From Post-Comic Con to Current Affairs | Part II
This podcast episode delves into the recent experiences of the hosts at the Coastal Comic Con, highlighting the myriad interactions they had with both attendees and celebrity guests. A central theme emerges as they recount their encounters, particularly their engaging dialogue with actor Ross Marquand, who is celebrated for his performances in various iconic roles. The hosts candidly discuss the dynamics of being in the public eye, the challenges of representation, and the humorous mishaps that often accompany such events. Moreover, they touch upon the importance of supporting local events and the impact of community engagement in the realm of pop culture. As they navigate through their reflections, the episode ultimately underscores the value of connection and shared experiences within the vibrant tapestry of fandom.
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Speaker B:Welcome nothingers, to the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker B:I am Barrett gruber, joined by Mr.
Speaker B:Zach King.
Speaker B:Welcome, Zach.
Speaker A:You were wise to introduce me because I was.
Speaker A:I was going to forget.
Speaker B:Yeah, I figured this is what I'm going to do from now on because ultimately sometimes I like to play.
Speaker B:Sometimes I'll play the waiting game just to see how long it is before you.
Speaker B:Well, Zach King.
Speaker A:Well, I'd like to thank Bill Kimler for keeping the seat warm.
Speaker B:He does.
Speaker B:He keeps it warm.
Speaker B:But I introduce him too because, you know.
Speaker A:I've been listening to the Thursday shows.
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Speaker A:You gotta listen to Tuesday, Thursdays.
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Speaker B:All right.
Speaker A:Just wanna make sure I only listen to Thursdays.
Speaker B:Yeah, Bill and I go.
Speaker B:Bill and I.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Cause we're talking about the weekend.
Speaker B:Hey, we're almost on the weekend.
Speaker B:Bill Kimler and I, host of the Bill Kimmeler, of course, host of Black, White and Blue in the south podcast with Dr.
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Speaker B:Yeah, well, when they looked alike, but that they were very similar.
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Speaker B:Zach, what did we do last weekend?
Speaker A:We were at Coastal Comic Con.
Speaker B:We were at Coastal Comic Con.
Speaker B:It was a blast.
Speaker A:A lot of fun.
Speaker A:It was a lot of fun.
Speaker B:Do you want to.
Speaker B:Do you want to real quickly discuss the.
Speaker B:The elephant in the room?
Speaker A:What is that?
Speaker B:Zach and I roomed together this weekend.
Speaker A:Oh, my snoring.
Speaker A:I've been working to get my CPAP machine.
Speaker A:It's been delayed, like, multiple times for multiple reasons.
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker B:I will say so.
Speaker B:As someone who has suffered from the sleep apnea before, I did, and thankfully I don't anymore.
Speaker B:It's definitely something that is curable.
Speaker B:You just have to make sure you get it treated.
Speaker B:I was not aware as to how scary it was to hear you stop breathing.
Speaker B:And then, you know, it was only for, like five seconds.
Speaker B:Ten seconds.
Speaker A:This is HIPAA information.
Speaker A:You're just.
Speaker A:I'm going to call the cops.
Speaker A:That's cool.
Speaker A:In this.
Speaker B:I didn't sign a document saying I wouldn't.
Speaker B:I also am not a doctor.
Speaker B:I will just say I'm mostly just using this as sort of a PSA for everyone.
Speaker B:If you do suffer from sleep apnea, get yourself tested.
Speaker B:Do a sleep study.
Speaker B:It is frightening for your partners because.
Speaker A:The next night it was better.
Speaker B:I told you it was.
Speaker B:I didn't notice that at all.
Speaker A:Yeah, I was just, like, exhausted.
Speaker B:I did really appreciate the joke because I don't know, we were walking down the hall and I said that you farted in your sleep.
Speaker B:And you looked at.
Speaker B:You're like, I wasn't asleep.
Speaker A:Because I wasn't.
Speaker B:That was hilarious.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Barrett and I, in that hotel room, we had square pillows, which was the.
Speaker B:Weirdest, weirdest thing I've ever experienced.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I don't understand at all.
Speaker A:And you got four of them, so together they equal two rectangle pillows.
Speaker A:But in the course of the night, it's just four pillows that go everywhere and.
Speaker B:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B:My four pillows were like, the first night, of course, I had one pillow under my head and one pillow over my head.
Speaker B:But there was no way to find any real level of comfort.
Speaker B:So comments that I would leave for the sleep in.
Speaker B:In Wilmington, North Carolina, on Market street is maybe real sized pillows.
Speaker A:Rectangles.
Speaker A:Rectangles.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It was a little odd, but yeah.
Speaker B:We were at Coastal Comic Con last weekend, thanks to the invite, of course, of Donald Brock Jr.
Speaker B:And the rest of the staff, Steve Powell, Amy, as well, that, you know, lots of it was a lot of fun.
Speaker B:And also I want to thank them for accommodating us like they do and putting up the fact that I am insufferable when it comes to being.
Speaker B:Being out in public representing this podcast, because I think that I referred to myself and Zach as the talent so many times.
Speaker A:It wasn't a lie.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:Yeah, but I did it so many times.
Speaker B:But again, I know I did it last week, but I do really appreciate all of the hard work that Brock and his entire team do for these things.
Speaker B:Also, we left our.
Speaker B:We left our banner up there.
Speaker B:So that is.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker B:That has been transported back to Columbia.
Speaker B:And we will.
Speaker B:We will get that back for the next one.
Speaker A:Because I'll tell you what, one of the funny, funny things I went on whenever we would get to a prickly representative for.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker A:A celebrity guest.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Sam Witwer's.
Speaker B:Sam Witwer's handler.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Is you basically run through the Rolodex of, like, we're with the Con, like, and show them the badge, like, staff guest.
Speaker A:And then he's like, I don't see that in the contract.
Speaker A:Well, then maybe we're not with the Con and this has nothing to do with it.
Speaker B:So I found out.
Speaker B:I found out afterwards in talking to Brock that it is part of the contract.
Speaker B:So that is something that, you know, from.
Speaker B:From now on, it is definitely going to be part of our negotiating when.
Speaker B:When it comes to talking to them that.
Speaker B:That it's.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker B:They have.
Speaker B:There's something in the contract, and I'll make sure that we get a.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker B:We get a copy of that so we can show Them says, hey, this is your.
Speaker B:Your.
Speaker B:Your talent agreement for the con.
Speaker B:But yeah, Sam Witwer would have been happy to have sat down with us, but.
Speaker A:Oh, it's not Sam.
Speaker A:Like, it's just his.
Speaker A:The dude's a dick.
Speaker A:Like, there's no other way to put it is.
Speaker A:Is his manager while doing this, I guess I would.
Speaker A:The only way I could equate it, the dude's just an unpleasant person who's someone did him wrong at some point, and it is just giving him an edge.
Speaker A:That is awful.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, I think when we talked to Sam last time, it was.
Speaker A:We circumvented him.
Speaker A:Sure, he was sneering at us down at the end of the table.
Speaker B:We used rh, our one that got.
Speaker B:Got us around the end of the table to.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:And thanks to RH too, because he and Frank and Deneen and I still can't remember Deneen's daughter's name because I suck with names.
Speaker B:But they're always just the biggest smiles on their faces and they're so pleasant.
Speaker A:Also, we didn't get that dinner, though.
Speaker B:We can discuss that.
Speaker B:I also want to thank Amie Bland for.
