Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: Welcome in the beginning of the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny G.
Speaker 1: Radio, The Weekend is upon us.
Speaker 3: This kicking off the weekend, our Friday Funday and a
Speaker 3: special podcast. Today, special pod Danny G will return. He
Speaker 3: is scheduled to return on Saturday. But today Danny is
Speaker 3: away and we are going to chat with our guy
Speaker 3: from the Overnight Show.
Speaker 1: You hear him calling in randomly.
Speaker 3: He sends a lot of messages on the Twitter machine
Speaker 3: or x or whatever it is called. Andy the Comic
Speaker 3: Book Guy is stopping by today to join us. Now,
Speaker 3: why are we having Andy the Comic Book Guy on
Speaker 3: Not just because he's got the gift of gab and
Speaker 3: he's a fun character on the show, and he's part
Speaker 3: of what we do on The Ben Mahler Show. But
Speaker 3: more importantly, if you look at your calendar, today is
Speaker 3: August eighteenth, Tomorrow on the nineteenth, it is on like
Speaker 3: Donkey Kong, kind of like a Donkey Kong cartoon, because
Speaker 3: we will have the Malor Meet and Greet, and Andy
Speaker 3: the comic book Guy is kind enough to be hosting
Speaker 3: this event. We were looking for a venue in southern California.
Speaker 3: We did one in Minnesota several months ago. I did
Speaker 3: a flash mob Mallar meet and greet back in the day,
Speaker 3: which was last last week, actually last Thursday, in the
Speaker 3: state of Maine. And I try to hang out with
Speaker 3: people as much as I can when I travel around,
Speaker 3: and life takes you to certain places.
Speaker 1: But in southern California, this is obviously the base.
Speaker 3: And so if you're a fan of the show, we
Speaker 3: have so many great listeners in La Orange County, San Diego,
Speaker 3: Santa Barbara, all over California. Palm springs, the high desert,
Speaker 3: the low desert, you name it in the geography of
Speaker 3: southern California. So I'm not expecting anyone to travel to
Speaker 3: this from a million miles away. But if you're looking
Speaker 3: for something to do tomorrow and you're a fan of
Speaker 3: the show and you want to hang out with me,
Speaker 3: and Eddie's going to be there at least for a
Speaker 3: little bit. If you get there right at two o'clock,
Speaker 3: you'll have a chance to meet Eddie, and then Cooper
Speaker 3: Loop will be stopping by. I have a surprise. We'll
Speaker 3: talk about it when we put Andy on here in
Speaker 3: a second. So I am very excited about all this.
Speaker 3: I love to go out and hang out with people,
Speaker 3: even though I'm an introvert. Make the most of this
Speaker 3: opportunity to meet people that provide me the opportunity to
Speaker 3: continue to be a gasbag, blowhard and all that. On
Speaker 3: the overnight and we'll get into all the specifics. They
Speaker 3: are in the description on this podcast. Everything you need
Speaker 3: to know is in the description box on the podcast.
Speaker 3: It's also on the Twitter, slash x and the Facebook page,
Speaker 3: so all of that is available for you if you
Speaker 3: somehow do not grasp what we are talking about here
Speaker 3: on this podcast, if you don't want to see stuff
Speaker 3: written down. But it is tomorrow, and that's why we're
Speaker 3: having Andy on today, nineteenth of August. It'll be in
Speaker 3: the afternoon in southern California. We'll be hanging out. Andy's
Speaker 3: got all kinds of promotions. We'll get into that, but
Speaker 3: we'll get a little bit about his story. I want
Speaker 3: to learn about Andy the Comic book Guy. Everyone's got
Speaker 3: a story. I want to hear what Andy's story is
Speaker 3: and how he found the show and all that. So
Speaker 3: why don't we start down that road, Andy the Comic
Speaker 3: Book Guy. Welcome to the Fifth Hour with myself, Ben
Speaker 3: and Danny g Radio on assignment. Let's start with this.
Speaker 3: How long have you been listening to the Overnight Show?
Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of funny. I've always heard the
Speaker 4: Ben Maller Show, but I never really knew what it
Speaker 4: was until probably maybe, like I don't know, about a
Speaker 4: year and a half ago, where I really started to like, listen, listen,
Speaker 4: and then I started calling in. I think this past fall,
Speaker 4: like last fall, because of the Sabers and Eddie's constant
Speaker 4: disrespect of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is offensive, and Eddie does this all the time.
Speaker 3: He poops on certain teams that he thinks are below him,
Speaker 3: and you Buffalo Sabers are at the very top of
Speaker 3: his list.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's a hockey snob. Andy that's what
Speaker 1: he is.
Speaker 4: You know what's frustrating is the Sabers finished the season
Speaker 4: with the exact same amount of points as the Penguins.
