November 19, 2024 • 54 mins
Carlos@thenostalgiclatino is back on @ready2retro to talk all things old school Nickelodeon! Carlos shares about his favorite old school Nick shows, the untimely cancellation of Splat Con and the awesome impromptu meet up that followed!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nicolo, Nick Nick
Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nicolonio.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come. Turn your devices
to the maximum volume, sit back, relax, and let's get
ready to Retro.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, everybody, welcome to episode two O two of the
Ready to Wrest All Podcasts. My name is Max and
returning to Ready to Retro as our buddy Carlos, the
nostalgic Latino.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Carlos, welcome back to Radio retro Man.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Thank you for inviting me again, Dude, I appreciate you
know that you guys are still thinking of me.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh, of course, And it's uh, you and me this time,
no my cousin Chris. But uh, we're gonna be talking Nickelodeon.
I usually do Nick November an entire month, but we're
just gonna kind of jam pack it into one episode this.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Year, So we're gonna do November a little different.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
But it's gonna be all right because we're gonna be
talking Friday Night Lights next week.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So I'm excited for.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
That the movie or the show.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The movie.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I mean, we're gonna be talking a bit about the show.
But it's the twentieth anniversary of the movie. So oh
wow that makes you feel.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, that makes me want to do a Friday night
Lights reel or like a video of that too, because yeah,
because I think for Friday Night Lights. I know they
were probably getting off topic because it's Nickelodeon, but I
think Friday Night Lights was for that secondary gen of
(02:20):
people because I mean for me, it was Varsity Blues
for me, right, and then I think, like, I don't know,
Varsity Blues came out of like in ninety seven or
ninety eight, and then so Friday Night Lights two thousand
and four, two thousand and four, Yeah, yeah, so that's
like almost.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Varsity Blues was ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh there you go. Okay, so it's like a five
year difference, so it would be like another high school
generation if anything, that would have watched that movie since then. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I mean I was in high school playing football when
that movie came out.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So okay, it was huge. It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah all right, Well, Carlos, for those who do not
know you, tell the people what you're up to and
how they can find all your awesome videos.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Hi guys, my name is Carlos. I'm also known as
the Nostalgic Latino. I create content that is based off
of nineties, two thousands types of memories and nostalgia you're
really having to do with like my childhood and whatnot.
So we touch on a lot of pop culture from
back then, music, cartoons, video games, all that good stuff.
(03:34):
And yeah, y'all can find me on TikTok and on
Instagram and recently I'm on Facebook, so you can find
me on there too.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So trying to cover all our bases here, So come
over and just say hi and see if if I
meet that criteria. Hey, is this kind of funny or not? Nah?
He isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Oh you are you? Are you funny?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You got this beautiful blend of nostalgia and comedy.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The one that you post, I think it was today
at least I saw it today when it's when you
come back from the doctor's office with the McDonald's brother.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I just posted that like an hour ago. So good.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I just thought, okay, so it was today. Yeah, that
was good.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It's so spot on. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You get it like spot on, where like these scenarios.
I wasn't planning on getting into your videos, but what
are what's like the process of you coming with the video.
Is it something that you heard in a conversation? Do
you kind of like sit and reminisce, like, how do
you come up with a scenario that specific like that?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So what's funny is that a friend had tagged me
in a video of how you look coming back walking
in the class with the Lambeau poster after the book fair,
and I'm like, you know what, I could think of
something that's kind of similar. And then and I thought
(05:02):
of you coming back from the doctor's office, uh, you know,
back in the classroom with McDonald's. Ironically, I ended up
going to McDonald's today and it's like one dollar one
dollar tempoce chicken nuggets, but I wanted I wanted some
fries in a drink, but I didn't want too much,
(05:24):
so I got Happy Meal. So I'm like, all right, cool.
So I ended up getting a Happy Meal, right, and
I get my chicken nuggets, so I have my chicken
nuggets and all that, and then that's when it all
came up, you know. And then it was just so
it's like a lot of it's not like I just
sit around and I'm like, I wonder what I could
(05:46):
think about. No, it's just a lot of things that
are very spontaneous and yeah, and it's pretty funny. Like
I used to, I used to pressure myself to try
to think of a scenario every single day, so I'm
always post do something. But because thankfully I've am mass
enough growth within like followers and whatnot, then I'm I
(06:09):
compose like pretty much whenever I want so, but that
just happened to show up today and then, yeah, and
thankfully it worked out at least I think. So. I mean,
if you already noticed it within the hour, it's like, geez,
that's good. That's a good problem to have.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, definitely, Well, I you're on my algorithm for sure,
so thanks. Uh yeah, I always I always see your videos.
Where do you see like with the whole potential TikTok
band and things like that. Like as someone who's a
content creator, are you worried about that?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Not so much? Really, I mean that's why I'm kind
of like spreading my wings on other platforms. Okay, Thankfully,
I've I've had enough people where they kind of noticed
who I am or they recognize me and stuff, So
that type of notoriety is fine. So you know, it's
not like I do a bunch of monetization on TikTok anyways,
(07:06):
So I wouldn't. I'm not even tripping. I'm just glad
to have have had a platform on there. So we'll
see what's going on and whatever happens happens.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, dude, I'm ready for the merch with your face,
with your iconic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, with the face.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
But I'm like, I don't know what is it? Just
a face that you guys want, like no caption or anything.
It's just a face.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Going like this, Yeah, dude, i'd rock that.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And then maybe on the back, like by the shoulder
it has your your tag or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, I need like a tag or like a really
cool signature signature or something.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, on the back though, on the back.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, all right, Well i'm your PR guy now, so
i'm your.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Real quickly.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
So we actually got to meet what was that dude,
That was like a couple of weeks ago. It was
like the beginning of October. It seemed like such a
long time ago. So we met at La Comic Con.
What was your experience like that. You were telling me
at the time that a lot of people were recognizing
you this time around.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, dude, it's it's It's cool because I mean every
once in a while in public, I might get recognized
every you know, that's kind of like once in a
blue moon. But when i'm within and that's funny because
I tell my girlfriend the same thing, or just really anybody.
It's like, if I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
In an area that is very relatable to or or
in relation to what I create, which happens to be
a lot of pop culture and nostalgic stuff, then a
lot of people tend to recognize me.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So when I was over there, as soon as I
walk in, like maybe like not even within five minutes,
there's already people that are asking me for like a picture.
There's a guy that wanted my autograph, and I'm like, dude,
I don't know what am I supposed to autograph? I
supposed to autograph my name? Or am I supposed to
autograph the nostalgic you know. So it's crazy because there's
(09:22):
this one guy that he ended up coming up to me.
He's like, hey, dude, I want your autograph, and it's
like I get famous people's names autographed on my on
my body. I'm tattooed on my body, Like what bro?
And I'm like, are you sure, and then he pulls
off his shirt and he has like a whole bunch
(09:44):
of signatures from a whole bunch of different people. I mean,
I don't know who they are. But then I'm like, look, bro,
and then I did like three variations of my signature.
I'm like, you choose whatever you want and just let
me know, because I feel really bad if I give
you a really shitty one and that not work out.
(10:07):
That's permanent, bro, dude.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That's you made it, man. That is like the standard
of making it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's wild.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
That is wild. So yeah, and that it's just it's
really cool. It's just, uh, it's fun to be able
to interact with a lot of people that that watch
my stuff and and it makes me happy. I I
do not, under any circumstances want any bit to hesitate
to say hello. That's like, that's like my thing is
like if you see me say hello other because I
(10:40):
mean there's times when there when there will be like
people that are from the side with the camera and
they'll just be like hey, and and then it just
feels weird, especially at that point. Yeah exactly, So like
at that point, it's just better with if you just
say hi. It's a lot less awkward and you'll get
(11:01):
what you want, which is hello, or if they want
a selfie or whatever, or or if they want me
to do the face probably I know.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So yeah, that's dope. Yeah, I know for real.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Like I came out with Jasmine outside the convention center.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It was like towards the end of the day, and.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Like we were talking for a bit, and then right
after we left, like you got bombarded with more people
taking pictures and stuff. It was it was cool to
see from just a far from that aspect.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, I think it's really weird because there's times when it,
like over this past weekend, I'm eating with a friend
and and then they're like, does anybody really notice you
or anything. I was like, I mean they do, but
it's not very often when I'm like here in Hollywood
or something. And then like after after I said that,
(11:54):
like no more than five minutes later, then somebody was like,
excuse me, are you nostalgia Platino? And then you know,
there's a It was it was these four friends that
came from Eko and they're like, oh yeah, it's like
you be like your stuff and I think you're really
funny and then and then they were like, dude, it's
(12:15):
like when I see you interacting with people that follow you,
it's just it's it feels like I'm hanging out with
a famous person and I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Like, dude, and somebody like that.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It's like, I mean, I'm not trying to choot my
own horn or anything, but it's like but it's like
it's more like, well, it's not like I'm asking for
any of it. It's just that just happens, and I'm
very receptive to it. So I'm glad that that people
always say hi and whatnot, and that's just how it
was a comic con.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, that's dope. So has the guy actually got the tattoo?
