Podcast: The Ride - Street Sharks + Comic-Con Recap with Griffin Newman

Episode Date: August 2, 2024

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Forever. Dog. Warning. The following half-live podcast may contain real feel action, ghost musks, and a slamming conversation about the price of rollerblades. Slam into our San Diego Comic-Con report featuring our Street Sharks panel with Griffin Newman on Podcast the Ride, a theme park podcast hosted by three guys who are as tedious to listen to as a Comic-Con Q&A.

My name is Mike Carlson. Joining me as always, Jason Sheridan. We got to marry those two things, those two levels of tediness. Or we didn't do the Q&A. Sorry, no. I know. First, tediness is not anything. And second, we didn't do a Q&A. But yeah.

I forgot. You're only down two in the first sentence. Yeah, all right. I'll just show myself out. Mike, I rode with you, so I'll just sit in your car. All right, that's fine. Give me the keys. Give him the keys.

I'll let him have some AC. Don't punish him. The AC, though, drains the gas a little bit. Oh, I'll just sit inside with the windows up. Let's give him 10 more sentences, and if there's any outbursts like that, then no AC. Teediness is a cute word, though. Yeah, I do like it. I do like the word teediness.

Teediness? Yeah, we're here. It's a Polly Pocket kind of word. It is a Polly Pocket kind of word. Yeah, I do like it. I do like the word teediness. Teediness? Yeah, we're here. It's a Polly Pocket kind of word. It is a Polly Pocket kind of word. Yeah, that'll come into play. I guess we could talk a little bit about that real quick. Well, we will. We're talking about Comic-Con today.

We will? But we ran into a Polly Pocket activation or party at Comic-Con. Oh, that's right. Yeah, I thought that's what you were referencing. No, no. I forgot it because it looked very generic and not worth the struggle to get through the VIP barricade. Right, and it wasn't. It was too hard.

But all of a sudden, you know, when you're walking around Comic-Con in a hotel, you'll just see things going on. And there was like an event happening with a bunch of people in dresses. It felt very like people were excited about it. And these were regular sized people, to be clear clear none of them could fit in your pocket fucking bullshit yeah i know yeah i mean unless well i guess look it's possible we could have gotten in there and then seen like one table a vip table with lots of tiny tiny people like polly pocket screaming in horror yeah that would have been awesome yeah we have to live like this we were downsized without our permission the only move we're allowed to watch too is downsized

that's the only way they know how to make those toys is to shrink people down that would be what a movie that would be huh well that's what that could have been an angle for the lena i was gonna say that was thinking when she was uh doing hers but she's not doing it anymore well imagine the pressure that is on like okay so barbie made two billion dollars one of the biggest films of the decade culturally awards wise and box office. So now you go. You take the toy movie. You go for it. Yeah, seems intimidating.

Seems hard. So I understand. I get it. She's going to lie low. But if camping was any indication, she would have knocked it out of the park. Does anyone even remember what camping was when I said that word? I know what you mean. But if the name of the show wasn't camping and it was something else, I would, oh yeah, yeah.

If you said anything about it further, I would have gone, oh yeah, you're right. And you could have lied to me and I wouldn't have known. This is another time where I remember nothing about the show, but I kind of remember the poster very visually in my head. And let me ask,

is it David Tennant and Jennifer Garner? I don't think so. The stars. There's a mush of faces in my head and I'm trying to clear it. Now we have to look up camping. Oh, wait. Oh, it is. Yeah.

It is. All right. He's got it. Jason has redeemed himself. Well, shows you what I know. Look, it was years ago. Jason fell on his face. You're right.

