Live From Anime Fest 2018

For posterity's sake, it is 256 on the east coast, which means I have to do math, which means it is 1156 on the west coast, which is where I was until about 36 hours ago. It is the 18th of August in the year of our Lord 2018. It is season 9, episode 5, 452 times this voice has welcomed you to the clubhouse podcast where normally live on Sunday nights to tape, but we are doing two shows this weekend because it is a really big weekend, welcome.

My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast, and this is something brand new for us that we are doing. We are very, very excited. I am going to go around the desk to my right is my co-host and a man who is why-fying like there is no tomorrow.

He is Chad. Welcome, sir. Or just trying desperately.

Oh, yeah. Across from him is the official fact checker of this show, and a man who is very animated, but in his own special way. UNL is Fondango, but his mom and him I am Don Ford, I am going to call him Don Ford.

Welcome, sir. I got something scary because this is real. Look up, Chad.

That's real, that's scary because it's real. He's official. He's not cosplay.

He's official. Well, you guys know me. Bye-bye.

I'll do you. So let's talk about where we are. We already have our first guest lined up.

We are at the Dallas Sheraton Hotel downtown today. Don, you want to take your drink with you? Yeah, no, leave it there.

Well, leave it over to Chad, though. We are at Anime Fest, happening at the Dallas Sheraton all weekend, started yesterday, goes through tomorrow. And we're hanging out.

We're going to be podcast live today. We have our first guest. We'll be pushed the button so he can talk.

Go ahead and introduce yourself. Sorry if you would. Hello, my name is Bennett White.

I'm known as Bennett the Sage on YouTube by review anime for the interwebs, as it were. The interwebs. Yeah.

So, how long have you been doing this for the people that don't know yet? I've been doing it since 2011, reviewing anime, but I've been doing content for the internet since 2008. So, 10 years.

What started you doing it? Just seeing other people do it. I saw oddly enough people putting footage of them playing guitar hero and I thought I could do that.

And then that turned into me reviewing rock band, which turned into me reviewing video games, which turned into me reviewing anime down the line. Sorry. And are you local here or are you a translator?

Oh, no, no. I am from the West Coast, just like you. I am.

So, you were looking at your watches. I was looking at you. Yeah, you're right.

It's like, my watch is still on West Coast time. I'm actually from the North Bay area. North Bay area.

I was in Vegas all week for work and I can't adjust the Pacific time. I don't know what it is. My shows are on too early.

I just don't know what's going on there. So, when did you get in? I got in on Thursday.

So, what are you thinking so far? Very hot. Very humid.

It's very hot and humid. I wasn't expecting the humidity. I've only been in Texas one other time besides today.

And it was a fairly dry there and today is just why the humidity? Why can't it be just dry? Like I thought Texas always was.

Because what better time to do a convention with people in costumes than in the middle of August? Right after it rained for a week. Exactly.

I was thinking and hoping that at the very least this hotel had massive amounts of air conditioning. And true enough, it does. And I'm so thankful for that.

And this is a great facility, too. We were here. It's been almost two years.

Since the last time you and I were in this building working on the show that show I'm not being named. But this is a great facility. Are you doing some signings today?

What's going on? We want to make sure we plug it out for you. Yes.

I have a signing actually in about 20 seconds. OK. Well, then we won't take up any of your time.

So, real quick, we base the show on shameless self-promotion. So, tell everybody where they can get a hold of you and then you can go meet and kiss babies and shake hands. OK.

Thank you. Yes. You can find me on Twitter at twitter.com slash benethasage.

You can find me on YouTube at just type in benethasage, B-E-N-N-E-T-T, thus sage. And you will find me on YouTube. I also have my own site, benethasage.com.

You can find pretty much all my stuff there. I think nearly all my stuff, if it hasn't been taken down by the Nazis. By the YouTube police.

By the YouTube police, the Nazis, whatever you want to call them today. But thank you for your time. And I hope you all have a great time of the convention.

And if you have a couple of breathing men, feel free to come back by. I will. We're going to be here until four, I believe.

All right. All right. Well, thank you.

All right. And we're just moving it right along. Good Lord.

Don, you don't even give me a time to breathe here. And we get some corrections and updates done before we move on any further. So, a couple of corrections and updates from last week's show.

Baywatch nights did take place in Santa Monica. I was wrong on that. And the supernatural part did not take place until season two.

Oh, all right. That's when the wheels fell off. Mr.

Mercedes. No, the wheels fell off. I said, sure, we'll go with this idea.

Mr. Mercedes actually aired on the audience channel, which is a direct TV thing. And we talked about TSA pre-check last week.

There actually, I noticed on my boarding pass to it from Vegas, there is a small TSA pre-check logo on there. So that's how they know. Oh, okay, okay.

I'm like, well, I saw it. All right. So we have another guest already.

Let's go ahead and introduce yourself, sir. Hello, Michael. Hello, I'm Michael Yums, the vice chairman of the convention this year.

So we got the big week, sir. I didn't wear a tie, though. Okay.

Neither did I, shockingly. Sorry, I'm not wearing one either. So welcome to the show, sir.

We're glad to have you. How are things going so far? It is going great so far this year.

Our crowds are moving great. Everyone looks like they're having a ton of fun. How many years has the festival been around?

This is anime fest 26. Oh, wow. I just heard of this recently, so I'm way behind the curve, then.

This has been here longer than I've lived in this state, sir. Yeah, we started out back in 1992. There were 102 people at a little courtyard, Marriott.

Now we're looking at about 12, 13,000 this year. Is that total over the weekend or? That's individual people, so total over the weekend.

Oh, wow. I heard you had a really good opening day. It was yesterday, the opening day, or Thursday.

We had a lot of people that were here on Thursday, sort of a day zero, but yesterday was our first official opening day. So we were talking to some of your staff members and they said it was a really strong first day. It really was.

We were a little bit concerned. We have a lot of folks that are high school aged here at the convention. And of course, many classes in the Dallas area had started, so you were concerned, but it turned out that lots of people, you know, they either skipped classes or they didn't start yet.

How long have you been with the festival? I've actually been here all 26 years. Oh, wow.

Did you start on the board or did you work your way up on that? I've worked my way up. I started watching doors and back in the day, putting tapes in a VCR.

Oh, yes. Talk about how the convention has grown. If you could pinpoint where the explosion happened, where would it be?

There are really two different explosions that affected the anime industry in America. And those rippled on and affected conventions, the anime convention specifically. The first was Sailor Moon.

Back in the 90s when anime was first getting started in America, it was 90% male. Sailor Moon brought in a lot of girls and a lot of cosplaying. It's made the demographics now about 60% female on here at anime fest and at other conventions.

The next thing that brought in a huge wave of fans was when Tsunami started bringing more adult oriented instead of children oriented. And still does. It does indeed.

And that brought in a much wider fan base than it was no longer the niche. It's now just something that's part of popular culture. What got you into anime?

I'm old enough now, gray hair, missing a lot of it on top. I remember anime from the 70s, things like Gundam and Star Blazers and Star Blazers talking in my language. So that is where I got into watching anime.

For me, when I was young, anime always came on early in the morning. It seemed like. Absolutely.

I got to see things like Voltron and Star Blazers, which people also know as Space Battleship Yamato. And the first year we covered the Dallas International Film Festival, the film that closed the festival was the live action space. And I loved it.

Oh, it's great. It took me right back to that place. I love that we've gotten to see this day.

Yeah, it's wonderful. I mean, I never imagined back when anime fest started that we'd ever grow to this big. The anime was so small back then, you could know everybody that was in the anime community.

And now it's huge. I love it. I love that people are coming from all over.

I love that we've got not just international guests, but international attendees at the convention. Well, think about it, Rob. I mean, think about how long you and I have been attending comic book and sci-fi expos.

Almost 20 years. And I think 20 years. No, it was 2000.

It was the first one we went to. I believe so. No, it was 99 because that's when we got to take it to a convention.

That if you bought tickets to the convention, they gave you a pair of tickets for episode one when the convention happened. So, yeah, so it's been almost 20 years now. And you look at the attendance of an event like this, which back then would have just been like a subgenre of that convention.

Oh, absolutely. And it's every bit as big if not bigger. Even the attendance in general of shows when we used to go and it was up at the Plano Center up on the north side.

I mean, the amount of people in here right now would have been the equivalent of three or four of those shows. I mean, you remember a couple of times they were at Richardson City Hall just in the hall. Indeed.

Indeed. So, again, we've lived to see this day as Kevin Smith once said, the geeks haven't heard of the earth. Yes, they have.

And yes, we have. We put it that way. Thank you very much.

But in something like anime, too, a lot of people don't understand is like, anime is not just, there's so many subgenres of anime. There's literally something for everybody. Talk about that.

Sure. There was a time where an anime fan could just say, hey, I'm a fan of anime and that meant that they were watching anything. Now, whatever types of shows that you're interested in, what type of movies, is it drama, is it action, is it comedy, is it something that's aiming to pull at your heartstrings?

Whatever the genre is of a story that you're interested in, there's something there for you. There's anime of entire types. There's the saying in that are aimed at adult males.

There's Shojo, there's Shonen aimed at the teen boys, obviously, the Shonen anime is very big. I look at the costumes that are around here. My hero academia is all over the place at this convention.

But the film releases are amazing. I love that the Oscars are finally starting to notice some anime films. Like Miyazaki.

Exactly. Yeah. The interesting year this year with the outstanding achievements in popular film that they're doing.

We talked about this on the show last week. I was out six. I don't know if you had a chance to listen back, but I don't even know what the criteria for that is.

A lot of people are saying it's stemming from the uproar granted it took the Academy a decade, but of the dark night not getting a best picture nod. Right. And Matt has turned into this new award.

They're giving away called outstanding achievements in popular film. I kind of feel like that's my backfire because it's like you'll not made it for this, but it's not good enough for a best picture. Yeah, I think it already has, you know, and the fact that mainstream culture is so much more embracing things like anime now, where it's even extending like it's almost like tsunamis become the jumping point.

Sure. Absolutely. The testing ground.

You've got Amazon bringing in so many anime that's available to all of their prime customers. You've got Netflix bringing in my anime and getting on anime production. And isn't Netflix the ones that are doing the new Ultraman?

Absolutely. Which I'm very, very excited about. Who's responsible for death note?

And Netflix did that, but that Netflix's version was not received well to my knowledge. Because it wasn't pure death, you know, right, well, because it was live action number one. And for one, and they took a story that took dozens and dozens of anime episodes to make and tried to make a two hour movie of it.

It's difficult to pull a full con here and story together from that. They told part of the story. They told a fine story, but it wasn't the story that a lot of death note fans were looking for.

It was fleshed out enough. So I also feel like something like that, trying to do that story in a two hour film, you were setting yours up to fail to begin with because one thing that I really dig about the anime in general is the stories are so rich that there's so many layers to most of the stories that you really have to stick with it and to try to combine that into a single movie. It's just, it's such a tough thing to do.

I'm looking forward on that topic to the Battle Angel movie that's coming out. Battle Angel Alita. There's an Alita Battle Angel.

There's a Battle Angel. I think you're right. I think they're calling it Alita Battle Angel for the live action.

And a lot of people are weirded out by that. I think it looks amazing. The CG has gotten just good enough.

It's a little uncanny valley, but it is amazing graphics to be able to show it up. She looks the way she's supposed to look. Exactly.

And I think that's what's throwing people. People aren't used to that style and I'm like, just look at, look it up. It's pretty solid.

Yeah. I'm sure there are people that are looking at this and not even aware that it's based on an anime property. I think it's a weird looking sci-fi film.

And that was filmed here in Texas and toot Dallas's horn, I'm Edo's lab and the motor balls scenes are all shot here in Dallas. Oh, I know that. So I mean, this Dallas has really become a hotbed with, I mean, it's a fundamental loan for God's sakes, you know, it's outside Serpent's t-shirt, by the way.

Yeah, in front of us. Shout out to Riverdale. That's what that's from.

Okay. That's from. Thank you for that.

I'm going to catch these things in real time or then in the moment, Pastor. Thank you, Mr. Constantly shifting the train of thought.

But no, you're right. I mean, Dallas has become more and more every year for film and production. I was talking, we were talking in pre show about, we, a friend of us show that we missed him this year, but almost every year at the Dallas International Film Festival, Jorge Gutierrez does the show with us.

The guy that directed the book of life. And real effects, it's just right down the road here in D Palem. Yeah, it's wonderful.

Um, we've got the studios and lost cleanists and studio M works with us here at anime fest during this convention. So we talk all things pop culture on this show. You've already mentioned Alito.

What also are you looking forward to right now with anime or not, just in general? Um, I'm really looking forward in the anime world to the next movie by Makoto Shinkai. His, your name last year was a simply amazing film.

And I can't, can't wait to see what he does next. Always looking forward to the next animation by Kyoto animation. If you, your viewers or listeners watch Netflix, they've got Violet Evergarden is on Netflix and their, their work is just astounding.

