March 15, 2025 • 62 mins
This podcast episode delves into the recent experiences of the hosts at the Coastal Comic Con, highlighting the myriad interactions they had with both attendees and celebrity guests. A central theme emerges as they recount their encounters, particularly their engaging dialogue with actor Ross Marquand, who is celebrated for his performances in various iconic roles. The hosts candidly discuss the dynamics of being in the public eye, the challenges of representation, and the humorous mishaps that often accompany such events. Moreover, they touch upon the importance of supporting local events and the impact of community engagement in the realm of pop culture. As they navigate through their reflections, the episode ultimately underscores the value of connection and shared experiences within the vibrant tapestry of fandom.
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Welcome, Zach.
You were wise to introduce mebecause I was.
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Sometimes I'll play thewaiting game just to see how long
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Well, Zach King.
Well, I'd like to thank BillKimler for keeping the seat warm.
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Yeah.
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Zach, what did we do last weekend?
We were at Coastal Comic Con.
We were at Coastal Comic Con.
It was a blast.
A lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun.
Do you want to.
Do you want to real quicklydiscuss the.
The elephant in the room?
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What is that?
Zach and I roomed togetherthis weekend.
Oh, my snoring.
I've been working to get myCPAP machine.
It's been delayed, like,multiple times for multiple reasons.
No, no.
I will say so.
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As someone who has sufferedfrom the sleep apnea before, I did,
and thankfully I don't anymore.
It's definitely something thatis curable.
You just have to make sure youget it treated.
I was not aware as to howscary it was to hear you stop breathing.
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And then, you know, it wasonly for, like five seconds.
Ten seconds.
This is HIPAA information.
You're just.
I'm going to call the cops.
That's cool.
In this.
I didn't sign a documentsaying I wouldn't.
I also am not a doctor.
I will just say I'm mostlyjust using this as sort of a PSA
for everyone.
If you do suffer from sleepapnea, get yourself tested.
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Do a sleep study.
It is frightening for yourpartners because.
The next night it was better.
I told you it was.
I didn't notice that at all.
Yeah, I was just, like, exhausted.
I did really appreciate thejoke because I don't know, we were
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walking down the hall and Isaid that you farted in your sleep.
And you looked at.
You're like, I wasn't asleep.
Because I wasn't.
That was hilarious.
Yeah.
Barrett and I, in that hotelroom, we had square pillows, which
was the.
Weirdest, weirdest thing I'veever experienced.
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I don't.
I don't understand at all.
And you got four of them, sotogether they equal two rectangle
pillows.
But in the course of thenight, it's just four pillows that
go everywhere and.
Yeah, exactly.
My four pillows were like, thefirst night, of course, I had one
pillow under my head and onepillow over my head.
But there was no way to findany real level of comfort.
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So comments that I would leavefor the sleep in.
In Wilmington, North Carolina,on Market street is maybe real sized
pillows.
Rectangles.
Rectangles.
It was.
It was a little odd, but yeah.
We were at Coastal Comic Conlast weekend, thanks to the invite,
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of course, of Donald Brock Jr.
And the rest of the staff,Steve Powell, Amy, as well, that,
you know, lots of it was a lotof fun.
And also I want to thank themfor accommodating us like they do
and putting up the fact that Iam insufferable when it comes to
being.
Being out in publicrepresenting this podcast, because
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I think that I referred tomyself and Zach as the talent so
many times.
It wasn't a lie.
But.
Yeah, but I did it so many times.
But again, I know I did itlast week, but I do really appreciate
all of the hard work thatBrock and his entire team do for
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these things.
Also, we left our.
We left our banner up there.
So that is.
That was.
That has been transported backto Columbia.
And we will.
We will get that back for thenext one.
Because I'll tell you what,one of the funny, funny things I
went on whenever we would getto a prickly representative for.
Oh.
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A celebrity guest.
Yeah.
Sam Witwer's.
Sam Witwer's handler.
Yeah.
Is you basically run throughthe Rolodex of, like, we're with
the Con, like, and show themthe badge, like, staff guest.
And then he's like, I don'tsee that in the contract.
Well, then maybe we're notwith the Con and this has nothing
to do with it.
So I found out.
I found out afterwards intalking to Brock that it is part
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of the contract.
So that is something that, youknow, from.
From now on, it is definitelygoing to be part of our negotiating
when.
When it comes to talking tothem that.
That it's.
It.
They have.
There's something in thecontract, and I'll make sure that
we get a.
We.
We get a copy of that so wecan show Them says, hey, this is
your.
Your.
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Your talent agreement for the con.
But yeah, Sam Witwer wouldhave been happy to have sat down
with us, but.
Oh, it's not Sam.
Like, it's just his.
The dude's a dick.
Like, there's no other way toput it is.
Is his manager while doingthis, I guess I would.
The only way I could equateit, the dude's just an unpleasant
person who's someone did himwrong at some point, and it is just
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giving him an edge.
That is awful.
Yeah.
Well, I think when we talkedto Sam last time, it was.
We circumvented him.
Sure, he was sneering at usdown at the end of the table.
We used rh, our one that got.
Got us around the end of thetable to.
Yeah, yeah.
And thanks to RH too, becausehe and Frank and Deneen and I still
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can't remember Deneen'sdaughter's name because I suck with
names.
But they're always just thebiggest smiles on their faces and
they're so pleasant.
Also, we didn't get thatdinner, though.
We can discuss that.
I also want to thank AmieBland for.
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From the welcome to Wonderlandpodcast for being there at the con
with us because she was a hugehelp in every situation.
But just a huge help,especially keeping us online, too.
Yeah.
Although, and I'll say this,I've said it before, I don't think
people need to be told toignore me when I'm making.
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Because when we're out inpublic and I see things that make
me laugh, then I bringattention to them.
Yeah.
Don't ignore Barrett.
Mostly the absurdities.
You know, I think I canprobably count on both hands the
number of times over thatweekend that someone was told to
a waiter or waitress orwhatever, ignore him.
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This is him in public.
Ignore him.
Yeah, the waiter.
That was funny, too.
Waitress.
Whatever.
It happened frequently, but Iwas asking legitimate questions.
I don't remember exactly whatthe question I was asked, what I
asked that time that.
That deserve to be shut downso quickly.
But you know something aboutyour turkey cranberry sandwich.
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Oh, yeah, maybe.
You know what?
And ultimately, that wasprobably a weird sandwich to order.
Not near Thanksgiving, like,but that's Gabrielle's.
Go to from East Bay.
It's like cranberry, turkey,turkey and cranberry.
Do they put.
Do they.
East Bay, huh?
Yeah.
Little shout out to East Bay Deli.
Wrong.
Wrong, Wrong.
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Sounder.
I was going to give it.
I was going to give it theplug bell.
So let me see if I can.
We're open for sponsorship.
East Bay Deli.
I will eat a Sandwich Live for10 straight minutes.
You just record yourself doing it.
It's so good.
Every bite good is the next Icry when it's gone.
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I could only.
I could only eat half of theturkey sandwich that was brought
out, but it also could havebeen because I think I ate some of
that over the buffalo dip orwhatever the dip was.
That was pretty good.
And I don't like pica de gallothat they put in there, but the buffalo
did away with the soap taste.
Oh, you get.
So you.
You get soap taste from meatand cilantro, too.
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Yep.
Oh, man.
You a me.
It's an interesting.
It's an interestingaffliction, like, because if.
I had ordered it, I would havebeen like, please take off the pico
de Gaia.
We don't like it.
You did an impression ofDonald Trump and used the word please
at the beginning.
That's odd.
Oh, that's true.
Take it off.
I don't want it.
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If it's on here, we'll send it back.
No fruits.
The whole meal will be free.
No fruits, no vegetables.
No.
Just meat, salt and fat.
What was one of the highlights of.
And it could be.
You could name anything, butwhat was like, one of the number
one things that you enjoyedthe most about the comic?
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Definitely when you like acelebrity a lot and you go to meet
them, you're like, I hopethey're not a dick.
Yeah, I.
I love Ross Marquon.
Anything he does, I think is fantastic.
And he is an awesome person.
So getting to.
For a while on that first day,he didn't have much of a line.
So just sitting there andtalking with him was a lot of fun.
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And getting to know him, allthat kind of stuff, and how just
kind he is and willing tofacilitate any kind of, like, requests
you had was.
He is just a grade A person.
It's one of those, meet, meetsomeone famous.
And I think that was my favorite.
And then when the window wasclosing for us to leave and get him
going to a panel and all thiskind of stuff, because it was three
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hours away.
Right.
So that's quite a haul.
So, like, we were like, can wewalk and talk with you?
And he was like, absolutely,let's do it.
And that's what happened.
But, like, all the.
All the other times that we'resitting there talking to him for
probably a cumulativethroughout the hour, 45 minutes.
Yeah, yeah.
All of that time.
Yeah, we did.
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We.
We just stuck a microphone onand then like we would have had like
an hour long conversation with him.
Exactly.
Well, as an exclusive, becauseI figured that that was probably
what you were going to bring up.
I'm going to go ahead and playyour interview with.
With Ross Marquand.
So this is an exclusive on theAll About Nothing podcast.
Here we go.
Yo, what's up?
Hey.
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Hey again.
Hey, buddy.
Michelin, boss.
Michelin.
Yeah.
I just wanted to ask you.
So is Aaron gonna come back atsome point or what are we doing here?
We'll see.
There's definitely talks ofdifferent spin offs happening right
now, but nothing official, so.
Right, we will.
We will see what the, the AMCgods have to say about that.
Absolutely.
And we'll be there for it.
Awesome.
What voice can you not do?
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What's that?
What voice can you not do?
I cannot do Ryan Gosling.
I've tried, tried for years.
I can't get him down.
He's got this strange.
I think he's from Canada.
I think he's from Toronto.
Yeah, because he's got thisstrange, like.
Oh, oh, I don't know, actually.
Oh, okay.
Should we maybe.
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Okay, gotcha.
Should we.
Hello.
Sorry.
Oh, yes, through here.
Yeah, this is like Spinal Tap.
That's one of them.
Oh, no, go ahead.
I'll let you go first.
Yeah, I don't know.
Oh, it's probably.
Yeah, exactly.
I know where it is.
It's right there.
All right, let's go.
Just right there.
And it's.
Yeah, we're.
That door that's opening.
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Yeah, right there.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah, so this is fun.
Yeah.
The other thing I was going toask you, how do you get in the headspace
for all these different Marvel roles?
You're like, yes, that one Red Skull.
Luckily, I really just likegot to stand on the shoulder of Giants.
You know, you got, got HugoWeaving, James Spader, Cedric Smith,
you know, all these greatactors who did it before me.
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And luckily with a lot ofthese roles, they didn't want me
to reinvent the wheel.
They just wanted me to soundenough like them to give the general
feeling of these people, butalso making it my own, which is great.
I think that was the way to.
Go, you know, and the lastone, before we let you go, have you
had to do an impression infront of one of your people that
you were impersonating?
I have a few times.
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I've did.
I did Larry David for Larry David.
I've done Norman Reedus forNorman Reedus, Matthew McConaughey
for McConaughey.
And doesn't always go as wellas you would think.
You know, you would thinkmaybe some of them take a little,
you know, slight to it.
A little slight.
Yeah.
You can't be mean.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, Ross, thank you so muchfor your time and going on the run.
Thanks, man.
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You're the man.
Don't think about it.
Yeah.
That was great.
That was great.
You did such a good job.
I was, I was so proud of youbecause I could tell you get nervous.
You get a little nervous about that.
I'm a genuine fan.
Like, my hands betray me whenI meet someone that I truly like.
Like, I enjoy.
Like Ross Marquis.
And like, when I first methim, I was like, oh, Ross McQuan.
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Yeah.
What do I do with my hands?
But, yeah, but he was.
He was absolutely super cool.
Uh, I really hope that we getanother opportunity to hang out with
him and talk to him againbecause I think that we.
We had a ton of questions thatwe wanted to talk to him about, but
we just.
The opportunity to actually doan interview with him just didn't
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come.
We do have interviews also with.
I did one with MatthewWatterson, the voice of Magneto,
that I am still workingthrough editing because I acted kind
of dumb and at the verybeginning and I need to take that
out.
