June 9, 2025 • 101 mins
We back with another episode! Today is all about Dream Talk and our latest convention trips. Tap into the convo!
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we doing man, We are doing good man.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Man, I'm still rocking with this con season. We got
Didge in the building.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
What is happening people? What is happening people?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
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or something like. That's bro Every every day I just wait,
every day I see a new video of Bach.
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But it's happening people. What is happening peoples?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
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and just make that the bubble.
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That is true, that is true. We just on like
comic air bubbles. We got tripping the building.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
What's going on everybody?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We got King out there, King in the shop. We've
got yeah, yep, man. Shit.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So we talked, were talking weave con Indie. We are
this is our con season, and you know, saying we
chose to go to We've gone. Shout out to Mo Lowry.
Comedian Mo Lowry hooked us up. He had hit me like, oh,
shout out to motherfucking Mo Man. So he ain't hit
me probably like probably like a month and a half
before dream Con, it was like it was funny because
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like so a little bit behind the scenes for those watching,
we was had like I said, we're always trying to
figure out ways to continually expand geek set, do more
with the culture, do more with the people, and came
up like we was like, we want to every con
that we go to moving forward, we want to be
able to at least have a panel room just to
kind of do a showcase, live podcast or whatever, just
to continually introduce people to who we are. Coincidentally, like
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at the same time Mo hit me, he was like, yo,
y'all trying to do some more panels and stuff like
that because I got you know, we've indycome and I
know the person puting it on and they're looking for
more talent and creators to be a part of the convention.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So brought it to the team and then we was
like that all right. Right after dream Con, we hitn't
weave gone nice road trip.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
We we ain't had a road trip since dream Con,
which which was the last road trip, which is funny.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Because everybody had dream cond because we did that one
trip every now bro for the past two years, every
time did y'all drive again, and y'all drove again. It's like, Bro,
that was once.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We did it at one time. That was a drive.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
That was that other person. I think that beat.
Speaker 9 (03:35):
It was probably tripping when he did the next year
by himself.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Truthfully, this would be a great Patreon story because I actually.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Would love to tell this how mad I was that
we got a mini man to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We had to.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
I mean it was it wasn't gonna be able to
fit all of the people's bags.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like I feel like, I think if we're talking about
from the beginning of like when we were looking for
the cards and all that kind of stuff, like cauld
we we could have gotten a you can't like we
could have, but we gotta have many.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Bro.
Speaker 11 (04:14):
The fact of us pulling hopping out at different steps
of the mini van and it looks like it's five
niggas hopping out a minivan.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It was like that, Like I think that like that
that that plays into why we won't do it again
like I did could have played because my thing is
like that's my hard story. It is like, Bro, if
I see a nigga put up to me in the
minivan again, Bro, I would never I would that trip
like everything like that mini man just handled it was
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it handled very loosely, like Bro, it handled very loosely.
Speaker 8 (04:47):
There's a lot of bro slander going on here.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
First of all, let's be clear, as a as a
guy with with a family of six, I appreciate the minivans.
You know, space like niggas could in a UK. You
would have been cramping up in a utah.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We had we bag, we had anime ship like I
had my I had rita, Nigga, I had rita.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
You know how big that axis that b the axes
bigger than my luggage.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
You're got telling me that that's like the man that
would be bigger than the I'm just not going to.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Go for that. It's more space, it's just more space.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Yeah, it's more space to u for cargo.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Yeah, you can move in and out of a minivan
easier because you got to think about two cats. You
got two sets of captain chairs in a mini van.
We're in a truck that somebody gonna have to climb
over the seat every time.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That is just crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I hate hearing about it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You won't brought it up.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
That's because that's because we thought he was gonna bring
it up, and everybody, hell yeah you know, no.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, no, no, only one right now doing it. We
all had our moments to being like bro, I definitely
not been in a minivan again.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I did my circle like I did my run through everybody,
so y'all just actually taking it.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
I think the thing is the minivan was packed. That's
why I was uncomfortable. If it wasn't so.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Packed, it woul probably would have been more comfortable.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
Yeah, but doing it again and understanding the practicality of
it are two subtly different things. I wouldn't do it
again either, but I understand it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was necessary. Trip niggas what was.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
About to say trip, I wouldn't. I definitely wuldn't do
that again.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
Man, Like another long world trip like that, definitely gotta
be a splinter or something, because this is there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
My only issue was that the mini and like every
turn like it was like so there's like I wasn't
able to I wasn't able to get comfortable driving because
every little bit of chirk that a jerk it was,
And that's when I hate it, because if it was
a little bit more stable, like I said, if it
was you know what I'm saying, Like like you know
what I'm saying, suv or.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I felt like those handle better than a minivan. The
mini man, I just felt like every like you couldn't
do anything. You had to be ten and two and
I'm not a tending I'm not a ten and two nigga. Yeah,
I think that makes sense to like like I said,
like like I'm not, I'm not against the road trips,
but we gotta do better than any man. I feel
like everybody having that moment in the minivan, where do
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you like it?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Where do you find to.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Nigga in a minivan? I got the worst of it all.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Ticket Why That's why I feel you even on my
side like we do.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We definitely got to do a little minivan.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I'm just Look, I'm not I'm not I'm not saying
you're wrong for I'm just saying the minivan slander is
crazy because I get it. Nobody wants to drive. Look,
I don't want to be five or six niggas deep
in a minivan ever again, yes, ever, like if I
got a movent, I definitely wanted for the children, But
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that's it.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
But I feel I think.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
That was crazy for me because, like I said, like,
God rest my father's like when he passed, he had
a mini van and that was past to me. So
I lived the life of a mini that wasn't like this,
just that it wasn't even like the vinivan I had
in my life.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Wasn't even eating like bro.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
You you could tell us if somebody ribbed you bro
at the stop.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Like this, this ain't even actual hate. You just reliving
old trauma.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That ain't no look at it when I did it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
When I did it back there, I was like I
took it for myself, like all right, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
But I was like, Bron, I don't want to see
my niggas.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
No, it's hard to hop out and be fresh in
the minivan. I'll tell you that. Yeah, it's hard to
hop out.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And what did it changed if it was an astro van.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
Nigga, if it was an all black astro vain that
probably if it was like an eighteen van, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We was coming down there and cosplaying the van.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Yes, player vans where you know they have like chron
wheels and ship and the table in the middle with
the yeah, uncle, oh god, I thought of that and
felt more comfortable. Town of country though.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That is van though, so that that really would have been, like,
y'all bigger value from Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Here, hey, Me and Dig's uncle Jerry used to have
that van, boy, Hey.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
But the great thing about it it was comfy seats
and he had he had the best refreshments in the
back of that van.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He always he had that cooler back there.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Like he didn't do can sodas. He always hit the
bottle sodas.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
He was. Yeah, like the Mexican coach, the one you
gotta have.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
A yep yep, Uncle Jerry, And you know Jerry.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What's greatest about Uncle Jerry's uncle Jerry's a mechanic and
a pastor, so he knows everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He knows everybody in the city.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Not a mechanic, he was. He's a like uh contractor.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Contractor sorry about contractor, uh, and a pastorg so he
he literally knows everybody.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So But yeah, so you know, if y'all didn't tell already,
we drove to we've con this year around you know
this this is and this was this was actually uh
Indianapolis first we've con so we've gone is actually like
a brand. It's kind of like the the anime expos
so you know you'll see anime exposed in Los Angeles.
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And I do think they got one in Atlanta. Think
they got one in New York and everything like that.
We've con same thing. There's a brand.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
This is their first year in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
They're based in Texas, though we want to say that,
we want to say like what we discovered, we even
discovered about we kind of course do molaari, but also
knowing that they have actually been established for a very
long time in Texas. So anybody in the Texas group,
anybody chatting with us from.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Texas, you already know about.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
We con this is our first time, yeah, going to
kind of Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yep. And so.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Like I said, I think this this four hour ride
wasn't that bad. I think coming back was the worst part.
And it was only because of the rain.
Speaker 12 (11:14):
For you, for you, for you, bro, I want you
to know that you are a ball faced liar when
I like, I woke up because they no.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
No, no, no no. You woke up once because of that.
You woke up once because of that. The other times
it was the streets.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So yeah, no, I will I will vouch produces on this.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
The roads were terrible, and I don't know what it
is about Indianapolis or not even Indianapolis, Indiana as a whole.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
There are stretches of the highway where.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
They put those you know, like those little grooves.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, there are of the highway in the middle of
the road.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
They are there.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So there were times you woke up like, yo, you're good.
It's like, well, yeah, nigga the road.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah. But that but that that last one was valid.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The last one was bat last one, you know, the
last one, the last one. The last one is I
woke before you did it, so I saw you do it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I woke up and I was like, bro, this war
close to me. The noise got to going. I'm like, dude, you're.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Good, Like, yeah, I'm good. No. So that was so
that the last one.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's because everybody, y'all nigga, y'all niggas is the king
is going to sleep on the nigga.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Anyway, I did say that he was gonna he was
going to bed.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So I realized when it started rain out really waking
up looking at this like bro, this is going to
sleep in this rain with.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
I didn't fall asleep until I didn't fall asleep like
that until we got out of.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The see kept waking up in the middle of watching.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Did like, Bro, if did go to bed, Oh this
nigga in the rain, I'm gonna be mad because because
I was straight, I looked I would have been straight,
but that rain was definitely getting.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To a nigga.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And I was like, damn, bro, because even that bro
that even at that rain Bull, that rain Bull, did
I help it. I was like, Bro, I'm normally all
right at this point, and I was like, but that rain, bro,
and that rain was really hit Bro.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was I was. I was trying.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Everything because even this it was like he was like,
you calld for your playlist being all up Temple. I'm like, yeah,
I did that on purpose, but that rain, that rain
was working overtime on the bed like you that your
cold wasn't about your it was like it was.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
After a point I was I had loosened up my hat.
I can hold it over my eyes and my glasses.
I'm like, bro, I'm trying to lay out this nigga,
got this music going it wrapping the songs.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Like bro, like y'all think got sleep I want't sleep
that bad, like I couldn't because I really as as
the oldest nigga, like I could not.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I saw the rain.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I was like, all right, bro, I'm not gonna die
in my sleep.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You s I'm gonna weak my eyes. Yeah, keep looking
at you niggas.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But when you started rapping the songs out, I was like,
all right, bro, this niggas struggling trying to.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
I had to.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I had to figure it out.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It was plenty of Chicago drull music, plenty gun shooting music.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I was like, I need all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
The oldest thing was, like I said, because I was playing,
which did you say? You ain't say you ain't playing yet?
Like I was playing on my phone. When you look back,
you're like Rod playing the game. I was playing that
Marvel Rivals the Tron thing because every match is like
thirty to forty five minutes, so let me get I
was like, let me get like three matches in, so
I'm like by that time, I'm like, we didn't halfway.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Home in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm about taking that now, like I'm taking that down. Bro.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's how I knew why I was playing that game.
By falls he playing the game.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah. Now what time I turned around you you was
playing the game.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You was like, but on using that because I was
so scared that this is gonna go to sleep while
Rudy is riding the rain and was go kill him.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I'm like, bro, I got I gotta do.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Something like that ship be riot.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So I said the ride there was straight.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Like I said, Trip slept most of the rides there,
Trip Trimp got to got the best sleep the whole trip.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Trip is don't ever defend on Trip to ever do
anything about life.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
But I feel like I feel like he like, bro,
if I can go sleeping, that's actually way to go.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You're like like, let me go there, like, don't let
me worry about none of that ship.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So when we pull up in Indianapolis, at first, I
ain't gonna hold you. And we talked about this at
the pod that we did there because we was doing
a live podcast at the place and we already had
the thought process like, Okay, when we get there, we're
gonna have to promote like we was kind of like
a last minute edition because we were still trying to
figure out everyone's gonna go, how what was gonna do.
So we was like we gotta make sure we hit
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the grounds running talking to the people of the con
But as we were pulling up, Now, for those who
go to conventions, you know, when you go to a convention,
you usually see a ship ton of gods players outside
around the convention center, walking around, crossing the streets, parking,
whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And we pulled up and this is just like a
regular ass downtown.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, it was like a regular downtown. And I looked up,
I saw the skywalking. I was like, all right, well,
I see people in the skywalk. So I was like,
all right, bet we cool.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Right, by far, the best parking that we've had at
a convention.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yet, parking parking was beautiful by fire.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
That's the most hilarious thing I've ever heard of. Even
say that by far.
Speaker 10 (17:03):
Because people who do creative stuff at conventions, they know
how much of pain it is to one have to
either love your stuff around all day or have.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
To take that that trek back to your car. This one.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
The way that the convention was set up. The parking
garage that you were in is essentially right between the
two buildings. Like half the stuff was in the hotel,
half the stuff was in the convention center. So parking
in order to get to either you have to pass
by where we parked, and we parked on the third level.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That was perfect.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
So we were right by where the skywalk was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, so and then but again when we get in,
so two things that was hilarious for me.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
First of when we get in this is this is
truly a convention.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Center, right, Like I mean, and I know that sounds
crazy to say, but like like when we walked in,
it seemed it was very serene and quiet. It was
like a real, live convention center. And then Bacardian immediately
could not stop talking about their quality.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We'd have to do that.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Like like you know, it was it was it was like,
I look, look, I'm not here trying to respect.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I know, we was gonna bring this part up.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I didn't.
Speaker 13 (18:23):
You say, But I mean I'm like, yeah, I mean
I feel like maybe maybe what I what I smelled
was the convention difference between dream Con and we did.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
A video on this, didn't we Yeah, we did an
episode on this, so.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Maybe So so that's what I'm gonna sick with.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I'm not gonna say that Indiana or Indianapolis in general,
smell like this, just.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That pocket at that moment, just that pocket at that moment,
something something, And we're.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Actually also all like we're actually like, we're so with that.
We've been to enough conventions to another different smells of
the convention. Yeah, so that's what it was like, Like
coming from dream Come and going into we Come, there
was a very very very complete smell difference.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So speaking around this crazy.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
So it's crazy because I have to say, because I
did not make it. I am the guy wanting to
hear everything.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
So hearing this is intriguing.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
Like I'm over here, I want to get into it,
but I understand what he's saying, right right, right.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So we'll be So we go straight to the registrations
because we get there like around what but twelve yeah yeah,
yeah yep, and and our panel is not until six,
so you know, we were like, well, let's do we
gave him some opportunity to get a fill of the convention.
So we go straight to the convention the main exhibit hall, right,
that's that that was the exhibit all Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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we got yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Because it was right outside the door of the.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Main exhibit hall. And the first thing.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
We almost didn't get our badges.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I also didn't know we talk about that. Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Didn't know that. Did that happen?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And we didn't get our badges not necessarily not necessarily
didn't get our badges sold the lady when I when
we pulled up to the registration, I was like, yeah,
we're geeks, said we're here to pick up our Panels badge.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And the guy was like, you got the QR cole.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I was like, no, we didn't give us a QR
cod and he was like, well, yeah, they normally have
a QR code, right, And I was like, well, like
they didn't give us a QR code. I was like
I don't know saying and I was like, but no,
somebody said that our stuff is going to be here,
right And I was like so I had to look
through my email and I was like yeah. And then
I named up the shout out Kim jimmin as helping
us out with everything that she did as soon as I.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Am makes more sense than.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Charge it to my heart my head, that's not all right.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
You can shout out tobody please get their name right,
but but.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I feel like she didn't. She didn't say her last
name to me, I just going off for the email.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
It's crazy that you didn't default to him in it.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You you crazy. I don't believe that your older brother
would default.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Like I'm on your side that your younger brother is crazier.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
You're not thinking somebody is going to default to that,
Like that is all right, I'll take it whatever.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
I mean. This is Rudy talking about.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
This is definitely gonna say it the way he did.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
So, but he apologized. He said, I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I'm sorry like that definitely even mean no harm.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He had good intentions, right, But so it's as soon
as I soon as I name dropped, soon as I
dropped that name, and you know what's crazy day you
saying that?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But I'm a hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Impositive that's how I said it at the contest, and
nobody corrected me and registration.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Why would they.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Would say as a person who has a name that
people mess up all the time, like I just get
to a point where you got it.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
It's close.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You probably it up.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And that person that told Kim told Kim like Dawn,
this nigga.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
What's her name?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Kim him?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
And what did you say? Hey, let's go.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Shout out to Kim because as soon as soon as
I name dropped Kim the Devil, Yeah yeah, we got you.
Like I'm like, Kim, Kim is definitely the man in
the streets, like she's the top woman in charge. She
she like because soon as I said Kim, they was, oh, yeah,
I ain't gonna hold you. Staff became super accommodating for
the rest of the convention too.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I don't know if they wasn't not, but I just
feel like at that point people was rocking with us.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
We had panels, badges at that point, well we know
three three D weekend niggas.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Your talent at that point, yeah, we ain't Saturday Fridays.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
So the first day that I noticed when we get
in it king is that bro. They had so many
voice actors there they so imagine like the Anime Milwaukee Hall,
right yep. And then across all three walls except the
entrance wall is voice actors.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's how That's how many voice actors they had.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
On all three walls except the entrance wall, they had
voice actors all was set up doing autographs and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It was crazy and so like I was like, so
that to me, that was that was dope.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And that's when I realized, I said, Yo, you know what,
we ain't been to a random con outside of the
ones that we go through yearly in a while. So
it was it was a different feel to go to
a con where one we didn't really have any outside
of mo Lowry, we didn't have any mutuals there.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Most of the people at that con didn't even know
who we were.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So it was like it was kind of like taking
it back to the geek set roots, and so that
for me, I was excited about that.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Yeah, Like like like I told everybody, or I was
trying to say, it's like we haven't anime. Milwaukee is
actually very close to this. We just haven't been in
a panel room in Milwaukee in a very long time.
But when we when we worked at Milwaukee, we had
one moment that we had a panel room and we
did do a live of podcasts in that room, and
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it was it was the same kind of set up,
It was the same kind of like set of seats
or whatever. So I feel like it was a really
good homage to knowing where we where we are now
and even knowing that we like like we do like
we still are trying to expand ourselves and going to
other conventions and everything like that and whatever that made
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look how it looks for us, we would still go
do it.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You know, I'm saying, yeah, Like that's like that was
like a.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Great thing about it because like I feel like we
are and you know, and I don't say it in
the bad way, but like I feel like we all,
like I said, coming from Dream God, this was a
very small con Mo what you I'm saying, what account
with it too?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
With this?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
You know, I'm saying, like, mo would account like in
the same thing like coming from dream comes to this
was very smaller, but what I think we all agreed
on it was like it was really also more more intimate.
We had to actually work, like actually work harder to
like just be who we are again.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And it wasn't it wasn't a moment of like, oh, y'all, y'all, y'all,
you know, y'all know who we are.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Because we haven't done it so many years and you
know what I'm saying, like we it was our first
time there, yeah, and getting the panel, so it's like
I think showing that we was there in that space
and what we could do to even get the card
that we got to come into that room was like
great because it's like.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
We had people wanted us to come back again today.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, theut what about you trip?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Oh no, it was.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
It was definitely a huge difference coming from a dream
Con last week to We've Con this week.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Just like.
Speaker 11 (26:37):
The the amount of people, right, and then we come
from having been already established.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Now we got to really do the put the.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
Put the elbow grease into to build this panel the
way we wanted to. But I mean, just like even
the exhibit hall, like how the vendors were.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
I think we've kind of had.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
More things you yeah, really wanted to buias collectibles as
opposed to dream Con. Did I mean shout out to
all the vendors uh at dream Come Yeah, you know,
but it just I felt like We've Con was more
so for the for you for the collectors. Yeah, I
mean they had some things out there that you know,
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really jumped out.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I I haven't agree with that, Like I feel like
that's that was well. We we've been to so many
bigger cons that we forgot what it was has to
go to just a smaller con.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And it wasn't a small con it was this was
just their first con.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Yeah, because it was it was a decent size.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It was a decent size, like, yeah, what about you
going to this one.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
I liked this con because to what McCarthy was like,
it was smaller, it was more intimate, and I think
just the lasting impact is we created I think a
lot more fans this way, like you, especially in the
room that we were in, like the conversations that we
were having throughout the podcast. The way we already do podcasts,
it's very interactive. But when you have a smaller group
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and you're sort of like, like you said, this is
their first weak con, this is this.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Is our first week con. So we're all sort of
learning this convention together.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
You can tell like the way that we left, like
people were like, I like these people for who they are,
not just oh this is another name that is here
so I gotta follow for that. It was like you
you built the personal relationship, and that's how you definitely
built good community. It's not the size, it's the how
engaged they are.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
I saw. But it was, like I said, the size
of the community, Like I.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Know, I saw king.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Because because it started with the current sign just kept going.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Like I think, I think it really was the fact that,
like I said, we we we haven't had that moment
since dream Con two years ago of just even being
able to just have a moment in the room to
talk about ourselves. You're saying, and I think, like I think,
what we what we are lacking from and even in
our presence in our convention tours, is that it's creating
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that room that gets bigger every year, just like oh,
just like ANIME after Dark, like we are, we're great
as a live podcast, but we just to see of
being in a room so y'all can actually.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Fuck with us, like what I'm saying, or fans.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I really do love like if they keep doing We've
gone in Indiana and it's a drive that's on the
map now, like that got to be in our checklist
that we always gonna go to. That that's a drive
you saying, yeah, and we because we already did a
live podcast there. It's like we just opened now to
give us bigger and bigger rooms because we've already shown
in one moment how many people were like what, like
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I said, like they wanted us to come back Sunday.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
They thought we actually had another room again Sunday.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
To do it.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
So it's like if you actually asking for that, asking
for that already, right, you know what I'm saying, NA
do better every room.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, so you know, so so after we did our
first once around again we had to because that we
had to go see where the actual panel rooms was because,
like I said, this convention was a big ass convention center.
