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All right, everybody, welcome to the special episode that everybody looks forward
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to. Isn't that right, Mike?
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Everyone's been waiting for this at least one year. At least one year every year.
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Every year. Every year. We are at San Diego Comic-Con Preview Night.
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We're going to be giving you the best and hottest coverage and most exclusive
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coverage you can find on the Podcast Nation, probably. Isn't that right?
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Or at least the most exclusive content that we can get access to.
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Exactly. Very good. But Mike, you know what makes this episode the most special?
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Why don't you tell me? I will tell you. We have, for the first time ever,
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an exclusive sponsor who is sponsoring this entire episode.
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Wow. That's the first time ever. Ever. Now, who is the sponsor?
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Do you know, Mike? I know, but I feel like you should tell the people because
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you have a very special interest in this type of company.
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I do. Am I wrong? You're not wrong.
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We are sponsored by California's favorite dispensary, Embark.
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If you haven't heard, we actually had the co-founder of Embark on the show.
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Things went off well, and now they're sponsoring this entire episode. So get this, everybody.
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Right now, if you go to Embark, if you go to Embark.com, my apologies,
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click where it says, Wins Devil's Lettuce Season 2, you have a chance to win $500 in cannabis.
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And for those that don't know, like someone like me, Embark is spelled E-M-B-A-R-C.
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And you know, it's funny when I was driving down here from up north yesterday,
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I saw an Embark billboard.
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I guess like Fairfield area. So I was excited. As you should be.
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Yes. And now you're going to be hearing a lot about Embark this episode.
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But that's because they are.
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I think, Mike, and let's be real right now. Let's get real. You're even wearing
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an Embark Devil's Lettuce shirt. I know.
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Wow. I've never seen anything like this. I know.
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So what I want to say is me and Mike don't take on every sponsor because they
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throw dough at us. Although we would.
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But that's not the case. We also like to get things that we believe and we dig
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and we really believe in Embark's product.
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Embark seriously offers some of the best cannabis around. You got some product.
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What was your thoughts on it?
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Sleepy joints? It helped put me to sleep. You know, I have no complaints.
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Yeah, yeah. All premium weed, all premium products.
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You can only get the best premium cannabis, period, at Embark.
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So get used to that name, kids, because we're about to embark on a wild ride.
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Wow i can't believe you just came up with that right off the cuff didn't you
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i sure did i see it in your i sure did you're very proud of yourself i am i
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am so without further ado mike let's have a great comic con you are in boot
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16 nights again that information doesn't matter to the listener but if they
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happen to be here and you happen to walk by we were there so.
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It's kind of weird isn't it but you know whatever what are we gonna do yeah
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we're not live so here we go,
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What is the one thing you're excited? Who's somebody you're excited for that
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we're going to interview this week?
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It's funny you should ask. It's Jeff Lemire. He's an artist and comic book writer.
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And I've loved his stuff. Multiple
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books that he's written and drawn and books that he's just written.
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I can't wait to talk to him. I'm stoked. Yeah. And for those who don't know,
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he created one of the most popular. It was a Netflix show too.
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Do you remember the show?
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Sweet Tooth. Yeah. He wrote. I guess he drew that too. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Very good.
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We're excited for that. We have the original OG Pink Pad Ranger coming on.
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I'm old enough to remember watching that. I am too.
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You may be a little younger, but we watched it. When I was watching it,
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it was okay. When you were watching it, it might have been questionable.
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Definitely questionable.
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Definitely questionable. We'll be right back after this break.
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Howdy, everybody. Uncle Dad here. Welcome back. We're very excited right now,
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aren't we, Mike? I'm so excited. I can tell. I can see it in your eyes how excited you are.
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Our guest is arguably one of the best in the business, I feel,
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truly, even though he says he might not be living, a living legend.
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Let's give it up for Jeff Lemire. Jeff, hello.
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Hey, guys. Nice to be here. Thanks. Yeah. So, Jeff, right away,
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I got to ask you, what is your favorite type of, what are your top three forest animals?
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Oh, boy, that's a, that one caught me off guard. Okay, top three forest animals. Wow.
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I do like birds. I like a crow. A good crow is always in my books,
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so we'll pick one of those. Fox, I like a fox. Okay.
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And I don't know, I'm stumped for a third. No deers? Oh, yeah,
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I guess that's a little under the nose, but I'll take it, sure.
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And for those who don't, Mike, do you know why I asked him that question?
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I think I know, yes, yeah.
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Can you tell the audience? Yeah, well, it probably has something to do with
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something called Sweet Tooth or something or other, right?
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It's a little book if you ever heard about it. I don't know if people have heard
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about it, but it's obviously one of the best books. It's also a Netflix show.
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So, Mike, I'm going to hand the mic to you because I know you've got some questions
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you can't wait to ask him.
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Yes, thank you. Yeah, so you're releasing a new book, which we're very excited
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for. I love your writing.
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I love it when you're writing and drawing in the same book.
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So when you do a show, like a TV show, and I know you worked,
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you did also an Essex County show.
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Is it more fun to do or do you enjoy the process of working on a show more or
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like sitting and drawing more?
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No, I mean, to be honest, the TV stuff hasn't been nearly as fulfilling as comics.
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Yeah, it's interesting, you know, I mean, it's interesting, especially the two
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books that have been turned into TV shows so far are two of my first books.
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So it's almost like going back 10 or 20 years and from
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when i when i was doing the comics and kind of getting back into the stories but
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yeah nothing really compares to making comics
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you know i even even having done two shows drawing a
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page of comics is so much more satisfying than the satisfaction
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i get out of the shows because there's so many more people
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involved with the tv stuff whereas when you're doing your comics it's
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usually either just me or me and make one to other people working
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very closely and very directly with the reader and it's
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just it's just a much more direct form of communication and
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storytelling do you feel when
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you do a television it's like being part of like a big machine rather than
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being like the the solo like unicycle if you will yeah i
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mean it's so it's so expensive to do tv and films that there's just
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so many more people who need to have their say and need to and
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everyone's you know worried about the budget and
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all this stuff so it's just you're not as free to
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make creative decisions as you are when you're doing comics and and
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like i said other than sometimes with an editor
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it's just you kind of get to do whatever you want and it goes
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directly right to the reader like a few months later whereas tv takes
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years and years to to do right one of my favorite books of yours that you did
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was trillium and you know just the parallel people people existing on different
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ends of time and space right where does that land for you in far as like your.
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Favorite projects or Or do you even, do you rank them?
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Like, what are your, like, what are your favorite stuff that you've done? Where does that land?
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Yeah. I mean, it's interesting. It's hard to rank them because each one of them
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was so important to me when I was doing them, obviously, you know,
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and then I move on to the next thing and that becomes all consuming, you know?
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So, but looking back, you know, it's kind of, there are obviously some,
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some highlights, some things I hold up a little higher than others.
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And, you know, Essex County and Sweet Tooth are big ones for me,
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obviously the first two books that kind of, and I found my voice as a creator
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and stuff. And then Trillium was an odd one because it came,
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it was the first thing I drew right after Sweet Tooth. So it was sort of.
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Me trying to do something totally different you know and and i think
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very fondly of that one for sure i was
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really proud of like some of the storytelling kind of
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gymnastics i did with like turning the book upside down
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and doing flip books and i had a lot of fun like you could you could
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see me just sort of experimenting and having fun and it was
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also one of the first books i tried to color myself which was
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really really interesting so it's yeah that
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one i i hold that one up pretty high actually you know i think it's
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it's it's great because it's such a standalone story too you
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know it's not like something you need to read like 12 volumes of it's like
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a one graphic novel and it's pretty satisfying i think
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so as a reader because i'm sure you read
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comics do you prefer the continuous series or like
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the one shots or like a series that's just
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completed in 12 issues i depends on what
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it is you know i think they all have value i love i do
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miss like a good ongoing series that you can follow every month
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and you know i feel like those are a dying breed which is kind of what
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i'm trying to do with the new book minor arcana get back to enjoying a
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single issue again where it's not just one part of a bigger chapter but
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they feel kind of satisfying as you know like when i was a kid reading you
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know like sandman or hellblazer and things like they they
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were telling a bigger story with those characters but each issue felt like a
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satisfying adventure you know almost and and so i'm trying to do that a bit
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with the new book minor arcana because i do feel like it's a dying breed in
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our industry now where everything's either mini series or even like the ongoing
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books don't last for usually much more than a year year and a half and they
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relaunch everything anyway.
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So I do miss that going to the comic store every month and like getting the
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new issue of, you know, whatever book, you know, but then there are other things
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that stand standalone great as graphic novels too.
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So it really just depends on what's best suits each story. But yeah,
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as a reader, I kind of missed the, the, the going to the comic shop every Wednesday
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and buying stuff, you know, a pull list. Yeah.
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Yeah. I think that that might have something to do with just people's attention
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spans these days. Right. Yeah.
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It's not what it used to be. Well, okay, so I was looking at a little bit of
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the notes that are online about your new book, Minor Arcana,
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and it says that you say this is your dream project.
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What about this makes that your dream project?
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I think it's for a lot of reasons. I think if you look at, I mean,
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if you just take the stuff that I've drawn myself, separate from stuff I've
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written for other artists, you kind of see a different, two or three different
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kinds of books I usually do.
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There's usually like the Essex County, Royal City stuff where it's more slice
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of life, like grounded human stories.
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Then there's more sci-fi stuff like Trillium or, you know, Sweet Tooth, I guess, you know.
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And then there's sort of the dreamier stuff like Underwater Welder and Maze Book and stuff.
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So this book really kind of combines all three of those avenues of storytelling
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into one big thing where I can kind of balance them all and get to play with them all each month.
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And yeah so i get to i have a lot of freedom to kind of go
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in between these different types of storytelling within the story you know
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and and to just sort of i don't
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know in a way it's sort of like if you boil down all my
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books into one new story it feels like this is kind of it
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you know yeah so what are your top three dreams
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okay okay yeah we also
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saw you know i like i love your covers i mean when you
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get to draw and and write it it's to me it's the best but
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you've got some variant covers like do you get to pick who
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you want to do the variants or does the is boom who's publishing
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this book do they pick them for you it's
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yeah it's a bit of both you know you work with the editor and
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also they'll ask me like do you have who would
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you like to do covers and i'll give them a list of people and and they'll
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also come to me with people i i don't i'm not aware of you know
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there's some new ones that there was a woman named ryoko murakami
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who did one who i wasn't familiar with their work but it's one of my favorite ones
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you know so it's a great way to of for me to kind of see some new artists
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as well that i wasn't familiar with but so it's a bit of both you know
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i gave them a list of people familiar collaborators and stuff
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that i would love to see draw these my characters and
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but it's always a it's always sort of a conversation between two yeah i i'm
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curious uh when it comes to like current artists what are your like some of
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your favorite current artists right now that are kind of up and coming oh boy
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yeah let me think i always get put on the spot with these things because i've
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been doing that a lot today uh it's your top three artists.