And it was perfect.
That was a great interview.
I do want to point out, ifyou're going to watch the video of
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that interview, we blind this woman.
Let me pull it back up becauseI'll try and find the spot.
So it's right there.
Right there.
Hold on.
Here we go.
I'm just gonna.
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She's like.
And then when we walked past,she's still like in the background.
Like, like she must have hadher eyes just wide open and did not
expect this bright light to be there.
Was.
Was the, Was the light that bright?
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I did.
I didn't.
I didn't think it was that bright.
Dude.
It's pretty bright.
Well, that's fair.
But.
But like, her reaction to itwas just like, ah, yeah.
Like she stared at the sun fora minute and she's walking by in
the background and she's stilllike, ugh.
I mean, you know, I'm walkingaround with a, with a small mount
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with a light on it that'sobviously in yalls faces.
And.
But I thought what was reallyfunny about that walk and talk was
that like, we.
I don't think any of us reallyknew where we were supposed to go
down the hallway to get.
No, we didn't.
And you did good job editingbecause there's one point where I'm
like, I don't think it's this way.
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Yeah, well, so.
So Ross is like, no, we go inright over there.
There's the door.
And I'm like, you've been in there.
I haven't gone in that.
But like, as I'm.
As I'm.
Because I'm walking backwardsthe whole time that I.
So I'm.
I'm walking backwards and I'mhaving a.
I'm having to turn my headbackwards to make sure I'm not going
to run into anybody.
We're just following a dudewho doesn't know where he's going
even if he was looking.
Yeah.
And like, as we're so, aswe're approaching.
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As we're approaching what Iconsider to be the last possible
door that this we need to gothrough, I'm like, all right, I'm
just going to stop and we'regoing to pause, and then I'm going
to just point that way.
And of course, me pointingthat way.
Ross was like, oh, is it that door?
Subtle, Ross.
Very subtle.
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You're picking up directorscues and saying them out loud.
No wonder you're a voice actor.
It was so entertaining.
It was so entertaining.
Very exciting to know thatthere is a very real possibility
that Eren might show back up.
I am too.
I'm excited about that.
You know, he's a beast withthat club on his hand.
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It makes sense.
He was.
He was such an important partof the show and the tragedy that
has suffered when he lost his husband.
Just, you know, I think thatthat's something that makes that
character invaluable foreverything you could possibly do
with him.
Bring back, Ezekiel.
Bring back.
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I mean, you've already got.
Oh, the other thing I want topoint out, when he was.
When he was telling you theimpressions that he's done in front
of those people, did you hearhim as he was saying, you know, that
he had done that?
He's done Matthew McConaugheyFor Matthew McConaughey, he starts
to go into the McConaugheyvoice as he's doing it.
Yeah.
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Because I assume he just can'thelp himself.
Like, as soon as he startsthinking McConaughey, he's got to
go into that voice.
But I wish we would havegotten on camera him doing some voices.
But during the time of justhanging out with him, he went through
some voices, and you're justwatching him like, dude, he did his
Harrison Ford then knock it off.
Yeah, that one.
I did do my keanu Reeves for him.
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And he was like, that's really good.
Okay.
We got a Ross Marquan stamp ofapproval for it.
Yeah, it was.
We were joking around aboutthat, and he's like, what?
With.
With Keanu Reeves?
You could tell he's thinkingwhen he's acting.
And I was like, I feel likehe's trying not to say, whoa.
Whoa.
I keep thinking, whoa.
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Yeah, I'm back.
Whoa.
I have to admit, one of my.
One of.
One of my favorite moments wasthe one that was completely unplanned,
and that was getting to meet Tinkerbell.
Margaret, Cary.
The whole way that thatscenario played out was just epic
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because, like, basically.
Basically, I think somebodycame and told me, said, hey, Amy's
looking for you.
And I said, oh, okay.
So we run back to the table,and I guess I saw Amy down the way
and came over and she said,the original Tinkerbell is here.
Would you like to sit down?
I said, yeah, absolutely notthinking that she was 95 years old
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and that I, you know.
But then the stories, like, Idropped one of the.
One of the shorts out of theinterview yesterday that.
That she was born on May,whatever, 1929, and three days later
was the Great Depression start.
The bottom dropped out of thestock market.
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The Great Depression started.
Her parents had to be like, well.
She was adopted, so they were dead.
Oh, yeah.
Well, her adopted parents still.
Yeah.
What happened?
Like, dude, you imagine justhaving a baby in the bottom falls
out of the economy as it'snever done before.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Add that on to the struggle.
Kind of halfway expecting thatthis year.
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Not the baby part while you.
The baby part, but the stockmarket dropping out.
Hey, you work and you work intire rubber.
That's never going away.
I was going to point that out, too.
When I walk up to him, I don'trandomly just go, michelin, boss.
That was an inside jokebetween me and him because he was
gracious enough to do a videofor my team who is super fans of
(22:32):
the Walking Dead.
Yeah.
And so whenever we come back,he'd be like, zach, the boss.
Because that's our acronym forwhat I do there.
So did you show.
Did you show the team the video?
Oh, yeah.
They were ecstatic.
Yeah.
And then again, I got the.
I was given shit about who.
Who do you not know evencalled you his best friend?
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You notice I didn't say it back.
I'm Ross's best friends.
I have other best friends.
Okay.
Yeah.
This is funny because theythink I literally know everybody.
And it just so happens inSouth Carolina through podcasting,
we kind of just.
Do, like, yeah, we get.
We get a very, very uniqueopportunity to meet people.
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Yeah, that's all it is.
It's like, I couldn't explainit, but, yeah, I kind of do know
a lot of people.
I sent Zach a text messagelast night telling him that an artist
that I found on TikTok andshared a song to Zach at very similar
time frames, he was listeningto the song that I sent to him.
(23:38):
And ultimately, I've beenhaving a conversation on TikTok with
an individual who isrepresentative of that artist and
has asked, would we like tohave him on the show?
And I was like, yeah.
And he says, well, when he'sdone with his Lyme disease treatment
in Mexico, we'll go ahead andget something scheduled.
And I'm like, lyme disease?
(24:00):
Let me tell you about Lyme disease.
I had suffered.
I suffered from Lyme diseasefor a short period of time where
I went through some of thatsame treatment, high levels of antibiotics
and whatnot, you know, so, youknow, I won him over with my.
My tick story.
Oh, yeah.
God, you'd.
Having to go to Mexico forLyme disease treatment.
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Well, you don't want to do ithere in the United States.
It's going to cost you an armand a leg.
No, I don't.
I mean, yeah, he's also fromthe uk.
Yeah, he's British.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe Mexico's got some drugsthat even the UK isn't, you know,
Maybe.
Maybe.
But I've.
I.
When.
When I was in Cancun.
What year is this?
(24:41):
20.
25.
20 years ago, I had suffered amigraine that was pretty debilitating,
and.
I.
Was taken to a clinic.
And even though I was not acitizen of Mexico, I was treated
for my migraine and withinhours, was fine.
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Didn't receive a bill.
I didn't have anybody tell me that.
You just walked out.
She never got the bill to you.
Well, you know, they.
I asked several times, youknow, how much do I owe for the service?
Nothing.
Is it socialized health carein Mexico?
Yep.
Universal health caresurrounded by affordable health care.
Yeah, they.
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That reminds me of the Ron.
Ron White joke.
Careful, this plate is hotwhen he puts it in his head.
Yeah, that's a.
And we won't say who it isyet, but this artist, that one song
you said that I was listeningto, that's a song that could make
you.
It could make me, you know,get a little emotional thinking about
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it.
Those kind of inner Demons andstuff that you can relate to on certain
levels of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If this ends up happening that.
I can't believe that.
Yeah.
I'm excited.
I think.
I think it's exciting and.
And how weird it was you sentme that, and I had just got done,
like, 10 minutes before.
That's crazy.
That's.
Yeah, that is.
I don't know.
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What are the odds?
They're not good.
Yeah.
So Comic Con 2025.
We've got the dates for theSoda City Comic Con.
I gotta say this, too.
How awesome your interviewwith Matthew Watterson was.
And the fact that now we'reall buddies, particularly you and
him.
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This is the second time wejust got to hang out with Matt Watterson.
He's a friend now.
Yeah.
And, yeah, he's.
He's.
And he's one of the coolest people.
Just like Ross.
Genuine.
Happy to do whatever.
Happy to talk with you.
Just hang out.
Yeah, he's a great dude.
Yeah.
I'm.
I'm.
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So we're going to have Brockon the next episode as well, because
Brock is going to do abreakdown of the Comic Con with us
because, you know, we.
We can do it as much justiceas we can from our perspective.
But he.
He.
He did say that he's going tohave some news to break on the podcast
the next episode that he comes on.
And apparently this is newsthat even some of his staff doesn't
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know yet, because I asked them.
What.
What.
What's the breaking news for the.
He has not told them yet, so.
Well, I wonder if it's thatRoss and Matthew Waterson are coming
back directly.
Because of us, because theymiss us as a mess.
They're doing it pro bono?
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I don't think so.
They're actually going to sitat our booth with us people that
would get us followers.
I see.
And here's the thing is, whenMatthew Watterson and Ross Marquan
and Caldot, when they come toSoda City Comic Con, they come with
a guy that is their handlerthat does their interviews.
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So it's the same guy doing theinterviews over and over and over
the panels and stuff.
I would really like for Brockto use us for maybe one or two of
those panels, but I don't know.
Contractually, do they have touse the guy that they travel with?
We want your job.
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If you're listening to us.
Yeah, just.
Or just hire us.
You go to me.
I'll talk to those damn people.
Those damn people.
That'll win them over.
Yeah.
So Soda City, he referred to you.
As damn people on his podcast.
That's true.
I'll talk to you damn people.
Soda city comic con 2025 iscoming up.
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That's going to be August 23rdand 24th.
This is the 10th soda citycomic Con.
So I have to imagine that it'sgoing to be a bigger event.
I think that I'm definitelygoing to try and talk and we'll bring
it up when we talk to Brock.
But I definitely think we'regoing to try and get Brock to maybe
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do some pre party events, thatsort of thing.
You know, we've got some eventspaces around town that people would
love to have utilized for SodaCity Comic Con.
Like maybe the Wednesdaybefore doing adviser.
Not to do Chick Fil a becauseyou won't leave the cow guy alone.
Another thing from the con,Barrett was harassing the Chick Fil
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a cow, particularly the man onthe inside.
Like the grand conspiracy ofwho it is and the cloak and dagger,
skull and bones ritual forwhomever has to don the cow.
So it started out the nightbefore the con started.
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So Friday night we were at aplace, I can't remember the name,
but it was a brewery inWilmington, North Carolina.
So they were under a bridge too?
Yeah, it was under a verycreepy bridge.
Many, many a drug deal hasgone down underneath that bridge.
Like you just pan to the leftof the brewery.
You could film a drug sequencefor a movie right there.
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And it's on the Cape Fearriver right there.
Blue Bloods was filmed on location.
So the Chick Fil a people were there.
And when at some point theChick fil a, the guy came out in
the Chick Fil a costume and Barrett.
Glue like a child because.
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So, you know, one of the, oneof the things that I think is extremely
entertaining is the fact thatwhen you are a mascot, you cannot
speak from inside thatmascot's costume.
You can't.
You can't do anything to makeany noise.
And when no one was around, Iwalked over to the Chick Fil a cow
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and I put my arm over his hoofand shoulders or whatever and I said,
hey, listen, there's nobody around.
You can talk now.
And he giggled.
I heard him audibly giggle.
The three Chick fil aemployees that were sitting at the
table, they all laughedbecause they heard him giggle.
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And I'm like, I'm like, I made.
I made the Chick Fil a cow giggle.
I made a mascot make noise.
So then for.
For a good portion of the restof that, I was trying to get him
to get.
I Was trying to get the ChickFil A cow to talk through the costume.
He didn't do it.
But when he didn't.
When he didn't wear thecostume, they all played it off to
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a tee that, like, oh, no, itwasn't him.
He was in the costume.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, he wasn't here, and he'shere now, so.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I think the girl.
The girl that was the directorof marketing for the whole thing
that was the.