So if they continue, if they continue to build, they
can they can find themselves in like how like Anime
Milwaukee CE two E two is dream Come. It's like
they can pack a lot of people in there and
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have a lot of things going. It's just you know,
this was the first time at Indianapolis, so I can
understand why the crowd again still a decent crowd, but
it was like you can see the potential in there
of what they had and I and I would love
to see what they're doing in Houston, Texas because ship,
I mean we if we if they wanted to, like
we can be part of the crowd and just follow
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week con in some way shape or for him like
but guard you want to get the franchise tag, you know,
you know what I'm saying, Like they already establaged in Texas.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
We were already down in Texas and made an impact
down there. So I would love to be the same
as we're doing with a lot of other places, Like
we can like follow Weekkan in the sense and be
like yeah, like like we should.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Bring weave con further up to us and have it.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Remember we talked about that's that's that's what you got
to talk about the actual history of weak kN and
where it came from first.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
That wasn't that was the other con we were we
were talking about gen Con.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh yeah, but we discovered from weave kN So we
discovered from wee kon even like so ship we ain't
gonna say about right now, but another podcast jen Con.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
We know what you're talking. We know what you did.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
We trying that back then.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Right so like I said, so, like I said, the
whole plan and the idea because after we figured out
where everything was at, we actually we like on one
they had to cast the Cowboy Bebop there, bro, they
had to cast the Cowboy Bebop.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They did a panel room that Mo Lowry was moderating.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
No, no, no, the animation. Yeah, yeah, they had n
then they had they one piece was a mixture. They
had one actor from the live action and then they
had Brooke the voice actor of Brooke, the voice actor
of Chopper, and I couldn't make out who they were
in the mask.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Did y'all get that? Who?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I couldn't make Cowboo that was in the big mask, right,
Yeah he was.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I couldn't make out what character he voice.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But so it was it was really dope because one,
like I said, when we got there, got to see
more doing this.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Thing and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You know, I was like, oh, and we realized like
he was definitely the MC of the of the con Right.
And this is this is where I say, like, oh,
with the with they're with, they're growing. Obviously they still
trying to figure out, like you know, who their talent is,
like who they're gonna be having moderate these panels.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Because he literally finished.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
The Cowboy be by one and it immediately went over
to the same room, reset the room. The new cast
came in and he was doing that one, and I
was like, dang, like this, So they they had him
out here working. They had a couple of other people
working because it was a lady. I wish I would
have got her name, but it was a lady who
moderated the one piece panel. But it was like, ah,
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there's definitely some room for more people to be talent
within this con and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So it's like, you know what I'm saying again, it's
it's seen.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's seeing the starts of a con that like said,
they they got the stuff. It's just like, you know,
seeing how we're they're gonna expand to and I feel
like that's gonna that's gonna be really really dope to
kind of see them work.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And obviously, you know, they from the Midwest, so we're
not front of me.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's a Midwest con and you know we you know,
we mid West folks anyway, so it's like, you know,
anymore that we.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Can get there, that's always a good plus.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
So I want to give a shout out to Trip
Man because Trip right now, like literally he inspired me
to kind of do more.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I was man on the streets and everything seeing how
Trip was working.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Crazy, like what you're talking about. Let me say, because
y'all both was working. Y'all went crazy. I like me me.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Seeing y'all just grabbing the like knowing down evening hearing
the discussions before beforehand about having the mics and the phones,
and we're going like, I don't know what y'are gonna do.
I had no glove, like I feel like I feel
like when I come into my place with he said,
and when we do conventions, I am, I'm the billboard,
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Like somebody gonna stop me, like I'm consplaining.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I'm a saying like, yeah, I'm gonna do my moment.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I'm do my moment of being a billboard of like
we ain't gonna be a we ain't gonna be just
be a bunch of regular niggas. It's one nigga that
bit's being weird somebody.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know what I'm saying, standing out and I and
I enjoyed that space, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But to be in that space and watch y'all actually
like now, like even picking like what I said, like
with like Trip doing his moment to pick and wrestling
to talk to you, picking one piece of people to
talk to and making it a thing, it was like
it actually felt way way more advanced in geek set
(35:41):
that we should have been a long time ago. But
it felt like this is easy, Like this is so
fucking easy. That's why I said, and that's why, that's why,
that's why I'm giving a shout out the Trip because
I've always had the idea of doing it, and I think,
you know, because because of how geek set is, and
except of the creation of geek Set, we are like
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when it was where when it started off and it
was just Me, Bacardi and Live. We all came from
music backgrounds and everything like that, so we all was
already used to doing high quality things. And then we
brought in Didge and did is a person like, all right,
we gotta get it into four K.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
This audio needs to be clean and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
So a lot of the times we put a lot
of thought, process and everything into process on trying to
how we're going to accomplish this at the highest quality rate,
and I forget we forget that sometimes.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
We just got to keep it simple. So when I
was seeing how Trip was.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Getting all that wrestling content and everything, and I'm just like, Yo,
this is really dope. It's going going, and I was like,
I was like, I gotta get out my head and
let me just do it. Let me just go ahead
and do it. And so you know, I gotta give
gotta give Trip his shout out, because that's what fueled
me for this one. I was like, all right, we're
doing promotion and we're trying to get people there. Well,
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I'm gonna talk to some people. And as we was
there and this before we knew I knew that there
was a one piece panel, I was like, man, it's
a lot of one piece cosplayers. I'm do some one
piece questions And so that was my focus in regards
with that, and.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
And I love because, like I said, what y'all did
actually inspired me to make sure even going forward. Down
there's like if I want to be that other extra
content of the cosplay, if you stop, if someone stops me,
like I want to take a picture, whatever, you was like,
Oh you ain't gonna just get this picture, my guy?
We an interview you now, like you stop me the interview,
(37:25):
I'm gonna talk to you or even my things like
if I like I feel like like I want to
add that extra aspect even to myself because of cosplaying
within geek set of like like that. That's just like
I said, when we when we make content now going
forward and conventions, it will be three sets. Is wrestling
content is cosplay content is reduces giving what he does
(37:47):
interview likes random word of street content like like that
that's our that's that's those are actually the areas are
of the other random shows that we still flushing out. Yeah,
we're just like we're putting on in a real space
right now in this question space. So like I was
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inspired by seeing y'all, like, bro, I should have me
even me my roasty thing and dream cand is like bro,
as much as niggas tiping me as you like he
hold up, come here, come and give me here.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Like I should have did the same ship. So like
I'm definitely inspired by the same thing.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, uh trip, Like like you know, I just wanted
to like I said, I.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Did want to give you your moment in regards to
that because because I know we talked about it a little.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Bit of a dream cond and everything, but like even
just seeing that changed the landscape and everything like that
as far as kind of like content that we're doing
at the con, like you know, uh with your thought
process of that, Like I guess I don't think we
ever asked like what made you want to start doing
that more?
Speaker 11 (38:47):
It's just a way for us to continue continually organically
build the community, right you know, if you want to
you know, continue to expand. People got to see us,
and the way for people to see us is to
go out and be seen, you know.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
So that means just going on and you know, talking.
Speaker 11 (39:05):
To individuals, getting individual contacts and you know, getting introduced
to their socials and now you know, now everybody that
they know now knows us. So it's just you know,
finding new ways to to get the brand out there
and a better way than to go and talk to
people that's actually out there, not just the big celebrities,
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but the people that followed them too.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Yeah, like I would, I would say just from an
aspect of mental health in general, like my min semi
invited with people.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Cosplay help with that.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, Like I feel like like I.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Feel like learning in an aspect now where I'm taking
cosplay and like I said, learning from y'all, Like I
want to talk to more people cosplaying. But because it's
like I was, if I'd have been at record close,
just like with y'all, I would still be more to myself.
But me, costumes make people talk to me, makes me
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you have to like be in the space that I'm
uncomfortable end and you when you know you've done that already,
You've done that, you broke that, you broke that first layer.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
So it's like, how do you improve yourself more?
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Yeah what I'm saying so like I said, like seeing
trip and like like like you're saying like it was that,
Like bro, like like we already broke that mode of wrestling.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
This nigga did crazy shit drink on last year.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
Yeah, you're there, So the only thing you could.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Do now is like, bro, you know who I am
as a person, right, So it's like I'm just expanding
that in a way that I'm trying to find my
community through my own you know what I'm saying, my
own actions.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
Yeah, absolutely, because just being able to, you know, step
out aside of my comfort zone last year and doing
that ship last year and then you know, taking it
into a step further and now I'm going out and
talking to people and you know, just kind of you
or setting the tone that way, because the guy stopped
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me at two two and kind of put the bug
in my brain like hey, you know we can be
doing this.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah you know what I'm saying, Yeah, you might do.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
I think I think I think these are like, these
are actually the steps of like the older generation, the
young niggas already.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Figuring the shit out. They don't give a damn you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
As you get older and you actually are still breaking old,
actual like molds that you were used to, and you
just kind of realize, like, bro, I actually can be
just like everybody else. I really like it's just more
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
It, and you know because like with me, it's just like,
you know, look, I'm comfortable in any room, bro, I
don't care. I don't care if it's a crowd of people,
I don't care. I'm hey, get can I get a
moment for y'all real quick? Like I stop a crowd asap.
So I was like a lot of times I should
be like again, just taking too much of it. I'm like,
I want to I want to make this be as
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high quality as possible or whatever the case may be.
And so I just sometimes I get into my head
and then again, like I said, Tripp was just it
was a reminder of well, keep it simple. You're gonna're
gonna still get good quality content. It's going to be
exactly what you want. You don't have to overthink this,
like like you are, you're not by yourself, Like, Bro,
my niggas were all on the string, Like this is
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the niggas. Bro likes like.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
I wasn't. I wasn't think like that, Bro.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
But you know, like we we gained the gigs or
we just is crazy gigs I remember were talking about before.
Speaker 11 (42:42):
I do want to shout out uh agent though, because
I mean a lot of videos that I see from
him is you know, when he's giving advices, just do
the content, you know what I mean, Like from every
major content creator, the content, Like no matter how you
think it's gonna come out, just do it.
Speaker 7 (43:00):
Somebody's gonna like it anyway.
Speaker 11 (43:02):
There's way more people out there right now in the
world that's looking for the stuff that we're talking about.
And the more that we don't do stuff is the
more that people are not seeing from us. Yeah, I
think you know, we've kind of really showed us we can,
like we can move crowds and we can make waves
and just a short period of time, you know, giving
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all of the talents that we all individually have, right,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
So just to see that come to fruition and the
way that it did.
Speaker 11 (43:31):
I think it was just you know, really like eye
opening and kind of you know, it was solidified the
way that I think about us, I.
Speaker 9 (43:44):
Think I think all of y'all have to take a
step back and clap for y'allselves, because the reality is
like to double back and go to a con right
after going to out of town con, like y'all did
a road trip con after doing a fly to right
the reset the mental you know, mindset that you have
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to go in there and like you say, from one
where it's not that we're known that dream kind like that,
like we're known, but we're known by.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
People that are seasoned.
Speaker 9 (44:14):
Yeah, new people they know they get to know us because,
like you said, we mingling with people that everybody know
or people that have heard of us now get a
chance to actually see us. Where you go to a
new con, it's just like one of nim and Milwaukee.
In reality, you're meeting a bunch of new people that
are brand new to the idea of geek set, that
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are brand new to the individuals of geek set.
Speaker 8 (44:38):
So y'all really gotta like, you know, not saying what.
Speaker 9 (44:42):
Y'all haven't done already is give yourself, y'all flowers, but
just really baskting for a second, like y'all went somewhere man,
and helped that con build their brand.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
So I was just about to say that because the
one thing that I noticed, and I was like, man,
you know what, we gotta continue to go to more,
you know, smaller cons or cons that are not like
you know what I'm saying, the big like the huge,
huge attraction because what I the one thing I noticed,
and coming from dream Con.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
And also seeing like what we've seen is he two
e two.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
There was not a lot of content creators actually creating
content on the con floor. It was literally this was
this was con goers. This was people who specifically, I'm
dressing up to go to this con because I want
to dress up as the player.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
As the character.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
I want to go to this panel because I like
this show and I want to buy stuff.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
It wasn't It wasn't. I it was funny because afterwards
I saw that was a.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
Huge difference, like this like this level of thing.
Speaker 9 (45:41):
But I think most Midwest and smaller cons are like
that because because like you said, I feel like it
is a con culture where the bigger cons are more
for like the Reunion. Okay, every I know once or
twice a year, I might go to a bigger I'm
gonna see a bunch of people that go to cons
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go to their individual cons they like, but maybe online
or maybe you know what I'm saying, in our own
professional realm. We we you know, mingle and do stuff
and this is our time to hang out. That's the
big con.
Speaker 8 (46:15):
I think where the small cons to me?
Speaker 9 (46:19):
Because I got nephews and cousins that go to small
cons all throughout the Midwest and south right, and they
tell me the straight up truth, like it is more
for the cosplay, It is more for the collectibles, for
the vendors, and just for the voice actors or the
love of the show. So I think, and not saying
that dream con isn't more about the love of you know,
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like the people don't dress up for the love of
their character or the show. I think that's just where
we all can meet up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Like, if you you're on the East coast.
Speaker 9 (46:52):
Naruto lover, I'm a Midwest Naruto lover, you might go
to you know, Blurred Khan or whatever con out there
on the East or kind of DC that you know,
not many people going to I'm gonna go to anime
mk E. I'm gonna go to anime Milwaukee. I'm gonna
go to you know, whatever they got going on here,
and then we can go bond about that later, you
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know what I'm saying. We could talk about that at
the big time. But I think that's the thing is
like small cons actually performing would be great because I
don't reach more people.
Speaker 10 (47:25):
It's not only just that though, it's also certain cities
aren't cities where people are just creating.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
In general, like not definitely, definitely, but you.
Speaker 10 (47:35):
Hear about it from creators all the time who are like, yeah,
I had to get out of my hometown or I
needed to get out of there because people aren't just
creating there like there are like they have creators, but
you're not gonna see someone just walking down the street
creating because that's not the violence city.
Speaker 5 (47:49):
And that was crazy to see that, I said.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
I think I think even like I said, even seeing
that range of difference from dream come to this and
even like I said, knowing you were the first time,
the kind is still okay. But even that, like even
that aspect, there was no one there reporting that this
is the first time of the conr Like.
Speaker 9 (48:12):
That's that's gonna be a smaller, you know, smaller con situation,
like we gotta you gotta you know, the one that
the in Milwaukee. We don't see a whole lot of
news or a whole lot of you know, creat It's
not a whole lot of creators period. Like like like
you say, I can go to l A on a
or San Diego on.
Speaker 8 (48:33):
A regular day and people the streets, right, So it's like,
I get it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (48:39):
If I'm going to Comic Con, it's gonna be a
million creators there because this is where you go to create.
We had that issue with the streamers at dream Con.
They're only going here to get the content to say,
I went there. Where who's gonna be like, yo, I
went to weave Con Indye if you got you know,
millions of views, it's not gonna be like, it's not
gonna hit.
Speaker 8 (48:57):
The same, you know.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Funny, So Dish has been telling us about the show
called the Studio, right, and so I just finished it,
right And one of.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
The episodes they go to was it the Golden Globes Ditch.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Yeah, yeah, And so Seth Brogan's character is on the
Red carpet and it's all these streamers right streaming and everything.
Like literally, Zoe Cravis is in the show doing an
interview and it's a streamer in front of the interview like.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Hey, I'm at I'm at the Golden Globe. Look who's
behind me?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
And Zoe Kravis and Seth Brogan's character says, who are
these people? I don't know these people. She was like,
and then the person who was talking she was like, Oh,
these are just streamers. They don't even go to the event.
They just go to the red carpet, film and then
lead and that, and that's the culture. And I was like, yeah,
you see that. A lot of people they don't. They're
like when it's heavily heavy creator base, like I said,
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unless it's unless you get there's content that you can
get from the actual event that they just want to
get that date, that moment on.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
The Red carpet.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
And you gotta think, if I go to an event,
I'm trying to film the stage, But if I'm on
that red carpet, I have more time, more chances to
get an interaction.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
With a celebrity for my TikTok or for my instress.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
So it's like, you know what I'm saying, it is different,
like I said, it is doing that streamer stuff, and
I think that, you know, but again it works. It
works in our favor of being how we are because
again we're very comfortable in any room, in any setting.
So even though it wasn't that a lot of creators
there and anything like that, and even though there was
a lot of people that I was like, Okay, these
looks like these are just regular congoers.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
So I was like, I'm we're gonna be converting some people.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
So I'm having I was having crazy conversations with a
lot of people like, yo, let we get a moment
and we go by the Geekship podcast doing my spell again. Hey,
we do only podcasts that blame hip Hop Coach and
geek Coaching together. We're gonna be in this room doing
this live podcast. Come check us out.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
You know. It's just kind of going down.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
And I was like, you know, I do I feel
like I'm I feel like I'm ever going to get
out of that. I do enjoy introducing us and who
we are.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
I really have I do that.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
And my thing is like Like I said, what I
realized is you don't realize that we haven't done that.
Speaker 6 (50:59):
We did that all of Black Black Documentary Weekend and
Dream God, but before that, we.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Haven't done that since our first dream Con. Yeah. No, yeah,
you know the first Dread we.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Didn't know what we were doing and we were in
mm hm that the lounge. Yeah, so we're just trying
to tell people to come fuck with us while you chill.
Like it's not even a panel like Bro Companions, y'all chilling.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yeah, but it's it's it's it's it's the spell.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Like I said, I I enjoy doing that because and
I think that that that's the one thing, like you know,
it's just it's it's good because it's funny because like
randomly we send somebody this dude at the bar when
we was when we was wrapping up, and I'm telling
him the spell.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
I just did the regular spill.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
You know, we get set podcasts on the podcast Blame
Hip Hop, Coachure and get coatured together. And of course,
you know, usually what we tell somebody, you know who
we are, They if they are not familiar with the culture,
they try to something that they latch onto so they
can have a familiarity with the conversation.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
So his was dragon ball Z. Oh man, I love
dragon ball Z and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
And so you know, of course, as the conversation going,
I'm telling them more things that we do, like oh yeah,
we talked to celebrities and I was naming celebrities, but
Cardi said he was sitting there like, I wonder which
one is this guy going to recognize? Right, but he
was a white guy that also this is the hip
hop So you know, it was a couple of names.
But then when I say, yeah, you know, we also
we do reporting on Sway in the Morning and a
Sway's Universe and everything, he was like, wait, you was
(52:30):
in Swim in the Morning. I was like, yeah, yeah,
y'all know Sway. And I was like, he was like,
why you didn't leave with that?
Speaker 2 (52:35):
And so it was like, it's.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
Fun So it's funny because right, but it's funny. It's
funny because it's like, you know, again, it goes back
to the conversation that we keep on constantly having. It
is that we do have these these tempoles that and
these benchmarks that we definitely accomplished that can really help
sell with our pitch, but I'm still just using the
(52:57):
regular podcast pitch.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
I don't even like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
It's like, if you engage in more conversation with me,
then I'll get you'll get the nitty gritty of like, wait,
y'all really doing some stuff. But if you like first
initial to just be podcasts. But again, I also lean
into our elevator, bitch for the podcast. It's just that
good because if I'm not even bringing in the heavy
guns and you tapped in with us, like I feel
(53:21):
like our elevator, I.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Feel like that's how It's just you're fine how.
Speaker 5 (53:25):
It is because.
Speaker 6 (53:29):
I feel like the greatest thing about us and what
we're doing is about it is like there's so many
things that we've done that it's like all you gotta
be if.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
You if you cool with the tagline and.
Speaker 3 (53:42):
You locked in on that, yeah, when we're gonna actually
tell you like, yeah, we're gonna tell you what that
tagline means.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
The hip hop culture is sway in the morning.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
The you know what I'm saying, anime is like doing
a documentary Blackie like you, I'm saying like.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
If you you gotta eat, you got to eat up
the tagline first.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Yeah, that's all you gotta really do is eat that up.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
First.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
They were like, all right, bro, novelge you know what
we got because you're gonna be like, oh ship.
Speaker 11 (54:10):
And what I when I saw this weekend is uh,
you know for sure, like the Black Gig documentary isn't
just something that's gonna sit with it just you know
us right because we had that, that room was really
diverse and everybody in the room was engaging and it
filled up pretty quickly.
Speaker 8 (54:31):
Like that was one of my questions, bro, what are
black people are? Bro?
Speaker 11 (54:35):
That's that's the thing I was waiting on, Like this
is to like kind of lean towards because when we
got there, like there were like some black vendors and
like when they saw us, they were like my.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
People literally literally.
