Dorkside Nexus

Fan Expo Boston: An Unexpected Journey

August 30, 2022 Tanner Season 2 Episode 14
Dorkside Nexus
Fan Expo Boston: An Unexpected Journey
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We recently had the pleasure of attending FanExpo Boston. Man did we have a good time! This week we breakdown our pros and our cons of the con.... Did you see what we did there? From Celeb meet and greets, vendors, all the way cosplay wea have a lot to talk about so sit back relax and enjoy the sultry sounds of our voices as we recount our journey.

Corey:

This pill will make sure I know it'll be important later you idiots you got the wrong turkeys your dick FARC just hearing him song

Brooksie:

call someone. Oh my gosh.

Tanner:

And welcome back ladies and gentlemen to Dorkside Nexus. My name is Tanner Is this thing

Corey:

on? I'm Corey,

Brooksie:

and it's cold for Papa

Corey:

we didn't make it there are good vibes in this room

Tanner:

today. Oh absolutely very very good

Unknown:

vibe stories all googoo gaga

Corey:

Wow hey I mean I'm in love I'm in love and I don't care who knows it? Nah, it's a little soon, but I love the movie Elf.

Unknown:

That's good movie. Jon

Corey:

Favreau Yeah,

Tanner:

honestly can't watch it. What I can't do you hate Christmas and joy? Yes.

Corey:

And Will Ferrell.

Tanner:

I'm a thief of joy.

Brooksie:

You're a made one. Mr. kargh?

Tanner:

No, my problem with Christmas guys. Is this my entire life. Even going back to a teenager when I started working? I work in jobs where I always fucking ended up having to work around the holidays, way more than I. So Christmas for me could care less. Just another day in stress and more work? Yeah. And it's like, oh, yeah, we're closed on Christmas. Go spend it with your family. And then I get to wake up bright and early the next day to deal with a mob of people at my ski shop trying to get rentals and I'm just like

Corey:

no, don't forget, you know, did you get all the presents for everybody and driving around and every store is playing the same book and five Christmas songs for the last 90 years?

Tanner:

Oh, wow. For Christmas Is You

Brooksie:

that's like the last like I was pewter. 30 Yeah, it was a good one. Like the the amount

Tanner:

of money she has to have made off of that song.

Corey:

Yeah, Mariah Carey. Have you guys ever seen you don't mess with the Zohan? Yes,

Tanner:

I don't while but yeah, well. No, no, no, no, no.

Corey:

I love you. I find you I come to where you are. Was that your feet? Yes, it was my feet the feet Africa

Brooksie:

time but it's so good.

Tanner:

Oh, I love when he's

Corey:

next word son's mom.

Tanner:

Oh, that was funny. No, no, I love when Paul Mitchell was calling him I want to speak to scrappy. He's like no, no. After he's been trying to work at the Paul Mitchell salon.

Corey:

i That would be so good. Visibility. isn't enough for me. I'm like,

Tanner:

I need to rewatch that movie. It's been Yeah, I definitely. Remember enough of that movie to quote it. I'll watch it

Corey:

with you guys. There was a while that was that was that is my favorite Adam Sandler movie besides The Waterboy the water boys.

Brooksie:

That's hilarious. I love the water boy.

Tanner:

Really?

Corey:

Do you want to know why? Yes, because it's a movie that encourages staying hydrated.

Tanner:

punch

Brooksie:

your way go.

Tanner:

Oh my god. I don't even have to break Brooksie down this week. Guys. This is great. Cory did all the work for me.

Brooksie:

Yeah, the pyramid has begun to crack so to speak, so to speak.

Tanner:

I don't know if you figured it out, guys. But Brooks, he tends to be the more reserved one of us of the three of us. It's true. And I just live to break that super reserve shell that he's like, I'm going to be super knowledgeable. I'm like, Oh yeah, you can be knowledgeable. But come on, man. Open.

Brooksie:

Man. Tanner's like, I did it. Put at what? Cause that's what I feel like. We got to turn it off. Turn

Corey:

it off. Put it at cost everything.

Unknown:

Oh, did you do it?

Corey:

Yeah. Put it a cost. Every What have you done? What did you do? Should have gone for the head?

Tanner:

Well, guys, I have a question before we hop into the rest of this episode.

Corey:

I have a question too. What's your question? I'm ready. So

Tanner:

is it shorts plus jeans equals shorts or is it jeans minus shorts equals And Brooksie is done that pyramid

Brooksie:

is beginning to tumble.

Corey:

See, you don't get to jorts without jeans. Right, right. Right. Right. So are you adding the shorts element? Or are you taking away the shorts element?

Tanner:

So what you're saying is it's actually shorts minus jeans equals jorts maybe deep stuff here guys deep stuff

Brooksie:

we ask important questions here on Dorkside Nexus

Corey:

we ask the real questions so that you don't have to

Tanner:

one more question what is the superior milk? Out out? Exactly.

Corey:

As for my lactose intolerant ass anyway, sorry,

Brooksie:

no. No,

Tanner:

why do you like

Corey:

the real stuff?

Brooksie:

I like nectar. Yeah, cow nectar in particular, of the pink variety strawberry milk.

Corey:

Oh, I almost got one of those the other day for the first time and each

Brooksie:

time I go to a gas station and I have a sweet tooth. Let's see if they have some strawberry Nesquik quick how yeah oh or if they have like a local farms which is 1000 times better.

Corey:

The Riverbend has this this maple milk?

Brooksie:

Yeah, they're maple milk and then Hogback mountain has the maple soft surface

Tanner:

and listen perfection listen perfect. We're Vermonters

Corey:

maple in anything is good. Yes, absolutely. No,

Brooksie:

no. No. Wrong. Absolutely not. Maple syrup and chili. No bueno. Not not. Listen, it's

Corey:

in Chile is the best especially with maple syrup and makes it sweet. Wrong. Not spicy.

Tanner:

Sounds like Koreans love like sour cream

Corey:

and a little cheese. Wait. Nope. I wish I knew you're gonna say that before I said

Tanner:

totally off the cuff today guys, but we just went Oh, Cory. He's got something to say my quick

Corey:

question. Okay, so I've been listening to a lot of music lately. What's your favorite when you think of Star Wars music? What song instantly plays in your mind?

Tanner:

Imperial March.

Brooksie:

Right.

Tanner:

It's my it's my ringtone.

Corey:

I think battle of the Battle of the heroes the Obi Wan vs. Anakin fight music. Dun dun dun dun dun.

Brooksie:

Dun. Yeah, that one's a good one. I would definitely have to say like the opening theme that they have when they Yeah, the scroll. Yes, that's just me know.

Tanner:

That's where my mind goes to a lot. But more often than not I connect them with the Imperial March more I love it. The fact that it's in a minor key and just that those dark overtones that it has heard that in a major key. It's so off putting. I don't think so off putting to sit there and listen to the Imperial March in a major key because I'm just like, why does it sound happy when it's supposed to?

Corey:

Well, that's, that's the beauty of John Williams is that his music does strange stuff like how Ray's theme is basically the Emperor's theme. And how the Emperor's theme is the same song from episode one when they're doing the whole celebration at the end.

Tanner:

Yeah, and that's in a major key versus a minor key. That's how Okay, yeah, so I'm not the most skilled at my music theory. As someone who's played guitar, I was definitely a bedroom guitarist who forced himself had to learn so there's that no professional lessons there. But when you're listening to music, especially like the Star Wars stuff, it's easy to hear the difference. The minor key sounds more dark and more ominous than the major key does going to some of the music I listen to pop punk music bands like simple plan from back in the day, you know, newfound glory. A lot of that stuff's in a major key it sounds peppy or brighter and more upbeat minor key you'll find more in stuff that's like metal and things like that, that have the darker overtones. Now, that is the most basic way to explain it. I'm not like I said by any means good on my music theory. But to just the general public that doesn't know anything about it. That's the simplest way to explain it. And I'm probably still wrong, but I'll own that.

