May the Fourth Be With Queue

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
we're practicing our gang.
Signs for uh for audio, onlypeople uh, happy.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
May the fourth be with you, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, yes, star wars you know I was all good about
may the fourth today until I sawall the stuff about may the
sixth, like when did may 6th get?
Just jumped over?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
We can't diss the Mexicans for Drinko de Mayo bro.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
There's not a whole lot of Mexican Star Wars fans,
man, it's okay.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Right, but it gives the white people a reason to
drink.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Don't you remember a couple years ago when Mark
Hamill was on Twitter and everyday was something different.
It was like may the 4th be withyou and then the fifth was, you
know whatever it was, and hewent through like all 30 days
and he's like yep, I'm neverdoing that again.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I don't pay attention to that loser, so no.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
That, Luke sir.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Ha.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
How you doing Tired.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yep, it's been a long weekend and broke.
Like I said earlier, I'm gladthat Celebration was last month
and May the 4th came out of thismonth's allowance.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Ain't no joke, bro.
I think I sent you 800 bucks intwo days.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Man.
I was so lost with your guys'fun conversation last night
because I was like eight.
I was like eight margarita, oureight margaritas in and like
all of a sudden I'm reading thisthing, I'm like, oh, that
picture, that one picture lookspretty dope.
And then you're like nope, andI'm like you, mother and you,
but you were answering likesomething else that was in the
thread and I was just like you,motherfucker, fuck you guys and

(01:44):
then you're like wait what?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
yeah, I was like how am I teasing?
You I literally said that's nottoo late for a pickup.
I will pick it up for you hell,I got mine today.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
It wasn't even yesterday, that's how late it
was.
But I go lie.
I'm sitting like I don't getwhat's going on here.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Obviously you didn't get what's going on here either.
I don't think you did either.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
My man started Cinco de Mayo early.
Yeah, he did.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Noon 1130.
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
That explains the margaritas.
I don't get why he's drinking amargarita.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Because I was at a Kentucky Derby may the fourth be
with you Cinco de Mayo party.
They had Because I was at aKentucky Derby May the 4th be
with you, cinco de Mayo party.
So they had Bantha milk, theyhad mint juleps and they had
margaritas.
I did one Bantha milk but theBantha milk's made out of
amaretto and I don't.
The taste of amaretto justdoesn't, I don't enjoy it.
So I had one Bantha milkbecause it was Star Wars, so you

(02:40):
gots to.
And then I dove right into themargaritas and then they kept
refilling.
The fucking cooler that had themargaritas I'm like oh no.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
No willpower at all, oh zero.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I'm not.
Hey, wait, wait, wait, hang on,I'm not driving, I don't give a
shit man.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Health be damned.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Hey, I'm free this weekend, eight o'clock is when
my cutoff happened, so now I'mfasting.
It was a cheat day, it's fine.
It's fine, so, but yeah, I gota new Rosalind Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Nice, nice.
One of us here is going to be alittle jealous.
There's too much going on,though, Right.
Lou Too much going on.
I said that shit when we werein Honolulu, jack and I were
texting.
I think you were like I can't.
I looked at the one dark sideone and it was pretty cool.

(03:41):
I'm like now there's too muchshit going on there for Lou
Jack's like.
Are you right?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
but he keeps looking at it.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
I keep looking at it hoping it'll get better it's not
working it's like it's a coollooking.
It's like no, no, if I starelong enough, it'll be okay
you'll see the.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
you'll see the ship man.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
You'll see the good in him yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
It may take a month before that grows on me.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
But it most definitely has not grown on me
yet.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm kind of sad that Roosevelt stopped doing the
koozies.
I thought their koozies, theStar Wars ones, were pretty good
.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
I think it's a summertime thing.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
As we get more towards summer, I think they'll
have more.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, now they have another fucking 50 prints that
they didn't have last yeareither.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, I think when they did their sell six months
ago I was looking at that, thatand I was like man, I can just
get all eight or nine, 10, 11 ofthese things.
It was like for six bucks apiece.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, I did the same.
There's a whole pile in thekitchen now.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I like the um, the uh , binary sunset one, the one
that's like Luke's farm.
They did a really good.
I they like, shrunk the image,which I thought was super cool,
and it it came, I don't know itlooks really I don't.
I enjoy using them.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, they.
They get a job with them.
Kudos to them for that.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I was, I was not when I first started doing all this
and looking at Roosevelt's, well, and I mean, you know again,
they're never going to sponsorus, but fuck roosevelt's for
having such good shit like theyare definitely.
But I feel like there's so muchabove and beyond most, what

(05:33):
other stuff we see for for starwars, stuff like they're I mean
the quality of their stuff, evenif it's not necessarily stuff
that I'm into as far as like theprints and stuff that they used
.
I mean they're all dope likethey all look super cool, and so
it's always hard to be like Idon't really like this print,
but I really like wearing theirshirts.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Uh, okay, fine, basket like, yeah, I wasn't
feeling the disney drops todaythough, nah, like the, the
empire strikes back.
Um poster shirt is kind of cool, but I'm like meh.
Not for me.
It looked too much like thatassembled one that they had at
Celebration.
I just kind of meh on it.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, but I mean it's still not a bad shirt.
No no it's a good shirt.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's just not a Jack shirt.
Yeah, exactly, but no, it's agood shirt.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
The other one was Re revenge of the sith one, revenge
of the sith one which isn'thorrible, but I mean guys, I
went and saw two movies lastweek and it was tuesday, tuesday
and wednesday night.
Both nights I saw mugs walkingin with fucking jedi robes,
fucking pad maze and shit.
I was like goddamn, thismovie's been out a week and a
half and you guys are stillwearing your shit fucking good
on you yeah good on you.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, it was only out for freaking five days.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
We're talking about oh, I thought it came out the
weekend before no, they came outthe weekend, that came out last
friday yeah, last, okay, soit's only been okay, I was okay,
I thought it was friday.
Friday to wednesday okay, Ithought it was.
I thought it'd been out, uh,the week before.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
So my bad yeah, and I came back, uh, came out when we
came home, I think, from acelebration- yeah yeah, made a
shit ton of money for a moviethat's 20 years old though when
I saw that I was I was tripping,it was like it got the number
two movie of the weekend.
Are you kidding me right?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
yeah, no shit only behind sinners which was
fantastic.
Also, sinners was fuckingawesome.
Like can we just go into moviesreal quick, like God damn.
Like sinners might be my movieof the year, like it's I was.
It was super tight, like eventhe parts where they're in the
car, just like they're drivingin the car, like I felt like

(07:38):
even those parts super, like thedialogue in this movie Spoilers
yeah, sorry, sorry, thedialogue there's a car in this
movie.
Spoilers.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, sorry, sorry Lou.
I think it was on the trailer.
Lou, you're fine, you're fine.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, there was a car .
You can't trust the trailers.
We all know that.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
There's a couple Now there's a law Because of you.
There's a couple one shots thatare just.
There was one one shot that I'mwith going like, like, just it
was.
Yeah, it was a really, reallygood movie.
I enjoyed it a lot.
I like the fact that it wasbasically like two different
movies too, like there was onemovie about like guys setting

(08:13):
things up, there was a B-plot,lou, you'll love it.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Multiple.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
B-plots, and it wasn't just Jerry Seinfeld
buzzing around.
Come on, jack Button, I fuckingbought you.
I even bought you a thing tohit the button, and you're
fucking dragging your feet ongetting that set up look, when
am I ever home?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
seriously, well, lu's thinking about it, jerry
seinfeld no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, actually I'm thinking about the b plug,
because I was like what I'm like.
What did I watch recently whereI didn't like the beep store
story?
Oh, it was Picard.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Isn't there like five seasons of Picard?
Or is there only three, threeand then they're done, right?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, they're done.
It was five seasons ofDiscovery.
It makes sense to talk StarTrek.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
And didn't they say this is like the last season of
Stranger New Worlds 2?

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Am I the only one watching that?
No, I just started season two.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (09:11):
I think it's fantastic as far as like a Star
Trek I mean it's like myfavorite.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I think it's hands down my favorite Star Trek and I
love Next Generation, I meanfor me personally, I feel like
Next Generation was it's moreagain looking back on it and
going, oh, like I grew up withthat right.
That was where I firstdiscovered Ashley Judd right and

(09:37):
right.
Jack knows, jack knows, wow,this is going to be the episode
where Jack and I just agree oneverything.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Remember when this happened, and he's like yes, I
do, yes, I do.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
My sexual awakening and fucking next generation.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
I mean they all been wearing them skin tight uniforms
.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
They did wear them uniforms.
Even when freaking GatesMcFadden was here in Denver like
three years ago, she was like71 years old.
I was like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right, yeah, it's like man Gilf For real though,
gee Gilf.
I got something that needs tobe fixed between my legs.
Come on now, Gates.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Man.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Dr Crusher.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh, I'd crush her All right.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
You ain't you gotta worry about that dr crush her.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
So watching her.
We've been watching her infreaking picard, which was
shortly, I think around the sametime, where she was in denver.
It was just like, oh man, even,even marina yeah, all, like all
the girls she still looks sodamn good.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, all the girls, the girls from Next Generation,
all age super well.
It's kind of wild.
I mean, that was what 30 yearsago.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Five.
It was 87 to 94.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
See, we can talk about other sci-fi besides Star
Wars.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
We're not narrow-minded.
But yeah, picard, season threewas basically a season-long
episode of Next Gen.
It was pretty good getting allof them back together.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Just wait until Lou's not here one week and Jack and
I spend the whole time talkingabout wrestling.
Allie's going to love thatepisode.
It's going to be her favoriteone, oh man.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Do you have your Roosevelt wrestling shirts?
I did not have a lot ofRoosevelt.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Because, they're all newer guys.
Yeah, if they went back to anAttitude Era, they got me a rock
.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Kun Ting Pai shirt.
No WWF Era.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
It was WWF then, yeah it.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
WWF era.
It was not WWF then.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
WWF?
No, it wasn't.
And the attitude of the rockwas not WWF yes, it was.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Jack and I both owned a PuntangPie shirt that we bought at an
event that we went to Becausethat was the only like you could
buy it from the shop.
But it wasn't the same.
It was like the coloring wasdifferent, it didn't have the
same phrasing, but if you wereat the event you could buy one
that says who wants a piece ofbootleg pie?
And it had a piece of a pieceof pie and it had the rocks logo

(12:15):
on it and jack and I thought itwas the.
We were the coolest fuckingguys in the entire room.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
We were we weren't I think now I'm gonna look this
shit up.
When did wwf?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
switch.
It was like 2010 or somethingthat they switched in, I'm gonna
say 2007 is that I thought itwas like a way long time before
that.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Not 2002, let's see 2001, so try that again so the
rock was in wwf then, yep.
You said 2010.
No, no, no how could thathappen in 2010 if they switched
in 2001?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
The Rock has been in the wrestling since the 80s, bro
, or like the late 90s, earlymid 90s.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
He was like born.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
The Rock's debut was November 17th 1998 as Rocky
Maivia at the Survivor Series.
As Rocky Maivia.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
So he had three years in WWF, yep.
So when did this story you'retalking about happen?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Like 99, 2000?

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Jack and I fit a lot of
wrestling in between 99 and 2000together.
Dude, I was at his house everyfucking Sunday to hang out and
if it was pay-per-view.
His dad just bought thepay-per-views, like his dad
bought so many cheeseburgersfrom mcdonald's yeah yeah, in
the morning I would go, I wouldget back then.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
So yeah, I would get, I would get off work I work
graveyard.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
So I'd get off work at like 6, 30 or 7.
I'd head right over to jack'shouse, wait until jack woke up,
then we would go and getbreakfast and go do our toy run
and then we'd go back to hishouse and fucking watch
wrestling Like, especially onpay-per-view, where his dad was
always like, all right, it'sordered, yeah, like, and we
watched.
I mean that was like peak WWFright there.