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I can think about those. I think about this stuff all the time.
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And then when I'm on the spot, I can't think of anyone. Yeah.
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Let me think. Jesus. Jesus is one.
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I don't know. I'm drawing a blank just because I haven't had my coffee yet.
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It's okay. No worries. No worries.
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There's so many talented people coming up in the industry. It's crazy.
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it feels like every month there's like incredible stuff being published.
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I think Zoe Thorogood is really talented.
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was pretty special last year.
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It's only at the center of the earth. I thought that was pretty amazing. yeah
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she's the first one that came to mind so we'll stick with that we'll take that okay i'd
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like it we'll take it got about two more minutes okay well is
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there ever a person that you want to collaborate with that
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you haven't or like i would love to see you
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collaborate with bruce tim on a book somehow in some
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way i don't even know is there someone that we
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could just put out to the universe that that jeff lemire
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wants to work with yeah there's always i mean i have
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i think frank whaley is a legend and i he would be just it's incredible to work
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with him teddy christiansen was a guy that i loved sandman and i loved his house
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of secrets vertigo series back in the day so and i'm working with him now on
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some stuff so that's that was kind of a dream come true on that one so yeah there's always,
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people like that yeah frank whaley he's sort of the the white whale i'd love
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to do something with him, yeah. Okay, well, we're on it. We'll see what we can do.
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Suck that up for me. We'll see if we can make that happen. So do you have any more questions, Mike?
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One question. When you're drawing.
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What do you listen to music? Do you listen to podcasts? Do you have a TV on the background?
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Are you listening? All of the above. All right.
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there's still a lot of decision-making and like storytelling going on.
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a podcast or something because it's a little more of a mechanical thing at.
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already been done you're just kind of executing a technical thing you
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know yeah so before we wrap up i have
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are fun are you a fan of bruce willis
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have a super fan but okay well would you ever if you
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any of your books could you would you ever cast bruce
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willis in any of your books as like a live action role that's a
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really weird question and very specific but i'm trying
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to think of any of my characters that would fit him i don't
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know i can't think of any off the top of my head sorry mike why
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are you guys like giant this guy is you want to show him real
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quick come on there it is nice uh
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jeff thank you so much really it was an an absolute pleasure just hanging
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out with you talking to you you know i know we're a little silly but that's our charm
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thank you so much mike you got any last words yeah so
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the new book it's coming out when is
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it coming and where do we find it and all that stuff because i'm
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really excited about it too so it's it's it debuts
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in september boom studios is is publishing it you know so you'll be able to
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find it everywhere and i'm doing every issue has two covers that i'm doing one
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is like the regular cover and then i'm doing a tarot card cover for each issue
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so at the end of the run Hopefully I've created a whole tarot deck with all
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the different care the cast from book as all the the tarot sort of you know.
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Concepts and characters.
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Yeah, it's amazing Jeff. Thank you so much for it's an absolute pleasure I'll
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go get that book when it comes out and Mike will be right back up this brick.
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Hi, my name is Duncan Wickle.
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I'm a musician from the band rising Appalachian. You're listening to uncle dad talk.
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All right, everybody, Uncle Dad here, and we're talking with Robert S.
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Campbell, whose writing and credits include Fallout, Starblood Arena,
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my personal favorite, Neopets, The Darkest Fairy, Myth 3, and much more.
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Put a few more, yeah, a few more.
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Robert, right away, I just have to ask you, what was your involvement in Neopets,
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The Darkest Fairy? The entirety of the design.
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Like, from, oh my gosh. So, long story, but I'll try to truncate it.
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So working with Neopets, Adam and Donna, the original creators,
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working with them for a storyline.
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but they were little kind of like bite-sized pieces, and they had kind of not a lot of in-between.
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So I needed to fill out all the in-between. And working at Sony,
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I wanted to do something that Sony really hadn't done before,
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which was make a game more reminiscent of like a Nintendo game,
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like The Legend of Zelda, which is my favorite frigging game of all time.
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So, you know, I'm like, all right, you know what?
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Why don't we try to mix all these together, make it more of a kid-friendly RPG,
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but still have some serious elements and such.
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Idle Minds out of Colorado.
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And, you know, great bunch of guys, you know, seriously talented,
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especially like, you know, the artists there.
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I mean, oh my gosh, these guys absolutely rocked. they were able to,
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like, deal with Neopets'.
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Fairly excruciating level of detail, like, the polish of all their characters,
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the color palettes had to be just perfect and all that stuff,
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but they just, they rocked it. So anyway...
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So, unfortunately, they were really good at designing sports games,
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games for, like, you know, kids and such like that.
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So they didn't quite understand what designers did.
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the engineers code it. What more do you need? And I'm like, oh, my God.
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So at Sony, I and another guy by the name of George Weising,
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who's still at Sony, by the way, he's now a, my gosh, I want to say he's an
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executive producer, but he's a producer over at Sony Santa Monica still.
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Yeah, shout out, George. So the two of us were like, oh my gosh,
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okay, we have to basically be the designers of this game.
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So George was dealing with a lot of initial combat mechanics and things like
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that. And, you know, had some of the creative ideas of how some of the bosses work.
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And I was the guy that wrote all the dialogues, all the quests.
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Made, you know, placed, oh my gosh, placed so many
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different things and really just like made the complete
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design document of the whole thing like how it all flowed through did
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all of the my god for all of the the dialogue and
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such like that for the cut scenes i did a
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little bit of that but i i'm trying to remember we had help doing some of that
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but anyway so anyway a lot of the design i mean like the the design of like
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you know you know like how your armors up you know gets upgraded your your sword
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the motes the pet pets even though So the pet pets, man, we ran out of time at the end.
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They weren't exactly what we wanted, you know?
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I always thought that because they felt a little, I don't want to say unfinished,
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but I guess that would be the word, right? That's exactly right.
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I mean, like what was supposed to happen is whatever it was that they were helping
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you with, you were supposed to see a little particle system travel to you.
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So like when I think it was like the little lion guy, and I can't remember the
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name of it, but the little lion guy, when he's following you around,
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he's increasing your health all the time.
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So you'd see this like little stream of hearts coming towards you.
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So you see, oh, they're doing something.
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I get it. But as it is now, it's like, all right, they're just a little guy
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hanging out with me. That's cool. But what do they do?
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And so, yeah, they actually do the stuff. You just couldn't see it.
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Yeah. So that game, I mean, I feel like we could talk about the game in one episode.
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But that game in general, in my opinion, truly was, I bought it at GameStop
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and I was like, I was a younger guy and I was like, oh, wow,
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this is, it looks unique.
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I bought anything that was unique and I bought it and I couldn't tell you how
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much fun I had. I just couldn't stop playing it.
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I could not stop playing it because it reminded me of a child version of Diablo
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meets sorry, you said it, Legend of Zelda.
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Yeah, and I felt that experience the entire time and I really couldn't stop.
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That's actually one of the games I wish I still had on my PS2.
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I don't have it anymore. I know I probably could find it, but it's a little
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expensive. Yeah, exactly.
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But I really did just love everything about that game.
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So just thank you for being a part of that and being a part of my childhood
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too. So thank you. Yeah, because you were, right? Maybe not indirectly, but you were.
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One last thing I want to touch on before we go into your new book is Fallout.
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Obviously, Fallout, one of the most iconic game series of all time.
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You were involved in the first Fallout, correct? I was actually the lead designer
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of the original Fallout.
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So, yeah, I'm part of the original team that made Fallout and,
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you know, part of the first, well, group of guys and stuff.
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Yeah. I mean, a lot of this stuff, and this is so surreal to me.
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I mean, to be honest, that 30 years and we're still talking about this.
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You know, it's like, you know, different, like, concepts, like,
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different locations and stuff like that. I mean, like, Shady Sands,
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Junk Town, all that stuff, that was pretty much me.
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But, like, all the different, like, you know, raider names and types and characters.
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And, I mean, the idea of using bottle caps as currency.
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You know, the Deathclaw, the Brotherhood of Steel. I mean, yeah,
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they were all in this massive design doc I put together that, you know, yeah.
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But, you know, a lot of inspiration from a lot of other things,
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right? And, again, you know, even though I say, oh, I was the lead designer,
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it's a collaborative effort.
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And that team, I mean, they're so good.
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Had so many very creative people that really, you know, knocked the park.
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I mean, my gosh, especially like Leonard and Jason are two like lead artists.
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Oh, my gosh. They I mean, creating the Pip-Boy stuff and all of just the visuals
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and, you know, the whole inspiration of that, like kind of like 50s kind of atomic punk style.
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Oh, my God. Yeah. They destroyed it. Yeah. I think that game,
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I mean, obviously we don't talk about the legacy like we know the legacy of
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the game, but I am just curious. So because you were involved in the original
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setup of everything with the TV show, what was your thoughts on it just briefly?
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No, I mean, you know, I've been asked not just about the TV show,
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but like, you know, Bethesda's Fallout 3 and 4.
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It's like, well, what did you think of it? And I'm like, dude,
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I freaking loved it. It's freaking amazing.
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Right. I mean, I love first person shooters. I thought they did an incredible
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job. And I'm like, hell, yeah, this is great. The TV show.
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I mean, I had high hopes for it, but it was so much better than I was expecting.
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Right. It was. You know, it's just like they did.
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They had a such a good handle on what made Fallout Fallout.
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Right. That kind of like it was so strange that it's kind of funny,
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but it's like a dark humor.
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Right. And it's not slapstick or anything else like that. It's like a specific niche.
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And, you know, it's it's really like, you know, this kind of like worldview
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of like, what would the future look like?
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And then like, what would it actually be if you like try to pursue that vision?
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And anyway, Masterful Jumps. I'm glad you say that.
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So now, speaking of Masterful Jumps, let's talk about your book.
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Oh, oh my gosh. Well, okay. So on top of all these other things, I'm a Lovecraft fan.
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And so I wrote this book called The Rats Beneath the Walls. If you're familiar
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with Lovecraft at all, he wrote this book, short story.
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In 1924, he had it published in Weird Tales, and it was called The Rats in the Walls.
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And it's one of my favorite stories of all time. I mean, it's not directly related
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to his Cthulhu mythos. It's actually like a gothic horror story kind of on its own.