Corey:

I learned something here today.

Unknown:

The more you know.

Tanner:

Ah, so we went to Fan Expo Boston this past weekend Van Van

Corey:

aspects Bobo Boston, Boston 122 222.

Tanner:

Why was his so good? Practice that was not a voice effect. That was just Brooksie

Unknown:

Thank you.

Tanner:

That was that was really shocked by it. Thanks. hot in here.

Corey:

Now it's getting warm again. Yeah, FanExpo Boston, what have friggin experience that so I've been to a couple of Vermont cons before. And they're, you know, Vermont cons. They're tiny. They're in the hotel lobby. And it's fun. It's good time. There's a couple of vendors. This was,

Brooksie:

yeah, this is like a Mungus is the big leagues. I've been to enemy Boston for three years. And even that has that has some big lineups for voice actors, even that has nothing to how many people, vendors and celebrities that they had available this year. The Celebrity

Tanner:

lineup was stacked. It was honestly kind of gross. How stacked it was, it was like looking at someone who definitely decided to get the arm implants instead of working out stacked.

Brooksie:

Oh, yeah. Good old sinful the cheap way.

Tanner:

What's this? Not somebody sent me a link? Yes. Yes, I

Brooksie:

can. I can help. Yeah, well, you're in the right direction of when it comes to working out, dude. Don't do this. Don't do that.

Corey:

But I was hoping for a miracle chip that would help me just like muscle.

Tanner:

No, no, it looks

Corey:

bad, or if you use old fashioned effort,

Tanner:

but needless to say, Guys, the lineup was amazing. But it was also probably served as a detriment to the whole thing, in my opinion. Just because of the sheer number of people that were there in the chaos that it was to do the celebrity meet and greets.

Brooksie:

There was an astronomical amount of people me for one I had a fortunate. It's a fortunate and yet, sadly, quick experience meeting a specific celebrity, who I will talk about later. But I was in line meeting this, this one for two and a half hours just because of how many people were there. It was just absolutely pandemonium and

Tanner:

not even to mention, just like the like, I wanted to meet you and McGregor. It's like I really really did. Man. It was$300 I can't justify Yeah, that's more than my car payment.

Corey:

Experience. Yeah, like it's cool. Like, wow. But I mean, I'd rather spend you know, like a third of that and meet. You know, somebody somewhat lame, like Kevin Smith. Not that I'm saying Kevin Smith is lame. No, but

Tanner:

he says this after he got his photo taken with him and has to backtrack and he's like, Oh my God. I just said Kevin Smith is lame.

Brooksie:

Can't believe it. Can't believe it.

Corey:

I know. I know. Not that he's lame, but I mean, he's the guy who made Yoga Hosers like he's not like you and McGregor. Daddy Wan Kenobi is y'all say?

Tanner:

Philip Morris? Hmm.

Corey:

Oh, yes. The movie with him and Jim Carrey. I still have to finish that movie. It is.

Tanner:

I mean, it's a tough pill to swallow a movie. It's fucking good. But it's a tough pill to swallow because it's just so out of left field. You're just like, What am I watching?

Corey:

Yeah, it doesn't strike me as anything within those guys's wheelhouse and then they watch it and it's like, Oh my God. Yeah, no, this makes sense.

Tanner:

No. For those of you who don't know, Philip Morris is a character from the movie. I love you Philip Morris in which even McGregor plays the title character in Jim Carrey plays who was actually the main character. I can't remember his name in it, but the character is based off of a real life con man who is still alive and in the prison system here in the United States. Totally extreme movie about how Jim Carrey was in the closet, married with kids and then came out later in life and falls in love but becomes a con man and commits all these crimes ends up in jail and falls in love with you and McGregor's character Philip Morris the whole movie is just hilarious, but it is so extreme that I don't feel comfortable describing it on the air. It's not

Corey:

one of those movies that you hear like Jim Carrey and you go, Oh, yeah, everyone's heard of this one. It's not like the Grinch or the mask or

Tanner:

I don't know how I watched it. I think my cousin showed up with it. And he's like, I just picked this movie Up for dirt cheap. Let's watch it. I was like, Alright, why not? This is before Netflix was like, really streaming. It was like just dabbling into streaming. So

Corey:

it was back when you order and you get the DVDs? Oh, yeah. Like what? three at a time or you hit the red box? Red Box. Oh my god. So those are good for video games nowadays. I feel like that's the only thing you can get any movie anywhere at this

Tanner:

point? Yeah. And you guys remember Gamefly? Yeah,

Corey:

I never used it. But I remember their commercials. Yeah, I

Tanner:

used it when I lived in California. Because it was reliable then you'd actually knew when you get your mail. Relay live. It was a for me as a kid Gamefly was great because I got to play so many video games that my parents would otherwise not buy Yeah, there were times I wish I could have kept the games but you know, it is what it is. I liked it at the time. But now with everything being cloud based doesn't really matter too much.

Corey:

Unless you don't have internet like my ancient is.

Tanner:

It's not my fault.

Corey:

Hey, the rock I live under is very nice. Okay Patrick, sir.

Tanner:

Oh no but FanExpo least Jesus Christ every time I think I can transition us back to where we're supposed to be in eat somebody.

Corey:

No, I derail things. Yeah, that's fine. That's why I don't have a job as a train conductor. Oh,

Brooksie:

Lord, the trains off the rail. Care do we do we need to get who do we call for that? You're fired. Okay.

Corey:

Fan Expo Boston.

Tanner:

Yeah, no, it's just absolutely packed. In

Corey:

was seriously like,

Tanner:

I have been to many a concert. I've been to big shows where you have to fight to get to the front of the stage. You have to deal with the mosh pit and throngs of people touching you. I have never in my life dealt with what I before. I've never dealt with before what we dealt with this weekend.

Corey:

Yeah, yeah, it was packed. There were times where you were stuck in like, call a traffic pretty much because you literally you cannot stop moving in tight areas, but you also can't move. It's a weird combination of the two.

Tanner:

And you are literally genitals to but with the person in front of you.

Brooksie:

There's this thing of like penguins walking. That's literally how everybody was moving around through this convention. Oh my god.

Tanner:

The cosplays there were so many great cosplays. But I have to bring this up. There was one dude Cory and I pointed him out when we took our break breather outside and went back again. In the Godzilla. Dude had a like a 10 foot tail behind him. And I'm like, Oh, my God, I don't know if you if you don't know, or you're just a deck,

Corey:

I'm fairly certain he was expecting a way more open venue. That was just there was no way

Tanner:

in the Boston Convention Center is massive. It's absolutely massive. And it just was so tight. Now granted, they only used roughly I want to say probably three fifths of it. There was probably there was a section of the convention center that wasn't opened up to the show floor.

Brooksie:

Like they were doing some repairs. But it was very, very minor in one of the rooms.

Corey:

You could tell they definitely didn't expect as many people to turn out to this year. No, no, absolutely. No.

Tanner:

I mean, cuz when by the time we got there, there were still a throng of people going up to the get

Corey:

day passes. Oh, that line was? Well, we

Tanner:

are we're like, oh, we just got to pick up our thing and or lanyard. And it was it was wild. It was

Brooksie:

we got there earlier and I think probably like an hour before you guys and the lines were pretty backed up. They were pretty built. Fortunately, they were moving very quickly. So we only had to wait like maybe a minute until we got our passes got our lanyard in the ramp to get right in.

Tanner:

Also, by the way, I hate having to activate my own pass. That was kind of silly lying. That's That's annoying. Like if you're literally you should be able to be like, oh, yeah, that's your kit kit that you purchase there on your phone, or you just showed me here. Here's the past being they scan it themselves and instantly puts you into the system. Yeah, like for me to have to take. It's just a frustration. It's a first world problem. And I understand that. But for me too. Oh yeah. Here's your lanyard. Here's the steps on how to activate it. Now go over there and activate it before you can get in and like, there's like 50 other people here in this one like 10 foot by 10 foot square that I'm standing and you're making us all just activate these passes. Like

Corey:

imagine you didn't have a phone or you didn't have anything on you. You were just going to visit or whatever. Like what am I supposed to do just not activate my pass and yeah, am I screwed? Yeah,

Tanner:

that like that was one frustration that I had with it. I mean, obviously I'm frustrated with feeling that many people because my social anxiety battery was just like,

Corey:

you're not alone. I was extremely overwhelmed in that place.