(13:58):
It was like 99 to 2000.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
No, oh God.
No, it was not.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Sir D-Generation X.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
You kids, yeah, you kids, lou, shut the hell up.
I am Generation X.
You kids, you're not.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
D-Generation X, though no no.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
New Age Outlaws Two words for that.
Iron.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Sheep, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Axol Jim Duggan.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Superflyimmy snooker, y'all don't know the murderer.
Okay, so you're supporting themurderer okay do you not know me
, you not know me?

Speaker 1 (14:36):
hello, okay, that's fair, that's fair, that's fair.
I watched it back then too.
I'm just saying the attitudeera of wrestling was was when.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Jack and I, star Wars and wrestling that was when our
DNA became intertwined.
It was those two things.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
But besides that, and a $19.99 cheeseburger from
McDonald's on special and 39cents.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Hell yeah, else, it was $1.99.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Goddamn tariffs.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh my god, no, no, no .
80s, 80s, late 80s, mid 90s,wwf After that it got fake.
Wrestling still real to meuntil 1999.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
It got fake Wrestling's still real to me
until 1999.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Once we lost the Ultimate Warrior from holding
the belt it didn't matteranymore.
It didn't matter anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
You left that loose whole wrestling relationship as
just tied to the UltimateWarrior.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
No, no, no, it was the switch over from Hogan to
Ultimate Warrior was a thing.
We actually had some real tagteam troops going on.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
British Bulldogs, come on now, there was only one
British Bulldog, sir.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
It was the British Bulldog and he had his pet dog.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And then he was with his, he got together with his
brother.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh my God, you guys are killing me.
I keep forgetting you were bornlike 10 years after me.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I was born 10 years after you, disrespect.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, jack was Baby More like four, but whatever,
close enough.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh, talk about people exaggerating numbers.
Lou's like I was voting anddrinking alcohol when Jack was
born, sir.
That was actually only fouryears.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Did you forget?
I'm a Republican.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
We exaggerate everything Come on oh, that's
fair, that's fair.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Oh shit, All right.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
We totally.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
This celebration pod has gone way off track.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, we're already 27 minutes in and it's like we
haven't even talked about thecelebration at all.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I cannot believe you guys don't know who the british
bulldogs are.
I do know I'm, I just laughbecause it's funny as shit oh,
you know demolition is lou.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Do you remember axe and smash?
Oh, my fuck really, mr.
I know 80s wrestling no nodemolition.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
I know it is wrestling.
I just said I know that theywere better in the late 80s, mid
90ss, that's all.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
I'm saying I'll give you, like the Bushwhackers.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh yeah, bush Heart Foundation.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
And demolition, but you don't even know what
demolition is.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Okay, look, the British Bulldogs were in 1984.
I was a child.
I don't even think I watchedwrestling, that's what I was
saying.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
That's why I was like I was born 15 years before you
guys 15?
It went from 10 to 15.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
By the end of the pod it's gonna be I was born 84 BC
and you guys weren't even bornuntil 1997.
You guys don't even know.
This is why I know what I know,because I saw Christ on the
cross.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, I didn't know shit until, freaking, the
special edition came out.
That's when y'all were bored.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
The special edition of the first Star.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Wars movie you saw in theaters was Force Awakens.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
First movie you saw was Rise of Skywalker.
What?

Speaker 4 (18:17):
That wasn't a movie.
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
You can see Duke's dreams.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
The first movie you saw was season two of Clone Wars
.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Boom.
This is what happens when youhave all this experience of
being born 25 years before y'all.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Lou was like I was an extra and dazed and confused
when it originally happened.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Based on Lou's high school.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah exactly Lou was actually the guy who.
Oh man, Based on Lou's highschool.
Yeah, exactly Lou was actuallythe guy who.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh man.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Prohibitions suck, by the way, just so y'all know.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Lou's like I don't even know how to survive the
Black Plague.
I mean besides my color, butyou know, we just called it the
Plague.
Yeah, we just called it thePlague in my neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
My stomach hurts now.
That wasn't that much.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Now we're just going to have 100 memes of all the
shit that Lou saw, that weweren't alive for Lou's.
Like I saw Super Bowl I, I knewwhat the NFL.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
That's why he's a Steelers fan.
He's been there since they'vebeen.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I knew what the WWF was before WWE, and I also knew
what the AFL was before the NFL.
Motherfuckers.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I told Lamar Hunt it was a good idea.
And here we go.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Why don't you call it the Super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Oh shit.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Audio.
People are just likemotherfuckers.
It's been 20 minutes and allyou've done is laugh.
Shut the fuck up, oh shit.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
They weren't visual gags Take two, take two.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
About celebrations, and that's what we were talking
about all right, so three weeksago.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now are we three weeks in past yeah, two, two
weeks, two weeks so two weeksago we all met in japan, which
we talked about last week, kindof sort of, and uh, we all did a
little while to get therebecause he was escaping the
Hiroshima blast.
But he actually was on the sameShinkansen as I was going back

(20:32):
to Tokyo and he was like oh,it's my first time here.
I'm glad I escaped.
Those guys at Nagasaki betterwatch out.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
There was no Shinkansen when I was back there
.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Sorry, I was on the Shinkansen, Lou was on a
rickshaw.
Oh shit, Too soon guys Too soon.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh shit, we're not allowed to live in the same city
.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
In trouble all the time.
The only reason Lou moved backto Denver is he remembers when
it was established as a citybefore Colorado was even a state
.
Well, he crossed it with theDonner Party.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Oh my God, he was going the other way.
The.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Donner Party was like we're going to California.
He's like, nah, you don't wantto go that way, go back to
denver, guys.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, you know how I like any white women he's like
you look kind of frail.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
I'm just gonna follow you for a little bit so anyway,
god damn, uh, so I believe, soI believe it was held in their
biggest convention center inJapan, or in Tokyo, right?

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, I mean, it's where they do their anime cons,
so obviously it's got to be achasing convention center, the
Makari Mesa.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
You're assuming, japanese people like anime, but
whatever.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Oh yeah, that was a little racist of me.
It was presumptuous.
I figured it was a culturalthing, you know, like how they'd
be eating sushi and stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Much like Lou being 35 years older than us, they're
also five years ahead of thecurve on anime.
Yes, so all the stuff that wesaw two weeks ago is all stuff
that's going to be super popularin the US in like five years.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
That sounds about right.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I wasn't going to mention actually mentioned
center.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
I thought it was laid out well.
I mean, I thought it was weirdhow they make us, how they made
us walk around to the back tolike where the loading docks
were.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I thought that was kind of strange to begin with
yeah, I was like wait there'sdoors and they're like, nope,
walk through this corridor andgo down this management, though
just like so we're not lined upin the streets or something.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
So I guess yeah, because there's only so much
space upstairs to line everybodyup to go into those doors.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Shall we just go back to Thursday.
So Thursday you guys weresupposed to land at like 3
o'clock, 2.30.
Yep, and you ended up having anelectrical problem.
Lou plugged in too many devicesinto his usb port and you had
to turn around and then youended up being delayed by five
hours.
Yeah, that was horrible.
So I went.
So at that point I think therewas kind of like.

(23:15):
At that point there was kind ofa little bit of tension, a
little bit of a like you know,in the text threads and stuff.
It was just kind of like thissucks.
We wanted this all to work outand be able to do all of these
things to kind of get organized.
Yeah, it all worked out in theend, but I think there was a
couple hours there of like, oh,like so I think it was like
annoyed.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
I was annoyed Like my plan wasn't going, but I'm like
I'll still go with Fridaymorning.
Well, it was Friday morning.
You know, as long as I make itFriday morning, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
And I mean we can even back up a little bit and be
like look like this wholeprocess of getting the tickets,
getting the hotel, getting allof that stuff just was not
organized well at all, in myopinion.
Like it just seemed very, veryhaphazard.
Like, for example, loutransferred tickets to me for my

(24:07):
friends but they weren actuallymy tickets.
They were in like a gray area,yeah.
So like when I went on Thursdayto go pick, well, when I went
on Thursday to pick up mytickets, they gave me my tickets
and I ended up having to askabout Lou's tickets.
And then they're like oh, andyour name's on these other
tickets.
And I'm like how, how do youjust not have them all under my
like?
Why did I to?

(24:27):
I shouldn't have had to askabout Lou to get my tickets that
he transferred to me.
Right, it's one thing if it wasall under his name and that was
fine, but like the fact thatgirl didn't even like say
anything until I said can youlook up blue?
And what tickets does he have?
And she was like well, give meyour ID.

(24:47):
And I gave her the ID and thenshe's like oh, these tickets are
yours.
And I'm like but I shouldn'thave had like to me.
If you transferred them to me,I shouldn't have had to do that
I think it was on their backend.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
We only transferred tickets and names so that we
could use different emailaddresses to get panels and shit
.
Right.
It wasn't like a legit transferbecause they didn't do the what
was it?
Light resale this year.
The light what L-Y-T-E.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
For the last couple of celebrations.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
They've used that to resell tickets.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Like oh, I can't go.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
so let me resell tickets, so you would actually
transfer it to people.
But this year they didn't do itfor whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
resell tickets, so you would actually transfer it
to people, but this year theydidn't do it for whatever reason
I don't know if it's the thingor they did allow you to
transfer the tickets, but onlyuntil april 1st.
That was part of the problem.
That should have been allowedto go up until the day before
the day of because, because thelike, like jack, was saying
everybody, uh, I could transferthe tickets and the tickets that

(25:44):
I transferred to Jack, hisfamily and Duke's individual.
That happened, but, like Jacksaid, that only allowed you to
try for raffles, to get a speedpass to the stores, panels,
stuff like that.
However, it did say it in thedocuments If I wanted to
actually transfer the tickets tothe person where they could do
it all themselves, you had tohave that done by April 1.

(26:06):
Well, we didn't think it wasgoing to be a big deal because
we'd get there in time, becausethe idea is we'll get there
early enough to go pick up ourbadges early enough so we don't
have a problem on Friday morning.
Like Duke said, in the end itdid work out.
We'll get to that later, butthat had to have happened by
April 1.
Well, if we don't know we'regoing to be delayed for any
reason, how are we supposed toknow to transfer?

Speaker 4 (26:26):
everything over by April 1?
.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
That's ridiculous.
Yeah, there was an option.
It was the deadline that was aproblem to me.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
So, but again, to me, that's just that.
To me is the entire celebrationright, like it was something
that should have been thoughtabout and should have been, uh,
should have been part of theprocess, but they just it was
one little thing that justcaused it to just not be right,

(26:58):
right, like or workable rightand it was, and I feel like
that's that was the wholeweekend was like.
There were so many things whereit was just like a little, you
know, a little more thought, alittle more effort, a little
more again.
Reed's been doing this fordecades now.
This isn't like their firsttime.
It was like it'd be like if thethree of us were doing a
celebration for the first time.
Sure, we're gonna fuck stuff upbecause we don't know, you know

(27:20):
, we don't know what we don'tknow, right, but these guys have
been doing conventions, notjust even celebrations, for
years now.
I mean even.
I mean I think lou evenremembers the first time they
did the World's Fair in like 20and like 1910.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
It was before that, but I was at that one in Chicago
.
I know what you're talkingabout.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
But I mean, they've been doing, especially they've
been doing celebrations fordecades now you know, so they
should know this stuff and itshould be again.
It's the same thing withComic-Con, right.
It's just, you know, there'ssome things that are organized
well and some things that workout really well, and then other
parts that are just stillcompletely broken.
And you're just like I don'tunderstand, how are you not

(28:02):
looking at these guys who aredoing it right and go, let's
just follow that because itworks well.
Instead, we're just going tohave this clusterfuck where
people have 84 tabs and threephones and two laptops open to
all get into a queue forwhatever, and then now we can't
even talk about the queuingagain.
I mean, I think we probablytalked about it in a past
podcast, but there were so manypeople I was in line with that

(28:25):
were pissed off because out ofthe three of us, jack was the
only one to get the Ahsoka panelRight, and guess what?
Jack's five other five peoplein his party.
He's the only one that got it,so he's the only one that can go
Right.
By the time any of the rest ofthe people who had email
addresses were able to sign in,that was gone.
So now, ok, so now he's goingto go to this one room and all

(28:51):
the rest of them are going to goto.
No, nobody's going to do that,you know, like it just.
But yeah, I mean I was in linewith people, especially people
who had like ADA and stuff oraccessibility Is that what they
call it now?
Medical is what it was MedicalOkay.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
In Japan it was just medical.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Medical, like, who were like, well, I want to go
see this thing, but you know,I'd be in line with people and
they're like, well, I want to gosee this panel, but I can't
have the person who I'm takingcare of.
They didn't get in.
So, like you know, and again itall, it all worked out at the
end but the fact is that upuntil that point you just didn't
know, and so I think that wassuper, super confusing and also

(29:28):
just frustrating.
You know, um, the fact thatthey I mean it's fine if you
want to treat the lightninglanes like that, because I think
the lightning lane they werekind of loose with it.
If you were with a group,everybody would get in, type of
thing, but the panels and stuffshould have been treated like
you're with your party and yourparty gets.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
They did, though.
If you were medical and you hada party with you and you went
to the medical access line, youdid get in.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I'm talking about the raffle before I'm talking.
The fact is, up until thatmoment when you're in the
medical line, you didn't knowthat you were all going to get
in or not.
Right Like that.
That, to me, is the frustratingpart, because there's it's
stuff that should, it's stuffthat shouldn't have been a
problem, but it caused problemsfor people, right like that.