In the live action category, of course, I'm following Star Wars and the superhero movies who didn't watch Avengers and I'm looking forward to the next. Both my flight to Vegas and back. There were at least four people watching Infinity War because now you have this, this, this screens on the seats in front of you.

And I was like, I don't know if I'd want to watch a movie like that on a plane because I feel like they would just take too much of it out. No, why would they? No, they, they should have all things on planes.

Really? They show the whole thing. Huh, I wouldn't imagine why they would do it at that.

So you know how we people are in this day and age? It's too violent. I mean, if it was an R rated film, yeah, but yeah, no, I think that'd be perfectly fine.

And we talked about this a few weeks ago. I just, I don't know why that film didn't affect me. Like it affected so many people because you're too married to the source material.

I guess because I knew that's how that movie had to end because we knew going in it was going to be a two-parter. And so I knowing that story, as we talked about on the show, the Infinity Gauntlet is one of my favorite stories in the history of comics. I knew where it had to end if you were going to do it as a two-parter.

Sure. I was a little surprised it didn't end just with the snap. That was my point, too.

Remember, I said that. Yes. That's when it should just credits.

And of course, people would have gone insane if that had happened. But I'd be like, no, you don't understand. There's a reason for this, you know?

I'm sure that was probably considered. And they're like, no, I don't think we can do that to, you know, they probably need to be riding in the theaters. I would have admired the Moxie.

Well, I mean, they had the stones to do what they did. I mean, I can't really discredit the Russo's too much because I think they've done very, very well with what they've been handed. They haven't disappointed me yet.

Well, we know that you've got to show to Ron. We don't keep you too much longer. But we founded the show on shameless self promotion.

So go ahead and give us the plugs to help people where they can go if they still want to get tickets and come down. Anything they want to know about you in the show, tell them. All right, NMS 2018.

We're downtown at the Sheraton Hotel Downtown. We have tickets available throughout the weekend. We're running all night tonight, all night Sunday night.

We wrap up Monday at 3 p.m. We are having our costume contest tomorrow night at 7 p.m. We've got a concert by the anime ensemble orchestra tonight at 8 p.m.

But they're already coming in. Yes, they are. We've got dances tonight starting at about midnight and dances on Sunday starting about midnight as well.

We've got DJs coming in to DJ those dances. We've got all of our Japanese guests and American guests speaking throughout panels and offering autograph sessions today, tomorrow and Monday. All right, cool.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us, sir. Glad to be here. All right.

We are at the anime festival live at the Dallas Sheraton hanging out. This is our first time at this particular show. How are you doing over there, sir?

I'm doing just fine. Shads handling our social media. Make sure you check out our website, www.theclubhousepodcast.com find out everything you need to know in some stuff you don't.

Make sure you subscribe to us on your favorite podcast at make sure you rate us and review us as well. Well, we've got a little bit of a little bit of a lot of action. You want to do some headlines?

Yes, yes, please. All right. So some TV headlines.

If you are a fan of Outlander, season four is going to debut in November. That's just a lot more popular than I thought it was. Have you watched it?

I have not. I know it's got like a series of books that go with it and stuff. It's amazing.

TNT has ordered a sequel series to the alienist. Really? It's going to be called The Angel of Darkness.

Not named after some of the women I did in college. I'm just saying. It's a more lighthearted fare.

Yeah, because you know, it's what we need. Mary J. Blige is going to be joining screen for season three.

Because I need that in my life. Oh, Lord. Yeah, you know how I feel about that?

That's got bad news. We do have spot cast for season two of Star Trek Discovery and Ethan Peck. I looked at it.

I'm like, I wouldn't quite sure. But did you see with Thinkique is selling now? No, their Bluetooth head earbuds that make you look like you have vulcan ears.

They're amazing. Let's see. The chilling adventures of Sabrina has a debut date.

Are you excited about this? It's weird because it's not going to exist in the Riverdale universe. Oh, I thought it was.

No, it is not going to exist in the Riverdale universe. But it's going to debut on Netflix October 26th. They put up the first picture of the girl playing Sabrina this week.

I mean, just the way things go with me and Netflix, I'm going to try to check it out. Let's see. What else we have here?

Runaway season two is going to debut December 21st. I need to hurry up and watch season one. Same here.

I've heard really, really good things. USA has canceled Shooter after two seasons. That was quick.

Oh, they had a Transform in the back. And Sony is going to be rebooting Designing Women. What do you think about that?

Yeah, I don't think that needs to have TV on DVD and Blu-ray this week. We've actually got a couple of anime titles hitting Blu-ray and DVD this week. Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphan season one.

Easy for me to say. Wow. Season one of the path, which was on Hulu.

Season one of the Terror, which a lot of people are talking about. You put Sierra Hines anything about it. OK, yeah, that is that one.

OK, we're going to throw the coroner season two. I didn't know shades of blue got a full second season. So I guess JLo needs work too.

Ash versus Evil Dead, the final season, season three of that. Blind spot season three, another manga title called Junjo Romantica. Season three is available this week.

Gotham season four and almost over. Strike back season five. Bluebloods season eight.

Believe that. Bluebloods season. It makes sense because remember, that was one of the shows Cody said he was going to start watching.

Heard from him this week, by the way, he's going to be stopping by soon. Come in and hanging out with us. And walking dead season eight for the 19 people still watching that show.

And NCIS season 15, sir, let that sink in on. Believe that. I did not see a blue right really.

So only a DVD room out. All right, we have another guest joining us. Nestle right up to that microphone and introduce yourself to everybody.

Hi, my name is Samantha Ortega. And I'm here with Toysman Dollar this year. You guys down here, you guys upstairs.

Oh, we're upstairs. I'm sorry. They're better than us.

They're on a higher floor. They punched a higher floor. Don, don't say either that was coming.

Welcome to the show. Thanks for hanging out with us. How are things going?

Really good. Yes. It's the second day.

And we sold out on a lot of our merchandise. Really? So what kind of things are selling really hot for you guys up there right now?

It's really popular. Get right up on the microphones. Oh.

Can you hear me now? Much, much more. Much more good.

A lot of one piece figures have been selling really good. And Dragon Ball Super is a really big hit now. I've been Gillian is another one.

And my hero academia is another big show. Yeah. When you're preparing it's because I think this may be the first time we've had a vendor on our shows at one of these shows that we've done.

No, no, pinball fest. I'm talking of this ill. Well, you said vendor like ever.

But this is a little bit different. Yeah. The question.

When you're preparing because you can't bring everything to a show like this because you only have what? I mean, it looks like you have maybe like an eight eight by four area in most places. How do you how much of research do you have to do to say, okay, this we know will sell this we think can sell.

Or do you just kind of podge podge it all together? It's a guessing game. Sometimes we'll get like new shipment.

And we will just put out the new shipment up there. And if it sells itself we usually have what's the like the newest figure or like the newest show that has the most figures. And we'll put those out.

How many times you pack up and go I kind of like to keep this one back and maybe go home with me. Or do you are you able to separate that like do you have a lot of the stuff yourself or do you just like I see it all day. I don't have to have it at home too.

Yeah, I see it all day. So you're not really a collector. Yeah, no, like before I was at first, you know, and then I just started I started doing vending with this booth.

I'm working with and I'm just like no more. How long have you been vending? It's been a year.

I've only been doing this for a year. And we've done quite a few shows. What was what was the thing that made you go you know what I think I want to do it this way.

Well, I'm in college and I needed a job. Fair enough. So the last convention was eight con 2017.

He had a sign that said help wanted will be paid provided with badge. So I asked you need. So you're local.

Yes, I am. Okay. Because I'm always my next one.

We have I mean, there's all over the country. Right. That come here.

So do you just do go all over the country with them or do you work with them and they're here? I can just work with them when I'm here next year. We plan on going or I plan on going to anime expo, which is in California.

So sometimes they'll pay for our trip. Like, you know, they'll pay for our plane or bus as long as we get there and we help them because it's it's a lot of work. It's very tired.

I mean, because you're here. I mean, before the doors open, it's easily 12 hours. That you're setting stuff up and getting things ready to go.

Do you do you sleep at all before Sunday night? No. Because we used to do conventions ourselves quite a bit.

And it's people don't understand what a freight train conventions are. Yeah. Because it's like you get here early in the morning, opening day, pray to God, all your shipments are here.

Yes. Because everything's intact. And I will tell you this though, doing a convention here in a non-union state is a whole different ballgame.

When I was doing trade shows for a little bit of a living about a decade ago or so, what are you pointing at? Oh, black machismo's here. If we would do shows in Vegas, it's a whole different sport.

Really? Like you can't like you can't haul your own equipment in. You actually have to ship it through a union company that brings it to your booth.

And I guess that's kind of a blessing and a curse at the same time. I mean, and every you literally the only thing you can really do yourself is unpack, pack and work. The unions have control over everything.

Where we're here, you know, you kind of have a little bit more control over your stuff. Now, do you handle that part of it or do you just kind of show up do the setup work and tear it down? Do you have to haul anything?

No, I don't. But hopefully starting soon, I'm going to start driving the trucks around and delivering. Like so, a next convention is in San Antonio.

So we would leave the shipment here and then we would drive all the way to San Antonio and, you know, unload, put the figures up and start all over. What got you into it? It's a collector.

What was like, what was the brand that you just started collecting and then everything caught fire for you? Was there a specific brand? No, just any of my favorite shows is what I collected.

Like what? One piece in Evangelion and Dragon Ball Z, where my main, you know, I love it. I'm like, I was like, I was very careful with them and doing vending, I'm tired.

I'm tired of putting up figures. I'm going to leave them in the box kind of guy. Really?

I'm a big Funko Pop guy. Oh, okay. And I have probably over 50 of them on my desk at work now because my wife told me to keep them at the house.

But yeah, they stay in the box and I'm very OCD, so they're very well laid out. Yeah. I'm told I can't stack them any higher without being a fire code.

So now there's a hutch that I have that I'm putting them all on. I wish you had that picture handy to show too. I think I do.

It's ridiculous. Oh, my God. The picture of my desk.

It's insane. It's not insane. It's fully sane.

It's true. Keep telling yourself that. It is fully sane.

Like if he ever has a really bad sneeze, he's dead. He will be covered in an avalanche. That's my desk.

That work. Oh, my God. That is a...

This is coming from a vendor. But you know what? I take that as a sign of respect, sir.

And every time I'm like, you know what? I can't do Funko Pops anymore. Then they make an announcement.

Like they did yesterday. Oh, my God. Where they now have gotten the rights from his estate.

They're doing three prints, Funko Pops. Really? One from Purple Rain.

One from the year. Around the world on the day. And the third eye.

Third eye. Third eye, girl. Because I'm a gigantic Prince fan.

Really? Everybody was tagging me in this. I'm like, okay.

Okay. I didn't tag you in it. I just reposted it.

Because I saw that Alex already tagged you in it. I wasn't going to tag you in it. Well, go up again at the day before.

She said that cute thing. I put on your page. Yeah, I saw it.

The sunset. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Hey, dream come true. Randy Wands. Lots of things.

You can't even say it. Thank you. All right.

I'm leaving. Ladies and gentlemen, Don Ford and the Whitton Wisdom. Fair.

Yeah. I won't mute the microphone now. So another part of this though is the cosplay.

Yes. I, I, I respect cosplay. I love cosplay.

I can't do cosplay. I wouldn't know what to do. I'm sure you could figure it out.

I really don't. I really don't have a clue. Well, you did for years though.

Not, I'm not an enemy. But you've cosplayed all the time back in the day. Well, yeah.

We look like you could make a really good. What's the name? The Walking Dead Rick.

With the hair? Yeah, with the hair. The hair in the beard.

You can do it. I could see that happening, sir. I'm a little too chunky for Rick Grimes to be clueless.

Well, maybe Rick went on a bender. You don't know. There's no food in the zombie apocalypse there.

Unless you're a walker. This is before. Oh, okay.

You could be during the fear era. You have the beard then. So what kind of things like what's been the most impressive cosplay you've seen so far?

The most impressive. Is there's been some really good ones here? Yeah, there's guys on stills and they have that.

He just came and got a drink of it. Stills and those little 80 beat shoes. Yeah.

But I was telling him like there's no way that's comfortable. It's just there's no way. And he's in it all day.

All day. I don't understand. We're assuming it's a him.

That's true. It is a guy. He takes his mask off.

Okay. I just saw the mask. I didn't really identify.

I mean, this is, I mean, they're saying probably 15,000 people are going to come through here before the end of tomorrow. So, I mean, do you guys have a repository? Like you said, you've sold out of a bunch of stuff.

Do you have a repository that you can have more bring in? Or you just like, you know what? Once we sell out of this, we're done.

Yeah. Once we sell out, we sell out. And then we'll bring more to the next convention we go to.

Because that's also part of the gamble you take, too, is how much you bring. Because you have to pack up and stuff back up. Yeah.

And you're just like, oh, I just unpacked all of this. I'm not going to put it all back together. Well, can they order it from you online if they don't, if you run out at the convention?

Yeah. You have not like cards and stuff. And they can contact you.

Good. And I just get verification. We have a better than zero chance of our special guest being with us.