He gets to stay. And now Scott fell on his face. I'm he gets to stay and now Scott fell on his face I'm back I'm back baby not knowing the cast of camping I've also watched camping clearly you remember it better than I do

downsizing who am I though no I haven't watched camping I did watch the full first season of Young Pope I didn't know we've talked about you love Young Pope

I love Young Pope we've talked a lot about Young Pope I never watched the second season we've talked about boy this is and this is one of those where I've-

That's years and years ago. That I somehow didn't retain the vast amount of Young Pope conversation. I think First City Walk, Jason, is really like Young Pope pilled at that point. I was going to say, that's an old show. Yeah. That happened a long, that was 2016. So he was already two years old talking about the Young Pope. It was late then. We're talking

about it more now. That sounds about right. We're young Poping in 2024. He got really into Gangnam Style like three years after it came out. Yeah. No joke. He would just like Opa Gangnam Style. We're like, Jason, that joke is very old at this point. Yeah. It didn't deter him at all. He was very excited

to make it. He's gone easy on the gangnam style jokes lately but i'm thinking it might be time for a comeback it might be time to bring it back you never know when you least expect it uh so well let's talk about some things that happened more recently yes this very week in fact just to sort of say the plan here uh a week ago today as this is being released we hosted a panel put together by mattel for the 30th anniversary of street sharks and we're going to play that full panel for you in the second half of this episode so that's that's where this is going but we figured we would flesh out the first half and and because it was it was only a 50

minute uh panel those those tight slots the tight library slot we had uh uh so we figured we got a little bit of time here let's talk about some other stuff that happened uh down at san diego comic-con 2024 yes we were all down there griffin newman down there as well and uh yeah i i don't know. I think some things were done. Some activations were attended. Some big, big dumb slides and stuff were gone on. I don't know that. I don't know if anyone went on a big themed slide. You did go on a big themed slide.

I went on a big slide, yeah. You did. I didn't, well, this is, and I'm glad we're having this conversation because I missed this while I was there. What was your big dumb slide? It was at the Adult Swim Outdoor Pop-Up or whatever you would call it. I waiting to see aew wrestling the wrestlers were wrestling adult swim characters

which is confusing sounding and it is it was still confusing to watch it but it was confusing being and confusing doing i think as well uh it was a human beings dressed as like meat wad, and then they were wrestling human AEW wrestlers. And yeah, but they had a lot of different things. There was shaved ice there. There was slides. There were all sorts of fun to be had in this like big inflatable kind of area. I don't know if you saw it if you walked by there. And it was by the back by the water, closer to the Joe's Crab Shack.

Okay, sure. If that helps you geographically. Well, it doesn't. I mean, it helps me a little bit, but also I'm less Joe's Crab Shack in San Diego-centric than you, which it seems like it is one of your primary beacons. Yeah. And you're encouraging you to keep fighting on when times are tough. Well, it is, but also we found a new spot.

We had a new spot that I think is going to definitely be a yearly tradition now. Sally's Fish House? We did not do Sally's Fish House, but we went to Mike Hess Brewery, which is right on the water. Oh, yes. I just missed you for the second time, but you and I went there in front of the show, Van Roe Show. And there's a thing called

Hess Fest that happens in a couple weeks with live music. I don't think I'm going to make it to Hess Fest, but this is my new Comic-Con thing. I think we're going to do at least one Mike Hess because right by the water, you get good tacos, not too expensive. View on the bottom, view on the top. That's in the Seaport Village area,

which is a lot of the lure for me going down. I've done a trip that was mainly about Seaport Village without even a Comic-Con going on. You might say that I spent far more time in Seaport Village without even a Comic-Con going on. You might say that I spent far more time in Seaport Village than I did on the floor of Comic-Con in which I spent zero minutes. I would say that.

I also think that maybe next year we do a full Seaport Village episode. I think that that... Maybe. I was just extolling the virtues of it, but how interesting is that going to be? Well, there are two Ben & Jerry's locations and there are two Mike Hess breweries. Wow. and they have different things you can get at each one but they

are located about a six to seven minute walk apart from each other for some reason so all that confusion i'm not saying it has to be main feed i'm just saying there's theming there and there's as we were saying there's the carousel there's a carousel there used to be in the Burbank Mall. Yes. And if the Burbank Mall is part of the history, we are alert. Yep. Is it something that happens a mile within where we all live? And then that is right that is the front and center on Podcast the

Rides desk. That's right. Just to confirm the Seaport Village is where the Cheesecake Factory is? No. No. No. That's the area that used to be a prison that is now and i don't remember the name of it offhand uh but that is a converted prison that is now a shopping center that has a puesto and that used to have something called seasons 52 that is a pleasant generic brand that i like a lot i like that place too yeah dear, Dearly Departed, right? Yeah. Oh boy, pour one out.

