May 8, 2025 • 57 mins
Remember that feeling of escaping into comic books and Saturday morning cartoons as a kid? Comic-Con is the adult version of that same magic — a place where imagination takes center stage and your inner child can roam free without judgment.
For me, growing up in rougher neighborhoods, I found solace in X-Men comics, Ninja Turtles episodes, and movies that transported me far from reality. Discovering Comic-Con as an adult felt like finally finding a home for that same wonder and enthusiasm.
With Phoenix Fan Fusion (June 6-8) bringing heavyweights like Hayden Christensen, Kevin Smith, and Elijah Wood, and San Diego Comic-Con set to take over July with its can’t-miss reveals, it’s not just about star sightings — it’s about reconnecting with the kid inside who still believes in heroes, villains, and epic storylines.
This episode, we’re diving into how Comic-Con can be that bridge between the nostalgia of our childhood summers and the responsibilities of adult life — and why we need those moments of pure, unfiltered enthusiasm more than ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
If you quick enough, can we taste it now, that shade?
Without a doubt it's thatseason of a cloud, that shade.
You got clout.
Let me hear what it's aboutthat shade.
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Without a doubt it's thatseason of a cloud, that shade.
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I was about to introduce myself,but let me get a sip of my
coffee first, cause this is myshit and I don't care.
Hold on, I made a doubleespresso From an espresso pod.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isThaddeus Shade.
This is Seasonable Clout, andI'm gonna ask for an applause In
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a month.
And the excitement growsbecause in a month Comic-Con
here in Phoenix will be here.
Phoenix Fan Fusion it's whatit's called Phoenix Comic-Con,
and I'm from Kansas City,missouri, of course.
I've talked about it multipletimes in previous episodes.
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Please go listen to them.
I never would have thought thatit would be a point in my life
where I would just be like Ijust love everything about
Comic-Con and feel free enoughjust to love.
When you're from the ghetto,when you're from the projects.
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It's not something that you'rearound a lot.
You're around the crackheads.
You're around a lot.
You know.
You're around the crackheads,you're around the bullets,
You're around the hustlers,you're around the pimps, you're
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around a lot of shit that you'renot supposed to really be
around when you're a wee lad.
But I always found greatcomfort and happiness in
television shows and movies,comic books and and cartoons and
animated series and and and anduh um, just in music, music,
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big time music, head Right.
And so I found a lot of comfortin those things.
All the chaos outside, thoseare the things that I, that I
really, really enjoyed and Iwould zip myself up as I came in
the house.
I was a toy that was freeinside the crib.
When I was in the crib, I wasfree, I was able to get into my
comic books, my X-Men comicbooks.
I was able to watch my X-Men TVseries and Ninja Turtles and
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Batman TV series and NinjaTurtles and Batman, and I would
see my movies Back to the Futureand Teen Wolf and Ninja Turtles
, the movies, power Rangers, themovies.
I was man.
I was able.
When I went outside.
When I went outside, you know,that's a different armor I would
put on, that's a differentfront I would put on.
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You know I was still goofy, butI would have a different armor.
The crackhead would get three,four, you know three, four feet
away from me, you know my eyeswould look a little different.
Let him know that I was a wildtiger in a wild jungle.
You ain't just going to getclose to me.
You know what I'm saying.
When the crackhead was rollingup, nine times he wanted some
crack, but.
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But I was a kid, I didn't haveno crack, but I knew he would do
something for his crack, so Iwould put a wild eye on him.
I put a wild eye on him.
I was a bigger kid.
So you know I had to put alittle air in my chest.
Let him know that I will bite,I will bite, I will bite.
You know what I'm saying.
When you see the D-boy at thegas station with the rims.
Sometimes motherfuckers justtalk crazy.
It don't matter if you're a kid, you gotta, you gotta, hey, hey
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.
It ain't gonna be like that,even if I'm 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, it
ain't gonna be like that.
That I'm gonna call my big bro.
It's one of the two.
It was a violent, violent timein my life.
So you had to just have a bunchof armor on.
But when I got in the crib, gogo Power Rangers.
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And so Comic-Con has always beena thing for me, like, and
something I never knew aboutthat even you know, fucking
existed until I was fucking oldas shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Old as shit is a bit of anexaggeration, but in my twenties
I was like, oh man, what isthis?
What is this Comic-Con thing?
I'm doing music at the time.
What is this Comic-Con thing?
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And how I first got introducedto it, and I'm going to, you
know, talk about Comic-Con inpretty great detail during this
episode.
But when I got introduced to it, a friend of mine and I
probably have mentioned this inprevious episodes, please go
back and listen to them.
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A friend of mine, oh, wait aminute, it's Thaddeus Chase.
He's a book clout, but a friendof mine, yazzie, who just had a
son.
Congratulations If you, if youhear this, congratulations,
yazzie.
A really good human, greathuman.
I told a story about how I wasliving with Craig Visions and a
friend of mine.
Her name is Michelle.
We call it a midget.
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I know it's not technically agreat term.
Now you can't call them midgets, I think it's little people,
but we called it a midget.
I know it's not technically agreat term now you can't call
them midgets, I think it'slittle people, but we called her
midget and we had a spirit inthe place that we was living
when we was roommates.
We had something going on inthere and my boy, yazzie, came
over with the feather and if yougo back and listen to previous
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episodes it's there.
He came with the feather, camein and cleansed the house.
This house is clean.
If you've seen Poltergeist youknow that's right.
This house is clean.
That's what my boy Yazzie did.
But great guy, great human,just had a son.
Yazi's wife at the time invitedme to do security for her at
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WonderCon and I didn't even knowthe name at the time, but she
had told me that she was goingto a Comic-Con and she asked me
to do security for her becauseshe his wife Tensel was in the
movie Twilight, new Moon, bigdeal.
You know what I'm saying.
Have you ever talked to my boyCraig Richards?
He talked about how he was.
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I forgot where he was, but hekept hearing about, you know, a
vampire and werewolf movie thatwas coming out and he goes to it
and it's a big, massive line.
You know how big Twilight was'sa big, massive line.
You know how big twilight was,big, massive line.
But he said he looked and heseen nothing but like moms and
then teenage daughters.
So he thought he was confused,in the wrong spot.
He's like this can't be themovie with werewolves, vampires
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and blood and motherfuckersbeing bit in the neck.
This can't be the movie thatI'm going to go see.
Because he's in in in line witha bunch of moms and a teenage
daughter, like they about to gosee Ellen DeGeneres in standup.
But he was in that line, that'swhat it was.
He didn't know.
But when he got in there and asa guy as a guy who loves vampire
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and werewolf movies werewolvesget played all the time, by the
way, I love them there's amassive disappointment when
you're going in.
You don't know the details ofwhat you're going on.
So if you think you're going into see something like
Underworld, and then you youknow what I'm saying then you go
in and it's more likeUnderworld and then like
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Cinderella, and then you knowwhat I'm saying, like it's very
Disney of the vampire, werewolfworld in that, very especially
in the first one.
Anyway, so she plays Emily inthe New Moon, right, and so that
movie's massive and the booksare massive.
And so she asked me big blackman, can you come do security
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for me?
I was a young guy, I was like 20.
I don't know, I was like 24, 25, 25 or something like that.
You know what I'm saying.
You know I had the guns on me.
You know I had the rockets onmy arms, you know.
So she wanted to Mr Black man,can you come do security for me?
And I'm like, all right, great,this is fantastic.
I'm like cool, can CraigVisions come with me?
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She's like, yeah, I said cool.
So we go out there.
And what a magical time, what atime.
You walk in and you're justimmediately like, oh, this is
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home, it's home for the fun,it's home for the imagination,
it's home for the imagination,it's home for the nerds.
And I think that was the firstone they had did at that time.
Like that's the first WonderCon.
Now WonderCon's been runningnonstop in Anaheim, but that was
the first one they had did.
And the first person we seenwhen we came in is now a
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canceled person, but or a personthat I don't know can we still
use cancel, I'm not for sure,but he had said some shit, that
had got him in some shit, andnow he can't say shit and or do
shit.
And that was TJ Miller.
And we was like, oh, that's TJMiller, you know, um, is that
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think she's out of my league?
Is the movie that I probablyremember them.
We've seen him in other stuff,but that's probably the movie
that I'm thinking of.
At the time I'm not really sure, but we knew who he was.
When we walked through the doorthat was the first person we
had seen and we was like, ohshit.
So you go in and you know, ifyou don't know much about
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Comic-Cons, Comic-Cons iscosplay, so it's people dressing
up as actors or characters frommovies, tv shows, video games.
They come up with their owncostumes and cosplay is a big
thing at these Comic-Cons.
They're really big and peopleput a lot of effort and a lot of
dedication and they're reallygood at it.
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They're really good at it.
You know what I'm saying.
And so if it's your first one,you walk in and you see this,
you're like, oh, this is awesomeBecause you, because all, all,
the All of it is you just free.
Inside of that, you like, ok,this is, this is very Willy
Wonka.
This is the world ofimagination, right, and at the
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time, like I said, new moon ismassive, so she goes.
And when you go to Comic-Con youthere are usually like reality
TV stars, you know, um, you get.
You get from your A-listersfrom your movies to your TV
shows, um, to your B-listersmovies, tv shows, c-listers,
reality TV and then you know youget your guys from your classic
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TV shows.
They could have been, you know,regulars on episodes of famous
TV shows Family Matters, or likeStep by Step, or you know.
And then there's some of thereally bigger names that were in
classic TV shows Family Mattersor like Step by Step, or you
know.
And then there's some of thereally bigger names that were in
classic TV shows from back inthe day, or wrestlers and stuff
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like that.
So you just get all thesepeople in this one building and
it's very nostalgic and you cango from very popular current to
very back in the day in the pastand it's really dope thing.
And so these guys, so theseladies and gentlemen that are
actors and actresses, you knowthat are doing their thing,
they'll set up these booths atthese places and that includes
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artists of comic books, writersof comic books, writers of
movies and TV shows.
They set up these booths andyou can go and you can take
pictures.
You can take pictures, you cantake photos.
You can get both and they do.
And you know they charge thetables how they, you know, make
some money on the Comic-Concircuit.
You know what I'm saying.
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That's how you make.
It's like.
It's like when, when, you know,I known a couple of strippers
in my day.
You know what I'm saying andyou know strippers make their
round.
They got circuits, they like togo.
You can talk to a nice stripper.
You can take a nice stripper toa nice stripper lady.
Her name I give her a name.
Her name is Samantha.
Samantha is a nice stripperlady, she's sweet.
You go hang out with her atcoffee and you take her to the
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coffee place and y'all sittingdown, y'all enjoying coffee, say
, samantha, where you headed to?
Well, I think I'm going to gostrip down in Miami.
I know it changes the moodbecause it's like 10, 30, 11
o'clock in the morning andSamantha says she's just going
down to Miami to strip and thatkind of changes the atmosphere
inside of a coffee cafe placeand you make it feel a little
bit more slutty when you sayyou're going down to Miami to
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strip, but they work the circuitgoing to Vegas, houston, that's
the circuit, that.
