1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: I'm welcome to Steph. I've never told you production I 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: hurt radio, and today we have a very special happy 4 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: hour because we are thrilled to be joined by friend 5 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: of the show who I'm very jealous Samantha got to 6 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: hang out with in person recently, Joey. Welcome, Joey. 7 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 3: Hello, Annie, You've got to come out to New York. 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: I mean I. 9 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: Tried to get her to come out my birthday. 10 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: And then you were you could babysit my dog though. 11 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: But also you did dog sit me my dog. 12 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 3: Thank you. 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: So both of those things happened for me. 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but I'm not going to it. Oh I'm 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: jealous though, and you you all you went to a 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 2: Halloween we did. 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 4: I for people who know Manhattan bars. We were gonna 18 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 4: go to the Oscar Wild Bar because they had a 19 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 4: Halloween thing going on and there were a lot of 20 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 4: people there, as are usually is, and it just so 21 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 4: happened in the bar next door also had a little 22 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 4: Halloween thing going on, so we ended up going there. 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 4: Inside it was super cute. I'm blanking on the name, 24 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 4: but I definitely took a picture. So I was next 25 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 4: to the Oscar Wild Bar. This is not an official endorsement, 26 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 4: but it was fun. 27 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: The Latin bar because it was definitely like we had guacamole. 28 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, not that bat always it was sort of it 29 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 4: seems like it had a like very like cosmic, sort 30 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 4: of astrology themed name or something. It had had a 31 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 4: witchy vibe. It was very cute. 32 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: I don't know in comparison to Oscar Wild because that 33 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: was like a huge, like on everybody's list no matter what, 34 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: even if you didn't go for Halloween. They were like 35 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: just a cute bar anyway, not a cute nice bar. 36 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: I sound like an old woman. It's just so good. 37 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: But yeah, but the b went was very very nice. 38 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: By the way, Joey, I won't I won't air out 39 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: your private life aftermath. 40 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 3: Go it was good after this Okay, I just did that. 41 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: Part and later. 42 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,119 Speaker 2: Sounds so mysterious. 43 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 4: Yes, it's been a very eventful last couple of weeks. 44 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: Yes, which as part of why you're here because we 45 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: always love having you anyway. Also, I'm sure people know this, 46 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 2: but Joey is based in New York, so that's sort 47 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: of why that happened. Yes, yes, but that means that 48 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 2: you recently got to go to New York Comic Con. 49 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 4: Yes I did. Yes, this was my second year i've gone. 50 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 4: It was super fun. I went Saturday and Sunday, and 51 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 4: it's a four day event, and I do not think 52 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:03,679 Speaker 4: I could handle all four days. I had a couple 53 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 4: of friends that went all four days. That seemed to exhausting, 54 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 4: but yeah, it was. It was super fun. I went Saturday. 55 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 4: I was dressed as Tim Drake aka Robin number three 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 4: if you want to be technical, I was wearing the 57 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 4: red Robin suit. 58 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 3: That he has. If anybody saw me, I was, that 59 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 3: was me. 60 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 4: It was the whole kind of like Batfan Gotham City Crew, 61 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 4: which was super fun. 62 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 3: Had lots of people stop us to take photos. 63 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 4: I made the mistake of not asking anybody to send 64 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 4: me those photos. So again, if anybody happens to have 65 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 4: a picture of me, feel free to dm me. 66 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: I saw a few pictures that you posted a little. 67 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 3: Bit I did post picture. 68 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, so cute. 69 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 4: It was super fun. That was my first time with 70 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 4: that specific cosplay. So happy it all worked out, all 71 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 4: came together. And then the second day I was Nico 72 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 4: de Angelo from the Percy Jackson series, which was one 73 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 4: of my favorite book series growing up, one of my 74 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 4: favorite book series. I actually was really surprised. I didn't 75 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 4: think I would get recognized as much as Neico because 76 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 4: he has a little bit more of like a low 77 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 4: key look. But I that was a big Percy Jackson day, 78 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 4: so I think I got stopped a lot. 79 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 3: It was also kind of fun because a lot. 80 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 4: Of people had like the orange T shirts with the 81 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 4: camp at flood and I did the he wears like 82 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 4: a very dark, like emo kind of look, so it 83 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 4: was like I felt like there was some of the pictures, 84 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 4: it's it's fun. There's like a sea of orange and 85 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,559 Speaker 4: then me in the middle. But it was super fun. 86 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 3: It was a fun time, love an excuse to dress up. 87 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: Some of the pictures that I saw. I actually was like, 88 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: oh my god, Joey looks just like that character. Holy crap, 89 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: Like he looked so dead on. I was like, wow, 90 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: that's amazing. 