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Yeah whatever everybody uncle dad here hanging out with the one and only
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the tarot certified sexy man i think it's gonna be your
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name going forward the one and only just mike just mike what's up
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tarot certified tarot certified yes
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can we make a sticker for that i think that's a good idea i'll work
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on it okay do it do today i'll put it on the list okay i
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gotcha mike we are here together if you
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can hear that in the background we are here together at a live convention
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all the live one of my favorite conventions
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i do every year for a while sort of my second
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time here your first time here we are at designer
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con las vegas mike what does that feel
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like i i'm overwhelmed like over like oversensitized
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looking around and and uh and now we're
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recording so you know it's just like wham bam
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bam yeah it's exciting it's crazy because this is
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a con you've always wanted to go to like your whole uh adult career
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my adult career not my childhood career but
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my adult career yes thank you yeah yeah i would say
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so last year you weren't able to make it because i believe you
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were working a different convention somewhere on whatever in the amazon but
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and this you know this last year was
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great but this year we're in las vegas designer con las vegas we got to interview
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ben goretzky i remembered mike what do you think i think you said his name right
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yeah goretzky correct course goretzky wordsky oh fuck all right it's fine anyways
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we're here hanging out having a great time and it's it's preview night media night.
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The energy is everywhere you can feel it illuminating and
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we're not alone we have our content producer let's give
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it up for the one and only kelly donald bart you
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got to say hello kelly donald bart how are you hello i'm doing
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great how are you guys great how do you how does it feel for
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you to be here too oh it's exciting it feels kind
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of like comic-con in san diego but for artists
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but for artists exactly which is better yeah it's
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like we're in artist alley slash small press
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at comic-con and it took steroids and it's
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in vegas exactly and we've already had too much
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fun in vegas as we always do but mike we're just
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we're just filling things out today we're gonna check it out we're gonna see
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where we can line up but i gotta tell you what i'm really excited about is seeing
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your face for the first time experiencing this just watch my face i i wish the
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listeners could see my face while we're here but well guess what at 2025.
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We'll have full video coming.
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And we'll also have content from our content producer, Kelly Dunlap Art.
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Hell yeah, Kelly Dunlap Art. We're doing pictures right now.
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You guys can't see it, but here we go. One, two, three, picture. Let's go.
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Alright, everybody, we'll be right back after this break. Enjoy yourself.
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Have a good time. Grab a beer because this one is going to be a good time.
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Hey, what's up, everybody? This is Ming Chen from ABC's Comic Book Man.
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You may have seen me a couple of Kevin Smith movies or just riding
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on his coattails he also taught me how to
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podcast i love podcasting i have podcasts i podcast studios none of that matters
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because the only thing that matters uncle dad talks everybody uncle dad talks
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we go way back he's an inspiration he makes me be a better podcaster and he's
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all i want to listen to so when uncle dad talks you should be listening listen up everybody.
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Hey everybody, Uncle Dad here, hanging out with somebody very,
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very cool with a very cool idea. I'm hanging out with Autumn,
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the head of marketing, correct?
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Yes, yes. And that is of Tramped. Tramped, that's right.
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So for our audience that doesn't know exactly what Tramped is,
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because it's a very interesting idea. Can you tell what it is?
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Absolutely. It is an app, a collector's database and marketplace specifically
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for the designer toy industry. So if you are a designer toy collector.
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Urban art, lowbrow art collector, this is the platform for you.
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So we have a database. We've been around for 10 years.
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We've been collecting a database of over so far 270,000 pieces and adding because
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it's been like a Wikipedia of designer toys.
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Anybody can go on there and add pieces that aren't in the database yet.
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And artists can come in and claim their page and update it, make sure it's accurate.
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And they can do drops in real time to the collectors who can buy directly from them.
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And we are also just about to launch the marketplace aspect of it,
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where you can buy and sell like eBay, but the percentage, some of that goes
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to the artists, so they get royalties, and it helps to support your favorite artists.
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You can also discover new artists.
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You can manage your collection by finding the pieces in the database that you
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already own, and you add it to your haves.
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And then if you're thinking about what you still want to find,
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you add those to your wants.
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And you can turn on notifications that says, if somebody in this community is
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trying to sell what I want, it'll put you guys together. Really? Yes.
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Wow. So that's... That's a lot.
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I know. I've got to process for a second. Where does that idea come from, though?
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Like, what made... Because if you don't mind me asking, so if we can know,
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who is the founder of this brand?
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Okay. So the CEO and founder, his name is Keegan Rooney. He is himself a designer,
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toy collector, and artist.
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And he's just always been a big fan. And one of the things that he knew was
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it's hard to find what's out there.
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And so he created this as a database for collectors just on the side for fun.
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And as it grew over the years, he saw it could also solve other problems like
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making, you know, people buying and selling from each other in a way without bots.
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One of the other challenges is when an artist is doing a very limited run or
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a limited drop, there's a lot of bots that come in too and that kind of mess up that lottery system.
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We have a very it's very hard for bots
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to get in on our lottery system so basically if an artist is
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going to do a drop of maybe only 15 pieces in order
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to enter for that drop you have to put your payment information in
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to commit that you are going to buy it and then
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when the lottery runs if you did get selected it
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charges your account it gets shipped to you if you did not nothing gets charged
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so that's a way to combat bots so that everybody has a fair equal chance so
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that was some finding some ways to problem solve some of the things that make
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it hard to collect is what caused this company to be built. Wow. That's incredible.
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Can anybody sign up for this right now? Absolutely. It's totally free at all
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times. It's free for artists and it's free for collectors. And you either,
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there's an app that you can download.
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It's called Tramped, T-R-A-M-P-T. And you can go to Tramped.com and it works in either place.
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I love that. And you're doing a special like collaboration here at DesignerCon.
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Can you just, we'll talk to somebody else about that, but can you just give
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a quick little like taste of what that is? Sure.
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So here in our booth, we've done a collaboration, a partnership with a company
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called Graffiti Plus. and they do giant graffiti or digital graffiti walls.
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So you're using a little spray can handle to grab a blank. We have partnered
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with Super Plastic and a lot of other companies to get their 3D rendering into
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this system. So you can grab a janky that's blank.
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You can customize it with your own design and then you can download that onto
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your phone as an AR collectible.
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Wow. Very cool. So Graffiti Plus is the name of that company and they do these
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all over the place the different experiences and parties and conventions.
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They're pretty amazing.
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Okay. So we'll be right back, everybody, with learning about the technology.
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But before we do that, where can our audience learn more about Tramped?
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And where can they learn more about how to be involved in that? Absolutely.
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Okay. So you can go to our Instagram account. It's just at Tramped.
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Again, T-R-A-M-P-T. Or you can go to Tramped.com.
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Easy. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for your time. I absolutely appreciate
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it. You're very welcome. Thank you.
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So just Mike here. and I'm here at a booth where I did some really cool stuff,
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which I haven't done in a long time, but I didn't really deface anything.
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I was spray painting. There was even a marble in the can, but there was no paint coming out.
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And I'm here with, are you the owner, creator?
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Yes, both. Please tell our audience who you are and explain Graffiti Plus. Sure. Yes?
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Yeah, my name is Alex Bame and I have a company called Tangible Interaction,
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and Graffiti Plus is kind of like our main experiential product.
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I used to, I still do some graffiti, but I did a lot of graffiti when I was
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a kid and always find it to be like a very fun and empowering activity,
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you know, and as technology now allows us to do more and more,
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we can now bring it into settings like this.
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So we have been doing digital graffiti for about 17 years now.
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Digital graffiti, that's fun. So like, just explain to our audience like what
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that means, digital graffiti, because I'm here. I can do it.
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There's a lot of people that are trying it out. People are having a lot of fun trying it out.
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Tell our audience what that means and how it works, please.
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Yeah, so we try to make it an experience that is as similar as the real thing.
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So you basically grab a graffiti can that looks like a graffiti can.
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It has about the same weight. It rattles, and then you can point it at the screen and paint.
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We detect the can in 3D space, so when you move it up and down,
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it flares. That's all the stuff that a real graffiti can would do.
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And then we created a system, the software, the tracking system, everything.
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And what we're doing here for
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DesignerCon is we brought in 3D models or a bunch of well-known artists.
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And we're allowing people to customize the vinyl toys and then capture our scanner
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QR code and capture an AR.
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So they can actually take the AR with them of the piece that they made.
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Kind of like collaboration between the audience and
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the artist yeah that's really cool like we tried it
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it does it feel it feels really cool like you
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you go back the spray goes wide you
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go in it goes tight it is very much like the real thing so
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when you did do graffiti i guess you still do sometimes what
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what's your uh what was your tag name what was your
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graph name i terro which is d-e-r-o yeah
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and where are you from originally from uruguay but
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i i i'm in canadian too i live in canada yeah what
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part of canada vancouver beautiful place beautiful
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place so yeah i when i did graffiti i
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i my tag name was tune because i drew cartoons got
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in trouble a couple times that's that's par for the course right of course
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yeah so how do people like if they wanted to do this do they when they go to
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purchase it is it something where they get the can and the software like how
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does all that work no it's not a product it's not a consumer product it's more
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like uh something that is like business to business we do a lot of events a lot of festivals,
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we fly around the world doing this kind of stuff oh that's really fun so you
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get to go different places connect with different artists and then you get to
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see people have a lot of fun with the art which i mean we're watching people
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do it right now there's a little girl doing it There's a guy with a Deadpool backpack doing it.
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Super fun. Well, thanks for bringing it up. Where can people find out more about
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it and follow you and see where you're going to be? So it's graffitiplus.io.
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And our hashtag, our Instagram is also at graffitiplus.io.
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Well, Alex, thank you so much for talking to us. And thanks for letting us play.
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And thanks for bringing your great creative mind to DesignerCon. Thank you so much.
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Music.
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We are with the one and only Mike Polis, who owns Atomic Toy Box.
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Is that correct? That's right.
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We also have somebody who's even more legendary, who has shaped childhoods, who have changed lives.
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Let's give it up for DJ Lance Rock. Hello, friends. How are you? Wow, wow, wow.