But they work the circuit goingto Vegas, houston, that's the
circuit.
That's what they do inComic-Con and I know I just
compared Comic-Con to stripping,but we're going to roll with it
.
Right, ladies and gentlemen, Iam Thaddeus Shea.
This is Season of the Clout man.
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You come right out of a comicbook.
Yes, so they do circuits, theygo to Comic-Cons, they set up
their booths so they make reallygood money.
So that's what Tinsel was doingfor New Moon.
She was setting up a booth to doautographs, photos or both, and
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I was just supposed to be therebecause the movie was that big
and her line was that long.
Her line was that long, like Isaid, just supposed to be there
because the movie was that bigand her line was that long.
Her line was that long, like Isaid, she played the character
Emily in New Moon.
Her line was massive, so theywould take breaks and we walked
around and man, iron Sheik Ican't even think of the actor's
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name.
We seen him.
He played Raphael in NinjaTurtles 2.
And that's a big like.
That's the stuff that I'mtalking about Now.
I don't know your name, my guyand I apologize, but when I seen
him, when we all seen him me,yazzie and Craig when we all
seen him, we had a real reactionbecause it was the actor who
played Raphael in Ninja Turtles2.
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Couldn't even tell you his name, but the excitement was
ridiculous.
It was ridiculous.
And then we walked past theIron Sheik and the Iron Sheik
was like oh, shaquille O'Neal.
He was pointing to me.
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I didn't think it was funny,I'm just playing.
It was funny as hell becauseit's Iron Sheik and he called me
because I looked like ShaquilleO'Dell a little bit.
He said Shaquille O'Dell, hewas just chilling with two other
guys.
He called me Shaquille O'Dell.
It was cool, it was badass.
But Comic-Con is like that.
Phoenix Fan Fusion is June 6thto the 8th and it's at the
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Phoenix Convention Center.
Right Now.
The Mecca is San DiegoComic-Con and they got a whole
documentary on it.
It's a beautiful thing.
It's a beautiful thing.
I never thought that I would getto San Diego Comic-Con.
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Let me tell you something aboutSan Diego Comic-Con.
It's a bucket list thing and ifyou've never been, you got to
go.
If you enter that world, in aworld of imagination, you can
see.
I don't know the words, but ifyou ever get a chance to go, it
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will immediately rip the littlekid out of you and place them
right next to you, on the sideof you, and you would just be
filled with joy immediately asyou go through your.
It's like oh shit, oh shit,this is insane, it is nothing
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like it.
And how it happened went justlike this.
I had came into a little DuckyDuckets and I was like Craig,
you want to go to a Comic-Con inSan Diego, and you know
Comic-Con in San Diego and youknow San Diego Comic-Con tickets
, the badges they fly, thebadges don't last long at all
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and they recommend and at thattime I didn't know no real great
details because I had just camefrom WonderCon.
So I don't know a lot ofdetails about these Comic-Cons
and I, just as a typical nerdshould know, I just did my own
nerd should know, I just did myown research, fam, I did my own
research.
And so when you find out aboutthese things, um, you see the
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badges be gone.
Quick badges.
They got the start you.
Most time it starts fromThursday.
Sometimes I think they're now.
Some of them start tillWednesday.
But Thursday to Sunday you canget all weekend badges, you can
get single day badges, but thatSan Diego Comic-Con badge, that
motherfucker be gone.
In minutes, it be gone.
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So at the time, for my firsttime, I didn't know nothing.
So I was like, man, you want togo to San Diego Comic-Con, I'm
thinking it's going to benothing.
Right, they were sold out onthe website.
I said it's nothing, man,somebody got to be selling.
They got to be selling.
I'm thinking it's tickets.
At the time they got to beselling some tickets.
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Cool, I had seen on Craigslistit was nothing.
You want to get you some cheapdirty pussy?
You go to comp.
You go to craigslist.
You want to get you some comiccon ticket, you go to craigslist
.
Man, you come right out of acomic.
But but, uh, I, we, uh.
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I said, man, we can get ticketson Craigslist, let's just roll
out.
Got a rental Roll out to SanDiego, had to get a hotel that
was probably a good 20 miles, 30miles away from the convention
center down there, because itwas everything was sold out and
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it was expensive.
It was expensive, it wasexpensive.
When I tell you, nigga, it wasexpensive.
The hotel was expensive, Ican't tell you my exact, so this
is how it went.
So I hit the dude up oncraigslist.
We got there on a saturdayearly morning.
He talked to him on craigslist,he, he said, meet me outside.
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So I'm like cool, we're goingto buy some actual tickets.
And you know I'm a littleskeptical on Craigslist.
Anyway, you know what I'msaying.
If you, if you buy a coochiefrom Craigslist, you need to at
least wear three condoms.
I'm just telling you got to besketchy.
So it's Craigslist, right.
Motherfuckers done, gotmurdered from that, motherfucker
, right.
So when we get to the conventioncenter, I'm, you know I'm we
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meet the dude, he white.
You know what I'm saying?
He white, that's all I'm saying.
He white, right.
So I'd be like all right bet,and I can't remember how much it
was, but it wasn't cheap.
It was like a couple hundred,300, 400, you know, for each
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ticket, right.
So I'm like'm like cool, and I'mlooking and it's got his name
on there, right.
And I'm like, hey, hey, listenthis.
So the ability to be black isan impressive thing, right.
When you're already black,there's another level of black
and you can take it there.
Now, whites, white folks, theycan't really.
There's no real intimidationfactor.
You know what I'm saying,unless you around some
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motherfuckers that look likethey from Sons of Anarchy, but
other than that, there's no realintimidation factor.
Black folks have you know, wecan switch it up.
Hey, pal, how you doing.
Or, hey, motherfucker, I'mlooking at this shit.
If you fuck with me, I'm goingto beat this shit.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm going to beat, I'm going toput that foot in that mouth.
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You know what I'm saying.
We can turn it up a lot, right?
So I'm looking at dude and I'mlike this got your name.
This has got somebody's name onit.
He's like dude, it's going tobe cool, bro, you're going to be
good.
Trust me, bro, you're going tobe good man.
I swear to God, you're going tobe good man.
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I said look, this is what we'regoing to do.
My guy's going to go in withone.
We're going to see if he get inNow.
Granted, granted, my job is, ofcourse, to provide intimidation
and to make sure that my moneyis still going to be in my
pocket.
I was putting visions in atough spot because you're taking
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this potential ticket that'sbad for somebody else and you're
going into the danger zone,highway to the danger zone, top
gun.
And he was cool with it becausewe were excited.
It was hundreds and thousandsof people out there and they
were just all around him.
His activity was crazy, so hewas excited to be the guy that
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could potentially, you know, bein trouble.
So I was with it.
I had to be the security of thesituation.
He had to be the test dummy,right?
So we watching me and the dude,me and the white guy, we
watching as vision makes his way, vision gets in.
I said, okay, man, here's themoney.
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He gave me the other badge andwe go in.
Now I don't recommend that atall.
They even tell you on thewebsite don't do that.
I wouldn't do that.
They even sell badges right nowon like what is them?
Even known ticket places, youknow, not like a ticket master,
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but there's like Vivid Seats orsome shit like that, and there's
another one Seat, geek, oranother one like that, but they
sell tickets on there.
And then even Comic-Con, on thewebsite, tells you not to buy
from any other place exceptComic-Con.
And if you chat GPT which I didbecause I really want to go
this year and I still mightgamble it.
We'll figure out how that goes.
But even if you chat GPT, chatGPT is like look, hey, look.
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I know that these reputable,reputable websites are telling
you it's good.
Don't do it, though, because thetickets is like, if they're
like $1,300 a ticket, I can pay$2,600 for these badges I'm
sorry for the badges for allweekend badges and they hidden.
Oh man, they hidden.
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Can you imagine giving amotherfucker $2,600 and then he
get to ride off?
That's insanity, right.
But when we went inside, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh.
Listen, I'm going to give you adescription.
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It's like, it's really like.
How can I put this?
Imagine Whitney Houston singing.
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You can pick whatever song youwant from Whitney Houston's
catalog singing, and then outcomes prime J-Lo and she's
holding your favorite dessert,she's bringing your favorite
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dessert I guess this is from aguy's perspective and then, and
then the knee along, comes outand she's, she's got, she's got
her hands ready, she's going togive you a scalp massage.
And then, the next thing youknow, you get a text and the
text says hey, man, it's fromyour bank, we made a mistake, we
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want to give you $150,000.
I don't even know how all thatshit pops into my head.
But that's what it feels likeyou walk in there, it is joy, it
is absolute joy.
It's a man and when we wentthere was there were they were
doing.
Teen Wolf was there because TeenWolf was a big show at the time
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.
So the Teen Wolf cast was there.
They were coming out at onesection, the whole, the whole
cast was coming out, and thenthe other section, the other big
one that I definitely rememberwas the game of throne cast.
The game of throne was massiveat the time and they were coming
out like the whole squad, thewhole, the whole important squad
from that season was coming out.
So that means tyrian was comingout, john snow, the honorable
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john snow, was coming out andthey had I mean, everybody was
dressed and they had big nameporn stars there.
I mean big name porn stars.
I'm looking at them like lady.
I like you know what I'm saying.
When I was a real teen you werean important part of my life.
Big porn stars.
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You were an important part ofmy life.
Xbox, playstation.
They got these massive setupsthere, massive setups for new
games coming out, showing youdemos of new games, posters of
new games.
The cosplay is insane.
The cosplay contests are insane.
Contest are insane Insanity.
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And you go through and at thetime you don't know nothing.
So I had bought some Batmanshoes yeah, real Batman shoes.
I bought some Batman shoes.
I bought Funko Pops customFunko Pops, funko Pops made
strictly for San Diego Comic-Con.
At the time, like I didn't evenunderstand the whole autograph
thing.
It was so much going on and wewere there for a day.
It was so much going on and somany cool people there that I
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was mind blown.
So, for example, seeing thecast of Game of Thrones come out
and all of a sudden said thispan, like this, this autograph
line, because they got hallsthere, so they got different
halls.
Of course Marvel's like themass, like the, like DC, but
Marvel's the one where they situp there and they tell you about
their whole, what they gotcoming out and you get to see
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trailers.
And I've never been in a halland I've always wanted to go to
a hall.
I've never been in a hall.
A hall is like to me almostHoly Grail-ish.
When you get to sit in a halland you get to see RDJ come out
or Chris Evans come out orwhatever surprise they get, and
you're in a Marvel hall and youget to.
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That's Holy Grail shit, and Ihope I get to experience that if
I take the gamble and, you know, buy the badges.
But the Phoenix fan is reallydope.
I was there last, uh, two yearsago actually, and I got
autographs from um, the guy.
Uh, see, this is horrible.