Responsible for thesponsorship for the con.
Her name was Elizabeth Sawyer.
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She was.
She was awesome.
Chick Fil A.
Definitely a terrificmarketing director in her.
She was fun to interact with.
And ultimately, it was.
It was.
It was hilarious how much.
How well they put up with me.
Like, I have to believe atthis point, I am going to be one
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of the most insufferableelderly people with my.
Yeah, you already are fantastic.
And I like to say they stickto their guns.
Not there on Sunday.
Got to steal one of those chairs.
That's right.
It did not work Sunday.
I found that hilarious.
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Like, you're not working.
Right.
Yeah.
Probably were getting paid, Itake it.
So.
Yeah, I would imagine they were.
But, you know, they were.
They were all good sportsabout it.
When the Chick Fil A cow wasat the Comic Con, I definitely walked
over and harassed the poor guya lot.
I thought she was gonna letyou get in the suit for a minute
when you were like, I thought I.
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Was gonna get there.
So.
And that's something I've been talking.
I'm Talking to Katie McCrayabout, who is also a marketing director
here in Columbia for Chick Fil A.
I'm trying to see if I cantalk her into letting me dawn the
Chick Fil A costume here, youknow, but then.
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But then micing me up so that I.
So that what I say inside the cost.
I'll just be the.
I'll be the Chick Fil A cowthat talks.
I may try.
No, I think Chick Fil A willsend an assassin after you probably.
But.
But it got a priest.
How many rosary around.
It's nice.
How many.
How many other mascots in townCould I potentially get away with
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this?
So I'm thinking the firefly.
I'm thinking cocky.
I know some people that Icould try.
I'm going to try.
I mean, after smelling him thelast time, like, a year ago, I was
like, Christ, you couldn't payme to put that on.
Yeah, that's probably true.
Yeah.
The visceral.
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Just no smells that are goingto be happening for you.
I Just look in my head.
I imagine.
I imagine the scenario ofbeing that I'm wearing, like, Mason's
Firefly costume and takingpictures with kids, and then a kid
steps on my foot and me justflailing off with the obscenities.
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I think that firefly justdropped an F.
I'm.
It would.
It's going to have to be staged.
And obviously anything that issaid, you know, or anything that
it sounds like I am sayingfrom the costume is going to be mute.
It's going to be bleep.
But it would be such a great skit.
It was so hilarious.
And like, me walking around inthe firefly costume with my handler,
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whoever the handler is for themascot, and me just voicing, you
know what I'm observing aswe're walking by.
Look at that man.
Buying those six hot dogs.
I probably, you know, that's.
That I got to assume he's one.
One hot dog away from a heart attack.
You know, just.
Just making comments abouteverything I see.
But recording it from insidethe mascot head, which I'm not sure
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we can.
Take a picture did.
You know you're adopted momand dad?
You didn't tell them?
Who better to break it to youthan Mason the Firefly?
Brad, the president of theFireflies is not going to like hearing
this.
He is going to shut this down immediately.
I know.
He's going to keep you away.
He's going to keep you.
You already got season tickets.
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Guess which games you're going to.
Wednesdays only Wednesday games.
Wednesday they're gonna havethat seat up there that's meant for.
Only for Barrett.
And you cannot move.
Then you have a red flag soeveryone knows who you are.
Shame.
It's attached to you like a gokart antenna.
And every game.
Every game they open with shame.
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You know, the doin.
Shame.
And list off.
List off a list of your.
Yeah.
Blinded down syndrome personat the Comic Con.
And then what else?
Groped a butt of an attractivewoman in the line.
Told children they were adopted.
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Turns out they were really ruined.
The family dynamic.
Didn't wear deodorant insidethe uniform.
Mark's in handicap spots whenhe's just running in.
Really, really.
Just ruining.
All due respect for any ofthese mascots is what I'm.
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What I'm trying to get to.
I just accost waitresses withstupid questions.
I don't think any of myquestions are stupid.
I think they were just over.
It was.
They were just over their head.
You know, it was like.
It was.
It was.
I don't Know, it was, it wasvery entertaining.
The whole weekend was.
And thank you, Zach, for beingthere with me.
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It was.
We've been on this adventurefor like, what, six years now?
Seven years.
Well, 20.
25.
Yeah.
So.
So like at least since justbefore 2019.
So 2018.
2019.
Yeah.
Like seven years.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Any better at it?
I think, I think as far as.
Well, you can't, you can'tperfect perfection, you know.
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Yeah.
We were already this good.
We knew it.
There's limitations.
Now people know.
Oh, it's like me and Billdoing that Thursday, Tuesday, Thursday
thing.
It's really just to feed our egos.
Who, which, which, you know, Ihave no ego.
I've thoroughly enjoyed itlike every, every Thursday and Tuesday.
Let's turn it on, drive towork and listen to it.
Because old as shit.
Wake up at like 4:00 in the morning.
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I've had several people tellme that, like, as they're, as they're
getting up in the morning,they pull us up on TikTok or they
pull us up on YouTube and justsit and listen and watch.
And I'm like, what we need ismore people that when they do it,
that they, they, they commentduring the, during the Tuesday, Thursday
show.
Because it was.
It, you know, we, if we getmore interaction then, then we can
include more people.
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But, you know, it's, it'sdefinitely building an audience.
Over the course of the last, Idon't know, several weeks of it,
our TikTok numbers have gonefrom like 600 people viewing to,
to, I think we topped out atalmost 1800 people at one time.
So, you know, it's, it's significant.
And we usually pick up 7 to 10new followers every time.
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It's.
And it's slowly building.
Yeah, it is fun.
And then TikTok is going to go away.
We had our video interview,interview video stolen for the first
time, which was fun.
Yeah, that was interesting.
It just sort of, you know, Ihad someone that, that liked.
They, they liked one of ourvideos and I was like, oh, let me
go see who this was that likedthe video because it wasn't a follower
(38:42):
or what.
Somebody that just signed upto become a follower and I pull up
their profile page and sureenough, like, three of her video.
The top three videos on herprofile are our video.
Yeah.
And got pulled off of the TikTok.
So I thought, you know, it's not.
I'm not gonna be mad about it.
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Go for it.
Yeah, go for it.
I'm not gonna be mad about.
Was kind of cool to see, youknow, and I.
Yeah.
So we're supposed to recordwith Brock this Wednesday for the
episode that will follow.
And it, I'm hoping we'll getsome, some pretty inside information
on, you know, potentially.
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I don't, you know what?
I have no idea what he couldpotentially be announcing.
I don't know.
I don't think, I'm hoping thatat least like maybe a first guest.
Because I mean, the sooner youlet it be known, the better, the
more people.
And what's nice is Soda CityComic Con.
So the different, the bigdifferences between Soda City and
Wilmington, the Coastal Con isreally the size of the facility.
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I mean, Columbia is, ColumbiaConvention center is a huge facility.
Yeah.
A lot of space.
Now is it the biggest facility?
No, I mean, it may be the, oneof the larger facilities in Columbia,
but that's, that's thelimitation right now.
I think Brock would like to bebigger, potentially have more, you
know, different, maybe morevenues, but, you know, that's something
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we'll talk about.
I don't think there's a conlike Soda City around here.
Like, you had those other onesthat popped up.
I didn't hear any storiesabout this.
Well, there was, yeah, there'sthe, there's the one that's at the
state fairgrounds.
That was a few weeks ago.
Yeah.
And the same thing, like, Idon't, I don't hear a whole lot of
stories out of those cons.
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You know, like, I see some ofthe actors that they're going to
have.
Like, they had, they had BoDuke, what's his name?
Not, it wasn't Luke, it was Bo.
He was there.
They had, they had, they hadseveral decent, you know, decent
stars that, that kind of, youknow, you, you, you'd potentially
want to sit down andinterview, but you know, it, it,
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Soda City just feels, I don'tknow, it's, it's, it's more, feels
official.
It feels bigger.
It feels more put together.
Yeah, it feels like it's,everyone comes.
The amount of like vendorsbeing there, being able to take apart
with the vendors and have thatwhole room to vendors, it was just
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fantastic.
Yeah.
Their team does such a good job.
Well.
And then shortly following,the Soda City Comic Con is going
to be the Myrtle BeachBoardwalk Comic Con.
Yep.
I, I, I think that we may, wemay try and plan our.
Because we either go to, weeither go up to Charlotte to go to
Great Wolf Lodge.
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Sorry, Great Wolf Lodge feelslike such a, like National Lampoons
place.
To go.
It does the characters and whatnot.
There's a very creepy childthat they have this whole.
Have you been to Great WolfLodge before?
So at least at the NorthCarolina Charlotte 1, Concord 1,
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they have this every night.
They had this animatronic showthat goes on.
It may be more often thanthat, but this show that goes on
where there's this child whois scared and lost in the woods and
the animals around him or herare trying to comfort them by talking
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and singing.
Which it's animatronic likeChuck E.
Cheese.
Like it's a little bit, alittle bit like that.
But the, the, the child comesout of a, a a, a stump, a tree stump.
Then like like goes up andcomes out of the Trump tree stump
and then goes back down intothe tree stump but has the most like
shark eyes dead eyed look.
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So this child comes out of astump for that for all intents and
purposes is on the ground.
Yeah, sorry.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah.
The stump's standing straightup and so.
The child was in the ground.
There were clearly peoplearound at some point because they
cut this one tree and leftother trees.
Which has got to be horrifyingfor the rest of the trees that can
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talk around them.
Think about the scenario.
You came out of Bob's corpse.
Do you know that little child?
That's what's happening isthis child is popping up and down
from inside the shell of whatwas left of one of their tree friends.
That was my wife.
Yeah.
And they're, they'reconstantly reminded that their loved,
(43:28):
their tree loved one was oncewhole and now isn't.
The trees are vomiting as soonas the child pops up.
Oh my gosh, just so funny.
Oh, but where was I going with that?
Oh so, so we do, so ourdaughters every year will either
do Concord Great Wolf Lodge orwe'll do Myrtle beach because it's
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off season and stuff like that.
So I think what we'll try anddo is plan for the, the this year
we'll do Myrtle BeachBoardwalk Comic Con for the girls
birthday.
We'll do it for like a weekand then the weekend will be where,
where I'll, you know, we'll bethere for the Comic Con and hopefully
Zach, Hopefully Zach.
If we can, if we can get, ifwe can get a hotel room for the whole
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family, you know, or a resortlocation for the whole family.
And then when is that?
In October.
It's pretty far off.
My kids will be older.
Well yeah, but what we do iswe drag your in laws with you as
well.
Oh, yeah.
You've got to come.
We'll get.
We'll get a couple sweets, and then.
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I'll be ready for the twins.
Luke and Leia Cosplay.
There you go.
They're gonna be for Halloween.
There you go.
Ross Marquand sanctioned.
I did think I should havenamed them that, and I was like,
you know, I tried, I pitched.
It didn't work.
Yeah, that should.
That may work.
It depends.
Yeah, we'll see.
I don't know how tough this isgoing to be.
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Well, you may never see me again.
Well, Bill is.
Bill is ready to stand in for you.
Bill Fry is ready to stand infor you if.
If it ever does come to that.
But he is.
Bill has.
Has made a commitment.
He is.
He is going to be our stand in.
And when he can't, then it'lleither be Leroy, Steven or potentially
Preach.
(45:13):
That'll.
That'll stand you.
You've got some big shoes to fill.
That's.
I've told everybody.
Big shoes to fill.
Yes, they have big shoes to fill.
They have big shoes to fill.
I have told everyone thatregardless of who it is that's on
the show needs to come up withat least three impressions that they
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need to.
They really need to get down,you know, I guess.
You know, I don't know howmuch of an update you want to give
on Gabrielle and the coming ofthe twins, but we're 35 weeks this
week.
34.
34.
Yeah.
And they'll be taken no matterwhat at 38.
(45:56):
Yeah.
Yeah, that's.
So it's kind of like, shoot.
So we went to the er.
Everyone's fine.
But they also did everycheckable test on these babies.
Perfectly fine, perfectlyhealthy, but, like, not even remotely
dilated or ready to come.
So I think that these kids are.
They're.
They're gonna make it to 38.