(30:16):
That's my point.
Right is that they had thisraffle that you were like, oh
shit, like I got into this andyou guys didn't, and we all were
hanging out together and nowit's like, well, fuck you, I'm
gonna go to the andor panel orwhatever and you guys don't get
anything.
Like, but yet we're all hangingout doing the same stuff.
I'm just saying it just causedunnecessary confusion.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Right again, like you were saying like I mean I'm not
super mad that you know likeI'm there with my family.
Only one of us got the thepanel right.
I mean it is what it is right.
It's not like.
Well, I don't, I don't thinkthey knew that you were coming
with your family or your friendsor whatever, right?
So they're just seeing they'relooking at like a seat, a seat,

(30:57):
a seat right.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
One person gets a seat and that's it but they
fixed it before, before youcould be in groups yes, yeah,
the last celebration was anaheimthat we went to you could, so I
don't know again.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Why did they?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
right, but that's my that's.
My point is that they havestuff that they have even fixed
previously that they broke forthis event, which made caused
which I think caused disruptionto people's schedules and
people's timing, and that wasvery frustrating.
Yeah, so okay.
So then thursday I go and pickup the tickets that I can pick
up.
Um, meet up with you guys onthursday, which was cool, and

(31:33):
then Friday we all get up in themorning, go and thankfully.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Well, he didn't do breakfast with us.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
No, I didn't do breakfast I came down.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
later he joined us.
Afterwards he came down.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Thankfully the line for you guys getting badges
didn't seem like it was too bigof a deal.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
It took a while.
It was easy, dude.
It took a while.
It was them pulling our pins.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, the pre-order stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
But the queue was way smooth, so whoever organized
that, they did a good job withthat line.
I wish that person would havebeen in charge of every queue.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, I think getting word out early to come and pick
your badges up and thenenticing people with those
shirts that they had to wait inline for five hours for suckers.
Yeah, yeah, I think that helped.
Just kind of day of everybodylike cool, I got my badge
already and we're just going in,but that well, he saw I was
paid attention to some of thesocial media and the q.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
To get your badge on tuesday, the first day, was
ridiculous, not just the t-shirt, the q itself was crazy.
But looking at all the socialmedia afterwards, wednesday and
thursday were basically walk upto get your badge, I think.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
I think thursday night I sat in line for maybe an
hour like it wasn't.
It wasn't super bad at all toto go up and get.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
So get the bad but no , ours is walk up.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
I don't think I waited more than like five
minutes to I do wish that qperson would have actually done
every single q in the event,because I think things would
have been way better otherwise.
But yes, the badge queue waswas good yeah, no, that went
smooth.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Um, they pulled all of our stuff, so my backpack was
full of the uh of pins before Ieven because you were not
expecting my neck, you, you werenot expecting boxes, not like
that if I had known ahead oftime that I could just open
those boxes up and fit them allinto one box, I would have done
that.
I would have made friday a waybetter day instead of instead of

(33:18):
day 10.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yes, yeah, well, I mean, and the boxes?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
the boxes were yeah, they were huge.
I don't I think they're stillin the house.
I don't think I brought them inyet, but yeah, but they were
ridiculously huge for pins.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah, for pins with stands.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, like the pin and stand could fit in about 10%
of the size of that box, ifthat.
Let's put it this way.
I opened up 10, I think 10 ofthem 11, 12, 14.
I opened up 14 on the trip backto consolidate 14 pins and

(33:55):
stands fit in one of the boxes.
That's how much of a wastespace it was.
I'm not going to say it didn'tlook good, because it did look
good.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
But it was a waste, yeah, yeah, especially if you're
going to take, I meanespecially with the stand and
everything.
So obviously they wanted you totake them out of the box.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, right with the stand and everything so
obviously they wanted you totake them out of the box, right?
So after that we just jumped inthe store line.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, we uh, we did the, we went to go spend that
money, bruh we did the, themedical line, which was not bad
at all um no we only waited, weonly waited in that line it was
like an hour and a half, I think, total right we got there about
an hour yeah, I mean we gotthere early but,

Speaker 4 (34:32):
like once they opened nine but.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
But the point was it wasn't extremely early, like
celebration two, where we werein line for five fucking hours
in the snow in the snow rightlike outside, with no covering
or anything like, so this wasway smoother as far as that goes
.
So I guess that q person alsodid the the store lines yeah
they had four lines.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
They had the lightning lane line, the vip
line, the medical line and theregular um, and so we got into
the.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
We got into the shop pretty quick.
The shop wasn't organized superwell not until day two.
Yeah so the king the line, likebasically for the, for the
t-shirts and for the art prints.
It was basically like a bar,like you would just push your
way up to the front and getsomebody's attention, and the
people that were in front of you, they were running up and down

(35:23):
because they were following thepeople, because nobody knew what
the numbers were.
Right, you'd say I want 8, 12and 32, and they would be like,
uh, like I know which ones arehere and that's all.
So then they would end upwalking to the other end of the
line and never coming back.
So even if you saw somebody infront of you, unless you
basically grabbed that person bythe sleeve or a word, you were

(35:48):
waiting for a while, myexperience wasn't that bad
because I had notes on my phone.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
I wrote down the number shirt that I wanted and
the size and then gave the ladymy phone.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Oh well, there you go .

Speaker 3 (35:59):
And she just walked over.
I saw her.
She was just looking down andwas like, okay, and I did it.
You know me.
It was an order number, orderlowest to highest.
So she was just going left toright because the numbers on the
shelf behind the counter wereleft to right.
She just saw it like, okay, Ineed a 13 medium, I need a 12
medium, a 13 medium, a 15 extralarge, a 19,.

(36:20):
And she just followed the line,then came back with the phone.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Then she fucked it up and gave you a medium anyway.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Then she fucked it up and gave me a medium Darth
Vader instead of an extra large.
That's my own fault for notlooking.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
I think that goes back again.
They're just coming up short,right.
I think if they would haveapplied what they applied to the
food hall to the t-shirts, itwould have been a lot smoother.
You get in a queue, they giveyou a piece of paper, you check
off the ones that you want yeahmaybe but you just did that.
You said you just did that.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
No, no, I said maybe because day two it was done
differently.
Sure.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm saying that's
something that they could havebuilt on from day one.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
But I think the shopping is part of that
experience.
You don't want to.
I don't think people want toorder that way.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
They want to browse I liked Anaheim where they for
the cubbyholes.
You walk up, saw the shirt andthen was like I need an extra
lot, so I pulled it from thatone.
I like doing that.
I didn't like thebehind-the-counter thing at all.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
And I guess I didn't go do the art print stuff Did
either of you guys do that.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
But I mean, that looked like a nightmare as well.
Yeah, that was a long one too.
I agree, it looked disgusting,but it was weird how, like,
everything seems super spreadout, but like there was, like
clusters of people everywhere.
That it made it really hard tolike, figure out, like, and
there was no like, there was nodirections.
So you were like, oh well, Iwant this shirt or this pin or

(37:47):
this, whatever.
You end up spending 20 minuteswandering around because there'd
be like, well, here's all thees.
The empire strikes back pins,here's all the revenge of the
sith pins, and then over here isall the celebrations, pins and
so but, but there was no signagepointing you to any of that
yeah, and there was nothing likeyes signage, if they just had a
giant thing on top of the binsfor the the jedi rack yeah, or

(38:11):
or.
I'm just saying like a sign ontop that's big enough for you to
be able to see across the storethat says revenge of the sys
stuff.
Okay, cool, I can go over thereand there's the pin and the
shirt and whatever like that.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Could be more specific than that, like they
had.
They had gondolas up.
Yeah, they.
I've seen in my stores like Idon't know target or whatever,
even like ross's.
They have the pull that goes upon the with the flag and they
can just put pins here likebadger pins.
Boom, you know where they are,the red medallion coins over
here, but there was nothinglabeled.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
You had to actually roam around to try to find what
the hell you were looking forand I heard I heard some lady
asking one of the staff peopleabout one of the items and she
was was like it didn't come inyet.
There was a percentage of stuffthat never even made it through
customs and she was likehopefully it'll be here tomorrow
.
Well, that's, you know.
That never happened.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
And also I mean, and that was one of the I think
Saturday or Sunday Jack, I thinkit was Saturday when I was back
at the store.
I think Jack asked me aboutthat.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Because I think Jack asked me about that Cause, I
think it was the 20th pin youwant to the revenge of the
suspense pin.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Well, I actually went to a staff person and said, oh,
those did not arrive and wedon't expect them to, yeah, so
so my guess is, just like everyother celebration, it'll be on
read site and in a couple ofweeks, yeah, they listed some
stuff already on the Star Warsstore site, right, or Disney.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Wow, I thought they did.
I thought there was a fewcelebration things they had
listed right after.
It was like the Tuesday after.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Oh well, amazon did.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, amazon had some .
Yeah, because Amazon sponsoredthe app.
That kind of sucked, or reallysucked.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, amazon had T-shirts, had like the, the tote
bag or something.
Yeah, it was like it wasn't alot it was.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
No, it was like the hat and the shirt, but it wasn't
the tri logo shirt.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
It was just the regular logo.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think the tri logo shirt ever
showed up, right, we never sawthat.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I don't think I've seen it I saw, I mean we saw it
on the website before, but we'venever saw it in person when I
was, when I was there lookingfor I can't remember, and this
might've been Sunday Cause Ithink I was looking for a fleece
, uh, that's that.
Uh, uh, jack scale wanted andand it was like I walked up

(40:30):
fleeces and hoodies, stuff likethat.
The far end to the left iswhere the logo shirts were.
I was about to ask about it,somebody else did, and they said
they didn't show up.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
It'll be fun.
It'll be a race yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Granted, all of us that have tickets will have
first dibs.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
It's going to be.
On the plus side.
At least we won't be racing forthe badges because we got those
yeah that was one of the fillout on Saturday.
They did, so it's good, Ididn't know I didn't.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
I don't understand why they sold out.
That should just be an orderuntil.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Well, and really the only way you even knew that they
were available was by askingsomebody.
Like they didn't have a sign up, because I think there was two.
I remember seeing two thingsunder that list.
They had to go to a specialmenu on their page and it was
the badges and it was somethingelse that you had to like.
It was like a special order.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
When I walked up just to do that, because I went and
got all whatever I was going toget, forgot the badges, so went
back in.
And then I went and asked acashier and they didn't know
what I was talking about and hadmy supervisor.
The supervisor knew exactlywhat I was talking about and it
was in Japanese.
I wrote it in my you know,google Translate, and I was like
trying to buy or looking for abadge set is all I typed in.

