This is not due expect to ben. It's a straight from the because you'll
find me sur side coast. Welcome back to Quest for Confidence. It's not
happening people. This is a side Quest starring the beloved Missy Massey and Rick
Walti Aery and myself. But you know what, introduce yourself. Where where
did Waltierry come from? Waltierry so you pronounce it for me? It's not
wet. There's no fucking w in it. I have been hanging out with
Steve Weverell too much, with too many w's and v's and his name.
Everything's a w is a wall wall saying it wall terry, wall terry.
No, that's not wall terry, wall tiery. Yeah, but anyway,
anyway, it sounds like it sounds like like we got one cast member is
at work, one cast member with a sick kid, and one cast member
who's busy tearing up piss carpet. Oh yeah, cat on the walls,
just a piss wall carpet, And we're not gonna tell you which one is.
Which you could like make you can make that like an art installation that
like the men, the West rooms are nothing. There's no there's there's there's
no urinals or anything. It's just World War carpet with the sign that says
piss where you must, And anybody complains and be like why do you hate
art? Yeah exactly, you know it's maybe you need to do one of
those like yeah, you pee on it, like the thing you put the
black lights with some neon and then you get some whole bunch of different colors,
like some with some tide pens. Oh yeah, this pedal head light
up under black light pe Yeah, definitely, because that was because I want
to say, are you just assuming that everybody's going into the bathroom and just
jacking off? Well, I mean I know I would, but I mean
that's what it's there for. It's like like that's for masturbating and public and
like libraries are for taking a poop. That's that's just that's science. When
you're at the it's artful masturbation exactly. That's where you do it overhand or
the other hand. So I'm taking none of you on a trip to New
York with me. Oh yes, oh yes, look a Jackson public masterpiece
the wall, Yeah, and the whole I hate that art. I despise
his work. I have despised his work since I was a kid and I
had the Masterpiece game? Do you remember that from the seventies and the painting
in the wholesome? Shut Up? I was born in seventy five, So
no whatever. All right, here're my sister saying, settled down, child.
The adults are talking, tell me more about what it was like when
people were still black and white. Well, you gotta ask me how what
life was like in the nineteen hundreds, back in the olden days, it
would be better. Can you get one of those like can you just can
you get a title card now introducing done? Did it done? Did it
done? And then you just add these little title cards and because there were
no talkies back when you were growing up, Is that you trying to tell
me? Yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to say. Sure. Back
when I was in high school, a home teacher who was a little on
the older side asked, after giving an introduction to class, are there any
other questions? And one kid was like, yes, were the dinosaurs scary?
Oh? Did he get himself smacked upside his head? Oh no,
that's a Southern thing. Never mind, Yeah, up here it was frowned
upon for anybody outside of the gym teachers to beat the shit out of the
students. When I was in elementary school, my dad was the principal of
my elementary school, and kids used to come up to me and say,
does he really have a paddle with spikes on it? And I'd go,
yeah, he does. It's for mom's ass. That's only when mummy's really
good and he's got a riding crop and a ballgag and a zipper face.
No, I had the riding crop because I rode, I bet did did?
I still got my riding crop and my hat. They're in my room.
And now we know your children were signed. All right, we got
misty here being o you bekay motherfuckers. Well it is Christmas, that is
true. So what do we got? What do we got on tap for
tonight? Since since some of our party has abandoned us to the to the
whatever the fuck a maze that we're in is called, uh, we've got
nothing. We are fill in time, So let's that is. It is
one of those things. But you know, but I will honestly say,
like the people in the discord, the a and Devians and Junior Adventures,
I love them, I truly do. Ever since I joined this motley band
of fools, like, they've been extremely warm and kind and open, So
I figured we should at least do something for them. And you know,
I'm sure they've got questions. Maybe for the game, we can dive into
some of those questions. Like we said before, we could talk about our
our respective twenty twenty threes, from literary to our favorite personal moments, our
author and dragon moments your call, So dealer's choice. Who wants to start
first? Well, why don't we start with the question, and then we
can ease into uh, you know, why twenty twenty three sucked giant like
you know, giant octopus balls. And yes, for anybody wondering, it's
like, no, I am not horribly disfigured, at least not more than
normal. It's just cold in my little writing corner, and this thing is
warm. And also it's cool fucking Cthulhu. My favorite thing in the world
is winter when I can wear this out. Food shopping. I love doing
that because people like in the store, especially the old ladies, kind of
look at you and they want to say something, but then they're like,
no, I'm probably gonna get shanked. No, yeah, when the when
the when the large six footish man with a cuthulhu masks like you look like
like god. It's like like a knit version of the guy from like eight
millimeter the Machine. He's just like, you know, He's like, you're
just there, You're there. You have a presence, you have a you
have a you have a you are larger man, so you're gonna and and
big and the Cthulhu thing. Yeah, that just says that's nature was saying,
don't touch, you know, don't engage. Just go to a movie
theater like that and no one will sit next to you. But it's confusing
because it's nice, bright green, and so it's kind of cheerful and a
little wholesome and not entirely scary. So so the shape is scary, but
the green is. But does it doesn't just want to talk. I'm more
than happy to say something, but if they seem a little weird, a
little snarky instead of answering out all right now, my question is based on
the image I'm seeing of you. Are those lights reflecting your glasses or steam
steaming up on your gloves? That's steam? That is okay, that's what
I thought, because no matter how much I try to angle my breath downward,
yes, it steams the crap out of my glasses, which is which
is one of the reasons why I tend more to run to where my cramp
is hat out in the air, which also gets pretty much the same reaction
instead of this fair sure, we don't know fairness. I really do love
wearing this thing. I am kind of jealous. I'm not gonna lie.
I want one that is like, Hey, if there's any people out there
who make like who's very crafty, make me one. But I wanted to
have like you know, like uh like the like likes like like mastadon tusks,
Like so you want Casulu with mastadon tusks. No, No, just
like just like a full head thing, but like like I like not the
no's just the trunk because like we were talking to some of the folks on
Discord today, we were like, is the Godzilla with that thing dropped today?
About the Godzilla? Rick and I recorded, and I love the Behemoth
Titan the Kaiju. It just looks like just like a giant sloth with these
giant tusks, and it just walks around and messes things up in the Pacific
Northwest. I love that bag and I just want one, that's all.
I just want one. I mean, it's not that it's not that hard
to lick to do that well. And I say this as somebody who can't
crochet for shit, but it would mean not that hard for my wife to
do something like that. I know, I know, like she didn't make
this one. She bought this my my young my middle son, he has
the same one, but in black, which looks far more sinister. But
if you've ever seen my arrow of the god masks, she crocheted those gods.
She crocheted the crampus hat too, so so yeah, I mean,
you know, putting putting a horn. A few audio listeners, you're missing
out. Rick has got a full head covering. Uh it's in a cthulhu
uh face ski mask thing with like a squid lips and looks like like Zoidberg
after eating too many you drinking too much mountain dew, you know. And
it works for me. It works for me, and I like it,
so no love for Zoidberg. Let's see about questions. I'm like leaning in
because now I'm not wearing my glasses. Well, do you want me to
ask him instead? I can read no, No, it's fine, Okay,
Oh, let's see Eric questions. Questions, question, what is your
character's favorite kind of sandwich? Don't have a character? Okay, I'm assuming
that whoever asked that has listened to the show at least once and understands what
is what the first thing that Onwear would say. But Onwear's favorite kind of
sandwich is somebody on either side and him in the middle. So if we're
talking about food, I'm gonna have to think on that one. I was
gonna say, move, Move does not care as long as he is surrounded
by dead elves. Uh. Since I'm the Since I'm the DM and I
don't have a carriage or my favorite sandwiches, I mean, I'm I'm never
gonna go wrong with There's a straight up just peanut, butter and jelly,
you know, I it's hard to mess that up. I love it.
That's It's just makes me happy. It's simple. Now, if we want
to talk players favorite sandwiches, mine is a is a tie between tuna fish
because I still love tuna fish. I do not make it with pickles in
it, because that's an abomination. And horrific, and I don't care what
my mother has to say about it. But but I love tuna fish sandwiches
and I love banana sandwiches. I will eat a banana sandwich any day of
the week. So even though I really don't care for bananas any other way,
but I will eat a banana sandwich very happily. See, we have
we have an interesting dynamic here, and that myself and my kids were all
fucking cockproaches and like, if once we find something we like, we will
like subsist on that forever. Whereas my wife Alyssa, she gets bored really
quickly, like even if it's something she loves, if you give it to
him more than two days in a row. Like she's been known to like
you to walk around the house. But like there's nothing for me to eat.
We just went to the fucking store. You bought a whole like thing
at tuna fish for like lunch. Yeah, but I had that yesterday,
So I my brain once again, mister Walteriry or wal Terry or Rick g
uh, because that my wife does that on the regular we have nothing to
eat, and I she can't did the same thing twice, but she'll make
she'll prepack her lunch. But I am that guy. I will eat the
same thing three or four days in a row. I just don't care exactly.
