Ep. 105: Star Wars Day and “Weird Al” Yankovic in Huntsville

Hey, y'all. It's me, Tara Strong, a.k.a. Miss Minutes for Bama Geeks. I hope you're ready to watch. And if you don't, I will have to prune you. Stay on your sacred timeline. And a fantastic Sunday evening to you. Happy Star Wars Day. May the fourth be with you. Oh, Jakes. Go ahead, Kevin. May the fourth be with you. And with you as well. With you also? And us? Yeah, all of us. I decided to wear a Star Wars shirt like Jess, but you can't see mine because it's camo. Yes. In true Alabama fashion. Yeah. And look at Ice Knight there. Ice Knight's here. Hey. We are back together. All of us. Yeah. Hey. Ice Knight just joined us in the Bama Geeks front porch just a few days ago. You know what? I was in Europe and Brock called and told me I had to come home. Yeah. We couldn't do it without you, man. I know. We've got to have you here. Well, as you are piling into the live stream, we thank you for joining us. I'm Brock Parker. That's my wife, Jessica. That's me. Hello. 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There we go. Of the Bama Geeks Patreon. That's the fourth. That's the fourth to be with us. Yeah, that's the fourth. Yeah, may the fourth be with you. There's our four right there. The four horsemen of the Bama apocalypse. All right. So welcome in, Shane. Again, you mean those fifty dollar bendy plastic toys at the rate they're going? And he wants to know, do you have a hot thermal mug on there? No, we have balloons for the kids. No, no, no, no, no. This is where I'm going to go Brian last. No, no, no, no. No, you cannot say that we have those things. We cannot endorse that we have those things. We have nothing for sale on BamaGeeks.com outside of memberships. Who want to buy merchandise from us? Hey, look. If somebody wants a personalized one, hey, I'll figure it out. Tell you what, if you hit a super chat for fifty bucks tonight, Bo will send you a personalized cameo message. Trust me. Trust all of us right now. Bo is feeling a little bit into it right now. I had to take some medicine to recover from being a full weekend with lots of children. Daddy has some medicine. Southern medicine. He's got grandpa's cough syrup. Exactly. we did our member episode and it was so funny because Bo is he's a little bit into Grandpa's cough syrup a little bit and he didn't notice it until he stood up exactly they always say bite you on the boo boo when you stand up so hey laughing When we first started the stream, we were talking about Bo being in the cough syrup and I was into some Hungarian cough syrup as well too. So I think, I don't think I quite kept going with it like he did. So, I mean, I just, I just had a, I had a recommended dosage. So, you know, Hey, you didn't get a refill before we went live. No, no, I didn't want to do that just yet to us. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe one more to more of our more. Well, if I didn't have work in the morning, that's the thing about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we get that. We've got a... Oh, yeah, look at that same look. He knows. Yeah, exactly. I have a jug of it about this big. Yeah, we've got to be on our best behavior tonight, too, because we're catching a flight in the morning to New York. What time is your flight? We don't fly out until like... So after close to noon. Yeah. Oh, okay. It was not yet. No, no, no. Yeah. It's not too bad, but still we got to get to the airport. We got a little bit of a sleep in. I just, I says he has Hungarian roots. So that's nice. Okay. Nice. Gotcha. Very cool. So yeah, Kevin is back from a trip in Hungary just in time for star Wars day. Yeah. So, yeah, it's always it's always kind of a cool thing for me because, you know, both Bo and I have have have birthdays at the end of of April. Right. And mine's mine's close to always close to, you know, May the fourth because mine's on the twenty eighth. So, you know, it's always really cool. And so. And I don't know, as I've gotten older, I've gotten more picky about Star Wars. It used to be there by just homeschool bugs come some Star Wars for his birthday. And I mean, I just like I just turned forty five. So nobody buys me gifts anymore unless they're like really close to me anyway. So it's like, you know, you know how it is. And and, you know, even when that's the case, I'm still picky about it. So usually I wind up telling you like what you, what I want anyway. But you know, given that I was on vacation, it was, it was a little bit easier to do because it was like, there's a ton of stuff over there that I didn't know anything about. So I was like, I'm going to give you this thing. Cool. That's cool. I don't know what that is. Yeah. Shane says New York city where they don't know how to do baked beans. New York city. That's okay. That's okay with me. I don't like baked beans. Yeah, Brock doesn't eat baked beans. Brock is the guy at the cookout that just has barbecue and chips. You're not alone. It's a texture thing, I think. He doesn't do potato salad, baked beans, coleslaw, any of that stuff. Much as you love mayo. Look, I will put it on a pear. Don't give it to me mixed with cabbage. I will tell you, there was a point when my mom told me when I was a kid where kids go through those phases where they'll only eat one thing. They only like to exist on one thing. My poison was Beanie Weenies. You remember Beanie Weenies? Yes. Oh, yeah. That's all I would eat was Beanie Weenies. I'll eat Viena sausage. Close to it, just without the baked beans. Yeah, I told the girlfriend at some point, I want to go to Viena because I want to find out if the sausage actually tastes like Viena sausage. I'm going to go there and I'm going to take a video and I'm going to go, guys, it's lies. It's lies. There's nothing like what we have at home. Yes, you know, Armor Star is superior to the authentic one. And no saltine crackers to go with them either. I used to eat the potted meat as a kid. I don't know if I do that now because of all the sodium. It was a different time then. You crack that thing open and you peel it back and you just smell it and you're like, yep, I have my salt content for the day. Salt content for the month. It's like when we eat Chinese, we always get the low-sodium soy. The regular is just way too salty. They'll knock you over. Yeah, they will. So things you realize when you get older. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of felt like we're just continuing our member members. So, yeah, we were talking about star Wars day, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, as usual star Wars day, tons of deals, tons of cool stuff that you can buy things on sale and stuff. But the big thing to talk about is something that, you know, we, that's kind of got the whole internet of buzz right now is Andor. I remember a time not too incredibly long ago, I'm like, guys, you've got to watch Andor. The show's amazing. It's great. Kevin, we'll get to it. Obviously, it's no Mandalorian. No, it's not. We're still going to get to it. I finished the first season. I've got to get on season two. Season two is so... They were like... tony gilroy the guy the writer that does this he was like you guys hold my beer I mean seriously that's kind of the way season two is it it basically and folks that don't know they were going to do multiple more seasons they had originally planned and then they were like look diego's he's not gonna we all talked this they're just not gonna it's not gonna work we're not gonna be able to We don't want to go through all the multiple years it's going to take to do this because they do real sets, real everything. So they decided, okay, we're going to do this as one season, and then we're going to age it. So every three episodes, they go a year closer to BB, the Battle of Yavin, and or Rogue