Brooksie:

I I've been to a Breaking Benjamin concert earlier this year. And I was I was fine. I was expecting there gonna be a lot of people. It was great concert. This, I don't get social anxiety. I started to shoot at this convention. That's

Tanner:

just how crowded it was. That's we're talking a lot of smack right now guys, but that's just us venting about like getting there. It's just one

Brooksie:

of the con. The con things that these conventions have. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of people it sucks, but it is what it is. There's

Corey:

going to be some pros but definitely some cons the cons. There were a lot of

Tanner:

pros and cons dammit,

Brooksie:

I truly He was gonna do that. I had a feeling that's why I set it up.

Corey:

But no, like, as much as we're going to complain about some of the things that bummed us out like, overall, it was a fantastic experience. Yeah, I could go back

Brooksie:

some of the cosplays were incredible.

Tanner:

Oh my god, I you know, I've never been into cosplay, and I've always debated getting into it. Yeah. And I just saw all these cosplays obviously, I've seen them online and things like that, but seeing them in person and how an up close how much detail these people can put into it. Because yeah, you can with the camera quality that we have in this day and age. Yeah, sure, you can see a lot of those details, but it's not the same as being up close. And personally, you don't have a filter sitting there over the top as another layer of that picture that you have to fight through to figure out what's going on. Like that Captain Rex cosplay that was there. It was so cool. That was one of my favorites personally, because of the details in that setup.

Corey:

Oh, he was so nice. I was like, Can I get a picture with Rex and he's like, You want to hold one of the blasters? I was like, Yeah, of course. I

Brooksie:

do. Can't go wrong holding a DC five bra. I think that's what it is. I don't know why a question. Yeah, it sounds about right DC finds a pistol and then a DC 15 is the typical combat rifle. And then the heavy I think is the DC

Corey:

Wani and then the DC 17. Is the Republic Commando rifle. Yeah.

Tanner:

And then what is it the elevens empire? Yes.

Corey:

And the E five is the battle drunk. Yeah. Anyway, we digress. But but now the costumes were absolutely amazing. They're everywhere you look. There's something from something you love.

Brooksie:

There was one guy who had a really good put together. Which king of Angmar cosplay.

Tanner:

I you know, I saw photos of him. I didn't see him anywhere.

Brooksie:

I missed the racks. I thought I saw him briefly in one part of the floor but I I don't think it was him. But the Witch King of Angmar he he popped right out and I was like, amen. Can I get a photo with you? And he's like, Oh, absolutely. is like just he's like I'm actually going outside because I'm dying in this thing. You use layered up with different bits of his cosplay but it he did a really good job with it.

Corey:

There was like a Captain America's there was one. Netflix Daredevil the dude was spot on. It was perfect. And then, like within the first five minutes of walking onto the floor, Jesus, I saw Jesus yeah,

Brooksie:

there's always one or two dudes who are dressed as Jesus guy had aviators on.

Tanner:

Listen, I wish I saw Jesus. I saw instead of romance man walking around in a diaper because he thought it was funny. Yeah, I

Brooksie:

did see that while I was waiting for celebrity.

Corey:

Oh, I missed a diaper guy.

Tanner:

Yeah, you were you were about five minutes too late.

Brooksie:

I was too busy hanging out with Ahsoka. Not not impressed.

Tanner:

Not in the slightest. That being said, Oh, no.

Corey:

We are now experiencing technical difficulties.

Tanner:

No, ma'am. My inner child crush happened. Again. I saw Starfire I saw a few decent range. And yeah, they won't go. I'm sitting there like go. You she goes. I was like, Huh. I was like, no wonder I have no wonder the type of women I'm into is the type of women I'm into. There was.

Brooksie:

I see what you did. There was one guy who had a very, very, he looked very close to Tom Holland. He had the Tom Holland style, style Spider Man. And then he had a backpack, no mask, and it just zipped up to hear and I don't I didn't get a picture with him. And I was like, I wish my buddy Corey was with me because he would love your costume,

Corey:

too. There was a video game looking Miles Morales.

Brooksie:

It was perfect. Yep.

Corey:

I wish I got like the names of some of these cosplayers so that we could give them the credit that they deserve.

Brooksie:

If if any of you listen to us, you guys killed it with your costumes and cosplays

Corey:

there was a Batman, I think it was like Arkham game kind of Batman and Batgirl they were perfect. There was a

Brooksie:

couple that was dressed as, like a military, Lynn Barton and white Sue, Natasha. And I was like, Oh, you guys, you guys are killing it with the cost but he's just like he had it looks like a like a replica of style. The desert Digi camo, but he had like the shield velcro patch on one of his arms. And I was like, that's cool. That's really awesome. You're so creative.

Tanner:

One of my favorite cosplays I saw and it's funny how I ran into this one because I literally ran into this one I was turning and walking from one booth to the next and I tripped over a tail and I'm like, wait enough suck and I look over and like, oh Lord Beerus I'm so sorry. Please don't destroy my planet.

Brooksie:

He's there for the cuisine is there for the cuisine. Even though the cuisine was probably super expensive.

Tanner:

The cuisine was also garbage looking.

Brooksie:

I did not purchase it. When me and my girlfriend were in line. We looked at each other and we're like, No,

Tanner:

listen, I was so disappointed that there was not some ballsy ramen vendor there that's like fuck it. Let's make let's just make a vat of ROM and we'll serve one style of ROM and the entire time. We'll charge eight bucks for a small thing of it. I do. All of us would have been sitting there mowing down Young. Like it's an anime

Brooksie:

there's where nma Boston is held is at the Prudential mall and Sheraton Hotel. Yep. In the Prudential mall every year, enemy Boston happens. There's a restaurant called Wagga Mama's that place explodes with patrons and customers students were asked ramen place in Boston. Last Mama's

Tanner:

listen. I don't care if you're not into anime like myself. Or you are loving yourself. We all are down with the nudes.

Corey:

I see what you did there. I didn't watch

Brooksie:

the news. The news? The news? The news? He's got an Udaan for noodles, noodles.

Corey:

I was just like well, I think we might be watching different anime here. i What? Sir? Meliodas Okay, so my girl is like a huge like, huge weep. So I'm gonna have to get like even more and so

Tanner:

me now. So I was just introduced to demon slayer. demon slayer is a good one. I literally just started it. Like, only I got like through an episode and a half because I was at a friend's house and then him and I started to go do something else.

Brooksie:

Well, you guys guys are so cute and just started into anime is so adorable. It's in lira. I am reading berserk and I'm just like, so much pain. So much pain.

Tanner:

Listen, I only ever fucked with Dragon Ball. Like that way. I respect that a lot. That's really what it was. I had a hard time with Naruto. I thought I was gonna love Naruto when it came out. And I was like, I hate this. I like I really do. I don't find our toe interest and I have no interest in it. Yeah.

Brooksie:

That's okay. Everybody's gonna.

Tanner:

I mean, I was that the right age that that came out. And that was prevalent. Like, I remember when that started airing here in the United States. And I was like, this looks really cool. This looks awesome. And I'm just like,

Brooksie:

the, the the pre the Naruto original show it does kinda, it is a little slow. And then after a certain point, it does kind of drag

Tanner:

now Do you know what it is that I have a problem with with a lot of anime. And it's every one I've ever watched is the x position is almost too much how much emphasis they put on things like running up to somebody. I'm like, Oh my God, how many times we need to see the scene cut to him running up to this guy. Literally it goes like seven times. He's like talking and then cuts the guy running talking cuts the the guy running. I'm like, there's just so much extra I feel like and that's probably because I don't have the attention span to deal with it. But you know, the amount of I get the scene from seeing the flashes once or twice. I don't need to see them a million more times in order for me to understand that what the scene is. That's honestly part of what my problem with it is. And even though we're starting to dabble in demon slayer, in the first episode, it happens like just that. Like, oh, he's holding his sister and then the dudes running up to him and still holding sister dudes running up to him. Like, I get it. I get it. That's really what my problem is, is all that extra and Dragonball Z, as we all fucking know, is the biggest culprit of that. Thank you. Freeza

Brooksie:

Yeah, no, that's probably that still holds the title of the longest MMA fight to this day.