Speaker 7 (54:48):
Like the gun we got to adap we got no.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Bro, Bro, they came they later came up to us
to save my people.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Like one person I feel like he was I feel
like he was shot.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
Because like he turned around and he was like, oh
he was like us, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (55:08):
He was like he was like oh us, he was
like legit shot you know. Even oh boy, that was
the bird after that was like they remember your hat.
Speaker 7 (55:18):
Yeah he stopped.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
Actually a very like subtle term used like us was heavily.
Speaker 11 (55:29):
Like even the security, the security was rocking with us,
like once we got through the first time, like.
Speaker 7 (55:34):
They, yeah, we recognized that.
Speaker 3 (55:37):
Bro.
Speaker 9 (55:37):
I feel like that's how my first animate Milwaukee or
four and four, whichever one it was, because I forget
what time of year it was, but it was at
the Bear Center. And I feel that way because my
guy was the event coordinator at the time, and this
before I don't I don't even know if like we
was kicking it, we might have been. Like the first
year I met y'all, Bro, I walked in there and
(56:01):
so many that like vendor like you said, the vendors,
the security, the workers. They looked at me like, nigga,
are you in the right place? Because I didn't I
didn't costplay. I wouldn't wear nothing like I think I
had on maybe like a Dragon ball Z.
Speaker 8 (56:16):
Shirt, like a T shirt.
Speaker 9 (56:18):
And I was like I was in awe because you know,
this is when it was smaller still and the only
people that was costplaying was like like white girls, Like
even the dudes weren't costplaying. That's how New it was
and they saw a black face, bro. And I can
probably count on one hand how many other black people there,
(56:38):
like years ago.
Speaker 5 (56:40):
So yeah, it truly like that just said, that's a
big impact.
Speaker 3 (56:44):
But you can get see that, but that's a big
impact coming from dream God all black. Like, even like
I said, walking in in general without having no kind
of thought processor whatever, the energy was so different different. Yeah,
it's so different like and it's like it's not it's
not giving like like a problem to weed time, but
(57:07):
it's just understanding what you had to follow up behind.
Speaker 9 (57:10):
And that's why I said, y'all need to recognize that
that y'all that it is culturally we're all the same,
right if we sit down and have a talk about
our favorite animes or our top fives, or our dislikes
and likes, it don't matter what color you are, you
definitely we all gonna have a conversation, right, and it
don't matter if you don't even like me, which ironically
(57:33):
Indiana home of the Klan. That's why I asked that
question because I'm like, I would have thought that it
had been so many other people there that you wouldn't
have gotten you know, that community of you know people
of color to even come to the weed time because
of the first one, you like, people have tried to see.
Speaker 10 (57:51):
So no, there was definitely like I get what you
mean if there was like first experience, like first impression
of seeing like Okay, that's not going to like this,
like a lot of black people as you walked around,
they were every room we went into, there were a handful.
So it was like there was definitely.
Speaker 8 (58:10):
It was that fear of expression because.
Speaker 6 (58:13):
But I do what I want to say, though, I
feel like every black person I actually saw.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
Like cosplay, like.
Speaker 6 (58:21):
They were actually invested in what they were there for.
Wasn't It wasn't a lot of regular clothes. It's like
niggas there like they were actually like I am I.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Am a geek, Like, yeah, I am here for this.
Speaker 11 (58:34):
And every black person that we talked to either went
to dream Con or heard about dream.
Speaker 3 (58:40):
Yeah, there was a couple of people there, and so
you know, but this is what I think, where the
way we move and operate is what is kind of
what how.
Speaker 2 (58:50):
Helps us be successful and where dream Con.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
The reason why dream coind feels more like a like
a gathering a family reunion is because our makeup and
who we are. It's a lot more of us that
at that of what we do at dream Con. Because
the way that we operated at Wavecon, I can tell
like there was a lot of people probably there was
a lot of people that was really shocked when I asked, hey,
let me interview.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
There's a lot of people really shocked. When I was
just going through a spill.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
There was a lot of people just shocked and saying, Hey,
this is who we are, yo, chump, check us out,
blah blah blah, even to the point where people were
like who wha, wha who I got a podcast.
Speaker 8 (59:24):
Too, you know.
Speaker 3 (59:25):
So it's like right, so it's like I I and
you know. That's one of the things way way early
on with the Geeks said, we always said that we
want to make it comfortable for the hood niggas and
the geeks to be in the same room with each other.
So we bring that energy of that where it's like, look,
we're gonna bring that energy, We're gonna bring that cool,
(59:46):
we're gonna bring that swagger.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
We all hear.
Speaker 3 (59:49):
Geeks, that's bottom line. So we just have a geek conversation.
We just have a little bit more colorful language because
of who we are. But yeah, we gonna have this
geeky ass conversation and we want y'all, we want everybody
to be involved in it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
We don't care what walk in life you are.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
As long as you ain't no weird weird nigga doing
weird shit or weird person doing weird shit. You're doing
like I said, because again, what y'all think is weird,
we don't consider weird. Co'splain not weird li like in anime,
not weird. Like I said, Hey, you know what I'm saying.
If you at the white food station, Hey, that's part
of the culture. That's not weird. If you're doing too
much at the white food station, we gonna call you.
(01:00:25):
If you're doing too much at the main cabaret, we
gonna say something.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
But it's like, so it's like, I like that. How
we bring that?
Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
And that's kind of once we once we figured out
established where our room was at and we established we
got okay, we got two and a half three hours
before this con That's when I got into mold and
so it was like people I was interviewing people, I
was just saying, yo, we here, come here, we here,
come check us out.
Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Yo yo yo.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
And so you know, once we went to go set
up the room and everything again, same thing. Once we
once we established the room and set up a card
let cardies set up as merch table.
Speaker 8 (01:00:55):
We got the cloth going.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Yeah, yeah, we was.
Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
I was.
Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
We was out there being trippers out there in that
hallway promoting out there, yo yo yo, come in, but
here we were right here, We're right here and ship
like that. So like that was like I said, and
you know again going back to the roots, because our
person that I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Mind doing promotion. I don't really I don't mind doing promotion.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
I don't mind being the billboard to tell people we here,
come here, come here, come here.
Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
It's just it's it's that's something that's already embedded in me.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
So if I'm actually I do it for people. That's
like I said, you saw, that's how we got in
with Carl Jones a little bit because I was we
was doing that for Carl Jones. And that was just
because I fuck with Carl Jones. I fucked with what
he was trying to do. So if I'm gonna do
it for other people, I definitely do it for us.
And so that's when we got said. And as we started,
like I said, we started off, we we had what
three people in there at first, and just kind of
(01:01:47):
like with Kana Khan, that was again that was the
first time that I realized, hey, keep that door open,
Like what was Marvin step trying to get your to
close the door?
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I want them doors open. That door open, lean that
door open, that though open.
Speaker 8 (01:02:01):
Because I've reached the people.
Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Yeah, because you gotta hear me. Maccarti already said it
when we walked in. We realized we didn't need we
didn't need speakers in a microphone because of the way
the room was set up. But even though Maccarti was like,
we're gonna let that do open, they gonna hear your
ass because they gonna hear me.
Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Like I said, well, I said, what you biggas, like,
what the fuck is going on to this?
Speaker 11 (01:02:23):
With the documentary with the trailer pause on a screen,
people don't want to see what that was about.
Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
And then I said, I brought a like a yard
sign thing from my one on one reduces interviews but
again also giving us new ideas of things to do
because I was like, oh, I'm definitely gonna get a
gig Set podcast live poster board that we can put
outside of our rooms that we're doing it, coming with
our with with the stand because I was like, it's
just letting people know we're here, letting people know we're here,
(01:02:53):
because I you know, I think that that's what I
want for geek Set moving forward, is I want the
hype of oh shit, gigks in here, like yeah, you
never know what COM's gonna pull up to.
Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
And I want people to be excited for oh shit.
Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Geek Set here. Should they doing something? Oh they got
the live like I want people. I want the live podcast.
I want the lore of it to be like yo,
if you see geek Set or live podcasts go, it's
gonna be a great time, you know.
Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
And so I think that's what I want to spreading
out the uh, the performances as it were, because like
I said, we even talked about doing it you know, individually,
not just at cons, but like in the cities that
we're traveling to.
Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
This is this is great practice, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (01:03:32):
This is a great way to build it up because
you're gonna be in those rooms with people who they
get the jokes they get the puns. They get it,
you know what I mean, Like where we get out
here into the you know, the regular world. These people
ain't necessarily gonna understand everything they might not understand, like
the references to the to the cons. So I definitely
get going to these cons man and building like a
(01:03:52):
real base with people who are already tapped in and
they live this like because you know, like we know,
if you into playing, bro, you gotta live it, like
you can't just be like I kind of fuck it
a little bit. No, nigga, I gotta hunt some shit down.
I might have to knit and sew. I might have
to outsource to get something made. Hell like like I
chased down like I said, I chased down my ex
(01:04:13):
nigga for two three years.
Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
They got it at a small con, you know what
I'm bro.
Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
So this so the thing about the one thing before
we get into the actual live podcast, and we kind
of talked about it a little bit. Their vendor tables
was way better, right, way better.
Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Bro. They had meleiois Is broken sword for a great price.
I said, King would have been crazy here, bro.
Speaker 8 (01:04:40):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
They had so much seven daily Sins stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
I was like King was literally just saying, I don't
see a lot of seven daily sins.
Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Shit, this kind is that.
Speaker 8 (01:04:48):
Dream cond Like.
Speaker 9 (01:04:50):
It pissed me off when I went to the one,
I think you were you were there with me when
I asked about the banner, yep, and the dude like
he had two seven deadly sins uh banners, one that
didn't have Eskinor on it, but it had everybody else.
And then it had one weird ass magic Knight, who
didn't even fit. He was nobody in the whole series
(01:05:13):
besides a nigga who traded on Meliotis and they put
him at the top. But then every other sin was there,
so it's six sins and then this nigga you couldn't
have just put fucking escinor there.
Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
And then the other of it was just Miliotis and
uh and his girl.
Speaker 9 (01:05:28):
So that's what pissed me off, because I'm like, y'all,
forty five million other you know, banners for all these
other shows that don't nobody even care about. But this
one show that, yeah, it had a couple of bad seasons,
but it was cracking while it was cracking, y'all, y'all
do this come?
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
So, Yeah, you you, you would have you, you would
have liked this kind this kind definitely had with seven
seven Deadly Sins friendly, seven Deadly Sins Friendly. I mean,
it doesn't even be real that we definitely do a
lot of even if you anime and anim mk C
two E two, like all of them actually really more
mainstream to really see a condission that was like a
(01:06:06):
lot more smaller where the vendor quality is like like
the smaller I'm understanding now the smaller condition is the
better quality of them, like.
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
The rare you.
Speaker 8 (01:06:21):
Think the dudes our career.
Speaker 9 (01:06:23):
They do this for a living, so they're going to
rot all the conventions like that.
Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
Because that one vendor almost had a Cardi bro. He
had deep cut dragon Ball figurines, so much old dragon
Ball material bro that it was like, I.
Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
Mean, I mean, I'm talking about this old packaging bro.
Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
She was faded Japanese words like bro like bro like
and I'm like, god, I'm like, but he had like
he had like I've never seen like even even like
the modern things he had.
Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
They were like.
Speaker 6 (01:07:05):
Old dragon Ball scenes at the original show scenes.
Speaker 9 (01:07:09):
I've never seen this ygon Ball no bro like even
deeper bro.
Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
They had bro they had you know the little robot
like the walking robot.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
From from Capsule Corpse.
Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, they had they had they had kid
Gokul with one of those. They had one that you
don't see a lot. He had adult Gokul on the
flying nimbus.
Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
He had like.
Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Bro he had like he had stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
He had a remote control car that actually was It
wasn't go on nimbus. It was go Coul riding one
of the red ribbond like where he actually like stopped
like like while.
Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
You're still going in one of the animes. Yeah, you
stopped like the car with the stick. I guess the controller.
There's nobody to see go go on the hood.
Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
But it was a remote control car though, Like you
could look like Broy.
Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
And you ain't getting nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Bro I had, Bro I couldn't get I was like, Bro,
I can't do this.
Speaker 8 (01:08:16):
Saying today.
Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
It may be so that's been so much to drink,
but I'm learning now. That was the first time that
I learned specifically, like all right, my now, convention touring
gonna have to mix both of these because I'm not
gonna keep spending big money money like big you know
what I'm saying and all these like bigger conventions where
I can go to a smaller convention and actually get
(01:08:39):
what I'm looking for.
Speaker 11 (01:08:42):
And and they were working with them, they were working
with you on the PIP.
Speaker 9 (01:08:46):
That's the only place that I feel like when you
asking it on Sunday, if they got a deal, they
had a deal. Smaller cons, you gotta agree well, and
and they'll get me wrong.
Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
I did hear.
Speaker 9 (01:08:56):
About, you know, like the after after at the expedition
halls at dream Con, which man shout out to the
people who took advantage and got all the free stuff.
I feel, y'all like I wasn't paying another forty dollars
to stay around and get T shirts and hoodies and shit.
But I feel like at the at the at the con,
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like smaller cons, you gonna definitely find the collectibles, the electronics, the.
Speaker 8 (01:09:21):
Games, all the games that we really be looking for.
Speaker 9 (01:09:24):
I feel like you have a higher chance of finding
them at the cons you know that aren't so mainstream
because the mainstream com bro think about it. I can
find like a sword right at a mainstream cond They're
gonna probably wont like two hundred bucks, one hundred fifty bucks.
If if anything, maybe ninety and that's gonna be like
the flimsy, weird looking one. I can go to the
(01:09:44):
smaller con Bro. They're gonna work with me. You know
what I'm saying. I can probably catch one for the
seventy five or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
It's like all the contract I always try to get
my con shirts. You can mention it. And as we
were leaving, I wouldn't even I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Even paying no attention to what thing you're talking about,
but like twenty dollars shirts and was walking out and
I'm like, damn, I did wanted to give me a shirt?
Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
He was like, Bro, eighteen dollars.
Speaker 9 (01:10:12):
Immediately it's a Saturday, this Sunday, you know, Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
For the yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
So we get to we get to the podcast we started,
and we do the podcast. We do our typical regular podcast.
Like I said, we're just talking about, you know, we
were bringing back some of our you know, great topics.
We end up bringing back the Butler topic, you know
what I'm saying, talking about the butlers.
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Uh started talking.
Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I don't know how we end up doing Android versus
uh Apple and x Y versus PlayStation again, but that
popped up again because y'all wait a.
Speaker 8 (01:10:47):
Minute, y'all had that conversation without be there.
Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Okay, you'll be happy. They was on Paccardi Hills because
he was a lower man, real hate energy, Bro. He
was a loone man in there, and we started talking.
Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
There was not an Xbox nigga in the room model thing.
Speaker 11 (01:11:09):
That room was very like as diverse as it was,
it was very like on one thing because there was
no wrestling nerves.
Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
And there was no wrestlings in there. Yeah, that hurt.
That hurts tript.
Speaker 8 (01:11:25):
And hard like.
Speaker 7 (01:11:28):
I got the disgusted look.
Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Like wrestling like both the.
Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
Love at the ends at the end of the after
the podcast, I got some love about the wrestling.
Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Yeah, But like I said, it.
Speaker 9 (01:11:48):
Was really was really at the career watching battle with
the uh what was the collision?
Speaker 8 (01:11:52):
What was it?
Speaker 11 (01:11:53):
The world's collide, the world's collide and money the bank.
Speaker 8 (01:11:57):
That's what the wrestling fans was.
Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Doing was trying to trip trying to dodge spoilers all day.
Speaker 9 (01:12:05):
It was amazing, bro, because I knew, I knew y'all
was like at the convention and my my client, he
came through and he was like, Hey, can you put
it on.
Speaker 8 (01:12:14):
It's about to come on like right now, and I'm like.
Speaker 9 (01:12:17):
Damn, if I was gonna be able to leave, this
would be actually have been the time that I had
to leave. So it was like, all right, you know what,
I'm gonna just watch this and like, you know, pay
how much the trip maybe here? Well talk about it
on you know podcast.
Speaker 8 (01:12:28):
That brother George is going crazy. Bro. They was doing some.
Speaker 9 (01:12:34):
Wild ass ship. I was shout out the trip on
this one, bro. You should I wanted you to be
asking questions. Are watching it or something?
Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Yeah? Yeah, So but the conversation was really dope.
Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Like I said, because and and that's what I love
about when we do our live podcast is how people
and in the in the crowd, they immediately get it,
get it, like get the premise of it right, and
it goes. I think dis was the one that told
me that. He was saying was like, you gotta think
going through these conventions. They love being at these panels,
but they do the same thing over and over aftery
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sitting at it, and they're at the panel and they're listening,
and then they line up to do questions and then
they go back to their seats and then They're listening
no matter what the case, even even the small panel.
So they were saying like, this is a break from
the norm, and so this is where they're like, oh, man,
I get to well, I I could yell back.
Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
At y'all, I could argue with y'all, I get to
yell at the crowd like what what.
Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
And so again that they keeping that door open, it
makes people be like, yo, what is going on in there?
Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (01:13:35):
So, like it says, to build that organically was just
like the most satisfying part because that was just.
Speaker 7 (01:13:42):
You know, nobody there knew who geek.
Speaker 11 (01:13:45):
Set was before Saturday, but after that, everybody wanted more.
Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Geek Set wanted more, and we, like I said, we
saw how building community happens. Because for the most part,
like there may have been like Okay, there was a
group with three guys that came in together.
Speaker 8 (01:14:01):
There was a there.
Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
Three group of three women who cosplayed together. There was
a couple who brought their kid. There was a random
lady by herself. There was like a lot of just
pocket of people. But even after the after the pile
was over and after our panel was over, you start
seeing them mingling talking to each other exchange, and there
was like it was like, wait, y'all definitely didn't come
in together. Y'all definite didn't seem like y'all know each other.
(01:14:23):
But based off of the conversations and everything that happened
now and then they like talking about they literally like, yo, y'all,
y'all come, y'all come back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Wait this this other kind going. Let me tell you
about genkn y'all should hit gen Con.
Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
That was like, yo, we literally built a community real
quick right here.
Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
You know what I'm saying. That was That was pretty dope.
That was really dope.
Speaker 10 (01:14:43):
That was definitely the best part of it, just to
realize how many people didn't know who we were at
the beginning the other day, to be like, well you
can you can physically see that you created fans today.
Speaker 9 (01:14:54):
Yeah, y'all, man, look at y'all with the people.
Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
Had to hold it down, man, I had to hold
it down, you know. And then like I said, were premiered,
it said, we did. We did the trailer again, showed
them the trailer opened up the floor for conversations about
like what the Black Geek documentary, what you want to
include in and.
Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
To Baccarty's point.
Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
What he said is that or I don't know, maybe
been tripped, but the diversity in our crowd and the
conversations that everybody was able to tap in, like it
clearly says the Black Geek documentary. But the conversation wasn't
wasn't just straight only for what was.
Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
The black person's opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
You know, there was you know, everybody, there was every
we had and again we had a we had a
nice divers cast of people in our pod uh, in
our in in the in the crowd. So it was
like we was able to have some really great, some
really dope conversations around what type of things. And again
it came up organically like oh man, y'all should really
just do a series, and it was like, well, now
(01:15:55):
that you mentioned that, you know, and so like that
was really it was just again and it took me
back to our roots when we was doing like Mogul
Nights or how we did with Condo Con. It's just
you know, of going to a place where people that
at like our start, nobody knows. We literally started at
level zero going to this con and we leveled up
(01:16:16):
like fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, to the point where
like I said, they wanted us stay with like y'all
doing something tomorrow, Like nah, were just here for one day?
Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
You know?
Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
That was I think that was the definite proof.
Speaker 10 (01:16:29):
When old girl was like, oh, y'all gonna be here tomorrow,
like she she left with her she left with her friend,
came back. It was like, wait, are y'all doing this
again tomorrow? Then when we told her no, she was like, okay, okay,
I understand, left, came back to time and was like, well,
actually y'all should go to this con in DC.
Speaker 11 (01:16:46):
Then no, before that, she asked us what other cons
were we're going to? True this is the only con.
This is the last kind of year, and I shouted
out that you were going to Animate New York.
Speaker 7 (01:16:57):
And then that's when she was like, well, y'all should
come to this K and BC in August.
Speaker 8 (01:17:02):
It's like we like I was just gonna say, this
is our last con.
Speaker 11 (01:17:09):
Technically technically on the book, actually on the books, it's
the last.
Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
One because remember we generally do like I said, we
generally do three minimum at least possibly before but it's
always C two E two Anime Milwaukee Dream Con.
Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
And then like usually the last of the.
Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
Year usually the last one because it's really not nothing
in the fall were but like I said, we might,
I might add Anime for.
Speaker 8 (01:17:34):
Four and four is in there in the fall.
Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
But we haven't.
Speaker 7 (01:17:37):
We've never been to one in August this year. That's
in August this year.
Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
We never did before.
Speaker 8 (01:17:44):
That's when I went to I went to.
Speaker 10 (01:17:47):
Well, they might have brought it back to this of
this go around with Anime four one four.
Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
I remember last year they're like, this is our first year.
Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
They might have took so king you might be talking
about Wisconsin Comic Con, but they because they used to
have Anime Milwaukee and they so it was always Anime
Milwaukee and then they used to have Wisconsin Comic Con
and then then I forgot.
Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
I think they I think they folded after COVID.
Speaker 9 (01:18:13):
I think COVID this was because this was yeah, yeah, construction,
Yeah yeah, Wisconsin comed Yeah, so it was it was
definitely Wisconsint Comic Con.
Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
And so I mean yeah, I mean, like I said,
I'm not opposed to doing more because, like I said,
especially if we're going to be doing this, because I
can't I take it back to what Riccarty said, Yeah,
I do enjoy introducing ourselves to new people, and I
think that that's how we're going to continuously build.
Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
And so, I mean there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
Of local cons Like I said, we've been we've been
talking we for the past three years. There's one kind
that been really like really trying to get us, and
that's Colosses Cohn in the Wisconsin Dells.
Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
They've really been trying. They've been trying to get us
to come on.
Speaker 9 (01:18:52):
We just never know there we can go there and
hit the one that they well, yeah might.
Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
My thing is like to like I feel like our
live podcast set up in general, which I mean like
I'm never gonna like we like we've naturally done the
podcast without never know what we're gonna do for the
podcast when we do a live podcast, and it's always
a great podcast, Like all right, whatever, where whatever we
(01:19:20):
decide to do. My thing is we need a space
that we can start creating that consistency just like oh
like people, the peers that we love to go see,
we can have that too. We just have to have
a panel that were consistently going to every year to
create those bigger, bigger, bigger rooms.
Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
The bigger you're saying, Disney songs.
Speaker 8 (01:19:43):
I'm just saying, bro, you gotta learn.
Speaker 9 (01:19:45):
You gotta learn mouthing the words under what.
Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
You're talking about?
Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
What what? Then? We needed you?
Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
We needed you when you so yeah, we needed you
because our under the Sea sounded so bad as as
a collective and dream.
Speaker 8 (01:20:07):
It was no unity.
Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
It was bad, bitch.
Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
After this, after the first, after the first under the sea,
I just stood there and I laughed the rest of
the song because I said, we we there's no way
we wenting this.
Speaker 8 (01:20:19):
I just stood on and laugh.
Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
I said, what is going on here?
Speaker 8 (01:20:23):
Like that was.
Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
So yeah man, so like I mean, I don't know, man,
We've got indyed. It was.
Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
It's funny how something like this puts that fire back
into some of the things that we do because yeah, yeah,
what what what what? We fell in love with this
with this culture for and everything. And then again, like
I said, yeah, I'm definitely, you know, gonna make sure
to submit panels to everywhere we go. Like I said,
I'm gonna try to get us a panel s C
(01:20:52):
two e two. We never really tried s C two
e two. We always did pressed, but I'm gonna try
to get us panels C two E two I'm gonna
start moving forward, getting a PANO at Anime Milwaukee. I'm
gonna rich out to Anime four one four, like yo,
uh yeah, it's gonna be different now.
Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Like I said, I feel like that's.
Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
Gonna be because you know, I think when we were
saying that we was tired, we're done with doing press.
I think it's more so the obligation of having to
go to the press room, not being active in the
con because we can because obviously we can still get photos,
we can still interact with the con goers as creators.
Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
But I think that now if our.
Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Con season is we're going to these conventions, but we're
also doing a live podcast at these conventions, that adds
more that that fills every bucket of what we want
out of conventions where we're interacting with people, we're able
to get the photos, we're creating content, We're able to
do something and you know what I'm saying, to reach
(01:21:53):
the people. And I think that that should be how
we approach conventions.
Speaker 7 (01:21:57):
Moving forward to sell merch.
Speaker 8 (01:22:00):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 9 (01:22:02):
And I also think the catch to it is this
is like the natural next step for us considering we
normally play the background. Like you say, as press. That's
my that's kind of my issue with press is the
visibility issue. Like people can hear us and they can
see the material that we create from what we.
Speaker 8 (01:22:20):
Pick up at these conventions.
Speaker 9 (01:22:22):
But like I know for a fact, the reason why
when we do stuff it's so sought out and people
want to interact is because of that.
Speaker 8 (01:22:30):
Like people stop me on the street all the time and.
Speaker 9 (01:22:32):
Be like, bro, I heard a geek said, I know,
you know, I've watched y'all stuff or I've seen something
from y'all. So I think every time you give a
personal opportunity to even see the name, search the name,
and then you know, look online and see our footprint,
that that opens the door for a fan, you know
what I'm saying, To build that for someone to become
a fan, should I say? Because then they get the
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opportunity to be like, oh, y'all really working, y'all really
doing shit.
Speaker 8 (01:22:56):
It's not just y'all just hit the ground running and
y'all don't really know what you know, what y'all got
going on?
Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
Like, No, we have things that are that entertain people,
and it's from so many different aspects, whether it's you know,
podcast people, the close people just us, you know, creating
stuff and the questions and like that's part of it now,
is like we're creating real shorts, documentaries, travel vlogs, all
(01:23:22):
kinds of things where we don't get a chance to
tell everybody that. And by going to a smaller con
or just creating a panel, creating that one on one
interaction with people, we'll be able to like really serve
it to them right here. You know, the way we
generate a conversation, we always got something that connects to
that conversation.
Speaker 8 (01:23:41):
Whether we're talking about.
Speaker 9 (01:23:41):
Movies, games, animes, whatever, they can always refer back to
some material that we created where it's like, oh man,
I'm fucking with that, you know what I'm saying. So
we have to naturally now have to do this, you
know what I'm saying, because what else can we do?
Speaker 8 (01:23:54):
We do everything else?
Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Yeah, yeah, So I mean, like I said that, that's
the main thing that I took from this week.
Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Con uh trip and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
It's just like, yeah, even with EA, like I said,
with the man on the Street conversation content and doing
the panels like I'm I'm excited to do because, like
I said, even though we said that dream.
Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Cons is general our last con.
Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Now even opening up to those smaller cons and things
like that, we might be like saying, hey, matter of fact,
that's good. That's gonna be part of my recommendation. When
we do what we get, we do our recommendations in
a few minutes, it's gonna be let us know what
the cons are in y'all area. Drop them in the comments,
let us know, because we are going to start filling
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our schedule, start filling up our calendar with cons.
Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Then, you know, especially if you're around the Midwest and
easy accessible.
Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you might.
Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
You might actually see day.
Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
So yeah, that's so like so yeah, matter of fact, Yeah,
that's what I'm want a trip. Make sure you grab
when when you clip this up, make sure you grab this.
Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
Let them know.
Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
Hey, let us know which city y'all in and what
cons is in y'all city.
Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
If y'all want to see geek set, do geek set live.
Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
In y'all city. Man, make sure we get that that
clip out there. Yeah, bro, you got you got, you
gotta make it to boat we're bowl from.
Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
We ain't been to any boat both. Where are you from?
Speaker 11 (01:25:17):
We're gonna come to you there everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
They sat looky bo, bo d m me whatever con
is in Saint Louis. Let me know Galaxy Con.
Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Bo, get your ticket for Galaxy Con next year. If
you're not there, bold, I promise you. We don't know.
I don't know. We're gonna were gonna roast you about life.
Speaker 3 (01:25:53):
October. So so it's potentially this year, Bo, pay attention.
We might, we might, I'd be announced to something. But yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (01:26:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
Like I said, let's let's rest. Let's wrap up with
our final words over the week over the weekend, what
you thought, I'll go with you did start with you?
Speaker 10 (01:26:13):
Like I said, overall, I think that this was a
great grassroots con.
Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
It this is how you start building community.
Speaker 10 (01:26:19):
It's not necessarily just posting online like obviously that is
a huge part of it, but there is nothing bigger
than word of mouth, and there's nothing bigger than actually
shaking hands and talking to someone and saying, yo, this
is who I am, this is what I do, this
is why you should support and them being able to
see it immediately and just going like that. So, uh,
(01:26:41):
even outside of just where are we going to be at,
go to some of your smaller cons build that community
with people and just have fucking conversations.
Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Mm hm, Bacardi to you, I mean I was, I
would agree with you. I would also.
Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
I mean I also saying add to that is like
I think we've been in cons for so long in
a sense now a couple of years, that we've always
used the tagline of like god, this ship is huge
and we can't find ship.
Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
We can't get nowhere, and going back.
Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
To weave con, really realize that you can find like
if like a smaller con can still feed you everything
you need, the actually give you what you're looking for
there in any cond Like I said, even our moment
of us thinking that it was going to get fit
the table physically, we saw the worry oh a picture.
(01:27:35):
Wait wait all right, so King, so I don't think
you know about this lore?
Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
All right, so we did Crunchy ro.
Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
I want to keep putting on the here as long
as I can keep telling that we need to try
to find this game.
Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Yeah, put it on there. Yeah, So Kate, we went
to a Crunchy Row expo.
Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
Obviously Crunchy Row as as anime, right, so in their
gaming hall, they had this game called Flip the table.
Now it's literally like like the Dance Dance Revolution game,
Like it's a big cabinet, it has a table.
Speaker 10 (01:28:04):
The name of the game was called Super Dinner Table
Flipping Are okay yeah, okay, but.
Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Okay, Lona no. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
So so it's so it's like the matching like how
you're looking at me right now, but it's a it's
a half of a table there, right, a breakaway table,
and it's literally you're flipping the table and trying to
knock off the most stuff off the table.
Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
You get pissed you're flipping the table.
Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
We spent so much time at that because it was
it was such a stress reliever. It was so fun,
and we've been searching for that since that was like
year two geek set.
Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
We've been searching.
Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
We've been searching for this game, believe yeah, bro, we've
been searching for this game. This cabinet at every convention
that we go to, right, have not seen it since.
So we walking we walking now, they had a retro
gaming hall, right, and so it was like, all right,
that's what they had, like all the old school games
(01:29:02):
and everything like that. But then we walked past this
one gaming hall and all we saw was Japanese gaming.
Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
You want to back there?
Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
So we're in.
Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Yeah, so you the joy in our faces of the
potential of seeing this game again, many of each other
in the eyes so strongly without saying like.
Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Like niggas everything we did so run to the back.
Speaker 7 (01:29:30):
Like a game is amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
We got more to look forward. I will be buying it.
Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Where is it because I will put in.
Speaker 8 (01:29:50):
Or something. It is, just like I googled it.
Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
I googled it yesterday after we after.
Speaker 10 (01:29:56):
We were there, and I couldn't find it, like it
wasn't there, And I'm like, all right, so now I.
Speaker 4 (01:29:59):
Got the actual name of it, like I got the
Japanese name of it. I will find this game.
Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
Like because you don't even know what they're saying, like
the game we played in the country role was in Japanese.
Yeah nothing, but all you're saying one, two, three table,
that's all I cared about.
Speaker 8 (01:30:20):
Is it like fake food on the table?
Speaker 10 (01:30:24):
I got a video. I got a video of somebody playing.
I'm I'm gonna put it in the group chat.
Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Yet videos of it.
Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
We definitely got here, Like I know I got over
in my role, but yeah, it's but.
Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Here's the day.
Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
I kind of like the chase to like, I get
it that you want we want to buy it, but
I do want to. I do want to come across
it again and have that moment Ah, we finally found
you again.
Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
That is as good ass lord have.
Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Yeah, you just do not know. I like now we
talk about so much that I definitely got to go
to my video. I know I got video of it.
I feel like there was just us.
Speaker 6 (01:31:03):
I think I feel like I'm the only one they
got vid of us playing it.
Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
I gotta find the video.
Speaker 6 (01:31:07):
Of it, because yes, BRO, like that game. It still
lives in my heart as one of the greatest stretch
believer games that like niggas they want to leave that
game after having Bro because you just wanted to just relieve, Like.
Speaker 8 (01:31:23):
Bro, oh, this is an arcade game.
Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
This is.
Speaker 8 (01:31:28):
This is crazy, this is crazy, and you have Wow.
But it was it was y ya.
Speaker 9 (01:31:38):
Probably they probably got this somewhere over there, like, oh
for sure, for sure this is probably Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
I didn't think about that. We might have asked yas
if they know somebody right right trip final words man
for the week about.
Speaker 11 (01:31:55):
The weekend, Just for me for to not have known
an think about weep con. Uh, I kind of have
really no expectations going in and to get there and
to see you know, how.
Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
Intricate and intimate it is.
Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
It was.
Speaker 7 (01:32:15):
It was dope.
Speaker 11 (01:32:16):
It was a dope experience. I think, you know, just
the vendor hall itself was probably my favorite part, just
because you'll know me. You know, I collect you know,
lone fly bags for the missus, so you know, just
to be able to get out there and see one
that really just stand out right away.
Speaker 7 (01:32:35):
You know, it's just I think.
Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Trip was going through it because you know, he just
got it that dream con. And then when we soon
we got there, they had so many ones that we
ain't never seen and I was like they they knew
they was like tripping tripping the building.
Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
We got to add these rather ready for Yeah, and
then even again the way we move and groove.
Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Man, Like I said, I said, I appreciate that. What
else you're gonna say?
Speaker 11 (01:32:59):
Yeah, I just just being able to build that community organically,
and you know, leaving there with new Ego Scouts was
just a really good h acknowledgement of to the hard
work that we've been putting in lately. You know, just
to see that we continue to elevate every year, we
(01:33:20):
take it to a new level, right.
Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
I just I love that for us.
Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
And it came even though you wasn't there hearing our experience,
and it kind of like with our new focus and
everything and things that we're trying to do, how are
you feeling.
Speaker 9 (01:33:34):
I'm excited. I ain't gonna lie to you, like I said, I'm.
Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
Actually real salty.
Speaker 9 (01:33:38):
I couldn't make it because, like I said, my initial
plan was to work a half day and then just
shoot down there, but like I said, with the weather,
with my battery going crazy, like and then you know,
I also know like we are a balanced team, so
like all of us have different attributes and we all together,
like Baccardi was saying, you know what we say, and
(01:33:59):
do people enjoy it?
Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
I just think it's natural.
Speaker 9 (01:34:02):
So that was my only worry, was like getting down
there missing something or you know, creating that feeling where
it was.
Speaker 8 (01:34:09):
Like damn, I wish King was here to explain some shit.
So that was it.
Speaker 9 (01:34:12):
But I just hearing what y'all did. Man, I'm really
proud of y'all because, like I already said, I'm never
thinking like they're gonna go down there and something going
go wrong. I'm always thinking, like, y'all gonna go down
there and kill it. But my only thought was it
being a new con. Like I said, I was trying
to look up footage of Wee kind Indie. That's when
I realized there isn't any like this is literally gonna
(01:34:35):
be the first one. So it was kind of like
I didn't want casts to go down there and really,
you know, get a bad taste in your mouth or
you know, kind of feel like this was so lackluster
because I mean, honestly, I think we're a show bro
Like like I'm gonna say we're a show but when
we go places, I think the way we dress, the vibe,
(01:34:57):
everything we give off. We fit well at dream Con
because we bring like a certain level of comforting and
laughter and like, okay, these you know they he's grown men.
But y'all niggas is fun where at a smaller con
you never know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
Yeah, Yeah, different vibes.
Speaker 8 (01:35:16):
Whole lot of different emotions.
Speaker 9 (01:35:17):
So just the fact that y'all went down there and
like you said, built the community and got some people
LinkedIn where they like, hey, I'm rocking with y'all. I
wish y'all have came back today, Like that's dope. You
know what I'm saying, beyond proud of you niggas man
this ship.
Speaker 3 (01:35:31):
Appreciate that I can guarantee what we gave them. They
never had that at Weave Khan Indy Well and we've.
Speaker 14 (01:35:38):
Knk Yeah that's because I feel because because here's the thing,
and I feel like as much as we keep on
saying we we like we've been going to Anime Milwaukee,
Anime Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Hasn't even had a version of this is what we do.
Like it's crazy because in dream Con it's a lot
of that you're literally seeing that is the premiere of
kind of what we do.
Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
There's a lot of versions of what we do.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Like I said, Anime after Dark, uh of do the
wrong ding podcasts, you know, Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Like I said, there's a lot of you know, show
show Go High.
Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
There's a lot of the of what we do in
different variations of what we do with different personalities.
Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
At that type of con.
Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
But Anime Milwaukee, I don't I don't remember a live
podcast Black live podcast there see two E two we've
been covering as press.
Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
I don't remember seeing any of that there and things
like that, and.
Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
So we have that opportunity of continuously showing again. And
I feel like this is a blurred type of a
blurred space specific type of thing. There's a lot of
blurred spaces that are in this type of realm of
what we do. But again, everybody shoots for the blurred
con and the dream con, and so we are skinned
as being the reporters of the culture and also being
(01:36:53):
representatives of blurred culture.
Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
I think it's like that's that that is definitely a
part of our duty as well. It's like, yo, let's
show why what also these other kinds can get this
same type of entertainment and same type of fun, And
I think that we have a great opportunity to seize that.
So I'm excited about that. Did y'all want to get
in to a quick recommendations before we get out of here.
I mean, I would just recommend everybody go to local
(01:37:17):
go to more local conventions.
Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think I think we
all in that same wave.
Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
I think let's just end it as a group one
with that go to more local, go to your local.
Speaker 11 (01:37:28):
Constra cons man, because you never know, you never know.
Speaker 6 (01:37:33):
They may they made request us to come down there
support your local cons.
Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Yeah, and how many.
Speaker 9 (01:37:39):
People, man, are really you know, put on like this
is their livelihoods. But not only that, they life you
know what I'm saying, a lot of people they create
them prints or they draw, they paint, you know what
I'm saying, They creating clothing like all of that stuff.
Speaker 8 (01:37:51):
Man is it's not just one convention.
Speaker 9 (01:37:53):
The year that they go out here and do it
for so the fact that these smaller cons, you never
know what you might find there or who you might find.
Speaker 8 (01:38:00):
So that's my thing I.
Speaker 10 (01:38:03):
Can say, especially like on that same wave from the internet,
there's always time and time that people like they'll repost something. Bro,
this is fire. I wish I could get a copy
of this. I wish I could print this. I would
put this somewhere. It's like more often than not, like, yeah,
they're gonna they're gonna probably be at those big cons,
but before they get to those big cons, they are
at these local cons. You're going to see stuff like
that there because all these artists have to start somewhere.
Speaker 9 (01:38:25):
Yeah, right, And not only that, but I think think
of the actors think of the voice actors, think of
like the animators that show up.
Speaker 8 (01:38:32):
I'm I'm Bro.
Speaker 9 (01:38:33):
I walk past voice actors man who I've heard for years, Bro,
and I've always thought man like, and I wonder what
this dude look like, And it's just it always blows
my mind how they can be on the floor signing autographs,
giving away stuff, selling merch and it's like, Bro, this
is their this is their hustle too, you know what
(01:38:53):
I'm saying, Like, Yeah, a voice actor is.
Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
There, and we all commend them and talk about them.
Speaker 9 (01:38:58):
And you know, anytime you hear to voice and a
different characters like oh yeah, yeah, I know exactly who
that is. But the fact that they're there, Bro, this
is you know, not saying it's a big deal for them,
but I think that support goes a long way of
people just more, you know, And I know people Bro,
ain't gon Jack tie just talking about conventions in the shop.
Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
People want to go so bad. Yeah, but people don't
know it's.
Speaker 9 (01:39:21):
For them, you know what I mean, Like if it's
a sales convention, if it's a closed convention, I think
those people know go there for that. But you could
be like my wife is a hello kitty fan, right.
I told her, like, dude, you go to these conventions,
go to NIME Milwaukee, You're gonna find so much stuff
you like or just something you never even knew was there.
(01:39:42):
And she went, I think no, No, she went, yeah,
she wanted. She went to Animated.
Speaker 8 (01:39:47):
Milwaukee with her friend Bro.
Speaker 9 (01:39:49):
Found so much shit, so much shit, And I'm thinking, like,
now you need to go to see to E too.
Now we got to go to a dream con, you
know what I'm saying, Just so you can see, like
you're not.
Speaker 8 (01:39:59):
The only one.
Speaker 9 (01:40:00):
It's so many people, yeah, like you that go to
these places and be timid and just be so scared
that they're not gonna fit in or they're not gonna
follow them, you know, into the mold where it's like no, man,
you come here and create your own you know what
I'm saying. You come here, you could be the one
that makes the group, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (01:40:18):
So, yeah, that's the thing. Don't be afraid. Just really explore.
Go out here, man, that's some fun. That's a convention facts.
Speaker 5 (01:40:28):
Oh that's right, there's there's a convention everything.
Speaker 6 (01:40:31):
So yeah, like just go go find your geek for
the geek convintion everything.
Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Find your geek man.
Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
But yeah, so that yes, listen if y'all had if
you was here from uh because you've you was.
Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
At our weave gone pan. Hey appreciate y'all tapping in
with us.
Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
Like I said, we definitely hope you guys stay and
you know, and consume more of our our content. If
you are just one of our O G people that
are that are always here. But thank you for continu
and you just rocking with us again. Put in the comments,
reach out to us, let us know what cons is
in your area as we continue to try to feel
figure out you know where else we can do this at.
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We want to see more of y'all talk. Man, listen here,
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I know bo both boat bo ain't gonna bow, ain't
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Man.
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Novice is gonna Novice is gonna show love like we
got we got people here.
Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
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Speaker 3 (01:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:14):
What is happening people? What is happening people?
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Hey, we gotta get we gotta get dig or what
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or something like. That's bro Every every day I just wait,
every day I see a new video of Bach.