(41:43):
And then the guy went and gotsomebody else and he came over
and saw it and was like, oh,grabbed a dude's tablet and
instantly pulled it up, yeah,and then you just had to type in
all your information yeah, youput in all your addresses that
was the one that was.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
The one thing that we didn't do a good job of
communicating with was that Ididn't know that when you bought
the badges you bought all threeof them.
I was like, oh okay.
So my, when I was reading thetext thread, because I think I
was out of like I wasn't payingattention for a few minutes when
that was all going on.
So then when I came in I waslike, oh well, lou just bought
them for him and Jack, which isfine, again, I'm not.

(42:17):
So then when I bought them andthen like later that night, I
was like, yeah, I got the badgesand you're like I got all three
.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
And.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
I was like all right, well, whatever that's right.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Well, I got somebody who's got two thumbs is an idiot
.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Right, it worked out, because it'll get used.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
That being said, the badge art was fantastic, amazing
, oh my God, it was so good.
It's been really since the Jack, was it?
Jack, joke, jock, yeah, jock.
Badges that were the kind ofthe cartoony ones that he did,
where you could actually go to.
He was actually at thecelebration.
You could go get themautographed.

(42:55):
Uh, he would autograph them foryou.
Um, those are the the, the onesthat we had.
I was kind of I was kind ofbummed out that they didn't tell
us who who did the art for him.
They did because he was there.
He was there.
I guess I missed that part ofit.
Then I'm glad that they gavehim the props that he deserved,
because he did a really good job.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
There was actually an interview with him on
StarWarscom even.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Okay, so, yeah.
So then that was our badgeexperience, or that was our
store experience, mostly thatchecking out was kind of a pain
in the ass.
Which again they fixed the dayafter right, like it went way
smoother on saturday and sundaybut even you, you got screwed

(43:39):
over.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
They didn't ring up two of my items.
I had to go back and get themthe next day and they didn't.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
They overcharged you for two items because his, my
guy, his barcode scanner wasn'tworking so he was putting
everything in manually.
And again I'm I'm like by thetime, the 20.
It took him like 20 minutes toring up the half a dozen things.
And he's like okay, it'll be 15000 yen.
And I'm like okay like I guess,because at that point I just

(44:04):
want to get out of there, Idon't.
I'm not like gonna like hang on, let me fucking make sure.
And he said he was gonna doublecheck.
That's my fault for letting himfor assuming that he was going
to double check.
That's my fault for letting himfor assuming that he was going
to do that.
But I mean, it's whatever.
It was 30 bucks or something,I'm not super bothered about it.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Yeah, it wasn't crazy , but again the principle right.
Yeah, mine, like you said, theywere double checking.
They counted the items on theregister, how many they had
listed versus the register, howmany they had listed versus the
items they had on the counterfor me, and somehow two of the
badge yards, uh, weren'tincluded.
And I was like you know what?
We were packing stuff up and Ididn't have.
I couldn't find the receipt atthe time we were packing stuff

(44:42):
up and all this.
I was like maybe it's in duke'sbag, maybe it's in jack's bag.
And I was like but the next dayI bought him again, again just
in case.
Uh, I didn't actually buy them.
Turns out I found the receiptthe next day and they didn't
charge me for them.
Even though they pulled themoff the shelf, they didn't
charge me for them.
I was like I'm glad I did getthem.

(45:03):
That would have sucked.
I would have sold all of thembecause I'm missing one.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
What's it be?
Did you complete the otherblind boxes?
Yeah, we both did.
Did you complete the other, theblind boxes you both have?

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Yeah, we both have.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
That actually went pretty smooth, I mean overall it
went too smooth actually.
I mean, I bought like 30 boxesof them.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
But even getting the Lothcats the next day, wouldn't
it take me 10 minutes.
I'm like, okay, I'm here to dothis, I gotta trade to get
Lothcats.
10 minutes later I had five.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
And that one staff member didn't have one but went
and grabbed one and then cameand found you guys.
Right, I thought there wassomebody who had.
Yeah, we walked in first thingin the morning Because there was
like four staff members.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
I'm like you guys got Lothcats Because we were ready
to go.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
And they're didn't grab them yet.
And then one of them justshowed up out of nowhere and do
it at my little ones.
Yeah, yeah, ah, here's the back.
Yep, sorry if it got stuck inthere.
So it's like, honestly, if thatwas maybe supposed to be, we
thought was gonna be one of thehardest ones to get and we
probably could have got a dozen.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you put a little effort into it,
it would have been easy um, andso then, after that was
Roosevelt's right on Friday no,on Friday, that's when Lou and I
were still trying to get ourpins?

Speaker 2 (46:19):
yeah, we were sponsored and buy a certain
amount of stuff and that's whenmy friend was in line at the
Roosevelt booth and I went andjoined him because I didn't have
any interest.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Yeah, I went to.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Roosevelt's, you guys started working the vendors for
the pins.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
And that one booth took like two hours.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Again, going back to Hot Toys had, I think, the
largest booth by far, but theyhad a bunch of stuff outside but
the inside you couldn't seeanything without waiting in the
queue.
If you just wanted to go in andlook at what was around in
their booth which I never wentin their booth- Actually, you
did not miss anything.
But I'm saying their booth wasso big, I assume there was stuff

(47:01):
inside.
Nope, it was 100% shopping.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
So that wall where you walk into the food mall,
that was everything that wasinside.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
And that was it.
But then they still had thebiggest booth.
That seems weird, it was a hugeshopping booth Okay.
So, you went from one queue toanother.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Basically Pretty much yeah, you go from outside, you
go inside and then they have awinding queue where all the
six-inch, the 12-inch figuresare, and then they just let you
loose into the shop and theneverybody's just running around
crazy buying shit.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
And then what they do is, as you leave, they're
keeping track of who's leavingto let that many people back in.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
So it was just cycling the whole time.
It was efficient For what itwas.
It was efficient In the end.
I don't know why it was such along line, because it shouldn't
have taken anybody that long inthe store, but I guess people
are slow shoppers the store.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
But I guess people are slow shoppers that no I was
going to say when I was in thereI was one of those problem
people because I didn't all thegood stuff quote unquote good
stuff was gone.
I was just picking up the stuffthat I knew I need to pick up
for other people, so I grabbedthat stuff.
But I want to see what else wasaround in the store.
Turns out it was a lot ofrepetition, like they had some
stuff over here.
The same stuff was over here.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Yeah.
So I did take the time to lookat everything, even though what
you, what they could have doneto make it this is not even a
harsh complaint, because itwasn't that bad Once you got in
they could have done the comiccon thing or whatever.
Or the Funko thing where theygive you a checklist and it's
like I want this, this, this,this and this, because you would
have had an opportunity to seeit outside or in line with the

(48:35):
little pamphlet I gave youbecause everything was in there.
So once you have that, youcould have checked it off and
then you go through the storeline and just hand them your
thing.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
That's what Hasbro did last year right at Comic-Con
.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Was that Hasbro?
Yes, yes, where you walked upand you had Comic-Con, yes, you
had just a little checklist.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Two of this, one of this, two of this, and then they
grabbed that and would go tothe back.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Yeah they told you what the limits were and
everything.
That's what they keep peoplefrom killing time in the store
especially.
Here's the thing that reallywasn't needed you didn't need
time to walk to the store,knowing that all the items were
around the outside and in thepamphlet and they could have
doubled up the stuff on theoutside if they wanted to and
put it on the back side.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Yes, they could have wrapped it where anywhere you
were walking, there was the list.
There was the row of thingsthat were exclusive or being
released that weekend orwhatever but they only had that
one on the main side.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
They even could have put more inside.
So as you're doing the zigzaginside, you get to see it again.
Yeah, if you really want allfor your impulse buys, as long
as they give you the.
You know, like I got to admitthis is going to kind of a super
sidetrack, as much as the foodline sucked if you were there at
the wrong time.
The paper with the little clippen was very efficient but

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that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
They could have, they could have applied that across
the board for everything, and Ifeel like it would have went
that much smoother on so manythings on on a lot of it.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Yeah, I mean, uh, some of the problem would have
been like a lot enough registers, like when we were in the n ski
or n sky line and it tookforever.
They had three or fourregisters and it wasn't.
It was going fast for the mostpart because people knew what
they wanted.
It was some a little bit ofcommunication issue here and
there, uh, but for me it wassimple.

(50:25):
You know, I just pointed youknow it was like which means
this and this?
I literally, literally did that.
It was for the four or fiveitems that I got.
I could hear on the side of me,though, there were people you
could tell it was like, oh,they're having trouble with
communication and what they want.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Where a board or a clip or a piece of paper or an
order sheet would have been.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
You could put it in Japanese and English, because I
think everybody there eitherspoke Japanese or English and
you guys got the majority ofyour vendor pins outside of a
couple, right that?
First one, All but one, I think.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
I thought it was two but it could have just been one.
It was tops, tops was tops.
I thought there was another oneyou guys had to go back to get.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
There was some I went back to get because I needed
them for a girl.
Okay, Okay, I had to go backbecause some of the ones she
wanted was sponsor pins.
Which man I had to go throughthat.
Like that long-ass blue, I wantto call it blue sky.
It's a vendor out here inColorado, but the N-Sky line.
I had to go back to that one toget her Ewok pin.
Then I had to go back someplaceelse to get the, the like the

(51:32):
BB eight or something like that,and then Jack's oldest helped
me with the third one.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Well, so I.
So, while that was you guyswere doing that, I was in the
Roosevelt's line for three hours.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Get out.
I didn't realize it was thatlong.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, and my friend and my friend who I kind of
stuck in line with had alreadybeen in line for an hour before,
so it was four hours.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
So for him four hours .
I was like why was it so long?
I forgot they had their creditcard.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
The biggest problem that they had was that they
couldn't do tap to pay, becauseto do that in Japan you have to
have a Japanese-based bankaccount.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Sort of.
That was my understanding?

Speaker 2 (52:16):
No, they didn't, they were still entering it manually
.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
I went there Saturday .

Speaker 2 (52:22):
So there was one that you couldn't tap to pay.
You had to slide the card orput the card in, and that was
only one of their devices.
The other device she was stillwhen I went through on Saturday
she still had to enter it inmanually.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
So that's weird.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, I'm glad I missed that too, because
saturday night I went and didmine okay, then I then I don't
know what the problem was,because friday both days I went
she had to manually enter in mycard well, to be fair, I went
later than you.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
I went the end of the day on saturday.
You were earlier, so maybe wentlater than you.
I went the end of the day onSaturday.
You were earlier, so maybe theyhad it fixed by the end of the
day.
I don't know what happened onSunday.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Nobody did that.
Booth was empty.
That was long.
I guess they only had 200 pinsof each of their exclusive pins,
so they sold out immediately.
There was a guy ahead of us whowas talking about how he'd sold
one online for a set of themfor 250 bucks, and I was just
like dude, go fuck yourself.
Sounds like you could have donemore than that.

(53:18):
I felt like even with the limits, everything that was exclusive,
that people had any there wasany interest in at all, it was
gone by early Saturday morning.
Early Saturday morning therewasn't all the Hot Toys stuff,
the majority of the Rooseveltstuff, all of that type of stuff
where there was a hype for it.

(53:43):
They weren't limiting it out bydays or anything else.
And even if they were limitingit by two they weren't punching
your card.
You would just go hop back inline and could go back through
and buy another two.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
I'm okay with that, though.
I'm okay with that because thatmeans somebody else had an
opportunity to get in line andthey chose not to.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
But I think because they weren't, you know.
So I think by Saturday a bunchof the exclusives were all gone.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
By lunchtime Friday.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
When I was going through the line on saturday for
roosevelt's to get the othershirts, uh, the guy came out
like at least twice, and waslike marking things out, saying
sold out, and then he wouldupdate with, like the sizes that
they had left of whatever theexclusive shirts were but my
friend bought the jacket so theyhad a roosevelt's darth vader
samurai jacket samurai jacket.
That was actually super cool andlike a hat that actually I.