Tanner:

Well, you know why it's that long. It's the longest. There's a legitimate reason behind it. Because as I'm moving

Brooksie:

so fast, because five minutes really else five.

Tanner:

There's a legitimate reason in real world explanation for it. He was still working on the manga as that was airing. Yeah, that's the legitimate reason for it. So they had to basically put all this filler in because the Frieza saga didn't wrap yet. Yeah,

Corey:

they didn't finish this show without this story being

Brooksie:

no what was the Martin?

Tanner:

Yes, exactly. Exactly what was happening

Brooksie:

was yes, accusatory I'm a while doing the story for the fight between Goku and Frieza key was writing it so totally animation, um, essentially had to like stretch out via the show so that way the manga could kind of like catch up a little bit. Yeah, so which that does happen in anime I've wondered about it but what happens is is that the a lot of shows what they do is manga comes out and then they do a show and then the show does really good and then the manga it just takes a while for the manga and then the show goes really good. And then what happens is they have to add in all this filler and then either a the filler goes back to right where the manga is, or the anime tanks. And usually that's not a good sign.

Tanner:

No, I mean, I loved Dragonball Z growing up. I did I fucking hated GT. I was like, this is

Brooksie:

GT is um, yeah,

Tanner:

and then what's it? I'm not even gonna break down the time we'll talk about it after Yeah. Dragonball Z dragon the whole Dragon Ball Universe from Dragon Ball to Z to GT and then back to Super fuck, dude. It's

Corey:

like 900 episodes of that show. And I just can't it's just Dragon Balls, man. Just take just get there.

Brooksie:

What's what's needed to get there as them powering? Yeah, that's the thing.

Tanner:

Yeah, it's it's a lot. I couldn't even stomach GT. I've just recently started watching Super because it there's so much of it available now. Supers good. And I super and I'm really enjoying it. Like not too too far into it. But I'm absolutely enjoying it because it feels like Dragonball Z did.

Brooksie:

You will notice that there was a lot of animation errors, but they do fix that later on just as a heads up. Yep. Because a lot of people nitpicked about it and but eventually, later on, they do fix it. But yeah, I could see that you just started to pick up a Super Saiyan Blue Vegito over there.

Tanner:

Thank you. Somebody called that go Gita and I got really offended.

Brooksie:

Go Gita is the memories that has the vest and

Tanner:

I think he's dumb looking. The vest is dumb.

Brooksie:

I like go Gita. But Vegito is

Tanner:

way cleaner way cleaner looking. Yeah. I've always loved the because I knew about the Super Saiyan Blue. Yeah, for since before I started watching the show. I love Super Saiyan Blue, just the color blue they picked for the hair.

Brooksie:

Yeah, the divine the divine key that they that they have access.

Tanner:

Oh god. It's so cool. Other things

Brooksie:

that we are able to notice FanExpo was I was able to acquire Tanner with his favorite poster, which I'm still shocked that they sold it for $5.

Tanner:

Now ladies and gentlemen, it is a reprint of the poster and it is a miniature. So before we dive into what it is, I will preface it with that because if it was the real thing, it would not have been $5 zolina. None of us would own it right now

Corey:

and a bit too expensive.

Tanner:

It is a reprint of the original Revenge Of The Jedi poster.

Brooksie:

I found it at one vendor hidden way in the back of a box that he had. And fortunately he I bought to one of which was a Clone Wars poster a miniature of the same size. And this one was right behind it. And he had to laminate sleeves left.

Tanner:

Yeah, he so it is currently up in the studio directly across from my Return of the Jedi full size poster.

Corey:

Now if you're confused about revenge of the Jedi, what does that mean? When George was originally releasing the film's 1983? They were just about to come out to theaters. I mean, we're talking about ancient Monroe fans. Yeah. It was originally titled Revenge Of The Jedi. And then George made this like keel turn of like, well, you know, a Jedi doesn't want revenge. You know, maybe maybe if he returns. And so that's where the title got rid of it. And he'd been sitting on it for years because then we see Revenge of the Sith 2005 What almost 2022 years later. Yeah, two years later, yeah, we get Revenge of the Sith so he gets his little satisfying moment. But yeah, I would definitely post an Insta because I love that image.

Tanner:

That will be up for sure. We I have some photos from everyone's hauls from Colin that I haven't posted yet. So those were those will be up on the Instagram here shortly. Um, no, I mean, just the sheer amount of stuff though like that's another side of it that was overwhelming is I didn't know where to look to find something to buy because I wanted to buy so much stuff that I became numb and it had to really, really stand out for me to want to go home with it.

Brooksie:

Yep, yeah, there was there was one vendor that had like different types of swords. He even had like a foam Leviathan axe from God of War for and he even had a metal I can't I don't know I can't remember what style of metal metal it is or if it's painted. It's got that almost like rainbow like sheen on it. He had an energy sword like adult but metal and have the sword and I was like oh, and I really want that there was

Tanner:

a master sword from there were a few of those and like I'm talking like a full size metal one with the sheath and every

Brooksie:

he has one guy who had to one the same guy had a metal cost leather strap. Custom made Captain America shield rice not worth it. He had he had Excuse me. He had some magnums from Halo.

Tanner:

I thought it's not what I thought you were gonna say but okay.

Brooksie:

No, not those magnums. Um, he had some

Tanner:

holy shit because of my elbow.

Brooksie:

Stay safe practice same sex. He had some hand cannons from Destiny. He had some other swords from Breath of the Wild. He had two sets of Kratos is chaos blades that had the chain. I saw those I was like um, and then he had just I think he had a few other like random katanas I think he had the red one that Wolverine has I don't know what what that sword is called.

Corey:

Are you talking about the guy that the huge wall of different props and stuff? Yeah, meal near they had a bunch of different like the handles and stuff.

Tanner:

They had a sword a silver sword from The Witcher video games, the eye of Agha Moto and then somebody else had it the actual like, sword from The Witcher series that Geralt puts the brush on in the first episode. There was

Corey:

another vendor who had Aragorn sword. Yep, like the what? Yeah, it was full metal too.

Brooksie:

Did it have the I think it has an insignia on it. I'm pretty sure it had some like Elvis or something on it. Miss that one was so cool. Oh, another vendor had staying two versions of staying. They right next to it. They had Legolas his twin swords.

Corey:

Those are my favorite. I wish I saw those. Yeah,

Brooksie:

I'm just they had a lot of stuff.

Tanner:

They had a lot of stuff. And to be honest, overall, I'm not upset with some of the pricing. Like obviously, there's certain vendors who were who were charging an exorbitant amount, right. But

Corey:

was the ease of finding this stuff.

Brooksie:

Yeah, that's that's the thing, you'd have to scour the internet

Tanner:

the only thing I was disappointed with, and it goes to my comment about the Super Saiyan Blue is I've been dying to get my hands on the Super Saiyan Blue Funko pops like dying. I passed on them over at our local bull moose because they were like 70 bucks. And I'm like, This is gonna be the place that I find. Ya know, I need to buy a metal mousse because they were like $150 on everywhere. I looked 120 to 150 on the convention.

Brooksie:

I didn't know you were looking for one because I found one for you find me the Vegito

Tanner:

one specifically, I'll be thrilled.

Brooksie:

Well, they had one whereas I'm not gonna say anything because that's going to be a spoiler alert. Nevermind. Yep.

