what more modesty do you know she's wearing in
the In the footage that has came out, she is
literally wearing a purple dress that covers her up more
than the purple purple outfit she normally is. Truly, don't
(44:31):
this is? You know, we tackled this before with people
writing Kelly Marie Tran, But I'm just like, she's an actress.
She doesn't control literally anything. She doesn't control her costume,
she doesn't control her lines, she doesn't control any of that,
and so to write her specifically is insane to me.
And I don't know, I'm once again disappointing. So she
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I found out she um she disabled her comments on Instagram,
but I wonder if she's still oh this is This
gets even worse because you know it would have been
bad if they're just openly just like because she's black,
apparently the new uh take is that she's not the
right kind of black, that she should be light skinned,
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which you know, if if we didn't get enough colorism
as is. It's disgusting and it's funny because stuff like
this will come out, and then when people say DC
fans are the worst, they get so offended, But it's like, look,
if you're offended, then you need to be jumping down
the throats of everybody who does stuff like this. If
you are part of a fan base that is called
the worst fan base, looking at you as well, star Wars.
(45:38):
Every time you see someone saying something racist and horrible,
you need to be adding them because the thing that
gets people saying it isn't even necessarily taking the comment,
the receiving the comments, or the fact that they're saying it,
but to see the retweets and the people agreeing them
and the agreeing with them. So when outsiders are seeing
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these like horrible racist things about Kelly Marie Chan or
in this case Starfire, and then they're investigating in there
clicking on it, and there's a whole group of people
just being like yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's what makes
people blame the whole fandom. But if they were to
click on it. This has happened to me before. I
can't put my finger on it, but some racist trash
(46:20):
what's happening? And I was like, oh, this seems like
this is rough, and I click on it and I
see people just tearing this person apart from me to that,
and then you're like, oh, Okay, that's how it should be.
That's how the fandom should be. Yeah, it's like, we
need to check the people within our fandoms because because
it does like it does make us look bad as
a whole, because every time someone says something gross under
(46:43):
the guys of just wanting their show the way they
want it, that that reflects on the whole fandom. Unfortunately. Yeah,
I think it's important to speak I I have before
as as a DC fan because my favorite and most
beloved character in all of superhero history as wonder Woman.
(47:03):
So I am the biggest wonder Woman fan and I
always whenever I speak up, I say d C fans,
we we It still pisces people off. I'm not saying
you you, I'm saying us, we need to chill out. Um.
I can't even say all the things I want to
say because I'll get bleeped on here by our producers.
So but anyways, you know what, one of the good
(47:26):
things that I want to say that happened at Comic
Con was there was a meet up for Rose Tico
for Kelly Marie Marie trans character in uh in Star Wars,
and it was great. So many people came out, people
dressed up like her, people were wearing her shirts, and
they all met together. And she had no idea. I know,
(47:47):
I sent I sent pictures to my friend Chris, whose
friends with her, and um, just because I wanted him
to know that so many people were supporting her. So
that was a really positive, great thing to see and
to see the fandom coming together and be like, no,
we're not gonna let you push out one of our people. Yes. Um.
And it was cool too because it was dope to
see so many Asian Americans kind of able to cost
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play us. Heard it's just a dope thing. Uh but yeah,
we are running out of time, but just just off
rip faive toys. The DBC toys broke the Colm very
proud about that, like Danny said earlier, the Broadley uh
and all that, And then they had these teenage mut
Ninja Turtle Necka toys that were based off of the
original movie. Oh I think did Hector. Hector bought them
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and the diorama that comes with and it was super cool.
We'll post pictures of that and uh, you know this
is this is gonna be the thing we do after CONS.
So we didn't do one for a X because that
was a mess um but uh but yeah, so if
we go to CONS, we'll be wrapping it up for you.
Who's bees there's anyway? All out of words. I feel
(48:54):
like we both we are. It's so funny because when
the drops, it'll be you know, like, yeah, hopefully will
be recovered. But right now we are still in We're
still trying to adjust. Yeah, but I just real quick,
only one thing to plug. August eleven, I'll be in
Portland's with the White Women Guys. We will be performing
in the Stumptown in profess. If you are out there,
come through, say what's up. It'll be a good time.
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And you know you can follow me on if you
wi away on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at miss Danny
Fernandez and thanks to everybody that if you was there
handing out our Nerdificent shirts at the con I forgot
because I packed him in my bag but had to
run around so many places I forgot to hand him out.
So maybe we'll do a giveaway. I think we'll do
a giveaway on our on our Twitter, so definitely follow
us on there if you want to win a shirt,
(49:38):
and if you want to get one of yourself, you can.
We have a merch store at T Public. Yeah and yeah,
be kind to each other, y'all. Okay, life short, be
nice to your fellow nerds. Seriously. Quick shout out to
Zach McKeever and Booth Holding It Down, producer Dan Goodman
Holding It D in new Produce on the On the Deuce.
(49:59):
But yeah, like I said, he gets a fellow nerds,
and uh, stay nerdy. H
Right, how's it going, y'all. Welcome back to another episode
of Narrative sent Time. If you wide away and sitting
across from me is Danny Fernandez. So this is coming
out on Tuesday. It's been like a week and a
half since Comic Con, a week ish. Hopefully we are
fully recovered. Yeah, one can only hope. I actually don't so. Um.
(00:33):
For those of you that don't go to concert or
something called the con flu, people normally get sick after conventions.