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Right, I suppose I'm supposedto have these guys' names, but
listen, I'm sorry, I apologize,but uh, um, he played Shredder
in Ninja Turtles 2, I got thepop, I got the uh, um, I got the
pop, I got the autograph.
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I got the photo that's on thetiki-taki.
I got the uh, the pop of.
I had a Leonardo pop with meand then April O'Neil was there,
the lady who played theoriginal April O'Neil from the
movies.
She was super, she was superdope.
I think she was hitting on meand I think I, just to be honest
with y'all because I love y'all, I just want to tell you the
truth.
I think I would have.
I'm sure she's married becauseshe was a sweet, sweet lady.
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Beautiful, beautiful lady, hada crush on you when I was
watching Ninja Turtles, and ifshe would have winked at me
enough or she would have said,hey, do you want to go get a
drink?
I don't even drink.
I think I would have got adrink with April O'Neil Wouldn't
even have called her her actualname, I just would have called
her April O'Neil.
It's inappropriate to say outloud, but I'm saying it out loud
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it's my podcast I got your day.
But she wouldn't even.
She wouldn't even had anoriginal name.
She wouldn't even have a birthname with me.
She would have been calledApril O'Neil.
Yeah, I'm almost for sure that Iwould put that in my will.
I'm almost for sure that ifthat happened, I would write out
like hey, give this to mybrother, give this to my nephew,
oh yeah, make sure these go tomy niece.
And I just want to read this.
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I want my lawyer or whoever'sreading this out loud.
I want them to read this.
There was a time I went toComic-Con in 2023.
I got an autograph from AprilO'Neil.
I got a picture with AprilO'Neil, shed a drink with April
O'Neal, shared a drink withApril O'Neal, made love to April
O'Neal.
Rest in peace me.
That's what.
That's how that would be for me, right?
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That's how I would pop that offof my will.
But it was a really dope timePhoenix.
It seems like they're taking itup a notch.
They got Hayden Christensen.
Now listen, hayden Christensen.
You may not know who that is,but he is Anakin Skywalker.
Anakin Skywalker Now, granted,he is.
He is hated for how heportrayed Anakin Skywalker and
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eventually becomes Darth Vader.
He's hated.
I remember watching his actingand I was like, oh wow, this is,
this is very bad.
They used to make straight tostraight to DVD movies back in
the day, straight to straight toVHS or straight to DVD movies,
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and in the acting in some ofthose movies were impressively
bad and to be such a mega levelmovie like a Phantom uh, star
Wars, phantom Menace andbasically Star Wars one, two and
three, how bad we all thoughtHayden Christensen was.
Now he's coming back and we'resuper excited because we love
that nostalgic feeling of himcoming back and doing Star Wars
work and more of Darth Vaderwork.
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So it's fantastic to see.
It's just he's going to bethere, which, if I'm there, he's
on my list of autographs, butI'm going to tell you my person.
So, kevin Smith, director,writer, actor that's my guy.
Clerks one, two, three, dogma Ican't remember.
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I just watched his last.
I guess it was like his, likehis most personal movie, but I
was.
It's like Movie starts at threeor something like that.
It was a fantastic movie.
It was like a summer movieComing out of age movie.
Fun movie Came out what Lastyear?
I think Kevin Smith the greatKevin Smith Is going to be there
the great Elijah Wood Nowlisten, elijah Wood, I have to
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get a photo and an autograph.
I'm willing to spend big moneyBecause the time I went, barry
Allen was there and I thinkBarry Allen was taxing $150.
I think he wanted $150 for thewhole shebam.
The whole shebam is autographand photo.
That's a whole shebazabam.
Right, elijah Wood is there.
I'm sorry, he gonna get myducats.
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Next in line is Charlie Cox.
That's daredevil, he gonna getmy ducats.
You understand what I'm saying.
They got some really big namescoming there, and that's just to
name a few.
Rainn Wilson will be there too.
That's just to name a few.
Rainn Wilson will be there too.
That's just to name a few.
But Comic-Con June 6th, 8th,phoenix, fan Fusion and then San
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Diego Comic-Con is July 24ththrough the 27th.
They got the Marvel Studioreveals, they got exclusive
trailers and big panels.
Man, it's just going to be somany dope things at San Diego
Comic-Con, that I'm reallyconsidering spending a huge
amount of money to go there, andall that stuff is all about
nostalgia and I live in thatbecause I low-key live in it
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because it really does help meappreciate the present and the
future, trying to find thosethings that I will think about
and enjoy in the next 10 years,just like that's why I love the
whole MCU and how they're tryingto recover which will probably
be an impossible thing to do togive you that feeling of this
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billion dollar soap opera whereeverything connected, everything
had something to do withsomething, and then they give
you this massive payoff, whichis really going to be really,
really, really hard for them todo.
But I appreciate the attempt DCnever pulled that off but I
appreciate Marvel's attempt andI live in this dodgy world and I
was thinking.
I was really, really, reallythinking, because summer is.
You know, when you're down inPhoenix, summer is a different
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type of summer.
When you down in Phoenix,summer is a different type of
summer.
And I was just thinking man,it's a difference.
Summer, I'm dying, ladies andgentlemen, oh shit, when you
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choking and then Fuck.
When you choke it and then Fuck.
Y'all hear everything, don'ty'all.
But there's a difference insummer then and now, when I was
a kid.
Worlds of fun, oceans of fun inKansas City, missouri oh man,
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that was a dream to go therewhen I was a kid.
The drive-in theater, 85degrees humidity, the drive-in
theater that was a fucking treatto go to.
I can't even skate, but I wentskating roller skating I can't
even skate, I'll bust my ass,I'll bust.
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Listen, I'm a very coordinatedperson.
But I'll bust my ass.
Roller skating but I went.
That's where the girls was at.
Can't swim, went to publicpools man Can't swim for shit.
Arcades I lived in the arcades.
Mortal Kombat, street Fighter Ilived in them.
Anytime.
Fight I lived in them.
Anytime I got a chance to go, Iwould go.
It was different.
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I was outside, it was hot, Iwould drink from the water hose.
It was a different type and youdon't have an appreciation
until you get older, right?
Summer then was summer movies.
I was out from school.
I had no business watchingJerry Springer.
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That's when I found my love forJerry Springer just sitting at
the crib, just sitting at thecrib.
Dun dun, da, dun, dun, dun, da,dun, dun, dun, da, dun, dun,
dun, da dun.
Wheel of Fortune.
I had no business, but I waswatching it eating a bowl of
cereal and I mean a giganticbowl of cereal.
Food stamps to buy you somecereal.
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I was eating a gigantic bowl ofcereal.
Summertime, you could smellsummer.
May hit May, because there wasa point we wasn't getting out
until like June 1st, the firstweek of June.
There was a time when I waslike 10, 12, 13, 14 was June, I
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think, if I'm correct and mybowl of cereal game was
ridiculous.
But I learned about so muchdaytime there would be times
that I'd be so bored In May youcould just smell summer.
So there'd be times where youjust started getting lazier and
lazier and the teachers theteachers really didn't give a
fuck.
Anytime it was May, they waslooking down the counter like is
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there any way I can make thesemotherfuckers watch a movie?
And I just talked about thesqueaky, squeak, squeak, squeak,
squeak, squeak.
They roll that TV in and mayyou could smell summer.
I ain't doing, I ain't doingnothing, but I'd be at home soon
as summer was done.
I'd be at home.
You have to wait a little bit,because when you first hit
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summer you was out.
You'd be moving and shaking.
Wait a little bit, because whenyou first hit summer you was
out, you'd be moving and shakingand as the blaze really kicked
in with that humidity, back homeyou'd be a little bit more in
the house before you really getoutside.
But during the day, my mom's atwork oh man, I was seeing shit
I wasn't supposed to be seeing.
I was watching shit I wasn'tsupposed to be watching Will of
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Fortune, plinko, bob Bark, jerry, what, what, going to Sneak it
in the pools.
That was closed.
Man, I was a menace.
Summertime then, then, as I gotolder, I was driving at 16.
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I was going to see American Pie, all these movies that made you
enjoy your teenhood a lot more.
Sneaking in the theaters,fucking shit up for no reason.
Summer was different.
Now you able to go mall.
You drive into the mall and thegirl oh my God, it was
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different.
Now, now I got checklist shitfor summer.
Got checklist, I'll be like allright man.
I got to buy some more shortsbecause it's going to be hot and
I can't have my balls hot andthey be sweating.
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And I got to make sure my ACcharged up and got to watch how
I use the AC because I don'twant to have the AC bill.
And then I get to that, as I'mwriting it down, I get to that
part and I'm like I'm lying, Iain't want to have the AC bill.
And then I get to that, as I'mwriting it down, I get to that
part and I'm like I'm lying, Iain't about to be hot in this
motherfucker.
I'm about to run thatmotherfucker to the ground Down
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here in Phoenix.
You run it into the ground.
You run it into the ground as akid, as a kid to a teen.
You wanted me to go out duringthe day.
I was with it.
95 degrees humidity, I would gooutside.
I would do shit.
I would get in the car anddrive if I had to.
Our AC barely worked in our car, but I would run it.
I'd go anywhere.
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Now, if you ask me To dosomething during the day, shit
down here.
In the evening time, I'm notdoing it.
You gotta wait till 8.39o'clock to ask me to do
something.
Hey, man, I gotta go to thehospital.
I got an appointment with mydoctor.
Man, you able to take me there?
Oh, yeah, man, what's up?
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When's the appointment?
One o'clock in the morning?
No, in the evening I will Applepay you money for the Uber
because shade ain't moving,shade don't move, shade and your
car can have the frostiest ofAC.
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But it feels like the summerhere.
Your AC and the heat get intoan epic battle from windshield
to inside and the heat is like Ican beat you.
And my AC is like nah man, I'mbuilt for this.
This is what I'm here for.
He filled up a tank just forthis.
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He charged up his car just forthis.
I am here to defeat you.
The heat is like nah man, youdon't know me.
I've been around for a billionyears and I know how to really
cook a motherfucker.
And the sun is really beamingdown and the heat is fighting
this big clash of battle inside.
And if you're moving too muchin your car, you're like man, I
think I'm still sweating alittle bit.
And then your right side,you're like I'm cool over here,
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my nipple hard.
And then your left side likenah man, my titty's sweating and
then my underarms are sweatingand shit.
So it's a fucking giant battle.
I don't like to move now thatI'm old.
During the summer it don't havethe same feeling.
You say, oh man, summer comingaround.
I'm like, oh yeah, I know Nowit's like you think about May.
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You're like, okay, I'm going,I'm not even I'm going to
Phoenix Comic Con and I have tomake it from the car to the
convention center because that'sJune.
So that time that's 110 easy,right, at least 106 easy.
So that travel between car toconvention center is just blaze.
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It's just blaze.
As I got older I lost my thingfor summer and I hate that.
I really do Now.
My summer movies is still mything.
And now I'm more particular.
Like I go to San Diego for thefireworks for the fourth, go to
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mission beach, watch somefireworks.