That I reached out to earlier. Oh, OK, OK. Outstanding.

So we don't want to keep you too much longer, but we did found this show on shameless self promotion. So please let everybody know how they can come find you guys, whether it's here, whether it's online, or what shows you guys have coming up. OK, our next show is in San Japan.

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Not to show on the address, but we are here in almost every convention in Texas, California, everywhere, everywhere. Is it ToysMandala.com? You can go on Instagram, just ToysMandala.

OK. M-A-N-D-E-L-A. Oh, it's M-A-N-D-A-L-A.

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Okay, so make sure you check them out because you're going to see them when you're at a convention that's coming around, and your schedule I'm sure is out there as well. Yes, it is. All right.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Thank you. Go enjoy the show.

We're going to come by and check you out later. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. We are live at the Dallas Sheraton downtown for anime fest, 26 years they've been doing this. I mean, I was not aware of that.

I shouldn't be shocked, but that's pretty impressive. I mean, again, we talked about this earlier that this town is becoming a thing for conventions. It's becoming a hotbed.

You hear that Star Wars celebration? I'm talking to you. Don't hold your breath.

We would be remiss if we didn't take a moment on today's show to pay tribute to the greater wreath of Franklin. Oh, my God. Who passed away this week at 76.

It's been pretty well covered pretty much everywhere. Mm-hmm. But Queen of Seoul, brother.

It really caught me off guard when I realized that she passed away on the same day in history that Elvis did. Yep. That was like a wow.

Also the birthday of Madonna. Madonna. Mm-hmm.

And the reason I know that is I used to date somebody who has that birthday. Oh, for real? Yeah.

I know that. But, you know, her cultural impact, I mean, it's everywhere. It's everywhere.

You don't want to go down the list of people that I don't like and would people say, well, this person wouldn't exist if it weren't for a wreath of Franklin. This person wouldn't exist. Well, they would exist.

They wouldn't be who they are. They just probably would be who they are. And I can't tell you the number of people that posted the think clip over the last few days.

One of the great scenes in cinema history. So, and we'll have another one of these to do tomorrow. And that was, that was, I think, one of, oh, I kind of figured it out.

Yeah. Because tomorrow, tomorrow's summer slam. So, we haven't talked about that yet.

It's true. So, it is summer slam weekend. Tonight, after this show, I'm going straight home so I can watch NXT takeover.

Because guess who's on the pre show? Pat McAfee. Oh, for.

Again. And then tomorrow is WWE's summer slam. We're going to do our, our pre show, our unofficial official pre show, or official unofficial.

I guess we'll do the right way to do that. And then tomorrow night is the, the major. But it's not a major time frame.

It's going to start at seven eastern four, four Pacific. So, we'll be on the air an hour early. But not two hours early.

Okay. Okay. Because that's kind of a, we originally told that the majors were going to be five hours.

Yeah. I was kind of shocked whenever you said that. But I double checked it as I watched Ron Smackdown this week.

It's going to start at six o'clock our time. But it's a two hour pre show. So, we're still not going to get away without, we're going to, we're going to miss at least one pre show match on the show.

Well, I know that I, I've already submitted my picks for this week. But I may have to go and amend the couple because I was a week early. No, that's not, you're more than welcome to do that.

Okay. Just a new music new releases this week. Allison Chains with a new new album Rainier Fog.

They've got a new lead singer. He's pretty good. Another new lead singer?

No, they're the same guy. Okay, because he's impressive. I was stunned.

Candy Staten releases unstoppable Interpol. It's a name I haven't heard in a while. They're releasing Marauder.

Neil and Liam Finn. The brother's Finn. With light sleeper.

Nothing. Neil Finn. Nothing.

Crowded House. Oh, I wouldn't have known that. He disappoint me, sir.

I just think it's unstable anytime. Two brothers are in a band and one of them is named Liam. There's just no good can come from that.

Nonpoint is back with a new album called X. And Plain White T is back with a new album called Parallel Universe. Really?

They're still around. And just in case you haven't checked your calendar, sir, we are two weeks away from Who Need Sleep. Oh, my gosh.

Yes, we are two weeks from today. Make sure you go to WhoNeedSleep.org. We're going to be raising a whole bunch of money for charity.

And a 36-hour streaming internet telephone. Boy, that thing took on a whole new dimension this week too. It did.

Grace, Grace, actually was last week. Well, but yeah. Grace Descending's going to play.

We're going to do an hour of our podcast and hour 35. Um, friend of the show Chance Monsterman. Bad Karma's going to be there again this year.

Can't wait to see those boys. And a band produced by Jared from Bowling for Soup. It's a three piece of young ladies called Not Your Girlfriends.

And I've been doing a little bit of research on them. They are very, they're getting a lot of buzz. And they're going to be playing our telephone.

Cool. Cool. Had a great meeting with the board today as a matter of fact.

We are. You were out of it. You were running.

I'm telling you close to the ground. This weekend, my schedule is tweaked like a tweaker. Can't believe that.

Whatever you do. I was like, good Lord, man. You're going to give yourself a stroke.

Well, I just, I didn't schedule properly. Yes, I think. But I still made it here.

We started on it. We started early. But you were frazzled whenever we were in the process.

Yeah. Because I just wanted to get here. That was my whole thing.

You know, just get here and get set up so that we're ready to go. Because, you know, we're very timely. We're always very timely.

We try to be. We try to be. Because, you know, people expect things.

All right. So let's see. We got some movie headlines to go over.

Remi Hill has joined the cast of Spider-Man Far From Home. But we don't know in what capacity we had. Did you know they're doing a live action lady in the trap now?

I'd heard something about it. And Tessa Thompson will be later. Yes.

I did see that. That was the first I'd heard they were doing it. I know it was, I knew it was in the works.

But I just, I really hadn't heard much other than they'd announced that they were going and they were going forward with it. Did you hear this Green Lantern story? About who was originally attached to play Hal Jordan?

Yes. Because somebody put a picture of it on Facebook the other day. Did you read the story?

No. Okay. Green Lantern core will be a thing we think.

I don't know that it's going to make the 2020 original pitch at this point. But stranger things have happened. Originally attached to play Hal Jordan.

Because it was going to be, remember we talked about it being lethal weapon in space. So you're going to have Hal Jordan and John Stewart. John Stewart, okay.

Hal Jordan, originally Tom Cruise. Big shot there. But Cruise wanted him to change the script.

To hold on. I got to, I got to do the sound. This doesn't stay lit like my other apps do it.

It will shut down. So I got to get to the countdown. Hold on.

All right. You ready? Yes.

You got a spoiler alert coming up. Three, two, one. The original script had Hal Jordan dying.

And Cruise said he wasn't going to do it. Because you know, Hal Jordan becomes the specter. He wouldn't do it if they killed the character.

So now apparently he's circling back around, but he still wants that cause in it. So he, so they're still talking to him to do that role. Yes.

All five, two of them. I sure I think he's five six, but so he didn't get Iron Man. And he's, I don't think him not getting Iron Man was his fault.

Because at the time that he was in talks, it just never got off the ground. Right. No pun intended.

But I mean, I'm glad. I mean, it would have been okay to see him in the role, but I just don't think that that film couldn't have been what it became. Right.

Especially from a technological standpoint. No, and I don't think he would have stuck around as long as RDJ has. Did you hear this Elizabeth Banks news this week?

Which one? The one that I would ask you about. Okay.

Yes, I just saw this on the on the right home yesterday. So I didn't know this side of this story. So Elizabeth Banks is going to be producing and starring in a film called When a Date with Prince.

Now, this came out. This was this coincided with under the cherry moon. Yes.

If I write this story correctly. Yes. And we talked many, many times about the fact that MTV did the big contest.

And then it took place in Don's home town of Sheridan. Correct. So they did the premiere party for under the cherry moon in that town with a concert.

The concert actually happened. Yeah. Inside the holiday envelope.

Okay. I couldn't remember for sure. The MTV broadcast didn't show much of it, but they did show two, three.

But what I didn't know is that coinciding with that was a person in that town got to basically hang out with Prince for the day. Yeah. And the movie is called When a Date with Prince.

And the, I know, that was the, that was the contest name. When a date with Prince. The film is going to be called Queen for a Day.

Right. Elizabeth Banks is going to be playing the producer. Right.

I think they're showing two sides of the story. Yes. Her side.

Her side and the producer side. What are your thoughts on this? Well, I mean, I didn't realize, because apparently it's based on an article that was written on, I want to say, I want to say it's mashable.

That, like, I never heard the side of the executive's story. But, you know, like, she was, Lisa Barbara was in People magazine. She was like a chambermaid for a, for a, for a frat house.

And she was like a big crew fan of all things. And for some crazy reason, she picked up the phone and was the 10,000th caller after they played the videos for KISS and mountains back to back. And that's how she won the thing.

And they're, from what I read, that Prince will not make an appearance in the film. They, well, at least they're not going to have an actor portraying him, but his presence will be felt heavily is what I. Yeah.

I was like, kind of hard for him to be in it. Well, I mean, you know, no, no, they're saying they're not going to hire an actor to play him. Like, I'm sure they're going to have to show clips or something of when he, when he pulls up.

That's the only way I would do it. Yeah, I don't know that I'd want to try to cast somebody in that role. But I just don't know how well this is going to play on.

Jamie Foxx would do it. I just don't know how well this is going to play on screen cinematically. It sounds like a neat idea for like a Netflix show or something, but I don't know if it's going to make it.

But what's weirding me out is it is coming up through Paramount, not Warner Brothers. And they're talking about an artist signed to Warner Brothers Records profiling a film that was released to Warner Brothers Studios. I'm like, and it's coming up through, well, Paramount, okay, the nature of that relationship.

Are you shocked? I just, it just, it just doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. And like, if you can't do this with the parent studio, I don't know why you're bothering with it.

Just a reset. We are at anime fest downtown Dallas at the Sheraton huge room. First time here since the last time we were here.

And this is just one floor. Yeah. How many floors are they taking up?

Because I know you have been looking around. I've only been up to the floor above us. I know that I saw people going up the escalator to the floor above that.

But I didn't go up there trying to figure out. Yeah, there's three floors. So the third floor.

Let's see if you want. Can't really, I'm trying to read the thing here. I'm not sure what they're doing here.

There's like, there's video rooms on the third floor. Is that the video floors on the video rooms in the third floor? Yeah.

Sit down. Yeah. They gave us a person, which is kind of different for us.

Just kind of standing there like, go ahead and put your headphones on talking to that thing, man. Tell everybody who you are. Hi.

I am Jared DeRoe, also known as Sriracha sauce at the cons, actually. It's on his badge. He said his name.

I was like, that's not what's on your badge. I am the Sriracha. And what do you do here at the show?

Besides, hang out and listen to us talk like this. I'm actually the supervisor for press relations this year. Ooh.

Yeah. We have people that relate to us. Most people avoid.

Most people don't. So how are things going for you, man? You've got to be accepted until they assigned you to us, kind of run around with your chickens with a head cut off.

No, it's actually going pretty great, actually. Everything's kind of running smoothly in my department. I get to enjoy seeing everyone that's gone and really having fun.

I mean, this is, I mean, this is nuts. There's, as I said, there's a lot going on here. I mean, there is really is.

I mean, the commitment to some of these cosplays is mind blowing. And Chad, I'm going to, if you'll indulge me for a minute. Okay.

If you will, you and Sriracha sauce, we'll talk more about the convention. I need to step away for just a moment. Because I didn't get a chance to take a break before we started.

Oh gosh. So I'll be right back. Okay.

So just talk about some of the stuff that you see at the festival. What are the, what are the things that you're looking most forward to and jump from there? Oh, one of the, one of the things I look most forward to probably just seen a lot of the guests, really.

You know, because we're all anime fans here. And we all have, we all have passion towards characters. And when we find people that voice those characters, it's like, oh my god.

I feel like, I know, like, I know you because you play this character in a way. And a lot of the guests are just really nice, really nice. Like, I can, like, I'll top my head, like, Tia Ballard, Whitney Rogers.

Like, just those two in general, like, they're, they're very nice, lovely ladies, hyperactive though. You kind of have to have high energy level to do that kind of a gig. Yeah, yeah, especially Tia, especially Tia.

She's, she's wacky, really. Have you ever met up or are you familiar with Sunny Street? Sunny Street, I've actually volunteered for a convention that he was at, but never really got to meet him.

But I do believe I got an autograph from him at one time. I've known him since he was in seventh grade. Really?

Yeah, he's, he went to Mesquite schools. Wow. A lot of people probably don't realize that, but he and my sister were in choir and band together all the way through high school.

Wow. So I imagine my shock when I found out he was the voice of Krillin and Tunami Tom. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. The underdog, really. Yeah, that was, that, that came as quite a shock to me.

And we, we actually interviewed a couple of months back. I want to say at the USA Film Festival, and her name escapes him right now. But she did the voice for Mad Moxie in, in the Borderlands video game series.

Oh, yeah. Her name is completely, maybe you know who she is. But I asked her if she had ever crossed Paz on him.