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DJ Lance Rock, I just got to say this. It is an honor and a pleasure to have you on our show.
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Thank you, Uncle Dad. What is it like being just a part of that world,
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that universe, and still celebrating that universe? I mean, it's pretty...
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Wow. You would think I'd have an answer for this.
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It's a really great experience because it's really a responsibility because people grew up with it.
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And so you get to see it's kind of like being a gardener.
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So you plant a tree or a plant and watch it take bloom.
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And so a lot of people are like, I got into music because of you.
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I'm an artist because of you. So it's kind of humbling sometimes,
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but it's very cool that there's like a generation of really cool, creative people.
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I love that. I love that. And Mike, I should have mentioned this and I apologize
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that I didn't, but you are the producer, right? One of the producers of the show.
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And the show we're talking about, if we don't realize this by now, is Joe Gabba Gabba.
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How was that process like to get that out there and all that good stuff?
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It was what a process right
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what what a process uh quiet on
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the set please it was great
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it was one of those things that that changed a lot of
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kids lives working with nickelodeon working with all the talent in fact i'll
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tell you one fun thing so my son who is now 24 and working here at the show
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did a cool trick on yo gabba gabba and and And I love the fact that I can rib him about this forever.
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He was a, what did he do? He did a pogo stick, I think was his, that was his cool trick.
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But it was fun to put together. It was a great show.
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And I'm just happy that many years later, Lance and I are still good friends.
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I love that, Mike. I know you're beaming with excitement right now.
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Well, you mentioned friends and Uncle Dad and I are friends.
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How long have you guys been friends and how great is it to work on such cool stuff,
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I mean, you just told me you guys are friends. So like, how is that for you guys?
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It's been about 18 years that we've known each other and we finally are coming
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together again to do something new or to continue the DJ Lance rock legacy.
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And the time is right now. We tried some other times and, you know,
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the stars don't always align, but right now it's like, I think we're ready to
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take the baton and run with it.
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Yeah, I mean, you gotta go where the threat takes you. You know,
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listen to the universe, right?
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Absolutely. And couldn't be more excited than doing it with Lance, DJ Lance Rock.
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DJ Lance, like you got the fresh Adidas shell toes with the orange stripes.
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You got the orange, you know, track suit. Like why orange for you?
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At the time, it was my favorite color. I didn't really think it through.
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They're like, what's your favorite color? So if I'm wearing orange now, I'm working.
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That's the only time I'm wearing orange. I'm working. So otherwise you're wearing blue or something.
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Nothing but nothing orange only when you're working
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purple or lime green i like purple wow
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that's a great choice on that so what we want to talk about too is the collaboration
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that we're guys are doing and so can you tell our audience a little about about
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that and how they can get a hold of that all that good stuff we can't talk about
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it just yet oh so this is a little bit of an exclusive kind of conversation
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because we haven't really said anything to anyone.
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But yeah, it's coming soon, is all I can really say. We can't say nothing.
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Not yet. Not what it is, nothing. Okay.
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But when it does come, we're in for a world shake.
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It's going to be amazing, right? No, it's absolutely going to be super fun,
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accessible to everybody, which is kind of what we're after, right?
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There's no reason why everyone shouldn't have fun. I love that.
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And I want to ask you this.
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Accessibility, fun, all of that. How important is that to a child?
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I don't know how important it is but it should be important it should be like when we were growing up,
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we didn't have phones and we could access everything and be like oh I want this
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now I want that and so hey you got one toy maybe a month and that's exactly.
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You're living large if you get that but you were happy
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with that you didn't always constantly want something more and
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you had the stuff and you appreciated it you know yeah you know
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i love that and i love that you're thinking about that mike i
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love that you're thinking about how that should be forward thinking because
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i think that's something we forget about is the accessibility of things
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right that's so important to the youth so even and
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also even to the older folk too just making it easier to connect to that mike
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i'm sorry i don't want to get too on my soapbox on that but i love that we're
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just thinking about that so before can i elaborate on this please because one
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of the things is like once gabba took off when we started doing the live shows
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you know people would come and it's like our family is six they can't afford
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to buy every single thing there.
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So we always try to be mindful, like, okay,
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we've got like Kid Robot and we've got all these collector things that are kind
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of more exclusive, but we also wanted to have toys that you could go somewhere
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and like, you know, if you've got four kids, you can at least buy some for them.
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How important is that to you too, Mike? Because I know we grew up kind of the
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same. Yeah, I mean, I always got broken-ass toys.
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It was just definitely not a brand-new toy. So thank you for having that in
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mind when you do what you guys do. Thank you. Absolutely.
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And really quickly, talk about Atomic Toy Box, Mike.
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What exactly can our fans expect from your brand in general?
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And where can they buy the toys that are out now?
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So we have a place called atomic-nerd.com where we have a lot of our collectibles.
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That's the place you can find it. The stuff that you can find there is Garbage
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Pail Kids, Mars Attacks, Captain Action.
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One of the things that we do is we do original product. So Wicked Creatures
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is something that concocted with a couple of friends of mine.
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This guy, Ed Eith, who was a fantastic... I was at Muppets for years. He was a Muppet as well.
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And another guy that I've collaborated with on it is Chris Wayless, who created Gremlins.
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So we've got that kind of stuff. It's, you know, we're trying to make stuff
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that's fun, has an artistic element to it that people can appreciate.
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And one of the great things about the collaboration that we're talking about
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for the future is that kids and adults are, they are our target.
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We don't talk down to kids because I think it's ridiculous that a lot of shows do that.
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Kids are smart. They cut right to it.
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If you want an honest answer about anything, ask a kid.
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They're going to tell you whether you want to get it or not.
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And I love that about them.
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Music is obviously an incredibly important part of it. And that's what brings
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both kids and adults together.
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If they both love the music and they love the design and love the characters,
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that's all that matters.
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I absolutely love that. So we got to wrap up here, but I just got to ask you
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one very important question.
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Very important question to both of you. I'm going to ask you first,
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Michael, and then I'm going to ask you next, DJ Lance Rock.
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First question is, who's the better musician, Prince or David Bowie?
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Ooh, that is a, That is a harsh, that is a harsh question.
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I would say, man, I'm going to have to go with Prince because as a guitarist, he was phenomenal.
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Bowie, I mean, Bowie changed music.
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So did Prince. But I mean, if you're talking about, I think that's where I'd
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have to go. I'd go with Prince.
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All right. This is what we all want to know. DJ Lance Rock. prince
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or bowie i will qualify by
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saying prince however david
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bowie is my all-time favorite artist he's like
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my probably my biggest inspiration but
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prince had the i got to see him because we were doing gaba the live shows and
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made a little bit of money back then i most expensive show i ever went to see
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was prince at the troubadour because that place only holds 300 people And so
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Jonathan Halpern from the Glass House got his tickets.
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So we went there and being like from here to that dude to seeing Prince and
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watching him, it was like James Brown and Jimi Hendrix had a kid.
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And just the rate that his personality, his presence was just like so electric.
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But to be able to see him play, he's a virtuoso.
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So he's just probably there's no other musician like Prince.
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Story sure yeah if you guys got time let's do it so i was working at henson
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and one of the things i wanted to do was do a live show of labyrinth broadway
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show so we talked to brian henson,
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and we chatted about trying to figure out how to do it and so bowie is obviously
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a god you know so we got to brian's like brian brings me he calls me into his
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office he's like hey listen We're going to talk to David.
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And I'm thinking, David who?
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So David gets on the phone. It's David Bowie. We're doing a conference call
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with David Bowie to talk about the labyrinth idea, which he thinks is really,
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really cool and interesting.
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And it was just it was just fantastic. He's such a nice guy.
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He was he was thoughtful.
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And it was just it was just a lovely, lovely experience.
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Great, great chat. I mean, I was I was kind of quiet for most of it because
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I was a little bit starstruck. But what a talent.
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Wow. Mike, you can answer real fast. Well, I say Prince just because according
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to some sources, Prince could ball his ass off, right? Like he could play basketball very well, right?
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And so I, being an NBA fan, I also respect that. So Prince, yes.
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I don't remember. All right. All right. So before we wrap up,
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DJ Lance Rock, where can our audience still connect with you and learn more
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about all the things you're doing?
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DJ Lance Rock, OG. OG. It's on Instagram.
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Okay. It's the only socials I have, so I'm not real plugged into these modern
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social medias that the kids do, but you can maybe get me there.
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All right. I love that. And then where can they connect with you online and
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all that good stuff, Mike?
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Atomictoybox or atomictoybox.com. Easy. Awesome.
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Thank you, gentlemen, so much. I absolutely appreciate it. Thank you,
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guys. An absolute dream come true. Thank you.
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Thanks so much for having me. Thank you, Uncle Dad. Dad, next time you got to
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share the mic a little bit more with Mike because that's one of the lessons
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we always try to teach is sharing is caring. You know, the one time I don't do that.
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Yeah. Well, the one time. Yeah, right. Yeah.
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All right, everybody. Uncle Dad, back at DesignerCon, hanging out with Just
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Mike. Just Mike, as always, say hello.
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I'm really excited about what we're going to do right now. He said say hello. Oh, hello.
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I'm just kidding. Mike we're with somebody who shares a name with you but the
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difference between them is they go by Michael and they are an international
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celebrity not like you clearly yeah no not like me at all,
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They are, I'm so excited to have them on. This whole entire property means a
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lot to me. I know it means a lot to you.
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So let's go ahead and introduce, or have them introduce themselves to our audience.
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Michael, who are you? What do you do? Oh, hey. Oh, hello.
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I'm Michael Duffield. I'm the public relations manager here for Meow Wolf's
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Omega Mart in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Wow. So now for those who don't know what Omega Mart is, it's the best grocery
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store you can ever go to. It is where reality checks out.
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It's America's most exceptional grocery store. We are part of the Meow Wolf
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collection of art exhibits, art and experiential exhibits that started in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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And then we came here in Las Vegas, followed by an exhibit in Denver, Dallas, and Houston.
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Radio Tave just opened on Halloween.
