Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to episode zero of Netificent. I'm your
Speaker 1: host Danny Fernandez, and I'm your host Ippy Waddy. Ways,
Speaker 1: sorry I was aptly. I was looking at the crillin
Speaker 1: It Twitter to see if anyone got excited about that
Speaker 1: thing we're gonna do. But yeah, if you if, if
Speaker 1: you're here from crilling and I want to say welcome back, uh,
Speaker 1: and welcome for a whole new ride. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be very different from krill. When me and Danny originally
Speaker 1: stepped in the podcast game, we're doing a show called
Speaker 1: crilling It where we would watch an episode of dragon
Speaker 1: ball Z, bring on a friend and talk about it.
Speaker 1: And it was very time consuming because it's hard to
Speaker 1: get a guest to both come over and then sit
Speaker 1: through twenty minutes of a show then talk for about
Speaker 1: an hour, which is why we often I think we've
Speaker 1: developed our following from that because we would often stray
Speaker 1: off course, as you do when you're talking about an
Speaker 1: episode where sometimes nothing happens, uh perfect dragon ball Z.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of it. So if you and
Speaker 1: I would talk about a lot of things that we
Speaker 1: had similar interest in as far as being nerds and
Speaker 1: hosts in this space, us and we talk about things
Speaker 1: like VR or Comic Con and realize that we had
Speaker 1: a lot of our ven diagram is really similar. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah it was. It was pretty crazy too because then
Speaker 1: when we stepped over to the Twitch platform did drag
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Dragon Ball super, but a krilling
Speaker 1: it super. It was cool because there were so many
Speaker 1: people who were like, I don't really watch this show,
Speaker 1: but I listened for like the insight into nerd culture
Speaker 1: that you guys dip into, and then we got we
Speaker 1: just didn't have the time and the resource too to continue.
Speaker 1: And then our good friends how stuff work was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: how about we give you time and resource. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that they liked our chemistry and how open we are.
Speaker 1: I feel like you and I are both really open
Speaker 1: about Okay, calm down. Um. I feel like you and
Speaker 1: I are really open about stuff. Because if we're talking
Speaker 1: about the Venn diagram of nerd world, there's also other
Speaker 1: things in there. I would say, you know, wrestling and porn,
Speaker 1: and well, I would say nerd world porn. I think
Speaker 1: porn is in the Venn diagram of everything, but um, no,
Speaker 1: I and well, to be honest, I mean porn. I
Speaker 1: do feel like drives a lot of the tech between
Speaker 1: robots and VR, but we'll get into that in the podcast. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel like we had good chemistry and
Speaker 1: are pretty open, and I think sometimes I don't know,
Speaker 1: we being nerds, we were shamed a lot. I feel
Speaker 1: like we were, or at least I was. I was
Speaker 1: bullied for liking anime. Nobody at my middle school like
Speaker 1: Dragon ball Z. Everyone had moved on. You were supposed
Speaker 1: to be cool and watching the Hills then or something
Speaker 1: so um or I'm sorry, lagoon, what is it was
Speaker 1: all the same thing rich kids. Um. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: I was kind of teased for liking it. And I'm
Speaker 1: actually glad that I that it never truly left me
Speaker 1: because it's something that I'm so passionate about now that
Speaker 1: I get to make money off of it. Also, it's
Speaker 1: so super cool now now it's in you know, you
Speaker 1: see well now that Michael B. Jordan's is openly into it. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it was so funny because it was just such a
Speaker 1: perfect introspect into just nerd culture. Just him being like,
Speaker 1: you know, I like, uh well he was like he
Speaker 1: was like Narto and Z and people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: you like those Enemies, and he replied to it was like,
Speaker 1: I was just trying to make it. Uh. I was
Speaker 1: just trying to make it easy for some people to read.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's how you know he's really
Speaker 1: into it when that triggers someone like whenever, because that
Speaker 1: is a very like big thing an anime where I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you like the regular ones, And I
Speaker 1: stay in my ground and say yeah, because it's what
Speaker 1: drives the stuff that you think is so cool and subversive.