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I loved it so much, I had an idea for like a spiritual successor, like a sequel to it.
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And then, you know, I looked and I'm like, oh my God, 2024 is the 100th year
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anniversary of the short story.
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And I'm like, I have to finish it by then. So I did. And, you know,
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it's only like a month old.
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But yeah, the book is a modern telling. You know, it takes place in 2024.
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You know, it's not using Lovecraft's archaic prose or anything like that.
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It's very modern. and actually has a fair bit of action in it too,
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but it's still straight up a horror story and it definitely like takes Lovecraft's
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original story and concepts and things like that and just, you know,
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and treats it with like honor and respect.
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So yeah, not going off the deep
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end with it. I just, yeah, just kind of a nod of the hat to the old man.
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But yeah, honestly, one little secret thing.
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So as a game designer, I have a ton of different game designs and things like that, just a ton of them.
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And I know that we don't have enough time, at least in my life,
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to do them all. I mean, there's so many.
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And this was an idea that I initially was thinking would be a game.
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And then when that kind of wasn't possible, I was like, well,
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I'll just mothball it for a bit. And I'm like, you know what?
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Why don't I just take this idea and turn it into a novel?
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And now I'm going to try to do that for a great number of game designs and things that I have.
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One of my things that I love doing is building worlds. and so I'm gonna try
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to build those worlds into a novel form and then hopefully.
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Every so often I'll just drop a new book out there and it'll just be more crazy
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stuff from my head over time. So yeah.
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Robert, I love it. I love your, your, your passion behind everything.
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I mean, talking about world building, I mean, and I really mean this from the
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bottom of my heart, you created one of the most impactful worlds in my life,
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which is not just Fallout, but honestly, Darkest Ferry.
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I talk about that game all the time with collectors and play,
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you know, people who don't even like Neopets, like, have you ever played this game?
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Cause it's such a well done game. It really is.
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And it was one of those games, I don't remember, you know, and I say this with
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respect, I don't think it did that well financially.
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Sadly, it did not. And honestly, I mean, like Sony, they really actually did
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a great job of marketing it.
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I mean, they had like TV commercials and stuff like that. I mean,
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they swung for the fences, but like for whatever reason, it just did not get out there.
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You know and we've had you know we've had people tell us
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that like oh well it's because there wasn't as many neopets fans as
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they thought and some people didn't know what it was because it wasn't
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very established as neopets on the cover and stuff whatever man but you know
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that the crazy thing is is the legacy of that game you know it's like people
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they didn't even know what it was but when they played it they're like oh my
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gosh this is great and that that to me is like the thing that just makes me
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grin from ear to ear it's like yeah let the game speak for itself Absolutely.
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And you know, in the world of like retro being popular now, right?
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And Limited Run makes a bunch of obscure games come back.
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Maybe one day they'll talk to Neopets and bring Marcus Ferry back.
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Who knows, man? Stranger things have happened.
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That's very true. Robert, where can our audience buy the book and learn more
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about you and connect with you and all that good stuff? Doug?
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00:27:08,295 --> 00:27:16,335
So I would say the easiest way to do that is literally just go to www.robertscottcampbell.com.
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That's my website. So yeah, I mean, you can get to my email through there.
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You can get to our publishing arm. You can see what the book looks like. You can buy it online.
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You can do all that other good stuff. So it's all there. And anything new I
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come out with, it'll all be up there.
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All right, everybody, go check that out. Uncle Dad, we'll be back after this
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break. Thank you again, Robert. Absolute pleasure. Absolutely.
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Uncle Dad, you are the best. Thank you. You're the best.
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Hi there. This is Dave Mandel. I'd like to think you know me as a writer for
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Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm or Veep or even Eurotrip or,
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I don't know, The Dictator or Clerks.
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But you probably know me from Cat in the Hat. Oh, well.
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Anyway, you're listening to Uncle Dad Talks.
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All right. Uncle Dad here hanging out with Mike. Mike, it's day two.
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And remember, this is day two coverage of the exclusive Embark sponsored episode.
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So remember, GoEmbark.com.
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That's right. I've seen multiple people come by and take pictures and scan while
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we're here working at the booth.
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I love that. And why would you not? Because you have a chance to win 500 bucks.
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Am I right? That's right. 500 bucks in what?
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Embark materials. Weed. But Mike, we just got done a couple of great interviews so far.
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We did a man himself, Jeff Lemire. How was that for you?
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It was kind of surreal. you know because like i've read his
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00:28:36,187 --> 00:28:39,607
stuff bought his comics for so long you know
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00:28:39,607 --> 00:28:42,327
and then you talk to him it just goes by like super quick but it was
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great it was super nice guy yes super nice guy and the fact that he had three
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animals ready to go that was awesome and he was willing to humor us with bruce
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willis for a bit and that makes you a good guy am i right in my book yeah exactly
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and then i just got to interview one of the original creators of fallout i mean
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i think if you guys If you guys don't know what Fallout is,
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00:29:01,867 --> 00:29:05,907
go turn on television because it has one of the hottest television shows right now.
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I mean, Mike, come on. I've never seen it, but the previews look great.
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But the video game is even better. And he was one of the original designers
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behind it. So that's amazing, man.
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We got to talk to him. He gave us a special copy of his book.
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And his book is called, for those who don't remember, The Rats Beneath the Walls,
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the official unofficial sequel to a classic H.P. Lovecraft story.
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Very cool. Very cool indeed. Mike, before we go, I got to ask our guest here,
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Callie Dunlap. Callie Dunlap Art.
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Callie. What? Callie Dunlap Art. Exactly.
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Callie, quick question for you. what is your favorite word
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to describe cannabis devil's lettuce
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hashish uh the ganj
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who would you what do you call it devil's lettuce all right devil's lettuce
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hey that's a good choice and remember devil's lettuce you can go to go embark
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and get the best devil's lettuce isn't that right callie the best devil's lettuce
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that's devil's lettuce indeed all right buddy we'll be right back with this
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exclusive episode brought to you by goembark.com all right everybody uncle Uncle Dad here,
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hanging out with one of my favorite companies in the collectible toy world.
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We are with Jada Toys. Give it
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up for Thomas, the coordinator behind this wonderful product. How are you?
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Good. Yourself, man? You know, I'm much better because we're talking about toys.
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00:30:21,294 --> 00:30:24,054
And who doesn't like talking about toys and collectibles and action figures, right?
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00:30:24,314 --> 00:30:27,334
Right. No, you could talk about them all day, especially all the articulation,
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all the stuff they have. Yep.
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00:30:28,854 --> 00:30:33,294
I love that you talked about articulation because your toys have a lot of articulated
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points, right? I would argue to say that kind of separates you guys a lot from the competition.
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I think because they're fully articulated and they come with extra heads,
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hands, and also the accessory effect.
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It's just also a lower price point. Most people like that the most about our figures.
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00:30:51,134 --> 00:30:54,394
Yeah, your guys' price point is so great. But before we get into all that,
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let's talk about what you guys are offering.
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Not necessarily here, but just all together at Comic-Con. Right away,
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I see the Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
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When was that introduced and how has that been doing? It was introduced last year as just a reveal,
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and right now we're still not selling it, but the amount of engagement people
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are having about them, talking about them all the time, the main thing here
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is that they also have soft goods on them, so they'll have a soft jacket as well.
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When you say soft, will they be like fabric or a type of fabric?
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Yeah, it's like fabric. It's more expensive, but we're trying to make sure it's
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still at a good price point. Are you familiar with a toy brand from back in
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the day called Migos? Yes.
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00:31:32,117 --> 00:31:35,077
Okay, so let me tell you something. So the old school toy collector,
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what we used to love about the old school toys, Migos, they were toys like this,
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like little dolls, but they came with no articulation, but they had real fabric clothing.
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00:31:44,177 --> 00:31:48,777
So the fact that you have full articulated figures with clothing,
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that is huge, man. That's awesome.
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00:31:50,837 --> 00:31:56,097
Yeah, no, I've barely learned about it this year as myself from fans of Jada
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teaching me about it as well, from all these action figure fanatics.
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It's amazing, really. So what else do we got kind of going on?
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What else would you want to talk about for the audience to learn about your guys' product?
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Yeah, here at San Diego Comic-Con, we just showed our extensive Street Fighter
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line from the Street Fighter 2 game.
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And right now, we're revealing our new few figures, which are T-Hawk, Balrog, and E-Honda.
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And it's just showing our exclusive Violent Cannon Pink Chun-Li as well.
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That's amazing. So now these are not out yet or these are out already?
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00:32:26,297 --> 00:32:30,037
They are not out yet. Yeah, the Violent King and Chun-Li are out during San
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Diego Comic-Con for sale, but the T-Hawk, Balrog, and Nihon are just for display only.
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00:32:34,897 --> 00:32:37,717
Display only, okay. So you also have other figures around here.
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Let's talk about these. The Hollywood Riots caught my interest.
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That line is so awesome because you do some interesting things.
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And one of the things I see right away is I love the collaboration with the Ghostbusters.
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Optimus Prime, tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, no, this mashup was amazing
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because we just put the Ghostbusters graphics onto the Transformers,
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Optimus Prime G1 and then we just,
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decided to throw in the Transformers graphics onto the Ecto-1 as well.
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Yeah. That's incredible. The flip-flop on that is so awesome.
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Now, do they transform? They do not. Not yet.
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The Transformers G1 Optimus under it has a little statue of him.
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You can't remove him but he's under the chastity. Oh, that's pretty cool.
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Okay. What is your favorite Hollywood ride?
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Maybe not even here but just as a fan of Hollywood rides, what's your favorite car and movies?
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It will actually be probably just the Back to the Future.
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The DeLorean? Yeah, we'll call it the time machine, but yeah.
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Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's amazing. Okay, cool. So before we wrap up here, I want to talk about the Cheetos.
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So I feel like, you tell me if I'm wrong, I feel like the world of like mascots
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are really hot right now. Like the world of like snack mascots.
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So what's up with this? Are you going to have more characters from the world from snacks?
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00:33:54,140 --> 00:33:58,280
From snacks? Oh, we plan to hopefully we could do a lot more with that like
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this action figure line of the snacks and Cereal is kind of like my boss says
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it like this He said these are the action figures that people didn't know that they won't need it.
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00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,700
Yeah, right I absolutely agree with that because I see that I'm like,
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oh man I never thought I needed a Chester Cheeto on my desk next to my office,
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00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:17,860
but I think I need that Yeah, no, if you need both now, we try to give a collection
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of the Cheetos and the Flamin' Hot Yeah, well see what's funny is actually don't
583
00:34:21,580 --> 00:34:22,980
like Flamin' Hot Cheetos too spicy for me.