And like I remember, all throughout like high school, I had the
same sandwich every day, and I was so happy with it. It was
chicken breast with mustard. And you know something, I ate that every day,
not turkey breast, because chicken breast tastes better. It does, it
does, it does, It has more flavor. Turkey is kind of dry
and kind of bland. But yeah, I was happy with that. Like
you know, I would have continued eating that for freaking forever. Is that
still my favorite sandwich? No, my taste have gotten a little bit,
a little bit, I guess, more more robust. Now I prefer roast
beef over over over chicken. Okay, now he's talking like sandwiches you make
at the house, like like snacks sandwich because like I mean, if a
subway sub counts as a sandwich, then I will go to town on a
few of their delicacies. You know, I had like flavor my food like
that. But if I'm just sometimes if I'm just around the house and just
gotta I'm I got nothing neat, I got bread sitting around, Yeah,
then it's gonna be peanut butter and jelly. I almost never keep Deli meat
in the house because I don't eat it fast enough. That's the things like
I now I will dice. I'll make an omelet almost every day, like
a three egg omelet, and I'll put it either like some Canadian bacon or
some turkey or whatever, like a little bit of like on you know,
like that's my preferred like I use it eat five times a day, so
that's like my ten thirty meal. So and I love that sandwiches. Sandwiches
you get outside elsewhere. Well, first of all, Subway can go,
like you know, can go suck a whole load of Jarrett's there. Well
there going, Well they're sponsorship, thanks fucker. I maybe I wanted the
foot long. Maybe I wanted the the beatball of marin Era. Maybe I
wanted the used to like I used to like their meatal Marinar but then they
changed that their sauce. Their sauce went from like smooth the chunky, and
now they can go all go fuck themselves. Yes that's it, you change
your sorw now, okay, the good people on subway. Know that the
rest of A and D we do not condone his comments. He might be
off his medication. We actually like you, and if you want to support
us, I will gladly, gladly delete everything he just said. For the
love of the meatball, Mari and era uh for changing that sauce, I
hope you all get hell for eternity God. And I don't like their bread.
Their bread is too soft and slushy. It sticks to my teeth.
I like, Well, there's a place locally called Substation too, and they
have this wonderful bread that it's not toasted, but it's it's nice and crisp
on the outside, and so when I bite in it, there's a crunch.
And that's the kind of bread I like. Can can ask you,
I would be delighted called Beidos might still might still be there for all I
know. I haven't been hopboken in a while, mostly because I hate driving
and hopboken. But Beatles had two specialties and they were both the best in
the universe. One was a fresh cut pro judo sell with their what was
a prejudo sub with their fresh moots on it, and goddamn that was good.
And the other was similar had their fresh moods on it. But they
used to have this marinated roast beef and like gravy and stuff, and you
would do kind of like I guess, a cheese steak with that with the
freshmoods, and goddamn, that was just like fresh. I remember as a
college student, you'd get one of those subs and you'd get like a look
up, I don't know, like a like a quarter of uh of mountain
dew, and you you were, you were set for the weekend. Wow.
Now I used to like certain like subplaces like Quiznos is no longer with
us, and I did enjoy the quiz Nos it wus. Yeah really,
oh yeah nine percent. Sure they're gone. I mean, I mean there
might still be a few around, but you're right. It's like like Quizno's
was everywhere, and then Quiznos was nowhere. Yeah, that's curious, Okay,
I guess I just I just missed it. Yeah, And the way
they used to majority of steak biolum since Charlotte and Interesting they filed for bankruptcy
in twenty fourteen, must be must be franchised independently. Yeah, it must
be in a bit of franchises because like the Jersey Mics, they have this
one to my son and I really enjoy, but because of inflation, Like
I'm not I don't know about you all, but when I go to get
fast food, and I do consider subs to be fast food, I'm sorry,
folks, you are your fast food. But if I'm paying fifteen to
eighteen dollars for a meal from a fat'm like I can go to a restaurant
and get that and actually have like something of better quality. Like I understand
that there's a whole thing about like minimum wage gaps and inflations. I'm tracking
all of that. That being said, I'd rather pay the eighteen dollars to
get a plate of food from a restaurant that than a quizno sub or something
sub because it's like it it's not worth my time or the eighteen dollars for
that. I'm sorry. You know what bugs me about Jersey Mikes. Nothing
bugs me actually about Jersey Mikes. I like their subs, but I have
a problem eating there because they used to show up on the Food Network all
the time, like you know, people talking about favorite subplaces, and they
would always talk to these to these these old ladies about it, and they
would always say the same thing. I love Jersey Mikes because they're so fresh.
Okay, it was like, that's what you look like. What are
all these other places you go? And that's serving you ranto tomatoes exactly at
the bar, I want a choice of bread. I've also come to the
realization as i'm as I'm pushing fifty, it's time for me to stop lying
to myself. I don't like food. I like sauce. It's like,
if I get it, like what McNugget, I like sauce, like put
it this way. If I canna check McNugget, yeah, I'll eat it.
But I want that barbecue sauce without a hot mustard. If I get
a sub, I want sauces drizzled on it because like whatever meat or vegetmas
been on there, it doesn't matter. It's the sauce that like every bite
of Like you know, you get a spicy Chipotle on that sauce on that
sandwich. Oh my god makes me. Have you ever had yum yum sauce?
Yes? Yeah? Okay, okay, because I was going to say,
like, like I made fried chicken last night and as much as I'd
like dipping that in like barbecue sauce and stuff. I always keep a jar
of Yum Yum sauce around because that is just the absolute best to diption in.
There's a quick fire here where I live in Maryland that like we get
from all the time, and that's like, like, do you want the
extra yum? Like, yeah, I'm with a goddamn extra young Yum sauce.
I want as many those little things you can. I can. Here's
the extra five dollars. Just drown and swim my pretties. I'm just pouring
it over my meal because I you know, you can get the grocery store,
right, you know, you can go to hell right Like I just
walked this quick actually ung sauce. I can you know somebody put on it
for you right here. And I'm not a big fan of seafood, but
this place would sell They had karaiaki chicken sushi and they would drizzle it with
the young Young sauce. And this was the best these this was these were
the best sushi rules ever. And then they went out of business, and
I have been bitter ever since. This is kind of like the argument that
my guys give me. They always want me to make their sandwiches. My
husband and my son want me to make the sandwiches, even though all I
do is the same exact thing. You know, I put the mayonnaise and
the mustard on, I put the meat and the cheese on and everything.
But for some reason, because it's a mom sandwich, it is orders of
magnitude tastier. I don't know why because I'm the moms. It's because somebody
else did it. I will lie to you hard. I know. I'm
just feed me. I will tell you it's way better as long as someone
else is doing the labor. It's it's it's the same reason I want to.
You mow the lawn so much better than I do. Shut up.
I know for a fact, and this is not the my wife, because
she's very good cook. But I know for a fact there are some dishes
I do better than her. But you know something, if I don't have
to make them, they taste that much better. Well, ever since I
started working from home, like I take care of a lot of the meals
through through the week, you know, I especially as our Dan and I
may caa shifted. It's like it's I'm I'm off more. There's no reason
for her to like contribute us. We tried to do it at fifty to
fifty, but I kind we kind of fell into old like traditional habits and
that shitty of us. But for years, you know, she took care
of, like, you know, sixty percent of the meals. I took
care of forty and then we eat out, you know, every once in
a while to supplement. But since I've been home, I cook a lot
more and I'm like, do you care that it's so basic? And She's
like, just feed me. I don't care because like we eat small in
the evening because it's like like, you know, eat a decent breakfast,
eat a decent lunch. I like, I eat five times a day,
so I'll eat a dinner like around six, I'll eat again at nine,
you know. So I so my wife likes to hit me with these zingers
because she'll come she'll come home from work and we'll have dinner ready and you're
like, oh this like you know, to be all happy, and she'll
eat it. I'll be like, oh I was, Oh it was wonderful,
and I'll be and I'll be pleased to punch and then she'll have to
add, but I was starving, so I would have eaten dog shit if
you but in front of me. Thanks, you had to just like you
had to just like stomp on my night there. Yeah. Yeah, can't
be giving you to letting your head get too big there, it's like get
like back of your youth. You have a one night staying like truth,
if you told all what it's up with, anybody, you're like, oh,
thanks, that feels makes you feel so much better. But seriously,
here's cafair get out, no, no, and just it's it's like it
was either you or like a random like you know, hole in the drywall.
Yeah, but so yeah, okay pigs you know this. So hopefully
that twenty minutes answered your Zack of All Trades. I hope that answers your
question about our favorite sandwich. Or if it doesn't, just ask again next
week because I'm sure that the answer will change. You have new people to
answer that one, right. I can't find where that question? Oh I
see one also from Zack of All Trades? Do we prefer hijinks, Shenanigans
or antics? You know, Zach, I did like you before this question?
Fuck off? That's why I like, Yeah, you dipshit. Uh,
I can't find like I must have scrolled past. But somebody, somebody
asks who who would you love to see play the Wizard in a remake of
The Wizard of Oz. I mean the guy at the very end of the
movie who gives a shit. It could be like Samuel Jackson. Fuck it
like it's at the very end of the movie, who cares like, cast
me Dorothy. Now we're talking again, Samuel Jackson as Dorothy. I would
It's impossible because I'm pretty sure that he's long dead. But the guy with
the the piglet voice who played who was who was on Star Trek the original
series, and he was the the the administrator who ended up being the murderer
in Wolf in the Fold. He was Redjack. But but the whole time
until you find out that he's Redjack, he's all walking around talking like Piglet
from Winnie the Foo. He'd be fun as the as the Wizard, especially
if he went nuts and turned into Rejack. I'm gonna I'm gonna go a
little a little closer to home, and I'm gonna say Robert Bevin is Droorcerer,
because man, I just want people to be It's like, don't look
behind the curtain. Oh my god, I told you not to look behind
the curtain because he's jacking off back there just to behold his wonder right there.
This's gonna be the next Authors and Dragons movie, a remake of Wizard
of Oz. Did you ever see the original scary movie? Yeah, all
right, Well there's a there's a sex scene in it, and when and
when the guy blows his load, it's basically like a fire hose that like
blows the woman up to the ceiling and stuff, and I'm like, that's
what I want to see. When the person finally opened the curtain and Wizard
of Oz and blasted against the wall, that was a classy scene. Actually
I remember. Yeah, No, I mean, if I mean I'm not
lying on the Samuel Jackson, if I had got a different take on the
Wizard of Oz, and he's just he's just a piss off old man like
but like more like the mister Glass from Unbreakable version of Samuel Jackson. He's
got like the crazy hair and the eye like staring you down. And of
course he's gotta say motherfucker a time or two. That's how you get the
R rating and uh, this particular casting of the Wizard of Oz. But
you know, I yeah, I can't. I'd like to see that.
