1 00:00:08,775 --> 00:00:09,976 Hey, I hope you can fix it. 2 00:00:09,976 --> 00:00:13,680 And frankly, today I'm joined by the great Bill and James of disappearing. 3 00:00:13,747 --> 00:00:15,548 How are you, Bill, doing today? 4 00:00:15,548 --> 00:00:17,584 Oh, we're doing great. Doing awesome man. 5 00:00:17,584 --> 00:00:18,251 How are you? 6 00:00:18,251 --> 00:00:19,452 I am doing wonderful. 7 00:00:19,452 --> 00:00:21,788 I am so excited about this, guys. 8 00:00:21,788 --> 00:00:25,458 So this is just this nerding at the new podcast, joining the Geek Fix Network. 9 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:27,827 We're going to be discussing what is just is starting. 10 00:00:27,827 --> 00:00:29,195 Who are these two guys? 11 00:00:29,195 --> 00:00:30,764 How did they get into this? 12 00:00:30,764 --> 00:00:32,532 Let's start off with that first question. 13 00:00:32,532 --> 00:00:34,567 What is distance? Nerdy. 14 00:00:34,567 --> 00:00:37,470 Who wants to take that one? Oh my gosh, what is distance learning? 15 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:39,272 We haven't answered this question in a while. 16 00:00:39,272 --> 00:00:41,007 I know. 17 00:00:41,007 --> 00:00:42,642 Well, so I guess 18 00:00:42,642 --> 00:00:46,146 going back just kind of Tarantino ING it, going back. 19 00:00:46,279 --> 00:00:48,848 We started, I think, four years ago, 20 00:00:49,883 --> 00:00:50,984 four years ago. 21 00:00:50,984 --> 00:00:55,488 But, before that we were both part of, another podcast, 22 00:00:55,488 --> 00:00:58,658 kind of behind the scenes, sometimes on air, sometimes, 23 00:00:58,691 --> 00:01:01,995 you know, just doing production work or helping out at cons, that sort of thing. 24 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:06,166 So shout out to hardly Heroes no longer around, but we were part of them. 25 00:01:06,166 --> 00:01:10,970 It was great meeting a bunch of people, finding, like minded people, a community. 26 00:01:11,404 --> 00:01:17,977 You know, we started to kind of branch out and started to like, we need to do more. 27 00:01:17,977 --> 00:01:22,082 We got to get this nerd voice out of our system. 28 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:24,150 Yeah. And, 29 00:01:24,150 --> 00:01:25,251 they were going through some changes. 30 00:01:25,251 --> 00:01:28,121 So we're like, you know what? Let's pull back a little bit. Let's see. 31 00:01:28,121 --> 00:01:30,123 Let's see what we can do. And then, you know, 32 00:01:31,191 --> 00:01:33,059 we were always texting back and forth. 33 00:01:33,059 --> 00:01:35,061 Felipe and I were just like nonstop every day. 34 00:01:35,061 --> 00:01:39,032 Like, I talked to him when I talked to, like, my best friends or my mom 35 00:01:39,032 --> 00:01:40,066 or sometimes my wife. 36 00:01:40,066 --> 00:01:43,069 It's just I'm always texting and talking about nerd stuff and like, 37 00:01:43,336 --> 00:01:45,705 why don't we talk about this? 38 00:01:45,705 --> 00:01:47,340 You know, instead of just texting back and forth? 39 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:50,343 So we just said, let's do it. And then, 40 00:01:50,910 --> 00:01:52,178 you know, it's the pandemic. 41 00:01:52,178 --> 00:01:53,713 So what do you do during a pandemic? 42 00:01:53,713 --> 00:01:54,614 You start a podcast. 43 00:01:54,614 --> 00:01:56,850 That's one of the rules. Amen. 44 00:01:56,850 --> 00:01:58,918 The amount of names that got burnt up, it's me off. 45 00:01:58,918 --> 00:02:00,820 Still. 46 00:02:00,820 --> 00:02:04,824 But you guys are unique because you guys record your show live. 47 00:02:05,091 --> 00:02:06,826 What made you go that route? 48 00:02:06,826 --> 00:02:09,796 So that ended up becoming something down the road. 49 00:02:09,796 --> 00:02:14,100 Originally, what I believe was our first 40 episodes. 50 00:02:14,434 --> 00:02:18,271 We had a whole different format, so we would record 51 00:02:18,271 --> 00:02:21,841 and then I would go back and edit in sound bites and, 52 00:02:22,108 --> 00:02:26,012 you know, just do, like a full on production or everything. 53 00:02:26,379 --> 00:02:28,381 And we decided 54 00:02:29,782 --> 00:02:31,951 just, 55 00:02:31,951 --> 00:02:34,020 why don't we try and do this live, right? 56 00:02:34,020 --> 00:02:37,590 Because we were just thinking like, okay, well, let's try doing it live. 57 00:02:37,590 --> 00:02:41,427 Just see if we can it can have a live audience and, have people interact 58 00:02:41,427 --> 00:02:41,928 with us. 59 00:02:41,928 --> 00:02:45,331 And that kind of became the norm 60 00:02:45,665 --> 00:02:47,734 because it was supposed to be like 1 or 2 episodes. 61 00:02:47,734 --> 00:02:48,768 Then we were going to go back, 62 00:02:48,768 --> 00:02:52,539 but back when I was doing it that way, it would take like 16 hours for me 63 00:02:52,539 --> 00:02:56,776 to edit an episode versus now these live episodes. 64 00:02:57,210 --> 00:02:58,545 And you kind of, 65 00:02:58,545 --> 00:03:01,681 you know, expect there to be like, you know, mess ups and things like that, 66 00:03:02,215 --> 00:03:02,582 all that. 67 00:03:02,582 --> 00:03:07,120 So now, it takes me maybe ten minutes to edit the entire show. 68 00:03:08,388 --> 00:03:10,423 Mess ups kind of became our trademark. 69 00:03:10,423 --> 00:03:12,992 So it's part of the life, right? 70 00:03:12,992 --> 00:03:14,127 It's like being at the circus. 71 00:03:14,127 --> 00:03:16,829 You expect to, you know, couple clowns of all over. 72 00:03:16,829 --> 00:03:20,133 We are a bunch of clowns, you know, it is. 73 00:03:20,133 --> 00:03:24,137 It is kind of fun because it adds an element of, like Saturday Night Live 74 00:03:24,337 --> 00:03:27,340 where things are going to go wrong, but you just got to roll with it, 75 00:03:27,607 --> 00:03:28,841 you know, and you just got to deal with it. 76 00:03:28,841 --> 00:03:29,709 We're going to have fun. 77 00:03:29,709 --> 00:03:32,712 And what came out of that is 78 00:03:32,845 --> 00:03:36,282 we have like our pillars of what makes distance learning. 79 00:03:36,583 --> 00:03:39,586 Distance learning, by the way, the name distance learning 80 00:03:39,786 --> 00:03:41,321 that came out of the pandemic. 81 00:03:41,321 --> 00:03:43,156 You know, my I have three kids. 82 00:03:43,156 --> 00:03:46,092 You know, they were distance learning. Yeah. 83 00:03:46,092 --> 00:03:49,229 So as for Philly, man, I were like, what's the name? 84 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:51,030 I'm like, how about distance? Nerdy. 85 00:03:51,030 --> 00:03:53,533 And like, nobody's going to have that name. Yes. 86 00:03:54,534 --> 00:03:57,537 It's going to be easy to get that Instagram handle and it's fine. 87 00:03:57,537 --> 00:04:00,540 I'll the amount of times people have we've either gotten 88 00:04:00,707 --> 00:04:03,876 mostly we get really good feedback and say, that's really genius. 89 00:04:03,876 --> 00:04:04,577 That's really smart. 90 00:04:04,577 --> 00:04:06,279 I've gotten a couple people with like, that's dumb. 91 00:04:06,279 --> 00:04:08,248 That's not going to like in the last was like, 92 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:10,283 oh yeah, when we interview people in Singapore. 93 00:04:10,283 --> 00:04:12,986 So I mean, yeah, it's it's nerdy. Makes sense. 94 00:04:12,986 --> 00:04:15,989 Oh of course. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. 95 00:04:15,989 --> 00:04:16,456 Yeah. 96 00:04:16,456 --> 00:04:20,226 And then so out of the pandemic and out of recording, this is like this, 97 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,396 what were some of the things you pulled from Hardly Here as a podcast? 