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And now she's not working.
So I think there's one moreday she's gonna do something.
I'm like, whatever, butessentially no more working.
So this one will look a lotdifferent by the next time you see
me.
It looks.
It looks like you have about aweek's worth of diapers behind you.
I do.
This whole room is getting.
(46:39):
I was thinking about doing ittoday, but my.
This.
I got a pinched nerve in my neck.
Yeah.
Just radiating.
Might go see a chiropractor.
Not doctors.
I will never shit on themagain if they fix this, I'll tell
you that.
And they.
They.
They potentially will, but.
Or kill me.
One of the two it's not thatyou should shit on chiropractors
because of what they do.
It's that you should shit onthem because they are a cult.
(47:01):
They are.
They are.
They are a cult.
Well, you can't call them doctors.
You're not a doctor.
You did this.
Well, they did the seven years.
If they had one more year,they'd have had it, you know, but
no, but, yeah, that's.
That's how long.
That's how long they're in school.
But, yeah, you know, it's.
It's legitimately, I thinkthat they do things that really do
improve people's lives, but atthe same time, they're a cult.
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It's a cult.
Like the cracking baby's necksand dog's neck or animals.
Yeah, yeah.
It's when they include animalsand stuff like that.
Like, your horse kind of has a.
Yeah, well, look, now yourhorse just lays down.
He's still alive.
He just can't move.
I may have paralyzed Cbitz.
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Oh, all right, Last thing.
Last thing we'll talk aboutbefore the State of the Union address
or the joint congressional,whatever that went on on Tuesday
night for Donald Trump's firstshowing, he made a big deal over
one particular individual thatwas in the audience, and this was
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a younger girl that was avolleyball star.
Did you see this?
Yeah.
Okay.
So he made this big deal about.
And it was all an attack ontransgender people.
Transgender people.
And he made this big deal thatthis young girl playing volleyball
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had taken a ball to the faceand that it had partially paralyzed
her.
If they had been doing thisbetter than when she stood up and
waved both her hands, theyprobably should have stopped that
to make sure that it lookedlike she is partially paralyzed.
But she playing against Goku,like, I don't understand.
Yeah.
(48:50):
First of all, I've seen thevideo of it happening.
She was out in one.
She was.
I'm not blaming her, but I'm just.
I'm giving you some context.
She was playing out of position.
She was supposed to be playingthe front line.
She stepped back.
She was not flat.
She was flat footed.
She was not on her toes.
So, like.
And having.
Having played volleyballpretty, you know, for.
(49:11):
For 10 or 15 years after Imoved here to Columbia, like, you
know, you learn.
You.
You learn how to play volleyball.
Well, she did take it to the face.
I'll give it to you.
And she probably had a fairlysignificant concussion.
Concussion from being hit inthe face.
Fine.
Within seven weeks, she wasplaying basketball.
(49:33):
Yeah.
This.
This whole idea that, thatbecause she was Playing against a
transgender female on theopposite team.
That.
That's why she was hurt.
Or that this.
You know, I saw the play.
It wasn't remotely what Trump described.
Or were the damn transgender mice.
(49:56):
Right.
Gender mice.
You can't.
When that.
When that kind of lie comesout, you can't.
Everything they said isbullshit after that.
Oh, yeah, it was trans.
Million dollars.
Yeah.
Transgenic mice.
We.
We pay.
The United States pays forgrants that fund research that.
That.
That uses transgenic mice,which means because these mice have
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the.
Basically, they have beengiven our hormones, you can use human
medications that are intesting on these mice and will get
basically 99 to 100% similarreactions to what humans would react
to because they have beenaltered through transgenic science,
(50:45):
not transgender science.
Not only was it written in histeleprompter, so there's some writer
who's such an asshole that isknowingly doing this.
Or like, Elon Musk crewliterally pass out information off
to a bunch of dumbasspoliticians and.
And passing it off.
Like, that's something that'shappened right now.
(51:07):
The whole mass of followersthat he has genuinely think that
they were.
Spent $8 million on.
On transgender.
Yeah.
That's insane.
That is so insane.
I just.
After that, I was like, dude,the whole thing was pissing me off
to begin with, because you're.
If you're getting the truth,you're getting shades of it, you're
(51:28):
not going to ever get thewhole thing.
No, that's.
Even the volleyball player.
I was like, maybe she's a shitvolleyball player.
She definitely did not protecther face.
Like.
Like, she put her hands uplike this.
The ball hit her right in theface and mounts right off of it.
Like, there was no reaction at all.
Like, it hit in the face andshe went down.
But, like, the ball was comingat her.
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She moved back in defense, andI don't understand why her hands
weren't up for it.
Like.
Like, they all saw CharlieMorton take a fastball to the eye
socket.
Yeah.
So, I mean, yeah, I'd rathertake that volleyball.
I don't know.
Poor Charlie Morton.
I just.
(52:11):
It's all lies.
It's all lies.
And then they're so staunchlyagainst fact checking.
When did fact checking become,like, out of place?
Like, well, part of it.
Tell me if I'm right or wrong.
Part of the thing that drivesme insane is that, like, If I'm on
TikTok live and I have, youknow, it usually gets inundated with
about, you know, 15, 20 MAGA,you know, big Donald Trump supporters
(52:35):
and whatnot, because you cantell who they are, because they'll
just put in there, you know,maga, maga, Maga, Maga, maga, maga.
Or Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
As if that's supposed toelicit some kind of rage or something.
Yeah, yeah, we know.
That's what y'all do.
Yeah, well, it doesn't bother me.
It's.
It's a very creative way oftrying to sustain an argument.
But they do this and.
(52:58):
And then they'll put up acomment that says something like,
you know, well, you know, JoeBiden was worse.
And it's like.
It's like, okay, well, that's.
That's an opinion, I said.
And for you, maybe, you know,I try to take into account all of
the possibilities.
Yes.
Biden had one of the besteconomies that we've seen, and it
grew exponentially out of whatwas a terrible economy because.
(53:20):
And I'm not saying that DonaldTrump is completely to blame, but
a terrible economy because ofthe pandemic.
You could blame the pandemicon Trump because, you know, he basically
shut down the office that wassupposed to prepare the White House
for it coming.
He did offer some reallystupid ideas.
(53:41):
He didn't encourage anyone towear a mask.
He didn't encourage people tostay home.
He encouraged businesses andchurches to open up literally a month
after they.
They had been shut down.
Like, he wanted them open forEaster, and guess what?
They did.
They opened for Easter.
You know where some of thebiggest super spreader events were.
Fucking churches.
You know, you had to get to.
(54:02):
Church and put that fuckingash on your forehead.
No.
Or.
Or the.
Or your money in the basket.
That's what it was about.
It was about churches.
And the governor here in SouthCarolina did the exact same thing.
He said that the churches willbe open for Easter.
And the reason was.
Is because churches werestarting to have a hard time financially.
You know what?
Then maybe you shouldn't be a church.
Yeah, maybe you get some ofthat help if you paid your taxes,
(54:25):
too.
Yeah.
So, you know, but.
But they come in.
So.
So I'll give it to them.
Yes.
The economy, from a numbersaspect as a whole, looks pretty good
for what Biden did and how,you know, but you can't really.
You can't really say apresident's responsible for the economy
unless there are decisionsthat are being made that impact it
(54:48):
directly, which this week wehad because Donald Trump announced
that the Canada and Mexicotariffs were going to go into effect
on March 2nd at 12 or 11:59pmor 12:01am on March 2nd.
And they did.
And the immediate result wasbecause he announced it on Monday,
(55:09):
the stock market took a diveon Tuesday, because they went into
effect, the stock market tookanother dive.
Guess what he did on Wednesday?
He came back and he says, youknow what?
We're working.
We're camp.
Mexico's doing a fantastic jobof trying to curtail the fentanyl
crossing the border.
So we're gonna.
We're gonna remove the tariffsfor one month.
(55:30):
So we're gonna go through allthis bullshit again in a month.
He dropped it for Canada, too.
So we're gonna go through all.
Canada didn't drop the onesagainst us, did they?
I don't think so.
In fact, they're pullingliquor, American liquor, off the
shelves, which I fully respect.
I don't blame Canada at all.
So.
So we're gonna have the exactsame thing come April 2nd.
(55:53):
And the reason he doesn't wantto do on April 2nd is because he's
afraid if he does on April1st, people are gonn like, yeah,
yeah.
You threatening tariffs onother countries, our allies, as.
As an April Fool's joke.
Come on, man.
Your whole can, your wholeadministration's already a joke,
so just leave that out of it.
What adults are celebratingApril Fools.
(56:14):
Like, like the weird ones.
I'll.
I'll tell you this too.
When it comes to, like, MAGAand all that stuff, I.
I would support Donald Trumpif he was just an.
An asshole.
I don't.
I don't have a problem if hisdemeanor was.
He was such.
Just a piece of.
But he.
He did good policy.
(56:35):
Yeah.
Did good things that would.
That were just like everyone.
Everyone was.
If everyone was benefiting.
Yeah.
And if it was a.
Not just an opinion that,like, look at him.
He's doing such a great job.
Yeah, but he's.
He's an asshole.
Then I could suffer anasshole, Right?
(56:55):
Do it every day.
You may work with somebodywho's really good at their job, but
as a person, they suck.
But he doesn't do that.
He's an asshole.
That is incompetent.
Yeah.
Objective was the word.
I'm looking objective.
Eric woke me up to do this.
Joking.
Yeah.
But if he was objectively justway a good.
(57:17):
Making good policies, makinggood changes that everyone could
see, it would be a different story.
I could suffer an.
But.
Yeah.
He's an.
On top of being wildly incompetent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's.
The MAGA people don't careabout that they think.
They think just because he's an.
We don't like him becausewe're liberal or Democratic or whatever.
(57:37):
It's just insane.
I can suffer an.
He's just incompetent on topof it.
Yeah, no, I completely agree.
It's.
It's an SNL.
SNL's last Saturday.
Shane Gillis.
Shane Gillis.
And they had Mike Myersshowing up as Elon.
It was just beautiful.
Yeah, beautiful.
(57:58):
Yeah.
I, I'm hoping that somebodypicks up on the, on the skit idea
of having Mike Myers andsomebody playing Kanye west, but
in the reverse roles.
So now it's Mike Myers sayingthat Donald Trump hates black people.
That's the skit I want.
Yeah, it's the skit I want.
I loved when Trump, when MikeMyers comes out as Elon with that
(58:19):
chainsaw and the guy playingTrump's like, I love it when he gets
that chainsaw right by my head.
So appropriate.
I'm okay with all of this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll have to see how it comes.
It's, It's.
You know, I will not speculateon what hasn't happened yet.
(58:41):
I will.
I will simply wait for it tohappen and then.
And then I'll comment on it.
You know, ultimately that'sall I can do.
But, like, same with thevolleyball player.
Look, I felt bad when I heard,you know, he, he, he.
And I feel bad for, like, somebody.
Bad for her being used as a pawn.
Yeah.
And then the kid that justsurvived brain cancer and he made
(59:03):
up a Secret Service agent.
I thought that was.
I thought that, that wasreally, really kind and, and fantastic.
But we're gonna cut your funding.
Yeah, but then, then they turnaround and cut funding to children
childhood cancer research.
And it's like, it's like,here's your Secret Service badge.
Also, no kid after you is evergonna survive cancer again.
(59:24):
Yeah, right.
That's essentially, that'sessentially what was.
What was said.
Basically paraphrasing whatwas said and then the actions that
were done just now.
And that kid was from SouthCarolina too, wasn't he?
Because Chapin.
Didn't Chapin PoliceDepartment make him a police officer?
Maybe.
Yeah, I think I'm right on.
Yeah.
Some reason that does sound familiar.
(59:45):
I just don't.
I just don't remember.
But yeah, you know, put it in.
The comments if I'm wrong onthis one.
I think I'm right.
Yeah.
He was made a police officerleaving chapter.
I couldn't totally be wrong too.
Now I feel like I shouldn'thave said it, but here I am.
It's the Internet and that'show it works now.
So let me know.
(01:00:07):
Go ahead.
I thought you were gonna saysomething else.
I would say let me know if I'm wrong.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Damn people.