But yeah, I don't remember the name of that. You've never been to Seaport Village? I don't think I have. Oh my God, you would live there. You would move into one of the little houses there. That'd be perfect. Just one little priest-sized little room with a cot. Yeah, young pope style small house. Well, hang on.

Look, the young pope lives lavishly. You're right, you're right. I'm sorry. Young priest. A poor pope. lavishly. You're right. I'm sorry. Young priest. A poor pope. He could live like a poor pope. Okay. Well, I live like a resident of Sweethaven.

It is kind of Sweethaven-like. It's a little bit like Sweethaven. Yeah. How have we never been there together? I don't know where it is. Where is it? It's behind, it's like kind of behind that Cheesecake Factory, and then it just extends out-

Near the Hyatt, which is kind of the northernmost hotel in the row of hotels by the convention center. Oh, okay. You've been over there. I'm sure you didn't realize you were in Seaport Village, though. That's possible, yeah. It's a cute little town. It's very cute.

Though I think it's threatened to be taken away. I think that's on the shopping block. You know, it's that thing where they want to replace something that's little and fun and charming with a bunch of boring apartments and garbage. Hopefully not. If there's something that has a little bit of charm to it, we've got to get a sweet green in there as soon as possible. Please, no. Seaport Village. Keep San Diego, not weird, but what? Charming. Charming. Seaport Village. Keep San Diego not weird, but what?

Charming. Charming. Little. But yeah, so I spent a lot of time in Seaport Village too, but I also spent a lot of time on the Comic Con floor. If you've never been to Comic Con, it isn't just like walking endless amounts of miles on a show floor with a bunch of

crowds and looking through comic bins and seeing stuff and being bumped into. It's not just that it's possible i can attest it's possible for it to be literally none of that it can be almost literally none of that absolutely zero um but there are obviously there are panels you hear people talk uh varying degrees of excitement depending on what the panel is to me comic-con isn't necessarily about excitement as much it is about feeling like comfortable feeling like when i was a kid and i would like walk and see walter koenig talk at the chicago comic-con and you'd sit down and it was like so boring but i was so excited to see checkoff from star trek like you're chasing a boring chat

with walter yeah there's something mundane about i was talking to griffin about this too like there's something so nice and mundane because even though like yeah you have your hall h and robert downey jr is there and that is produced and they've gone over what the copy of that is what everybody has to say everything else is so not scripted and feels so like boring and human to me including like things with celebrities or q and a's and stuff sure and there i am chasing kind of that sort of like like saturday afternoon vibe where you're sitting and listening to uh walter koenig like spin a tale of shooting star trek 4 or something i didn't see him this time but i'm just remembering being a kid and like listening to him tell a story he's no doubt told a hundred a thousand times at these conventions this isn't this kind of helps me to understand it i mean it's not my deal but i

like i see the charm i see the seaport village in what you're describing yeah yeah and i think that's a big draw of it like we've jason and i have been in many of these panels where like a comic book writer will try to make jokes, and the audience doesn't like it, and it's a little uncomfortable. He didn't workshop any of this, but now he's in front of a crowd, and he does something cool. He's finally getting a chance to see human beings that might actually know his work or whatever, and he's eating shit, and it's great. It's really fun to watch.

Rooms that are excessively easy to bomb yeah the worst environments for a joke going over right and it's like it's and especially if it's been a couple days in the con everyone's tired everyone's a little hot depending on how long they've been outside uh crowd it may not have gotten into their first choice panel right this could be a second choice if the first one was crowded like or they could be watching it to have the seat for the next panel. Yes, that happens a lot, too. Half the crowd is not for you.

