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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 2No, this is my Comic-Con phase. Shit 10 o'clock at night.
Speaker 1While we're all trying to eat. We're just like. I know I have to eat because I'm hungry.
Speaker 2Freaking nodding off into my plate at Denny's.
Speaker 3For real, though that's what I said when we were getting snacks.
Speaker 1I'm like we need to eat enough protein so that we're full until we go to Denny's for dinner.
Speaker 2Yep, 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 1And it's only a two-minute drive so we can go to sleep.
Speaker 2We haven't gotten smart enough to order our shit to go Nope.
Speaker 1We'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 2At 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 3No, because that was Thursday.
Speaker 1It was Thursday when the lottery was closing.
Speaker 2Thursday. It was Thursday night, and then they gave us our locations for our wins and losses on Friday.
Speaker 1I don't feel too good. I'll get to it when I get to it.
Speaker 2Sunday last Sunday they're in a pod it was established that we would probably have a AI.
Speaker 3GPT Yep.
Speaker 2And 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 1I'm going to go ahead and pretend this happened.
Speaker 2I'm going to take this.
Speaker 1I'm going to hang out with my softball pals.
Speaker 2We'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 1None.
Speaker 2Okay, 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 1No shirts. My backpack is on the couch. In the casita I have my Comic-Con lanyards.
Speaker 2And Winnie the.
Speaker 1Pooh that I'm getting autographed for the little one.
Speaker 2Oh, that's cool. Wait, winnie the Pooh, what?
Speaker 1Funko Pop. Who's going to be there? Remember when we went to Funko last year in Hollywood?
Speaker 3And we bought all that shit and they gave us a free Winnie the Pooh. Yeah, who's signing?
Speaker 1Winnie the Pooh son Hondo Jim Cummings. You didn't know, hondo was Winnie the Pooh, no.
Speaker 2I 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 1No, 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 2What's his price, honey, good Lord, okay, yeah, no, he ain't worth that.
Speaker 1that 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 2Yeah, I was going to say Is that 100 bucks on a Pop? Because you know they charge more on Pops.
Speaker 1It just said he's a honey, no matter what.
Speaker 2Okay, all right, Then it probably is that tax Jesus. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's Comic-Con tax for sure.
Speaker 2Uh-huh, I miss the days of you know Sales Civilian, just having a random folks up there, right.
Speaker 1I 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 2They 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 2No man, Get some cheap folks up there and just let them sit around all day.
Speaker 3If they have enough fans that it was fine.
Speaker 1it'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 2That is true, though.
Speaker 1Everybody wants a pop sign.
Speaker 2Two more years and it's going to be Thrilljoy taking over.
Speaker 1Right, although I did rearrange the room a bit, oh shit son.
Speaker 2Oh 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 1Yeah, doc, holliday Target exclusive Signed by the man. The day Target exclusive Signed by the man.
Speaker 2That's a good looking one, though I like that blue on that too.
Speaker 1I wasn't sure I was going to like that blue.
Speaker 2I was like, okay, that actually looks pretty damn good.
Speaker 1I know he should probably be in a hard case.
Speaker 2Probably actually, I was actually.
Speaker 1Because 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 2I'm like huh, you got a sealed box of Funko and it was my Jason Kelsey pops.
Speaker 1No way, I'm like they came in a hard case. That's crazy.
Speaker 2I wouldn't have guessed that either.
Speaker 1Jason Kelsey's not worth a hard case. No, he's not, he's coming right out.
Speaker 2Yep, for Doc to take your spot. Yeah, yeah, that is crazy. Go ahead, Go ahead.
Speaker 1I know there were special pops. I didn't think they were that special.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was going to say I remember that too, but come on now. Is that the beer? One with his?
Speaker 3shirt off.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay, it was like yeah, it was cool all that, but come on.
Speaker 1But he's not a hard case pop. There's no way.
Speaker 2Well, first of all, he's an eagle, so certainly not.
Speaker 3Come on now.
Speaker 2Congratulations. They got their second title last year. Now they have half as many as the Giants.