I'm more intentional, but I dotry to hunt for things.
Maybe I can't, it's justdifferent.
I was relentless when I wasyoung.
When it's summertime I smelledit, I inhaled it.
Now I got checklist.
Now I got checklist.
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I go to the store late night toavoid the sun.
I am a vampire.
To avoid the sun, I'll be.
That's why it hurts down herethat Walmart is no more 24 hours
, because I would go at midnight, because that's the coolest
time you're going to get downhere.
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Man, I would hear an ice creamtruck.
I hear an ice cream truck nowand think woo you serving ice
cream at this time.
It's hotter than a motherfucker.
When I was a kid I hear the icecream truck Shit, I'm trying to
get two, three dollars.
Can I get two, three dollars,mom?
I'm trying to go out to the icecream truck.
And you would get to the icecream truck and the ice cream
truck man.
He'd have nothing but ShaquilleO'Neal, fourth quarter sweat,
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coming down his face selling icecream to kids in the ghetto who
it looked like they literallywas in a drive-by with super
soakers.
Just because you was runningoutside from front porch to
street to meet sweaty ice creamdealer and that sun and blaze
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was all there, but you didn'tcare because you heard Ice Cream
man, you're like, oh man, iceCream man coming and you just
run outside.
Man, I thrived at an arcade whenI was a kid.
So when I see them now Iabsolutely be like, oh, that's
so dope.
I see a small arcade, I seearcades and I'm like that's
really dope.
And so I always am looking forthings that I can truly try to.
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I can look back 10 years fromnow you know 20 years and be
like man.
I really enjoy doing thosethings Because I don't like.
That's why I love going, beinginvolved in movies and talking
about movies, going toDisneyland, california Ventures
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planning to go to Disney World.
I try to live in all that tomake sure I don't never lose my
kid the kid in me, because I dothink about those things.
I watch a lot of coming-of-agemovies because they do make you
think about what it was like.
Think about what it was like,and they should challenge you to
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try to find those things thatmake you feel like that as you
get older.
I feel like joy does so much forthe human mind.
Finding joy, finding things youcan keep with you from
childhood and bring with you inyour AAA, your AA RP days are
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dope and then using that sameenergy to find more things that
you really enjoy to take withyou further into life, which is,
which is something that Ireally try to do every day.
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You know, hell shit, I gotcomfort shows do every day.
You know hell shit, I gotcomfort shows out to Wu Hai.
I barely sleep because you know.
You know what the gig is.
I sleep, I work through thenights and I don't get home till
late night.
So I got comfort shows like amotherfucker so I can eventually
fall asleep in nostalgicmoments and hoping to find those
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same things as I get, continuemy age-growing days.
But I tell you what.
There was one thing we used todo and I'm going to finish up
because I want to talk aboutsome of the attire that comes to
the club but we used to dostreet football when I was a kid
in the summer.
This won't take long.
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Do you understand what I'mtelling you?
Street football, do youunderstand what I'm saying?
There would be times when wejust throw the football Up in
the air To the other side of thestreet, the person's supposed
to catch it and you're supposedto run past and beat the person
Pretty much to the other side ofthe street.
The person was supposed tocatch it and he was supposed to
run past and beat the personpretty much to the end zone In
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the street.
Cars, parked, concrete, allitems that cannot be defeated,
all things that cannot bedefeated pavement, concrete,
cars and we would tackle eachother.
What the fuck To go along withthat?
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The pavement was sizzling, itwas sizzling and we would still
do it.
No man, summer versus dinner nowis so different for me.
It's more of like when summercomes around now I'm just kind
of like I'm going to see if Ican take me a trip somewhere.
That's really what it's about.
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When I was a kid, I'd travelaround the neighborhood,
different parts of the city.
We'd walk far, take Metro, bus,you know, bike wherever we
could.
It was nonstop.
I miss it and I love it.
It ain't like I don't love whatI do now, because I keep it
simple.
That's the great thing aboutadulthood.
You got some money.
Now you just make your tripsimple, buy a plane ticket and
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go somewhere.
Now my last thing so I canfinish up this episode.
So I can't.
This might have been a Friday.
We had somebody.
Was that when we had Bad Baby?
No, because it was Filthy Pack.
When we had Bad Baby there, itwas Filthy Pack.
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Or was it when we had ChickenPee?
Yeah, I know the name ChickenPee's Wild.
But this young lady.
I'm walking in to 1111nightclub.
I'm walking up and she's inline about to come in and I look
back, right, I look back tolook at the attire that this
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young lady is wearing.
The attire that this young ladyis wearing is straight stripper
attire.
Now, listen, I'm not.
You know, you see a lot ofsee-through stuff.
Listen, I'm around the younginsall weekend, you see a lot of
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see-through stuff.
You know there's a lot ofoutfits where you're like, oh
okay, all right, that'sinteresting.
Oh I of outfits where you like,oh okay, all right, that's
interesting.
Oh, I didn't see that coming.
Oh man, I didn't know you weregoing to wear that.
Um, but this one was reallyshocking, Cause I think you get
caught in trying not especiallymy boy, corey.
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I think he was trying to getcaught and trying not to like,
like discriminate on what shewas wearing, but it was just
super, super small top andstraight stripper thong, so
that's it.
She had like a jacket on, butthat was it.
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And I mean that I'm not lyingto you in some heels, that was
it.
And I mean that I'm not lyingto you in some heels.
So you get caught in trying notto like.
So you want people to expressthemselves and have the type of
clothing they want to rock, butso I don't think he initially
knew what to do, because whowould think that you would come
up wearing that?
I mean, I'm telling y'all, I'mtelling y'all, this was Magic
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City shit.
And I ain't never been to MagicCity.
I don't really go to strip clubs.
I'm very outbundied when itcomes to strip clubs.
I feel like I can just turn onShowgirls or whatever the movie
J-Lo was in.
I can throw my money at the TVwith it being taped to a string
and then I can just reel mymoney back to myself.
But she was in straightstripper attire.
This was this very players clubstripper attire and she was very
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confident, which is coolbecause I love to come.
You can just I'm confident, andthen I'm wearing absolute
stripper attire to the nightclub.
Look at me, I am confidentwoman and and you see the guys
in line and some of the guyslooking up at the sign and said,
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damn, is this Jaguars?
They're looking up.
They said, nah, man, this isthe club, right.
And one dude was like nah, thisain't the club, this is a strip
club.
He started reaching his pocketsNah, man, this ain't the top
party, man, it's the nightclub,you ain't throwing no money at
the lady walking by to get inthe line.
But that's what the attire was.
So she actually, my boy actuallylet her in, right.
And I think, like I said, hewas really conflicted on trying
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to be solid as far as, like, I'mnot trying to hate on your
clothes.
But this is really unacceptable.
And he was like I don't want tobe looked at a certain way that
I didn't let you in.
So he did, and what happenedwas she's able to come in.
So I'm inside the club andshe's walking in the club and
the whole staff and everybody'sin the club looking like this is
serious.
So then next thing, you know,when the security guards from
the outside come in to grab her,because I think he had realized
this is just unacceptable.
You can't have half a titty andanother titty covered out.
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It just it ain't gonna work.
But she was really wearingnothing.
I'm telling y'all you'd, you'dhave seen and you know you can't
, you don't want to record.
Somebody probably got it oncamera, but I didn't record it.
But it was nothing.
And she just came out in it andand it really confused my boy
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she came in.
Everybody's staff was like waita minute, ain't no?
Hooray, hooray, hoochamal.
You look in and you're justreally thrown off by the tire.
And I've seen a lot of wild,wild attire before.
That was top three, because Ijust had never there was.
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So you see, the front iscovered, but it's just nothing
with that.
It was nothing but ass cheeks.
In the back.
There was nothing covering upan ass cheek, it was just.
You knew that there wassomething connected in the front
but you didn't see it becausethe ass cheeks was eating it.
And then the top was just like.
The top was enough that if youcut in between it'd be enough to
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make a pirate's eye patch man.
You come right out of a comicbook, you cut right in the
middle of the top man, and youcould just automatically tie it
and then you can get hooked.
You get a pirate, you can getJack Sparrow.
I don't think Jack Sparrow, butyou know what I'm saying.
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It's a pirate's patch.
One-eyed Willie from theGoonies.
It was incredible to see.
It was incredible to see.
I've seen motherfuckers come infull Prince slash, michael
Jackson outfits.
Like, literally like if yousprayed armor all on the outfit,
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we would all be blinded by thegloss of the outfit.
I've seen some wild stuff withthe nightclub, but that outfit I
just seen.
So do me a favor, do me a favorwhen you're about to come to
the nightclub, when you're aboutto come to 1111,.
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I want you to hold up thethread.
The outfit that you're about towear, ladies, and I want you to
ask yourself a simple questionwhen I put this on, when I put
this on, will I get one thrownat me?
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Will the song pour some sugaron me?
Come on, will there magicallybe a pole that pops up and a DJ
saying, come into the stage,sapphire, sapphire, and it's the
echo Sapphire.
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If you feel like that mighthappen, maybe you don't have to,
but just maybe Don't put it on.
Don't put it on.
I'm just playing.
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Part of me want to see thatshit.
You can put it on, man, I'lljust play it.
I'll just playing Part of mewant to see that shit.
You can put it on, man, I'lljust play it.
I'll just talk shit.
Put that thing on, man.
Come on out in that thing.
Now, listen here.
You put that thing on if youwant.
I'll be kicked back.
I'll be like ooh shit, she badto the motherfuckers.
You put that thing on.
You may not get into the venue,but I'm going to appreciate it.
I appreciate your confidence.
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You may not get into the venue,but I appreciate your
confidence.
You go, girl.
I appreciate your confidence,but I'm sure you hear that old
man.
I'm going to sit back and I'mgoing to enjoy that.
Pour some sugar on me, what youtalking about Pour.
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Anyway, phoenix Fan Fusion isJune 6th through the 8th at the
Phoenix Convention Center.
I hope to see y'all there.
I am going to definitely bethere and I'm going to have a
great freaking time.
And in San Diego, comic-con isJuly 24th through the 27th.
Those badges are all sold outbut, like you said, you like I
said you might look up and youmight hear me doing an episode
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of how I went out there and Ispent two grand to go all three
nights.
I spent two grand to go allthree nights.
I'm hugging a celebrity, anA-list celebrity.
I'm gonna hug one, two grandthree nights.
I'm gonna hug a celebrity, anA-list celebrity.
I'm going to hug one, two grandthree nights.
I'm going to hug a celebritythere and I'm too big to not go
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to jail for it, but I'm going tohug a celebrity for it.
This is Seasonable Cloud.
I am Thaddeus Shade.
I appreciate everybody forlistening.
Please share like and I have.
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I put up a recap of well, I putup a matchup preview of the
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I'm doing one here just shortlyafter this for game two.
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That'll be up.
Um, I'm also looking at thetrailer of together the horror
movie, the trailer for umconjuring, the final conjuring,
just dropped today.