They're waiting for a bigger star in the next panel, so half your room is full of people not paying any attention to you. Oh, that's right. I might have said this in the show once before, but I was part of some panel that was surprisingly packed of people making internet videos. It was people from Cr from cracked and i think nick mundy was on it with me and i'm like this room boy i guess some of these videos have more reach than i thought but you know it's funny they aren't really laughing but maybe i don't know maybe they're just quiet folks and then we finish and then like ladies and gentlemen the cast of all that kel mitchell laurie beth den they all go apeshit. All right, so we're opening for the hook.

Yeah, sorry. But that said, we had a very nice turnout for our panel. Sure, we did. And that's some nice people before and after. No doubt, yeah. Yeah, friends of the show, Julia Prescott was there, Justin Michael was there, and Mr. Morrow was there. Nate was there. Mr. Morrow showed up, yes.

You gave us no indication, at least not me, any indication that that was happening. was there and uh mr morrow was there nate was there mr which i didn't know was gonna you give us no indication that there at least not me any indication that was happening i was texting with him a couple weeks ago and i told him what we were doing and i told i so i didn't i hadn't known that oh my god he's just he just landed and he's on his way so i knew he knew about it but if we saw him we saw him that's another fun thing about comic-con is that you run into people constantly people that you know personally or you haven't seen in a while good friends people you watch on youtube that review toys that you don't know and you just want to say hello to and you get as excited or more excited than any famous

celebrity uh which is something griffin and i would be like oh my god did you see who it is oh yeah because you at some point you went to something that was a star-studded event in terms of toy people. Yeah, yeah. And then he showed me your text to him, which was inscrutable to me. Right, yes. It was just kind of like, guess who's here? James and Walter. Whoa.

But if those were Imagineers, I would have. That's the thing. Yeah, yeah. We share this. The niche. Yes, there would have. That's the thing. Yeah, yeah. We share this. The niche. Yes, there's niche. Not even niche. It's just the hyper-specificity of what you like and people.

I'm engaged in so many of these YouTube channels with toy people that I have very strong opinions about them. And it's almost like my reality show now to watch all of this stuff because I uh sort of constructed narratives probably even like fan fiction for human beings on youtube scott and i at the bar one night got a crash course and some of the toy guys from griffin oh yeah anise and justin yes and they all they all watch and we all sort of go back and forth uh and talk about it and so we were all in contact of like oh my god did you see who it is it's it's mad hatter from the youtube channel mad hatter who we watch um and then it's yeah so so that stuff happens there's people i haven't seen in years that you just run into that's really fun and i'm trying to still even explain more of what

comic-con is and in addition to all that, as I was saying with the Adult Swim, there's just temporary themed entertainment all over the city. Yes. Pops up everywhere. That often don't require the badge because it's promotional and they want people in there and learn about new properties coming down the pike. Right. And so you go there and, again, it's crowded,

but it's turned into a big temporary theme park kind of like there even were rides like there was a abbott elementary carnival setup which i didn't have a chance to do but there's a full like carnival theme park set up but right by the pier i passed by it while it was closed griffin and i were trying to parse it the ava fest ava fest yes and then it's just and then but then that's an acronym we're like what while it was closed, Griffin and I were trying to parse it, the AVA Fest. AVA Fest, yes. But then that's an acronym. We're like, what does that mean?

Oh, it's a very Abbott festival. I didn't know until I looked it up today. Featuring an exclusive festival playlist created by Questlove. Okay. Questlove dragged some files into a Spotify for AVA Fest. Okay. I didn't know that either about ava fest um yeah yeah it's great it's uh what was one of the other um i was just taking screenshots of like

stuff that i didn't get to experience um and i like i'm kicking myself i didn't get to go to mr beast labs slime spill i did not do that. I saw a number of Mr. Beast things. There was something on the show. I didn't go to them. I just saw the giant logo. There was something on the show floor, and then there was something around the gas lamp quarter, which the gas lamp quarter is kind of like five blocks of CityWalk.

