Seasonable Clout With Thaddeous Shade
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Seasonable Clout With Thaddeous Shade
Nostalgic Freedom: Finding Joy in Comic-Con
Remember that feeling of escaping into comic books and Saturday morning cartoons as a kid? Comic-Con is the adult version of that same magic — a place where imagination takes center stage and your inner child can roam free without judgment.
For me, growing up in rougher neighborhoods, I found solace in X-Men comics, Ninja Turtles episodes, and movies that transported me far from reality. Discovering Comic-Con as an adult felt like finally finding a home for that same wonder and enthusiasm.
With Phoenix Fan Fusion (June 6-8) bringing heavyweights like Hayden Christensen, Kevin Smith, and Elijah Wood, and San Diego Comic-Con set to take over July with its can’t-miss reveals, it’s not just about star sightings — it’s about reconnecting with the kid inside who still believes in heroes, villains, and epic storylines.
This episode, we’re diving into how Comic-Con can be that bridge between the nostalgia of our childhood summers and the responsibilities of adult life — and why we need those moments of pure, unfiltered enthusiasm more than ever.
Tap in, share your own Comic-Con memories, and let’s keep that inner kid alive.
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Speaker 1:I was about to introduce myself, but let me get a sip of my coffee first, cause this is my shit and I don't care. Hold on, I made a double espresso From an espresso pod. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Thaddeus Shade. This is Seasonable Clout, and I'm gonna ask for an applause In a month. And the excitement grows because in a month Comic-Con here in Phoenix will be here. Phoenix Fan Fusion it's what it's called Phoenix Comic-Con, and I'm from Kansas City, missouri, of course. I've talked about it multiple times in previous episodes. Please go listen to them.
Speaker 1:I never would have thought that it would be a point in my life where I would just be like I just love everything about Comic-Con and feel free enough just to love. When you're from the ghetto, when you're from the projects. It's not something that you're around a lot. You're around the crackheads. You're around a lot. You know. You're around the crackheads, you're around the bullets, You're around the hustlers, you're around the pimps, you're around a lot of shit that you're not supposed to really be around when you're a wee lad. But I always found great comfort and happiness in television shows and movies, comic books and and cartoons and animated series and and and and uh um, just in music, music, big time music, head Right. And so I found a lot of comfort in those things. All the chaos outside, those are the things that I, that I really, really enjoyed and I would zip myself up as I came in the house. I was a toy that was free inside the crib. When I was in the crib, I was free, I was able to get into my comic books, my X-Men comic books. I was able to watch my X-Men TV series and Ninja Turtles and Batman TV series and Ninja Turtles and Batman, and I would see my movies Back to the Future and Teen Wolf and Ninja Turtles, the movies, power Rangers, the movies. I was man. I was able. When I went outside. When I went outside, you know, that's a different armor I would put on, that's a different front I would put on. You know I was still goofy, but I would have a different armor.
Speaker 1:The crackhead would get three, four, you know three, four feet away from me, you know my eyes would look a little different. Let him know that I was a wild tiger in a wild jungle. You ain't just going to get close to me. You know what I'm saying. When the crackhead was rolling up, nine times he wanted some crack, but. But I was a kid, I didn't have no crack, but I knew he would do something for his crack, so I would put a wild eye on him. I put a wild eye on him. I was a bigger kid. So you know I had to put a little air in my chest. Let him know that I will bite, I will bite, I will bite. You know what I'm saying. When you see the D-boy at the gas station with the rims.
Speaker 1:Sometimes motherfuckers just talk crazy. It don't matter if you're a kid, you gotta, you gotta, hey, hey. It ain't gonna be like that, even if I'm 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, it ain't gonna be like that. That I'm gonna call my big bro. It's one of the two. It was a violent, violent time in my life. So you had to just have a bunch of armor on. But when I got in the crib, go go Power Rangers.
Speaker 1:And so Comic-Con has always been a thing for me, like, and something I never knew about that even you know, fucking existed until I was fucking old as shit. You know what I'm saying. Old as shit is a bit of an exaggeration, but in my twenties I was like, oh man, what is this? What is this Comic-Con thing? I'm doing music at the time. What is this Comic-Con thing? And how I first got introduced to it, and I'm going to, you know, talk about Comic-Con in pretty great detail during this episode. But when I got introduced to it, a friend of mine and I probably have mentioned this in previous episodes, please go back and listen to them. A friend of mine, oh, wait a minute, it's Thaddeus Chase. He's a book clout, but a friend of mine, yazzie, who just had a son. Congratulations If you, if you hear this, congratulations, yazzie. A really good human, great human.
Speaker 1:I told a story about how I was living with Craig Visions and a friend of mine. Her name is Michelle. We call it a midget. I know it's not technically a great term. Now you can't call them midgets, I think it's little people, but we called it a midget. I know it's not technically a great term now you can't call them midgets, I think it's little people, but we called her midget and we had a spirit in the place that we was living when we was roommates. We had something going on in there and my boy, yazzie, came over with the feather and if you go back and listen to previous episodes it's there. He came with the feather, came in and cleansed the house. This house is clean. If you've seen Poltergeist you know that's right. This house is clean. That's what my boy Yazzie did. But great guy, great human, just had a son.