91 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 3: It was good. My hair was cooperating all weekend. I 92 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 3: was so happy. Yeah, I and. 93 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 4: And I we've talked a little bit about codsplay like 94 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 4: off my but I I usually go for a combination 95 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 4: of the characters that I like and the characters I 96 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 4: relate to, but also the ones that look like. 97 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 3: Me, because you know, it's nice. 98 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 4: It's nice to get stopped to have people tell you 99 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 4: that you look just like the character your cosplays really 100 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 4: spot on. 101 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 3: It was that on Oh thank you. 102 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you and I we have talked a lot 103 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 2: off Mike about cosplay, and I'd be interested to hear 104 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 2: from you, Joey. How long have you been cosplaying and 105 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: what has your experience been? 106 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,919 Speaker 4: Yeah, so I actually am pretty new. I it was 107 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 4: my like pandemic copy that I picked up, and it 108 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 4: was sort of like one of those things I always 109 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 4: wanted to do, and I was like a kid, like 110 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 4: a teenager, and I just like I never had any 111 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 4: thing to do. I never really went to conventions or anything, 112 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 4: so I didn't have any excuses to do it, and 113 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 4: then any hour was a pandemic copy. 114 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 3: I picked up doing some some social media stuff. 115 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 4: But yeah, it's been It's been fun the last two 116 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: years getting to go back to cons and be able 117 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 4: to cosplay in public with other people. This year it 118 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 4: was super fun to do to group cosplays in a row. 119 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 4: Last year, I did a whole Stranger Things group with 120 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 4: some people. 121 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 3: I will say I'm not the biggest Stranger Things fan. 122 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 4: But it was fun to just kind of you know, 123 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 4: it was the same thing where we got we got 124 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 4: stopped a lot. 125 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 3: We had a lot of people taking pictures with us. 126 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 4: I was Dustin by the way, if anybody, I am 127 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 4: pretty short, so I was like, okay, I will be 128 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 4: one of the kids. But yeah, this year, I guess 129 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 4: also was some shorter characters. But yeah, it was super 130 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 4: It was super fun. A friend, I just want to 131 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 4: say solidarity with the SAG after a strike. 132 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 3: It is messed up. 133 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 4: What is happening with these big companies right now, These 134 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 4: big media companies, some in particular, are acting in ways 135 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 4: they're really vile and brilliant immoral in my opinion, And 136 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 4: I really hope that they can. 137 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 3: Come to an agreement soon and the. 138 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 4: Actors that are on strike can get a fair deal, 139 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 4: because that's what they deserve. These are the creators that 140 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 4: are making this media that we all love so much 141 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 4: that we were celebrating all weekend. So yeah, and one 142 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 4: thing I will say, I was really happy to see 143 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 4: a lot of people with either buttons or like signs 144 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 4: that were like in support of SAG. I had my 145 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 4: I have one really small WGA pin that I got, 146 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 4: but I. 147 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 3: Had it on my costume all weekend. 148 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 4: That it was fun and yeah, but one I think 149 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 4: one of my couple of complaints I have, and I 150 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 4: think I was telling you guys before this started. I 151 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 4: understand why the event did not prioritize this because they 152 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 4: don't have any monetary like motivation to do this, but 153 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 4: I do kind of wish that, like the event itself 154 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 4: put out some sort of statement or was a little 155 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 4: bit clearer about what exactly the strike guidelines were for 156 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 4: cosplayers and for people that wanted to just sort of 157 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 4: like talk about the events they were going to. 158 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 3: I went to a panel. 159 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 4: That was really great that I would love to talk about, 160 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 4: but it is about production that is currently or a 161 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 4: company that is currently struck, so I'm gonna kind of 162 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 4: avoid talking about that. But yeah, that being said, again, 163 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 4: I understand that, like the convention, they don't have any 164 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 4: economic motivation to really clarify that, but from a moral standpoint, 165 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 4: it would have been nice also then just sort of 166 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 4: used it as an excuse for me, Like I picked 167 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 4: the specific costume I did for my character the first 168 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 4: day because it's something that's primarily like from the comics 169 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 4: and not really on screen yet, and then my character 170 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 4: on Sunday it was the same thing. Obviously, like the 171 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 4: Percy Jackson Show is going to be coming out soon, 172 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 4: but Nico's a character that is probably not gonna be 173 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 4: in the first season, probably gonna wait a little bit 174 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 4: till he's there. 