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I know not good So before we wrap up here, can you tell our audience where they
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can get your product, learn more about your product, all that good stuff?
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00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,380
Yeah, you can learn more about our product through our socials.
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You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, even on YouTube as well.
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And you can find our products to purchase at Walmart, Target,
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00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,980
Amazon, Big Bad Toy Store, even Entertainment Earth online.
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Everywhere. Almost everywhere. Yeah, yeah. Jada Toys is going to take over the
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world. One day. One day. One day.
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Thomas, thank you so much. It's an absolute pleasure. I will definitely take
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some photos for our audience so they can see your guys' great product.
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Because you said yourself some of this will only be shown here.
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00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,880
Yes, some of it will be only shown here. But now that they've been revealed
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and now they are public, we'll sooner or later post them online.
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That's amazing. Thank you so much, Thomas. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you.
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All right. Uncle Dad here hanging out with probably the most unique names in film.
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Am I saying it right? Indiken? Indiken. Okay. Indiken. Okay.
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00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,660
And I'm assuming I know why it's called that. Am I right? I assume it gets called
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because of the cannabis?
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00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,780
Actually, no. Really? Really? Okay, okay. Okay.
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I cannot be the first person that said that. We thought the same thing when
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we got into the company and our boss was like, no, that's not it.
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00:35:37,264 --> 00:35:41,584
Okay, okay. Well, anyways, if you guys could introduce yourself,
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I'd really appreciate that. We are speaking with? I'm B.
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00:35:44,964 --> 00:35:48,164
Okay, and I'm speaking with? Kyoko. Kyoko, very nice, lovely.
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00:35:48,544 --> 00:35:53,164
Okay, so you guys are representing Indiekin Pictures, which is not to be associated with weed, I guess.
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00:35:53,364 --> 00:35:57,464
So let's talk about, what caught my attention was, I love independent film.
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My sister works in independent film.
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Independent film is a very big part of who I am. And seeing people out there
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pushing the art of film on the lesser side of things, right?
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It needs to be around forever.
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00:36:08,184 --> 00:36:12,784
So my question to you is, what would our audience get from watching your guys'
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pictures? What kind of films do you guys put out there?
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00:36:15,504 --> 00:36:20,344
So we used to do a lot of horror films because that's really what sell,
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kind of. People like to watch it.
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But recently, we started doing a lot of artistic film, kind of, from international.
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National we just got a film called hounds and it's
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in the canes festival and it's actually a really cool film
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but a lot of the big platform don't want to take it just because it got
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like dogfight in there so we we're trying to include
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like i guess like different cultures and kind of like
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subcultures that's not really like what wildly accepted things that are controversial
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00:36:47,684 --> 00:36:53,104
as well but yeah these are a lot of independent you know directors and creators
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and so we're We're giving them a chance to be part of these bigger platforms
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so that they could put themselves out there as creators and not,
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you know, have to go through the struggle of like building,
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like already being at the top to be seen, you know?
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00:37:06,444 --> 00:37:08,224
Absolutely. I think, you know, when you're talking about controversy,
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some people always say, oh, we can't be controversial, especially in today's world.
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But I think realistically, controversy is art and art is freedom,
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00:37:14,804 --> 00:37:17,004
right? Because if you can't, you're not allowed to express yourself.
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00:37:17,124 --> 00:37:19,944
What can you do, especially in the world that we live in America right now?
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00:37:20,004 --> 00:37:23,044
It's very divisive, right? Right. And so being able to be controversial,
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I think, is what makes kind of America kind of great. Right.
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That you're able to do that without some censorship.
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00:37:27,664 --> 00:37:32,904
So what are some of your personal favorite movies that you guys have here that we see here?
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00:37:34,264 --> 00:37:39,004
Well, here, I'm not so sure because this are all the films that are kind of
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older. And that's why we are doing a DVD.
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00:37:41,584 --> 00:37:46,404
Yeah. Some of the newer films are like a streaming more on streaming services.
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00:37:46,404 --> 00:37:50,364
And my favorite one is the one that I was mentioning the hounds That's like
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a recently favorite one and one of like the older one.
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00:37:53,564 --> 00:37:56,864
I think it's a comedy, but I can't remember up the name It's okay.
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00:37:56,924 --> 00:38:00,384
No, I'm sorry, but that's okay That just means our audience has to go find out
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what your favorite is So they're gonna watch all the movies and be like,
647
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I think this is his favorite.
648
00:38:04,044 --> 00:38:07,244
What about you? What's your favorite one? What was the one that we're working on? It says with a P.
649
00:38:07,744 --> 00:38:10,304
Oh Petrol petrol.
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00:38:12,151 --> 00:38:18,291
Troll or petrol, I guess. I'm not sure. Petrol. I guess. Okay. Yeah.
651
00:38:18,691 --> 00:38:22,071
So you're working on that right now? Yes. So we're doing the design work for
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that right now. And it's a very interesting film.
653
00:38:24,611 --> 00:38:26,971
I'm very artsy, you know, very artistic.
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00:38:27,131 --> 00:38:31,311
And that one is a film where it's really for art students, I feel.
655
00:38:31,331 --> 00:38:32,531
I feel like that's their main audience.
656
00:38:32,871 --> 00:38:36,151
It's very, like a very psychological film, I'd say.
657
00:38:36,511 --> 00:38:41,091
Yeah. Awesome. So I guess my last question is where can our audience like really watch your movies,
658
00:38:41,091 --> 00:38:43,871
buy your movies all that good stuff all of
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00:38:43,871 --> 00:38:47,191
the streaming services uh we have amazon prime and
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00:38:47,191 --> 00:38:50,051
also i if you check out our website that will
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00:38:50,051 --> 00:38:52,811
just take you to all the different options out there
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00:38:52,811 --> 00:38:58,951
like hbo max uh pretty much like any and what's the website uh indikinpictures.com
663
00:38:58,951 --> 00:39:03,171
okay so this particular episode that i'm doing right now is actually sponsored
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by a cannabis company so i have a question for you i don't know if you partake
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in cannabis but i think all of us kind of do at some point.
666
00:39:10,271 --> 00:39:14,151
But let me ask you this. What's your favorite way to call cannabis cannabis?
667
00:39:14,511 --> 00:39:17,911
You know, people say devil's lettuce. They say dank. They say whatever.
668
00:39:18,171 --> 00:39:21,411
What would be your favorite one? I'm very traditional. I just say weed.
669
00:39:22,611 --> 00:39:26,431
Okay. Okay. I love that. What is your favorite way to cannabis?
670
00:39:27,211 --> 00:39:30,511
Probably weed too. Okay. I love it. I love it. Awesome.
671
00:39:30,671 --> 00:39:32,871
Well, remember everybody, this episode is sponsored by Embark.
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Remember, go to goembark.com. But thank you guys so much really for your time.
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Go check them out. And can you say that website one more time where they can
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look at your guys' pictures?
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IndikenPictures.com. Very easy. Go check them out. And you guys have any social
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00:39:44,291 --> 00:39:48,551
media or anything? Yeah. We have an Instagram. Is it just IndikenPictures?
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00:39:49,171 --> 00:39:52,191
IndikenPictures. Easy peasy. Alright, everybody. Be sure to check them out,
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and we'll be right back after this break.
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Hey, everybody. This is Jacob Bruner from Empire Strikes Brass,
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and you are listening to Uncle Dad Talks.
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00:40:02,691 --> 00:40:05,491
Alright, everybody. Uncle Dad here. Mike, say hello. Hello, hello.
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00:40:05,711 --> 00:40:09,551
Mike, I'm very nervous right now. It's your turn. I know it's my turn to be nervous.
683
00:40:09,651 --> 00:40:13,711
This guy that I'm sitting next to means the absolute world to me.
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00:40:13,811 --> 00:40:15,531
His films changed my life.
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00:40:15,691 --> 00:40:18,811
It's one of the reasons why I do what I do.
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00:40:19,803 --> 00:40:24,483
There's three people that influenced me to do talking to people and conversating and all that stuff.
687
00:40:24,683 --> 00:40:28,303
And that's Kevin Smith, James, the Nintendo nerd or video game nerd.
688
00:40:28,623 --> 00:40:33,863
And of course, Lloyd Kaufman, who just fell asleep because he is so used to
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everybody saying how great he is.
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As long as introduction, nobody knows me anyway. Well, I do.
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And I, and I am so grateful for your time. Well, thank you. And I'm here with, uh, Christy Rose.
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Hello. One of the stars of Hashtag Shakespeare Shitstorm, who's nice enough
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to be in charge of the wardrobe department here at the Chomart here at San Diego Comic-Con.
694
00:40:59,683 --> 00:41:04,123
How was it, Christy Rose, on Hashtag Shakespeare Shitstorm?
695
00:41:04,503 --> 00:41:09,043
Well, it's always fun to be a glorified actor person is what we call extras.
696
00:41:09,223 --> 00:41:10,763
They're not extras. They're actor people.
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00:41:11,163 --> 00:41:17,643
And it turns out that it was going to be, I don't know, life-changing for me.
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00:41:17,743 --> 00:41:21,663
I didn't realize that at the time. And then, yeah, I'm Troma for Life now.
699
00:41:21,903 --> 00:41:27,383
And Lloyd is actually shooting a new film coming out of retirement, huh?
700
00:41:27,843 --> 00:41:31,443
Well, I wasn't retired, but I've definitely seen it.
701
00:41:31,643 --> 00:41:36,343
Yes, a new movie based on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment,
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00:41:36,483 --> 00:41:43,043
a hilarious slapstick. The Three Stooges used that as their source for most of their oeuvre.
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00:41:43,743 --> 00:41:48,063
At any rate, what else can we talk about? Well, you're casting for it.
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00:41:48,143 --> 00:41:52,243
And so if I was an actor person and it changed my life and you're casting right
705
00:41:52,243 --> 00:41:57,423
now, I was trying to just segue into slime and cumishment or what is it called?
706
00:41:57,663 --> 00:42:00,863
Well, it's when you speak of casting, you're not talking about fishing,
707
00:42:01,063 --> 00:42:04,283
I take it. You're talking about not fly casting.
708
00:42:05,083 --> 00:42:09,863
No, I am from Idaho. So if you want to fly fish, let's go. Hey, Idaho's a nice place.
709
00:42:10,163 --> 00:42:13,103
My son-in-law's to Idaho. Everybody's going to Idaho.
710
00:42:13,643 --> 00:42:16,603
They thought you were there, but you've moved to San Diego.
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00:42:18,043 --> 00:42:19,503
Idaho, you'd have pimped.