Speaker 1:Yazi's wife at the time invited me to do security for her at WonderCon and I didn't even know the name at the time, but she had told me that she was going to a Comic-Con and she asked me to do security for her because she his wife Tensel was in the movie Twilight, new Moon, big deal. You know what I'm saying. Have you ever talked to my boy Craig Richards? He talked about how he was. I forgot where he was, but he kept hearing about, you know, a vampire and werewolf movie that was coming out and he goes to it and it's a big, massive line. You know how big Twilight was's a big, massive line. You know how big twilight was, big, massive line.
Speaker 1:But he said he looked and he seen nothing but like moms and then teenage daughters. So he thought he was confused, in the wrong spot. He's like this can't be the movie with werewolves, vampires and blood and motherfuckers being bit in the neck. This can't be the movie that I'm going to go see. Because he's in in in line with a bunch of moms and a teenage daughter, like they about to go see Ellen DeGeneres in standup. But he was in that line, that's what it was. He didn't know.
Speaker 1:But when he got in there and as a guy as a guy who loves vampire and werewolf movies werewolves get played all the time, by the way, I love them there's a massive disappointment when you're going in. You don't know the details of what you're going on. So if you think you're going in to see something like Underworld, and then you you know what I'm saying then you go in and it's more like Underworld and then like Cinderella, and then you know what I'm saying, like it's very Disney of the vampire, werewolf world in that, very especially in the first one. Anyway, so she plays Emily in the New Moon, right, and so that movie's massive and the books are massive. And so she asked me big black man, can you come do security for me?
Speaker 1:I was a young guy, I was like 20. I don't know, I was like 24, 25, 25 or something like that. You know what I'm saying. You know I had the guns on me. You know I had the rockets on my arms, you know. So she wanted to Mr Black man, can you come do security for me? And I'm like, all right, great, this is fantastic. I'm like cool, can Craig Visions come with me? She's like, yeah, I said cool. So we go out there. And what a magical time, what a time. You walk in and you're just immediately like, oh, this is home, it's home for the fun, it's home for the imagination, it's home for the imagination, it's home for the nerds. And I think that was the first one they had did at that time. Like that's the first WonderCon. Now WonderCon's been running nonstop in Anaheim, but that was the first one they had did.
Speaker 1:And the first person we seen when we came in is now a canceled person, but or a person that I don't know can we still use cancel, I'm not for sure, but he had said some shit, that had got him in some shit, and now he can't say shit and or do shit. And that was TJ Miller. And we was like, oh, that's TJ Miller, you know, um, is that think she's out of my league? Is the movie that I probably remember them. We've seen him in other stuff, but that's probably the movie that I'm thinking of. At the time I'm not really sure, but we knew who he was. When we walked through the door that was the first person we had seen and we was like, oh shit.
Speaker 1:So you go in and you know, if you don't know much about Comic-Cons, Comic-Cons is cosplay, so it's people dressing up as actors or characters from movies, tv shows, video games. They come up with their own costumes and cosplay is a big thing at these Comic-Cons. They're really big and people put a lot of effort and a lot of dedication and they're really good at it. They're really good at it. You know what I'm saying. And so if it's your first one, you walk in and you see this, you're like, oh, this is awesome Because you, because all, all, the All of it is you just free. Inside of that, you like, ok, this is, this is very Willy Wonka. This is the world of imagination, right, and at the time, like I said, new moon is massive, so she goes.
Speaker 1:And when you go to Comic-Con you there are usually like reality TV stars, you know, um, you get. You get from your A-listers from your movies to your TV shows, um, to your B-listers movies, tv shows, c-listers, reality TV and then you know you get your guys from your classic TV shows. They could have been, you know, regulars on episodes of famous TV shows Family Matters, or like Step by Step, or you know. And then there's some of the really bigger names that were in classic TV shows Family Matters or like Step by Step, or you know. And then there's some of the really bigger names that were in classic TV shows from back in the day, or wrestlers and stuff like that. So you just get all these people in this one building and it's very nostalgic and you can go from very popular current to very back in the day in the past and it's really dope thing.
Speaker 1:And so these guys, so these ladies and gentlemen that are actors and actresses, you know that are doing their thing, they'll set up these booths at these places and that includes artists of comic books, writers of comic books, writers of movies and TV shows. They set up these booths and you can go and you can take pictures. You can take pictures, you can take photos. You can get both and they do. And you know they charge the tables how they, you know, make some money on the Comic-Con circuit. You know what I'm saying. That's how you make. It's like. It's like when, when, you know, I known a couple of strippers in my day. You know what I'm saying and you know strippers make their round. They got circuits, they like to go.
Speaker 1:You can talk to a nice stripper. You can take a nice stripper to a nice stripper lady. Her name I give her a name. Her name is Samantha. Samantha is a nice stripper lady, she's sweet. You go hang out with her at coffee and you take her to the coffee place and y'all sitting down, y'all enjoying coffee, say, samantha, where you headed to? Well, I think I'm going to go strip down in Miami. I know it changes the mood because it's like 10, 30, 11 o'clock in the morning and Samantha says she's just going down to Miami to strip and that kind of changes the atmosphere inside of a coffee cafe place and you make it feel a little bit more slutty when you say you're going down to Miami to strip, but they work the circuit going to Vegas, houston, that's the circuit, that. But they work the circuit going to Vegas, houston, that's the circuit. That's what they do in Comic-Con and I know I just compared Comic-Con to stripping, but we're going to roll with it.