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And Omega Mart here in Las Vegas is a perfectly ordinary grocery store.
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Perfectly ordinary. That's how I like to describe Mike. Mike,
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what are your thoughts on Meow Wolf and what Mike does and all that fun stuff?
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Well, I first went to the Santa Fe Meow Wolf years ago.
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I alone and but i really
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love the omega mart like the the shopping experience that's there that that
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slowly turns into a different experience right so like how do you how do you
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find your way to meow wolf and omega mart or did they come find you you personally
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me personally it is a long and.
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Tremendously boring, slightly funny, sometimes interesting story.
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I, let's see, I'm going to try to Reader's Digest this. My mom and dad moved
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here in 1998, so I've been coming to Las Vegas for years and years and years.
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Through a series of events, I ended up here full-time, kind of giving them a hand, and.
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At one point, I thought maybe I should just live here, and my background is
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in food and consumer packaged goods and grocery.
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So I used to do PR for Whole Foods Market in Austin, Texas.
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So I come from food, and now I'm in an art exhibit, but it happens to be a grocery store.
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I have no idea how this all happened, but what's cool about it is I think Meow Wolf finds you.
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And so it was meant to be. And boy, am I having a good time telling people about
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this place because there's a lot of stories to tell and a lot of things to see.
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And, you know, if it's something you can pick up off the shelf,
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it's art you can buy and take home.
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If it's attached, it's permanently part of the exhibit.
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And what people don't often realize is of the hundreds and hundreds of products
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in the store, every single one of them had to be designed and created and named
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and the labels written and the labels designed.
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And so each individual thing is a piece of art in the greater sort of world
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of our 52,000 square feet full of art.
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Mike, you know, you're an artist yourself, and I'm curious, what was your experience
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when you're going into the grocery store?
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I mean, it is great because, yeah, you can pick up all these things,
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boxes, cans, you know, like chips.
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But there's, like, all these clever descriptions on them, which,
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you know, like cheese. I don't remember what it was.
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Cheese or something. And then it says, or it's butter. But what is it?
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Like, I love. It's butter. Yeah, I love that there's also a little commentary
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beneath just the design. There's also a little social commentary on what is
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in all the weird stuff that we consume all the time, right?
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Yeah, what is that like to be part of that social commentary?
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Do you feel like you're making a big statement or we're just inviting people
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in to have a good time and explore?
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All right, that's a smart answer. However, you know, while you're in the store,
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you also may see some of your fellow shoppers disappearing because you may stumble
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into a portal into a whole other realm of experience and exploration.
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Oh, wow. So I got to ask you so we can tell our audience, how can they explore
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the store and how can they be a part of this adventure?
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Just come and visit us here in the Neon Desert.
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We're just five, 10 minute Uber off the strip. If you drive in from other places,
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we have a huge amount of parking in our space that's for free.
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Well, not in our space. That would be very dangerous. But outside the building, you know.
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And plan on spending a few hours. You know, every one of our exhibits has a
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little bit of a narrative to explore.
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In some places, it's a family drama.
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In other places, it's about a civilization. In our world, it's about a father
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and daughter and their relationship.
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And it grows from there. And as you're exploring, you can choose to follow the
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narrative, but you don't have to.
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It's light, it's color, it's space, it's mind-bending. So you can...
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Basically, your exploration is your own. It is what you make of it.
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And your curiosity is rewarded at every turn.
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So if the phone rings, answer it. If the door opens, open it and go through it.
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If you can open a desk drawer, look inside it and just have a great time.
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Oh my gosh, I love it so much. Mike, do you have any last words before I ask my last question?
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A last word. I do also appreciate that there's monitors, monitoring people inside.
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So that if someone's exploring and maybe needs some help, they can get some help.
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Am I coming across clear to what I'm saying here?
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There are folks in and about the store and in and about the worlds,
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scientists, people in aprons in the meat case.
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There are people around that can answer questions and give you direction and
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maybe clarify things that may seem a little strange or muddy.
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Oh, man. Well, go check them out. And what was the website?
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Their website yes then our main site is
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meowwolf.com and then
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you can pull down to visit las vegas and that's go straight to omega mart's
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fun page on the meow wolf website awesome i love that and last question here
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we go it's a big one what are your top three grocery stores in the real world
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in the real world in the real world i used to love central market in texas,
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I go bizonkers for Aldi. Aldi, hell yeah.
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Sometimes gross out, grocery outlet. We call it gross out. Sometimes it can be fun.
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Sometimes not. So, you know, I worked for Whole Foods, so it's not on my list.
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But yeah, those are, I mean, back in the day, there were some really fun ones
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growing up in Chicago, but I like little bitty ones too.
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You know, a lot of cities have these really cool, tiny markets that not just
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bodegas, but like a little market where they make things and they,
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you know, they have it's a tiny neighborhood market.
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Those I really love. We don't have a lot of those here in the desert yet.
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But as the city matures and sous chefs run away from five star restaurants,
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they're going to open businesses.
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And so hopefully we'll get a groovy grocery store. Plus, we also have Cardenas
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and La Bonita and Mariana's, which are all great Mexican grocery stores.
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I love that because I love Mexican food because I'm Mexican.
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Anyways, without further ado, please go check them out. Omega Mart at the Meow
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Wolf in Las Vegas. We'll be right back after this break.
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Hi, I'm Lonnie Millsap, and I'm the New Yorker cartoonist, and I listen to Uncle Dad Talks.
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All right, Uncle Dad here, hanging out with two legends, but one's really the
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legend. The other guy's all right.
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Let's give it up for somebody. Actually, you know what, Mike?
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You should introduce this gentleman.
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Who is this gentleman? Who are we hanging out with right now? Tash. Katash.
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Because I'm whack, and he's Tash, and that's the motherfucking difference, right?
00:31:26.188 --> 00:31:29.168
Yeah, that's what I heard, man. But why you call yourself whack,
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though? I don't understand that part. You keep saying that, but how's the verse go again?
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Slur words, double vision, brain busting, hair rusts if I'm too drunk to walk.
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I'll walk to a party. That one?
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Yes, that one. That's what he was singing to me when he walked up to me.
00:31:42.168 --> 00:31:43.948
I was like, holy shit, he know the words better than me.
00:31:45.028 --> 00:31:48.768
I mean, I'm self-deprecating humor. It's just what I do.
00:31:48.888 --> 00:31:52.388
But yo, so we're here at Designer Con, and you're at the Hip Hop Toys booth.
00:31:52.528 --> 00:31:54.528
So what are you doing in conjunction with these folks?
00:31:54.968 --> 00:31:58.048
Well, we've been friends for a long time and everything, and I see that they got...
00:31:58.048 --> 00:32:00.848
Like basically i saw that they had a far side watch out so
00:32:00.848 --> 00:32:03.608
i called my boy trent and i said man i like that watch that you did for
00:32:03.608 --> 00:32:07.128
the far side we started talking and next thing you know he came with an alcoholic
00:32:07.128 --> 00:32:12.808
version of the g-shock rapper collection that they came with and then they want
00:32:12.808 --> 00:32:16.508
to do a like a figure attach and everything so we had we came up here to plan
00:32:16.508 --> 00:32:22.388
it out so i'm gonna be like a super that's what tash really stand for t-a-s-h the alcoholic.
00:32:23.568 --> 00:32:26.228
Superhero oh okay i fucking i dig it i
00:32:26.228 --> 00:32:29.508
dig it okay so deluxe alcoholics are
00:32:29.508 --> 00:32:32.568
you are you still an alcoholic are you have you come down like
00:32:32.568 --> 00:32:36.568
how is all that going okay let me tell you this i had a life-changing experience
00:32:36.568 --> 00:32:40.708
four years ago and i can't tell you what happened but it deterred me from drinking
00:32:40.708 --> 00:32:44.188
ever again so i haven't picked up a drink in four years but i smoke a lot of
00:32:44.188 --> 00:32:47.928
weed now so i kind of like it better you know what i mean so so if you did another
00:32:47.928 --> 00:32:50.968
album it would be like The smokers,
00:32:51.148 --> 00:32:53.148
not the alcoholics. The smokaholics, yeah.
00:32:54.148 --> 00:32:57.348
Smokaholics. I dig it. I dig it. Not the soberholics. The smokaholics, yes.
00:32:57.668 --> 00:33:00.788
Well, there's a such thing as California sober, which means you do everything
00:33:00.788 --> 00:33:03.848
but drink, right? That's exactly what I do. Everything but drink.
00:33:04.388 --> 00:33:08.908
Yo, well, it's a pleasure to run into you, man. We were just here at the booth. You walked up.
00:33:10.017 --> 00:33:14.017
I love meeting, you know, hip-hop head as long as I can remember.
00:33:14.157 --> 00:33:15.417
So it's a fucking pleasure to meet you.
00:33:15.737 --> 00:33:19.317
And where can our audience find you and the products you're doing with hip-hop toys?
00:33:19.797 --> 00:33:22.677
The products with hip-hop toys, I'll let you know. But if you want to know,
00:33:22.797 --> 00:33:27.697
just go to my Instagram. It's T-A-S-H underscore of the alcoholics.
00:33:28.717 --> 00:33:32.657
Tash, and I'm whack. That's okay. And thank you for the hat.
00:33:33.157 --> 00:33:35.017
You're welcome. You're welcome. All right, we'll be right back.
00:33:37.097 --> 00:33:40.157
All right, everybody. Uncle Dad here hanging out with somebody pretty cool.
00:33:40.397 --> 00:33:44.737
So as you know here on our network, we do a side show called The Game Papas
00:33:44.737 --> 00:33:47.317
and we talk a lot about Sega on that show.
00:33:47.537 --> 00:33:50.817
And so I have to do this for our man, Retro Gaming Nomad. You know Retro.
00:33:50.957 --> 00:33:54.037
What do you think? This is exciting for him. I think it is. Yes.
00:33:54.357 --> 00:33:56.877
I think he's going to dig it. And we are with Dean Scrabb. Dean Scrabb,
00:33:57.417 --> 00:34:00.257
tell us what you used to do and what you're doing now.