Speaker B:From the welcome to Wonderland podcast for being there at the con with us because she was a huge help in every situation.
Speaker B:But just a huge help, especially keeping us online, too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Although, and I'll say this, I've said it before, I don't think people need to be told to ignore me when I'm making.
Speaker B:Because when we're out in public and I see things that make me laugh, then I bring attention to them.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Don't ignore Barrett.
Speaker B:Mostly the absurdities.
Speaker B:You know, I think I can probably count on both hands the number of times over that weekend that someone was told to a waiter or waitress or whatever, ignore him.
Speaker B:This is him in public.
Speaker B:Ignore him.
Speaker A:Yeah, the waiter.
Speaker A:That was funny, too.
Speaker A:Waitress.
Speaker B:Whatever.
Speaker B:It happened frequently, but I was asking legitimate questions.
Speaker B:I don't remember exactly what the question I was asked, what I asked that time that.
Speaker B:That deserve to be shut down so quickly.
Speaker A:But you know something about your turkey cranberry sandwich.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, maybe.
Speaker B:You know what?
Speaker B:And ultimately, that was probably a weird sandwich to order.
Speaker B:Not near Thanksgiving, like, but that's Gabrielle's.
Speaker A:Go to from East Bay.
Speaker B:It's like cranberry, turkey, turkey and cranberry.
Speaker B:Do they put.
Speaker A:Do they.
Speaker B:East Bay, huh?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Little shout out to East Bay Deli.
Speaker B:Wrong.
Speaker B:Wrong, Wrong.
Speaker B:Sounder.
Speaker B:I was going to give it.
Speaker B:I was going to give it the plug bell.
Speaker B:So let me see if I can.
Speaker A:We're open for sponsorship.
Speaker A:East Bay Deli.
Speaker A:I will eat a Sandwich Live for 10 straight minutes.
Speaker B:You just record yourself doing it.
Speaker A:It's so good.
Speaker A:Every bite good is the next I cry when it's gone.
Speaker B:I could only.
Speaker B:I could only eat half of the turkey sandwich that was brought out, but it also could have been because I think I ate some of that over the buffalo dip or whatever the dip was.
Speaker A:That was pretty good.
Speaker A:And I don't like pica de gallo that they put in there, but the buffalo did away with the soap taste.
Speaker B:Oh, you get.
Speaker B:So you.
Speaker B:You get soap taste from meat and cilantro, too.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker B:You a me.
Speaker B:It's an interesting.
Speaker B:It's an interesting affliction, like, because if.
Speaker A:I had ordered it, I would have been like, please take off the pico de Gaia.
Speaker A:We don't like it.
Speaker B:You did an impression of Donald Trump and used the word please at the beginning.
Speaker B:That's odd.
Speaker A:Oh, that's true.
Speaker A:Take it off.
Speaker A:I don't want it.
Speaker A:If it's on here, we'll send it back.
Speaker B:No fruits.
Speaker A:The whole meal will be free.
Speaker B:No fruits, no vegetables.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:Just meat, salt and fat.
Speaker B:What was one of the highlights of.
Speaker B:And it could be.
Speaker B:You could name anything, but what was like, one of the number one things that you enjoyed the most about the comic?
Speaker A:Definitely when you like a celebrity a lot and you go to meet them, you're like, I hope they're not a dick.
Speaker A:Yeah, I.
Speaker A:I love Ross Marquon.
Speaker A:Anything he does, I think is fantastic.
Speaker A:And he is an awesome person.
Speaker A:So getting to.
Speaker A:For a while on that first day, he didn't have much of a line.
Speaker A:So just sitting there and talking with him was a lot of fun.
Speaker A:And getting to know him, all that kind of stuff, and how just kind he is and willing to facilitate any kind of, like, requests you had was.
Speaker A:He is just a grade A person.
Speaker A:It's one of those, meet, meet someone famous.
Speaker A:And I think that was my favorite.
Speaker A:And then when the window was closing for us to leave and get him going to a panel and all this kind of stuff, because it was three hours away.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:So that's quite a haul.
Speaker A:So, like, we were like, can we walk and talk with you?
Speaker A:And he was like, absolutely, let's do it.
Speaker A:And that's what happened.
Speaker A:But, like, all the.
Speaker A:All the other times that we're sitting there talking to him for probably a cumulative throughout the hour, 45 minutes.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:All of that time.
Speaker A:Yeah, we did.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker B:We just stuck a microphone on and then like we would have had like an hour long conversation with him.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker B:Well, as an exclusive, because I figured that that was probably what you were going to bring up.
Speaker B:I'm going to go ahead and play your interview with.
Speaker B:With Ross Marquand.
Speaker B:So this is an exclusive on the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker B:Here we go.
Speaker A:Yo, what's up?
Speaker A:Hey.
Speaker A:Hey again.
Speaker B:Hey, buddy.
Speaker A:Michelin, boss.
Speaker A:Michelin.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I just wanted to ask you.
Speaker A:So is Aaron gonna come back at some point or what are we doing here?
Speaker B:We'll see.
Speaker C:There's definitely talks of different spin offs happening right now, but nothing official, so.
Speaker A:Right, we will.
Speaker C:We will see what the, the AMC gods have to say about that.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:And we'll be there for it.
Speaker B:Awesome.
Speaker A:What voice can you not do?
Speaker C:What's that?
Speaker A:What voice can you not do?
Speaker C:I cannot do Ryan Gosling.
Speaker C:I've tried, tried for years.
Speaker C:I can't get him down.
Speaker C:He's got this strange.
Speaker C:I think he's from Canada.
Speaker C:I think he's from Toronto.
Speaker C:Yeah, because he's got this strange, like.
Speaker C:Oh, oh, I don't know, actually.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker C:Should we maybe.
Speaker C:Okay, gotcha.
Speaker A:Should we.
Speaker A:Hello.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker C:Oh, yes, through here.
Speaker C:Yeah, this is like Spinal Tap.
Speaker A:That's one of them.
Speaker A:Oh, no, go ahead.
Speaker C:I'll let you go first.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker C:Oh, it's probably.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:I know where it is.
Speaker C:It's right there.
Speaker A:All right, let's go.
Speaker C:Just right there.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker B:Yeah, we're.
Speaker C:That door that's opening.
Speaker C:Yeah, right there.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, so this is fun.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:The other thing I was going to ask you, how do you get in the headspace for all these different Marvel roles?
Speaker A:You're like, yes, that one Red Skull.
Speaker C:Luckily, I really just like got to stand on the shoulder of Giants.
Speaker C:You know, you got, got Hugo Weaving, James Spader, Cedric Smith, you know, all these great actors who did it before me.
Speaker C:And luckily with a lot of these roles, they didn't want me to reinvent the wheel.
Speaker C:They just wanted me to sound enough like them to give the general feeling of these people, but also making it my own, which is great.
Speaker C:I think that was the way to.
Speaker A:Go, you know, and the last one, before we let you go, have you had to do an impression in front of one of your people that you were impersonating?
Speaker C:I have a few times.
Speaker C:I've did.
Speaker C:I did Larry David for Larry David.
Speaker C:I've done Norman Reedus for Norman Reedus, Matthew McConaughey for McConaughey.
Speaker C:And doesn't always go as well as you would think.
Speaker A:You know, you would think maybe some of them take a little, you know, slight to it.
Speaker A:A little slight.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You can't be mean.