Speaker 1:Right, ladies and gentlemen, I am Thaddeus Shea. This is Season of the Clout man. You come right out of a comic book. Yes, so they do circuits, they go to Comic-Cons, they set up their booths so they make really good money. So that's what Tinsel was doing for New Moon.
Speaker 1:She was setting up a booth to do autographs, photos or both, and I was just supposed to be there because the movie was that big and her line was that long. Her line was that long, like I said, just supposed to be there because the movie was that big and her line was that long. Her line was that long, like I said, she played the character Emily in New Moon. Her line was massive, so they would take breaks and we walked around and man, iron Sheik I can't even think of the actor's name.
Speaker 1:We seen him. He played Raphael in Ninja Turtles 2. And that's a big like. That's the stuff that I'm talking about Now. I don't know your name, my guy and I apologize, but when I seen him, when we all seen him me, yazzie and Craig when we all seen him, we had a real reaction because it was the actor who played Raphael in Ninja Turtles 2. Couldn't even tell you his name, but the excitement was ridiculous. It was ridiculous. And then we walked past the Iron Sheik and the Iron Sheik was like oh, shaquille O'Neal. He was pointing to me. I didn't think it was funny, I'm just playing. It was funny as hell because it's Iron Sheik and he called me because I looked like Shaquille O'Dell a little bit. He said Shaquille O'Dell, he was just chilling with two other guys. He called me Shaquille O'Dell. It was cool, it was badass. But Comic-Con is like that. Phoenix Fan Fusion is June 6th to the 8th and it's at the Phoenix Convention Center. Right Now. The Mecca is San Diego Comic-Con and they got a whole documentary on it. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:I never thought that I would get to San Diego Comic-Con. Let me tell you something about San Diego Comic-Con. It's a bucket list thing and if you've never been, you got to go. If you enter that world, in a world of imagination, you can see. I don't know the words, but if you ever get a chance to go, it will immediately rip the little kid out of you and place them right next to you, on the side of you, and you would just be filled with joy immediately as you go through your. It's like oh shit, oh shit, this is insane, it is nothing like it. And how it happened went just like this.
Speaker 1:I had came into a little Ducky Duckets and I was like Craig, you want to go to a Comic-Con in San Diego, and you know Comic-Con in San Diego and you know San Diego Comic-Con tickets, the badges they fly, the badges don't last long at all and they recommend and at that time I didn't know no real great details because I had just came from WonderCon. So I don't know a lot of details about these Comic-Cons and I, just as a typical nerd should know, I just did my own nerd should know, I just did my own research, fam, I did my own research. And so when you find out about these things, um, you see the badges be gone. Quick badges. They got the start you. Most time it starts from Thursday. Sometimes I think they're now. Some of them start till Wednesday. But Thursday to Sunday you can get all weekend badges, you can get single day badges, but that San Diego Comic-Con badge, that motherfucker be gone. In minutes, it be gone.
Speaker 1:So at the time, for my first time, I didn't know nothing. So I was like, man, you want to go to San Diego Comic-Con, I'm thinking it's going to be nothing. Right, they were sold out on the website. I said it's nothing, man, somebody got to be selling. They got to be selling. I'm thinking it's tickets. At the time they got to be selling some tickets. Cool, I had seen on Craigslist it was nothing. You want to get you some cheap dirty pussy? You go to comp. You go to craigslist. You want to get you some comic con ticket, you go to craigslist. Man, you come right out of a comic. But but, uh, I, we, uh. I said, man, we can get tickets on Craigslist, let's just roll out. Got a rental Roll out to San Diego, had to get a hotel that was probably a good 20 miles, 30 miles away from the convention center down there, because it was everything was sold out and it was expensive.
Speaker 1:It was expensive, it was expensive. When I tell you, nigga, it was expensive. The hotel was expensive, I can't tell you my exact, so this is how it went. So I hit the dude up on craigslist. We got there on a saturday early morning. He talked to him on craigslist, he, he said, meet me outside. So I'm like cool, we're going to buy some actual tickets. And you know I'm a little skeptical on Craigslist. Anyway, you know what I'm saying. If you, if you buy a coochie from Craigslist, you need to at least wear three condoms. I'm just telling you got to be sketchy. So it's Craigslist, right. Motherfuckers done, got murdered from that, motherfucker, right.
Speaker 1:So when we get to the convention center, I'm, you know I'm we meet the dude, he white. You know what I'm saying? He white, that's all I'm saying. He white, right. So I'd be like all right bet, and I can't remember how much it was, but it wasn't cheap. It was like a couple hundred, 300, 400, you know, for each ticket, right.