Speaker 4: So and I know he's not a Penguins guy, but
Speaker 4: he kind of is. It's his second team. He won't
Speaker 4: ever say it is, but it is. He's it is.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a whole different issue. The second thing with Eddie,
Speaker 3: and we've been through this. He says he's a Steeler fan,
Speaker 3: but he goes to Charger games all the time. I
Speaker 3: think he's been to like two Steeler games and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: one of those quirky things. And so you started to
Speaker 3: listening that did your life change in any way? Because
Speaker 3: normally the reason people find the show is either they're
Speaker 3: having legal problem in their life, some kind of medical
Speaker 3: either to them, or a loved one is under the weather,
Speaker 3: or small that do not sleep at night. Other than that,
Speaker 3: we have no one that actually finds the show. So
Speaker 3: which of those categories? Which of those boxes would you
Speaker 3: fall into?
Speaker 4: Too many? But definitely it is the small business man
Speaker 4: late hours one for sure. Definitely. Usually my drive homes
Speaker 4: around midnight at one o'clock so in the morning, so.
Speaker 1: When you're driving home late.
Speaker 3: Now the comic book store is not open late, so
Speaker 3: you're hanging out there working.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely not. Yeah, no, I mean I'm not like
Speaker 4: the people think, like, oh, you're just like reading comics
Speaker 4: or like, you know, playing Warhammer games. No. No, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of work that goes on when the story
Speaker 4: is closed. You got to order that stuff, you got
Speaker 4: to unbox it, you got to sort it, you gotta
Speaker 4: price stuff. It's a great life.
Speaker 1: One man band.
Speaker 3: Obviously you have people that work for you and stuff,
Speaker 3: but you're you're the guy, You're the steward, you're the proprietor.
Speaker 1: That's a big wordy proprietor.
Speaker 4: But that's done on a Friday morning.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow is the big day.
Speaker 3: And I always get nervous the day before a mal
Speaker 3: Or meet and greet because you never know who's actually
Speaker 3: going to show up. You're not sure, you know, we
Speaker 3: hope a lot of people show up. We've done pretty
Speaker 3: well in southern California. But you don't know what. You
Speaker 3: don't know that in a song somewhere. So we're doing this.
Speaker 3: We're having you on Andy to promote the fact that
Speaker 3: if you're listening in a geographically desirable area within reasonable
Speaker 3: driving distance, or if you're just bored out of your
Speaker 3: mind and you want to come from far away. It
Speaker 3: is tomorrow, We're going to hang out at your comic
Speaker 3: book shop. What is the name it all? Everything's going
Speaker 3: to be in the preview for the podcast. But for
Speaker 3: those that don't like reading or maybe don't know how
Speaker 3: to read, Andy, what is the name of the store
Speaker 3: and where exactly is it located?
Speaker 1: Let's start with that. How about that?
Speaker 4: It is Brave New World Comics, located in Santa Clarita, California.
Speaker 4: We're about a twenty five minute drive north of Pasadena.
Speaker 1: Okay, so twenty five minutes north.
Speaker 3: And when I think of Santa Clarita, I think of
Speaker 3: an amusement park, which is not that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is a six Flags Magic Mountain out there
Speaker 4: if you just were actually like a good twenty minutes
Speaker 4: before that. So you know, if you're coming from LA
Speaker 4: or the southern area, Bakersfield I think is the closest
Speaker 4: place north.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a McDonald's right off the highway there
Speaker 3: that I have stopped at to use the facilities in
Speaker 3: Santa Clarita up through central California.
Speaker 1: When I'm just driving with the wife. We'll stop.
Speaker 3: They have a really good bathroom at McDonald's, so if
Speaker 3: anybody needs to take a whiz while visiting the comic
Speaker 3: book shop, I'm sure you probably have bathrooms too, But
Speaker 3: we This is a wonderful McDonald's right off the freeway,
Speaker 3: not far from Wow.
Speaker 4: How much did they pay you for that? Geez cau,
Speaker 4: I get a cut.
Speaker 3: It just provided great toilet paper. Just absolutely wonderful. So
Speaker 3: you got the comic book shop Brave New World, Right,
Speaker 3: is that the name of it?
Speaker 1: I get it right? Did I screw it up?
Speaker 4: Yes, Brave New World Comics.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, this is a work I've noticed.
Speaker 3: I don't know you, Andy, we're gonna meet for the
Speaker 3: first time tomorrow, but I can tell from your calls
Speaker 3: that this is a life's passion. That this is not
Speaker 3: I don't think this is something that you just kind
Speaker 3: of fell into, right, this is something you wanted to
Speaker 3: do to own your own comic.
