Hey, I hope you can fix it.
And frankly, today I'm joined by the great Bill and James of disappearing.
How are you, Bill, doing today?
Oh, we're doing great. Doing awesome man.
How are you?
I am doing wonderful.
I am so excited about this, guys.
So this is just this nerding at the new podcast, joining the Geek Fix Network.
We're going to be discussing what is just is starting.
Who are these two guys?
How did they get into this?
Let's start off with that first question.
What is distance? Nerdy.
Who wants to take that one? Oh my gosh, what is distance learning?
We haven't answered this question in a while.
I know.
Well, so I guess
going back just kind of Tarantino ING it, going back.
We started, I think, four years ago,
four years ago.
But, before that we were both part of, another podcast,
kind of behind the scenes, sometimes on air, sometimes,
you know, just doing production work or helping out at cons, that sort of thing.
So shout out to hardly Heroes no longer around, but we were part of them.
It was great meeting a bunch of people, finding, like minded people, a community.
You know, we started to kind of branch out and started to like, we need to do more.
We got to get this nerd voice out of our system.
Yeah. And,
they were going through some changes.
So we're like, you know what? Let's pull back a little bit. Let's see.
Let's see what we can do. And then, you know,
we were always texting back and forth.
Felipe and I were just like nonstop every day.
Like, I talked to him when I talked to, like, my best friends or my mom
or sometimes my wife.
It's just I'm always texting and talking about nerd stuff and like,
why don't we talk about this?
You know, instead of just texting back and forth?
So we just said, let's do it. And then,
you know, it's the pandemic.
So what do you do during a pandemic?
You start a podcast.
That's one of the rules. Amen.
The amount of names that got burnt up, it's me off.
Still.
But you guys are unique because you guys record your show live.
What made you go that route?
So that ended up becoming something down the road.
Originally, what I believe was our first 40 episodes.
We had a whole different format, so we would record
and then I would go back and edit in sound bites and,
you know, just do, like a full on production or everything.
And we decided
just,
why don't we try and do this live, right?
Because we were just thinking like, okay, well, let's try doing it live.
Just see if we can it can have a live audience and, have people interact
with us.
And that kind of became the norm
because it was supposed to be like 1 or 2 episodes.
Then we were going to go back,
but back when I was doing it that way, it would take like 16 hours for me
to edit an episode versus now these live episodes.
And you kind of,
you know, expect there to be like, you know, mess ups and things like that,
all that.
So now, it takes me maybe ten minutes to edit the entire show.
Mess ups kind of became our trademark.
So it's part of the life, right?
It's like being at the circus.
You expect to, you know, couple clowns of all over.
We are a bunch of clowns, you know, it is.
It is kind of fun because it adds an element of, like Saturday Night Live
where things are going to go wrong, but you just got to roll with it,
you know, and you just got to deal with it.
We're going to have fun.
And what came out of that is
we have like our pillars of what makes distance learning.
Distance learning, by the way, the name distance learning
that came out of the pandemic.
You know, my I have three kids.
You know, they were distance learning. Yeah.
So as for Philly, man, I were like, what's the name?
I'm like, how about distance? Nerdy.
And like, nobody's going to have that name. Yes.
It's going to be easy to get that Instagram handle and it's fine.
I'll the amount of times people have we've either gotten
mostly we get really good feedback and say, that's really genius.
That's really smart.
I've gotten a couple people with like, that's dumb.
That's not going to like in the last was like,
oh yeah, when we interview people in Singapore.
So I mean, yeah, it's it's nerdy. Makes sense.
Oh of course. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
And then so out of the pandemic and out of recording, this is like this,
what were some of the things you pulled from Hardly Here as a podcast?
I listened to a lot
when it was out and back in the day, you know, producer and writer.
What did you guys pull from that show that you brought into this one?
A lot of it
was really kind of like the the positive, nerdy attitude
and, what we really wanted to do, was create
an environment of a bunch of friends just talking about nerdy stuffs, you know?
And that's kind of what drew me into Hardly Heroes is what, what
what I loved about just hanging around and listening to Buddy Rant and,
like, rag on Aaron and, or what was Aaron's name back then?