Aside from the fact that you're like packed like sardines
in a can with so many people and touching so
many things, but also just like I think your body
is like exhausted. This makes it. This is like a
really negative. What I was going to say, though, is
that I always get sick before because I'm always stressed
(00:53):
out trying to host and work and shoot stuff before
comic Con. So I always get sick the week before
Comic Con, which I did, so that I'm not sick
after when everyone else is sick. So I feel like, no,
that's not it. It's because my body has already developed
those antibodies or whatever. Yeah, no, it's I think it's
like a combination of that. I think it's a combination,
(01:14):
especially in San Diego, where it's super hot outside, go
inside and it's like blasting cold. It's just the perfect
combination of events to make sure that you're sick after me. Luckily,
I didn't spend too much time on the floor places
most comic cons. I'm not on the floor that much
unless there's something I really want to buy. But unfortunately,
(01:36):
and we'll get to it, all the pops that I
would have wanted sold out in fifteen minutes. I didn't
even have a shot. Then I was talking to Kyle
and his brother isn't a DBS fan, but had like
he could have picked him exclusive. Yeah, he could have
picked him up for me, but he didn't know anyone
who wanted it. And I was like, oh, okay, alright, breathe.
But you know one thing that's fortunate for me is
(01:58):
as a like sneaker head and so on who wear streetwear,
I'm used to re sale being like one to two
hundred dollars more. Well, funco pop resales are easy. Compared
to that, it's like, oh, I have to pay forty
bucks for something, Okay, that's no problem. Like my first
pair of Easy I've spent five on Well, that's why
you got to be I feel like we're friends with
(02:19):
some people that either Funko or the one that I
know that sold out that crashed Um. I see you
put it in our notes that Crash Funimation site is
the West from Dragon Ball Super. Crashed Funimation are good
friends at Funimation who we're working very hard to try
and get those exclusives for people. People going crazy. Yeah.
I mean it's so funny because I do often sleep
(02:41):
on how popular weis is as a character because there's
so many I feel like in this new rendition of
dragon Ball dragon Ball Super, there's just so many dope
new characters that's like, who who do you want? You know?
I think the same thing would happen if a Chomp
of Figure came out, you know. Yeah. What I was
going to say for people that don't know is that
they had set up an exclusive like so that you
wouldn't have to necessarily stand in line, like you could
(03:02):
apply early to be a part of to get comic
con exclusives, which is a huge and when we say
exclusives are like toys, figures, merchandise that is exclusive to
comic Con, where you're not going to be able to
get it other places, or you'll be one of the
first people to own it. So yeah, it's crazy. Yeah,
so what I mean? You were every panel? Which was
(03:25):
which panels did you do? Just as a recap for people,
I did People of Color and Comics at sky Bound.
That was moderated by Hector Navarro, who I love dearly.
I also did a live version of my show Natural
Selection a nerdis House. Oh yeah, if he was in
the audience, um, laughing and heckling. Uh, both those things.
(03:45):
You were a live program is so great because we
had a live studio audience, but we also were live
streaming to everybody, and so we had technical difficulties, as
you do when you're when you are dealing with live programming.
So I hosted that. I host a show called Natural
Selection at noticed its debate show, and then when I
did Brown Girls and Gaming, which was moderated by Danielle
(04:07):
Radford at sky Bound, I had a panel called Most
Dangerous Women where we actually debated about the representation of
women and a lot of the films that have come
out this year and not all not all that great,
some of them even Superhero One. Some of them didn't
fare so hot. Some of them didn't pass the Bechdel test.
So that's great, But shout out to becktel cast here
(04:28):
on our here on our network. Check out that podcast
about the representation of women in media and film. And then, um,
I don't I don't know. I feel I've talked too much. Now.
I did a bunch of panels. Where I did, I
did a bunch of panels. But what I wanted to
say was that it was very humbling. I used to
go to Comic Con when I was ten, back when
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my family was living in San Diego, and I would
stand in line to get the Dragon ball Z voice
actors to sign my VHS tapes. It was a lot
different back then. It didn't fill up the whole con.
There wasn't as many people, weren't really as many lines
and stuff. And to be asked to be on panels
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is it just makes me feel like my voice is important.
And you know, we got to meet a lot of
Nerdificent fans and just daily sightguys fans and just coming
up and letting me know that if he both you
and I that are our voices matter and are important
in this nerd dumb So Yeah, yeah, thank you guys
for being so dope. Yeah, it was fun time. This
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was definitely a good time for me, probably my like
first time super professionally doing it. Like I've always had
like a pro badge and like I've done a few
panels before, but this is like the first time I
like moderated a panel and like for a big company,
which was funny because it was sky Bound, which if
you were listening to last week's episode you know that
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you know they came from Image, and I talked to
them about that and how they are carrying over for
the Image kind of philosophy of letting it because just
like Image, sky Bound, the creators of their brand get
to own their ips as well, and they're they're really
excited that, you know, they got a little shout out
on the episode and also that, uh that we're kind
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of talking about that and both me and Danny work
with sky Bound now, and I was like, I don't
know if we mentioned that that yeah we're we're like
now it's um but yeah, no, it was like super
cool to do that, especially because like that's like the
big the big thing. I mean, everything is big at come.
Being on a panel is big. But like when you
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get to do the moderating that you know there's someone
used to have a monopoly on it, and now I
feel like a few spots are going to open up
without trying to sound too messy. Then also I was
shout casting and hosting an off site activation. They have
this thing called Experience in San Diego where they had
an e sports stage and people could three people would
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play with a professional Fortnite player and it was and
we had raffles. Then it was like a legit raffle.
I want to be like, I wish more people were
able to enter, but it was literally impossible because the kids,
like kids, kids had that thing lock because pretty much
the raffle what we were giving away, I said it
so much that I remember it. And we were giving
away three four Hurts curved monitors, three g t X
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ten seventy graphics cards, and also one d X Racer chair,
six boxes of the Dominion board game, six Roku Expresses,
and eight Lucid sound headphones, which I think are great
if you are an adult and above like, I'm I'm
losing my mind at the idea of a eight year
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old getting a g t X ten seventy, like is
gonna build it. I mean, because the thing is like
if your parents like a like a supercomputer nerd, they're
gonna set that up for you. But if not a
parents are gonna be like what and will they even
know that they'll be able to sell it almost a
thousand dollars because of the crypto minors, you know, selling
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like it's it's insane, And I think we genuinely thought
it would be an older base, but we underestimated how
big the Fortnight is for kids. And when the kids
found out that they had a chance to play with
pros and actually have a chance, a better chance that
when they were lining up, like the experience didn't open
up till eleven, they were lining up at like ten
o'clock and then waiting, then running to the table, then
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lining up because because they would open like a ten thirty,
but we wouldn't start to leven and they would be
just a line around we every time, every day we
had to like sign ups filled up after ten fifteen minutes,
and lots of times we didn't even make it that
far because of how long a game with a pro last,
because you know Fortnite can last anywhere between thirty seconds
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to thirty minutes, but we have a pro player, it's
always lasting at least thirty minutes. But like at first
were like these kids, but then it became heartwarming when
we found out like two main things made it hard warming.