Have you seen the picture yet?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Nah? Dude. I even asked. I should have asked for
some info, but he'll probably show me when he sees
me at go On next year.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Where did you sign it? That's what I wanted.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
No, no, no, I signed it on a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay I didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Okay, I didn't sign it on his actual body. That's weird.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Got it? I thought I thought you signed it and
then he went to go get it.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Nah no. Yeah, so he was like he was like,
just put her soon as you're and then I guess
he he does like a print of it, and then
I guess it yeah, and then it'll go on to
wherever it needs to go on to. And then they add, dude,
that's that's pretty crazy. I had like a video I'll
send it to you later where he just literally takes
up his shirt and then he starts showing all of
(13:39):
his stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
WHOA, that's awesome, totally site tangent.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But if you had to get a signature from a
famous person on your body, who whose signature.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Would you have?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We'd owt we're now, okay, I don't know. I have
no idea.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I would want Jackson's signature. I like signature album.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That that that's cool. It would be a little hard
to get that now.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
But I.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Would want Mike Judge because I'm pretty sure he would
draw like Beavis and Butthead. But I want a butt
on my butt. That's the heck, that's a Beavis and Butthead.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Have a butt.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
One of my favorite episodes of that win is when
they when they both are taking uh sexual education and
the teacher is like a military guy, and then he
goes and but he he warns them that if he
if they laugh at all, they're gonna be in for it,
(14:50):
like they they're gonna get like in real trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
So he's like, we're here in sexual education. We're gonna
talk about stuff. We're gonna be talking about the page
we've been talking about the past.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Cool and turns blue.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Was there like this whole time? It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And then the butt Scratcher three thousand one, where they
go around door to door trying to sell it's basically
a coat hanger that they made, like a backscratcher, but
it's for the butt.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, let's get to Nickelodeon. We're here for nick November.
So tell me your history with Nickelodeon. Were you a
big nick kid back in the day. Tell me all
about that.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
So. I was lucky and fortunate that my dad had
purchased cable. I didn't know much about cable at the time, right,
I just remember that it was Channel twenty three and
and it was definitely something to watch after school. So
I was more when it came to Looickelodeon. I was
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more about the live action stuff, which is what I
was more of a big fan of. So I really
enjoyed watching Double Dare, Hey dude, Nick Arcade, all that,
all that Are You Afraid of the Dark of course,
(16:23):
So like I really enjoyed all of that from a
live action standpoint. That's how that molded me. Like, oh,
Legends of the Hidden Temple, well yeah, so so that
was more like it was always more game show driven
what would you do or all of that stuff. I
enjoyed that a lot. I guess, if it makes sense,
(16:43):
it's like the Nickelodeon Studios era of Nickelodeon, where there's
a lot of game shows that are being produced, whereas
you know, the other after school stuff are just mainly cartoons.
So but when Nickelodeon, I didn't really realize until I
just thought of I didn't until now, is that I
was more of a live action Nickelodeon fan. If anything
(17:04):
got it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, there was a lot of great content back then,
and I think in the early two thousands, maybe mid
two thousands when I started to get like a little nostalgic.
That was like my first kind of like taste of
nostalgia was when they had Nickelodeon gas yea, yeah, where
it was just all Nickelodeon shows, Like I used to
watch that all the time.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It was Nickelodeon games and sports.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, so Guts was a huge one for me.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, do you have it?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Do you have Goots Dandy? There's also a video game
for that one too.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, it's horrible. Do you have a favorite are You
Afraid of the Dark? Episode?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The one where they are trapped in a mall and
then the twist is that they're actually trapped inside a
pinball machine.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Not the not the clown win. I think most people
usually reference the clown with the with the redhead kid,
But I like the one where they're in the mall
and they're lost in the all, but in reality they're
in the actual.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Pinball machine, the tail of the Pinball Wizard.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah, because I remember, like yeah, because they're like, we're
gonna go with the escalator and then then the escalator,
the very top of the escalator, right when they're about
to like actually escape, all of a sudden, this big
old silver ball ends up showing up. Yeah. Wow, and
then that's when that was a big twist, like what
the hell? They're in a pimple machine.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And it's the guy and he's you look up on
him and he's like playing it. He's laughing, like the
guy who owned the shop. Yeah, I remember like the
witch in that one where she grabs the crown because
it's like his girlfriend, right, his girlfriend gets captured and
then he has to go to like each floor of
(19:07):
the mall is like a level and he has to
get like a square gun and stuff. Yeah, you're like
unlocking some of these memories.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, that was a while back. I'm just pray to
remember that. Well.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I'm like looking at the pictures and I'm like, oh, yeah,
you're looking.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, so but yeah, are you Afraid of the dark?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's that's one of my favorite It's probably my favorite show,
uh Nickelodeon wise, it's probably the one that I've watched
multiple times this series all the way through. Kind of
my gateway to horror too as a kid.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
There's also the one where where the little kid was
like I'm cold. I was like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That one's crazy because that's when Melissa Joan Hart.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh I forgot I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I would always say that when I was a kid,
I'd be like, I'm cold.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah. Cool.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
The way he said it was just like creepy ass
a little kid, dude. He was all just glowing outside. Which,
by the way, I just saw like one of the scaries.
I haven't really talked to anybody about this. I saw
like a legit scary movie a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Have you seen hell House LLC?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Wait? Which one?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's called hell House LLC. It's starting to get kind
of popular. It was released in twenty fifteen. The premise
is it's a found footage movie and basically this group
they rent out or I don't know, it's not really clear,
but they're in this like haunted hotel that's old, and
(20:47):
then they put on a haunt and it turns out
that it was like there was satanic rituals happening in
the basement, and then it shows what happened, and there's
like this it's it's good man. I was like, legit
it like spooped out.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
On that one.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Check it out one. Yeah, I'm looking at It's more
reason why I hate going into like legit hunted houses
and stuff, because there's like certain places where they're like
full of immersion, haunted house, like completely dark or something,
and and you know it's just stuff, you see. It's
like I'm too scared to do well.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's kind of crazy how like you basically just go
in this dark room and want to get scared, like
anything can happen, you know what I mean? Like I
don't know, it's it's it's me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You're not into all that.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
My girl is. My girl is like all into spooky
stuff and whatnot. And it's like she'd be like, hey,
when don't we have a date at the cemetery. I'm like, yeah, nope,
I'm all right, Like I love you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But I love so like real stuff I was talking about,
like not scary farm or something like that.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Oh no, no, that's different. I think it's different. I See.
The thing is that when you're going to a theme park,
you know that those mazs is like you know that
there's always an exit somewhere where you go to actually, yeah,
like if you because they'll have places where where they'll
have like a haunted house or they'll have a haunted
hospital and they'll create like a haunted house out of it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
In my count yeah, yeah, No, that's what this movie
is basically based off of, is like a real haunted place.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, so that would actually probably pick me out. I
didn't realize that there was a close series that was
made out of it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, I didn't know either.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Like it was around maybe about a month ago where
it started to get some buzz on TikTok and on
social media, and then I watched.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It a couple of days ago and I got a
little spooked.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I was watching on my phone too, so like I
I was waiting for this scarce, I kind of put
it away from my face.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You can't do it?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Man to Nickelodeon, So did you did you have any
Like you mentioned the video games, the Guts video game,
but did you have any toys or clothes or anything
like that, because once like ninety six ninety seven rolled in,
like Nickelodeon was part of nineties culture.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, so I did. I had Nickelodeon. Ghak, do you
remember that? Oh it's like a slime. It was like
an orange slime, because it was like sime was like
a big identifier of that era at the time. So
it was like it was and and I don't even
think they really do much about that, because I know
(23:42):
they still do Kids Choice Awards, right, I don't know
if they still do slim and stuff, but I.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Think that's the only really place that they do it at.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, but Slime was cool. I always wanted to taste
it because it looks it looks like really bad and chunky.
But from what I hear, it's like up of like
Dan Putting or yucky, yeah, something like that. So that
way was not like as yucky. So I've always been
curious about that. And what's funny is that I came
(24:12):
across a friend who who sold me, actually not sold me.
They gifted me this because I'm looking for it for
forever and I've always wanted one and these are kind
of expensive on eBay. I'm gonna show you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh sick.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, it's the Nickelodeon Radio, the o G Radio Radio.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah it works.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
So that's all that's all I have in terms of
like of of Nickelodeon stuff. But it's more or less.
I was gonna use it as a pop but but
I'm really excited to use it in some videos. I
just haven't gone around actually like using it, using it totally.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, that that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It reminds me of like cause I think my cousin
Chris had that, and I just remember being like in
his room. I'm probably eight nine around there, and we
would listen to like Radio Disney oh on like his
radio while we're playing Super Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It takes me.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Back there, like I could just see myself sitting on
his carpet looking like playing the video games, playing like
probably N sixty four Super Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, that's crazy though.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I thought that Nickelodeon knew how to market to kids.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And there's this great.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Documentary out there called The Orange Ears, and it's basically
like a full on documentary of Nickelodeon how it started
and how it got big and things like that. But
they were talking about how Nickelodeon was not just trying
to get something out of kids, Like they weren't just
trying to like market for the sake of mark but
(26:00):
they were trying to like meet the kids where they're at,
you know. And we see that like shows like Doug Hey,
Arnold Hey dude, as you mentioned, like these were made
for kids and it just got it, got it right.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah. What's what's crazy that when I was I had
just met the Orange Ears, the one of the directors
or something along those lines. I'll tell you more about it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, So Scott, Scott Barber and Adam Sweeney, who've been
on this show.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I haven't seen it yet, but I did need to
see it. Where can I watch it?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Good question, Hulu, It's it's on tub it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Oh, it is on Toby for free.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So yeah, so definitely check that out.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So a few weeks ago, there was this big Nickelodeon
convention called splat Con, and you don't say yeah. So
before we get into the details, I wanted to say,
there's a friend of the podcast, someone who has been
on this podcast, someone who I've talked to, who was
really involved with it for the sake of everything, because
(27:13):
I know that there's things in the background, so I
just want to say that, you know, I've always supported him. Unfortunately,
I wasn't able to go to splat Con prior to
its cancelation. We'll talk about that, but I know that
there's been like things been thrown out there and things
like that. We really don't know the full story, but
I just want to say that, you know, when it
(27:35):
comes to our buddy Lee boy Leon. From my understanding
and from what I've heard, is that he wasn't doing
this maliciously or he had no intent to make this.