Because Aaron has been on our show
for good amount of do, but, back then he was, sprinkles.
Right. So it was like, right.
You know, the the amount of times that they would just rag on sprinkles.
Right?
And it was just, you know, it was just friends being funny
and just saying dumb stuff and having these takes on nerdy things
and, you know, we wanted to keep that going.
So we, we kind of went that route.
We, we went more of a news route, but, you know, we wanted to report
on, like, things that were happening, but also, you know, we're we're really
we've never said it out loud, but we're actually pretty good,
amateur, improv comedians. Yeah.
So, you know, we're really good about just kind of like, you know,
taking a joke and running with that and making it a thing the entire show.
Oh, yeah. Tacos on the table, stuff like that. Yeah, it's it's crazy.
I mean, we're gonna we're
gonna say the joke until it gets funny, and then that's when we know.
Yeah, but,
you know, from from my point of view, working behind the scenes on podcasts,
what I found was like, the chaos is what draws people in.
Yeah, yeah, but it's, outline.
It's the production.
It's the stuff you don't see is what makes the show come together.
So the way I always used to say, it is like, if our show.
If distance learning can be jazz, that's what we need to do.
What we need to do is be able to riff and have fun and be stupid with each other.
But we need this outline of this is what we got to do as nerds.
Yeah, to serve the audience of nerds.
Like we have to get this across to them.
So that started to become our little
mantra of like, okay, we can be jazz, we can have fun,
we can go on riffs and tangents, but as long as we come back to being nerdy
and then that out of that came like our for our four pillars of distance nerdy,
you know?
So it's being nerdy, being positive, being funny and being energetic.
And that's what became distance learning.
That's so every episode you're going to see that right in distance.
Nerdy as a listener. That's very, very true.
You definitely hear it as a listener as well.
I mean, sometimes you guys are you're up late doing this.
Live the energy.
I'm surprised you're able to do it. Sometimes it's
I could mention.
A lot of caffeine, a lot of drugs. No.
No drugs at all.
Well, when you get enough caffeine, it becomes a drug.
It absolutely is.
There is a caffeine addiction. That is. That is a thing.
Yeah. Well, total 48 to my 40 ounce.
That is
for me to showing that to everybody right now with his Coca-Cola.
You go.
All right, so you guys cover a lot of things
pop culture, movies, music, kind of run the gambit.
What are some of the more hot topic or favorite topics
you guys have covered in the past?
So you guys would suggest people look up, oh.
So we do do an interview show every Thursday.
And one of the fun things that we do with every guest,
is, you know, just to kind of like, relate everybody back.
Our very first episode, we did a segment called Growing Up Geeky.
And the idea was James
and I trying to relate to our audience and saying, you know what?
What is the thing that turned you into a geek, right?
What what made you a nerd?
If I remember back, James was a Hasbro kid.
He, talks a lot about Transformers, G.I.
Joe, things like that, which I also was a Hasbro kid, but that
that didn't wasn't what started me.
What started me was, was Batman,
89 Batman.
My brother was super into it.
That got me into 66.
Batman and Adam West became like my mantra, right?
So I was just kind of like those things, you know, is what got me into it.
And then, you know, inheriting my brother's comic books and,
you know, it went on from there.
But with all of that,
we asked that question to every guest that comes on our show now,
so I would say, like,
that's probably something that we kind of go back to because again,
our, our goal is to make everyone relatable,
whether you are an A-list celebrity or your, indie comic creator,
you know, we want everybody to relate to everybody out there just,
hey, I'm a regular person that like, you like write like that kind of thing.
Yeah, it's it's a weird, like, level setting question that we had no idea
was going to do that,
but it gives you enough background and enough like where a person
started from or came from or, or where their passions grew from to
to start the conversation, like we asked that question for like,
you know, indie comic book creators,
we asked that question to like voice actors or movie stars.
You know, we when Felipe's on stage with Sean Ashton at,
you know, a Comic-Con, he has that to, you know him.
Yes. To, you know, everybody that he he meets in the interview.
So and that's another thing is that we're not just news.