One these were like some of these kids first wins
ever at this game, and you know, so like they
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are losing their minds because like this game that seems
so hard to them that they thought they'd never be
able to win. They just would lose it, and they
would be so happy because this pro player got them
the chance to get a win. And to the parents
really loved him because they were on this huge kind
of tightan tron up there and talking and the parents
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were like, is there a way we can get the
footage for this? It was like it was wild. It
was like, oh yeah, I forgot I think in the
same way like Comic Con was humbling. Also, it just
makes me realize how big video games are, like the
like if I told my parents when I was a
kid that I wanted to play this video game and
get a win, I don't think they'd understand how important
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that is for me now. And I feel like a
lot of parents now get it, and we're super excited
to help their kids have this win. Yeah, gosh, I
was really proud of you. I liked seeing all the
stuff that you were doing. What I was proud of
you too. Yeah, I was seeing you up there there.
This house was a cool thing, I think, uh uh,
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you know, because before it was at Pecco Park out
in the sun. Yeah, and this kind it was like,
I really don't remember my top broke. Oh my gosh.
So if we're talking about behind this, and we'll get
into some of the trailer drops and things that some
of the big news that happened at Comic Con in
this wrap up, but just you know, we like sharing
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our personal experiences. So I had a zip up top
and my zipper broke in between my panels. Um, it
was my fault. Well, I was wearing a one piece
and if y'all when you have to go pee, you
gotta take that one piece all the way off. It
looks good, especially when it's add out. It looks good.
I looked like it was funny. Hector was like, are
you a character from Overwatch? Like it was just like
a cool looking racer. It was like to to give
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credit to that and also help people image. It did
look like a sexy widow maker like romper. Yeah, yeah
it was. It was a short, little um one piece
with like shorts and stuff. But you had to you
had a zipp it. So when it was my zipper
broke on my way to host my live show that
was in front of a live audience and live stream
to thousands of people, and I couldn't get it to
go back up. So I just basically, if you can
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imagine if he put it good, I think when he
said the dress that j Lo wore, the dress that
j Lo war with it like going all the way
down to her navel, that's what I looked. I mean,
And I had to like we week because it was me,
Danny Erica Ishi. We were walking there at that big anime,
sweat behind my head the whole time, and then we
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got there and she put a shirt on. Danny was like,
I need a shirt. Well, I didn't have tape, Iffy,
and you know, in those situations, something might pop out
and so um, something anything. And it's really funny because
everybody was like, no, dude, but that's fun Like I
personally don't care. I don't really care, but I can't
speak for everyone on the live stream watching they might
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have cared, so you know it is against twitch t os.
You're also like, yeah. It just also reminded me just
how little I know about women's clothing, because I'll see
shirts like that and I was like, oh, I didn't
realize it needs to be secured. I just thought it
was just the strength of the clothes that kept them together.
You know, That's what I always believed. I was wrong.
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How are you getting around? Because those it was packed?
Like I It was funny too, because coming from Wednesday
to Saturday, it was wild seeing how incrementally more packed
the sidewalks cat and it was rough. Yeah, everybody was
using the service called bird was that Oh yeah, thank
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you for bringing that up. It was as a scooter.
It's a scooter service that's popular. I don't know if
they might have it in your town, but they haven't
in San Diego, where you can rent a scooter like
and just drop it off wherever you get this app,
you just hop on you scooter wherever you need to
go and then you leave it or you can keep
renting it if like you're planning to scooter back. Yeah,
it's yeah, there there was two Bird and Lime and
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they had bikes, but no one wanted the bikes. Everyone
was on the scooter. And I saw one in Korea Town,
so one had a Bird, and I lost my mind.
I was like, oh this It was like you know
when you like buy a car and you look and
it's your car and you love it, and then you
see the that model on the street. That's what it
felt like when I was like, oh did this exist?
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And I just never saw it? But yeah, I wrote it.
Once it goes super fast, at least the Lime does.
The Bird apparently doesn't go that fast. The Lime zooms.
I was worried also because apparently like you're supposed to
wear helmets, but like the city was laxed. But I
think and I knew this because I just know how
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bureaucratic infrastructure works. As more people came, they got more
strict because if when it's Wednesday and it's like a
handful of people kind of just going and there's not
much traffic, you're like whatever, But when there's tons of cars,
tons of people, and then you have these jackalopes on
the like people were just riding in on the sidewalking,
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Like no, that's not. You gotta be on the street.
And I know why you don't want to be on
the street, because you don't have a helmet, and that's
why you shouldn't be riding it, right right, right. Yeah,
I didn't even step on one because I'm terrified that
I'm going to get hit by a car, which has
already happened to me when I was walking across the
crosswalk in college. Um, I don't wanna even add any
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more elements to make that happen. Uh. Yeah, so I'm
a little I'm a little scared of it, but yeah. Um.
The other thing that I saw that was cooled was,
of course, because I'm a big Dragon Ball Z person,
they had an interactive dragon Ball super area that was
outside the Marriott, which was connected to the convention center,
and so you could ride Nimbus, which is the cloud
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that Goku rides from dragon Ball Z. You could play
Dragon Ball Fighters, I believe you could play there. You
could like take all these photos with Vegeta and Goku,
and it was was really neat. It was so cool.