Speaker 1: Book shop for a while.
Speaker 3: I mean, kind of tell me the backstory on how
Speaker 3: you ended up finally pulling it off, because it's not
Speaker 3: easy to get in that world.
Speaker 4: It's pretty crazy. It kind of just happened. I moved
Speaker 4: out to LA in two thousand and nine, and I
Speaker 4: was pursuing a different career at the time, but for
Speaker 4: a nine to five my guy that I ordered comic
Speaker 4: books from, I traveled for the three years prior, from
Speaker 4: like two thousand and six to two thousand and nine,
Speaker 4: I worked as a traveling actor. It was great. It
Speaker 4: was wonderful. So like right out of college, I only
Speaker 4: played lead roles. I did it for three years. It
Speaker 4: was wonderful. Then I was like, yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 4: move to LA I'm going to do this shit. And
Speaker 4: I did, and I was doing great, and I was
Speaker 4: booking stuff. Almost booked a Super Bowl commercial, but it
Speaker 4: was an Eminem's commercial where the red and yellow eminem
Speaker 4: are walking down an island. Anyway, long story short, I
Speaker 4: played in a Macated Island Man. But then they were
Speaker 4: going to air it on the Spanish network instead, so
Speaker 4: I slipped the bill. And then I got a woman pregnant. Wow,
Speaker 4: and yeah we did it. You know, we had the baby.
Speaker 4: She's great, she's almost thirteen now. It's crazy. But I
Speaker 4: made a life choice and I started working in a
Speaker 4: comic store just as a steady nine to five to
Speaker 4: try and do something else. While that was happening, and
Speaker 4: I got high by two publishers. I worked for them
Speaker 4: for a few years. And then one of my clients
Speaker 4: I worked with comics stores as a sales manager for
Speaker 4: a publisher and was basically like, Hey, buy our comics.
Speaker 4: You know, let me help you sell them in your store.
Speaker 4: I can show you how it works. And it was great.
Speaker 4: And then one of my clients, who owned Brave New
Speaker 4: World Comics, was going to sell his store and a
Speaker 4: call that was just like a health check in turned
Speaker 4: into Hey, I think I'll buy your store. At the
Speaker 4: end of the two hour conversation, so you you.
Speaker 1: So I had the story wrong. I thought this is
Speaker 1: something that you know you had wanted to do when
Speaker 1: you were young.
Speaker 4: I've always loved comics, don't get me wrong. I mean
Speaker 4: I've been reading them since nineteen ninety I was six
Speaker 4: at that time to date myself.
Speaker 1: But yeah, first comic that you fell in love with?
Speaker 1: Was there one that stood out of you? Oh?
Speaker 4: Definitely The X Men, hands down. The X Men and
Speaker 4: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which have a new movie
Speaker 4: out right now. I'm going to see it with my
Speaker 4: daughter right after this call. As we prepare for tomorrow
Speaker 4: nice and yeah, but uh yeah no, so it's it's uh,
Speaker 4: definitely the X Men, hands down. Jim Lee's X Men.
Speaker 4: Jim Ly's an artist. He's now the publisher of DC Comics,
Speaker 4: which is it's kind of like if you know, you
Speaker 4: worked as a producer at ESPN and now you like
Speaker 4: run a show on Fox. That's kind of what Jim
Speaker 4: Lee's career was like.
Speaker 1: Around you bring up yeah, yeah, I had your daughter.
Speaker 3: You decided, Hey, I got to kind of move on
Speaker 3: from the acting thing full time. Because the conversation working
Speaker 3: in the radio business. My wife has a stable job,
Speaker 3: so I'm like, my position is, at least one of
Speaker 3: us has to have a somewhat stable job if both
Speaker 3: has messed up jobs where we could lose our.
Speaker 1: Job at any moment.
Speaker 3: The math on that the back of the napkin math
Speaker 3: and he is not going to work out right, It's.
Speaker 4: No, my fiance is they nurse that city of Hope
Speaker 4: out here in the San Gabriel Valley, so much respect her. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I used.
Speaker 3: To live right here, right near the City of Hope.
Speaker 3: That's quite the drive though, right, that's a bit of
Speaker 3: a drive.
Speaker 1: It is quite the drive.
Speaker 4: I mean it's not that bad. No, it's not quite
Speaker 4: the drive at all, and everyone should make it this Saturday,
Speaker 4: August nineteenth from two to five. Yeah, that is not
Speaker 4: that bad of a drive if you.
Speaker 3: Had every day, if you had to make that, you'll
Speaker 3: like your wife to go to the City of Hope.
Speaker 3: You know, the same, Gabriel, because you live in the
Speaker 3: Saint Gabriel Valley. That that's a bit of a job.