Tanner:

I'm done. Well, done. Good man.

Brooksie:

Anyway, um, I had a lucky opportunity to meet two great celebrities. One of which was our very own Master Chief, Stephen Downes. And I'm going to tell you right now, that is probably the nicest dude you could ever meet. So walk right up to him, shook his hand, put his hand on my back. I was like, You are literally embracing how masterchief is with people. It was an honor and a privilege to meet Steve.

Corey:

I love that. I'm so jealous.

Brooksie:

Yeah, I don't mean to make you jealous about who the other the other celebrity I met. I already know. I was able to meet Miss Ashley Eckstein and she signed the other poster that I bought And she is a sweetheart.

Corey:

Ahsoka Tano herself. I don't Ahsoka action figure, but it was from the mando. So it was

Tanner:

sorry. Do you imagine that if they were really good they would have scheduled Rosario and Ashley together like next to each other? Yeah,

Corey:

they had both Ahsoka is there. I'd have no money left because I would have been trying to meet them the entire

Brooksie:

time. The the one thing that I was really upset with about meeting here, other than the wait time, there was a guy who is in the tip line that has one of those. They're not a shopping cart, but it's like one of those cubicle type size carts. He had that thing full. And all of it was pa figures, action figures, posters, he had like the posters rolled in like the tube. And every single thing he signed, he was probably up there for a good 30 minutes. He's

Corey:

that's rude is that the VIP, they get to one thing? Well,

Brooksie:

here's the thing. There's no limit to how much you can sign because each celebrity that's basically cash roll. Yeah. So there's the you can just bring up a whole shopping cart. And as long as you're paying them, they can sign but

Tanner:

that is so rude. And you know, that motherfucker is right now posting that shit on eBay?

Brooksie:

Oh, without a doubt, without a doubt. Like he.

Tanner:

I mean, it's an inner God, I'm giving him props for business, though, because that is genius. I mean, like, depending on the celebrity and how niche they are, and how diehard the fans are in that niche. You could pay for that VIP experience, have them sign all that shit and make so much money over time? Probably. Yeah, definitely. That's I mean, whoever you are, fuck you, but good on you at the same time because I just hit me how genius that is

Brooksie:

a business standpoint, it's smart. But from a social standpoint, you can piss right off I agree with you.

Corey:

And as a fan, if you're gonna get somebody's autograph, you also want like the experience just to have somebody scribbled on your on your toy, your your thing like, you have an experience now that Ashley masterchief,

Brooksie:

I was able to chat with both of them. She asked me she's like, Oh, where are you from? I said, I'm originally from Vermont. And we were talking about our show. I've never been up there. I said, well, with fall coming around the corner. You have to drive up there because that's when the fall colors change. And she's like, that sounds so beautiful. I said, if you're ever in the south, eastern part of the state, look up Hogback mountain. And there's a nice 100 mile view and like this really beautiful view from

Corey:

Flexi represent Nice.

Brooksie:

Represent salutely Absolutely. So it's able to talk with these people. Yeah, it's great that it was a really a signature, but they're people too. Yeah, I that's what I wanted. I wanted to meet her in Steve, just to talk with them. And although Steve was shorter than her, it was still great to meet them.

Tanner:

Well, then, no, but honestly, that's why I'm glad that I didn't meet you and McGregor and didn't go through all of that because I just want to sit to have a quick conversation and just say thank you. I don't want like yeah, I probably fanboy slash fan girl slash fan day a lot, for sure. But I just want to have a conversation with him and just thank you for making my childhood what it was. Yeah, because if it wasn't for his portrayal of Obi Wan Kenobi, I don't think I'd be as into Star Wars as I am. Say what you will that Oh, Alec Guinness. Yeah, Alec Guinness is a great actor. And he betrayed the role that he was given very well, but I'm sorry. When I think about Obi Wan Kenobi, I think even McGregor. And his mannerisms and how he portrayed that character forever will be ingrained in my psyche.

Brooksie:

You're right about one thing most negotiations will show.

Tanner:

Yeah. And it's not even that one. It's when I find when I saw Revenge of the Sith and the culmination of what that three part arc was for him. That's what did it and did it for me watching him go from the bright eyed bushy tailed Padawan to the Jedi Master that ended up losing it all. Yeah. And then

Corey:

more recently, you know, years later, he comes back to it and you get to see again, that kind of the emotion how that affected him and his acting in that series. That's so good

Tanner:

that Yeah, I mean, I can't sing praises enough on Ian McGregor. And his portrayal of that character. I mean, he's a fantastic guy. To begin with,

Corey:

not worth $300, just to meet for 30 seconds,

Tanner:

no and just snap a photo with that's not what I want. If my dream, it will never happen in my lifetime. But my dream would be just to run into him at a restaurant or sitting at the pub somewhere, and just have a conversation. I don't think I'd start the conversation with oh my god, you're my hero, I think I'd start the conversation with Can I buy you a drink? Yeah. And I probably wouldn't utter a single word about being a Star Wars fan until the end. And I would just say thank you. Thank you for being that on a piece of my childhood.

Corey:

I feel like they appreciate that more like, oh, the person treating me like a person,

Brooksie:

human to human contact. Like that type of respect. I respect that. That's an honorable way to go about it. It's

Tanner:

just, that's why could I have done it? Could I have afforded to meet him? Yeah, I could have afforded it. Could I have afforded to meet other people? Yeah, but I don't want to do it in that setting. Yeah, I really don't. It's,

Brooksie:

it's, it's one of those things where you get a quick bit of satisfaction, but eventually, you're just gonna be like, I just have this photo, and I only met you in for like, 20 seconds. We didn't even talk about anything. It was just a photo sign. That's it. Whereas what you're referring to is a much more human on human contact, which I was able to experience with Steve and Ashley.

Tanner:

Yeah. And that's, that's just it like, to me, it's not worth it to sit there. Because for them, that's work. Yeah, that's work. Exactly. And I don't want to meet my idol at work.

Corey:

They're just another face. I feel very similarly. And also, like, slightly different because I went and I did. I met Kevin Smith. Yeah. And I did the photo op instead of doing any of the autographs or anything, because I had done some research online. And they're like, do the photo because it's a, it's a memory, it's something you can look at and go, Holy shit that happened. But also, yeah, it's you're literally paying I think it was $80. And I had maybe, like, 40 seconds with the guy. But it was still one of the nicest things in the world to be like, this is a person that I've watched that I've listened to that I have, you know, I've listened to his podcast so many times, I feel like I'm in the room when he's talking. Yeah. And then just to see him like, before I got, like, up to the line, he like, opens up the curtain, and he's just kind of like looking out at everybody who's like in line, and he starts chatting up the person in front and I'm like, fucking a, that's a person that I've known that lives on the other side of the country, in front of me right now. And, you know, I went up and did the picture, and I walked up, I was wearing a Captain America shirt. So when I walked up, he gives me a hug. He's like, Hey, captain.

Tanner:

Maybe I also have a different take on it. And that might be some of my life experiences and personal life. Some people know. Do you guys remember the 90s? Band Stone Temple Pilots? Yeah. So yeah, and you wouldn't. So through marriage, I'm related to Dean and Robert, the bass player and guitar player and they grew up, they're the same age as my dad. My great uncle married their sister. And so my dad grew up with them down in New Jersey, and they had come up here to Vermont to my grandfather's house, in fact, at Dean's house is a photo of him as a kid jumping my dad's dirt bike on my grandfather's property. So maybe I have a different take on it because like, I've been to those kinds of events where I would get that preferential treatment and get to hang out with them as people versus as the celebrities. I remember when I lived in California, for we would go to my great uncle Jack's house where we for Thanksgiving and Dean Robert would come over one year Chester Bennington from Lincoln Park was there I met Chester Bennington. So and again, we want to talk about nice dudes that in Chester Bennington is one of the nicest people I was like seven years old, like I had no idea who the hell I was talking to. But he would he went out of his way to have a conversation with a seven year old kid at his friend's Thanksgiving party.