Another thing, like you were saying, it was so cool
to see young people, young and old people getting so
excited about it and the people working it were like
really working it. There was a lady, an older lady,
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that was doing the photo booth and she was like,
now do your hand like a maya, and now do
it like this, Like she posed me in a billion
different ways, and I just was like, this is so
cool because this is what I grew up with, and
it's just I'll never not be geeked out by. They
also changed all of the elevators in the Marriott to
Dragon moll Z characters, and I just thought that was
so neat. Yeah, that's that's the first off and foremost.
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That's my biggest regret was not making it to that. Yeah,
I kept missing it. Also, I just literally was either
doing the panel or hosting the thing, so I just
didn't have like I was going to have like two
hours to kind of walk around and do my Nerds stuff.
But are Activation was so successful that the experience asked
us to extend it an hour and I was like, okay,
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but I want to go do Nerds stuff. But one
thing that I remember when I went to the Funimation
party the first day that they were so excited about
is that anime was in hall age and I didn't
consider that that like all this time in hall Age,
we really anime really hasn't had that much of a presence.
I'm sure like that they might have done it a
year or so or any time, but since in recent memory,
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that's the biggest kind of anime hall age event that
we've had in a while. And that's really cool, not
only that you know it was anime, but also that it's,
you know, kind of like an anime that anime s
announce try and look down. It's like, oh cool, Like,
I'm sure you like your niche anime, but it's not
gonna Yeah, and just to remind people of what hall ages,
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it is the biggest hall where they do all of
the trailer drops. Anytime that you see like the cast
of Wonder Woman or Aquaman or whatever, it's going to
be there in hall Age, people will spend the night
overnight trying to get in. It's always so completely sold out.
Impact and Yeah, and the fact that they had the
dry Conball supermovie that's coming out there and it was
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also packed for that, and they had the voice actors
there is incredible. That just shows how big that fandom is.
If you're sleeping on it, it is huge. Yeah, And
I think I want to also echo because you're shouting
out the people who were into it. Definitely, I want
to shout out they kind of because a lot of times.
And it was funny because Milana vine Troupe was talking
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about this how she was voice of squirrel Girl. Yeah
she's a voice of squirrel Girl. Um. But also she
when she she said her first comic Con experience was
getting paid like a hundred bucks today to act in
this and so yeah, these all those like activations that
those interactive things are actors who are doing it, and
so it's so fun to see them commit, and it
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is funny when they're paired with someone who doesn't want
to commit as much. So I went to the d
C Experience activation and for the Doom Patrol, they had
this room where like it was supposed to be a
chief lab and it's like a scientific lab. And this
guy was given it his all, like if there was
an oscar for activation was like, yes, welcome to my lab.
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And he was doing it. It was great. And then
he goes like, what are you cooking up over here?
And then the other person acting the boom was like, okay,
so here is zebra popcorn and this is like just
totally flat, not in character. But I was like, oh man, yeah,
it's so funny. And then did you get bombarded by
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the Godzilla one at all? That one where they stopped
so they had a Godzilla activation where they had it
was pretty huge, and I felt bad for the scientists
because they had people in like the giant like yellow
has met suits going around scanning things. And then a
person in the sue would come to you be like,
have you seen Godzilla activity? And I was this was
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out on the street. And what's funny is I was
with my friend Ash blogg Itt and Brett Eagleston who
were all like actors too, so weird, you know, because
we love the arts are participating like yeah and we
are yeah of course that. And then the second, the
third one I want to shout out is the Jack Ryan,
which they were pushing so hard, which I don't know
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the Vinn diagram of like comic book nerds, and it's huge.
Well it wasn't just it is um the guy that's
in Jack Ryan. Who is it? Jim Oh? Is that
who did said it? Yeah? John Krasinski, Yeah that's that's Jack.
So yeah, they had the whole Jack Ryan experience. That's
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so funny for him to be dead pan employee to
like Jack Ryan. Uh yeah. Like they had these guys
in all black, which it was kind of creepy until
you remember you were at comic Con. They will pull
out a paper with a Manila envelope a message from
Jack Ryan. And the first time I was like oh,
and the second time I was like noted. And it's
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so fun to play along with nerds, I do. I think.
I was in the middle of the street and there
were Sci Fi was having an entire band, a drumline
and everything, and it was they were playing theme from
like Spider Man, and they were just having so much
fun and people were dancing in the street, and it
was like, this is the best part of of nerd
dumb like this, this is why we come here. Also
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because no one's behind a screen. Everyone is face to face.
There's no fighting and arguing and saying awful horrible things
to each other. It's just fans being nerds being nerds
and geeking out and being you know, all dressed up
and stuff and just enjoying these interactive experiences. So I
really I love the fact that we have cons because
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I think it kind of brings everyone back to where
how we started. Yeah, I was super good. Um, but
with the number one thing that's the hugest attraction for
STCC or San Diego Comic Con for people who like
to say things that are really long. Are all those trailers,
all those reveals and everything that's coming out. And we'll
jump right into that after these messages. Welcome back. Hope
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you enjoyed those messages. We're about to jump into the
fun stuff, the stuff that we were all talking about
when it happened. Uh, And I think we'll jump right
into it. But Danny wants to kick things off. She
has a few things to say. No, No, I was
just going to say something about because the first step
on our docket is the Shusam trailer. And David Sandberg,
who is the director for it, he previously worked on
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Lights Out and Annabelle Creation, which a lot of people
actually liked. I find his story so fascinating. Have you
watched the Lights Out short? Oh yeah, it's so great.
But like to me, whenever people, whenever people are like, well,
I can't make a difference, Like I don't have a
whole production team and all this stuff, I'm like that
man made a three minute short of his wife in
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his apartment and it launched his career from me got Annabelle.