175 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 3: I know. 176 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 4: I had a couple of other friends that did Percy Jackson 177 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 4: related ones that were like, I'm gonna stick specifically to 178 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 4: like the book descriptions. The characters just sort of make 179 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 4: that a little bit, just kind of clarify that a bit. 180 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 4: But yeah, it was I think overall, you know the 181 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 4: people that were there. 182 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 3: There was the fourth for the strike. 183 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, so I again, both characters I liked here, both 184 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 4: characters that were really important to me personally, which was 185 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 4: super fun. Saturday, I was, yeah, I was gonna mist 186 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,719 Speaker 4: him Drake, Robin, Red Robin, whatever you. 187 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 3: Want to call him. DC keeps changing it. 188 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 4: If you don't know anything about DC, he's the Robin 189 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 4: that they just recently in the past couple of years 190 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 4: made openly bisexual and has a boyfriend, which. 191 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 3: Is super cool. 192 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 4: And I did get to meet the writer who wrote 193 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 4: that arc and she was super sweet, and we had 194 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 4: a really nice conversation about the character. 195 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 3: And this is one of the things that I love 196 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 3: about these things. 197 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 4: It's like you get to talk to a lot of 198 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 4: these writers and creators that are working with these characters 199 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 4: that so many of us love, and this character in particular, 200 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 4: like has gone through so many iterations, and it's cool 201 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 4: to hear that, like these writers have the same sort 202 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,839 Speaker 4: of love for these characters that we do. Again, she 203 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 4: was super sweet. We like talked about some of our 204 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 4: like head candids for the character, and it was just 205 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 4: like it was fun to hear that. I'm super sad 206 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 4: that that series ended up getting canceled last year, but 207 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 4: it was great. I got a signed copy of one 208 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 4: of my favorite one of the comics from her that 209 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 4: has two of my favorite characters on the cover, so 210 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 4: super fun. And then also she did say that she 211 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:42,359 Speaker 4: loved my cosplay, which was a great ego trip for me. 212 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. Actually, yet, back to the pictures thing. 213 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 4: So, and I know, Annie, you talked about this when 214 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 4: you were talking about Dragon Con. 215 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 3: These things are obviously they are huge. 216 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 4: I think this one there was I saw an article 217 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 4: that said two hundred thousand people at least. 218 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 3: Were there which is crazy. 219 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 4: Personally, I'm somebody I really thrive in chaos and like crowds, 220 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 4: so that was great for me. I know, I definitely 221 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 4: had a couple of friends that needed to like step 222 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,719 Speaker 4: out for a sec. But we were getting stopped constantly 223 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 4: to get pictures taken or like we would stop and 224 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 4: do some group photos and people would just keep coming 225 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 4: up and being like can I take a picture with 226 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 4: you guys, which again I'd love because I love the attention, 227 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 4: so I'm happy to take pictures with people. 228 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 3: But that was super fun. 229 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 4: I think another thing I really love about these is 230 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 4: just seeing everybody so excited to talk about like media 231 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 4: that they just feel passionate about and things that they love. 232 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 4: And it's so cool to see how creative people are. 233 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 4: With the costumes. There were so many, so many, so 234 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 4: many cool costumes I saw. I yeah, again, I was 235 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 4: sort of in I was in a very giddy, bubbly 236 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 4: headspace walking around and. 237 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: It was just go like like I love your costume. 238 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 3: Just so many people, which was super fun. 239 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: Wait, what was the best costume you saw? Or top three? 240 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 4: There were a lot, so there was We did go 241 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 4: to this. Leading up to that, there was a DC 242 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 4: meet up thing that happened. They usually do like a 243 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 4: DC one, a Marvel one, like Star Wars one kind 244 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 4: of thing. There was a big one with all the 245 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 4: DC cos players and I went to that was super fun. 246 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 4: There was some we did like the big group photo, 247 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 4: and then there was like smaller one. There was like 248 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 4: a Gotham City one. There was a Young Justice one 249 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 4: that was in all that. But there was somebody who 250 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 4: is mister Freeze and he had like the full like 251 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 4: looked like the animated show look and he had this 252 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 4: like smoke thing, like smoke creator thing on his head 253 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 4: that was super sick. 254 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 3: I did get a picture of him. 255 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 4: You can't totally tell just like how cool the whole 256 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 4: mechanism was in the photo, but it was. It was 257 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 4: super cool. Again, people are so talented and so creative. 