98 00:04:23,396 --> 00:04:24,130 I listened to a lot 99 00:04:24,130 --> 00:04:28,134 when it was out and back in the day, you know, producer and writer. 100 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:30,470 What did you guys pull from that show that you brought into this one? 101 00:04:32,338 --> 00:04:32,805 A lot of it 102 00:04:32,805 --> 00:04:36,609 was really kind of like the the positive, nerdy attitude 103 00:04:36,609 --> 00:04:42,081 and, what we really wanted to do, was create 104 00:04:42,782 --> 00:04:47,020 an environment of a bunch of friends just talking about nerdy stuffs, you know? 105 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:51,090 And that's kind of what drew me into Hardly Heroes is what, what 106 00:04:51,190 --> 00:04:55,828 what I loved about just hanging around and listening to Buddy Rant and, 107 00:04:55,862 --> 00:04:59,732 like, rag on Aaron and, or what was Aaron's name back then? 108 00:04:59,732 --> 00:05:01,267 Because Aaron has been on our show 109 00:05:01,267 --> 00:05:05,672 for good amount of do, but, back then he was, sprinkles. 110 00:05:05,672 --> 00:05:07,173 Right. So it was like, right. 111 00:05:07,173 --> 00:05:10,143 You know, the the amount of times that they would just rag on sprinkles. 112 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:10,443 Right? 113 00:05:10,443 --> 00:05:15,181 And it was just, you know, it was just friends being funny 114 00:05:15,181 --> 00:05:19,252 and just saying dumb stuff and having these takes on nerdy things 115 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:23,289 and, you know, we wanted to keep that going. 116 00:05:23,289 --> 00:05:25,758 So we, we kind of went that route. 117 00:05:25,758 --> 00:05:30,430 We, we went more of a news route, but, you know, we wanted to report 118 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:34,334 on, like, things that were happening, but also, you know, we're we're really 119 00:05:35,068 --> 00:05:38,071 we've never said it out loud, but we're actually pretty good, 120 00:05:38,304 --> 00:05:41,341 amateur, improv comedians. Yeah. 121 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:44,310 So, you know, we're really good about just kind of like, you know, 122 00:05:44,410 --> 00:05:48,881 taking a joke and running with that and making it a thing the entire show. 123 00:05:48,948 --> 00:05:51,851 Oh, yeah. Tacos on the table, stuff like that. Yeah, it's it's crazy. 124 00:05:53,486 --> 00:05:54,954 I mean, we're gonna we're 125 00:05:54,954 --> 00:05:58,725 gonna say the joke until it gets funny, and then that's when we know. 126 00:05:59,025 --> 00:06:00,426 Yeah, but, 127 00:06:00,426 --> 00:06:04,831 you know, from from my point of view, working behind the scenes on podcasts, 128 00:06:05,231 --> 00:06:09,902 what I found was like, the chaos is what draws people in. 129 00:06:09,936 --> 00:06:13,072 Yeah, yeah, but it's, outline. 130 00:06:13,106 --> 00:06:14,073 It's the production. 131 00:06:14,073 --> 00:06:18,811 It's the stuff you don't see is what makes the show come together. 132 00:06:18,811 --> 00:06:22,482 So the way I always used to say, it is like, if our show. 133 00:06:22,482 --> 00:06:26,552 If distance learning can be jazz, that's what we need to do. 134 00:06:26,552 --> 00:06:31,190 What we need to do is be able to riff and have fun and be stupid with each other. 135 00:06:32,191 --> 00:06:36,362 But we need this outline of this is what we got to do as nerds. 136 00:06:36,396 --> 00:06:38,598 Yeah, to serve the audience of nerds. 137 00:06:38,598 --> 00:06:41,401 Like we have to get this across to them. 138 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:44,370 So that started to become our little 139 00:06:44,537 --> 00:06:48,107 mantra of like, okay, we can be jazz, we can have fun, 140 00:06:48,107 --> 00:06:52,044 we can go on riffs and tangents, but as long as we come back to being nerdy 141 00:06:52,044 --> 00:06:56,582 and then that out of that came like our for our four pillars of distance nerdy, 142 00:06:57,183 --> 00:06:57,450 you know? 143 00:06:57,450 --> 00:07:02,922 So it's being nerdy, being positive, being funny and being energetic. 144 00:07:03,623 --> 00:07:05,758 And that's what became distance learning. 145 00:07:05,758 --> 00:07:10,430 That's so every episode you're going to see that right in distance. 146 00:07:10,430 --> 00:07:12,832 Nerdy as a listener. That's very, very true. 147 00:07:12,832 --> 00:07:14,700 You definitely hear it as a listener as well. 148 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:16,936 I mean, sometimes you guys are you're up late doing this. 149 00:07:16,936 --> 00:07:17,703 Live the energy. 150 00:07:17,703 --> 00:07:20,039 I'm surprised you're able to do it. Sometimes it's 151 00:07:21,107 --> 00:07:23,075 I could mention. 152 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:24,811 A lot of caffeine, a lot of drugs. No. 153 00:07:24,811 --> 00:07:27,313 No drugs at all. 154 00:07:27,313 --> 00:07:29,649 Well, when you get enough caffeine, it becomes a drug. 155 00:07:29,649 --> 00:07:30,917 It absolutely is. 156 00:07:30,917 --> 00:07:33,419 There is a caffeine addiction. That is. That is a thing. 157 00:07:33,419 --> 00:07:36,522 Yeah. Well, total 48 to my 40 ounce. 158 00:07:36,522 --> 00:07:38,124 That is 159 00:07:38,124 --> 00:07:41,127 for me to showing that to everybody right now with his Coca-Cola. 160 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,995 You go. 161 00:07:42,995 --> 00:07:45,097 All right, so you guys cover a lot of things 162 00:07:45,097 --> 00:07:48,100 pop culture, movies, music, kind of run the gambit. 163 00:07:48,434 --> 00:07:51,337 What are some of the more hot topic or favorite topics 164 00:07:51,337 --> 00:07:52,271 you guys have covered in the past? 165 00:07:52,271 --> 00:07:55,508 So you guys would suggest people look up, oh. 166 00:07:56,843 --> 00:07:59,479 So we do do an interview show every Thursday. 167 00:07:59,479 --> 00:08:03,349 And one of the fun things that we do with every guest, 168 00:08:03,616 --> 00:08:07,086 is, you know, just to kind of like, relate everybody back. 169 00:08:07,086 --> 00:08:11,190 Our very first episode, we did a segment called Growing Up Geeky. 170 00:08:11,791 --> 00:08:14,060 And the idea was James 171 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:17,630 and I trying to relate to our audience and saying, you know what? 172 00:08:17,797 --> 00:08:20,433 What is the thing that turned you into a geek, right? 173 00:08:20,433 --> 00:08:22,068 What what made you a nerd? 174 00:08:22,068 --> 00:08:24,871 If I remember back, James was a Hasbro kid. 175 00:08:24,871 --> 00:08:27,139 He, talks a lot about Transformers, G.I. 176 00:08:27,139 --> 00:08:30,243 Joe, things like that, which I also was a Hasbro kid, but that 177 00:08:31,143 --> 00:08:32,778 that didn't wasn't what started me. 178 00:08:32,778 --> 00:08:34,914 What started me was, was Batman, 179 00:08:36,315 --> 00:08:37,250 89 Batman. 180 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:39,151 My brother was super into it. 181 00:08:39,151 --> 00:08:40,887 That got me into 66. 182 00:08:40,887 --> 00:08:43,623 Batman and Adam West became like my mantra, right? 183 00:08:43,623 --> 00:08:47,760 So I was just kind of like those things, you know, is what got me into it. 184 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,696 And then, you know, inheriting my brother's comic books and, 185 00:08:50,696 --> 00:08:51,731 you know, it went on from there. 