Speaker 1:So I'm like'm like cool, and I'm looking and it's got his name on there, right. And I'm like, hey, hey, listen this. So the ability to be black is an impressive thing, right. When you're already black, there's another level of black and you can take it there. Now, whites, white folks, they can't really. There's no real intimidation factor. You know what I'm saying, unless you around some motherfuckers that look like they from Sons of Anarchy, but other than that, there's no real intimidation factor. Black folks have you know, we can switch it up. Hey, pal, how you doing. Or, hey, motherfucker, I'm looking at this shit. If you fuck with me, I'm going to beat this shit. You know what I'm saying. I'm going to beat, I'm going to put that foot in that mouth. You know what I'm saying. We can turn it up a lot, right? So I'm looking at dude and I'm like this got your name. This has got somebody's name on it. He's like dude, it's going to be cool, bro, you're going to be good. Trust me, bro, you're going to be good man. I swear to God, you're going to be good man. I said look, this is what we're going to do. My guy's going to go in with one. We're going to see if he get in Now.
Speaker 1:Granted, granted, my job is, of course, to provide intimidation and to make sure that my money is still going to be in my pocket. I was putting visions in a tough spot because you're taking this potential ticket that's bad for somebody else and you're going into the danger zone, highway to the danger zone, top gun. And he was cool with it because we were excited. It was hundreds and thousands of people out there and they were just all around him. His activity was crazy, so he was excited to be the guy that could potentially, you know, be in trouble. So I was with it. I had to be the security of the situation. He had to be the test dummy, right? So we watching me and the dude, me and the white guy, we watching as vision makes his way, vision gets in. I said, okay, man, here's the money. He gave me the other badge and we go in.
Speaker 1:Now I don't recommend that at all. They even tell you on the website don't do that. I wouldn't do that. They even sell badges right now on like what is them? Even known ticket places, you know, not like a ticket master, but there's like Vivid Seats or some shit like that, and there's another one Seat, geek, or another one like that, but they sell tickets on there. And then even Comic-Con, on the website, tells you not to buy from any other place except Comic-Con. And if you chat GPT which I did because I really want to go this year and I still might gamble it. We'll figure out how that goes. But even if you chat GPT, chat GPT is like look, hey, look. I know that these reputable, reputable websites are telling you it's good.
Speaker 1:Don't do it, though, because the tickets is like, if they're like $1,300 a ticket, I can pay $2,600 for these badges I'm sorry for the badges for all weekend badges and they hidden. Oh man, they hidden. Can you imagine giving a motherfucker $2,600 and then he get to ride off? That's insanity, right. But when we went inside, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh. Listen, I'm going to give you a description. It's like, it's really like. How can I put this? Imagine Whitney Houston singing. You can pick whatever song you want from Whitney Houston's catalog singing, and then out comes prime J-Lo and she's holding your favorite dessert, she's bringing your favorite dessert I guess this is from a guy's perspective and then, and then the knee along, comes out and she's, she's got, she's got her hands ready, she's going to give you a scalp massage. And then, the next thing you know, you get a text and the text says hey, man, it's from your bank, we made a mistake, we want to give you $150,000. I don't even know how all that shit pops into my head. But that's what it feels like you walk in there, it is joy, it is absolute joy. It's a man and when we went there was there were they were doing.
Speaker 1:Teen Wolf was there because Teen Wolf was a big show at the time. So the Teen Wolf cast was there. They were coming out at one section, the whole, the whole cast was coming out, and then the other section, the other big one that I definitely remember was the game of throne cast. The game of throne was massive at the time and they were coming out like the whole squad, the whole, the whole important squad from that season was coming out. So that means tyrian was coming out, john snow, the honorable john snow, was coming out and they had I mean, everybody was dressed and they had big name porn stars there. I mean big name porn stars. I'm looking at them like lady. I like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:When I was a real teen you were an important part of my life. Big porn stars. You were an important part of my life. Xbox, playstation. They got these massive setups there, massive setups for new games coming out, showing you demos of new games, posters of new games.
Speaker 1:The cosplay is insane. The cosplay contests are insane. Contest are insane Insanity. And you go through and at the time you don't know nothing. So I had bought some Batman shoes yeah, real Batman shoes. I bought some Batman shoes. I bought Funko Pops custom Funko Pops, funko Pops made strictly for San Diego Comic-Con.
Speaker 1:At the time, like I didn't even understand the whole autograph thing. It was so much going on and we were there for a day. It was so much going on and so many cool people there that I was mind blown. So, for example, seeing the cast of Game of Thrones come out and all of a sudden said this pan, like this, this autograph line, because they got halls there, so they got different halls. Of course Marvel's like the mass, like the, like DC, but Marvel's the one where they sit up there and they tell you about their whole, what they got coming out and you get to see trailers. And I've never been in a hall and I've always wanted to go to a hall. I've never been in a hall. A hall is like to me almost Holy Grail-ish. When you get to sit in a hall and you get to see RDJ come out or Chris Evans come out or whatever surprise they get, and you're in a Marvel hall and you get to. That's Holy Grail shit, and I hope I get to experience that if I take the gamble and, you know, buy the badges. But the Phoenix fan is really dope.
Speaker 1:I was there last, uh, two years ago actually, and I got autographs from um, the guy. Uh, see, this is horrible. Right, I suppose I'm supposed to have these guys' names, but listen, I'm sorry, I apologize, but uh, um, he played Shredder in Ninja Turtles 2, I got the pop, I got the uh, um, I got the pop, I got the autograph. I got the photo that's on the tiki-taki. I got the uh, the pop of. I had a Leonardo pop with me and then April O'Neil was there, the lady who played the original April O'Neil from the movies.