(54:36):
I don't like the hats with the,with the slider in the back or
the clips, because my head's toobig but he wore it and it was
sharp like they those.
The shirt and jacket combo wassuper sharp like and I was like
in line to go with and yeah, noshit, so annoying the jacket was
cool, looking all right and tobe honest with you.
On saturday, when I was in line,I was like fourth in line and I

(54:58):
was like, well, if I go upthere again like my friend did
nothing but talk about howcomfortable the jacket was and
everything, and I was like wellI go if I'm, if, if I'm, if it's
still available.
When I walk up and literally Iwas four people and he comes out
and goes, sold out and I went.
Well, decisions been made Likethank you, thank you for saving
me $75.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
But.
But you're not wrong, though.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
The pin sold out on Friday for the weekend over at
hot toys, the flower, I think itwas the, the Anakin, and the
flower trooper sold out onFriday also, and and.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Again, they did not allocate for the days.
Not everybody does and noteverybody wants to, because they
want to make sure everythingsells.
They don't want to risk it, Iget it.
You don't want to try to shipthat stuff back, anything that
doesn't sell.
Which is why Fig Pin, forexample, on Sunday they were
doing two for one on their stuffbecause they did not want to
bring it back because the costto do so, I get that, I'd be

(55:59):
more, I don't know.
I'd worry about that onSaturday.
Friday I would have limited oneper person, knowing you have a
hot item that's limited to athousand pieces, I don't know
what the number was or 250 or500 or whatever, whatever.
On Friday I'd have an allocationand then I'd be one per person.
Go through the allocation, seehow it's doing.

(56:20):
If you see that you plowedthrough your allocation and all
that, okay, great, you have anidea of what to do for Saturday
and Sunday.
It's like oh, it's not sellingas fast as I thought it was Fine
, cut the allocation and cut thelimit.
But for the first day I wouldhave maybe given it a try.
A day and a half, honestly.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Saturday morning Midday.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Saturday.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
I'd be like eh, we're doing okay.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Yeah, otherwise or shit, we need to get these moves
.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Yeah, exactly Because everybody that missed it friday
is coming back, saturdaymorning exactly, and they're
going to be the first target,and that's for them to do two
per person.
I'm not opposed to that either.
I don't think there are peoplewho still I used to want to
display one box one open one, sothe two per person.
Not, and again, I'm definitelyif, if, like like you know duke

(57:12):
was saying about the wholepeople get back in line.
I'm like, let them.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
I mean, if you wait in line, you wait in line.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
I could have went through the Hot Toys line
instead of the InSky line to getmy sponsor pin.
My priority for me was I wantedthe pin set.
So you know.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
I guess I was.
Later than I would have donethat, but you know, I guess I
was later than I would have donethat, but I you know it's like
I guess I was just equating itto Comic-Con, where they punch
cards right, Like you'll walk inand there'll be places you go
where they're like OK, likeyou've bought your one or you
bought your two or whatever, andyou're done for the weekend.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
That still doesn't apply, though, because you had
you had a Friday, Saturday,Sunday badge.
They punch your Friday badgehow.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Why, though Because you had a Friday, Saturday,
Sunday badge they punch yourFriday badge.
How do they know?
I mean, that was, I thinkthat's a screw-up on Reed's part
, as far as, but you're right, Imean if I had a Friday,
Saturday?

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Well, Comic-Con doesn't do that.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Yeah Well, but you're also.
Typically, I don't think peopleare buying Friday, saturday,
sunday badges, are they?
Then they're not gettingpreview right, but some people
can't make preview.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
Let's say, if you were trying for preview night
and you didn't get it, you'regoing to try for a four-day next
, without preview night.
If you don't get that, you'regoing to try for Thursday let's
say, saturday sells out first.
You're going to get a Thursday,friday, sunday badge.
So now you have threeopportunities to go to, but at
least it's limiting you by day,right, so it's, it's, it's a,
it's a limit.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
You're you're, you're not, you know.
And again, yeah, if the guywants to wait in line for four
hours, sure, but I, and again, Imean, I think it's just an
allocation thing.
Like Jack was, see how it goes,you put out 150 flower troopers
and you see, you see how thesales work through the day,
right, and if you blow throughthem in the first hour and a

(58:56):
half, you know that, hey, we'refine.
We could do another 150 onsaturday and another 150 on
sunday, and we'll probably befine, right, especially when
it's something so limited likethat.
It's one thing if it's justlike it's premiering at con,
it's premiering celebration, butthere's no, it's not a limited
to any degree, right, you justget.
But if you're saying, if you'resaying there is 250 Anakin's

(59:19):
that have the the Sith eyes, ok,that's going to sell, like to
not go, oh, I don't know if it'sgoing to sell out, you're 100
percent selling through allthose.
There is at least 250 people whoare going to be like, I fucking
want that, especially for hottoys, where hot toys has a huge
community of people who love allthe shit that they put out and

(59:41):
they always buy every singlelimited release, right?
I can't tell you how many timesI've seen something online or
got an email where they're likeoh, like this, and you click on
it 10 minutes after it releasesand it's like sorry, the limited
is sold out, the one with thethree extra heads and the two
hands is sold out, but you canbuy the regular one.
That was my only thing, right,excuse me, leveling the playing

(01:00:08):
field and again, I guess for me,my whole experience for
Celebration was frustrating,that even things like that also
proved to be frustrating, youknow, so that was friday, right?
I mean, we didn't really well,the food food court hall no, no,
no food hall complete.

(01:00:28):
no, they named, they labeled itfood hall, like it wasn't food
court.
So, yeah, we've all donecelebrations, uh, comic cons,
you know all the different typesof expos that you can go to and
every single one of them thatI've ever been to.
You wander around and there'slittle pockets that have, you
know, the burger place and adrink place and whatever, and a

(01:00:50):
little set up of tables.
This was not that.
This was like at the very, veryso number one, there was no
water anywhere, there were nowater stations, there was no
refill stations.
So, even if you had a bottle,you weren't refilling that
motherfucker.
The only places that you couldget water were there was some
vending machines in differentplaces throughout the convention

(01:01:14):
center, which again is not not.
I don't think that's anadequate answer when you have 85
or 95 000 people in an eventand you don't give them access
to water, like, come on, um, youknow comic-con.
Even the hotels have, you know,the jugs of water and in all
the ballrooms and stuff likethat.
So at least least you're.
If you're not, if you dehydrate, it's your fault, it's not

(01:01:35):
because there's no water.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Yeah, and all the bathrooms in Comic-Con in
between the men's, women's,whatever.
There's the water station yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Yeah, so.
So this, even even thebathrooms you couldn't use the
sinks to fill up the waterbecause the faucets were too low
, like it was the wholesituation as far as the water
goes probably to me was the mostdisappointing part, just
because, like if there waspeople who had medical
conditions and needed water andyou know you go in on friday
like people learned, I thinksaturday and saturday brought

(01:02:05):
their own stuff, but also theonly.
the fact that the only placethat you could sit down was
after you went through the line.
You had to go through the foodhall line and order food in
order to be able to sit in theseating area where they had
benches and tables and stuff, Idon't know.
That to me was kind of tacky.
The fact that there was nowhereelse in the entire convention
center that was easilyaccessible, that there was

(01:02:28):
nowhere else to sit or take abreak or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
That's not true.
Upstairs had a bunch of cityseating area when, I mean, I
never went upstairs.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Oh yeah, there was a ton of seating upstairs, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
A ton of seating, a ton of vending machines.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
There was an actual food court where you could get
food.
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Yeah upstairs.
But again, there was nothingdirecting you to that right.
Everything just said go to thefood hall.
The only way you knew is ifthere was stuff upstairs was if
you happen to go up there, oryou heard about it.
Yeah, somebody told me right,you were standing in another
line complaining about how therewas nothing, and somebody would
say oh, just go upstairs likeyou're right, they didn't even
tell me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
I overheard it, somebody else.
Somebody else was complainingand somebody else told that
person like, oh, if you goupstairs, blah, blah, blah, I
blah.
I'm like, oh, now, I didn't doit until Sunday and even then I
wasn't doing it to go do food ordrink.
I was doing it to cross thestreet to go back to the store
for the last time before I washeading out to go.
Do you know a?

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
night bus.
So I guess the other big thingthat happened on Friday was when
people almost died.
That was Friday right With theanimation pickups and everybody
getting.
Was that Friday?
I think it was Friday, becauseSaturday they fixed it.
Yeah, saturday was yeah, soFriday we were going against.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
We were officially going against the river.
You remember All those peoplewere coming at us and we were
trying to leave, oh my God, fish, going against the river.
You remember all those peoplewere coming at us when we were,
so we end up.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
We end up staking a spot in the food hall after
being in line for hours.
I end up watching everybody'sshit for like two hours while
everybody goes and does stuff.
They come back and pick me upand pick up all the stuff from
the store, because it was a halfdozen bags, eight bags of stuff
and and so we start making ourway out.
So I think we were gettingready to leave.

(01:04:16):
Right, we were, we were donewith the day and we so the the
the very end.
So Hall seven, where the foodhall was, was also where the
giveaway area, the redemptionroom, was, which, at Comic-con,
is in, is like a mile and a halfaway in a different, in a
different hotel, and you knowwhat.

(01:04:37):
You put all your tickets in thething and they have everything
set up for you.
They only have the amount oftickets, the amount of posters
that they have is the amount oftickets that they have, right,
so you can go anytime and gopick up all your shit from this
one spot.
Well, they decided to put itright at the end of the food
hall.
So on Friday they only had onedoor open and the door was cut

(01:04:57):
in half by the.
There was some scaffolding thatwas up promoting With some
directions and promotingcelebration, and we're walking
back.
I think we were leaving at thatpoint right.
We were getting ready to headout, we were leaving.
Yeah, we were leaving that pointright, we were getting ready to
head out.
We're leaving.
Yeah, we really.
And then, um, there was a 20thanniversary lucasfilm animation
panel that all three rooms werepart of yep which was, I think,

(01:05:20):
the first one, right, that wasthe first, like the first big
panel, I think the first bigpanel that all three rooms were
in the same.
So, yeah, right, because then,because then Saturday was Andor
and Ahsoka and then Sunday wasVisions, so they basically the
panel let out as we were workingOur way back, they gave

(01:05:40):
everybody Tickets, so it's threerooms.
I mean probably a thousandpeople, maybe more A couple
thousand people.
And all of them Are sprinting togo to the redemption room,
which now we are between themand the redemption room, and it
just stopped, yep, like and wewere there for 20 minutes, 25

(01:06:03):
minutes, like kind of like youwould move five feet and then
stand for 10 minutes they wouldmove five feet.
You would stand for, like, um,they ended up there like people
almost got in fistfights, likepeople were yelling at each
other.
Uh, we had the and or one wayout, one way like people started
chanting one way out like itwas uh.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Well, I say at the end, at the end for us, because
after that is when, when jackfinally joined, because duke and
I and and uh, jack's oldest wegot through it well, so uh go
ahead, sorry look I'll say wejust got through it before jack,
so we got through.
It was like I thought he wasbehind us.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
He's dead he got swallowed.
Well, so the funny, so we areall wearing.
The funniest part about that isso all three of us are wearing
our beach shirts from comic-conthat weren't announced, and and
so they're.
I think, they're probablyreally rare as far as the grand
scheme of Roosevelt's right Like.
I feel like those are rarerthan the rest of them that they
announced, since it was anunannounced one, and so I I

(01:07:04):
think we saw one other guy thatmorning, yeah.
Right had the beach shirt on,and so we stood out from
everybody else, becauseeverybody else is wearing dark
black clothing and Lou and I andJack's oldest finally, like
fish our way through.
They tried, some people triedto like go around where we were

(01:07:27):
coming from and everybody thatwas going the other way started
screaming at them to get theback of the line, like no, don't
go that way.
And I'm like, oh, thank god.
So like a bunch of peoplefollowed us and they were like
thanks for wearing those shirts.
You got us through, like wejust followed your shirts, and
it was just the.
It made that whole thing justfunny because they were just
like thank you, and we're likewe got you, like it was, but it

(01:07:52):
was.
It was a, I mean, police,police.
I think the police were calledlike somebody called the police
and showed up to break up theline or organize, and then they
made a point after well, to justloosen things up Right Like
they did open up another doorafter that and they made it a
point during all of the panelsafter that to say if they had a

(01:08:13):
giveaway, you don't have to goright now, there will be enough
for you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
They did have enough.
On Sunday you could go downthere.
You could have picked up allthe posters without even going
to the panel.
Yeah, so yeah, so that was Ididn't do that animation poster
was pretty sweet, well,especially because I had that
animation poster was prettysweet, well, especially because
it had.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
I didn't know that was an option, you just walk up
to the table and ask for one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
There was.
I saw something on I think itwas Reddit, that they were
saying that there was acharacter on the animation
poster.
That was somebody who was oh,it was from the Robot Chicken
guys, the detours show that wassupposed to have come out like
10 years ago and then they theynever.
They made like 50 episodes orsomething, but they never
actually released it, yeah Iguess.