One. They get closer and closer to Rogue One. Yeah. So far, the release schedule, the way they've been doing this, releasing it three episodes at a time, has been absolutely perfect because those three episodes are kind of linked and then they jump forward in time a little bit. They don't do that in season one. When you guys watch season one, it's very important to know that they don't really do that much. They jump around a little bit with him being younger. The whole season one is about Andor becoming Andor. And then season two is about Andor becoming what he is in Rogue One. And then all the characters that are in there. And the... My gosh. Anybody that's seen it so far, you know the level of... intrigue. I mean, this, you know, totally Gilroy also has done a lot of stuff, but he also did born identity, you know, the born series, a lot of that. It's almost like he was like, let me do something even more than that. Just the intrigue. I mean, I was, I was telling him I was literally like on the edge of my seats doing like this, watching the sixth episode here. And I watched that today of all times, but yeah, Yeah, it was home. Yeah. Yep. Shane's got it. The Battle of Scarif was just right before the Battle of Yavin. So, yeah, no. And or can't can't speak. Of course, I'm going to endorse it. I'm a huge fan of Andor. It's got one of my most favorite episodes of TV ever that I still watch now. But apparently the next, I think it's the next set of three episodes, are all directed by the same guy who directed, I forget his name, but he's the same guy who directed all of the prison episodes of Andor, which are the episodes I like the most for season one. Yeah. I can't wait. Next week's going to be some really good ones. But yeah, you guys can imagine me. I watched the first three episodes in Hungary. Oh, yeah. On my little thirteen inch MacBook. Watching them. I was huddled up here and my girlfriend was right over here. And we had the thing on, and we were like, right before we went to bed, we were like, let's watch an episode. We watched the episode, then go out and see a castle the next day and come back and watch another episode. So we got caught up on it at the very least. But, man, this Andor is where it's at. And I'm hoping, I'm really hoping, guys, soapboxing here a little bit, but I hope that Disney is seeing this. Because I really hope that my dream of just having a series where Vader just comes out and just spends the whole time just wrecking stuff. Like, Jedis, they're gone. Knocking down Jedis. Going out in the middle of a battle. Showing us, like... why vader is vader why was he weird why why was he such a awesome force for like the five of first and just stormtroopers in general why did they all respect him because the duke could go out in the middle of a battle and lift up armaments and throw them at people and you know that that would be cool because you think about it he's also hunting all the remnants of jedi well they could cast somebody you could have a one big time guest star as like a jedi and then you know boom you know hayden's back in it now full time he's he's he's loving doing this so it's like this is when you want to do it They really should be on this already. They need to capitalize on this, right? Really. That's kind of what I was getting at is that I think Disney wasn't quite sure if having adult Star Wars was going to be okay. Because Mandalorian is not adult Star Wars. It is for all ages, right? Whereas younger folks are not really going to get Andor as much. You're not going to get the intrigue because it's more of an adult show. yeah but yeah yeah and shane yeah thank you shane for pointing that out they did it with the vader comics I do think that they really need to do that live action because man could you guys just imagine a show where they're just vader just comes out I mean just the ending of rogue one right you know where he's in the hallway and then they added that yeah imagine that but a show yeah Of him doing stuff like that. More of what he did in Obi-Wan, where you got to see him. They could even do it where it's like, here's a tale of where Vader took down this Jedi. Here's a tale when he found this. This is when he worked with the Inquisitors. I know I'm kind of going nuts with this here, but I really hope that... Disney is listening and they're like, okay, let's get switched. If they want to continue to do the streaming thing, whatever, that's fine. They're going to do what they want to do anyway. But if they wanted to switch it back to a movie, that would be a beautiful movie too. Just a standalone movie. And didn't James Earl Jones give them the blessing to use his voice? Not just that, but he also did recordings so that they can now CGI his voice as well. Yeah, so he gave them the blessings. And he actually helped them out with that. So it's Yeah. Come on, man. He's made it forever. Yeah, exactly. That's the most iconic, if not the most iconic movie villain of all time is Vader. So it's like, just come on guys. Just, I mean, it's a free money factory. Yeah. I get you. I see, I see where Shane's going here. Yeah, it is better when he's, oh, sorry. We're clicking on it at the same time. So yeah, he says personally, Phil Vader needs to cook more in the background as if you show him too much, it'll lose his charm. That's where a movie would be good. Build up to a movie. Yeah, I get that. And I get where you're coming from on that chain. I don't agree with it. I think that if it's done right, that Vader wouldn't lose his charm. If even if the show were to be named after him, they could intersperse it with inquisitors because he's the one who started, you know, you know, building out and supporting the inquisitors program. And I mean, it could be done in such a way where he isn't like the boogeyman, like, and in the background or they could literally direct it like he is the boogeyman like you've got you guys I don't know if you guys ever watched the original um clone wars cartoons the ones that were done by um the guy who did samurai jack yeah um I'll forget his name um uh jedi jedi chikovsky the ones that are on cartoon network yeah the one they were on cartoon exactly yeah yeah I also did the powerpuff girls There was a scene in there where we had never seen General Grievous before, but there was a scene where there was a whole bunch of Jedi and they were like surrounded by battle droids. And they were in this area where it was like a blown out vehicle or something. And they knew of General Grievous. Everyone had heard of him. But then all of a sudden they start hearing clank. clank of him walking. And it's, and one, one of the Jedi, it looks surprisingly like Shaggy from, uh, he, he is flipping out and just, and he runs out and then Grievous just jumps down on him. like a scene like that where, where General Grievous was the boogeyman. Yeah. They could do that with, with Vader and still have it be his show. Like we know that Vader's going to come in at some point, you know, and they could tell it that there are so many ways they could do it, but so they just need somebody that of the caliber of Tony Gilroy to do it. and tony gilroy's already said I'm done after this he has nothing else to tell this is his story he started it with rogue one and now he's gonna be done after this so you know he won't I don't think he's ever gonna do anything again but there's just like such an opening here with I mean they could bring they can bring anybody in this to, to, to, to work on that. I think just about, I just hope that if they do decide to do that, it has oversight, which is what a lot of the problem that we had with, with previous movies and, and things. So, but yeah, no, so back on Andor, Andor, I mean, obviously I'm going to be huge on it. Phenomenal show. We're halfway through it now. The second