186 00:08:51,731 --> 00:08:54,734 But with all of that, 187 00:08:55,067 --> 00:08:58,604 we asked that question to every guest that comes on our show now, 188 00:08:58,971 --> 00:09:00,406 so I would say, like, 189 00:09:00,406 --> 00:09:04,043 that's probably something that we kind of go back to because again, 190 00:09:04,610 --> 00:09:07,246 our, our goal is to make everyone relatable, 191 00:09:07,246 --> 00:09:11,050 whether you are an A-list celebrity or your, indie comic creator, 192 00:09:11,450 --> 00:09:14,453 you know, we want everybody to relate to everybody out there just, 193 00:09:14,820 --> 00:09:19,759 hey, I'm a regular person that like, you like write like that kind of thing. 194 00:09:19,759 --> 00:09:23,629 Yeah, it's it's a weird, like, level setting question that we had no idea 195 00:09:23,629 --> 00:09:24,363 was going to do that, 196 00:09:24,363 --> 00:09:28,000 but it gives you enough background and enough like where a person 197 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,771 started from or came from or, or where their passions grew from to 198 00:09:31,971 --> 00:09:36,108 to start the conversation, like we asked that question for like, 199 00:09:36,542 --> 00:09:38,945 you know, indie comic book creators, 200 00:09:38,945 --> 00:09:42,181 we asked that question to like voice actors or movie stars. 201 00:09:42,348 --> 00:09:46,519 You know, we when Felipe's on stage with Sean Ashton at, 202 00:09:46,552 --> 00:09:50,590 you know, a Comic-Con, he has that to, you know him. 203 00:09:51,090 --> 00:09:55,027 Yes. To, you know, everybody that he he meets in the interview. 204 00:09:55,027 --> 00:09:58,064 So and that's another thing is that we're not just news. 205 00:09:58,064 --> 00:10:01,467 We do interviews on a weekly basis. 206 00:10:01,467 --> 00:10:03,169 We host comic cons. 207 00:10:03,169 --> 00:10:05,671 You know we so it's it's fun. It's loud. 208 00:10:05,671 --> 00:10:06,872 It's getting on stage. 209 00:10:06,872 --> 00:10:09,542 It's being bringing people into the community. 210 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:11,677 That's a lot of what we do. Right. 211 00:10:11,677 --> 00:10:13,646 And the key is that it's it's live. 212 00:10:13,646 --> 00:10:15,081 Like that's one of the big aspects 213 00:10:15,081 --> 00:10:17,249 I love about your guys's shows as punch in it's live. 214 00:10:17,249 --> 00:10:19,518 And I wanted to yeah, that was kind of next is is 215 00:10:19,518 --> 00:10:21,921 you guys also have the Thursday interviews coming out 216 00:10:21,921 --> 00:10:24,924 where you're having conversations with an array of different people 217 00:10:25,124 --> 00:10:26,926 which do really share their passion. 218 00:10:26,926 --> 00:10:30,029 And I do love that is that you hear people who pour their 219 00:10:30,029 --> 00:10:30,930 their time into their work. 220 00:10:30,930 --> 00:10:32,798 And I always love interviewing those people as well, 221 00:10:32,798 --> 00:10:35,801 but you guys really give them while we try to like make sure to 222 00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:38,604 I make sure to like dive into their passion, but also like we 223 00:10:38,604 --> 00:10:40,406 the reason you're here, the reason I have you on 224 00:10:40,406 --> 00:10:42,208 is to share the book you got coming out. 225 00:10:42,208 --> 00:10:44,510 But you guys let them actually talk and let them really get into their 226 00:10:44,510 --> 00:10:45,678 their geek side. 227 00:10:45,678 --> 00:10:47,813 And I think that's really appreciated by the listeners. You know. 228 00:10:49,281 --> 00:10:50,282 Yeah, I think so. 229 00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:52,184 And because like that's always been my goal 230 00:10:52,184 --> 00:10:55,721 when we started doing these interviews was to make every person 231 00:10:55,721 --> 00:10:58,924 we talked to relatable, that the ground level. 232 00:10:59,058 --> 00:10:59,825 Yeah. 233 00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:02,828 And so, you know, we go everywhere from 234 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:06,699 Andrew Nelson, you know, talking about the things that he loves. 235 00:11:06,699 --> 00:11:10,102 We talked about fish, you know, because he loves aquariums and things like that. 236 00:11:10,102 --> 00:11:13,773 And I was just like, you start finding these different things 237 00:11:14,173 --> 00:11:17,243 about these different celebrities that you wouldn't have guessed that 238 00:11:17,243 --> 00:11:21,280 they, they, they were into, we've we've made a point. 239 00:11:22,581 --> 00:11:27,753 With everything that we want to recreate the term nerdy, right? 240 00:11:27,753 --> 00:11:31,657 We want to make it a a verb rather than just being an adjective. 241 00:11:32,158 --> 00:11:36,462 For all of my, English nerds out there, and 242 00:11:37,530 --> 00:11:40,733 and nerding as a concept to us is not just. 243 00:11:40,733 --> 00:11:43,502 I like pop culture, or I like these things. 244 00:11:43,502 --> 00:11:45,571 It's. You're passionate about something, right? 245 00:11:45,571 --> 00:11:48,240 And everybody has a passion that they're into. 246 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,243 You know, 247 00:11:51,243 --> 00:11:53,446 whatever it is you're into, we want to talk about it. 248 00:11:53,446 --> 00:11:54,246 That's our taglines. 249 00:11:54,246 --> 00:11:57,883 And, you know, that's one of the things that we always want to do is, is 250 00:11:58,951 --> 00:12:01,120 be a place where you can celebrate 251 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,190 your fandoms without feeling like you are, 252 00:12:05,157 --> 00:12:08,160 you know, being persecuted for it or anything like that. 253 00:12:08,627 --> 00:12:11,063 We are also very anti gatekeeping. 254 00:12:11,063 --> 00:12:14,033 We're very anti negativity. 255 00:12:14,033 --> 00:12:16,135 Like we'll have some negative tags, but for the most part 256 00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:19,839 we always will come back to positives and things. 257 00:12:19,839 --> 00:12:20,573 Right. 258 00:12:20,573 --> 00:12:25,211 You know we we really want to get away from all of the toxicity 259 00:12:25,211 --> 00:12:28,681 that is out there in the fandoms in the nerd world and everything like that, 260 00:12:29,148 --> 00:12:32,351 and just be a place where you get almost like a safe space, 261 00:12:32,351 --> 00:12:35,354 a place where you can come and celebrate the things that you love. 262 00:12:35,688 --> 00:12:38,357 That's why you guys are such a great fit for the gay folks network, 263 00:12:38,357 --> 00:12:42,161 because that's a hey fact across the board for everybody that's with us is, 264 00:12:42,795 --> 00:12:47,166 to have have a have a negative take on something 265 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:52,438 but actually describe what's wrong with it and not bash a person for liking it. 266 00:12:52,872 --> 00:12:55,374 And the reason that we're we're real big fans of this. 267 00:12:55,374 --> 00:12:58,377 It goes back to personally the reason that I really across the network 268 00:12:58,744 --> 00:13:00,446 because it goes back to me, the Star Wars prequels. 269 00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:03,816 I know I talked to you guys about this, but when we were kids, those Star Wars 270 00:13:03,816 --> 00:13:04,517 prequels came out. 271 00:13:04,517 --> 00:13:07,520 All I heard on the radio, all I heard all the time was, oh, how bad they were. 272 00:13:07,553 --> 00:13:08,821 Oh, Phantom Menace is terrible. 273 00:13:08,821 --> 00:13:12,691 And I kept thinking about the duel effects and how much I freaking loved 274 00:13:12,691 --> 00:13:13,692 that movie. 275 00:13:13,692 --> 00:13:15,528 And no, and I felt like I could talk about it 276 00:13:15,528 --> 00:13:17,830 because, like all, I think I'm an idiot because, you know, 277 00:13:17,830 --> 00:13:20,432 and then we grow up and we find out all the other kids liked it, too. 278 00:13:20,432 --> 00:13:22,301 Son of a bitch. We should have talked to each other. 