Vaguely Inconsistent
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Vaguely Inconsistent
The Comic-Con Economy: Spending Smart in Geek Paradise
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The countdown to San Diego Comic-Con has begun! In this pre-convention episode, we dive into the final preparations and strategies that make navigating the pop culture phenomenon manageable and enjoyable.
As we frantically pack our suitcases—"I have the pants, underwear and socks packed, zero shirts"—we share our methodical approach to Comic-Con preparation. Our conversation explores the delicate balance between bringing comfortable t-shirts versus nicer "Roosevelt shirts" that might suffer from backpack damage during long convention days.
The landscape of celebrity autographs has transformed dramatically over the years. We reminisce about simpler times when meeting celebrities didn't involve complex lottery systems and discuss the infamous "Comic-Con tax"—why the same signature costs significantly more at SDCC than at smaller conventions. For Funko Pop collectors, we offer strategic advice on protecting those precious signed pieces and navigating the increasingly competitive exclusive market.
Budget management emerges as a crucial theme throughout our discussion. We confess to becoming noticeably more frugal in the days leading up to Comic-Con: "It's so funny how I caught myself just being cheap the last 10 days." This pre-convention austerity allows for guilt-free spending when surrounded by tempting exclusives and limited-edition merchandise.
Whether you're a Comic-Con veteran or planning your first visit, our practical tips on transportation logistics, food planning, badge acquisition, and booth navigation will help you maximize your convention experience. Most importantly, we capture the unique camaraderie that makes Comic-Con special—the shared excitement, frustrations, and triumphs that bond attendees together in pursuit of pop culture treasures.
Join us for this informative and entertaining guide to surviving and thriving at the ultimate geek gathering!
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This is our Comic-Con phase.
Speaker 2:No, this is my Comic-Con phase. Shit 10 o'clock at night.
Speaker 1:While we're all trying to eat. We're just like. I know I have to eat because I'm hungry.
Speaker 2:Freaking nodding off into my plate at Denny's.
Speaker 3:For real, though that's what I said when we were getting snacks.
Speaker 1:I'm like we need to eat enough protein so that we're full until we go to Denny's for dinner.
Speaker 2:Yep, exactly, it's right there down the street. It's easy. It'll take five years to get service, but eventually we will get service.
Speaker 1:And it's only a two-minute drive so we can go to sleep.
Speaker 2:We haven't gotten smart enough to order our shit to go Nope.
Speaker 1:We've got that nice timeshare with the kitchen table and everything but no, we will stay there and wait three hours to get served. Or no, we should just walk across to Benihana's again. It's on the parking lot.
Speaker 2:At least one of these times we should, one of these nights. That was pretty good. A couple years ago it was, I'm definitely down for that. So hello everybody. This is kind of a pre-con. Uh pod, we have no dupe because he doesn't read his text messages I guess like lou and I text too much or something, although that message thread paused at that whole monday switch was happening then it wasn't until I is that when he was sick, though.
Speaker 3:No, because that was Thursday.
Speaker 1:It was Thursday when the lottery was closing.
Speaker 2:Thursday. It was Thursday night, and then they gave us our locations for our wins and losses on Friday.
Speaker 1:I don't feel too good. I'll get to it when I get to it.
Speaker 2:Sunday last Sunday they're in a pod it was established that we would probably have a AI.
Speaker 3:GPT Yep.
Speaker 2:And then the very next day it was oh wait, schedules have changed, we can do this. That was like four in the afternoon. We didn't message again until like the next day, so there wasn't anything lost. Homeboy just ditched us. He's like you know what.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go ahead and pretend this happened.
Speaker 2:I'm going to take this.
Speaker 1:I'm going to hang out with my softball pals.
Speaker 2:We're going to do that. There's going to be alcohol involved, and I can't really blame you if there is, but either way. So yeah, so you just get us two tonight. We'll go as long as we feel like it. We ain't even going to put a limit on it. Whatever we feel like doing. Maybe it's long, maybe it's short because we still got stuff to do. Jack's on the road soon. I'm on the road soon after Yep, and how's your packet going?
Speaker 1:None.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, I was going to say I'm right there with you, but I at least have. I got my underwear, my socks and my pants packed.
Speaker 1:No shirts. My backpack is on the couch. In the casita I have my Comic-Con lanyards.
Speaker 2:And Winnie the.
Speaker 1:Pooh that I'm getting autographed for the little one.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool. Wait, winnie the Pooh, what?
Speaker 1:Funko Pop. Who's going to be there? Remember when we went to Funko last year in Hollywood?
Speaker 3:And we bought all that shit and they gave us a free Winnie the Pooh. Yeah, who's signing?
Speaker 1:Winnie the Pooh son Hondo Jim Cummings. You didn't know, hondo was Winnie the Pooh, no.
Speaker 2:I thought Freaking Optimus was Winnie the Pooh. Maybe he's Eeyoreoh, maybe he's Eeyore yes, he does, I know he does something. That's why I'm all like I'm thinking Optimus, over there, you got the wrong, okay, never mind. Yeah, that's right. I remember when I met him at the Denver Con two years ago. Dude was awesome, absolutely thrilled. That's cool, wait. So is he going to seven bucks a pop or something? Dude was awesome, absolutely. That's real, that's cool, wait. So is he going to $7 a pop or something?
Speaker 1:No, he's at some other booth. I'm not overly happy with his price, but taking little one to meet Winnie the Pooh worth it?
Speaker 2:What's his price, honey, good Lord, okay, yeah, no, he ain't worth that.
Speaker 1:that I mean he has Winnie the Pooh, but he ain't worth that 80 bucks. It's definitely Comic Con tax. If he was going to Fan Expo, I don't think I paid him for that much when I got my Hondo Pop signed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say Is that 100 bucks on a Pop? Because you know they charge more on Pops.
Speaker 1:It just said he's a honey, no matter what.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, Then it probably is that tax Jesus. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's Comic-Con tax for sure.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, I miss the days of you know Sales Civilian, just having a random folks up there, right.
Speaker 1:I know. I was going through that. I'm like, oh, cool, cool, maybe I can get like a random. You know, catch up on my something. Celebration passes, right, yeah, uh, the girl that plays phasma and resistance is there, but I don't. I already have a phasma pass sign. I don't have any others.
Speaker 2:They never made any more, so okay, womp, womp yeah, but the days of freaking michelle nichols just chilling up there every year for like 10 straight years or whatever. I know it wasn't a big list of people, but it was still a cool list. It was nice to me. I remember getting our aliens signed a little girl mm-hmm, and it was like in those days is gone. It's like you want to autograph? Okay, win this lottery or be a part of this downstairs or be where I was like no man, yeah, man Go get a wristband and this and that.
Speaker 2:No man, Get some cheap folks up there and just let them sit around all day.
Speaker 3:If they have enough fans that it was fine.
Speaker 1:it's like we don't have the space F y'all, it's Funko Pops that made all the autographs go out. Now autographs are popular.
Speaker 2:That is true, though.
Speaker 1:Everybody wants a pop sign.
Speaker 2:Two more years and it's going to be Thrilljoy taking over.
Speaker 1:Right, although I did rearrange the room a bit, oh shit son.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, change the angle. You got a little glare on the signature itself. There we go Right there, right there, hold it right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, doc, holliday Target exclusive Signed by the man. The day Target exclusive Signed by the man.
Speaker 2:That's a good looking one, though I like that blue on that too.
Speaker 1:I wasn't sure I was going to like that blue.
Speaker 2:I was like, okay, that actually looks pretty damn good.
Speaker 1:I know he should probably be in a hard case.
Speaker 2:Probably actually, I was actually.
Speaker 1:Because we're getting the crown molding done. So I'm going through trying to clean up in here so that they can actually do it and I finally found more dental work crown molding all the crowns and I found this Funko box not even open.
Speaker 2:I'm like huh, you got a sealed box of Funko and it was my Jason Kelsey pops.
Speaker 1:No way, I'm like they came in a hard case. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't have guessed that either.
Speaker 1:Jason Kelsey's not worth a hard case. No, he's not, he's coming right out.
Speaker 2:Yep, for Doc to take your spot. Yeah, yeah, that is crazy. Go ahead, Go ahead.
Speaker 1:I know there were special pops. I didn't think they were that special.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say I remember that too, but come on now. Is that the beer? One with his?
Speaker 3:shirt off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay, it was like yeah, it was cool all that, but come on.
Speaker 1:But he's not a hard case pop. There's no way.
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, he's an eagle, so certainly not.
Speaker 3:Come on now.
Speaker 2:Congratulations. They got their second title last year. Now they have half as many as the Giants.
Speaker 1:Good job A third as many as the Steelers He'll get there eventually.
Speaker 2:I'm rooting for you. Participation ribbon, go for it. Well, I was going to go back to the other subject. It was like, literally, there's a suitcase on my bed right now and it's got all the pants I'm wearing, the underwear and socks that I'm bringing, zero shirts yeah, he doesn't know what to bring man.
Speaker 1:I'll probably do it real quick afterwards.
Speaker 3:Oh, me too, Because we're leaving in the morning and I mean, eh, he doesn't know what to bring man, I'll probably do it real quick afterwards.
Speaker 1:Oh, me too.
Speaker 3:Because we're leaving in the morning, and I mean whatever.
Speaker 1:No, the girls have not started packing at all.
Speaker 2:Oh well, okay, so you'll leave around noon tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Probably. I was told 10, so we'll see what happens. Okay, one now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on the bright side, I mean, you do have the rest of the day Monday and all day Tuesday, so it's not like there's any kind of rush whatsoever.
Speaker 1:And again we're not going to some third world country. They got Target in Anaheim and San Diego.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's just so funny. I was just telling a girl that it was like if you don't go pick up your case of Frappuccino thingies from Starbucks to cold bottles I take every morning, we'll get it in Vegas Not a big deal. I mean there's Sam's Club. There's going to be Sam's Club, our whole drive. We're driving four freaking states. We'll be fine.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's why I don't even worry about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no the hardest choice is which Roosevelt's am I bringing?
Speaker 2:You know what? I think that was her hardest choice too. I'm looking at, I'm looking, I'm all thinking I want t-shirts. I don't want, because if I bring my Roosevelt's I have to bring undershirts. This is true. I don't want to bring as many, so I'll at least have one for Saturday, for Chewbacca sun, so I'll at least have that one, but and I probably bring an extra undershirt just in case but overall I'll probably still stick with my t-shirts. Plus it's the whole. I really I don't know, maybe I'm tripping out in my own head I'm nervous about Because I did it at Denver Comic Con, but I'm more nervous about the backpack, just rubbing against the damn.
Speaker 2:Roosevelt all day.
Speaker 1:So it's like Thankfully, I've only had one shirt have any kind of issue with that, and that was the uh the McCoy Yoda from a couple of years back.
Speaker 2:Got the SDCC one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so that went. So it's like I like my Roosevelt's, but I don't know if I want to risk. Like I said I did it.
Speaker 1:You're not wrong.