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(01:46):
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Zach, what did we do last weekend?
We were at Coastal Comic Con.
We were at Coastal Comic Con.
It was a blast.
A lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun.
Do you want to.
Do you want to real quicklydiscuss the.
The elephant in the room?
(03:54):
What is that?
Zach and I roomed togetherthis weekend.
Oh, my snoring.
I've been working to get myCPAP machine.
It's been delayed, like,multiple times for multiple reasons.
No, no.
I will say so.
(04:15):
As someone who has sufferedfrom the sleep apnea before, I did,
and thankfully I don't anymore.
It's definitely something thatis curable.
You just have to make sure youget it treated.
I was not aware as to howscary it was to hear you stop breathing.
(04:37):
And then, you know, it wasonly for, like five seconds.
Ten seconds.
This is HIPAA information.
You're just.
I'm going to call the cops.
That's cool.
In this.
I didn't sign a documentsaying I wouldn't.
I also am not a doctor.
I will just say I'm mostlyjust using this as sort of a PSA
for everyone.
If you do suffer from sleepapnea, get yourself tested.
(04:57):
Do a sleep study.
It is frightening for yourpartners because.
The next night it was better.
I told you it was.
I didn't notice that at all.
Yeah, I was just, like, exhausted.
I did really appreciate thejoke because I don't know, we were
(05:20):
walking down the hall and Isaid that you farted in your sleep.
And you looked at.
You're like, I wasn't asleep.
Because I wasn't.
That was hilarious.
Yeah.
Barrett and I, in that hotelroom, we had square pillows, which
was the.
Weirdest, weirdest thing I'veever experienced.
(05:42):
I don't.
I don't understand at all.
And you got four of them, sotogether they equal two rectangle
pillows.
But in the course of thenight, it's just four pillows that
go everywhere and.
Yeah, exactly.
My four pillows were like, thefirst night, of course, I had one
pillow under my head and onepillow over my head.
But there was no way to findany real level of comfort.
(06:06):
So comments that I would leavefor the sleep in.
In Wilmington, North Carolina,on Market street is maybe real sized
pillows.
Rectangles.
Rectangles.
It was.
It was a little odd, but yeah.
We were at Coastal Comic Conlast weekend, thanks to the invite,
(06:26):
of course, of Donald Brock Jr.
And the rest of the staff,Steve Powell, Amy, as well, that,
you know, lots of it was a lotof fun.
And also I want to thank themfor accommodating us like they do
and putting up the fact that Iam insufferable when it comes to
being.
Being out in publicrepresenting this podcast, because
(06:49):
I think that I referred tomyself and Zach as the talent so
many times.
It wasn't a lie.
But.
Yeah, but I did it so many times.
But again, I know I did itlast week, but I do really appreciate
all of the hard work thatBrock and his entire team do for
(07:13):
these things.
Also, we left our.
We left our banner up there.
So that is.
That was.
That has been transported backto Columbia.
And we will.
We will get that back for thenext one.
Because I'll tell you what,one of the funny, funny things I
went on whenever we would getto a prickly representative for.
Oh.
(07:34):
A celebrity guest.
Yeah.
Sam Witwer's.
Sam Witwer's handler.
Yeah.
Is you basically run throughthe Rolodex of, like, we're with
the Con, like, and show themthe badge, like, staff guest.
And then he's like, I don'tsee that in the contract.
Well, then maybe we're notwith the Con and this has nothing
to do with it.
So I found out.
I found out afterwards intalking to Brock that it is part
(07:58):
of the contract.
So that is something that, youknow, from.
From now on, it is definitelygoing to be part of our negotiating
when.
When it comes to talking tothem that.
That it's.
It.
They have.
There's something in thecontract, and I'll make sure that
we get a.
We.
We get a copy of that so wecan show Them says, hey, this is
your.
Your.
(08:18):
Your talent agreement for the con.
But yeah, Sam Witwer wouldhave been happy to have sat down
with us, but.
Oh, it's not Sam.
Like, it's just his.
The dude's a dick.
Like, there's no other way toput it is.
Is his manager while doingthis, I guess I would.
The only way I could equateit, the dude's just an unpleasant
person who's someone did himwrong at some point, and it is just
(08:41):
giving him an edge.
That is awful.
Yeah.
Well, I think when we talkedto Sam last time, it was.
We circumvented him.
Sure, he was sneering at usdown at the end of the table.
We used rh, our one that got.
Got us around the end of thetable to.
Yeah, yeah.
And thanks to RH too, becausehe and Frank and Deneen and I still
(09:07):
can't remember Deneen'sdaughter's name because I suck with
names.
But they're always just thebiggest smiles on their faces and
they're so pleasant.
Also, we didn't get thatdinner, though.
We can discuss that.
I also want to thank AmieBland for.
(09:27):
From the welcome to Wonderlandpodcast for being there at the con
with us because she was a hugehelp in every situation.
But just a huge help,especially keeping us online, too.
Yeah.
Although, and I'll say this,I've said it before, I don't think
people need to be told toignore me when I'm making.
(09:51):
Because when we're out inpublic and I see things that make
me laugh, then I bringattention to them.
Yeah.
Don't ignore Barrett.
Mostly the absurdities.
You know, I think I canprobably count on both hands the
number of times over thatweekend that someone was told to
a waiter or waitress orwhatever, ignore him.
(10:12):
This is him in public.
Ignore him.
Yeah, the waiter.
That was funny, too.
Waitress.
Whatever.
It happened frequently, but Iwas asking legitimate questions.
I don't remember exactly whatthe question I was asked, what I
asked that time that.
That deserve to be shut downso quickly.
But you know something aboutyour turkey cranberry sandwich.
(10:33):
Oh, yeah, maybe.
You know what?
And ultimately, that wasprobably a weird sandwich to order.
Not near Thanksgiving, like,but that's Gabrielle's.
Go to from East Bay.
It's like cranberry, turkey,turkey and cranberry.
Do they put.
Do they.
East Bay, huh?
Yeah.
Little shout out to East Bay Deli.
Wrong.
Wrong, Wrong.
(10:54):
Sounder.
I was going to give it.
I was going to give it theplug bell.
So let me see if I can.
We're open for sponsorship.
East Bay Deli.
I will eat a Sandwich Live for10 straight minutes.
You just record yourself doing it.
It's so good.
Every bite good is the next Icry when it's gone.
(11:14):
I could only.
I could only eat half of theturkey sandwich that was brought
out, but it also could havebeen because I think I ate some of
that over the buffalo dip orwhatever the dip was.
That was pretty good.
And I don't like pica de gallothat they put in there, but the buffalo
did away with the soap taste.
Oh, you get.
So you.
You get soap taste from meatand cilantro, too.
(11:36):
Yep.
Oh, man.
You a me.
It's an interesting.
It's an interestingaffliction, like, because if.
I had ordered it, I would havebeen like, please take off the pico
de Gaia.
We don't like it.
You did an impression ofDonald Trump and used the word please
at the beginning.
That's odd.
Oh, that's true.
Take it off.
I don't want it.
(11:57):
If it's on here, we'll send it back.
No fruits.
The whole meal will be free.
No fruits, no vegetables.
No.
Just meat, salt and fat.
What was one of the highlights of.
And it could be.
You could name anything, butwhat was like, one of the number
one things that you enjoyedthe most about the comic?
(12:19):
Definitely when you like acelebrity a lot and you go to meet
them, you're like, I hopethey're not a dick.
Yeah, I.
I love Ross Marquon.
Anything he does, I think is fantastic.
And he is an awesome person.
So getting to.
For a while on that first day,he didn't have much of a line.
So just sitting there andtalking with him was a lot of fun.
(12:40):
And getting to know him, allthat kind of stuff, and how just
kind he is and willing tofacilitate any kind of, like, requests
you had was.
He is just a grade A person.
It's one of those, meet, meetsomeone famous.
And I think that was my favorite.
And then when the window wasclosing for us to leave and get him
going to a panel and all thiskind of stuff, because it was three
(13:03):
hours away.
Right.
So that's quite a haul.
So, like, we were like, can wewalk and talk with you?
And he was like, absolutely,let's do it.
And that's what happened.
But, like, all the.
All the other times that we'resitting there talking to him for
probably a cumulativethroughout the hour, 45 minutes.
Yeah, yeah.
All of that time.
Yeah, we did.
(13:23):
We.
We just stuck a microphone onand then like we would have had like
an hour long conversation with him.
Exactly.
Well, as an exclusive, becauseI figured that that was probably
what you were going to bring up.
I'm going to go ahead and playyour interview with.
With Ross Marquand.
So this is an exclusive on theAll About Nothing podcast.
Here we go.
Yo, what's up?
Hey.
(13:43):
Hey again.
Hey, buddy.
Michelin, boss.
Michelin.
Yeah.
I just wanted to ask you.
So is Aaron gonna come back atsome point or what are we doing here?
We'll see.
There's definitely talks ofdifferent spin offs happening right
now, but nothing official, so.
Right, we will.
We will see what the, the AMCgods have to say about that.
Absolutely.
And we'll be there for it.
Awesome.
What voice can you not do?
(14:04):
What's that?
What voice can you not do?
I cannot do Ryan Gosling.
I've tried, tried for years.
I can't get him down.
He's got this strange.
I think he's from Canada.
I think he's from Toronto.
Yeah, because he's got thisstrange, like.
Oh, oh, I don't know, actually.
Oh, okay.
Should we maybe.
(14:24):
Okay, gotcha.
Should we.
Hello.
Sorry.
Oh, yes, through here.
Yeah, this is like Spinal Tap.
That's one of them.
Oh, no, go ahead.
I'll let you go first.
Yeah, I don't know.
Oh, it's probably.
Yeah, exactly.
I know where it is.
It's right there.
All right, let's go.
Just right there.
And it's.
Yeah, we're.
That door that's opening.
(14:44):
Yeah, right there.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah, so this is fun.
Yeah.
The other thing I was going toask you, how do you get in the headspace
for all these different Marvel roles?
You're like, yes, that one Red Skull.
Luckily, I really just likegot to stand on the shoulder of Giants.
You know, you got, got HugoWeaving, James Spader, Cedric Smith,
you know, all these greatactors who did it before me.
(15:06):
And luckily with a lot ofthese roles, they didn't want me
to reinvent the wheel.
They just wanted me to soundenough like them to give the general
feeling of these people, butalso making it my own, which is great.
I think that was the way to.
Go, you know, and the lastone, before we let you go, have you
had to do an impression infront of one of your people that
you were impersonating?
I have a few times.
(15:27):
I've did.
I did Larry David for Larry David.
I've done Norman Reedus forNorman Reedus, Matthew McConaughey
for McConaughey.
And doesn't always go as wellas you would think.
You know, you would thinkmaybe some of them take a little,
you know, slight to it.
A little slight.
Yeah.
You can't be mean.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, Ross, thank you so muchfor your time and going on the run.
Thanks, man.
(15:47):
You're the man.
Don't think about it.
Yeah.
That was great.
That was great.
You did such a good job.
I was, I was so proud of youbecause I could tell you get nervous.
You get a little nervous about that.
I'm a genuine fan.
Like, my hands betray me whenI meet someone that I truly like.
Like, I enjoy.
Like Ross Marquis.
And like, when I first methim, I was like, oh, Ross McQuan.
(16:08):
Yeah.
What do I do with my hands?
But, yeah, but he was.
He was absolutely super cool.
Uh, I really hope that we getanother opportunity to hang out with
him and talk to him againbecause I think that we.
We had a ton of questions thatwe wanted to talk to him about, but
we just.
The opportunity to actually doan interview with him just didn't
(16:30):
come.
We do have interviews also with.
I did one with MatthewWatterson, the voice of Magneto,
that I am still workingthrough editing because I acted kind
of dumb and at the verybeginning and I need to take that
out.
And it was perfect.
That was a great interview.
I do want to point out, ifyou're going to watch the video of
(16:51):
that interview, we blind this woman.
Let me pull it back up becauseI'll try and find the spot.
So it's right there.
Right there.
Hold on.
Here we go.
I'm just gonna.
(17:11):
She's like.
And then when we walked past,she's still like in the background.