(01:08:55):
I guess one of the characters,or the animation style care of
that character, was in theposter, oh cool.
So they were like, well, nowit's canon, because it's in the
poster.
So then that was friday, um,and we all bailed after that,
right, we headed back yeah, Ithink that was dinner that night
yeah, yeah, that was a, thatwas a, that was a long day, uh.

(01:09:18):
And then saturday, um, you guysgot up and split and I met with
my friends who were joining, whohad come to japan to hang out
with with, you know, with me,during that the trip where you
guys got there.
Uh, we all got we had gottenthem saturday badges.
So we all met up and walked inas anthony daniels was being

(01:09:39):
interviewed on the live stage,which was cool for them.
I've seen anthony daniels adozen times so I was just like
whatever, whatever and I waslike, okay, guys, if you want to
hang out here, I'm gonna goback to the range builds booth,
right, um, and then you guysjust you know when you start

(01:09:59):
we'll work together, type ofthing.
Um, one of the people that Iwas with was super excited about
the art show, which ended upbeing super, super disappointing
.
Um, because all the othercelebrations we've ever been to,
number one, there's an artistalley.
So there's even above andbeyond the art show, there's
always somewhere where you cango and see a ton of people

(01:10:21):
who've done Star Wars art or hadbeen commissioned at some point
to do Star Wars art.
They didn't have that at all.
They had a few of the biggernames peppered throughout the
exhibition halls, but not adedicated spot.
Um, and then the uh art show.
Outside of the two people whowere bait, or three people who

(01:10:42):
were based out of japan, all theamerican people or us I'm going
to say us, but there might havebeen people from canada or
wherever if you weren't fromjapan.
The only thing that they had ontheir table was the print that
they the art print.
And so my friend who was superexcited about seeing the Artist
Alley and seeing the art show,was pretty disappointed, so I

(01:11:03):
felt myself justifying a lot,going like well, it's because
it's Japan.
Like, come to Las Vegas, it'sLos.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
Angeles.
It can only bring so much withit.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
How was your game on Saturday?

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Saturday we Started off at Topps.
That was right we did so.
We went to Topps because youhad to go through their booth
and experience all the stuffthey were there to promote To
get their sponsors.
Which was actually cool.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
I wasn't mad.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
we did it um I wish.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
I wish anything afterwards, yeah I do wish the
card game was.
I don't know what I wouldexpect out of it, but I tried
the card game for a little whileand just got bored with it.
Like it just the one from 25years ago yeah, the one that
they were promoting the cardcollection or whatever, like
where you'd buy packs well,there's the game that was like
in the late 90s uh, that cameout after magic.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
And then there was just like that was in the late
90s, that came out after Magic,and then there was just the
regular collecting set.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
But I thought the card collecting set was what
they were promoting at the booth.
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
Okay, I thought there was a digital one.
Oh no, I don't know about adigital one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
They made us download that app.
Remember the first thing we didwe had to download their card
app or something they did.
They made us download that app.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Remember the first thing we did, we had to download
their card app or something.
Yeah, I did the card app whenit first came out.
I don't remember it being agame, though.
No, no, no.
You basically just earned coinsor paid coins, and you could
buy packs of cards, oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Once you went to the experience and got your Darth
Maul pin, they were offering tobuy, I guess ahead of time I
don't think it was exclusive, itwas like six packs for $100 or
$120.
I was like Jesus, $20 a packfor whatever this pack is.
They didn't ask me.
The line was starting to backup, so it worked out.

(01:12:53):
I just got my opinion and thenshe said, hey, would you like?
Everybody in front of me it waswe'd like to buy this, we'd
like to buy this.
One person, did one person pass.
I was like when I heard her sayit was 120 for six packs, I was
like, uh, no, because I wouldhave considered it like if it
was the old school box of topscards you get, you know, 30
packs, uh, whatever, and it's100 bucks, I probably would have
been, and a guaranteedautograph, like yeah, because

(01:13:15):
it's one per box, you know I, II'm not gonna lie.
I probably would have bought itif that was the case.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
When she said the box was $120 for six packs, I was
like yeah, I would definitelywant to know more about that,
because I would definitely atleast want a chance to get my
money back on that.
Because, I would say probably95% of Star Wars cards are not
worth the pack.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
That you bought.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
The only ones that are.
They look good.
I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
I mean they had some good looking cards there.
Going through I was like, oh, Ilike this style, I like how
they did this and like, but no,maybe it's because I'm used to
buying magic boxes when I playedand it was no, 36 packs for 100
bucks, 15 cards per pack, orback in their early 90s, um,
when I was buying the marvelcards and stuff like that it was

(01:14:04):
like the marvel flare, theflare, the flare.
Yes, the masterpiece card, samething.
I'd buy a box because then I'dalmost get my whole set.
Then I go back to the store andbuy the individuals that I
wanted you know to finish outthe set with trade, and that
wasn't how it was.
So, that being said, boost isgreat.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Were you old enough to buy those baseball cards when
they came in a cigarette packsback then, lou?

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
well, I, I was, uh, at that point I was working for
the company, so I was pretty up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Okay, and for the company he means he was working
at the store that they wereselling them at and yes so you?

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
yes, somebody had to promote it.
You have to remember, back inthose days you had a person who
actually went door-to-door outdoing this type of stuff.
After that, I think, rooseveltor Figman, you went that way, I
went to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
Ensky yes, because you went to go get your extra
vendor.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
No, no, no, I did go get a brace.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
A wristband.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
I got a wristband.
Then I went back to finish upthe sponsor pins.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Yeah.
I think that's when I went toFigPin and there was nobody
there and I was looking for theoverflow queue, I'm like there's
nobody here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
Lined up at the back of the wall.
Here you know there's nobodyhere, I'm like, okay, I guess
I'll take one of everything thatwas weird, though in japan,
very different than fig pin incelebration anaheim and an sdcc
yeah, very different.
yeah, I don't think nobody knewanything about it or something,

(01:15:40):
but Cause it was at the end ofthe day when I went back there
to get the, to get the Ahsokaset, and I and I didn't get the
the other set because they toldme they didn't have their
celebration stickers.
I remind me to email them aboutthat.
And then they said we wereexpecting to get them in tonight
.
So I was like, oh well, I'lljust come back on Sunday then

(01:16:02):
and buy them then and then, justjumping ahead, they still
didn't come in.
I went back on Sunday, I didget those pins, but they weren't
no stickers.
So I'll have to email them andask them.
I saved my receipt.

Speaker 1 (01:16:14):
It's actually on your Facebook account, dude.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Yeah, I went on there because, um, I was buying other
stuff and I clicked on myaccount history and they're on
there.
That's super cool, all right,but it's funny because I put it
in dollars, so I'm like I spent151 000 on big pins.
The fuck is this order?

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
oh, it was yen also.

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
Fine also, um not surprising not surprising, like
I mean doorables or fig pin.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Yep, I would totally expect that to be a yeah, when
you see that the end of july onyour credit card statement, it's
like okay, that's legit.
But I think yeah.
So I ended up going back to nsky and then I went to the one
that had the little squishies.
Was it Happy something?

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
Happy.

Speaker 4 (01:17:04):
Robot or something with an S.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Either way, I went over there to finish that setup,
and then I think that's when Iwent to Roosevelt's to meet you,
right, and then you were goingto get the shirt for Old Girl
and then I was gonna go back tothe store, I think yeah, do the
low catch.
That's when we split, yeah, andthen so you had the extra

(01:17:31):
wristband that ended up going toduke later in the day yeah, yep
, because then I hopped inbehind you yeah, because I'm not
a savage.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
I'm not a just going to cut in line like most of
those assholes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Um, yeah, so I went, I went over to the store.
Uh, at that point I think Itook a picture for you guys and
it was a five hour wait for theregular line.
Um, uh, right around lunchtime.
So I go inside, uh, get, like Isaid, I forgot those pins,
those badge art pins, the daybefore.
So I grabbed that, a few thingshere and there, some of those

(01:18:03):
red coins I thought were coolafter the fact.
So I couldn't get a set becausethey had sold out on Friday,
like Ahsoka and somebody elsehad sold out on Friday.
So I did that, did my pintrading.
It got five little cats, like Isaid, in 10 or 15 minutes.
I expected it to take a lotlonger, so nope.

(01:18:23):
And then I was about to leave.
I purchased, walked out,actually left the building.
I was still on the sidewalkright there with the queue of
all the people, and then that'swhen Jack reminded me about
badges.
I'm like shit, turned backaround, went inside, went
straight to the register, andthat's when I told you that
story already and got that done.

(01:18:44):
Then I left again and I didn'tat that point, I just wanted to
sit down.
So I walked over to the foodtruck area food truck area was
freaking awesome.
So many choices, so much ofeverything not surprising.
Not surprisingly, the hamburgeractual hamburger, not the
Japanese hamburgers.
And so much of everything Notsurprisingly the hamburger
actual hamburger, not theJapanese hamburgers.
The actual hamburger line wasthe longest.

(01:19:06):
It was the one thing that mostpeople could relate to.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
It was really good, though the burgers were really
good, though we did them laterin the day.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
In the food court, in the food truck area.
Yeah, I ended up getting acrepe of all things, so I wasn't
, I wasn't that hungry.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
So I was like, oh, this crepe is good.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
I figured I'd get a crepe, eat dessert and if I'm
still hungry then I get someproper food.
I think I had like a bananacaramel cream, something.
I'm like oh my God, it was sogood.
So, and then I ended up sittingdown and met this one girl from

(01:19:48):
Kansas who's living in Japanand in the Netherlands.
All in couple came and said thetable for people you know like
hey, anybody sitting here?
She's like no, go ahead.
And then there were two openseats.
So a couple came by and likecan we sit join?
It's like yeah, so I ended upchatting with them for like 45
minutes.
So I ended up chatting withthem for like 45 minutes.
I chatted with the girl, Ithink her, and her husband.
She's ex-military, her husbandis still in the military, so he
was deployed someplace andcouldn't make it.