In some ways. I mean, there's an It's sugar in the gas lamp there is and there is any number of sports bars and taquerias oh there's an old now it's funny you say it's like city walk but those are things that are like useful well yeah human beings might want to go to there's aspects that are city walk ask for sure a thing that um yes you're both correct uh but a thing i really like is when the generic sports bar or like uh mexican restaurant just slaps up a sticker that says like biff bam pow or like a really shitty spider-Man cardboard thing that's like bent and falling apart. Like they just pull it out every year and just put it up.

I love generic Comic-Con decorations. It's great, yeah. It always makes me laugh. It's great. And sometimes the restaurant goes to some sort of effort. And sometimes they have a new menu printed and it's like Comic-Con. But then just Jason saying sometimes it's just like, yeah, welcome to to the superhero cafe and it's just like a person in their regular clothes with a cape yeah and then just a couple yeah like party city spider-man decorations hanging out

they're just like here enjoy this slop you little piggies like gotham massage parlor right wow it's not just a regular massage it's a chance to experience the kind of stress relief batman might need that's right after a long day of crime fighting and that works on man margarita this one is 16 ounces not 12 ounces whoa and even though i laugh at like jason laughs at it it still works on me a little piggy who likes seeing spider-man it's cute that's what i want give me that more of that slop um and then yeah so and then there's just as we alluded to earlier talked about earlier the poly pocket type thing where you just wander into like parties or activations or weird events uh scott you and i wandered and talked our way into a unofficial Ninja Turtle event where we ate free pizza and had free drinks.

It was not planned. Yeah. It was just sort of like we happened upon it, and then people were like, yeah, okay. We just had to download an app in front of them and get at least to the screen that shows that you've set up a screen name for this app. Yes.

And clearly it worked, this app, that I definitely do have, and I definitely, definitely remember the name of. I do remember the name of it, but it's funnier if we don't say it. And it was a very funny negotiation process of like, well, are you on the list? No. Well, do you have the app? Not yet.

Can we just download the app and come in? Okay. Well, show me you have the app and you've signed up. All right. And then like 10 minutes later, while this slow download speeds on the phones are like all right i think all right i think i got it okay here it is all right in there free pizza free drinks good deal that's the comic-con magic yeah that's this that's you never know what we had no plan and before you know it we are trans we're transported sort of to the world of the ninja turtles sort of unofficial yeah world of the Ninja Turtles. Sort of. Unofficial.

Yeah. Well, what we were transported to was a bunch of tables that had pizza boxes, and we're like, ooh, pizza. Oh, no, the pizza boxes have toys and merch in them. Oh, yeah. Well, that's free. That's good, but I can't eat any of this. Oh, good.

These other pizza boxes that look identical do have pizza in them. It was a little confusing to parse the uh when i saw griffin once he did have a souvenir pizza box and in my head i was like are you going to try to get that back to new york like i think so i i do want to ask him like how does he do like does he pack an extra suitcase for comic-con stuff i would have to you know does he ship it i imagine because i like what i? I would have to think. Does he ship it? I imagine, because what I've gathered about Griffin is that he comes back from anywhere he goes

with 12 big cumbersome souvenir glasses. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. He did it in Florida. A bunch of plastic mugs all bashing into each other. It's like, yeah, he just takes a garbage bag uh like like full of aluminum cans and just like just a yeah a big mug sack yeah that's his personal item there was there's a fedex in the manchester grand so i saw a bunch of people with their boxes just

boxed up shipping all of their stuff home wow so i don't know if does that, but that is an option if you go do one of these things. That's true. I think there's one in the convention center itself. There is, yes. So that's an option. Yeah. If you want to box up your unlicensed Ninja Turtle like pizza cutter.