712
00:42:21,786 --> 00:42:26,706
We don't even have to work do you want to do a podcast like,
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00:42:28,166 --> 00:42:34,906
just taking trauma has taken over Lloyd first off thank you that's a great intro,
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00:42:35,806 --> 00:42:41,326
hashtag I think Christy Rose has brought Mike out of his shell did she Mike
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00:42:41,326 --> 00:42:42,486
something happened I don't know,
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00:42:43,286 --> 00:42:47,426
that's usually what happens with Mike Mike usually gets he gets everybody likes
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00:42:47,426 --> 00:42:51,406
Mike of course nobody likes me either Oh, no.
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00:42:52,526 --> 00:42:59,806
That's why I'm here. I'm very hard to get. Uncle Lloydy doesn't just turn down the New York Times.
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00:43:00,186 --> 00:43:03,806
Okay. See, so Uncle Dad and Uncle Lloydy. Wow, that's a combo in heaven right
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00:43:03,806 --> 00:43:08,146
there. So when we talk about your whole entire career, I have to ask one major question.
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00:43:08,806 --> 00:43:10,806
What has been your least favorite film you worked on?
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00:43:11,486 --> 00:43:13,626
Well, that I've worked on?
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00:43:14,866 --> 00:43:18,206
Well, Saturday Night Fever. That was horrible to work on.
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00:43:18,526 --> 00:43:21,746
Did you really work on that? It's a great movie. It's a wonderful movie,
725
00:43:21,926 --> 00:43:24,166
but the job I had was awful. What was the job?
726
00:43:24,426 --> 00:43:29,606
It was executive in charge of locations, and they shot it for what was considered
727
00:43:29,606 --> 00:43:34,166
a small budget, so I had to go out and get all these people to give us their houses,
728
00:43:34,906 --> 00:43:39,686
and it was all on location, so it was horrible. What's your favorite line from that movie?
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00:43:40,126 --> 00:43:42,906
For that one? Your mother's sauce don't drip.
730
00:43:44,506 --> 00:43:47,086
Mike, I know you had a question about something. Well, what's your favorite
731
00:43:47,086 --> 00:43:49,026
line from that movie? Oh, that's my pussy finger.
732
00:43:49,386 --> 00:43:53,966
Oh, pretty good. You know, Lloyd, like you, like it's what, 40 years?
733
00:43:54,786 --> 00:43:59,486
This year is 40 years of, since you did the first Toxic Avenger.
734
00:44:00,701 --> 00:44:08,741
So what is it about him that you think that has transcended decades, like four decades now?
735
00:44:08,861 --> 00:44:13,361
People still love it. People still see it. You have a booth here at Comic-Con.
736
00:44:13,461 --> 00:44:14,941
What is it about this character?
737
00:44:15,581 --> 00:44:19,881
Well, a few people read books, but I can tell you're very uneducated.
738
00:44:20,381 --> 00:44:24,141
I've written some books in which I discuss the Toxic Avenger.
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00:44:24,461 --> 00:44:28,581
If that's what you were asking about, I don't remember. and well,
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00:44:28,721 --> 00:44:33,801
Stan Lee wrote the, he and I were buddies for a long time, over 50 years.
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00:44:34,061 --> 00:44:39,561
So he wrote an intro to one of my books in which he said that like Spidey,
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00:44:39,601 --> 00:44:46,181
Toxie put a new face on the cinematic super human hero because he's got,
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00:44:46,241 --> 00:44:50,921
what makes him a hero is that he solves his earthly issues.
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00:44:51,121 --> 00:44:56,341
He's true to his significant other. He takes care of his mom. He's got skin problems.
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00:44:57,041 --> 00:45:03,441
And the only mop is he's a janitor after all. So, you know, he's got pathos.
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00:45:04,241 --> 00:45:09,501
My stepmother cried through the first investor screening of the original Toxic
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Avenger to which she brought Lenny Riefenstahl, famous German female, non-cis identified,
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non-male cis filmmaker.
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00:45:19,861 --> 00:45:24,981
You know, the movie that changed my life when I saw it was Tromeo and Juliet because that,
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00:45:25,001 --> 00:45:27,741
Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorite about stories of all time period but you made it in such
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00:45:27,741 --> 00:45:30,941
a way where it was you know honestly to
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00:45:30,941 --> 00:45:34,061
me it's way ahead of its time it's still ahead of its time in my opinion you touch
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00:45:34,061 --> 00:45:37,621
on so many things when you made that film i'm just
754
00:45:37,621 --> 00:45:41,741
curious where does shakespeare like land for you in writing well the tempest
755
00:45:41,741 --> 00:45:46,921
is my favorite of shakespeare plays and most recent film that i've directed
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00:45:46,921 --> 00:45:53,861
until the dostoevsky which is not dostoevsky nor is the nor is hashtag shakespeare
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00:45:53,861 --> 00:45:55,701
shitstorm or The Tempest.
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00:45:55,761 --> 00:45:59,241
You can enjoy it either way, if you've seen it or not seen it.
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00:45:59,421 --> 00:46:03,181
But that was always my favorite play from the time I was in eighth grade.
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00:46:03,301 --> 00:46:08,281
I was intrigued by it and saw it on stage with Morris Karanowski.
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00:46:08,621 --> 00:46:13,301
And, you know, it's about, I waited till I was old to do it because Prospero
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00:46:13,301 --> 00:46:14,821
is old. He's losing power.
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00:46:15,481 --> 00:46:21,781
That's my issue. There's magic in the movie. We make magic as a The movies are magic.
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00:46:22,101 --> 00:46:26,481
There's a monster. There's a romantic couple who make hot monkey love.
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00:46:27,721 --> 00:46:34,781
There's mythical creatures running around and fairies, rather. No, not like you. No.
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00:46:35,361 --> 00:46:39,221
Definitely not like me. I know. Those are like the storybook fairies.
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00:46:39,241 --> 00:46:41,421
And it's a wonderful play. It's beautiful.
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00:46:41,761 --> 00:46:45,841
And arguably, it's Shakespeare's very last. Yes. Yeah, that's true.
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00:46:46,001 --> 00:46:48,441
Yeah. So before we wrap up here, because I don't want to take too much of your time.
770
00:46:49,376 --> 00:46:54,016
I'm just, what can we expect from the future of Troma for another 50 years?
771
00:46:54,316 --> 00:46:58,556
Well, Troma Now, our streaming service, Mike has already subscribed.
772
00:46:59,036 --> 00:47:06,616
It's 50 years of Troma movies. And Christy Rose is in hashtag Shakespeare shitstorm. You can't miss her.
773
00:47:07,276 --> 00:47:13,796
And you'll see 50 years of failed cinema. I mean, 50 years of legendary underground movie making.
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00:47:13,976 --> 00:47:16,916
About a thousand movies. movies and mike as you
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00:47:16,916 --> 00:47:20,216
know first month absolutely free do you
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00:47:20,216 --> 00:47:23,096
know that mike that's right that's right yes so what and
777
00:47:23,096 --> 00:47:26,316
then it's only 4.99 but what mike did he signed
778
00:47:26,316 --> 00:47:29,776
up for a second month under under uh uncle
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00:47:29,776 --> 00:47:33,116
dad's email so uh clearly you
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00:47:33,116 --> 00:47:36,096
just keep switching different email clearly lloyd
781
00:47:36,096 --> 00:47:38,856
you you're overseeing all actions that are
782
00:47:38,856 --> 00:47:42,076
taking place because you totally figured me out i'm totally caught red-handed
783
00:47:42,076 --> 00:47:44,996
yeah he knows how he figured you out mike he's like i just don't
784
00:47:44,996 --> 00:47:47,856
trust this guy huh well that's why uh you know like i
785
00:47:47,856 --> 00:47:51,256
could feel that mike and i have probably
786
00:47:51,256 --> 00:47:54,276
wear spirit animals you can't actually
787
00:47:54,276 --> 00:47:57,816
can't say spirit animals that's uh appropriating from
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00:47:57,816 --> 00:48:00,736
the people for whom i'm wearing this tie to whom
789
00:48:00,736 --> 00:48:04,396
i donate money instead of yale university but
790
00:48:04,396 --> 00:48:08,076
if you watch the morning show that's an issue the weatherman
791
00:48:08,076 --> 00:48:11,376
says mentioned spirit animal and
792
00:48:11,376 --> 00:48:18,816
he's not a basic Native American so he takes a lot of shit from the cancel people
793
00:48:18,816 --> 00:48:26,476
but that's what hashtag Shakespeare is all about right cancel age cancel culture
794
00:48:26,476 --> 00:48:29,316
hashtag cancel Kaufman I'm just kidding.
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00:48:30,656 --> 00:48:38,436
KKK and what better way to end the show there we go we'll be right back after
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00:48:38,436 --> 00:48:44,016
this break all right as all good things must come to an end well we're not really
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00:48:44,016 --> 00:48:49,496
ending but day two is over day two of the exclusive brought the brought to you exclusively by,
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goembark.com and of course that's embark supply right mike you're absolutely
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00:48:55,676 --> 00:49:00,816
correct i'm very proud of you thank you i remembered that uh and of course that's
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where you got to go to get the best weed in california yeah so mike let's talk
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00:49:04,496 --> 00:49:09,816
about our day today what a day so many tribulations, no trials.
802
00:49:10,936 --> 00:49:14,176
Well, and it's only Thursday, so there's more to...
803
00:49:15,861 --> 00:49:20,301
Trial room, right? Yes, we both got to talk to some of the people that we really
804
00:49:20,301 --> 00:49:22,521
admire in the industry, so that was really cool.
805
00:49:23,101 --> 00:49:27,781
I also want to point out, you and I took kind of the back seat on the Lloyd Kaufman one, huh?
806
00:49:28,641 --> 00:49:33,621
Hey, easy work, huh? Yeah, work smarter, not harder.
807
00:49:33,841 --> 00:49:35,961
Indeed, and you know what? That's what Lloyd Kaufman would do,
808
00:49:35,981 --> 00:49:39,201
right? He would work smarter, so we took his advice. Would you agree?
809
00:49:39,421 --> 00:49:43,681
He seemed like he knows how to work, depending on how he was just lounging in
810
00:49:43,681 --> 00:49:47,641
that chair back there, so yeah. And dude, 50 years, of course you know how to
811
00:49:47,641 --> 00:49:49,261
do it, right? You probably figured something out.
812
00:49:49,581 --> 00:49:53,321
Exactly. One day when we're doing this show, 50 years in the future,
813
00:49:53,521 --> 00:49:56,841
we'll be the same way. What do you think? Oh, God.