Speaker 2:And it's like, uh, like I said, I did it for the Chewbacca sign, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with the t-shirt method and I'll have, if anything, I'll do the like my jersey, that I got that Dodgers jersey, seth Kwan or something like that.
Speaker 1:Well, they did okay at Celebration, though right Same thing.
Speaker 2:They did when all said and done. Even Denver, you know it, it did okay and I think it'll be fine because not like we're running around, there's not a whole lot of movement with it exactly.
Speaker 1:It's just in my head. It's all it is. It's walk fast, stand in line, walk fast exactly, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it's in my head. It's just like the whole chiropractor thing with all my back issues, my neck issues, go see a chiropractor. It's like no, they'll kill me. That's what's in my head I'll be paralyzed and then, yeah, exactly, and then, and then that happened.
Speaker 2:You know, that's that, um, what's that phrase where where's one, one example happens? Um, so it's like that whole truth. Oh see, uh, there's a phrase for it either way. Uh, I saw like last month, two months ago, there was some dude who's paralyzed because he went and got a massage or a chiro. Uh, it was a chiropractor and he got paralyzed and I was like see, told you, I know it was one in 437 million but it happened.
Speaker 1:Uh, that could be me. I'm so lucky. Exactly All the lotteries for comic-con is crazy. I'm a lucky person.
Speaker 2:I'll be that one. The point is the percentage chance is not zero. This is true.
Speaker 1:Chances are low, but they're never zero.
Speaker 2:Chances are low. But not involved, not involved, well, y'all.
Speaker 1:So so yeah, I mean look, you got over your fear of Dennis this year. We can think about chiropractor next year. So Baby steps one at a time.
Speaker 2:One after one year, we'll wait a decade. Man, let's spread it out a bit. Trying to rush some shit, do it next year. You know how soon next year is, that's fast like five months from now, that dentist was two months ago. Son, I'm already freaking 16% into that year. Uh, uh, wow, that's fast math. I am a nerd.
Speaker 1:Right. Yeah nobody's ever done percentage of the year before. Yeah right, I'm going to go over it.
Speaker 2:I'm like that's two months out of 12.
Speaker 1:There's half a year, there's a quarter of a year, that's it. There's no such thing as 16% of the year.
Speaker 2:One tick 16.67. Oh my god, I ain't gonna lie. I'm curious what Duke's doing. I don't want to bug him and ask him, but I'm curious, like dude, what are you doing? If he knew and I'm sure he knew that this was happening, that's okay. But now I want to know he's like fuck, what fun are you having that? I missed what's more important than us. Nothing, right, exactly Just nothing.
Speaker 1:That's why we've been doing this religiously for over a year.
Speaker 2:A year and five months, good Lord.
Speaker 1:A year and 16%.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean not really, that's close to like 42%, but whatever, like 41.37 or something, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, next month.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, yeah, wait until you get to next month, then you have your even number. So then it counts, or does it count?
Speaker 1:I don't know It'll be 18 months, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I just checked it. It was 41.67. I was that close, told you all the dark nerd Jesus. I think I said 41.37. It's 41.67. So close. Oh, that's that's. That's actually pretty funny, Um, but yeah, then my I'm looking over this way because that's my backpack, it's on a chair right now. I put my lanyards, I put two lanyards in there because I'm going to need to this time. Then I put my badges are in there Parking.
Speaker 1:I need a barcode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, parking barcode is in there. What's the other thing? Oh, the lotto win For those three booths. I couldn't think of anything else I needed to print, so I think I just have that in there. It's just those.
Speaker 1:I'm probably going to print my Wicked print, just so I have it you probably don't need it. The Wicked print I pre-ordered.
Speaker 2:Oh, I have the email I pre-ordered. Oh oh, oh Well, I have the email, so I didn't bother.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm like man, do you need it? Yeah, I figured I would just show the because I got that Soundwave one, so I figured I would just show my barcode. Oh, I'm sure they have a list by name.
Speaker 1:Exactly yeah, the bigger booth Same booth.
Speaker 2:I went to the JYK last year, can't remember what for, but probably the Transformers one that King Grimlock, I think it was because the last one we had trouble finding and he was right across the aisle from us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I got that, but I was like I'll just show my email and be fine with that. What else? Oh, phone stuff Like the backup battery, charger cords, all that stuff, three comic book bags and boards like four pop cases. Plus I have a six-pack box empty. So if I pick up anything, you know, I can just drop it in there too. Yep, the usual Put it in the pop case in the backpack and then transfer it to the box in the room and then go back to the single in the room, then go back to the single in the backpack. Snacks Got a bag of snacks behind the couch in a bag, so those are good to go. How was that trip today? How was your snack honey?
Speaker 1:It wasn't bad Little one wasn't on her meds, though, so she wanted to get everything. That sounds about right. We had just fed her, we had just came from sushi, so we had already eaten sushi.
Speaker 2:She ate her fill.
Speaker 1:She still wanted to buy everything, anything new this year.
Speaker 2:Remember once in a while y'all find something and it's like, hey, let's try this this year.
Speaker 1:No Big One. Dit wasn't super into Pop-Tarts this year, so she got herself some protein bars for breakfast.
Speaker 3:Like those special K-1s?
Speaker 1:No, some protein bars for breakfast Like those special K ones. No, it was like some workout ones or some shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like actual protein bars?
Speaker 1:Yeah, since wife got involved, she wanted a bunch of different kind of crackers. You don't even like Comic-Con. Why are you buying snacks?
Speaker 2:So she can have snacks to to enjoy her complaining about comic-con exactly comic. Complaining about comic-con makes people hungry.
Speaker 1:Man gotta have snacks that it's a lot of. It's a lot of work to be complaining. I don't know I I was worried about the uh uh illegal ality. Is that we're committing? Um uh-huh, but kind of less so as we get closer. I'm like, no, it's going to work out a little bit, I think.
Speaker 2:I'm not worried about it at all, I think I might have been. Oh, why am I dark? I didn't turn the light on. I have the light sitting on top of the computer and didn't turn it on. I'm like, what is this round thing over here on top of this? Oh wait, that's the light. My brain's gone, dude. I started working at 2 o'clock this afternoon so I can do less tomorrow. You know how it is Day before it's going to be a bunch of bullshit and I want to make sure.
Speaker 2:Look, I got everything. I started the day off at 129 emails, including yesterday, even though I know we can, including yesterday, right, I'm currently at 15. Nice, and of those 15, my shit's grouped together, you know. So it's like it's really 15. It's like 15 emails, but not 15 topics, right, or 16, whatever Six. Let's see Eight. I actually have eight topics that I'm looking at that, that that make up those 16 emails, and it was 129 earlier. So you know what I'm a roll with it. It's like that way.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow I just worked six hours Cause I did take an hour to watch uh, eat dinner and to watch Star Trek Voyager folks. We'll get to that in a bit, because we didn't talk about my rewatch or new watch, for that matter, anyhow. So I want to be able to get to work tomorrow, handle whatever emails in the morning, do whatever minor shit I have I don't want to stress about tomorrow at work. So I want to knock up as much as I could today so I could putz around tomorrow. I'll be checking out last minute Comic-Con stuff at work tomorrow and I won't feel guilty about it, Not that I would have, because I worked six hours Exactly, and I'm like if I do two good hours tomorrow, I'll be comfortable.
Speaker 2:Are you leaving Tuesday or?
Speaker 1:Wednesday, tuesday, tuesday. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tuesday to Vegas. Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, tuesday to Vegas. And yeah, yeah, yeah, tuesday to Vegas. And then Wednesday morning we're leaving super early though because, like I said, in case we have to swoop you last minute change, I want to account for it. And if we don't and it's like no, we're just going to get there freaking noon, and if that works out, then we'll just go straight down, straight down to the con, get our stickers for our badges straight down to the con. Get our stickers for our badges. Maybe check out the. What is it? The store? The Celebration store.
Speaker 1:Celebration Jesus Comic-Con store, comic-con store is a lot cheaper than the Celebration store.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, dude, by a lot. I was going to say I don't think I even spent 10% of what I spent at Celebration at Comic Con, but now I'm thinking about it it's probably closer to 5%.
Speaker 1:Celebration store ain't got nothing. Comic Con store got nothing.
Speaker 2:I dropped what 22, 23 hundred at Celebration store and like 60 bucks at San Diego store. Like I needed a pop and three pins and this year, not even that, there's really anything on the list.
Speaker 1:No, they don't have pins or nothing.
Speaker 2:There's not a whole lot that I want this year.
Speaker 1:Those shirts need to convince me in person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's exactly it. I'll have to show up see what they got, and even then, after what I've seen the last couple of years, I'll wait till next year when the shit's on sale. It's just like not even.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think they usually do like a Black Friday sale, so yeah, yeah, every time.
Speaker 2:So it's like if I find something like I got that jersey two years ago for O'Girls first con and next year later it's like 60% off, I'm like get out of here with that crap. Like. You know what, if I see something, I like I'll wait If it sells out, no big deal, because we know the rules. If there's something we actually want, we're going to buy it right there, yep.
Speaker 2:There is no hey, let me think about this. Let me come back. No, if I want it, I've accepted that, I'm okay, but it's gone when I come back. Exactly that's how it's always been. This is not news for our world.
Speaker 1:Like heat.
Speaker 2:You can't walk away from it. In 30 seconds you're left.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Action is the juice.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:But yeah, dude, that would have been a badass pop to get signed. If they made heat pops, you'd have Val to sign that one.
Speaker 2:Especially if he's got the gun with the backpack of money over his shoulder. How awesome would that be, although I don't know. Would they let him get away with it with a machine gun like that? Would Funko make the pop? Is what I'm getting at. Would Funko make the pop? Is what I'm getting at.
Speaker 1:Look the Doc Hollidays do have a gun, that is true. The Mortal Kombat ones are coming out with blood all over them, so I don't think they care Shit.
Speaker 3:They make Cocaine Bear Superman has a bag of drugs, so cool.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, that was so good. But yeah, imagine having that set Just the heats. All the main characters are heat, including Pacino. Oh my God, that would have been so good.
Speaker 1:You're welcome, funko, that's a free one, right, you've got.
Speaker 2:Ashley Judd doing the hand thing on the edge of the balcony how cool would that be?
Speaker 2:Do one of the cinema scenes yeah Bow down there at the bottom yep, and you have him down at the bottom, you know, like, like talking to the cop that pulled him over. Then you can like just hover her up above, like they can do their their thing with cardboard, you know, uh, 3d stuff, um, and then have her up there doing their handout like that. Oh my god, that would be so cool. I might have to buy two of those so I can open one. Yeah, that would just be 2 am cool. Oh yeah, spoilers for those who haven't seen Heat.
Speaker 1:Fuck that.
Speaker 2:Some 1995 movie or whatever. How long ago it was.
Speaker 1:This is a Gen X podcast.