258 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 4: It it is so fun that event too. There was a 259 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 4: Batman cosplayer that proposed to his partner who was dressed 260 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 4: as Catwoman. 261 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 3: That was super adorable. They were super cute. It was 262 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 3: also fun because like, I. 263 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 4: Don't know, it's like like it's I'm a I'm a 264 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 4: very like extroverted person too, so I always make friends 265 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 4: with these things. Like I was in the back with 266 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 4: a bunch of other like Robin and other various Batman 267 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 4: Children characters, and we were all like. 268 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's our mom and dad. But it 269 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 3: was super cute. It was super fun. 270 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 4: I definitely had a little bit of like DC blinders 271 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 4: on the first day, so I was I had my 272 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 4: eyes out for all the other DC cosblayers. But there were, 273 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 4: you know, a lot of Barbie's too, a lot of 274 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 4: really cool Barbie takes on different things. 275 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 3: Like there was like a Barbie Mandalorian. I did see. 276 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 4: I didn't see this in person, but I saw on 277 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 4: an Instagram somebody did a Britney Spears Mandalorian that I'm 278 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 4: obsessed with. 279 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 3: But yeah, there were a. 280 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 4: Lot of Mandalorians, a lot of like different takes on Mandalorians. 281 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 3: A lot of the. 282 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:54,479 Speaker 4: It was her like red sequin like Gemstones. 283 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 3: Look it was that, but it was like the helmet 284 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 3: was all red Gemstones. It was it looked it was 285 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 3: super cool. 286 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 4: Again, I thought that one on Instagram, so it's it's 287 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 4: somewhere out there in the world. 288 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. 289 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 4: And then Sunday again, I don't really want to go 290 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 4: into it. I did go to the Percy Jackson panel. 291 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 4: I just because of the sag after strike. I don't 292 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 4: want to talk a ton about that, but I think 293 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 4: because of it, there just was like a lot of 294 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 4: Percy Jackson related cosplayers that day, which was fun to 295 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 4: just see like all the Orange shirts everywhere and that 296 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 4: that's a series that like was really impactful for me 297 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 4: growing up, and I know a lot of other people 298 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 4: like around my age. 299 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 3: It was like really really foundational for a lot of us. 300 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 4: So it was sort of cool to have that thing 301 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 4: that we could all like, we all had in common, 302 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 4: we all could bond over. And I even like I 303 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 4: have friends that weren't at Comic Con that messaged me. 304 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 3: And we're like, oh my god, your Nego. 305 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 4: Like it was just it's cool to have that sort 306 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 4: of like communal like generational piece of literature that we 307 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 4: all we all really love. 308 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: But yeah, and that that one too. 309 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 4: There were some cool I saw some cool Talia cosplays. 310 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 4: Know your Percy Jackson characters. There was a Rachel who 311 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 4: had a prophecy book and super fun. Yeah. 312 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 3: I just overall had a really great time. 313 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 4: I think this year, I don't know some all big 314 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 4: about this year was just like had it was really fun. 315 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 4: What I tend to do so Saturday, but originally we're 316 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 4: gonna go to a panel early in the morning. We 317 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 4: ended up missing it, me and the friends that I 318 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 4: was with, just because we laughed a little bit later. 319 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 4: But honestly, I think that kind of I don't know, 320 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 4: I took us some of the stress off. Like we 321 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 4: spent a lot of the day just kind of like 322 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 4: wandering around and people watching and again, like I really 323 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: love going to like see all the artists and the 324 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 4: writers and artists. Alley is always really cool. I think 325 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 4: that's the thing about Hans that I really like. I'm 326 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 4: not really somebody that I like going to meet celebrities. 327 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 4: That's not my thing. I get it if that's your thing, 328 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 4: but I not something I'm interested in. But it was 329 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 4: fun to just like be surrounded by art and people 330 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 4: being creative and all these cool stories and getting to 331 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 4: meet other people that are enthusiastic about this, like art 332 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 4: that I also love and these stories that I also love. 333 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: You need to come to a dragon con, I got 334 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: hang with me. What was the So was Barbie the 335 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: number one theme of costumes? Because this is anything of 336 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: trying to predict, Yeah, I so, I. 337 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 3: Honestly, there was a lot of Barbie. There wasn't as 338 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 3: much as I thought. 