279 00:13:22,301 --> 00:13:25,838 And so we're not going to bash somebody for like and something and that, you know, 280 00:13:26,005 --> 00:13:27,873 just recently a great example of this is like 281 00:13:27,873 --> 00:13:29,842 we went to we're going to watch tomorrow movie. 282 00:13:29,842 --> 00:13:31,310 Now we know the movie was good, 283 00:13:31,310 --> 00:13:33,679 but beforehand we're like Chris Pratt who knows? Right? 284 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:35,481 And we're like, let's go in with an open mind 285 00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:39,718 because we gotta remember this is this generation's first experience of Mario. 286 00:13:39,985 --> 00:13:42,788 And if we bash it and it becomes something that's hated, 287 00:13:42,788 --> 00:13:45,991 suddenly Mario doesn't exist beyond us, and that can't happen. 288 00:13:46,392 --> 00:13:49,328 So you have to kind of foster these fandoms, 289 00:13:49,328 --> 00:13:53,365 these geek terms, these nerd nerds and let them let them go beyond you. 290 00:13:53,365 --> 00:13:54,567 And I think that's really hard. 291 00:13:54,567 --> 00:13:55,868 I like it literally before it 292 00:13:55,868 --> 00:13:58,904 started, like, oh boy, I got some comments heating up on my social media 293 00:13:59,205 --> 00:14:00,573 and I let them burn out. 294 00:14:00,573 --> 00:14:01,774 But I'll be a place for you guys to come to 295 00:14:01,774 --> 00:14:04,043 if you want to just hang out and talk fun. 296 00:14:04,043 --> 00:14:05,778 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. 297 00:14:05,778 --> 00:14:08,047 And you never know what you're going to get out of this. 298 00:14:08,047 --> 00:14:11,817 And like a lot of what having these discussions about, 299 00:14:11,817 --> 00:14:14,186 you know, what you're passionate about, what you're nerdy on on. 300 00:14:14,186 --> 00:14:14,453 Yeah. 301 00:14:14,453 --> 00:14:18,490 Is you come to some kind of common ground or you see like a bigger picture 302 00:14:18,490 --> 00:14:20,926 that you weren't quite sure that you were aware of. 303 00:14:20,926 --> 00:14:24,830 Like, I didn't like there's certain Star Wars things I don't like, 304 00:14:24,830 --> 00:14:26,232 and I'm a big Star Wars fan. 305 00:14:26,232 --> 00:14:30,202 I've been to like four different Star Wars celebrations on the West Coast 306 00:14:30,236 --> 00:14:31,437 and on the East Coast. 307 00:14:31,437 --> 00:14:34,740 You know, I've been to the Rancho Obi-Wan. 308 00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:36,275 You know, I'm a big Star Wars fan. 309 00:14:36,275 --> 00:14:40,246 But the stuff that's just not for me and I, we came to the realization, 310 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:41,180 like on the show, that 311 00:14:42,648 --> 00:14:43,883 certain pockets of Star 312 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:46,919 Wars has gotten so big that it's not always for you. 313 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:48,721 Just like the prequels. 314 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:50,522 It's just not in my generation. 315 00:14:50,522 --> 00:14:54,894 Yeah, but you grow in respect it later on, especially when you get somebody 316 00:14:54,894 --> 00:14:59,431 like Dave Filoni picking up the torch and carrying it forward. 317 00:14:59,431 --> 00:15:05,070 And like making the prequels and The Clone Wars means something to to a generation. 318 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:08,407 And moving forward into like Mando and bringing it back and making it 319 00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:10,743 cool again, you're like, oh my Dave Filoni. 320 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:12,678 Yeah, thank you so much. 321 00:15:12,678 --> 00:15:14,513 There's a rage a series, man. 322 00:15:14,513 --> 00:15:18,617 Like when I say series, I mean everything within that universe. 323 00:15:19,051 --> 00:15:20,986 He knows how to bridge it in a way where, 324 00:15:20,986 --> 00:15:23,022 like, I'm waiting for him to do it for the sequel trilogy. 325 00:15:23,022 --> 00:15:25,224 As much as everybody bashes the sequel trilogy, 326 00:15:25,224 --> 00:15:27,726 there are good things that are in the sequel trilogy. 327 00:15:27,726 --> 00:15:28,861 I think there is. 328 00:15:28,861 --> 00:15:32,865 I'm waiting and I know he's doing it right now, like I'm hot. 329 00:15:32,865 --> 00:15:35,234 Take. I've made predictions on the show already. 330 00:15:35,234 --> 00:15:38,938 But I'm pretty sure the whole Mandalorian 331 00:15:38,938 --> 00:15:43,208 arc and everything that's going on, this is really just explaining 332 00:15:44,076 --> 00:15:48,080 that clone, Palpatine situation that happened in the last movie. 333 00:15:48,147 --> 00:15:49,348 Which they did, a Bad Batch, 334 00:15:49,348 --> 00:15:52,751 bad batch was the entire point was explain why people tend to clone. 335 00:15:53,185 --> 00:15:54,453 And I thought like, 336 00:15:54,453 --> 00:15:57,022 okay, well, you're going to get me, first off, more clone clone war vibes. 337 00:15:57,022 --> 00:15:57,990 I'm definitely down for that. 338 00:15:57,990 --> 00:15:59,525 But I thought it was a really good way to like, 339 00:15:59,525 --> 00:16:01,827 let that breathe a little bit because it felt very rushed. 340 00:16:01,827 --> 00:16:03,329 Obviously in the new trilogy, 341 00:16:03,329 --> 00:16:04,964 there's like, let's give a place for Have to Breathe In is Over here, 342 00:16:04,964 --> 00:16:05,998 The Bad Batch, where we fell in love 343 00:16:05,998 --> 00:16:08,701 with a new batch of clones, which that always happen for me. 344 00:16:08,701 --> 00:16:09,635 Yeah. 345 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:15,007 And and again, like somebody, somebody's favorite Jedi out there is Rey. 346 00:16:15,607 --> 00:16:16,442 Yeah. And. 347 00:16:16,442 --> 00:16:18,544 Right. I'm happy you get a lightsaber. 348 00:16:18,544 --> 00:16:21,146 And so you get along with me. Mine's quite Gungeon. 349 00:16:21,146 --> 00:16:23,983 Let's all celebrate. You know, that's fine. 350 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:26,752 So exactly, exactly. 351 00:16:26,752 --> 00:16:29,922 With in the last aspect I really want to bring up, with, 352 00:16:29,922 --> 00:16:32,124 with like the three different I'm thinking pillars 353 00:16:32,124 --> 00:16:34,193 now that you said philosophy dies, but is a fact. 354 00:16:34,193 --> 00:16:36,762 You guys are go to these conventions all the time. You guys do panels. 355 00:16:36,762 --> 00:16:40,165 You you know, Deadpool happens to pop up where you guys go. 356 00:16:40,165 --> 00:16:41,133 I don't know how that happens. 357 00:16:41,133 --> 00:16:44,203 I think he's just a big fan of you guys a show, but, he does. 358 00:16:44,203 --> 00:16:45,037 Yes. Yeah. 359 00:16:45,037 --> 00:16:46,505 Tell us about your guys's con experience. 360 00:16:46,505 --> 00:16:48,607 We do it, but definitely not as often as you guys do. 361 00:16:48,607 --> 00:16:49,641 Can you tell us a little about that? 362 00:16:51,143 --> 00:16:52,544 Well, you know, 363 00:16:52,544 --> 00:16:56,849 coming off, the other show that we are on coming off hardly heroes. 364 00:16:57,316 --> 00:17:02,454 They used to host some shows, but then when they kind of folded, that 365 00:17:03,022 --> 00:17:06,692 promoter was like, hey, we kind of need somebody to host these shows. 366 00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:08,160 Do you want to give it a shot? 367 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,630 We said yes, and four years later we're still doing it. 368 00:17:11,630 --> 00:17:15,667 So we host, I think it's six or 7 369 00:17:15,667 --> 00:17:19,038 or 8 different comic cons all along the West Coast. 