814
00:49:58,501 --> 00:50:04,781
50 years of Uncle Dad Talks. We probably will be Uncle Dads. Dead dads.
815
00:50:07,741 --> 00:50:10,641
So, Mike, before we wrap up, we should play a game.
816
00:50:10,641 --> 00:50:16,521
And I want to include our very lovely guest Callie Dunlapart the game is going
817
00:50:16,521 --> 00:50:20,641
to be our new favorite called Two of a Kind Two of a Kind the way it works is
818
00:50:20,641 --> 00:50:22,941
we say a category and you have to say the same,
819
00:50:23,841 --> 00:50:26,401
word that comes to your or you have to say the word first word that comes to
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00:50:26,401 --> 00:50:30,461
your mind so an example would be for our audience would be Marvel Super Hero
821
00:50:30,461 --> 00:50:36,161
1, 3, 2, 1 we both would say Batman wait I wouldn't say Batman,
822
00:50:37,641 --> 00:50:40,341
I mean you could because you would screw it
823
00:50:40,341 --> 00:50:43,401
up but yeah you're right so for today's
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00:50:43,401 --> 00:50:46,841
version because we have embark sponsoring we're gonna
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00:50:46,841 --> 00:50:49,641
do what is your favorite or sorry
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00:50:49,641 --> 00:50:57,561
a strain of weed a strain of weed would be indica sativa right so a strain of
827
00:50:57,561 --> 00:51:07,501
weed ready are you guys in sync we'll find out at the end at the end of one three two one.
828
00:51:11,761 --> 00:51:14,661
Why indica scares me because it's nicknamed in
829
00:51:14,661 --> 00:51:17,881
the couch exactly and that scares me and
830
00:51:17,881 --> 00:51:21,761
that's why they call it scary it's too much that's another nickname for weed
831
00:51:21,761 --> 00:51:27,361
is scary so mike again not in sync but that's okay but you can be in sync by
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00:51:27,361 --> 00:51:31,721
going to goembark.com to getting the best weed in town period in california
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00:51:31,721 --> 00:51:35,261
so go check them out i will be right back after this break unless mike Mike, you got some last words.
834
00:51:35,601 --> 00:51:38,041
I like it because I want to go to sleep.
835
00:51:38,701 --> 00:51:41,321
That's a good point. All right, everybody. We'll be right back after this break.
836
00:51:43,141 --> 00:51:45,821
All right. It's day... What day is it, Mike?
837
00:51:47,432 --> 00:51:51,732
Day of the week, is it? I don't know what day anything is. Well, today's Friday.
838
00:51:52,152 --> 00:51:57,132
Today is the second official day of Comic-Con, but third day that we've been
839
00:51:57,132 --> 00:52:01,232
here because we were also here for preview night. Oh, you actually separate those then?
840
00:52:01,792 --> 00:52:06,872
Yeah, because if you look at here on the badge, there's... Our audience can't
841
00:52:06,872 --> 00:52:08,772
see? Yeah, I'm going to explain it to them. Okay.
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00:52:09,932 --> 00:52:15,572
Everyone's badge on the side has a list of numbers, is one, two,
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00:52:15,672 --> 00:52:17,572
three, four, and a P for preview night.
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00:52:17,772 --> 00:52:21,652
And so whenever it's highlighted on your badge is the times that you're allowed
845
00:52:21,652 --> 00:52:23,632
to be here. Thank you for that information.
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00:52:24,132 --> 00:52:28,592
And it's separated. Oh, okay. For those who didn't know, now they wanted to know.
847
00:52:30,112 --> 00:52:33,392
Mikey, yes, we're here. Today we got some exciting stuff. We're doing something
848
00:52:33,392 --> 00:52:37,512
with Texas Chainsaw Massacre, who will actually be guest hosted with a very
849
00:52:37,512 --> 00:52:38,992
good friend of yours. Who's that?
850
00:52:39,412 --> 00:52:43,632
The Rocket Monster. That's right. He loves horror. You don't love horror so much?
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00:52:44,132 --> 00:52:47,192
It's going to be a good time, I think. We also are going to talk to a science
852
00:52:47,192 --> 00:52:50,972
advisor. I think that's really exciting. I don't think we've ever had somebody
853
00:52:50,972 --> 00:52:51,832
like that on the show yet.
854
00:52:52,412 --> 00:52:55,872
Yeah, I don't think we've really dived deep into science exploration.
855
00:52:56,492 --> 00:52:57,572
What do you mean, deep into space?
856
00:52:58,392 --> 00:53:02,012
Or that. Or the next generation? You get what I'm doing here?
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00:53:02,152 --> 00:53:07,532
Yeah, you're tickling the listener's bosom with a feather. Their bosom, yes, indeed.
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But another thing that tickles bosoms is my favorite thing to do,
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and that's smoke cannabis. And the only way to get cannabis is really the best place in California.
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And they are exclusively sponsoring this show. What is the name of that cannabis brand?
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Embark. Embark, indeed. And you need to embark on that journey and go to GoEmbark.com.
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Go check it out. They have the best cannabis product, period.
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Isn't that right, Mike? That's what I've heard.
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Yes. Throughout this whole weekend. I know. I want to keep hearing it as we continue our days.
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And you love it, though. I love it. Yeah, who doesn't? We'll be right back after this break.
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All right, everybody. Uncle Dad here, hanging out with the one and only Just Mike. That's right.
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Just Mike. But we had a very special guest, and I'm going to allow her to introduce
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herself because I don't think I could do it justice because she's brilliant in all sorts of ways.
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If you may, introduce yourself to our audience, please. Sure.
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I am Erin McDonald, otherwise known as Dr. Erin.
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I am an astrophysicist, PhD, and I am the science advisor for the Star Trek franchise.
872
00:54:10,155 --> 00:54:13,595
Wow, Mike. This is probably the most impressive person to ever be on the show.
873
00:54:14,035 --> 00:54:17,535
Franchise advisor. Yes, I would say so. Absolutely. We've never had anybody
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as intelligent as you. So I feel scared.
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00:54:21,535 --> 00:54:26,115
I feel like my intelligence goes up just a little just because we're with you here. Yes.
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00:54:26,575 --> 00:54:30,535
There we go. So I think one way I want to talk about is the Star Trek franchise, right?
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And I want to know, were you always a fan of Star Trek or is it just something
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you kind of got into later in life?
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Later in life, but before I started working for it, it was basically when I was in college.
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00:54:39,895 --> 00:54:43,035
There's a big i joke that like the venn diagram of physics
881
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majors and star trek fans has a big overlap and
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so going through my undergraduate degree i
883
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was hanging out with a lot of star trek fans and we'd be having parties and
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they would have star trek on in the background and playing drinking games and
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they were like i made the mistake of saying i'd never seen a whole episode and
886
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so that's where it started but i fell in love very fast so it was absolutely
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my jam So I got to step back a second. There's drinking games for Star Trek?
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Yes, there are. You could do the Picard maneuver every time he tugs down on his uniform.
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Every time Riker swings his leg over the chair, you can get quite a few in there.
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Okay, so what are your top three drinking games?
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I'm kidding. You don't have to answer that. Mike, I know you must be curious of something.
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I'm curious of what was the thing that caused the most drinks?
893
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Oh, definitely the Picard maneuver. the tugging down
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on the uniform that'll do it that'll mess you up pretty fast yeah
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you gotta play that tonight i never knew that never really even
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noticed that but i guess now i gotta go back and watch yeah so
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you know what's it's interesting how those moments like shape your life right
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like you're just having a good time and then one day you end up working for
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them what was that progress like to get to that point i mean it always was sort
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of fan first like i actually got my start once i left academia and i missed
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teaching i would come to conventions and give talks on the science behind science fiction.
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I would talk about Star Trek or Mass Effect or all these other franchises that I was super into.
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And yeah, then CBS heard about my Star Trek talks and invited me to come to
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their official events. And that's kind of how I got on their radar.
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And it just went from there.
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Just with intention, right, Mike? Yeah, intention, manifestation, maybe a little bit.
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But it's also interesting to know that they actually do use real science in
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the story writing, right?
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So is there a lot of stuff that you know that's coming in the future that the
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general public and people like us don't know?
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I mean, it's a good question because a lot of my work is very futurism almost
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of predicting what we're going to... I don't have any foresight into it.
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But I mean, that is what we do, right?
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We look at a technology we have now and we kind of extend that into what we
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would have in the future.
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And if you go all the way back to like 1966 when Star Trek first aired,
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they were using stuff that's commonplace now, right?
918
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Flip phones are like out of date. And that was the cool future technology they had on that show.
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So, you know, we'll, we'll see. We keep progressing.
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No predictions for me and Mike. Sorry.
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I was hoping for that. Yeah. Well, you know, my, my,
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my stepfather loved the old Star star trek from
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the 60s show and uh he would talk about
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that like there's stuff that they were doing you know on that show that was
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like unconceivable you know now is like you're saying almost out of date right
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so it's just really cool that science fiction actually has real science and
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it's not just fiction and so i kind of touched on something really fast about
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you brought up mass effect.
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So i know that sounds like i know you don't work in that right or okay
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i'm just a nerd so i bring bringing that up because like
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you can't bring a mass effect and not talk about it for a second because it's truly
932
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in my opinion one of the greatest video games ever created especially
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with the science aspect of things so we never got i've
934
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never got an opportunity to talk to somebody about this so i'm just curious
935
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how accurate is it truly oh heck yeah i'm so excited first of all i have a normandy
936
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tattooed on my arm like i am a hardcore mass effect fan but one of the things
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i love about it is like you said the science is really good if you go through
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the codex and you like actually read the science behind Mass Effect.
939
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I mean, even the title, right, is called Mass Effect.
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And it's this whole idea that humans discover a particle called element zero,
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which when you run a current through it allows you to manipulate space time
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so you can like artificially create a gravity well.
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And you can do a lot of stuff when you're able to do that, both inverting a
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gravity well, so it basically pushes you faster than the speed of light,
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or creating artificial gravity. It's all element zero.
946
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It's all the literal Mass Effect. and there's some really good science in that
947
00:58:37,255 --> 00:58:40,155
series yeah you just blew my he doesn't know what we're talking about he's not
948
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a big gamer but his mind is blown right now i'm so i'm just i'm i'm blown now
949
00:58:46,235 --> 00:58:49,595
also you not only are you involved but you also play a fictitious,
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character of yourself i know mike you had a question about that like so how
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00:58:55,035 --> 00:58:58,935
much of your real self is in your fictitional character of yourself or do you
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00:58:58,935 --> 00:59:00,935
get to act like a completely different version of yourself.