Speaker 2:You need to be on top of shit, that is true, this is where Duke would be looking up an imdb right now on on when that movie came out. I'm doing it myself now because now I'm serious, because it's gonna bug me, I want to say, okay, if I were to put money on it, what would I say? I said 95. So I would go 96, 95, let's see, that seems too late no, you're right, I think 95, 95, okay I feel good about 95 95. Here we go, search he albert 1995 boom got there.
Speaker 2:That's kind of cool, um, but yeah, what else going on? Uh, like I said, I work most of the day.
Speaker 2:Uh, the morning I didn't wake up to like nine so it was a late start anyway same I think it was almost about the time I even got out of bed yeah, I was just sitting there playing games on the computer, on the Xbox, just kind of chilling, and then I don't know what happened, but I was like I knew I was going to do some work today, but once we got around to 2 o'clock I think I had eaten a sandwich or something like that and I was like all right, let me go check emails. There weren't too many, like 35 since Friday, I was like. So I just started going Next thing, you know, boom, started getting into it and just knocking it out. And then somewhere in between there, maybe before work, that's when I started packing stuff. I did laundry, because laundry was done by two. So I was doing laundry while I was gaming. I did pack the little. Your carry-on has your stuff in it. I will bring the Roosevelt shirt so you can see if you want it. The Amblin one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw you offered it up to someone else did you have more than? One yeah. I had two.
Speaker 2:I had two, and then eBay. I pulled it off of eBay, I think. And then somebody actually matter of fact, the girl just emailed me or messaged me a little bit ago and I was like, well, well, I'll pull a, no wait, it's on eBay and the group, that way, whoever gets it first, and then the other one, the second one.
Speaker 1:I pulled FCFS Cross-posted.
Speaker 2:Yep, exactly, exactly, cross-posted. That reminds me I got freaking. I got in trouble for my post in the sale group. It in this. It's a sale group like it wasn't a post. It was my discussion thread. Did you see it where I was asking about ebay versus okay, so I threw in a oh yeah, I did.
Speaker 1:I did see some of that. Yes, somebody's like why do people sell on ebay if they can, if they just do it like 1099s from ebay?
Speaker 2:yeah, I saw that, uh, that got removed yesterday. Uh, really no reason. Uh, I asked for a reason. They did not respond to my message and I was like all right, whatever, uh, but I, I asked about it in the discussion thread, uh, so they could see it instead of a private message, and they put me on the whole message pending for clearance. So now everything, everything I put in there, it's going to get checked.
Speaker 2:I'm like I don't care, I'll just sell on eBay. Then it's like I'm going to make the same amount of money whether I put it on eBay or put it in the group, so fine, whatever. I was like I didn't know y'all before, I wasn't in your group until early this year. I sold my very first thing after Denver Comic Con. I ain't missing shit. So, whatever I get at San Diego, we'll go on eBay. If they're going to keep me blocked, like that, I'm like that's fine, I'm not going to cry. I'm like hey, why are you guys happy? I'm like no, I still have the other listing, I'll just edit it.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, take, oh my god, take off all the shit that's sold. Add the new star war or add the new sdcc stuff, like all right, that's fine, whatever um, so whatever um. But yeah, so it'll be t-shirts for me, one or two roosevelts, um, backpack, just about good to go. Tomorrow will be a fairly easy day at work in theory and then get gone, finish packing, make sure everything's good to go. I'll probably take my shower in the evening, get to rent a car at 7.30, be on the road by 8, 8.15. However long it takes to get to rent a car back to the apartment, load the car and leave With one stop to get ice Hells yeah.
Speaker 2:One stop to get ice for the cooler.
Speaker 1:How long is the drive?
Speaker 2:About 10 hours, 11 hours. It's like 770 miles. So you know you're doing 75, 80 the whole way it's 10 hours drive time.
Speaker 1:But then you have the hours Body breaks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, you have the one or two stops and then the time change is my favorite of those. So that's kind of cool. We leave at 8. We'll probably get there at 8.
Speaker 1:It's usually how bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not at all. Leave at 8 in the morning, get there at 8 at night and she travels. Well, so I won't have to worry about bullshit, so it'll be. Yeah, she, yeah, she traveled, she's bad. Actually, on the way back from um wherever last year I guess I guess disney, um man, I was like she, she's just plowing through any cities to stop at, I woke up on one of them, past state line. I was like wait, you didn't stop at state line, go to the bathroom. She's like's like. No, I didn't have to go. I'm like shit, I did.
Speaker 1:I was like, all right, we just kept on going. She was like Negro, you was asleep, you didn't have to go that bad.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's about how that played out. She's like oh sorry, I'm like you know that's cool. I'll tell you that much. Right now I was like we'll figure it out, I'm fine. If I really had to go that badly, we'll stop in Gene, and I think we did, but either way, there's a stage break over there.
Speaker 1:It's fine.
Speaker 2:Right, it's like man. No, but it was cool, so it'll be like she's easy with whom to travel, so I hang over Very acceptable. Yep yeah, the only.
Speaker 1:thing will be the getting there.
Speaker 2:We get there at 8 and it's like, okay, what do you want to do? Are we tired? Are we just going to go to bed early so we can get up early and leave early? What is it going to be? I don't know. Free that shit up, get in.
Speaker 1:I did get a refrigerator yesterday.
Speaker 2:Oh, check this fool out, Ah no.
Speaker 1:Man, now you don't have to leave your nasty-ass hamburger out for a week.
Speaker 2:Who would do that? That seems ridiculous. I don't know anybody who'd do that, uh-oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I finally got my little mini fridge, though it's got a freezer up top.
Speaker 2:What you got in the main house drink-wise up top.
Speaker 1:What you got in the main house drink-wise Shit like Powerade kind of shit.
Speaker 2:Sweet Throw two of those in the fridge.
Speaker 1:I did. I threw a bunch of them in there already actually, oh hell yeah, it was like cool when we get there.
Speaker 2:But you didn't do anything today, Like just woke up at 10 and maybe all in.
Speaker 1:Well, no, no, I told you I had to go fight that old lady. Well, don't know, I told you, I had to go fight that old lady. Yeah, yeah, that was some drama man.
Speaker 2:I'll kick her cane out from under.
Speaker 1:Bruh Yanked my walker right back, did you? Oh, she straight up called me a liar. I was like ma'am, I'm not lying about that, I brought this. I've had this since my mother-in-law passed away two years ago. She said about that. I brought this. I've had this since, uh, my mother-in-law passed away two years ago she said that model wasn't out two years ago. You are a liar, sir. I was like ma'am how you know what the model walkers are that technology has not improved or changed.
Speaker 2:And then I'm gonna drop my nuts on her and been like, well, yeah, the porsche couldn't afford this. Two and a half years ago. This was a new model, so it makes sense that you didn't know it existed.
Speaker 1:So I'm like there's a name tag on there because we got it from a friend of ours and it's Arthur something, and that's a wife's friend's dad who we got the walker from. Oh, that's ours. And I had my mom's cushion on there that her sister sent her from eBay. Yep try again, lady uh-uh, she started talking to me, trying to be nice and shit after the fact. Yeah, yeah, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2:I'm like it's already figured out.
Speaker 1:Already figured out uh-huh they brought you your old little jinky walker. I got the cadillac for my mom, you know that's what I'm talking about pinto shit, I'm saying drop some balls on her.
Speaker 2:It's like man, no, go back, go back to you.
Speaker 1:I mean I was going over there anyways to get her a new charge cable for her phone.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was the cable. I thought it was the brick.
Speaker 1:No, it was the USB part. Like the USB, the A-side that shit was like 90 degrees, dude, oh good.
Speaker 2:Good lord.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I got her a new cable, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I got her a cable and then also an extension cord, so now it's plugged into the extension cord on the floor. So shit getting smashed.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay, I got you now, yep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like a little three foot extension cord Like a power strip. Plug it into that six foot USB cord. She's fine, except for her walker.
Speaker 2:Wait, so did your mom, the lady, get into it.
Speaker 1:A little bit.
Speaker 3:While you were there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think she's got dementia or something. I'm like bitch, you're 80-something, you got dementia. Right, I'm like bitch, you 80 something, you got dementia right like who you hot meat kettle the hell, that was drama. So came home, wife had taken oldest to go get her nails done. There was something about a cucumber in this. During the discussion of it I'm like what the fuck?
Speaker 3:does she want a cucumber on her nails?
Speaker 1:right so I'm like whatever like art, nail art cucumber yeah, like she got her nails done with the design a cucumber okay yeah, there's a reason for it and it's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Um, so now I came home, I with a little one, I started cutting up boxes for recycling and all that shit, cleaning the house up. They came home, we went to go get Sush and I'm looking at her nails, right, and they're black and sparkling. One of them is like all black and it has like two white dots on it and I'm just like thinking I'm like it's the void from fucking uh thunderbolts. She's very obsessed with sentry and void, so I'm like, what about the cucumber? She's like you remember at the beginning, when they were climbing up and they had to sneeze, you say cucumber, so you don't sneeze, all right. And then her thumb has the sentry logo on it. I'm like if I had seen that, I'd know what it was right away like man deep, but no, it's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she is very obsessed with that character. I'm like are you crushing on Lewis Pullman or something?
Speaker 2:She's like no, Maybe she's just appreciating the mental aspect of that top part of the movie. Maybe Her generation would be okay with that. Yeah, because I guarantee my niece would appreciate that character as well and how they handled it.
Speaker 1:So yeah, go for it, I could see it, I could then her century. And uh, elena pops came today too, so she was happy about that I don't know, were there some new ones? Yeah, they made thunderbolt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but are they new, Like are they exclusive?
Speaker 1:She never asked me for them, so I never bought them. Oh okay, until recently. I'm like okay, gotcha, whatever.
Speaker 2:I'm like where did this come out?
Speaker 1:Let me refill my Funko points from buying that Predator.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 750 points Return Right.
Speaker 1:And after that we went by the old house because I wanted to steal the uh motion uh porch light, because I didn't sell that yet put on the new house. I did that, took some more shit out of the garage. Um, came home, cleaned the cat boxes. Little one actually wanted to help. She's over there with a little shovel. She's like oh, make this one of my chores. I'm like done Right.
Speaker 2:You don't have to ask me twice, for real, big enough cat box, you'll fit in it as a house anyway.
Speaker 1:Right For real Well, she wanted to do the automatic one. I'm like I'll take care of that one. So she does that because the old cat doesn't use the new one, the take care of that one. So she does the because the old cat doesn't use the, the new one, the fancy one, yeah. So, whatever, you want to scoop poop once a week because, uh, I, I signed them up on the. Uh, it's this app called green light where they get like their own, like debit cards and shit yeah, so if they do their chores they get their allowance or a percentage of said allowance.
Speaker 1:If they do all their chores or some of their chores, so it automatically get their allowance or a percentage of said allowance. If they do all their chores or some of their chores, so it automatically reduces their allowance if they don't do their chores it's kind of cool.
Speaker 2:So is that determined by you?