Speaker 1Good job A third as many as the Steelers He'll get there eventually.
Speaker 2I'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 1I'll probably do it real quick afterwards.
Speaker 3Oh, 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 1Oh, me too.
Speaker 3Because we're leaving in the morning, and I mean whatever.
Speaker 1No, the girls have not started packing at all.
Speaker 2Oh well, okay, so you'll leave around noon tomorrow.
Speaker 1Probably. I was told 10, so we'll see what happens. Okay, one now.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1And again we're not going to some third world country. They got Target in Anaheim and San Diego.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 3Yeah.
Speaker 2That's why I don't even worry about it.
Speaker 1Yeah, no the hardest choice is which Roosevelt's am I bringing?
Speaker 2You 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 2Roosevelt all day.
Speaker 1So 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 2Got the SDCC one.
Speaker 3Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2So 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 1You're not wrong.
Speaker 2And 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 1Well, they did okay at Celebration, though right Same thing.
Speaker 2They 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 1It's just in my head. It's all it is. It's walk fast, stand in line, walk fast exactly, I'm sure.
Speaker 2I'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 2You 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 1Uh, that could be me. I'm so lucky. Exactly All the lotteries for comic-con is crazy. I'm a lucky person.
The Art of Packing for Comic-Con
Speaker 2I'll be that one. The point is the percentage chance is not zero. This is true.
Speaker 1Chances are low, but they're never zero.
Speaker 2Chances are low. But not involved, not involved, well, y'all.
Speaker 1So 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 2One 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 1Right. Yeah nobody's ever done percentage of the year before. Yeah right, I'm going to go over it.
Speaker 2I'm like that's two months out of 12.
Speaker 1There'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 2One 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 1That's why we've been doing this religiously for over a year.
Speaker 2A year and five months, good Lord.
Speaker 1A year and 16%.
Speaker 2Well, I mean not really, that's close to like 42%, but whatever, like 41.37 or something, I don't know.
Speaker 1Yeah, next month.
Speaker 2Oh 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 1I don't know It'll be 18 months, yeah.
Speaker 2Oh 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 1I need a barcode.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1I'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 2Oh, I have the email I pre-ordered. Oh oh, oh Well, I have the email, so I didn't bother.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So 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 1Exactly yeah, the bigger booth Same booth.
Speaker 2I 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 1Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So 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 1It 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 2She ate her fill.
Speaker 1She still wanted to buy everything, anything new this year.
Speaker 2Remember once in a while y'all find something and it's like, hey, let's try this this year.
Speaker 1No Big One. Dit wasn't super into Pop-Tarts this year, so she got herself some protein bars for breakfast.
Speaker 3Like those special K-1s?
Speaker 1No, some protein bars for breakfast Like those special K ones. No, it was like some workout ones or some shit.
Speaker 2Yeah, like actual protein bars?
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2So she can have snacks to to enjoy her complaining about comic-con exactly comic. Complaining about comic-con makes people hungry.
Speaker 1Man 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 2I'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 2Look, 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 2Tomorrow 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 2Are you leaving Tuesday or?
Speaker 1Wednesday, tuesday, tuesday. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1Celebration Jesus Comic-Con store, comic-con store is a lot cheaper than the Celebration store.
Speaker 2Oh 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 1Celebration store ain't got nothing. Comic Con store got nothing.
Speaker 2I 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 1No, they don't have pins or nothing.
Speaker 2There's not a whole lot that I want this year.
Speaker 1Those shirts need to convince me in person.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1Yeah, I think they usually do like a Black Friday sale, so yeah, yeah, every time.
Speaker 2So 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 2There 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 1Like heat.
Speaker 2You can't walk away from it. In 30 seconds you're left.
Speaker 3Yep.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 1Action is the juice.
Speaker 2That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1But 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 2Especially 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 1Look 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 3They make Cocaine Bear Superman has a bag of drugs, so cool.
Speaker 2Oh 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 1You're welcome, funko, that's a free one, right, you've got.