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It is very much me. I mean, they
954
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named it Dr. Aaron McDonald and I am a professor at Starfleet Academy.
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And I mean, originally I appeared in season one at the very end to meet the
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character Rock Talk because she's the young girl who really wants to get into science.
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And so the showrunners were like, you know, they used me a lot of like my growing
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up to kind of help shape that character.
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So they were like, well, she has to meet Dr. Aaron at Starfleet Academy.
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And then so they have me as a character already.
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And as we were going into season two, there's tons of time travel.
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And I kept explaining to everyone, like the rules of time travel and how we
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would have to do it. And they were like, you know what?
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Like, we just need like a Mr. DNA explainer video.
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They were like, I think Dr. Aaron should just give us a lesson in temporal mechanics.
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And that's how I kind of got that more big role in season two. So yes, it is me.
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I don't know if I'm a time I don't know if I get plucked out of our universe
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and get put in the Star Trek universe, but I'm not unhappy about it.
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00:59:58,952 --> 01:00:02,872
So I'm very curious too, like when you saw that version of you in the movie,
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Does that blow your mind? Yes. Yeah, it's only myself and Stephen Hawking have
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played themselves in Star Trek. And so like no pressure, right?
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01:00:12,913 --> 01:00:15,733
And, but yeah, I mean, it's great.
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01:00:15,833 --> 01:00:19,653
I get to cosplay as myself and it's the dream.
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01:00:19,713 --> 01:00:22,493
Even when I was in grad school, if you'd asked me like what my dream job was,
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01:00:22,553 --> 01:00:26,453
it was to work at Starfleet Academy, but it was like, well, I can't because it doesn't exist.
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01:00:26,673 --> 01:00:29,173
And now I do. And that's pretty cool.
977
01:00:29,993 --> 01:00:33,353
So I'm gonna throw this out there. If you ever need any space podcasters on
978
01:00:33,353 --> 01:00:36,153
the show, I think me and Matt can, you know, to see casting,
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01:00:36,253 --> 01:00:38,593
we can do it, huh, Mike? Yeah, yeah. I'm good at giving space.
980
01:00:39,313 --> 01:00:42,373
Exactly. That's what I meant. I didn't mean going to space. Yes, exactly.
981
01:00:43,213 --> 01:00:46,413
Before we wrap up, though, you're also working on other projects,
982
01:00:46,493 --> 01:00:48,853
too, right? You work on, I'm sorry, correct me if I'm wrong,
983
01:00:48,873 --> 01:00:50,493
there's a film you just did, correct?
984
01:00:50,613 --> 01:00:54,473
Space Cadet. Space Cadet. So Space Cadet just came out on Amazon Prime.
985
01:00:54,693 --> 01:00:56,553
It's basically Legally Blonde Goes to Space.
986
01:00:57,293 --> 01:01:00,633
And it's really fun. It's just a fun family movie. Like, it's hilarious.
987
01:01:00,633 --> 01:01:03,313
Hilarious stoner chick from Florida gets into the NASA program.
988
01:01:03,513 --> 01:01:06,033
And yeah, it's awesome. So highly recommended.
989
01:01:06,333 --> 01:01:08,633
Are NASA people stoners?
990
01:01:09,693 --> 01:01:14,133
I think there's more than you would expect. And I mean, genuinely,
991
01:01:14,193 --> 01:01:17,313
that's something that I try to get across too. It's like, yes,
992
01:01:17,313 --> 01:01:19,073
I'm a scientist, but I'm also covered in tattoos.
993
01:01:19,253 --> 01:01:21,693
I play a lot of video games. I love heavy metal music.
994
01:01:21,893 --> 01:01:25,833
I drink whiskey. We are multifaceted human beings. Are you a stoner?
995
01:01:26,873 --> 01:01:31,573
No, that's in the past for me. Unfortunately, I did some work for the federal
996
01:01:31,573 --> 01:01:34,693
government and you're not a stoner when you do that. But yeah.
997
01:01:34,853 --> 01:01:37,433
So I have a question for you because I've been asking people this question.
998
01:01:37,533 --> 01:01:40,533
It's funny that you bring this up. What is your favorite word to call weed?
999
01:01:40,853 --> 01:01:42,993
You know, people say devil's lettuce or whatever. If you can notice,
1000
01:01:43,033 --> 01:01:44,053
I'm wearing a devil's lettuce shirt.
1001
01:01:44,533 --> 01:01:46,953
Oh, that's a great. Whoa. You're
1002
01:01:46,953 --> 01:01:51,433
like taking me back. I went to college in Boulder, so there was a lot.
1003
01:01:52,973 --> 01:01:57,493
I mean, I feel like, well, my mom went to college at Berkeley.
1004
01:01:57,493 --> 01:02:01,853
So I'm like a generation of this stuff and she still calls it dope.
1005
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:10,540
OG like yeah the OG like boomer she's like oh yeah that dope that dope I smell that dope don't be a dope,
1006
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,780
it's got a little place in my heart okay okay I like that I like that before
1007
01:02:14,780 --> 01:02:18,000
we wrap up Mike any last questions well since you're talking about weed and
1008
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:19,320
dope and devil's lettuce,
1009
01:02:20,020 --> 01:02:25,380
and science and space and would you if you smoked weed in space would you get
1010
01:02:25,380 --> 01:02:29,480
higher without since there's no gravity right would you would you would it make
1011
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:33,020
you higher than it does on earth that's That's a great question.
1012
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:37,740
I'm going to get weirdly sciencey about this, but this is a beautiful intersection.
1013
01:02:38,020 --> 01:02:41,420
So there is a thing called the observer's effect that they see when astronauts
1014
01:02:41,420 --> 01:02:44,120
go up into space and they look down on Earth for the first time.
1015
01:02:44,140 --> 01:02:47,320
And everyone who's done it is like, you can't describe it.
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01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:51,220
There's no way you can achieve that feeling of looking down on this planet with
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01:02:51,220 --> 01:02:53,300
a tiny atmosphere that we all live on.
1018
01:02:53,460 --> 01:02:56,500
And so I imagine you already have that going on.
1019
01:02:56,500 --> 01:03:00,840
You want to add some extra enlightening moments
1020
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,760
it would definitely help plus the ratio
1021
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of oxygen to like compared to the oxygen on earth
1022
01:03:06,620 --> 01:03:09,760
is different in space and so it's also going to affect you differently that
1023
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:15,380
way but i would not i i'd probably go for the gummy route in space not not lighting
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01:03:15,380 --> 01:03:20,400
up because fire in space is usually pretty bad i feel like though you take an
1025
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:23,540
edible in space when it hits you it's not gonna be fun like it's it's not fun
1026
01:03:23,540 --> 01:03:26,340
normally so like Like, you know what I mean? A little more than that. I don't know.
1027
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:30,760
I don't know. I mean, you would be high and then you'd also be really physically high.
1028
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:36,220
So well said, Mike. Before we wrap up, I said that three times now, sorry.
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01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:39,420
Where can our audience connect with you and learn more about you?
1030
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,380
Absolutely. You can watch Star Trek Prodigy, which is great.
1031
01:03:42,460 --> 01:03:43,640
It's on Netflix right now.
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01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:48,980
You can also find me on Instagram and Blue Sky at Dr. Aaron Mack, D-R-E-R-I-N-M-A-C.
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01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,140
And I've got some videos on YouTube. If you search Dr. Aaron Explains the Universe,
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01:03:52,300 --> 01:03:54,400
you can find some videos out there. So thank you.
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01:03:54,460 --> 01:03:57,200
I absolutely love that. Go check it out. Maybe you can make your own drinking
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01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,640
game about it and have a good time. We'll see everybody in a few seconds.
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All right, Uncle Dad hanging out with one of the greatest people in our family of friends.
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We're hanging out with the Brocken Monster. What's up, man? How are you?
1039
01:04:09,862 --> 01:04:13,602
I'm a bit chilling, but you have an important task right now. Oh, what is that?
1040
01:04:14,202 --> 01:04:17,562
As you see, if you haven't heard since you've been around us,
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this episode is sponsored by Go Embark or Embark dispensaries.
1042
01:04:22,422 --> 01:04:24,722
Yeah, the Devil's Lettuce. The Devil's Lettuce, right, yes.
1043
01:04:25,142 --> 01:04:28,162
That's a fun name, right? I love that name. I actually want to make a shirt
1044
01:04:28,162 --> 01:04:31,462
that says the Devil's Lettuce on it. Don't tell Embark because I got that.
1045
01:04:31,622 --> 01:04:34,062
I won't. No, it's going to be in a different font. Okay, good, good.
1046
01:04:34,682 --> 01:04:39,522
But that leads me to a question. What is your favorite way to describe weed?
1047
01:04:39,662 --> 01:04:43,182
What's your favorite word, weed, your weed word? My weed word.
1048
01:04:45,142 --> 01:04:50,362
How about this? Top three weed words. Top three weed words, meaning like how
1049
01:04:50,362 --> 01:04:54,162
I would describe what I'm doing. Hey, I'm smoking dank.
1050
01:04:54,522 --> 01:04:58,042
Hey, I'm smoking perp. I don't talk like that.
1051
01:04:59,422 --> 01:05:04,162
I'm old. I'm old. I get stoned. Okay. That's a good reference at least.
1052
01:05:04,742 --> 01:05:07,062
High as a kite. Okay. Okay. Give me one more.
1053
01:05:09,242 --> 01:05:12,302
Blitzed. Okay. Old school right there. Okay. Well, I'm old.
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Another favorite of mine, we'll put an asterisk on it, is higher than a giraffe's ass.
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That's a new one. That's a good one. That's a good one. All right.
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So remember this, everybody. buddy you can get higher than
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01:05:25,862 --> 01:05:30,562
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weed period isn't that right brandon that's exactly right uncle dad yes and
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out go mbark.com and we'll be right back,
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all right everybody uncle dad here hanging out with just mike mike i'm just
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hanging oh that's It's a new one, Just Hangin' Mike. All right.
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01:05:55,102 --> 01:05:59,162
We are with one of our first high-caliber guests we ever had.
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01:05:59,482 --> 01:06:01,482
And now we've had a slew of them, but that's okay.
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Yeah, he's still our favorite. Let's give it up for the man,
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the myth, the toy-making icon, the one and only, Brian Vogweiss.
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How are you? Thank you for having me back.
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How does it feel to be back? It feels great. It literally feels great.
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I don't know how you guys felt about last year or the year before.
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Last year was weird. The year before was depressing.