I don't know why, but that's that's my go to. Yeah, after
having heard him do go the fuck to sleep. Yeah, I can see
this happening. So there would be another good choice. Clint Howard. Jesus,
I'm thinking. I'm thinking, yes, he's still alive. Okay,
okay, the roles he's played, it's like, and I'm thinking, if
there's one person you don't want to open up a curtain and be surprised by,
it's him. Oh no, no, no, no, Mark Hamill.
I want Mark Hamill to be the Wizard. But he's got to do
the jokery voice. He loved that. He says, he's like now that,
now that unfortunately mister Conroy is gone, he will not ever reprise the
Joker without Uh well, I mean I don't mean it. I don't mean
the Joker voice, but that he's got this this raft that he did,
Like have you seen followed the House of Usher? I exactly. I was
about to ask you, yes, that voice, that's the voice, that
voice he's down here. It was like, yeah, there was this pim
he was, Yeah, he had a nickname of that. What do they
call him? The help me out here? That doesn't matter. Now it's
bothering me. I don't remember. I don't look it up, but but
yeah, have you not seen it? Rick followed the house. No,
I haven't watched it. Okay, it was. It was surprisingly good.
It was really good. In fact, it was one of my favorite things
of twenty twenty three. It is. It was beautifully done. The pim
Reaper, that's what they called him, the pim Reaper. It was bothering.
I would have arrested to unknown. So actually, actually that's a great
segue. Best TV show of twenty twenty three. This was up there for
me. Of this, I would definitely say it's in my top personal top
five because if you have not seen The Fall of the House of the Usher,
it is. It takes an Usher family and a label lists it shows
them in a version of like kind of like the Koch family or the family
that made OxyContin whose name is escaping me. The those folks and their high
power, they can't be touched, blah blah blah, and they slowly starts
dying off one by one. So it opens with most of them debt,
and it's just the patriarch left and he's finally confessing all his crimes to this
investigator journalist, and so it goes back to how it all happens. It
has a mystical element, it has got a horror element, and they're all
these different things that are tied in from various post short stories. Is one
novel all and it's it's it's beautiful and way in the way that some people
say it was boring, and I tell them to go to hell. It
was. It was a slow yes, it was a slow burm, but
each episode was like concentrated death, you know, like each one was was
opulent and succulent, and like I just want to eat more of every single
episode because it was so well acted and so well done and so well shot.
Ye you know, since there's only three of us here, I mean,
we can we can do like our top three, like you know TV
shows of the twenty twenty three. Oh okay, god, well that's that's
definitely one of my top three. Someone else go, yeah, I gotta
I gotta throw in on that one too, because it was just amazing and
uh what I liked about it too. In addition to everything that Gibbey said,
there were call outs to some of Poe's less well known stories. And
as somebody who was who's been reading posts since she was little, that was
fun, Like there was a there was a moment that that they kind of
called back to hop Frog, which is a post short story that hardly anybody
remembers because it was not one of the big five or six and and so
I was like, I know where that came from. So so that was
a lot of fun too. To be able, that's my wife. She's
been teaching middle school English for the last like twenty seven years and Poe has
been one of her major things. So she is a Poe fanatic. So
when she heard me watching as she started sitting down, and my wife does
not watch television, so she sat down and was like, we had to
go back so she could watch all of us and catch all the Poe references.
And she, of course she got into the story. But when a
TV when a non TV watcher sucked in, you know, it's a good
program. So yeah, that concurrently, I know, I know it's probably
going to be like, you know, kind of a split opinion, but
one of one of the things. I like, I just enjoyed it because
I thought I had really good energy. I really enjoyed Netflix's live action adaptation
of One Piece. I did not see it. Yeah, I my son
was a big One Piece fan, but I never really joined on that with
him, and so I didn't know what I was getting beyond okay, it's
goofy anime, kind of piraty thing, but a pirate And so I watched
it, and yeah, it was really I was very much entertained and I
was I was ready to watch every bit of it all the way through.
So yeah, I mean, like the act the actor who played Loofy,
like he just had this contagious amount of screen charisma that like, you know,
yeah, I like, I've never been a like. I can't say
I'm not a fan of the anime. I don't have a problem with the
anime, but I never wanted to get into the Enemy because the Enemy is
like twelve thousand episodes long, and I'm like, I want to watch an
anime, not marry one, right, But I was familiar enough because I
watched like the first season or so that I wanted to see how this was.
And I was like, I'm really enjoying this guy who's playing the main
character. Yeah, yeah, he it was. I thought it was interesting
how he uh, he was goofy, but not in a way that made
me go, oh god, would you just stop? You know, his
goofiness was sweet and pleasant and I liked it. But when he needed to
be serious, he could be serious, and I thought, that's really kind
of neat. How how they managed to do that? So I need,
I need to watch this because my son is a big anime head, and
I grew up with some anime and and like, you know, again,
we're all of a certain age brain, so like Animed Me was like Vampire
Hunter, Dan, Robotech and Vulture on, you know. And I watched
a few of the movies, and so by the time I got out of
it and came back to it, there was like an entire generation of anime
in between. So I skipped over all the Yu gi oh and all the
uh Pokemon and and and all the stuff the other people fell in love with,
like you know, what's uh the dragon Ball. But I came back
in and started watching more and watching and watching someone with him and really getting
into parts of the genre. But there's so much it's daunting. That being
said, he has made it his mission to watch all of One Piece.
He's twelve. He started when he was like ten and a half and he's
twelve now, so he's around episode seven or eight hundred, so he is
he is chugging through. You know. I'm glad he has goals. But
I did watch like a three minute scene on one of those scrolling through Facebook,
and it was that dude, don't I don't know anybody's names. He's
got like the weird beard and he gots a giant sword in his back,
but he fights with like a knife this big he's like, and he fights
him like that, and that's three minute fight scene they showed him like that
was stupidly well done. Like that was stupidly well done, Like the choreography
and the way the camera moved. I'm like, I might have to give
this a chance because that held my attention. And I was like, and
and I'm a critical asshole, and that held my attention, So okay,
I'm also gonna throw in a vote for And I don't know if this came
out. I think it came out last year, but I didn't see it
till this year on Apple TV I don't Apple TV, so oh well I
do the whole Oh look, you can have three months of Apple TV for
free. Great, log in and have three months and then then get out
again until they give me three more months for free. So I did try
it, got it, yeah, exactly. Severance was really it was really
neat it. The idea is that you these people go to work, and
when they get to work, they they have one identity, but when they
leave work, they become somebody else, and they don't remember what they did
at work, and when they're at work, they don't remember what they did
at home. And so they they are living they they are living entirely separate
lives. But there's and work is very very strange, very Orwellian bizarre kind
of you know, how is this even work sort of thing? Because they're
just clicking but and clicking numbers all the time and it doesn't seem to make
any sense whatsoever I read about that. Isn't that like they figure out how
to separate the right and the left hemisphere of the brain, so like,
you know, one focuses on like leisure and like art and stuff, where
the other is like you know, but since they're not connected they can't talk
to each other, well they didn't. I don't think it's a separation of
one side from the other, but it's just there's there's some way that they
have figured out to keep them to separate their consciousness, and so there are
two different consciousness going on at the same time. They're not even named the
same thing. And so when they're outside of work, you know, they
know they've gone to work, they know where they work, and they know
how to get there, and they know to show up and they get in
an elevator and when the elevator goes up, that's when the change happens.
And then when they get to leave again, they go down the elevator and
the change happens again and they go out. So it was it was it's
very surreal. It's very like I said, it's very Orwellian's stark. But
the end was it was this huge cliffhanger ending, the kind that that you're
sitting on the couch and and you see the ending coming and then they say
boom, there's the end, and you just scream because you know that you
have to wait. And especially in terms of Apple TV, and this was
also during the it ended before the writers the actor strike, and so they
were not able to start filming again right away. So it's gonna be next
year before well obviously, but it's gonna be late next year before we get
another season of Severance. And I'm just crawling the walls because at least that's
a that's a season cliffhanger. When when they do look at serious cliffhanger when
they do that ship, that's just that's the sort of stuff. And this
was not there. So there there's a There was a show on Netflix.
It was what was the It was called Ragnarok, and it was basically like
a modern day version of like, you know, the the Norse Scott like
the nor I watched yeah, yeah, and I remember I really enjoyed the
first season. I think the second season two, and the third season just
recent and release, and I watched that and I was like, all right,
not bad, not bad, And then we got to the final episode,
I was just like, you have gotta be fucking kidding me, Yeah,
don't you. I skip. I like it's one of those like it.
I was talking to like one of my other writer friends who I keep
wanting, I want to have an interview with her on a side quest on
another time. Uh, because she's awesome, but uh we immediately because she's
in the Netherlands and so she as soon as she watches she like things me
on discord. Did you see the final episode? I'm like I did.
We didn't need to talk and argue because this sucks, you know, one
hundred percent. I loved that show. I truly did, and like the
ending of that. The finale was like, I understand they're going for artsy,
but that's like a fart after sex. This is just this is you
had something really good and you ruined it, and it's just it broke my
heart how bad they crushed? Like that was that was Game of Thrones final
season bad? Like almost like they it wouldn't have been any worse had the
writers and producers just showed up on the screen. Thanks for watching, Fuck
you, I would say, like my next was it? Like? Was
it lost? Final season? Bad? See lost? I here's the thing.