This wasn't a scam, I guess I should say that.
From Yeah, as far as the people who were putting
this on, I can't talk about the main two people,
but as far as like you know, people on Leon's level,
(28:00):
also our buddy Prime. He was like, they've they've been
working on this for months. I've been talking to them.
But but anyway, so they were supposed to be a
splat Con in l A the day before it was canceled,
and you know, I know, Carlos, you were planning on
going and attending and uh, what did you think when
(28:23):
once Black Con?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, so so I was. I was an ambassador for
splat Con. So I was kind of a I was
marketing it with profession nostalgia the Maya she she's another
creator nostalgia creator, and uh, and a couple of others,
(28:44):
and we weren't getting any information like in terms of
like where do we go, who do we need, do
we get it to get a table, do we get
to interact with talent and all of that stuff, and
a lot of that was just not communicated to us
at all, so we weren't really sure what happened. All
we knew is that they wanted us there and they
(29:05):
wanted us to be able to film what was going
on in the con right, And I just thought it
was a little weird because I mean it's like we
hadn't heard back, and anytime that we would reach out,
we wouldn't get a response for like a long time.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
In terms of what Leon's involvement is is the way
I understand is that Leon is one of a couple
people that came up with the ideas blot hun Yeah,
but obviously he needed like management in the back end
to help him reach out to all of this different talent,
(29:42):
right and financial Yeah, that financial backing from from them.
So that was his part is being able to find whomever,
Like he knew which talent he wanted to bring in,
but he needed the expertise of the companies like this
(30:03):
particular agency or went not to be able to reach
out to these talents to bring them in and you know,
payment and all of that stuff. So yeah, it just
so happened that whoever we're running those those two individuals
apparently and and the sponsors fell through, and they just
(30:26):
didn't go about, you know, fulfilling whatever the contracts were
between them and the talent. And it sucked because they
got canceled. I didn't know what was going to happen.
A lot of the talent and a lot of fans
ended up flying in and were already in LA and
(30:48):
so it was just it was just a very poor
handling of the whole situation. I just I think if
they saw this coming, it would have been great if
they had announced it, like maybe I think at the
latest at least a week or a week and before. Yeah,
but it was just very unprofessional how all of this
(31:10):
was handled. But thankfully there was a way to kind
of salvage it a little bit. Yeah, So I'll let
you go into that.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Well, the last thing I'll say is, like I know,
from just people who were involved, like in the planning process,
they had no idea that this was going to get canceled.
Like I know, people who flew in from across the country.
That was like planning on staying in a hotel was
promised a hotel was promised this and that, and when
they showed up, nothing was paid for. So you know,
(31:44):
so I just know that it looked like, hey, like
it was embezzlement or was a scam. I really don't
think that the entire team knew what was going on
until you know, everything hit the fan. So whoever was
like the top in this and who had all the
financial backing? From my understanding, that's that's what it is.
(32:06):
So yeah, unfortunately, you know, as a fan, I couldn't attend.
I was on my crazy cross country train trip that
I already planned. But you know, as a fan, like
it sounded awesome, like I was hoping it would happen
because I was like, I want to do it next year.
And I know my sister was planning on attending, and
(32:30):
she was really disappointed when I found out because I
was in Chicago and it was like nine o'clock over there,
so it was six am here on the West coast.
So when I saw that news or maybe eight o'clock,
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I was like, what it was?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
It was so random. But like you mentioned, there was
a there was a meetup that happened, and I commend
the talent and all the people who decided, hey, this
is a sucky situation. This sucks. Our fans deserve better.
(33:09):
Let's do something to celebrate them, and especially for those
who flew out, because you know, I saw one girl
on TikTok she spent thousands of dollars between like the
photo shoots flying out. She flew from like I don't know,
Philly or something like that, like the East Coast. She
got a hotel all that stuff. So I'm glad it's
(33:31):
like people like that who had this opportunity. So Carlos,
you were there, tell us about this, like, I guess
we're calling it this flat con meet up night.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I don't know, Yeah, it was. It was an actual
snack type of night because it was on a Saturday.
So Danny Cooksey, who ends up playing button it from short,
he ended up getting together with a couple of others
talent that we're already here in l A. Obviously not
(34:04):
everybody who was announced with in LA, but a good
chunk of the O J Nickelodeon stars were there, so
you had so it was him basically, salute your shorts.
Doncult and Kelly was there, Michael Michael Bauer. Maybe I
should be saying their name Michael Bauer and Venus Demilo Thomas. Yes,
(34:32):
and then you also had from Hey dude, that was yeah,
David Lasher, Christine Taylor. I did not expect to see
Joe Torres there, I know, and I shared a really
good moment with him and that was really awesome. Phil
(34:53):
Moore who is the host of nick Arcade, uh Donny,
Jeff Coote, which is one of the hosts from Weld
and Crazy Kids. I'm trying to think of who else.
Natanya Ross who was it's pretty active in the nostalgic community.
She was an.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Alex Mack former guests already Red Show, Gotta Plug. Alice
Rees was there, right, Angela.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Yeah, Angelae so the O g all that from Angelaue Bates,
Alisa Reyes, Josh Server. I'm trying to think of anybody else.
I think that was it for that part. And then
one of the Green Rangers from one of the later
seasons of Power Rangers that was on Nickelodeon, Hector. David Hector, David.
(35:44):
There we go. We all managed to meet up at
the at a barcade in West Hollywood. Kind of remember
the name of the air of the bar, but as
a player, I think it's called Player one. Yeah, I
think it was called Player one. So yeah, so everybody
(36:05):
met up there. It was quite a crazy experience because
you're kind of walking in this crowded, small, congested little
bar with all of the Nickelodeon talents that you've been
watching as a kid, and I'm like freaking out because
at the same time it's really nice. At the same time,
(36:29):
you have people that are also fans of my staff
looking at me and they're asking me to pictures and
to talk and all of that stuff. So all of
that is really cool. So it's like a coagulation of
a lot of nostalgia creators and and the you know,
(36:49):
the people the talent that you know that feel that
nostalgia essentially. So that was really that was really fun,
and I'm really glad that they took the time and
to make the best, you know, to make limbs out
of lemonade. I guess, I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
They made like so.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Yeah, so that was really cool. It was really fun.
It was really nice to be able to meet everybody
and and thankfully I've connected with a lot of them
and you know, shared socials and stuff, and and it
feels great when they kind of acknowledge your presence as well.
Just as much as you acknowledge them. So it felt
(37:33):
it felt like we were kind of all on equal
footing a little bit. Yeah, but I'm really glad. It
was definitely an unforgettable experience. I'm really glad that I
was able to share a little bit of time, took
some photos and whatnot, and and just chat with them
about just random stuff. And that's definitely something that that
is kind of crossed off for the bucket list, so
(37:54):
to speak, because when with the con with the flat Con,
I had gets that I had in mind that I
wanted to involve them in so I could create content
together with them, and so when block Con fell through,
it was like, oh crap, Like there's no way I
can do all of this content anymore. Because one of
(38:15):
the most important things is that I had to ask
is like from management of Forced Black, and I'm like,
is there any way where we can where we can
interact with the talent like I or are we able
to you know, ask of them to participate in certain
things because I figured that since we're ambassadors and we're
(38:38):
promoting everything, it's like you figured that that would be
a yeah, But they were never like, well, it's up
to the talents discretion as to what they want to
work with you or anything, and well, we don't know
what we're going to say, but and we can't save
the photo. Ops are going to be like taken care
of them. Like man, y'all don't know nothing. So it
was it was it was something that was stuff in
(39:00):
the air, and I'm just glad that I did get
my photos. I didn't get like certain content, but I mean,
it's not that was the last thing on my mind
right when I was there. I was just really happy
to be able to converse and just be able to
hang out and not feel under like a pressure of time,
to be able to just interact with them and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
So right because my understanding and looking at the pictures
and to give context, it wasn't a like meet and
greet per se. It was just like, hey, come and
let's hang out. Like there wasn't any tables where they
were giving out like pictures or signatures or anything like that.
(39:40):
It was just like, hey, we are hanging out at
this bar. If you are a Nickelodeon fan, if you
had tickets to flat Com, come and hang out with us.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah. Essentially, because there was no exchange of like of
like moneis or anything for photos or any of that stuff.