Speaker C:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:Well, Ross, thank you so much for your time and going on the run.
Speaker C:Thanks, man.
Speaker A:You're the man.
Speaker C:Don't think about it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That was great.
Speaker B:That was great.
Speaker B:You did such a good job.
Speaker B:I was, I was so proud of you because I could tell you get nervous.
Speaker B:You get a little nervous about that.
Speaker A:I'm a genuine fan.
Speaker A:Like, my hands betray me when I meet someone that I truly like.
Speaker A:Like, I enjoy.
Speaker A:Like Ross Marquis.
Speaker A:And like, when I first met him, I was like, oh, Ross McQuan.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:What do I do with my hands?
Speaker B:But, yeah, but he was.
Speaker B:He was absolutely super cool.
Speaker B:Uh, I really hope that we get another opportunity to hang out with him and talk to him again because I think that we.
Speaker B:We had a ton of questions that we wanted to talk to him about, but we just.
Speaker B:The opportunity to actually do an interview with him just didn't come.
Speaker B:We do have interviews also with.
Speaker B:I did one with Matthew Watterson, the voice of Magneto, that I am still working through editing because I acted kind of dumb and at the very beginning and I need to take that out.
Speaker A:And it was perfect.
Speaker A:That was a great interview.
Speaker A:I do want to point out, if you're going to watch the video of that interview, we blind this woman.
Speaker B:Let me pull it back up because I'll try and find the spot.
Speaker B:So it's right there.
Speaker B:Right there.
Speaker B:Hold on.
Speaker B:Here we go.
Speaker B:I'm just gonna.
Speaker A:She's like.
Speaker A:And then when we walked past, she's still like in the background.
Speaker A:Like, like she must have had her eyes just wide open and did not expect this bright light to be there.
Speaker B:Was.
Speaker B:Was the, Was the light that bright?
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker B:I didn't.
Speaker B:I didn't think it was that bright.
Speaker A:Dude.
Speaker A:It's pretty bright.
Speaker A:Well, that's fair.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:But like, her reaction to it was just like, ah, yeah.
Speaker A:Like she stared at the sun for a minute and she's walking by in the background and she's still like, ugh.
Speaker B:I mean, you know, I'm walking around with a, with a small mount with a light on it that's obviously in yalls faces.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:But I thought what was really funny about that walk and talk was that like, we.
Speaker B:I don't think any of us really knew where we were supposed to go down the hallway to get.
Speaker A:No, we didn't.
Speaker A:And you did good job editing because there's one point where I'm like, I don't think it's this way.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, so.
Speaker A:So Ross is like, no, we go in right over there.
Speaker A:There's the door.
Speaker A:And I'm like, you've been in there.
Speaker A:I haven't gone in that.
Speaker B:But like, as I'm.
Speaker B:As I'm.
Speaker B:Because I'm walking backwards the whole time that I.
Speaker B:So I'm.
Speaker B:I'm walking backwards and I'm having a.
Speaker B:I'm having to turn my head backwards to make sure I'm not going to run into anybody.
Speaker A:We're just following a dude who doesn't know where he's going even if he was looking.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And like, as we're so, as we're approaching.
Speaker B:As we're approaching what I consider to be the last possible door that this we need to go through, I'm like, all right, I'm just going to stop and we're going to pause, and then I'm going to just point that way.
Speaker B:And of course, me pointing that way.
Speaker B:Ross was like, oh, is it that door?
Speaker B:Subtle, Ross.
Speaker B:Very subtle.
Speaker A:You're picking up directors cues and saying them out loud.
Speaker A:No wonder you're a voice actor.
Speaker B:It was so entertaining.
Speaker B:It was so entertaining.
Speaker A:Very exciting to know that there is a very real possibility that Eren might show back up.
Speaker B:I am too.
Speaker B:I'm excited about that.
Speaker A:You know, he's a beast with that club on his hand.
Speaker B:It makes sense.
Speaker B:He was.
Speaker B:He was such an important part of the show and the tragedy that has suffered when he lost his husband.
Speaker B:Just, you know, I think that that's something that makes that character invaluable for everything you could possibly do with him.
Speaker B:Bring back, Ezekiel.
Speaker B:Bring back.
Speaker B:I mean, you've already got.
Speaker B:Oh, the other thing I want to point out, when he was.
Speaker B:When he was telling you the impressions that he's done in front of those people, did you hear him as he was saying, you know, that he had done that?
Speaker B:He's done Matthew McConaughey For Matthew McConaughey, he starts to go into the McConaughey voice as he's doing it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Because I assume he just can't help himself.
Speaker B:Like, as soon as he starts thinking McConaughey, he's got to go into that voice.
Speaker A:But I wish we would have gotten on camera him doing some voices.
Speaker A:But during the time of just hanging out with him, he went through some voices, and you're just watching him like, dude, he did his Harrison Ford then knock it off.
Speaker A:Yeah, that one.
Speaker A:I did do my keanu Reeves for him.
Speaker A:And he was like, that's really good.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:We got a Ross Marquan stamp of approval for it.
Speaker B:Yeah, it was.
Speaker A:We were joking around about that, and he's like, what?
Speaker A:With.
Speaker A:With Keanu Reeves?
Speaker A:You could tell he's thinking when he's acting.
Speaker A:And I was like, I feel like he's trying not to say, whoa.
Speaker A:Whoa.
Speaker A:I keep thinking, whoa.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm back.
Speaker B:Whoa.
Speaker B:I have to admit, one of my.
Speaker B:One of.
Speaker B:One of my favorite moments was the one that was completely unplanned, and that was getting to meet Tinkerbell.
Speaker B:Margaret, Cary.
Speaker B:The whole way that that scenario played out was just epic because, like, basically.
Speaker B:Basically, I think somebody came and told me, said, hey, Amy's looking for you.
Speaker B:And I said, oh, okay.
Speaker B:So we run back to the table, and I guess I saw Amy down the way and came over and she said, the original Tinkerbell is here.
Speaker B:Would you like to sit down?
Speaker B:I said, yeah, absolutely not thinking that she was 95 years old and that I, you know.
Speaker B:But then the stories, like, I dropped one of the.
Speaker B:One of the shorts out of the interview yesterday that.
Speaker B: he was born on May, whatever,: Speaker B:The bottom dropped out of the stock market.
Speaker B:The Great Depression started.
Speaker A:Her parents had to be like, well.
Speaker B:She was adopted, so they were dead.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Well, her adopted parents still.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:What happened?
Speaker A:Like, dude, you imagine just having a baby in the bottom falls out of the economy as it's never done before.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Add that on to the struggle.
Speaker B:Kind of halfway expecting that this year.
Speaker B:Not the baby part while you.
Speaker B:The baby part, but the stock market dropping out.
Speaker B:Hey, you work and you work in tire rubber.
Speaker B:That's never going away.
Speaker A:I was going to point that out, too.
Speaker A:When I walk up to him, I don't randomly just go, michelin, boss.
Speaker A:That was an inside joke between me and him because he was gracious enough to do a video for my team who is super fans of the Walking Dead.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And so whenever we come back, he'd be like, zach, the boss.
Speaker A:Because that's our acronym for what I do there.
Speaker B:So did you show.
Speaker B:Did you show the team the video?
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:They were ecstatic.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then again, I got the.
Speaker A:I was given shit about who.
Speaker A:Who do you not know even called you his best friend?
Speaker A:You notice I didn't say it back.