370 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:23,142 We go to Oregon, Nevada, we're going to go to Washington, 371 00:17:23,142 --> 00:17:26,478 Idaho, and, you know, down south as well. 372 00:17:26,478 --> 00:17:29,114 And we attend these cons. We host the panels. 373 00:17:29,114 --> 00:17:29,581 You know, right. 374 00:17:29,581 --> 00:17:32,584 All the content we get to interview guests, get to meet people. 375 00:17:32,684 --> 00:17:33,452 It's amazing. 376 00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:34,119 And, you know, 377 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:38,490 one of the best things we get to do is we get to host the main stage. 378 00:17:38,490 --> 00:17:41,427 And which is usually on the Comic-Con exhibit floor. Yeah. 379 00:17:41,427 --> 00:17:45,330 So then we're interacting with people nonstop, you know, like talking 380 00:17:45,330 --> 00:17:49,501 with cosplayers, talking with attendees, giving out prizes, doing trivia. 381 00:17:49,768 --> 00:17:52,538 We just make it an experience not for us, 382 00:17:52,538 --> 00:17:55,140 but for the attendees, for the fans that are at the cons. 383 00:17:55,140 --> 00:17:56,041 Yeah, right. 384 00:17:56,041 --> 00:17:59,178 We always try to think like, what's the experience that we would want? 385 00:17:59,311 --> 00:18:03,015 You know, like as as we're fans first, we're fans before 386 00:18:03,015 --> 00:18:07,086 we are content creators, before we're podcasting, before we are, 387 00:18:07,453 --> 00:18:11,623 I guess, amateur journalists, in, in the way that we do our interviews. 388 00:18:11,990 --> 00:18:14,827 Before all of that, we're fans. 389 00:18:14,827 --> 00:18:19,798 And I think that's one of the things that we've one of the biggest pieces of, of, 390 00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:22,734 praise that we've gotten is that 391 00:18:22,734 --> 00:18:26,105 it doesn't come off as a bunch of dudes who are just trying to figure out 392 00:18:26,572 --> 00:18:29,975 what this person does and just has phones in an interview. 393 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:30,342 Right. 394 00:18:30,342 --> 00:18:32,711 Like, we are fans of the people we talk to, 395 00:18:32,711 --> 00:18:35,114 and it shows in the way that we talk to them. 396 00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:38,450 And I, I've always found that profound 397 00:18:38,750 --> 00:18:40,786 as far as like when, when that was told to me, 398 00:18:40,786 --> 00:18:44,556 it makes me feel, a lot better about what we do, 399 00:18:45,090 --> 00:18:47,593 and just makes me want to push even harder. 400 00:18:47,593 --> 00:18:52,131 Like, that's the thing is that providing that experience for all the con goers 401 00:18:52,498 --> 00:18:55,634 and trying to create that experience that we would want ourselves. 402 00:18:56,268 --> 00:18:59,271 Right, I think don't get don't get it twisted, though, 403 00:18:59,371 --> 00:19:03,976 when we're on stage, part of us is that shy nerd on the inside where. 404 00:19:04,042 --> 00:19:06,345 Oh yeah, we had that Chris Farley sketch. 405 00:19:06,345 --> 00:19:09,281 Yeah, where we're like, hey, remember when you're 406 00:19:09,281 --> 00:19:12,951 in that one movie and you said that one line that was pretty cool. 407 00:19:12,951 --> 00:19:15,821 Yeah, but we gotta keep ourselves from saying. 408 00:19:15,821 --> 00:19:17,422 That it is hard to do, man. 409 00:19:17,422 --> 00:19:20,659 Yeah, I that I'm not allowed name drop stuff right now. 410 00:19:20,659 --> 00:19:23,629 I mean, but I just had an interview right now right before you guys. 411 00:19:23,629 --> 00:19:24,730 Matter of fact, that was like, 412 00:19:25,731 --> 00:19:27,065 I, I always use tone 413 00:19:27,065 --> 00:19:28,600 tags, almost like I didn't think he liked me 414 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,903 until afterwards when he stopped being professional 415 00:19:30,903 --> 00:19:33,639 and was like, oh, thank God he liked me because I love his comic book. 416 00:19:33,639 --> 00:19:35,974 So I was like, please, like me. 417 00:19:35,974 --> 00:19:37,709 So, That's. Also. 418 00:19:37,709 --> 00:19:37,976 Like. 419 00:19:37,976 --> 00:19:42,414 I there have been multiple times where I get on stage and like, hi, Kevin. 420 00:19:42,548 --> 00:19:44,449 Yeah, that whole thing. Right. 421 00:19:44,449 --> 00:19:45,751 And it's like, 422 00:19:45,751 --> 00:19:49,788 but the thing is, is that I also have to kind of sit myself 423 00:19:49,788 --> 00:19:52,791 back, like, like just move back a little bit and say 424 00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:55,561 they are a person the same way as we're just a regular, 425 00:19:55,561 --> 00:19:58,530 regular people, right, who just happen to have a really cool job. 426 00:19:58,730 --> 00:19:59,565 Yeah, yeah. 427 00:19:59,565 --> 00:20:02,568 You know, and that's kind of the approach that we go into like, 428 00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:06,171 a lot of times people will say, man, you guys are cool up there 429 00:20:06,171 --> 00:20:10,042 and, you know, you, you have it almost seems like you have no nerves at all. 430 00:20:10,042 --> 00:20:11,944 It's like, no, I'm on the inside. 431 00:20:11,944 --> 00:20:13,679 Yeah. I'm just really good at hiding it. 432 00:20:13,679 --> 00:20:16,682 I have a good poker face on it, you know? 433 00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:17,649 It's all about them notes, man. 434 00:20:17,649 --> 00:20:19,885 I just gotta get from one side of the notes to the other side. 435 00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:20,519 Okay? 436 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:24,990 Yeah, yeah, but there's, there have been some, some pretty high up there 437 00:20:24,990 --> 00:20:27,392 celebrities that we've talked to and it's like 438 00:20:27,392 --> 00:20:31,163 like I again I have, I have a bucket list for, for interviews 439 00:20:31,463 --> 00:20:35,601 three people on that bucket list, one I've interviewed, one has agreed to 440 00:20:35,601 --> 00:20:38,604 come on the show, but I haven't been able to get in contact with them again. 441 00:20:38,604 --> 00:20:42,174 And the last one both of the other two guys have said, yeah, no, he'll do it 442 00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:45,210 if you ask him. Oh, that's cool, here we go. 443 00:20:45,344 --> 00:20:48,780 But what's what's nice hosting these cons, interviewing these guests. 444 00:20:48,780 --> 00:20:52,918 You know, we get to come out with, a second show 445 00:20:53,418 --> 00:20:57,089 to distance nerding the download, which is our news and rumor show. 446 00:20:57,389 --> 00:21:00,826 We get to come out with a comic conversation, which is like, 447 00:21:00,826 --> 00:21:03,295 we take all these interviews that we do at these cons. 448 00:21:03,295 --> 00:21:08,767 Usually it's like 5 or 6 a con and package them up and release them as a podcast. 449 00:21:08,767 --> 00:21:11,803 So if you missed the con, you get to hear the 450 00:21:12,204 --> 00:21:15,641 the interview that happened or yeah, maybe you were at the con you want to relive. 451 00:21:15,641 --> 00:21:19,077 It actually happened a couple of times with the with the Sean Ashton interview. 452 00:21:19,077 --> 00:21:21,880 People were like, hey, where can I where can I hear this? 453 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,182 We're going to hear this, interview again. 454 00:21:24,182 --> 00:21:26,351 And they want to relive it available now. 455 00:21:26,351 --> 00:21:27,019 Yeah. Exactly. 