You're just literally seeing everybody there saying hello, you can
nap a STEALTHI with them and just kind of chill
and just chat for a little bit. And then and
then you know, you could either go to the bar
(40:11):
that are video game themed or you could play at
the arcade or meet another talent. Yeah, that was just
it was really cool because everybody was just there. Everybody
was just within that region. So it was really cool
to be able to be able to do that. That's
probably the one of the most perfect settings that you
could have handled all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
So it was so cool and I was having like
super envy. I remember the night because I was texting you.
I was like, dude, how is it, Like did people
show up? And You're like, where are you right now?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Like I'm on a train in the middle of nowhere
in Kansas, dude.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
And the signal was stuck there, So I didn't get
back to you till like I think, later that night. Yeah,
but obviously in the pictures you see everybody that I
managed to interact with.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
And I was wild.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
I was so surprised to see Christine Taylor there, dude. Like, honestly,
I was like, she's huge, man.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, she's She's I personally think she made this yeah opinion.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Yeah, absolutely wedding singer Dodgeball Zoolander. Yeah, Like she was
just walking around. I was like, oh snap, Like that's
when I saw it was like, oh, like everybody came
out to his like, and that was cool because I
at first it was just like some of the salut
you shorts and maybe I think Natanya that was like
(41:36):
there was like four or five, and then it looked
like more people, Like Bates was even planning on being
at the corn, but she came out because all her friends.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
What blew my mind is I did not know that
Natania Rods her boyfriend. Yeah, Nate is Harvey from Sabrina.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, that's like an.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
That blew my mind. When I was like, I was like,
oh my god, it's so nice to finally meet the
Tania Nicole. Yeah, we'll meet my boyfriend. This is me
and I'm like what Sabrina. It was really crazy. It's
really wild. It was just like it was mind blowing
after mind blowing after mind blowing, so it was just
(42:22):
still a wild It's like reality check and it's like what, Well, it's.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Also one of those things where it seems so natural
and so cool and you actually see what Nickelodeon means
to these actors, right, because they could have been like, well,
all right, I have this weekend. And again, they didn't
make any money off of this. They they probably lost
money because I don't know if they got reimbursements for
(42:49):
the flights or whatever. Some of them probably live in
LA But the fact that they just wanted to do
this for the fans and that they wanted to like
meet up with some of their friends. Uh, it just
its you kind of the nucleus of Nickelodeon and how
strong that connection is with the actors and the creators
(43:11):
and it just trickles down into the kids. Like the
nineties Nickelodeon is such a unique era in pop culture,
and I think it really impacted a lot of individuals
who are now in their thirties, forties, things like that.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Yeah, and it's just it's great that they managed to
coordinate that altogether, just given the circumstances of what had happened.
But yeah, we're just really thankful that all of that
stuff just managed to fall through for you know, for
the people that I guess, especially like when you mentioned
(43:51):
like your friend that probably spent a lot of money,
I'm hoping that they got some kind of a closure
just being able to do that at all, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
So Yeah, but uh, it wasn't It wasn't great.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I was I was like, what the hell, because I
was I was keeping the tabs on it, you know,
and then when I saw that come in, I was
just like it for like an hour. I was just
like looking at and the thing that sucks is like
it really didn't go viral or it wasn't really out
there in the news, which tells me there wasn't a
lot of probably pre sale tickets to begin with. You know,
(44:25):
there was kind of like I guess writing on the
wall because I don't know, like I thought it would
be kind of a bigger news Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
I mean there wasn't as much marketing, if anything. Yeah,
because because I mean they expected us to kind of
advertise for them. But my thing was that I was
being asked to collaborate on so many different posts. I
was like, nah, dude, I don't want my ole fee
to just be a bunch of ads for sluc con.
(44:56):
And that would have sucked because imagine if my feed
had been made up of like twenty different posts of
just black kind of meat advertising, I would look like
an idiot. You know, they would make me look dumb.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yeah for that.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Yeah, so yeah, I mean I obviously I don't have
anywhere close to the you know, footprint that you have
on social media. But you know, I had a video,
uh just I had an interview about it with Leon
and and that was a week before it happened. And
that's why I'm saying, like I am convinced that he
didn't know any of this was going to go down,
(45:35):
you know, So I feel for him. I feel for
the people who are involved, who really just like you know,
and of course the fans, you know, the fans they
get screwed. But yeah, like you said, it was it
was a really sucky situation and a really unfortunate and
probably preventable situation. But as a community, and they would
(45:59):
probably call it a face family should they take a
tragedy or a mishap and they come together and they
make it for good. So I think that's actually what
I'm taking away from that. Even though I wasn't there,
it was like, you know, there's still opportunities where things
you can get really sour and upset, but you can
(46:20):
turn it into be like, well what can we do. Well,
let's get together anyways on our own terms and and
let's make it fun. Yeah, was there any talks of
doing it again?
Speaker 4 (46:32):
I have a no idea. I think, I think what
I kind of feel bad because I think that probably
gave a lot of the talent a good sense of distrust.
And I'm hoping that it's not discouraging them from being
able to do cons within within Los Angeles and whatnot
(46:53):
that's really anywhere. Yeah, so that's given what had happened.
So yeah, but I don't know if there's time so
doing it again. But I did find out that you know,
there's a good chunk of them that are local. Yeah,
but you never know.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yeah, I mean, I think there is a market. There
is a footing for something like a Splat con or
a Nickelodeon convention.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Maybe not so big in.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
The beginning, you know, maybe something starting smaller, you know,
mini bite size. But I hope that this wouldn't discourage
other people to do cons. But it also reckoned, like
you know, people who put on cons, it's hard it's
hard work. And we've had Scott Zillner who's does a
(47:41):
bunch of cons around this area and he goes, I
lose money all the time. I lose money putting on cons.
It's not about making a profit. It's about putting on
the event and creating.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
A space for fans.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
That's where a convention first and foremost needs to That
needs to be the more. If you're trying to make
a buck, it usually just like anything, if you're just
trying to make money off of something, it's.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Not gonna work.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah, well said, is.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
There anything else that you want to talk regarding Nickelodeon
or the splat com meetup, I.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
Will say that meeting Joe Torres who plays Danny and
hey dude, yeah, I initially thought that he was Native American,
but he's not. He was born in Arizona, he lived
in Arizona. He's actually Chicano. So that was one thing.
And then I just and I remember because he doesn't
(48:42):
have much of a social media presence. If anything, he's
been in hiding. He's finding his own business. That was
really surprised that they were able to find him. I
don't know how, but but but he was really glad
to have come even though everything fell through. He was
really happy to see his co stars after thirty years.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, that was like the first since since they wrapped.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
Yeah, yeah, so he was really he was really thankful
for that, and I thanked him for for being, you know,
somebody that was representative of the community, of the culture,
you know, you know, early on in my life. So
I always thought that was cool. And then since I
(49:30):
had that Nickelodeon radio. The only thing I need now
is I need a piece of the Agrocrag.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Oh yeah, it's out there. It's out there.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
That's all I need. Man. Oh.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Just talking about Joe Torri's brook.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Who played Danny Lightfoot.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
There is a podcast that is out it's called Finding
Danny Lightfoot, and it's basically these two guys who it's
an investigational podcast and they find him, they find who
Joe Torre is because there was a lot of rumors
were uh, and they go through it like he was
(50:12):
dead or he was like running from the cops.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah. So there's a whole podcast. I listened to it.
It's great.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
It's called Finding Danny Lightfoot. So, uh, they were the
these two podcasters were the guys who found Joe Torres
and were instrumental in the putting this Hey Dude reunion.
They were supposed to do the panel as plat coms.
So yeah, I think they were there as well. These podcasters,
(50:41):
I think they were there at that bar. I was
just gonna ask how many people were there.
Speaker 4 (50:44):
There was a chunk. I know that it could have
easily been a fire hazard just that front area, but
their has a lot of arcades. Yeah, so they at
one point they ended up closing the front door because
just getting too packed on the front. I would probably
say it was it was over one hundred, that's for sure.
(51:06):
It was over one hundred people, even though it doesn't
sound like much, but it's a lot, especially for not
counting the talent. Yeah, it was. It was a good
number of people. It was a lot of them. I
would say over one hundred, maybe two hundred.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
So with talent, it was like about two hundred and
sixty people, you'd say.
Speaker 4 (51:25):
Two thirty or something like that. Okay, somewhere around there
coming there was talent there. I think total talent, I
probably would say between between twenty and thirty. Okay, but
it was still cool.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
That's awesome. Dude.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Yeah, man, that's one of the things that you were
like ten years from now, You're like, yeah, I was there,
I was at this Black Cormon meet up. I was
not though, So I'll live. I'll live vicariously through you.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Well, Carlos, thank you so much for being on Ready
to Retro, still keeping that Nick November alive. It is
an annual thing. Maybe we'll do it again next year.
Just with everything going on, and I just felt like, hey,
we needed to just take a little break from Nick November.
And I really just wanted to talk Friday Night Lights
if I'm being real.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
But Carlos, tell tell the people.
Speaker 3 (52:17):
Where they can find all your awesome videos, all your
nostalgic goodness.
Speaker 4 (52:21):
So, like I said, i am Carlos the Nosagic Latino.
You'd find me on TikTok, on Instagram and on Facebook,
all at the Nostalgic Latino. And yeah, so thanks for
having me, dude.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
Awesome. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
Listeners. Next week we'll see you for Friday Night Lights.
It is going to be a fun episode. I usually
talk about my you know, early childhood and stuff. Now
we get to talk about teenage Max. So it will
be a lot of fun.