Speaker A:I'm Ross's best friends.
Speaker A:I have other best friends.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:This is funny because they think I literally know everybody.
Speaker A:And it just so happens in South Carolina through podcasting, we kind of just.
Speaker B:Do, like, yeah, we get.
Speaker B:We get a very, very unique opportunity to meet people.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's all it is.
Speaker A:It's like, I couldn't explain it, but, yeah, I kind of do know a lot of people.
Speaker B:I sent Zach a text message last night telling him that an artist that I found on TikTok and shared a song to Zach at very similar time frames, he was listening to the song that I sent to him.
Speaker B:And ultimately, I've been having a conversation on TikTok with an individual who is representative of that artist and has asked, would we like to have him on the show?
Speaker B:And I was like, yeah.
Speaker B:And he says, well, when he's done with his Lyme disease treatment in Mexico, we'll go ahead and get something scheduled.
Speaker B:And I'm like, lyme disease?
Speaker B:Let me tell you about Lyme disease.
Speaker B:I had suffered.
Speaker B:I suffered from Lyme disease for a short period of time where I went through some of that same treatment, high levels of antibiotics and whatnot, you know, so, you know, I won him over with my.
Speaker B:My tick story.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:God, you'd.
Speaker A:Having to go to Mexico for Lyme disease treatment.
Speaker B:Well, you don't want to do it here in the United States.
Speaker B:It's going to cost you an arm and a leg.
Speaker A:No, I don't.
Speaker A:I mean, yeah, he's also from the uk.
Speaker B:Yeah, he's British.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:Maybe Mexico's got some drugs that even the UK isn't, you know, Maybe.
Speaker B:Maybe.
Speaker B:But I've.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:When.
Speaker B:When I was in Cancun.
Speaker B:What year is this?
Speaker B:20.
Speaker B:25.
Speaker B:20 years ago, I had suffered a migraine that was pretty debilitating, and.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker B:Was taken to a clinic.
Speaker B:And even though I was not a citizen of Mexico, I was treated for my migraine and within hours, was fine.
Speaker B:Didn't receive a bill.
Speaker B:I didn't have anybody tell me that.
Speaker A:You just walked out.
Speaker A:She never got the bill to you.
Speaker B:Well, you know, they.
Speaker B:I asked several times, you know, how much do I owe for the service?
Speaker B:Nothing.
Speaker A:Is it socialized health care in Mexico?
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:Universal health care surrounded by affordable health care.
Speaker B:Yeah, they.
Speaker A:That reminds me of the Ron.
Speaker A:Ron White joke.
Speaker A:Careful, this plate is hot when he puts it in his head.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's a.
Speaker A:And we won't say who it is yet, but this artist, that one song you said that I was listening to, that's a song that could make you.
Speaker A:It could make me, you know, get a little emotional thinking about it.
Speaker A:Those kind of inner Demons and stuff that you can relate to on certain levels of it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:If this ends up happening that.
Speaker A:I can't believe that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I'm excited.
Speaker B:I think.
Speaker B:I think it's exciting and.
Speaker A:And how weird it was you sent me that, and I had just got done, like, 10 minutes before.
Speaker B:That's crazy.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:Yeah, that is.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:What are the odds?
Speaker B:They're not good.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B: So Comic Con: Speaker B:We've got the dates for the Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker A:I gotta say this, too.
Speaker A:How awesome your interview with Matthew Watterson was.
Speaker A:And the fact that now we're all buddies, particularly you and him.
Speaker A:This is the second time we just got to hang out with Matt Watterson.
Speaker A:He's a friend now.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And, yeah, he's.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:And he's one of the coolest people.
Speaker A:Just like Ross.
Speaker A:Genuine.
Speaker A:Happy to do whatever.
Speaker A:Happy to talk with you.
Speaker A:Just hang out.
Speaker A:Yeah, he's a great dude.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:So we're going to have Brock on the next episode as well, because Brock is going to do a breakdown of the Comic Con with us because, you know, we.
Speaker B:We can do it as much justice as we can from our perspective.
Speaker B:But he.
Speaker B:He.
Speaker B:He did say that he's going to have some news to break on the podcast the next episode that he comes on.
Speaker B:And apparently this is news that even some of his staff doesn't know yet, because I asked them.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker B:What's the breaking news for the.
Speaker B:He has not told them yet, so.
Speaker A:Well, I wonder if it's that Ross and Matthew Waterson are coming back directly.
Speaker B:Because of us, because they miss us as a mess.
Speaker A:They're doing it pro bono?
Speaker B:I don't think so.
Speaker A:They're actually going to sit at our booth with us people that would get us followers.
Speaker B:I see.
Speaker B:And here's the thing is, when Matthew Watterson and Ross Marquan and Caldot, when they come to Soda City Comic Con, they come with a guy that is their handler that does their interviews.
Speaker B:So it's the same guy doing the interviews over and over and over the panels and stuff.
Speaker B:I would really like for Brock to use us for maybe one or two of those panels, but I don't know.
Speaker B:Contractually, do they have to use the guy that they travel with?
Speaker A:We want your job.
Speaker A:If you're listening to us.
Speaker B:Yeah, just.
Speaker B:Or just hire us.
Speaker A:You go to me.
Speaker A:I'll talk to those damn people.
Speaker B:Those damn people.
Speaker B:That'll win them over.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So Soda City, he referred to you.
Speaker A:As damn people on his podcast.
Speaker B:That's true.
Speaker A:I'll talk to you damn people.
Speaker B: Soda city comic con: Speaker B:That's going to be August 23rd and 24th.
Speaker B:This is the 10th soda city comic Con.
Speaker B:So I have to imagine that it's going to be a bigger event.
Speaker B:I think that I'm definitely going to try and talk and we'll bring it up when we talk to Brock.
Speaker B:But I definitely think we're going to try and get Brock to maybe do some pre party events, that sort of thing.
Speaker B:You know, we've got some event spaces around town that people would love to have utilized for Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker B:Like maybe the Wednesday before doing adviser.
Speaker A:Not to do Chick Fil a because you won't leave the cow guy alone.
Speaker A:Another thing from the con, Barrett was harassing the Chick Fil a cow, particularly the man on the inside.
Speaker A:Like the grand conspiracy of who it is and the cloak and dagger, skull and bones ritual for whomever has to don the cow.
Speaker B:So it started out the night before the con started.
Speaker B:So Friday night we were at a place, I can't remember the name, but it was a brewery in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Speaker B:So they were under a bridge too?
Speaker B:Yeah, it was under a very creepy bridge.
Speaker B:Many, many a drug deal has gone down underneath that bridge.
Speaker A:Like you just pan to the left of the brewery.
Speaker A:You could film a drug sequence for a movie right there.
Speaker A:And it's on the Cape Fear river right there.
Speaker B:Blue Bloods was filmed on location.
Speaker B:So the Chick Fil a people were there.
Speaker B:And when at some point the Chick fil a, the guy came out in the Chick Fil a costume and Barrett.
Speaker A:Glue like a child because.
Speaker B:So, you know, one of the, one of the things that I think is extremely entertaining is the fact that when you are a mascot, you cannot speak from inside that mascot's costume.
Speaker B:You can't.
Speaker B:You can't do anything to make any noise.
Speaker B:And when no one was around, I walked over to the Chick Fil a cow and I put my arm over his hoof and shoulders or whatever and I said, hey, listen, there's nobody around.