She goes, actually, he's the reason I got into doing this. She goes, I was actually going to get out of it altogether. And he pulled me to the side and encouraged me to stick with it.

And right after that, whenever her career just kind of took off. And I will check a thing of her name right now. But it's, it's totally escaping me.

Yeah. Voice acting can be tough starting out. Because like, you know, you start with like, you know, very small background roles.

And it's really tough to break through into like, you know, the more main character. Right. Or parts that, you know, everyone gets recognition for.

Like, I know a guy who's just now starting out in voice acting. And I know he's doing background characters in one piece, actually, that's still going on. He goes there like back and forth whenever they really need them.

But yeah, it's just really tough. And I'm sure people say, oh, geez, how hard can it be? It's a lot harder than you think.

Oh, yeah. And you really can't, like, you can make some web career of it, but not a full career. Because voice acting just don't pay much.

And unless you've got 15,000 roles, like, you know, somebody like, oh, what's your name? Hale. You're your girl from Mass Effect.

Yes. Yeah. Shepard.

Thanks. I believe in. Yes.

Yeah. What are we talking? What are we?

Just talk about voice acting in general about how it's, you know, it's, that's one of the things I would love to do. Same here. That's actually something that everyone loves to do.

Because you could live in relative obscurity. You don't have to sit through hair and makeup every day. I'm just going to stroll into a studio and I'm going to do some talking.

And there is a skill to it. Let's just not make it sound like it's nothing. I mean, there's a skill to it.

But in the advent of conventions, what have I been saying for two decades? If you can be in one moderately successful franchise, you can work the con the concessions or the convention circuit for the rest of your natural life. Pretty much.

Because they're everywhere and they go on constantly. Yeah. Actually going back to, you know, to the booths like with voice actors, you know, when you're saying like, you don't have to do hair and makeup or anything.

Yeah, like in the booths, I've heard some stories. Actually Greg, Greg Harris. I was talking to him.

I want to say last New Year's. And he'll tell me how he was in the booth doing his part for the main character of heaven's last property. And he said, he was saying how much he loved it.

And what he usually does mostly is like, he just puts panties on his head and just goes wild. Because reasons. It's a quote, Alex.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's just, if you wanted to be out there, it's out there. That's what I love. And talk about some of the talent that you're going to have here this weekend for people that haven't had a chance to come down yet.

Someone a talent. I'm trying to think. And you're talking about voice acting.

Just talent in general. Like artists, there's artists. There's voice actors.

Oh, yeah. Voice actors. Yeah.

You'll have talents of like Tia Ballard, Whitney Rogers. You got, you know, Bennett, White. We had for like 30 seconds at the beginning of the show.

Yeah. You get out of it nicer. Yeah.

You got the smoke squads down there. And then you got like four, like four DJs that are playing here to, like, go up base of the weekend. Is there a different DJ every night?

Like last night, it was like two DJs, they switched off. Same thing is going to happen tonight, actually. So it's always different.

And it starts, that's the midnight deal, right? Yeah. How long does it do those parties on 10 to run?

They usually run till two or three a.m. I am, I'm asleep by that. I'm just going to say I'm old.

Yeah. But yeah. And then you have like a lot of artists that are like really amazing at what they do.

Really amazing. I always love going through Artists Alley. Number one, because one of my dear friends lives in Artists Alley pretty much.

Brent Peoples, he's currently writing or drawing Teen Titans a new Superman. Yeah. And just seeing those guys just the way they do stuff off the cuff.

Yeah. It's just, it's always amazing just to watch that happen. Like, he did an hour, but if I'm lucky, it would take me like three days.

And it would look nowhere near that good. It would look like a kid in kindergarten that it with his non-dominant hand. It's, yeah.

I just, I'm always amazed at the amount of artistry that goes into these things. Yeah. I'm really big on art.

And walking through Artists Alley, it hurts my wallet. That's true. I mean, that's like I was, I was saying earlier that I've been in Vegas all week.

And I tell people like, are my office in Vegas for my company? It's far enough. It's like close enough to this trip that I can see it.

But far enough away that it's way too heck over there. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.

Like, yeah, I'm the same. I feel like I need to leave my wallet like at the desk when I go walk through or else my wife is just going to kill me when she gets home. Because you're right.

Some of the art that these people bring, whether they're official artists or freelancers, is just so amazing. The things that they can do. I mean, I mean, look at these banners that we hit, the banners that we have where we're here to our right, where they're doing the autograph alley.

Some of it is just mind blowing. This one, one, two, three, four panels from the right. That one's just been kept with a girl with a hat.

Oh, yeah. That has been catching my eye more than anything else since we've been sitting here. That's where my eye that goes straight to that one.

Yeah. And like, those are like the different girls for AFS like of every year. Like the one, the one second to last.

Okay. With the blue. Yeah.

That was the first time I went to AFS. That was basically 2016, a girl. Oh, wow.

So these are actual ladies that have come through. No, these are like drawings. Oh, the cover.

Right. Okay. Like they're their visual representation of that particular fest.

Oh, okay. Yeah. So like the one that's on the cover for the guide here would that be up there next year?

Yeah, it will. Oh, that's kind of neat. Yeah.

Yeah, I was just like different, uh, you know, seasons like, see it this season's like mechs. Oh, that's going to be in that back. Oh, nice.

Oh, we have another guest joining us, sir. How are you doing? How are you doing?

Go ahead and get right up on that microphone and tell everybody who you are. Hi, I'm go giking the great VA on YouTube. I do stuff for voice acting.

I do the sound design for the schmuck squad and the bridge series and everything. And I'm just happy to be here in a enemy fest. So are you, are you hearing an official capacity or are you just hanging out?

I'm just here with the schmuck squad. We're kind of like guests in a sense So tell tell everybody who doesn't know and then I'm not real well versed Tell us about who the schmuck squad is and what the date what the bid is the schmuck squad is in the bridge group Known for just doing like a lot of anime parodies if you basically we take an anime We make fun of it and we're known for doing the not so no ties. I a comic a kill Food wars or a chocolate gikin of soma and much much where we have a ton of anime parodies I just saw I just saw food wars for the first time the other day.

I was watching something else when I saw commercial and I went Okay, that's a thing. We have another person joining us. Who are you sir?

I am the dostals and I'm also part of the schmuck squad I voice a little right a little more of the business kind of person So I'm working really behind the scenes. How long has the schmuck squad been a thing? I'd say good two years now and how many videos have you guys produced in those two years a lot We just stopped counting.

Yeah, see my my OCD won't let me not count so What made you decide that this was gonna be a thing? Well, it's I just started off by getting to know friends like with grim jack 69 and coffin jockey Those are the heads of the group and also buddy VA a lot of the like the main teams We end up meeting up and enjoying their company and all that stuff and you know We just got together we became good friends and we wanted to like work together in a much more faster capacity because we all have a passion We all wanted to work together and we all know that if we work together We can get a consistent product out and we managed to grow this much to about nearly above a hundred thousand subscribers because of that over the past two years So I'm honestly really happy you're absolutely something right. Yeah, we're doing something right We're getting so many supporters.

We got so many people who love the show We got so many people were joining into the panels like they really getting into it and everything like honestly Us being guests years like it's an honor honestly. I absolutely. I love that.

I love that attitude. That's the way it should be yeah Well as you've watched the numbers increase and this is something I've always I'm very curious about yeah Does that change the approach you guys take to producing or are you like obviously we're doing this right? Why would we change anything?

Is there any extra pressure on that or do you just do what you do? Um, we do take the feedback making sure of like things that we will definitely want to fix later Of course we read those especially we see all the support that people like to bring We make sure to pay attention to those and just see what what will change and what will not change But most of the time our style will still be the same by our own from our writers doing their own style from the editors doing their own style Like everyone is there of their own unique way as one who does the sound design. I love doing the action I love doing a lot of the comedic stuff and it's always just the way I would do it personally as a sound designer I never think about like the the priorities are the all the generic stuff It's just how creative we can get with it.

How crazy it can be every time tell people the process How do you pick what you're going to parody how long does it take to get to the point where you start shooting? Well, how long does production take how long has it taken post? It does vary depending on the production quality we have for each episode Sometimes when we're doing our usual the main show schmucks from the nuts are no ties.

I um, we do make sure we have at least one episode Every month. Okay, and to add on that I think one of the biggest deciding factors we have on picking our shows is a passion We have obviously if there's no passion for the show then it's kind of lack Product-wise and so we need to make sure that everyone on the team or the people that are doing the particular project Appreciate the show and is always looking forward to making the next episode And when it comes to cash thing when it comes to like getting all the editors and audio editors out there It's just reaching out to friends that really know their skills, you know like it is I am the main sound designer for schmucks But sometimes we even reach out to friends who also do sound design and for editors We have a bunch of talented people even out of the country helping us out too. What's the property if there is one?

That you're like that's the one I really want to do, but I don't know that we could do it the justice we want to But what's the what's the great white whale? You know the thing about us that's crazy is that we like to do everything We would love to do everything. Well, of course we can't obviously so it's really hard to tell that's all on them really unlike Which one sometimes we like to do new shows that's out this season Sometimes I like do an old show that probably a lot of people heard up We want to do more justice, you know Sometimes we might want to do a show that is common But we want to take our own spin to it.

It really varies like we have really no limitations other than that But all the group will agree on doing I guess but like you know, I mean it starts out as an idea I mean someone will be brainstorming it's like hey, this anime is really cool. I want to do shorts How do you guys feel about this and then someone can come and it's like I think we can do it But this is how we're going to go about it And then it's really just bouncing ideas off all these people. That's what's great about having a team This big is you know, it's a plethora of ideas that you know We can listen to and really improve on the final product exactly what's one that you have a passion for that everybody else is kind of got I don't know Oh That's very specific I like I mean everyone the team I guess like one that you want to do that I mean pretty sure that nobody else wants to do is there one out there There's never been one that's like and at least from what we've always shared sometimes like we bring it up to the guys Like I for me as a sound designer.

I also do stuff for shorts So sometimes I do shorts for other new shows lately and I pitch it to these guys and they love it You know, I already we already did like two two one the two minute shorts from a show that's recently came out I showed it to the guys and it's the way it's edited the way it's like voice acted everything else perfectly solid like it just matters of the delivery That is what show it is has there been one that somebody else has brought to the table that you weren't real sure about that after watching it made you a fan of it No, I don't think so I've been loving every single one so far doesn't seem like I have anything that gets against it There's definitely shows that I haven't personally seen that I was like Let's see how it goes and obviously they do a fantastic job For example before I joined the team there was a plethora of shows because I'm a I'm a late addition So when they were doing food wars I was like huh in anime about cooking. I don't know if that's gonna be interesting and you know You see the first episode and you're like what is this you know like I don't this is a really neat shot against I feel like and then you see the later episodes and everything about eggs just blows your mind exactly and I think You know the grim jack and coffin the people that do write that particular parody I mean honestly they they were tirelessly to make sure that every product is good before it gets out on YouTube And honestly, I was it was really really good and really blew my mind I think one of the things about anime in general to and you kind of touched on this a little bit is It's one of the very few genres where Rist is in every day bit like Anime is one of the very few things that I've seen especially an entertainment where Somebody went hey, let's do it about this and then they do it. There's like there's a fearlessness to trying New subject matter new stories that I I wish was more mainstream Yeah, there is no there really isn't a sacred cow.

We've got a couple of other guests. They have t-shirts So we know who they're with or they're at least fans of Thank you gentlemen, please tell us go speak right this microphone. So we are hi My name is coffin jockey.

I One of the directors writers Actors talk right into the microphone. I'm trying there. We go.

I know it's a little crammed over there. Okay. Yeah Hi, my name's coffin jockey.

I'm one of the directors writers actors on the schmuck squad Help organize things and voice a bunch of characters in the shows I'm grim jack. I'm also a director writer voice actor who works on own Clubs a lot of projects with the schmuck squad. So if I'm not mistaken you guys are the guys.

Yeah What made you go we think this needs to be a thing? What was the genesis of the project itself? It was it was totally something that I thought at the time it When other when I saw my the people that ended maybe want to do it It was an outlet because I used to do like a and V's and all that and I'm like this is fun I'm gonna act I love editing.

I love doing that But it just wasn't enough and you know time I wasn't an animator Wasn't anything like that and these things that people were doing just for fun voice acting and writing I thought it brought a lot more creativity to the table and especially For the most people did it they really respected the shows and they wanted to add a little more of a fun twist to it to Appreciate the community of that show in anime in general. So that's the reason why I loved it and jumped into it and really wanted to spark more into This whole bridging community thing for anime parodies There's a also in a bridging. It's a very unique medium You get almost in complete freedom Acting range like you're being that the visuals are so heavily edited and the scripts are 100% uniquely written An actor can just get in and just really dig in to their roles and we can make everything sync up It's a lot like a Traditional animation in that sense where you can get the recordings in and then have the animation match So that's it's very appealing as an actor is to be able to go wild on some of the stuff that you do.

How big is the team in general? Still growing. Yeah, we're still growing.