Speaker 1:She was super, she was super dope. I think she was hitting on me and I think I, just to be honest with y'all because I love y'all, I just want to tell you the truth. I think I would have. I'm sure she's married because she was a sweet, sweet lady. Beautiful, beautiful lady, had a crush on you when I was watching Ninja Turtles, and if she would have winked at me enough or she would have said, hey, do you want to go get a drink? I don't even drink. I think I would have got a drink with April O'Neil Wouldn't even have called her her actual name, I just would have called her April O'Neil. It's inappropriate to say out loud, but I'm saying it out loud it's my podcast I got your day. But she wouldn't even. She wouldn't even had an original name. She wouldn't even have a birth name with me. She would have been called April O'Neil.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm almost for sure that I would put that in my will. I'm almost for sure that if that happened, I would write out like hey, give this to my brother, give this to my nephew, oh yeah, make sure these go to my niece. And I just want to read this. I want my lawyer or whoever's reading this out loud. I want them to read this.
Speaker 1:There was a time I went to Comic-Con in 2023. I got an autograph from April O'Neil. I got a picture with April O'Neil, shed a drink with April O'Neal, shared a drink with April O'Neal, made love to April O'Neal. Rest in peace me. That's what. That's how that would be for me, right? That's how I would pop that off of my will. But it was a really dope time Phoenix.
Speaker 1:It seems like they're taking it up a notch. They got Hayden Christensen. Now listen, hayden Christensen. You may not know who that is, but he is Anakin Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker Now, granted, he is. He is hated for how he portrayed Anakin Skywalker and eventually becomes Darth Vader. He's hated.
Speaker 1:I remember watching his acting and I was like, oh wow, this is, this is very bad. They used to make straight to straight to DVD movies back in the day, straight to straight to VHS or straight to DVD movies, and in the acting in some of those movies were impressively bad and to be such a mega level movie like a Phantom uh, star Wars, phantom Menace and basically Star Wars one, two and three, how bad we all thought Hayden Christensen was. Now he's coming back and we're super excited because we love that nostalgic feeling of him coming back and doing Star Wars work and more of Darth Vader work. So it's fantastic to see. It's just he's going to be there, which, if I'm there, he's on my list of autographs, but I'm going to tell you my person. So, kevin Smith, director, writer, actor that's my guy.
Speaker 1:Clerks one, two, three, dogma I can't remember. I just watched his last. I guess it was like his, like his most personal movie, but I was. It's like Movie starts at three or something like that. It was a fantastic movie. It was like a summer movie Coming out of age movie.
Speaker 1:Fun movie Came out what Last year? I think Kevin Smith the great Kevin Smith Is going to be there the great Elijah Wood Now listen, elijah Wood, I have to get a photo and an autograph. I'm willing to spend big money Because the time I went, barry Allen was there and I think Barry Allen was taxing $150. I think he wanted $150 for the whole shebam. The whole shebam is autograph and photo. That's a whole shebazabam. Right, elijah Wood is there. I'm sorry, he gonna get my ducats. Next in line is Charlie Cox. That's daredevil, he gonna get my ducats. You understand what I'm saying. They got some really big names coming there, and that's just to name a few. Rainn Wilson will be there too. That's just to name a few. Rainn Wilson will be there too. That's just to name a few.
Speaker 1:But Comic-Con June 6th, 8th, phoenix, fan Fusion and then San Diego Comic-Con is July 24th through the 27th. They got the Marvel Studio reveals, they got exclusive trailers and big panels. Man, it's just going to be so many dope things at San Diego Comic-Con, that I'm really considering spending a huge amount of money to go there, and all that stuff is all about nostalgia and I live in that because I low-key live in it because it really does help me appreciate the present and the future, trying to find those things that I will think about and enjoy in the next 10 years, just like that's why I love the whole MCU and how they're trying to recover which will probably be an impossible thing to do to give you that feeling of this billion dollar soap opera where everything connected, everything had something to do with something, and then they give you this massive payoff, which is really going to be really, really, really hard for them to do. But I appreciate the attempt DC never pulled that off but I appreciate Marvel's attempt and I live in this dodgy world and I was thinking.
Speaker 1:I was really, really, really thinking, because summer is. You know, when you're down in Phoenix, summer is a different type of summer. When you down in Phoenix, summer is a different type of summer. And I was just thinking man, it's a difference. Summer, I'm dying, ladies and gentlemen, oh shit, when you choking and then Fuck. When you choke it and then Fuck. Y'all hear everything, don't y'all. But there's a difference in summer then and now, when I was a kid.
Speaker 1:Worlds of fun, oceans of fun in Kansas City, missouri oh man, that was a dream to go there when I was a kid. The drive-in theater, 85 degrees humidity, the drive-in theater that was a fucking treat to go to. I can't even skate, but I went skating roller skating I can't even skate, I'll bust my ass, I'll bust. Listen, I'm a very coordinated person. But I'll bust my ass. Roller skating but I went. That's where the girls was at. Can't swim, went to public pools man Can't swim for shit.