We do interviews on a weekly basis.
We host comic cons.
You know we so it's it's fun. It's loud.
It's getting on stage.
It's being bringing people into the community.
That's a lot of what we do. Right.
And the key is that it's it's live.
Like that's one of the big aspects
I love about your guys's shows as punch in it's live.
And I wanted to yeah, that was kind of next is is
you guys also have the Thursday interviews coming out
where you're having conversations with an array of different people
which do really share their passion.
And I do love that is that you hear people who pour their
their time into their work.
And I always love interviewing those people as well,
but you guys really give them while we try to like make sure to
I make sure to like dive into their passion, but also like we
the reason you're here, the reason I have you on
is to share the book you got coming out.
But you guys let them actually talk and let them really get into their
their geek side.
And I think that's really appreciated by the listeners. You know.
Yeah, I think so.
And because like that's always been my goal
when we started doing these interviews was to make every person
we talked to relatable, that the ground level.
Yeah.
And so, you know, we go everywhere from
Andrew Nelson, you know, talking about the things that he loves.
We talked about fish, you know, because he loves aquariums and things like that.
And I was just like, you start finding these different things
about these different celebrities that you wouldn't have guessed that
they, they, they were into, we've we've made a point.
With everything that we want to recreate the term nerdy, right?
We want to make it a a verb rather than just being an adjective.
For all of my, English nerds out there, and
and nerding as a concept to us is not just.
I like pop culture, or I like these things.
It's. You're passionate about something, right?
And everybody has a passion that they're into.
You know,
whatever it is you're into, we want to talk about it.
That's our taglines.
And, you know, that's one of the things that we always want to do is, is
be a place where you can celebrate
your fandoms without feeling like you are,
you know, being persecuted for it or anything like that.
We are also very anti gatekeeping.
We're very anti negativity.
Like we'll have some negative tags, but for the most part
we always will come back to positives and things.
Right.
You know we we really want to get away from all of the toxicity
that is out there in the fandoms in the nerd world and everything like that,
and just be a place where you get almost like a safe space,
a place where you can come and celebrate the things that you love.
That's why you guys are such a great fit for the gay folks network,
because that's a hey fact across the board for everybody that's with us is,
to have have a have a negative take on something
but actually describe what's wrong with it and not bash a person for liking it.
And the reason that we're we're real big fans of this.
It goes back to personally the reason that I really across the network
because it goes back to me, the Star Wars prequels.
I know I talked to you guys about this, but when we were kids, those Star Wars
prequels came out.
All I heard on the radio, all I heard all the time was, oh, how bad they were.
Oh, Phantom Menace is terrible.
And I kept thinking about the duel effects and how much I freaking loved
that movie.
And no, and I felt like I could talk about it
because, like all, I think I'm an idiot because, you know,
and then we grow up and we find out all the other kids liked it, too.
Son of a bitch. We should have talked to each other.
And so we're not going to bash somebody for like and something and that, you know,
just recently a great example of this is like
we went to we're going to watch tomorrow movie.
Now we know the movie was good,
but beforehand we're like Chris Pratt who knows? Right?
And we're like, let's go in with an open mind
because we gotta remember this is this generation's first experience of Mario.
And if we bash it and it becomes something that's hated,
suddenly Mario doesn't exist beyond us, and that can't happen.
So you have to kind of foster these fandoms,
these geek terms, these nerd nerds and let them let them go beyond you.
And I think that's really hard.
I like it literally before it
started, like, oh boy, I got some comments heating up on my social media
and I let them burn out.
But I'll be a place for you guys to come to
if you want to just hang out and talk fun.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
And you never know what you're going to get out of this.
And like a lot of what having these discussions about,
you know, what you're passionate about, what you're nerdy on on.
Yeah.
Is you come to some kind of common ground or you see like a bigger picture
that you weren't quite sure that you were aware of.
Like, I didn't like there's certain Star Wars things I don't like,
and I'm a big Star Wars fan.
I've been to like four different Star Wars celebrations on the West Coast
and on the East Coast.
You know, I've been to the Rancho Obi-Wan.