season, we have six more episodes coming, the next three air this week and then we have one more week after that we have the final three and that will be it we'll be caught up um and we'll be able you could you'll be able to watch you know the prequels then you can watch uh kenobi you can watch andor then you can watch you know rogue one and then watch the original three if you want to and then you get a good little movement there so Yeah. Yeah. Definitely, definitely recommend it. Um, yeah, it's, it's, it is, it is literally the best Star Wars. Well, I promise we will get to it because I I'm seeing, you know, not only from you, but a lot of other people hyping this thing up and, uh, If it's got good hype around it, I want to see it. It's well-deserved. You guys were like, Kevin just likes this show. He just wants us to watch it. No, it really is insanely good. It's just time more than anything. Obviously, that's the big thing. Other than the Revenge of the Sith um, re-release, which, um, you know, that actually ranked. Yeah. I think it made like, what, twenty five million or something like that. It did pretty well. It was it was nuts. And of course, you know, Disney's looking at it going, I guess we should re-release everything, you know, now. So which is funny because it's like the ten year anniversary of The Force Awakens. Yes. Wow. Oh, my gosh. Really? Yeah. Already? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Not already feeling old enough. Oh, it's too bad they didn't make an eight and nine, huh? Force Awakens was a fantastic movie. Force Awakens was great, but it was also just a rehash of A New Hope. It was, but that was during the craze when The, the, uh, the three D craze. Yeah. That was one of the only movies to get three D right. In my opinion, because when, when Poe Dameron is, when they're looking into his cockpit from the side and you see out in space and you can see through it and see and get that dimension, that one scene sold that whole movie for me in three D that was super cool. Yeah. That movie was one of the only movies I've ever been to in three D that was worth. being in three D honestly, that movie was incredible. It was, it was almost like it was made for three D even though it wasn't, it's just, they did it right. Yeah. It was really good. Absolutely did. I, I hate three D movies, uh, as far as how they've done them, but that one. Yeah. Yeah. That was the best one for sure. For me. So, uh, how, how has everybody celebrated today? Star Wars day. Um, Bo came back from the beach with excess water. So I've been packing for New York city. Yeah, I have to, but, uh, they had, uh, Disney's been doing these little shop drops. Um, you know, I, I, I'm known as a collector. What? Go figure. But I really have gotten out of it just because I don't find a lot of joy in a lot of modern... modern toys and stuff like that anymore. But... I know where he's going with this. I have a big feeling. I know what you did. That said... You've got to use the Star Wars line, Jess. I have a bad feeling about this. Oh, I have a bad feeling about this. This deal just keeps getting worse all the time. So, at D-XXIII, they released the Star Speeder from Star Tours. It was a white one, and it was severely limited. And I made a lot of people mad that they couldn't get it. Well, today at ten o'clock this morning, Jess and I are sitting in church. I've got my phone. I've got my phone pulled up. The choir singing. Thank you, Carl. Enjoy the service. Yeah. Choir singing. Brock's ordering this. Yeah. They they dropped the second edition of the of the Star Speeder today. And it's almost like the first one, except it's got the, uh, the adventure continues colors and captain Rex, uh, was in the first one, you know, Paul Rubens, Peewee Herman, his voice. Um, but, uh, this time they got the C three PO in it. And this thing holds twenty five of the original scale. Uh, the, uh, the vintage collection figures, the three and three quarter inch holds twenty five of them. Um, but there it is lights up. It's got, uh, it's got R two sitting there at the top. Instead of captain Rex, you got a C three PO sitting there and that screen behind him right there shows clips shows scenes from star tours. Well, yes. Isn't that just nifty? Yeah, but you can, you can sit people, sit your figures all in there. They're all happy. I don't see C three PO wearing his seatbelt. Oh, that's dangerous, C-terapia. Yeah, that's very dangerous. Yeah. So shame on him. Buckle up. Hey, could you put other things in there other than Star Wars figures? Of course you can. Like G.I. Joe's. Absolutely. And the Ghostbuster figures that are set scale. You can. Man, you could have like a melting pot of people in that thing. Sounds like a commercial. You can stop shilling, Jess. We didn't get this for free. Dang. Believe me, it's a twelve month payment plan. Yeah. I couldn't help it. I wanted that original that, that first release star speed or so bad, but, uh, so Disney re-released this today and thankfully, I don't know, it may still be up for pre-order. I don't know. It's going to be releasing in September. Maybe they're giving people a chance to, you know, get their orders in. Um, but that, and I I've seen other people's and it's, it's huge. It's big and it lights up really cool. So I had to, I had to do that today. It's also a memorable Disney ride. It's a fun ride. Yeah. It's just one that I've loved forever down there. So. It's made me think I want to show you something. This was before I talk at Star Wars. I saw this on Reddit today, apparently from the Huntsville, Alabama subreddit. But apparently somebody said apparently they had a X-Wing there at Space and Rocket Center in the eighties. We're going to do some, we'll do some fact checking on this, but I felt like this should be shared. I think, I think that is true. It says back in the eighties. Yeah. Yes. This is space and rocket center. I want to say that is correct, but it could just be one of those Alabama urban legends, but I think you're correct on that. That's really cool. Sorry. At some point we tried to sit it into space. That's why it's there. If anybody in the chat can validate this or if not, I'll do some research for posts, but I just, sorry, got on the subject. I was like, Hey, let me throw this out here. Cause I just remembered it. I love how it's got it. How it actually has a paved ramp or like a pathway that goes up to it. So that you can walk to it. Let's see if I can make it larger. There we go. I want to say that. Look at that. Mentioning that. Cause we did go on field trips there. And I want to say that I did see that at one point in time. Okay. Very cool. See? And Ice Knight also sounds vaguely familiar. Yeah. Well, the thing is, I mean, granted, I'm going to be that guy, but it's not to scale the thing. You're going to be that guy. You have to have a rep to get in it. I mean, it's not big enough. It's not big enough to be an X-Wing. Spoken like a true Star Wars costumer there. Yes. It ain't a scale. Are you supposed to have a ladder? Well, actually. There's your that. Nice. I hate I missed that. Maybe that's a retirement project in a few years. Build an X-Wing? Build something. Out in our backyard? The decorations. Who knows? Look, you want, you want ceramic geese for the front porch. I do want ceramic geese. You can have an army of geese in your yard. Oh, Kevin. They do make, they do make concrete printers. They do. They're huge. Cause yeah, they, they, they can three D a print a house out of concrete. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, Yeah. Shane says that comes from the Rocket Center official account. Yeah. Okay. Very nice. There we go. Ice Knight said, yeah, hotel in the back looks like it matches. Okay. Look, if Disney can put the full-size Millennium Falcon... in Galaxy's Edge. I can put one in the backyard. Man, that's impressive. They have the money. There's a company that makes I forget the company, but they make the big inflatables that the kids can play in. You can get a big inflatable Millennium Falcon I'm for it. Like, yeah. So it's, I mean, it's, it's huge. Like, it's like, I don't know if it's the size of the million fucking obviously, but, but it's, it's huge. You can poke your head up out of the turrets. You know what? And I'm sitting there trying to let go. Okay. Now, if I were to start a small business and I were to rent this out like twelve times at this price, I could it could pay for itself. And then it's just in my backyard. But then me, I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna get a ladder, jump out of a tree, my knock attack. You know, I don't know. And then you bounce off and now you're. Yeah, exactly. Shane said magic jumping plateables. Yeah, Shane would know. Yeah. Yeah. There was a guy when Alabama Phoenix Fest was wrapping up about eleven years ago that didn't they have a full-size cockpit at Alabama Phoenix Fest? I want to say something like that. Yeah. Yeah, that was really cool. I didn't get to go sit in it, but I saw it across the way. That was fun. Yeah. And I've got Sora's hot toys I just haven't put out yet. Like I've got the deluxe versions of the Obi-Wan Kenobi Vader and Obi-Wan. that have not been out of the box yet. And I really want to display them, but you know, space danger in the house. Hey, look, I've got a gentle giant. I've got a pre-order that's been on pre-order for two years now. Which one? What was it? I can't even remember. It's been so long. I can't, I can't remember if it's the Hera Syndulla or the Kino Loy. It's one of the other that has been on there for like one and a half to two years now. And I looked on there and they were like, yeah, we're going to be shipping it next month. I'm like, yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. Ever since I forget who it was at ball gentle giant. Um, It's another one of the toy companies that bought them. But ever since they have their delivery of pre-orders has slowed down quite a bit. And it may not have anything to do with them. It just seems like it has quite a bit. But they still deliver really awesome stuff. It's just... You know, we put it on pre-order and then you forget about it. And they're like, Hey, can you come update your shipping address? We're getting ready to bill you a hundred and fifty bucks. And I was like, okay. Oh, yes. Yeah. I'll be glad when we get space in this house to put all our crap out. Man. It'd be so nice. It's going to be amazing when we finally get all the stuff out of the boxes and actually see it. And then we remember, oh yeah, we do have that. You're going to have an entire backlog of unboxing videos you could do. Everything that I've got in the boxes right now will be vintage by the time we get it. You guys are going to have to buy a McMansion or an A-frame so that you have enough to put your big banner up too, bro. Yes. either that or you're gonna be like you're gonna be like do I really still want this if not you could flip it I mean it's still new in box I have a few things I have a few things that I've thought about lately that it's it's time to sell because I have no interest in it any longer but all my hot toys and stuff like that will all go back on display I love every one of them that makes sense yeah Yeah. Although the high end items, like right now I'm looking at two hell virus statues over here across the way that are still in the box. Cause I haven't had a chance to put them up anywhere. Yeah. So eventually. Man, we get that house. We just have an unboxing the house video. Yeah, exactly. A.K.A. moving. We'll have more pop culture crap to unbox and we will furniture and living things. This is true. He's not wrong. He's not lying. Who needs furniture when you have play pretties? Hey, enjoy the fun stuff. Who needs furniture when you have an Eternia? Which is right there. Underneath this black cloth is Eternia from Master of the Universe. Makes a great display shelf for now. Shane says, is the unboxing the house video going to be like MTV Cribs style? Probably. Yeah, we could do that. Yeah. It's going to be, it won't be MTV Cribs. It'll be Birmingham Den or something. I don't know. You could do it Big Brother style and put cameras all through the house. You guys are unboxing twenty four hours a day because it's going to be twenty four hours a day for you to unbox that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to take some time off. Yeah. It's a retirement plan to move and unbox toys. And then you've got to buy a storage unit to put all the boxes from the stuff that's unboxed in. Or you have a storage unit for that. Yeah. I have one storage unit that holds boxes. It's sad. He's not kidding. It's pathetic. It's very pathetic. Well, I think you'd be surprised the amount of people who have storage units just for boxes and stuff like that. It's a huge industry. Yeah. Well, we just moved my daughter out of college, um, sat or a Thursday. So it actually, my, one of my storage units units became very helpful. Yeah. All her stuff from college is in there for the summer. There you go. Yeah. So, Hey, investment kind of. Shane says, no, you just compress them or sell the empty boxes to people that want mint boxes. There are people who aren't there. Yeah. There are people who spend a lot of money on boxes. That's not a bad idea. I could probably recoup quite a bit of costs off these things. Hmm. Interesting. Hmm. That's a good idea. That's a good idea. That are the people that don't read their fine print on eBay listings. This is just a box. Yeah. And bold printing, but still. Yeah. I have bought... What was the box I bought? I bought a box... It was for, uh, it was for, uh, an Xbox. I bought a, I bought a box for an Xbox so I could sell the box, the Xbox as a new one or as a box to sell it in box. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to do that. Yeah. I'm trying to calculate that formula in my head right now. Are you saying that? Yeah. Yeah. I bought a box for the Xbox and sold the Xbox in the box and made a profit. It, Look, I just made it work. Exactly. You okay over there? Yeah, I love you. I love you too. My hubby. Yeah, so Shane said he sold some of his G.I. Joe classified boxes to people for about twenty bucks a pop. That's half the price of the figures right there. There you go. Hey, you do what you gotta do to recoup some cost, right? Yeah. There's people that buy like just card backs. Yeah. Like vintage card backs and like empty packaging that did had a figure in it, you know, so yeah. We saw some empty card backs this past weekend at the Huntsville pop culture. Nice segue. Sure did. Yeah. Look at that. Segway right on into that. How you like them apples? Uh-huh. I was about to say, let's talk about something else, guys. And then Brock just brought us right into it. This is what I do for a living. That's right. So, yeah, so while we've all celebrated in some little way, shape, or form, May the fourth today, Star Wars Day, last weekend, while Kevin was in Hungary, we were in Huntsville. Oh, hey. Bo and Jess and I and Bo's son, we were all cooped up at the embassy suites there connected to the Von Braun Center. We went up there specifically for Weird Al Yankovic. Yes, he was. He was the number one for us. Ernie Hudson was supposed to be there, but he had to back out due to filming obligations. So we did stick around. We met Weird Al. We'll pull up some photos from that in just a second. But y'all got to hear some interactions we had being in the hotel. Oh, yeah. Right. Connected to the Von Braun. We have already, we've decided that anything we're going to have to do, anything that has anything to do with the Von Braun Civic Center, the Embassy