Like, like she must have hadher eyes just wide open and did not
expect this bright light to be there.
Was.
Was the, Was the light that bright?
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I did.
I didn't.
I didn't think it was that bright.
Dude.
It's pretty bright.
Well, that's fair.
But.
But like, her reaction to itwas just like, ah, yeah.
Like she stared at the sun fora minute and she's walking by in
the background and she's stilllike, ugh.
I mean, you know, I'm walkingaround with a, with a small mount
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with a light on it that'sobviously in yalls faces.
And.
But I thought what was reallyfunny about that walk and talk was
that like, we.
I don't think any of us reallyknew where we were supposed to go
down the hallway to get.
No, we didn't.
And you did good job editingbecause there's one point where I'm
like, I don't think it's this way.
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Yeah, well, so.
So Ross is like, no, we go inright over there.
There's the door.
And I'm like, you've been in there.
I haven't gone in that.
But like, as I'm.
As I'm.
Because I'm walking backwardsthe whole time that I.
So I'm.
I'm walking backwards and I'mhaving a.
I'm having to turn my headbackwards to make sure I'm not going
to run into anybody.
We're just following a dudewho doesn't know where he's going
even if he was looking.
Yeah.
And like, as we're so, aswe're approaching.
(18:40):
As we're approaching what Iconsider to be the last possible
door that this we need to gothrough, I'm like, all right, I'm
just going to stop and we'regoing to pause, and then I'm going
to just point that way.
And of course, me pointingthat way.
Ross was like, oh, is it that door?
Subtle, Ross.
Very subtle.
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You're picking up directorscues and saying them out loud.
No wonder you're a voice actor.
It was so entertaining.
It was so entertaining.
Very exciting to know thatthere is a very real possibility
that Eren might show back up.
I am too.
I'm excited about that.
You know, he's a beast withthat club on his hand.
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It makes sense.
He was.
He was such an important partof the show and the tragedy that
has suffered when he lost his husband.
Just, you know, I think thatthat's something that makes that
character invaluable foreverything you could possibly do
with him.
Bring back, Ezekiel.
Bring back.
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I mean, you've already got.
Oh, the other thing I want topoint out, when he was.
When he was telling you theimpressions that he's done in front
of those people, did you hearhim as he was saying, you know, that
he had done that?
He's done Matthew McConaugheyFor Matthew McConaughey, he starts
to go into the McConaugheyvoice as he's doing it.
Yeah.
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Because I assume he just can'thelp himself.
Like, as soon as he startsthinking McConaughey, he's got to
go into that voice.
But I wish we would havegotten on camera him doing some voices.
But during the time of justhanging out with him, he went through
some voices, and you're justwatching him like, dude, he did his
Harrison Ford then knock it off.
Yeah, that one.
I did do my keanu Reeves for him.
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And he was like, that's really good.
Okay.
We got a Ross Marquan stamp ofapproval for it.
Yeah, it was.
We were joking around aboutthat, and he's like, what?
With.
With Keanu Reeves?
You could tell he's thinkingwhen he's acting.
And I was like, I feel likehe's trying not to say, whoa.
Whoa.
I keep thinking, whoa.
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Yeah, I'm back.
Whoa.
I have to admit, one of my.
One of.
One of my favorite moments wasthe one that was completely unplanned,
and that was getting to meet Tinkerbell.
Margaret, Cary.
The whole way that thatscenario played out was just epic
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because, like, basically.
Basically, I think somebodycame and told me, said, hey, Amy's
looking for you.
And I said, oh, okay.
So we run back to the table,and I guess I saw Amy down the way
and came over and she said,the original Tinkerbell is here.
Would you like to sit down?
I said, yeah, absolutely notthinking that she was 95 years old
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and that I, you know.
But then the stories, like, Idropped one of the.
One of the shorts out of theinterview yesterday that.
That she was born on May,whatever, 1929, and three days later
was the Great Depression start.
The bottom dropped out of thestock market.
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The Great Depression started.
Her parents had to be like, well.
She was adopted, so they were dead.
Oh, yeah.
Well, her adopted parents still.
Yeah.
What happened?
Like, dude, you imagine justhaving a baby in the bottom falls
out of the economy as it'snever done before.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Add that on to the struggle.
Kind of halfway expecting thatthis year.
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Not the baby part while you.
The baby part, but the stockmarket dropping out.
Hey, you work and you work intire rubber.
That's never going away.
I was going to point that out, too.
When I walk up to him, I don'trandomly just go, michelin, boss.
That was an inside jokebetween me and him because he was
gracious enough to do a videofor my team who is super fans of
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the Walking Dead.
Yeah.
And so whenever we come back,he'd be like, zach, the boss.
Because that's our acronym forwhat I do there.
So did you show.
Did you show the team the video?
Oh, yeah.
They were ecstatic.
Yeah.
And then again, I got the.
I was given shit about who.
Who do you not know evencalled you his best friend?
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You notice I didn't say it back.
I'm Ross's best friends.
I have other best friends.
Okay.
Yeah.
This is funny because theythink I literally know everybody.
And it just so happens inSouth Carolina through podcasting,
we kind of just.
Do, like, yeah, we get.
We get a very, very uniqueopportunity to meet people.
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Yeah, that's all it is.
It's like, I couldn't explainit, but, yeah, I kind of do know
a lot of people.
I sent Zach a text messagelast night telling him that an artist
that I found on TikTok andshared a song to Zach at very similar
time frames, he was listeningto the song that I sent to him.
(23:38):
And ultimately, I've beenhaving a conversation on TikTok with
an individual who isrepresentative of that artist and
has asked, would we like tohave him on the show?
And I was like, yeah.
And he says, well, when he'sdone with his Lyme disease treatment
in Mexico, we'll go ahead andget something scheduled.
And I'm like, lyme disease?
(24:00):
Let me tell you about Lyme disease.
I had suffered.
I suffered from Lyme diseasefor a short period of time where
I went through some of thatsame treatment, high levels of antibiotics
and whatnot, you know, so, youknow, I won him over with my.
My tick story.
Oh, yeah.
God, you'd.
Having to go to Mexico forLyme disease treatment.
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Well, you don't want to do ithere in the United States.
It's going to cost you an armand a leg.
No, I don't.
I mean, yeah, he's also fromthe uk.
Yeah, he's British.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe Mexico's got some drugsthat even the UK isn't, you know,
Maybe.
Maybe.
But I've.
I.
When.
When I was in Cancun.
What year is this?
(24:41):
20.
25.
20 years ago, I had suffered amigraine that was pretty debilitating,
and.
I.
Was taken to a clinic.
And even though I was not acitizen of Mexico, I was treated
for my migraine and withinhours, was fine.
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Didn't receive a bill.
I didn't have anybody tell me that.
You just walked out.
She never got the bill to you.
Well, you know, they.
I asked several times, youknow, how much do I owe for the service?
Nothing.
Is it socialized health carein Mexico?
Yep.
Universal health caresurrounded by affordable health care.
Yeah, they.
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That reminds me of the Ron.
Ron White joke.
Careful, this plate is hotwhen he puts it in his head.
Yeah, that's a.
And we won't say who it isyet, but this artist, that one song
you said that I was listeningto, that's a song that could make
you.
It could make me, you know,get a little emotional thinking about
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it.
Those kind of inner Demons andstuff that you can relate to on certain
levels of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If this ends up happening that.
I can't believe that.
Yeah.
I'm excited.
I think.
I think it's exciting and.
And how weird it was you sentme that, and I had just got done,
like, 10 minutes before.
That's crazy.
That's.
Yeah, that is.
I don't know.
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What are the odds?
They're not good.
Yeah.
So Comic Con 2025.
We've got the dates for theSoda City Comic Con.
I gotta say this, too.
How awesome your interviewwith Matthew Watterson was.
And the fact that now we'reall buddies, particularly you and
him.
(26:26):
This is the second time wejust got to hang out with Matt Watterson.
He's a friend now.
Yeah.
And, yeah, he's.
He's.
And he's one of the coolest people.
Just like Ross.
Genuine.
Happy to do whatever.
Happy to talk with you.
Just hang out.
Yeah, he's a great dude.
Yeah.
I'm.
I'm.
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So we're going to have Brockon the next episode as well, because
Brock is going to do abreakdown of the Comic Con with us
because, you know, we.
We can do it as much justiceas we can from our perspective.
But he.
He.
He did say that he's going tohave some news to break on the podcast
the next episode that he comes on.
And apparently this is newsthat even some of his staff doesn't
(27:08):
know yet, because I asked them.
What.
What.
What's the breaking news for the.
He has not told them yet, so.
Well, I wonder if it's thatRoss and Matthew Waterson are coming
back directly.
Because of us, because theymiss us as a mess.
They're doing it pro bono?
(27:29):
I don't think so.
They're actually going to sitat our booth with us people that
would get us followers.
I see.
And here's the thing is, whenMatthew Watterson and Ross Marquan
and Caldot, when they come toSoda City Comic Con, they come with
a guy that is their handlerthat does their interviews.
(27:52):
So it's the same guy doing theinterviews over and over and over
the panels and stuff.
I would really like for Brockto use us for maybe one or two of
those panels, but I don't know.
Contractually, do they have touse the guy that they travel with?
We want your job.
(28:12):
If you're listening to us.
Yeah, just.
Or just hire us.
You go to me.
I'll talk to those damn people.
Those damn people.
That'll win them over.
Yeah.
So Soda City, he referred to you.
As damn people on his podcast.
That's true.
I'll talk to you damn people.
Soda city comic con 2025 iscoming up.
(28:35):
That's going to be August 23rdand 24th.
This is the 10th soda citycomic Con.
So I have to imagine that it'sgoing to be a bigger event.
I think that I'm definitelygoing to try and talk and we'll bring
it up when we talk to Brock.
But I definitely think we'regoing to try and get Brock to maybe
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do some pre party events, thatsort of thing.
You know, we've got some eventspaces around town that people would
love to have utilized for SodaCity Comic Con.
Like maybe the Wednesdaybefore doing adviser.
Not to do Chick Fil a becauseyou won't leave the cow guy alone.
Another thing from the con,Barrett was harassing the Chick Fil
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a cow, particularly the man onthe inside.
Like the grand conspiracy ofwho it is and the cloak and dagger,
skull and bones ritual forwhomever has to don the cow.
So it started out the nightbefore the con started.
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So Friday night we were at aplace, I can't remember the name,
but it was a brewery inWilmington, North Carolina.
So they were under a bridge too?
Yeah, it was under a verycreepy bridge.
Many, many a drug deal hasgone down underneath that bridge.
Like you just pan to the leftof the brewery.
You could film a drug sequencefor a movie right there.
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And it's on the Cape Fearriver right there.
Blue Bloods was filmed on location.
So the Chick Fil a people were there.
And when at some point theChick fil a, the guy came out in
the Chick Fil a costume and Barrett.
Glue like a child because.
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So, you know, one of the, oneof the things that I think is extremely
entertaining is the fact thatwhen you are a mascot, you cannot
speak from inside thatmascot's costume.
You can't.
You can't do anything to makeany noise.
And when no one was around, Iwalked over to the Chick Fil a cow
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and I put my arm over his hoofand shoulders or whatever and I said,
hey, listen, there's nobody around.
You can talk now.
And he giggled.
I heard him audibly giggle.
The three Chick fil aemployees that were sitting at the
table, they all laughedbecause they heard him giggle.
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And I'm like, I'm like, I made.
I made the Chick Fil a cow giggle.
I made a mascot make noise.
So then for.
For a good portion of the restof that, I was trying to get him
to get.
I Was trying to get the ChickFil A cow to talk through the costume.
He didn't do it.
But when he didn't.
When he didn't wear thecostume, they all played it off to
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a tee that, like, oh, no, itwasn't him.
He was in the costume.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, he wasn't here, and he'shere now, so.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I think the girl.
The girl that was the directorof marketing for the whole thing
that was the.
Responsible for thesponsorship for the con.
Her name was Elizabeth Sawyer.
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She was.
She was awesome.
Chick Fil A.
Definitely a terrificmarketing director in her.
She was fun to interact with.
And ultimately, it was.
It was.
It was hilarious how much.
How well they put up with me.