I think the last time we tried to take count it was somewhere around 17 Oh, wow, okay. Yeah, and you produce monthly content. Did I get that right?

We have just started to make the move to buy monthly content at least and hopefully Three times a month or more if things are working out now being the guys that were on the ground floor And we asked these gentlemen the question too as you saw the numbers grow Did that change anything for you? Or did you just like you know what this is what works? We're gonna stick to our guns and this is what it's gonna be Has there been any evolution of it or is it still in its spirit the same as it was when you started?

For me Starting from where I started I just I want an outlet to make people laugh be happy I was inspired by people like that when I was at my worst those those things comedians Anime shows it all it really helped me and so seeing that abridging was a combination of both and that other shows I got adults to him had these really insane like low-budget things like a sea lab Yeah, yes, sir that one that was a huge inspiration me as a kid when when I was young I only watched two hours of that and I would see that and that was a really fun thing for me every night to enjoy So when I started I just wanted to do it as a hobby something an outlet for me to you know Express myself like you know any other artists or comedian wise would do and To this day I I've been told I'm like one of the most humblest people because every time I'm like oh no No, no, I'm not like that. I just had like some people when I was on another con telling me No, you you're great. I'm like no.

I just I just make goofy. I just I was up I'm just having fun and if thank God bless you for enjoying it. We're just having fun You know and if I'm not having fun, I'm not doing it right And it's like I hope that never happens where it's like I don't enjoy it, but you know I really want to just keep going on the current to see where it takes me.

What's the property that got you into the genre? Um, I I was doing a little bit of small things and I really jumped into the devil's the part timer series My my inspiration His username is runaway turist Uh, I had watched other parodies like a dry you know TFS and little crevos You go a bridge and those things were cool I enjoyed it, but his version his take which I soon found out was inspired by another guy named purplized WTF Inspiring me to want to do it and through the community. I met him And ended up at one point just collabbing with my inspiration, which I think is very rare To happen when when that uh because I thought he was a pedestal level and it's one of those I am this is happening right now Kind of moments.

What about you sir? What got you into uh, I would say when I was first getting into it A lot of what appealed to me was the potential acting wise. I hadn't considered Uh any intention to rights or direct or edit or anything like that I would I just thought like yeah, it'd be cool to get in there and voice some of my favorite characters at the start of it So the the property that first got me into it was was black butler Which is actually a series that Jay Michael Tatum is one of the other guests here He's the voice act.

He's one of voice actors in that show So that was if you had that moment where you've walked up and it's like hey man I got to message him on twitter because we were at opening ceremonies together And I was like hey, yeah, I was cool seeing you backstage I think I saw you dab for one second while talking to one of the other guests and then really quickly pretend like it never happened So that was a fun moment. He's like I try to keep it classy Don't we all and I think the afterword and that's them this try We all try to I think that is the operative word and we asked these guys earlier too. Is there a property That you really want to do but you haven't yet There is one for me, but I really don't want to say no but there are definitely like future stuff if things are okay With how youtube is because you always have to be careful um There we had a video for a buddy of mine did that got yanked by youtube or by facebook wanted to Because we were in a bar and there was music playing in the background and I was like are you kidding me That's youtube for you.

I mean we have a soundtrack. We play to our show, but we've had to find a bunch of Public domain instrumental stuff. I was like people can't use it.

We're talking over it It's just gotten so weird Yeah, Napster was a blessing and a curse all at the same time I think a lot of the laws haven't come up to the level of the technology So there's a lot of weird stuff going on where you know legal matters videos again take it down We're I think we're still learning oh absolutely and then it really is It's a bit of a minefield it is because not a bit of a mind and sometimes you feel like wait a minute Didn't we just clear this oh no now it's now we can't do this and it's and it's because you're absolutely right It's just they're feeling their way through it too and there's there's going to become a time I think when it all levels out. It's just good to still be it's been a while. It's still going to be a while What is your default that you you're at home?

There's nothing going on. Let me pop this in what's your go to To watch to watch Oh, I go first I would say there's there's a lot of stuff that I tend to watch a lot of the time there's about 15 16 channels on YouTube. I regularly go to I Like tears you just release another video today.

That's kind of a fun time But for the most part I'll have I have like a hulu subscription. I have like a verb subscription So I on hulu I've been trying to marathon through Brickland nine nine That's been that's been a very good time and you know who's on that show Chad Cooking a high cook cook the Creek high school on this Joe Latrulia. Of course.

I know I went to I actually was in band with his brother Oh, that's very yeah, he went to my high school. That's very cool It's kind of it's it's one of those moments where you see something you're like oh, okay It's still weird for me to see him on and Bobby canna Valley also when and he won an Emmy So now he's cooking a Creek high school the most and Emmy award winner Bobby canna Valley But yeah, Brooklyn nine nines. It's and it's changing networks now Yes, NBC is where it's going.

Did I get that right? I'm not 100% sure I think so I think they they snabbed the rights when it was I think they always had the rights because I believe it's universal but Fox just aired it And they're like no, we want to keep producing it so we'll just put it on NBC because we own NBC. Oh, okay I think that's how that went I'm gonna say yes wholeheartedly and be proven wrong by Google later But we do corrections at the top of every show So when I listen back, I'll probably just look it up and go no, we were right on that or no, we were Only if only one of us at this table had a phone with smart capabilities that could oh wait That would that would be user then you handle on he handles our social media.

I do the talk. He's the fact checker Yeah, but he's but he's nowhere. Yeah, he's right there.

Who's gonna be airing Brooklyn nine nine in the fall Okay, so everything so what about for you? What kind of things you go to when you're when you're just in those moments of I got nothing going on. Let me pop this in I I'm saying with them.

I I like to go around look at stuff what I'm interested I'm that type of guy where it's like if I think about huh I want to watch someone like eating Japanese food or something like going to Japan. I'll watch that Like hmm, you know, I saw this cool animal on the TV. I want to know more about I'll do that So I'm very kind of unique in that aspect.

I want to learn stuff. I want to I want to you know see How is that like you know those channels where it's like Uh, like scientific and all that like sometimes Nova. Yeah, Nova is a great series breaking news.

It's NBC. It is NBC. It is.

It is amici. It's smart. It's been a lot.

Okay, wait. I did that so We're getting ready to go into the fourth quarter of the year if you can believe that sir. I don't want to think it's almost September That sounds fake I like to see the paperwork on that What kind of things are you guys looking forward to right now whether it's movies, television, mainstream anime Anyway, what kind of things you guys looking forward to what's what's got your goat right now as the kids like to say The kids like to say that I've been told the movies right now.

There's so much. I know I know there There's stuff that's airing presently that we're looking forward to more episodes of like overlord uh season three. Yes, that watching a lot of Oh, that's that's been exceptional Um, I know that there's there's a there are a bunch of manga throughout right now that we've been awaiting the anime release of and I don't I can't guarantee that they're coming out this coming quarter But I know that we are eagerly awaiting them now for the people that that are listening and that you bring up an interesting thing You said the manga not the anime.

Yes. Can you explain the difference between those two our listeners? Yes Amanga is the original comic book adaptation of the work.

It's the authors likely one of their first runs on the work that they're doing sometimes they'll have Another thing like a light novel or a visual novel where they will just have the writing and maybe one or two pieces of art But the manga works like a comic book in modern day like you would read Superman for the most part I Superman Batman something like that and it'll come out in a very similar format to that That's usually how I series are Kind of vetted and seeing who likes what see how the reception's gonna be and then the ones that people tend to be attracted towards tend to get their own anime which are like fully 2d or 3d animated sections of work Sir like I want to say whenever I first caught wind of whenever you know my sister told me about what sonny was doing With what sonny straight had been working on at sonny straight with the high school with his sister I see and uh that he had just published uh Amanga for elf quest And I wouldn't track that down on the I was supposed to get it signed by him whenever she went to her classroom union As you forgot to do as your sister is Yeah, yeah So because people do ask they they tend to reverse the terminology and that's why I'm glad you mentioned that because I want to put that out There so people understand the difference when people mention a manga versus an anime. They're not the same thing They're related to each other, but they're not the exact same thing Now there are some distinct differences and a lot of times they'll be main you can see manga in mainstream things Like how many times did we see Star Wars manga? Done where that's not necessarily going to turn into something But it's something like a graphic novel or a regular novel you can pick up with the people have drawn to get into it Just an adaptation of it.

All right. Anything mainstream you guys are looking for right now You know, go ahead. Wow.

He did that with authority You physically move the mic It's amazing. That made me the first time that's ever happened on this ship You know Most people just pushed the mic away this guy's like no this one smart this one's mock okay to can't explain why I'm laid to the party, but I did just saw Avengers Infinity War But see you're not alone in that boat. I was shocked at how many people we've talked to in the last couple of months I'm like I haven't seen it yet Yeah, I was like you're like and do we need to help you move the rock that you're living in and this is also the second time We talked about it on this episode The infinity gauntlet is one of my favorite comic book stories of all time And I didn't see like they went to a screening of it.

I didn't get to go to the screening I was out of town. I believe that week and I went and saw at the following week And as much as I did enjoy the film It didn't affect me the way it affected people and I think it's because Number one we talked about this. I knew it was going to be a two-parter So and I was like if there's any justice to this story I know where this is going to end So I didn't have that emotional oh my god at the because I'm if it hasn't been spoiled for you I'm not spoiling it for you The ending of it.

I was like Yeah, that's that's what needed to happen Let's get to next year so we can put the rails back on and I mean I saw the entire thing to the ending And I guess you could say for closure if that one comes in first spoiler alert I do want to see that captain Marvel movie. It's coming. Yes.

I want to see it February I think it's Because part two is in May so it's it's March of next year. Okay. Yeah And that's the only one we have left now that at Amin and the Wasp is coming on That's the only one we have left until part two And they have said that Samuel Jackson and Colby smothers will both be 25 years D aged through the they're not just they're in the entire thing March 8th.

Thank you Don. Don's on it and So I I've seen some of these stills that have come from the set and so far I'm okay This is just the very complex character That I'm and I said the same thing about Dr. Strange.

I love Dr. Strange I knew there was no way my vision of Dr. Strange was gonna hit the screen because there's so much involved with that character There's no way you can mask mask market that character and they didn't completely dumb it down Which I respected And it was just dumbed down enough that it worked But there's so much more to him than just what was on that screen But I was I enjoyed you know the MCU I can't say hasn't come I mean there's there's been a couple of films where I've kind of been like That was kind of a thing but they for the most part they've at least lived up to the hype I just wonder how much longer they can keep this up Well, I mean we've had a we've had the occasional clunker And the MCU just the occasion with a distant and stick the landing like like Oh first couple of Thor films or the second Thor film for sure the dark world was kind of garbage.

Yeah and Ironman kind of went off the rails a little bit Ironman 3 was bad But for the most part it's been pleasant surprise after pleasant surprise I can I can't or I can't believe the consistent level of excellence has been pervasive through 20 films. It's just it's mind-blowing How how they manage to keep that level of quality up for that long for 10 years I was just really hoping we get at least an animated version of the Thanos quest We have no they've never gotten an animated Really that was what I wanted them to do because I wanted it to be I wanted Infinity War to be Once he got all of the stones and go forward from there I thought they did like in the in the mid-delay Like like not too long after the stories themselves got published. Uh-oh They did it was a graphic novel series that they did called the Thanos quest.

Yeah, but they never brought it to the screen Wow, I thought they'd done a small screen adaptation of it at one point. I mean we'll get that probably the day after we finally get our animated Shadows of the Empire film or or my animated Camelot 3000 film. Oh, that is your that is his favorite story of all time.

No pun intended. That's my holy grail. It truly is All right, I know that we've we've taken up enough of you guys of time You've got a hands-to-shake and babies to kiss But we've founded this show on shameless self-promotion So before you go give everybody everything they need to know about you guys and what you're doing Uh Social media websites everything.

Okay, uh, you can find us on YouTube Uh our YouTube channel is the schmuck squad. We again do a bridge pair The hmuck for those of you that don't know the Yiddish That is that is correct So you can find us on YouTube at the schmuck squad. Uh, we are on Twitter also uh the schmuck squad Uh, you can we each have our own individual Twitters.

Uh, mine is at coffin jockey Mine is very complicated G guy king D great All right, write that down if you're listening And this and you're you're actually getting this you can rewind it and then we just keep rewinding it until you get a hold on It's a podcast change the time to like 0.75 Just hit that 15-second back button just consistently Uh, my name is the dastails a little bit simpler THE D-A-S-T-A-I-L-S I found out recently the dast is done German so my name is really the the tales The lots are love the lot Tra Turia was it Mickey blue eyes and then uh mine is at grim jacks x9 with two ms And uh, yeah gentleman thanks for hanging out with us go enjoy the rest of the show the schmuck squad was here sir Yes, thank you out with us a lot of people hang out with us because I'm not getting to talk to other people that aren't you They talk to you all the time I talk to him like every day. I like it's not other people anyone so gentleman things go hang go hang out and enjoy yourself We are at anime fest The 26th annual here at the Dallas Sheraton and this goes through tomorrow This is it does so if you're if you downloaded it the day we recorded this oh thank it They let us part because we always love keeping up because we want to keep up with you guys and follow oh here We go here we go I can actually G-A-O-G-A-I-K-I-N-G-T-H-E-G-R-E-A-T-V-A And I gotta keep hitting that back button and so you get the whole thing written down You're welcome Take care guys So let's really sit here. We are at anime fest at the Dallas Sheraton You can check out our website www.theclubhousepodcast.com And we would like to welcome some possible new listeners today Uh We have talked before that there are other people out there that have our name One of them and and we have no issue with that you know, it's a global community One of them is a baseball podcast.