Suites is where we're going to be at because. Hands down. Man, that was so convenient. Nice hotel. Very convenient to the location. Yeah. Yes. So shout out to Embassy Suites. Yeah. Yeah. hilton I'll take some extra points on my account please you got a banging breakfast and we'll talk about that yes well go ahead yeah hey that's go ahead sounds like a restaurant banging breakfast well you know how usually you know your your free breakfast goes at the hotel you have your cereals you have your um uh waffle makers you know I mean and that's all good and everything but man Shane? Yep. Embassy Suites is the bomb. Plus free breakfast. It's very nice. They have an omelet station, Kevin. They got people back there cooking up omelets. And then they got this whole hot bar with a big spread on it. They got grits and gravy and biscuits. Those omelets are why the hotel rooms are so expensive. Hey, I loved my omelet. I had an omelet each morning. Or you know the people that they employ to make them. That's why it's so expensive. Yeah. Nonetheless, I'm blaming the eggs. Enjoy the breakfast. And, uh, I had a breakfast buddy each day. That would be Mr. Booker T. Yeah. Um, breakfast with book, as I like to refer to the, to the, uh, Saturday and Sunday. Me and him both. Uh, we liked the omelet station and we met at the omelet station each morning at the same time. So Booker T was our con buddy. Yeah. Cause we rode the elevator down with them and. Oh my gosh. Had a good talk with him on the elevator. Yeah, really did. Because that was, go ahead, Bo. I said, we had a very fun discussion about him being extra tired for the hall of fame ceremony, which was a good memory. I liked that. That was a good memory interaction. Cool thing about like, we didn't bug him for pictures or nothing. We were just humans riding the elevator together. It was just very cool. That's right. Billy Zane was on our floor too, by the way, cause Shane, you were on the same floor with us. And so was Billy Zane. I didn't get to see Billy Zane. Even though he is the prettiest man I ever saw. What? He's from Tombstone. Okay. He was in Tombstone. That was the line. Look, don't expect my memory to function right now. That was associated with Phantom, right? That's what he was in. He was in Phantom. Back to the Future. Titanic. Yeah. He was also in Zoolander. Oh, yeah. I first saw them on Red Shoe Diaries, that old Showtime show. Him and Denise Crosby, who were both in Hutsville. They were. Never mind. I'm not going to say it. But either way, though, we had a great narration in the book. I was going to make a comment about Red Shoe Diaries. No, let's not. Let's not. Yeah, that's true. I forgot the first Tales from the Crypt movie. Yeah. Demon. That's right. Demon Knight. Yeah. I was watching Red Shoe Diaries in high school when I shouldn't have been. I'll put it that way. Ah, yeah. Yeah. Skinamax. Oh, what? No. Showtime. Sorry. Okay. I was about a teenage boy. Denise Crosby ruined me on Star Trek The Next Generation and Red Shoe Diaries. Oh, man. You should have told her that in Huntsville. No. No. Absolutely not. Alright. Can we move from that conversation? Yeah. And also, as we pointed out, the Embassy Suites was the same place where a lot of the con guests stayed at. Recount the conversation with Booker in the elevator. So, yeah, just chatting with Booker T and talking about all the traveling he's done lately, you know, WrestleMania and the Hall of Fame. So if you know about the... uh, from the hall of fame this year that it went very late into the night. And a lot of the wrestlers in attendance were sleepy and they actually caught Booker T sitting there with his eyes closed, close up with his eyes closed. Um, I'm not putting that comment up there ice night. Multiple techniques. Oh my gosh. So anyway, Booker. Yeah, so Booker. So, uh, Booker got caught on camera up close with his eyes closed and they like left the camera on him during the WWE hall of fame ceremony. And he was clearly out of it. And his response to that afterwards was I was praying. So I mentioned that to him. I was like, but she was praying. Right. And he said, praying it would be ending soon. So good interaction with him, uh, throughout the weekend, whenever we bumped into him, uh, super. super nice guy super nice guy and you know you don't it's like I said we were like Kevin Eastman was in the hotel and so was Timothy Zahn and yeah so yeah and Melissa Joan Hart we were sandwiched Sunday morning during breakfast we were sandwiched in between Melissa Joan Hart and Booker T so yeah it's great it's an interesting combo I'm telling you it was and then Kevin Eastman walked by to get his breakfast so yeah yeah That was good. That was really nice as nobody bugged anybody. Everybody just sat there, ate their breakfast. And it was, it was just, it was awesome to just to sit there and just kind of take it all in. And, you know, you know, so, so many people probably not so much today, except in certain situations, Swifties. Um, but the, the celebrity worship that has gone on, um, No. Yeah. Armin too. Yeah. Yeah. Quirk from deep space. Dine was in there with his wife. I snipe booger too. Wasn't the only one. There were others tired. Just didn't recognize them yet. Many, many people were tired that night. I brought up to him. I was like, look, man, I wouldn't even been working that whole weekend. I was tired myself, let alone. I know you've been going strong the whole day. So yeah. Yeah. He was just coming off WrestleMania weekends and all the, in the week after and everything that goes along with it. So. Yeah. But it was just nice. You know, like I said, the celebrity worship that has happened in the past. And it was nice to sit there and just be around people, but not bother them unless they wanted to talk to you. You know, like Booker said, hi to us in the line. And, you know, it was a nice, chill environment. Exactly. Huntsville, Huntsville put on a great show this year. And I thought, um, they, they always do Jeremy long who, who runs it. Uh, I think did a wonderful job this year. A lot of people complained about the parking, but monster jam was there at the same time. Plus an arts festival called panoply. Yeah. There was, there was a lot going on that there was a lot in that area. Yeah. And, um, And so parking aside, we pulled right into the parking deck underneath the, uh, the hotel on Friday and then, uh, we, we Ubered. Yeah. Uh, we Ubered out for dinner on Saturday. Um, just because it was such a mess, but parking and leaving our car there, um, really made it a much better experience. So yeah, Shane said they were putting on Peter Pan in the theater there too. Then I saw, yeah, they, yeah, we were sitting there Friday night when we had got there and all of a sudden we started hearing like. Right outside our window. Yeah. It was like, what? There was a fire. They were the Panoply people. They were doing a firework show. It's right out our window. Yeah. So it was loud. I mean, they were firing almost under our window. We could see them lighting them. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. That was cool though. I was like, Hey, I came to Huntsville for a con and got a firework show too. Yeah. Two of them. Two of them. Yeah. Uh, Friday night and Saturday night. Yeah. It's a good thing. I didn't decide to go to sleep at that point in time. I would have shot right up out of the bed. Yeah. But, uh, but yeah, as, as we mentioned, we were, we were all there for, uh, for Riddell Yankovic. He was our, our bucket list guest and Bo, you mind me showing this picture of you? Yeah, you go ahead. You're go ahead. You're fine. All right. Here's Bo and Oliver, his son. They got in there with Weird Al. And then Jess and I, we jumped in there with Weird Al. Had to. But yeah. There we are. There we be. As I told him, as I told him, my son, like, you know, I introduced him to around, he was, he's now, and he was introduced him to around time. He was seven. I was like, dude, you only had to wait like three years to, you know, get into weird Al and meet him. I had to wait plus years. So appreciate this moment, man. Big time. And Al was as nice as he could be. He was so stinking nice. Um, when we got up to him, we told him. I told him, I said, I first saw you in two thousand seven at Wild Adventures. I believe that's the name of the theme park. Yeah. In Valdosta, Georgia. And I said, that was when the wildfires were happening. He goes, oh, I remember that. And I said, yeah, because when you came out on stage, you said you had a writer in your contract that you demanded smoke for your concert. And he goes, yeah, that was horrible. So smoky. And so Jess told him that, you know, this will be the first year because he's going to be in Huntsville in July at the Orion Amphitheater. All four of us are going. And so, you know, she told him this will be her first experience at one of his concerts. And, you know, I told him it'd be my fourth. And I told him, I said, you know, for my high school graduation, my parents asked me if... I wanted the, you know, if I wanted something big, like a car or whatever. And I told them, I told him, I said, I said, I told them I didn't want a car. I wanted permanent record, Al in the box, your CD box set. And he laughed. He goes, well, that's an investment. That in his voice is so good. Yeah. Just how Brock said it was exactly the way he said it. That's an investment. They wish what is held value better, huh? Well, in my heart, my CD box set, cause I still have it. So all the CDs, he doesn't have the car he had when he was in high school, but he still has the CDs. So exactly. So for sentimental value is definitely an investment. Um, But yeah, man, he signed. We had a mini poster. The thirty fifth anniversary of UHF was last year, I think. And so, yeah, it was last year. And so we had a mini poster from Shout Factory of it. And so he got he signed to Brock and Jessica Weirdo Yankovic on it. And so we got to meet him at his table and go at a picture. It's not a flattering picture of us. That's why I didn't. I hadn't posted it on social media but it's it's us at his table with weird al well what was your interaction with him like though I was good like so we uh we got an autograph from him from one of his pictures of course I let oliver decide which one he wanted and of course hold on background noise Sorry, background noise. I'll have to shut the door here in a second. It was good. Like I said, it was good. I got to talk to him. I made sure he talked more to my son. It's cool meeting the celebrities, but it's more like I want him to do it, especially first interaction with someone. This is one of the few times where I've got him to take a picture with someone, and he knows fully who he is. That was really big. Let me fix that background noise. as Bo departs. Um, but yeah, Weird Al could not have been more of a sweetheart. You know, there, there are very few people who are on my bucket list to meet. The first was Jody Benson, who was in Huntsville again this year. We've met her several times. So that I'm not going to say it's the newness is worn off, but it has. Yeah. Uh, so I needed the, I needed a picture with, I've got two pictures signed by Pat Carroll, who was Ursula and the little mermaid. And, um, One of them, I just said, I need to get Jody on to have a dual signed Pat and Jody, which is kind of, I don't know. I've got to find a way to get Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd on the same photo because I've got Michael J. Fox and Huey Lewis. And then I've got Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen. I don't have Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd together on Back to the Future picture. So I've got to rectify that, but. Um, but Al was a, Al was a bucket list item. Jody was a bucket list item. And, um, I really don't have that many more to go, honestly. Yeah. I mean, Al was just the interaction. It was a great interaction. He took time. We see him taking time with the people, you know, when you're standing in line, you're watching everybody go ahead of you. And he was taking time with everybody. Didn't make anybody feel rushed or, you know, like you weren't just getting that good experience with him. So that was, that's always appreciated, especially when it's somebody like that, that it's just, you know, they, they do a couple of cons here and there. They're not like, heavy on the con scene but when you get those little moments you know and and you can you able to be there and do that and the interaction you get it's it's when you walk away feeling like you know that feeling good about that moment then yeah yeah and and his line was stupidly long all weekend yeah Good night. And Kevin Eastman. And of course, Sting, because Sting was only there for three hours. Yeah, we got the, we opted for the VIP passes this year and so glad we did. That was, it was well worth the investment that we put into it. Yeah, we got in Saturday morning and almost immediately got to see Al. Yeah. We just made the cutoff. We had just made the cutoff to the overflow. And then when you're, when you have the VIP passes, you get to get in thirty minutes earlier ahead of general admission. So. Yeah. What you got, Bo? I was going to show off. Like I said, we were talking about Kevin Eastman. I got to show off my issue three of Ninja Turtles here. I got him signed. That's why I was going to make sure showing off our bounty. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. That was awesome. I have yet to meet him. I wanted to this past weekend, but yeah, he was absolutely swamped, and I was old and tired. Ice Knight. Well, he is beloved. You're talking about Weird Al, right? I know we mentioned somebody, but yeah. And Kevin Eastman. And Kevin Eastman, too. But Al's one of those people, like, you know, just anybody who knows him in the smallest form. Loves Al. I mean, even if you wouldn't even like a fan of his music, especially if you're someone around our age, you're aware of Weird Al. Of course. I mean, he was the originator of parody, but he's the one who made it mostly mainstream that a lot of people appreciated. He's the reason I change lyrics to songs all the time. Yeah. Well, I know his versions of some songs better than I do the original versions. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Al's just, you know, he's somebody for all of us that somebody that we grew up, he was just a part of our lives growing up at different stages in our lives. So, cause he's just, he's always coming back around, you know, he's always, he's always there. He's always been there at different points in our lives. So. Yeah. And speaking of somebody that we all watched growing up. Hey. Yeah. Melissa Joan Hart. There's rocking out with Melissa Joan Hart. Yeah. Uh, and I had to, I wanted to meet her especially because her husband and I grew up probably ten miles from each other. That's wild. Yeah. And so we walked up to her and told her like, Hey, we know you, uh, we know you go to Alabama game. She's an Alabama fan. Roll tight. She said, roll tight. And I said, but I also grew up in coffee Springs, Alabama. And she just looked at me and she goes coffee Springs. I said, yeah. And she turns and she goes, Hey, Mark, Mark Wilkerson, her, her husband, um, courses of natures is the, who he's the lead singer for. Right. That band. So, um, course of nature or courses or something. I can't remember the name. Anyway, he popped his head out and she's like, he's from coffee Springs. And Mark's like, really coffee Springs is a town of three hundred people, about fifteen miles from or about fifteen, twenty miles from Enterprise, Alabama. Everybody