Speaker 2Ashley Judd doing the hand thing on the edge of the balcony how cool would that be?
Speaker 2Do 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 1Fuck that.
Speaker 2Some 1995 movie or whatever. How long ago it was.
Speaker 1This is a Gen X podcast.
Speaker 2You 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 2That's kind of cool, um, but yeah, what else going on? Uh, like I said, I work most of the day.
Autograph Hunting and Funko Pop Strategies
Speaker 2Uh, 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 1Yeah, I saw you offered it up to someone else did you have more than? One yeah. I had two.
Speaker 2I 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 1I pulled FCFS Cross-posted.
Speaker 2Yep, 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 1I 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 2yeah, 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 2I'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 2Oh 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 2One stop to get ice for the cooler.
Speaker 1How long is the drive?
Speaker 2About 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 1But then you have the hours Body breaks.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1It's usually how bad.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1I 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 2Yep, 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 1It's fine.
Speaker 2Right, 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 1thing will be the getting there.
Speaker 2We 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 1I did get a refrigerator yesterday.
Speaker 2Oh, check this fool out, Ah no.
Speaker 1Man, now you don't have to leave your nasty-ass hamburger out for a week.
Speaker 2Who would do that? That seems ridiculous. I don't know anybody who'd do that, uh-oh.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, I finally got my little mini fridge, though it's got a freezer up top.
Speaker 2What you got in the main house drink-wise up top.
Speaker 1What you got in the main house drink-wise Shit like Powerade kind of shit.
Speaker 2Sweet Throw two of those in the fridge.
Speaker 1I did. I threw a bunch of them in there already actually, oh hell yeah, it was like cool when we get there.
Speaker 2But you didn't do anything today, Like just woke up at 10 and maybe all in.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2I'll kick her cane out from under.
Speaker 1Bruh 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 2And 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 1So 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 2I'm like it's already figured out.
Speaker 1Already 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 2It's like man, no, go back, go back to you.
Speaker 1I mean I was going over there anyways to get her a new charge cable for her phone.
Speaker 2Oh, it was the cable. I thought it was the brick.
Speaker 1No, it was the USB part. Like the USB, the A-side that shit was like 90 degrees, dude, oh good.
Speaker 2Good lord.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So I got her a new cable, yeah.
Speaker 1So 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 2Oh, okay, okay, I got you now, yep.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2Wait, so did your mom, the lady, get into it.
Speaker 1A little bit.
Speaker 3While you were there.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 3does she want a cucumber on her nails?
Speaker 1right 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 1Um, 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 1Yeah, she is very obsessed with that character. I'm like are you crushing on Lewis Pullman or something?
Speaker 2She'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 1So 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 2Yeah, but are they new, Like are they exclusive?
Speaker 1She never asked me for them, so I never bought them. Oh okay, until recently. I'm like okay, gotcha, whatever.
Speaker 2I'm like where did this come out?
Speaker 1Let me refill my Funko points from buying that Predator.
Speaker 2Yeah, 750 points Return Right.
Speaker 1And 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 2You don't have to ask me twice, for real, big enough cat box, you'll fit in it as a house anyway.
Speaker 1Right 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 1If 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 2So is that determined by you?
Speaker 1yes, 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 3though they can.
Speaker 2They can.
Speaker 3Well, they can lie about it though.
Speaker 1But I can check it and uncheck it.
Speaker 2Okay, that's what I'm all like.
Speaker 1Come 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 1No, 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 2Okay, it's like that would freaking suck.
Speaker 1So we'll see Do that a little bit this week, next week after Comic-Con.
Speaker 2Right, 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 1I haven't heard anything about them this year at all.
Speaker 2Yeah, or even their, their, whatever their Lego exclusive is Cause I don't think they did anything in in um Japan.
Speaker 3They had like early stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I'm not even counting debut stuff like specifically exclusive. I thought it was just you buy something yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2Yeah, I should have done that. Did you purchase from Lego? I would have. Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2I don't think I bothered at all there.
