WEBVTT - Lonnie Marts Sneaks into Playlist Live! 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.400 As I walked in. It's literally just like like a 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.080 two hundred kids, maybe three hundred kids in a lobby 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:10.360 sprinting around like trying to tackle their favorite content creators, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.080 and the content creers like, oh no, I'm being chased 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.360 by my fans, and it's like, okay, that's what this is. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.760 Sometimes there's an event that you would do anything to 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.400 get into, like Coachella if you're into music, or the 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.680 met Gala if you're into fashion, or a secret underground 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.839 screening of the butthole cut of the movie Cats if 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:52.519 you're into Cats. But the only thing that's better than 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.959 getting invited to these exclusive events is successfully sneaking in. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.800 And people come up with some pretty clever schemes to 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.360 smuggle themselves into these parties. Now that I would know 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.600 as a straight cisgender white man with a mustache, I 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.920 pretty much just walk into any place without anyone batting 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.319 an eye, which is a problem. Now. My friend Lonnie 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.280 March knows a thing or two about sneaking into an event. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.160 Lonnie is a twenty seven year old actor, content creator, 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:20.039 and former Storytime guest checkout season three, episode four, and 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.319 he's best known for his God and Gabriel's sketches on 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.520 TikTok and Lonnie's got a great story about the lengths 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.960 he went to to sneak into the biggest social media 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.600 convention in all of Orlando. I'm your host, will catch 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.520 me if you can McFadden And this is hashtag storytime 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.800 brought to you by iHeartRadio. Do you do you have 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.759 a story that you'd like to share with me? I 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.080 do have a story about the time I snuck into Playlist. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.720 Oh yeah, um, were you at Playlist twenty twenty? I've 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.800 been at so many playlists. Yeah, Playlist twenty twenty was 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:56.440 the last trip that I went on before, right, Yeah, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.920 I remember we were we were flying there and like 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.280 when we were flying back, especially like everyone was just 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.800 wiping down their seats and purelling everything. We were like, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.640 I don't know how to do. What do we do? Uh? 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.359 Just we didn't have masks yet. It's a bug. There's 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.040 a bug. They heard there's a bug. It was bad 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.200 because like walking through that lobby plays I mean, I'm 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.000 from Florida, so I like what happened was I had 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.960 just gotten I had like just gone viral like in 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.440 January and blown up to a couple million followers as 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.720 it was so new, and I'm like, wow, I'm a 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.960 real life content creator. Now I have to go to 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.000 the playlist you know, I used It's my birth Right. 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.720 Oh you went to British. I thought you were doing 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.000 Owen Wilson for a second, like one Wilson. I don't 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.720 know if it's British, it's just yours. It's like the 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.400 or just a kid on the playground who doesn't have 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.639 all his teeth in yet. Um so I go to 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:49.160 from Tom's. Yeah, I blew up on the internet. And 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.080 then yeah, I had blown up on the Internet. And 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.680 then I thought myself, I had to go to my 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.400 own mosh. I play my birth Right, my trip Mecca. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.440 Have to do my mecca, um, which is playlist But 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.520 what happened was well, for those of you who are 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.240 listening who aren't familiar with Playlist Live, Playlist Live is 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.960 it's It's there's two major social media conventions that happen. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.320 There's Vidcan, which is on the West Coast. It happens 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.840 in Anaheim, which just just happened. We we were just 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.040 hanging out there. And then Playlist Live. They used to 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:19.680 do them in a couple of different areas, but the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.280 main playlist live is in Orlando, Florida. Yeah, and it 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.560 is a massive social media convention where thousands and thousands 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.160 of fans descend upon the Orlando Marriott Sin. They descend 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.960 like a sin like locusts. Well, it's fans and people 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.440 who wish they were invited. And then also and then 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.000 also uh, disgruntled mothers who just sit at the ball. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.120 Oh my god. There cigarette that was. That was a 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.400 pivotal part. So so so I had just gone borrow 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.200 from my series God and Gabriel super fun um, and 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.520 I think I had just kind of started working with 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.320 Collab and I was like, hey, Collab, now then I'm famous. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.480 Can you guys like get me into playlist? And you 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.080 guys were like, yeah, no, it's super closed like that. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.800 You needed that like six months ago. And I'm like okay, um, 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.200 they're like, can't do anything to help you. I'm like, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.520 that's understandable. I get a lot. You should have reached 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.680 out to me directly. I would have been like, I 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.480 should have sate my guy. Yeah, I will get your 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.920 wrist bands. I will sneak I'm all about sneaking people 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.960 into stuff. So I would have good. Well then this 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.880 is so this is what I did. So I was 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.080 I was a little I was like, well, guys, I'm famous. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.760 I have to go to Playlist, like I'm now at 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.039 that caliber. They just they would have gotten me, and 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.560 they just didn't have the tickets. So I'm like, I'll 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.159 just do it myself. I'll just get myself in so 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.440 I know I'll do it. Yeahself, I'll do it myself. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.880 So here's what I did. Um, because I was in Jacksonville, Florida, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.200 home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Like that's a two hour drive. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.680 I'll drive down there, and my buddy he's like like, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:48.760 do you want to go to Playlist? He's like you 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:49.960 have tickets. I'm like, no, do you want to go 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.200 to Playlist? And he's like yeah. And so we get 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.920 our both our chaotic good brains together, maybe just chaotic 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.880 at this point, and we're like, how are we gonna 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.200 do this? And I'm like, we show up to the 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.680 Playlist hotel, which, mind you, I don't know what I 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.560 was thinking about as I walked in. It's literally just 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.560 like like a two hundred kids, maybe three hundred kids 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.280 in a lobby sprinting around like trying to tackle their 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.000 favorite content creators, and the content cres like oh no, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.720 I'm being chased by my fans, and it's like, okay, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.520 that's what this is. And I think there might have 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.679 been one stage in a conference room or like Charlie 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.720 Damilia was maybe talking. But I didn't see any educational 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.760 panels at all when I was there, like an industry 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.880 day where like, you know, all the boring panels happen. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.480 I guess so, and I don't know. So it was nighttime. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.840 I was walking by. I was seeing like Gabe Irwin, like, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.719 go to sleep, guy, you've been strolling up for quite 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.520 a while. I saw Gabe, like Brent Riviera, and I'm 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.479 just like, oh wow, they're just here. This is crazy. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.200 It's my first kind of real exposure and I'm like, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.599 I absolutely need to be here. I need to be 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.039 in this. I have to get into. I didn't even 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.880 know it. I guess just a back state. I didn't 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.760 have a pass, and I'm like, I don't have a pass. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.000 I don't know what I can't do because I don't 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.239 know what people are doing here besides standing around the lobby. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:00.720 But I have to get in. So I look at 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.720 my friend, I said, Hey, we're gonna sneak in to 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.120 the back rooms, like the lounge areas, okay, and he 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.200 had just gotten off of work. There's like a whole 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.440 underbelly of the Marriott where all the creators travel. And 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.240 then yeah, there's like some like set aside green rooms 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.400 for feature creators to kind of help keep them separate 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.359 and have them like a safe space for them to 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.120 gather where the fans aren't just clawing at them apparently. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.599 So I'm like, I'm gonna get into those spaces because 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.080 I'm a good creator, and this is where this is 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.919 where the journey begins. My friend, he had just gotten 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.280 off of work and he was working at a bank, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.880 and I'm like, this is perfect. This is absolutely perfect. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.320 You look like you could work here, and that is 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.440 all I need. So he's like Oceans eleven, but it's 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:47.040 just oceans too, just oceans because we're stupid, And I'm like, okay, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.640 this is we're gonna do. Man. You are gonna go 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.120 over to where all those tired, anxious moms are who 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.240 are drinking their wine, and you're gonna start picking up 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.279 their wine glasses and you're gonna take one of those 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.279 trays and you're gonna start collecting and say, hey, can 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.640 I get you anything else? Can I help you with that? 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.080 Start cleaning off those tables? Okay, He's like, why am 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.960 I doing them? Like, trust me, you can set up 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.240 the foundation here, trust me, brother, And so he goes. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.680 He's like, all right, I'll trust you. And so fortunately 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.160 he was in theater, yes, the ass the theater. So 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:15.760 he does a great job, puts on a great performance, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.520 walks over there. It's like, man, he looks so tired. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.000 I hope you're having a good time as your kid 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.040 and a good so great starting like grabs a random tray. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.720 Like the people who actually work, they are like more help, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.720 I don't care whatever, you know, they're just annoyed. So 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.360 he picks it up. He grabs all these glasses and 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:28.800 stuff like that in his hands, and he's like, I'm Mike. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:29.640 He comes back to me. He's like, what do I 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.880 do now? I'm like, now, you see those two guards 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.600 over there at that door, You're gonna walk right past 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.960 them and go right into the lounge area and then 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.760 we're in. We're in, baby, We're in the clear. And 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.600 he's like that, he's exacts. It's not gonna work. I'm like, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.160 it's gonna work. Go up to it, and he's like, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.360 I'm not so sure. I'm like, okay, okay, okay, here here, here, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.440 tell them Zach from the Kitchen sent you. It's gonna work. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.200 Every time, anytime somebody is like, oh so and so 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.880 I don't know from somewhere. If they're from somewhere, it 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.240 adds more validity. I'm like, that's that's a name I 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.640 don't know in a play I'm unfamiliar with. So I'm 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.080 he's like, Okay, I'm gonna give it a try. And 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.280 so he's going up to go do it and thank 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.600 god at the same time because I'm like, it might 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.360 not work. He might just get kicked out. This horde 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.000 of girls comes chasing after Brita Riveria or something like that, like, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.200 and so they like crowd up the security area as 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.360 he's about to go through, and so he's like able 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.560 to sneak by, and I'm like, okay, perbe he didn't 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.480 have to use the thing. But one of the security 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.000 guards like, seas hey, stop, stop, stop, where are you going? 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.400 Where are you going? And I'm like, oh, almost no. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.440 He I was standing back at this, but He caught 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:31.920 my friend right as he tried to sneak by at 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.360 the same time as the girls in the crowd on 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.160 all the commotion. He's like, where are you going? And 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.800 he's like, oh, Ken from the kitchen sent me. And 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.199 I'm like, that's not even what I said to say. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.760 I said up and the guy's like, yeah, okay, go 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.120 just go, just go, and I'm like it have walked, 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.080 it walked And he's back there. He like he starts 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.720 walk around and I'm like, yes, yes, wait, I'm not 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:57.360 back there. Does this help you? I'm not back there? What? 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.760 And so I call I said, hey, I didn't think 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.600 this all the way through. Come back out, come back out, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.400 And so he comes back out and I'm like, okay, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.280 plan too. This is how I'm going to get back there. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.600 Now this works. We know that security guards can be 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.439 like tricked deceived. This is totally gonna work. Also then, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.800 just for context to the security guards at Playlist are 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.720 like mad with power. They're all like they have no 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.160 information as to like no information, they never pass goes 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.240 where or what wristband means what, And they're all just 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.440 like I am blocking the store and nobody gets by it. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.840 So They're like they're a stone wall. It's it is. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.920 They don't know what they're doing. They've just been told 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.320 something by Larry up in the tower, and I don't 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:33.840 know who that is, but it sounds like somebody who'd 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.080 be telling them things. And this is where we got 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.559 This is how we got kicked out. So I have 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.840 to realize that we both needed to get through. I'm like, 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.760 new plan, time time to take over the world. And 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.360 there's I see everybody walking by with their badges, right, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.920 it's when the plan hatches. I'm like, oh, I'll just 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:55.800 make my own. And so I'm like, okay, so this 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.840 is where it was stupid. I'm like, yeah, but this 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.000 is what this is the mistake I made. So as 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.960 everybody was walking by, I'm like, I gotta be slying. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.360 Get a picture of somebody somebody's bad so I can 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.200 like recreate it. I have some photoshop skills. I got 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.560 a photo, I got like Photoshop whatever photoshop version. Like 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 in two thousand and six, whenever YouTube was just coming out, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.840 and I was like, yeah, internet making photos. You know, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.240 I didn't make the banners and thumbnails for people on 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.120 forums and stupid stuff like that. So I have skill 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.800 is what I'm saying, Yeah, you do. Some lady was 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.800 walking by and I saw her all access badge, like 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.000 that's the one snapped a picture and then I'm like perfect. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.120 So we go back to his house that night. I'm 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.600 staying up in bed until three am, looking cross orfencing 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.360 the picture, putting everything together in photoshop, like adding little lines, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.240 adding my name. I'm like, oh, and I'll even do 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.920 like Marx Media LLC. So I look official. And then 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:45.320 fortunately he was. He was how do I say the 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.280 badges were done right? But we needed to print them 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.880 somewhere and laminate them, yeah, because they're all laminated or whatever, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:55.480 and fortunately he was. Um. He was flirting with the 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.240 with the leasing office, the head of the leasing office, 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.679 as as his apartment complex. Next morning, it was like 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.200 the last day of playlist. We go over there and 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.920 I'm like, can you get us a can you like 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.599 get her to let us laminate this stuff. He's like, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.160 I'll put on my charm. I'll do what I have 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.280 to do for a playlist. So we go in there, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.800 he's like flirting with them. I'm like in the back, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.080 like trying to laminate everything. And then she's like, you 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.400 can use the laminator. It's fine. It's like we don't. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.560 It's you can. You don't have to sneak around. I'm like, okay, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.360 do you have any lanyards? And she gives us like 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.760 a Disney World lanyard and then like a Kinko's lanyard, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.679 and I don't even know what the Playlist's actual lanyards where. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.240 I'm like, it's gonna have to work. We cut it 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.440 out and the badges look good. It looks like a replica. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.720 And I'm like, look a picture. I have the picture 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.120 of Oh do I have the picture of it? I 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.200 have the picture of the bag. Would never I would 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.360 keep that forever. I don't. I think it fell apart. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.240 So so we get done up. We're like sitting in 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:43.920 the car on the way there. We're like, oh, we're 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.360 a playlist. We're official. I'm an official creator. Now Here 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.960 we go and this is how we got this is 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.880 where I went bad. So we get to the parking 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.760 lot and the first guard we're like, I'm like, I haven't. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.040 I'm trying to like to be subtle about it, but 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:56.400 I'm also trying to make sure they see that I 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.400 have a badge, you know. So like the first guy 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.199 in the parking lot, I like, in like this the 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.720 Creator only area he's guarding. We walk up and we're 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.120 like flashing our badges and it's like nighttime and it's 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:06.600 kind of dark. He like looks and gave us off. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.839 I'm like, oh, buddy, buddy, we're in this now. This 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.800 is what this is how you defeat capitalism. This is 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.840 how you defeat capitalism. You steal from the rich and 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.600 you make your own products, you know. And so we 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.800 can up to the stairs going up into the massive 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.480 like the hotel or whatever from the Creator side mind you, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.959 and then we're about to walk by another Curity guy. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.040 He says, hey, boys, come come on, come on, come 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.320 over here, come over here real quick. And I'm like, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.320 what's the problem. Officer like, what's going on? What's what's happening? 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.880 A special Creator Only update, and he like grabs both 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:40.239 of our badges. He grabs both of our badges as hey, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.400 i's gotta put hands on these because some people have 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.360 been making fake badges, so they're requiring us to touch 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:52.760 all of these before we let anybody in. You guys 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.920 have a good time, go have fun. What I'm like, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.800 of course, sir, of course, my buddy is crapped himself. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.080 At his point, he's like the single bead of sweat 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.280 running down and I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.400 there's no way he knew. These are mint. They're perfect, 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.920 like exact copies are laminated, we have lanyards, they're fine. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.240 There's no way he knew. He's just doing his job. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.440 These are perfect. And so we get inside and I 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.640 realized this is where we left up and probably why 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.439 he called us out and was being so kind to 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.920 not kick us out. The picture I took was of 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.520 a woman who was like four feet tall, so on 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.840 her the badge looked very big. So I made my 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.560 badge about the size of a sheet of paper. Everybody 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.800 else's playlist badge was the size of a credit card. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.920 there's they're definitely the perspective was off. The perspective was off. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.079 It's like I was in motion when I took that picture, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.320 and that's where I messed up. And to make it 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.200 even worse, because it's a photo not a video, I 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.240 didn't know that it was double that it was double sided. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.199 Oh yeah, definitely knew. Could you flip that badge over 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.280 real quick? I supposed to what the back looks like. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.040 I'm like, this is what I'm panicking, Like, we come 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.520 so far, it's the last day. We did all that work. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.880 You had to flirt and snoo snow with the leasing 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.520 office lady to get these laminated. We have to do this. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.280 We have to see if it'll let us in the back. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.079 And so he's like, I don't know, man, this looks 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.120 really stupid. Like we're saying he were like a poster 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.840 on our chest and everybody else has like the sides 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.400 of the credit card, Like we're dumb. We're we're like 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.000 super featured creators, like exactly meat creators and or they're 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.040 like we're like we're cause playing. We're gonna this is 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.360 our cost, but we're creators, cosplaying creators, that's all this is. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.960 And so I'm like, we're just gonna, We're just gonna try, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.200 And by we, I mean him again, because I realize 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.840 that I am too scared to get in trouble because 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.440 like Josh, if I get kicked out, I can't come back. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.880 So you have to do it for us. And he's like, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.120 what am I supposed to do? I'm like, just kind 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.840 of cover it with your arms, and it would be fine, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:51.840 just kind of like say as you know and show 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.400 it a little bit, but then keep like your arms 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.440 like you're just just you're annoyed, you're just grawntiled the 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.920 full access bad. You're fine. Yeah, you've got somewhere to be, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.600 you know what I mean, Like I don't handle I 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.160 don't have to time to show you my past. You know, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.120 I've got a panel to be on. Like I said, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:04.880 this is where we messed up. But if anybody's listening, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.000 if you're on the phone, people are way less likely 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.880 to stop you, and especially if you're an intense conversation. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.240 This is like real espionage hacks here, I'm giving out 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.680 for free. Yeah. But I'm like, Josh, I'm just standing 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.320 in the lobby with my like posterboard posterboard padge And 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.240 he is like, I'm like, hey, buddy, just go see 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.280 see if you just flash it and get by and 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:25.880 then call me and if it works, I'm gonna come 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.760 right behind you. It's gonna work. It's fine, you know, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.480 as long as no other secuity guards like grabbing him 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.520 clipping over our badges were fine. So we go back 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.360 to the same VIP area that security guard is there 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.720 or whatever. Now Josh has like normal like creator clothes on. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.400 He doesn't look like he's like working at a bank. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.320 So he like is able to just like flash the 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.600 badge and go right in. And I'm like, it's still worked. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.480 It's still worked. This is perfect. We're smart. You got this. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.160 It's the confidence that will work every time. It's the confidence, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.800 and that's what I learned here. So I'm like, I'm 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.200 about to go back there. I call and said her, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:55.960 are you in? Are you okay? What's up? He's like, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.120 were There's some areas that you need wristbands get into, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.840 but I'm in the general areas. I can just kind 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.680 of go in and stuff like that. So coming in 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.240 like five minutes, he's like, I'm renegading right now with 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.400 Addison Ray Like we're exactly just doing the Renegade with 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.320 Addison and Charlie, And so I'm about to go back then, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.560 I'm like, we've done it. I'm an official creator. And 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.080 then he calls me back and says, they kicked me out, 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.840 And I said, how what do you mean that? Who 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.360 would kick you out? You had the badge? You're good. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.120 He's like, some schmuck came up to me. Some random 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.520 guy was like, oh, hey, buddy, where'd you get that badge? 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.280 And he's like, oh, don't worry about don't worry about that. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:30.600 It's mine. I got it. I got it from me. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.040 And the guy's like no, no, no no, let me see 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.880 it and like grabs the badge and flips it over 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.960 and starts yelling this guy's got a fake badge. He's 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.680 got a fake badge. And I'm like, who, who are you? 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.600 Why are you living in life? And joy like in 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.720 the security guard he's like he's like in Josh like. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.880 The security guard was like, nah, dude, I knew it 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.120 was fake. I wasn't about to kick you out, but 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.680 once that guy said something, I had to. And I'm like, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.000 I worked so hard on the I sit up to 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.400 like three amm like working on these they were perfect 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.640 except where they weren't. And so he got kicked out. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.800 At that point, I'm like, well, I can't risk my career. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.080 I'm just gonna go ahead and meet him outside. So 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.160 then we left outside. But I bowed that the next 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.360 time I went to one of these conferences I would 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.639 be invited. Unfortunately, at big Con last week, I was 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.960 invited as as a guest and a speaker on one 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.840 of the panels for Meta and I did not have 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.800 to make a fake badge. And that's good because those 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.840 would have been very difficult to replicate because they were 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.639 like hardboard, double sided and like laminated on one side 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.040 and like rough on the other. I'm like, oh, they're 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.040 getting good, So I gotta father technique. You can have 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.320 start a whole business of fake fake badges, fake pass dude. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.840 The The ultimate would have been if you got in 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.159 with the fake badge and then just walked on stage 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.439 for a panel like that, you had no idea. Imagine. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.880 Stop giving me ideas because next year a big con 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.640 I might, but imagine with the confidence, Oh my god. Yeah, 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.399 it's like, oh and we uh here we are the 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.760 Beauty on Budget panel. Yeah, Lonnie, I ivy um going. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.399 When are we opening up the flour for questions? And 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.639 thank you Karen? Yeah you're moderating now. Yeah, It's like, 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.520