00:34:00.337 --> 00:34:03.217
But before you do what you're doing now, let's talk about what you used to do.
00:34:03.797 --> 00:34:06.797
The tagline is, I think, I used to make games
00:34:06.797 --> 00:34:10.037
now i make fun of games uh so i
00:34:10.037 --> 00:34:12.897
started at sega in 89 as a game
00:34:12.897 --> 00:34:16.037
counselor and transitioned into like
00:34:16.037 --> 00:34:23.077
uh creative support so i would help out producers with titles uh i got to name
00:34:23.077 --> 00:34:28.717
all of the bad guys for sonic the hedgehog i got to help develop the green hill
00:34:28.717 --> 00:34:33.997
storyline I named Evo Robotnik as my claim.
00:34:34.157 --> 00:34:36.077
That's okay. We knocked over something, but that's okay.
00:34:36.397 --> 00:34:39.637
That's my, I guess, claim to fame. Wow.
00:34:40.177 --> 00:34:45.017
So you named Robotnik? Is that what you said? Yes. They gave me an early ROM
00:34:45.017 --> 00:34:48.917
of the first Sonic and said, what do you think of this?
00:34:49.037 --> 00:34:52.397
And I thought it was awesome. And I played it as far as I could.
00:34:52.897 --> 00:34:57.357
Some of the sprites were just garbage machine language and other sprites were
00:34:57.357 --> 00:35:00.197
developed. And the ones that I saw, I drew a picture of and said,
00:35:00.317 --> 00:35:02.417
how about this name or this name or this name?
00:35:02.777 --> 00:35:05.637
And they pretty much cherry picked the ones that they liked.
00:35:05.797 --> 00:35:08.257
And luckily, I got to participate in that.
00:35:08.937 --> 00:35:14.297
Wow, that's amazing. So when you have that kind of culture and history with you, let me ask you this.
00:35:14.577 --> 00:35:18.017
You were also part of the consumer line where people would call and ask you,
00:35:18.137 --> 00:35:20.637
what was the top three worst questions you've got there?
00:35:22.677 --> 00:35:25.857
It's pretty much the same. How do I beat the boss?
00:35:26.197 --> 00:35:32.417
And basically, how to beat the boss is hit him in the head three times, regardless of console.
00:35:32.857 --> 00:35:35.177
Other games were very specific.
00:35:35.657 --> 00:35:42.177
An RPG game, everyone got lost in the same maze. And the way to get out was very specific.
00:35:42.377 --> 00:35:47.337
You have to go up three levels, down five levels, and then up seven levels.
00:35:47.617 --> 00:35:51.737
And otherwise, you're just calling the guy and saying, help me.
00:35:51.957 --> 00:35:55.337
It was great. It was weird. a culture of...
00:35:56.568 --> 00:36:00.688
Kids would call like on their lunch break at school from a payphone or,
00:36:00.688 --> 00:36:03.248
you know, just very random.
00:36:05.108 --> 00:36:07.468
Mike, were you ever a part of that world where you wanted to call,
00:36:07.568 --> 00:36:10.908
get help? Oh, sorry. I used a word. It's payphone.
00:36:11.348 --> 00:36:15.968
It was a thing that you could walk up to and put money in and then call other people.
00:36:16.288 --> 00:36:19.868
So I wanted to make sure. Make sure everybody knows that because what are those, right?
00:36:20.368 --> 00:36:22.968
Mike, did you ever need help in a video game ever?
00:36:23.648 --> 00:36:28.508
I did, but there were no pay phones accessible to me. So I just had to struggle
00:36:28.508 --> 00:36:29.728
through it. Yeah, sorry.
00:36:30.068 --> 00:36:33.208
That's about it. Yeah, right, right. So now what are you doing now?
00:36:33.468 --> 00:36:36.368
If you could tell our audience kind of what you're doing now and how they can connect with you.
00:36:37.328 --> 00:36:45.608
I have started making bootleg toys, upcycling things and recontextualizing famous
00:36:45.608 --> 00:36:47.928
brands and making parodies.
00:36:49.708 --> 00:36:52.568
Uh uh went to uh three designer cons
00:36:52.568 --> 00:36:57.368
so far uh you know they're one
00:36:57.368 --> 00:37:00.188
one of a kind weirdness i don't know what there's no
00:37:00.188 --> 00:37:02.988
other way to explain it one of a kind of weirdness mike we
00:37:02.988 --> 00:37:06.348
like one of a kind of weirdness yeah i think that's each
00:37:06.348 --> 00:37:09.188
of us one of a kind of weirdness we're two of
00:37:09.188 --> 00:37:12.548
a kind though but i'm one and you're one so oh we're
00:37:12.548 --> 00:37:15.428
a trio now i love that we're kind of audience like learn
00:37:15.428 --> 00:37:18.628
more about your product and connect with you on tiktok it's
00:37:18.628 --> 00:37:26.048
best worse and on insta it's miles walkabout all one word okay please check
00:37:26.048 --> 00:37:30.888
out dean's grab great stuff and there's really fun stuff here and go ask him
00:37:30.888 --> 00:37:34.728
a question about how to beat a boss and i'm sure he'll answer it with pleasure
00:37:34.728 --> 00:37:37.068
thank you so much have a good show.
00:37:38.996 --> 00:37:42.136
Hi, everybody. Uncle Dad here, hanging out outside of Comic-Con. Whoa.
00:37:42.676 --> 00:37:44.376
Outside of Designer-Con, hanging
00:37:44.376 --> 00:37:48.116
out with the one and only, the tarot-certified, sexiest, Mike Hampton.
00:37:48.156 --> 00:37:50.956
Mike, what's up? Tarot-certified. Let's go.
00:37:52.016 --> 00:37:55.016
Mike, we're kicking off day two. Actually, we've been doing day two.
00:37:55.576 --> 00:37:59.236
What a kickoff, man. We got to talk to Meow Wolf. And then we got to talk to
00:37:59.236 --> 00:38:00.676
somebody who I didn't think we would even...
00:38:01.636 --> 00:38:06.656
Mike, did you ever imagine we would talk to Tash? when i booked my flight to
00:38:06.656 --> 00:38:09.996
come here for us to do the event i was like we're probably going to talk to
00:38:09.996 --> 00:38:15.056
katash from the alcoholics that's probably going to happen in in las vegas yeah
00:38:15.056 --> 00:38:19.316
and it did and then it did you manifested i knew.
00:38:23.836 --> 00:38:27.376
So how's the how's day two been for you what do you think and how you feeling
00:38:27.376 --> 00:38:32.716
well you know we we've gone through just like two aisles but there's so much
00:38:32.716 --> 00:38:34.696
to see right and so we get stopped,
00:38:35.256 --> 00:38:38.056
and then we stop at a booth where they have hip-hop toys that's
00:38:38.056 --> 00:38:41.716
the name of the booth and then we see that tash and
00:38:41.716 --> 00:38:44.576
the alcoholics is there someone from the far
00:38:44.576 --> 00:38:47.536
sides there like you know and they have all these cool figures of
00:38:47.536 --> 00:38:50.736
dell and you know cool keith and
00:38:50.736 --> 00:38:53.636
you know just on and on and so like i
00:38:53.636 --> 00:38:56.816
feel like we barely dented anything going through here oh yeah
00:38:56.816 --> 00:38:59.516
i feel like we really haven't seen everything but there's so much
00:38:59.516 --> 00:39:03.016
that's what's so great about cons is that they're not just one day usually they're
00:39:03.016 --> 00:39:05.836
multiple days did you know that mike this is three days
00:39:05.836 --> 00:39:09.196
we have another day shit more work
00:39:09.196 --> 00:39:12.216
to do more fun to be had but we got something kind
00:39:12.216 --> 00:39:15.816
of special coming up a little surprise from friends of ours mike
00:39:15.816 --> 00:39:18.676
is mike and i i guess are going to participate in a segment we
00:39:18.676 --> 00:39:21.656
haven't done in a long time what is that segment mike it's
00:39:21.656 --> 00:39:27.556
your favorite it's called 80s eats and it's where we eat old expired food from
00:39:27.556 --> 00:39:31.936
the 80s or even before because it's definitely been before a couple times so
00:39:31.936 --> 00:39:35.556
it should just be called old eats because we're eating old expired food we can't
00:39:35.556 --> 00:39:38.936
say that because somebody else has that but what we can call it and i've been
00:39:38.936 --> 00:39:41.496
thinking about it mike is retro eats.
00:39:42.453 --> 00:39:48.893
Retro. Yes, retro. Or expired eats. I like that more. I like that more.
00:39:49.753 --> 00:39:54.493
Expired eats with Uncle Dad and Just Mike, because we are shameless.
00:39:55.433 --> 00:40:01.393
Definitely shameless. Yes. But it's great to be here, and I'm kind of hungry,
00:40:01.413 --> 00:40:08.053
so why don't we just shimmy, shimmy, yaw over to the booth where they have these expired eats.
00:40:08.413 --> 00:40:10.973
Shimmy, shimmy. Okay, let's do it. All right, we'll be right back on this break.
00:40:12.813 --> 00:40:17.693
All right everybody we have a very special moment happening right now here at designer con live,
00:40:18.833 --> 00:40:21.493
mike what's happening right now tell them what's happening because i
00:40:21.493 --> 00:40:24.673
here's the thing we haven't done this in a while and i'm so i'm titillated
00:40:24.673 --> 00:40:27.313
with excitement titillated wow i haven't heard you
00:40:27.313 --> 00:40:30.993
say that before um well we uh
00:40:30.993 --> 00:40:33.953
got pitched to do uh an 80s eat segment which
00:40:33.953 --> 00:40:36.933
is something that we've done from time to time but we're renaming
00:40:36.933 --> 00:40:40.333
to expired eats because
00:40:40.333 --> 00:40:45.553
they're not always from the 80s like there's there's sometimes pre-80s yes this
00:40:45.553 --> 00:40:50.153
is definitely pre-80s definitely pre-80s now that voice you hear is from somebody
00:40:50.153 --> 00:40:55.653
who's here who's offering it to us now are we going to die tonight oh let's
00:40:55.653 --> 00:40:57.833
hope we do it in vegas i mean if you're gonna do it anywhere.