339 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 4: Again, I think that first day I did kind of 340 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 4: have the like DC blinders on that I was sort 341 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 4: of looking for other people to take pictures with. 342 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 3: But I didn't see a ton of Barbie. I did. 343 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 4: I had a friend that did the whole like cowgirl 344 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 4: roller skates get up. It was on roller skates all day. 345 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 4: Wow somehow that Yeah, No, I could not do that, 346 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 4: but that was really cool. Yeah, there wasn't as much 347 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 4: there was. There was kind of a lot of variety 348 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 4: this time. I think there wasn't really like a main 349 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 4: There were a lot of Mandos. There was a whole 350 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 4: train of Mandos that cut off one of my route 351 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 4: that was with a huge group trying to walk around 352 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 4: and we got cut off by this whole train of 353 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 4: Mando's that was trying to go through. 354 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. 355 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 4: There was also I think Annie you mentioned this with 356 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,239 Speaker 4: Dragon Con, there was a little Ken meet up. 357 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 3: I saw them all singing or. 358 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 4: Saw I might be a little This might not be 359 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 4: the most popular opinion. Personally, I think the whole Ken 360 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 4: things getting a little old. The movie was about Barbie. 361 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 4: It seems a little weird. We're focusing so much about Ken. 362 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 4: The whole movie is about Barbie. Anyways, it was cute though. 363 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:30,120 Speaker 4: It was very very cute, fun couple cosplays. 364 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 3: I always love seeing the couples too. They're adorable. Uh oh. 365 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 4: Actually another one of my favorites I did meet the 366 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 4: DC day that I did there was a poka ut 367 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 4: Man from Suicide Squad and the Condiment King and. 368 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 3: They were adorable. 369 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 4: I love the like obscure, corny villains that people will do, 370 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 4: like the full cosplays of that is so fun. 371 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was super cute. 372 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 4: Yeah. 373 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 2: I mean that's what I love about these things too, 374 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 2: is when you go and you just see people so 375 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 2: passionate about these things or they are so creative about 376 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 2: the costumes. Are the puns they make with the costumes, 377 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 2: which I love just nerding out. And I do think 378 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 2: dragon Con is much more. I feel like if my 379 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,640 Speaker 2: experience going to Comic Con versus Dragon Con Comic Con, 380 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 2: it makes sense to me that there's much more. Oh, 381 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 2: this day, this panel is happening, there's gonna be a 382 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 2: lot more people dresses that panel. Dragon Con is not 383 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 2: like that as so much. It is still but not 384 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 2: to the same degree. But also it is fun for 385 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 2: me because I've gone through like several stages of cosplay, 386 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: and now when I first started, like no one knew 387 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 2: who I was but like two people, and I was 388 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 2: upset by that. And then everyone knew who I was, 389 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 2: and the it's like, Okay, this is great. And now 390 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 2: I feel like I've got a fun costume where only 391 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 2: some people know who I am, but they love it, 392 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 2: and it feels like a different type of like like, 393 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 2: oh my god. 394 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 4: I feel that so much because both days again I 395 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 4: was I saw a bunch of Robbins. I didn't see 396 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 4: anybody doing the specific costume that I did, and I 397 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 4: was like the fact that I was like, hey, I'm 398 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 4: getting recognized and be there's nobody else with this specific costume. 399 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, I did good. I did a 400 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 4: great job. I the same with Nico, like I saw too. 401 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 4: I was actually a little surprised because he again like 402 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 4: not the most like out there costumed to do, but 403 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 4: he is a pretty popular character. 404 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 3: But I saw two other Negos. 405 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 4: It was you know, but again, I I it was 406 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 4: fun to be stopped by people, and especially I got 407 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 4: to take pictures with so many different persis. 408 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 3: And I mean because. 409 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:59,959 Speaker 4: So many people were Persian and about that was like 410 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 4: I was the Nico cous player that was running around 411 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 4: and doing I'm sure I'm on a bunch of people's instagrams. 412 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 3: I've been checking the tags to try and see if 413 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:08,959 Speaker 3: anybody's posted. 