I'll defend Lost final season. I'll defend it. You know. Uh,
It's not as good as season one, but things never are, you
know, But it's one of those Like they also had a writers straight.
They also had issues going on. I think people like saying the whole time
they were perfect. They weren't in the whole time. The island happened the
final season with the flash sideways when people were after the time in the future,
when it's they got off the island. They all died of natural causes,
and everybody's just waiting for the last person died so they can go into
heaven together. That's the whole sideways stuff was. It was just a holding
pattern til the last person joined them. I understand what they were going for.
It worked sort of, It just wasn't unfortunately cohesive. Now my number
two. If you have not, we can argue an other time. Blue
Eye Samurai Blue Eyed Samurai on Netflix like, okay, So in twenty twenty
one, the good people at Netflix amazed me with this show Arcane. It
blew me away in storytelling and character design and animation and art direction and music.
It was it's it's my number one. If you want to be a
great, perfect show, you have to beat Arkane. Blue Eyed Samurai hit
the ground like, well, you are number two. You are number two.
This is if you have not watched this show. Have either of you
watched it? No? Sort of okay, My husband is watching it,
and so sometimes if he's watching it and I'm in the room, I'm watching
it with him, and I agree. It is very good, it's very
well done. It's just not quite my thing to just suck me in completely.
So I think if you if you think, I think, if you
start from the beginning, truly and truly start from the beginning, you might
you might be more into it. But like obvious for those that for those
listening and those at home you have. It's set the period of Japan when
Japan closed its borders to the west. It says, no more crack,
get out, honkys, we don't want you, because you know you are
ruining the Japanese spirit. So and anybody who is of descent of Caucasian descent
was seen as a demon. So we have this girl who obviously unfortunately has
blue eyes and is seen as a demon, and she's on a quest to
find the last people in Japan who might be her father and kill them so
it doesn't hurt. It also doesn't help that she's a female, so she
has to hide the fact that she's female to learn all these things. But
most of the main characters are set in this world where one character doesn't have
hands, one character is blind, one's a female. So it's a world
not built for these people, and they're still doing their best to succeed in
this world, within these dynamics. And it is a beautiful show. But
also it goes full John Wick as often as possible, and you get to
see a lot of motherfuckers die and it is so it's all not all noble
looking into the wind with Lonus blossoms flowing. It's got that too. It
also has she's probably lost I don't know, thirty three gallons of blood over
the course of those nine episodes, and keeps on truck it, you know,
like and that's what I want. I want John McClain at the end
of Diehard, bleeding broken and like it's still mustering force a blue eyed samurai
with a bullet like right up there on my top three list. Yeah.
Yeah, from the parts that I've seen, I've really I've enjoyed it,
and it's it's very well done. It's very adult. This is not this
is not kids anime at all. So so that's you know, that's one
thing to know. But but yeah, it's really good. So mm hmmm.
You had a number two. Rick, Well, I'm not really going
in order, but I and I know, I know it's kind of a
sacred how about that. Yeah, I really enjoyed this season or the last
season of the Boys because they had Jensen acles on. He dude, the
dude just like like sweats charisma and I mean he's just playing this dirtbag character
that it looks like he was having so much fun playing soldier all the time
of being a nice guy on on the on the Supernatural, he gets to
say funk a lot. Yeah, No, he's he's a he's he's a
heart throb. He's a bad boy, but he's a good guy. No,
he's not a good guy anymore. He's he gets to say that he's
a terrible character, but he's so much fun to watch as this terrible character.
He's a terrible character, but he's still not as bad as as Captain
what's his face, the blind And he's equally as equally as bad but like
and and that's the thing like both him like like like the guy who plays
Homelander, he's also super charismatic. So it's like you have these these these
people on there who are just able to exude charisma while being complete and utter
scumbags. And I just love watching that it because it's like I want to
hate I want to hate your character, but I'm having so much fun watching
it. That is like it's that it's really hard to for all the writers
out there or what or want to be writers with professional, amateur or whatever.
You study Homelander, study how to make a bad guy that's charismatic,
Like, even though he is obviously like racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and
murderist, you want more of him because now that's all through Anthony Starr the
actor's charisma, but you know someone's writing his lines so and he's got you.
So that is your goal to make someone as charismatic as Homelander, Like
even though you love you hate him, you love to hate him. So
yeah, but like almost everybody on that show is like you know, it's
just like there's just there's just so much with like almost every character on there.
It's like like like even uh got it, the the one character who
doesn't speak, the girl, she just like she just tears people's faces off,
like I think it's Kumiko. Yeah, yeah, I know. Some
people are like, well it's it's it's over Gratuita's violence. Yes it is,
and but once you get past that and accept it, it's fun to
watch because it's so over the top that it's one of the reasons that the
spin off disappointed me when I watched gen V. I know some people are
loving gen V. They're like, oh my godness, gen V was so
it felt like, what's a line that, uh uh, I'm doing it
right now Goldbloom did in Jurassic Park. You stood on the backs of greats
and just took the next step, like they're standing on the shoulders of of
the Boys and they are having exploding dicks without knowing why they should have exploding
dicks. If that makes any sense, it's to me. It was like
it was really bad writing, and I know it was like, it's not
a fun show. But one quirk I have with that show is that every
single person there's no such thing as making out in this world. You kiss
somebody, you fucked them, which I always thought, like, you know,
man, that must make make make Holidays with Grahama really awkward. There
was this cartoon spin off of of From the Boys and that's really well done.
That was good. It was really good. I haven't seen that yet
it was an anthology story. It was real good. I have watched gen
V, and I think the problem with gen V is that they were trying
to the The thing about boys is, as you've pointed out, they're all
reprehensible humans and they're they're bad people. Some of them are badder than others,
but they're still all bad people. And the the idea with gen V
is that there are actually some people who are not so bad. And so
it doesn't quite work with the with the setup, because we're not look in
that in that reality, we're not looking for good guys, we're looking for
bad guys and less bad guys. I would say this the one thing that
angered me about gen V, and it angers a strong word, but the
one thing I just I just couldn't stop seeing is like, obviously the writing
is supposed to very fit, very thinly veiled, as if it's right on
the nose, like it's using superpowers to reflect societal problems like depression, cutting,
anxiety, parent issues, bleeding, you know, all these things,
but so like their power like bulimia, like their powers come from a social
anxiety or a social quirk or something or something. People that suffer through and
it was so on the nose that it wasn't clever to me, you know,
and it so it was just and again half the kids are like they
know the world of superheroes. There's dirt bags and celebutants and assholes and killers.
You like the moment like that one kid. Remember they were trying to
make them good towards the end. Remember that kid actually almost murdered a lady
playing with that little middle thing and slice her through the neck. And they
were just gonna ditch. They were all just gonna dish and let that lady
die. They did not give two shits because they don't want to lose their
spot in college. Like these are bad people. The one girl whose name
is escaping, but the girl the Blood Powers, she's like the only decent
one among them. And even now, I liked her when she was on
Sabrina because she was she was the best friend of Sabrina on that show.
So but you know, she's all growing up now. But yeah, that
show is a disappointment, But it didn't disappoint me as much as the Last
of Us. Oh, I like The Last Love the I love the Last
of Us. But I'm in a serious Pedro Pascal position right now. Listen,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pooh pooh on Pedro. I love Pedro.
I liked the plane. There were so many elements of that show which
were Chef's Kiss perfect, except for the cohesive story, because there wasn't one.
Like you can't set this up and say this is the apocalypse. You
can't dedicate entirely new things from the video games, Like you don't understand how
bad this virus is gonna be. This this virus, this virus, this
virus, this virus. Six zombies. Whole show, it wasn't about this
and it was all and it didn't They kept skipping around time so much.
They're were like like when they had this one time job with like one hundred
and twenty days after they've been walking, and like they're still sniping at each
other at one hundred and twenty days. When you are attached to the hip
to somebody, you've watched them poop, you have heard every joke. You
know them pretty fucking well by this point. And now that being said,
the Frank and I came to the character's name, the two gay men who
had a beautiful love story that episode is perfect in a box, perfect episode
with Out of Doubt redded me. Sure, Redd did me. I was
on the couch, dead heart sobbing my heart out. Oh that was so
lovely. But the rest of it, I'm just so much. I mean,
I really enjoyed it. But put You're right, it's like one of
my least favorite things about playing the games. And I've played both of them,
and they're fun games. Naughty Dog means really great games. Is I'm
playing them with the action, I'm not necessarily caring about the human the human
drama. Honestly, when I'm playing that game time, I'm making up my
own dialogue. That that is usual. That's usually, like, you know,
nothing to do with the story, if I may, during the game
again, I like you. I played them both when Joe gets the rebar
through the stomach and Li has to spend the winter trying to save his life
and like that. But that is a haunting moment in the midpoint of the
game, and it happened in the show. But they have had so many
back and force and quips and bonding and bonding, and we got none of
that in the show. We're just told We're like, it's kind of like
we're told and not shown. They did a lot of telling and not a
lot of showing, and I felt like, you know, here the thing.
It looked great. It was wonderfully acted. All the characters are great.
They truly were, and on on paper, it's a it's a home
run. But when I'm watching it, like, I don't want to watch
it again, Like I have no desire to, Like I've watched Game of
Thrones the first four seasons multiple times. I have watched you know, a
lot of these shows multiple times because it's like rising old friend, I have
no desire to see this again. Yeah, it was pretty, but it's
just a if you step back and look at the story as a whole,
like it's not it was really they should have they should have doubled the episodes
and like you know and given us like because yeah, you're right. It
did feel kind of rushed where it was like, Okay, we're just meeting
each other and now we're in Colorado and hop Yeah, they did a lot
of things, like you have to take a you've taken consideration the time that
they spent together for just from one episode of the next, so there's a
sense of continuity some of the things they chose, Like for example, they
spent twenty two minutes with a woman I think it was in Bangladesh or or
Indonesia, doesn't matter. She was the former scientist on this whatever, and
then she like killed the whole city Jakarta, killed the whole city, destroy
everything, because they spent twenty two minutes of her seeing the thing, seeing
the virus, seeing the zombies, seeing the creature, and like kill the
thing. But again, we only ever had like two real zombie attacks.