Speaker 1:yes, like you have to go in and okay, okay well, I mean, it's automatic, like I'm like, this is what their allowance is, this is what their chores are, and then no, but who puts in that they did them?
Speaker 3:though they can.
Speaker 2:They can.
Speaker 3:Well, they can lie about it though.
Speaker 1:But I can check it and uncheck it.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's what I'm all like.
Speaker 1:Come on Al, that's cheating yeah, no, like sometimes a big one won't. Uh, on saturdays I think she's supposed to feed and water the cats. Sometimes she doesn't do it. Well, I guess you're not getting all your lands home, girl, and she wants to save it for a century hot toys that they haven't even announced yet but it'll happen? I'm sure it will yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 1:No, no, I just came out here farting around trying to. If the crown molding guys say that all my stuff's blocking them from doing what they got to do, then I guess I have to start putting my shit in the cases again, darn somebody actually is forced to get shit done, right, but do you have the sliders so you can move shit out against the wall, from against the the wall?
Speaker 2:Okay, it's like that would freaking suck.
Speaker 1:So we'll see Do that a little bit this week, next week after Comic-Con.
Speaker 2:Right, you hear anything from Lego, like they've been quiet the last couple years in San Diego. I've heard nothing. That whole going up to the sales, civilian to hit the button to win one of the little free guys? Yeah, no.
Speaker 1:I haven't heard anything about them this year at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or even their, their, whatever their Lego exclusive is Cause I don't think they did anything in in um Japan.
Speaker 3:They had like early stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm not even counting debut stuff like specifically exclusive. I thought it was just you buy something yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like man, that's which I should have got, because it wasn't as hard, because it was any purchase and they had them all weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I should have done that. Did you purchase from Lego? I would have. Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 1:Well, that line wasn't short, either Towards the end of the show, it was Once everything was selling out and all they had was keychains and shit that nobody cared about. Then it was short.
Speaker 2:I don't think I bothered at all there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were in a weird spot too, just not somewhere that we walked a lot.
Speaker 2:And I guess official we're two days away or three days away, so no doorables.
Speaker 1:Mm-mm Right.
Speaker 2:No, j Scott Campbell. No doorables. That's crazy. No Entertainment Earth again, right. No, general Giant. Well, general Giant doesn't really exist anymore For real. Although I thought Diamond was bankrupt or some shit, I think they are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's nothing, even on SDCC blog about Lego. Nothing on the blog, wow. Last thing was for last year's Comic ConCon.
Speaker 2:You know it's serious, Dan Right Are they?
Speaker 1:even going to be there. Dude, that was my next question. Check that app.
Speaker 2:Check that app and see if they're even going to be there Exhibitor In their usual spot next to Mattel or whatever.
Speaker 1:Right in the middle of the floor yeah, they're there, they're there, they're there. They got panels, they got all kinds of shit. If they ain't doing, they ain't doing Whatever. Weird, anyways.
Speaker 2:We never go there anyways. No, not really. It's been a long time Just for photo ops Star Wars. It might have been pre-COVID. The last time I actually bought something from LEGO At Comic Con. I couldn't tell you what it was, but I remember getting in line and yeah, what the hell. Man XY was with me at that point, so that tells you how long ago it was.
Speaker 1:Yup, and then Hasbro wasn't even in the lottery this year.
Speaker 2:That was crazy. Hasbro was such an easy walk-up last year, though, and I don't know if I have much to get from them, unless they have that Skyfire that was announced earlier.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I said, I want to get the Dreadnoughts band and Anakin and Obi-Wan.
Speaker 2:Yep, and if I got the Anakin and Obi-Wan I'd be getting it to flip it Because it's going for double. So it's like, all right, Dang all right, but it's big. That's the problem, man.
Speaker 3:It's like doing one of the five.
Speaker 2:I mean I know I got the car and drive shit back, but still you got to ship it. I'd rather go find some couple comic books and turn those. That is way easier, although I should do okay with Tamashii Nation.
Speaker 1:Really you wouldn't get that. Even though it's Darth Vader, you just wouldn't get it.
Speaker 2:Technically? Yeah, I don't know. I think it's a Black Series thing. I really just don't like them. I still I'm an old school three and three quarter guy. I was browsing through Walmart today or yesterday looking for the new durables and I went over to the same thing I always do transformers isle.
Speaker 1:star wars isle I didn't realize die hard.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it cannot, cannot be stopped. Although, dude, I was in the ghetto because I went to go see jurassic park last night in symphony uh movie and on the way back I was like I got time to kill, so kill, so let's go buy this other Walmart. They're Transformers, they weren't behind a lock case. That's how ghetto this Walmart was. It was like how are you going to put People stealing Transformers? Are you kidding me right now? Hot Wheels I could see Dang, but yeah, it was. That was crazy to me.
Speaker 3:Legos, legos are Hot Wheels. I could see Dang.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that was crazy to me. Legos are Legos are behind lock cases a lot. Some targets too, even will put them behind lock cases, so that one is less of a surprise.
Speaker 1:When I walked by, they got the spiders on them.
Speaker 2:Yep, and I was like great thanks for ruining the box, but yeah, so it's just crazy how ghetto that shit is. But whatever it is, what it is can't be helped, yeah, whatever yeah, it's like I mean it could be if somebody's gonna start whooping some asses no, that was the other thing.
Speaker 2:walk into the you know I don't know if any of the vegas ones have it that you walk in the welcome, the two little gates that that open up for security purposes. You can only go in, not out. Two people after I walked in, two people within five seconds walked out and the alarm went off and they just kept on going. Security person is standing right there and just looks at him and just turns away Like what's the point then if you're not going to do your job? It's like whatever.
Speaker 1:That's why I couldn't own a business. I'd be whooping ass if somebody did that Yep.
Speaker 2:It's like look, I'm hiring you for security, I need you to secure some shit. Do your job. If you don't, you're fired, not hard.
Speaker 1:Put some hands on people. I don't give a fuck For real, I get it. Yep, put some hands on people and give a fuck For real Shit.
Speaker 2:Look for real. I get it. I can't use that for capital punishment, but I'd like to. But that's okay, right.
Speaker 1:Well, it's like before the pot. I saw this video of these gang of teenagers like jumped the concession stand at a movie theater and just started taking all the sodas and shit. Nobody did nothing. What See Like Hells? No.
Speaker 2:Wait, how do you take?
Speaker 1:soda.
Speaker 2:Oh, bottled soda. I'm like, how do you take Maybe? They have bottles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot. They have bottles still in some places, especially water. They almost all have.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, you're about to spend just as much on your tickets on concessions for fantastic four. That shit was expensive last year. Shit for real though I'm going to make sure I drink before, cause you know we we even went and ate and drank before the movie and still remember that we're up in the food court area. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I think we all got panders from shit. It was like the Italian place. I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 1:I think we all got pizza or something. It was like pizza.
Speaker 2:It was the Italian spot up there, but we all yeah, and then? Still concessions? Yeah, because I had already seen it, so not popcorn M&M's.
Speaker 1:It was M&M's, you had to get M&M's for it. Yeah, I went back.
Speaker 2:I forgot the M&M's. I was like, well, I've already seen the movie, so I'm okay leaving and missing that first few minutes, no big deal. But yeah, I will bring my own M&M's or whatever I have to. I am paying shit for their concessions. Fuck that right now. I'll drink.
Speaker 1:When I get back, we'll eat again maybe.
Speaker 2:No, I can't, I got I because you had a panel. I thought, uh, and so do I, you have.
Speaker 1:You had one that was like yeah, I mean seven and my, uh, the legal head panel.
Speaker 2:I think, yeah, that was yours and like 6, 30, 7, 30, something like that, and then mine the legal one the legal one is 6 to 7. So 6 to 7 for an 8.30, 8.40 movie should be okay. It should be able to get there an hour before the movie starts, plus the 30 minutes of trailers they're going to have for bullshit, so there'll still be plenty of time to eat. Well, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:AMC, so it's another hour of commercials.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, so I'm not even sweating. I'm not even sweating that it was like movie starts at 840. I'm like we need to get our seats at 9. We're fine. And then my confrontational ask we hope somebody's sitting in my seat, bro man, don't get wrong, I'll be nice at first.
Speaker 1:At first.
Speaker 2:At first I was like hey, I paid for this seat, but you got our seats. Man, I need you to move. You want to start some shit. I'm like, all right, here we go Now. Now. Now I can flip a switch. I'll be nice once it's like you can move or I can move you. I'm going to be late Cranking. Yeah, they didn't eat enough today. Now we have just eaten so, but I would've been full and mad. They got to do work that I'm full.
Speaker 1:I got the itis trying to kick in.
Speaker 2:Right, like bro. No, you did not pay for these seats. Now you want to pay for my seats. I'll sit. So what seats did you get? Pay me twice as much and I'll move. I'll happily take your cash and go pick a different seat.
Speaker 1:I'll sit up front, that's fine.
Speaker 2:Yep, I'm pretty sure it won't be the only time I'll watch a movie.
Speaker 1:I'll take your money and go pay for to watch it somewhere else at a better seat.
Speaker 2:Right, and still have money for concessions Yep, and still have money for concessions, yep. Oh, my God, shit. As soon as I get back Monday, like okay, tuesday, fantastic Four, 3 pm, okay, I'm going to watch that, watch that shit for five and a quarter man. But yeah, I think I'm good to go. It's like not really you know what's funny I was thinking this morning. It's. It's like man, we got to get sicker twice. That's what was going through my head. Yeah, but hopefully it's a different person for real.
Speaker 1:Uh, let's see like a million people a day. We'll be fine on that part, yeah honestly I didn't shave because of that.
Speaker 2:So I figured on wednesday I'll get one, then I'll shave, and Thursday I'll get the other one.
Speaker 1:I wasn't made.
Speaker 2:Yep, I almost shaved yesterday for Jurassic Park. I'm like, oh no, I need to look different. Oh my god, not even kidding, I actually thought about that shit. But yeah, I was like, oh man, we got to get stickers twice. But okay, wednesday will be easy, and then Thursday. You can always do it Thursday morning too.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, first thing, thursday It'll be fine If it works. I mean, if we're there early enough, I'll do both on Wednesday. But you're right, we're there early enough on Thursday that it will. Yeah, but I don't remember. I'm not used to doing it on Thursday because we usually do it Wednesday. Can we get it Wednesday morning, will they?
Speaker 1:let us go in. I don't know. I've seen people asking if they can go Wednesday to get their child badge and stuff.
Speaker 2:I would assume. Yes, we've always done it, but we've always had five, but we've always had Wednesday. So I don't know, but I'm pretty sure on Thursday we can just go in yeah, thursday would be fine, you know, freaking 5 in the morning, 6 in the morning, 7 in the morning and just go to the A gate, a door, and go into the ADA area and get the stickers, yeah, but I don't know, not too crazy, I mean, we don't care too much. It's like whatever, yeah, we'll figure it out. Yeah, worst case scenario we have paper. It's the code that's on the plastic. I will take my paper out and put in my actual one on Thursday. It's like, oh, there's already a way around that, because obviously that badge will work the whole time.