(01:20:10):
So I was chatting with her fora bit.
Then the two showed up.
Then we all chatted for a bit,then the two left and another
guy showed up, and that's theguy that was there at the end of
the day Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Oh, that was still there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Yeah, the Scottish sounding dude or whatever, or
the British sounding dude.
So I ended up leaving the twoof them and went back inside and
it's kind of like roaming typeof thing.
I think I went and got my ownfig pan and was just picking up
whatever last minute stuff I wasgetting from my folks.
I was there for quite a whilebecause we didn't stay all day
saturday.
Um, it was go in, do some moreshopping and then, when all was

(01:20:45):
said and done, I went back out.
I I think I think I helped oneof my friends from colorado.
Actually I picked up a jar jarfunko for him and chatted with
him for about an hour on thestairway in between the hallways
.
Then I went back over like Idid my shopping, went back to
the uh food court and thehallways.
Then I went back over, I did myshopping, went back to the food
court and the guy that I wasthere three hours previous was

(01:21:06):
still there.
I joined him again at his tableand just sat and waited for
Jack and the group to come by.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
What else were we doing?
I was with the girls.
Is that the day you saw Nibs?

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
Jack went to a panel also.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
Yeah, we went to one of the fan panels.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
It was for Jedi Survivor, but it was just these
girls that have a podcasttalking about it.
So I took a nap.
I didn't realize that that'swhat that stage was for, so I
had a nap.
But then you also went toAhsoka too, right?
I didn't realize that that'swhat that Sage was for, so I
didn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
But then you also went to Ahsoka too, right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
No, the wife and little one went oh that too went
, yeah, okay.
And that's when we found outabout Lothal's that will also
grow you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
Yeah, probably.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Starfighter was Friday, right yeah so when we
saw that we were actually inthat long-ass Insky line when
Levy and Ken came out and theyannounced it there.
That was kind of cool.
I mean, we were there for that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Yeah, we were right there and the stage was right in
front of us.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
Hayden was out there everybody saying happy birthday
to him.
I guess it was his birthdaythat week.
No, I mean it was fine, butgosh, what did we do the rest of
the day After that?

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
Well, I know we left early, I know that much.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Yeah, I don't think we were there.
We definitely weren't thereuntil close.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
That's when we went to KFC that night night, that
was KFC night, because I didn'tjoin you guys for KFC night.
Yeah, friday Was Friday, aLawson's night, and the hotel
the rice the green tea ricenight, right yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
That shit was good yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
That was all we had.
We had the Lawson's after after, but then we did the green tea
rice to kind of just try outwhat they had there for the for
the late night menu.
Because then the followingbecause it was free.
Sunday night was sunday nightwas when we did the 7-eleven
right yeah, you guys did yeah,well, no, you were with us.
No, no, no, no, you were gone.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
You had left that was gone.

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
Yeah, you, you're right, that was thursday.
I thought was the 7-Elevennight.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
You're right, because that was the first night we.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
No, no, no, it would have been Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
Or Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
No, because Saturday we did KFC.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
Okay, then it must have been Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
It had to have been Friday.
It was a long walk to 7-Eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
It Freaking tourists.
I don't know what we were doing.
I guess we finished off that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
But I must have been doing something With the girls,
if Lou was already gone?
Yeah, I was.
I was about an hour.
I probably waited about 30minutes to 45 minutes For you
guys outside Just chilling.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
So what did you do?
You and me had already gonethrough and got all our vendor
pins together.
That's when we got the clothingspray.
Yep, because you and me hadalready gone through and got all
our vendor pins together.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
That's when we got the clothing spray Yep, which
worked well.
That was great, right.
Yeah, that's right, because hehad to use it for his Portland
shirt.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
Yeah, I don't know what I did with the girls then
Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
I don't know.
I think maybe you were justfinishing your panel, maybe, and
then, just joined me and assoon as you were done you came
and met me outside the foodtrucks, yeah, and then we left
because we were trying to avoida little bit of rush hour.
Yeah, so it was that 4.30 to 5type of range.
We were just at the cusp, yeah,so I think we got on the first
train in like quarter till 5.
Yeah, so we were like stuff offand it was like okay, we

(01:24:40):
started looking.
We wanted to find a sushi place.
We took like 45 minutes walkingaround the area looking for a
sushi place for the oldest.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
Uh, sushi in fricking Tokyo, that was weird.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
Dude.
To be fair, we were outside.
We weren't even in.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
Tokyo, but we were.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
I don't even know what the hell town we were
called Uh.
But, we were.
I don't even know what the helltown we were called, but either
way, again with an O, were we?

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
okay, I thought it was a Y.
Yeah, it's like Yachio Yachio.

Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
Yachio.
Yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
I think it was Yachio yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
Either way we we walked around.
We didn't find anything thatreally stood out that we wanted
KFC.
That was across the street fromthe hotel.
It was definitely different.
A little bit of a languagebarrier at first.
We're scanning the menu withour phones to try to understand
everything.
Then the lady asked a question.

(01:25:30):
We had no idea what she said,so I had her do it in the Google
app.
It was just here to go.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
We're looking around.
We're like what do you mean?
How am?

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
I going to eat here bro.
There's no place to eat here itwas upstairs I looked and they
had security cameras and theywere upstairs.
You go, it was a full area toeat like, like bigger than some
american kfc restaurant seatingarea to go up there.
So we told them to go.
Then we got our food, ended upstaying here and I I apologized
for the lady.

(01:25:58):
It's like we didn't know.
Like we didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
We went upstairs.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
She's like whatever American Leave yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
It took us maybe 10-15 minutes just to order
because we had to figure it out.

Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
I enjoyed what I had.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
I enjoyed my macaroni salad and my chicken.
Yeah, it was fine.
I think we didn't do much afterthat.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Well, I showed up, and then we went back down and
got chicken nuggets, as we did.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Yeah, every night chicken nuggets and a beer man
or some alcoholic yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
Now we went to bed.
Get it back again on Sunday tofinish out the celebration
Sunday was late.

Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
Sunday was late day.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
Yeah, sunday was.
We will plan to be there when,after everything is open Not by
much they open at 9.
We got there like 9.45.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
We weren't sleeping in that much I did not join you
on that Sunday.
I ended up going elsewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Wait, didn't you show up with your friends later that
day?

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
No, that was Saturday .
Sunday we went to.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Wayno Park.

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
We went to Wayno Park and went to all that giant
market, the street market.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
I didn't go at all on Sunday to celebration.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Jack, what was yours?
We got there.
We were just screwing off, wegot there I went to the store I
we went inside.
Oh, I had to go get my fig pinand the other pins from um the
other three booths, whatever itwas sales.
I think they're called yeahsales sales force sales one,
sales one.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
So I did that, I know , I think I think we did it too
we were just right ahead of youthough, because you were doing
getting your other stuff, andthen I went to do my sales.

Speaker 3 (01:27:46):
One stuff, because then I had to ask you like,
where the hell's fig pin?
I remember asking you aboutthat again.
No, no, no, it wasn't fig pin,it was the self.
Yeah, because fig pin?

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
I wouldn't.
It was twink.
You didn't know where twink was.
Yeah, or twink was and we wenttogether.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
Fig Pin, that's when we helped that lady.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
not trade the fancy, yeah the glitter, and then she
gave it to my oldest.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Right, it was like oh , thanks for saving us, we got
an extra one anyway, you haveany trade.
No, we didn't buy any of those.
Okay, well, here you go.
Anyway, that was pretty cool.
So Sunday was basically a lotof last minute.
Just last minute shoppingwhatever last minute stuff we
needed and going through youknow what, Take that back.
I did go to Roosevelt's becausethat's when I got myself
Chewy's on Yep because you wereiffy on it.

(01:28:34):
I was, and then it was like wait, we could do matching at SDCC,
because we'll tell you which day.
I was going to say, we'll tellyou which day.
So you're wearing it too, ittoo.
But yeah, because I didn't wantone at first, but a little girl
want to wear nice, how'd it go?
How'd it go?
How'd it go?

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
no, I'm talking about yeah, like, because usually,
usually you count your uh shirt,and they are, and it has, since
it has a japanese writing on itwhich I need to probably
translate.
They were, um, every, just like, led right into.
How was japan like?
Because they all saw it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Oh, got it, and then I would show off that it has the
fold-over that Jack showed usTo cover up the buttons.
Wait what I haven't opened themeither.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
On the shirt.
You see how you see the button.
They actually added an extraflap that matches the picture
and covers up the buttons.

Speaker 3 (01:29:26):
Only for that one.

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
That one and the Haunted Carbonite one.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
It's the first time I've seen them do that with
those full panel shirts likethat.
The anime one that we got there, yeah the Haunted Carbonite one
.

Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
Oh, that's badass.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Okay, that's badass.
Yeah, I haven't opened any ofthose yet.
Still sitting in a pile.
No, that's super cool.
Let's see what else Sunday gotthere did that shopping.

Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Sunday is when I did do panels, though.
We went to the Disneyland panelfor the updates on the Disney
rides.
So Smuggler's Run runs gettinga big update when amando and
grogu comes out next year.
Um, being an engineer won't bethe the bitch seat anymore where
you put little kids, becausenow you get to chat with grogu.

(01:30:10):
He's going to pop up on thescreen and um engineer also gets
to pick which planet you go to,because now you get to pick
which planet you go to.
Oh, that's cool, yeah, andthey're already testing it,
because it's just a video game,right?
If you've been on Smuggler's,Run it's just a video game.
So they just go there in themiddle of the night, boot that

(01:30:30):
up and they're playing fuckingMando and Grogu Smuggler's Run.
I'm like you mother.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
How terrible for them .
Right and.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
How terrible for them .
And then nothing else reallynew.
I mean they talked about howthey're adding all the Ahsoka
and Andor and Mando to StarTours in Tokyo that we've had
since last season of the fours.
Nothing about Rise of theResistance.
They talked a little bit abouthow they brought Luke in for

(01:31:00):
Disneyland.

Speaker 3 (01:31:01):
That's Cloud Galaxy's Edge.
Wait, oh, that's only forSeason of the Force, yeah Well
good, I mean, they say that nowRight.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
Hey look, they did the limited for Hera and Chop
and Sabine.
I mean they're sticking to itpretty good.
But I mean they're sticking toit pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
They always have them available, so they have them
available for.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
Limited for Sabine.
Didn't we see Sabine inDecember?
No, oh, you're right, it waslast May and then again today or
yesterday Also, I guess I'mgetting a Star Wars.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
I'm getting a Star Wars Nate shirt because the
friend that I was with the onethat bought the album box, him
and his girl, went to Disneylandlast weekend.
So he texted oh shit, I forgotto go pick up his.
I gotta go pick up his package.
I forgot to go pick up apackage for him.
I suck.
He was supposed to text me andlet me know when it showed up.

(01:32:01):
So I got to go do that after weget done with this.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
And then we watched the season finale of Rebels.
I was like, nah, that's cool,you know whatever Excellent Star
Wars, right, but it was inJapanese and it was still really
good.
And then we stuck around the,the closing ceremonies.
Uh, it turns out that 70 of thepeople there first celebration,

(01:32:28):
which I think explains a lot ofthe issues that were had.
Um, then they announced it'sgoing to be in la in 27 I don't
know, wait, I don't know howthat connects because?
Because they don't know whatthey're doing either.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
Yeah, but I didn't find the fans to be a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Yeah, the people there weren't a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
I didn't find them to be a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
They were just as confused as we were.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
The one thing I will say and I don't know how true
this is, but I would probablyput money on that Cluster F
bottleneck that you ran intoPeople at SDCC who had been
there a while, they would havefigured it out.
The fans would have figured outhow to make that worse?
Yes, definitely.

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
Like everybody going this way, going the right way,
it would have been right sidehere, it would have been
self-corrected for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
We would have corrected that, and then the
people on the right would havewent through, got there and then
circled back around to the line, it definitely would have been
self-corrected yeah, I think wewould.
We would want to figure thatout, but that 70 percent might
have been part of the problemthere, but they don't know how
to they have.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
You're not used to it and they you know the culture
walking on the left and all that.
That was weird.
Yeah, I caught myself doingthat at disneyland all weekend,
like shit, I don't walk on theleft anymore, it's on the right.
So that caused some issues thisweekend.
But yeah, so that's what I did.
So we came back from DisneyTokyo and went straight to

(01:33:48):
Disneyland.
Anaheim.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
No, hold on Back up, because after your panel on
Sunday did you guys just go back?
No, no, you went to the mall,didn't you?
Yeah, we hung out at the mallwhere the station walked around
that mall.