It was like it was a prestige Walking Dead without the zombies, and so
it was never it was never a good zombie show. It wasn't really that
low move from cub either. It was it tried to do a lot of
different things carry it across the wait. Now, Druckman is a wonderful writer,
and you can argue the merits of the video games all day long.
They are wonderful games and they and it has a great fan base. It
just as a whole it kind of let me down a little bit. Yeah,
I mean, like the fact that they went through the entire the entire
first video game in one season. What was it like six episodes or something,
Yeah, that that Yeah, that felt short because yeah, the game
is pretty sprawling, pretty long. That's one of those games you spend like,
you know, twenty thirty hours playing, So yeah, to come to
sort of condense it all, you're you're right, it's you know, like
I still enjoyed it. I had. I had a really good time watching
it. But yeah, there was just didn't blow me away, you know,
like like I was hoping it would because I had a lot of hype
going into it, and maybe maybe that follow his mind. Maybe I put
too much hype on it. But after seeing all this, like clear,
the production value is through the roof. It is a gorgeous show. So
all right, is anybody have a third thing they want to nominate for their
particular list? Sure go ahead, Rick, I was gonna say, it's
still ongoing, but I am enjoying the fuck out of Monarch Legacy of Monsters.
I still need to get that Apple TV and watch it. I yeah,
my Apple TV ran out, so I gotta wait until we get another
one to get to. We watched the first episode and it was it was
really good and so we're gonna have to watch it later on. But I
earlier this year We watched the first season of a show on I think it's
on the MGM network called Up From and it stars Harold Parano. I love
that. Did you watch it both seasons? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I've seen. I've seen both seasons. We're waiting on
three, aren't we? Okay? Yeah, because I did that, I
did the same thing I got because it was like, the first season was
free on Prime and I watched the first episode and that the next day they
took it off of Prime, so I had to get the MGM pass so
I could watch all season one, season two, and then it cancel my
pass. So yeah, what a wonderful show. I think season one was
stronger, but it was such a wonderful show, really good, and you
know it stars Harold pair Parah And I'm sorry, but I feel about Harold
Parano much the same way I feel about Pedro Pascal. I could watch him
do any damn thing on screen, and I'm good with that, but you
know, he just does no wrong. He's so talented. Did read the
Uh? You did read the thing? That's like it's made by the same
people, like some of the same creative force behind Lost, but they want
to tell a better story than they So Harrold Paranol was Walter's dad and loss
and there's a lot of Lost alumni. So for those who don't know,
the show is like there's this town and people who enter it can't leave.
That's it. And but it's like it's the weirdest thing. They're like,
it's like a Lost type setting where it's like things it's anachronistic, things are
from like old present future. It's weird. Radio signals don't come in and
out, they can't communicate. Monsters show up every single night, and but
as long as you have this little symbol above your door, they can't come
in, but they'll tempt you. They want to get in, and it's
and they can look like anything or anything. So yeah, that's how they
get. You're bizarre. And there's always a there's a weird guy who's been
there since a kid, and he like he knows certain secrets. And sometimes
you walk into a tree in one spot, you walk on a tree in
another spot, and it's so wonky and weird, and it's like like,
I really hope they actually know what they're doing and they're just not making shit
up and guessing, you know, like like they kind of did with Lost
a little bit exactly. I hope they actually have a game plan because I
was blown away a bout how awesome that show is. So I yeah,
I hope so too, because I've said it that to people that it's like
Lost if Lost did it right the first time, So you know, but
I just I love that show, and especially in season two, even though
season two was a little was a little weirder than season one, but it
had this whole kind of creepy Narnia vibe going on a lot of the episodes,
and so that was like, Okay, I can get into this because
I was a Narnia girl from way back, so but this is now grown
up, scary Narnia. And reach the tree with the bottles, that just
creeped me out, like yeah, oh my god, Yes there's a tree,
and every tree's got like a string with a bottle and a note inside
of it, and you don't know why, and it's just sometimes it's there
and sometimes it's not, and it's well and so funny because as as a
Southerner born and raised, there are people down where my parents live who make
bottle trees. They stick blue glass bottles on the ends of branches of these
these short, uh shrubby kind of trees, and there they there to catch
evil spirits and witches and stuff like that in the bottles, and you leave
them on the tree. You don't take the bottle down, Okay, Okay,
Yeah, And so that tree, I was like, Oh, I
wonder if it's what I think it is, you know, but we don't
know because it hasn't been answered yet. So but yeah, that's show.
That show is amazing, and the acting is really good, the writing is
really good, and and I'm I'm hanging around for season three. I mean,
I don't have MGM right now because I'll get I'll get a trial when
that time comes. Yes, same thing. And it was like exactly,
but it's one of those a friend of mine recommended. I watched it.
I blew me away. So I need another side quest down down the line
where Gibbe just talks about this Appalachian uh family there, Oh, no,
the Gibson family, like we know the Gibson family when they came over from
Scotland, Like they settled to Kentucky and the Appalachia Hills, and then half
of the clans split and went north. Of West Virginia to do the same
cold mining tructure. That's where my side comes from. But I've got old
family from down to that. It's one of the reasons when I love I
listened to that podcast of Gods of Appalachia and I'm just like God, it
just it's just the stories that I used to hear from like the grandparents side
of the family all the time. Uh yeah, I love I there is
there is a lot of like old miss myths, Yeah, myths and mysteries
and witchcraft and the green and the dark and like haints and boogers and all
these things from like that brought it from the old country and they found it
in Appalachia, these old hills that they're dark and they don't want you there,
and it's like there's a presence. So yeah, yeah, like I
like, I love like there's a huge there's a huge like you know,
like appalation like presence on TikTok And I love it because they're always fighting because
like half the people are like, yeah, you go into the woods,
don't look in the trees because something will be looking back, and like you
know what, the other half are like I'm in the woods all day.
Yeah, world, you know are the whole you know, if you hear
the whistling, don't go toward it, and don't don't whistle back and yeah,
oh yeah, Well because it's there's there's the difference between the woods and
places where it's known as a holler. If you go to a place that's
known as a holler, there's a very good chance that you're going to like
it's. It's people get most in the woods and die on the regular because
it's there are places that you just get turned around. Sounds bounce off trees,
and it's so dense and it's dark. It's primeval for a reason.
You know, it's kind of like our It's America's version of the Black Force
of Germany, where a lot of horror stories have come from. You know,
it's like all the Grim's fairy tales come from, like that central region
of Germany. You know that that that primeval, dense, fangorn force like
place, you know, where the trees don't want you. Now. But
I like, I understand, like I'm nderstand the whole sound bouncing thing.
Like I had an uncle used to live in Jackson, New Jersey, and
they had this weird acoustics with their house where if you were if you were
on the side of the house, anybody talking from from the backyard would sound
like they were coming from the opposite yard across the way. And that was
the weirdest ass thing, Like you would totally expect to go there and like
turn right and see people, but everybody was like left. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's why all the great witches and things coming to that all
right, So they may have a third because I I an honorable nomination goes
because I'm enjoying them continuing the show The Bear if you have not on Hulu.
I love that show. Same with The Reservation Dogs. They had their
third and final season. They both those shows kind of blew me away.
Geen Wilder's kid, Jeremy Allen White, is an amazing actor. He's a
National Treasurer. I love this kid. Yeah, that's Jean Jean Wilder's kid,
grandchild, I think grandson. Okay, oh, that's interesting. I
didn't know that. Yeah, he looked he looked kind of like yeah.
But the show on Netflix called Beef is amazing. It is. I'm trying
to Stephen Young, the actor that played uh uh, he was in the
Walking dead. He Uh ball cap Asian Stephen. Yes, Stephen Yun.
I'm trying to be the guy. Can't remember his character's name. He got
he got whacked in season five. Uh, Glenn doesn't know Glenn, Glenn,
thank you. So the actor of the plays Glenn that that Stephen Yun
and Ali Wong are these what? He is a dude that wants to kill
himself. She is a wife, kind of a trophy wife kind of thing,
but she is she hates her life and she like hits his car one
day and it just turns into this like beef between them and they keep living
to try to one up and hurt the other one emotionally, physically, financially,
spiritually, and it's it is like a like it's like a full season
of these people just their war vestalation of like bad people being worse to each
other. And it is so good. I really beef. If you want
to watch it, just watch like kind of like a it's a Arrested Development
like style, but like maybe a slightly rated version thereof Yeah, check this
out. It's it's worth your time. Okay, I'm gonna throw an honorable
mention in there, just not that that was necessarily good, but just because
it was there. But Netflix released two new seasons of Baki or Baki Kamna
this this year, and they were both just absolute gloriously batshit. Baki Baki
is a fighting anime, and it is like it is probably the most homo
erotic anime, like you know, there there is out like you know,
probably probably more so than actual actual yahweho porn. Okay, yeah, but
it's also just completely like like just out there, like season three had to
do with they found this They found this caveman from two hundred million years ago
who used to punch dinosaurs to death, and they defrost them, and every
and every fighter in the world decides they want to piece this guy. Except
the guy's also a cannibal. So in one case, like him and this
other fight that they lock jaw they like have a test of jaw strength with
each other, and it's it's like pretty much they locking locking in this kiss
and except except one of them, like the caveman wins and like tears off
the other guy's face and eats it. It is just the most like like
there has to be so much cocaine that goes into the writing of this anime.