Speaker 1:Arcades I lived in the arcades. Mortal Kombat, street Fighter I lived in them. Anytime. Fight I lived in them. Anytime I got a chance to go, I would go. It was different. I was outside, it was hot, I would drink from the water hose. It was a different type and you don't have an appreciation until you get older, right?
Speaker 1:Summer then was summer movies. I was out from school. I had no business watching Jerry Springer. That's when I found my love for Jerry Springer just sitting at the crib, just sitting at the crib. Dun dun, da, dun, dun, dun, da, dun, dun, dun, da, dun, dun, dun, da dun. Wheel of Fortune. I had no business, but I was watching it eating a bowl of cereal and I mean a gigantic bowl of cereal. Food stamps to buy you some cereal. I was eating a gigantic bowl of cereal.
Speaker 1:Summertime, you could smell summer. May hit May, because there was a point we wasn't getting out until like June 1st, the first week of June. There was a time when I was like 10, 12, 13, 14 was June, I think, if I'm correct and my bowl of cereal game was ridiculous. But I learned about so much daytime there would be times that I'd be so bored In May you could just smell summer. So there'd be times where you just started getting lazier and lazier and the teachers the teachers really didn't give a fuck. Anytime it was May, they was looking down the counter like is there any way I can make these motherfuckers watch a movie? And I just talked about the squeaky, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. They roll that TV in and may you could smell summer.
Speaker 1:I ain't doing, I ain't doing nothing, but I'd be at home soon as summer was done. I'd be at home. You have to wait a little bit, because when you first hit summer you was out. You'd be moving and shaking. Wait a little bit, because when you first hit summer you was out, you'd be moving and shaking and as the blaze really kicked in with that humidity, back home you'd be a little bit more in the house before you really get outside. But during the day, my mom's at work oh man, I was seeing shit I wasn't supposed to be seeing. I was watching shit I wasn't supposed to be watching Will of Fortune, plinko, bob Bark, jerry, what, what, going to Sneak it in the pools. That was closed. Man, I was a menace.
Speaker 1:Summertime then, then, as I got older, I was driving at 16. I was going to see American Pie, all these movies that made you enjoy your teenhood a lot more. Sneaking in the theaters, fucking shit up for no reason. Summer was different. Now you able to go mall. You drive into the mall and the girl oh my God, it was different. Now, now I got checklist shit for summer. Got checklist, I'll be like all right man. I got to buy some more shorts because it's going to be hot and I can't have my balls hot and they be sweating. And I got to make sure my AC charged up and got to watch how I use the AC because I don't want to have the AC bill. And then I get to that, as I'm writing it down, I get to that part and I'm like I'm lying, I ain't want to have the AC bill. And then I get to that, as I'm writing it down, I get to that part and I'm like I'm lying, I ain't about to be hot in this motherfucker. I'm about to run that motherfucker to the ground Down here in Phoenix. You run it into the ground. You run it into the ground as a kid, as a kid to a teen.
Speaker 1:You wanted me to go out during the day. I was with it. 95 degrees humidity, I would go outside. I would do shit. I would get in the car and drive if I had to. Our AC barely worked in our car, but I would run it. I'd go anywhere.
Speaker 1:Now, if you ask me To do something during the day, shit down here. In the evening time, I'm not doing it. You gotta wait till 8.39 o'clock to ask me to do something. Hey, man, I gotta go to the hospital. I got an appointment with my doctor. Man, you able to take me there? Oh, yeah, man, what's up? When's the appointment? One o'clock in the morning? No, in the evening I will Apple pay you money for the Uber because shade ain't moving, shade don't move, shade and your car can have the frostiest of AC.
Speaker 1:But it feels like the summer here. Your AC and the heat get into an epic battle from windshield to inside and the heat is like I can beat you. And my AC is like nah man, I'm built for this. This is what I'm here for. He filled up a tank just for this. He charged up his car just for this. I am here to defeat you. The heat is like nah man, you don't know me. I've been around for a billion years and I know how to really cook a motherfucker. And the sun is really beaming down and the heat is fighting this big clash of battle inside. And if you're moving too much in your car, you're like man, I think I'm still sweating a little bit. And then your right side, you're like I'm cool over here, my nipple hard. And then your left side like nah man, my titty's sweating and then my underarms are sweating and shit. So it's a fucking giant battle.
Speaker 1:I don't like to move now that I'm old. During the summer it don't have the same feeling. You say, oh man, summer coming around. I'm like, oh yeah, I know Now it's like you think about May. You're like, okay, I'm going, I'm not even I'm going to Phoenix Comic Con and I have to make it from the car to the convention center because that's June. So that time that's 110 easy, right, at least 106 easy. So that travel between car to convention center is just blaze. It's just blaze.
Speaker 1:As I got older I lost my thing for summer and I hate that. I really do Now. My summer movies is still my thing. And now I'm more particular. Like I go to San Diego for the fireworks for the fourth, go to mission beach, watch some fireworks. I'm more intentional, but I do try to hunt for things. Maybe I can't, it's just different. I was relentless when I was young. When it's summertime I smelled it, I inhaled it. Now I got checklist. Now I got checklist. I go to the store late night to avoid the sun. I am a vampire. To avoid the sun, I'll be. That's why it hurts down here that Walmart is no more 24 hours, because I would go at midnight, because that's the coolest time you're going to get down here.