Speaker 3: But a chance to meet, you know, the stars of
Speaker 3: the radio show and hang out with you and there's
Speaker 3: all kinds of great things. We'll get into in a
Speaker 3: couple of minutes about the comic book shop and what
Speaker 3: people can expect, and it's a big event. It's not
Speaker 3: just the malor meet and great there's other stuff going on.
Speaker 3: As far as the acting, you still do it at all?
Speaker 3: Every once in a while, do you still go down
Speaker 3: and audition for stuff? Or are you completely done with
Speaker 3: that part of your life.
Speaker 4: It's so funny you bring that up, So you know,
Speaker 4: I really did take it seriously, and I know people
Speaker 4: do say that, but truly, like it was a really
Speaker 4: great time when I reflect back on it. But honestly,
Speaker 4: like I have no desire to do it. I just
Speaker 4: think it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Now you're all grown up, you still own a comic
Speaker 1: book shop, but I do below you. And yeah, I Austin.
Speaker 3: I had a lunch, like a business meeting with some guys,
Speaker 3: and you know, we were all talking about you know,
Speaker 3: family and kids and stuff like that. And one of
Speaker 3: the guys is like, his daughter, she's going to school
Speaker 3: to learn acting, and she's going to school in New
Speaker 3: York and she wants to work on Broadway, like that's
Speaker 3: the goal and all that, and we were talking about
Speaker 3: the different things. Now, when you were traveling around as
Speaker 3: an actor though as a thespian, were.
Speaker 1: You on cruise ships? Were you like, what was your gigs?
Speaker 4: No I refused to do cruise ships. Cruse ships really
Speaker 4: wanted me. I was really good at the musical theater.
Speaker 4: Thing no I did. Probably my favorite thing I did
Speaker 4: was I played Romeo and Romeo and Juliet. I was
Speaker 4: twenty three. It was in Jackson Hawayoming at Off Square Theater.
Speaker 4: I think they're still around. This was probably two thousand
Speaker 4: and seven. So if you're from Jackson haw Wyoming and
Speaker 4: you lived there in two thousand and seven and you
Speaker 4: saw rome and Juliet. You saw Andy the Comic book
Speaker 4: Guy as Romeo.
Speaker 1: Andy the Comic book Guy.
Speaker 3: I have never been to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but when
Speaker 3: I did stuff years ago and I did a little
Speaker 3: work with the Dogs, one of their trainers retired and
Speaker 3: moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And I remember this guy
Speaker 3: telling me, Oh, it's amazing the outdoors, you know, And
Speaker 3: there's apparently a big like celebrity conclave there in Jackson
Speaker 3: Hole where like people.
Speaker 4: Apparently Hearston Ford owns a ranch out there or something.
Speaker 4: I don't even know. I didn't really do any of that.
Speaker 4: I just I was in the little downtown area and
Speaker 4: we had to perform. I didn't really have time, like
Speaker 4: truly it was. It was rehearsed for about two and
Speaker 4: a half weeks. We rehearsed every day every except Sundays.
Speaker 4: We had Sundays off, and then it was perform eight
Speaker 4: eight shows a week. So we performed six and then
Speaker 4: two and one day, two and Saturday, and we were
Speaker 4: off on Sunday. And I did that for like three
Speaker 4: years straight, with multiple I probably worked about nine different
Speaker 4: gigs in that time. I just went from gig to
Speaker 4: gig to gig. It was great. And then I had
Speaker 4: no gig lined up and I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 4: what do I do? So I was like my buddy
Speaker 4: from my buddy moved out here and he convinced me
Speaker 4: to move out here. And I was not trained for screen,
Speaker 4: but I had a learning curve. I was good, but
Speaker 4: I was making headway. I really was. But it's all good.
Speaker 4: I love where I'm at. I'm not complaining.
Speaker 3: Now, do you get crap from your friends in Buffalo
Speaker 3: and your family in Buffalo because you know, normally, and
Speaker 3: I've been to Buffalo before, Southern California kind of looked
Speaker 3: down upon among the you know, the hardy people that
Speaker 3: grew up in Buffalo with lake lizards, and they think
Speaker 3: everyone in La is, you know, a softy right because
Speaker 3: you know, it's perfect weather other than it gets a
Speaker 3: little too hot sometimes, so you know, back home.
Speaker 4: That is an interesting take, I would say, because it's true.