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We'll see We're ready to Retro? Are you are?
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, everybody, welcome to episode two O two of the
Ready to Wrest All Podcasts. My name is Max and
returning to Ready to Retro as our buddy Carlos, the
nostalgic Latino.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Carlos, welcome back to Radio retro Man.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Thank you for inviting me again, Dude, I appreciate you
know that you guys are still thinking of me.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh, of course, And it's uh, you and me this time,
no my cousin Chris. But uh, we're gonna be talking Nickelodeon.
I usually do Nick November an entire month, but we're
just gonna kind of jam pack it into one episode this.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Year, So we're gonna do November a little different.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
But it's gonna be all right because we're gonna be
talking Friday Night Lights next week.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So I'm excited for.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
That the movie or the show.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The movie.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I mean, we're gonna be talking a bit about the show.
But it's the twentieth anniversary of the movie. So oh
wow that makes you feel.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, that makes me want to do a Friday night
Lights reel or like a video of that too, because yeah,
because I think for Friday Night Lights. I know they
were probably getting off topic because it's Nickelodeon, but I
think Friday Night Lights was for that secondary gen of
(02:20):
people because I mean for me, it was Varsity Blues
for me, right, and then I think, like, I don't know,
Varsity Blues came out of like in ninety seven or
ninety eight, and then so Friday Night Lights two thousand
and four, two thousand and four, Yeah, yeah, so that's
like almost.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Varsity Blues was ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh there you go. Okay, so it's like a five
year difference, so it would be like another high school
generation if anything, that would have watched that movie since then. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I mean I was in high school playing football when
that movie came out.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So okay, it was huge. It makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah all right, Well, Carlos, for those who do not
know you, tell the people what you're up to and
how they can find all your awesome videos.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Hi guys, my name is Carlos. I'm also known as
the Nostalgic Latino. I create content that is based off
of nineties, two thousands types of memories and nostalgia you're
really having to do with like my childhood and whatnot.
So we touch on a lot of pop culture from
back then, music, cartoons, video games, all that good stuff.
(03:34):
And yeah, y'all can find me on TikTok and on
Instagram and recently I'm on Facebook, so you can find
me on there too.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So trying to cover all our bases here, So come
over and just say hi and see if if I
meet that criteria. Hey, is this kind of funny or not? Nah?
He isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Oh you are you? Are you funny?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You got this beautiful blend of nostalgia and comedy.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The one that you post, I think it was today
at least I saw it today when it's when you
come back from the doctor's office with the McDonald's brother.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I just posted that like an hour ago. So good.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I just thought, okay, so it was today. Yeah, that
was good.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It's so spot on. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You get it like spot on, where like these scenarios.
I wasn't planning on getting into your videos, but what
are what's like the process of you coming with the video.
Is it something that you heard in a conversation? Do
you kind of like sit and reminisce, like, how do
you come up with a scenario that specific like that?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So what's funny is that a friend had tagged me
in a video of how you look coming back walking
in the class with the Lambeau poster after the book fair,
and I'm like, you know what, I could think of
something that's kind of similar. And then and I thought
(05:02):
of you coming back from the doctor's office, uh, you know,
back in the classroom with McDonald's. Ironically, I ended up
going to McDonald's today and it's like one dollar one
dollar tempoce chicken nuggets, but I wanted I wanted some
fries in a drink, but I didn't want too much,
(05:24):
so I got Happy Meal. So I'm like, all right, cool.
So I ended up getting a Happy Meal, right, and
I get my chicken nuggets, so I have my chicken
nuggets and all that, and then that's when it all
came up, you know. And then it was just so
it's like a lot of it's not like I just
sit around and I'm like, I wonder what I could
(05:46):
think about. No, it's just a lot of things that
are very spontaneous and yeah, and it's pretty funny. Like
I used to, I used to pressure myself to try
to think of a scenario every single day, so I'm
always post do something. But because thankfully I've am mass
enough growth within like followers and whatnot, then I'm I
(06:09):
compose like pretty much whenever I want so, but that
just happened to show up today and then, yeah, and
thankfully it worked out at least I think. So. I mean,
if you already noticed it within the hour, it's like, geez,
that's good. That's a good problem to have.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, definitely, Well, I you're on my algorithm for sure,
so thanks. Uh yeah, I always I always see your videos.
Where do you see like with the whole potential TikTok
band and things like that. Like as someone who's a
content creator, are you worried about that?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Not so much? Really, I mean that's why I'm kind
of like spreading my wings on other platforms. Okay, Thankfully,
I've I've had enough people where they kind of noticed
who I am or they recognize me and stuff, So
that type of notoriety is fine. So you know, it's
not like I do a bunch of monetization on TikTok anyways,
(07:06):
So I wouldn't. I'm not even tripping. I'm just glad
to have have had a platform on there. So we'll
see what's going on and whatever happens happens.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, dude, I'm ready for the merch with your face,
with your iconic.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, with the face.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
But I'm like, I don't know what is it? Just
a face that you guys want, like no caption or anything.
It's just a face.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Going like this, Yeah, dude, i'd rock that.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And then maybe on the back, like by the shoulder
it has your your tag or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, I need like a tag or like a really
cool signature signature or something.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, on the back though, on the back.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, all right, Well i'm your PR guy now, so
i'm your.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Real quickly.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
So we actually got to meet what was that dude,
That was like a couple of weeks ago. It was
like the beginning of October. It seemed like such a
long time ago. So we met at La Comic Con.
What was your experience like that. You were telling me
at the time that a lot of people were recognizing
you this time around.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, dude, it's it's It's cool because I mean every
once in a while in public, I might get recognized
every you know, that's kind of like once in a
blue moon. But when i'm within and that's funny because
I tell my girlfriend the same thing, or just really anybody.
It's like, if I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
In an area that is very relatable to or or
in relation to what I create, which happens to be
a lot of pop culture and nostalgic stuff, then a
lot of people tend to recognize me.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So when I was over there, as soon as I
walk in, like maybe like not even within five minutes,
there's already people that are asking me for like a picture.
There's a guy that wanted my autograph, and I'm like, dude,
I don't know what am I supposed to autograph? I
supposed to autograph my name? Or am I supposed to
autograph the nostalgic you know. So it's crazy because there's
(09:22):
this one guy that he ended up coming up to me.
He's like, hey, dude, I want your autograph, and it's
like I get famous people's names autographed on my on
my body. I'm tattooed on my body, Like what bro?
And I'm like, are you sure, and then he pulls
off his shirt and he has like a whole bunch
(09:44):
of signatures from a whole bunch of different people. I mean,
I don't know who they are. But then I'm like, look, bro,
and then I did like three variations of my signature.
I'm like, you choose whatever you want and just let
me know, because I feel really bad if I give
you a really shitty one and that not work out.
(10:07):
That's permanent, bro, dude.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That's you made it, man. That is like the standard
of making it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's wild.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
That is wild. So yeah, and that it's just it's
really cool. It's just, uh, it's fun to be able
to interact with a lot of people that that watch
my stuff and and it makes me happy. I I
do not, under any circumstances want any bit to hesitate
to say hello. That's like, that's like my thing is
like if you see me say hello other because I
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mean there's times when there when there will be like
people that are from the side with the camera and
they'll just be like hey, and and then it just
feels weird, especially at that point. Yeah exactly, So like
at that point, it's just better with if you just
say hi. It's a lot less awkward and you'll get
(11:01):
what you want, which is hello, or if they want
a selfie or whatever, or or if they want me
to do the face probably I know.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So yeah, that's dope. Yeah, I know for real.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Like I came out with Jasmine outside the convention center.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It was like towards the end of the day, and.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Like we were talking for a bit, and then right
after we left, like you got bombarded with more people
taking pictures and stuff. It was it was cool to
see from just a far from that aspect.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, I think it's really weird because there's times when it,
like over this past weekend, I'm eating with a friend
and and then they're like, does anybody really notice you
or anything. I was like, I mean they do, but
it's not very often when I'm like here in Hollywood
or something. And then like after after I said that,
(11:54):
like no more than five minutes later, then somebody was like,
excuse me, are you nostalgia Platino? And then you know,
there's a It was it was these four friends that
came from Eko and they're like, oh yeah, it's like
you be like your stuff and I think you're really
funny and then and then they were like, dude, it's
(12:15):
like when I see you interacting with people that follow you,
it's just it's it feels like I'm hanging out with
a famous person and I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Like, dude, and somebody like that.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It's like, I mean, I'm not trying to choot my
own horn or anything, but it's like but it's like
it's more like, well, it's not like I'm asking for
any of it. It's just that just happens, and I'm
very receptive to it. So I'm glad that that people
always say hi and whatnot, and that's just how it
was a comic con.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, that's dope. So has the guy actually got the tattoo?