00:40:58.793 --> 00:41:01.493
God damn it mike if i'm gonna die you might as well die in
00:41:01.493 --> 00:41:04.393
new orleans or vegas i'll die either one of those yeah
00:41:04.393 --> 00:41:07.293
new orleans only for me they ask me but that's whatever
00:41:07.293 --> 00:41:10.153
so are we going to reveal what this item
00:41:10.153 --> 00:41:12.933
is i think so all right here it
00:41:12.933 --> 00:41:15.933
is very very excited oh it's a
00:41:15.933 --> 00:41:26.093
liquid it is a jackpot winner from an old casino in reno baby wow yeah it is
00:41:26.093 --> 00:41:34.073
i want to say old crow whiskey from early 70s late 60s wow can we take a look
00:41:34.073 --> 00:41:35.693
at the can there or the bottle Yeah, look at that.
00:41:36.433 --> 00:41:39.653
It's so, so I already know so I can describe it. It is a small,
00:41:40.033 --> 00:41:41.593
what would you call these little bottles?
00:41:41.813 --> 00:41:45.653
It's like, that you get from the mini bar. Yes. Right? Like a little mini bar. Oh yeah.
00:41:46.173 --> 00:41:49.473
And this, you would win these at the slot machine.
00:41:49.653 --> 00:41:53.213
And so it has a sticker on there saying, jackpot winner, you won the prize and
00:41:53.213 --> 00:41:55.233
you win a shot of old crow whiskey.
00:41:55.753 --> 00:41:59.573
Really? So that would come with your winnings. You get this little,
00:41:59.773 --> 00:42:02.093
your bottle. Yeah. I mean, it's a small.
00:42:04.355 --> 00:42:09.195
It says one-tenth of a pint. This whiskey is four years old.
00:42:09.255 --> 00:42:10.215
That's what it says on the label.
00:42:10.315 --> 00:42:12.615
Oh, wow. But, you know, that was when it came out.
00:42:13.035 --> 00:42:17.975
It says less than half pint. It's still sealed. You can see that it's evaporating because it's so old.
00:42:18.335 --> 00:42:22.095
Yeah. And I'm going to read the back. It says, generation after generation,
00:42:22.695 --> 00:42:27.915
men of fame and discriminating taste have enjoyed and preferred the smoothest
00:42:27.915 --> 00:42:29.335
and mellowest of bourbons.
00:42:29.615 --> 00:42:34.055
It was first distilled by Dr. James Crow in 1835.
00:42:35.035 --> 00:42:39.955
Wow. So, Mike, you've actually done old beer before, correct?
00:42:40.655 --> 00:42:44.655
Yeah, we did. Whose beer was that? Billy Carter. You did his beer.
00:42:45.155 --> 00:42:47.955
Yeah. I'm like the wrong Carter. Right, right.
00:42:48.735 --> 00:42:53.695
Now we're doing, this is a, sorry, a bourbon or whiskey? Old Crow.
00:42:54.055 --> 00:42:55.675
It looks like maybe whiskey.
00:42:56.335 --> 00:42:59.355
Straight bourbon whiskey. Bourbon. A little bit of both. Oh,
00:42:59.435 --> 00:43:04.075
okay. So, Mike, obviously the show has kicked off with you doing it first, if that's okay.
00:43:04.775 --> 00:43:08.375
And please take a sip and tell us what you think. If something happens,
00:43:09.515 --> 00:43:13.875
my health care card is in my wallet in my back. But I stole your wallet.
00:43:15.135 --> 00:43:18.195
I just cracked a seal. All right. All right, I'm opening it.
00:43:18.255 --> 00:43:21.655
Well, let me smell it first. Okay, you smell it. I can't smell. Everyone knows.
00:43:23.615 --> 00:43:26.715
I don't smell that much. I'm sorry. I don't smell that much at all.
00:43:27.615 --> 00:43:29.695
Interesting. Okay, Mike, you're in for a treat. Hold on. Wait,
00:43:29.755 --> 00:43:32.315
wait. I got to get the sip. Got to get the sip. I don't smell anything.
00:43:33.275 --> 00:43:35.075
Get the sip, Mike. That's really good.
00:43:38.175 --> 00:43:39.335
I mean, it tastes like liquor.
00:43:42.775 --> 00:43:47.355
Now, do I join you on this? I think you should. Mike, you got to hold the mic? I'll hold the mic.
00:43:47.875 --> 00:43:49.895
Why don't you shift my body real quick? Because I'm an old man.
00:43:50.095 --> 00:43:53.815
He's a shifter. I got a fucking bum ankle. So hold on. All right. Yeah.
00:43:54.315 --> 00:43:57.635
Because you have to have a bum. If you have a bum ankle, it will affect your
00:43:57.635 --> 00:43:58.815
drinking. Exactly. Exactly.
00:43:59.395 --> 00:44:01.755
All right. Well, cheers to everyone.
00:44:02.495 --> 00:44:06.855
And Old Crow winner, jackpot winner. Now, can I ask you really fast before I drink this?
00:44:07.215 --> 00:44:10.935
Do you know, did you guys find this somewhere or did you know the person who
00:44:10.935 --> 00:44:12.795
had this? No, I found it in Reno.
00:44:13.195 --> 00:44:18.175
Okay. Yeah. So we don't know exactly who had this at one point. I think I do know.
00:44:18.495 --> 00:44:22.315
Grandma. She's like in her 90s and I found it at her booth. So I assume she
00:44:22.315 --> 00:44:24.655
probably won it back in the 60s when it was new.
00:44:25.535 --> 00:44:27.935
Wow. All right. Well, cheers to Grandma Gladys.
00:44:35.495 --> 00:44:39.335
You know, to be honest, it's not that bad, but it's not that good.
00:44:41.795 --> 00:44:46.235
It tastes like what I would imagine a crow tastes like, there's a tiny bit left.
00:44:48.415 --> 00:44:49.195
I'll finish it.
00:44:52.275 --> 00:44:56.515
Our media producer is going to try it. But yes. That wasn't expired eat.
00:44:56.515 --> 00:44:58.075
That was an expired drink.
00:44:58.535 --> 00:45:01.975
You know, expired consuming. And that's what we did.
00:45:02.515 --> 00:45:05.415
And I think it'll probably make us drunker.
00:45:07.355 --> 00:45:12.675
Smells like mouthwash. It kind of tastes like mouthwash has been on the shelf for years.
00:45:13.195 --> 00:45:15.915
You know what I'm saying? Not that I've done that before. Maybe. I don't know.
00:45:16.195 --> 00:45:19.915
But like mouthwash, you took a sip of it. You're like, oh, you know what?
00:45:20.015 --> 00:45:22.035
I don't need this little portion. So I left it there.
00:45:22.275 --> 00:45:24.955
And then years go by, and then you're like, you're packing for a flight,
00:45:24.995 --> 00:45:26.955
and you're like, oh, shit, I have mouthwashed. And you grab it,
00:45:26.995 --> 00:45:28.795
and you take it. Sorry, that was such a long story.
00:45:29.615 --> 00:45:31.955
Well, it does feel a little putrid.
00:45:32.815 --> 00:45:37.135
Very stingy. It leaves a really weird coat on your tongue. Do you taste that?
00:45:37.295 --> 00:45:39.015
Yeah, I feel a coat. That's the copper.
00:45:39.935 --> 00:45:42.435
Yeah, I feel a film. Yeah, it's poison.
00:45:43.715 --> 00:45:48.555
That's your taste buds rotting away. Yeah, well, I mean, it can't be worse than
00:45:48.555 --> 00:45:52.455
the Ninja Turtle cereal that we ate, you know, right? Good, though.
00:45:52.735 --> 00:45:56.615
That was pretty good. It could have been a lot worse. It could have been so much worse.
00:45:57.015 --> 00:46:00.535
It could have been. But I hope it makes me drunker.
00:46:01.315 --> 00:46:05.255
You know, that's, you know. Now suddenly you're high. And you just get super high.
00:46:06.675 --> 00:46:09.955
Now, is it okay if we introduce you guys to the audience? Is that okay?
00:46:10.055 --> 00:46:11.755
Yes. Because they need to know who we're talking to.
00:46:12.075 --> 00:46:18.455
Yeah. And so how we got this wonderful expired old thing that we put into our
00:46:18.455 --> 00:46:23.115
bodies is from two people who sell a lot of vintage stuff.
00:46:23.395 --> 00:46:28.455
They have a store space in Reno, a store space in Grass Valley.
00:46:29.655 --> 00:46:35.015
Also, tons and tons of shows all over the US. Who are you guys and what do you do?
00:46:35.675 --> 00:46:39.535
Anthony Liano. I am partner over at Junkie and Uncle Junkie in Reno,
00:46:39.615 --> 00:46:44.215
Nevada and Booktown Books in Grass Valley, California. And I'm Carly.
00:46:45.315 --> 00:46:49.155
Same. Yeah, that's all there is to that one. california
00:46:49.155 --> 00:46:52.455
to be exact well thanks for uh contributing to
00:46:52.455 --> 00:46:55.215
our show and i would
00:46:55.215 --> 00:46:58.135
say where can our audience find you but i think you just said where
00:46:58.135 --> 00:47:00.855
they can find you so is there anywhere online they can find
00:47:00.855 --> 00:47:03.935
you or no just on facebook and
00:47:03.935 --> 00:47:06.735
instagram under from the land beyond from the land
00:47:06.735 --> 00:47:09.955
beyond yeah from the land beyond that's you this
00:47:09.955 --> 00:47:13.935
whole time i didn't know that was you okay we're always learning on this show
00:47:13.935 --> 00:47:18.815
always learning yeah i'm starting to feel funny so i'm gonna absorb what just
00:47:18.815 --> 00:47:22.995
happened and uh we'll i'll be right back well before i say that mike something
00:47:22.995 --> 00:47:27.115
growing out of your out of your right side of your body oh okay we gotta go
00:47:27.115 --> 00:47:27.855
we'll have to handle that.