You know, I'm a big Star Wars fan.
But the stuff that's just not for me and I, we came to the realization,
like on the show, that
certain pockets of Star
Wars has gotten so big that it's not always for you.
Just like the prequels.
It's just not in my generation.
Yeah, but you grow in respect it later on, especially when you get somebody
like Dave Filoni picking up the torch and carrying it forward.
And like making the prequels and The Clone Wars means something to to a generation.
And moving forward into like Mando and bringing it back and making it
cool again, you're like, oh my Dave Filoni.
Yeah, thank you so much.
There's a rage a series, man.
Like when I say series, I mean everything within that universe.
He knows how to bridge it in a way where,
like, I'm waiting for him to do it for the sequel trilogy.
As much as everybody bashes the sequel trilogy,
there are good things that are in the sequel trilogy.
I think there is.
I'm waiting and I know he's doing it right now, like I'm hot.
Take. I've made predictions on the show already.
But I'm pretty sure the whole Mandalorian
arc and everything that's going on, this is really just explaining
that clone, Palpatine situation that happened in the last movie.
Which they did, a Bad Batch,
bad batch was the entire point was explain why people tend to clone.
And I thought like,
okay, well, you're going to get me, first off, more clone clone war vibes.
I'm definitely down for that.
But I thought it was a really good way to like,
let that breathe a little bit because it felt very rushed.
Obviously in the new trilogy,
there's like, let's give a place for Have to Breathe In is Over here,
The Bad Batch, where we fell in love
with a new batch of clones, which that always happen for me.
Yeah.
And and again, like somebody, somebody's favorite Jedi out there is Rey.
Yeah. And.
Right. I'm happy you get a lightsaber.
And so you get along with me. Mine's quite Gungeon.
Let's all celebrate. You know, that's fine.
So exactly, exactly.
With in the last aspect I really want to bring up, with,
with like the three different I'm thinking pillars
now that you said philosophy dies, but is a fact.
You guys are go to these conventions all the time. You guys do panels.
You you know, Deadpool happens to pop up where you guys go.
I don't know how that happens.
I think he's just a big fan of you guys a show, but, he does.
Yes. Yeah.
Tell us about your guys's con experience.
We do it, but definitely not as often as you guys do.
Can you tell us a little about that?
Well, you know,
coming off, the other show that we are on coming off hardly heroes.
They used to host some shows, but then when they kind of folded, that
promoter was like, hey, we kind of need somebody to host these shows.
Do you want to give it a shot?
We said yes, and four years later we're still doing it.
So we host, I think it's six or 7
or 8 different comic cons all along the West Coast.
We go to Oregon, Nevada, we're going to go to Washington,
Idaho, and, you know, down south as well.
And we attend these cons. We host the panels.
You know, right.
All the content we get to interview guests, get to meet people.
It's amazing.
And, you know,
one of the best things we get to do is we get to host the main stage.
And which is usually on the Comic-Con exhibit floor. Yeah.
So then we're interacting with people nonstop, you know, like talking
with cosplayers, talking with attendees, giving out prizes, doing trivia.
We just make it an experience not for us,
but for the attendees, for the fans that are at the cons.
Yeah, right.
We always try to think like, what's the experience that we would want?
You know, like as as we're fans first, we're fans before
we are content creators, before we're podcasting, before we are,
I guess, amateur journalists, in, in the way that we do our interviews.
Before all of that, we're fans.
And I think that's one of the things that we've one of the biggest pieces of, of,
praise that we've gotten is that
it doesn't come off as a bunch of dudes who are just trying to figure out
what this person does and just has phones in an interview.
Right.
Like, we are fans of the people we talk to,
and it shows in the way that we talk to them.
And I, I've always found that profound
as far as like when, when that was told to me,
it makes me feel, a lot better about what we do,
and just makes me want to push even harder.
Like, that's the thing is that providing that experience for all the con goers
and trying to create that experience that we would want ourselves.
Right, I think don't get don't get it twisted, though,
when we're on stage, part of us is that shy nerd on the inside where.
Oh yeah, we had that Chris Farley sketch.