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Speaker 5 (01:32):
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We can actually use the old cartoon image of dish
and just make that the bubble.
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That is true, that is true. We just on like
comic air bubbles. We got tripping the building.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
What's going on everybody?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We got King out there, King in the shop. We've
got yeah, yep, man. Shit.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So we talked, were talking weave con Indie. We are
this is our con season, and you know, saying we
chose to go to We've gone. Shout out to Mo Lowry.
Comedian Mo Lowry hooked us up. He had hit me like, oh,
shout out to motherfucking Mo Man. So he ain't hit
me probably like probably like a month and a half
before dream Con, it was like it was funny because
(02:23):
like so a little bit behind the scenes for those watching,
we was had like I said, we're always trying to
figure out ways to continually expand geek set, do more
with the culture, do more with the people, and came
up like we was like, we want to every con
that we go to moving forward, we want to be
able to at least have a panel room just to
kind of do a showcase, live podcast or whatever, just
to continually introduce people to who we are. Coincidentally, like
(02:48):
at the same time Mo hit me, he was like, yo,
y'all trying to do some more panels and stuff like
that because I got you know, we've indycome and I
know the person puting it on and they're looking for
more talent and creators to be a part of the convention.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So brought it to the team and then we was
like that all right. Right after dream Con, we hitn't
weave gone nice road trip.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
We we ain't had a road trip since dream Con,
which which was the last road trip, which is funny.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Because everybody had dream cond because we did that one
trip every now bro for the past two years, every
time did y'all drive again, and y'all drove again. It's like, Bro,
that was once.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We did it at one time. That was a drive.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
That was that other person. I think that beat.
Speaker 9 (03:35):
It was probably tripping when he did the next year
by himself.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Truthfully, this would be a great Patreon story because I actually.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Would love to tell this how mad I was that
we got a mini man to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We had to.
Speaker 10 (03:53):
I mean it was it wasn't gonna be able to
fit all of the people's bags.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like I feel like, I think if we're talking about
from the beginning of like when we were looking for
the cards and all that kind of stuff, like cauld
we we could have gotten a you can't like we
could have, but we gotta have many.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Bro.
Speaker 11 (04:14):
The fact of us pulling hopping out at different steps
of the mini van and it looks like it's five
niggas hopping out a minivan.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
It was like that, Like I think that like that
that that plays into why we won't do it again
like I did could have played because my thing is
like that's my hard story. It is like, Bro, if
I see a nigga put up to me in the
minivan again, Bro, I would never I would that trip
like everything like that mini man just handled it was
(04:42):
it handled very loosely, like Bro, it handled very loosely.
Speaker 8 (04:47):
There's a lot of bro slander going on here.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
First of all, let's be clear, as a as a
guy with with a family of six, I appreciate the minivans.
You know, space like niggas could in a UK. You
would have been cramping up in a utah.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We had we bag, we had anime ship like I
had my I had rita, Nigga, I had rita.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
You know how big that axis that b the axes
bigger than my luggage.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
You're got telling me that that's like the man that
would be bigger than the I'm just not going to.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Go for that. It's more space, it's just more space.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Yeah, it's more space to u for cargo.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
Yeah, you can move in and out of a minivan
easier because you got to think about two cats. You
got two sets of captain chairs in a mini van.
We're in a truck that somebody gonna have to climb
over the seat every time.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That is just crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I hate hearing about it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You won't brought it up.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
That's because that's because we thought he was gonna bring
it up, and everybody, hell yeah you know, no.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, no, no, only one right now doing it. We
all had our moments to being like bro, I definitely
not been in a minivan again.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I did my circle like I did my run through everybody,
so y'all just actually taking it.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
I think the thing is the minivan was packed. That's
why I was uncomfortable. If it wasn't so.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Packed, it woul probably would have been more comfortable.
Speaker 10 (06:24):
Yeah, but doing it again and understanding the practicality of
it are two subtly different things. I wouldn't do it
again either, but I understand it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It was necessary. Trip niggas what was.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
About to say trip, I wouldn't. I definitely wuldn't do
that again.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
Man, Like another long world trip like that, definitely gotta
be a splinter or something, because this is there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
My only issue was that the mini and like every
turn like it was like so there's like I wasn't
able to I wasn't able to get comfortable driving because
every little bit of chirk that a jerk it was,
And that's when I hate it, because if it was
a little bit more stable, like I said, if it
was you know what I'm saying, Like like you know
what I'm saying, suv or.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I felt like those handle better than a minivan. The
mini man, I just felt like every like you couldn't
do anything. You had to be ten and two and
I'm not a tending I'm not a ten and two nigga. Yeah,
I think that makes sense to like like I said,
like like I'm not, I'm not against the road trips,
but we gotta do better than any man. I feel
like everybody having that moment in the minivan, where do
(07:30):
you like it?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Where do you find to.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Nigga in a minivan? I got the worst of it all.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Ticket Why That's why I feel you even on my
side like we do.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We definitely got to do a little minivan.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I'm just Look, I'm not I'm not I'm not saying
you're wrong for I'm just saying the minivan slander is
crazy because I get it. Nobody wants to drive. Look,
I don't want to be five or six niggas deep
in a minivan ever again, yes, ever, like if I
got a movent, I definitely wanted for the children, But
(08:03):
that's it.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
But I feel I think.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
That was crazy for me because, like I said, like,
God rest my father's like when he passed, he had
a mini van and that was past to me. So
I lived the life of a mini that wasn't like this,
just that it wasn't even like the vinivan I had
in my life.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Wasn't even eating like bro.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
You you could tell us if somebody ribbed you bro
at the stop.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Like this, this ain't even actual hate. You just reliving
old trauma.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That ain't no look at it when I did it.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
When I did it back there, I was like I
took it for myself, like all right, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
But I was like, Bron, I don't want to see
my niggas.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
No, it's hard to hop out and be fresh in
the minivan. I'll tell you that. Yeah, it's hard to
hop out.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And what did it changed if it was an astro van.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
Nigga, if it was an all black astro vain that
probably if it was like an eighteen van, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We was coming down there and cosplaying the van.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Yes, player vans where you know they have like chron
wheels and ship and the table in the middle with
the yeah, uncle, oh god, I thought of that and
felt more comfortable. Town of country though.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That is van though, so that that really would have been, like,
y'all bigger value from Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Here, hey, Me and Dig's uncle Jerry used to have
that van, boy, Hey.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
But the great thing about it it was comfy seats
and he had he had the best refreshments in the
back of that van.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
He always he had that cooler back there.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Like he didn't do can sodas. He always hit the
bottle sodas.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
He was. Yeah, like the Mexican coach, the one you
gotta have.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
A yep yep, Uncle Jerry, And you know Jerry.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What's greatest about Uncle Jerry's uncle Jerry's a mechanic and
a pastor, so he knows everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He knows everybody in the city.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Not a mechanic, he was. He's a like uh contractor.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Contractor sorry about contractor, uh, and a pastorg so he
he literally knows everybody.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So But yeah, so you know, if y'all didn't tell already,
we drove to we've con this year around you know
this this is and this was this was actually uh
Indianapolis first we've con so we've gone is actually like
a brand. It's kind of like the the anime expos
so you know you'll see anime exposed in Los Angeles.
(10:33):
And I do think they got one in Atlanta. Think
they got one in New York and everything like that.
We've con same thing. There's a brand.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
This is their first year in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
They're based in Texas, though we want to say that,
we want to say like what we discovered, we even
discovered about we kind of course do molaari, but also
knowing that they have actually been established for a very
long time in Texas. So anybody in the Texas group,
anybody chatting with us from.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Texas, you already know about.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
We con this is our first time, yeah, going to
kind of Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yep. And so.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Like I said, I think this this four hour ride
wasn't that bad. I think coming back was the worst part.
And it was only because of the rain.
Speaker 12 (11:14):
For you, for you, for you, bro, I want you
to know that you are a ball faced liar when
I like, I woke up because they no.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
No, no, no no. You woke up once because of that.
You woke up once because of that. The other times
it was the streets.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So yeah, no, I will I will vouch produces on this.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
The roads were terrible, and I don't know what it
is about Indianapolis or not even Indianapolis, Indiana as a whole.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
There are stretches of the highway where.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
They put those you know, like those little grooves.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, there are of the highway in the middle of
the road.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
They are there.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So there were times you woke up like, yo, you're good.
It's like, well, yeah, nigga the road.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah. But that but that that last one was valid.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The last one was bat last one, you know, the
last one, the last one. The last one is I
woke before you did it, so I saw you do it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I woke up and I was like, bro, this war
close to me. The noise got to going. I'm like, dude, you're.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Good, Like, yeah, I'm good. No. So that was so
that the last one.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's because everybody, y'all nigga, y'all niggas is the king
is going to sleep on the nigga.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Anyway, I did say that he was gonna he was
going to bed.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So I realized when it started rain out really waking
up looking at this like bro, this is going to
sleep in this rain with.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
I didn't fall asleep until I didn't fall asleep like
that until we got out of.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The see kept waking up in the middle of watching.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Did like, Bro, if did go to bed, Oh this
nigga in the rain, I'm gonna be mad because because
I was straight, I looked I would have been straight,
but that rain was definitely getting.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To a nigga.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And I was like, damn, bro, because even that bro
that even at that rain Bull, that rain Bull, did
I help it. I was like, Bro, I'm normally all
right at this point, and I was like, but that rain, bro,
and that rain was really hit Bro.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was I was. I was trying.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Everything because even this it was like he was like,
you calld for your playlist being all up Temple. I'm like, yeah,
I did that on purpose, but that rain, that rain
was working overtime on the bed like you that your
cold wasn't about your it was like it was.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
After a point I was I had loosened up my hat.
I can hold it over my eyes and my glasses.
I'm like, bro, I'm trying to lay out this nigga,
got this music going it wrapping the songs.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Like bro, like y'all think got sleep I want't sleep
that bad, like I couldn't because I really as as
the oldest nigga, like I could not.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I saw the rain.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I was like, all right, bro, I'm not gonna die
in my sleep.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You s I'm gonna weak my eyes. Yeah, keep looking
at you niggas.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But when you started rapping the songs out, I was like,
all right, bro, this niggas struggling trying to.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
I had to.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I had to figure it out.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It was plenty of Chicago drull music, plenty gun shooting music.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I was like, I need all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
The oldest thing was, like I said, because I was playing,
which did you say? You ain't say you ain't playing yet?
Like I was playing on my phone. When you look back,
you're like Rod playing the game. I was playing that
Marvel Rivals the Tron thing because every match is like
thirty to forty five minutes, so let me get I
was like, let me get like three matches in, so
I'm like by that time, I'm like, we didn't halfway.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Home in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm about taking that now, like I'm taking that down. Bro.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That's how I knew why I was playing that game.
By falls he playing the game.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah. Now what time I turned around you you was
playing the game.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You was like, but on using that because I was
so scared that this is gonna go to sleep while
Rudy is riding the rain and was go kill him.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I'm like, bro, I got I gotta do.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Something like that ship be riot.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So I said the ride there was straight.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Like I said, Trip slept most of the rides there,
Trip Trimp got to got the best sleep the whole trip.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Trip is don't ever defend on Trip to ever do
anything about life.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
But I feel like I feel like he like, bro,
if I can go sleeping, that's actually way to go.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
You're like like, let me go there, like, don't let
me worry about none of that ship.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So when we pull up in Indianapolis, at first, I
ain't gonna hold you. And we talked about this at
the pod that we did there because we was doing
a live podcast at the place and we already had
the thought process like, Okay, when we get there, we're
gonna have to promote like we was kind of like
a last minute edition because we were still trying to
figure out everyone's gonna go, how what was gonna do.
So we was like we gotta make sure we hit
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the grounds running talking to the people of the con
But as we were pulling up, Now, for those who
go to conventions, you know, when you go to a convention,
you usually see a ship ton of gods players outside
around the convention center, walking around, crossing the streets, parking,
whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And we pulled up and this is just like a
regular ass downtown.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, it was like a regular downtown. And I looked up,
I saw the skywalking. I was like, all right, well,
I see people in the skywalk. So I was like,
all right, bet we cool.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Right, by far, the best parking that we've had at
a convention.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yet, parking parking was beautiful by fire.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
That's the most hilarious thing I've ever heard of. Even
say that by far.
Speaker 10 (17:03):
Because people who do creative stuff at conventions, they know
how much of pain it is to one have to
either love your stuff around all day or have.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
To take that that trek back to your car. This one.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
The way that the convention was set up. The parking
garage that you were in is essentially right between the
two buildings. Like half the stuff was in the hotel,
half the stuff was in the convention center. So parking
in order to get to either you have to pass
by where we parked, and we parked on the third level.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That was perfect.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
So we were right by where the skywalk was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, so and then but again when we get in,
so two things that was hilarious for me.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
First of when we get in this is this is
truly a convention.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Center, right, Like I mean, and I know that sounds
crazy to say, but like like when we walked in,
it seemed it was very serene and quiet. It was
like a real, live convention center. And then Bacardian immediately
could not stop talking about their quality.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We'd have to do that.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Like like you know, it was it was it was like,
I look, look, I'm not here trying to respect.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I know, we was gonna bring this part up.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I didn't.
Speaker 13 (18:23):
You say, But I mean I'm like, yeah, I mean
I feel like maybe maybe what I what I smelled
was the convention difference between dream Con and we did.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
A video on this, didn't we Yeah, we did an
episode on this, so.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Maybe So so that's what I'm gonna sick with.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I'm not gonna say that Indiana or Indianapolis in general,
smell like this, just.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That pocket at that moment, just that pocket at that moment,
something something, And we're.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Actually also all like we're actually like, we're so with that.
We've been to enough conventions to another different smells of
the convention. Yeah, so that's what it was like, Like
coming from dream Come and going into we Come, there
was a very very very complete smell difference.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So speaking around this crazy.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
So it's crazy because I have to say, because I
did not make it. I am the guy wanting to
hear everything.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
So hearing this is intriguing.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
Like I'm over here, I want to get into it,
but I understand what he's saying, right right, right.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So we'll be So we go straight to the registrations
because we get there like around what but twelve yeah yeah,
yeah yep, and and our panel is not until six,
so you know, we were like, well, let's do we
gave him some opportunity to get a fill of the convention.
So we go straight to the convention the main exhibit hall, right,
that's that that was the exhibit all Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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we got yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Because it was right outside the door of the.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Main exhibit hall. And the first thing.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
We almost didn't get our badges.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I also didn't know we talk about that. Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Didn't know that. Did that happen?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And we didn't get our badges not necessarily not necessarily
didn't get our badges sold the lady when I when
we pulled up to the registration, I was like, yeah,
we're geeks, said we're here to pick up our Panels badge.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And the guy was like, you got the QR cole.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I was like, no, we didn't give us a QR
cod and he was like, well, yeah, they normally have
a QR code, right, And I was like, well, like
they didn't give us a QR code. I was like
I don't know saying and I was like, but no,
somebody said that our stuff is going to be here,
right And I was like so I had to look
through my email and I was like yeah. And then
I named up the shout out Kim jimmin as helping
us out with everything that she did as soon as I.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Am makes more sense than.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Charge it to my heart my head, that's not all right.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
You can shout out tobody please get their name right,
but but.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I feel like she didn't. She didn't say her last
name to me, I just going off for the email.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
It's crazy that you didn't default to him in it.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You you crazy. I don't believe that your older brother
would default.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Like I'm on your side that your younger brother is crazier.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
You're not thinking somebody is going to default to that,
Like that is all right, I'll take it whatever.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
I mean. This is Rudy talking about.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
This is definitely gonna say it the way he did.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
So, but he apologized. He said, I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I'm sorry like that definitely even mean no harm.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He had good intentions, right, But so it's as soon
as I soon as I name dropped, soon as I
dropped that name, and you know what's crazy day you
saying that?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But I'm a hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Impositive that's how I said it at the contest, and
nobody corrected me and registration.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Why would they.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Would say as a person who has a name that
people mess up all the time, like I just get
to a point where you got it.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
It's close.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You probably it up.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And that person that told Kim told Kim like Dawn,
this nigga.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
What's her name?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Kim him?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
And what did you say? Hey, let's go.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Shout out to Kim because as soon as soon as
I name dropped Kim the Devil, Yeah yeah, we got you.
Like I'm like, Kim, Kim is definitely the man in
the streets, like she's the top woman in charge. She
she like because soon as I said Kim, they was, oh, yeah,
I ain't gonna hold you. Staff became super accommodating for
the rest of the convention too.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I don't know if they wasn't not, but I just
feel like at that point people was rocking with us.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
We had panels, badges at that point, well we know
three three D weekend niggas.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Your talent at that point, yeah, we ain't Saturday Fridays.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
So the first day that I noticed when we get
in it king is that bro. They had so many
voice actors there they so imagine like the Anime Milwaukee Hall,
right yep. And then across all three walls except the
entrance wall is voice actors.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's how That's how many voice actors they had.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
On all three walls except the entrance wall, they had
voice actors all was set up doing autographs and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It was crazy and so like I was like, so
that to me, that was that was dope.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And that's when I realized, I said, Yo, you know what,
we ain't been to a random con outside of the
ones that we go through yearly in a while. So
it was it was a different feel to go to
a con where one we didn't really have any outside
of mo Lowry, we didn't have any mutuals there.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Most of the people at that con didn't even know
who we were.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So it was like it was kind of like taking
it back to the geek set roots, and so that
for me, I was excited about that.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Yeah, Like like like I told everybody, or I was
trying to say, it's like we haven't anime. Milwaukee is
actually very close to this. We just haven't been in
a panel room in Milwaukee in a very long time.
But when we when we worked at Milwaukee, we had
one moment that we had a panel room and we
did do a live of podcasts in that room, and
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it was it was the same kind of set up,
It was the same kind of like set of seats
or whatever. So I feel like it was a really
good homage to knowing where we where we are now
and even knowing that we like like we do like
we still are trying to expand ourselves and going to
other conventions and everything like that and whatever that made
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look how it looks for us, we would still go
do it.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You know, I'm saying, yeah, Like that's like that was
like a.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Great thing about it because like I feel like we
are and you know, and I don't say it in
the bad way, but like I feel like we all,
like I said, coming from Dream God, this was a
very small con Mo what you I'm saying, what account
with it too?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
With this?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
You know, I'm saying, like, mo would account like in
the same thing like coming from dream comes to this
was very smaller, but what I think we all agreed
on it was like it was really also more more intimate.
We had to actually work, like actually work harder to
like just be who we are again.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And it wasn't it wasn't a moment of like, oh, y'all, y'all, y'all,
you know, y'all know who we are.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Because we haven't done it so many years and you
know what I'm saying, like we it was our first
time there, yeah, and getting the panel, so it's like
I think showing that we was there in that space
and what we could do to even get the card
that we got to come into that room was like
great because it's like.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
We had people wanted us to come back again today.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, theut what about you trip?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Oh no, it was.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
It was definitely a huge difference coming from a dream
Con last week to We've Con this week.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Just like.
Speaker 11 (26:37):
The the amount of people, right, and then we come
from having been already established.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Now we got to really do the put the.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
Put the elbow grease into to build this panel the
way we wanted to. But I mean, just like even
the exhibit hall, like how the vendors were.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
I think we've kind of had.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
More things you yeah, really wanted to buias collectibles as
opposed to dream Con. Did I mean shout out to
all the vendors uh at dream Come Yeah, you know,
but it just I felt like We've Con was more
so for the for you for the collectors. Yeah, I
mean they had some things out there that you know,
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really jumped out.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I I haven't agree with that, Like I feel like
that's that was well. We we've been to so many
bigger cons that we forgot what it was has to
go to just a smaller con.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And it wasn't a small con it was this was
just their first con.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Yeah, because it was it was a decent size.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It was a decent size, like, yeah, what about you
going to this one.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
I liked this con because to what McCarthy was like,
it was smaller, it was more intimate, and I think
just the lasting impact is we created I think a
lot more fans this way, like you, especially in the
room that we were in, like the conversations that we
were having throughout the podcast. The way we already do podcasts,
it's very interactive. But when you have a smaller group
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and you're sort of like, like you said, this is
their first weak con, this is this.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Is our first week con. So we're all sort of
learning this convention together.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
You can tell like the way that we left, like
people were like, I like these people for who they are,
not just oh this is another name that is here
so I gotta follow for that. It was like you
you built the personal relationship, and that's how you definitely
built good community. It's not the size, it's the how
engaged they are.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
I saw. But it was, like I said, the size
of the community, Like I.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Know, I saw king.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Because because it started with the current sign just kept going.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Like I think, I think it really was the fact that,
like I said, we we we haven't had that moment
since dream Con two years ago of just even being
able to just have a moment in the room to
talk about ourselves. You're saying, and I think, like I think,
what we what we are lacking from and even in
our presence in our convention tours, is that it's creating
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that room that gets bigger every year, just like oh,
just like ANIME after Dark, like we are, we're great
as a live podcast, but we just to see of
being in a room so y'all can actually.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Fuck with us, like what I'm saying, or fans.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I really do love like if they keep doing We've
gone in Indiana and it's a drive that's on the
map now, like that got to be in our checklist
that we always gonna go to. That that's a drive
you saying, yeah, and we because we already did a
live podcast there. It's like we just opened now to
give us bigger and bigger rooms because we've already shown
in one moment how many people were like what, like
(30:09):
I said, like they wanted us to come back Sunday.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
They thought we actually had another room again Sunday.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
To do it.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
So it's like if you actually asking for that, asking
for that already, right, you know what I'm saying, NA
do better every room.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, so you know, so so after we did our
first once around again we had to because that we
had to go see where the actual panel rooms was because,
like I said, this convention was a big ass convention center.