414 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 4: I've seen a couple where I'm in the group shot somewhere, 415 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 4: and that's always fun too. 416 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 3: It's, you know, like a little moment to be a celebrity. 417 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 3: Not really, but yeah, and. 418 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 4: Again trying to say within the talking about the Percy 419 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 4: Jackson books in particular, trying to stay in the strike guidelines. 420 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 4: But for me, I had a couple of moments, so 421 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 4: Nico was like both characters. Actually, I caused play this 422 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 4: weekend Nico. 423 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 3: Again, I talked about Percy Ja. 424 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 4: I grew up with the Percy Jackson books, like they 425 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 4: were my favorite books when I was a kid. 426 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 3: Nico is my favorite character. 427 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 4: If you don't know the series, he is mild spoilers. 428 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 4: He's the son of Hades. He's got a whole little 429 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 4: angsty thing going on. I was a very angsty child, 430 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 4: so I identified with that. But also later on they 431 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 4: do this other series with the characters, and in the 432 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 4: second series, which was coming out when I was in 433 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 4: high school. His character comes out as gay, and that 434 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 4: was the first time that I remember reading like a 435 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 4: mainstream series that I already really liked where one of 436 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 4: the characters was confirmed to be queer, was confirmed to 437 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 4: be gay. And then that also just like that book 438 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 4: came out when I was fifteen, which also happened to 439 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 4: be the year that, like I was starting to realize 440 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 4: that I wasn't straight. 441 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 3: So I always talked about like Nico as. 442 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 4: A character that was just really important to me growing 443 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 4: up and like coming to terms with my identity. He's 444 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 4: still one of my favorite characters, still will be. And 445 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 4: again because it was like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, like 446 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 4: it wasn't. There's still not to say that there's like great, 447 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 4: amazing queer representation and everything now, but like. 448 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 3: There really wasn't. Like there was like Glee, and that 449 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:51,239 Speaker 3: was it. 450 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 4: Like that was the only other thing I could of 451 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 4: remember with like a queer character before, like, and I'm 452 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 4: sure there was out there, I'm sure, but like with 453 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 4: the really mainstream stuff, like that was the character that 454 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 4: I think really was really important, really foundational and pivotal 455 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 4: for me and also for my understanding of how queer 456 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 4: characters could be included in like these sort of like 457 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 4: fantasy sci fi books that were like about other things, 458 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 4: they weren't just like romance novels. Yeah, and so he's 459 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 4: still like a really important character in me. So there 460 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 4: was definitely a couple of moments I like looked in 461 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 4: the mirror and I was like, oh my God, like 462 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 4: this my like ten year old self was like freaking 463 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 4: out because he's my favorite character. 464 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 3: And then like he's also been so important to me, like. 465 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 4: Personally, Tim Drake's also another character like I really have. 466 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 4: I really got more into DC like later in life, 467 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 4: but you know, I grew up with like teen Titans 468 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 4: and stuff. And yes, I know that it's not Tim 469 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 4: Drake that is a Grace and that's different Robin. But 470 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 4: I think just the whole thing where and I have 471 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 4: my criticisms of DC and how they kind of have 472 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 4: dealt with their queer characters and how they've done those storylines, 473 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 4: but at the same time, I think making one of 474 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 4: their Robins or bisexual day whatever was like really important 475 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 4: and really impactful. And I don't know, there's like a 476 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 4: little thing where I was just like I feel so 477 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 4: happy that I can play like I can causeplay these 478 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 4: two characters this weekend that both like a have been 479 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 4: on their own just really important characters to me and 480 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 4: really important characters to like a lot of people, and 481 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 4: then also were then later confirmed to be queer, and 482 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 4: I don't know that that just felt really like nice 483 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 4: and healing for me personally, So I really love that. 484 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 3: It was fun. 485 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, it is fun. I had somebody ask me once, 486 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 2: he was like, you're so shy. I don't understand why 487 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 2: you do this, And I was like, I actually feel. 488 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 3: Better like this than I do and like my normal so. 489 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 4: Oh my god, no, I feel like it's it's always 490 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 4: so interesting because I feel like there is such a 491 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 4: like range of people and personalities that do this. Again, 492 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 4: I'm a very extroverted person, like I I'm always out 493 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 4: talking to people, but it is like I was there 494 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 4: with some friends that are like much more introverted, much 495 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 4: more shy, and it's just cool to have, like, you know, 496 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 4: it's a fun thing we all share and we all 497 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 4: like it's you know, I think this time too, I 498 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 4: was pleasantly surprised with how like I think just overall 499 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 4: respectful people were And again that was just my experience. 