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This feels like 2019 like it's
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fucking back like it's like it's crowded it's cool shit i got a bet last year
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i bought one thing the year before i bought nothing like this year i bought
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probably 10 to 12 things like yeah it's it's back so last time you said you
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had to watch your you had to watch your collective so now you don't have to worry about that,
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So, we did move. I do have a bigger collection room.
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That's the good news. The bad news, yeah, it's getting full again.
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So, I'm all ready. Like, did you see the Rattler that Hasbro for a class of...
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Yes, I did. I mean, I need that.
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Like, I need it. Like, I need it. Where am I going to put that?
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Like, that's... I might have to glue it to the fucking ceiling.
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But it's... I need that. But in your kid's room?
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That tells me you don't have kids uh yeah no
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that is the last place on earth it would if you
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want to see what biker mice from mars look like when they've
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been thrown against the wall 89 000 times and i think one of my other kids like
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literally took a shit on throttle then yes you you should you should come put
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put it put the rattler in my kid's room well what do you think about that mike
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sounds like you're having a great time brian with that yeah time it's just not
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the best for It's stuff you care about.
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Yeah, of course, of course. Well, I mean, clearly you should bring them here
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and then let them see what they do here in the convention, no?
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It's funny you say that. This is my first San Diego Comic-Con in five years.
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Technically six because of 2020 that my family's not here. Yeah,
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we just had so, like normally I'm here for one day.
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So I bring them down, we goof around, we have fun, and we go.
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So this year, we're here for three days, and it just couldn't bring the kids. Yeah, bummed me out.
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But that's okay because you're doing hard work because we're going to talk about the Nacelleverse.
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So let's talk about the Nacelleverse. What can you tell our audience about the
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Nacelleverse? Yes. It's not on video. No. I have to put my Pepsi down. No.
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So let's talk about the Nacelleverse. Tell our audience what that is and all the great stuff in it.
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So, I mean, the Nacelleverse is, I mean, sort of to a certain degree what it
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sounds like. The name of our company is Nacelle.
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We have been buying properties like RoboForce, Biker Mice, Sectars,
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whatever, and combining them.
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Into a shared universe. As you could probably guess, I'm not the first person
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to think of this or do this.
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There's a certain company I think has about a 90-year head start on us,
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but we're trying to make up for lost time.
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And what we're doing is, I mean, it really is, literally is,
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and not to sound all highfalutin, but it's a mixed media program.
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So RoboForce, which we're doing with Dwayne, with The Rock, that's six episodes,
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and we're going to be fully done before September. December.
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Biker Mice from Mars, we're doing with Ryan Reynolds, and that's in the script stage now.
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So we should be done with the scripts hopefully by October, and then we start
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the animating somewhere between November and December.
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And then all of these, so in RoboForce, which is the first series,
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all of these have cameos.
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So we're actually later today showcasing
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the first new biker mice from
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mars footage in 17 years and that's
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their cameo from robo force
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and then when biker mice from mars comes
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out the mirror of that scene
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so like in robo force you're like wait
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why are they on earth when you watch biker mice for mars you'll know why they're
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on earth and then you'll see the robo force go by so the inspiration was you
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You remember that scene in Back to the Future 2 where he goes back to the enchantment
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under the sea dance and he's like climbing around himself from Back to the Future 1.
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So we're doing a scene like that with RoboForce and Biker Mice. Yeah.
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And they're all in it. So like the fourth lead of the show is not Stellara, but is a Sectarian.
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So everybody's in it. You see Moo Mesa's walking around, a little bovine action.
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Action so yeah it's it's it's a shared universe and we're we're we're showing
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a lot of footage tonight that's never been seen what one thing i want to point
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out is he said bovine action and i do love me some bovine action so i'm very excited for that.
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What is your memory with these platforms or these platforms, these series?
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Well, I mostly remember biker mice from Mars and great Garlu.
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I think we talked about it last time, mainly because Howard Stern talks about
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that character all the time, but I just think it's really cool that now we're
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at the point where all these different worlds that were all separate,
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you know, you see it with, with all the, like the Marvel movies and stuff.
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They're not like crossing over. And it's so cool that you guys get to do that
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and just have fun with, with, with, with it in every way you can.
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Gar blue check this out oh we
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did this uh exclusive with wall so he's gonna
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have us walk over to there's a shelf here that has a bunch of characters on
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this character we have the figures of the line and
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he's gonna tell us all about it so that yeah that's our nickname for him
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but i'm pretty sure we're gonna make it canon that is gar
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blue so that's those are literally we got the
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walmart pantone numbers for their blue
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and their yellow and that is exclusively sold at
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walmart starting in about six weeks same
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thing that's night fighting dargon i don't know
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which is based on the original repaint i'm not
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sure why if you're fighting at night you want to be bright silver but so
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be it and that's fireproof max 89 which
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is taken from a scene in one of the comic books we did with oni press so yeah
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but yeah if you're a garlu fan hopefully you're going to be a gar blue fan too
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i like it great gar blue yeah gar blue uh you know that brings up the next great
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point is you also have a whole connected universe in the comics as well, correct?
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So this is the exclusive variant of Biker Mice 1 that we're doing for Diamond.
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So these are all Diamond exclusives. We call them the Sports Bros.
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So that comic book, the story is this regular one.
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Every single IP we're doing has at least a three-issue comic book that acts
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as a prequel to the series.
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And that, oh, I thought that was you.
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And so basically between March and the middle of 2025, we're going to have a
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comic book come out every month.
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And Biker Mice, it was just announced, they're doing a full year run.
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So starting basically late
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2024 there's going to be one biker
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mice issue every day every month through early 2026
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yeah we just talked to somebody earlier this this week jeff
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lemire is a famous writer and artist he talked
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about like the dying breed of like the monthly comic so it's
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kind of nice that you guys are doing that because then like we said earlier
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mike it's something you just don't really hear as much it's always a mini series
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or i got three of three so the fact that you guys are doing
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like an actual monthly series that's awesome man it's
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you're keeping you're keeping comics alive right yeah but we're we're
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we're partnered with oni press and they have been absolutely
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we've had no better partner that's amazing that's amazing
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01:13:39,785 --> 01:13:42,905
so something else i want to talk about was uh apparently there's
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a chance that a lucky person a lucky listener or
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attendee i guess you would call them at your guys's panel yeah will
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be animated into the series yes that's right so we
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did this at la comic-con last year to great effect and
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we just we want to involve the audience like it sounds cheesy
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or gimmicky maybe and that's fair but it's just cool to engage the audience
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yeah i grew up with that so that's what we try to do make it fun well if you
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ever need podcasters inside your show we're here just just noted uh mike before i wrap up any other.
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Questions you know what i was walking around just not that
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long ago and i saw someone dressed up as one of the biker mice from ours is
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that was that your you guys fabricated that whole contracted with a company
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01:14:28,125 --> 01:14:33,505
that makes costumes and that is everybody loves it and i'm really grateful but
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that to call that a prototype would be a staggering understatement.
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Yeah, we got that last week, and we even had notes, and we got new stuff the
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day we drove everything down here.
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So, yes, so we'll be selling those later this year, but they'll look a little different.
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A little different. And last thing, we got to talk about one of my favorite TV shows.
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It's coming back. Toys That Made Us. Toys That Made Us. Let's talk about that
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real fast. So when can we expect that, if you can say, and all that good stuff?
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We've started research this month. We do about five months of research,
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and then we start casting, and then we shoot.
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So we're hoping to have season four out next year.
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Can you tell us any of the toys? When is this going to air? Next week. Oh, yeah. That's fine.
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Hot Wheels. Just a little tickle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hot Wheels,
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Ghostbusters, Polly Pocket, Super Heroes, which is primarily Batman and all that stuff.
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I'm so bad at lists. But yeah, that's a good chunk. Wow. Oh,
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you just got Mike excited. Pokemon.
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01:15:39,342 --> 01:15:42,342
Whoa. You're excited. There you go. Wow.
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Brian, always a pleasure getting a chance to sit with you, talk with you.
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Such a great time. As always, work on our audience, learn more,
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and connect with your brand.
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I'm on Instagram. So it's my name, Brian Volkweis.
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And it should come up. And then the company is the Nacelle Company.
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And then, of course, Toys That Made Us is our main page for the toy stuff.
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I love it. Any last words? Well, I just, I feel like I was, I was telepathically
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saying Ghostbusters because I love the Ghostbusters toys and all things real
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Ghostbusters. And you said it. And so I feel a tingling inside.
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The number one episode we've been asked for.
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Wow, Mike, you made that happen. Mike made that happen. I made it happen.
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Thanks. Thank you. All right, buddy. We'll be right back after this break.
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What's up, everybody? Like all good things must come to an end. This is now over.
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That's right. San Diego Comic-Con 2024 is now in the books.
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Now, that doesn't mean that we don't have more content coming for you.
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There were some interviews that we had to reschedule due to scheduling conflicts, and that's okay.
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So you may, if we're very lucky, we may get a part two of San Diego Comic-Con
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coverage. In the meantime, though, as we always like to say here,
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we like to end on a positive note.
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Instagram guys ladies and everything
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in between for listening thank you guys so much for always listening to
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our show we really appreciate it we had some we had
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so much fun this year we cannot wait for next
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year and before we wrap up the last thing I gotta tell you is we got some things
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coming up Uncle Dad will be at Galaxy Con that's right Galaxy Con San Jose he'll
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be there from August 16th through 18th hanging out doing press if you happen
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to see him definitely say what's up so you can get a sticker pack.
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On top of that, we're also going to be at Burning Man. Me and Mike will be,
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as you guys know, me and Mike is a hardcore Burner.
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And we have been waiting for the opportunity for me to join.
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I'm officially able to join and I will be joining him this year.
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So we will definitely talk about that when we return.
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So there may be a lack of content, but that's okay because we got some other
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great things in the works that you'll be sure to check out.
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Also, be sure to check out another show that I host right here on the stream.
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That is the Game Papas hosted by myself and Retro Gaming Nomad,
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where we talk about just all things gaming, give you a little bit of history.
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Right now, we're doing the Game Informer Trilogy. if you
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haven't heard Game Informer is no more that magazine was a big part of my life
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and it's no more but we're celebrating in some ways by talking about their top
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100 200 and 300 gaming lists so definitely be a part of that as well so everybody
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thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you guys so much I really can't
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wait to give you for you to just enjoy this episode hear you guys'
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feedback and hopefully we'll have more San Diego Comic Con coverage to give
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you if we don't as always next year and of course remember,
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to follow us on Instagram at Uncle Dad Talks and at Mike Hampton Art.
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And last but not least, we're not uncles, we're not dads, we're just someone
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you can talk to. We'll see you all next week.
