WEBVTT - Episode 18: San Diego Comic Con Recap 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.920 Right, how's it going, y'all. Welcome back to another episode 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.440 of Narrative sent Time. If you wide away and sitting 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.319 across from me is Danny Fernandez. So this is coming 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:22.960 out on Tuesday. It's been like a week and a 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.520 half since Comic Con, a week ish. Hopefully we are 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:33.280 fully recovered. Yeah, one can only hope. I actually don't so. Um. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.040 For those of you that don't go to concert or 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.160 something called the con flu, people normally get sick after conventions. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.080 Aside from the fact that you're like packed like sardines 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.800 in a can with so many people and touching so 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.600 many things, but also just like I think your body 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.640 is like exhausted. This makes it. This is like a 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.440 really negative. What I was going to say, though, is 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.760 that I always get sick before because I'm always stressed 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.680 out trying to host and work and shoot stuff before 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.400 comic Con. So I always get sick the week before 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.880 Comic Con, which I did, so that I'm not sick 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.800 after when everyone else is sick. So I feel like, no, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.680 that's not it. It's because my body has already developed 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.440 those antibodies or whatever. Yeah, no, it's I think it's 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.520 like a combination of that. I think it's a combination, 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.480 especially in San Diego, where it's super hot outside, go 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:23.440 inside and it's like blasting cold. It's just the perfect 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.160 combination of events to make sure that you're sick after me. Luckily, 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.400 I didn't spend too much time on the floor places 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.520 most comic cons. I'm not on the floor that much 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.319 unless there's something I really want to buy. But unfortunately, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.200 and we'll get to it, all the pops that I 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.000 would have wanted sold out in fifteen minutes. I didn't 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.560 even have a shot. Then I was talking to Kyle 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.520 and his brother isn't a DBS fan, but had like 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.560 he could have picked him exclusive. Yeah, he could have 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.600 picked him up for me, but he didn't know anyone 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.200 who wanted it. And I was like, oh, okay, alright, breathe. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.400 But you know one thing that's fortunate for me is 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.080 as a like sneaker head and so on who wear streetwear, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.240 I'm used to re sale being like one to two 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.079 hundred dollars more. Well, funco pop resales are easy. Compared 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.639 to that, it's like, oh, I have to pay forty 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.640 bucks for something, Okay, that's no problem. Like my first 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.680 pair of Easy I've spent five on Well, that's why 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.240 you got to be I feel like we're friends with 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.080 some people that either Funko or the one that I 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.440 know that sold out that crashed Um. I see you 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.880 put it in our notes that Crash Funimation site is 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.119 the West from Dragon Ball Super. Crashed Funimation are good 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.840 friends at Funimation who we're working very hard to try 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.520 and get those exclusives for people. People going crazy. Yeah. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.480 I mean it's so funny because I do often sleep 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.839 on how popular weis is as a character because there's 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.560 so many I feel like in this new rendition of 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.320 dragon Ball dragon Ball Super, there's just so many dope 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.560 new characters that's like, who who do you want? You know? 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.600 I think the same thing would happen if a Chomp 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.120 of Figure came out, you know. Yeah. What I was 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.600 going to say for people that don't know is that 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.120 they had set up an exclusive like so that you 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.399 wouldn't have to necessarily stand in line, like you could 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.840 apply early to be a part of to get comic 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.840 con exclusives, which is a huge and when we say 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:12.040 exclusives are like toys, figures, merchandise that is exclusive to 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:13.760 comic Con, where you're not going to be able to 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.200 get it other places, or you'll be one of the 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.359 first people to own it. So yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:25.240 so what I mean? You were every panel? Which was 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.880 which panels did you do? Just as a recap for people, 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.640 I did People of Color and Comics at sky Bound. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.560 That was moderated by Hector Navarro, who I love dearly. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.320 I also did a live version of my show Natural 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.200 Selection a nerdis House. Oh yeah, if he was in 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:45.280 the audience, um, laughing and heckling. Uh, both those things. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.480 You were a live program is so great because we 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.680 had a live studio audience, but we also were live 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.360 streaming to everybody, and so we had technical difficulties, as 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.560 you do when you're when you are dealing with live programming. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.760 So I hosted that. I host a show called Natural 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.600 Selection at noticed its debate show, and then when I 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.640 did Brown Girls and Gaming, which was moderated by Danielle 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.360 Radford at sky Bound, I had a panel called Most 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.360 Dangerous Women where we actually debated about the representation of 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.080 women and a lot of the films that have come 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.120 out this year and not all not all that great, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.560 some of them even Superhero One. Some of them didn't 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.000 fare so hot. Some of them didn't pass the Bechdel test. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.600 So that's great, But shout out to becktel cast here 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.760 on our here on our network. Check out that podcast 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.280 about the representation of women in media and film. And then, um, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.280 I don't I don't know. I feel I've talked too much. Now. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.359 I did a bunch of panels. Where I did, I 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.200 did a bunch of panels. But what I wanted to 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:47.680 say was that it was very humbling. I used to 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.760 go to Comic Con when I was ten, back when 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.359 my family was living in San Diego, and I would 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.200 stand in line to get the Dragon ball Z voice 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.760 actors to sign my VHS tapes. It was a lot 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.520 different back then. It didn't fill up the whole con. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.200 There wasn't as many people, weren't really as many lines 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.680 and stuff. And to be asked to be on panels 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.400 is it just makes me feel like my voice is important. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.919 And you know, we got to meet a lot of 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.520 Nerdificent fans and just daily sightguys fans and just coming 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.440 up and letting me know that if he both you 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.760 and I that are our voices matter and are important 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.720 in this nerd dumb So Yeah, yeah, thank you guys 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.720 for being so dope. Yeah, it was fun time. This 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.000 was definitely a good time for me, probably my like 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.120 first time super professionally doing it. Like I've always had 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.159 like a pro badge and like I've done a few 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.359 panels before, but this is like the first time I 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:48.040 like moderated a panel and like for a big company, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.400 which was funny because it was sky Bound, which if 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.200 you were listening to last week's episode you know that 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.240 you know they came from Image, and I talked to 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.080 them about that and how they are carrying over for 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.160 the Image kind of philosophy of letting it because just 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.200 like Image, sky Bound, the creators of their brand get 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.159 to own their ips as well, and they're they're really 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.200 excited that, you know, they got a little shout out 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.640 on the episode and also that, uh that we're kind 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.160 of talking about that and both me and Danny work 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.200 with sky Bound now, and I was like, I don't 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.600 know if we mentioned that that yeah we're we're like 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.960 now it's um but yeah, no, it was like super 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.080 cool to do that, especially because like that's like the 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.360 big the big thing. I mean, everything is big at come. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.839 Being on a panel is big. But like when you 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.200 get to do the moderating that you know there's someone 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.120 used to have a monopoly on it, and now I 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.000 feel like a few spots are going to open up 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.760 without trying to sound too messy. Then also I was 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.760 shout casting and hosting an off site activation. They have 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.800 this thing called Experience in San Diego where they had 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.400 an e sports stage and people could three people would 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.560 play with a professional Fortnite player and it was and 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.839 we had raffles. Then it was like a legit raffle. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.400 I want to be like, I wish more people were 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.920 able to enter, but it was literally impossible because the kids, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.520 like kids, kids had that thing lock because pretty much 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.360 the raffle what we were giving away, I said it 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.360 so much that I remember it. And we were giving 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:24.080 away three four Hurts curved monitors, three g t X 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.960 ten seventy graphics cards, and also one d X Racer chair, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.640 six boxes of the Dominion board game, six Roku Expresses, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.440 and eight Lucid sound headphones, which I think are great 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.640 if you are an adult and above like, I'm I'm 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.960 losing my mind at the idea of a eight year 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.200 old getting a g t X ten seventy, like is 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.880 gonna build it. I mean, because the thing is like 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.400 if your parents like a like a supercomputer nerd, they're 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.560 gonna set that up for you. But if not a 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.760 parents are gonna be like what and will they even 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.520 know that they'll be able to sell it almost a 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.840 thousand dollars because of the crypto minors, you know, selling 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.280 like it's it's insane, And I think we genuinely thought 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.600 it would be an older base, but we underestimated how 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.600 big the Fortnight is for kids. And when the kids 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.840 found out that they had a chance to play with 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.840 pros and actually have a chance, a better chance that 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.520 when they were lining up, like the experience didn't open 