Speaker 1: I totally agree, I I and we can talk about
Speaker 1: this probably on the thing like as far as anime snobs, y'all,
Speaker 1: a lot of these big, these bigger shows the creator like,
Speaker 1: so let's just take a curatory Ama who created dragon
Speaker 1: Ball in that entire franchise, he influenced a lot of
Speaker 1: the current creators and artists. He has influenced a lot
Speaker 1: of the people that grew up watching him that make
Speaker 1: the anime that you like now. So that is a
Speaker 1: that is also my gripe if this is why we're
Speaker 1: doing this together. So, but we're doing it too to
Speaker 1: also make it accessible. One of the things, Uh, that
Speaker 1: was real rough for me when I started, Like I've
Speaker 1: always been into like nerd stuff. But I remember back
Speaker 1: in the day, it just wasn't very organized. I would
Speaker 1: go to thrifty. You remember thrifty with my dad? Uh,
Speaker 1: take me to thrifty and there'd be like comic books
Speaker 1: on the stand. It was like blood Shadows. Back in
Speaker 1: Valiant's first run, they had like blood Shot and Spawned,
Speaker 1: and I remember I grabbed both of those and I
Speaker 1: opened it and immediately knew that my dad didn't know
Speaker 1: what he handed me because Spawn was very violent, had
Speaker 1: lots of boobs. But that was pretty much the extent
Speaker 1: of my comic book collecting was those two comics. Because
Speaker 1: Nigerian dad's don't often let you dip into your hobbies
Speaker 1: too much. So but I always had a passion for computers,
Speaker 1: computer games. The PlayStation and the PS two have taken
Speaker 1: from me and my brother because we played it too much.
Speaker 1: That's that's pretty much where like my core nerdum lines,
Speaker 1: and then outside of it is anime, and you know,
Speaker 1: I never it was that was. I was that kid
Speaker 1: in high school when everyone was hyped off a Harry
Speaker 1: Potter was like, oh, you guys like Harry Potter. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm too busy watching that though. Every weekend time to
Speaker 1: read some silly book I'm learning. Well, actually, I like
Speaker 1: it was so funny because it was very weird um
Speaker 1: bully thing in my school because it wasn't they no
Speaker 1: one targeted me. It was I just hung out with
Speaker 1: the weird kids and so like that group was bullied.
Speaker 1: But like I would always pop around because like I'd
Speaker 1: hang out with the black kids and go and rose
Speaker 1: sessions and I would I would decimate these guys. So
Speaker 1: that's the only thing that kept my nerd crap because
Speaker 1: I remember, um, zip zapps were thing, and if you
Speaker 1: don't know what zip zapps were, they were radio shacks
Speaker 1: sold these tiny RC cars that would charge on the
Speaker 1: remote and then you can you can customize and make
Speaker 1: them faster. And I was like racing them, and all
Speaker 1: these like black kids were like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You you're racing cars like and I was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's fun. Y'all should try it. Sometimes my my introduction,
Speaker 1: I would say, well, I don't know exactly where I started,
Speaker 1: but I was definitely a tomboy um growing up with
Speaker 1: with brothers and my older brother got an N sixty
Speaker 1: four and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1: Of course, my parents got me a Barbie dollhouse that
Speaker 1: I didn't want to play with. But um, you know
Speaker 1: things have changed now, things have changed. But I would
Speaker 1: steal oh, I do remember that Barbie. I would steal
Speaker 1: my brother's Batman because he was jacked. I think it
Speaker 1: was like the George Clooney Batman too. I would steal
Speaker 1: his rubber Batman and he would replace Ken and also
Speaker 1: his g I Joe would disappear at times as well.