Speaker 4: But I think that's a generational take. I think I'm
Speaker 4: a millennial. I don't know if that really matters, but
Speaker 4: I would say most of my peers that are similar
Speaker 4: in age, everybody kind of just respects where we're all at. Honestly,
Speaker 4: at this point in time, and there's really not a
Speaker 4: lot of that. The only time I do get shit
Speaker 4: like that, which does happen, is when I go to
Speaker 4: at least two or three Builds games every year. So
Speaker 4: when I go back, like I went back to the
Speaker 4: Bengals game, and I don't give a crap what I
Speaker 4: look like. I look like the stay Puff marshmallow Man,
Speaker 4: but I am warm and they make fun of me
Speaker 4: for that. They're like in a windbreaker and like a
Speaker 4: hoodie and I'm just like, yeah, no way.
Speaker 2: Explain.
Speaker 1: That's a great point we should talk about.
Speaker 3: But as someone that grew up in whether even though
Speaker 3: I got family on the East Coast and stuff. My
Speaker 3: brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is near Green Bay,
Speaker 3: which is one of the coldest places, kind of like
Speaker 3: Buffalo with the weather they have there. But I was
Speaker 3: fascinated for someone that hasn't really experienced the bad way,
Speaker 3: Like the worst I've been to I was at a
Speaker 3: World Series game where it snowed years ago, and that
Speaker 3: was pretty bad and I got very sick after that
Speaker 3: and that really sucked. But I haven't been to an
Speaker 3: NFL game in the snow. I'd actually like to do it.
Speaker 3: At some point, but there's a hole. If you want
Speaker 3: to be warm, right, you have to you got to
Speaker 3: get what heat packs? How many layers when you go
Speaker 3: into a.
Speaker 4: Bill Oh dude, I don't fuck her oundry. I don't
Speaker 4: know if I say I'm sorry, but it's true, like
Speaker 4: I do not mess with the weather and I don't
Speaker 4: mess with the water. And that's one thing they kind
Speaker 4: of teach you growing up back in Buffalo. It's true,
Speaker 4: like you just don't mess with it. Lake Euri will
Speaker 4: kill you in a second if you screw around with
Speaker 4: it and the weather. You just be prepared. And I
Speaker 4: brought my daughter. We went to the Bengals playoff games
Speaker 4: that sucked, and then I also took her to the
Speaker 4: AFC Championship game two years ago in Kansas City when
Speaker 4: it was Josh Allen versus Mahomes for the first time,
Speaker 4: and the Bills got clobbered pretty bad in that one.
Speaker 4: But we were there outside, and I would say neither
Speaker 4: were really that bad. But we were really prepared. We
Speaker 4: probably had probably at least five layers between a thermal,
Speaker 4: a T shirt, a sweater, a hoodie, a jacket, a
Speaker 4: whim breaker.
Speaker 1: You were going.
Speaker 4: Now you're in my jersey, my jersey on top of
Speaker 4: all of it.
Speaker 1: Its Mafi. You gotta have the jersey on Andy or
Speaker 1: it doesn't work. Of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your daughter, I assume she her memories are of
Speaker 3: southern California, right, even though you traveled around.
Speaker 4: She's born and raised there, but she's been around. I
Speaker 4: brought her quite a bit of places. I feel like
Speaker 4: for kid her age.
Speaker 3: Now, does she race the cold weather or does she say, Dad,
Speaker 3: what the eff are you doing here?
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny she doesn't get cold. She's like
Speaker 4: a Viking. I don't know what it is. My kid
Speaker 4: doesn't really get cold. It's so weird. She kind of
Speaker 4: speaking of making fun of She kind of makes fun
Speaker 4: of me about that that I get cold. She doesn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't get cold for the longest time.
Speaker 3: You know. It was gotten a little older. I guess
Speaker 3: that's what happens and recently. But when I was younger,
Speaker 3: like it was a cold day, like SOCl cold, I
Speaker 3: would have the window open, I'd have a fan in
Speaker 3: the window blowing the cold there in. I could not
Speaker 3: be cold enough. I loved I loved the chill. But
Speaker 3: now I guess the blood thins as you get older.
Speaker 1: Andy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I don't know what it is. But California
Speaker 4: cold is different. It like cuts to your bone, like
Speaker 4: and I only it only gets that cold for me
Speaker 4: in like February and January and Buffalo. I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm good like with the wind, but like here, I
Speaker 4: don't know what it is, man, Ben, It's like it
Speaker 4: is cold. It just like cuts through everything.
Speaker 1: No, it is different because you're not used to it too.
Speaker 3: It kind of comes out of nowhere and then you're like, wait,
Speaker 3: so let's get back to the meet and greet though.
Speaker 3: So it's tomorrow and it's in the afternoon here in
Speaker 3: so Cal two o'clock till five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Correct, that's the the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the store is open from ten to five that day,
Speaker 4: but we're saying the event is two to five. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and we're gonna have a lot going on. It is
Speaker 4: the Malor Meet and Greet. Absolutely. It is also the
Speaker 4: six year anniversary of my ownership of the store, which
Speaker 4: is very exciting. I bought it August first, well, I
Speaker 4: bought it in July of twenty seventeen, but the first
Speaker 4: day was August first of twenty seventeen. So we're celebrating
Speaker 4: that as well.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: So you're gonna have all content you mentioned and all
Speaker 3: this is online if you didn't see it the other day.