I love it. I love it. I'll throw in an honorable mention
for The Diplomat also on Netflix, because it was It's when you first read
the description, you think, Okay, this is going to be international intrigue
and yeah, but then you get to watching it and there's so much humor.
We were laughing every single episode, and you don't expect that from from
a you know, an international intrigue spy kind of secret secret agencies and stuff
show. So so it was a lot more fun than than I think the
description would lend you to think. I just got to interrupt to say,
please, please give a master all the talk on YouTube, you know,
give me, give me's dog just made an appearance, or at least it
was his dog and not do that walked could have been a house. We're
not sure, we used to say, because yes, she does look like
and when she stands up on her hind legs, give a I do that
all the time because when she looks right at you, she is part beagle,
part greyhound. Uh, she's made of like she's like Franken when she's
made of spirit dog parts. She is like. Her legs are stupid long,
her head is too small. She looks like a chihuahuah with long legs.
We love her. Stella's amazing, but she is, Yes, she
looks like a house elf. You'd like to put her in like little little
t shirts like dog hurts, because that particular mix gets really exactly that that
mix gets very cold. So we're constantly put her in like dog flee sweaters
and she loves them. She prances around the house and them. Yeah,
sure, oh all right, I mean do we wanna do we want to
do we have any any questions on Facebook? We want to we want to
hit well, we had one uh our dear beloved, fuck you. Mark
wants to know what is the best concert You've ever been to? And I'm
gonna go with Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of thunder Tour. Because we were we
had seats in mezzanine, the center, Mezzi the second row, and so,
which was perfect because for a Pink Floyd show, you want to see
everything. You don't want to be pinpointed. You want to see the ginormous
stage, and so Mezzanine's second row put us and center put us in the
perfect position to see everything. Plus some guys in the first row about three
seats to the left were smoking to beat the band, and so we had
this lovely little contact buzz going on the whole time too, so which really
works for a pink Floyd chew. So pink Floyd delicate sound of thunder Tour.
I'm gonna be perfectly honest, I've only ever been to one concert in
my life because I'm not necessarily I'm not a huge fan of like live music,
so by default it was both the best and the worst, and honestly
it wasn't very good. H Oh, no, I mentioned I think I
mentioned this before because I used to work at this amusement park as a teenager
and we just stayed late one day and we were like, oh, Samantha
Fox's play is playing, which I'm sure dates me. So we were like,
all right, when want to go see this? And I mean it
was there, but I mean I've been to I mean I've been to like
my wife's like classical concerts. It's like, oh, completely different behind it.
You know, when I think concert, I think like, you know,
okay, standing up like bave type stuff. But yeah, I've only
ever been to been to one. It's like, you know, I've part
of it. Is I don't like I don't like the prices that they charge
for this shit. And two it's just yeah, I've I've never liked I've
liked bands enough to collect their CDs and listen to their music and stuff,
but never really to be like, to care enough to be like, yeah,
I want to wade through people and see you. Yeah. I haven't
been to a concert since the late eighties because I really just cannot stand for
four or five hours anymore. And and you have to stand. Nobody sits
down for these things ever anymore, and my legs won't take it so and
it's stupid expensive anymore. I mean, I remember we got tickets. In
fact, I think it was the last live concert I went to was the
Rolling Stones Steel Wheels tour, and the tickets were like eighty five dollars and
we were going eighty five dollars. This is madness. What is this world
coming to? Eighty five dollars? And you know, even though it's a
Rolling Stones and now I go eighty five dollars, Wow, that was the
day. Well that'd be like two twenty five now, the kind of thing,
you know, So I think for me, I've seen I've been to
a bunch of concerts. I like, I in my younger days, I
liked festivals because you see band festivals. You see a lot of bands and
everything like that, and mostly pay you know, you pay your inter fee
and like ten thousand people, fifty thousand people all walking around and seeing shit.
And also back then I had hair and I was chasing girls. So
like, I think I really like concert because I liked, you know,
uh, picking up girls. As I got older, like I like,
I don't, I don't want to go to a concert anymore. But that
being said, I have seen the drop Kick Murphy's play multiple times. And
there's this one time they came to Maryland at the Merriweather Post Pavilion and the
Bunny Body Bosstones open for them, and they put on such a show that
it like it just it was one of those things because like you're up on
this grassy hill because like you can see the stage, you can see everything
just fine. But there's the general mission just sit on the hill, you
know, and the grasshove because there's the seats. But they also have these
giganto jumbo trons. You can see the bands as well like that, but
you can hear everything perfectly well, and it's a wonderful place to go to
a concert, but they won. The Bostones tore it down to the drop
kick Murphy's just put the nail on the coffin, because like every time they
do a show, at least they they at least in the time they used
to, like they would open it with the late Shinade O'Connor's version of the
fogg you do. That's the getting ready song. So if you never heard
that version, it's like it's haunting. And then as soon as the last
one hits, they hit the stage and blow it away. And then at
the end of the show, the Boston's come back on and they're all playing
music together and they do the Ship of the Boston song and like that they
collaborated on and it was just one of those like it's I saw multiple generations
of punk SKA nerds, agros, punks, like all these people together,
Like I would say, like there was like like a twelve year old,
like a eleven year old kid just dancing there next to these adults. No
one, no one got hurt, there was no it was just they were
just there to like enjoy, embrace the chaos of the of the of these
of these like Irish punk rock bands, you know, and it just they
were it was amazing, you know, and I've I've seen them play live
many times, but that was probably We're It's one of my favorites. So
cool. Yeah. Back to discord, our friend Blicks asks, do you
have a goal to mark when it's time to call it quits or retire?
You know, basically some point where you hit and you say, I have
made it now I'm done. I think I'll get canceled before that happens,
uh Like, Like it's one of those like like when the coffin lid shuts
on my fingers before they can reach a typewriter or a keyboard anymore, That's
when that's what I'm done. I've got too many stories to tell it now.
If I got fuck you money like where I like, then I could
just get crazy with my writing. But because like, I'll just write for
my goal toilet. But you know, I'm always going to write and keep
doing what I do, you know, So I mean I want fuck you
money, no, so, but in the meantime, I'll just write to
be happy. Yeah, if I if I ever win the lottery, and
yes, I do buy tickets. Don't come in and tell me how.
That's just a math for stupid people because don't care. I don't care.
It's my money and I can pay, I can buy miss it, you
miss every shot you don't take. Thank you. Yeah, my chance,
my chance at winning, if I have a ticket is still more than if
I don't have a ticket. So I mean, look at this, Tom.
You were born, you were what one in fourteen million that made it?
Uh so out of all the sperm, So boom, there's that exactly
too. We all got to be writers. And that's something like you've told
you, like when I was a kidding, you're not something you can't do.
So we're all winners. I mean, you might as well just push
push your luck and go for the lottery. That being said, to remember
who supported you and who just wants his mortgage paid off. That's I'm asking
for a lot Just pick up my mortgage. So well, see that's the
thing. I would have so much fun if I won the lottery, because
I would be I would be secretly anonymously helping people that I like, and
I would I would make sure that they didn't know it was me. You
know, there would be there would be no link to me. I would
have somebody, a financial advisor that could help me out with this, But
I would be like love bombing my friends with with Look, how did that
happen? Your mortgage got paid off? How could it be? We don't
know. We can't tell you a benefactor. And meanwhile people can look at
me and go, is it you? Because you said you would do it,
And I'd go, look, I'm still living in my little fifteen hundred
square foot house, jacky me like me recording, You'd still see this background,
except there would just be the stage props like behind. It would be
like like a ninety room sex grotto. Exactly, push I push a button,
this all retracts into the floor. See, all I have to do
is move this curtain wherever I go and so but but you know that would
I think if if I got to the point where I had fuck you money
like you called it, yeah, I would probably go fund something else to
do. But until that, I'm not gonna stop because I would say,
if I if I truly hit some a lottery or like a big you know
whatever, the shit after the mortgage is paid off and I don't have like
the finance, those particularly financial woes. I would probably truthly go into publishing
and help other people get published. That's probably what I would do with my
money. I'd still write my stories, but I would like pay forward as
much as I could, you know, cause it's like it's a hard business
to get into, you know. And same thing with like all the arts,
you know, painting art, you know, everything like that. You
know, it's it's it's a hard it's a hard business to get into and
harder to stay keep putting your head up it because like I don't know about
you, Like the last couple of weeks, I've had some writers blues,
like that's everything I write just feels wrong and I'm having a hard time getting
my head back into the game. But it's like it's just the winter time.
It's just the blues and this I bounce back, but it's that tenacity.
It's hard, you know. So you know, i'd help people,
and that's what I would do with the money. And yes, the sex
Grotto obviously you know that is you know that's well yeah, I mean,
I mean, yeah, that's it's like, you know, get it,
it's all it's set. I mean, I'd still I mean, having all
the money in the world. Event I don't really have a lot of wants.
I don't see myself like traveling the world doing all sorts of weird ship.
I just want to be financially secure. And at that point, you
know, at that point, the writing probably just becomes I mean, the
writing never stops being fun, but it becomes a lot more fun because then
it's just like you're right now, now I can like, you know,
do those speculative, weird things, you know, just that that like I
know we're going to be commercial failures, but I don't need to care.