So if they continue, if they continue to build, they
can they can find themselves in like how like Anime
Milwaukee CE two E two is dream Come. It's like
they can pack a lot of people in there and
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have a lot of things going. It's just you know,
this was the first time at Indianapolis, so I can
understand why the crowd again still a decent crowd, but
it was like you can see the potential in there
of what they had and I and I would love
to see what they're doing in Houston, Texas because ship,
I mean we if we if they wanted to, like
we can be part of the crowd and just follow
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week con in some way shape or for him like
but guard you want to get the franchise tag, you know,
you know what I'm saying, Like they already establaged in Texas.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
We were already down in Texas and made an impact
down there. So I would love to be the same
as we're doing with a lot of other places, Like
we can like follow Weekkan in the sense and be
like yeah, like like we should.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Bring weave con further up to us and have it.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Remember we talked about that's that's that's what you got
to talk about the actual history of weak kN and
where it came from first.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
That wasn't that was the other con we were we
were talking about gen Con.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh yeah, but we discovered from weave kN So we
discovered from wee kon even like so ship we ain't
gonna say about right now, but another podcast jen Con.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
We know what you're talking. We know what you did.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
We trying that back then.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Right so like I said, so, like I said, the
whole plan and the idea because after we figured out
where everything was at, we actually we like on one
they had to cast the Cowboy Bebop there, bro, they
had to cast the Cowboy Bebop.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They did a panel room that Mo Lowry was moderating.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
No, no, no, the animation. Yeah, yeah, they had n
then they had they one piece was a mixture. They
had one actor from the live action and then they
had Brooke the voice actor of Brooke, the voice actor
of Chopper, and I couldn't make out who they were
in the mask.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Did y'all get that? Who?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I couldn't make Cowboo that was in the big mask, right,
Yeah he was.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I couldn't make out what character he voice.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But so it was it was really dope because one,
like I said, when we got there, got to see
more doing this.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Thing and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You know, I was like, oh, and we realized like
he was definitely the MC of the of the con Right.
And this is this is where I say, like, oh,
with the with they're with, they're growing. Obviously they still
trying to figure out, like you know, who their talent is,
like who they're gonna be having moderate these panels.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Because he literally finished.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
The Cowboy be by one and it immediately went over
to the same room, reset the room. The new cast
came in and he was doing that one, and I
was like, dang, like this, So they they had him
out here working. They had a couple of other people
working because it was a lady. I wish I would
have got her name, but it was a lady who
moderated the one piece panel. But it was like, ah,
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there's definitely some room for more people to be talent
within this con and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So it's like, you know what I'm saying again, it's
it's seen.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's seeing the starts of a con that like said,
they they got the stuff. It's just like, you know,
seeing how we're they're gonna expand to and I feel
like that's gonna that's gonna be really really dope to
kind of see them work.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And obviously, you know, they from the Midwest, so we're
not front of me.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's a Midwest con and you know we you know,
we mid West folks anyway, so it's like, you know,
anymore that we.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Can get there, that's always a good plus.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
So I want to give a shout out to Trip
Man because Trip right now, like literally he inspired me
to kind of do more.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I was man on the streets and everything seeing how
Trip was working.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Crazy, like what you're talking about. Let me say, because
y'all both was working. Y'all went crazy. I like me me.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Seeing y'all just grabbing the like knowing down evening hearing
the discussions before beforehand about having the mics and the phones,
and we're going like, I don't know what y'are gonna do.
I had no glove, like I feel like I feel
like when I come into my place with he said,
and when we do conventions, I am, I'm the billboard,
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Like somebody gonna stop me, like I'm consplaining.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I'm a saying like, yeah, I'm gonna do my moment.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I'm do my moment of being a billboard of like
we ain't gonna be a we ain't gonna be just
be a bunch of regular niggas. It's one nigga that
bit's being weird somebody.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know what I'm saying, standing out and I and
I enjoyed that space, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But to be in that space and watch y'all actually
like now, like even picking like what I said, like
with like Trip doing his moment to pick and wrestling
to talk to you, picking one piece of people to
talk to and making it a thing, it was like
it actually felt way way more advanced in geek set
(35:41):
that we should have been a long time ago. But
it felt like this is easy, Like this is so
fucking easy. That's why I said, and that's why, that's why,
that's why I'm giving a shout out the Trip because
I've always had the idea of doing it, and I think,
you know, because because of how geek set is, and
except of the creation of geek Set, we are like
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when it was where when it started off and it
was just Me, Bacardi and Live. We all came from
music backgrounds and everything like that, so we all was
already used to doing high quality things. And then we
brought in Didge and did is a person like, all right,
we gotta get it into four K.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
This audio needs to be clean and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
So a lot of the times we put a lot
of thought, process and everything into process on trying to
how we're going to accomplish this at the highest quality rate,
and I forget we forget that sometimes.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
We just got to keep it simple. So when I
was seeing how Trip was.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Getting all that wrestling content and everything, and I'm just like, Yo,
this is really dope. It's going going, and I was like,
I was like, I gotta get out my head and
let me just do it. Let me just go ahead
and do it. And so you know, I gotta give
gotta give Trip his shout out, because that's what fueled
me for this one. I was like, all right, we're
doing promotion and we're trying to get people there. Well,
(36:52):
I'm gonna talk to some people. And as we was
there and this before we knew I knew that there
was a one piece panel, I was like, man, it's
a lot of one piece cosplayers. I'm do some one
piece questions And so that was my focus in regards
with that, and.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
And I love because, like I said, what y'all did
actually inspired me to make sure even going forward. Down
there's like if I want to be that other extra
content of the cosplay, if you stop, if someone stops me,
like I want to take a picture, whatever, you was like,
Oh you ain't gonna just get this picture, my guy?
We an interview you now, like you stop me the interview,
(37:25):
I'm gonna talk to you or even my things like
if I like I feel like like I want to
add that extra aspect even to myself because of cosplaying
within geek set of like like that. That's just like
I said, when we when we make content now going
forward and conventions, it will be three sets. Is wrestling
content is cosplay content is reduces giving what he does
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interview likes random word of street content like like that
that's our that's that's those are actually the areas are
of the other random shows that we still flushing out. Yeah,
we're just like we're putting on in a real space
right now in this question space. So like I was
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inspired by seeing y'all, like, bro, I should have me
even me my roasty thing and dream cand is like bro,
as much as niggas tiping me as you like he
hold up, come here, come and give me here.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Like I should have did the same ship. So like
I'm definitely inspired by the same thing.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, uh trip, Like like you know, I just wanted
to like I said, I.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Did want to give you your moment in regards to
that because because I know we talked about it a little.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Bit of a dream cond and everything, but like even
just seeing that changed the landscape and everything like that
as far as kind of like content that we're doing
at the con, like you know, uh with your thought
process of that, Like I guess I don't think we
ever asked like what made you want to start doing
that more?
Speaker 11 (38:47):
It's just a way for us to continue continually organically
build the community, right you know, if you want to
you know, continue to expand. People got to see us,
and the way for people to see us is to
go out and be seen, you know.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
So that means just going on and you know, talking.
Speaker 11 (39:05):
To individuals, getting individual contacts and you know, getting introduced
to their socials and now you know, now everybody that
they know now knows us. So it's just you know,
finding new ways to to get the brand out there
and a better way than to go and talk to
people that's actually out there, not just the big celebrities,
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but the people that followed them too.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Yeah, like I would, I would say just from an
aspect of mental health in general, like my min semi
invited with people.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Cosplay help with that.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, Like I feel like like I.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Feel like learning in an aspect now where I'm taking
cosplay and like I said, learning from y'all, Like I
want to talk to more people cosplaying. But because it's
like I was, if I'd have been at record close,
just like with y'all, I would still be more to myself.
But me, costumes make people talk to me, makes me
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you have to like be in the space that I'm
uncomfortable end and you when you know you've done that already,
You've done that, you broke that, you broke that first layer.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
So it's like, how do you improve yourself more?
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Yeah what I'm saying so like I said, like seeing
trip and like like like you're saying like it was that,
Like bro, like like we already broke that mode of wrestling.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
This nigga did crazy shit drink on last year.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
Yeah, you're there, So the only thing you could.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Do now is like, bro, you know who I am
as a person, right, So it's like I'm just expanding
that in a way that I'm trying to find my
community through my own you know what I'm saying, my
own actions.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
Yeah, absolutely, because just being able to, you know, step
out aside of my comfort zone last year and doing
that ship last year and then you know, taking it
into a step further and now I'm going out and
talking to people and you know, just kind of you
or setting the tone that way, because the guy stopped
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me at two two and kind of put the bug
in my brain like hey, you know we can be
doing this.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah you know what I'm saying, Yeah, you might do.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
I think I think I think these are like, these
are actually the steps of like the older generation, the
young niggas already.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Figuring the shit out. They don't give a damn you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
As you get older and you actually are still breaking old,
actual like molds that you were used to, and you
just kind of realize, like, bro, I actually can be
just like everybody else. I really like it's just more
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
It, and you know because like with me, it's just like,
you know, look, I'm comfortable in any room, bro, I
don't care. I don't care if it's a crowd of people,
I don't care. I'm hey, get can I get a
moment for y'all real quick? Like I stop a crowd asap.
So I was like a lot of times I should
be like again, just taking too much of it. I'm like,
I want to I want to make this be as
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high quality as possible or whatever the case may be.
And so I just sometimes I get into my head
and then again, like I said, Tripp was just it
was a reminder of well, keep it simple. You're gonna're
gonna still get good quality content. It's going to be
exactly what you want. You don't have to overthink this,
like like you are, you're not by yourself, Like, Bro,
my niggas were all on the string, Like this is
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the niggas. Bro likes like.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
I wasn't. I wasn't think like that, Bro.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
But you know, like we we gained the gigs or
we just is crazy gigs I remember were talking about before.
Speaker 11 (42:42):
I do want to shout out uh agent though, because
I mean a lot of videos that I see from
him is you know, when he's giving advices, just do
the content, you know what I mean, Like from every
major content creator, the content, Like no matter how you
think it's gonna come out, just do it.
Speaker 7 (43:00):
Somebody's gonna like it anyway.
Speaker 11 (43:02):
There's way more people out there right now in the
world that's looking for the stuff that we're talking about.
And the more that we don't do stuff is the
more that people are not seeing from us. Yeah, I
think you know, we've kind of really showed us we can,
like we can move crowds and we can make waves
and just a short period of time, you know, giving
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all of the talents that we all individually have, right,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
So just to see that come to fruition and the
way that it did.
Speaker 11 (43:31):
I think it was just you know, really like eye
opening and kind of you know, it was solidified the
way that I think about us, I.
Speaker 9 (43:44):
Think I think all of y'all have to take a
step back and clap for y'allselves, because the reality is
like to double back and go to a con right
after going to out of town con, like y'all did
a road trip con after doing a fly to right
the reset the mental you know, mindset that you have
(44:05):
to go in there and like you say, from one
where it's not that we're known that dream kind like that,
like we're known, but we're known by.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
People that are seasoned.
Speaker 9 (44:14):
Yeah, new people they know they get to know us because,
like you said, we mingling with people that everybody know
or people that have heard of us now get a
chance to actually see us. Where you go to a
new con, it's just like one of nim and Milwaukee.
In reality, you're meeting a bunch of new people that
are brand new to the idea of geek set, that
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are brand new to the individuals of geek set.
Speaker 8 (44:38):
So y'all really gotta like, you know, not saying what.
Speaker 9 (44:42):
Y'all haven't done already is give yourself, y'all flowers, but
just really baskting for a second, like y'all went somewhere man,
and helped that con build their brand.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
So I was just about to say that because the
one thing that I noticed, and I was like, man,
you know what, we gotta continue to go to more,
you know, smaller cons or cons that are not like
you know what I'm saying, the big like the huge,
huge attraction because what I the one thing I noticed,
and coming from dream Con.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
And also seeing like what we've seen is he two
e two.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
There was not a lot of content creators actually creating
content on the con floor. It was literally this was
this was con goers. This was people who specifically, I'm
dressing up to go to this con because I want
to dress up as the player.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
As the character.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
I want to go to this panel because I like
this show and I want to buy stuff.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
It wasn't It wasn't. I it was funny because afterwards
I saw that was a.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
Huge difference, like this like this level of thing.
Speaker 9 (45:41):
But I think most Midwest and smaller cons are like
that because because like you said, I feel like it
is a con culture where the bigger cons are more
for like the Reunion. Okay, every I know once or
twice a year, I might go to a bigger I'm
gonna see a bunch of people that go to cons
(46:02):
go to their individual cons they like, but maybe online
or maybe you know what I'm saying, in our own
professional realm. We we you know, mingle and do stuff
and this is our time to hang out. That's the
big con.
Speaker 8 (46:15):
I think where the small cons to me?
Speaker 9 (46:19):
Because I got nephews and cousins that go to small
cons all throughout the Midwest and south right, and they
tell me the straight up truth, like it is more
for the cosplay, It is more for the collectibles, for
the vendors, and just for the voice actors or the
love of the show. So I think, and not saying
that dream con isn't more about the love of you know,
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like the people don't dress up for the love of
their character or the show. I think that's just where
we all can meet up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Like, if you you're on the East coast.
Speaker 9 (46:52):
Naruto lover, I'm a Midwest Naruto lover, you might go
to you know, Blurred Khan or whatever con out there
on the East or kind of DC that you know,
not many people going to I'm gonna go to anime
mk E. I'm gonna go to anime Milwaukee. I'm gonna
go to you know, whatever they got going on here,
and then we can go bond about that later, you
(47:15):
know what I'm saying. We could talk about that at
the big time. But I think that's the thing is
like small cons actually performing would be great because I
don't reach more people.
Speaker 10 (47:25):
It's not only just that though, it's also certain cities
aren't cities where people are just creating.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
In general, like not definitely, definitely, but you.
Speaker 10 (47:35):
Hear about it from creators all the time who are like, yeah,
I had to get out of my hometown or I
needed to get out of there because people aren't just
creating there like there are like they have creators, but
you're not gonna see someone just walking down the street
creating because that's not the violence city.
Speaker 5 (47:49):
And that was crazy to see that, I said.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
I think I think even like I said, even seeing
that range of difference from dream come to this and
even like I said, knowing you were the first time,
the kind is still okay. But even that, like even
that aspect, there was no one there reporting that this
is the first time of the conr Like.
Speaker 9 (48:12):
That's that's gonna be a smaller, you know, smaller con situation,
like we gotta you gotta you know, the one that
the in Milwaukee. We don't see a whole lot of
news or a whole lot of you know, creat It's
not a whole lot of creators period. Like like like
you say, I can go to l A on a
or San Diego on.
Speaker 8 (48:33):
A regular day and people the streets, right, So it's like,
I get it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (48:39):
If I'm going to Comic Con, it's gonna be a
million creators there because this is where you go to create.
We had that issue with the streamers at dream Con.
They're only going here to get the content to say,
I went there. Where who's gonna be like, yo, I
went to weave Con Indye if you got you know,
millions of views, it's not gonna be like, it's not
gonna hit.
Speaker 8 (48:57):
The same, you know.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
Funny, So Dish has been telling us about the show
called the Studio, right, and so I just finished it,
right And one of.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
The episodes they go to was it the Golden Globes Ditch.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Yeah, yeah, And so Seth Brogan's character is on the
Red carpet and it's all these streamers right streaming and everything.
Like literally, Zoe Cravis is in the show doing an
interview and it's a streamer in front of the interview like.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Hey, I'm at I'm at the Golden Globe. Look who's
behind me?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
And Zoe Kravis and Seth Brogan's character says, who are
these people? I don't know these people. She was like,
and then the person who was talking she was like, Oh,
these are just streamers. They don't even go to the event.
They just go to the red carpet, film and then
lead and that, and that's the culture. And I was like, yeah,
you see that. A lot of people they don't. They're
like when it's heavily heavy creator base, like I said,
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unless it's unless you get there's content that you can
get from the actual event that they just want to
get that date, that moment on.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
The Red carpet.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
And you gotta think, if I go to an event,
I'm trying to film the stage, But if I'm on
that red carpet, I have more time, more chances to
get an interaction.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
With a celebrity for my TikTok or for my instress.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
So it's like, you know what I'm saying, it is different,
like I said, it is doing that streamer stuff, and
I think that, you know, but again it works. It
works in our favor of being how we are because
again we're very comfortable in any room, in any setting.
So even though it wasn't that a lot of creators
there and anything like that, and even though there was
a lot of people that I was like, Okay, these
looks like these are just regular congoers.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
So I was like, I'm we're gonna be converting some people.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
So I'm having I was having crazy conversations with a
lot of people like, yo, let we get a moment
and we go by the Geekship podcast doing my spell again. Hey,
we do only podcasts that blame hip Hop Coach and
geek Coaching together. We're gonna be in this room doing
this live podcast. Come check us out.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
You know. It's just kind of going down.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
And I was like, you know, I do I feel
like I'm I feel like I'm ever going to get
out of that. I do enjoy introducing us and who
we are.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
I really have I do that.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
And my thing is like Like I said, what I
realized is you don't realize that we haven't done that.
Speaker 6 (50:59):
We did that all of Black Black Documentary Weekend and
Dream God, but before that, we.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Haven't done that since our first dream Con. Yeah. No, yeah,
you know the first Dread we.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Didn't know what we were doing and we were in
mm hm that the lounge. Yeah, so we're just trying
to tell people to come fuck with us while you chill.
Like it's not even a panel like Bro Companions, y'all chilling.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yeah, but it's it's it's it's it's the spell.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Like I said, I I enjoy doing that because and
I think that that that's the one thing, like you know,
it's just it's it's good because it's funny because like
randomly we send somebody this dude at the bar when
we was when we was wrapping up, and I'm telling
him the spell.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
I just did the regular spill.
Speaker 3 (51:50):
You know, we get set podcasts on the podcast Blame
Hip Hop, Coachure and get coatured together. And of course,
you know, usually what we tell somebody, you know who
we are, They if they are not familiar with the culture,
they try to something that they latch onto so they
can have a familiarity with the conversation.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
So his was dragon ball Z. Oh man, I love
dragon ball Z and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
And so you know, of course, as the conversation going,
I'm telling them more things that we do, like oh yeah,
we talked to celebrities and I was naming celebrities, but
Cardi said he was sitting there like, I wonder which
one is this guy going to recognize? Right, but he
was a white guy that also this is the hip
hop So you know, it was a couple of names.
But then when I say, yeah, you know, we also
we do reporting on Sway in the Morning and a
Sway's Universe and everything, he was like, wait, you was
(52:30):
in Swim in the Morning. I was like, yeah, yeah,
y'all know Sway. And I was like, he was like,
why you didn't leave with that?
Speaker 2 (52:35):
And so it was like, it's.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
Fun So it's funny because right, but it's funny. It's
funny because it's like, you know, again, it goes back
to the conversation that we keep on constantly having. It
is that we do have these these tempoles that and
these benchmarks that we definitely accomplished that can really help
sell with our pitch, but I'm still just using the
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regular podcast pitch.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
I don't even like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
It's like, if you engage in more conversation with me,
then I'll get you'll get the nitty gritty of like, wait,
y'all really doing some stuff. But if you like first
initial to just be podcasts. But again, I also lean
into our elevator, bitch for the podcast. It's just that
good because if I'm not even bringing in the heavy
guns and you tapped in with us, like I feel
(53:21):
like our elevator, I.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Feel like that's how It's just you're fine how.
Speaker 5 (53:25):
It is because.
Speaker 6 (53:29):
I feel like the greatest thing about us and what
we're doing is about it is like there's so many
things that we've done that it's like all you gotta
be if.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
You if you cool with the tagline and.
Speaker 3 (53:42):
You locked in on that, yeah, when we're gonna actually
tell you like, yeah, we're gonna tell you what that
tagline means.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
The hip hop culture is sway in the morning.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
The you know what I'm saying, anime is like doing
a documentary Blackie like you, I'm saying like.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
If you you gotta eat, you got to eat up
the tagline first.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Yeah, that's all you gotta really do is eat that up.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
First.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
They were like, all right, bro, novelge you know what
we got because you're gonna be like, oh ship.
Speaker 11 (54:10):
And what I when I saw this weekend is uh,
you know for sure, like the Black Gig documentary isn't
just something that's gonna sit with it just you know
us right because we had that, that room was really
diverse and everybody in the room was engaging and it
filled up pretty quickly.
Speaker 8 (54:31):
Like that was one of my questions, bro, what are
black people are? Bro?
Speaker 11 (54:35):
That's that's the thing I was waiting on, Like this
is to like kind of lean towards because when we
got there, like there were like some black vendors and
like when they saw us, they were like my.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
People literally literally.