Yes, and these guys apparently are on a mission to hit all 30 major league ballpark And they are going to be guests on another podcast uh, I guess today And the other podcast ended up tagging us in their post really so if we have any new listeners from that We apologize. We're not talking baseball today, but we are doing you listening And there was one of those moments where I was like I could say nah We need to traffic. It's okay.

I gotta go ahead But I've seen that a couple three. There's a golf podcast out there with that with the with the name as well And I could have sworn that there's one locally that they will also be at who need Sleep again this year really good good. Okay.

Good. And we're gonna have some very We're gonna have some guest hosts this year too A lot more than last year because of recent events. Yes.

Uh, we I talked to Devon today I actually saw him on camera today He is still uh for those of you that don't know our executive director from who need sleep devon pike Who is also very popular in the local Convention community was in a car wreck. He's fine He's a little shaken up But he's had to have some surgery and his job's gonna be wired shut for a while So he's still gonna be at the show, but we're making him as low key and as low energy as possible so that he can heal I don't think you're gonna have to make him low energy. I don't think he's gonna have a lot of energy Have you met him?

Yeah, but I also know that when you're going through something like that You're probably on a lot of pain meds and it's gonna make you really mellow But what I'm encouraged by by this is he's really been great of saying you know I know I've got the right people in place and everything's gonna be okay and he knows that so we're very excited Well, I did call him our own personal man of steel because nothing's taken that cat You're not the only one that said that to me in the last week He's but it's an impressive he is our executive director. He is our fearless leader and uh He has he is resolute with we're gonna get this thing done good labor day weekend And we can't wait to do it I want to send a couple of shout outs about who needs sleep while we're talking about it that I personally can do One two freebirds in Irving who's going to be supplying lunch for our volunteers On Sunday September 2nd and two errands rent to own in Irving who will be Donating the use of some of their furniture nice for us for again very nice So I actually got that done today I was able to talk over there and talk to them so and by the way this will be that that weekend Will be the first time ever errands will be open on Sunday. They're doing a huge labor day event They've never been oh that's right.

That's what their GM told me wow So they're gonna be open that I used to do business with them so on there on there The first time they'll be open on Sunday is driving a huge labor day event A bunch of stuff on sale really nice stuff too I'm keeping my eye open on on She doesn't think she's gonna be able to get it. Oh, but no, no, but I said no you should be she should be able to get access Yeah, I know. Yeah, I told her that.

Yeah, she seems she seems to think it's an area that they they will not be able to access No, you should know nobody stopped us. Yeah, no, I told I said they don't look much shadier. No, I think once you get into the dealer's room Or once you get into the side rooms.

That's what that's what they're gonna say. Yeah, you don't have a badge You should be you should be fine getting in here. I mean, I'm looking at people right now that are walking by us They've got nothing on at all.

Well, they've got but nothing I tend to find that didn't come out right You know what for a change I'm glad it's not me It's not me to with foot and mouth for a change. They have something on just not something that would prevent from getting into the urban Oh, let's get into some moving new releases in places you'll get moving new releases in next week because tomorrow summer slams Sunday So we're not going to be doing our normal show Happy time murders. Did you see what they did?

What did they do? They did a pop-up promotional store in LA for one weekend, okay Where you walk into what appears to be a puppet tattoo parlor Hmm And if you know the password it opened you into a puppet speak easy. Oh, geez This is what I can't like the word unstable Like not even close like I'll have to tell you when we get off air okay about some of the things That they were planning Don't don't feel obligated to that It's so I don't want to know I was laughing and feeling like I was being sent to hell all at one time It was insane But I the screening of that's Wednesday night.

I'm going the whole concept of that film. Are you gonna go that screening? I might Wednesday night.

I might see what I can show if the invite stuff So I guess nobody made it to alpha this week because I didn't get any reviews Uh, I didn't make it because I'll tell you I'd rather see that one than this other one. That's listen to this AXL That's what I was talking. Yes, that's what I thought y'all were talking about this thing looks really.

Yeah, it looks horrifying It's a robot dog. Yeah, that's what I'm a robot dog literally what I thought y'all were talking about Searching I will they we have a screening. I will not see this This actually was a debut at Sundance and I heard about it from Kristi Lee on the Bob Tom show This is about a guy whose daughter goes missing uh John show Oh, oh, oh, yeah, and there were message the investigator if I'm not the father I thought he was the investigator no Deborah messings the cop.

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay And it's all done through social media.

Yeah, yeah, and I'm out Uh, also this week uh papillon Don did go to this I believe Has it happened already the screening was this week? What's it? I thought it was I don't think so maybe this is coming Because we were talking about it because he wasn't familiar with it.

I'm this is what we make. Yeah, I'm very familiar with the original And a movie called support the girls It's basic. It's a manager I you'd have to look up whose eyes who stars in it Is it Vivek a fox?

I didn't want to look at that real quick. It's basically about the workings of a restaurant. Okay.

That's what I figured yes um It looks Regina Hall I'm so it's Regina Hall that's in it I I saw the trailer It's I hate to use the words dumbed down But it's like a dumb down coyote ugly. Okay Kind of that's what I got from it waiting for women kind of thing I don't know maybe DVD and blue right new releases this week Deadpool 2 on Tuesday. Thank God and there is a super dead cut Got super dead guy.

I think that's what they called it. I think there's like it's I think it's a 15-minute longer cut God's not dead a light in the darkness the latest in that series First reformed that movie with Ethan Hawke that we that we miss at the Dalser National Film Festival. Okay.

All right Show dogs one of Don's least favorite films of the year Action point what a failed bit that was didn't that just come out like two weeks ago about a month ago Now that is that's the Johnny Knoxville. It's about a month. Wow.

Yeah Blackwater the one we talked about with Dolph London and John Clawpan down If Doc does not put that on bad movie night. There was no justice in this world Even Doc has some standards they're low He does have the original heaven can wait gets the criteria not the 70s one the original. Oh way back in the day It's the criterion collection.

Wow treatment this week as does an art film called smithereens not a documentary about the band. Okay So that's what you got going on this week anything that caught your eye from this past week sir that I'm actually even from last two weeks Because you were out sick last week glad you and Jules were fearing better. Yes, then if you weren't this would be a really tough show to do Um, I can't remember if we've talked about this or not are you following this this Arcade one-up cabinet thing that they're They're pushing we talked about it but not a mayor.

Okay Uh for those of you that are Uninitiated into this they're actually taking Collections of like four or five arcade games and making them into like scaled down Smaller cabinets like they're not like a huge six footer something you could fit on a like a countertop Well, no, no, it's a little bit bigger than that. Oh, is it like because I thought they had made versions of it that you could put like on a bar top Kind of like the old mega touch screens. No, no, no The way that the way that it comes when you put once you put it together you can sit in front of it at a chair and be comfortable Okay, if you're standing up you're gonna be kind of cringing your neck down like you're constantly looking at a cell phone But they sell a base where you can actually lift it up off the ground a little bit.

I like with washers and dryers Yes. Yeah, they're doing then they've got one. It's like several street fighter games One that's got that's mainly the vector graphics and like asteroid space war things like that um Oh shoot.

I'm for I want to say once got defender Um, there's a defender of your gender. Uh, they've got one that's like the track mall games like crystal castles and uh missile command and synopeed I want the one that's got the multiplayer like three control stations because you've got rampage gauntlet The ones I've really and these things are retailing merks. They're they're the merks.

I don't think merks I enjoyed that game very much uh, but like major this isn't something like it's like you can only get it like at a boutique store Like best buys carrying these game stop is carrying walmart's carrying walmart's carrying them right and they're retailing Like depending on where you go and what time of year you're getting them Uh, between 199 and 299. Oh wow That's not expensive at all. No, and this thing like but it's five games, right?

It's five games per cabinet That's what I want to me because this is one of like 80 games in there. No. No now.

Will it support? Will it shock me at all once these things hit the market if modders immediately Hack into this thing and make it where you can play everything in it from what I've been here in lately Nintendo's going after the modders pretty hard right now. Yeah, they went after uh, I think it was M.U.

Paradise Uh, a ROM site that's been around for years ever since them the the home um the home modding and home arcade scene really took off M.U. Paradise. How about make more games and or make expansions on your on the games you're making?

It's that's what I don't understand. That's what I don't understand Like you did that with the Wii and the Wii U to where you got your virtual console up and running Anyway, we'll look constantly feed money into it. It's a it's a you've already got the games already exist And there's no overhead.

There's no yeah, you don't have to make the you don't have to make the discs You don't have to make the cases you don't have to make the guides here here And that's why I'm annoyed when I want to download a game, but it's going to cost me Within two dollars of what it would cost me to buy it physically. Right. That doesn't make any sense to me No, it really doesn't outside of you just want to save space Now I've kind of gone that route lately because honestly you and I both own Xbox ones.

Yes. I do when you buy a disc-based game on your Xbox one What is the first thing it does downloads it to the hard drive on installs it to your hard drive? Now does it install the whole game?

Yes, okay, so but you need the disc in order to operate it Basically the disc is nothing more than a key once it's installed. That's weird So so my so the point remains how much does that disc really mean to you? Just take it up real estate exactly So that's why most people like myself have gone out and bought like an external three terabyte hard drive And I've crammed like 300 games onto a hard drive on my Xbox one rather than having a shelf full of games And all I got to do to pull the only reason I'm using it is just to make the game playable the games already on my hard drive So you may swap just buy the digital copy and leave the physical copies got a couple new tables on my pinball fx3 recently really what One of them's like a funhouse type game.

It's like you place it takes place in amusement park. I very much enjoyed Now is this a new release? I don't know because I've been looking it's a new release since the last time I played it Okay, I've been looking I've been following them and I've been that came was that one came with a second that I came with the other table is And there's still some more tables.

I got to buy okay, because I haven't bought any of the alien tables yet Uh, any of the universal stuff the giraffe. I got those. I got three of those Jurassic Park Jurassic World and jaws.

I got all three of those no No, I got back to the future. Yeah, that was a it was it was ET jaws and back to the future Jurassic was a three table set. I got that.

I've got both of us. Okay Because I wasn't I wasn't aware of the other one that you were talking about and apparently um The other big pinball that actually actually has the real tables. Mm-hmm.

They're shutting it down What? Oh, they are shutting it. Do wow.

So pinball arcade basically. Okay Don I can't reach that far Never let it say that man is not full of grace. Oh, it's something.

Okay So we have a new guest joining us get put you put your headphones on so you can hear yourself a little bit little bit All right, Don is now conducting an imaginary orchestra. I don't know idea what's going on You If that gets you through the night We should get him in a kimono doing that. Do not put my new pants name on that man By the way, uh curtain club September 9th.

We're booking it. See how we see what I did there back to back weekends We'll be doing who needs sleep and then the following weekend we'll be doing the curtain club But we have a new guest with us. Please introduce yourself to our fans.

All right. I'm Terry noto and I'm from Tangerine mountain Imports and designs. We're based out of Chicago and we are selling kimono here at anime fest Dallas and you look very very comfortable Yes, it's very comfortable.

It's a it's a little twin stars Yukata straight from Japan. So First of all welcome to Dallas in the middle of august. Oh, yes Thank you.

I appreciate that. We're kind of terrified of your weather, but I'm sure the feeling is mutual We're terrified of our way That's good. That's yeah, I was just saying I've been in Vegas all week for work and I'm like here like well The dry heat or like it's a whole this is a this is a different sport of hot.

Yeah, because like I was saying out there I went to the gym and by the time I left the gym and got back to the hotel room like all the sweat had dried out on my shirt Okay, here. There's no such thing. You're just going to sweat until you die.

Yeah, pretty much But you know kind of like that too, but not quite as bad. But if you get a kimono They breathe that's true. I have ventilation my sleeves are open here.

How long have you been making kimonos? We don't make them actually we import them. Oh, okay.

Yeah, well our business started in 2014. Okay It's my sister and I and it's a family business Our mom helps out too and so we basically got the idea back in 2010 to import Japanese goods straight to the states and Kind of studied the system and try to figure out the best ways to get kimono to the states and now in 2018 We're the largest kimono importer in the country We've been featured on Japanese TV Twice now on a prime time hit show called you and nani shini nipone, which translates to you. I know right But it translates to why did you come to japan Are you serious?

No, I'm so serious. It's I'm so serious I feel like I could do that ever so like why did you show up at my house? Yeah, it pretty much, right?