Yeah, I mean, the thing is, it's like writing, Yeah,
it's it's one of the It's one of those things where like, you know,
my mind is always it's like as long as my mind is active,
and I don't like, you know, I don't know do too much,
like you know, a high grade to Bolivian cocaine where like like it melts
out of my out of my ears. Yeah, it's like so yeah,
said, I'm not a posed if any of the listeners have high grade Bolivia
cocaine at the next convention, like I'm I'm willing to try you. I
don't know what's going to come out of my writing or my my mouth because
I'm hyper to begin with, So imagine all this on cocaine. Uh so
yeah, not me. I'm I When I try to to write anything and
I'm cocaine. When I if I'm at all enhanced, and I try to
sit down at the computer, it just becomes silliness. I generally, if
I'm enhanced, I need to just be sat in front of a TV screen
and said, look, funny movie, watch movie and left alone because I
cannot. I my husband, if he's in enhanced, he can be so
creative it's amazing. But doesn't no, no, no, i't want to
see like like like at the next day and d con give me high as
balls. He's standing on the roof of the hotel just where nothing is underwor
swinging a golf club, screaming, screaming like you know, fuck you leprechauns.
They know what they did, They know what they did? You know
they So yeah, it's it's I mean, I I've always said if I
ever reached that point where like what I get that age just or it gets
really old, try every drug before you die. Just. I mean,
I'm not I'm not. I'm not a user. I don't even smoke weed
like I mean I did when I was nineteen. I had to stop for
the military. For all those twenty five twenty seven years. I have no
Now sometimes I'll have a little sip of chocolate whiskey before I sit down to
write. It does help loosen things up a little bit. Oh, it's
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chocolate. Chocolate's the best cool. I will look into this. Oh it's
wicked good. Yeah, I'm thinking if if I had that, fuck you
mean, I'd have to find some kind of vice. I mean, the
reality is, like, you know, my characters have vices. I don't
really drink too much, you know, I'm not like drugs maybe I watch
a little bit too, Like I mean, t TV might be something,
but yeah, I'd have to find like something, something eccentric and stupid.
I've my my daughter, my oldest loves like cars, and I've often said
that, like, you know, one of the things I would love to
do is buy a couple of like, you know, say, Bugatti Veyrons,
and it's just like yeah, and then have a hooker demolition derby with
them. For no other reason than I could well, I want to do
like good things with them. Sometimes I'm gonna do like because I have evil
thoughts, because you know, you write evil characters. So maybe I want
to burn two hundred grand to heat the homeless. Here, here's five minutes
of warmth. I'll burn five hundred grand in cash. There you go,
you're warm and walk away, you know, like I could see, I'd
want to make sure that people who had wronged me in the past knew that
that others around them were getting helped and somehow they were being skipped. That
would that would delight me knowing, well, that's where you okay, so
that's where you when you got fuck you money, or even better, fuck
me money. Even better if you get some fuck me money. That's where
you hire Mark Hamill to play the pim character, to show up and tell
them like, she will not be helping you today. So in fact,
we bury ten dead hookers on your lawn. That kind Mark Hamwell, if
you're listening, just put which obviously he is in the calendar somewhere down the
road. I will no, no, no, Mark. If you are
sixteen money, yes, you're hiling Mark. It's it's like, okay,
not only are you telling the people who don't get anything, you're you're bearing
these hookers and you're wearing a Luke Skywalker robe as you're doing it. No,
I wanted to dress like you did. Was it Laser Force? If
you've not seen a Laser Force, check out google Mark Camp. I want
to say it's Mark Hamill Laser. I want to say it's or Laser Mission.
I see Mark Force. I think. Don't forget he was also in
The Guiver. You're right, no, he didn't play the guyver Sadly,
maybe I think of it. Or you could just do a mashup people like
no, no, okay, Mark Hammel, you're bearing the hookers and you're
wearing Sean Connery's costume from Zardas nice. Oh, there we go. It's
like, why am I doing that? Why not? That's weird? Yeah,
I can't. I'll find it later and I'll send like there's this weird
he did that's kind of like this like sci fi laser cyber weird movie was
I don't. I don't know because somebody somebody turns into like an alien monster
or something. Okay, we're gonna oh my, oh that it's it's a
it's a look that. Oh dude, that is that is hot Mark Hamill,
that is that is definitely that's not Mark Hammel I'm used to. That's
right, you know that. But I can warm up to this, all
right. I can find out what bring bringing it back to where we can
like jump back in with with Steve again. All right, So Mark Hamill
wearing a basically dressed like the Russian dude from uh from Pacific Rim or every
Russian. He looks like Brigiq Niels with a beard. What he taught.
It kind of looks like like hey for Sutherland and the Lost Boys from the
neck up. Yeah, okay, it's called Slipstream, Slipstream the movie.
The movie is called Slipstream. Yeah, I don't think I'm seeing that.
I have not. It's a nineteen eighty nine movie. I've not seen it
in like probably since in like nineteen ninety. But I mean, don't I
love Mark Animal movies. It's potential, but I don't want Rachel's law.
I need to see it again to tell you if it's like good bad or
bad bad or whatever, because it's like I I like, I recommended The
Hebrew Hammer for this Friday, and I love that movie. So we're gonna
watch The Hebrew Hammer at the the Hell on the Hangout. But like,
and I have seen that, so I can I can speak to that.
It's it's in that sweet spot of good bad. Yeah, it's like,
like I love Mark Hamill. I love that he's found, he's found like
you know, a second career's voiceover, and love that he's doing well on
Twitter and stuff. But he definitely compared to like, say, Harrison Ford,
he definitely got the shit end of the movie stick. See, I'm
gonna disagree because outside of Indiana Jones and obviously Hans Soul, I don't give
a ship about the bulk of Harrison Ford's movies. I don't, oh,
I I like Harrison Ford a lot like some of them. I did like
like some of his Jack Ryan movies, but you're right there Also there's also
a lot of movies he's done where I've like watched and I'm like like,
why does like, like what was it? Like? One that stands out
to me as Mosquito Coast. That's one of those movies I've watched once or
twice and I'm like, why does this movie exist? I don't really understand
why. Yeah, but the Fugitive he was, he was really good.
And of course he's up with with Tommy Lee and you know that's just a
dream team right there. So that's mister Jones to you man, you call
him mister Jones web side. What annoys me about Harrison Ford is that,
And I get and I understand why. I mean, the guys, the
guys an act there. He doesn't give one shit about the characters he plays.
He shows up in Dudges' job, does it like a professional, but
like you know, he's not. He's never anybody you would want to invite
to a fan convention because like you know, he's one of those ones where
you're it's like, oh, it's like, hey, what in this in
this movie, and you did this, this and this? Why why was
that? I don't give a shit? You want an autograph or not?
Right? Yeah? Like like he like, okay, him and Robert de
Niro kind of come from the same cloth in that regards, and I don't
know, like to me, I do like I love the actors who are
also a little bit of fan boys as well. Yeah, yeah, I
will say this because I'm like, I'm looking at his IMDb right now,
and I'm like, okay, air Force one, sure, good movie,
good movie, a Fugitan fantastic. But I'm like, then you get like
clear and present danger. I didn't care for those Jack Ryan movies, The
Devil Zone, don't care, front Line, six Day, Seven Nights,
K nineteen Hollywood Homicide, Firewall, I don't know what that is. Uh
well, blade Runner and again that's like nineteen eighty something like like you know
it's that's like nineteen eighty two, of course, Blade Runner, But like,
well, still, I'm just saying, even though there's like a whole
there's a whole bunch of them, you're saying you don't give a shit about
And I agree. Comparatively speaking, you know, he has more he has
a lot more like you know, like like hits on his hand, whereas
Mark Hammel has Star Wars and The Guiver. Well, but he also has
like years of doing The Joker and years of doing other voice wars and I
and I mentioned I mentioned that, but I'm saying movie wise, well,
okay, but I'm just but I'm thinking career wise, like the reinvention,
like Harrison Ford, like Hans Solo, Indiana Jones are iconic great, like
the Decker guy from Blade Runner. That's like some people will say it's great,
but at the time it was a bomb that being a cult following later
these are all true facts, but then later on it's like I'm Harrison Ford
and I'm kind of trembling and pointing at things, and it was that same
thing. It's not about Jack Nicholson type thing over and over and over.
Fucking Hamill is versatile, that's true. But like I said, I was
just saying in terms of movies, because no, there's there's no there's no
doubt. He's like, there's no doubt. Yes, he's got more movies.
I'm sure she would not hire Harrison Ford to do like an animated voiceover.
No, fucking way. I would be like listening to dry White toast.
Yeah, I think he's he's physically attracted. He's even as an old
man, he's still I find him physically attractive. But he is still the
same. He's always kind of the same character. You know, he's kind
of somewhat irreverent action hero guy. And so even though Mark Hamill, on
the other hand, can be different people, So so yeah, I mean
he's Harrison Ford is a great actor, and I'm a huge fan. I
always have been, but he does always play kind of the same thing.
And one thing that does annoy me when actors have like blatant contempt for like
I guess the character that made them huge, like and I guess that annoys
me about like when anybody does that. It's like it's like like my breakout
series was like an atom of Bill, and do I occasionally get tired of
writing Bill? Yes? But am I ever gonna look at that and be
like and be like, no, I'm an artiste. Now, Almost no
chance in hell of that happening. And you know that he's just blatantly hated,
like you know, Han Solo. That does kind of rub me the
wrong way, right, it does the same way with me, because it's
it's like one of those like, you know, I'm not gonna hear I'm
not gonna talk shit about other writers to a degree, but all the times
of George Martin, for example, you know, everybody's waiting for the end
of Game of Thrones. They are waiting. They don't Hey, here's a
prequel to House and Dragon. Don't care? What about? Don't care?
What about? I don't care? I just want because now if i'm if
I read my facts right. He originally was a TV writer. That was
his first love before books. He liked writing for television. Then he unfortunately
his book hit and that's what made him famous, not television. Then years
later he turned that book into television. Great, but you're a multimillionaire because
of the books. You're standing on the backs of those fans who propped you
up, who lifted you above their heads, chicken wings and all, and
said you are exalted, geek God. But would you be so kind as
a shut up fans. I do whatever I want. I'm a human.