Now this was, now you allude to something. This was a little bit of a conflict while we were up there is that I think Griffin was more than happy to take all of the, you know, whatever materials were up there and others of us were as well, and you made a firm declaration. You opened the box and you said, unlicensed, and you refused to have any of this stuff in your hand.

Yeah, well, it was trying to trick me. It was trying to fool me with a logo that looked similar to the Turtles logo, but if you look, there was no Viacom licensing. There was no actual Turtle characters on it. It was just sort of stuff to make me think that the Turtles were involved when they weren't. Wow. The Turtles were not. I smelled it.

People didn't necessarily believe me right away, but then they looked. Unlicensed, yeah. Well, yeah. It's the kind of thing you would be right on, certainly. Yeah, that's my expertise, is in noticing turtle merchandise that's licensed not licensed but this and this is the kind of thing this okay we've we've talked a lot on this show about how um jason comes to life when he is at islands of adventure it is another jason it is it's not jason it's the flash he is the he's another man just like like like yes that or

if you're like talking about a place where you ate clams on the jersey shore in 1998 these are the things that turn jason into mecca jason right right um but but for mike and and you know some of that stuff you know theme parks do it for mike as well but but it's it does feel like comic-con is particularly where you become mega mike a hundred percent i was i love comic-con so much it is so i i like it's it's again it's a big theme park that's like oftentimes shitty in ways but oftentimes mundane and some of which is free which you can't say for most theme parks yeah um i love to perform i like getting to go to comic-con and do stuff which i've done here and there is always fun we get the the i've said this before the name card that has my name on it i have it with me i don't know you

brought it uh i do have it i had it in there did you just want to show off to us i know you guys have it too yeah yeah i saved my i was so excited to get a name card and discover all the text on the back of the name card. But I guess it's Comic-Con for me is there's checking involved. There's a lot of prep now. I'm very good at doing Comic-Con in general. I think there's a lot of prep because I like to figure out what the stuff is I want to do. And then there are parties I try to get into beforehand that then sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not.

And you got us into a, I got into a very fun party because of you. That was a great one. I got to go to an IGN party, which was fun. And these parties are like hard to get into, but also not in some way where it's like, I feel like when I first started going, I was like, like well no way i'm getting into that thing over there and it's like uh if you have the right email address you can kind of do it uh um but yes i i the last day of comic-con i walked 26 000 miles 20 miles steps i assume no no miles it might have been i don't know again this is another mic um but it is i don't know it's it's it's so much stimulation for my brain i think is what it is because like i like to be checking i

like to like fidget and stuff but it's like i'm here i'm running here i'm running here i'm doing this there's four things i have to do tonight i have to see four different sets of people tonight yeah um and it's i'm certainly feeling like i'm older uh and i'm a little more tired during this that being said i did just as well as i always did and after a day of it still got it i still fucking got it i can still go hard we really we didn't do much on sunday but that's because we were down there with uh my daughter and we were staying with lindsey's mom and stuff and we were doing some more family stuff. Boo! Snooze! Why'd you do that?

You missed so many. You could have met Stanley. You could have met Toy Guy Stanley. You were with your daughter all the time. Stanley is dead. Not Stan Lee, Stan Lee. Stanley the Toy Guy. Alright, fair enough. Well, I would like to meet Stanley from The Office and donate to the movie.

But... Stanley Klatch. It is. One of the biggest names in action figures. Every year, I also start to question it because sometimes people will be like, ah, Comic-Con, this and that. And then I'll go to Comic-Con and I'll end and I'll be like, I miss Comic-Con. Bring it on next year. Yeah.

And I feel that same way this year. I had so much fun i you get into like every year matt cardona sees me at comic-con he insults my shirt he makes fun of my shirt uh so there's traditions is what i'm saying that happens uh uh this year i was wearing you know that shirt i have with like little oranges on it you ever seen me wear that yeah i've seen you wear that a number of times. He was like, that looks like you're looking for a lot of attention wearing that shirt. And I was like, what are you talking about? And then I talked.