I'll be doing a breakdown onthat so those videos actually be
up.
This will be straight audio, um, but those videos will be up on
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my YouTube.
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I was about to introduce myself,but let me get a sip of my
coffee first, cause this is myshit and I don't care.
Hold on, I made a doubleespresso From an espresso pod.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isThaddeus Shade.
This is Seasonable Clout, andI'm gonna ask for an applause In
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a month.
And the excitement growsbecause in a month Comic-Con
here in Phoenix will be here.
Phoenix Fan Fusion it's whatit's called Phoenix Comic-Con,
and I'm from Kansas City,missouri, of course.
I've talked about it multipletimes in previous episodes.
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Please go listen to them.
I never would have thought thatit would be a point in my life
where I would just be like Ijust love everything about
Comic-Con and feel free enoughjust to love.
When you're from the ghetto,when you're from the projects.
(01:55):
It's not something that you'rearound a lot.
You're around the crackheads.
You're around a lot.
You know.
You're around the crackheads,you're around the bullets,
You're around the hustlers,you're around the pimps, you're
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around a lot of shit that you'renot supposed to really be
around when you're a wee lad.
But I always found greatcomfort and happiness in
television shows and movies,comic books and and cartoons and
animated series and and and anduh um, just in music, music,
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big time music, head Right.
And so I found a lot of comfortin those things.
All the chaos outside, thoseare the things that I, that I
really, really enjoyed and Iwould zip myself up as I came in
the house.
I was a toy that was freeinside the crib.
When I was in the crib, I wasfree, I was able to get into my
comic books, my X-Men comicbooks.
I was able to watch my X-Men TVseries and Ninja Turtles and
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Batman TV series and NinjaTurtles and Batman, and I would
see my movies Back to the Futureand Teen Wolf and Ninja Turtles
, the movies, power Rangers, themovies.
I was man.
I was able.
When I went outside.
When I went outside, you know,that's a different armor I would
put on, that's a differentfront I would put on.
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You know I was still goofy, butI would have a different armor.
The crackhead would get three,four, you know three, four feet
away from me, you know my eyeswould look a little different.
Let him know that I was a wildtiger in a wild jungle.
You ain't just going to getclose to me.
You know what I'm saying.
When the crackhead was rollingup, nine times he wanted some
crack, but.
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But I was a kid, I didn't haveno crack, but I knew he would do
something for his crack, so Iwould put a wild eye on him.
I put a wild eye on him.
I was a bigger kid.
So you know I had to put alittle air in my chest.
Let him know that I will bite,I will bite, I will bite.
You know what I'm saying.
When you see the D-boy at thegas station with the rims.
Sometimes motherfuckers justtalk crazy.
It don't matter if you're a kid, you gotta, you gotta, hey, hey
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.
It ain't gonna be like that,even if I'm 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, it
ain't gonna be like that.
That I'm gonna call my big bro.
It's one of the two.
It was a violent, violent timein my life.
So you had to just have a bunchof armor on.
But when I got in the crib, gogo Power Rangers.
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And so Comic-Con has always beena thing for me, like, and
something I never knew aboutthat even you know, fucking
existed until I was fucking oldas shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Old as shit is a bit of anexaggeration, but in my twenties
I was like, oh man, what isthis?
What is this Comic-Con thing?
I'm doing music at the time.
What is this Comic-Con thing?
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And how I first got introducedto it, and I'm going to, you
know, talk about Comic-Con inpretty great detail during this
episode.
But when I got introduced to it, a friend of mine and I
probably have mentioned this inprevious episodes, please go
back and listen to them.
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A friend of mine, oh, wait aminute, it's Thaddeus Chase.
He's a book clout, but a friendof mine, yazzie, who just had a
son.
Congratulations If you, if youhear this, congratulations,
yazzie.
A really good human, greathuman.
I told a story about how I wasliving with Craig Visions and a
friend of mine.
Her name is Michelle.
We call it a midget.
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I know it's not technically agreat term.
Now you can't call them midgets, I think it's little people,
but we called it a midget.
I know it's not technically agreat term now you can't call
them midgets, I think it'slittle people, but we called her
midget and we had a spirit inthe place that we was living
when we was roommates.
We had something going on inthere and my boy, yazzie, came
over with the feather and if yougo back and listen to previous
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episodes it's there.
He came with the feather, camein and cleansed the house.
This house is clean.
If you've seen Poltergeist youknow that's right.
This house is clean.
That's what my boy Yazzie did.
But great guy, great human,just had a son.
Yazi's wife at the time invitedme to do security for her at
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WonderCon and I didn't even knowthe name at the time, but she
had told me that she was goingto a Comic-Con and she asked me
to do security for her becauseshe his wife Tensel was in the
movie Twilight, new Moon, bigdeal.
You know what I'm saying.
Have you ever talked to my boyCraig Richards?
He talked about how he was.
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I forgot where he was, but hekept hearing about, you know, a
vampire and werewolf movie thatwas coming out and he goes to it
and it's a big, massive line.
You know how big Twilight was'sa big, massive line.
You know how big twilight was,big, massive line.
But he said he looked and heseen nothing but like moms and
then teenage daughters.
So he thought he was confused,in the wrong spot.
He's like this can't be themovie with werewolves, vampires
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and blood and motherfuckersbeing bit in the neck.
This can't be the movie thatI'm going to go see.
Because he's in in in line witha bunch of moms and a teenage
daughter, like they about to gosee Ellen DeGeneres in standup.
But he was in that line, that'swhat it was.
He didn't know.
But when he got in there and asa guy as a guy who loves vampire
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and werewolf movies werewolvesget played all the time, by the
way, I love them there's amassive disappointment when
you're going in.
You don't know the details ofwhat you're going on.
So if you think you're going into see something like
Underworld, and then you youknow what I'm saying then you go
in and it's more likeUnderworld and then like
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Cinderella, and then you knowwhat I'm saying, like it's very
Disney of the vampire, werewolfworld in that, very especially
in the first one.
Anyway, so she plays Emily inthe New Moon, right, and so that
movie's massive and the booksare massive.
And so she asked me big blackman, can you come do security
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for me?
I was a young guy, I was like 20.
I don't know, I was like 24, 25, 25 or something like that.
You know what I'm saying.
You know I had the guns on me.
You know I had the rockets onmy arms, you know.
So she wanted to Mr Black man,can you come do security for me?
And I'm like, all right, great,this is fantastic.
I'm like cool, can CraigVisions come with me?
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She's like, yeah, I said cool.
So we go out there.
And what a magical time, what atime.
You walk in and you're justimmediately like, oh, this is
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home, it's home for the fun,it's home for the imagination,
it's home for the imagination,it's home for the nerds.
And I think that was the firstone they had did at that time.
Like that's the first WonderCon.
Now WonderCon's been runningnonstop in Anaheim, but that was
the first one they had did.
And the first person we seenwhen we came in is now a
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canceled person, but or a personthat I don't know can we still
use cancel, I'm not for sure,but he had said some shit, that
had got him in some shit, andnow he can't say shit and or do
shit.
And that was TJ Miller.
And we was like, oh, that's TJMiller, you know, um, is that
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think she's out of my league?
Is the movie that I probablyremember them.
We've seen him in other stuff,but that's probably the movie
that I'm thinking of.
At the time I'm not really sure, but we knew who he was.
When we walked through the doorthat was the first person we
had seen and we was like, ohshit.
So you go in and you know, ifyou don't know much about
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Comic-Cons, Comic-Cons iscosplay, so it's people dressing
up as actors or characters frommovies, tv shows, video games.
They come up with their owncostumes and cosplay is a big
thing at these Comic-Cons.
They're really big and peopleput a lot of effort and a lot of
dedication and they're reallygood at it.
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They're really good at it.
You know what I'm saying.
And so if it's your first one,you walk in and you see this,
you're like, oh, this is awesomeBecause you, because all, all,
the All of it is you just free.
Inside of that, you like, ok,this is, this is very Willy
Wonka.
This is the world ofimagination, right, and at the
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time, like I said, new moon ismassive, so she goes.
And when you go to Comic-Con youthere are usually like reality
TV stars, you know, um, you get.
You get from your A-listersfrom your movies to your TV
shows, um, to your B-listersmovies, tv shows, c-listers,
reality TV and then you know youget your guys from your classic
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TV shows.
They could have been, you know,regulars on episodes of famous
TV shows Family Matters, or likeStep by Step, or you know.
And then there's some of thereally bigger names that were in
classic TV shows Family Mattersor like Step by Step, or you
know.
And then there's some of thereally bigger names that were in
classic TV shows from back inthe day, or wrestlers and stuff
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like that.
So you just get all thesepeople in this one building and
it's very nostalgic and you cango from very popular current to
very back in the day in the pastand it's really dope thing.
And so these guys, so theseladies and gentlemen that are
actors and actresses, you knowthat are doing their thing,
they'll set up these booths atthese places and that includes
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artists of comic books, writersof comic books, writers of
movies and TV shows.
They set up these booths andyou can go and you can take
pictures.
You can take pictures, you cantake photos.
You can get both and they do.
And you know they charge thetables how they, you know, make
some money on the Comic-Concircuit.
You know what I'm saying.
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That's how you make.
It's like.
It's like when, when, you know,I known a couple of strippers
in my day.
You know what I'm saying andyou know strippers make their
round.
They got circuits, they like togo.
You can talk to a nice stripper.
You can take a nice stripper toa nice stripper lady.
Her name I give her a name.
Her name is Samantha.
Samantha is a nice stripperlady, she's sweet.
You go hang out with her atcoffee and you take her to the
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coffee place and y'all sittingdown, y'all enjoying coffee, say
, samantha, where you headed to?
Well, I think I'm going to gostrip down in Miami.
I know it changes the moodbecause it's like 10, 30, 11
o'clock in the morning andSamantha says she's just going
down to Miami to strip and thatkind of changes the atmosphere
inside of a coffee cafe placeand you make it feel a little
bit more slutty when you sayyou're going down to Miami to
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strip, but they work the circuitgoing to Vegas, houston, that's
the circuit, that.
But they work the circuit goingto Vegas, houston, that's the
circuit.
That's what they do inComic-Con and I know I just
compared Comic-Con to stripping,but we're going to roll with it
.
Right, ladies and gentlemen, Iam Thaddeus Shea.
This is Season of the Clout man.
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You come right out of a comicbook.
Yes, so they do circuits, theygo to Comic-Cons, they set up
their booths so they make reallygood money.
So that's what Tinsel was doingfor New Moon.
She was setting up a booth to doautographs, photos or both, and
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I was just supposed to be therebecause the movie was that big
and her line was that long.
Her line was that long, like Isaid, just supposed to be there
because the movie was that bigand her line was that long.
Her line was that long, like Isaid, she played the character
Emily in New Moon.
Her line was massive, so theywould take breaks and we walked
around and man, iron Sheik Ican't even think of the actor's
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name.
We seen him.
He played Raphael in NinjaTurtles 2.