And it's it's a really um Popular shows so it's really helped us expand our business over the last uh about eight months since my first appeared on it So now we are importing j fashion to straight out of how did you go? So our our newest line is acdc rag And it's it's just all over how did you go there's only two places to get it in the states one place in California and us So you say it's a family business. Mm-hmm Are you and your sisters the first or is this something that you Have taken from other members of your family?

We're the first So what what made you get into it? We have been fascinated with all things from japan since we were very young children and we were encouraged by our parents So um my sister has a master's degree in art education and our parents always encouraged her in art and in studying Asian art And so we say it's a family business because even though sherry and i run the day-to-day operations a lot Um our mom is also just really heavily involved in it as well and our dad It's also an attorney. So he handles all of the legal stuff and sometimes when we have to argue with customs We get him on the phone.

So it's it's a whole joint effort So i've had this guy and retainer forever Oh just speaking from personal experience. Have you ever worn one of these things? I have not see i have yeah and i know what gets you into this Wearing one yeah, yeah, it feels fantastic It really does that's hey that's hey you wear one of these in the middle of august at least it breathes I mean it's it says that they're wearing all black, but that's a whole different issue Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, all right. I mean you're at a convention. You're gonna be wearing black t-shirts, right?

Well, I've got to wear my show shirt. That's my whole thing. There you go.

There you go Yeah, so we got into it um in part because of my sister's master's thesis research in japan She was on her thesis trip and went to mount koya Which is basically the birthplace of japanese buddhisan and was on the mountain Skype messaging with me about how all the amazing things She'd seen and how you know we've had this idea kind of kicking around But we really got to do it and that's when we decided we're gonna make a go of this We're gonna make a go of this business and she was eating tangerines at the time So that's why our business is called tangerine mountain nice nice A little bit of a story behind it and tangerine dream was already taken Well, yeah pretty much right right? So yeah, she got back to the country And then we just started working on figuring out how to get everything from japan to here So how many shows do you do a year? Um, I think we're at about 36 now.

We've been adding shows left and right this year We added anime expo at the last possible seconds We were added we added non-discon in colorado a couple weeks ago to our schedule We started the business thinking that maybe we do five or six shows a year and maybe help pay off some student loans And some of our dad's expenses because he's um going blind And so he's doing pretty good, but you know, we kind of figured maybe we'd help mount and And we got invited to about 50 other shows or 50 years So you went from five to six a year to three a month Yeah, pretty much so That's how you get to be the best the biggest in america Exactly pretty much though and and because we work with people in japan on the ground We've not only studied that, but we also have relationships with um, you know, shipping companies distributing companies You know, we have a lot of relationships that we rely on in order to get pieces to the states because that's really how you do business in japan what's what was the biggest Roadblock you have you've had to deal with so far um One of the biggest roadblocks I think we've had to deal with is well one is just the logistical challenge of Getting literally tons of kimono to the state. Oh, I think just import fees itself Just yeah, just navigating that process and coming up with the least expensive way because our goal is to get kimono into the hands of It's many people as possible. So our lowest price point for kimono is $30.

Oh wow $30 for kimono and obi so in japan you have to pay extra for the obi and the obi is the sash and that's the sash And you know, I know that yeah, do you know crossword puffles? Christopher Puppels ob obi is a very common word used in crossword puzzles. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah, so I'm smart. We And modest too.

Oh very very modern What do we say on the show that I am the smartest man alive? No, let me clarify something here. We don't say that You say that about your sister.

Say what that I'm the smartest man alive and you can use You can keep repeating that it doesn't make it true I could tell you more things so make it even more. I mean, let's do it. Let's do it.

I'm like yeah Yeah, I mean, you know, so yeah, basically That's that's one of the biggest challenges is getting to know how to basically get things from point A to point B in large quantities So that we can afford to Sell things at a very reasonable entry point a lot of our customers have never worn kimono before So we walk them through that process. That was actually going to be my question. Yeah Yeah, there's multiple pieces to this.

It's not like it's it may look like a road, but it's not a road there There is an art to this process exactly. Yeah, and then probably the other major Difficulty that we have is just working with the I think almost I want to say like mental barriers that some of our customers have where they'll say well I'm too big or I'm too small or I'm too fat or I'm too short or you know and kind of trying to overcome I'm too macho. I'm too masculine No, it's the same thing in the garment trying to overcome their insecurities to get them to try this now Fortunately, and I'm a fastalist people are just diving right in like our booth is absolutely slammed.

Yeah, we walk past I'm like, we'll come back Yeah, every every time your producer kept coming back is like um, we're like A few more minutes because we're so slam right now, and I'm sure he went. No, you're making sales. You take as long as you need Yeah, I'm pretty much Low price you have on display is beautiful as low price point is 30.

How high do they go? On the show at the show today we have two wedding pieces one in a thousand and one at two thousand We can go as high as 20,000 in our showroom near Chicago. We have a 3,000 square foot warehouse near Chicago Um, about 45 minutes.

So this is not just a mobile business. You have a brick-and-mortar in the great city of Chicago. Yeah Okay, we have a showroom.

It's open by appointment because we're on the road so much Um, but we do do showings for people. We have pieces that we don't bring on the road because they're from the it'll period They're from Yeah, well, we're just fragile, you know, maybe from the 1830s 1840s So it's getting a little hard to just throw that on somebody and just have them walk around a convention Um, and yeah, we have wedding pieces up to 20,000 dollars, but the best vast majority of our stuff is under 100 Because we want it to be accessible to as many people as possible I just lost my train of thought when you just talked about some of these pieces that you have like that's amazing to me Yeah What's is there a piece that what's your holy grail right now? Um, my holy grail is probably an atop period fireman jacket That's what what I want to collect.

Um, I don't know that I would sell it Well, yeah, because sometimes there's pieces that you want that no you can't have it Exactly um, my other holy grail it was an atop period Complete set of Sam and I armor and I do own that now So that's on display at our office and I have worn it, but I was a little afraid to bring it to A show here because of the heat. Oh, absolutely. I didn't want to fall over But yeah, because it's it's because that could happen.

It's extra. Let me tell you It's extra Do you get a lot of people requesting certain pieces? Yeah, how do you handle that?

I mean is that Is that one of those we can put this on order for you? But we need to do it when we can have x amount of things that we want to order or is it one of those right? The check-in will order it right um, it depends on the type of piece So we get a lot of requests for example for plus size Yukata and the way we handle it is They're very hard for us to come by even in Japan So we work with our distributors to basically say okay, we we need In like three three L's and four four L's and we need sixteen five L's or whatever and then They send us what they can and then we try to match things up with customer requests as best as we can And if I could import literally a container full of plus size Yukata all at once I totally would but I did just they don't they don't have that quantity available to us as of right now But for other pieces like for armor for example, we can get armor It's usually more of a back-and-forth process and which we're communicating with you Okay, we've got these options here.

Which one do you like? Let's get you a quote on it and you know work that out How long have a process is that normally take it can take I mean I've got a couple of customer requests that are more than a year old because they want things that are very very specific and It's very hard to come by and it's like when it comes up I will you know if I've got one of my people out in Japan who says hey, by the way You're looking for that red and hoody soda juban from like the 1920s that has a 41 inch sleeve By the way, I have one and we're like okay, stand that now. We need that But sometimes it's it only takes a couple of weeks, you know, it just really depends on the type of item and it is Do you have to take a lot of time from a measurement standpoint or are most of your customers know what they're doing when they come in the door And say these are the measurements I need Because you mentioned that that's specific for you wanting to sleep.

Yeah It depends we have a whole range of people who shop with us We do have a lot of first-timer so a lot of times people will just say I just want something pink And it's like okay, that's pretty straightforward. We can get that within like three four weeks whatever Um, but we also have some kimono aficionados who have been wearing kimono for a long time They're very deeply into this and they need very specific things So then those are the kind of people who hit us up with you know I need this type and this measurement and this detail and that so it just but it depends on the customer When you when you've got somebody who's a first-timer Take me a little bit through the process of how Because being in sales there's a difference between what they think they want and what you know they need Right, right, right. What kind of a process do you go through to to you get to that place of commonality of oh This is what I really want.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Um, okay.

Well One of the things that I like to tell people is what colors do you typically wear? What are some of the things that are just you always default to most people have Kind of a narrower range of colors than the entire available Pantheon of colors that they typically wear So a lot of times we'll start there because most first-timers can at least tell me like their favorite color Um, and then from there we kind of go through here are some options here We also take into account body size and type So if I have somebody who is particularly tall for example I'm going to steer them away from kimono that are from the 30s or 40s Because people were a little shorter then and a lot of the really vintage pieces are not really going to accommodate that kind of size So we kind of get people into you know You want to try for this you want to stay away from that and things like that and sort of walk them through that process And then from there once they pick something then we get the kimono on them We tie it off with a sash um to basically adjust the height because kimono used to be worn long and trailing And then more than a hundred years ago people basically decided well It's easier to keep it out of the mud if we sort of tuck it up at the way Yeah, so so that's tucked up and then from there we put the obi on We have a couple of ob ties that we typically do with first-timers that are very straightforward And there's something that they can do on themselves and then just scooch around to the back once they're done So they can stand in a mirror Tie this bow or you know tie this loop and then scooch it to the back When they're done. So we've tried to streamline the process as much as possible And that's another reason why we've gotten so big so quickly Because our idea is to make things as approachable as possible so that people aren't going oh my god What do I do with this thing?

So yeah What is your go-to like you're just at home relaxing? What's your favorite one to wear for yourself? Oh, let me think um I have probably a good 300 pieces in my collection And it's sort of like picking among your children.

I don't think that's what you was gonna say Don't make me pick one one of the ones that's probably my favorite is the one that I'm wearing right now It features little twin stars from Sanrio and I've loved little twin stars since I was two years old So wearing this one as always was that one that you just came across or was that one that you had done? It's one that my sister managed to finagle out of one of our Contacts in Japan and it actually was a three hour conversation with customs to let it into the country Because of for sale in Japan only but because we got it from a distributor right of for sale dictates that we can buy it off of them And we eventually had to get our dad involved and and have him explain. Hey guys This is what the law is so you really have to let us into the country Well, you've probably got a bazillion people up there waiting for you But before we go we founded this show on shameless self-promotion Okay, so give everybody how they can get in contact with you social media websites the whole nine All right, cool so on Facebook Instagram et cetera if you search for tangerine mountains So tangerine like the fruit and mountain like mountains Of some of our handles are also tangerine kimono.

So k i m o n o Our website is tangerine mountain dot com so pretty straightforward And our website or store is a little bit light because each piece is unique to this country So a lot of what we do is email and Facebook message with people to basically get what they want And we basically act as personal shoppers for them through our whole three thousand square feet of Stock and pick out what they want and for members of the empire that are in Chicago. Where's the showroom? Our showroom is right near 90 and meet them road.

It's off of It's right near woodfield mall and ikea in shamburg, Illinois Okay, thank you so much for hanging out with us. Thank you so much. I appreciate I hope you guys don't have to bring anything back because you sell it all out.

Yeah, because it's supposed to be warm Yes, yeah, as all is right. All right. Thank you guys Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. You're also the clubhouse podcast.

We are at anime fest What going on and we've got we've got the big wicks there Yes, we do. You're right up in that microphone tell it but tell you about it Hey, everybody. My name is Dom from from anime fest press department Dom welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for hanging out with how are things going for you? Pretty good pretty good very busy I tell you what there's 26th year. Yes, yes, I've maybe gotten a headcount yet Not yet, but I would estimate probably around 12,000 Just so far So far maybe around eight to nine thousand and maybe a couple but maybe about two to three thousand more after the con and so By Monday, we have about 12,000 I believe Wow I mean, how does that measure?

I mean, is that about the same as last year a little bit more a little bit less It's a little bit more Last year was about 10,000 so yeah, we estimate about 2,000 more I just lost my train of thought Because your phone keeps going People have read social media that know what I'm doing so Jack dumb. Let me get my let me get my thoughts back After Sunday, yes, I got my train of thought back now Uh When do you start planning for next year? So really After Sunday or really Monday is kind of the end day for anime Fest this year, right?

I will say we start kind of planning right away maybe in like a week break we give ourselves about a week breaking We really start planning right away Certain departments start a little bit later. So my department personally, I will start planning around December So you get a couple of months to breathe so I get yes So because we talk to a lot of administrators like I get two days and then we start planning. Yes So yeah, fest ends on Monday.

We're planning on Tuesday. Yes. Yeah, that's because for for our charity I've told everybody enjoy labor day week.

It's for planning 2019 the next week So just definitely depends on department my department. Um, I kind of started around December My story around November just to give a historic go so yeah Talk talk to the process do people that want to be a part of this today come to you or do the people that take those orders bring them to you For talking about for press you know to get on press right so sometimes I get people who are coming to me to say Hey in the email. I want to be a part of press.

I work this and that I've been at this convention I'm under his name. Here's all my social media links all my Information web down in the links Everything and I will look at it and I kind of review and judge it and then I go yes or no Um outside that sometimes I reach out. So if I know somebody from a From somebody from Kotaku was supposed to be here.