Speaker 3: But one thing I noticed when I was in Maine
Speaker 3: last week, Andy and I did a last minute thing, like, hey,
Speaker 3: I had a little extra time.
Speaker 1: I drove from Boston up to Maine. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: anybody want to come hang out.
Speaker 3: Most people kind of skim social media, they might not
Speaker 3: pay attention. So maybe you're hearing this for the first time.
Speaker 3: Everything will be on social media. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: we'll just kind of walk you through everything again. So
Speaker 3: it's your stores anniversary and there's all kinds of you
Speaker 3: got all kinds of promote you're going for it. Andy,
Speaker 3: this is a big thing if you're into the comic
Speaker 3: book Whore and my dad, may he rest in peace,
Speaker 3: love comic books. And when I was a kid, every
Speaker 3: once in a while we'd mess around with the comic
Speaker 3: book collection, and you know there were some that we
Speaker 3: were not allowed to get near, and.
Speaker 4: That well, yeah, yeah, that's true. We have those in
Speaker 4: a showcase. So don't worry. It's all right. I'm sure
Speaker 4: everyone will be okay. But yes, we have some exciting
Speaker 4: stuff happening. So a bunch of our customers, they do
Speaker 4: have their own small businesses. So one of our customers
Speaker 4: makes her own plushes, she's going to be there. One
Speaker 4: of our customers makes his own T shirts, he's going
Speaker 4: to be there. We have like this. One of our
Speaker 4: neighbors right up the block is the Old World Emporium.
Speaker 4: It's like Andrea would love them a lot, one of
Speaker 4: the callers on the show. But they're gonna have a
Speaker 4: little pop up. We're gonna have our comic book artist
Speaker 4: Gary Brown there. He's done a comic series called Baby Teeth,
Speaker 4: which is a pretty pretty good at Indie one. It's
Speaker 4: an awesome it's like a modern day Rosemary's Baby Horror.
Speaker 4: He's the artist of it. It's on his own book,
Speaker 4: Black Road, which is like this badass Viking book. So
Speaker 4: he's going to be there to sign and sketch. My daughter,
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Legal. She's twelve going on thirteen, but she draws
Speaker 4: pretty damn well, I must say, And I'm not just
Speaker 4: like a parent tooting their horn. But she's going to
Speaker 4: be working her her stuff as well. For six bucks,
Speaker 4: she'll be doing sketches of any player if you have
Speaker 4: a player or a character or a person, or you know,
Speaker 4: favorite comic book, comic book, superhero you wanted to draw,
Speaker 4: She'll do that. Favorite court, She'll draws Josh Allen very well,
Speaker 4: if you want your own Josh Allen Ben.
Speaker 3: It's just you know, I was thinking when I woke
Speaker 3: up today, that's the thing I would like to get tomorrow,
Speaker 3: would be I thought.
Speaker 4: So you know, Also, we're going to have a performance,
Speaker 4: a fifteen to twenty minute performance.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: This this performer performs at the Magic Castle. He won
Speaker 4: America's Got Talent Season one, I believe or he was
Speaker 4: a finalist. I'm not sure. My good friend, he's professional juggler, comedian.
Speaker 4: I've in piseel and he's going to do a performance.
Speaker 4: I believe that's happening at between two fifteen and two thirty.
Speaker 4: So you want to show up on time if you
Speaker 4: want to see that, because I think he's got a
Speaker 4: tight out. He's got a gig that night actually so,
Speaker 4: but he will be there doing a performance for everybody,
Speaker 4: a live juggling comedy routine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a Magic.
Speaker 3: Castle andy for those that are not from me, I
Speaker 3: think most yes, you have to know somebody to get
Speaker 3: in the Magic Castle, and to be a magician working there,
Speaker 3: you got to be pretty good, and they don't let
Speaker 3: you in there. Right, it's not an amateur hour. That's
Speaker 3: a big deal to be in the Magic Castle. And
Speaker 3: I've never been. I assume you've probably been a bunch
Speaker 3: of times.
Speaker 4: Right, Wow, I've been twice. I've been twice. It is
Speaker 4: absolutely worth the experience. I will say, it is the
Speaker 4: only Like I I'm definitely that guy that when you
Speaker 4: like watch like a ghost show or whatever, I'm like, okay, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 4: But I will say, this man, this one magic trick.