I understand that you're a human. I understand you have a human beings,
rights and passions and loves and fears and hopes and all the anxieties in the
world. But dot dot dot you're famous for the books. It comes down
to that fuck you money. He's got fuck you money, and he's never
shit on like the Game of Thrones, he's always like but like like at
this point he's got the fuck you money, and it's just like I guess
mentally, he's basically just like like a squirrel, like I like, I
guess he brought like I can understand to a degree. It took me five
years to write Devil Hunters, which is the sequel to Bigfoot Hunters. And
the reason is, and I tell people this all the time, is it
wasn't the right time to write that book. I'd sit down, I'd get
a few pages in and the book would just be like, no, this
is not happening. And it is quite possible that might be the case,
Like now the Game of Thrones, the show is over, like it mentally
might be a case of that, or mentally might just be a case of
ayah, fuck you money. You know, so I can do what I
want. I don't know, but I do kind of like, you know,
like it is. I definitely think it doesn't help the fact that he
got huge halfway through the series. Yeah, I mean as much of a
terrible person as J. K. Rowling has turned out to be, at
least like she got famous halfway through the series and at least at least rode
that pony all the way to the end. Yeah, and and then and
then decided to like you and then decided to be like you know, to
like burn every bit of good will she ever had. Well, I mean
she was, she tried a lot of ef things. Unfortunately, Yeah,
as we know she is, she's reached a new level of toxicity of across
various spectrums. I'm going to say that, like with with the Martin case,
you know, I'm I'm done anyway. I'm done with those books a
long time ago, Like I kind of I fell out of love with them
a long time ago. Uh and it wasn't it? Also? Okay,
so there was this game slash book slash nerd store in Maryland that my friend
took me to. And there's this one hipster, this is many years ago,
who wouldn't shut the fuck up about those books. And like yet I
read the first one, I enjoyed. I read the second one. It
was it was it was good. The third one, I like, I
hadn't finished, but he would not shut And this is before the show ever
happened, and I was like, but he just kept like expounding and expounding,
like just sucking on that that Martin dick, you know, just just
two fist and just going to town on the dick. And so when the
shows got in, but he was also super hipster. I don't want to
give up any personal identifiers because this person, if I gave up it,
they'd be very easily identifiable if I said who it was, or if I
gave out someone like, you know, like certain tattoos, like oh that
guy, we we know that guy, not gonna do that. But I
can't unforget at this individual. So when the show became mass popular and you
could buy the Winter's Coming T shirts at Walmart, it filled me with such
a giddy warmth that this hipster fuck knuckle who wouldn't shut about the genius,
this guy that no one else could possibly understand how great he is, is
now walking around with a branded T shirt saying Winter is Coming or a Lanister
Luster or whatever the fuck that's saying. And now everybody in their mom like
even your Grandma's got a like a Winter is Coming t shirt? The hipster
hell this guy has to be in just rolling. Oh, I liked it
first. John Snow was cool before all the rest of you. Nobody gives
me such warmth. My fuck, my nipples are hard. I could cut
glass of these things right now. It makes me so happy to know that
this person's miserable because they were just Don't give all your love to somebody clearly
because they might let you down, you know, spread your love around a
little bit, you know, be a book whore, you know, be
a writing slut. Fuck everybody, you know. So I think that's really
the spirit of Christmas. Yeah, no, no, I I agree.
Like there are there are writers, there are movie stars, there are directors
I am fans of. But there is nobody that I am obsessively to the
like I can think of nobody if I walk into a comic con and there's
a line around the building that I would wait for right. No, there's
no celebrity I want to see. I don't. I will never be on
those people like and I don't default people They want to go get their picture
taken with a doctor who or or supernatural. But I'm not truthfully meeting you
guys. That's my level of celebrity that I was happy at. Like I'd
read these guys's books. I'm a fan of them. Cool beer, that's
my bar. Yeah, see, that's my thing. I don't understand.
I mean, I I do understand the people that want to take pictures with
with famous people because look, I'm I'm in a picture with with Jason Momoo,
I'm in a picture with David Tennant, and that's great, and I'm
glad that that makes them happy. I won't do it because the point is
that I'm going to walk in, pay a stupid amount of money, stand
beside David Tennant for all of six or eight seconds, smile together, get
a picture, and he is not going to remember me five seconds after I
walk away. And so what am I getting out of this? I'm not
actually getting people. I feel like people do this thinking that they're getting some
sort of connection with the people. I don't want to go down that one
too far, because it's like I mean, I clearly I think there are
some people even within the A and D like crowd, or within the even
with the discord, Like I've seen some pictures they take with some celebrities they
want to meet and what they do with their money. Like I've spent dumb
amounts of money on a giant television that if I just waited two years,
I could have bought for like ten percent of what I paid for. You
know. So it's one of those like if that brings you joy, I'm
not faulting your joy. It's not for me kind of thing, you know.
Uh that being said, I'm going to start charging for photos and and
uh I'll charge double for buttole photos they won't necessarily be mine. But uh
yeah, yeah. Now, now a fan sent me a picture from the
One and Only Leverage Con back in which happened years ago. Of they went
and they bought me a picture with Christian Kane. Now I wasn't at Leverage
Con, so it was him in the picture and he's holding a sign that
says hi, misty, And that meant the world to me. Not because
it was Christian Kane having any sort of connection to me, but because my
friend knew that I liked him and got him to do that for me.
You know, that for me was was just worth everything. I'm trying to
find it, but I've put it away somewhere for safe keeping, so now
that only knows. When I was down at Dragon Con, I walked wandered
through, like I wandered into this random room, I think, and I
guess the height or whatever it was, and it turned out it was It
wasn't like the A level, like the like the guests, like the guest
of Honor, but it was like basically the B and C level, like
celebrities, like you know, people you would recognize from shows. And I
just found myself walking around tables. Yeah. Yeah, and my wife,
my wife and I used to watch that show, The Magicians, and she
was a huge fan of one of the actors there, and he was there
and I was just like, which one fuck fuck? Like like I went
up and I was like, yeah, we watched the show. My wife
she used fan can just make out something to her and she was mad at
me. She was mad at me that day for something. I forget what
it was, and I texted her and I was like, look what I
got you you know, a picture of it and like you know, it
was like twelve hours later because she was mad. She wasn't looking at my
test and then she like, so I get to taste like Oh my god,
I can't believe you about that. Which person that's awesome? God man?
Tall or short? Tall, okay, darker, darker, blonde dark
Elliott Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. Elliott's yeah, yeah,
but no, it was it was a guy who plays Elliott. And
it's funny because that that photo, it's like if you go and if you
walk in my living room, living room, it's like, you know,
pictures of the kids, and then that picture, see that that was worth
That was worth it for me because I knew, like that was good,
like it gonna be appreciated. Yeah, exactly. And it's and and my
my thing is just god, I don't know, it's just it just feels
weird just walking up and and and I guess part of it is because I
have social anxiety. So like, you know, just like like I would
almost rather like you know, be like, you know, be like okay,
let me let me slip, let me slip, like you know,
your your assistant a five and he just hands me a photo and now I
don't have to like, you know, talk to people. And that's just
probably me being weird. But but yeah, it's like, you know,
like like I have an aversion of standing on lines and waiting waiting. I
don't stand in the line. I don't go to the amusement parks for the
same reason I don't like standing on a Q I don't do it anymore.
Yeah, all right, let me just let me just add the writer there
that this is my personal thing. I absolutely love it. Like when our
readers come up and talk to us and say hi, and like want pictures
and stuff. That is the most wonderful thing and the most wonderful thing in
the world. You know, I'm just talking about a weird conceit I have.
But that is different because we are actually making a personal connection. We're
going to stand there and chat with them longer than five or six seconds.
It's not it's not a you know, a factory line of smile and take
a picture. Smile and take a picture. Smile and take a picture like
the ones that I was talking about. In our case, we're making friends.
Yeah. One of my favorite things that passed the hidden decons was like,
you know, the the just getting up early, going down and just
having breakfast and like hanging out with people for a couple of hours before the
sun started. You know, it was just it was just a lot of
fun. I like, I mean I would take breaks like d'reing the one
in Charlotte, just go swimming and if people were there, I just go
swimming with them and just hang out. You know, I just I like
swimming. It's a great way to just say helps. It washes off the
con stink to begin with, because when you walk around there, you just
you just you just got grundle juice and it's gross and you just need to
swim a little bit. So so so so so yeah, if you're at
the next A and D con and and give mes in the pool, you
know, just know that he's the he's there trying to wash your stink off
of him. Also my desperation, my imposter syndrome, my cloin and the
stink. And without a doubt, because it's like it gets conventions tend to
get grungey. Oh yeah, there's any conven Yeah, there's a certain dirtiness
at conventions. And yeah yeah, like even even now, like you know,
it's hard to say post COVID because like my middle my middle son just
had it like like two weeks ago. But I guess in this post like
pandemic freak out, like world. I don't really see like I like the
idea now of having like a thing of hand sanitizer at my at my table
for me and for anybody who wants to use it. Yeah, all right,
we just hit the hour forty minute market and he's gonna a hard time
get to wrap it up. We're getting in, We're getting into like germ
germophobe talk. Steve's like you sons up pitches. We love you, Steve.
Oh he can add twenty minutes of you guys trying to find that photo
of Mark Hamill. He was worth it. We love you Steve. All
right, everyone, Well, thank you for joining us for this episode of
I don't even know how he's gonna put out there. We'll call it a
side quest, or we'll call it an entry lude, whatever he calls it.
Year in Review sort of. Maybe we only did one thing in review
with sandwiches. Yeah, answer Zachary questions, you know, show guess we'll
be back next time with either a side quest or the next the next episode
of Quest for Competence whatever whatever's next in the link, you know, in
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