00:47:29.634 --> 00:47:32.594
Hello everybody welcome back to uncle dad talks i'm uncle
00:47:32.594 --> 00:47:35.854
dad hanging out with the one and only again the tarot certified
00:47:35.854 --> 00:47:38.894
sexiest man on uncle dad talks just mike
00:47:38.894 --> 00:47:42.634
just mike say hello you just won't let that go huh i mean that's what you're
00:47:42.634 --> 00:47:47.934
selling boy now is it yeah according to you according to everyone you know any
00:47:47.934 --> 00:47:52.374
messages i've gotten about tarot approved send me the names of those messages
00:47:52.374 --> 00:47:56.274
i don't know i don't want our content producer to get mad She gave me a look.
00:47:57.534 --> 00:48:00.194
But we are with somebody, and honestly, I'm going to let you introduce them
00:48:00.194 --> 00:48:01.394
because it's kind of a lovely story.
00:48:02.274 --> 00:48:05.874
Mike, go ahead and introduce our guests, the one and only. Well,
00:48:05.994 --> 00:48:08.594
I know him as Vision, and I think that's all I know him as.
00:48:08.734 --> 00:48:11.714
I don't know you as any other name.
00:48:11.794 --> 00:48:15.934
So is there another name that our listeners should know, or is Vision what it
00:48:15.934 --> 00:48:18.734
is? No, that's what it is. That's the only name you should know.
00:48:19.754 --> 00:48:22.814
That's the code name and all names thereafter.
00:48:22.814 --> 00:48:28.154
After and how do you spell vision v-e-z-u-n and
00:48:28.154 --> 00:48:32.194
and so we know each other you know we're here in las vegas 20
00:48:32.194 --> 00:48:35.014
something years ago and we were at an art show last night where your
00:48:35.014 --> 00:48:38.394
art was on display and also iceberg slick who
00:48:38.394 --> 00:48:44.274
also is part of why we're sitting here is we worked together in some capacity
00:48:44.274 --> 00:48:50.334
20 something years ago in the hood magazine tales of hip-hop horror we were
00:48:50.334 --> 00:48:55.874
doing comic conventions we were freestyling together we were at booths and and so it's just like
00:48:56.314 --> 00:48:59.014
so cool to like see you here and reunite with you
00:48:59.014 --> 00:49:03.394
in this way and so what are you doing with your art now well thanks
00:49:03.394 --> 00:49:08.614
for giving a lot of context right now what i'm doing is a lot of applying to
00:49:08.614 --> 00:49:14.374
try to get a public art gigs and then i do a lot of pieces for shows i'm in
00:49:14.374 --> 00:49:15.934
a lot of group shows a lot of gallery
00:49:15.934 --> 00:49:20.034
shows and you know i apply to other things so it's kind of like more
00:49:20.114 --> 00:49:23.374
of a academic art route that I'm trying to take.
00:49:23.634 --> 00:49:27.974
How would you describe your art? Like what's a favorite piece of yours that you've done?
00:49:28.514 --> 00:49:31.014
What is your style that you do?
00:49:31.634 --> 00:49:34.494
Man, well, this is evolving and changing.
00:49:35.214 --> 00:49:36.514
It's getting more mature.
00:49:37.494 --> 00:49:43.174
It's getting more grown up. As things does as we get older, right? As it would.
00:49:44.875 --> 00:49:49.335
We hope so. We would hope so. Yeah. When I was younger, I was doing things.
00:49:49.395 --> 00:49:53.395
I guess that now you classify more like street or more urban,
00:49:53.695 --> 00:49:57.535
which, you know, I definitely still have a lot of that, that touch in me,
00:49:57.575 --> 00:50:02.495
but I do try to get better, you know, and I try to do more things.
00:50:02.495 --> 00:50:08.095
So more sculpture, more video back in those days, I couldn't even dream about
00:50:08.095 --> 00:50:10.135
doing video because we didn't have the capacity.
00:50:10.275 --> 00:50:13.235
Like we didn't have the capacity to do what we're doing right now back in
00:50:13.235 --> 00:50:16.075
the day so we're doing things that we didn't even couldn't even dream
00:50:16.075 --> 00:50:18.815
of back in those days you know it's fun
00:50:18.815 --> 00:50:22.315
yeah like back in those days there was no anything
00:50:22.315 --> 00:50:25.375
myspace was out yet like it like we're aging ourselves here
00:50:25.375 --> 00:50:28.415
which is fine because this is what it's just what it is but
00:50:28.415 --> 00:50:31.835
yeah there was none of that you know like there was no a microphone
00:50:31.835 --> 00:50:34.815
with a recording device built into it that
00:50:34.815 --> 00:50:37.715
we would just you know do events with there was no social
00:50:37.715 --> 00:50:40.615
media there was no soundcloud there's nothing
00:50:40.615 --> 00:50:43.315
we're just soundcloud rappers no it's just a
00:50:43.315 --> 00:50:48.015
bunch of guys at a at a booth at a comic-con and people walk up and we all just
00:50:48.015 --> 00:50:52.315
like start barking at people like dogs trying to get them to buy our shit right
00:50:52.315 --> 00:50:58.175
like and it's very different now but into like you and i you know obviously
00:50:58.175 --> 00:51:02.435
we relate to this like how as an artist who's gone through that transition like.
00:51:03.035 --> 00:51:06.175
How do you feel is there a challenge like how do you navigate through
00:51:06.175 --> 00:51:09.575
the change that that we've seen oh with
00:51:09.575 --> 00:51:12.515
technology and with everything it's weird because you
00:51:12.515 --> 00:51:16.175
you do have to try to find ways to adjust and
00:51:16.175 --> 00:51:19.195
also to try to find the ways to
00:51:19.195 --> 00:51:22.895
make the content that fit the platforms now
00:51:22.895 --> 00:51:26.195
so you you have to try to figure out
00:51:26.195 --> 00:51:29.255
new ways because you can't just draw a
00:51:29.255 --> 00:51:32.035
piece i mean you can't just draw a drawing on a piece of paper and that's
00:51:32.035 --> 00:51:35.715
it like you used to and go to the copy store make
00:51:35.715 --> 00:51:38.915
a copy now that's i mean you it's it's
00:51:38.915 --> 00:51:41.835
a little bit different there's still people making zines but you
00:51:41.835 --> 00:51:44.935
you got to find ways to get your stuff out there
00:51:44.935 --> 00:51:48.295
so you take an advantage of social media
00:51:48.295 --> 00:51:52.115
even for something like a like a like an art event that we were at last night
00:51:52.115 --> 00:51:55.835
or for something like this you got to try to find the way to get people to your
00:51:55.835 --> 00:51:59.795
booth if you're at a booth and how you how you're going to let them know etc
00:51:59.795 --> 00:52:04.195
etc because you make your post and that doesn't necessarily mean that the people
00:52:04.195 --> 00:52:05.155
are going to see your post.
00:52:06.295 --> 00:52:11.495
So we're all trying to navigate and we're all trying to find new ways to pick up new tools and...
00:52:12.774 --> 00:52:18.274
Do innovative things yeah i mean it's my innovative pants that's right that's
00:52:18.274 --> 00:52:23.834
right yeah i mean it is a it is it's an ever-changing genre and you know you
00:52:23.834 --> 00:52:25.554
have to try to find a way to stay relevant,
00:52:26.074 --> 00:52:32.054
and you know we we've been able to watch it become what it's become and so you
00:52:32.054 --> 00:52:33.774
know like if there was a if there
00:52:33.774 --> 00:52:39.214
was a voice that your art that your art speaks like what is it that you,
00:52:39.854 --> 00:52:42.674
what is it that you're saying with with what
00:52:42.674 --> 00:52:45.434
you create well yeah I try
00:52:45.434 --> 00:52:48.234
not to have just like one theme you know
00:52:48.234 --> 00:52:51.314
I know people have like their lanes and
00:52:51.314 --> 00:52:54.894
like people don't have to know everything that
00:52:54.894 --> 00:52:58.314
I think about everything you know like
00:52:58.314 --> 00:53:01.214
you know my stance on plaid you know
00:53:01.214 --> 00:53:04.314
my stance on american idol or
00:53:04.314 --> 00:53:07.774
or my stance on you know homeschooling or
00:53:07.774 --> 00:53:11.394
whatever these issues whatever these things are all
00:53:11.394 --> 00:53:16.414
of those things don't have to necessarily be put on the public for the public
00:53:16.414 --> 00:53:22.134
you know so just maybe like a few things so i think the environment is something
00:53:22.134 --> 00:53:26.774
that i feel you know really strongly about i you know i think there's just a
00:53:26.774 --> 00:53:29.454
lot of chemicals a lot of contamination.
00:53:30.294 --> 00:53:33.574
So, you know, health, it seems like I think a lot about health,
00:53:33.754 --> 00:53:37.054
you know, and I think a lot about like trying to be healthy.
00:53:37.054 --> 00:53:38.974
So that's kind of like connected.
00:53:39.794 --> 00:53:44.774
So, you know, a couple of very few issues, but because I'm in a lot of group
00:53:44.774 --> 00:53:49.514
shows, they asked me to do like a lot of pieces for a lot of different issues
00:53:49.514 --> 00:53:54.554
that maybe aren't issues that I necessarily want to, you know.