Speaker 4: I have no idea how this guy did it, and
Speaker 4: it to this day blows my mind. And I'm like,
Speaker 4: he's obviously not a wizard. It was some sort of illusion,
Speaker 4: but it truly warps my mind. Long story short, I
Speaker 4: was with my date and she had a like a
Speaker 4: sleeveless dress on, like for her shoulders were totally there,
Speaker 4: and he pressed his finger like at the tip of
Speaker 4: her shoulder, her bare shoulder, and kept it there while
Speaker 4: he did some card tricks and then removed his finger
Speaker 4: maybe like two minutes later, and a whole deck of
Speaker 4: cards just shot out and I was just like, I
Speaker 4: don't know how that's possible. Doesn't translate to the audio,
Speaker 4: but my god, the Magic Castle. You have to go.
Speaker 4: If you have an opportunity, your.
Speaker 1: Will taste of it tomorrow at the at the meet
Speaker 1: and greet.
Speaker 4: Well, he's a juggler comedian.
Speaker 1: Though, you know, well, you'll be entertained, you'll be mesmerized.
Speaker 4: I will absolutely be entertained. Yes, yes you will. Of course,
Speaker 4: we're gonna have a sale obviously, that's just fun. We're
Speaker 4: gonna have a sale. One of our customers, he also
Speaker 4: makes his his own princeton, makes his own comic book.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like a doctor who kind of comic.
Speaker 4: He's going to be there. His name is Liam Dao.
Speaker 4: We're going to also have Carbon Panther props, owned by
Speaker 4: one of our customers, Aaron Toft. He makes props locally
Speaker 4: here in LA for kind of like small budget movies
Speaker 4: and pretty badass looking stuff. So him and his partner
Speaker 4: Ali are going to be here.
Speaker 1: So it's great. And there's no RSVP, right, there's now you.
Speaker 4: May no, no, no, it's just come on show up.
Speaker 4: The Meller Militia obviously as well, and we have a
Speaker 4: very special Bromo pack for the Mellor Militia. Just find
Speaker 4: me at any point in time and say go Bills,
Speaker 4: and you're going to get a Brave New World Comics
Speaker 4: Mellor Militia Ben Meller Show, Meet and Greet exclusive variant
Speaker 4: comics pack for free. Valued depending on which one you get,
Speaker 4: because they're all blind valued it up to fifty bucks
Speaker 4: nice with five up to five of our store exclusives
Speaker 4: in there. And we've done store exclusives from The Walking
Speaker 4: Dead number one to Ninja Turtles one hundred to mighty
Speaker 4: more from Power Rangers number one to Sagio Jimbo number one.
Speaker 4: If you don't know any of those things, that's okay.
Speaker 4: Just know that they're comics that you can only get
Speaker 4: from our store and they have our logo on them,
Speaker 4: very limited print run and they're awesome, and you get
Speaker 4: one for free just by saying to me, go Bills.
Speaker 4: And I've only told that to your people, Ben only
Speaker 4: the mail Or Militia. To our people. I'm in the
Speaker 4: Militia too. Our people only know that Ben so.
Speaker 1: Speak easy situation.
Speaker 3: But yes, a Raider fan or a forty nine er fan,
Speaker 3: Rang Dauphins fan, you still have to. You have to
Speaker 3: go down and genufleck to Andy to say go bills.
Speaker 3: But then you make out like a bandit there because
Speaker 3: Andy will hook you up with some stuff.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what, if you don't want to
Speaker 4: say go bills, I get it. You at least have
Speaker 4: to say squish the fish.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go, squish the fish. So either one
Speaker 1: of those will work.
Speaker 3: And as an added bonus, and I have not baked
Speaker 3: cookie recently because I ate too many of my cookies.
Speaker 4: So I have the drops on the podcast exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Danny'll put some in later, I'm sure, but
Speaker 3: so so anyway, so I've decided since Eddie ripped my
Speaker 3: cookies like a schmuck, he took a shot at my baking,
Speaker 3: and you know, Coop kind of belittled some of the stuff.
Speaker 3: So I've decided to make some cookies. Now, I'm still
Speaker 3: not one hundred percent sure. I think I'll go basic.
Speaker 3: Everyone loves chocolate chip. I might make some other cookies also,
Speaker 3: but I definitely will have chocolate chip.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going that direction.
Speaker 3: And awesome a bunch of them, and it's pretty much
Speaker 3: first come, first served. When they're gone, they're gone. I said,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to bake more. I don't think you
Speaker 3: have an oven in the back of your store.
Speaker 4: Andy, No, No, Now that said, we do have a
Speaker 4: coffee shop next door. So if you're feeling some coffee,
Speaker 4: there's that next door, literally right next door, and then
Speaker 4: right around the corner are two pretty good bars. But
Speaker 4: I mean we can play everything by ear. You know,
Speaker 4: you got we got stuff to do.