And that's a big like.
That's the stuff that I'mtalking about Now.
I don't know your name, my guyand I apologize, but when I seen
him, when we all seen him me,yazzie and Craig when we all
seen him, we had a real reactionbecause it was the actor who
played Raphael in Ninja Turtles2.
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Couldn't even tell you his name, but the excitement was
ridiculous.
It was ridiculous.
And then we walked past theIron Sheik and the Iron Sheik
was like oh, shaquille O'Neal.
He was pointing to me.
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I didn't think it was funny,I'm just playing.
It was funny as hell becauseit's Iron Sheik and he called me
because I looked like ShaquilleO'Dell a little bit.
He said Shaquille O'Dell, hewas just chilling with two other
guys.
He called me Shaquille O'Dell.
It was cool, it was badass.
But Comic-Con is like that.
Phoenix Fan Fusion is June 6thto the 8th and it's at the
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Phoenix Convention Center.
Right Now.
The Mecca is San DiegoComic-Con and they got a whole
documentary on it.
It's a beautiful thing.
It's a beautiful thing.
I never thought that I would getto San Diego Comic-Con.
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Let me tell you something aboutSan Diego Comic-Con.
It's a bucket list thing and ifyou've never been, you got to
go.
If you enter that world, in aworld of imagination, you can
see.
I don't know the words, but ifyou ever get a chance to go, it
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will immediately rip the littlekid out of you and place them
right next to you, on the sideof you, and you would just be
filled with joy immediately asyou go through your.
It's like oh shit, oh shit,this is insane, it is nothing
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like it.
And how it happened went justlike this.
I had came into a little DuckyDuckets and I was like Craig,
you want to go to a Comic-Con inSan Diego, and you know
Comic-Con in San Diego and youknow San Diego Comic-Con tickets
, the badges they fly, thebadges don't last long at all
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and they recommend and at thattime I didn't know no real great
details because I had just camefrom WonderCon.
So I don't know a lot ofdetails about these Comic-Cons
and I, just as a typical nerdshould know, I just did my own
nerd should know, I just did myown research, fam, I did my own
research.
And so when you find out aboutthese things, um, you see the
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badges be gone.
Quick badges.
They got the start you.
Most time it starts fromThursday.
Sometimes I think they're now.
Some of them start tillWednesday.
But Thursday to Sunday you canget all weekend badges, you can
get single day badges, but thatSan Diego Comic-Con badge, that
motherfucker be gone.
In minutes, it be gone.
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So at the time, for my firsttime, I didn't know nothing.
So I was like, man, you want togo to San Diego Comic-Con, I'm
thinking it's going to benothing.
Right, they were sold out onthe website.
I said it's nothing, man,somebody got to be selling.
They got to be selling.
I'm thinking it's tickets.
At the time they got to beselling some tickets.
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Cool, I had seen on Craigslistit was nothing.
You want to get you some cheapdirty pussy?
You go to comp.
You go to craigslist.
You want to get you some comiccon ticket, you go to craigslist
.
Man, you come right out of acomic.
But but, uh, I, we, uh.
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I said, man, we can get ticketson Craigslist, let's just roll
out.
Got a rental Roll out to SanDiego, had to get a hotel that
was probably a good 20 miles, 30miles away from the convention
center down there, because itwas everything was sold out and
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it was expensive.
It was expensive, it wasexpensive.
When I tell you, nigga, it wasexpensive.
The hotel was expensive, Ican't tell you my exact, so this
is how it went.
So I hit the dude up oncraigslist.
We got there on a saturdayearly morning.
He talked to him on craigslist,he, he said, meet me outside.
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So I'm like cool, we're goingto buy some actual tickets.
And you know I'm a littleskeptical on Craigslist.
Anyway, you know what I'msaying.
If you, if you buy a coochiefrom Craigslist, you need to at
least wear three condoms.
I'm just telling you got to besketchy.
So it's Craigslist, right.
Motherfuckers done, gotmurdered from that, motherfucker
, right.
So when we get to the conventioncenter, I'm, you know I'm we
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meet the dude, he white.
You know what I'm saying?
He white, that's all I'm saying.
He white, right.
So I'd be like all right bet,and I can't remember how much it
was, but it wasn't cheap.
It was like a couple hundred,300, 400, you know, for each
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ticket, right.
So I'm like'm like cool, and I'mlooking and it's got his name
on there, right.
And I'm like, hey, hey, listenthis.
So the ability to be black isan impressive thing, right.
When you're already black,there's another level of black
and you can take it there.
Now, whites, white folks, theycan't really.
There's no real intimidationfactor.
You know what I'm saying,unless you around some
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motherfuckers that look likethey from Sons of Anarchy, but
other than that, there's no realintimidation factor.
Black folks have you know, wecan switch it up.
Hey, pal, how you doing.
Or, hey, motherfucker, I'mlooking at this shit.
If you fuck with me, I'm goingto beat this shit.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm going to beat, I'm going toput that foot in that mouth.
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You know what I'm saying.
We can turn it up a lot, right?
So I'm looking at dude and I'mlike this got your name.
This has got somebody's name onit.
He's like dude, it's going tobe cool, bro, you're going to be
good.
Trust me, bro, you're going tobe good man.
I swear to God, you're going tobe good man.
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I said look, this is what we'regoing to do.
My guy's going to go in withone.
We're going to see if he get inNow.
Granted, granted, my job is, ofcourse, to provide intimidation
and to make sure that my moneyis still going to be in my
pocket.
I was putting visions in atough spot because you're taking
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this potential ticket that'sbad for somebody else and you're
going into the danger zone,highway to the danger zone, top
gun.
And he was cool with it becausewe were excited.
It was hundreds and thousandsof people out there and they
were just all around him.
His activity was crazy, so hewas excited to be the guy that
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could potentially, you know, bein trouble.
So I was with it.
I had to be the security of thesituation.
He had to be the test dummy,right?
So we watching me and the dude,me and the white guy, we
watching as vision makes his way, vision gets in.
I said, okay, man, here's themoney.
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He gave me the other badge andwe go in.
Now I don't recommend that atall.
They even tell you on thewebsite don't do that.
I wouldn't do that.
They even sell badges right nowon like what is them?
Even known ticket places, youknow, not like a ticket master,
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but there's like Vivid Seats orsome shit like that, and there's
another one Seat, geek, oranother one like that, but they
sell tickets on there.
And then even Comic-Con, on thewebsite, tells you not to buy
from any other place exceptComic-Con.
And if you chat GPT which I didbecause I really want to go
this year and I still mightgamble it.
We'll figure out how that goes.
But even if you chat GPT, chatGPT is like look, hey, look.
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I know that these reputable,reputable websites are telling
you it's good.
Don't do it, though, because thetickets is like, if they're
like $1,300 a ticket, I can pay$2,600 for these badges I'm
sorry for the badges for allweekend badges and they hidden.
Oh man, they hidden.
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Can you imagine giving amotherfucker $2,600 and then he
get to ride off?
That's insanity, right.
But when we went inside, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh.
Listen, I'm going to give you adescription.
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It's like, it's really like.
How can I put this?
Imagine Whitney Houston singing.
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You can pick whatever song youwant from Whitney Houston's
catalog singing, and then outcomes prime J-Lo and she's
holding your favorite dessert,she's bringing your favorite
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dessert I guess this is from aguy's perspective and then, and
then the knee along, comes outand she's, she's got, she's got
her hands ready, she's going togive you a scalp massage.
And then, the next thing youknow, you get a text and the
text says hey, man, it's fromyour bank, we made a mistake, we
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want to give you $150,000.
I don't even know how all thatshit pops into my head.
But that's what it feels likeyou walk in there, it is joy, it
is absolute joy.
It's a man and when we wentthere was there were they were
doing.
Teen Wolf was there because TeenWolf was a big show at the time
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.
So the Teen Wolf cast was there.
They were coming out at onesection, the whole, the whole
cast was coming out, and thenthe other section, the other big
one that I definitely rememberwas the game of throne cast.
The game of throne was massiveat the time and they were coming
out like the whole squad, thewhole, the whole important squad
from that season was coming out.
So that means tyrian was comingout, john snow, the honorable
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john snow, was coming out andthey had I mean, everybody was
dressed and they had big nameporn stars there.
I mean big name porn stars.
I'm looking at them like lady.
I like you know what I'm saying.
When I was a real teen you werean important part of my life.
Big porn stars.
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You were an important part ofmy life.
Xbox, playstation.
They got these massive setupsthere, massive setups for new
games coming out, showing youdemos of new games, posters of
new games.
The cosplay is insane.
The cosplay contests are insane.
Contest are insane Insanity.
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And you go through and at thetime you don't know nothing.
So I had bought some Batmanshoes yeah, real Batman shoes.
I bought some Batman shoes.
I bought Funko Pops customFunko Pops, funko Pops made
strictly for San Diego Comic-Con.
At the time, like I didn't evenunderstand the whole autograph
thing.
It was so much going on and wewere there for a day.
It was so much going on and somany cool people there that I
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was mind blown.
So, for example, seeing thecast of Game of Thrones come out
and all of a sudden said thispan, like this, this autograph
line, because they got hallsthere, so they got different
halls.
Of course Marvel's like themass, like the, like DC, but
Marvel's the one where they situp there and they tell you about
their whole, what they gotcoming out and you get to see
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trailers.
And I've never been in a halland I've always wanted to go to
a hall.
I've never been in a hall.
A hall is like to me almostHoly Grail-ish.
When you get to sit in a halland you get to see RDJ come out
or Chris Evans come out orwhatever surprise they get, and
you're in a Marvel hall and youget to.
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That's Holy Grail shit, and Ihope I get to experience that if
I take the gamble and, you know, buy the badges.
But the Phoenix fan is reallydope.
I was there last, uh, two yearsago actually, and I got
autographs from um, the guy.
Uh, see, this is horrible.
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Right, I suppose I'm supposedto have these guys' names, but
listen, I'm sorry, I apologize,but uh, um, he played Shredder
in Ninja Turtles 2, I got thepop, I got the uh, um, I got the
pop, I got the autograph.
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I got the photo that's on thetiki-taki.
I got the uh, the pop of.
I had a Leonardo pop with meand then April O'Neil was there,
the lady who played theoriginal April O'Neil from the
movies.
She was super, she was superdope.
I think she was hitting on meand I think I, just to be honest
with y'all because I love y'all, I just want to tell you the
truth.
I think I would have.
I'm sure she's married becauseshe was a sweet, sweet lady.
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Beautiful, beautiful lady, hada crush on you when I was
watching Ninja Turtles, and ifshe would have winked at me
enough or she would have said,hey, do you want to go get a
drink?
I don't even drink.
I think I would have got adrink with April O'Neil Wouldn't
even have called her her actualname, I just would have called
her April O'Neil.
It's inappropriate to say outloud, but I'm saying it out loud
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it's my podcast I got your day.
But she wouldn't even.
She wouldn't even had anoriginal name.