00:53:56.183 --> 00:53:59.243
Put on on these issues so i
00:53:59.243 --> 00:54:03.283
have to kind of choose what things i will will
00:54:03.283 --> 00:54:06.343
participate in because it's it's not for everything
00:54:06.343 --> 00:54:09.743
you know we don't need to know how like
00:54:09.743 --> 00:54:12.583
one artist or one celebrity feels about every
00:54:12.583 --> 00:54:15.343
single issue i don't think they have to pick
00:54:15.343 --> 00:54:18.143
their little their few things that
00:54:18.143 --> 00:54:21.103
they want to talk about yeah i mean like be careful
00:54:21.103 --> 00:54:25.323
what you say yes to i guess in a way right well where
00:54:25.323 --> 00:54:30.123
uh where could our listeners find you and see your art and and check you out
00:54:30.123 --> 00:54:34.803
and follow you online i'm trying to post to more places but right now it seems
00:54:34.803 --> 00:54:41.343
like i'm posting mostly to instagram and tiktok you know but i mean i have i'm
00:54:41.343 --> 00:54:43.503
not hard to find i'm on a lot of,
00:54:44.163 --> 00:54:50.203
platforms a lot of social media platforms and what is it what's your handle usually it's vision
00:54:50.563 --> 00:54:53.663
yeah because usually somebody gets the vision before
00:54:53.663 --> 00:54:56.623
me so and then that my little trick
00:54:56.623 --> 00:54:59.423
around that is just using vision vision but usually if you
00:54:59.423 --> 00:55:03.523
just type in vision v-e-z-u-n you can usually find me that way it's almost like
00:55:03.523 --> 00:55:08.043
double vision but you don't say double vision you say vision vision you guys
00:55:08.043 --> 00:55:11.983
got a lot of word play i'm noticing today you guys got a lot of trickery around
00:55:11.983 --> 00:55:17.163
words that's good we gotta we gotta we gotta keep the show we gotta keep the show going.
00:55:17.943 --> 00:55:20.863
You know so all right well vision you know it's been
00:55:20.863 --> 00:55:23.683
dope to reconnect with you and i'm
00:55:23.683 --> 00:55:26.363
happy to like happy to see you and you're still
00:55:26.363 --> 00:55:31.223
grinding and doing your thing and please our listeners go to vision vision on
00:55:31.223 --> 00:55:36.903
instagram and tiktok and check them out and maybe at some point we'll have a
00:55:36.903 --> 00:55:41.663
video of us freestyling together what do you think wow yeah that would be hot
00:55:41.663 --> 00:55:44.783
it would be a hot take we'll see Uncle Dad.
00:55:45.543 --> 00:55:49.383
I would love I've been trying to get this guy to freestyle for a long time on
00:55:49.383 --> 00:55:54.043
this show if we can make that happen I say right now I'm kidding but someday
00:55:54.043 --> 00:55:55.383
we need to make that happen yeah,
00:55:56.120 --> 00:55:59.780
working on it it's better if you know it's just like the
00:55:59.780 --> 00:56:02.620
homies just start they just start and you're just one
00:56:02.620 --> 00:56:06.400
of them and then you're just like part of people like
00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:09.920
doing something as opposed to like somebody telling you hey dance like a monkey
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:14.200
you know get up and put on a little show for us you know we don't respond to
00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:18.920
that we respond to more like we're in a group and i start talking about you
00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:25.380
know your whatever and then you start talking about my crooked collar you know or then And we start,
00:56:25.520 --> 00:56:28.960
you know, these things that we used to do when we were like teenagers, you know.
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.440
So it's more of a bonding.
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.520
Yeah. It is a bonding. And I have been meaning to talk to you about your Kirk
00:56:35.520 --> 00:56:38.220
Collar the whole weekend that we've been here.
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:42.060
So, but we'll talk about the off mic. Anyways, Vision, thank you so much.
00:56:42.220 --> 00:56:46.640
It's been great to reconnect with you and Uncle Dad. And we'll be right back after this.
00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:53.260
They're still here. They're after us. They know we're still in here.
00:56:53.740 --> 00:56:54.880
They're after the place.
00:56:56.320 --> 00:57:01.800
They don't know why they just remember remember that they want to be in here
00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:08.100
what the hell are they they're us that's all there's no more room in hell,
00:57:10.680 --> 00:57:15.120
what something my granddaddy used to tell us you know mukumbo,
00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:22.700
Voodoo. Granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us,
00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:28.660
when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:34.160
Music.
00:57:33.600 --> 00:57:39.560
Alright everybody, Uncle Dad and Just Mike here. We are at the world famous Hotel Apache.
00:57:39.860 --> 00:57:43.680
The reason why we're here is because I'm staying in this hotel while we're at
00:57:43.680 --> 00:57:44.780
the lovely Designer Con.
00:57:45.120 --> 00:57:47.320
And we want to try something a little different for this episode.
00:57:47.500 --> 00:57:52.320
And that is me and Mike are going to go ghost hunting because apparently Hotel
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:55.840
Apache is very haunted. So we've heard.
00:57:56.220 --> 00:57:59.860
Now, have you felt any energies? You're a very energy-filling guy.
00:58:00.180 --> 00:58:04.200
Yeah, I felt the energy when I walked into your room. It was like musty,
00:58:04.760 --> 00:58:10.300
clouded, like, you know, laundry. That's just my stink.
00:58:11.780 --> 00:58:16.220
Yeah. But apparently, so we've heard is that there's three floors,
00:58:16.260 --> 00:58:20.060
but there's one room that starts with the floor at 400.
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:24.020
You would think that would be on four floor, but there is no fourth floor.
00:58:24.300 --> 00:58:28.100
And apparently room 400 is like the haunted room.
00:58:28.220 --> 00:58:32.080
So if we go there, you're supposed to see stuff, maybe feel stuff,
00:58:32.580 --> 00:58:35.500
maybe feel something in your toes. I don't know.
00:58:36.560 --> 00:58:40.700
You know, I'm hoping that we get to meet a ghost and I hope it's like Patrick
00:58:40.700 --> 00:58:43.360
Swayze. What if it goes with like a sheet.
00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:47.460
To it holds. Like Halloween, the Halloween movie, remember that?
00:58:47.540 --> 00:58:49.840
The first Halloween? Like a ghost. Like a ghost.
00:58:50.520 --> 00:58:53.460
So I don't know how we're going to do this, so we'll see. So we'll walk down
00:58:53.460 --> 00:58:56.400
the hallway, check it out, and we'll see what trouble happens.
00:58:56.860 --> 00:59:01.760
Maybe you guys will hear something that I haven't been able to record or didn't think I was recording.
00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:04.780
I don't know. I do believe in ghosts. I don't think Mike does.
00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:08.640
I don't think so. Well, I believe in spirits.
00:59:09.580 --> 00:59:15.000
Now, have you seen ghosts? No. I have. Cool. Well, let's see if we see them together.
00:59:15.940 --> 00:59:18.820
As we explore this hotel room, we found that. This is not a joke.
00:59:19.080 --> 00:59:21.840
We found a schematic. It's a blueprint.
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:25.700
Oh, not a schematic, I guess. Schematic blueprint.
00:59:26.780 --> 00:59:28.740
And we're trying to find. We're on the maintenance corridor.
00:59:29.380 --> 00:59:31.000
So we're looking for room 400.
00:59:31.560 --> 00:59:37.760
So it's by 390. It has to be. Yeah, you would think. But I don't really see the numbers on this.
00:59:37.900 --> 00:59:41.200
Well, she told me to go to her 390. That's what she said. All right.
00:59:41.880 --> 00:59:44.040
All right. Our concept producer is going the wrong way.
00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.040
Okay. Oh, yeah, that looks weird.
00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:53.320
So, as you walk down this hallway, it's, like, very open. There's one room that's
00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:54.640
not even a room. It dips down.
00:59:56.860 --> 01:00:03.140
It definitely has a... There's definitely a spooky feeling to going down this
01:00:03.140 --> 01:00:07.540
way compared to going down to where your room is. Exactly. So, yeah.
01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:14.680
All right, Mike, that's a room to the right, to the left, It's a tight turn as we keep walking.
01:00:15.820 --> 01:00:17.440
Okay. 390.
01:00:21.075 --> 01:00:22.715
Okay, oh my god, we thought we heard steps on top.
01:00:24.795 --> 01:00:25.995
Oh shit, that looks terrifying.
01:00:27.995 --> 01:00:30.955
Alright, we're going to keep going. Right now we're now down another hallway,
01:00:31.155 --> 01:00:32.035
a straightaway hallway.
01:00:33.395 --> 01:00:36.275
One of the things that you see on these rooms is that they have little effects.
01:00:36.815 --> 01:00:40.175
That looks like a little cocaine on there too. Yeah, I'm not going to put that in there.
01:00:42.075 --> 01:00:46.255
3D6 room. I felt like someone was playing with my hair while I was sitting on
01:00:46.255 --> 01:00:47.935
the bed. Then I heard someone laugh.
01:00:48.255 --> 01:00:50.475
Oh no, you know, the last time I heard that was with you.
01:00:51.075 --> 01:00:56.655
Yeah, that's what I hear when I macerate. Okay, that's not going to be in there either.
01:00:58.555 --> 01:01:02.495
Number 387. At 4 a.m. I woke up. The scratching noise is on my ceiling.
01:01:03.155 --> 01:01:04.315
That sounds pretty scary.
01:01:05.675 --> 01:01:12.875
As we come down this way, we're at 388. Yeah, 388 says, I heard a drawer opening and shutting at 3 a.m.
01:01:13.475 --> 01:01:18.335
In the room above me. At the time, that floor was not being rented.
01:01:19.575 --> 01:01:22.595
Well, that's weird because there is no fourth floor.
01:01:24.955 --> 01:01:29.635
389. At around midnight, I heard the drawer next to the bed open and close.
01:01:30.175 --> 01:01:35.275
I then heard someone tapping on the glass three times that came from the bathroom.
01:01:35.955 --> 01:01:39.795
You know, what is up with the number three? It's always in threes.
01:01:40.035 --> 01:01:43.695
It's always through this. Even when we're walking out here, I feel like when
01:01:43.695 --> 01:01:46.675
we stop walking, I can feel the floor trembling. Yeah, I can too.
01:01:47.455 --> 01:01:49.135
So we're at the 90s.
01:01:51.070 --> 01:01:54.310
No, it can't be. Seriously? Don't.
01:01:55.590 --> 01:01:58.850
All right. All right, we're going through a staircase, apparently.
01:01:59.450 --> 01:02:02.390
No? Okay. Okay. All right.
01:02:02.530 --> 01:02:07.890
So this is Uncle Dad and just Mike ghost hunting. We're not very good at it.