Speaker 1: I was exploring, um, but yeah, his n sixty four.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I love Super Mario sixty four. I
Speaker 1: love Tour Rock, Um, Dinosaur Hunter, Diddy Kong Racing. I
Speaker 1: mean I still own that. I still think that Mario
Speaker 1: Kart is supreme and your boy got the switch and
Speaker 1: the Mario Kart. Whoever wants to see me hit your
Speaker 1: boy up for that friend code. But yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: is funny, this like weird line of the flip of
Speaker 1: how fun because I remember when around that same time,
Speaker 1: the same dudes who were trying to roast me for
Speaker 1: zip z apps. I would play Yugio in the in
Speaker 1: the cafeteria every morning. And then one of the guys
Speaker 1: his name was Drew I'll never forget him because he
Speaker 1: also he had like long hair that would be in
Speaker 1: a ponytail. Total ladies man. But he and that's when
Speaker 1: I was like this nerds stuff, ain't that dorg because
Speaker 1: he would come and play and get served up. And
Speaker 1: then one time were in the road session and he
Speaker 1: looks to me, He's like this dude over here, he
Speaker 1: plays moonlighted. Moonlighted. You know, for those who didn't see
Speaker 1: which you need to go go go woke yourself and
Speaker 1: go see moonlight. But you know, after um, after oh man,
Speaker 1: but after Black's first romantic experience, the person who experienced
Speaker 1: it with him turned his back on him, and and
Speaker 1: and and and punched him because he wanted to fit
Speaker 1: in and he so that is like the most accurate
Speaker 1: term for that. I was moonlighted. Uh, But I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, you play it too. He was like, uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, no it was. But now it's like very synonymous,
Speaker 1: especially within the black community. Like a lot of the
Speaker 1: black Twitter tames use like dragon ball z and anime
Speaker 1: and even some of these like Instagram x Vine Star
Speaker 1: dudes are using anime as jokes and it just goes
Speaker 1: to show you that it's always been there in the community. Finally,
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's connected. Dots who It's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this is cool too, dude. Dragon ball z is huge
Speaker 1: in the Latino community. Aside from the fact that DBZ
Speaker 1: had like one of the best, the Spanish dub of
Speaker 1: DBZ is is still considered one of the best dubs ever.
Speaker 1: I recommended to especially if you try to pick up
Speaker 1: Spanish like go and watch it. I used to watch
Speaker 1: it on Telemundo because they would get one. It was uncensored,
Speaker 1: which my parents didn't find out. That's another thing about
Speaker 1: anime is the uh they don't realize, like your parents
Speaker 1: think you're just watching a cartoon. It's like, no animal
Speaker 1: is kind of anime? Is adult? A lot of it? Um,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I remember did you used to rush home
Speaker 1: every afternoon like to watch Tunami. I feel like that
Speaker 1: my life. Tonami was my life in an adult. Swim
Speaker 1: had their anime run and that's when I had That's
Speaker 1: when I had my VHS tape and I recorded the
Speaker 1: whole season of which Hunter Robin on it. I don't
Speaker 1: know where that VHS tape is. I lost it felt
Speaker 1: real bad about it. Someone's going to find it and
Speaker 1: like some I don't know, is there any video stores
Speaker 1: that are still love Yeah, you know, especially in Austin
Speaker 1: in Portland, you know, they're trying to keep that thing
Speaker 1: that like yeah retro um. But yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of our experiences kind of overlap, and so
Speaker 1: with Nerdificent, what we wanted to do is kind of
Speaker 1: this like deep dive into the history of a lot
Speaker 1: of these things, like the history of VR or the
Speaker 1: history of causeplay. Where it's going because people can now
Speaker 1: do it professionally, Like we have friends that that is
Speaker 1: their full time job is being a cause player, and
Speaker 1: then our personal experiences being nerds and now being hosts. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also it's very cool to make it easy for people
Speaker 1: to dive into certain things are learning. I'd love for
Speaker 1: someone who's curious about costplay to uh, hop on, listen
Speaker 1: here still let you talk about it, give and lay
Speaker 1: it down and you're like, oh, that is that is easy.
Speaker 1: Let me try that all. Because when I when I
Speaker 1: was in college for a short bit before I left,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get back into comics and I remember
Speaker 1: walking to a comic book shop and being like, so
Speaker 1: where should I start to the comic book guy, he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, just grab anything, and it's like that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't which, by the way, bad customer service. You
Speaker 1: could have made me buy a hundred comics to like
Speaker 1: get filled in on the history of stuff. So that
Speaker 1: was just a missed opportunity. But that's that's how some
Speaker 1: people approached and nerd um. They think there's just so much,
Speaker 1: especially if you look at a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: has like like animals that have like three different rereleases,
Speaker 1: three different versions. You look at comic books, you never
Speaker 1: know where to start. Here's a pro tip. Wait, look
Speaker 1: for ask for the last crossover event, and start there.