knows Enterprise, the Bull Weevil Monument, all that stuff. He was Gary Ronald McDonald. Yeah, the McWeevil. So I was born in Enterprise. He was too. He is two months younger than me. And he grew up in, I thought he grew up in Enterprise or I thought he was, you know, he grew up in enterprise, but he's like, yeah, I really, for the first few years though, I grew up in chancellor. Chancellor is right. And like I said, about five, ten miles from coffee Springs right next door to it. And small town, very small town. He started, we started talking about people we knew like, whoa, you know, it's like, are we related to them? I was like, I might be related to that person. And, Yeah. So that was, it was really fun. Well, Alabama and small towns. It is what it is. Right. Yeah. So, uh, that was really cool to, to meet somebody from next door and chancellor. Um, and like I said, I thought he was enterprise only, but when he said chancellor, I'm like, oh my gosh. So yeah, we had, we had a wonderful conversation about them. They got married in enterprise and, and had a good, good conversation about the wire grass. Yeah. ice night you see salem there on the table yes she had she had a salem there with her um yeah course of nature is his former band yeah okay but I was hoping mark would have jumped in the picture too but he he ducked back into the curtain before we had a chance he he's probably he's like I know everybody's here to see my wife you know it's there to see him too because I know enterprise but yeah maybe next time Now, Mark, jump in there with us. Yeah. Maybe next time. Melissa had a nice little ring. She had a little ring light in front of her. So she had to, you know, she's going to have her picture made, Chad, at the lighting. Correct. So I kind of appreciate that though. You know, that's good. Yeah. It was really cool to me here. She's, she's super nice. Hopefully we get to see her again. Maybe the, maybe an Alabama game. Uh, but we gotta, we gotta show off the star of the show here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Hey, look at that guy. Look at that guy. Friend of the podcast, Joe Justice. Joe Justice. You know him better as Roadkill from Friday Night Frights. I was representing our friends, Friday Night Frights, a little later in the day there, Saturday at the con. And Joe came up and, oh, look, he's got his shirt on, too. So there you go. We were twinning at the con there, Joe and I. Always good to see Joe. Yes. Hopefully a lot of friends we hadn't seen in a while. It was good to see. Yeah. So of course, while we are there in Huntsville, we also wanted to see some wrestlers. Of course. Yeah. So, uh, AEW fans will know this lady as Thunder Rosa. Yep. Thunder Rosa. She was, she, after we finished, uh, in the elevator with Booker T. We walked out to catch the Uber and then Thunder Rosa came out of the lobby and just started walking towards wherever on the grass. And then she's doing a live stream on Instagram looking for ice cream. I don't know where to find ice cream in Huntsville. She just walks out and starts live streaming. However, earlier in the day, she just about run into me getting on the elevator. So I kind of wish she would have. So I could say that I legit took a bump from Thunder Rosa. Yeah. Yeah. But now we, I was coming out of there. She was going in, she was on her phone and she kind of looked up and looked at me. We almost, I mean, almost smacked right into each other. So I would have, I would have appreciated it. Shane said the only wrestler I know that has a kazoo in her entrance. Oh, but the, uh, the big guy, uh, that we waited in line, we, we got there at nine o'clock. Right. Yeah. We got Sunday morning cause Sting was only going to be there from noon to three. So we got in line at nine o'clock into the VIP line and waited, waited for quite a bit. Yeah. So we, we wrote, we waited three hours, but everybody, and we, we got, we were the fourth in his line once we all got in there. But it didn't feel like three hours because of all the wonderful people that was around us. Yeah, no, I thought the time passed pretty well. Very quickly. And we had a lot of fun conversations. Yeah. Some people who are going to be coming to Iron City Comic Con at the end of May. I hope we get to see them again. But the Stinger. There we are. There he is. We had to get one with him this year because this is his last year in face paint at conventions. Yeah. So we had to make sure to get him and we had a really good conversation with him. He's very soft-spoken. Yes, he is. Yeah. I had to kind of like, I'm sorry, what was that? Yeah. I'm half deaf and like, what? Yeah. But yeah, Yeah, Sting was fantastic. And Sting holds a very special place in the heart of this podcast. He sure does. Because last year, he held his very last AEW Dynamite there in Huntsville, that same area that we were in. And apparently, Bo and I were sitting in the crowd. Yep. And... It goes off the air. Dynamite goes off the air live. So I pick up my phone and I start recording because Sting talks to the crowd afterwards. I pick up my phone and start recording. And I post it while we're sitting. After he finishes and walks off, I posted it to our YouTube account. And man. And by the time I got home, it was coming unglued. Wrestling Inc., which is a really popular wrestling news site, picked up on it, gave us credit. Um, a lot of people ripped it off. The only footage I have seen of seeing speech is the photo that I shot. I have not seen any other footage from his last show. His very last show. Yeah. As, as I'm looking as a recording, we have, it has one hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred and forty nine views. Thank you. Thank you for making us YouTube partners. Yeah. So that was, um, that that was really cool and so to be able to to finally meet him after that Yeah, because we've been at cons that he's been at before. We were like, oh, yeah, maybe we'll get to it next time. Well, we decided that this was the time to do it because like Brock said, this is the last year he'll do cons in face painting. I'm glad he did the white and black. It flows much better with the beard than the red and black. Oh, definitely. Yeah. Look, he is so gray, y'all. He is not coloring that hair anymore. completely gray headed in the beard is is gray of course he gets to draw the black line a little further down and it kind of yeah it does work well with the face paint too so yeah but uh super nice great interaction with him and and uh just glad that uh that he was the reason why we stayed till sunday because he was there only there sunday from for a certain amount of time yeah Surfer Sting is great. Like I said, even though, even though he didn't have the look, Surfer Sting was still in that. And I always say like, especially his post like match with Hogan, like, you know, he got more into that, but yeah. And Sting's another one that, kind of like Weird Al, he's been there at different stages in my life as a kid and then growing up and then the time with the NWO. And there's all those different stages of him and his career that kind of followed him throughout his career with. Yeah. And, uh, his, one of his besties, um, Lex Luger is going to be in Birmingham at the end of this month for iron city comic con. And so we're going to go meet Lex. Got it. Got to meet Lex. Yeah. What a, what a comeback story he's got. Yeah. His, uh, his issues. So, uh, Look, if there's one thing that we talk about on this podcast, it's how old we realize we're getting. A hundred percent. That's all we do. Oh, if you only knew what pain my back is in right now. Flying to New York tomorrow is going to be terrible. I literally started getting back pain from sitting in so many, um, so many planes and those, um, those really uncomfortable seats that they've got started getting back