Speaker 1Yeah, they were in a weird spot too, just not somewhere that we walked a lot.
Speaker 2And I guess official we're two days away or three days away, so no doorables.
Speaker 1Mm-mm Right.
Speaker 2No, 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 1Yeah, there's nothing, even on SDCC blog about Lego. Nothing on the blog, wow. Last thing was for last year's Comic ConCon.
Speaker 2You know it's serious, Dan Right Are they?
Speaker 1even going to be there. Dude, that was my next question. Check that app.
Speaker 2Check that app and see if they're even going to be there Exhibitor In their usual spot next to Mattel or whatever.
Speaker 1Right 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 2We 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 1Yup, and then Hasbro wasn't even in the lottery this year.
Speaker 2That 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 1Yeah, like I said, I want to get the Dreadnoughts band and Anakin and Obi-Wan.
Speaker 2Yep, 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 3It's like doing one of the five.
Speaker 2I 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 1Really you wouldn't get that. Even though it's Darth Vader, you just wouldn't get it.
Speaker 2Technically? 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 1star wars isle I didn't realize die hard.
Speaker 2Oh 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 3Legos, legos are Hot Wheels. I could see Dang.
Speaker 2But 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 1When I walked by, they got the spiders on them.
Speaker 2Yep, 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.
Navigating Tickets, Booths, and Exclusives
Speaker 2walk 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 1That's why I couldn't own a business. I'd be whooping ass if somebody did that Yep.
Speaker 2It'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 1Put 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 2Look for real. I get it. I can't use that for capital punishment, but I'd like to. But that's okay, right.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2Wait, how do you take?
Speaker 1soda.
Speaker 2Oh, 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 3Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2Mm-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 1Yep.
Speaker 2Oh my God, I think we all got panders from shit. It was like the Italian place. I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 1I think we all got pizza or something. It was like pizza.
Speaker 2It 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 1It was M&M's, you had to get M&M's for it. Yeah, I went back.
Speaker 2I 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 1When I get back, we'll eat again maybe.
Speaker 2No, I can't, I got I because you had a panel. I thought, uh, and so do I, you have.
Speaker 1You had one that was like yeah, I mean seven and my, uh, the legal head panel.
Speaker 2I 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 1AMC, so it's another hour of commercials.
Speaker 2Uh-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 1At first.
Speaker 2At 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 1I got the itis trying to kick in.
Speaker 2Right, 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 1I'll sit up front, that's fine.
Speaker 2Yep, I'm pretty sure it won't be the only time I'll watch a movie.
Speaker 1I'll take your money and go pay for to watch it somewhere else at a better seat.
Speaker 2Right, 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 1Uh, 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 2So I figured on wednesday I'll get one, then I'll shave, and Thursday I'll get the other one.
Speaker 1I wasn't made.
Speaker 2Yep, 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 1Exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1let 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 2I 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 1No it'll be fine, they're not going to recognize us?
Speaker 2I 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 1Not catch them at the end of the night, when they're busy trying to get out of there?
Speaker 2Like, 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 1No, 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 2Get 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 1So I'm not kidding. You can buy a shirt every day, just whatever your daily shirts are at Roosevelt, just buy them.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 2is 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 1Jack, I need the keys to the car so I can go to the Hilton.
Speaker 2Right. 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 2It'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 1I still got this $1,200. I can't be walking around with.
Speaker 2Yeah. So I was like what's the point? But yeah, I don't think I'll have more than $300 on me, man.
Speaker 1Seriously, what's the point? I was thinking that too, because even maybe Artist Alley, they might.
Speaker 2That'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 1Sucker shit, mcdonald's ain't charging me for it.
Speaker 2You 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 2I'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 1Sorry, 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 2But 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 1You would.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 2You'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 1All right, whatever, unless it's something I have to have right there and there.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1Yeah and then if somebody pays cash, well, you just made extra money to cover the next credit card Exactly.
Speaker 2It'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 1That's what I would do, because it does. It sounds bad that way.