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
It was like a bougie ass mall over there yeah, it was
a very fancy yeah you know, we,we can't afford to buy anything
, even though we were japan richand they were like, well, fuck
it, let's find a mcdonald's.
So yeah, no, we went over tomcdonald's.
It was around the station, likeyou know.
When we left, you just gostraight to the station.
If you go left, there's a wholeanother mall back there.

(01:34:26):
We also got baskin robbins um,I was really tempted to do taco
bell yeah, we want to, I'll bereal um right I would

Speaker 3 (01:34:35):
I would just for a beer honestly I was gonna say my
friend that I got the uh jarjar, for he raved about it
because he was like I know it'sTaco Bell, but the fact that I
could buy a beer is what did itfor me.

Speaker 1 (01:34:46):
So we went to McDonald's.
I thought it would be a repeatof KFC, where I don't speak the
language.
It's going to take forever.
No, they had a kiosk that youswitch to English and then bingo
.

Speaker 4 (01:35:05):
Get a little tp for your place sitting yeah, all
right, yeah, no, we ordered itum, I got a, uh, I got a
teriyaki burger, which isdelicious, the wife got a
samurai mac, which was a soysauce.

Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
I think it had egg on it, like the eggs they give you
on the did have the biscuits inthe morning, so it had one of
those eggs on it.
It was pretty good.
The girls just got regular food.
I got a potato and cheese stickor something.
No potato and bacon orsomething.
It was delicious.

(01:35:34):
It was like you know we getapple pies.
They have fucking potato pies.
It was actually pretty goodPotato pie.
You know we get apple pies.

Speaker 3 (01:35:42):
They have fucking potato pies.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
It was actually pretty good potato pie and
little one got a happy meal, avi, and they gave her some weird
ass doll I don't even know if itwas licensed or some, just like
some bootleg shit.
They got a diso or donkey orsomething oh my god, that's
hilarious.
And then, after that, we wentto baskin robbins and, uh, we
got some ice cream and then wetook the train back early night.

(01:36:07):
Shit, no, it was dark.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
It was dark before we got on the train, yeah yeah oh
wow, you must have met them allfor a while we were yeah, I mean
, we made sure.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Oh, wait, wait I forgot, yeah, I forgot.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
Plus, you actually stayed to the close.

Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
They were there until 5 o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
Yeah, I'm thinking y'all were gone at 2 or 3.
No, you didn't even get to themall until like 5.30.

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
We also saw our own Japanese.
I dared Big One to go ask if heknew not like us, but she
wouldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
Was that at the mall?

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
Yeah, he was singing outside of the train station.
You know where that baseballthing was.
There was trees and stuff overthere.
He was over there.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
They call them idols when people are out singing and
stuff.
I learned that while we werethere, because that's what they
hope, right, right.
They hope that somebody walksby who hears them, who actually
has some influence and can makethem a, make them a deal.
So they call it idols or idlingor whatever Like cause
basically you're American idling, right Like you're trying to

(01:37:14):
get that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
But you're just a street performer.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
They do that here too , yeah, I was going to say it's
like okay for them.
I guess street performer isn'ta phrase, so idle.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
You're a poor that doesn't have a real job, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
Man.
Well, as we wrap this up, I'llfinish my Sunday leading up
until conversation next week.
So after I left Jack and thegroup in the morning, I don't
know 10, 11 o'clock.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
Yeah, it was probably close.
Yes, we did our art.
We picked up all our art printsand you took those back.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
We did that.
Yeah, we consolidated our artstuff because, because I was
going back to the room, I wasgoing to Osaka that night
overnight, I was going to osakathat night overnight, I was
going to hang out and and Iwanted to kill some time and all
that and ended up killing timein shinjuku because that's where
my station was.
My bus station was to go toosaka for world's fair on monday

(01:38:09):
.
So jack and I did our artprinting.
We consolidated.
I went back to the store justlast minute stuff just kind of
looking.
I think I ended up buying likethree things like, like, like
some other of those, those metalcoins, those red coins.
I think I ended up getting likea like a, a Han and a and a the

(01:38:29):
go with the layer that I, thatI got, and I think a Luke and me
.
I think I ended up gettingthree more, Um and some, I don't
know something minor.
Oh, I know what it was.
They were doing shirts.
Every day they had a specificshirt you could go in.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
Yeah, they had a daily shirt.

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
And this one was Ahsoka oh nice.
And since, oh girls, intoAhsoka, I waited the 45-minute
process to 45 minutes was like20 in line and then 25 for the
shirt.
So I got that shirt and then,once that was done, I was like,
okay, it's still early enough,I'm going to go back.
My bus wasn't until 1130 atnight, so I was like I'm going

(01:39:08):
to go back to the room, drop allthis stuff up, shower change,
get ready for the next day andall that, take a nap and go from
there.
And so, as I was leaving fromthere, and so as I was leaving,
I was leaving and there was someJapanese girl, probably 20 or
so.
She looked young, got out of thestore line.
She was in the regular storeline and she just was walking.

(01:39:29):
The same way I was going to goback to the station.
I caught up with her and Itapped her on her shoulder and I
was like English, she's like alittle bit.
I was like were you trying toget into the store for something
specific, or like I just wantto look around?
I was like hang on.
So I pulled out my lightninglane pass that I had for Sunday
and was like well, I have alightning lane pass.

(01:39:50):
If you want to use it, I'm done.
I'm not going back in.
It hasn't been used yet, soit's still scannable.
So if you want it, you can takeit.
It.
She understood what I wassaying.
She's like, her eyes got allbig and she was super excited.
It was like oh my gosh, youknow, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
So I gave it to her and sheturned around and if she, if she
was older, she, she was alooker, I ain't lie, but she

(01:40:19):
looked a little too young.
It was like oh, she reminds meof my niece.
No, we can't go there, we can'tgo there, so yeah, so she went
back.
I don't know whatever happenedto her.
Hopefully she got through andgot something.
I don't think I went straightback to the station.
I think I did.
I took a long way Instead ofthe way we were going, just to
see what else was around there.

(01:40:39):
I took a long way.
Train was fine.
Going by myself it wasperfectly fine for the first
time, I think.
Perfectly fine.
Got back to the hotel.
I think I ended up taking a napfirst.
You did.
You said you were taking a nap.
I took a nap first, then got upin the evening I don't know six

(01:41:01):
or so.
So two, three hour nap, took ashower, obviously unpacked my
backpack, only put in there whatI needed to go to Osaka, took
the train down to Shinjuku andwas just hanging around the
nightlife of Shinjuku for a bit,found myself a ramen place for
dinner.
That was kind of cool.

(01:41:24):
Very touristy in Shinjuku.
It was definitely foreigner, Iwon't even say American, Just a
lot of Europeans, that's fordamn sure.
Oh my god, I found moreEuropeans than I did, Americans,
especially Australians, butthat kind of makes it closer.
So hung out in Shinjuku Wassuper cool and it got to the
point where it's like, okay, Ishould probably walk towards my

(01:41:45):
butt, since I don't know whatthe hell I'm doing I want to
make sure I get there and notmiss this thing.
Uh, so I'm heading back to thestation and and there's again
street m&m, just some japanesedude just with his machine just
wrapping away, and I'm walkingtowards him.
That's where my station areawas.
I'm walking towards him.
All of a sudden, everybody'skind of stopped and looking up

(01:42:07):
and I had no idea what's goingon.
So I do the same thing I turnaround and look up.
That's what I thought it was,that freaking 3D cat.

Speaker 4 (01:42:22):
Yeah, in.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
Shinjuku.
That was on my list to do but Iwasn't really planning on doing
it.
Then I was just kind of killingtime to get on that bus.
I was like I don't want to miss, so I turn around, I eyeball
this thing.
I'm probably watching it forhalf an hour.
It's kind of ridiculous becausethe cat would do something for
like 30 seconds.
Then you get like five minutescommercials.
Then the cat would do somethingfor like 30 seconds.
Then you get like five minutescommercials, then the cat would
do something for 30 seconds.

(01:42:43):
It was kind of weird.
But at the same time it alljust happened.
I'm listening to JapaneseEminem just go at it and I'm
sitting there just kind of goingand just doing my thing.
It was like all right, allright, this guy's got it going
on and by the time I was done Iturned around and bought his CD.

Speaker 1 (01:42:58):
I don't have nothing to put it on, but I bought a.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
CD.
It was a CD.
I'm leaning over now because Ifound it in my bag.
Today I got a CD.
I have not even opened this badboy.
As far as I know, it could be ablank disc.
Let's open this right now.
Let's see.
This is what it is Some genericWow.

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
I think I should have a sticker that I bought from
Price when they went out ofbusiness.
Dude for real.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
But it was.
I think I ended up hearing likefour of his songs and the last
three.
The first one, I wasn't reallypaying attention to.
The last three I was payingattention.
No idea what he's saying, butthe beat was pretty damn good.
So I was, like, you know, for 2000 yen, you know like 13, like
why not?

Speaker 1 (01:43:47):
so uh, did that you just helped spark his dream I
did like exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:43:53):
He's like a black guy's dancing to my shit and
give me support.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
You know, you know he was he went home and told this
story to his mom and dad.
Absolutely Not realizing.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
what he really needed was you two fuckers to give him
dabs and me, the wrong guy, togive him dabs.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
But that's okay, that's all right.

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
He's still happy.
But yeah, that was.
Once all of that was done, Iworked my way to the station.
I got there about 45 minutes toan hour before they were going
to board, asked information tomake sure where I was going and
everything, and they told mewhat track number and well, I
guess, whatever they call themthere in the bus stations,

(01:44:37):
whatever my area was, it waslike D11.
I remember that much.
It was like D11, go chill hereand then wait for the 1130
because it was obviously a bunchof buses.
Oh my God, all the rumors youall hear about the efficiency is
not a joke.
They had buses in queue.
So let's say I got there at1015, or not 1015.

(01:44:58):
I got there like 1030, 1045.
My bus was at 11 30.
We're going to board at 11 20.
So every bus, the four buses orthree buses ahead of me, they
would say like 10 50 at 10 40, abus rolled up literally on the
dock.
10, 40 rolls up, um.
They do the whole announcements, most of it in japanese, and

(01:45:21):
then they have the overcom thing, intercom thing in.

Speaker 4 (01:45:25):
English.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
And then 10.50, that bus was gone.
And then next bus, let's sayyou know 11.10, 11 o'clock, 10
minutes exactly bus pulled.
It was like the shit was justwaiting there and just waiting
and waiting.
It was like, okay, now youcan't come early, can't come
late.
Punks showed up, they loadedand if you weren't there they

(01:45:46):
just left your ass.
There is no whoa our manifestsays they're supposed to have.
They don't care.
It was wild to just watch 45minutes of just this perfection.
I was like, oh, my OCD was sohappy just this perfection.

Speaker 4 (01:46:01):
I was like oh, my OCD was so happy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
I'm just sitting there with my Pokey Sweat.
They had a video machine thereand I needed something for the
ride right.
So I grabbed two bottles ofPokey Sweat and yeah, it was
something, it was something.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
But we'll hear about that next week.

Speaker 3 (01:46:21):
Yeah, we can get into Osaka.
The bus ride is prettystraightforward, but we can get
to Osaka a little bit next week.

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
Yeah, Disney and Osaka.

Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
Hells yeah.
But so happy Star Wars Day fromall of our wrestling and
fucking Star Trek fans.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
Star Trek fans.
From all your Star Trek andwrestling fans, happy Star Wars
Day.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
When God said let there be light, I flipped a
switch.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
That means it's time for me to go to Beck's.
He's old as fuck, he is old asfuck.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
He's got work in the morning.
Man, he is old as fuck.
I knew Burger King when he wasa prince.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
Fuck, alright, bye, cut, cut it out.

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