Speaker 1:No it'll be fine, they're not going to recognize us?
Speaker 2:I don't think so either I think it'll just be different people and shit, it's going to be all right. Which is why I was saying do both on Wednesday. If I go Wednesday at 2 and then later in the day, before they open at 6, it's like oh, there's somebody else new out there, now, let me grab my other one.
Speaker 1:Not catch them at the end of the night, when they're busy trying to get out of there?
Speaker 2:Like, hey, can I get this real quick for the morning? Oh, that's actually you know what Good call. That's actually way better. That's actually better Because we're already being inside. Just switch them off, take off the one, put on the other and say, hey, I'm just trying to get my sticker for tomorrow. Yeah, I like that, I like that. Okay, that's a plan. And then, honestly, wednesday's shop it'll be like I was saying it'll be five booths that have tickets. I'm going to all five on Wednesday to get the tickets Figpin, hallmark and Three Roosevelt. I can't think of anything else that had tickets.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think so. And then at 8, I have and then, while we're waiting, go around get BB Create or something.
Speaker 2:Get BB Create, get Symbiote for my plushies Although I might say that in the night, so I have to carry them until it's time to leave. But the little boost that Duke was talking about the little stickers basically N12. Everybody knows N12's on everybody's list. But yeah, stickers, All the little stuff May go knock all that stuff off while waiting for our time slot.
Speaker 1:So I'm not kidding. You can buy a shirt every day, just whatever your daily shirts are at Roosevelt, just buy them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is the plan. They're all good enough that somebody is going to want it, so I'll get it. And then again, I'm curious if they're going to let you do the day before shirts unlimited, because if so, I want to know how many star wars floral shirts they have and what sizes, and I will, uh, buy them all yep they come in boxes, right, just give it here, right, how much?
Speaker 2:is how many? How many in your box? Just give me a box of xls. Yeah, um, sir, there are 30 shirts per box. I'm like, so you're saying three grand, right? So you're saying just under three grand? No, no problem. There, you go Yep yep 30 shirts.
Speaker 1:Jack, I need the keys to the car so I can go to the Hilton.
Speaker 2:Right. So what I heard was $2,400. Okay, that's what I heard. You take Visa right. Like Wayne's World, is cash good here dude, no shit, you know how it is these days it was so funny I was. I was like, just just, I think it was friday. I was like, oh, I gotta get, because friday was payday. Also, I was like I'm gonna get cash for comic-con. I'm like, oh wait, actually I don't nobody's's going to fucking take it.
Speaker 2:It's like, what's the point of getting cash? It's not accepted. I'll probably still have a couple hundred, but not the way I used to they have $1,500 on me. Nope, nope, you're going to go home with $1,400. Yep, come Saturday I'm like I'll be back. I gotta go make a deposit at the bank.
Speaker 1:I still got this $1,200. I can't be walking around with.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I was like what's the point? But yeah, I don't think I'll have more than $300 on me, man.
Speaker 1:Seriously, what's the point? I was thinking that too, because even maybe Artist Alley, they might.
Speaker 2:That's a good point and they would appreciate the cash more than exactly losing the three percent on their fees anyway, assuming they don't charge you back, because most of them just charge you for it anyway exactly that that happened in denver a lot. It was you use your card. Three percent, two percent. Three percent, two percent, it was just whatever something called the price of doing business.
Speaker 1:Sucker shit, mcdonald's ain't charging me for it.
Speaker 2:You know, and obviously it's legal or people are doing it, yeah. But I wonder you know what? I wonder how many of them would lose this, like if that happened, I was like 3% fee if you use card. I'd go, oh, okay, never mind. How many of them would say, oh no, I'll waive it for you. Yeah, that would be a game to play. Figure out like do you really want to lose $100? Sale over $3? Obviously the other argument is do you really not want to buy that for $3 more? So you can go both ways on that. But I would be curious if it's like you know, find a hundred dollar print. It's like oh, it's three percent if you pay charge.
Speaker 2:I'm like oh okay, well, thank you, have a good day. No, no no, that's out of my budget, sorry well, like no, I budgeted 100, I didn't budget 103 and you know, my anal ass, that I would do some shit like that. I would straight up be like no, I said I was out of budget.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I hope somebody else falls for it. That would be so funny though but I I guess it's like when, um, people are like oh, I only take paypal goods and services, you need to add on the three percent if you're going to pay that way it's more than three percent.
Speaker 2:But people don't realize that either, because you have to pay for the percentage of the percentage that you just added on. It's actually a different rate. You're not paying $100? Oh, it's 3%, 103. No, it's like 103.30. You have to add all of that and people don't do that I do.
Speaker 1:You would.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure shit, and I do. I'm on somebody on Facebook, facebook. They're like oh, I want to do it this way. Okay, there's a fee for that. Oh, so it's like 103. Oh no, it's 333 emphasis on the 33 yeah, you're gonna.
Speaker 2:You're good, because you gotta pay p's on fees and the fees, lady. So you ain't. You ain't trying to get that over me. That's a postcard stamp. It's not even a real stamp anymore. Fucking 78 cents for a stamp For real, though it's gross, but I get it. So yeah, I actually was like nah, cash, don't need it. If I do, I'll just get it the next day. It was like, oh, cash for this?
Speaker 1:All right, whatever, unless it's something I have to have right there and there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, unless it's something that's like all right, if it's not going to sell out, I'll go get cash and come back later. Maybe, like I said, some of that shit's principle of the matter. It's like, man, you got to raise your freaking price to include the fee, no matter what, and I'll feel better about it, like the way Japan does. Mm-hmm, man, why is it so hard?
Speaker 1:Yeah and then if somebody pays cash, well, you just made extra money to cover the next credit card Exactly.
Speaker 2:It's like just say 105. If you just said it was 105, if you tell me 105, I'm going to pay you 105. If you tell me 100 plus a transaction fee, no sale.
Speaker 1:That's what I would do, because it does. It sounds bad that way.
Speaker 2:It does. I would actually pay Like how much is this? $105. Done Mm-hmm Two booths over 100 plus 3% credit card fee. No, thank you, it's like the eBay meme. You know how much is this? $20 plus $5 shipping.
Speaker 1:Ooh, screw that. How much is this one twenty five dollars free shipping.
Speaker 2:Oh hell, yeah, that's where you go, like what you just paid, the same okay, but yeah, that I I mean well, my ass is looking that one's this much plus shipping, that one's this much with free shipping.
Speaker 2:I'm still saying if I pay for shipping yep, yep, I sort it that whole price lowest plus shipping. Okay, that way it does all the work for me and I'll pick that one. I don't care if you charge shipping or don't. I want to know what the overall price is. That's all I care about. Oh man, people are crazy. Man, if you do anything pop culture I know we're Comic-Con and nothing but pop culture but anything outside of the SDCC world this week we did last week?
Speaker 1:No, I just been at work all week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yesterday I was at work yesterday. What did we do yesterday? I know we left the house Shit. What did we do yesterday? I know we left the house Shit. What did I do yesterday? Nothing on the calendar. We left for the house. We went to get. We got paint, because we need paint for touch-up paint and all that shit. Anything fun though.
Speaker 2:It hasn't been a year yet. You already need touch-up paint.
Speaker 1:Well, the crown molding guy will need it too. Okay, yeah, ain't even been a year yet, you already touch up paint. Well, the crown molding guy will need it too. So, okay, yeah, um, you got a book of colors. You got your house the paperwork. Okay, yeah, one for the, the regular walls, one for the glossy walls in the bathroom. No, I didn't do anything, I was just um. The new robocop game came out, so I've been trying to play that when we're not doing anything. Robocop, unfinished Business. I thought it was just DLC for the first game, but now it's like a whole new game.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, that's a sequel.
Speaker 1:It's not a AAA game. Like you can tell. It was made by a budget studio, but it's very good. It's like a single A game and they got Peter Weller to come in for the voice acting and shit. What more do you want? I think there's one where you get to play as Ed 209, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 2:Unexpectedly cool actually.
Speaker 1:The first one was a really good game, and this one's just more of the same. You can shoot the shit out of everyone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can't go wrong with that.
Speaker 1:You can shoot dudes in the balls, just like in the movie. I think there was an achievement in the first game for that too, so so was it an achievement in this one also no oh, okay, you know but they're done that this one, you get an achievement for petting a cat in the slums euphemism or actual cat no, an actual cat. Yeah, there's a cat just sitting in the middle of the street oh, okay, all right with this game.
Speaker 2:That could be a euphemism it could be.
Speaker 1:Robocop wouldn't do that, though he's an upstanding citizen I mean he is.
Speaker 2:Does it mean some other side characters aren't doing it? Man? Yeah, no, it's just errands for me. Yesterday it was knock off, some errands to get ready. Uh, sam's club for sccc and then and then jurassic park.
Speaker 1:You know that was no, I actually got in trouble because we weren't seeing a movie this week. We're not seeing a movie this week. I'm like there ain't nothing to see.
Speaker 2:Nobody was super excited about smurfs exactly ain't nothing to see. Or the other one uh what? I know what you did last summer. Ain't nobody trying to watch? That yeah and I. My tuesday movie could have been 28 years later I I just wasn't in the mood.
Speaker 3:It was like I don't even want to pay five bucks for it.
Speaker 1:We're going to see Fantastic Four this week and then I actually got in for the secret movie the Monday after con, so it's either going to be Freaky or Friday, or Bad Guys 2. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I saw that. Did you get that email yesterday?
Speaker 1:No, I got those tickets a couple days ago.
Speaker 2:Okay, I got the email for it yesterday and then I was like, oh, we'll be driving, Never mind, Can't do that. But yeah, I saw that. I was like, oh cool, I like this Uh oh, I saw it was PG. I'm like cool, I can take girls to that they do tell you what rated it is, so you can get an idea of what's coming up. It's either Bad Guys 2 or Freaky or Friday. I was going to say I'm going to go with Bad Guys 2.
Speaker 1:Yeah, same, I haven't watched the first one yet.
Speaker 2:I didn't watch the first one. I didn't watch the first Freaky Friday with those two cast members. Honestly no interest. Although when I was looking on Tuesday, if I wanted to go to a movie, I looked at my status and I'm five visits away from getting it.
Speaker 1:So close.
Speaker 2:Definitely watched a lot of I mean obviously on Platinum now, but just for next year anyway. And it's so funny how much I've seen this year, because last year I needed to do five in December.
Speaker 3:I needed to watch five movies in december and I did but I'm all like it's.
Speaker 2:It's only july and I'm only got five to go.
Speaker 1:Oh, we were the hell. I've been doing all year I did like 12, 15 tickets or something in december. I'm like shit, there's nothing coming out. What are we gonna do? Oh yeah, I think I'm already platinum, now. If I'm not, I will be after Monday.