500 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 4: I'm sure other things might have happened that I wasn't 501 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 4: aware of that Usually, like with these big events, stuff happens, 502 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 4: but also not that it should be normalized, like you know, 503 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 4: people should be respectful and all of that. But also 504 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 4: I think like I did not have a negative interaction 505 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 4: with anybody, which was that was great. I felt really 506 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 4: happy with that. 507 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 3: I'm I'm glad to see that. You know, this was 508 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 3: a joyful space. 509 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 4: This was a happy, creative, joyful space, and everybody is 510 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 4: just sort of allowed to nerd out, you know, be themselves, 511 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 4: be these It is cool to see, Like I think 512 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 4: seeing the characters that people picked to cosplay like says 513 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 4: so much about people, which again I talked about my 514 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 4: whole thing about like why I picked the characters I did, 515 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 4: But it is so cool, Like everybody I talked to 516 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 4: like that, how it was like, yeah, this character, this 517 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 4: character is really important to me, Like had such a 518 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 4: cool story with like why that character, why that piece 519 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 4: of media is really important to them? 520 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 3: And I just think that's really beautiful. 521 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 4: Yeah it is. 522 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 2: We talk about that a lot on here because I'm like, 523 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 2: I feel that people dismiss the power that these fictional 524 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 2: characters have and the stories have for you moving through 525 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: your life and dealing with things. Yeah, exactly, Yes, well, 526 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming on, Joey. 527 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: Of course, you for sharing your amazing time. 528 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah, anytime. 529 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,959 Speaker 1: Yes, we need to have an exchange where any need 530 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,959 Speaker 1: to comic con and Joey you come to Dragon Con. 531 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 4: Yes, that'll That'll give me an excuse come out to 532 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 4: Atlanta too. I've also been meaning to come on to Atlanta. 533 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a time. 534 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 3: It's gonna be a time. 535 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: Kind of time. No one knows. 536 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 2: That for the roll of the dice. Now, it's a 537 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 2: good time. It's a good time. Well, uh yeah, we 538 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 2: we will always love having you. You're welcome back anytime. 539 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 2: I know there's talks of you maybe coming back soon 540 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 2: for fictional character. Yes, but in the meantime, where can 541 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: the listeners find you? 542 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 4: Yeah, you can find me at Pat not Pratt. That 543 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 4: is p A T T and O T p r 544 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 4: A t T. My last name is Pat not Pratt. 545 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 4: That's on Instagram on Twitter. I'm not on Twitter a 546 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 4: lot anymore, but you find me there. I just I 547 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 4: did post some of my comic on pictures. If you 548 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 4: want to see the costumes I'm talking about. Then again, 549 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 4: this is a long shot, but if anybody happens to 550 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 4: have a picture of me from ether of those days, 551 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 4: please DM me, please let me know. 552 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 3: I I would love to see how those turned out. 553 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 4: Yeah. 554 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 2: My problem is I always try to do that and 555 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 2: no one knows what my costume is. If they took picture, 556 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 2: like they're like, I know this girl in this gold outfit, 557 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 2: I don't know, so I can't start so great. 558 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 4: It is an iconic outfit, though, I you know what 559 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,439 Speaker 4: the people that know, they know. 560 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 3: Oh god, that is an iconic look. We love it. 561 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 3: Oh my god. That was me Last year I. 562 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 4: Was wicking from Gung Avengers and I had a couple 563 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 4: of people ask me if I was Doctor Strange and 564 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 4: I was like. 565 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 2: No, one. 566 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 3: Costume. I love Doctor Strange. Like, I thank you, that's. 567 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 2: Not it's always weird. You're like, should I correct them? Probably? 568 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 2: Thanks again for coming on. Yes, And if you have 569 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 2: those pics, send them to Joey And if you would 570 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 2: like to contact us, you can her email Stuff Anya 571 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 2: mom Stuff at iHeartMedia dot com. You can find us 572 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 2: on Twitter at most of a podcast, or on Instagram 573 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 2: and TikTok at stuff I never told you. We have 574 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 2: a tea public store and a book you can get 575 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 2: it at sub You should read books dot com. 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