How dare somebody want attention, the wrestler? Well, right. That's what I was saying to him. What do you wear usually? And then I turned to the person working at the front who checks your ID. And I go, does this shirt look weird? And the guy was a really nice young guy. And he goes, well, I guess the oranges look a little bit like balls um i go and then i turn

the card on i go is this what you meant is it do you mean that and he goes no that's not what i was talking about and i go what balls and then i went to i went i started polling ever he got in your head he did get in my head and we're gonna throw this poll up and we're going to let the listener decide if this shirt. We took a photo together. What is the question for the shirt? Is the shirt weird for me to be wearing? That's really what the question is for the listener.

Well, look, and that's, I don't know. You might want to rephrase it because weird has become the key word of this election cycle. And I don't think, look, I don't think it's that kind of weird. It's not that kind of weird. Yeah, no. I don't think this is not a jd vance situation no i don't think but you have to refresh my memory well and you know what's funny you say weird and and weird yes that weird has been used to paint uh the republican party which is it's really good and seems like it's been very effective in making just like an average person go these people are weird which is right is correct it's a low bar to clear a basic thing to remind people weird is though too too soft of

a word let's be honest it is yes but i see but i get this yeah i turn i see how it's like more tangible of a thing to go after then this is going to end the world and democracy like that stuff yes feel hyperbolic even if you believe it's true it's a little more palatable than like total fucking psycho right and it's smart it's a smart it's they're good they're good in the real world to use that that makes sense but what's funny is we talk about weird and i was talking to somebody i just met that same night where my shirt had been insulted and i was explaining that and this is this is i hate to drop so many names tonight um but i was explaining how i'm responsible for len testa and matt cardona becoming friends this is what i did and this

person that's a hell of a name drop and this person said and she meant this in the best possible way she goes oh she goes your life is weird and i went my life is weird like that yeah it is weird that is right and she meant it positively. She meant it in a positive way. Well, this is what this election is about, is reclaiming the word. Let's make it a good thing and a fun thing. Right. Well, no, wait.

Let's wait until after the election. Okay, yeah. It's going to be that. Using it to assassinate them character-wise and then, yeah. I would love. This is the shirt I was wearing. I think that's a little understated. I don't agree with Cardona here. Of course. He's out of his mind. Yeah. I would love- This is the shirt I was wearing. I think that's a little understated. I don't agree with Cardone here.

Of course. He's out of his mind. Those aren't big oranges. No, they're not. I bought one like that a year or two ago. It just didn't fit, so I returned it. But I love the orange pattern. Of course.

I mean, people were very supportive. Are you trying to look like Mike? You like it that much? You're trying to dress like your buddy Mike? I think I was first. Whoa. Mike, Mike, when did you get this? Ooh, now here's a conflict I'm even more interested in.

Over a year ago. Yeah, but didn't you say two years? Like a couple years. I gotta look. We gotta find out when. Oh, that's a hell of an accusation. But he never wore it. No, because it was like a 10.

So I wouldn't have seen it. It doesn't count as a trend. And you never heard that he had it you didn't hear about a shirt that jason got you got jealous and then got a similar shirt the conversation that jason and i have generally do involve well i got a shirt and then i had to return it like that is something we would talk about oh i know but i'm aware of the kind of conversations you have i guess you're right the on the interview now. I guess you're right. The long and short of it, I'd love Len Tested to get in the ring and break a light tube over Cardona's back.

Well, look, I don't need Len to fight my battles for me, all right? Okay. I'm just saying, if I have to do it, I have to do it. All right, if you can still go, you can get in a GCW ring. Well, I could still do Comic-Con. I could still go to Comic-Con.

You think you can go for a short little death match? As long as it's short. Okay. as long as the death you can still go and walk to different panels and boxes of comics therefore i could do a death match same thing just a little just a little well just a little yeah a little you know um jane and i ran into mike uh at about 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon after we had done the panel we went through the kind of crowded gas lamp quarter

we did a lap on the convention floor that was kind of enough for both of us and we see Mike at the street corner outside the hotel and he goes you going to the Paramount Lodge? It's like, no, we're going to go take a nap.