Speaker 7 (54:48):
Like the gun we got to adap we got no.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
Bro, Bro, they came they later came up to us
to save my people.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Like one person I feel like he was I feel
like he was shot.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
Because like he turned around and he was like, oh
he was like us, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (55:08):
He was like he was like oh us, he was
like legit shot you know. Even oh boy, that was
the bird after that was like they remember your hat.
Speaker 7 (55:18):
Yeah he stopped.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
Actually a very like subtle term used like us was heavily.
Speaker 11 (55:29):
Like even the security, the security was rocking with us,
like once we got through the first time, like.
Speaker 7 (55:34):
They, yeah, we recognized that.
Speaker 3 (55:37):
Bro.
Speaker 9 (55:37):
I feel like that's how my first animate Milwaukee or
four and four, whichever one it was, because I forget
what time of year it was, but it was at
the Bear Center. And I feel that way because my
guy was the event coordinator at the time, and this
before I don't I don't even know if like we
was kicking it, we might have been. Like the first
year I met y'all, Bro, I walked in there and
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so many that like vendor like you said, the vendors,
the security, the workers. They looked at me like, nigga,
are you in the right place? Because I didn't I
didn't costplay. I wouldn't wear nothing like I think I
had on maybe like a Dragon ball Z.
Speaker 8 (56:16):
Shirt, like a T shirt.
Speaker 9 (56:18):
And I was like I was in awe because you know,
this is when it was smaller still and the only
people that was costplaying was like like white girls, Like
even the dudes weren't costplaying. That's how New it was
and they saw a black face, bro. And I can
probably count on one hand how many other black people there,
(56:38):
like years ago.
Speaker 5 (56:40):
So yeah, it truly like that just said, that's a
big impact.
Speaker 3 (56:44):
But you can get see that, but that's a big
impact coming from dream God all black. Like, even like
I said, walking in in general without having no kind
of thought processor whatever, the energy was so different different. Yeah,
it's so different like and it's like it's not it's
not giving like like a problem to weed time, but
(57:07):
it's just understanding what you had to follow up behind.
Speaker 9 (57:10):
And that's why I said, y'all need to recognize that
that y'all that it is culturally we're all the same,
right if we sit down and have a talk about
our favorite animes or our top fives, or our dislikes
and likes, it don't matter what color you are, you
definitely we all gonna have a conversation, right, and it
don't matter if you don't even like me, which ironically
(57:33):
Indiana home of the Klan. That's why I asked that
question because I'm like, I would have thought that it
had been so many other people there that you wouldn't
have gotten you know, that community of you know people
of color to even come to the weed time because
of the first one, you like, people have tried to see.
Speaker 10 (57:51):
So no, there was definitely like I get what you
mean if there was like first experience, like first impression
of seeing like Okay, that's not going to like this,
like a lot of black people as you walked around,
they were every room we went into, there were a handful.
So it was like there was definitely.
Speaker 8 (58:10):
It was that fear of expression because.
Speaker 6 (58:13):
But I do what I want to say, though, I
feel like every black person I actually saw.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
Like cosplay, like.
Speaker 6 (58:21):
They were actually invested in what they were there for.
Wasn't It wasn't a lot of regular clothes. It's like
niggas there like they were actually like I am I.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Am a geek, Like, yeah, I am here for this.
Speaker 11 (58:34):
And every black person that we talked to either went
to dream Con or heard about dream.
Speaker 3 (58:40):
Yeah, there was a couple of people there, and so
you know, but this is what I think, where the
way we move and operate is what is kind of
what how.
Speaker 2 (58:50):
Helps us be successful and where dream Con.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
The reason why dream coind feels more like a like
a gathering a family reunion is because our makeup and
who we are. It's a lot more of us that
at that of what we do at dream Con. Because
the way that we operated at Wavecon, I can tell
like there was a lot of people probably there was
a lot of people that was really shocked when I asked, hey,
let me interview.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
There's a lot of people really shocked. When I was
just going through a spill.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
There was a lot of people just shocked and saying, Hey,
this is who we are, yo, chump, check us out,
blah blah blah, even to the point where people were
like who wha, wha who I got a podcast.
Speaker 8 (59:24):
Too, you know.
Speaker 3 (59:25):
So it's like right, so it's like I I and
you know. That's one of the things way way early
on with the Geeks said, we always said that we
want to make it comfortable for the hood niggas and
the geeks to be in the same room with each other.
So we bring that energy of that where it's like, look,
we're gonna bring that energy, We're gonna bring that cool,
(59:46):
we're gonna bring that swagger.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
We all hear.
Speaker 3 (59:49):
Geeks, that's bottom line. So we just have a geek conversation.
We just have a little bit more colorful language because
of who we are. But yeah, we gonna have this
geeky ass conversation and we want y'all, we want everybody
to be involved in it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
We don't care what walk in life you are.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
As long as you ain't no weird weird nigga doing
weird shit or weird person doing weird shit. You're doing
like I said, because again, what y'all think is weird,
we don't consider weird. Co'splain not weird li like in anime,
not weird. Like I said, Hey, you know what I'm saying.
If you at the white food station, Hey, that's part
of the culture. That's not weird. If you're doing too
much at the white food station, we gonna call you.
(01:00:25):
If you're doing too much at the main cabaret, we
gonna say something.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
But it's like, so it's like, I like that. How
we bring that?
Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
And that's kind of once we once we figured out
established where our room was at and we established we
got okay, we got two and a half three hours
before this con That's when I got into mold and
so it was like people I was interviewing people, I
was just saying, yo, we here, come here, we here,
come check us out.
Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Yo yo yo.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
And so you know, once we went to go set
up the room and everything again, same thing. Once we
once we established the room and set up a card
let cardies set up as merch table.
Speaker 8 (01:00:55):
We got the cloth going.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Yeah, yeah, we was.
Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
I was.
Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
We was out there being trippers out there in that
hallway promoting out there, yo yo yo, come in, but
here we were right here, We're right here and ship
like that. So like that was like I said, and
you know again going back to the roots, because our
person that I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Mind doing promotion. I don't really I don't mind doing promotion.
Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
I don't mind being the billboard to tell people we here,
come here, come here, come here.
Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
It's just it's it's that's something that's already embedded in me.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
So if I'm actually I do it for people. That's
like I said, you saw, that's how we got in
with Carl Jones a little bit because I was we
was doing that for Carl Jones. And that was just
because I fuck with Carl Jones. I fucked with what
he was trying to do. So if I'm gonna do
it for other people, I definitely do it for us.
And so that's when we got said. And as we started,
like I said, we started off, we we had what
three people in there at first, and just kind of
(01:01:47):
like with Kana Khan, that was again that was the
first time that I realized, hey, keep that door open,
Like what was Marvin step trying to get your to
close the door?
Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I want them doors open. That door open, lean that
door open, that though open.
Speaker 8 (01:02:01):
Because I've reached the people.
Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Yeah, because you gotta hear me. Maccarti already said it
when we walked in. We realized we didn't need we
didn't need speakers in a microphone because of the way
the room was set up. But even though Maccarti was like,
we're gonna let that do open, they gonna hear your
ass because they gonna hear me.
Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Like I said, well, I said, what you biggas, like,
what the fuck is going on to this?
Speaker 11 (01:02:23):
With the documentary with the trailer pause on a screen,
people don't want to see what that was about.
Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
And then I said, I brought a like a yard
sign thing from my one on one reduces interviews but
again also giving us new ideas of things to do
because I was like, oh, I'm definitely gonna get a
gig Set podcast live poster board that we can put
outside of our rooms that we're doing it, coming with
our with with the stand because I was like, it's
just letting people know we're here, letting people know we're here,
(01:02:53):
because I you know, I think that that's what I
want for geek Set moving forward, is I want the
hype of oh shit, gigks in here, like yeah, you
never know what COM's gonna pull up to.
Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
And I want people to be excited for oh shit.
Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Geek Set here. Should they doing something? Oh they got
the live like I want people. I want the live podcast.
I want the lore of it to be like yo,
if you see geek Set or live podcasts go, it's
gonna be a great time, you know.
Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
And so I think that's what I want to spreading
out the uh, the performances as it were, because like
I said, we even talked about doing it you know, individually,
not just at cons, but like in the cities that
we're traveling to.
Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
This is this is great practice, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (01:03:32):
This is a great way to build it up because
you're gonna be in those rooms with people who they
get the jokes they get the puns. They get it,
you know what I mean, Like where we get out
here into the you know, the regular world. These people
ain't necessarily gonna understand everything they might not understand, like
the references to the to the cons. So I definitely
get going to these cons man and building like a
(01:03:52):
real base with people who are already tapped in and
they live this like because you know, like we know,
if you into playing, bro, you gotta live it, like
you can't just be like I kind of fuck it
a little bit. No, nigga, I gotta hunt some shit down.
I might have to knit and sew. I might have
to outsource to get something made. Hell like like I
chased down like I said, I chased down my ex
(01:04:13):
nigga for two three years.
Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
They got it at a small con, you know what
I'm bro.
Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
So this so the thing about the one thing before
we get into the actual live podcast, and we kind
of talked about it a little bit. Their vendor tables
was way better, right, way better.
Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Bro. They had meleiois Is broken sword for a great price.
I said, King would have been crazy here, bro.
Speaker 8 (01:04:40):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
They had so much seven daily Sins stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
I was like King was literally just saying, I don't
see a lot of seven daily sins.
Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Shit, this kind is that.
Speaker 8 (01:04:48):
Dream cond Like.
Speaker 9 (01:04:50):
It pissed me off when I went to the one,
I think you were you were there with me when
I asked about the banner, yep, and the dude like
he had two seven deadly sins uh banners, one that
didn't have Eskinor on it, but it had everybody else.
And then it had one weird ass magic Knight, who
didn't even fit. He was nobody in the whole series
(01:05:13):
besides a nigga who traded on Meliotis and they put
him at the top. But then every other sin was there,
so it's six sins and then this nigga you couldn't
have just put fucking escinor there.
Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
And then the other of it was just Miliotis and
uh and his girl.
Speaker 9 (01:05:28):
So that's what pissed me off, because I'm like, y'all,
forty five million other you know, banners for all these
other shows that don't nobody even care about. But this
one show that, yeah, it had a couple of bad seasons,
but it was cracking while it was cracking, y'all, y'all
do this come?
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
So, Yeah, you you, you would have you, you would
have liked this kind this kind definitely had with seven
seven Deadly Sins friendly, seven Deadly Sins Friendly. I mean,
it doesn't even be real that we definitely do a
lot of even if you anime and anim mk C
two E two, like all of them actually really more
mainstream to really see a condission that was like a
(01:06:06):
lot more smaller where the vendor quality is like like
the smaller I'm understanding now the smaller condition is the
better quality of them, like.
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
The rare you.
Speaker 8 (01:06:21):
Think the dudes our career.
Speaker 9 (01:06:23):
They do this for a living, so they're going to
rot all the conventions like that.
Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
Because that one vendor almost had a Cardi bro. He
had deep cut dragon Ball figurines, so much old dragon
Ball material bro that it was like, I.
Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
Mean, I mean, I'm talking about this old packaging bro.
Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
She was faded Japanese words like bro like bro like
and I'm like, god, I'm like, but he had like
he had like I've never seen like even even like
the modern things he had.
Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
They were like.
Speaker 6 (01:07:05):
Old dragon Ball scenes at the original show scenes.
Speaker 9 (01:07:09):
I've never seen this ygon Ball no bro like even
deeper bro.
Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
They had bro they had you know the little robot
like the walking robot.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
From from Capsule Corpse.
Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, they had they had they had kid
Gokul with one of those. They had one that you
don't see a lot. He had adult Gokul on the
flying nimbus.
Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
He had like.
Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Bro he had like he had stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
He had a remote control car that actually was It
wasn't go on nimbus. It was go Coul riding one
of the red ribbond like where he actually like stopped
like like while.
Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
You're still going in one of the animes. Yeah, you
stopped like the car with the stick. I guess the controller.
There's nobody to see go go on the hood.
Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
But it was a remote control car though, Like you
could look like Broy.
Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
And you ain't getting nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Bro I had, Bro I couldn't get I was like, Bro,
I can't do this.
Speaker 8 (01:08:16):
Saying today.
Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
It may be so that's been so much to drink,
but I'm learning now. That was the first time that
I learned specifically, like all right, my now, convention touring
gonna have to mix both of these because I'm not
gonna keep spending big money money like big you know
what I'm saying and all these like bigger conventions where
I can go to a smaller convention and actually get
(01:08:39):
what I'm looking for.
Speaker 11 (01:08:42):
And and they were working with them, they were working
with you on the PIP.
Speaker 9 (01:08:46):
That's the only place that I feel like when you
asking it on Sunday, if they got a deal, they
had a deal. Smaller cons, you gotta agree well, and
and they'll get me wrong.
Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
I did hear.
Speaker 9 (01:08:56):
About, you know, like the after after at the expedition
halls at dream Con, which man shout out to the
people who took advantage and got all the free stuff.
I feel, y'all like I wasn't paying another forty dollars
to stay around and get T shirts and hoodies and shit.
But I feel like at the at the at the con,
(01:09:16):
like smaller cons, you gonna definitely find the collectibles, the electronics, the.
Speaker 8 (01:09:21):
Games, all the games that we really be looking for.
Speaker 9 (01:09:24):
I feel like you have a higher chance of finding
them at the cons you know that aren't so mainstream
because the mainstream com bro think about it. I can
find like a sword right at a mainstream cond They're
gonna probably wont like two hundred bucks, one hundred fifty bucks.
If if anything, maybe ninety and that's gonna be like
the flimsy, weird looking one. I can go to the
(01:09:44):
smaller con Bro. They're gonna work with me. You know
what I'm saying. I can probably catch one for the
seventy five or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
It's like all the contract I always try to get
my con shirts. You can mention it. And as we
were leaving, I wouldn't even I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Even paying no attention to what thing you're talking about,
but like twenty dollars shirts and was walking out and
I'm like, damn, I did wanted to give me a shirt?
Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
He was like, Bro, eighteen dollars.
Speaker 9 (01:10:12):
Immediately it's a Saturday, this Sunday, you know, Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
For the yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
So we get to we get to the podcast we started,
and we do the podcast. We do our typical regular podcast.
Like I said, we're just talking about, you know, we
were bringing back some of our you know, great topics.
We end up bringing back the Butler topic, you know
what I'm saying, talking about the butlers.
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Uh started talking.
Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I don't know how we end up doing Android versus
uh Apple and x Y versus PlayStation again, but that
popped up again because y'all wait a.
Speaker 8 (01:10:47):
Minute, y'all had that conversation without be there.
Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Okay, you'll be happy. They was on Paccardi Hills because
he was a lower man, real hate energy, Bro. He
was a loone man in there, and we started talking.
Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
There was not an Xbox nigga in the room model thing.
Speaker 11 (01:11:09):
That room was very like as diverse as it was,
it was very like on one thing because there was
no wrestling nerves.
Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
And there was no wrestlings in there. Yeah, that hurt.
That hurts tript.
Speaker 8 (01:11:25):
And hard like.
Speaker 7 (01:11:28):
I got the disgusted look.
Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Like wrestling like both the.
Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
Love at the ends at the end of the after
the podcast, I got some love about the wrestling.
Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Yeah, But like I said, it.
Speaker 9 (01:11:48):
Was really was really at the career watching battle with
the uh what was the collision?
Speaker 8 (01:11:52):
What was it?
Speaker 11 (01:11:53):
The world's collide, the world's collide and money the bank.
Speaker 8 (01:11:57):
That's what the wrestling fans was.
Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Doing was trying to trip trying to dodge spoilers all day.
Speaker 9 (01:12:05):
It was amazing, bro, because I knew, I knew y'all
was like at the convention and my my client, he
came through and he was like, Hey, can you put
it on.
Speaker 8 (01:12:14):
It's about to come on like right now, and I'm like.
Speaker 9 (01:12:17):
Damn, if I was gonna be able to leave, this
would be actually have been the time that I had
to leave. So it was like, all right, you know what,
I'm gonna just watch this and like, you know, pay
how much the trip maybe here? Well talk about it
on you know podcast.
Speaker 8 (01:12:28):
That brother George is going crazy. Bro. They was doing some.
Speaker 9 (01:12:34):
Wild ass ship. I was shout out the trip on
this one, bro. You should I wanted you to be
asking questions. Are watching it or something?
Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Yeah? Yeah, So but the conversation was really dope.
Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Like I said, because and and that's what I love
about when we do our live podcast is how people
and in the in the crowd, they immediately get it,
get it, like get the premise of it right, and
it goes. I think dis was the one that told
me that. He was saying was like, you gotta think
going through these conventions. They love being at these panels,
but they do the same thing over and over aftery
(01:13:07):
sitting at it, and they're at the panel and they're listening,
and then they line up to do questions and then
they go back to their seats and then They're listening
no matter what the case, even even the small panel.
So they were saying like, this is a break from
the norm, and so this is where they're like, oh, man,
I get to well, I I could yell back.
Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
At y'all, I could argue with y'all, I get to
yell at the crowd like what what.
Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
And so again that they keeping that door open, it
makes people be like, yo, what is going on in there?
Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (01:13:35):
So, like it says, to build that organically was just
like the most satisfying part because that was just.
Speaker 7 (01:13:42):
You know, nobody there knew who geek.
Speaker 11 (01:13:45):
Set was before Saturday, but after that, everybody wanted more.
Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Geek Set wanted more, and we, like I said, we
saw how building community happens. Because for the most part,
like there may have been like Okay, there was a
group with three guys that came in together.
Speaker 8 (01:14:01):
There was a there.
Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
Three group of three women who cosplayed together. There was
a couple who brought their kid. There was a random
lady by herself. There was like a lot of just
pocket of people. But even after the after the pile
was over and after our panel was over, you start
seeing them mingling talking to each other exchange, and there
was like it was like, wait, y'all definitely didn't come
in together. Y'all definite didn't seem like y'all know each other.
(01:14:23):
But based off of the conversations and everything that happened
now and then they like talking about they literally like, yo, y'all,
y'all come, y'all come back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Wait this this other kind going. Let me tell you
about genkn y'all should hit gen Con.
Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
That was like, yo, we literally built a community real
quick right here.
Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
You know what I'm saying. That was That was pretty dope.
That was really dope.
Speaker 10 (01:14:43):
That was definitely the best part of it, just to
realize how many people didn't know who we were at
the beginning the other day, to be like, well you
can you can physically see that you created fans today.
Speaker 9 (01:14:54):
Yeah, y'all, man, look at y'all with the people.
Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
Had to hold it down, man, I had to hold
it down, you know. And then like I said, were premiered,
it said, we did. We did the trailer again, showed
them the trailer opened up the floor for conversations about
like what the Black Geek documentary, what you want to
include in and.
Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
To Baccarty's point.
Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
What he said is that or I don't know, maybe
been tripped, but the diversity in our crowd and the
conversations that everybody was able to tap in, like it
clearly says the Black Geek documentary. But the conversation wasn't
wasn't just straight only for what was.
Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
The black person's opinion.
Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
You know, there was you know, everybody, there was every
we had and again we had a we had a
nice divers cast of people in our pod uh, in
our in in the in the crowd. So it was
like we was able to have some really great, some
really dope conversations around what type of things. And again
it came up organically like oh man, y'all should really
just do a series, and it was like, well, now
(01:15:55):
that you mentioned that, you know, and so like that
was really it was just again and it took me
back to our roots when we was doing like Mogul
Nights or how we did with Condo Con. It's just
you know, of going to a place where people that
at like our start, nobody knows. We literally started at
level zero going to this con and we leveled up
(01:16:16):
like fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, to the point where
like I said, they wanted us stay with like y'all
doing something tomorrow, Like nah, were just here for one day?
Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
You know?
Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
That was I think that was the definite proof.
Speaker 10 (01:16:29):
When old girl was like, oh, y'all gonna be here tomorrow,
like she she left with her she left with her friend,
came back. It was like, wait, are y'all doing this
again tomorrow? Then when we told her no, she was like, okay, okay,
I understand, left, came back to time and was like, well,
actually y'all should go to this con in DC.
Speaker 11 (01:16:46):
Then no, before that, she asked us what other cons
were we're going to? True this is the only con.
This is the last kind of year, and I shouted
out that you were going to Animate New York.
Speaker 7 (01:16:57):
And then that's when she was like, well, y'all should
come to this K and BC in August.
Speaker 8 (01:17:02):
It's like we like I was just gonna say, this
is our last con.
Speaker 11 (01:17:09):
Technically technically on the book, actually on the books, it's
the last.
Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
One because remember we generally do like I said, we
generally do three minimum at least possibly before but it's
always C two E two Anime Milwaukee Dream Con.
Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
And then like usually the last of the.
Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
Year usually the last one because it's really not nothing
in the fall were but like I said, we might,
I might add Anime for.
Speaker 8 (01:17:34):
Four and four is in there in the fall.
Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
But we haven't.
Speaker 7 (01:17:37):
We've never been to one in August this year. That's
in August this year.
Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
We never did before.
Speaker 8 (01:17:44):
That's when I went to I went to.
Speaker 10 (01:17:47):
Well, they might have brought it back to this of
this go around with Anime four one four.
Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
I remember last year they're like, this is our first year.
Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
They might have took so king you might be talking
about Wisconsin Comic Con, but they because they used to
have Anime Milwaukee and they so it was always Anime
Milwaukee and then they used to have Wisconsin Comic Con
and then then I forgot.
Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
I think they I think they folded after COVID.
Speaker 9 (01:18:13):
I think COVID this was because this was yeah, yeah, construction,
Yeah yeah, Wisconsin comed Yeah, so it was it was
definitely Wisconsint Comic Con.
Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
And so I mean yeah, I mean, like I said,
I'm not opposed to doing more because, like I said,
especially if we're going to be doing this, because I
can't I take it back to what Riccarty said, Yeah,
I do enjoy introducing ourselves to new people, and I
think that that's how we're going to continuously build.
Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
And so, I mean there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
Of local cons Like I said, we've been we've been
talking we for the past three years. There's one kind
that been really like really trying to get us, and
that's Colosses Cohn in the Wisconsin Dells.
Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
They've really been trying. They've been trying to get us
to come on.
Speaker 9 (01:18:52):
We just never know there we can go there and
hit the one that they well, yeah might.
Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
My thing is like to like I feel like our
live podcast set up in general, which I mean like
I'm never gonna like we like we've naturally done the
podcast without never know what we're gonna do for the
podcast when we do a live podcast, and it's always
a great podcast, Like all right, whatever, where whatever we
(01:19:20):
decide to do. My thing is we need a space
that we can start creating that consistency just like oh
like people, the peers that we love to go see,
we can have that too. We just have to have
a panel that were consistently going to every year to
create those bigger, bigger, bigger rooms.
Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
The bigger you're saying, Disney songs.
Speaker 8 (01:19:43):
I'm just saying, bro, you gotta learn.
Speaker 9 (01:19:45):
You gotta learn mouthing the words under what.
Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
You're talking about?
Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
What what? Then? We needed you?
Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
We needed you when you so yeah, we needed you
because our under the Sea sounded so bad as as
a collective and dream.
Speaker 8 (01:20:07):
It was no unity.
Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
It was bad, bitch.
Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
After this, after the first, after the first under the sea,
I just stood there and I laughed the rest of
the song because I said, we we there's no way
we wenting this.
Speaker 8 (01:20:19):
I just stood on and laugh.
Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
I said, what is going on here?
Speaker 8 (01:20:23):
Like that was.
Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
So yeah man, so like I mean, I don't know, man,
We've got indyed. It was.
Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
It's funny how something like this puts that fire back
into some of the things that we do because yeah, yeah,
what what what what? We fell in love with this
with this culture for and everything. And then again, like
I said, yeah, I'm definitely, you know, gonna make sure
to submit panels to everywhere we go. Like I said,
I'm gonna try to get us a panel s C
(01:20:52):
two e two. We never really tried s C two
e two. We always did pressed, but I'm gonna try
to get us panels C two E two I'm gonna
start moving forward, getting a PANO at Anime Milwaukee. I'm
gonna rich out to Anime four one four, like yo,
uh yeah, it's gonna be different now.
Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Like I said, I feel like that's.
Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
Gonna be because you know, I think when we were
saying that we was tired, we're done with doing press.
I think it's more so the obligation of having to
go to the press room, not being active in the
con because we can because obviously we can still get photos,
we can still interact with the con goers as creators.
Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
But I think that now if our.
Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Con season is we're going to these conventions, but we're
also doing a live podcast at these conventions, that adds
more that that fills every bucket of what we want
out of conventions where we're interacting with people, we're able
to get the photos, we're creating content, We're able to
do something and you know what I'm saying, to reach
(01:21:53):
the people. And I think that that should be how
we approach conventions.
Speaker 7 (01:21:57):
Moving forward to sell merch.
Speaker 8 (01:22:00):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 9 (01:22:02):
And I also think the catch to it is this
is like the natural next step for us considering we
normally play the background. Like you say, as press. That's
my that's kind of my issue with press is the
visibility issue. Like people can hear us and they can
see the material that we create from what we.
Speaker 8 (01:22:20):
Pick up at these conventions.
Speaker 9 (01:22:22):
But like I know for a fact, the reason why
when we do stuff it's so sought out and people
want to interact is because of that.
Speaker 8 (01:22:30):
Like people stop me on the street all the time and.
Speaker 9 (01:22:32):
Be like, bro, I heard a geek said, I know,
you know, I've watched y'all stuff or I've seen something
from y'all. So I think every time you give a
personal opportunity to even see the name, search the name,
and then you know, look online and see our footprint,
that that opens the door for a fan, you know
what I'm saying, To build that for someone to become
a fan, should I say? Because then they get the
(01:22:53):
opportunity to be like, oh, y'all really working, y'all really
doing shit.
Speaker 8 (01:22:56):
It's not just y'all just hit the ground running and
y'all don't really know what you know, what y'all got
going on?
Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
Like, No, we have things that are that entertain people,
and it's from so many different aspects, whether it's you know,
podcast people, the close people just us, you know, creating
stuff and the questions and like that's part of it now,
is like we're creating real shorts, documentaries, travel vlogs, all
(01:23:22):
kinds of things where we don't get a chance to
tell everybody that. And by going to a smaller con
or just creating a panel, creating that one on one
interaction with people, we'll be able to like really serve
it to them right here. You know, the way we
generate a conversation, we always got something that connects to
that conversation.
Speaker 8 (01:23:41):
Whether we're talking about.
Speaker 9 (01:23:41):
Movies, games, animes, whatever, they can always refer back to
some material that we created where it's like, oh man,
I'm fucking with that, you know what I'm saying. So
we have to naturally now have to do this, you
know what I'm saying, because what else can we do?
Speaker 8 (01:23:54):
We do everything else?
Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Yeah, yeah, So I mean, like I said that, that's
the main thing that I took from this week.
Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Con uh trip and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
It's just like, yeah, even with EA, like I said,
with the man on the Street conversation content and doing
the panels like I'm I'm excited to do because, like
I said, even though we said that dream.
Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Cons is general our last con.
Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Now even opening up to those smaller cons and things
like that, we might be like saying, hey, matter of fact,
that's good. That's gonna be part of my recommendation. When
we do what we get, we do our recommendations in
a few minutes, it's gonna be let us know what
the cons are in y'all area. Drop them in the comments,
let us know, because we are going to start filling
(01:24:36):
our schedule, start filling up our calendar with cons.
Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Then, you know, especially if you're around the Midwest and
easy accessible.
Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you might.
Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
You might actually see day.
Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
So yeah, that's so like so yeah, matter of fact, Yeah,
that's what I'm want a trip. Make sure you grab
when when you clip this up, make sure you grab this.
Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
Let them know.
Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
Hey, let us know which city y'all in and what
cons is in y'all city.
Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
If y'all want to see geek set, do geek set live.
Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
In y'all city. Man, make sure we get that that
clip out there. Yeah, bro, you got you got, you
gotta make it to boat we're bowl from.
Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
We ain't been to any boat both. Where are you from?
Speaker 11 (01:25:17):
We're gonna come to you there everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
They sat looky bo, bo d m me whatever con
is in Saint Louis. Let me know Galaxy Con.
Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Bo, get your ticket for Galaxy Con next year. If
you're not there, bold, I promise you. We don't know.
I don't know. We're gonna were gonna roast you about life.
Speaker 3 (01:25:53):
October. So so it's potentially this year, Bo, pay attention.
We might, we might, I'd be announced to something. But yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (01:26:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
Like I said, let's let's rest. Let's wrap up with
our final words over the week over the weekend, what
you thought, I'll go with you did start with you?
Speaker 10 (01:26:13):
Like I said, overall, I think that this was a
great grassroots con.
Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
It this is how you start building community.
Speaker 10 (01:26:19):
It's not necessarily just posting online like obviously that is
a huge part of it, but there is nothing bigger
than word of mouth, and there's nothing bigger than actually
shaking hands and talking to someone and saying, yo, this
is who I am, this is what I do, this
is why you should support and them being able to
see it immediately and just going like that. So, uh,
(01:26:41):
even outside of just where are we going to be at,
go to some of your smaller cons build that community
with people and just have fucking conversations.
Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Mm hm, Bacardi to you, I mean I was, I
would agree with you. I would also.
Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
I mean I also saying add to that is like
I think we've been in cons for so long in
a sense now a couple of years, that we've always
used the tagline of like god, this ship is huge
and we can't find ship.
Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
We can't get nowhere, and going back.
Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
To weave con, really realize that you can find like
if like a smaller con can still feed you everything
you need, the actually give you what you're looking for
there in any cond Like I said, even our moment
of us thinking that it was going to get fit
the table physically, we saw the worry oh a picture.
(01:27:35):
Wait wait all right, so King, so I don't think
you know about this lore?
Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
All right, so we did Crunchy ro.
Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
I want to keep putting on the here as long
as I can keep telling that we need to try
to find this game.
Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Yeah, put it on there. Yeah, So Kate, we went
to a Crunchy Row expo.
Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
Obviously Crunchy Row as as anime, right, so in their
gaming hall, they had this game called Flip the table.
Now it's literally like like the Dance Dance Revolution game,
Like it's a big cabinet, it has a table.
Speaker 10 (01:28:04):
The name of the game was called Super Dinner Table
Flipping Are okay yeah, okay, but.
Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Okay, Lona no. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
So so it's so it's like the matching like how
you're looking at me right now, but it's a it's
a half of a table there, right, a breakaway table,
and it's literally you're flipping the table and trying to
knock off the most stuff off the table.
Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
You get pissed you're flipping the table.
Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
We spent so much time at that because it was
it was such a stress reliever. It was so fun,
and we've been searching for that since that was like
year two geek set.
Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
We've been searching.
Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
We've been searching for this game, believe yeah, bro, we've
been searching for this game. This cabinet at every convention
that we go to, right, have not seen it since.
So we walking we walking now, they had a retro
gaming hall, right, and so it was like, all right,
that's what they had, like all the old school games
(01:29:02):
and everything like that. But then we walked past this
one gaming hall and all we saw was Japanese gaming.
Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
You want to back there?
Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
So we're in.
Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Yeah, so you the joy in our faces of the
potential of seeing this game again, many of each other
in the eyes so strongly without saying like.
Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Like niggas everything we did so run to the back.
Speaker 7 (01:29:30):
Like a game is amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
We got more to look forward. I will be buying it.
Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Where is it because I will put in.
Speaker 8 (01:29:50):
Or something. It is, just like I googled it.
Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
I googled it yesterday after we after.
Speaker 10 (01:29:56):
We were there, and I couldn't find it, like it
wasn't there, And I'm like, all right, so now I.
Speaker 4 (01:29:59):
Got the actual name of it, like I got the
Japanese name of it. I will find this game.
Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
Like because you don't even know what they're saying, like
the game we played in the country role was in Japanese.
Yeah nothing, but all you're saying one, two, three table,
that's all I cared about.
Speaker 8 (01:30:20):
Is it like fake food on the table?
Speaker 10 (01:30:24):
I got a video. I got a video of somebody playing.
I'm I'm gonna put it in the group chat.
Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Yet videos of it.
Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
We definitely got here, Like I know I got over
in my role, but yeah, it's but.
Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Here's the day.
Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
I kind of like the chase to like, I get
it that you want we want to buy it, but
I do want to. I do want to come across
it again and have that moment Ah, we finally found
you again.
Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
That is as good ass lord have.
Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Yeah, you just do not know. I like now we
talk about so much that I definitely got to go
to my video. I know I got video of it.
I feel like there was just us.
Speaker 6 (01:31:03):
I think I feel like I'm the only one they
got vid of us playing it.
Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
I gotta find the video.
Speaker 6 (01:31:07):
Of it, because yes, BRO, like that game. It still
lives in my heart as one of the greatest stretch
believer games that like niggas they want to leave that
game after having Bro because you just wanted to just relieve, Like.
Speaker 8 (01:31:23):
Bro, oh, this is an arcade game.
Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
This is.
Speaker 8 (01:31:28):
This is crazy, this is crazy, and you have Wow.
But it was it was y ya.
Speaker 9 (01:31:38):
Probably they probably got this somewhere over there, like, oh
for sure, for sure this is probably Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
I didn't think about that. We might have asked yas
if they know somebody right right trip final words man
for the week about.
Speaker 11 (01:31:55):
The weekend, Just for me for to not have known
an think about weep con. Uh, I kind of have
really no expectations going in and to get there and
to see you know, how.
Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
Intricate and intimate it is.
Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
It was.
Speaker 7 (01:32:15):
It was dope.
Speaker 11 (01:32:16):
It was a dope experience. I think, you know, just
the vendor hall itself was probably my favorite part, just
because you'll know me. You know, I collect you know,
lone fly bags for the missus, so you know, just
to be able to get out there and see one
that really just stand out right away.
Speaker 7 (01:32:35):
You know, it's just I think.
Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Trip was going through it because you know, he just
got it that dream con. And then when we soon
we got there, they had so many ones that we
ain't never seen and I was like they they knew
they was like tripping tripping the building.
Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
We got to add these rather ready for Yeah, and
then even again the way we move and groove.
Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Man, Like I said, I said, I appreciate that. What
else you're gonna say?
Speaker 11 (01:32:59):
Yeah, I just just being able to build that community organically,
and you know, leaving there with new Ego Scouts was
just a really good h acknowledgement of to the hard
work that we've been putting in lately. You know, just
to see that we continue to elevate every year, we
(01:33:20):
take it to a new level, right.
Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
I just I love that for us.
Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
And it came even though you wasn't there hearing our experience,
and it kind of like with our new focus and
everything and things that we're trying to do, how are
you feeling.
Speaker 9 (01:33:34):
I'm excited. I ain't gonna lie to you, like I said, I'm.
Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
Actually real salty.
Speaker 9 (01:33:38):
I couldn't make it because, like I said, my initial
plan was to work a half day and then just
shoot down there, but like I said, with the weather,
with my battery going crazy, like and then you know,
I also know like we are a balanced team, so
like all of us have different attributes and we all together,
like Baccardi was saying, you know what we say, and
(01:33:59):
do people enjoy it?
Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
I just think it's natural.
Speaker 9 (01:34:02):
So that was my only worry, was like getting down
there missing something or you know, creating that feeling where
it was.
Speaker 8 (01:34:09):
Like damn, I wish King was here to explain some shit.
So that was it.
Speaker 9 (01:34:12):
But I just hearing what y'all did. Man, I'm really
proud of y'all because, like I already said, I'm never
thinking like they're gonna go down there and something going
go wrong. I'm always thinking, like, y'all gonna go down
there and kill it. But my only thought was it
being a new con. Like I said, I was trying
to look up footage of Wee kind Indie. That's when
I realized there isn't any like this is literally gonna
(01:34:35):
be the first one. So it was kind of like
I didn't want casts to go down there and really,
you know, get a bad taste in your mouth or
you know, kind of feel like this was so lackluster
because I mean, honestly, I think we're a show bro
Like like I'm gonna say we're a show but when
we go places, I think the way we dress, the vibe,
(01:34:57):
everything we give off. We fit well at dream Con
because we bring like a certain level of comforting and
laughter and like, okay, these you know they he's grown men.
But y'all niggas is fun where at a smaller con
you never know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
Yeah, Yeah, different vibes.
Speaker 8 (01:35:16):
Whole lot of different emotions.
Speaker 9 (01:35:17):
So just the fact that y'all went down there and
like you said, built the community and got some people
LinkedIn where they like, hey, I'm rocking with y'all. I
wish y'all have came back today, Like that's dope. You
know what I'm saying, beyond proud of you niggas man
this ship.
Speaker 3 (01:35:31):
Appreciate that I can guarantee what we gave them. They
never had that at Weave Khan Indy Well and we've.
Speaker 14 (01:35:38):
Knk Yeah that's because I feel because because here's the thing,
and I feel like as much as we keep on
saying we we like we've been going to Anime Milwaukee,
Anime Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Hasn't even had a version of this is what we do.
Like it's crazy because in dream Con it's a lot
of that you're literally seeing that is the premiere of
kind of what we do.
Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
There's a lot of versions of what we do.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Like I said, Anime after Dark, uh of do the
wrong ding podcasts, you know, Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Like I said, there's a lot of you know, show
show Go High.
Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
There's a lot of the of what we do in
different variations of what we do with different personalities.
Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
At that type of con.
Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
But Anime Milwaukee, I don't I don't remember a live
podcast Black live podcast there see two E two we've
been covering as press.
Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
I don't remember seeing any of that there and things
like that, and.
Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
So we have that opportunity of continuously showing again. And
I feel like this is a blurred type of a
blurred space specific type of thing. There's a lot of
blurred spaces that are in this type of realm of
what we do. But again, everybody shoots for the blurred
con and the dream con, and so we are skinned
as being the reporters of the culture and also being
(01:36:53):
representatives of blurred culture.
Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
I think it's like that's that that is definitely a
part of our duty as well. It's like, yo, let's
show why what also these other kinds can get this
same type of entertainment and same type of fun, And
I think that we have a great opportunity to seize that.
So I'm excited about that. Did y'all want to get
in to a quick recommendations before we get out of here.
I mean, I would just recommend everybody go to local
(01:37:17):
go to more local conventions.
Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think I think we
all in that same wave.
Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
I think let's just end it as a group one
with that go to more local, go to your local.
Speaker 11 (01:37:28):
Constra cons man, because you never know, you never know.
Speaker 6 (01:37:33):
They may they made request us to come down there
support your local cons.
Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Yeah, and how many.
Speaker 9 (01:37:39):
People, man, are really you know, put on like this
is their livelihoods. But not only that, they life you
know what I'm saying, a lot of people they create
them prints or they draw, they paint, you know what
I'm saying, They creating clothing like all of that stuff.
Speaker 8 (01:37:51):
Man is it's not just one convention.
Speaker 9 (01:37:53):
The year that they go out here and do it
for so the fact that these smaller cons, you never
know what you might find there or who you might find.
Speaker 8 (01:38:00):
So that's my thing I.
Speaker 10 (01:38:03):
Can say, especially like on that same wave from the internet,
there's always time and time that people like they'll repost something. Bro,
this is fire. I wish I could get a copy
of this. I wish I could print this. I would
put this somewhere. It's like more often than not, like, yeah,
they're gonna they're gonna probably be at those big cons,
but before they get to those big cons, they are
at these local cons. You're going to see stuff like
that there because all these artists have to start somewhere.
Speaker 9 (01:38:25):
Yeah, right, And not only that, but I think think
of the actors think of the voice actors, think of
like the animators that show up.
Speaker 8 (01:38:32):
I'm I'm Bro.
Speaker 9 (01:38:33):
I walk past voice actors man who I've heard for years, Bro,
and I've always thought man like, and I wonder what
this dude look like, And it's just it always blows
my mind how they can be on the floor signing autographs,
giving away stuff, selling merch and it's like, Bro, this
is their this is their hustle too, you know what
(01:38:53):
I'm saying, Like, Yeah, a voice actor is.
Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
There, and we all commend them and talk about them.
Speaker 9 (01:38:58):
And you know, anytime you hear to voice and a
different characters like oh yeah, yeah, I know exactly who
that is. But the fact that they're there, Bro, this
is you know, not saying it's a big deal for them,
but I think that support goes a long way of
people just more, you know, And I know people Bro,
ain't gon Jack tie just talking about conventions in the shop.
Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
People want to go so bad. Yeah, but people don't
know it's.
Speaker 9 (01:39:21):
For them, you know what I mean, Like if it's
a sales convention, if it's a closed convention, I think
those people know go there for that. But you could
be like my wife is a hello kitty fan, right.
I told her, like, dude, you go to these conventions,
go to NIME Milwaukee, You're gonna find so much stuff
you like or just something you never even knew was there.
(01:39:42):
And she went, I think no, No, she went, yeah,
she wanted. She went to Animated.
Speaker 8 (01:39:47):
Milwaukee with her friend Bro.
Speaker 9 (01:39:49):
Found so much shit, so much shit, And I'm thinking, like,
now you need to go to see to E too.
Now we got to go to a dream con, you
know what I'm saying, Just so you can see, like
you're not.
Speaker 8 (01:39:59):
The only one.
Speaker 9 (01:40:00):
It's so many people, yeah, like you that go to
these places and be timid and just be so scared
that they're not gonna fit in or they're not gonna
follow them, you know, into the mold where it's like no, man,
you come here and create your own you know what
I'm saying. You come here, you could be the one
that makes the group, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (01:40:18):
So, yeah, that's the thing. Don't be afraid. Just really explore.
Go out here, man, that's some fun. That's a convention facts.
Speaker 5 (01:40:28):
Oh that's right, there's there's a convention everything.
Speaker 6 (01:40:31):
So yeah, like just go go find your geek for
the geek convintion everything.
Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Find your geek man.
Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
But yeah, so that yes, listen if y'all had if
you was here from uh because you've you was.
Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
At our weave gone pan. Hey appreciate y'all tapping in
with us.
Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
Like I said, we definitely hope you guys stay and
you know, and consume more of our our content. If
you are just one of our O G people that
are that are always here. But thank you for continu
and you just rocking with us again. Put in the comments,
reach out to us, let us know what cons is
in your area as we continue to try to feel
figure out you know where else we can do this at.
(01:41:11):
And then if you are one of our silent one
of our silent viewers, you got a hundred people viewing
a yeah, jump into the chat, man, come into the chat.
We want to see more of y'all talk. Man, listen here,
we got you know what I'm saying. Snacks ain't gonna bite.
I know bo both boat bo ain't gonna bow, ain't
gonna roast you.
Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
Novice is gonna Novice is gonna show love like we
got we got people here.
Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
Man, come come to come through. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
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