Like, I have to believe atthis point, I am going to be one
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of the most insufferableelderly people with my.
Yeah, you already are fantastic.
And I like to say they stickto their guns.
Not there on Sunday.
Got to steal one of those chairs.
That's right.
It did not work Sunday.
I found that hilarious.
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Like, you're not working.
Right.
Yeah.
Probably were getting paid, Itake it.
So.
Yeah, I would imagine they were.
But, you know, they were.
They were all good sportsabout it.
When the Chick Fil A cow wasat the Comic Con, I definitely walked
over and harassed the poor guya lot.
I thought she was gonna letyou get in the suit for a minute
when you were like, I thought I.
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Was gonna get there.
So.
And that's something I've been talking.
I'm Talking to Katie McCrayabout, who is also a marketing director
here in Columbia for Chick Fil A.
I'm trying to see if I cantalk her into letting me dawn the
Chick Fil A costume here, youknow, but then.
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But then micing me up so that I.
So that what I say inside the cost.
I'll just be the.
I'll be the Chick Fil A cowthat talks.
I may try.
No, I think Chick Fil A willsend an assassin after you probably.
But.
But it got a priest.
How many rosary around.
It's nice.
How many.
How many other mascots in townCould I potentially get away with
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this?
So I'm thinking the firefly.
I'm thinking cocky.
I know some people that Icould try.
I'm going to try.
I mean, after smelling him thelast time, like, a year ago, I was
like, Christ, you couldn't payme to put that on.
Yeah, that's probably true.
Yeah.
The visceral.
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Just no smells that are goingto be happening for you.
I Just look in my head.
I imagine.
I imagine the scenario ofbeing that I'm wearing, like, Mason's
Firefly costume and takingpictures with kids, and then a kid
steps on my foot and me justflailing off with the obscenities.
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I think that firefly justdropped an F.
I'm.
It would.
It's going to have to be staged.
And obviously anything that issaid, you know, or anything that
it sounds like I am sayingfrom the costume is going to be mute.
It's going to be bleep.
But it would be such a great skit.
It was so hilarious.
And like, me walking around inthe firefly costume with my handler,
(34:46):
whoever the handler is for themascot, and me just voicing, you
know what I'm observing aswe're walking by.
Look at that man.
Buying those six hot dogs.
I probably, you know, that's.
That I got to assume he's one.
One hot dog away from a heart attack.
You know, just.
Just making comments abouteverything I see.
But recording it from insidethe mascot head, which I'm not sure
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we can.
Take a picture did.
You know you're adopted momand dad?
You didn't tell them?
Who better to break it to youthan Mason the Firefly?
Brad, the president of theFireflies is not going to like hearing
this.
He is going to shut this down immediately.
I know.
He's going to keep you away.
He's going to keep you.
You already got season tickets.
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Guess which games you're going to.
Wednesdays only Wednesday games.
Wednesday they're gonna havethat seat up there that's meant for.
Only for Barrett.
And you cannot move.
Then you have a red flag soeveryone knows who you are.
Shame.
It's attached to you like a gokart antenna.
And every game.
Every game they open with shame.
(35:50):
You know, the doin.
Shame.
And list off.
List off a list of your.
Yeah.
Blinded down syndrome personat the Comic Con.
And then what else?
Groped a butt of an attractivewoman in the line.
Told children they were adopted.
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Turns out they were really ruined.
The family dynamic.
Didn't wear deodorant insidethe uniform.
Mark's in handicap spots whenhe's just running in.
Really, really.
Just ruining.
All due respect for any ofthese mascots is what I'm.
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What I'm trying to get to.
I just accost waitresses withstupid questions.
I don't think any of myquestions are stupid.
I think they were just over.
It was.
They were just over their head.
You know, it was like.
It was.
It was.
I don't Know, it was, it wasvery entertaining.
The whole weekend was.
And thank you, Zach, for beingthere with me.
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It was.
We've been on this adventurefor like, what, six years now?
Seven years.
Well, 20.
25.
Yeah.
So.
So like at least since justbefore 2019.
So 2018.
2019.
Yeah.
Like seven years.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Any better at it?
I think, I think as far as.
Well, you can't, you can'tperfect perfection, you know.
(37:17):
Yeah.
We were already this good.
We knew it.
There's limitations.
Now people know.
Oh, it's like me and Billdoing that Thursday, Tuesday, Thursday
thing.
It's really just to feed our egos.
Who, which, which, you know, Ihave no ego.
I've thoroughly enjoyed itlike every, every Thursday and Tuesday.
Let's turn it on, drive towork and listen to it.
Because old as shit.
Wake up at like 4:00 in the morning.
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I've had several people tellme that, like, as they're, as they're
getting up in the morning,they pull us up on TikTok or they
pull us up on YouTube and justsit and listen and watch.
And I'm like, what we need ismore people that when they do it,
that they, they, they commentduring the, during the Tuesday, Thursday
show.
Because it was.
It, you know, we, if we getmore interaction then, then we can
include more people.
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But, you know, it's, it'sdefinitely building an audience.
Over the course of the last, Idon't know, several weeks of it,
our TikTok numbers have gonefrom like 600 people viewing to,
to, I think we topped out atalmost 1800 people at one time.
So, you know, it's, it's significant.
And we usually pick up 7 to 10new followers every time.
(38:21):
It's.
And it's slowly building.
Yeah, it is fun.
And then TikTok is going to go away.
We had our video interview,interview video stolen for the first
time, which was fun.
Yeah, that was interesting.
It just sort of, you know, Ihad someone that, that liked.
They, they liked one of ourvideos and I was like, oh, let me
go see who this was that likedthe video because it wasn't a follower
(38:42):
or what.
Somebody that just signed upto become a follower and I pull up
their profile page and sureenough, like, three of her video.
The top three videos on herprofile are our video.
Yeah.
And got pulled off of the TikTok.
So I thought, you know, it's not.
I'm not gonna be mad about it.
(39:02):
Go for it.
Yeah, go for it.
I'm not gonna be mad about.
Was kind of cool to see, youknow, and I.
Yeah.
So we're supposed to recordwith Brock this Wednesday for the
episode that will follow.
And it, I'm hoping we'll getsome, some pretty inside information
on, you know, potentially.
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I don't, you know what?
I have no idea what he couldpotentially be announcing.
I don't know.
I don't think, I'm hoping thatat least like maybe a first guest.
Because I mean, the sooner youlet it be known, the better, the
more people.
And what's nice is Soda CityComic Con.
So the different, the bigdifferences between Soda City and
Wilmington, the Coastal Con isreally the size of the facility.
(39:48):
I mean, Columbia is, ColumbiaConvention center is a huge facility.
Yeah.
A lot of space.
Now is it the biggest facility?
No, I mean, it may be the, oneof the larger facilities in Columbia,
but that's, that's thelimitation right now.
I think Brock would like to bebigger, potentially have more, you
know, different, maybe morevenues, but, you know, that's something
(40:11):
we'll talk about.
I don't think there's a conlike Soda City around here.
Like, you had those other onesthat popped up.
I didn't hear any storiesabout this.
Well, there was, yeah, there'sthe, there's the one that's at the
state fairgrounds.
That was a few weeks ago.
Yeah.
And the same thing, like, Idon't, I don't hear a whole lot of
stories out of those cons.
(40:32):
You know, like, I see some ofthe actors that they're going to
have.
Like, they had, they had BoDuke, what's his name?
Not, it wasn't Luke, it was Bo.
He was there.
They had, they had, they hadseveral decent, you know, decent
stars that, that kind of, youknow, you, you, you'd potentially
want to sit down andinterview, but you know, it, it,
(40:54):
Soda City just feels, I don'tknow, it's, it's, it's more, feels
official.
It feels bigger.
It feels more put together.
Yeah, it feels like it's,everyone comes.
The amount of like vendorsbeing there, being able to take apart
with the vendors and have thatwhole room to vendors, it was just
(41:16):
fantastic.
Yeah.
Their team does such a good job.
Well.
And then shortly following,the Soda City Comic Con is going
to be the Myrtle BeachBoardwalk Comic Con.
Yep.
I, I, I think that we may, wemay try and plan our.
Because we either go to, weeither go up to Charlotte to go to
Great Wolf Lodge.
(41:39):
Sorry, Great Wolf Lodge feelslike such a, like National Lampoons
place.
To go.
It does the characters and whatnot.
There's a very creepy childthat they have this whole.
Have you been to Great WolfLodge before?
So at least at the NorthCarolina Charlotte 1, Concord 1,
(42:02):
they have this every night.
They had this animatronic showthat goes on.
It may be more often thanthat, but this show that goes on
where there's this child whois scared and lost in the woods and
the animals around him or herare trying to comfort them by talking
(42:23):
and singing.
Which it's animatronic likeChuck E.
Cheese.
Like it's a little bit, alittle bit like that.
But the, the, the child comesout of a, a a, a stump, a tree stump.
Then like like goes up andcomes out of the Trump tree stump
and then goes back down intothe tree stump but has the most like
shark eyes dead eyed look.
(42:46):
So this child comes out of astump for that for all intents and
purposes is on the ground.
Yeah, sorry.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah.
The stump's standing straightup and so.
The child was in the ground.
There were clearly peoplearound at some point because they
cut this one tree and leftother trees.
Which has got to be horrifyingfor the rest of the trees that can
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talk around them.
Think about the scenario.
You came out of Bob's corpse.
Do you know that little child?
That's what's happening isthis child is popping up and down
from inside the shell of whatwas left of one of their tree friends.
That was my wife.
Yeah.
And they're, they'reconstantly reminded that their loved,
(43:28):
their tree loved one was oncewhole and now isn't.
The trees are vomiting as soonas the child pops up.
Oh my gosh, just so funny.
Oh, but where was I going with that?
Oh so, so we do, so ourdaughters every year will either
do Concord Great Wolf Lodge orwe'll do Myrtle beach because it's
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off season and stuff like that.
So I think what we'll try anddo is plan for the, the this year
we'll do Myrtle BeachBoardwalk Comic Con for the girls
birthday.
We'll do it for like a weekand then the weekend will be where,
where I'll, you know, we'll bethere for the Comic Con and hopefully
Zach, Hopefully Zach.
If we can, if we can get, ifwe can get a hotel room for the whole
(44:11):
family, you know, or a resortlocation for the whole family.
And then when is that?
In October.
It's pretty far off.
My kids will be older.
Well yeah, but what we do iswe drag your in laws with you as
well.
Oh, yeah.
You've got to come.
We'll get.
We'll get a couple sweets, and then.
(44:32):
I'll be ready for the twins.
Luke and Leia Cosplay.
There you go.
They're gonna be for Halloween.
There you go.
Ross Marquand sanctioned.
I did think I should havenamed them that, and I was like,
you know, I tried, I pitched.
It didn't work.
Yeah, that should.
That may work.
It depends.
Yeah, we'll see.
I don't know how tough this isgoing to be.
(44:53):
Well, you may never see me again.
Well, Bill is.
Bill is ready to stand in for you.
Bill Fry is ready to stand infor you if.
If it ever does come to that.
But he is.
Bill has.
Has made a commitment.
He is.
He is going to be our stand in.
And when he can't, then it'lleither be Leroy, Steven or potentially
Preach.
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That'll.
That'll stand you.
You've got some big shoes to fill.
That's.
I've told everybody.
Big shoes to fill.
Yes, they have big shoes to fill.
They have big shoes to fill.
I have told everyone thatregardless of who it is that's on
the show needs to come up withat least three impressions that they
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need to.
They really need to get down,you know, I guess.
You know, I don't know howmuch of an update you want to give
on Gabrielle and the coming ofthe twins, but we're 35 weeks this
week.
34.
34.
Yeah.
And they'll be taken no matterwhat at 38.
(45:56):
Yeah.
Yeah, that's.
So it's kind of like, shoot.
So we went to the er.
Everyone's fine.
But they also did everycheckable test on these babies.
Perfectly fine, perfectlyhealthy, but, like, not even remotely
dilated or ready to come.
So I think that these kids are.
They're.
They're gonna make it to 38.
(46:17):
And now she's not working.
So I think there's one moreday she's gonna do something.
I'm like, whatever, butessentially no more working.