She wouldn't even have a birthname with me.
She would have been calledApril O'Neil.
Yeah, I'm almost for sure that Iwould put that in my will.
I'm almost for sure that ifthat happened, I would write out
like hey, give this to mybrother, give this to my nephew,
oh yeah, make sure these go tomy niece.
And I just want to read this.
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I want my lawyer or whoever'sreading this out loud.
I want them to read this.
There was a time I went toComic-Con in 2023.
I got an autograph from AprilO'Neil.
I got a picture with AprilO'Neil, shed a drink with April
O'Neal, shared a drink withApril O'Neal, made love to April
O'Neal.
Rest in peace me.
That's what.
That's how that would be for me, right?
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That's how I would pop that offof my will.
But it was a really dope timePhoenix.
It seems like they're taking itup a notch.
They got Hayden Christensen.
Now listen, hayden Christensen.
You may not know who that is,but he is Anakin Skywalker.
Anakin Skywalker Now, granted,he is.
He is hated for how heportrayed Anakin Skywalker and
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eventually becomes Darth Vader.
He's hated.
I remember watching his actingand I was like, oh wow, this is,
this is very bad.
They used to make straight tostraight to DVD movies back in
the day, straight to straight toVHS or straight to DVD movies,
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and in the acting in some ofthose movies were impressively
bad and to be such a mega levelmovie like a Phantom uh, star
Wars, phantom Menace andbasically Star Wars one, two and
three, how bad we all thoughtHayden Christensen was.
Now he's coming back and we'resuper excited because we love
that nostalgic feeling of himcoming back and doing Star Wars
work and more of Darth Vaderwork.
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So it's fantastic to see.
It's just he's going to bethere, which, if I'm there, he's
on my list of autographs, butI'm going to tell you my person.
So, kevin Smith, director,writer, actor that's my guy.
Clerks one, two, three, dogma Ican't remember.
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I just watched his last.
I guess it was like his, likehis most personal movie, but I
was.
It's like Movie starts at threeor something like that.
It was a fantastic movie.
It was like a summer movieComing out of age movie.
Fun movie Came out what Lastyear?
I think Kevin Smith the greatKevin Smith Is going to be there
the great Elijah Wood Nowlisten, elijah Wood, I have to
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get a photo and an autograph.
I'm willing to spend big moneyBecause the time I went, barry
Allen was there and I thinkBarry Allen was taxing $150.
I think he wanted $150 for thewhole shebam.
The whole shebam is autographand photo.
That's a whole shebazabam.
Right, elijah Wood is there.
I'm sorry, he gonna get myducats.
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Next in line is Charlie Cox.
That's daredevil, he gonna getmy ducats.
You understand what I'm saying.
They got some really big namescoming there, and that's just to
name a few.
Rainn Wilson will be there too.
That's just to name a few.
Rainn Wilson will be there too.
That's just to name a few.
But Comic-Con June 6th, 8th,phoenix, fan Fusion and then San
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Diego Comic-Con is July 24ththrough the 27th.
They got the Marvel Studioreveals, they got exclusive
trailers and big panels.
Man, it's just going to be somany dope things at San Diego
Comic-Con, that I'm reallyconsidering spending a huge
amount of money to go there, andall that stuff is all about
nostalgia and I live in thatbecause I low-key live in it
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because it really does help meappreciate the present and the
future, trying to find thosethings that I will think about
and enjoy in the next 10 years,just like that's why I love the
whole MCU and how they're tryingto recover which will probably
be an impossible thing to do togive you that feeling of this
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billion dollar soap opera whereeverything connected, everything
had something to do withsomething, and then they give
you this massive payoff, whichis really going to be really,
really, really hard for them todo.
But I appreciate the attempt DCnever pulled that off but I
appreciate Marvel's attempt andI live in this dodgy world and I
was thinking.
I was really, really, reallythinking, because summer is.
You know, when you're down inPhoenix, summer is a different
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type of summer.
When you down in Phoenix,summer is a different type of
summer.
And I was just thinking man,it's a difference.
Summer, I'm dying, ladies andgentlemen, oh shit, when you
(33:25):
choking and then Fuck.
When you choke it and then Fuck.
Y'all hear everything, don'ty'all.
But there's a difference insummer then and now, when I was
a kid.
Worlds of fun, oceans of fun inKansas City, missouri oh man,
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that was a dream to go therewhen I was a kid.
The drive-in theater, 85degrees humidity, the drive-in
theater that was a fucking treatto go to.
I can't even skate, but I wentskating roller skating I can't
even skate, I'll bust my ass,I'll bust.
(34:06):
Listen, I'm a very coordinatedperson.
But I'll bust my ass.
Roller skating but I went.
That's where the girls was at.
Can't swim, went to publicpools man Can't swim for shit.
Arcades I lived in the arcades.
Mortal Kombat, street Fighter Ilived in them.
Anytime.
Fight I lived in them.
Anytime I got a chance to go, Iwould go.
It was different.
(34:28):
I was outside, it was hot, Iwould drink from the water hose.
It was a different type and youdon't have an appreciation
until you get older, right?
Summer then was summer movies.
I was out from school.
I had no business watchingJerry Springer.
(34:49):
That's when I found my love forJerry Springer just sitting at
the crib, just sitting at thecrib.
Dun dun, da, dun, dun, dun, da,dun, dun, dun, da, dun, dun,
dun, da dun.
Wheel of Fortune.
I had no business, but I waswatching it eating a bowl of
cereal and I mean a giganticbowl of cereal.
Food stamps to buy you somecereal.
(35:10):
I was eating a gigantic bowl ofcereal.
Summertime, you could smellsummer.
May hit May, because there wasa point we wasn't getting out
until like June 1st, the firstweek of June.
There was a time when I waslike 10, 12, 13, 14 was June, I
(35:34):
think, if I'm correct and mybowl of cereal game was
ridiculous.
But I learned about so muchdaytime there would be times
that I'd be so bored In May youcould just smell summer.
So there'd be times where youjust started getting lazier and
lazier and the teachers theteachers really didn't give a
fuck.
Anytime it was May, they waslooking down the counter like is
(36:01):
there any way I can make thesemotherfuckers watch a movie?
And I just talked about thesqueaky, squeak, squeak, squeak,
squeak, squeak.
They roll that TV in and mayyou could smell summer.
I ain't doing, I ain't doingnothing, but I'd be at home soon
as summer was done.
I'd be at home.
You have to wait a little bit,because when you first hit
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summer you was out.
You'd be moving and shaking.
Wait a little bit, because whenyou first hit summer you was
out, you'd be moving and shakingand as the blaze really kicked
in with that humidity, back homeyou'd be a little bit more in
the house before you really getoutside.
But during the day, my mom's atwork oh man, I was seeing shit
I wasn't supposed to be seeing.
I was watching shit I wasn'tsupposed to be watching Will of
(36:46):
Fortune, plinko, bob Bark, jerry, what, what, going to Sneak it
in the pools.
That was closed.
Man, I was a menace.
Summertime then, then, as I gotolder, I was driving at 16.
(37:10):
I was going to see American Pie, all these movies that made you
enjoy your teenhood a lot more.
Sneaking in the theaters,fucking shit up for no reason.
Summer was different.
Now you able to go mall.
You drive into the mall and thegirl oh my God, it was
(37:30):
different.
Now, now I got checklist shitfor summer.
Got checklist, I'll be like allright man.
I got to buy some more shortsbecause it's going to be hot and
I can't have my balls hot andthey be sweating.
(37:53):
And I got to make sure my ACcharged up and got to watch how
I use the AC because I don'twant to have the AC bill.
And then I get to that, as I'mwriting it down, I get to that
part and I'm like I'm lying, Iain't want to have the AC bill.
And then I get to that, as I'mwriting it down, I get to that
part and I'm like I'm lying, Iain't about to be hot in this
motherfucker.
I'm about to run thatmotherfucker to the ground Down
(38:15):
here in Phoenix.
You run it into the ground.
You run it into the ground as akid, as a kid to a teen.
You wanted me to go out duringthe day.
I was with it.
95 degrees humidity, I would gooutside.
I would do shit.
I would get in the car anddrive if I had to.
Our AC barely worked in our car, but I would run it.
I'd go anywhere.
(38:38):
Now, if you ask me To dosomething during the day, shit
down here.
In the evening time, I'm notdoing it.
You gotta wait till 8.39o'clock to ask me to do
something.
Hey, man, I gotta go to thehospital.
I got an appointment with mydoctor.
Man, you able to take me there?
Oh, yeah, man, what's up?
(38:59):
When's the appointment?
One o'clock in the morning?
No, in the evening I will Applepay you money for the Uber
because shade ain't moving,shade don't move, shade and your
car can have the frostiest ofAC.
(39:19):
But it feels like the summerhere.
Your AC and the heat get intoan epic battle from windshield
to inside and the heat is like Ican beat you.
And my AC is like nah man, I'mbuilt for this.
This is what I'm here for.
He filled up a tank just forthis.
(39:40):
He charged up his car just forthis.
I am here to defeat you.
The heat is like nah man, youdon't know me.
I've been around for a billionyears and I know how to really
cook a motherfucker.
And the sun is really beamingdown and the heat is fighting
this big clash of battle inside.
And if you're moving too muchin your car, you're like man, I
think I'm still sweating alittle bit.
And then your right side,you're like I'm cool over here,
(40:00):
my nipple hard.
And then your left side likenah man, my titty's sweating and
then my underarms are sweatingand shit.
So it's a fucking giant battle.
I don't like to move now thatI'm old.
During the summer it don't havethe same feeling.
You say, oh man, summer comingaround.
I'm like, oh yeah, I know Nowit's like you think about May.
(40:21):
You're like, okay, I'm going,I'm not even I'm going to
Phoenix Comic Con and I have tomake it from the car to the
convention center because that'sJune.
So that time that's 110 easy,right, at least 106 easy.
So that travel between car toconvention center is just blaze.
(40:48):
It's just blaze.
As I got older I lost my thingfor summer and I hate that.
I really do Now.
My summer movies is still mything.
And now I'm more particular.
Like I go to San Diego for thefireworks for the fourth, go to
(41:11):
mission beach, watch somefireworks.
I'm more intentional, but I dotry to hunt for things.
Maybe I can't, it's justdifferent.
I was relentless when I wasyoung.
When it's summertime I smelledit, I inhaled it.
Now I got checklist.
Now I got checklist.
(41:31):
I go to the store late night toavoid the sun.
I am a vampire.
To avoid the sun, I'll be.
That's why it hurts down herethat Walmart is no more 24 hours
, because I would go at midnight, because that's the coolest
time you're going to get downhere.
(41:52):
Man, I would hear an ice creamtruck.
I hear an ice cream truck nowand think woo you serving ice
cream at this time.
It's hotter than a motherfucker.
When I was a kid I hear the icecream truck Shit, I'm trying to
get two, three dollars.
Can I get two, three dollars,mom?
I'm trying to go out to the icecream truck.