456 00:21:27,019 --> 00:21:31,323 So we have it on our podcast feed for distance nerding. 457 00:21:31,323 --> 00:21:35,227 Just love cup distance nerding comic conversation. 458 00:21:35,394 --> 00:21:36,662 Oh that's nice. Get it. 459 00:21:36,662 --> 00:21:38,430 Yeah. Oh yeah I feel it. 460 00:21:39,598 --> 00:21:41,166 That's the that's the best part though, right. 461 00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:44,336 Because we are so lucky to be invited to these conventions 462 00:21:44,703 --> 00:21:47,606 and it's like, let me share the floor with you guys. 463 00:21:47,606 --> 00:21:51,777 Like when we have booth set conventions, which is my their version of the icons, 464 00:21:51,777 --> 00:21:52,411 even the small ones 465 00:21:52,411 --> 00:21:55,480 or whatever is I always have a microphone facing out towards the con. 466 00:21:55,781 --> 00:21:59,584 And then when I edit the episode, that microphone, I drop low 467 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,687 and it's constant throughout the entire episode. 468 00:22:01,687 --> 00:22:03,422 So the first off, it helps with the cuts. 469 00:22:03,422 --> 00:22:05,490 They don't sound as jarring because it's a constant rumble. 470 00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:06,858 But then when you're listening, 471 00:22:06,858 --> 00:22:09,394 I know you guys know everybody who has been to Comic-Con 472 00:22:09,394 --> 00:22:12,464 knows there's this constant rumble where you hear like a random Batman 473 00:22:12,464 --> 00:22:15,867 or somebody mentioning Spider-Man, and it's just a beautiful little sound. 474 00:22:16,134 --> 00:22:19,571 And, and it's it's so nice to share that with people at home. 475 00:22:19,571 --> 00:22:21,239 And I think that's a real highlight to both of our shows 476 00:22:21,239 --> 00:22:24,276 on every show that talks about, geek culture, I love it. 477 00:22:24,876 --> 00:22:27,646 It's just running around the background and just what do I hear? 478 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,951 Oh, so this is nerdy. 479 00:22:32,951 --> 00:22:36,521 You guys are, one of the big things you guys are looking for into the future 480 00:22:36,722 --> 00:22:38,290 is pushing air. You guys is YouTube. 481 00:22:38,290 --> 00:22:40,092 And while there are links in the description of this interview 482 00:22:40,092 --> 00:22:43,095 right now, I want people to specifically go to YouTube and subscribe, 483 00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:44,162 follow up on this. 484 00:22:44,162 --> 00:22:48,133 What in your guys's YouTube channel future? 485 00:22:48,166 --> 00:22:51,169 What are you guys trying to do in the future for your YouTube channel? 486 00:22:51,303 --> 00:22:53,672 Yeah, so we do the two shows a week, right? 487 00:22:53,672 --> 00:22:54,172 Right now. 488 00:22:54,172 --> 00:22:57,843 So we do the news show on Tuesdays and then on Thursdays. 489 00:22:58,176 --> 00:23:01,179 Felipe does what we call the build, which is 490 00:23:01,947 --> 00:23:05,250 him building Legos, which are very expensive these days. 491 00:23:05,417 --> 00:23:08,887 He's building Legos, but also doing the interviews that we talked about. 492 00:23:08,887 --> 00:23:12,124 But it's a little bit longer format than just a Comic-Con interview. 493 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:15,394 You know, usually Comic-Con, you got half an hour, maybe 40 minutes 494 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,696 before that guest has to get off the stage, 495 00:23:17,696 --> 00:23:19,531 get back to signing autographs, that sort of thing. 496 00:23:19,531 --> 00:23:24,970 Yeah, but on the build, you get an hour, hour and a half of sitting down with a 497 00:23:25,137 --> 00:23:29,941 usually like some kind of creator or voice actor or or filmmaker, 498 00:23:30,375 --> 00:23:33,412 and get to pick their brain and have like long form discussions. 499 00:23:33,645 --> 00:23:36,748 So that's super fun to do that along with, 500 00:23:37,549 --> 00:23:41,486 you know, doing brackets and just kind of being that nerd 501 00:23:41,486 --> 00:23:45,257 community of like, hey, who's going to win in a fight? 502 00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:47,893 Is it going to be Aquaman or is it going to be any more? 503 00:23:47,893 --> 00:23:48,293 Yeah. 504 00:23:48,293 --> 00:23:50,629 You know, it's get stuff like that where you get to sit down 505 00:23:50,629 --> 00:23:54,299 and have a discussion, argue with each other, make fun of each other, 506 00:23:54,466 --> 00:23:57,002 but then come back and have a good time. Yeah. The entire time. 507 00:23:57,969 --> 00:23:58,937 And that's what I said before. 508 00:23:58,937 --> 00:24:01,473 Like, like sometimes an interview has to be short, punchy. 509 00:24:01,473 --> 00:24:04,443 It's got a it has a very tight schedule. 510 00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:06,077 But that's what I really like about the build, 511 00:24:06,077 --> 00:24:08,447 which is again, your guys's Thursday show. Make sure you guys check it out. 512 00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:11,850 It lets the conversation breathe, and you get to explore locations in 513 00:24:12,250 --> 00:24:15,187 how you can explore areas that wouldn't have been explored beforehand. 514 00:24:15,187 --> 00:24:17,289 And that's just great because like, sometimes the follow up question 515 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:18,690 and then the follow question after that, 516 00:24:18,690 --> 00:24:21,526 we really get into some of the niche stuff that you really get to know the person, 517 00:24:21,526 --> 00:24:22,761 and that's wonderful. 518 00:24:22,761 --> 00:24:22,928 Yeah. 519 00:24:22,928 --> 00:24:26,798 And the big thing with us with that show specifically, it's always conversational. 520 00:24:26,798 --> 00:24:31,036 So rather than it being, you know, hey, hard line, here are your questions. 521 00:24:31,036 --> 00:24:34,372 Here's an interview that, you know, 522 00:24:34,372 --> 00:24:37,375 it's it becomes more conversational, it becomes more relaxed. 523 00:24:37,409 --> 00:24:41,313 We tend to, like, lose track of time sometimes and be like, 524 00:24:41,580 --> 00:24:42,681 oh, it's been two hours. 525 00:24:42,681 --> 00:24:43,982 Okay. Yeah, we got to end the show. 526 00:24:43,982 --> 00:24:45,784 But, you know, it just means you got to come on again. 527 00:24:45,784 --> 00:24:49,221 And, we got to expand these conversations, like, you know, 528 00:24:49,588 --> 00:24:53,892 especially when you get people who work in the industry that are also nerds. 529 00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:58,430 Like, I can't imagine what would happen if we ever got Joe Manganiello on the show 530 00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:02,634 because he would just I'm sure he would just go like nuts on D&D 531 00:25:02,934 --> 00:25:06,972 and, you know, just and just crazy stuff like that. 532 00:25:06,972 --> 00:25:07,906 Because, like, 533 00:25:07,906 --> 00:25:12,210 it's not just, you know, hey, here's an interview that I do all the time. 534 00:25:12,210 --> 00:25:13,478 It's a dude. 535 00:25:13,478 --> 00:25:15,380 We're just going to have a conversation for two hours and like. 536 00:25:15,380 --> 00:25:18,450 We are. Let's do it. Yeah, yeah. 537 00:25:18,884 --> 00:25:19,818 You know, it's a great chat to. 538 00:25:19,818 --> 00:25:22,254 What you were asking though. Like what else is coming up? 539 00:25:22,254 --> 00:25:24,656 Yeah. Like, we're kind of doing the news. 540 00:25:24,656 --> 00:25:27,192 We're kind of doing the interviews. Of course we want to do 541 00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:28,994 more cons. 542 00:25:28,994 --> 00:25:30,362 Bigger cons. 543 00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:30,795 We're kind of 544 00:25:30,795 --> 00:25:33,932 on the same path where it's like, hey, we want to have a booth and interact 545 00:25:33,932 --> 00:25:38,270 with people at various cons, maybe host more cons. 546 00:25:38,270 --> 00:25:39,604 Yeah, that sort of thing. 