Yeah, where we're like, hey, remember when you're
in that one movie and you said that one line that was pretty cool.
Yeah, but we gotta keep ourselves from saying.
That it is hard to do, man.
Yeah, I that I'm not allowed name drop stuff right now.
I mean, but I just had an interview right now right before you guys.
Matter of fact, that was like,
I, I always use tone
tags, almost like I didn't think he liked me
until afterwards when he stopped being professional
and was like, oh, thank God he liked me because I love his comic book.
So I was like, please, like me.
So, That's. Also.
Like.
I there have been multiple times where I get on stage and like, hi, Kevin.
Yeah, that whole thing. Right.
And it's like,
but the thing is, is that I also have to kind of sit myself
back, like, like just move back a little bit and say
they are a person the same way as we're just a regular,
regular people, right, who just happen to have a really cool job.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, and that's kind of the approach that we go into like,
a lot of times people will say, man, you guys are cool up there
and, you know, you, you have it almost seems like you have no nerves at all.
It's like, no, I'm on the inside.
Yeah. I'm just really good at hiding it.
I have a good poker face on it, you know?
It's all about them notes, man.
I just gotta get from one side of the notes to the other side.
Okay?
Yeah, yeah, but there's, there have been some, some pretty high up there
celebrities that we've talked to and it's like
like I again I have, I have a bucket list for, for interviews
three people on that bucket list, one I've interviewed, one has agreed to
come on the show, but I haven't been able to get in contact with them again.
And the last one both of the other two guys have said, yeah, no, he'll do it
if you ask him. Oh, that's cool, here we go.
But what's what's nice hosting these cons, interviewing these guests.
You know, we get to come out with, a second show
to distance nerding the download, which is our news and rumor show.
We get to come out with a comic conversation, which is like,
we take all these interviews that we do at these cons.
Usually it's like 5 or 6 a con and package them up and release them as a podcast.
So if you missed the con, you get to hear the
the interview that happened or yeah, maybe you were at the con you want to relive.
It actually happened a couple of times with the with the Sean Ashton interview.
People were like, hey, where can I where can I hear this?
We're going to hear this, interview again.
And they want to relive it available now.
Yeah. Exactly.
So we have it on our podcast feed for distance nerding.
Just love cup distance nerding comic conversation.
Oh that's nice. Get it.
Yeah. Oh yeah I feel it.
That's the that's the best part though, right.
Because we are so lucky to be invited to these conventions
and it's like, let me share the floor with you guys.
Like when we have booth set conventions, which is my their version of the icons,
even the small ones
or whatever is I always have a microphone facing out towards the con.
And then when I edit the episode, that microphone, I drop low
and it's constant throughout the entire episode.
So the first off, it helps with the cuts.
They don't sound as jarring because it's a constant rumble.
But then when you're listening,
I know you guys know everybody who has been to Comic-Con
knows there's this constant rumble where you hear like a random Batman
or somebody mentioning Spider-Man, and it's just a beautiful little sound.
And, and it's it's so nice to share that with people at home.
And I think that's a real highlight to both of our shows
on every show that talks about, geek culture, I love it.
It's just running around the background and just what do I hear?
Oh, so this is nerdy.
You guys are, one of the big things you guys are looking for into the future
is pushing air. You guys is YouTube.
And while there are links in the description of this interview
right now, I want people to specifically go to YouTube and subscribe,
follow up on this.
What in your guys's YouTube channel future?
What are you guys trying to do in the future for your YouTube channel?
Yeah, so we do the two shows a week, right?
Right now.
So we do the news show on Tuesdays and then on Thursdays.
Felipe does what we call the build, which is
him building Legos, which are very expensive these days.
He's building Legos, but also doing the interviews that we talked about.
But it's a little bit longer format than just a Comic-Con interview.
You know, usually Comic-Con, you got half an hour, maybe 40 minutes
before that guest has to get off the stage,
get back to signing autographs, that sort of thing.
Yeah, but on the build, you get an hour, hour and a half of sitting down with a
usually like some kind of creator or voice actor or or filmmaker,
and get to pick their brain and have like long form discussions.