Speaker 2It 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 1Ooh, screw that. How much is this one twenty five dollars free shipping.
Speaker 2Oh 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.
Budgeting and Travel Logistics
Speaker 2I'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 1No, I just been at work all week.
Speaker 2Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1Yesterday 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 2It hasn't been a year yet. You already need touch-up paint.
Speaker 1Well, 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 2Oh, okay, that's a sequel.
Speaker 1It'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 2Unexpectedly cool actually.
Speaker 1The 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 2Yeah, can't go wrong with that.
Speaker 1You 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 2That could be a euphemism it could be.
Speaker 1Robocop wouldn't do that, though he's an upstanding citizen I mean he is.
Speaker 2Does 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 1You 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 2Nobody 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 3It was like I don't even want to pay five bucks for it.
Speaker 1We'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 2I saw that. Did you get that email yesterday?
Speaker 1No, I got those tickets a couple days ago.
Speaker 2Okay, 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 1Yeah, same, I haven't watched the first one yet.
Speaker 2I 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 1So close.
Speaker 2Definitely 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 3I needed to watch five movies in december and I did but I'm all like it's.
Speaker 2It's only july and I'm only got five to go.
Speaker 1Oh, 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 2You'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 2But it was just funny how fast I got there this year than I did last year.
Speaker 1Yeah 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 2Mm-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 2Okay, 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 2hey, 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 1I think you'll be the guy that's my seat sir.
Speaker 2For sure. No, I'll just take one seat. She can sit on my lap, talk about whatever pops up.
Speaker 1I don't need the popcorn trick anymore.
Speaker 2No, I just got a zipper and she's wearing a dress. Call it a day.
Speaker 1You could have let her sit next to me, but no, you want to be a dick about your seat Right.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1We have cultured that woman too much.
Speaker 2Lou 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 1I'm a geek now Exactly.
Speaker 2Oh 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 1they 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 2That 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 1Yeah, 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 2Hasn'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 1She 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 2That'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 1That'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 2So 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 1I don't get it so I want you to go. You want the good shit, you gotta show up I am gonna go.
Speaker 2That'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 1Decompressing, and then you're up till midnight.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, doing exactly that Take a shower, do whatever, go to In-N-Out.
Speaker 1Maybe the line's not long.
Speaker 2I was going to say, except for the line, Although with mobile ordering nowadays that really helps a lot.
Speaker 3I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2I 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 2Because 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 1So is there one.
Speaker 2Centennial, 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 1Yep, exactly Get that Texas toast.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's actually not bad. I'll consider that.
Speaker 1Those lines all suck too.
Speaker 2I 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 3Why does it?
Speaker 1have to be work. They're supposed to put a Cane's over here by the Smiths, but they did Taco Bell instead.
Speaker 2Oh, I heard about that. They got rid of it Really. It went to Taco Bell, that's terrible, that's terrible.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was stupid.
Speaker 2Don'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 1This 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 2Two different lots even. You can leave at different times. You're over there at the Hilton and. I'm by Petco.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2That 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 3That doesn't want to come early we got two parking spots at all.
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Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1But 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 2And then while we're done. We're a. We're a block away from the car exactly, yeah, and saturday night too.
Speaker 1I don't know where the roosevelt party is, but oh yeah, good, good point.
Speaker 2You 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 1Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker 2That was too much fun last year.
Speaker 1So that's 100% what you should do. So that's what.
Speaker 2I'm killing time doing that.
Speaker 1Oh, which is only a couple blocks from Petco. It's behind Spaghetti Factory, oh yeah.
Speaker 2So it's right there. Yeah, holy crap. Yeah, it's right there.
Speaker 1Oh, that'll work out well, hell yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm going to go watch the Masquerade Bowl.
Speaker 1Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 2But do it in the side room. I'm not even going to try to get the main room.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, no, go to the side room like yeah, no, no stress, just relax and just fucking mst3k that shit.
Speaker 2Yep, I'll make friends. I mean, maybe I'm kind of shy, so we'll we'll see you.