pain from that too. So I know, I know the feel. Yeah. You had to say, how long were you in the air, Kevin? How long was your flight? Well, the longest flight was ten hours. Yeah. I mean, I've done longer than that before. Right, yeah. But, I mean, I don't know. There's something about this time and then just having to rush and get things. We almost missed the one going to Helsinki. So that actually wasn't as long. I wound up being closer to like eight and a half, nine hours. It wasn't that bad. But on the way back, it was like ten and a half hours. And that just felt like an eternity. It felt like so crazy long. So, yeah. And just sitting there. And then you get up and you move around a little bit. But you're on a plane. So, you can't really do much. It's a big plane, right? Yeah. I know the feels. Yeah. Well, all in all, Huntsville was a great con this year. We had all three of us had a great time there. And I mean, it's it just keeps getting bigger every year. And and Jess and I are we're not bowing out of the con scene. We're still going to go to conventions, but it's going to take something special to get us to these things. And Weird Al and Sting and Melissa Joan Hart and all these. Yeah. That was something special. We all had connections to them. Well, the cool thing about it, Jeremy, the guy that runs a con is around our age. So I think he, he, he does a good balance. Like he's a good businessman. He gets people that kind of attracts the old people, but then he knows, you know, we got to get these younger folks to get the, the nineties, early two thousand, you know, popular folks. So he's, he does a good job of making sure he gets all of his bases covered. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's a. And you didn't bring up to Shatner. We didn't. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Shatner story. I'm so glad you brought this up. So I've had William Shatner's autograph for quite a few years and I've, I've never had one personalized. So we went over and made sure he was going to, he was going to do personalized photographs and he did. So I got him in the monster Maroon that says to Brock William Shatner now. Well. This guy in front of us was dressed in a next generation uniform. And I didn't think anything about this guy. He looked normal. Completely fine. Brock had a front row seat to a Shatner interaction. This was gold. So we'll wind down the live stream with this. So... this guy he's in a he's in a the red you know picard next gen uniform steps in front of him and says you know captain I am proud to report and he goes well in the chat and he goes whoa whoa whoa standard attention So the guy stands at attention. About face. The guy turns around. March. Shatner's like trying to shoo him away from the table or something. But he turns back around. He goes, okay, so what were you going to say? The guy goes, Captain, I am proud to report that I have watched all the episodes of the original series. And Shatner goes, you really got to get a life. Holy crap. He says, you got to get a life. He goes, you need an education. You need to go to university or something. You know, the whole Saturday Night Live skit played out in front of me in real time. And so the guy was like, Oh, yes, sir. Yes. Yes. Captain. It's like, okay, we're taking a selfie. Am I signing the picture? We're taking, yes, sir. We're taking a selfie. We'll come back around here and take a selfie. And so the guy got back down, got down there next to his chair, kneeled down and then threw his arm around Shatner and Shatner goes, Oh no, no, no, no. I don't know where that arm's been. It was great. I was like, I'm sorry. He goes, yeah. Okay. Great. Nice to meet you. You know, Think of how long Shatner's been doing this. I know. He's ninety four. He's ninety four. Think of how many conventions he's done. How many weird freaking fans that he's run into. To his credit, he's doing this with a smile on his face. He's having fun with this guy. This guy does not have a smile on his face. He's bewildered. It was the funniest thing the whole weekend. His agent sitting next to him is just cracking. His agent's looking at us and just dying laughing. we were standing right next to this guy doing it. And so when it came to, it came to our time to, we didn't get a selfie because we got a pro photo with him last year or the year before we got to him and we were still laughing. And I told him, I'm like, I'm like, I'm sorry, we don't have any, anything fun for you like that. He's like, Oh, it's fine. He goes, he goes, Huntsville is a great city. And a lot of things happen in here. And it turned into just a really quick, nice conversation with him and him signing and, told him, you know, thanks for coming back here. It's great to see you again. It's our second time, you know, seeing you here. And he's like, yeah, glad to be here. Huntsville's great. And that was. And man, ninety-four years old and doesn't, I mean, and, and so it looks so well at ninety-four. He is so stinking intelligent. He is so on top of his game at ninety-four. We should all be so fortunate. Yeah. I mean, he's lived to ninety four. The amount of the amount of illicit substances that went through that man's body at a certain point. I'm surprised. And he's still doing really well and he's still intelligent and he's still rocking it. That's that's amazing. Yeah. Do like they did with some of the other rockers and sequences DNA and figure out how he survived that exposure. Yeah. Yeah. He, he was fantastic. I, that, that was, that was my, my second favorite interaction with him or, or second, second favorite interaction of the, of the con. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. You missed out on that. It's I saw it. It was, it was a great con. It was. Yeah. I had a lot of fun. Shane says, yeah, the rocket man. Yeah. Always a classic Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Do yourself a favor. Let's look at William Shatner sings Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Yep. Yeah. It's something else. So with that, Oh, I'm sorry. No, go ahead, bud. I was going to say it's kind of a close tie between Shatner in the Rocketman video and just the glazed look on his face versus Carrie Fisher in the holiday special. Who is the more glazed out of the two when it comes to their performances? I have to be careful how I describe their states of mind on this podcast. Yes. Don't get us demonetized. That's right. So, uh, anybody got anything else? Otherwise we'll, uh, no, but I'm, I'm going to put this out there that, you know, we fly to New York tomorrow. Walton Goggins is going to be on Saturday night live this Saturday. The man will be in New York city. Be nice to see him, you know, walking down the street. That's all I'm saying. Can't miss those pearly whites. And if you're not, and if you're, if you, if you have watched righteous gemstones and you're not caught up, you definitely need to get caught up because that show is freaking gold, especially this current season. There is a lot of Walton Goggins in the season. Last episode is tonight. I will binge watch it at some point. I know it's going to be fun, but, uh, I think I know where you're going with that, Kevin. I'm not going to say anything. Shane says, after seeing Rocketman, I'm amazed Shatner has any teeth left after seeing how bad he was grinding them. He's probably got a nice set of veneers there. I don't know modern celebrities at all. I'm getting that way very quickly. Yeah. Yeah, these nostalgic cons are good. Yeah. So if you enjoyed the live stream or if you're watching on replay, enjoyed the video, please hit subscribe. Subscribe to the channel. Please leave us a thumbs up. Hit that like button. We certainly would appreciate it. That'll help us with the algorithm. 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