Speaker 1: That's the easiest way to start reading a comic book, uh,
Speaker 1: because usually the crossover event. Almost recently last time I
Speaker 1: was reading it, I've stepped away from capes a bit.
Speaker 1: But most most times, crossover events kind of reset the
Speaker 1: universe and you can kind of start from there and
Speaker 1: you know, the last big thing that happened that's probably
Speaker 1: going to be referenced throughout issues. And I feel like
Speaker 1: as far as people getting into anime, a lot of
Speaker 1: the times I'll recommend movies, you know, we'll recommend that
Speaker 1: to our friends because and people like you know, they
Speaker 1: have to start from the first episode ever, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: these are my adult friends who like barely have time listen,
Speaker 1: they're watching every single thing on Netflix. And for me
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, try out this anime that has
Speaker 1: like two episodes, uh, Instead, I can just be like,
Speaker 1: watch this movie of it. See if you like it,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're into it, if you're into the
Speaker 1: theme and tone of it, and and then we'll go
Speaker 1: from there. Yeah. Or you can watch Tang and Top
Speaker 1: and Gore and Lyon, which is one of the best
Speaker 1: animals and it's only about I think about forty episodes total,
Speaker 1: so you can find a lot of short run animals too.
Speaker 1: And also, if you are one of those people who
Speaker 1: don't have time or the money to collect multiple comics,
Speaker 1: get trade paperbacks, which are a collection of comic books.
Speaker 1: And don't tell my local comic shop I told you this,
Speaker 1: but they're very cheap on Amazon selling them out, and look,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get them the deals, trying to get
Speaker 1: them the deals. But there's nothing that, nothing, ever will
Speaker 1: beat the experience of walking into your local comic book shop,
Speaker 1: picking out a comic, chatting with somebody maybe buying some
Speaker 1: Funko pops or I think we're thinking of the same place, yea,
Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah, but yes, but you know, we
Speaker 1: wanted to give you a few fun facts that we
Speaker 1: dip into throughout the episodes, like, uh, for example, Danny
Speaker 1: had a real cool one about cosplay being coined. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so the term cause play was actually coined by Nobu
Speaker 1: Yuki Takahashi of the Japanese studio Studio Hard while he
Speaker 1: was attending the Los Angeles Science Fiction World Con. He
Speaker 1: was impressed by the hall in the costume fans and
Speaker 1: reported on both in Japanese science fiction magazines. Did you
Speaker 1: know that, I bet I almost feel Yeah, And cosplay
Speaker 1: is literally literally just the terms costume and play a
Speaker 1: lot of people, I think, like if you were explaining
Speaker 1: it to your mom or aunt or dad or uncle,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure included everyone in there. Um
Speaker 1: they would be like, I don't get It's just like
Speaker 1: dressing up. It's just like Halloween. But cosplay isn't just
Speaker 1: dress up. Aside from the fact that a lot of
Speaker 1: these that all of these cause players are are normally
Speaker 1: making the suits themselves. It takes them hours. They have learned.
Speaker 1: We did interview Stella Stella Chew and she has you know,
Speaker 1: she she had to essentially teach herself how to work
Speaker 1: with these crafts, how to work with these materials. Um.
Speaker 1: But they also kind of they embody this character. It's
Speaker 1: not just putting on a costume. It's the mannerisms and
Speaker 1: trying to be as as realistic and to the source
Speaker 1: as Paul possible. So there's an entire world. Um. And
Speaker 1: we also talk about, you know, what is acceptable at cons.