547 00:25:39,604 --> 00:25:41,840 And I think we're on the right path towards that. 548 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,378 And also doing movie premieres, red carpets being that conduit 549 00:25:46,411 --> 00:25:50,081 between our nerd community and, and kind of the 550 00:25:50,215 --> 00:25:54,486 what's happening in the nerd world or the behind the scenes of that as well. 551 00:25:54,486 --> 00:25:59,324 So and that's the more exciting thing that we, we try to do is, is build community. 552 00:25:59,324 --> 00:26:04,863 That's that's really what we want to do is we want an entire community, like, 553 00:26:05,363 --> 00:26:09,334 we don't, do a whole like, you know, we are separate from everybody, 554 00:26:09,334 --> 00:26:13,638 like we call everybody all of our fan of our I guess you would call them fans, 555 00:26:13,638 --> 00:26:16,975 but like all of our listeners, we call everybody nerds, right? 556 00:26:16,975 --> 00:26:19,444 And it's because we're also nerds, right? 557 00:26:19,444 --> 00:26:22,647 And that's the whole thing is we are a community of nerds, 558 00:26:22,647 --> 00:26:26,051 and that's that's we want to connect with everybody. 559 00:26:26,051 --> 00:26:26,952 We want your takes. 560 00:26:26,952 --> 00:26:30,722 We want everything that you guys have to say about what's going on. 561 00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:31,556 Yeah. 562 00:26:31,556 --> 00:26:32,524 And, you know, we want 563 00:26:32,524 --> 00:26:35,527 we want you to be a part of the show just as much as we are. So. 564 00:26:35,694 --> 00:26:37,996 Like what you said earlier, like, you have to have an opinion. 565 00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:39,898 Like you can not like something. 566 00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:42,400 Just have an opinion on it so we can discuss it. 567 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,070 And it's fun building that community. 568 00:26:45,070 --> 00:26:48,139 Having those discussions like Felipe and I are here 569 00:26:48,139 --> 00:26:51,176 in Sacramento, California, like along with yourself. 570 00:26:51,409 --> 00:26:57,182 But most of our show, our other three hosts are on East Coast. 571 00:26:57,282 --> 00:27:00,285 You know, like we have people in the Midwest. 572 00:27:00,418 --> 00:27:02,153 Chicago and Florida. 573 00:27:02,153 --> 00:27:03,254 Yeah, exactly. 574 00:27:03,254 --> 00:27:05,490 Exactly our distance nerd king. 575 00:27:07,592 --> 00:27:07,792 Yeah. 576 00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:09,461 So you get a wide array of opinions. 577 00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:11,229 And yeah, the idea 578 00:27:11,229 --> 00:27:13,231 of having these conversations, it doesn't scare people away, 579 00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:15,100 because I think that there are a lot of people 580 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:18,570 that, would love to talk about Daredevil, but they're afraid 581 00:27:18,570 --> 00:27:21,573 that they're going to get mocked online, which is, you know, all trolls. 582 00:27:21,906 --> 00:27:25,910 And it's nice to just have a chat about it like you used to when you were kids. 583 00:27:25,910 --> 00:27:28,680 And in the recess. We don't have those anymore. 584 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,782 I mean, it's hard to have friends anymore in a podcast as a place 585 00:27:30,782 --> 00:27:32,751 where you could chat with your friends almost, 586 00:27:32,751 --> 00:27:34,386 and of course, that you guys up on 587 00:27:34,386 --> 00:27:36,955 social media, what you guys are pushing social a lot right now. 588 00:27:36,955 --> 00:27:38,556 Again, links in the description. 589 00:27:38,556 --> 00:27:40,158 It's a community and everybody should be joining. 590 00:27:40,158 --> 00:27:43,628 And I'm happy to be expanding that community with geek freaks and all that. 591 00:27:43,628 --> 00:27:46,297 So, it's quite wonderful. 592 00:27:46,297 --> 00:27:48,767 I also I'm a troll anti troll troll. 593 00:27:48,767 --> 00:27:52,804 So like James, he was so weirded out the other day 594 00:27:52,804 --> 00:27:54,806 because I was like, we got our first negative comment 595 00:27:54,806 --> 00:27:56,508 and he was like, okay, why are you so excited about that? 596 00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:59,511 Because I got to go talk smack. Yeah, okay. 597 00:27:59,778 --> 00:28:01,312 Like I am a trolls troll. 598 00:28:01,312 --> 00:28:04,616 If you come to troll us, oh, I'm going to mess with so much. 599 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,351 Yeah. And I'm going to take joy in it. 600 00:28:08,053 --> 00:28:08,953 So if you guys 601 00:28:08,953 --> 00:28:12,524 really want to make James, I feel happy about those negative comments. 602 00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:14,492 And demands. 603 00:28:14,492 --> 00:28:18,697 Yeah, that's fine as long as you're not giving us a negative review, we're fine. 604 00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:20,131 That was that was the thing is, 605 00:28:20,131 --> 00:28:22,067 like when we got our first negative review, I was like, 606 00:28:22,067 --> 00:28:25,070 now we're a real show that feels right. 607 00:28:26,171 --> 00:28:27,972 And then you're like, mom, that was rude. 608 00:28:27,972 --> 00:28:29,507 Yeah. 609 00:28:29,507 --> 00:28:31,743 So, Matt, okay. 610 00:28:31,743 --> 00:28:34,746 So everybody again, this is links in the description. 611 00:28:34,746 --> 00:28:36,347 What is next on your guys's palette? 612 00:28:36,347 --> 00:28:38,216 Do we have any future interviews you guys want to talk about 613 00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:41,219 or any conventions you guys are going to go into soon? 614 00:28:42,687 --> 00:28:45,290 So I mean, we as far as interviews 615 00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:49,761 go, tomorrow, watch as the time 616 00:28:49,761 --> 00:28:54,299 rule recordings most Thursday, tomorrow, we've got an indie creator coming on. 617 00:28:54,299 --> 00:28:57,602 But I'm really excited about the concept that he has. 618 00:28:57,602 --> 00:28:59,738 Yeah. So his name is Milton Lawson. 619 00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:03,875 The book that he wrote is Orson Welles, 620 00:29:04,909 --> 00:29:07,412 warrior of the worlds. 621 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:09,314 I mean, that that's the kind of thing you just like. 622 00:29:09,314 --> 00:29:11,850 Yeah. Click add to cart. Yeah. Right. 623 00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:12,884 So the concept and. 624 00:29:12,884 --> 00:29:15,420 Oh, and it's a graphic novel. It's thick. Yeah. 625 00:29:15,420 --> 00:29:21,092 But the, the concept of it is during the day, Orson Welles is filming 626 00:29:21,092 --> 00:29:25,096 movies and doing radio shows, and at night he's actually fighting aliens. 627 00:29:25,864 --> 00:29:26,831 Of course. 628 00:29:26,831 --> 00:29:29,434 It's so good. Yes, 629 00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:33,238 it's kind of fun with doing so many cons 630 00:29:33,238 --> 00:29:36,241 and doing so many shows and doing so many interviews on a weekly basis. 