Speaker 2:You're about to be before August even hits, but by the time August gets to the end of August, I'm sure I'll have my five visits by then. I'm hoping it's a good movie. So I'll see Fantastic Four again, so there's already one right there, and then whatever else is coming out for the summer that I'll that I'll be able to watch through august yeah, nobody two's coming out so obviously with five movies I'll get there, and I'll get there quickly.
Speaker 2:But it was just funny how fast I got there this year than I did last year.
Speaker 1:Yeah as I remember last year when we saw deadpool at comic-con, I'm like shit, that's four tickets I'm not getting for Platinum status.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, I still haven't done my test either. If I'm buying two tickets, if I buy them separately, does it count as two different visits? Uh-huh, I haven't checked that yet, because that would talk about. I'm sure they figure that out and you can't do that. Yeah, but I still want to try it, so next time I buy because it's probably per show time that's what I was thinking. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. If it's probably per show time, oh, so you found a date.
Speaker 2:Okay, that still doesn't count yeah, we'll count it towards your ticket total right right, but not toward the visit total yeah so what I need to do is find two showings of the movie within 20 minutes of each other for the commercials, and then just kind of hope his theater is empty and go over and just go.
Speaker 2:hey, you're going to watch the 440 show, I'm going to watch the 5 o'clock show. I'll let you know if anybody's next to me so you can come over, Because again all the commercials will be done. Or then come over to the 440 show and screw the 5 o'clock one. See if I can work the system.
Speaker 1:I think you'll be the guy that's my seat sir.
Speaker 2:For sure. No, I'll just take one seat. She can sit on my lap, talk about whatever pops up.
Speaker 1:I don't need the popcorn trick anymore.
Speaker 2:No, I just got a zipper and she's wearing a dress. Call it a day.
Speaker 1:You could have let her sit next to me, but no, you want to be a dick about your seat Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mile high club in the theater, although I guess I am a mile up, so every time I do it it's a mile high club. I'm sure that counts. That totally counts, totally. Yeah, the girl's all excited. Yet yeah, I'll take the old girl here, she's ready to do her thing.
Speaker 1:We have cultured that woman too much.
Speaker 2:Lou Dude and too fast that learning curve? Just like no, no, no, just feed me. It's like watching the Matrix and Neo's all like just more. She's just in the Matrix and Neo's all like it's more he's in the chair, whoa.
Speaker 1:I'm a geek now Exactly.
Speaker 2:Oh man, the celebration's going to blow her mind. Oh man, for real, for real, lord, have mercy and all the cuteness, jawas and Ewoks and Grogu, everywhere by then the Loathballs, the Loathath kittens will be there. Oh my god, the little kittens will be around too. She, she's done for man, she is so done for but yeah, so, anyway. So she's good to go. How are the girls?
Speaker 1:they are oldest. One really loves comic. I think it's her favorite thing of the year. So little one you know her. She just cares about shopping.
Speaker 2:That is true. What can you get me? Buy me this, buy me that, take a picture with somebody in a costume and buy me this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think she'll have more fun once we're there. But yeah, I think Big One's looking forward to it. I'm kind of bummed. There's not a lot of fallout for her, but she'll find something to it. I'm kind of bummed. There's not a lot of Fallout for her, but why? She'll find something to do. No, she's not super into Comic-Con that much.
Speaker 2:Hasn't been in a while. It's been a long year, a lot of years since, yeah. I remember a stroller being around the last time she was really.
Speaker 1:She was super excited about something. Yeah, Mm-hmm. You super excited about something. Yeah, you know, holly's just such a bitch anymore and like that's her thing, right, like the big movies well, sort of because she can just get the bracelet.
Speaker 2:That's true if she doesn't care where she sits, just get the bracelet the night before and make sure you're back by 7 am, 8 am, 9, whatever the time frame is, and then if she's long, she doesn't care about the seat, she's at least guaranteed in.
Speaker 1:That's all she cares about right, just get in so she really wants, you can just do that but she's kind of like you, she won't even look at the schedule until she's there.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, uh, I may look at it when we switch drivers. I may look at it then and that's a maybe. I still honestly don't have much interest in looking at the schedule yet. I know it's just going to irritate me on how it's, that freaking grid. I say it every year for like eight years now. Put that up, put that grid up, and I would feel a whole lot better about it. I would even print it. That's what I'm saying. Put it up there, I would, I would print it and I would go to my office office, use a 11 by 17 paper, print that thing on there so I can just and I'd print it. What all four days, five days, yeah, four days. I would print one for each day and I would do that. But it's like, why is it so hard to just to put that thing up digitally?
Speaker 1:I don't get it so I want you to go. You want the good shit, you gotta show up I am gonna go.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. I'm still going to be there, Nothing's going to change. It's just just make it easy for me, Because looking at that on the computer or on the app it is, I can't. It's hard for me to read that it is. Now. Once I get it, it'll be fine, Because then I can just go in the app and look up specifically stuff and then add it to my schedule. Yeah, yeah, I'll add it, favorite it and add it to my schedule. I'm good to go there. God dog man, Getting there it's like nope, this will be a Wednesday. Waiting in line to get into shop and I'll have my Sharpie circling all the shit on the grid and then transferring everything over or the night. You know how it is. Get back to the room around 10 o'clock.
Speaker 1:Decompressing, and then you're up till midnight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, doing exactly that Take a shower, do whatever, go to In-N-Out.
Speaker 1:Maybe the line's not long.
Speaker 2:I was going to say, except for the line, Although with mobile ordering nowadays that really helps a lot.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2:I just want to walk in, grab my shit and go, and it's been years since I've been in and out, ever since Colorado got one, so it's like now I don't go anymore.
Speaker 2:Because you can, yeah, exactly, and because I can, I haven't In like three years. I think three years last time I had in and out, so it depends on how it goes. I think three years last time I had In-N-Out, so it depends on how it goes, like I may save In-N-Out for, I don't know, Vegas, for example. That might be dinner Tuesday night.
Speaker 1:So is there one.
Speaker 2:Centennial, that's the closest one, okay, and it's right next to Raising Cane's, so there's options. I can go to In-N-Out Burgers and Raising Cane's Fries I can go to In-N-Out Burgers and Raising Cane Fries.
Speaker 1:Yep, exactly Get that Texas toast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's actually not bad. I'll consider that.
Speaker 1:Those lines all suck too.
Speaker 2:I was going to say. I remember that, though. I remember I got in the In-N-Out line and whoever I was with ended up going to Raising Cane's while I was in the In-N-Out line so they could order that they didn't jump back in line with me when I was paying. That's how long it took. I was paying in and out, so it was like there's a way to do it, but damn, this worked.
Speaker 3:Why does it?
Speaker 1:have to be work. They're supposed to put a Cane's over here by the Smiths, but they did Taco Bell instead.
Speaker 2:Oh, I heard about that. They got rid of it Really. It went to Taco Bell, that's terrible, that's terrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was stupid.
Speaker 2:Don't know if I want a Taco. Bell 10 was the way to go. Okay, y'all, I know we're kind of boring, we're just kind of talking concert and our plans and everything. That's okay, it'll be fine, you're going to be okay. You're going to ride this with us, because the next week, if we're back in time, then y'all get to hear all the setup oh, did they actually do this? Did they actually do that? Did they actually see? Then you get to learn all the stuff they did. Did you do that? So there's going to be a quiz afterwards to see like which stuff did we actually see, well, our challenges are different.
Speaker 1:This year we don't have badges for every day, technically, yeah, whereas last year we weren't all at the same hotel, so that was weird, but we did have con parking. This year we don't have con parking.
Speaker 2:Two different lots even. You can leave at different times. You're over there at the Hilton and. I'm by Petco.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That could work out. Yeah, it could. It'll be, especially the sense of if people whoever doesn't want to come early we've got two parking spots.
Speaker 3:That doesn't want to come early we got two parking spots at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, come when you want to come yeah and if anybody wants to leave early, no big deal we have a second car there so yeah, yeah, uh, it's four o'clock. I want to leave. Okay, then leave like I mean. Granted, there's the civil system, so there's always, there was always that, yeah, there's always options.
Speaker 1:But well, yeah that's cool, because then I mean we can go screw off at petco maybe, and then your car's right there, we don't have to yep, we're about backtrack or anything it's like it's like hey, let's go see what's going on over here with san rio or whatever hello kitty stuff's going on over here.
Speaker 2:And then while we're done. We're a. We're a block away from the car exactly, yeah, and saturday night too.
Speaker 1:I don't know where the roosevelt party is, but oh yeah, good, good point.
Speaker 2:You know what I thought of what I'm going to do. I was going to play magic or Star Wars. Nope, I'm going to. I'm going to watch the, that masquerade ball again.
Speaker 1:Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:That was too much fun last year.
Speaker 1:So that's 100% what you should do. So that's what.
Speaker 2:I'm killing time doing that.
Speaker 1:Oh, which is only a couple blocks from Petco. It's behind Spaghetti Factory, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's right there. Yeah, holy crap. Yeah, it's right there.
Speaker 1:Oh, that'll work out well, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to go watch the Masquerade Bowl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 2:But do it in the side room. I'm not even going to try to get the main room.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, no, go to the side room like yeah, no, no stress, just relax and just fucking mst3k that shit.
Speaker 2:Yep, I'll make friends. I mean, maybe I'm kind of shy, so we'll we'll see you.
Speaker 1:Don't talk to people a lot I don't.
Speaker 2:It's difficult.
Speaker 1:I don't make eye contact you don't sit next to nobody no ask questions so what'd you do, lou?
Speaker 2:I went to the masquerade ball the side side room, really. How was it? Oh great, I'm hitched now.
Speaker 1:Well, my best friend took my girlfriend to the party, so oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So my best friend, the CEO of this one company, and then my girl, was HR and here we are. This is how it goes sometimes. Oh my God, that whole story, man. It's like I get it. People are having fun, that's like, but mind your business, I know, I'm on both sides of it. It's like you're, you're an ass, you shouldn't be doing this. And the other side is like okay, it happened. Everyone doesn't have to blow it all up out of proportion.
Speaker 1:They wouldn't have if they had just committed to that shit Like, oh yeah, we on the camera, kissy, kissy, move on, and nobody posts that shit on the internet. You act a fool. That's why it got posted.
Speaker 2:They're wondering yeah, because they're wondering why you acted a fool Exactly. And then boom, internet sleuths did their thing and shit. Internet's on the TV. Now you need to watch your job and your wife. Yeah Well, I don't know. He may not have lost his wife. We don't know that story yet. You know how people are, you know how people are they go back to stuff? What if there's a prenup and she ain't going to get paid?
Speaker 3:no, matter what.
Speaker 2:Because you could have circumstances like oh, infidelity First of all.
Speaker 3:you have to prove it.
Speaker 2:You don't have any evidence that he fucked her, just that they were in a game together hugging and kissing. They did have the other video of them kissing. There's a lot of factors here where she may be like I want to leave, but I ain't getting crapified. Dude, I was dumb enough or he was smart enough to make me sign a prenup. He resigned so he doesn't have a job anymore. I imagine the same thing will happen with HR girl. Haven't heard her story yet.