Speaker B:You can talk now.
Speaker B:And he giggled.
Speaker B:I heard him audibly giggle.
Speaker B:The three Chick fil a employees that were sitting at the table, they all laughed because they heard him giggle.
Speaker B:And I'm like, I'm like, I made.
Speaker B:I made the Chick Fil a cow giggle.
Speaker B:I made a mascot make noise.
Speaker B:So then for.
Speaker B:For a good portion of the rest of that, I was trying to get him to get.
Speaker B:I Was trying to get the Chick Fil A cow to talk through the costume.
Speaker B:He didn't do it.
Speaker B:But when he didn't.
Speaker A:When he didn't wear the costume, they all played it off to a tee that, like, oh, no, it wasn't him.
Speaker A:He was in the costume.
Speaker B:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:Well, he wasn't here, and he's here now, so.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think the girl.
Speaker B:The girl that was the director of marketing for the whole thing that was the.
Speaker B:Responsible for the sponsorship for the con.
Speaker B:Her name was Elizabeth Sawyer.
Speaker B:She was.
Speaker B:She was awesome.
Speaker B:Chick Fil A.
Speaker B:Definitely a terrific marketing director in her.
Speaker B:She was fun to interact with.
Speaker B:And ultimately, it was.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It was hilarious how much.
Speaker B:How well they put up with me.
Speaker B:Like, I have to believe at this point, I am going to be one of the most insufferable elderly people with my.
Speaker A:Yeah, you already are fantastic.
Speaker A:And I like to say they stick to their guns.
Speaker A:Not there on Sunday.
Speaker A:Got to steal one of those chairs.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:It did not work Sunday.
Speaker A:I found that hilarious.
Speaker A:Like, you're not working.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Probably were getting paid, I take it.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Yeah, I would imagine they were.
Speaker B:But, you know, they were.
Speaker B:They were all good sports about it.
Speaker B:When the Chick Fil A cow was at the Comic Con, I definitely walked over and harassed the poor guy a lot.
Speaker A:I thought she was gonna let you get in the suit for a minute when you were like, I thought I.
Speaker B:Was gonna get there.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And that's something I've been talking.
Speaker B:I'm Talking to Katie McCray about, who is also a marketing director here in Columbia for Chick Fil A.
Speaker B:I'm trying to see if I can talk her into letting me dawn the Chick Fil A costume here, you know, but then.
Speaker B:But then micing me up so that I.
Speaker B:So that what I say inside the cost.
Speaker B:I'll just be the.
Speaker B:I'll be the Chick Fil A cow that talks.
Speaker B:I may try.
Speaker A:No, I think Chick Fil A will send an assassin after you probably.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker A:But it got a priest.
Speaker B:How many rosary around.
Speaker A:It's nice.
Speaker B:How many.
Speaker B:How many other mascots in town Could I potentially get away with this?
Speaker B:So I'm thinking the firefly.
Speaker B:I'm thinking cocky.
Speaker B:I know some people that I could try.
Speaker B:I'm going to try.
Speaker A:I mean, after smelling him the last time, like, a year ago, I was like, Christ, you couldn't pay me to put that on.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's probably true.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:The visceral.
Speaker A:Just no smells that are going to be happening for you.
Speaker B:I Just look in my head.
Speaker B:I imagine.
Speaker B:I imagine the scenario of being that I'm wearing, like, Mason's Firefly costume and taking pictures with kids, and then a kid steps on my foot and me just flailing off with the obscenities.
Speaker A:I think that firefly just dropped an F.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker B:It would.
Speaker B:It's going to have to be staged.
Speaker B:And obviously anything that is said, you know, or anything that it sounds like I am saying from the costume is going to be mute.
Speaker B:It's going to be bleep.
Speaker B:But it would be such a great skit.
Speaker B:It was so hilarious.
Speaker B:And like, me walking around in the firefly costume with my handler, whoever the handler is for the mascot, and me just voicing, you know what I'm observing as we're walking by.
Speaker B:Look at that man.
Speaker B:Buying those six hot dogs.
Speaker B:I probably, you know, that's.
Speaker B:That I got to assume he's one.
Speaker B:One hot dog away from a heart attack.
Speaker B:You know, just.
Speaker B:Just making comments about everything I see.
Speaker B:But recording it from inside the mascot head, which I'm not sure we can.
Speaker A:Take a picture did.
Speaker A:You know you're adopted mom and dad?
Speaker A:You didn't tell them?
Speaker A:Who better to break it to you than Mason the Firefly?
Speaker B:Brad, the president of the Fireflies is not going to like hearing this.
Speaker B:He is going to shut this down immediately.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker A:He's going to keep you away.
Speaker A:He's going to keep you.
Speaker B:You already got season tickets.
Speaker B:Guess which games you're going to.
Speaker B:Wednesdays only Wednesday games.
Speaker A:Wednesday they're gonna have that seat up there that's meant for.
Speaker A:Only for Barrett.
Speaker A:And you cannot move.
Speaker A:Then you have a red flag so everyone knows who you are.
Speaker B:Shame.
Speaker A:It's attached to you like a go kart antenna.
Speaker B:And every game.
Speaker B:Every game they open with shame.
Speaker B:You know, the doin.
Speaker B:Shame.
Speaker A:And list off.
Speaker A:List off a list of your.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Blinded down syndrome person at the Comic Con.
Speaker A:And then what else?
Speaker A:Groped a butt of an attractive woman in the line.
Speaker A:Told children they were adopted.
Speaker A:Turns out they were really ruined.
Speaker A:The family dynamic.
Speaker B:Didn't wear deodorant inside the uniform.
Speaker A:Mark's in handicap spots when he's just running in.
Speaker B:Really, really.
Speaker B:Just ruining.
Speaker B:All due respect for any of these mascots is what I'm.
Speaker B:What I'm trying to get to.
Speaker A:I just accost waitresses with stupid questions.
Speaker B:I don't think any of my questions are stupid.
Speaker B:I think they were just over.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:They were just over their head.
Speaker B:You know, it was like.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:I don't Know, it was, it was very entertaining.
Speaker B:The whole weekend was.
Speaker B:And thank you, Zach, for being there with me.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker A:We've been on this adventure for like, what, six years now?
Speaker A:Seven years.
Speaker B:Well, 20.
Speaker B:25.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B: ke at least since just before: Speaker B: So: Speaker B:2019.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like seven years.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:That's crazy.
Speaker B:That's crazy.
Speaker A:Any better at it?
Speaker B:I think, I think as far as.
Speaker B:Well, you can't, you can't perfect perfection, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We were already this good.
Speaker A:We knew it.
Speaker B:There's limitations.
Speaker A:Now people know.
Speaker B:Oh, it's like me and Bill doing that Thursday, Tuesday, Thursday thing.
Speaker B:It's really just to feed our egos.
Speaker B:Who, which, which, you know, I have no ego.
Speaker A:I've thoroughly enjoyed it like every, every Thursday and Tuesday.
Speaker A:Let's turn it on, drive to work and listen to it.
Speaker A:Because old as shit.
Speaker A:Wake up at like 4:00 in the morning.
Speaker B:I've had several people tell me that, like, as they're, as they're getting up in the morning, they pull us up on TikTok or they pull us up on YouTube and just sit and listen and watch.
Speaker B:And I'm like, what we need is more people that when they do it, that they, they, they comment during the, during the Tuesday, Thursday show.