Have you seen the picture yet?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Nah? Dude. I even asked. I should have asked for
some info, but he'll probably show me when he sees
me at go On next year.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Where did you sign it? That's what I wanted.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
No, no, no, I signed it on a piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay I didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Okay, I didn't sign it on his actual body. That's weird.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Got it? I thought I thought you signed it and
then he went to go get it.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Nah no. Yeah, so he was like he was like,
just put her soon as you're and then I guess
he he does like a print of it, and then
I guess it yeah, and then it'll go on to
wherever it needs to go on to. And then they add, dude,
that's that's pretty crazy. I had like a video I'll
send it to you later where he just literally takes
up his shirt and then he starts showing all of
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his stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
WHOA, that's awesome, totally site tangent.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But if you had to get a signature from a
famous person on your body, who whose signature.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Would you have?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We'd owt we're now, okay, I don't know. I have
no idea.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I would want Jackson's signature. I like signature album.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That that that's cool. It would be a little hard
to get that now.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
But I.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Would want Mike Judge because I'm pretty sure he would
draw like Beavis and Butthead. But I want a butt
on my butt. That's the heck, that's a Beavis and Butthead.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Have a butt.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
One of my favorite episodes of that win is when
they when they both are taking uh sexual education and
the teacher is like a military guy, and then he
goes and but he he warns them that if he
if they laugh at all, they're gonna be in for it,
(14:50):
like they they're gonna get like in real trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
So he's like, we're here in sexual education. We're gonna
talk about stuff. We're gonna be talking about the page
we've been talking about the past.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Cool and turns blue.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Was there like this whole time? It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And then the butt Scratcher three thousand one, where they
go around door to door trying to sell it's basically
a coat hanger that they made, like a backscratcher, but
it's for the butt.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, let's get to Nickelodeon. We're here for nick November.
So tell me your history with Nickelodeon. Were you a
big nick kid back in the day. Tell me all
about that.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
So. I was lucky and fortunate that my dad had
purchased cable. I didn't know much about cable at the time, right,
I just remember that it was Channel twenty three and
and it was definitely something to watch after school. So
I was more when it came to Looickelodeon. I was
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more about the live action stuff, which is what I
was more of a big fan of. So I really
enjoyed watching Double Dare, Hey dude, Nick Arcade, all that,
all that Are You Afraid of the Dark of course,
(16:23):
So like I really enjoyed all of that from a
live action standpoint. That's how that molded me. Like, oh,
Legends of the Hidden Temple, well yeah, so so that
was more like it was always more game show driven
what would you do or all of that stuff. I
enjoyed that a lot. I guess, if it makes sense,
(16:43):
it's like the Nickelodeon Studios era of Nickelodeon, where there's
a lot of game shows that are being produced, whereas
you know, the other after school stuff are just mainly cartoons.
So but when Nickelodeon, I didn't really realize until I
just thought of I didn't until now, is that I
was more of a live action Nickelodeon fan. If anything
(17:04):
got it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, there was a lot of great content back then,
and I think in the early two thousands, maybe mid
two thousands when I started to get like a little nostalgic.
That was like my first kind of like taste of
nostalgia was when they had Nickelodeon gas yea, yeah, where
it was just all Nickelodeon shows, Like I used to
watch that all the time.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It was Nickelodeon games and sports.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, so Guts was a huge one for me.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, do you have it?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Do you have Goots Dandy? There's also a video game
for that one too.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, it's horrible. Do you have a favorite are You
Afraid of the Dark? Episode?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The one where they are trapped in a mall and
then the twist is that they're actually trapped inside a
pinball machine.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Not the not the clown win. I think most people
usually reference the clown with the with the redhead kid,
But I like the one where they're in the mall
and they're lost in the all, but in reality they're
in the actual.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Pinball machine, the tail of the Pinball Wizard.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Is that what it's called?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah, because I remember, like yeah, because they're like, we're
gonna go with the escalator and then then the escalator,
the very top of the escalator, right when they're about
to like actually escape, all of a sudden, this big
old silver ball ends up showing up. Yeah. Wow, and
then that's when that was a big twist, like what
the hell? They're in a pimple machine.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And it's the guy and he's you look up on
him and he's like playing it. He's laughing, like the
guy who owned the shop. Yeah, I remember like the
witch in that one where she grabs the crown because
it's like his girlfriend, right, his girlfriend gets captured and
then he has to go to like each floor of
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the mall is like a level and he has to
get like a square gun and stuff. Yeah, you're like
unlocking some of these memories.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, that was a while back. I'm just pray to
remember that. Well.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I'm like looking at the pictures and I'm like, oh, yeah,
you're looking.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, so but yeah, are you Afraid of the dark?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's that's one of my favorite It's probably my favorite show,
uh Nickelodeon wise, it's probably the one that I've watched
multiple times this series all the way through. Kind of
my gateway to horror too as a kid.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
There's also the one where where the little kid was
like I'm cold. I was like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That one's crazy because that's when Melissa Joan Hart.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh I forgot I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I would always say that when I was a kid,
I'd be like, I'm cold.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah. Cool.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
The way he said it was just like creepy ass
a little kid, dude. He was all just glowing outside. Which,
by the way, I just saw like one of the scaries.
I haven't really talked to anybody about this. I saw
like a legit scary movie a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Have you seen hell House LLC?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Wait? Which one?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's called hell House LLC. It's starting to get kind
of popular. It was released in twenty fifteen. The premise
is it's a found footage movie and basically this group
they rent out or I don't know, it's not really clear,
but they're in this like haunted hotel that's old, and
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then they put on a haunt and it turns out
that it was like there was satanic rituals happening in
the basement, and then it shows what happened, and there's
like this it's it's good man. I was like, legit
it like spooped out.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
On that one.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Check it out one. Yeah, I'm looking at It's more
reason why I hate going into like legit hunted houses
and stuff, because there's like certain places where they're like
full of immersion, haunted house, like completely dark or something,
and and you know it's just stuff, you see. It's
like I'm too scared to do well.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's kind of crazy how like you basically just go
in this dark room and want to get scared, like
anything can happen, you know what I mean? Like I
don't know, it's it's it's me.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You're not into all that.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
My girl is. My girl is like all into spooky
stuff and whatnot. And it's like she'd be like, hey,
when don't we have a date at the cemetery. I'm like, yeah, nope,
I'm all right, Like I love you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But I love so like real stuff I was talking about,
like not scary farm or something like that.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Oh no, no, that's different. I think it's different. I See.
The thing is that when you're going to a theme park,
you know that those mazs is like you know that
there's always an exit somewhere where you go to actually, yeah,
like if you because they'll have places where where they'll
have like a haunted house or they'll have a haunted
hospital and they'll create like a haunted house out of it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
In my count yeah, yeah, No, that's what this movie
is basically based off of, is like a real haunted place.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, so that would actually probably pick me out. I
didn't realize that there was a close series that was
made out of it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, I didn't know either.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Like it was around maybe about a month ago where
it started to get some buzz on TikTok and on
social media, and then I watched.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It a couple of days ago and I got a
little spooked.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I was watching on my phone too, so like I
I was waiting for this scarce, I kind of put
it away from my face.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You can't do it?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Man to Nickelodeon, So did you did you have any
Like you mentioned the video games, the Guts video game,
but did you have any toys or clothes or anything
like that, because once like ninety six ninety seven rolled in,
like Nickelodeon was part of nineties culture.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, so I did. I had Nickelodeon. Ghak, do you
remember that? Oh it's like a slime. It was like
an orange slime, because it was like sime was like
a big identifier of that era at the time. So
it was like it was and and I don't even
think they really do much about that, because I know
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they still do Kids Choice Awards, right, I don't know
if they still do slim and stuff, but I.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Think that's the only really place that they do it at.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, but Slime was cool. I always wanted to taste
it because it looks it looks like really bad and chunky.
But from what I hear, it's like up of like
Dan Putting or yucky, yeah, something like that. So that
way was not like as yucky. So I've always been
curious about that. And what's funny is that I came
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across a friend who who sold me, actually not sold me.
They gifted me this because I'm looking for it for
forever and I've always wanted one and these are kind
of expensive on eBay. I'm gonna show you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh sick.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, it's the Nickelodeon Radio, the o G Radio Radio.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah it works.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
So that's all that's all I have in terms of
like of of Nickelodeon stuff. But it's more or less.
I was gonna use it as a pop but but
I'm really excited to use it in some videos. I
just haven't gone around actually like using it, using it totally.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, that that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It reminds me of like cause I think my cousin
Chris had that, and I just remember being like in
his room. I'm probably eight nine around there, and we
would listen to like Radio Disney oh on like his
radio while we're playing Super Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It takes me.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Back there, like I could just see myself sitting on
his carpet looking like playing the video games, playing like
probably N sixty four Super Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, that's crazy though.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I thought that Nickelodeon knew how to market to kids.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And there's this great.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Documentary out there called The Orange Ears, and it's basically
like a full on documentary of Nickelodeon how it started
and how it got big and things like that. But
they were talking about how Nickelodeon was not just trying
to get something out of kids, Like they weren't just
trying to like market for the sake of mark but
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they were trying to like meet the kids where they're at,
you know. And we see that like shows like Doug Hey,
Arnold Hey dude, as you mentioned, like these were made
for kids and it just got it, got it right.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah. What's what's crazy that when I was I had
just met the Orange Ears, the one of the directors
or something along those lines. I'll tell you more about it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, So Scott, Scott Barber and Adam Sweeney, who've been
on this show.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I haven't seen it yet, but I did need to
see it. Where can I watch it?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Good question, Hulu, It's it's on tub it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Oh, it is on Toby for free.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So yeah, so definitely check that out.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So a few weeks ago, there was this big Nickelodeon
convention called splat Con, and you don't say yeah. So
before we get into the details, I wanted to say,
there's a friend of the podcast, someone who has been
on this podcast, someone who I've talked to, who was
really involved with it for the sake of everything, because
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I know that there's things in the background, so I
just want to say that, you know, I've always supported him. Unfortunately,
I wasn't able to go to splat Con prior to
its cancelation. We'll talk about that, but I know that
there's been like things been thrown out there and things
like that. We really don't know the full story, but
I just want to say that, you know, when it
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comes to our buddy Lee boy Leon. From my understanding
and from what I've heard, is that he wasn't doing
this maliciously or he had no intent to make this.