And you would get to the icecream truck and the ice cream
truck man.
He'd have nothing but ShaquilleO'Neal, fourth quarter sweat,
(42:17):
coming down his face selling icecream to kids in the ghetto who
it looked like they literallywas in a drive-by with super
soakers.
Just because you was runningoutside from front porch to
street to meet sweaty ice creamdealer and that sun and blaze
(42:45):
was all there, but you didn'tcare because you heard Ice Cream
man, you're like, oh man, iceCream man coming and you just
run outside.
Man, I thrived at an arcade whenI was a kid.
So when I see them now Iabsolutely be like, oh, that's
so dope.
I see a small arcade, I seearcades and I'm like that's
really dope.
And so I always am looking forthings that I can truly try to.
(43:23):
I can look back 10 years fromnow you know 20 years and be
like man.
I really enjoy doing thosethings Because I don't like.
That's why I love going, beinginvolved in movies and talking
about movies, going toDisneyland, california Ventures
(43:45):
planning to go to Disney World.
I try to live in all that tomake sure I don't never lose my
kid the kid in me, because I dothink about those things.
I watch a lot of coming-of-agemovies because they do make you
think about what it was like.
Think about what it was like,and they should challenge you to
(44:11):
try to find those things thatmake you feel like that as you
get older.
I feel like joy does so much forthe human mind.
Finding joy, finding things youcan keep with you from
childhood and bring with you inyour AAA, your AA RP days are
(44:34):
dope and then using that sameenergy to find more things that
you really enjoy to take withyou further into life, which is,
which is something that Ireally try to do every day.
(44:55):
You know, hell shit, I gotcomfort shows do every day.
You know hell shit, I gotcomfort shows out to Wu Hai.
I barely sleep because you know.
You know what the gig is.
I sleep, I work through thenights and I don't get home till
late night.
So I got comfort shows like amotherfucker so I can eventually
fall asleep in nostalgicmoments and hoping to find those
(45:20):
same things as I get, continuemy age-growing days.
But I tell you what.
There was one thing we used todo and I'm going to finish up
because I want to talk aboutsome of the attire that comes to
the club but we used to dostreet football when I was a kid
in the summer.
This won't take long.
(45:42):
Do you understand what I'mtelling you?
Street football, do youunderstand what I'm saying?
There would be times when wejust throw the football Up in
the air To the other side of thestreet, the person's supposed
to catch it and you're supposedto run past and beat the person
Pretty much to the other side ofthe street.
The person was supposed tocatch it and he was supposed to
run past and beat the personpretty much to the end zone In
(46:03):
the street.
Cars, parked, concrete, allitems that cannot be defeated,
all things that cannot bedefeated pavement, concrete,
cars and we would tackle eachother.
What the fuck To go along withthat?
(46:23):
The pavement was sizzling, itwas sizzling and we would still
do it.
No man, summer versus dinner nowis so different for me.
It's more of like when summercomes around now I'm just kind
of like I'm going to see if Ican take me a trip somewhere.
That's really what it's about.
(46:44):
When I was a kid, I'd travelaround the neighborhood,
different parts of the city.
We'd walk far, take Metro, bus,you know, bike wherever we
could.
It was nonstop.
I miss it and I love it.
It ain't like I don't love whatI do now, because I keep it
simple.
That's the great thing aboutadulthood.
You got some money.
Now you just make your tripsimple, buy a plane ticket and
(47:08):
go somewhere.
Now my last thing so I canfinish up this episode.
So I can't.
This might have been a Friday.
We had somebody.
Was that when we had Bad Baby?
No, because it was Filthy Pack.
When we had Bad Baby there, itwas Filthy Pack.
(47:30):
Or was it when we had ChickenPee?
Yeah, I know the name ChickenPee's Wild.
But this young lady.
I'm walking in to 1111nightclub.
I'm walking up and she's inline about to come in and I look
back, right, I look back tolook at the attire that this
(47:52):
young lady is wearing.
The attire that this young ladyis wearing is straight stripper
attire.
Now, listen, I'm not.
You know, you see a lot ofsee-through stuff.
Listen, I'm around the younginsall weekend, you see a lot of
(48:12):
see-through stuff.
You know there's a lot ofoutfits where you're like, oh
okay, all right, that'sinteresting.
Oh I of outfits where you like,oh okay, all right, that's
interesting.
Oh, I didn't see that coming.
Oh man, I didn't know you weregoing to wear that.
Um, but this one was reallyshocking, Cause I think you get
caught in trying not especiallymy boy, corey.
(48:33):
I think he was trying to getcaught and trying not to like,
like discriminate on what shewas wearing, but it was just
super, super small top andstraight stripper thong, so
that's it.
She had like a jacket on, butthat was it.
(48:53):
And I mean that I'm not lyingto you in some heels, that was
it.
And I mean that I'm not lyingto you in some heels.
So you get caught in trying notto like.
So you want people to expressthemselves and have the type of
clothing they want to rock, butso I don't think he initially
knew what to do, because whowould think that you would come
up wearing that?
I mean, I'm telling y'all, I'mtelling y'all, this was Magic
(49:19):
City shit.
And I ain't never been to MagicCity.
I don't really go to strip clubs.
I'm very outbundied when itcomes to strip clubs.
I feel like I can just turn onShowgirls or whatever the movie
J-Lo was in.
I can throw my money at the TVwith it being taped to a string
and then I can just reel mymoney back to myself.
But she was in straightstripper attire.
This was this very players clubstripper attire and she was very
(49:43):
confident, which is coolbecause I love to come.
You can just I'm confident, andthen I'm wearing absolute
stripper attire to the nightclub.
Look at me, I am confidentwoman and and you see the guys
in line and some of the guyslooking up at the sign and said,
(50:04):
damn, is this Jaguars?
They're looking up.
They said, nah, man, this isthe club, right.
And one dude was like nah, thisain't the club, this is a strip
club.
He started reaching his pocketsNah, man, this ain't the top
party, man, it's the nightclub,you ain't throwing no money at
the lady walking by to get inthe line.
But that's what the attire was.
So she actually, my boy actuallylet her in, right.
And I think, like I said, hewas really conflicted on trying
(50:35):
to be solid as far as, like, I'mnot trying to hate on your
clothes.
But this is really unacceptable.
And he was like I don't want tobe looked at a certain way that
I didn't let you in.
So he did, and what happenedwas she's able to come in.
So I'm inside the club andshe's walking in the club and
the whole staff and everybody'sin the club looking like this is
serious.
So then next thing, you know,when the security guards from
the outside come in to grab her,because I think he had realized
this is just unacceptable.
You can't have half a titty andanother titty covered out.
(50:58):
It just it ain't gonna work.
But she was really wearingnothing.
I'm telling y'all you'd, you'dhave seen and you know you can't
, you don't want to record.
Somebody probably got it oncamera, but I didn't record it.
But it was nothing.
And she just came out in it andand it really confused my boy
(51:18):
she came in.
Everybody's staff was like waita minute, ain't no?
Hooray, hooray, hoochamal.
You look in and you're justreally thrown off by the tire.
And I've seen a lot of wild,wild attire before.
That was top three, because Ijust had never there was.
(51:40):
So you see, the front iscovered, but it's just nothing
with that.
It was nothing but ass cheeks.
In the back.
There was nothing covering upan ass cheek, it was just.
You knew that there wassomething connected in the front
but you didn't see it becausethe ass cheeks was eating it.
And then the top was just like.
The top was enough that if youcut in between it'd be enough to
(52:04):
make a pirate's eye patch man.
You come right out of a comicbook, you cut right in the
middle of the top man, and youcould just automatically tie it
and then you can get hooked.
You get a pirate, you can getJack Sparrow.
I don't think Jack Sparrow, butyou know what I'm saying.
(52:26):
It's a pirate's patch.
One-eyed Willie from theGoonies.
It was incredible to see.
It was incredible to see.
I've seen motherfuckers come infull Prince slash, michael
Jackson outfits.
Like, literally like if yousprayed armor all on the outfit,
(52:51):
we would all be blinded by thegloss of the outfit.
I've seen some wild stuff withthe nightclub, but that outfit I
just seen.
So do me a favor, do me a favorwhen you're about to come to
the nightclub, when you're aboutto come to 1111,.
(53:13):
I want you to hold up thethread.
The outfit that you're about towear, ladies, and I want you to
ask yourself a simple questionwhen I put this on, when I put
this on, will I get one thrownat me?
(53:33):
Will the song pour some sugaron me?
Come on, will there magicallybe a pole that pops up and a DJ
saying, come into the stage,sapphire, sapphire, and it's the
echo Sapphire.
(53:54):
If you feel like that mighthappen, maybe you don't have to,
but just maybe Don't put it on.
Don't put it on.
I'm just playing.
(54:16):
Part of me want to see thatshit.
You can put it on, man, I'lljust play it.
I'll just playing Part of mewant to see that shit.
You can put it on, man, I'lljust play it.
I'll just talk shit.
Put that thing on, man.
Come on out in that thing.
Now, listen here.
You put that thing on if youwant.
I'll be kicked back.
I'll be like ooh shit, she badto the motherfuckers.
You put that thing on.
You may not get into the venue,but I'm going to appreciate it.
I appreciate your confidence.
(54:36):
You may not get into the venue,but I appreciate your
confidence.
You go, girl.
I appreciate your confidence,but I'm sure you hear that old
man.
I'm going to sit back and I'mgoing to enjoy that.
Pour some sugar on me, what youtalking about Pour.
(55:00):
Anyway, phoenix Fan Fusion isJune 6th through the 8th at the
Phoenix Convention Center.
I hope to see y'all there.
I am going to definitely bethere and I'm going to have a
great freaking time.
And in San Diego, comic-con isJuly 24th through the 27th.
Those badges are all sold outbut, like you said, you like I
said you might look up and youmight hear me doing an episode
(55:22):
of how I went out there and Ispent two grand to go all three
nights.
I spent two grand to go allthree nights.
I'm hugging a celebrity, anA-list celebrity.
I'm gonna hug one, two grandthree nights.
I'm gonna hug a celebrity, anA-list celebrity.
I'm going to hug one, two grandthree nights.
I'm going to hug a celebritythere and I'm too big to not go
(55:46):
to jail for it, but I'm going tohug a celebrity for it.
This is Seasonable Cloud.
I am Thaddeus Shade.
I appreciate everybody forlistening.
Please share like and I have.
I've already put up a.
I put up a recap of well, I putup a matchup preview of the
warriors and wolves for game one.
I'm doing one here just shortlyafter this for game two.
(56:08):
That'll be up.
Um, I'm also looking at thetrailer of together the horror
movie, the trailer for umconjuring, the final conjuring,
just dropped today.
I'll be doing a breakdown onthat so those videos actually be
up.
This will be straight audio, um, but those videos will be up on
(56:31):
my YouTube.
Uh, youtube at that shade.
Um, yeah, seasonable clout.
That is shade Peace.
Pour some sugar on me.
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