Speaker B:Because it was.
Speaker B:It, you know, we, if we get more interaction then, then we can include more people.
Speaker B:But, you know, it's, it's definitely building an audience.
Speaker B: think we topped out at almost: Speaker B:So, you know, it's, it's significant.
Speaker B:And we usually pick up 7 to 10 new followers every time.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker A:And it's slowly building.
Speaker A:Yeah, it is fun.
Speaker B:And then TikTok is going to go away.
Speaker A:We had our video interview, interview video stolen for the first time, which was fun.
Speaker B:Yeah, that was interesting.
Speaker B:It just sort of, you know, I had someone that, that liked.
Speaker B:They, they liked one of our videos and I was like, oh, let me go see who this was that liked the video because it wasn't a follower or what.
Speaker B:Somebody that just signed up to become a follower and I pull up their profile page and sure enough, like, three of her video.
Speaker B:The top three videos on her profile are our video.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And got pulled off of the TikTok.
Speaker B:So I thought, you know, it's not.
Speaker B:I'm not gonna be mad about it.
Speaker A:Go for it.
Speaker A:Yeah, go for it.
Speaker B:I'm not gonna be mad about.
Speaker B:Was kind of cool to see, you know, and I.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So we're supposed to record with Brock this Wednesday for the episode that will follow.
Speaker B:And it, I'm hoping we'll get some, some pretty inside information on, you know, potentially.
Speaker B:I don't, you know what?
Speaker B:I have no idea what he could potentially be announcing.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't think, I'm hoping that at least like maybe a first guest.
Speaker A:Because I mean, the sooner you let it be known, the better, the more people.
Speaker B:And what's nice is Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker B:So the different, the big differences between Soda City and Wilmington, the Coastal Con is really the size of the facility.
Speaker B:I mean, Columbia is, Columbia Convention center is a huge facility.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:A lot of space.
Speaker B:Now is it the biggest facility?
Speaker B:No, I mean, it may be the, one of the larger facilities in Columbia, but that's, that's the limitation right now.
Speaker B:I think Brock would like to be bigger, potentially have more, you know, different, maybe more venues, but, you know, that's something we'll talk about.
Speaker A:I don't think there's a con like Soda City around here.
Speaker A:Like, you had those other ones that popped up.
Speaker A:I didn't hear any stories about this.
Speaker B:Well, there was, yeah, there's the, there's the one that's at the state fairgrounds.
Speaker B:That was a few weeks ago.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And the same thing, like, I don't, I don't hear a whole lot of stories out of those cons.
Speaker B:You know, like, I see some of the actors that they're going to have.
Speaker B:Like, they had, they had Bo Duke, what's his name?
Speaker B:Not, it wasn't Luke, it was Bo.
Speaker B:He was there.
Speaker B:They had, they had, they had several decent, you know, decent stars that, that kind of, you know, you, you, you'd potentially want to sit down and interview, but you know, it, it, Soda City just feels, I don't know, it's, it's, it's more, feels official.
Speaker A:It feels bigger.
Speaker A:It feels more put together.
Speaker A:Yeah, it feels like it's, everyone comes.
Speaker A:The amount of like vendors being there, being able to take apart with the vendors and have that whole room to vendors, it was just fantastic.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Their team does such a good job.
Speaker B:Well.
Speaker B:And then shortly following, the Soda City Comic Con is going to be the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk Comic Con.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:I, I, I think that we may, we may try and plan our.
Speaker B:Because we either go to, we either go up to Charlotte to go to Great Wolf Lodge.
Speaker A:Sorry, Great Wolf Lodge feels like such a, like National Lampoons place.
Speaker A:To go.
Speaker B:It does the characters and whatnot.
Speaker B:There's a very creepy child that they have this whole.
Speaker B:Have you been to Great Wolf Lodge before?
Speaker B:So at least at the North Carolina Charlotte 1, Concord 1, they have this every night.
Speaker B:They had this animatronic show that goes on.
Speaker B:It may be more often than that, but this show that goes on where there's this child who is scared and lost in the woods and the animals around him or her are trying to comfort them by talking and singing.
Speaker A:Which it's animatronic like Chuck E.
Speaker A:Cheese.
Speaker B:Like it's a little bit, a little bit like that.
Speaker B:But the, the, the child comes out of a, a a, a stump, a tree stump.
Speaker B:Then like like goes up and comes out of the Trump tree stump and then goes back down into the tree stump but has the most like shark eyes dead eyed look.
Speaker A:So this child comes out of a stump for that for all intents and purposes is on the ground.
Speaker B:Yeah, sorry.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:The stump's standing straight up and so.
Speaker A:The child was in the ground.
Speaker B:There were clearly people around at some point because they cut this one tree and left other trees.
Speaker B:Which has got to be horrifying for the rest of the trees that can talk around them.
Speaker B:Think about the scenario.
Speaker A:You came out of Bob's corpse.
Speaker A:Do you know that little child?
Speaker B:That's what's happening is this child is popping up and down from inside the shell of what was left of one of their tree friends.
Speaker A:That was my wife.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And they're, they're constantly reminded that their loved, their tree loved one was once whole and now isn't.
Speaker A:The trees are vomiting as soon as the child pops up.
Speaker B:Oh my gosh, just so funny.
Speaker B:Oh, but where was I going with that?
Speaker B:Oh so, so we do, so our daughters every year will either do Concord Great Wolf Lodge or we'll do Myrtle beach because it's off season and stuff like that.
Speaker B:So I think what we'll try and do is plan for the, the this year we'll do Myrtle Beach Boardwalk Comic Con for the girls birthday.
Speaker B:We'll do it for like a week and then the weekend will be where, where I'll, you know, we'll be there for the Comic Con and hopefully Zach, Hopefully Zach.
Speaker B:If we can, if we can get, if we can get a hotel room for the whole family, you know, or a resort location for the whole family.
Speaker B:And then when is that?
Speaker B:In October.
Speaker B:It's pretty far off.
Speaker A:My kids will be older.
Speaker B:Well yeah, but what we do is we drag your in laws with you as well.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:You've got to come.
Speaker B:We'll get.
Speaker B:We'll get a couple sweets, and then.
Speaker A:I'll be ready for the twins.
Speaker A:Luke and Leia Cosplay.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:They're gonna be for Halloween.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:Ross Marquand sanctioned.
Speaker A:I did think I should have named them that, and I was like, you know, I tried, I pitched.
Speaker A:It didn't work.
Speaker A:Yeah, that should.
Speaker A:That may work.
Speaker A:It depends.
Speaker B:Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker A:I don't know how tough this is going to be.
Speaker A:Well, you may never see me again.
Speaker B:Well, Bill is.
Speaker B:Bill is ready to stand in for you.
Speaker B:Bill Fry is ready to stand in for you if.
Speaker B:If it ever does come to that.
Speaker B:But he is.
Speaker B:Bill has.
Speaker B:Has made a commitment.
Speaker B:He is.
Speaker B:He is going to be our stand in.
Speaker B:And when he can't, then it'll either be Leroy, Steven or potentially Preach.
Speaker B:That'll.
Speaker B:That'll stand you.
Speaker B:You've got some big shoes to fill.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:I've told everybody.
Speaker A:Big shoes to fill.
Speaker B:Yes, they have big shoes to fill.
Speaker B:They have big shoes to fill.
Speaker B:I have told everyone that regardless of who it is that's on the show needs to come up with at least three impressions that they need to.