So that's super fun to do that along with,
you know, doing brackets and just kind of being that nerd
community of like, hey, who's going to win in a fight?
Is it going to be Aquaman or is it going to be any more?
Yeah.
You know, it's get stuff like that where you get to sit down
and have a discussion, argue with each other, make fun of each other,
but then come back and have a good time. Yeah. The entire time.
And that's what I said before.
Like, like sometimes an interview has to be short, punchy.
It's got a it has a very tight schedule.
But that's what I really like about the build,
which is again, your guys's Thursday show. Make sure you guys check it out.
It lets the conversation breathe, and you get to explore locations in
how you can explore areas that wouldn't have been explored beforehand.
And that's just great because like, sometimes the follow up question
and then the follow question after that,
we really get into some of the niche stuff that you really get to know the person,
and that's wonderful.
Yeah.
And the big thing with us with that show specifically, it's always conversational.
So rather than it being, you know, hey, hard line, here are your questions.
Here's an interview that, you know,
it's it becomes more conversational, it becomes more relaxed.
We tend to, like, lose track of time sometimes and be like,
oh, it's been two hours.
Okay. Yeah, we got to end the show.
But, you know, it just means you got to come on again.
And, we got to expand these conversations, like, you know,
especially when you get people who work in the industry that are also nerds.
Like, I can't imagine what would happen if we ever got Joe Manganiello on the show
because he would just I'm sure he would just go like nuts on D&D
and, you know, just and just crazy stuff like that.
Because, like,
it's not just, you know, hey, here's an interview that I do all the time.
It's a dude.
We're just going to have a conversation for two hours and like.
We are. Let's do it. Yeah, yeah.
You know, it's a great chat to.
What you were asking though. Like what else is coming up?
Yeah. Like, we're kind of doing the news.
We're kind of doing the interviews. Of course we want to do
more cons.
Bigger cons.
We're kind of
on the same path where it's like, hey, we want to have a booth and interact
with people at various cons, maybe host more cons.
Yeah, that sort of thing.
And I think we're on the right path towards that.
And also doing movie premieres, red carpets being that conduit
between our nerd community and, and kind of the
what's happening in the nerd world or the behind the scenes of that as well.
So and that's the more exciting thing that we, we try to do is, is build community.
That's that's really what we want to do is we want an entire community, like,
we don't, do a whole like, you know, we are separate from everybody,
like we call everybody all of our fan of our I guess you would call them fans,
but like all of our listeners, we call everybody nerds, right?
And it's because we're also nerds, right?
And that's the whole thing is we are a community of nerds,
and that's that's we want to connect with everybody.
We want your takes.
We want everything that you guys have to say about what's going on.
Yeah.
And, you know, we want
we want you to be a part of the show just as much as we are. So.
Like what you said earlier, like, you have to have an opinion.
Like you can not like something.
Just have an opinion on it so we can discuss it.
And it's fun building that community.
Having those discussions like Felipe and I are here
in Sacramento, California, like along with yourself.
But most of our show, our other three hosts are on East Coast.
You know, like we have people in the Midwest.
Chicago and Florida.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly our distance nerd king.
Yeah.
So you get a wide array of opinions.
And yeah, the idea
of having these conversations, it doesn't scare people away,
because I think that there are a lot of people
that, would love to talk about Daredevil, but they're afraid
that they're going to get mocked online, which is, you know, all trolls.
And it's nice to just have a chat about it like you used to when you were kids.
And in the recess. We don't have those anymore.
I mean, it's hard to have friends anymore in a podcast as a place
where you could chat with your friends almost,
and of course, that you guys up on
social media, what you guys are pushing social a lot right now.
Again, links in the description.
It's a community and everybody should be joining.
And I'm happy to be expanding that community with geek freaks and all that.
So, it's quite wonderful.
I also I'm a troll anti troll troll.
So like James, he was so weirded out the other day
because I was like, we got our first negative comment
and he was like, okay, why are you so excited about that?
Because I got to go talk smack. Yeah, okay.
Like I am a trolls troll.
If you come to troll us, oh, I'm going to mess with so much.