Speaker 1:If she resigned, I mean she totally violated hr. She honestly sucks at her job, if you're sleeping with the boss you're ahead of hr that's.
Speaker 2:You would think that's the case. But you know, maybe she has some disability, you know. You know how people are. He had to hold her up dude, I saw I would have played it off like fell, you caught me rapping. I was rapping, she fell. You can't say otherwise.
Speaker 1:I always hold chicks up by their titties.
Speaker 2:Wait, why wouldn't you? It's like One of the softest spots. You don't want to hurt them while you're holding them up.
Speaker 1:Exactly, there's no tissue damage.
Speaker 2:Right, I'm not trying to bruise her man. That's a whole other lawsuit. We're holding your titties for your sake, girl.
Speaker 1:Exactly You're welcome.
Speaker 2:All y'all know that Exactly. You are welcome. We're not trying to bruise you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, start at the nipple and work your way out Checking for cancer.
Speaker 2:That's all we're doing. That's all we're doing. You get to be held up safely and screened for cancer.
Speaker 1:Shit you up safely and screened for cancer. Shit you should be paying me.
Speaker 2:What more could you ask for For real? You're in HR and I brought you to Coldplay. Raise my salary. Well, I don't know about that, that part, you'd probably get fired for that shit. I mean, I guess, if you like Coldplay, sure I ain't gonna lie, though, as much as I'm all like man, none of y'all business, it's been entertaining as hell. I ain't gonna lie. These memes have been funny, hilarious. That post I sent you, that you sent to Wifey oh my God, I went through that. I was like, oh, that is so bad. We're missing Roadrunner and Wiley. Yep, we're missing Tom and Jerry. I saw Diddy and Baby Oil.
Speaker 2:I did see that one. I saw Diddy and Baby Oil.
Speaker 1:And the one with them going down Splash Mountain. That was pretty good.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't see that one. Yeah, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. He-man and Skeletor.
Speaker 2:Oh, I saw that one. That was a good one.
Speaker 1:Luke and Leia.
Speaker 2:Lion-O and Mum.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So many opportunities here Freaking Duke and Cobra Commander or something like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, you've got to add another booth to your ticket list, the other Fig Pin booth.
Speaker 2:There's two already on my list the Star Wars one. Oh, the one with the random six pins.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, no, so you can get your. Yeah, because it's Star Wars Fig Pin and the regular Fig Pin, which is where the Thund knew about yeah. Yeah, so Fig Pin, fig Pin, three Rose Belts and Hallmark, so six booths.
Speaker 2:Does the, does the oh? So both Fig Pins have tickets? They should. Oh, I just thought it was the Star Wars one.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, all right. Shit the Star Wars one's never even the problem, it's the other one.
Speaker 2:No, it really isn't and isn't, and I did read earlier in the month that they do have that the six random ones, the blind bags. They're doing that again, so I'm likely to get another blind bag. It was cool. The very least it paid for itself when I resell it.
Speaker 2:The extras, so the ones I didn't want to keep. So, man, I'm getting picture right now, as we speak live. I'm getting pics of a girl's bedroom in her new place and it's a lot of space in there. It's like damn, my apartment will fit in her bedroom.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, hey baby hold these pops for me for a little bit.
Speaker 2:That is happening. I have a pile over here to take to her basement. That's not even a joke. I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 26 boxes that I'm taking over to her basement. Oh, my god, that is so funny because, yep, that is absolutely happening and I get my living room kind of back, still, taking away 26, and it's still.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you still got that shit behind you too I was like what stuff?
Speaker 2:Well, the box is by oh yeah, you can see that from there.
Speaker 1:Shit. I own it. I know what it looks like. What's that other one? Is that the GameStop? Sith Vader under him, yeah.
Speaker 3:That stuff is definitely yeah, you are yeah, that stuff is definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you are. So that's that's the stuff backed by the black curtain. Those are just empty boxes, so that's just like if I need some shipping box right all that is now the case itself, the book case itself.
Speaker 2:There's stuff inside there. Only the top shelf is like my stuff. Everything else is stuff that's on ebay. So what'll happen is the bar you can't see on the other side of me right now there's a whole pile of stuff that's going to go in those spaces once I sell all that stuff. So it's like it'll get there and my goal is the end of the year and I've already. I've already committed if it's not gone in the year, I'm donated to the women's shelter, the safeness. So it's like the kid, the kids there, they can use it. If it's sitting here, it's been sitting here for three years. If I'm finally doing anything with it at this point, screw it, it's going to safeness, I get my space back, the kids will have a great christmas, you know, not even stressed here's a ghost, kids have fun she, okay, I'm going that far down.
Speaker 2:But yeah, no, rattler mine, ghost mine, dragonfly mine, but hope y'all like Funkos because you're about to get a crap ton. I even have some figures, dude, I still have some figures from Entertainment Earth, Just some Star Wars 3 and 3 quarters that I had because I bought a couple cases, bought like three cases, sold, two of them still have a case. I'm like I already got my money out of it. This is just free. Let me just donate it.
Speaker 1:I've got plenty of those.
Speaker 2:Bedroom too. Bunch of random stuff here and there.
Speaker 1:It's going to be me, as soon as school starts back up and everybody leaves me alone on Monday Working out here Three more weeks when does school start?
Speaker 2:three more weeks. When does school?
Speaker 1:start Very soon, A week after my birthday.
Speaker 2:August 12th it's middle of August, something, because wife always goes back to work.
Speaker 1:August 12th is a Tuesday, wife always goes back to work on my birthday 11th.
Speaker 2:They go back on the 11th. 12th is a Tuesday, so Monday the 11th, I think that's what it is out here too. It still trips me up, man. I went to school after Labor Day For real and went to the first week of June, so I'm not used to this new school shit. You're out before Memorial and you start in the middle of August.
Speaker 1:That's so weird to me. Those WNBA checks Pay us what you owe. Now they owe the NBA $400 million, $400 million. Yeah, I saw that one earlier. It was like I don't know.
Speaker 2:Are they that stupid? I don't get it Like they have to know.
Speaker 1:They don't make that much money. I don't, yeah, no they don't make any.
Speaker 2:They've lost money every. They've been around for 22 years, they've lost money all 22 years supplemented. So I'm like, do they not know that? What am I missing If we all know it, you'd have to think that they know it.
Speaker 2:Pay us what it's like. You don't make enough money. It's like women's soccer oh, we have more eyeballs. You might from Americans, but you have to understand men's World Cup makes several billion. Y'all make a few hundred million. So don't tell me you got, oh, it won't equal pay. I'm like okay, the men get a percentage of what their income is and what their revenue is for a total. How about, let's say, they get 14%? Are you saying you want 14% of your revenue Because you're not about to make a whole lot? If you agree to that.
Speaker 2:So that's what I never understood that it's like I cannot believe they're that stupid. They can't Not. Stupid is the right word Ignorant. I cannot believe they're that ignorant. They don't know that. That's the scenario. It's like what am I missing? Yeah, when I saw that pay us what you owe, I'm like you owe them. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Aces games they're not that expensive.
Speaker 2:Nope. And then there's the revenue from ads. Well, because there's not a lot of eyeballs on it, they don't pay as much for a commercial that they would on the NBA. So again, it's just basic economics here. I don't understand what they missed. Yeah, it's $30 economics here. Then I don't understand what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's $30 for an Aces game.
Speaker 2:Oh jeez, Do I go to an Aces game? Do I go to a buffet Right?
Speaker 1:Now there's some sections that are pushing $150. Holy shit, that one's $303. Oh, that's row A, that shit's front row.
Speaker 2:Yeah, front row midcourt. I mean, yeah, you're in front of the announcers at that point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but still, I mean $30 tickets as opposed to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look up frickin' Lakers.
Speaker 1:Yeah let's go see a Lakers game.
Speaker 2:I pick a Lakers versus a bad team and it's still 300 nosebleeds.
Speaker 1:All right, lakers at the Suns, let's see $80. So it's another 50 bucks. Not a row C, not horrible, but if we're looking, at yeah, but are you talking about right now?
Speaker 2:When is that game? That game's until.
Speaker 1:October, yeah, october. So same-ish section sitting like courtside 230 the courtside is not 230.
Speaker 2:In the Lakers game there's zero chance it's a Suns game oh well, and now that the Suns lost all their stars, okay, that's like going to an exhibition game. That's fair. That's 230.
Speaker 1:Alright, let's see a Lakers home game.
Speaker 2:Let's see Go to a Lakers home game Versus, like the Celtics, the Nuggets Alright, los Angeles, bucks, san Antonio, somebody with some. Oh, oklahoma City. What would Lakers, oklahoma City be?
Speaker 1:They don't even have games up yet. I guess the season just ended, so there's only two games. Oh, I thought the season just ended, there's only two games.
Speaker 2:I thought the schedule was announced already. At least not on Ticketmaster Point is. These women are out of their minds.
Speaker 2:They're not making that type of money. No, I don't know why they think they are. Maybe I'll deep dive it. I want to know pay us what they owe us. Okay, what is it they owe you? Maybe they're not even talking about salary, maybe it's something else where they're supposed to be compensated for some stuff. They haven't paid them for it yet, or whatever. Maybe it's something that's actually legit. But if they're trying to trying to be like, hey, you need to pay in more revenue, well, I was going to say you can treat them like beach volleyballers and put them in different outfits, but that's only going to work for like one or two girls on their team. The rest of them, we want you to put more clothes on, please.
Speaker 1:That one girl on the Fever though that came to protect. Oh yeah, caitlyn, she can wear them volleyball shirts all day.
Speaker 2:She can wear the volleyball outfit, hell yeah.
Speaker 1:I wear them volleyball all day.
Speaker 2:She can wear the volleyball outfit. Hell yeah, I was going to say Kelsey Plum put on a volleyball outfit, yep. So some of these girls that can put on a volleyball outfit, you might get some more eyeballs. I mean, you already got the lesbians, so you're not going to get more from them.
Speaker 1:But you might get some, but you need the dudes, yeah, but you might get some men actually watching your sports.
Speaker 2:And I will admit, with the Aces being shit this year. I haven't watched this much. Last year I watched a lot of games. This year they're shit, so I'm like whatever We'll see how they do. We'll wait until they get to the playoffs, if they even get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1:Yeah Shit, I don't even know what their record is right now 10-11.
Speaker 2:Ugh.
Speaker 1:Gross, god. Gross, is that what it is?
Speaker 2:Last time I checked it was 10 and 11. Let's say, let's say, let's say seymour pieces, standings button and wmba.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'm on it.
Speaker 2:11 and 11 11, 11, yep, oh, they're on the two-game winning streak, because I was 10, 9 and 11. So, yeah, so they're in a playoff spot right now, the last playoff spot, but they're still in one. So they yeah. They just, i't know, maybe be bad this year, get a good draft pick and then be top like everybody else does. It's like, why are your teams so good? It's like because you suck for three years, so you got three number one picks on your team.