I'd be like hey are you the contact for Kotaku? Doing one-be-one press, you know, how can I get your process as quickly as possible So I mean you turned around for us pretty quick. Yes, so which great we greatly appreciate Uh When this was brought to us.

I was like, you know, I mean we're always out to do the show anywhere And you guys have been nothing but amazing to us. So we want to say thank you for that. Absolutely Oh You know when you go into something like this, there's a lot of unknown because I might probably assume it Is this the first time you've ever done a podcast live during the show?

I don't know if it's eight fastest first time, but for me, yes I just took over press and they said hey, we need you to do something with this department Is there any reason? Okay Is there any rules? They're like, uh, no, we're gonna let you have all the drive So this is like a my own creation.

So you said in your emperor's phone and you're cackled and acting Once the show starts do you pretty much just go on cruise controllers that when the adventure really begins for you? That's when it because I know it's sarachi. He's been hanging out with us So he's he gets a couple of hours just to kind of just kind of kick it with us But I mean are you just constantly on the move?

Do you kind of get some downtime? How does that work? So for me, I'm running around constantly.

So um when it comes to convention if you're Supervisor to manager then everything's gonna get so much harder when it's show time Like really or if your director is even worse I'm I got maybe a couple of hours to sleep in the last couple of days. So that's pretty good But you knew that was coming You you you you amped up on Mountain Dew and all that stuff. I was ready for it Um, and I'm lucky this year because press is kind of light.

Um, I made the hours a little bit shorter So I can get a fill. I wanted to do a little experiment with press But next year I'm probably gonna make a press a lot longer on Saturday probably about 12 hours open on Saturday And I'm probably gonna open it up on Thursday as well. Okay, I understand it a lot Get that thing off the mic stand It's driving me crazy.

I mean do you I mean do you have to be present for like because I know there's like the after hours stuff Or are you just more responsible for the hours of the show itself? Um, I kind of so For most part, I'm more responsible for the show time hours And when my where my department is operating Um, occasionally though they won't want managers to be in a day before so they can sit up And then they won't sometimes want to manage to be a day after you know everything's down to kind of break it down This really depends on the department. So like logistics has it really bad Yeah, logistics especially for any kind of show is all it can always be a bit of a nightmare because You're the guys that are they're the first ones in the door.

You're the last ones out. Yeah. Okay, Don that was not funny That was him texting me Really After we just said But it keeps vibrating and going off with the microphone.

I'm done. It was there But yeah, it definitely depends on a department um like I said something like press or maybe social media might not have to break down as much Set up as much but for most part as long as you're a manager you will be on site. How many press outlets Do you think you've dealt with coming into this this year?

Somewhere around About 40 maybe that's not bad. That's not bad. Oh, that's a good number a couple did not show up for some reason I'm not sure what that's about and you never have that problem with us.

We tell you we're gonna be here You guys came you're like hey, we're sitting up already. I was like okay. Great.

Yeah, we're pretty self-sufficient I mean, this is our ninth year. So we've been we've been doing this for a minute You guys came with a table with chairs and everything We have chairs available. I was told I didn't have to bring the chairs.

There is one question. I have to ask All the time. It's a job.

Should we come back next year? Yes So people that want to be part of this in next year's show? Mm-hmm When we open those those pressure quests up Um, so this year I open them up pretty late because I was still trying to get to the um like it's kind of landed in your lap a little bit Yeah, so um for next year I think I'm gonna open up the applications as early as November maybe So okay, so Don keep your eyes open.

Well, I'll I'll I guess email So we'll what how long have you been involved with the show? Um, so I've been involved with a fast I've done work for him before and like 2016 that took a year break and they work somewhere else And I came back at the end of 2017 to take our price so just a couple of years you've been you've been with the show I've been yeah running around from different shows here and there um and are you based here? Oh, it was I was I just moved but some remote But I'm planning on staying sticking around in a festival row I mean, this has been an amazing show a lot just a lot of people coming through some amazing cosplay You know all the panels have just been lined up.

I tonight is the orchestra correct? Yes, it is We've been seeing them come in a little bit at a time talk a little bit about that event So that's like it was pretty big they were blasting on social media like hey come check this out And um, I remember this organization from before um, I was working for a different con This other kind of wanted that organization to come in but they decided to go a different approach and like From what I've heard it from these guys, they're really good. They're just amazing I said you had you were open.

I've I've meant to grab you earlier when you had that No, that page open in the media guide, but you didn't know and what are they called? The anime orchestra. Yes Anime orchestra ensemble.

I know there's open and isn't and they're playing tonight. Yes. What time?

Oh That is something okay, not a problem But they're they're I mean, there's there's a bunch of them that have been coming through and I'm assuming it's just all the doing It's just soundtrack from anime's that are yes that are popular Which is I love when you do this like we got the game of Thrones thing coming to soon coming to town very soon The video game. Why I think that's really become a big deal And I mean you've got people I'm sure that are here for that specifically Uh, if they we want to let you go do what you do because we're getting closer into our time But make sure you give everybody everything they need to know about how to get in contact with you and with the festival Okay, so for anime fest if you just go to you know google chrome type in anime fest.org You can be linked to our website and you will see all the links to the conventions Facebook Twitter Instagram, you know, so on For me personally, I do I am starting up a new panel group from calling it a taco black party and um Really hoping to get started in the next couple months at a different a few conventions maybe send Japan in a couple more So we will see how that goes and um, I'll say that yeah, that's everything for me and we cannot thank you enough For getting us in and making sure everything. I mean this went as smooth as glass I mean, it could not have gone any easier for us Thank you so much and for you know even answering the emails originally and being so he's been so helpful Absolutely, I took the time for me, you know, so it's like uh-oh, but uh-oh Here comes trouble right now Guys, we'll go enjoy the afternoon You guys who thank you very much one of two of my favorite people on god's green earth.

I didn't even realize who the other one was She knows you kidding me She knows she knows I said to oh, but I didn't say to my two favorite this is completely different and my wife's in San Antonio this weekend, so Done Get up cuz I need them to sit down You're about to wrap We were but then two of my favorite people showed up and I got to have them sit down No, that's just done. We'll move dawn We'll go get over here get over here and sit down wow Boy you made it under the wire Cuz I was like Now we're parked like two blocks away get headphones on get up from the microphones She walks in this you guys are great. They're so bossy.

I know because I'm happy you guys are here No, I can't you not all the way cuz my friends that's fine get right up on a microphone to everybody who you are cuz they can't see you Hi, I'm lady D rich Hi, I'm Lars ever sold Two people that we're going to see two weeks from today I want to know for sure you better be there too. Are you we will be there who needs sleep is too much from today She's working it. I know I said I would show it for whatever.

Well, you know, we're doing a cosplay dance party Well, I don't know from from one to four in the morning, but okay. Yeah, we got this thing I don't I actually don't sleep and rumors of there are rumors of a cheeky bar. You need sleep.

There's rumors Oh during during the dance party So yes, we're gonna have a DJ from one to four in the morning. I'm telling you this thing's this thing's gonna be a big deal this year And given what's happened in the last couple of weeks It's definitely there's been and yeah luckily things are in motion enough that Devon's stress levels very low Cuz he knows that things are moving we're happy to actually saw him on camera today I am happy that he is still Kicking it. I feel like sometimes you just have to tell him.

It's okay. I've told him to just not do any I've told him I said here. We love you Devon.

Yes, sometimes that's a thing I told him and he told me I was number one in his own little subtle way when I told him that he need to be as as low He is possible you're his number one. Yeah, well he told me a very special way that you tell him. Oh no, you're Picard There was there was a single there was a single finger to let me know that It wasn't that one But we are too less.

I mean this point two weeks from now. We're like an hour nine So chance and his band are gonna be there. They're coming back this year My band's playing this year.

We're gonna do the our podcast is an hour thirty five It's so pray for us. Yes So we're gonna be it's gonna be a little loopy But we've got a lot of stuff streamlined this year. I'm very much looking forward to the telefi Lars That's how I met Lars.

Yeah, she was part of it last year and We've got some really really cool stuff that's happening. Have you guys talked seen about the auction items? I saw some of them like when Devon had his party at cidercade that's some of them We have we have and then I donated just to be sure we have a guitar signed by you two Oh, no, I saw that that we're getting that we're auctioning off.

It's pretty If you are a fan of Hamilton. If you are a fan of the cubs. If you are a fan of bourbon Uh, it's not a fan of bourbon hates bourbon air fair air fair and combinations for two and twoers of three bourbon decilaries in Kentucky is one of the items We're auctioning off.

They give a better. Oh, that's literally the only reason they know they can talk Probably well, maybe you like banjo music. I'm not here to judge you outwardly hard pass I Mean, I love Arkansas, Oklahoma said no one ever To drive through no one ever not even I hear banjos so is this place nuts?

Yeah, I mean, have you not been an anime festival? This is my first time. Uh, this is like Tuesday Did you talk to Terry?

No, I'm just but by her standards Because I go to D all things cosplay. Yeah, it's really decent Yeah, and it's a lot of fun. It's all it's a lot of little things a lot of a lot of panels interactive stuff a lot of meetups And that's what makes anime fest special didn't know that this was the 26th one There's literally a Google sheet for all of the meetups that you have to access on the Facebook group.

Wow There's so many they had to create tabs for each day and we were saying that this is the first time We've been in this room since the show that's on the name. We don't talk about Baltimore The Baltimore the Baltimore of all conventions But there was good that came out of that shit. We got to hang out.

I mean that with like it. We got to hang out I got within this far Stanley, so that was mine. That was my family's lap.

I got to That would be really awkward if I were to do that. I want to be there. Oh, that's right.

I remember now I got to walk them around for a while And Peter was there. I could see Peter Mayhew you're making you is there he lives two miles away from me. Oh really two miles I mean, I knew he lived locally, but I didn't realize y'all lived that close.

I eventually planned to stock at some point Just gonna have true story my dog's name is Han Solo and he jumped in his lap while we're outside of the shared in I took my dog to go pee and he jumped in his lap and I was so petrified That I couldn't tell him that my dog's name was Han Solo and he just happened to find his wookie because he probably wouldn't believe me. He just happened to find that I was a weird fan. That was like making up I tell people yeah, I was just making up a story, but no my eight-year-old dog is literally name Han Solo And he jumped in your lap.

He's a huge fan of a particular breed He's got a couple. Well, at least he did. I'm not sure if he still does they probably did of a Rhodesian richbacks That's it.

That was a pretty don't understand seven for two until it's standing in front of you I totally froze up like a little five-year-old like and then you realize Before before he met Lucas. He was a dental assistant. So let that sink in when did that summit meaning?

What year was that it had to have been seventy five? No, no, I know he was like he that was that was 2000. Can we wait for a giant first?

Yeah, but his his his stories But you need to wear this very story. It's amazing that he tells like that guy tells amazing amazing stories The first time he went to his house. His wife is a really nice.

Yes, he's great The family is nice. Yes, they're whole family. That's a good.

That's a good thing Yeah, when you say you've known we've known that man for 20 years almost But we want to make sure you guys were here before we wrapped up because we've got this is a busy weekend for us Because it's summer slam weekend So I got to go home and get ready for NXT takeover and then church in the morning and then pay per view tomorrow night Oh god for bitch It's part of the show man. It's part of the show It's part of the DNA of the show. It's what we do So we're going to see you guys in a couple weeks anything else you guys want to plug coming up Bar's talking about your website.

Could you got a lot of stuff going on dude? Uh, you could actually find me on larseversal.com. That's L-H-A-R-S-E-B-E-R-S-O-L-D.

I actually do a lot of sculptures painting Special effects make up graphic design you name it And it will blow your mind. I've been doing a lot of it. I'm always up to something.

You've been doing a lot of gluing and live streaming this past week or two Yeah, we're making you got a curie armor right now. Yeah, we're making some cool cool props and armor So so all my stuff is ladydrich.com all my social media is that ladydrich happy play the birthday by the way I want to say the official capacity You can always hang out with us. We live stream on twitch a lot We do a lot of really cool stuff and we'll be at Hub City Comic Con next weekend.

And that's where? Love it. Oh, that's a long drive.

It's not that bad. Yeah We'll be back that afternoon. We don't say until now.

So if you're going to do if you don't say until now. That's a truck. That's a truck.

To love it. This is actually we have to get through Austin And then we will see you guys in a couple of weeks and you'll see us in a couple weeks Who needs sleep 2018 8 a.m. September 1st So 8 p.m.

September 2nd and then I told everybody enjoy labor day week because we start playing 2019 the following week That's right because we're going to do it again and make sure you can go there now and look at some of the auction items You can actually contribute all of the money that we collect will go to two charities one is cancer support communities North Texas the other one is cook children's fort worth and how much do we do last year? 14,000 dollars Let's blow that away the goal the goal is over double that very here and you're in bad heart and I think we can full We could do it. We could really do it Anything else you want to talk about before we do the plug sir I'm out of breath.

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