Yeah. And I'm going to take joy in it.
So if you guys
really want to make James, I feel happy about those negative comments.
And demands.
Yeah, that's fine as long as you're not giving us a negative review, we're fine.
That was that was the thing is,
like when we got our first negative review, I was like,
now we're a real show that feels right.
And then you're like, mom, that was rude.
Yeah.
So, Matt, okay.
So everybody again, this is links in the description.
What is next on your guys's palette?
Do we have any future interviews you guys want to talk about
or any conventions you guys are going to go into soon?
So I mean, we as far as interviews
go, tomorrow, watch as the time
rule recordings most Thursday, tomorrow, we've got an indie creator coming on.
But I'm really excited about the concept that he has.
Yeah. So his name is Milton Lawson.
The book that he wrote is Orson Welles,
warrior of the worlds.
I mean, that that's the kind of thing you just like.
Yeah. Click add to cart. Yeah. Right.
So the concept and.
Oh, and it's a graphic novel. It's thick. Yeah.
But the, the concept of it is during the day, Orson Welles is filming
movies and doing radio shows, and at night he's actually fighting aliens.
Of course.
It's so good. Yes,
it's kind of fun with doing so many cons
and doing so many shows and doing so many interviews on a weekly basis.
We're finding creators are coming to us.
Yeah, to be like, hey, I have this pitch for this comic
or this graphic novel or the show that I'm going to do,
or this film that I'm making, and we get some amazing stories.
Yeah, that come out of that in some amazing minds.
We're like, how did you even think of this?
Yeah, yeah.
You know, so it's it's really fun as far as cons go.
I mean, we're about to hit con season and con season right now.
So I think we there's six, six cons.
We'll be hosting up and down the West Coast
along with attending some of the cons you mentioned earlier, like L.A.
Comic-Con and stuff like that.
So there's a lot going on.
So we're going to be busy from now until the end of the year.
Okay.
So if people in Boise, I was gonna say, if you're in Boise,
Idaho, the next big show that we're doing is Gem State Comic-Con.
And I mean, we're excited.
We're we're going to be talking with Bonnie, right?
So, I mean, it's just like, I'm still kind of like,
I don't know how I feel about this right now.
And nerves again. And I'll never go.
Oh, that.
And Sean Gunn have my nerves kind of racked up.
So you. Get on.
Oh yeah.
We're going to be interviewing Sean Gunn. That's right.
It's cool. Yeah.
And by the way, we won't be interviewing because there's some NDAs happening.
But Ray Park, we mentioned,
you know, Star Wars earlier, the prequels.
Ray Park will be there.
He won't be doing specific interviews, but
we'll be we'll be chatting him, chatting him up, not breaking NDAs.
You might have shattered it already.
I don't know if you know what an NDA is.
No, I think it's.
We can't he can't interview us because, you just build the beams on some the.
So. Okay.
I mean, again, you know, we're really big on
letting them know, like, at least I will say,
if there's anything NDA related you can, like, omit and say.
I don't want to answer that. James is like, no, give me the T.
Yeah. By the way, it's Ray Park.
If any of us get out of line, he's going to kick us in the face.
Yeah, Darth Maul dude.
Like he's good at.
He's going to do with a cool backflip or something.
Yeah.
I'm so happy to have you guys part of the network.
I, I'm so happy for others
to be able to discover you and just share our fandoms,
share everything that's in the geek culture right now
in the nerd culture can be hard for me to remember. Nerf geek.
Where can people find you?
Let's go and get the shout outs for all the social media and stuff like that.
Oh my gosh, we get to do plugable I.
Know, right? We want to do Plugable.
So oh, and this is going to be great.
I'm going to do our Plugable.
This is this, I don't know, this may or may not be a good idea.
We'll see.
It can always be edited out if there's nothing after this.
It was a bad idea. Guys.
It literally. Is true.
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I don't know if you guys are on JDate, but I'll look, I'll since they're not.
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Thank you both very much for joining me today.
Absolutely, man. Thank you.
All right, guys we'll see you on the next one.
Bye. Thanks. And keep nerding together.