Like if you look at his IMDb, it's really just
he worked on a couple of other things, but like
that is what went viral. So go if you're want
to be filmmaker trying to you know, anything, just trying
to start out, whether it's in horror, sketch, comedy, or whatever,
go look at that because that three minute short change
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this man's life. And anyways, now he's the director of Shasamne. Yeah.
And what's interesting too that something of note that I
noticed is a lot of these directors have a history
in horror. So you you have, you know, Shazamne with
David Sandberg who did lights Out, like you said, but
then James One he started and Saw. I was for
some reason, I was looking up the history of the
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Saw movies because I actually am an unabashed Saw fan.
And he also did the Conjuring and then he did
another superhero movie called Furious Seven. So so and I'm
excited too because you know, you know, some people are
like I don't see wise man, it doesn't matter to me.
I like you know that that we have a person
of color directing, you know, this Aquaman story. You know,
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we're we're mixing it up, We're giving shots to you know,
people of color who you know normally don't get big
shots like that. I mean, James One definitely is not
a plucky young director. He has a storied resumes, so
so it's not like they're really taking a chance. But
it is cool to see them mix it up a bit.
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And I'm I do like a lot of people have
been saying, you know, because look, we all know d C.
Everyone feels how they feel about their movies, and but
people are like, I'm gonna trust James Waren and I
trust both these directors, and I think these are going
to be great movies. I do want to say about Aquaman.
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So before Comic Con, THEE had released the poster for it,
and somebody had edited it so it looked like because
in the poster he's surrounded by a bunch of aquatic life,
and someone had edited so it looked like a Lisa
Frank poster, and you thought it was I thought it
was real. I thought it was real, and I know
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people were dunking on it, and I was like, I
am so excited to see this film with like pink
and purple's and like rainbows, and I I truly thought
that it was that it looked magical, it looked cool,
It looked like a mixture of like if Disney had
taken over one of these properties type of thing. And
then um, I found out that it wasn't real. So
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that's fine. It's dark, but I was I was kind
of excited to see a bright also, just like him
being I was like, oh, maybe he'll like write a
dolphin and being pink and be like anyways, people, people
are going to be mad, I said this, But yeah,
I mean, look looking at that first scene in the
trailer where he's standing against the aquarium wall and the
animals are like leave him alone. I don't think you'd
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be far off in that. So so just think of
that when you think. I like that we get Mira,
and Mira actually in the DC comments was a very
fun character for me, especially because she got a red
lantern ring, which was built of her rage in the
split between her family and like her love for Aquaman.
So I mean, obviously were we may not make it
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to red lantern stuff in the next five years, but Mira,
I really enjoyed her as a character ever since that
kind of happened. Amber heard, yes, yeah, So so hopping
back to the sham trailer, Uh, did anything like stand
out for you? If he? I really like, you know,
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seeing it? I think the best description of it was
big meat Superman, which I think this, this franchise needs.
D C has been too dark. It would be fun
to lighten it up with something lighthearted and interesting, especially
since we were going to get the dark epic film
with Aquaman, which I love that that we do have
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black black Manta and they pulled the mask because very
few times, like people didn't know, specifically me, I didn't
know for a while black Manta was black until they
pulled the mask off. He very very rarely pulls it off.
And I gotta say, I'm super excited. And also Jason
Momoa being Jason Momoa, I know it's it's peak Jason Momoa. Definitely,
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it seems like what's cool about mixing it up because
I will say Snyder and Nolan has kind of had
a chokehold on the d C series. It seems like
it's only been them, and that I think might have
been part of the problem whether no matter how you
feel about their films, love them or hate them, you
gotta admit that, like the reason they don't bleed together
is because you've only had like two people touching it.
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So to have these two new directors kind of with
their I mean, the last time we have a new
director cough cough, Patty Jenkins, like it was a smash hit.
It's not even to say that necessarily Snyder or or
Nolan is bad. I mean, Nolan has like the definitive
Batman movie trilogy. But when you are letting just two
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directors do all of the movies, they bleed together because
every director has their own style. When you splash in
some Patty Jenkins, some James want I mean so Patty
and James want to, you know, it'll it'll mix it up.
And when you do get that dark d C it'll
pop because of that. And it just you know, you
just can't put a whole bunch of iceberg lettuce in
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a salad. You need some tomatoes, you need some carrots,
you need some onions, and that's what what's going to
make a good salad. And I think that's been the
difference and why it seems like kind of like Marvel
took the lead because from the jump, Marvel had so
many hands and so many different parts of their salad,
where we're finally getting to the other parts of the
d C salad. So I'm really excited to see what
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they came from. Where they're coming from, and it seems
like they're going to pass the torch um and you'll
see what I mean in just a second. Well, um,
I did want to say Gail Simone, who is a
noted comic book writer but also for a Wonder Woman specifically,
she actually tweeted and was like, so, was d C
the winner of the con because it feels like that
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I almost thought it was a joke. I mean, the answer,
first off and foremost is yes. But all so d
C was running against no one because we didn't have Marvel,
Star Wars didn't really have a presence, and besides that,
all the other brands pretty much had established series. So
I do think they won, but they had no one
really up against them, I hear you. But it still
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could have been horribly received, you know the trailers in there,
but instead everyone seemed to get very excited about them.
So yeah, they've they've they've definitely did good, you know,
because they because you're right, DC could have just been
by themselves and still lost the con you know, but
they are constantly talking about they did come out with
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the dope trailers and all you heard about Wish Zam
and Aquaman. I was talking about this earlier, I think,
on Candy Dinner because we were wondering why Marvel isn't
coming out with anything because there isn't a D twenty
three that year, because that's usually why Marvel kind of
holds there reveals, and I came to the conclusion it's
because Marvel can't talk about anything without oiling the next
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Infinity War because if you think about it, we have
one movie than Infinity War. Anything we'd see behind that
is going to kill it. I mean just literally anything,
because every movie you talk about confirms that that person lives.