Speaker 1: There are kids at cons, and yet we're also you know,
Speaker 1: IFFI and I are are very pro sex. Were pro
Speaker 1: you know when I mean, I feel that's okay to
Speaker 1: say pro secs want you to have all the same
Speaker 1: love sex everyone. We want all our nerd friends to
Speaker 1: be having as much sex as possible, whether it's with yourself,
Speaker 1: with a robot, with a friend. Um. But no, we're
Speaker 1: very I feel we're very pro pro women pro secs
Speaker 1: and we don't want to shame women ever. But we
Speaker 1: did have a conversation about, okay, but if there's little
Speaker 1: kids here, what should be allowed because some of these
Speaker 1: cause play outfits aren't aren't they're not? Also, you said,
Speaker 1: con which if you don't know is short for convention,
Speaker 1: and what's a convention? It's a comic book convention. But
Speaker 1: did you know the first ever recorded, quote unquote official
Speaker 1: comic book convention took place in nineteen sixty four in
Speaker 1: New York City and it was known as the New
Speaker 1: York Comic Con. It was held at July sixty four
Speaker 1: at the Workmen's Circle Building. Fun fact. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was actually done by a sixteen year old Bernie bub Nous,
Speaker 1: Bernie bub Nous and ron fradkin Um and they actually
Speaker 1: had a hundred attendees, So they did. They did the
Speaker 1: first recorded official comic book convention. But the one that
Speaker 1: we know that's the most popular that when most people
Speaker 1: say comic con, they're referring to San Diego Comic Con
Speaker 1: and that got started in the nineteen seventies and actually
Speaker 1: has a really interesting They may have lied to get
Speaker 1: some of the speakers there. I think they said that
Speaker 1: it was a nonprofit and we cover that in that
Speaker 1: episode of how they had to run with that for
Speaker 1: a little bit. So, yeah, those are the type of
Speaker 1: things we'll be talking about, as well as our our
Speaker 1: experiences at comic con um our experiences with sex robots.
Speaker 1: Why yeah, yeah, you might have more experience in that
Speaker 1: than I did. You have not yet been blessed with
Speaker 1: the opportunity. But also yeah, VR. So another another cool
Speaker 1: fun thing that we covered as a Google cardboard, which
Speaker 1: actually the New York Times just distributed one point six
Speaker 1: million Google Cardboard VR. So if you don't know what
Speaker 1: that is, it's a mobile headset essentially that you would
Speaker 1: put your phone into and it would act as a
Speaker 1: VR headset. So they distributed one point six million of
Speaker 1: those to their readers, making it the most widely distributed
Speaker 1: VR platform to date. It only costs ten dollars as
Speaker 1: opposed to an actual VR system which is about five Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm meant to say five hondo and hundred at the
Speaker 1: same time, so I said, and I just wanted people
Speaker 1: to when they're like, what did if he just say so? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so we'll cover that as far as like the
Speaker 1: future of it, like what's the future of VR? We
Speaker 1: know that they're using it in UM medical school to
Speaker 1: help with medical students. It's also used as therapy for
Speaker 1: calming UM. It's used there's a documentary that came out
Speaker 1: where they use it. So you could have a three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty degree view of a war zone. Um
Speaker 1: so so yeah, so we're gonna be covering a lot
Speaker 1: of as well as porn. Of course you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you going to say that I wasn't, But yeah,
Speaker 1: as well as porn and how it's changing the porn industry.
Speaker 1: So we will be talking about, you know, the future
Speaker 1: of a lot of this technology and a lot of
Speaker 1: these nerd topics. Yeah, but what do you think about
Speaker 1: the future of nerdificent what do you think? What do
Speaker 1: you think coming for us? I see a lot of listeners.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of guests, cool guests, Yeah, cool guests,
Speaker 1: live shows, south by live shows, open conversations, open debatable
Speaker 1: conversations about things that might be taboo in the nerd
Speaker 1: world that a lot of people are afraid to talk about.
Speaker 1: Wide open. Yeah, that's that's what I see for us,
Speaker 1: and and just fun and you know, we're we're learning
Speaker 1: as well, so we're not trying to the one issue
Speaker 1: that I had, especially being a woman in the nerd world,
Speaker 1: as I feel there's a lot of gate keeping and
Speaker 1: that's why we want to make the podcast for everyone.
Speaker 1: So if you're new, that's great. If you already know
Speaker 1: about this stuff, but you want to learn the future
Speaker 1: of it and our experiences that you probably relate to
Speaker 1: as well. You know, we're excited for you to be
Speaker 1: listening because I just I just there's too much hate
Speaker 1: in the world. I can't handle any more gate keeping. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. If those three cool facts we
Speaker 1: laid out for you, you didn't know and that was exciting,
Speaker 1: you should definitely listen. If you didn't know, but our
Speaker 1: point of view really sparked your inches, you should listen.
Speaker 1: If you knew everything and you knew our point of view,
Speaker 1: you're lying, you don't know. Get out of here, Get
Speaker 1: out of here. So our first episode officially drops April three.
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