Corey:

And I love that for you. So like as this like Vermonter guy who's not really going to go out and across the world like just to be able to meet like, even for 30 seconds like, I'm not going to have a random experience like at the grocery store the gas station. Well, like this guy that I admire and look up to now it's

Tanner:

true, but to tell you how nice Chester Bennington is and how cool of a person he is. So it was after Scott Whelan, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots. He passed away from him finally lost his battle with addiction. But there was a while there were Chester Bennington was fronting Stone Temple Pilots, and this is how cool of a do Dude, he was we were backstage talking with Dean, my dad and myself. And Chester comes up and says, Hello in little ways through the conversation that we're having with him because he recognized my dad, he looks over and recognizes me and like starts talking to me again. And I was 20 at this time. So like, it was just, it's surreal to get to know them on a different level. And at that stage, I was a little bit more shock and awe because I realized who he was, and all of this stuff, I still remember him coming up with his pink hair that he had when when he was fronting Stone Temple Pilots. And I remember him way back in 2001 was three 2002. When I met him the first time, it was just such a cool experience. So that's why for me, I think next, going to a con will probably never be about meeting celebs moving forward. Like as much as I want it to meet even never going to be the thing for me.

Corey:

Yeah. Because it was just a clusterfuck. Like they didn't expect as many goalline to just

Brooksie:

do wait for him.

Tanner:

That was honestly what I think caused 90% of the traffic jam, because if that main aisle that we talked about that was just a madhouse was the direct access to get back to where all the meet and greets were. Yeah. So like, why would I want to be part of that?

Brooksie:

Don't get me started on the tattoo line.

Tanner:

That's exactly where it was. It was that whole aisle at the at the con was right down Broadway, basically. Yeah.

Brooksie:

Yeah. Going to Times Square.

Tanner:

It was horrible. It was Time Square on New Year's Eve status. Yeah. Also, one other vendor that was there. That's a company I followed for a long time, and I was finally able to buy something for them. And in so happy to see was misty mountain gaming. I know, they go to all the cons all over the place. But I've never bought a product from them. Because I've just like I'm not spending $40 for a set of metal dice to then have to pay for shipping. No, not doing it. But I finally bought a dice from Misty mountain gaming. And it was just the coolest setup they had there with all the leather bound books and journals and all the dice and bags. Like this is awesome.

Brooksie:

You can't go wrong with those type of metal dice either. The dice that you got that were they look sharp. They look awesome. Yeah.

Tanner:

And what I like about them is they are let rom sharp cut metal dice. Yeah, you get so many dice, whether they're acrylic or not, where they don't have that kind of sharp cut to them. They're very, they're a little bit more rounded and muted. These had that nice sharp angles on them. And I'm like, I love it. I have a set of dice. That's my set. Now my second favorite was my favorite before I bought these. That is our acrylic dice that I ordered off of Etsy that I had kind of custom made. So that's part of the reason why they liked them. But they have that nice sharp cut. They're green and then the criticals are purple and I love it.

Brooksie:

Yeah, just I love my Lovecraftian set where they're they're a mixture of color, their acrylic, and then the D 20s. Have the symbol of each perspective. Lovecraftian deity on it. Ice. And you can't go wrong with some new miracle polygons.

Tanner:

Hey, Brooksie Yeah, I think we lost Cory.

Brooksie:

Yeah, I think we're talking about Dungeons and Dragons. No, I know. Here, that's just me.

Tanner:

Yeah, so. But overall, guys, how did you feel about your FanExpo experience? Me. Cory stopped enter. Answering text messages from the girl and just pay attention to the podcast for five minutes.

Corey:

I haven't. I haven't. But uh, yeah, it was okay. I was a little bummed because I took on a mission for somebody else. I was supposed to meet a whole celebrity and get an autograph for another person. Which kind of like tainted the experience because I'm like, as much fun as I'm having a half to make sure to do this, I suppose to be Ming Na for a friend and get something signed. Ming Na Wen obviously FANTIC Mulan. Everybody knows they're the cavalry from Agents of SHIELD. And the line was massive. Her photo op went longer than it was supposed to. By the time she got to the signing booth. There was a I was in the queue number like 250 something 280 Or whatever. By the time we left probably like three hours after I joined the queue. They were at like 90 and below get to go meet her so I was a little bit bummed that I didn't get to do that. But overall, the whole Expo meeting all these like, all the cosplayers been able to like tap them on the shoulder and be like, Hey, I love your costume was awesome and seeing them light up. I'm definitely going to be going back and definitely going to be in costume. When I do

Tanner:

that. Let me get Brooks's thoughts and I want to touch on that subject real quick.

Brooksie:

I would say being able to be there. See all the costumes was incredible all the hard work. And like Corey said, being able to a Could I get a photo be like, oh, yeah, absolutely. Just hearing that on a cosplayers. Or at least their look if you can, if you can see their face, but hearing their tone when you ask them that was just the light right up. And yeah, absolutely get a photo meeting Ashley and Steve was awesome. Awesome. The way to me, Ashley was one of the cons for me. Just that one of the cons at the con, one of the cons of the con. Just absolutely. Not good. No, thanks. That way. It was way too long.

Tanner:

Cory, will you be back?

Corey:

at Fan Expo? Yeah, wherever the nearest one is next time? Yeah.

Tanner:

Brooksie. Will you be back?

Brooksie:

Good chances. Yeah, wherever it is.

Tanner:

I will I'm also a hard Yes.

Corey:

Maybe on a less busy day, I would say yeah, I agree. Saturday would be the one to avoid

Tanner:

which we've talked about it, we will be going again next year, and we are going to be cosplaying next year. So we'll do updates as we work on our costumes throughout the year, I'm sure I mean, we're gonna 3d print some parts, some of our costumes, I know that much.

Corey:

Going to be legit. We got a year to build, guys,

Tanner:

you got a year to build. Yeah,

Corey:

here to build or buy. As I was building it apparently is like, sometimes more costly than just buying this stuff. So

Tanner:

I've seen that for the one that I'm doing. I'd want to just build the helmet, I could build the rest of the stuff that goes in that costume pretty inexpensively. I will really want to build that helmet though. Because I want it to be custom fit to my head. And I don't want to have to, like be upset that with the product that I got that I bought. Yeah, I think that's the biggest piece for me. With the one that you have planned, I think you will have a slightly easier time with adjustments than I will.

Corey:

That was kind of the hope and plus, you know, it's it's kind of general enough that I can do like two or three different versions. Yes. But it's nice enough where you could print like two or three different versions and do okay, here's you know, the the actual version, and then do a different paint job had tried a little bit smaller, tried a little bit bigger. Yeah, it's not too much. I have

Tanner:

to go in and like really measure my head and make sure that I don't have to scale the print model too much. Because I plan to go all out with it. You guys know what I plan to do? And it's gonna be all out and it's going to be legit.

Corey:

And those that know it will instantly be like yeah, oh,

Tanner:

nice. Yeah.

Brooksie:

Yeah, you can't you can't have

Tanner:

us. Now, I mean, you in the one you're doing if you're going to do that specific version of the character, you can't have acid as well. You know what I mean? Cory It's got to be clean,

Corey:

and it's as much the costume and we got to be able to get into character. That's the thing. That's what the people love, you know?

Tanner:

Well, that's the nice thing about mine. No speaking minds.

Corey:

Oh, I'm already practicing my accent.

Brooksie:

Yeah, mines mines relatively easy. It's just requires just a lot. A lot of cloth. A lot of cloth breathable. Yeah. Breathable like Egyptian cotton.

Tanner:

Make sure you so pockets onto that. I'm

Brooksie:

going to Yes, I'm going to backpack

Corey:

I'm so glad. And also kind of bummed because my back was like, wet by the time we left.