This wasn't a scam, I guess I should say that.
From Yeah, as far as the people who were putting
this on, I can't talk about the main two people,
but as far as like you know, people on Leon's level,
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also our buddy Prime. He was like, they've they've been
working on this for months. I've been talking to them.
But but anyway, so they were supposed to be a
splat Con in l A the day before it was canceled,
and you know, I know, Carlos, you were planning on
going and attending and uh, what did you think when
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once Black Con?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, so so I was. I was an ambassador for
splat Con. So I was kind of a I was
marketing it with profession nostalgia the Maya she she's another
creator nostalgia creator, and uh, and a couple of others,
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and we weren't getting any information like in terms of
like where do we go, who do we need, do
we get it to get a table, do we get
to interact with talent and all of that stuff, and
a lot of that was just not communicated to us
at all, so we weren't really sure what happened. All
we knew is that they wanted us there and they
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wanted us to be able to film what was going
on in the con right, And I just thought it
was a little weird because I mean it's like we
hadn't heard back, and anytime that we would reach out,
we wouldn't get a response for like a long time.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
In terms of what Leon's involvement is is the way
I understand is that Leon is one of a couple
people that came up with the ideas blot hun Yeah,
but obviously he needed like management in the back end
to help him reach out to all of this different talent,
(29:42):
right and financial Yeah, that financial backing from from them.
So that was his part is being able to find whomever,
Like he knew which talent he wanted to bring in,
but he needed the expertise of the companies like this
(30:03):
particular agency or went not to be able to reach
out to these talents to bring them in and you know,
payment and all of that stuff. So yeah, it just
so happened that whoever we're running those those two individuals
apparently and and the sponsors fell through, and they just
(30:26):
didn't go about, you know, fulfilling whatever the contracts were
between them and the talent. And it sucked because they
got canceled. I didn't know what was going to happen.
A lot of the talent and a lot of fans
ended up flying in and were already in LA and
(30:48):
so it was just it was just a very poor
handling of the whole situation. I just I think if
they saw this coming, it would have been great if
they had announced it, like maybe I think at the
latest at least a week or a week and before. Yeah,
but it was just very unprofessional how all of this
(31:10):
was handled. But thankfully there was a way to kind
of salvage it a little bit. Yeah, So I'll let
you go into that.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Well, the last thing I'll say is, like I know,
from just people who were involved, like in the planning process,
they had no idea that this was going to get canceled.
Like I know, people who flew in from across the country.
That was like planning on staying in a hotel was
promised a hotel was promised this and that, and when
they showed up, nothing was paid for. So you know,
(31:44):
so I just know that it looked like, hey, like
it was embezzlement or was a scam. I really don't
think that the entire team knew what was going on
until you know, everything hit the fan. So whoever was
like the top in this and who had all the
financial backing? From my understanding, that's that's what it is.
(32:06):
So yeah, unfortunately, you know, as a fan, I couldn't attend.
I was on my crazy cross country train trip that
I already planned. But you know, as a fan, like
it sounded awesome, like I was hoping it would happen
because I was like, I want to do it next year.
And I know my sister was planning on attending, and
(32:30):
she was really disappointed when I found out because I
was in Chicago and it was like nine o'clock over there,
so it was six am here on the West coast.
So when I saw that news or maybe eight o'clock,
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I was like, what it was?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
It was so random. But like you mentioned, there was
a there was a meetup that happened, and I commend
the talent and all the people who decided, hey, this
is a sucky situation. This sucks. Our fans deserve better.
(33:09):
Let's do something to celebrate them, and especially for those
who flew out, because you know, I saw one girl
on TikTok she spent thousands of dollars between like the
photo shoots flying out. She flew from like I don't know,
Philly or something like that, like the East Coast. She
got a hotel all that stuff. So I'm glad it's
(33:31):
like people like that who had this opportunity. So Carlos,
you were there, tell us about this, like, I guess
we're calling it this flat con meet up night.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I don't know, Yeah, it was. It was an actual
snack type of night because it was on a Saturday.
So Danny Cooksey, who ends up playing button it from short,
he ended up getting together with a couple of others
talent that we're already here in l A. Obviously not
(34:04):
everybody who was announced with in LA, but a good
chunk of the O J Nickelodeon stars were there, so
you had so it was him basically, salute your shorts.
Doncult and Kelly was there, Michael Michael Bauer. Maybe I
should be saying their name Michael Bauer and Venus Demilo Thomas. Yes,
(34:32):
and then you also had from Hey dude, that was yeah,
David Lasher, Christine Taylor. I did not expect to see
Joe Torres there, I know, and I shared a really
good moment with him and that was really awesome. Phil
(34:53):
Moore who is the host of nick Arcade, uh Donny,
Jeff Coote, which is one of the hosts from Weld
and Crazy Kids. I'm trying to think of who else.
Natanya Ross who was it's pretty active in the nostalgic community.
She was an.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Alex Mack former guests already Red Show, Gotta Plug. Alice
Rees was there, right, Angela.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Yeah, Angelae so the O g all that from Angelaue Bates,
Alisa Reyes, Josh Server. I'm trying to think of anybody else.
I think that was it for that part. And then
one of the Green Rangers from one of the later
seasons of Power Rangers that was on Nickelodeon, Hector. David Hector, David.
(35:44):
There we go. We all managed to meet up at
the at a barcade in West Hollywood. Kind of remember
the name of the air of the bar, but as
a player, I think it's called Player one. Yeah, I
think it was called Player one. So yeah, so everybody
(36:05):
met up there. It was quite a crazy experience because
you're kind of walking in this crowded, small, congested little
bar with all of the Nickelodeon talents that you've been
watching as a kid, and I'm like freaking out because
at the same time it's really nice. At the same time,
(36:29):
you have people that are also fans of my staff
looking at me and they're asking me to pictures and
to talk and all of that stuff. So all of
that is really cool. So it's like a coagulation of
a lot of nostalgia creators and and the you know,
(36:49):
the people the talent that you know that feel that
nostalgia essentially. So that was really that was really fun,
and I'm really glad that they took the time and
to make the best, you know, to make limbs out
of lemonade. I guess, I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
They made like so.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Yeah, so that was really cool. It was really fun.
It was really nice to be able to meet everybody
and and thankfully I've connected with a lot of them
and you know, shared socials and stuff, and and it
feels great when they kind of acknowledge your presence as well.
Just as much as you acknowledge them. So it felt
(37:33):
it felt like we were kind of all on equal
footing a little bit. Yeah, but I'm really glad. It
was definitely an unforgettable experience. I'm really glad that I
was able to share a little bit of time, took
some photos and whatnot, and and just chat with them
about just random stuff. And that's definitely something that that
is kind of crossed off for the bucket list, so
(37:54):
to speak, because when with the con with the flat Con,
I had gets that I had in mind that I
wanted to involve them in so I could create content
together with them, and so when block Con fell through,
it was like, oh crap, Like there's no way I
can do all of this content anymore. Because one of
(38:15):
the most important things is that I had to ask
is like from management of Forced Black, and I'm like,
is there any way where we can where we can
interact with the talent like I or are we able
to you know, ask of them to participate in certain
things because I figured that since we're ambassadors and we're
(38:38):
promoting everything, it's like you figured that that would be
a yeah, But they were never like, well, it's up
to the talents discretion as to what they want to
work with you or anything, and well, we don't know
what we're going to say, but and we can't save
the photo. Ops are going to be like taken care
of them. Like man, y'all don't know nothing. So it
was it was it was something that was stuff in
(39:00):
the air, and I'm just glad that I did get
my photos. I didn't get like certain content, but I mean,
it's not that was the last thing on my mind
right when I was there. I was just really happy
to be able to converse and just be able to
hang out and not feel under like a pressure of time,
to be able to just interact with them and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
So right because my understanding and looking at the pictures
and to give context, it wasn't a like meet and
greet per se. It was just like, hey, come and
let's hang out. Like there wasn't any tables where they
were giving out like pictures or signatures or anything like that.
(39:40):
It was just like, hey, we are hanging out at
this bar. If you are a Nickelodeon fan, if you
had tickets to flat Com, come and hang out with us.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah. Essentially, because there was no exchange of like of
like moneis or anything for photos or any of that stuff.
You're just literally seeing everybody there saying hello, you can
nap a STEALTHI with them and just kind of chill
and just chat for a little bit. And then and
then you know, you could either go to the bar
(40:11):
that are video game themed or you could play at
the arcade or meet another talent. Yeah, that was just
it was really cool because everybody was just there. Everybody
was just within that region. So it was really cool
to be able to be able to do that. That's
probably the one of the most perfect settings that you
could have handled all of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
So it was so cool and I was having like
super envy. I remember the night because I was texting you.