So to keep with the lore of Infinity War, you can.
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We definitely because they have a three contract deal, three
part of Jolla and Peter Parker. But I feel like
people like I don't want to call him plebs, but
rag folks aren't checking in on that. I still think
even like I don't want to say my mom, but
like I feel we'll say, my older brother, because he
doesn't really follow this stuff. I feel like he at
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least would be like, oh no, wait he that Peter Parker,
that new One only got one film, He's probably going
to get a couple more. I don't even feel like
that's a spoiler. I just feel like that's common math
is those newer characters that they just introduced that made
the millions are probably not getting killed off. But to
move on to a glass was another trailer that dropped
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m Night Shamalan, who I have a little story here.
If he did, I tell you he did? You read
what I wrote next to it? Currently Danny's hotel roommate. Yes, um,
he had the room across from me at Comic Con
and it was funny. Yeah. He Actually one of my
girlfriends was trying to slip. I gave her my badge
so that she could have it for the day because
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I was on these panels off site and she was
trying to stick her badge back under my door and M.
Knight was like so fascinated. He was like, what are
you doing? And I came out in like my gym
clothes with like a bathrobe on, and he had like
the rest of the members of Glass standing right there,
and we all just like didn't go in our room,
so we're all just standing there talking and then they
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asked to take a picture with one of my friends,
and I don't know, it's little things like that. Danielle
Radford said that she was in the elevator with I Forgot,
a famous comic book artist, and she was like, I
just had a I just had like a five minute
conversation with them about comics. And it's like little things
like that when you're at comic con where everyone's kind
of on the same level, everyone's excited about the same things,
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everyone's in the same area. That it's that's also cool
as you you're around some of your favorite creators. Oh,
it's super fun. Glass. I'm super excited about mostly because
I kind of watched Unbreakable bit by bit, like it
definitely wasn't like a movie that I fully ingested until
I saw Split, and then once that connection was made,
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I was like, Oh, I need to go back and
really watch Unbreakable because I like, I'm curious in m
Night Shamalan's superhero universe because it seems very different, very grounded,
and it feels like the most accidental, perfect take of
like superheroes in a real world, and so I'm super excited,
I don't you know, And I feel like these movies
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I thought are his most successful movies. So I'm also
not like worried about the quote unquote history of you know,
his movies, because Unbreakable was amazing, did well. Split was
a surprise smash hit. So now it's going to be
interesting to see him focus in on this. It's great. Yeah,
I'm excited for it as well. I know there are
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so many fans of this franchise and to kind of
see it all come together. Split was a little bit
hard for me. Just this is so fascinating because we
talked about my most dangerous women thing is that whenever
a woman is hurt, just to be hurt. Like people
argue with me about this a lot, but it's Gayle
Simone actually is the one that created the website women
(32:36):
in Fridges, which if you haven't checked it out, please
it'll change how you look at media. It is. It's
originally from Green Lantern when he comes home and finds
his girlfriend has been literally fridge. She's been stuck in
a fridge, killed and stuck in there, and so Gail
made a list of media that either a woman is
(32:57):
murdered or maimed or hurt in some way to further
the story of a man or the character development of
a man. But also just in general, I think a
lot of times, a lot when we talked about this
on the panel, a lot of times filmmakers use rape,
like rape of a woman as her back story, like
that's her character story, that's what made her her. And
I don't always agree with that, and so at times
(33:20):
it's kind of put me at odds with films that
it's been difficult for me to enjoy. And this is
me personally, so I don't need people disagreeing with how
I feel about it. You can feel about it your
own way. But I just know, as a writer and
someone that's been around this media film and television and
screenwriters so much that it is used too often. I
feel like as a that's all I'll say. And so
(33:44):
I mean, I think the equation is there, and it's
pretty simple to figure out that when you have men
writing women, you only have a limited perspective. And so
when you think of like what empowers women, I think
men often don't have the answer because obviously only someone
who was a woman would know what would empower you.
(34:05):
So you're I think it comes also from just the
toxic masculinity of like, if you endure some hardcore pain
or you endure some suffering, you come out stronger. And
then the next part of the equation is what is
the worst thing a woman can endure? And then you
have your plot device for Game of Thrones. Um, yeah, yeah,
(34:28):
you know, like it definitely is that, and I feel like,
you know, it is kind of overused and it is
kind of you know, hard. I mean, there's been dope
films that have found new ways to implement it, like
that on a film that had like this overbearing special
agent Dad that kind of uh, you know trained, like
you can also be trained and stuff. You don't have
to be scrappy because you got like kidnapped and you know,
(34:51):
had all that stuff going. So I definitely know what
you mean. And if for those who are like what
it's because split is literally surrounded. The whole motivation is
this guy has kidnapped these uh all these teenage women
and you find out that that one of them, you know,
one of them was raped by her uncle. Yeah, and
(35:11):
I just I'm like, does that is that necessary for
the story? I guess is my that's the only yeah,
because like literally it's like the you know, like the
the big reveal at the end and the reason like
he doesn't hurt her because she's already been hurt. Yeah. Yeah,
I don't know. I just you know, I respect a
lot of the a lot of filmmakers, and I'm just
(35:32):
saying I see it a lot, and that's all that's
my commentary as a woman. I just see it. I
see it often, and I could talk about other films
where they've done that, and to me, it's like, I understand,
um that you're trying to get a reaction or or
if there's you feel like there's a purpose. Is there
another way? I don't. I feel like we're going to
go so off topic now dealing with this. But I'm done.
I'm done with my my little things. So what I
(35:53):
was gonna say is I'm really excited for for everybody.
It's hard for me at times to enjoy films when
I feel rape is it just used for And I
understand that it happens in real life. I just think
it happens too often in media as a backstory necessary
for women. Anyways, moving on, UM, yeah, we'll just uh
knock out the movie that I'm most excited about, which
(36:15):
is Godzilla, King of Monsters. I love Kaiju, I love
big monsters, and so I'm super excited that we were
introducing more monsters for the King of Monsters to fight.