Speaker B:They really need to get down, you know, I guess.
Speaker B:You know, I don't know how much of an update you want to give on Gabrielle and the coming of the twins, but we're 35 weeks this week.
Speaker A:34.
Speaker B:34.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And they'll be taken no matter what at 38.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's.
Speaker A:So it's kind of like, shoot.
Speaker A:So we went to the er.
Speaker A:Everyone's fine.
Speaker A:But they also did every checkable test on these babies.
Speaker A:Perfectly fine, perfectly healthy, but, like, not even remotely dilated or ready to come.
Speaker A:So I think that these kids are.
Speaker A:They're.
Speaker A:They're gonna make it to 38.
Speaker A:And now she's not working.
Speaker A:So I think there's one more day she's gonna do something.
Speaker A:I'm like, whatever, but essentially no more working.
Speaker A:So this one will look a lot different by the next time you see me.
Speaker B:It looks.
Speaker B:It looks like you have about a week's worth of diapers behind you.
Speaker A:I do.
Speaker A:This whole room is getting.
Speaker A:I was thinking about doing it today, but my.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:I got a pinched nerve in my neck.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Just radiating.
Speaker A:Might go see a chiropractor.
Speaker A:Not doctors.
Speaker A:I will never shit on them again if they fix this, I'll tell you that.
Speaker B:And they.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker B:They potentially will, but.
Speaker A:Or kill me.
Speaker B:One of the two it's not that you should shit on chiropractors because of what they do.
Speaker B:It's that you should shit on them because they are a cult.
Speaker B:They are.
Speaker B:They are.
Speaker B:They are a cult.
Speaker A:Well, you can't call them doctors.
Speaker A:You're not a doctor.
Speaker B:You did this.
Speaker B:Well, they did the seven years.
Speaker B:If they had one more year, they'd have had it, you know, but no, but, yeah, that's.
Speaker B:That's how long.
Speaker B:That's how long they're in school.
Speaker B:But, yeah, you know, it's.
Speaker B:It's legitimately, I think that they do things that really do improve people's lives, but at the same time, they're a cult.
Speaker B:It's a cult.
Speaker A:Like the cracking baby's necks and dog's neck or animals.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:It's when they include animals and stuff like that.
Speaker A:Like, your horse kind of has a.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, look, now your horse just lays down.
Speaker A:He's still alive.
Speaker A:He just can't move.
Speaker A:I may have paralyzed Cbitz.
Speaker B:Oh, all right, Last thing.
Speaker B:Last thing we'll talk about before the State of the Union address or the joint congressional, whatever that went on on Tuesday night for Donald Trump's first showing, he made a big deal over one particular individual that was in the audience, and this was a younger girl that was a volleyball star.
Speaker B:Did you see this?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So he made this big deal about.
Speaker B:And it was all an attack on transgender people.
Speaker B:Transgender people.
Speaker B:And he made this big deal that this young girl playing volleyball had taken a ball to the face and that it had partially paralyzed her.
Speaker B:If they had been doing this better than when she stood up and waved both her hands, they probably should have stopped that to make sure that it looked like she is partially paralyzed.
Speaker A:But she playing against Goku, like, I don't understand.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:First of all, I've seen the video of it happening.
Speaker B:She was out in one.
Speaker B:She was.
Speaker B:I'm not blaming her, but I'm just.
Speaker B:I'm giving you some context.
Speaker B:She was playing out of position.
Speaker B:She was supposed to be playing the front line.
Speaker B:She stepped back.
Speaker B:She was not flat.
Speaker B:She was flat footed.
Speaker B:She was not on her toes.
Speaker B:So, like.
Speaker B:And having.
Speaker B:Having played volleyball pretty, you know, for.
Speaker B:For 10 or 15 years after I moved here to Columbia, like, you know, you learn.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker B:You learn how to play volleyball.
Speaker B:Well, she did take it to the face.
Speaker B:I'll give it to you.
Speaker B:And she probably had a fairly significant concussion.
Speaker B:Concussion from being hit in the face.
Speaker B:Fine.
Speaker B:Within seven weeks, she was playing basketball.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:This whole idea that, that because she was Playing against a transgender female on the opposite team.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That's why she was hurt.
Speaker B:Or that this.
Speaker B:You know, I saw the play.
Speaker B:It wasn't remotely what Trump described.
Speaker A:Or were the damn transgender mice.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Gender mice.
Speaker A:You can't.
Speaker A:When that.
Speaker A:When that kind of lie comes out, you can't.
Speaker A:Everything they said is bullshit after that.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, it was trans.
Speaker A:Million dollars.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Transgenic mice.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker B:We pay.
Speaker B:The United States pays for grants that fund research that.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That uses transgenic mice, which means because these mice have the.
Speaker B:Basically, they have been given our hormones, you can use human medications that are in testing on these mice and will get basically 99 to 100% similar reactions to what humans would react to because they have been altered through transgenic science, not transgender science.
Speaker A:Not only was it written in his teleprompter, so there's some writer who's such an asshole that is knowingly doing this.
Speaker A:Or like, Elon Musk crew literally pass out information off to a bunch of dumbass politicians and.
Speaker A:And passing it off.
Speaker A:Like, that's something that's happened right now.
Speaker A:The whole mass of followers that he has genuinely think that they were.
Speaker A:Spent $8 million on.
Speaker A:On transgender.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's insane.
Speaker A:That is so insane.
Speaker A:I just.
Speaker A:After that, I was like, dude, the whole thing was pissing me off to begin with, because you're.
Speaker A:If you're getting the truth, you're getting shades of it, you're not going to ever get the whole thing.
Speaker A:No, that's.
Speaker A:Even the volleyball player.
Speaker A:I was like, maybe she's a shit volleyball player.
Speaker B:She definitely did not protect her face.
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker B:Like, she put her hands up like this.
Speaker B:The ball hit her right in the face and mounts right off of it.
Speaker B:Like, there was no reaction at all.
Speaker B:Like, it hit in the face and she went down.
Speaker B:But, like, the ball was coming at her.
Speaker B:She moved back in defense, and I don't understand why her hands weren't up for it.
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker A:Like, they all saw Charlie Morton take a fastball to the eye socket.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, I mean, yeah, I'd rather take that volleyball.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:Poor Charlie Morton.
Speaker A:I just.
Speaker A:It's all lies.
Speaker A:It's all lies.
Speaker A:And then they're so staunchly against fact checking.
Speaker A:When did fact checking become, like, out of place?
Speaker A:Like, well, part of it.
Speaker A:Tell me if I'm right or wrong.
Speaker B:Part of the thing that drives me insane is that, like, If I'm on TikTok live and I have, you know, it usually gets inundated with about, you know, 15, 20 MAGA, you know, big Donald Trump supporters and whatnot, because you can tell who they are, because they'll just put in there, you know, maga, maga, Maga, Maga, maga, maga.
Speaker B:Or Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
Speaker A:As if that's supposed to elicit some kind of rage or something.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, we know.
Speaker A:That's what y'all do.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, it doesn't bother me.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's a very creative way of trying to sustain an argument.
Speaker B:But they do this and.
Speaker B:And then they'll put up a comment that says something like, you know, well, you know, Joe Biden was worse.
Speaker B:And it's like.
Speaker B:It's like, okay, well, that's.
Speaker B:That's an opinion, I said.