So this one will look a lotdifferent by the next time you see
me.
It looks.
It looks like you have about aweek's worth of diapers behind you.
I do.
This whole room is getting.
(46:39):
I was thinking about doing ittoday, but my.
This.
I got a pinched nerve in my neck.
Yeah.
Just radiating.
Might go see a chiropractor.
Not doctors.
I will never shit on themagain if they fix this, I'll tell
you that.
And they.
They.
They potentially will, but.
Or kill me.
One of the two it's not thatyou should shit on chiropractors
because of what they do.
It's that you should shit onthem because they are a cult.
(47:01):
They are.
They are.
They are a cult.
Well, you can't call them doctors.
You're not a doctor.
You did this.
Well, they did the seven years.
If they had one more year,they'd have had it, you know, but
no, but, yeah, that's.
That's how long.
That's how long they're in school.
But, yeah, you know, it's.
It's legitimately, I thinkthat they do things that really do
improve people's lives, but atthe same time, they're a cult.
(47:25):
It's a cult.
Like the cracking baby's necksand dog's neck or animals.
Yeah, yeah.
It's when they include animalsand stuff like that.
Like, your horse kind of has a.
Yeah, well, look, now yourhorse just lays down.
He's still alive.
He just can't move.
I may have paralyzed Cbitz.
(47:47):
Oh, all right, Last thing.
Last thing we'll talk aboutbefore the State of the Union address
or the joint congressional,whatever that went on on Tuesday
night for Donald Trump's firstshowing, he made a big deal over
one particular individual thatwas in the audience, and this was
(48:08):
a younger girl that was avolleyball star.
Did you see this?
Yeah.
Okay.
So he made this big deal about.
And it was all an attack ontransgender people.
Transgender people.
And he made this big deal thatthis young girl playing volleyball
(48:28):
had taken a ball to the faceand that it had partially paralyzed
her.
If they had been doing thisbetter than when she stood up and
waved both her hands, theyprobably should have stopped that
to make sure that it lookedlike she is partially paralyzed.
But she playing against Goku,like, I don't understand.
Yeah.
(48:50):
First of all, I've seen thevideo of it happening.
She was out in one.
She was.
I'm not blaming her, but I'm just.
I'm giving you some context.
She was playing out of position.
She was supposed to be playingthe front line.
She stepped back.
She was not flat.
She was flat footed.
She was not on her toes.
So, like.
And having.
Having played volleyballpretty, you know, for.
(49:11):
For 10 or 15 years after Imoved here to Columbia, like, you
know, you learn.
You.
You learn how to play volleyball.
Well, she did take it to the face.
I'll give it to you.
And she probably had a fairlysignificant concussion.
Concussion from being hit inthe face.
Fine.
Within seven weeks, she wasplaying basketball.
(49:33):
Yeah.
This.
This whole idea that, thatbecause she was Playing against a
transgender female on theopposite team.
That.
That's why she was hurt.
Or that this.
You know, I saw the play.
It wasn't remotely what Trump described.
Or were the damn transgender mice.
(49:56):
Right.
Gender mice.
You can't.
When that.
When that kind of lie comesout, you can't.
Everything they said isbullshit after that.
Oh, yeah, it was trans.
Million dollars.
Yeah.
Transgenic mice.
We.
We pay.
The United States pays forgrants that fund research that.
That.
That uses transgenic mice,which means because these mice have
(50:21):
the.
Basically, they have beengiven our hormones, you can use human
medications that are intesting on these mice and will get
basically 99 to 100% similarreactions to what humans would react
to because they have beenaltered through transgenic science,
(50:45):
not transgender science.
Not only was it written in histeleprompter, so there's some writer
who's such an asshole that isknowingly doing this.
Or like, Elon Musk crewliterally pass out information off
to a bunch of dumbasspoliticians and.
And passing it off.
Like, that's something that'shappened right now.
(51:07):
The whole mass of followersthat he has genuinely think that
they were.
Spent $8 million on.
On transgender.
Yeah.
That's insane.
That is so insane.
I just.
After that, I was like, dude,the whole thing was pissing me off
to begin with, because you're.
If you're getting the truth,you're getting shades of it, you're
(51:28):
not going to ever get thewhole thing.
No, that's.
Even the volleyball player.
I was like, maybe she's a shitvolleyball player.
She definitely did not protecther face.
Like.
Like, she put her hands uplike this.
The ball hit her right in theface and mounts right off of it.
Like, there was no reaction at all.
Like, it hit in the face andshe went down.
But, like, the ball was comingat her.
(51:49):
She moved back in defense, andI don't understand why her hands
weren't up for it.
Like.
Like, they all saw CharlieMorton take a fastball to the eye
socket.
Yeah.
So, I mean, yeah, I'd rathertake that volleyball.
I don't know.
Poor Charlie Morton.
I just.
(52:11):
It's all lies.
It's all lies.
And then they're so staunchlyagainst fact checking.
When did fact checking become,like, out of place?
Like, well, part of it.
Tell me if I'm right or wrong.
Part of the thing that drivesme insane is that, like, If I'm on
TikTok live and I have, youknow, it usually gets inundated with
about, you know, 15, 20 MAGA,you know, big Donald Trump supporters
(52:35):
and whatnot, because you cantell who they are, because they'll
just put in there, you know,maga, maga, Maga, Maga, maga, maga.
Or Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
As if that's supposed toelicit some kind of rage or something.
Yeah, yeah, we know.
That's what y'all do.
Yeah, well, it doesn't bother me.
It's.
It's a very creative way oftrying to sustain an argument.
But they do this and.
(52:58):
And then they'll put up acomment that says something like,
you know, well, you know, JoeBiden was worse.
And it's like.
It's like, okay, well, that's.
That's an opinion, I said.
And for you, maybe, you know,I try to take into account all of
the possibilities.
Yes.
Biden had one of the besteconomies that we've seen, and it
grew exponentially out of whatwas a terrible economy because.
(53:20):
And I'm not saying that DonaldTrump is completely to blame, but
a terrible economy because ofthe pandemic.
You could blame the pandemicon Trump because, you know, he basically
shut down the office that wassupposed to prepare the White House
for it coming.
He did offer some reallystupid ideas.
(53:41):
He didn't encourage anyone towear a mask.
He didn't encourage people tostay home.
He encouraged businesses andchurches to open up literally a month
after they.
They had been shut down.
Like, he wanted them open forEaster, and guess what?
They did.
They opened for Easter.
You know where some of thebiggest super spreader events were.
Fucking churches.
You know, you had to get to.
(54:02):
Church and put that fuckingash on your forehead.
No.
Or.
Or the.
Or your money in the basket.
That's what it was about.
It was about churches.
And the governor here in SouthCarolina did the exact same thing.
He said that the churches willbe open for Easter.
And the reason was.
Is because churches werestarting to have a hard time financially.
You know what?
Then maybe you shouldn't be a church.
Yeah, maybe you get some ofthat help if you paid your taxes,
(54:25):
too.
Yeah.
So, you know, but.
But they come in.
So.
So I'll give it to them.
Yes.
The economy, from a numbersaspect as a whole, looks pretty good
for what Biden did and how,you know, but you can't really.
You can't really say apresident's responsible for the economy
unless there are decisionsthat are being made that impact it
(54:48):
directly, which this week wehad because Donald Trump announced
that the Canada and Mexicotariffs were going to go into effect
on March 2nd at 12 or 11:59pmor 12:01am on March 2nd.
And they did.
And the immediate result wasbecause he announced it on Monday,
(55:09):
the stock market took a diveon Tuesday, because they went into
effect, the stock market tookanother dive.
Guess what he did on Wednesday?
He came back and he says, youknow what?
We're working.
We're camp.
Mexico's doing a fantastic jobof trying to curtail the fentanyl
crossing the border.
So we're gonna.
We're gonna remove the tariffsfor one month.
(55:30):
So we're gonna go through allthis bullshit again in a month.
He dropped it for Canada, too.
So we're gonna go through all.
Canada didn't drop the onesagainst us, did they?
I don't think so.
In fact, they're pullingliquor, American liquor, off the
shelves, which I fully respect.
I don't blame Canada at all.
So.
So we're gonna have the exactsame thing come April 2nd.
(55:53):
And the reason he doesn't wantto do on April 2nd is because he's
afraid if he does on April1st, people are gonn like, yeah,
yeah.
You threatening tariffs onother countries, our allies, as.
As an April Fool's joke.
Come on, man.
Your whole can, your wholeadministration's already a joke,
so just leave that out of it.
What adults are celebratingApril Fools.
(56:14):
Like, like the weird ones.
I'll.
I'll tell you this too.
When it comes to, like, MAGAand all that stuff, I.
I would support Donald Trumpif he was just an.
An asshole.
I don't.
I don't have a problem if hisdemeanor was.
He was such.
Just a piece of.
But he.
He did good policy.
(56:35):
Yeah.
Did good things that would.
That were just like everyone.
Everyone was.
If everyone was benefiting.
Yeah.
And if it was a.
Not just an opinion that,like, look at him.
He's doing such a great job.
Yeah, but he's.
He's an asshole.
Then I could suffer anasshole, Right?
(56:55):
Do it every day.
You may work with somebodywho's really good at their job, but
as a person, they suck.
But he doesn't do that.
He's an asshole.
That is incompetent.
Yeah.
Objective was the word.
I'm looking objective.
Eric woke me up to do this.
Joking.
Yeah.
But if he was objectively justway a good.
(57:17):
Making good policies, makinggood changes that everyone could
see, it would be a different story.
I could suffer an.
But.
Yeah.
He's an.
On top of being wildly incompetent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's.
The MAGA people don't careabout that they think.
They think just because he's an.
We don't like him becausewe're liberal or Democratic or whatever.
(57:37):
It's just insane.
I can suffer an.
He's just incompetent on topof it.
Yeah, no, I completely agree.
It's.
It's an SNL.
SNL's last Saturday.
Shane Gillis.
Shane Gillis.
And they had Mike Myersshowing up as Elon.
It was just beautiful.
Yeah, beautiful.
(57:58):
Yeah.
I, I'm hoping that somebodypicks up on the, on the skit idea
of having Mike Myers andsomebody playing Kanye west, but
in the reverse roles.
So now it's Mike Myers sayingthat Donald Trump hates black people.
That's the skit I want.
Yeah, it's the skit I want.
I loved when Trump, when MikeMyers comes out as Elon with that
(58:19):
chainsaw and the guy playingTrump's like, I love it when he gets
that chainsaw right by my head.
So appropriate.
I'm okay with all of this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll have to see how it comes.
It's, It's.
You know, I will not speculateon what hasn't happened yet.
(58:41):
I will.
I will simply wait for it tohappen and then.
And then I'll comment on it.
You know, ultimately that'sall I can do.
But, like, same with thevolleyball player.
Look, I felt bad when I heard,you know, he, he, he.
And I feel bad for, like, somebody.
Bad for her being used as a pawn.
Yeah.
And then the kid that justsurvived brain cancer and he made
(59:03):
up a Secret Service agent.
I thought that was.
I thought that, that wasreally, really kind and, and fantastic.
But we're gonna cut your funding.
Yeah, but then, then they turnaround and cut funding to children
childhood cancer research.
And it's like, it's like,here's your Secret Service badge.
Also, no kid after you is evergonna survive cancer again.
(59:24):
Yeah, right.
That's essentially, that'sessentially what was.
What was said.
Basically paraphrasing whatwas said and then the actions that
were done just now.
And that kid was from SouthCarolina too, wasn't he?
Because Chapin.
Didn't Chapin PoliceDepartment make him a police officer?
Maybe.
Yeah, I think I'm right on.
Yeah.
Some reason that does sound familiar.
(59:45):
I just don't.
I just don't remember.
But yeah, you know, put it in.
The comments if I'm wrong onthis one.
I think I'm right.
Yeah.
He was made a police officerleaving chapter.
I couldn't totally be wrong too.
Now I feel like I shouldn'thave said it, but here I am.
It's the Internet and that'show it works now.
So let me know.
(01:00:07):
Go ahead.
I thought you were gonna saysomething else.
I would say let me know if I'm wrong.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Damn people.
That's.
That's gonna do it for this episode.
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