Speaker 1Don't talk to people a lot I don't.
Speaker 2It's difficult.
Speaker 1I don't make eye contact you don't sit next to nobody no ask questions so what'd you do, lou?
Speaker 2I went to the masquerade ball the side side room, really. How was it? Oh great, I'm hitched now.
Speaker 1Well, my best friend took my girlfriend to the party, so oh yeah.
Speaker 2So 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 1They 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 2They'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 3no, matter what.
Speaker 2Because you could have circumstances like oh, infidelity First of all.
Speaker 3you have to prove it.
Speaker 2You 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 1If 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 2You 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 1I always hold chicks up by their titties.
Speaker 2Wait, 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 1Exactly, there's no tissue damage.
Speaker 2Right, I'm not trying to bruise her man. That's a whole other lawsuit. We're holding your titties for your sake, girl.
Speaker 1Exactly You're welcome.
Speaker 2All y'all know that Exactly. You are welcome. We're not trying to bruise you.
Speaker 1Yeah, start at the nipple and work your way out Checking for cancer.
Speaker 2That's all we're doing. That's all we're doing. You get to be held up safely and screened for cancer.
Speaker 1Shit you up safely and screened for cancer. Shit you should be paying me.
Speaker 2What 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 2I did see that one. I saw Diddy and Baby Oil.
Speaker 1And the one with them going down Splash Mountain. That was pretty good.
Speaker 2Oh, I didn't see that one. Yeah, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1That's crazy. He-man and Skeletor.
Speaker 2Oh, I saw that one. That was a good one.
Speaker 1Luke and Leia.
Speaker 2Lion-O and Mum.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2So many opportunities here Freaking Duke and Cobra Commander or something like that.
Speaker 1Oh, you've got to add another booth to your ticket list, the other Fig Pin booth.
Speaker 2There's two already on my list the Star Wars one. Oh, the one with the random six pins.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2Does the, does the oh? So both Fig Pins have tickets? They should. Oh, I just thought it was the Star Wars one.
Speaker 1Okay, all right, all right. Shit the Star Wars one's never even the problem, it's the other one.
Speaker 2No, 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 2The 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 1It's crazy, hey baby hold these pops for me for a little bit.
Speaker 2That 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 1Yeah, you still got that shit behind you too I was like what stuff?
Speaker 2Well, the box is by oh yeah, you can see that from there.
Speaker 1Shit. I own it. I know what it looks like. What's that other one? Is that the GameStop? Sith Vader under him, yeah.
Speaker 3That stuff is definitely yeah, you are yeah, that stuff is definitely.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 2There'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 2But 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 1I've got plenty of those.
Speaker 2Bedroom too. Bunch of random stuff here and there.
Speaker 1It'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 2three more weeks. When does school?
Speaker 1start Very soon, A week after my birthday.
Speaker 2August 12th it's middle of August, something, because wife always goes back to work.
Speaker 1August 12th is a Tuesday, wife always goes back to work on my birthday 11th.
Speaker 2They 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 1That'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 2Are they that stupid? I don't get it Like they have to know.
Speaker 1They don't make that much money. I don't, yeah, no they don't make any.
Speaker 2They'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 2Pay 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 2So 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 1Yeah, because Aces games they're not that expensive.
Speaker 2Nope. 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 1Yeah, it's $30 for an Aces game.
Speaker 2Oh jeez, Do I go to an Aces game? Do I go to a buffet Right?
Speaker 1Now 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 2Yeah, front row midcourt. I mean, yeah, you're in front of the announcers at that point.
Speaker 1Yeah, but still, I mean $30 tickets as opposed to.
Speaker 2Yeah, look up frickin' Lakers.
Speaker 1Yeah let's go see a Lakers game.
Speaker 2I pick a Lakers versus a bad team and it's still 300 nosebleeds.
Speaker 1All 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 2When is that game? That game's until.
Speaker 1October, yeah, october. So same-ish section sitting like courtside 230 the courtside is not 230.
Speaker 2In 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 1Alright, let's see a Lakers home game.