Tanner:

I think we've learned some lessons from this first time actually going to Fan Expo. We've learned some lessons. Also, by the way, if you're ever in Boston, and you're coming from, let's just say you're going to Boston just for a day trip, take her to park at La station, take the tea and I driven in Boston enough in my life to know that when I that when you take the tea, it is so much less stressful.

Brooksie:

As long as you have a buddy it's $10 for the tee and the bus $10.

Tanner:

From from on the outskirts of Boston to the right through the heart of

Brooksie:

it. It's probably granted it can get a little crowded down there because obviously it's it's public transportation, but it beats waiting in traffic.

Tanner:

I'd spent quite a few quite a bit of time in Boston when I several years ago, on weekends. I can tell you it's just Not worth driving New York driving sucks because of how many people and how everyone's just so angry yeah but at least it's a fucking grid and you can get from point A I need to go there I can see my destination up there there's just traffic in front of Boston that fucking city oh my god yeah it's like oh the street right next to me is where I have to go but oh that's a Do Not Enter street and you have to take six other streets just to end up on the street that you need to be at like

Brooksie:

Jesus Christ Yeah, you might as well just become Superman and Metropolis and just fly if you want to get around a Boston versus whoever in came up with the grid system in New York. Well done. You are smart. The one who can made up Boston No.

Tanner:

Oh Boston grown together and yeah that the history of

Brooksie:

our five year old be like I did in this city.

Tanner:

They really went Boston was founded they're like, I will trade you this stone for this bushel of tea that you yourself do not drink because it is a drink from Britain. But you natives won't drink it. And this land here is mine. And wherever I want to mark it off

Brooksie:

flip a coin well the color of Rhode Island or wheat directly that's pretty much how they were like alright, well why did on tails so we got to make it all twisty Derby and timing why me?

Corey:

New York is way more I mean, I wouldn't want to drive in either of them to be honest to be good. I will tell you that concrete jungle,

Tanner:

I will tell you the best way to go to New York from where we live. It's four hours. So it's really not like a terrible drive. But best way to go is take the train adds two hours to the journey. But if you take the train and now you don't have to deal with issues of driving in New York,

Corey:

and you go right into Grand Central Station.

Brooksie:

Yeah, that's that's

Tanner:

Penn Station. But Penn Station.

Corey:

They change it.

Tanner:

Well, there's been other stations not Grand Central. The Amtrak comes in to Penn Station in Boston. I mean, New York, but it's still cool because it drops you right on time

Brooksie:

square. Okay, you can't beat that. Yeah.

Tanner:

If I remember correctly, but if it wasn't right on time square, it was pretty damn close to Time Square that I like turned down a block and was there if I remember correctly, but take the take the train into the New York every time because yeah, it's like, oh, it cost me X amount of dollars for the train ticket. It would have cost you an arm and a leg and parking. Just take a fucking taxi everywhere. True, you end up basically breaking even in the end. But you don't have the mental frustration. So you're obviously ahead. True.

Corey:

Yeah, that definitely makes sense. Good to know when we Sunday go to New York. Comicon.

Tanner:

Yeah, absolutely. What?

Corey:

New York ComiCon that when you gotta get your tickets pretty early. That sounds like hell.

Brooksie:

I don't know about that one. Yeah, I have to like

Tanner:

that's that's a one where you that's legitimately all of us sweaty nerds who just have to take our broke assets and share a hotel room and might have to share a bed and then get up and go to the con.

Brooksie:

Because get comfy. Get comfortable.

Corey:

Will you be wearing Jordans?

Brooksie:

Yes, he

Tanner:

you're wearing something I wouldn't be wearing anything. Okay.

Brooksie:

Dana was going commando and

Corey:

going for Thor love and thunder. You flick too hard. I left it.

Tanner:

I fell on expect you to say I love it.

Corey:

Not what

Tanner:

you are. Oh, I didn't work. I didn't

Brooksie:

work. My best favorite would have to be 10 or what you got there? Oh, smoothly. I think I think Brooks is referring to human being without clothes on.

Tanner:

Listen, nobody wants to see that. Like I'm sorry for putting that image in your head. It's too

Brooksie:

late. Yeah, sorry. It's it's already there. Yeah. My

Tanner:

own girlfriend doesn't even want to see it half the time. Yeah. Listen, after a few years the magic's gone. So what he's dark, all those tic TOCs where it's like three months into dating. Do you really have to go to work? Why can't you just stay in bed and we can do that thing again. Three years later, you have to work? Yeah. All right. See you later. Love you. Oh, by the way, I have our Tuesday appointment where we do that? Yeah, I gotta cancel that because I'm meeting somebody that's legitimately about what happens.

Corey:

Unless you're Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and then it's Hey, I'll see you later. I left a turd in the bed.

Brooksie:

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I forgot that. She did that.

Corey:

I didn't the court, the court,

Brooksie:

the court in the US court system now. She pooped on my bed.

Corey:

I guess she's trying to like countersue or

Tanner:

get the case retried. So what happened as far as I can tell, is a juror have a similar if not same name showed up. But that was so basically it, let's just say it was addressed. The jury summons was addressed to Johnny Smith Jr. or Johnny Smith senior and the junior showed up in that case, who lived at the same address. And that's what some of her appeal is saying, Well, this is a this changes the whole jury pool and makes it so that this trial is null and void essentially, yeah,

Brooksie:

your face is literally my react. What Yeah,

Corey:

well isn't no longer appear. So

Tanner:

that's just it is I was reading about it from some I won't call them legal experts, but from attorneys that this has happened before and trials and most times, it doesn't get thrown out.

Brooksie:

Oh, I thought this law, the higher price. I'm sorry. I thought was said 1670 per month. I'm like why? You gotta pay for like Pentagon security. Oh, holy moly.

Tanner:

So on my computer screen, my use Bitdefender as my antivirus and ad popped up for it. And it's for only $1.67 a month. And Brooksie thought it was 1600

Brooksie:

You got that Pentagon defense. Holy moly. It was

Tanner:

honestly like 80 bucks. It's like 80 bucks a year. And I can see here five devices. Impressive. That's actually a really good deal. MIT defender do would you like to do an ad on our show? I use your product on everything.

Corey:

Avatar Studios has announced that their first product out the gate is going to be a feature length film about the gang with two A's as adults Aang and Sokka Katara send

Tanner:

inquiries only bring this up because we got mad at him last week. Laughter last recording, because he left and I'm scrolling through my on my phone and it's like, and I saw the announcement and I sent it to the to the group chat that we have like guys, they're doing this and he's like, oh, yeah, I meant to say that. I'm like, Are you fucking kidding me? Do so you already knew?

Brooksie:

Well, then he got don't forget he also got mad because you and I were going through our Mass Effect. fanboy moment. Oh, yeah. All

Corey:

Mass Effect. Yay.

Tanner:

Okay, you know what?

Corey:

I'll try it. I'll try it. But until I do, like, don't give a

Brooksie:

fuck. I particularly look forward to this film. I am. Um, do you know if it's gonna? I assume it'll be like the same? animation style.

Corey:

I'm fairly certain it's gonna be Oh,

Tanner:

that'll be good. Yeah. Do they do a theatrical release? Do you think? If they're

Corey:

smart? Yeah, cuz there's a lot that you'd cover in that movie?

Tanner:

Yeah, there's a lot I would do with theatrical release. Because as we become adults, we would definitely go see that our parents wouldn't have brought us to see that. But we will go see that.

Corey:

Plus, we deserve an avatar movie that is not yet. I don't care if it's animated. We deserve

Tanner:

I mean, I mean, I mean, the whole final four chapters basically was a movie though.

Brooksie:

Yeah, you got a good point on that. But it was still good. nonetheless. The

Tanner:

final two chapters. I don't think too, too, but they did an hour and a half each. Yes, that's what it was. It was

Brooksie:

pretty sure the first one was Phoenix king. Oh, I was ISIS. And then it was avatar Aang as the last one.

Tanner:

I have a point. And this is kind of controversial.