We get Mathra, We're getting all the bangers, King Guidra. Uh,
you know, who knows. Maybe we'll get a new m
F Doom album, King Guidra album. I don't know. It's
gonna be tight. And of course in the footnotes will
(36:35):
have links to all these trailers if you have yet
to see them. But it's gonna be fun. TV stuff
is gonna be very easy because lots of these trailers
are for already established shows. So if you don't know
black Lightning, pretty much all of the d C TV
shows are getting a season another season. That's what it
was about Iron Fist. They rightfully so didn't push it.
(36:56):
I guess we can slowly touch on the small controversy
they had. Did you hear about that about which one
about Iron Fist? No, let me see a Jeff Lobe
who was a producer on it, and a comic book
writer came out in the karate kid outfit and was
doing like a like offensive kind of white dude doing
karate bit that he was called out for by one
(37:20):
of the actresses, which might have been part of the
bit basically trying to lampoon what everybody hates about Iron
Fist without actually presenting any I don't know solutions to it.
And so that that was something people were buzzing about.
I don't think it had like a huge big outcry
about it, but it was some It was something that happened,
(37:40):
and so just pointing that out, Riverdale getting another season,
Star Trek, Discovery Orville Walking Dead's both of them another season,
better call Sault really excited season four The Gifted. But
the big news was the announcement of a new season
of Star Wars clone Wars, which I thought was done.
You know, people were very excited. Yeah, yeah, and so
(38:01):
so it's gonna be super cool. But I think that
is a sign of DC winning the con because you know,
that news came out. I didn't hear about it till
I was looking at all the wrap ups. So the
fact that the d C trailers and news kind of
shadowed Star Wars. Even though it's one Star Wars announcement,
I think it's pretty big because that it is a
(38:21):
very popular Star Wars animated series. But there were lots
of new shows and then a few toys I want
to talk about, but we'll get to that after these messages.
Welcome back everybody. Okay, So there's a couple of new
shows I want to talk about. There's one that I'm
(38:44):
gonna talk so much about, so let me just run
through the first. So we have the Mayan m C show.
It's basically a spin off of Sunset Anarchy based off
of the character Ezekiel Rays, who was part of the mines.
It's going to follow them. I'm very curious that what
they're gonna do with us, because the whole device, if
you didn't know what Sons of Anarchy was that it
was Hamlet. So that was kind of what made it
(39:06):
so good and cool and interesting. Some very curious, Uh
if the characters they built have the substance to really
carry on a spin off series, or if they're going
to do another like Shakespeare, which I actually think that
would be the most interesting. If they found a way
to make this also follow a classic Shakespearean story. Listen.
(39:28):
I just want you know, I don't know how many,
how much they've already filmed, but I would love to audition.
Just get me, get me in the room. No, but
I I will be watching it. Yeah, they didn't promote
it as much. I did see. I did see though
that they had a big they run it out like
what it was a hotel and like the whole backdrop
(39:50):
of of the hotel was a poster for this, So
it was like several stories long. Yeah. Um, moving on
to Disenchantment, Yeah, it seems like it's going to be
a fan to see based comedy from Matt Growing Uh
of Theis and Futurama. So you know, at first I
was like what because I'm you know, uh, I'm paused
on Matt after that week response to that up who controversy.
(40:13):
I mean you could you can, you could disagree, but
you could also have a better response and than why
you mad? Uh, that's not not that's not gonna pass
anymore because I think think it through. You don't have
to do the change, but you can consider what's being said.
But then I saw who's voicing. We got Abby Jacobson
from Broad City and Eric Entrey and I think I
(40:33):
might be in because those are two of the funniest
people and I'm really excited to you, uh see what
they're gonna cook up. Then after that, we have Roswell
News New Mexico based, you know, basically the Roswell show
that was adapted from the y novel by Melinda Mets
called Roswell High. Uh. It lasted three season. It was
(40:54):
pretty popular, then it went away. They're trying to reboot
and they're going to age up the character and see
and they said they want to tackle tackle modern issues,
so I'll see how you know, uh, police brutality and
uh and all that makes its way into Roswell New
Mexico other than I don't know whatever the kids talking
about whatever those kids on the daily is that guys
(41:15):
talking about however, that's gonna get into that. And then
we have DC Titans. I'm just rushing to get to
hear no no, no, I'm sorry, did I take it
from you? You can no no no, no no no
no you could you can announce if you please you. Um. Yeah,
So the Titans official trailer dropped in very dark, which
they kind of They already warned us that it was
(41:35):
going to be dark, that it was going to be
It's it's fascinating, Like you said that, d C. At
least for the movies Shism and aquamaner using horror directors,
and then for Titans, it definitely opens the whole thing
looks like it could be a horror film. By the
way that it's shot. We already knew that it was
going to be having, you know, more heavy topics and
(41:57):
things that they were going to be dealing with, especially
with the death of Dick's family. So yeah, but we
did not see Robin saying f Batman while murdering multiple assailants,
just totally forgetting the code that Batman has repeatedly forced
upon all his Robbins, and it's funny. Man. People did
(42:20):
not like it. The ratio. I felt bad because the
d C uh it was like DC Titan writer's Twitter
account was like, what do you guys think of the trailer?
That ratio was wild? I think it had like double
digit retweets and like seven hundred plus replies, and people
have been mad about it. I mean, one thing that
(42:41):
I was really kind of annoyed by is like, obviously
I wanted to see how they were going to handle
Beast Boys transformations. We don't see that in the trailer.
People are mad about Starfire actually producing Fire. Not that
big of an issue to me. What's so funny. One
thing that's been genuinely hilarious to me is like a
lot of people are like, uh, the way she's dressed.
(43:02):
She's dressed like a sex workers. Like have you seen
Starfire's design? Also, she looks way more modest than Starfire's design. Like,
so I think that she had to delete some of
her social media because of awful people, right, because because
people were being racist about her because she's black. Just
so everyone knows, Starfires is yellow. She is an alien.