Speaker 2Let'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 1They 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 2I thought the schedule was announced already. At least not on Ticketmaster Point is. These women are out of their minds.
Speaker 2They'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 1That one girl on the Fever though that came to protect. Oh yeah, caitlyn, she can wear them volleyball shirts all day.
Speaker 2She can wear the volleyball outfit, hell yeah.
Speaker 1I wear them volleyball all day.
Speaker 2She 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 1But you might get some, but you need the dudes, yeah, but you might get some men actually watching your sports.
Speaker 2And 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 1Yeah Shit, I don't even know what their record is right now 10-11.
Speaker 2Ugh.
Speaker 1Gross, god. Gross, is that what it is?
Speaker 2Last time I checked it was 10 and 11. Let's say, let's say, let's say seymour pieces, standings button and wmba.
Speaker 1Yep, I'm on it.
Speaker 211 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 1Right, that's why Drafted the best players for the last three years, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2Although 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 1Crazy 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 2She was good when she came out at college and that was it.
Speaker 1She hasn't been good since, but at least she's not loud anymore. That is true, yeah, man.
Speaker 2But 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 1I know I was thinking that the other day. I'm like I'm ready for hockey and football to come back.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1Fucking basketball and hockey is still October man, I'll be a whole different person by then.
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Speaker 2For 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 1We have it on at work.
Speaker 2I'm just like man Y'all just watching A's games.
Speaker 1No, we've got a lot of people that like Dodgers and shit up there. Oh, that's fair.
Speaker 2The typical national game the Yankees the Dodgers, the Cubs, the. White Sox the Braves.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2I want to watch these little boys play with bats and balls.
Speaker 1Okay, 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 2Bruh, 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 1You can't even drive, bro, your mom's going to drop you off to your MLB game.
Speaker 2Man, 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 1That's some crap. Didn't that happen to Kobe, though, too? Didn't he get drafted out of high school?
Speaker 2Drafted 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 1Real, you're going to eat them veggies.
Speaker 2Right, it's like oh them school. Green beans are the best.
Speaker 1You don't want your applesauce today, right, I can have it Right.
Speaker 2It's like see somebody walking away with a tray. It's like what you don't need that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1I'll take that tray for you. I got you. You go to recess.
Speaker 2I 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 1They 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 2And I appreciate I'm still a cheap ass too, because all week it's been like nope, I'm going to.
Speaker 2Comic-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 1I got Joe's crab shack. I got, I got maybe Crab Shack. I got some Denny's factory coming up.
Speaker 2Maybe 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 1Nope, nope, exit up here.
Speaker 2No, 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 1Let me change the. Google directions.
Speaker 2Oh 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 1Come on Get a dollar. Happy Meal, get that little Happy. Meal toy.
Speaker 2Man, 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 1It'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 2I 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 1But 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 2That'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 1You walk up in that bitch with your your floral from Denver con like fuck yeah Rockies.
Speaker 2Right, 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 1Score twice and then fall off.
Speaker 2Score 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 1Tap water. I don't even want that fancy shit. Yeah, it's like uh-uh.
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 2Best 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 150 cent penalty for being forgetful.
Speaker 2Exactly, 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 1I was like I can't be owner of the business.
Speaker 2That'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 2I 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 1You'll get your payoff episode maybe next week, definitely the week after.
Speaker 2We'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 1Did he ever put his Roosevelt list on the Discord?
Speaker 2I 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 1I mean.
Speaker 2Neil, obviously, but yeah, anything aside from Neil.
Speaker 1He didn't say nothing.
Speaker 2So 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.
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Speaker 1Oh 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 2Yeah, 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 1Chances are low, but never zero.
Speaker 2Exactly, exactly, just like that freaking chiropractor Chances are low, but not zero. Full circle people, full circle.
Speaker 1Right back to the first topic.
Speaker 2It's called the callback.
Speaker 3Alright. Well, I guess it's time to see you. I'll see you. Bye.
Speaker 2Deuces y'all.
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