Speaker 1:Right, that's why Drafted the best players for the last three years, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Although what the hell happened to the Sun man? Sun was top two team in the East. Now they're the worst team in the league. Connecticut dropped badly. I was like what the? I was like all right, it'll be Connecticut and New York again. I knew Minnesota was going to be good. I didn't expect Phoenix to be good. Addition by subtraction they get rid of an old girl that wants to be a boy, that was in Russia for drugs. Get rid of her and all of a sudden, boom, phoenix, top three team.
Speaker 1:Crazy how that went she didn't seem like she was that good. I remember when she came back, yeah, a little rusty, but she wasn't that good.
Speaker 2:She was good when she came out at college and that was it.
Speaker 1:She hasn't been good since, but at least she's not loud anymore. That is true, yeah, man.
Speaker 2:But at least she's not loud anymore. That is true Reese and Caitlin, and Reese is only good on rebounds. She ain't good on anything else. Me-bounds, I don't know. It's been a weird sport this last month with no real sports going on. It's like what the hell.
Speaker 1:I know I was thinking that the other day. I'm like I'm ready for hockey and football to come back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, football, at least football. We've got a freaking kickoff in 11 days. So there's that Thursday. A week from Thursday, we got a kickoff Hall of Fame game. So we're almost there.
Speaker 1:Fucking basketball and hockey is still October man, I'll be a whole different person by then.
Speaker 2:For real man, oh whatever. But yeah, I mean, I'm not into baseball enough to care about it to be like oh yeah, we have baseball.
Speaker 1:We have it on at work.
Speaker 2:I'm just like man Y'all just watching A's games.
Speaker 1:No, we've got a lot of people that like Dodgers and shit up there. Oh, that's fair.
Speaker 2:The typical national game the Yankees the Dodgers, the Cubs, the. White Sox the Braves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of the guys at work. He's super into baseball. He's a Padres fan, but he always has sports on. He even has Little League on sometimes. Gross, fucking pedo.
Speaker 2:I want to watch these little boys play with bats and balls.
Speaker 1:Okay, matt, he's scouting them before they get to college. He's like, yep, that guy's going to go to college, then we can, padres can, draft him.
Speaker 2:Bruh, that shit happened Like some sophomore in high school got drafted like number one pick in the baseball draft last week. Ridiculous it is. I'm like how can you even do that? But all right, I guess you're allowed to draft.
Speaker 1:You can't even drive, bro, your mom's going to drop you off to your MLB game.
Speaker 2:Man, I saw that I think it was either on like this sports ticker type thing, and it was like some high school kid gets drafted number one by blah, blah, blah. I'm like what the hell.
Speaker 1:That's some crap. Didn't that happen to Kobe, though, too? Didn't he get drafted out of high school?
Speaker 2:Drafted out of high school was fine. This kid is a sophomore. That's like Kobe getting drafted in 10th grade. It's like, hey, when you finally graduate, we got a team for you. It's like what? Bro's still getting lunch money from his mom, he's getting his little Wicca ticket so he can get free lunch. Yeah, I know about that. Y'all Calm down. I wasn't always able to go to these events, Right? Sometimes I wanted to eat lunch. I had to smell somebody else's breath.
Speaker 1:Real, you're going to eat them veggies.
Speaker 2:Right, it's like oh them school. Green beans are the best.
Speaker 1:You don't want your applesauce today, right, I can have it Right.
Speaker 2:It's like see somebody walking away with a tray. It's like what you don't need that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1:I'll take that tray for you. I got you. You go to recess.
Speaker 2:I got you, no problem, I'm getting up anyway, I'll take yours too, I got you. Oh, my god Damn. Those were the days. I'm so glad I'm not in those days anymore, for real. They made me the man that I am For real. Now I can appreciate shit, right. I appreciate going to comic con Buying what I want.
Speaker 1:They made me the man that I am For real Now I can appreciate shit Right. I appreciate going to Comic-Con Buying what I want.
Speaker 2:And I appreciate I'm still a cheap ass too, because all week it's been like nope, I'm going to.
Speaker 2:Comic-Con Nope. Ooh, I want to go to Chubby Fish Buffet. I'm like nope. So what do I do? I got three sandwiches in the fridge and I ate one of them. Earlier. I got two left for the week. It was like didn't even go to, didn't even really go to dinner before a Jurassic park last night. It was like I'll pick you up in time to get to that If we're there a little early, we can go get a drink. I know a cheap bar that we can get drinks. We did. We got like three, three total drinks between us and a basket of mozzarella sticks and it was $30 something, and usually our meal will be 30 something a piece and I was just like no, not happening, if this, if this was, if this, this was, what was it yesterday? So July 19th, if this was August 19th, we would have spent $200.
Speaker 1:I got Joe's crab shack. I got, I got maybe Crab Shack. I got some Denny's factory coming up.
Speaker 2:Maybe twice to each place. There are rules. It might be two each time. It might be you got Denny's at least once, and now we might add in Benihana, if the schedule works out. It's like uh-uh Sandwich and a bag of chips from Sam's Club, the big variety pack of 30. Is that Uh-uh? It's time to get cheap Driving the whole way. It's like I'll be on the app who got the cheapest gas off the freeway. It's like wait, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 1:Nope, nope, exit up here.
Speaker 2:No, no. We can save 17 cents a gallon if we go in a mile into the city. So turn off here and I'll tell you where to go.
Speaker 1:Let me change the. Google directions.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I would be real. What do you mean? Where are we stopping the drive-thru? Right? Mcdonald's still got the $5 meal, right? Okay, great, let's get out of this with a $10 plus tax.
Speaker 1:Come on Get a dollar. Happy Meal, get that little Happy. Meal toy.
Speaker 2:Man, I'm about to pull up all the apps and it's like, okay, whose deal is what it's like? Every time the Rockies hit a double, you get a McDouble for a dollar. It's your meal. I'm like, okay, Done, I get a mcdouble. You get mcdouble for a dollar.
Speaker 1:It's your meal. I'm like that's like, okay, done, I know where I'm going for lunch. Should we do that too? I think, uh, oh, what's what's the deal out there? The if the knights score like twice and like the first yeah, you get tacos yeah and then like if the aces score so many, you get french fries, or something. I thought it was like if the aces score so many, you get French fries, or something.
Speaker 2:I thought it was like if they held their opponent under like 80 or something, something like that, yeah, yeah yeah, I remember that one, something like that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, they can't prove that you were at the game or not, so they just put it in the app. They're like all Vegas locations at McDonald's, get free large fries.
Speaker 2:That's how it is here in Colorado Rockies, at a double. Then the next day you get a dollar McDouble with a dollar, or you get a free McDouble with a dollar or more purchase. So I'll get the uh chickens, the spicy chicken sandwich $5 meal and add the burger on it. So I get a burger sandwich and a chicken sandwich and nuggets and fries for five, 34. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You walk up in that bitch with your your floral from Denver con like fuck yeah Rockies.
Speaker 2:Right, I was like ah, rockies, get me fed for cheap. It's like the Broncos. It's like they get a like two touchdowns. Mcdonald's is, I can't remember what it is, but it's the same thing. It's like a double. They get two touchdowns in a game. They get like like a standing with dog or something like that. So I'm like Broncos lose but score two touchdowns.
Speaker 1:Score twice and then fall off.
Speaker 2:Score twice and they give up more than 14 points every game. Oh my god, oh holy shit. But yeah, it's so funny how I caught myself just being cheap the last 10 days. It's just been like, nah, just being cheap the last 10 days. It's just been like nah. Like, oh, I want to go here, I want to buy one Nah, I'm good Drinks. Like, oh, I'm going to get me an ICS. Water's fine.
Speaker 1:Tap water. I don't even want that fancy shit. Yeah, it's like uh-uh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I ain't trying to crack a seal on a bottle of water. That means it costs more, unless it's sam's club, then it was a quarter right, which which I did yesterday when I ran my errands. I got a hot dog combo, a pizza, uh, and the, the, and I grabbed a couple of bottles of water because I knew I was going to be running around so I was like oh, 25 cents, Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Best deal ever I keep forgetting my damn mug. I would just bring my own thermos I'm not going to be shady, it would just be water for it. But I could have filled it up at Sam's Club and I was like, oh, I forgot my damn bottle. I was like, oh well, I'll just buy two bottles here.
Speaker 1:50 cent penalty for being forgetful.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly. That's how you learn. I am definitely one of those who makes a scene that somebody gets a water cup and tries to put soda in it. I'm like, no, I had to pay for mine, you're paying for yours, right? I saw somebody at Taco Bell actually go off on some dude, an employee. He's like hey, you said you wanted a water cup, that ain't water. The person came around and took the cup away. Hell yes.
Speaker 1:I was like I can't be owner of the business.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying. They won't let us capital punishment for that. Just take your cup. I'm going to get you sucking and put that shit in your hands, right? Oh my god, yay, we got to an hour and a half. We did it not a whole lot of talking, but other than comic-con and random bullshit. But there honestly wasn't a whole lot going on, yeah, I mean there just wasn't a lot going on.
Speaker 2:I mean I worked all week. I had a meeting wednesday and th Thursday Aaron's all for Comic-Con. Everything is SDC-centric right now. It's going to be, next week as well.
Speaker 1:You'll get your payoff episode maybe next week, definitely the week after.
Speaker 2:We'll see how the timing goes on returns, but for sure the week after, if we're back early enough on Sunday, we can just do an early one on Sunday if Duke's available. If not, then yeah, the following Sunday.
Speaker 1:Did he ever put his Roosevelt list on the Discord?
Speaker 2:I don't think he did the summary yet. He had the individual one, but I ain't looking at that. I'll wait for the summary. When he puts the summary up I'll look at it and if there's someplace that I'm at that he wants, you know, like the tiki glasses, because overall wants to set it for, and obviously the sticker stuff, so there'll be some and I don't know. Did he tell us his Roosevelt list? I don't think so either.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:Neil, obviously, but yeah, anything aside from Neil.
Speaker 1:He didn't say nothing.
Speaker 2:So we got plenty of time, so we'll figure it out. He's got until Wednesday at I don't know whenever our ticket time is Exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh man, all right, well, I don't have tomorrow to do this, so I guess I should edit oh yeah, wrap it up so you can do your editing before you hit the road Hell yeah. It'll still post on Tuesday though At one in the afternoon I'll be packed. I'll just sit in the car angry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, matter of fact, once we're done, I will probably wrap up some of the packing stuff I have here, so I have less to do Because, again, I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. She can hit the fan and I'm working until 8. I don't plan on it, but that's the thing. You never plan on it and it happens.
Speaker 1:Chances are low, but never zero.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly, just like that freaking chiropractor Chances are low, but not zero. Full circle people, full circle.
Speaker 1:Right back to the first topic.
Speaker 2:It's called the callback.
Speaker 3:Alright. Well, I guess it's time to see you. I'll see you. Bye.
Speaker 2:Deuces y'all.