(43:26):
She does not have a race, but somehow, And that's
what I'm talking about what ownership is. Like people will
see an alien and be like, oh, this person is white.
And the first the second thing is a fan art
of Starfire that has her as a white person, like
you see, Like, that is what we talk about in
the kind of unfair ownership of characters. There is a person,
(43:50):
there is an alien and alien who is yellow, and
you've went and told yourself that this person is Caucasian.
And when the creators of the show goes, no, we're
gonna have her played by a purse, a woman of color,
a black woman. You want to be mad and not
only be mad butt her, but write her and be racist,
(44:11):
and then to constantly like, oh, she's dressed like a prostitute. Dude,
her outfit is literally a skirt in the halter top.
So what more modesty do you know she's wearing in
the In the footage that has came out, she is
literally wearing a purple dress that covers her up more
than the purple purple outfit she normally is. Truly, don't
(44:31):
this is? You know, we tackled this before with people
writing Kelly Marie Tran, But I'm just like, she's an actress.
She doesn't control literally anything. She doesn't control her costume,
she doesn't control her lines, she doesn't control any of that,
and so to write her specifically is insane to me.
And I don't know, I'm once again disappointing. So she
(44:54):
I found out she um she disabled her comments on Instagram,
but I wonder if she's still oh this is This
gets even worse because you know it would have been
bad if they're just openly just like because she's black,
apparently the new uh take is that she's not the
right kind of black, that she should be light skinned,
(45:16):
which you know, if if we didn't get enough colorism
as is. It's disgusting and it's funny because stuff like
this will come out, and then when people say DC
fans are the worst, they get so offended, But it's like, look,
if you're offended, then you need to be jumping down
the throats of everybody who does stuff like this. If
you are part of a fan base that is called
the worst fan base, looking at you as well, star Wars.
(45:38):
Every time you see someone saying something racist and horrible,
you need to be adding them because the thing that
gets people saying it isn't even necessarily taking the comment,
the receiving the comments, or the fact that they're saying it,
but to see the retweets and the people agreeing them
and the agreeing with them. So when outsiders are seeing
(45:58):
these like horrible racist things about Kelly Marie Chan or
in this case Starfire, and then they're investigating in there
clicking on it, and there's a whole group of people
just being like yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's what makes
people blame the whole fandom. But if they were to
click on it. This has happened to me before. I
can't put my finger on it, but some racist trash
(46:20):
what's happening? And I was like, oh, this seems like
this is rough, and I click on it and I
see people just tearing this person apart from me to that,
and then you're like, oh, Okay, that's how it should be.
That's how the fandom should be. Yeah, it's like, we
need to check the people within our fandoms because because
it does like it does make us look bad as
a whole, because every time someone says something gross under
(46:43):
the guys of just wanting their show the way they
want it, that that reflects on the whole fandom. Unfortunately. Yeah,
I think it's important to speak I I have before
as as a DC fan because my favorite and most
beloved character in all of superhero history as wonder Woman.
(47:03):
So I am the biggest wonder Woman fan and I
always whenever I speak up, I say d C fans,
we we It still pisces people off. I'm not saying
you you, I'm saying us, we need to chill out. Um.
I can't even say all the things I want to
say because I'll get bleeped on here by our producers.
So but anyways, you know what, one of the good
(47:26):
things that I want to say that happened at Comic
Con was there was a meet up for Rose Tico
for Kelly Marie Marie trans character in uh in Star Wars,
and it was great. So many people came out, people
dressed up like her, people were wearing her shirts, and
they all met together. And she had no idea. I know,
(47:47):
I sent I sent pictures to my friend Chris, whose
friends with her, and um, just because I wanted him
to know that so many people were supporting her. So
that was a really positive, great thing to see and
to see the fandom coming together and be like, no,
we're not gonna let you push out one of our people. Yes. Um.
And it was cool too because it was dope to
see so many Asian Americans kind of able to cost
(48:07):
play us. Heard it's just a dope thing. Uh but yeah,
we are running out of time, but just just off
rip faive toys. The DBC toys broke the Colm very
proud about that, like Danny said earlier, the Broadley uh
and all that, And then they had these teenage mut
Ninja Turtle Necka toys that were based off of the
original movie. Oh I think did Hector. Hector bought them
(48:32):
and the diorama that comes with and it was super cool.
We'll post pictures of that and uh, you know this
is this is gonna be the thing we do after CONS.
So we didn't do one for a X because that
was a mess um but uh but yeah, so if
we go to CONS, we'll be wrapping it up for you.
Who's bees there's anyway? All out of words. I feel
(48:54):
like we both we are. It's so funny because when
the drops, it'll be you know, like, yeah, hopefully will
be recovered. But right now we are still in We're
still trying to adjust. Yeah, but I just real quick,
only one thing to plug. August eleven, I'll be in
Portland's with the White Women Guys. We will be performing
in the Stumptown in profess. If you are out there,
come through, say what's up. It'll be a good time.
(49:16):
And you know you can follow me on if you
wi away on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at miss Danny
Fernandez and thanks to everybody that if you was there
handing out our Nerdificent shirts at the con I forgot
because I packed him in my bag but had to
run around so many places I forgot to hand him out.
So maybe we'll do a giveaway. I think we'll do
a giveaway on our on our Twitter, so definitely follow
us on there if you want to win a shirt,
(49:38):
and if you want to get one of yourself, you can.
We have a merch store at T Public. Yeah and yeah,
be kind to each other, y'all. Okay, life short, be
nice to your fellow nerds. Seriously. Quick shout out to
Zach McKeever and Booth Holding It Down, producer Dan Goodman
Holding It D in new Produce on the On the Deuce.
(49:59):
But yeah, like I said, he gets a fellow nerds,
and uh, stay nerdy. H
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