Speaker 1:Man, I would hear an ice cream truck. I hear an ice cream truck now and think woo you serving ice cream at this time. It's hotter than a motherfucker. When I was a kid I hear the ice cream truck Shit, I'm trying to get two, three dollars. Can I get two, three dollars, mom? I'm trying to go out to the ice cream truck. And you would get to the ice cream truck and the ice cream truck man. He'd have nothing but Shaquille O'Neal, fourth quarter sweat, coming down his face selling ice cream to kids in the ghetto who it looked like they literally was in a drive-by with super soakers. Just because you was running outside from front porch to street to meet sweaty ice cream dealer and that sun and blaze was all there, but you didn't care because you heard Ice Cream man, you're like, oh man, ice Cream man coming and you just run outside.
Speaker 1:Man, I thrived at an arcade when I was a kid. So when I see them now I absolutely be like, oh, that's so dope. I see a small arcade, I see arcades and I'm like that's really dope. And so I always am looking for things that I can truly try to. I can look back 10 years from now you know 20 years and be like man. I really enjoy doing those things Because I don't like. That's why I love going, being involved in movies and talking about movies, going to Disneyland, california Ventures planning to go to Disney World. I try to live in all that to make sure I don't never lose my kid the kid in me, because I do think about those things. I watch a lot of coming-of-age movies because they do make you think about what it was like. Think about what it was like, and they should challenge you to try to find those things that make you feel like that as you get older.
Speaker 1:I feel like joy does so much for the human mind. Finding joy, finding things you can keep with you from childhood and bring with you in your AAA, your AA RP days are dope and then using that same energy to find more things that you really enjoy to take with you further into life, which is, which is something that I really try to do every day. You know, hell shit, I got comfort shows do every day. You know hell shit, I got comfort shows out to Wu Hai. I barely sleep because you know. You know what the gig is. I sleep, I work through the nights and I don't get home till late night. So I got comfort shows like a motherfucker so I can eventually fall asleep in nostalgic moments and hoping to find those same things as I get, continue my age-growing days.
Speaker 1:But I tell you what. There was one thing we used to do and I'm going to finish up because I want to talk about some of the attire that comes to the club but we used to do street football when I was a kid in the summer. This won't take long. Do you understand what I'm telling you? Street football, do you understand what I'm saying? There would be times when we just throw the football Up in the air To the other side of the street, the person's supposed to catch it and you're supposed to run past and beat the person Pretty much to the other side of the street. The person was supposed to catch it and he was supposed to run past and beat the person pretty much to the end zone In the street. Cars, parked, concrete, all items that cannot be defeated, all things that cannot be defeated pavement, concrete, cars and we would tackle each other. What the fuck To go along with that? The pavement was sizzling, it was sizzling and we would still do it.
Speaker 1:No man, summer versus dinner now is so different for me. It's more of like when summer comes around now I'm just kind of like I'm going to see if I can take me a trip somewhere. That's really what it's about. When I was a kid, I'd travel around the neighborhood, different parts of the city. We'd walk far, take Metro, bus, you know, bike wherever we could. It was nonstop. I miss it and I love it. It ain't like I don't love what I do now, because I keep it simple. That's the great thing about adulthood. You got some money. Now you just make your trip simple, buy a plane ticket and go somewhere. Now my last thing so I can finish up this episode. So I can't.
Speaker 1:This might have been a Friday. We had somebody. Was that when we had Bad Baby? No, because it was Filthy Pack. When we had Bad Baby there, it was Filthy Pack. Or was it when we had Chicken Pee? Yeah, I know the name Chicken Pee's Wild.
Speaker 1:But this young lady. I'm walking in to 1111 nightclub. I'm walking up and she's in line about to come in and I look back, right, I look back to look at the attire that this young lady is wearing. The attire that this young lady is wearing is straight stripper attire. Now, listen, I'm not. You know, you see a lot of see-through stuff. Listen, I'm around the youngins all weekend, you see a lot of see-through stuff. You know there's a lot of outfits where you're like, oh okay, all right, that's interesting. Oh I of outfits where you like, oh okay, all right, that's interesting. Oh, I didn't see that coming. Oh man, I didn't know you were going to wear that. Um, but this one was really shocking, Cause I think you get caught in trying not especially my boy, corey.
Speaker 1:I think he was trying to get caught and trying not to like, like discriminate on what she was wearing, but it was just super, super small top and straight stripper thong, so that's it. She had like a jacket on, but that was it. And I mean that I'm not lying to you in some heels, that was it. And I mean that I'm not lying to you in some heels. So you get caught in trying not to like. So you want people to express themselves and have the type of clothing they want to rock, but so I don't think he initially knew what to do, because who would think that you would come up wearing that? I mean, I'm telling y'all, I'm telling y'all, this was Magic City shit. And I ain't never been to Magic City.
Speaker 1:I don't really go to strip clubs. I'm very outbundied when it comes to strip clubs. I feel like I can just turn on Showgirls or whatever the movie J-Lo was in. I can throw my money at the TV with it being taped to a string and then I can just reel my money back to myself. But she was in straight stripper attire.