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.440 up till eleven, they were lining up at like ten 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.080 o'clock and then waiting, then running to the table, then 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.400 lining up because because they would open like a ten thirty, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.400 but we wouldn't start to leven and they would be 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.400 just a line around we every time, every day we 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.280 had to like sign ups filled up after ten fifteen minutes, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.120 and lots of times we didn't even make it that 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.480 far because of how long a game with a pro last, 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.199 because you know Fortnite can last anywhere between thirty seconds 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.439 to thirty minutes, but we have a pro player, it's 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.880 always lasting at least thirty minutes. But like at first 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.520 were like these kids, but then it became heartwarming when 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.840 we found out like two main things made it hard warming. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.640 One these were like some of these kids first wins 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.160 ever at this game, and you know, so like they 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.040 are losing their minds because like this game that seems 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:14.880 so hard to them that they thought they'd never be 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.440 able to win. They just would lose it, and they 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.560 would be so happy because this pro player got them 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.000 the chance to get a win. And to the parents 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.480 really loved him because they were on this huge kind 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.960 of tightan tron up there and talking and the parents 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.520 were like, is there a way we can get the 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.199 footage for this? It was like it was wild. It 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.160 was like, oh yeah, I forgot I think in the 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.600 same way like Comic Con was humbling. Also, it just 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.599 makes me realize how big video games are, like the 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.920 like if I told my parents when I was a 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.679 kid that I wanted to play this video game and 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.040 get a win, I don't think they'd understand how important 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.400 that is for me now. And I feel like a 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.760 lot of parents now get it, and we're super excited 0:09:54.800 --> 0:10:00.079 to help their kids have this win. Yeah, gosh, I 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:01.920 was really proud of you. I liked seeing all the 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:03.720 stuff that you were doing. What I was proud of 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.719 you too. Yeah, I was seeing you up there there. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.560 This house was a cool thing, I think, uh uh, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.320 you know, because before it was at Pecco Park out 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.199 in the sun. Yeah, and this kind it was like, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.959 I really don't remember my top broke. Oh my gosh. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.600 So if we're talking about behind this, and we'll get 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.160 into some of the trailer drops and things that some 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.000 of the big news that happened at Comic Con in 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.360 this wrap up, but just you know, we like sharing 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.280 our personal experiences. So I had a zip up top 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.120 and my zipper broke in between my panels. Um, it 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.480 was my fault. Well, I was wearing a one piece 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.040 and if y'all when you have to go pee, you 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.800 gotta take that one piece all the way off. It 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.080 looks good, especially when it's add out. It looks good. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.200 I looked like it was funny. Hector was like, are 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.400 you a character from Overwatch? Like it was just like 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.600 a cool looking racer. It was like to to give 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.719 credit to that and also help people image. It did 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.480 look like a sexy widow maker like romper. Yeah, yeah 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.319 it was. It was a short, little um one piece 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.320 with like shorts and stuff. But you had to you 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:06.720 had a zipp it. So when it was my zipper 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.920 broke on my way to host my live show that 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.360 was in front of a live audience and live stream 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.559 to thousands of people, and I couldn't get it to 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.600 go back up. So I just basically, if you can 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.720 imagine if he put it good, I think when he 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.400 said the dress that j Lo wore, the dress that 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.720 j Lo war with it like going all the way 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.920 down to her navel, that's what I looked. I mean, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.600 And I had to like we week because it was me, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.720 Danny Erica Ishi. We were walking there at that big anime, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.640 sweat behind my head the whole time, and then we 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.920 got there and she put a shirt on. Danny was like, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.920 I need a shirt. Well, I didn't have tape, Iffy, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.640 and you know, in those situations, something might pop out 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.440 and so um, something anything. And it's really funny because 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.760 everybody was like, no, dude, but that's fun Like I 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.640 personally don't care. I don't really care, but I can't 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.800 speak for everyone on the live stream watching they might 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:03.160 have cared, so you know it is against twitch t os. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.720 You're also like, yeah. It just also reminded me just 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.640 how little I know about women's clothing, because I'll see 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.120 shirts like that and I was like, oh, I didn't 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.280 realize it needs to be secured. I just thought it 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.280 was just the strength of the clothes that kept them together. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.079 You know, That's what I always believed. I was wrong. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.720 How are you getting around? Because those it was packed? 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.720 Like I It was funny too, because coming from Wednesday 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:35.040 to Saturday, it was wild seeing how incrementally more packed 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:40.679 the sidewalks cat and it was rough. Yeah, everybody was 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.120 using the service called bird was that Oh yeah, thank 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.040 you for bringing that up. It was as a scooter. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.480 It's a scooter service that's popular. I don't know if 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.080 they might have it in your town, but they haven't 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.640 in San Diego, where you can rent a scooter like 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.320 and just drop it off wherever you get this app, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.880 you just hop on you scooter wherever you need to 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.120 go and then you leave it or you can keep 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.959 renting it if like you're planning to scooter back. Yeah, 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.640 it's yeah, there there was two Bird and Lime and 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.880 they had bikes, but no one wanted the bikes. Everyone 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:13.400 was on the scooter. And I saw one in Korea Town, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.480 so one had a Bird, and I lost my mind. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.840 I was like, oh this It was like you know 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.280 when you like buy a car and you look and 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.760 it's your car and you love it, and then you 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.360 see the that model on the street. That's what it 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.160 felt like when I was like, oh did this exist? 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.520 And I just never saw it? But yeah, I wrote it. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.400 Once it goes super fast, at least the Lime does. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:37.000 The Bird apparently doesn't go that fast. The Lime zooms. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.960 I was worried also because apparently like you're supposed to 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.880 wear helmets, but like the city was laxed. But I 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.439 think and I knew this because I just know how 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.160 bureaucratic infrastructure works. As more people came, they got more 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.200 strict because if when it's Wednesday and it's like a 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.560 handful of people kind of just going and there's not 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.280 much traffic, you're like whatever, But when there's tons of cars, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.520 tons of people, and then you have these jackalopes on 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.640 the like people were just riding in on the sidewalking, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.480 Like no, that's not. You gotta be on the street. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:12.800 And I know why you don't want to be on 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.160 the street, because you don't have a helmet, and that's 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.880 why you shouldn't be riding it, right right, right. Yeah, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.960 I didn't even step on one because I'm terrified that 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.880 I'm going to get hit by a car, which has 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.640 already happened to me when I was walking across the 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:31.080 crosswalk in college. Um, I don't wanna even add any 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.080 more elements to make that happen. Uh. Yeah, so I'm 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.680 a little I'm a little scared of it, but yeah. Um. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.520 The other thing that I saw that was cooled was, 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.760 of course, because I'm a big Dragon Ball Z person, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.600 they had an interactive dragon Ball super area that was 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.920 outside the Marriott, which was connected to the convention center, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.040 and so you could ride Nimbus, which is the cloud 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.560 that Goku rides from dragon Ball Z. You could play 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.600 Dragon Ball Fighters, I believe you could play there. You 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.280 could like take all these photos with Vegeta and Goku, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.960 and it was was really neat. It was so cool. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.720 Another thing, like you were saying, it was so cool 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.960 to see young people, young and old people getting so 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.880 excited about it and the people working it were like 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.440 really working it. There was a lady, an older lady, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.360 that was doing the photo booth and she was like, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.720 now do your hand like a maya, and now do 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.360 it like this, Like she posed me in a billion 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.480 different ways, and I just was like, this is so 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.800 cool because this is what I grew up with, and 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.440 it's just I'll never not be geeked out by. They 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.120 also changed all of the elevators in the Marriott to 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.200 Dragon moll Z characters, and I just thought that was 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.640 so neat. Yeah, that's that's the first off and foremost. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.880 That's my biggest regret was not making it to that. Yeah, 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.000 I kept missing it. Also, I just literally was either 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.680 doing the panel or hosting the thing, so I just 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.320 didn't have like I was going to have like two 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.440 hours to kind of walk around and do my Nerds stuff. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:54.360 But are Activation was so successful that the experience asked 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.400 us to extend it an hour and I was like, okay, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.480 but I want to go do Nerds stuff. But one 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.720 thing that I remember when I went to the Funimation 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.040 party the first day that they were so excited about 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.280 is that anime was in hall age and I didn't 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.600 consider that that like all this time in hall Age, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.480 we really anime really hasn't had that much of a presence. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.000 I'm sure like that they might have done it a 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.800 year or so or any time, but since in recent memory, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.040 that's the biggest kind of anime hall age event that 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.760 we've had in a while. And that's really cool, not 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.240 only that you know it was anime, but also that it's, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.640 you know, kind of like an anime that anime s 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.840 announce try and look down. It's like, oh cool, Like, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.320 I'm sure you like your niche anime, but it's not 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.480 gonna Yeah, and just to remind people of what hall ages, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.120 it is the biggest hall where they do all of 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.400 the trailer drops. Anytime that you see like the cast 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.920 of Wonder Woman or Aquaman or whatever, it's going to 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.080 be there in hall Age, people will spend the night 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.440 overnight trying to get in. It's always so completely sold out. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.640 Impact and Yeah, and the fact that they had the 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.199 dry Conball supermovie that's coming out there and it was 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.280 also packed for that, and they had the voice actors 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:10.000 there is incredible. That just shows how big that fandom is. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:14.760 If you're sleeping on it, it is huge. Yeah, And 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.440 I think I want to also echo because you're shouting 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.960 out the people who were into it. Definitely, I want 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.800 to shout out they kind of because a lot of times. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.439 And it was funny because Milana vine Troupe was talking 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:31.280 about this how she was voice of squirrel Girl. Yeah 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.800 she's a voice of squirrel Girl. Um. But also she 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.960 when she she said her first comic Con experience was 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.480 getting paid like a hundred bucks today to act in 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.040 this and so yeah, these all those like activations that 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.399 those interactive things are actors who are doing it, and 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.320 so it's so fun to see them commit, and it 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.640 is funny when they're paired with someone who doesn't want 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.320 to commit as much. So I went to the d 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.040 C Experience activation and for the Doom Patrol, they had 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.520 this room where like it was supposed to be a 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.560 chief lab and it's like a scientific lab. And this 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.119 guy was given it his all, like if there was 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.119 an oscar for activation was like, yes, welcome to my lab. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.440 And he was doing it. It was great. And then 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.120 he goes like, what are you cooking up over here? 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.119 And then the other person acting the boom was like, okay, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.320 so here is zebra popcorn and this is like just 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:28.320 totally flat, not in character. But I was like, oh man, yeah, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.480 it's so funny. And then did you get bombarded by 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.000 the Godzilla one at all? That one where they stopped 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.520 so they had a Godzilla activation where they had it 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.560 was pretty huge, and I felt bad for the scientists 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.880 because they had people in like the giant like yellow 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.119 has met suits going around scanning things. And then a 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.520 person in the sue would come to you be like, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.240 have you seen Godzilla activity? And I was this was 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.119 out on the street. And what's funny is I was 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.680 with my friend Ash blogg Itt and Brett Eagleston who 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.359 were all like actors too, so weird, you know, because 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.119 we love the arts are participating like yeah and we 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:09.480 are yeah of course that. And then the second, the 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.200 third one I want to shout out is the Jack Ryan, 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.000 which they were pushing so hard, which I don't know 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.119 the Vinn diagram of like comic book nerds, and it's huge. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.600 Well it wasn't just it is um the guy that's 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.879 in Jack Ryan. Who is it? Jim Oh? Is that 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.680 who did said it? Yeah? John Krasinski, Yeah that's that's Jack. 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.119 So yeah, they had the whole Jack Ryan experience. That's 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.159 so funny for him to be dead pan employee to 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.879 like Jack Ryan. Uh yeah. Like they had these guys 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.480 in all black, which it was kind of creepy until 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.120 you remember you were at comic Con. They will pull 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.880 out a paper with a Manila envelope a message from 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.520 Jack Ryan. And the first time I was like oh, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:57.080 and the second time I was like noted. And it's 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.680 so fun to play along with nerds, I do. I think. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.840 I was in the middle of the street and there 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:07.040 were Sci Fi was having an entire band, a drumline 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.680 and everything, and it was they were playing theme from 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.240 like Spider Man, and they were just having so much 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.119 fun and people were dancing in the street, and it 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.760 was like, this is the best part of of nerd 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.120 dumb like this, this is why we come here. Also 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.440 because no one's behind a screen. Everyone is face to face. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:27.359 There's no fighting and arguing and saying awful horrible things 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.639