631 00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:39,878 We're finding creators are coming to us. 632 00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:43,481 Yeah, to be like, hey, I have this pitch for this comic 633 00:29:43,481 --> 00:29:45,416 or this graphic novel or the show that I'm going to do, 634 00:29:45,416 --> 00:29:49,654 or this film that I'm making, and we get some amazing stories. 635 00:29:49,854 --> 00:29:52,724 Yeah, that come out of that in some amazing minds. 636 00:29:52,724 --> 00:29:54,659 We're like, how did you even think of this? 637 00:29:54,659 --> 00:29:55,160 Yeah, yeah. 638 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,263 You know, so it's it's really fun as far as cons go. 639 00:29:58,563 --> 00:30:03,067 I mean, we're about to hit con season and con season right now. 640 00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:07,238 So I think we there's six, six cons. 641 00:30:07,505 --> 00:30:10,441 We'll be hosting up and down the West Coast 642 00:30:10,441 --> 00:30:15,280 along with attending some of the cons you mentioned earlier, like L.A. 643 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,848 Comic-Con and stuff like that. 644 00:30:16,848 --> 00:30:18,082 So there's a lot going on. 645 00:30:18,082 --> 00:30:20,985 So we're going to be busy from now until the end of the year. 646 00:30:20,985 --> 00:30:21,719 Okay. 647 00:30:21,719 --> 00:30:24,656 So if people in Boise, I was gonna say, if you're in Boise, 648 00:30:24,656 --> 00:30:27,659 Idaho, the next big show that we're doing is Gem State Comic-Con. 649 00:30:28,026 --> 00:30:30,328 And I mean, we're excited. 650 00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:31,863 We're we're going to be talking with Bonnie, right? 651 00:30:31,863 --> 00:30:34,332 So, I mean, it's just like, I'm still kind of like, 652 00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:36,434 I don't know how I feel about this right now. 653 00:30:36,434 --> 00:30:38,403 And nerves again. And I'll never go. 654 00:30:38,403 --> 00:30:39,037 Oh, that. 655 00:30:39,037 --> 00:30:41,472 And Sean Gunn have my nerves kind of racked up. 656 00:30:41,472 --> 00:30:42,373 So you. Get on. 657 00:30:42,373 --> 00:30:42,841 Oh yeah. 658 00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:45,510 We're going to be interviewing Sean Gunn. That's right. 659 00:30:45,510 --> 00:30:46,811 It's cool. Yeah. 660 00:30:46,811 --> 00:30:51,049 And by the way, we won't be interviewing because there's some NDAs happening. 661 00:30:51,282 --> 00:30:54,152 But Ray Park, we mentioned, 662 00:30:54,152 --> 00:30:57,155 you know, Star Wars earlier, the prequels. 663 00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:59,090 Ray Park will be there. 664 00:30:59,090 --> 00:31:02,060 He won't be doing specific interviews, but 665 00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:06,030 we'll be we'll be chatting him, chatting him up, not breaking NDAs. 666 00:31:06,264 --> 00:31:07,832 You might have shattered it already. 667 00:31:07,832 --> 00:31:09,400 I don't know if you know what an NDA is. 668 00:31:10,835 --> 00:31:11,436 No, I think it's. 669 00:31:11,436 --> 00:31:16,875 We can't he can't interview us because, you just build the beams on some the. 670 00:31:17,141 --> 00:31:18,910 So. Okay. 671 00:31:18,910 --> 00:31:20,478 I mean, again, you know, we're really big on 672 00:31:20,478 --> 00:31:22,447 letting them know, like, at least I will say, 673 00:31:22,447 --> 00:31:24,782 if there's anything NDA related you can, like, omit and say. 674 00:31:24,782 --> 00:31:26,851 I don't want to answer that. James is like, no, give me the T. 675 00:31:26,851 --> 00:31:28,653 Yeah. By the way, it's Ray Park. 676 00:31:28,653 --> 00:31:32,290 If any of us get out of line, he's going to kick us in the face. 677 00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:33,491 Yeah, Darth Maul dude. 678 00:31:33,491 --> 00:31:36,461 Like he's good at. 679 00:31:36,761 --> 00:31:38,630 He's going to do with a cool backflip or something. 680 00:31:38,630 --> 00:31:39,797 Yeah. 681 00:31:39,797 --> 00:31:41,266 I'm so happy to have you guys part of the network. 682 00:31:41,266 --> 00:31:41,966 I, I'm so happy for others 683 00:31:41,966 --> 00:31:45,536 to be able to discover you and just share our fandoms, 684 00:31:45,536 --> 00:31:47,338 share everything that's in the geek culture right now 685 00:31:47,338 --> 00:31:49,941 in the nerd culture can be hard for me to remember. Nerf geek. 686 00:31:49,941 --> 00:31:52,944 Where can people find you? 687 00:31:52,944 --> 00:31:55,079 Let's go and get the shout outs for all the social media and stuff like that. 688 00:31:56,814 --> 00:31:58,950 Oh my gosh, we get to do plugable I. 689 00:31:58,950 --> 00:32:00,685 Know, right? We want to do Plugable. 690 00:32:00,685 --> 00:32:02,453 So oh, and this is going to be great. 691 00:32:02,453 --> 00:32:04,923 I'm going to do our Plugable. 692 00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:07,926 This is this, I don't know, this may or may not be a good idea. 693 00:32:07,992 --> 00:32:08,359 We'll see. 694 00:32:08,359 --> 00:32:11,129 It can always be edited out if there's nothing after this. 695 00:32:11,129 --> 00:32:12,764 It was a bad idea. Guys. 696 00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,499 It literally. Is true. 697 00:32:14,499 --> 00:32:17,402 Well, guys, you can connect with us on all the social media places 698 00:32:17,402 --> 00:32:20,471 on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, never calling it X, Twitch, 699 00:32:20,471 --> 00:32:23,808 TikTok threads, YouTube, discord, blue Sky, Myspace, vine, 700 00:32:23,808 --> 00:32:27,679 GeoCities, Friendster, Second Life, Aim, farmers only, Christian Mingle, only fans. 701 00:32:27,679 --> 00:32:29,914 It's only pictures of Aaron Watson's feet 702 00:32:29,914 --> 00:32:33,584 and Mantle's the beard, Chavez's glasses sitting on a table, judging you 703 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:36,788 for everything that you do and everything you do for money. 704 00:32:37,422 --> 00:32:38,389 Just pretty much anything. 705 00:32:38,389 --> 00:32:40,892 Of course, if you'd like to, if you'd like us to break up 706 00:32:40,892 --> 00:32:42,660 with your boyfriend, girlfriend, significant other, 707 00:32:42,660 --> 00:32:44,462 pet, schoolyard bully, annoying neighbor, 708 00:32:44,462 --> 00:32:46,764 just tell us how much you enjoy us, hate us, or wish the internet would. 709 00:32:46,764 --> 00:32:48,032 Consumers completely 710 00:32:48,032 --> 00:32:52,403 and spit us out at the feet of whatever character is on your mind right now? 711 00:32:52,804 --> 00:32:55,807 You can send us an email at Distance learning@aol.com. 712 00:32:56,474 --> 00:32:57,241 Here we go. 713 00:32:57,241 --> 00:32:59,544 There's the line o l.com. 714 00:32:59,544 --> 00:33:03,715 So I'll be, I'll be meeting you guys up on farmers only and, maybe just 715 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:06,584 I don't know if you guys are on JDate, but I'll look, I'll since they're not. 716 00:33:06,584 --> 00:33:08,753 But we we can we'll get on JDate. Don't want to. 717 00:33:10,655 --> 00:33:12,690 Obviously, guys, this is the place to hang out. 718 00:33:12,690 --> 00:33:15,693 So all the links in the description, make sure you guys head over there. 719 00:33:15,827 --> 00:33:18,062 Thank you both very much for joining me today. 720 00:33:18,062 --> 00:33:20,398 Absolutely, man. Thank you. 721 00:33:20,398 --> 00:33:21,833 All right, guys we'll see you on the next one. 722 00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:24,469 Bye. Thanks. And keep nerding together.