I was like, dude, how is it, Like did people
show up? And You're like, where are you right now?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Like I'm on a train in the middle of nowhere
in Kansas, dude.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
And the signal was stuck there, So I didn't get
back to you till like I think, later that night. Yeah,
but obviously in the pictures you see everybody that I
managed to interact with.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
And I was wild.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
I was so surprised to see Christine Taylor there, dude. Like, honestly,
I was like, she's huge, man.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah, she's She's I personally think she made this yeah opinion.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Yeah, absolutely wedding singer Dodgeball Zoolander. Yeah, Like she was
just walking around. I was like, oh snap, Like that's
when I saw it was like, oh, like everybody came
out to his like, and that was cool because I
at first it was just like some of the salut
you shorts and maybe I think Natanya that was like
(41:36):
there was like four or five, and then it looked
like more people, Like Bates was even planning on being
at the corn, but she came out because all her friends.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
What blew my mind is I did not know that
Natania Rods her boyfriend. Yeah, Nate is Harvey from Sabrina.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, that's like an.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
That blew my mind. When I was like, I was like,
oh my god, it's so nice to finally meet the
Tania Nicole. Yeah, we'll meet my boyfriend. This is me
and I'm like what Sabrina. It was really crazy. It's
really wild. It was just like it was mind blowing
after mind blowing after mind blowing, so it was just
(42:22):
still a wild It's like reality check and it's like what, Well, it's.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Also one of those things where it seems so natural
and so cool and you actually see what Nickelodeon means
to these actors, right, because they could have been like, well,
all right, I have this weekend. And again, they didn't
make any money off of this. They they probably lost
money because I don't know if they got reimbursements for
(42:49):
the flights or whatever. Some of them probably live in
LA But the fact that they just wanted to do
this for the fans and that they wanted to like
meet up with some of their friends. Uh, it just
its you kind of the nucleus of Nickelodeon and how
strong that connection is with the actors and the creators
(43:11):
and it just trickles down into the kids. Like the
nineties Nickelodeon is such a unique era in pop culture,
and I think it really impacted a lot of individuals
who are now in their thirties, forties, things like that.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Yeah, and it's just it's great that they managed to
coordinate that altogether, just given the circumstances of what had happened.
But yeah, we're just really thankful that all of that
stuff just managed to fall through for you know, for
the people that I guess, especially like when you mentioned
(43:51):
like your friend that probably spent a lot of money,
I'm hoping that they got some kind of a closure
just being able to do that at all, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
So Yeah, but uh, it wasn't It wasn't great.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
I was I was like, what the hell, because I
was I was keeping the tabs on it, you know,
and then when I saw that come in, I was
just like it for like an hour. I was just
like looking at and the thing that sucks is like
it really didn't go viral or it wasn't really out
there in the news, which tells me there wasn't a
lot of probably pre sale tickets to begin with. You know,
(44:25):
there was kind of like I guess writing on the
wall because I don't know, like I thought it would
be kind of a bigger news Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
I mean there wasn't as much marketing, if anything. Yeah,
because because I mean they expected us to kind of
advertise for them. But my thing was that I was
being asked to collaborate on so many different posts. I
was like, nah, dude, I don't want my ole fee
to just be a bunch of ads for sluc con.
(44:56):
And that would have sucked because imagine if my feed
had been made up of like twenty different posts of
just black kind of meat advertising, I would look like
an idiot. You know, they would make me look dumb.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yeah for that.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Yeah, so yeah, I mean I obviously I don't have
anywhere close to the you know, footprint that you have
on social media. But you know, I had a video,
uh just I had an interview about it with Leon
and and that was a week before it happened. And
that's why I'm saying, like I am convinced that he
didn't know any of this was going to go down,
(45:35):
you know, So I feel for him. I feel for
the people who are involved, who really just like you know,
and of course the fans, you know, the fans they
get screwed. But yeah, like you said, it was it
was a really sucky situation and a really unfortunate and
probably preventable situation. But as a community, and they would
(45:59):
probably call it a face family should they take a
tragedy or a mishap and they come together and they
make it for good. So I think that's actually what
I'm taking away from that. Even though I wasn't there,
it was like, you know, there's still opportunities where things
you can get really sour and upset, but you can
(46:20):
turn it into be like, well what can we do. Well,
let's get together anyways on our own terms and and
let's make it fun. Yeah, was there any talks of
doing it again?
Speaker 4 (46:32):
I have a no idea. I think, I think what
I kind of feel bad because I think that probably
gave a lot of the talent a good sense of distrust.
And I'm hoping that it's not discouraging them from being
able to do cons within within Los Angeles and whatnot
(46:53):
that's really anywhere. Yeah, so that's given what had happened.
So yeah, but I don't know if there's time so
doing it again. But I did find out that you know,
there's a good chunk of them that are local. Yeah,
but you never know.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yeah, I mean, I think there is a market. There
is a footing for something like a Splat con or
a Nickelodeon convention.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Maybe not so big in.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
The beginning, you know, maybe something starting smaller, you know,
mini bite size. But I hope that this wouldn't discourage
other people to do cons. But it also reckoned, like
you know, people who put on cons, it's hard it's
hard work. And we've had Scott Zillner who's does a
(47:41):
bunch of cons around this area and he goes, I
lose money all the time. I lose money putting on cons.
It's not about making a profit. It's about putting on
the event and creating.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
A space for fans.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
That's where a convention first and foremost needs to That
needs to be the more. If you're trying to make
a buck, it usually just like anything, if you're just
trying to make money off of something, it's.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Not gonna work.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Yeah, well said, is.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
There anything else that you want to talk regarding Nickelodeon
or the splat com meetup, I.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
Will say that meeting Joe Torres who plays Danny and
hey dude, yeah, I initially thought that he was Native American,
but he's not. He was born in Arizona, he lived
in Arizona. He's actually Chicano. So that was one thing.
And then I just and I remember because he doesn't
(48:42):
have much of a social media presence. If anything, he's
been in hiding. He's finding his own business. That was
really surprised that they were able to find him. I
don't know how, but but but he was really glad
to have come even though everything fell through. He was
really happy to see his co stars after thirty years.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, that was like the first since since they wrapped.
Speaker 4 (49:08):
Yeah, yeah, so he was really he was really thankful
for that, and I thanked him for for being, you know,
somebody that was representative of the community, of the culture,
you know, you know, early on in my life. So
I always thought that was cool. And then since I
(49:30):
had that Nickelodeon radio. The only thing I need now
is I need a piece of the Agrocrag.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Oh yeah, it's out there. It's out there.
Speaker 4 (49:41):
That's all I need. Man. Oh.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Just talking about Joe Torri's brook.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Who played Danny Lightfoot.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
There is a podcast that is out it's called Finding
Danny Lightfoot, and it's basically these two guys who it's
an investigational podcast and they find him, they find who
Joe Torre is because there was a lot of rumors
were uh, and they go through it like he was
(50:12):
dead or he was like running from the cops.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah. So there's a whole podcast. I listened to it.
It's great.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
It's called Finding Danny Lightfoot. So, uh, they were the
these two podcasters were the guys who found Joe Torres
and were instrumental in the putting this Hey Dude reunion.
They were supposed to do the panel as plat coms.
So yeah, I think they were there as well. These podcasters,
(50:41):
I think they were there at that bar. I was
just gonna ask how many people were there.
Speaker 4 (50:44):
There was a chunk. I know that it could have
easily been a fire hazard just that front area, but
their has a lot of arcades. Yeah, so they at
one point they ended up closing the front door because
just getting too packed on the front. I would probably
say it was it was over one hundred, that's for sure.
(51:06):
It was over one hundred people, even though it doesn't
sound like much, but it's a lot, especially for not
counting the talent. Yeah, it was. It was a good
number of people. It was a lot of them. I
would say over one hundred, maybe two hundred.
Speaker 3 (51:20):
So with talent, it was like about two hundred and
sixty people, you'd say.
Speaker 4 (51:25):
Two thirty or something like that. Okay, somewhere around there
coming there was talent there. I think total talent, I
probably would say between between twenty and thirty. Okay, but
it was still cool.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
That's awesome. Dude.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
Yeah, man, that's one of the things that you were
like ten years from now, You're like, yeah, I was there,
I was at this Black Cormon meet up. I was
not though, So I'll live. I'll live vicariously through you.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Well, Carlos, thank you so much for being on Ready
to Retro, still keeping that Nick November alive. It is
an annual thing. Maybe we'll do it again next year.
Just with everything going on, and I just felt like, hey,
we needed to just take a little break from Nick November.
And I really just wanted to talk Friday Night Lights
if I'm being real.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
But Carlos, tell tell the people.
Speaker 3 (52:17):
Where they can find all your awesome videos, all your
nostalgic goodness.
Speaker 4 (52:21):
So, like I said, i am Carlos the Nosagic Latino.
You'd find me on TikTok, on Instagram and on Facebook,
all at the Nostalgic Latino. And yeah, so thanks for
having me, dude.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
Awesome. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
Listeners. Next week we'll see you for Friday Night Lights.
It is going to be a fun episode. I usually
talk about my you know, early childhood and stuff. Now
we get to talk about teenage Max. So it will
be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
We'll see We're ready to Retro? Are you are?
Speaker 6 (52:57):
We thank you for listening to episode two two of
the Ready to Retro podcast. A big thank you and
shout out goes to Carlos Castile aka the Nostalgic Latino
for joining us this week. Go follow Carlos on all
those platforms he mentioned earlier, links to all of his
awesome videos and the description of this episode. If you
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Speaker 1 (53:54):
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