Speaker 1:This was this very players club stripper attire and she was very confident, which is cool because I love to come. You can just I'm confident, and then I'm wearing absolute stripper attire to the nightclub. Look at me, I am confident woman and and you see the guys in line and some of the guys looking up at the sign and said, damn, is this Jaguars? They're looking up. They said, nah, man, this is the club, right. And one dude was like nah, this ain't the club, this is a strip club. He started reaching his pockets Nah, man, this ain't the top party, man, it's the nightclub, you ain't throwing no money at the lady walking by to get in the line. But that's what the attire was.
Speaker 1:So she actually, my boy actually let her in, right. And I think, like I said, he was really conflicted on trying to be solid as far as, like, I'm not trying to hate on your clothes. But this is really unacceptable. And he was like I don't want to be looked at a certain way that I didn't let you in. So he did, and what happened was she's able to come in. So I'm inside the club and she's walking in the club and the whole staff and everybody's in the club looking like this is serious.
Speaker 1:So then next thing, you know, when the security guards from the outside come in to grab her, because I think he had realized this is just unacceptable. You can't have half a titty and another titty covered out. It just it ain't gonna work. But she was really wearing nothing. I'm telling y'all you'd, you'd have seen and you know you can't, you don't want to record. Somebody probably got it on camera, but I didn't record it. But it was nothing. And she just came out in it and and it really confused my boy she came in. Everybody's staff was like wait a minute, ain't no? Hooray, hooray, hoochamal. You look in and you're just really thrown off by the tire. And I've seen a lot of wild, wild attire before.
Speaker 1:That was top three, because I just had never there was. So you see, the front is covered, but it's just nothing with that. It was nothing but ass cheeks. In the back. There was nothing covering up an ass cheek, it was just. You knew that there was something connected in the front but you didn't see it because the ass cheeks was eating it. And then the top was just like. The top was enough that if you cut in between it'd be enough to make a pirate's eye patch man. You come right out of a comic book, you cut right in the middle of the top man, and you could just automatically tie it and then you can get hooked. You get a pirate, you can get Jack Sparrow. I don't think Jack Sparrow, but you know what I'm saying. It's a pirate's patch. One-eyed Willie from the Goonies. It was incredible to see. It was incredible to see.
Speaker 1:I've seen motherfuckers come in full Prince slash, michael Jackson outfits. Like, literally like if you sprayed armor all on the outfit, we would all be blinded by the gloss of the outfit. I've seen some wild stuff with the nightclub, but that outfit I just seen. So do me a favor, do me a favor when you're about to come to the nightclub, when you're about to come to 1111,. I want you to hold up the thread. The outfit that you're about to wear, ladies, and I want you to ask yourself a simple question when I put this on, when I put this on, will I get one thrown at me? Will the song pour some sugar on me? Come on, will there magically be a pole that pops up and a DJ saying, come into the stage, sapphire, sapphire, and it's the echo Sapphire. If you feel like that might happen, maybe you don't have to, but just maybe Don't put it on.
Speaker 1:Don't put it on. I'm just playing. Part of me want to see that shit. You can put it on, man, I'll just play it. I'll just playing Part of me want to see that shit. You can put it on, man, I'll just play it. I'll just talk shit. Put that thing on, man. Come on out in that thing. Now, listen here. You put that thing on if you want. I'll be kicked back. I'll be like ooh shit, she bad to the motherfuckers. You put that thing on.
Speaker 1:You may not get into the venue, but I'm going to appreciate it. I appreciate your confidence. You may not get into the venue, but I appreciate your confidence. You go, girl. I appreciate your confidence, but I'm sure you hear that old man. I'm going to sit back and I'm going to enjoy that. Pour some sugar on me, what you talking about Pour.
Speaker 1:Anyway, phoenix Fan Fusion is June 6th through the 8th at the Phoenix Convention Center. I hope to see y'all there. I am going to definitely be there and I'm going to have a great freaking time. And in San Diego, comic-con is July 24th through the 27th. Those badges are all sold out but, like you said, you like I said you might look up and you might hear me doing an episode of how I went out there and I spent two grand to go all three nights. I spent two grand to go all three nights. I'm hugging a celebrity, an A-list celebrity. I'm gonna hug one, two grand three nights. I'm gonna hug a celebrity, an A-list celebrity. I'm going to hug one, two grand three nights. I'm going to hug a celebrity there and I'm too big to not go to jail for it, but I'm going to hug a celebrity for it.
Speaker 1:This is Seasonable Cloud. I am Thaddeus Shade. I appreciate everybody for listening. Please share like and I have. I've already put up a. I put up a recap of well, I put up a matchup preview of the warriors and wolves for game one. I'm doing one here just shortly after this for game two. That'll be up. Um, I'm also looking at the trailer of together the horror movie, the trailer for um conjuring, the final conjuring, just dropped today. I'll be doing a breakdown on that so those videos actually be up. This will be straight audio, um, but those videos will be up on my YouTube. Uh, youtube at that shade. Um, yeah, seasonable clout. That is shade Peace. Pour some sugar on me.