Speaker B:And for you, maybe, you know, I try to take into account all of the possibilities.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Biden had one of the best economies that we've seen, and it grew exponentially out of what was a terrible economy because.
Speaker B:And I'm not saying that Donald Trump is completely to blame, but a terrible economy because of the pandemic.
Speaker B:You could blame the pandemic on Trump because, you know, he basically shut down the office that was supposed to prepare the White House for it coming.
Speaker B:He did offer some really stupid ideas.
Speaker B:He didn't encourage anyone to wear a mask.
Speaker B:He didn't encourage people to stay home.
Speaker B:He encouraged businesses and churches to open up literally a month after they.
Speaker B:They had been shut down.
Speaker B:Like, he wanted them open for Easter, and guess what?
Speaker B:They did.
Speaker B:They opened for Easter.
Speaker B:You know where some of the biggest super spreader events were.
Speaker B:Fucking churches.
Speaker B:You know, you had to get to.
Speaker A:Church and put that fucking ash on your forehead.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Or.
Speaker A:Or the.
Speaker B:Or your money in the basket.
Speaker B:That's what it was about.
Speaker B:It was about churches.
Speaker B:And the governor here in South Carolina did the exact same thing.
Speaker B:He said that the churches will be open for Easter.
Speaker B:And the reason was.
Speaker B:Is because churches were starting to have a hard time financially.
Speaker B:You know what?
Speaker B:Then maybe you shouldn't be a church.
Speaker A:Yeah, maybe you get some of that help if you paid your taxes, too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So, you know, but.
Speaker B:But they come in.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So I'll give it to them.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:The economy, from a numbers aspect as a whole, looks pretty good for what Biden did and how, you know, but you can't really.
Speaker B: or: Speaker B:And they did.
Speaker B:And the immediate result was because he announced it on Monday, the stock market took a dive on Tuesday, because they went into effect, the stock market took another dive.
Speaker B:Guess what he did on Wednesday?
Speaker B:He came back and he says, you know what?
Speaker B:We're working.
Speaker B:We're camp.
Speaker B:Mexico's doing a fantastic job of trying to curtail the fentanyl crossing the border.
Speaker B:So we're gonna.
Speaker B:We're gonna remove the tariffs for one month.
Speaker B:So we're gonna go through all this bullshit again in a month.
Speaker B:He dropped it for Canada, too.
Speaker B:So we're gonna go through all.
Speaker A:Canada didn't drop the ones against us, did they?
Speaker B:I don't think so.
Speaker B:In fact, they're pulling liquor, American liquor, off the shelves, which I fully respect.
Speaker A:I don't blame Canada at all.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So we're gonna have the exact same thing come April 2nd.
Speaker B:And the reason he doesn't want to do on April 2nd is because he's afraid if he does on April 1st, people are gonn like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:You threatening tariffs on other countries, our allies, as.
Speaker B:As an April Fool's joke.
Speaker B:Come on, man.
Speaker A:Your whole can, your whole administration's already a joke, so just leave that out of it.
Speaker B:What adults are celebrating April Fools.
Speaker B:Like, like the weird ones.
Speaker A:I'll.
Speaker A:I'll tell you this too.
Speaker A:When it comes to, like, MAGA and all that stuff, I.
Speaker A:I would support Donald Trump if he was just an.
Speaker A:An asshole.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't have a problem if his demeanor was.
Speaker A:He was such.
Speaker A:Just a piece of.
Speaker A:But he.
Speaker A:He did good policy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Did good things that would.
Speaker A:That were just like everyone.
Speaker A:Everyone was.
Speaker B:If everyone was benefiting.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And if it was a.
Speaker A:Not just an opinion that, like, look at him.
Speaker A:He's doing such a great job.
Speaker B:Yeah, but he's.
Speaker A:He's an asshole.
Speaker A:Then I could suffer an asshole, Right?
Speaker A:Do it every day.
Speaker A:You may work with somebody who's really good at their job, but as a person, they suck.
Speaker A:But he doesn't do that.
Speaker A:He's an asshole.
Speaker A:That is incompetent.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Objective was the word.
Speaker B:I'm looking objective.
Speaker A:Eric woke me up to do this.
Speaker A:Joking.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But if he was objectively just way a good.
Speaker A:Making good policies, making good changes that everyone could see, it would be a different story.
Speaker A:I could suffer an.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:He's an.
Speaker A:On top of being wildly incompetent.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And that's.
Speaker A:The MAGA people don't care about that they think.
Speaker A:They think just because he's an.
Speaker A:We don't like him because we're liberal or Democratic or whatever.
Speaker A:It's just insane.
Speaker A:I can suffer an.
Speaker A:He's just incompetent on top of it.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, I completely agree.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker A:It's an SNL.
Speaker A:SNL's last Saturday.
Speaker B:Shane Gillis.
Speaker A:Shane Gillis.
Speaker A:And they had Mike Myers showing up as Elon.
Speaker A:It was just beautiful.
Speaker B:Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I, I'm hoping that somebody picks up on the, on the skit idea of having Mike Myers and somebody playing Kanye west, but in the reverse roles.
Speaker B:So now it's Mike Myers saying that Donald Trump hates black people.
Speaker B:That's the skit I want.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's the skit I want.
Speaker A:I loved when Trump, when Mike Myers comes out as Elon with that chainsaw and the guy playing Trump's like, I love it when he gets that chainsaw right by my head.
Speaker B:So appropriate.
Speaker A:I'm okay with all of this.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:We'll have to see how it comes.
Speaker B:It's, It's.
Speaker B:You know, I will not speculate on what hasn't happened yet.
Speaker B:I will.
Speaker B:I will simply wait for it to happen and then.
Speaker B:And then I'll comment on it.
Speaker B:You know, ultimately that's all I can do.
Speaker B:But, like, same with the volleyball player.
Speaker B:Look, I felt bad when I heard, you know, he, he, he.
Speaker B:And I feel bad for, like, somebody.
Speaker A:Bad for her being used as a pawn.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then the kid that just survived brain cancer and he made up a Secret Service agent.
Speaker B:I thought that was.
Speaker B:I thought that, that was really, really kind and, and fantastic.
Speaker A:But we're gonna cut your funding.
Speaker B:Yeah, but then, then they turn around and cut funding to children childhood cancer research.
Speaker B:And it's like, it's like, here's your Secret Service badge.
Speaker B:Also, no kid after you is ever gonna survive cancer again.
Speaker A:Yeah, right.
Speaker B:That's essentially, that's essentially what was.
Speaker B:What was said.
Speaker B:Basically paraphrasing what was said and then the actions that were done just now.
Speaker A:And that kid was from South Carolina too, wasn't he?
Speaker A:Because Chapin.
Speaker A:Didn't Chapin Police Department make him a police officer?
Speaker B:Maybe.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think I'm right on.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Some reason that does sound familiar.
Speaker B:I just don't.
Speaker B:I just don't remember.
Speaker B:But yeah, you know, put it in.
Speaker A:The comments if I'm wrong on this one.
Speaker A:I think I'm right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:He was made a police officer leaving chapter.
Speaker A:I couldn't totally be wrong too.
Speaker A:Now I feel like I shouldn't have said it, but here I am.
Speaker A:It's the Internet and that's how it works now.
Speaker A:So let me know.
Speaker B:Go ahead.
Speaker B:I thought you were gonna say something else.
Speaker A:I would say let me know if I'm wrong.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Damn people.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That's gonna do it for this episode.
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