Speaker 1: I get it sending, but that the main part, the
Speaker 1: meat of the meet and greet for our purposes. There
Speaker 1: is like two to four, but it'll go.
Speaker 3: On, and you know, I'm gonna stay and you know,
Speaker 3: hang out as long as people are there to hang
Speaker 3: out with me and all that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward. Now. I can't say the same about
Speaker 1: Eddie and Coop.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on with those guys, but
Speaker 3: I I plan on being there for the duration. I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to it. We'll have a good time. It'll
Speaker 3: be Yeah, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 4: One more thing.
Speaker 1: That never goes well, Andy, the one more thing.
Speaker 4: I always say that on the calls. One more thing. No,
Speaker 4: So at four o'clock we have the Brave New World
Speaker 4: Comics epic Raffle every year, and we are having the
Speaker 4: epic Raffle again this year. We're raffling off about fifteen
Speaker 4: dollars worth of product, pretty pretty high end stuff. Usually
Speaker 4: it's a like huge thing, but we decided this year
Speaker 4: to make it even huge err by really focusing on
Speaker 4: high end prizes. So there's some pretty dope stuff that's
Speaker 4: going to be up for grabs. And everybody gets a
Speaker 4: Raffle ticket just for showing up, and then you get
Speaker 4: one for every twenty bucks you spend. So, and we
Speaker 4: do have a deal for malor people, where you spend
Speaker 4: twenty bucks, we're giving you a twenty dollars gift card
Speaker 4: that's only for the militia as well. So, and I'll
Speaker 4: remind all the people of this obviously, Yeah, let people.
Speaker 4: We'll put it in writing in an announcement too. How
Speaker 4: is this which should be.
Speaker 3: Out comic store? Is this all just comics? Is there
Speaker 3: any sports stuff in the back or we?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, usually I would have more sports stuff ready.
Speaker 4: Right now, I'm gonna have a lot as much as
Speaker 4: I can. We have a shit ton of cards. We
Speaker 4: have so many cards, but I take them out seasonally
Speaker 4: and usually I drop them week one of the NFL season,
Speaker 4: just because I got to update the prices everything, you
Speaker 4: know how that goes. So, but I will have a
Speaker 4: selection available for at least militia that I would guesstimate
Speaker 4: might show up who I think teams they might like.
Speaker 4: So yeah, just based on the calls speculation. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: and like just good ones. But yes, no, we definitely
Speaker 4: do have We definitely do have sports stuff. We have
Speaker 4: a big Bills flag flying in the store.
Speaker 3: On a table and break a table like Real Bill's Mafia.
Speaker 3: Probably not right, that would be.
Speaker 4: Hey, I did announce twice every year, actually not even twice.
Speaker 4: What is it, four years in a row now, Josh
Speaker 4: Allen's played in the playoffs just in case people forgot,
Speaker 4: but four years in a row, and every year I said,
Speaker 4: if the Bills make it too, they don't even have
Speaker 4: to win it, if they just make it to the
Speaker 4: super Bowl, I will power bomb off our balcony into
Speaker 4: a table.
Speaker 3: Okay, and that's happening recorded for posterity sake.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, yes, when you do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my life insurance plans good, that's great taking care
Speaker 4: of I can write it off as a marketing expense.
Speaker 4: It's wonderful. Like, really, where out you have to delete
Speaker 4: this podcast the week I do it though.
Speaker 3: Well, Andy, thank you so much for hosting this event tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to meet you and everyone's going to
Speaker 3: be there, hopefully have a great turnout. And I'll check
Speaker 3: out some of the comic book stuff. I'm sure he'll
Speaker 3: bring back some of the older stuff, will bring back memories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you remember what your dad used to like
Speaker 4: do you have any memory of like specific I think
Speaker 4: I don't think you ever said it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he he had some old like Superman stuff,
Speaker 3: but he loved like, you know, random crap like Alfredy Newman,
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: Mad Okay, yeah, I think Mad magazine guy.
Speaker 3: He collected that, and you know some of the Spider Man,
Speaker 3: Batman those were when he was a kid. That's pretty
Speaker 3: much all they had when he was growing up. So
Speaker 3: a lot of that stuff, and then as we were kids,
Speaker 3: he had gotten some different random things.
Speaker 1: And so I'll check it out.
Speaker 3: But Andy, I will end it here, and again thanks
Speaker 3: to everybody who's going to show up, and everything's in
Speaker 3: the description on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your thanks for hosting this, Andy, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for coming, guys, I'm really excited. I'm very
Speaker 4: excited to meet and greet with you and the Mallard
Speaker 4: militia and just have a great time.