01:02:08.910 --> 01:02:13.410
Well, you know, this is our first time actually doing this. And so apparently
01:02:13.410 --> 01:02:14.590
we're supposed to find 400.
01:02:15.250 --> 01:02:19.490
They said go towards 390. We went towards 390. There was no 400.
01:02:20.010 --> 01:02:23.730
And we have our content producer on the phone. What did they say?
01:02:24.230 --> 01:02:29.810
They said it's on the fourth floor, but they have to go to the Apache front desk. Oh.
01:02:31.370 --> 01:02:34.730
They said I don't think there's a fourth floor. Whoa.
01:02:35.830 --> 01:02:39.750
We have to go to the desk? Yeah, or that, or you probably don't have access
01:02:39.750 --> 01:02:40.710
to it because we're not paying for it.
01:02:41.990 --> 01:02:44.910
Because it is a presidential suite. All right, Mike.
01:02:45.650 --> 01:02:53.050
As long as the staircase is down. this looks like it so these whole what breaking
01:02:53.050 --> 01:02:57.950
into things alright Mike we're going to see what trouble we can get into and we'll be right back.
01:02:59.850 --> 01:03:01.710
Alright so Mike we're going to be a little bit quiet here because we're by some
01:03:01.710 --> 01:03:06.310
rooms but we've been told that the area that we're in has had spooky activity,
01:03:06.790 --> 01:03:10.890
now we don't have any tools at all to do this just the microphone,
01:03:11.410 --> 01:03:15.230
so Mike let's try to ask if somebody's there and we'll see if we hear anything,
01:03:15.790 --> 01:03:19.190
alright Mike you can ask If anyone's here,
01:03:20.030 --> 01:03:25.290
please reveal your truest self.
01:03:26.320 --> 01:03:35.120
Music.
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Known.
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All we hear is the worrying of the fan and people in their rooms having a good
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time. Well, that means we need to have a good time too, so.
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Apparently, we've missed the ghost bus. Missed the ghost bus indeed,
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but next time on Uncle Dad and Just Mike Pretend to be Scooby-Doo,
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we'll try something else.
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This is an interesting idea though. I think we should explore it by Mike.
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Yeah. Yeah. Let's explore it.
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And hopefully you have more success. I think so. Now we go check out Hotel Apache
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at Binion's and see what they got to offer.
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Music.
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Yo, what up, everybody? It's day three. And as you always know,
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we always sound the most tired on day three. Isn't that right, Mike?
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It's the third day. So what else can you say?
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What else can you say indeed? But you know what I can tell you is that I'm very
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tired. I've had a lot of great fun this weekend, and it's always sad to see
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a con come to an end because you get that post-con blues.
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I don't know how you feel about it. Post-con depression is a real thing, absolutely.
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Yeah, it really is. So far, we had a weekend of interviews, fun.
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News hunting. Wow. Lots of art, lots of cool conversations. And there's a couple
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of big names we're still trying to work on getting today. So we'll see.
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We'll see indeed. And you know, I think with these cons, you know what,
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and I want to throw it out there.
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If anybody's ever interested in being on the show and you're at one of these
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cons, please email me at UncleDad or UncleDadTalks.com.
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As long as you know you're doing something, even if you're not doing something,
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we'll talk to you because sometimes we just got to listen.
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Uncle Dad listens. We haven't done that in a while. yeah let's do it
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maybe we should maybe we should listen to somebody today let's do
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it because i don't think uh i feel like talking much
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today i'm right there with you uh we'll
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be right back after this break all right
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mike check it out we're hanging out we got ourselves a very interesting box
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that was gifted to us this is the my homies my homies by cheech and chong now
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mike you gotta know who that is are they here i wish yeah i do know who they
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are yes i didn't know that they were associated with my homies.
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This is their version of a mystery box.
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Oh, okay. Well, it's very mysterious.
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So we're going to do an opening. We've done this a few times now on the show,
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I think, mystery unboxings.
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We're going to have a little bit of video and pictures with us later,
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but this here is size for me. Sorry, because you left. It's a size...
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Right. Well, my size would be size skeleton, so they probably don't have that
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either. Because, you know, most stoners are chunky because we get high knee.
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Right. Exactly. So whenever I get high on, I don't eat.
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So Mike, you can do the honors and break the seal. Go ahead and rip that seal.
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We'll use the, uh, good old fashioned SMR.
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Oh yeah. Feel that rim.
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Actually, it's kind of quiet. Okay. One item at a time. Don't look.
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I want to go first. All right. I'm grabbing the first item. Yeah.
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It is a, whoa, what is this? Don't look at the box.
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It is a babushka. That's so funny. We were talking about babushkas earlier.
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What is it? Oh, no. Open it up. It says Cheech and Chong glass.
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It looks like one of those little dolls where you open, there's a smaller doll,
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but you open this up and it's just. There's nothing. There's nothing. There.
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Go ahead and show the camera, Mike. Wow. It's like a little babushka.
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You know what you could do with that, though? You can put your weed in it.
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I've been looking for something to put my weed in. All right,
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grab something else. Don't look, don't look.
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Ooh, what the heck is that? Oh, this, I would believe that's a Jerry Garcia.
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No, it's Cheech, it's Chong.
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Cheech and Chong. It looks like Jerry Garcia. It's all Cheech and Chong stuff.
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All this stuff is Cheech and Chong. Yeah.
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Jerry Garcia. I mean, it kind of looks like Jerry Garcia. Am I wrong? No, it does not.
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Who's the artist on this? Mike Hampton.
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It's a wallet. It's like a lady's wallet, I guess. Whoa. It's a non-gender based wallet.
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Okay, you're right. You're right. I'm sorry. I always see...
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Because there's a lot of room for credit cards? Oh, I didn't say that. Whoa.
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All right. Everybody calm down, but it's nice. It's nice. All right. Now let's have a... Oh.
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Just stick her hand in there. Don't look. Don't look. Don't look. Don't look.
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All right. Kelly Dunlapart. that should be my size shirt 32XL, sorry.
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And what do you got there? She's unrolling it it is a baby blue oh,
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I am definitely going to wear that hot mic but what does that have to do with Cheech and Chung?
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It's on, oh look, he's taking a little
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acid drop yeah, but is that bearish significant to Cheech and Chung?
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Oh, that's Cheech, okay I just think that's something that just happens to be
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in there it just happens to be in there you gotta fill the box with something
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exactly all right oh so it's the arts of their art thing yeah my homies all right.
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Have oh my goodness that's right
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we got the casier 360 lighter tool
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i'm gonna love this so basically it's
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a lighter that you put your you know you smoke you light things with and it
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has a little pick at the end to pack your weed what do you think mike i don't
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know anything about that kind of stuff i do all right mike next step i think
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it's the last item oh okay mike you get,
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It's the Cheech and Chong pin. Oh, that's pretty cool.
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That's pretty cool. I am a pin collector. I'm a pin maker. I've been in the
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pin industry for a long time. Yeah.
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But yeah, it's really cool. Cool art, cool font design, Cheech and Chong.
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That's very style-y. I love that. I love that. All right. I guess I'll take
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the last item out. Oh, nope. There's another item in there.
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And I hold it in my hand. Oh, hell yeah. it
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is g rolls unbleached extra thin
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cheech and chong rolling papers let's
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fucking go you know where you put these at in your
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bunghole in your toes in your toes yes yes that's cool awesome i love that i'm
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gonna use these for sure that's what those are very cool now cali does not bark
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i take the last item out yeah oh no right and it looks like another psychedelic something yeah Oh, man.
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I'm winning. I mean, I'll take for your t-shirt. Callie's the t-shirt puller.
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And he's looked like my kind of stoner shirt. What do you think? Yeah.
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It looks like the same design, just different color shirts, I think.
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If we can see the front. Yeah, if we can see the front, please.
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So do you want to put the green one? Are you going to wear one?
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I'll wear that one. Oh, yeah.
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You can curse. All right. Are you sure you want to wear that though?
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Okay. So I'll make sure size wise. About who? Oh, you've actually told me the
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story. Do you want to tell the audience?
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Okay. I'm going to hand the mic over to our content producer,
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the one and only Cali down the bar. Yes.
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Not a real long story, but just a cool story here. We're at designer con, all the art here.
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Cheech came and spoke to my school, my art school. He's a very avid art collector.
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So I got to listen to him talk about all of his art, all the things that he's
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done for years and years and years, the ways that he's intentionally collected everything.
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Very, very cool. So to win this shirt here today and this raffle is very exciting
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for me. This is a raffle? Yes.
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All right. So you can get your own My Homies box by going to myhomies.com.
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If not, just Google My Homies by Cheech and Chong, and you'll be able to get
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your own loot box. Mike I mean for like 20 bucks that's not that bad I mean
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you might even get to be in a
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raffle you might even you might even alright everybody we'll be right back,
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up everybody uncle dad here hanging out on the sidewalk
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about telling you guys all that designer con
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has come to an end designer con was great mike
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your first decon how's the film it feels
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good you know we got to see some really cool art
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and talk to some really dope artists
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that we love and i think we're inspired to do
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more things yeah i think so i think next.
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Year i want to become an artist i've been waiting for you to say
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that yes good you should what is your first uh
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creation going to be well i wanted to
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do finger paints and uh you
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know do like a blue moon yeah a
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blue moon finger paint so yeah we uh we had a great time
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at decon and it's its first year in vegas and so
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uh you know we also learned that it was it
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was mirroring complex con which a
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lot of people were there and so you know first time
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moving a convention to a new city there's always the
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the bumps in the road that you have to deal with but i
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think overall like they did a great job here i think
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as far as like having a con go it seemed well organized it
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seemed you know well put together everything the flow was
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good yeah everything i think was smart about the con way
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better than fandong con yeah well i wasn't there but i'll take your word for
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that yeah for sure yeah we're not doing that again next year uh but who knows
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maybe next year instead of doing designer con or maybe we do both we do designer
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con and complex con i don't know we'll see what do you think mike double double
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con double c's double d's double e's double trouble,
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