Brooksie:

I don't know why you raise your hands. As well, I was getting

Corey:

pick me I got my hair very

Tanner:

controversial and this is something that has been brought to my attention. butter toast. That do you put butter butter side up or down?

Brooksie:

In my mouth?

Corey:

What do you mean what?

Tanner:

So apparently, there's this thing going around the internet now that if you think that Aang is a more powerful avatar than Cora, you're a sexist. Now, I have to bring this up, because I'm sorry. It's not that I hate Cora. But she is nowhere near to the level that ng was. ng mastered the four elements by the age of 12. Yeah, granted, she had control of three by the time she was 16 But she didn't master all four until she was 717. Almost 18 I think 16 to 18 Somewhere in that range. And then she gets absolutely bodied by everyone that she goes up again.

Brooksie:

Yeah, see, that's why I watched the Legend of Korra one time all the way through and I was like, I think I'm just gonna stick with logic of Avatar.

Tanner:

Well, the thing is, is you have to be like, oh, yeah, the vendors are better. Well, yeah, the vendors are better because now we have technology as well. So things change a little bit and now you have metal bending kind of all over the place. Yeah, sure. I'll give it that. But that being said, a 12 year old took down Fire Lord Ozai at the peak level that a firebender can be at.

Corey:

It's just a firebender though. Like you had all four elements. Okay,

Tanner:

and Aman was just an airbender not mine. I'm here.

Brooksie:

I'm with the Yeah, but this is this is so isn't as common. This is like a once in 100 year event that basically beefs up every firebender

Tanner:

you go from like a lighter to fucking flame thrower status.

Corey:

I think the whole point with Cora's that maybe she's not as physically strong as Aang but in terms of what she had to deal with,

Tanner:

okay, okay. Mentally, she's probably stronger than Anke I'll give it that spiritually. She failed again, because Aang was much more spiritual than her,

Corey:

I would imagine. And at the same age that Cora is at the end of Legend of Korra probably whips her butt every time sorry, nine times out of 10 sexist because Kiyoshi would kick both of their fucking ass

Tanner:

Oh, Kiyoshi young Yeah.

Corey:

Oh, nine. What was it? What do Roco socked by

Tanner:

comparison like do you imagine having to be Kiyoshi and be ro coos avatar guide like Are you fucking kidding me bro?

Brooksie:

He didn't kill them. What kill them? Why just kill them? But that's not the what I said. Kill them.

Tanner:

But he's my friend. Kill them. Ya know if Kiyoshi was the avatar in that position. There would be no Susan. There would be no war. She would have just fucking ended it.

Brooksie:

Hey, do you ever hear about the fire nation? The what nation? Can we just Earth bend it right back and then down into the ocean? Was she the one raising the sea?

Tanner:

She was the one that in the novel? Didn't she turn like the blood of somebody into glass? Yeah.

Corey:

freezes the guy's blood. Yeah, like instantly. Those novels The to rise of Kyoshi shot here forever. They're fucking amazing. I recommend the audiobooks because audiobooks are fantastic and sound design and everything. But they're really really good books. And there's another one about who's the Arabic Ying Chen. There's another one. She just announced. dogshit

Tanner:

too. If you look at the lore,

Corey:

II Yes, because she left her no. Yeah, correct. left her screwed, like screwed,

Tanner:

but correct. Also, like everyone gave him shit because he died so young and all that but current also was doing a lot more in the spirit world.

Corey:

He was fighting spirits and he was dying from something and he just like,

Tanner:

yeah, Couric was more of a thug than he gets credit for. Yang Chen. She gets credit for being a great avatar According to lore, but that's also because she was kind of just like a paper paper pusher. She just really kept the peace on a diplomatic level.

Brooksie:

What was it was a quick glimpse, but there was a there was a fire nation. original avatar

Corey:

like before Oh, like it's kind of like the Jafar he

Brooksie:

has the Jafar have who he did something but

Tanner:

we don't know I think they've only really gone as far back as correct.

Corey:

Reference him in the second Kiyoshi book, I'm pretty sure they like say his name, but I'm not sure what

Brooksie:

he died. All I know is from what I've read online is he developed a very unique type of bending which was able to control volcanic eruptions, which was actually what Sosin used a little bit, but he was able to like if a full blown volcano was about to erupt, he was able to control about using fire and earthbending

Tanner:

Okay, so the episode when Aang gets his the flashback to wrote to and so's in like the whole like Zuko learning his stories, his family's history and all of that. Yes. Yeah, dude, how much of a fucking loop? Is it like oh, so is it showed up to help his friend and save his friend and then he's like, Fuck you,

Corey:

motherfucker.

Brooksie:

Yeah, no one's heard of that one.

Corey:

Her avatar in the fire. Lord, that episode is so good.

Tanner:

That's one of my favorites. Like if I even go wanting to rewatch a specific episode. I think that's the episode that I watched

Corey:

Zuko learning about the other half of his family. Yeah,

Brooksie:

essentially, he's literally spiritually bound to aim. And that's why I like about Zuko is he he eventually finds that bond with him.

Tanner:

Well, and that's the other thing that I loved in the comics that came out is in that first one the promise where you want me to have to kill your grandson, your great grandson Zuko related by marriage. His mom's family, right? Yes, Zuko. So yeah, Zuko is related to roku.

Brooksie:

Yeah. versa. Yes. Ursa was

Corey:

Roku whose daughter, great granddaughter?

Tanner:

I, yeah. She's a descendant from

Brooksie:

like, either gray or just grandchild. Yeah.

Tanner:

So, and those. It's really cool when they have to come at odds because you see both Zuko and Aang child struggling with the world dynamic that they're left with their friendship and doing what's right. Like, they literally Zuko makes ang promise him if you see me turning like my father kill me.

Corey:

Yeah. And I was kinda like having a hard time with the concept of that. Yeah. And those comics are really good. And I really hope that they draw and pull from those in that movie that they do.

Brooksie:

Yeah, I mean, like a flat couple of lashes. Third,

Tanner:

the third one. I could give a shit last about that one. The first two were decent, but that third comic where it's about the factory and dealing with tough side of it. The world progressing couldn't couldn't care less. It was kind of boring. The one the promise is good and whatever. The second one is called searches

Corey:

the one that gives you more background on sercos Mom, right? Yeah, it gives you all the background on zookas mom, I gotta have I think the first two somewhere. I gotta grab them.

Tanner:

You have all three because I because I borrowed the third one from you too. Oh, okay. I mean, I gave it back to

Corey:

I know Timmons has one. I gotta get them all together in one place. Yeah,

Tanner:

I remember you dropped it off and I text you that night that I finished it and like how the fuck did you finish that?

Brooksie:

So

Corey:

in the avatar movie, what are the odds that one like one of these three characters dies Momo? Sokka or cabbage guy?

Brooksie:

Nobody? No, no.

Tanner:

Chaka doesn't die until Cora is alive. Because they referenced that and Legend of Korra that Chief Sokka and I defend help lead the

Corey:

defend against the Red Lotus. Yeah,

Tanner:

so it's not Sokka mama sad, sadder. Hear me the fuck out. Katara had to bury her husband and Papa the same day.

Corey:

That's a lot of digging. Tough probably helped. Maybe no, she was probably running around doing her

Tanner:

thing think about that office been there your entire your entire relationship and you lose both of them.

Brooksie:

Stop that's just too sad. A single

Corey:

tear rolls down.

Tanner:

Yeah, I mean like, and of

Corey:

course his kids are probably already born maybe one that maybe she's like pregnant with no, she's an artist spend time with 10s Yeah,

Tanner:

hit 10s in in him. We're

Corey:

very youngest. Right.

Brooksie:

Yeah. They were very close him and him in terms of obviously

Tanner:

viewing Yeah, boom, you it sounds like in him were close for a time. And then when Tenzin showed to be an airbender, that was the end of it. Yeah. I mean, which makes sense. But it's really sad to think about some of the things that avatar does emotionally.

Brooksie:

Yeah, we're not going to talk about tales of bossing so

Corey:

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