Yeah, I was on my way to the Paramount Lodge. I also went to take a nap, but I was a little, you know, in my heart, I did. I understand the question. I understand the desire to get people into the Paramount Lodge. And in fact, I ask you now, how was the Paramount Lodge? The Paramount lodge and in fact i ask you now what was how was the paramount lodge the paramount lodge jason what was that sigh about well what's just what i've i heard already about the paramount lodge i'm a little disappointed and i'm glad i didn't make the effort there was no frazier part of the lodge that was like the main thing luring

us you're kidding that was some confusing part of the press release that i read and that was something else so there was no because we went up and asked what is the where's frazier is frazier here and there frazier was not there there was yeah because you build it to us as you get to go to frazier's bar oh cheers no his new bar mahoney's his bar mahoney's tap room his bar from the new show, presumably in tribute to the actor who played his father. John Mahoney, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So not even, all right, it's not shared.

It's a bar that I don't know, and then they don't even have it. That was disappointing. But, and it was pretty small overall, the lodge. Because, again, all your favorite Paramount properties are under one roof we didn't say this ninja turtles uh ghosts uh that show evil uh yeah that that tattoo show that i can't think of the name of ink master uh ink master yes old episodes of unplugged it's all there we all and we all know it's Paramount. Was there a Halo thing in the Paramount Lodge? No. Okay. Because that would have been

weird because they had canceled the Halo TV show mere days before despite saying like check out the Halo target range in the Paramount Lodge. Yeah, so the Halo not there but you walk right into Tulsa King's Bread 2 Buck Saloon.

Bread, sorry, number two, Bread 2 Buck. Bread 2 Buck Saloon. Bread, and not bread like the food bread, but bread like you were breeding an animal who becomes a buck. That's what they're conveying here. An animal husbandry, soon presumably but it does sound like uh some cuckoldry uh sort of stuff i don't know if it was the fred to cook saloon there was any sort of cuckolding going on i don't know i'm not sure sorry the rnc was in a different city a

few weeks before if jason had heard about that uh some sort of uh paramount cuckolding activation he would have maybe not taken that nap but come with me that's what i think well for which side what was that which for which side of it i in what way do you participate i believe that's called a switch um Yeah, you have Frazier and Niles. I know there's no Niles representation. If there's no Niles representation on the show, there certainly won't be in the lodge. Niles is out.

But Roz came back, I think, at the end of the season. I don't know anything about that, Jason. I do have Paramount Plus that should get caught up. This is another thing. I think me and Andrew Grissom were talking about this. Yeah, and on the new Frazier, his old pal, because you were back in Boston, so his old friends show up. Oh, you mean like from the bar? No.

Roz. Briefly. So you don't get to see Clifford? No. No, you don't. What aren't you understanding about new Frasier? Get your head out of your ass. I actually am pretty excited Roz came back like i loved roz

you were a big roz kid i thought she was very funny i liked roz fine i did too but i'd be excited about a full participation of roz not like one episode ends with roz's shadow and then in the next one you get two minutes with roz sure yeah i would lose my shit. I would be like the Robert Downey Jr. on stage if I saw Niles came back unannounced. Like if Dr. Doom took off his mask and it was Niles. It was Niles. Oh, man.

It was David Hyde Pierce. Yeah. What if they were like, who's playing Dr. Doom when it's David Hyde Pierce? Same thing. We needed the greatest actor in the world. And then David Hyde Pierce?

You couldn't argue with that. That's a good candidate. I think David Hyde Pierce, you couldn't argue with that. That's a good candidate. I think David Hyde Pierce actually would be a very good Doctor, too. I agree. I don't know if the audience would give him the pop that he deserves like that. I might have been more confused than anything, yes. He's kind of a chameleon in recent years. His hair and then beard, like for parts and stuff,

I feel like he's a very good character actor. That's what you say after the mask is unveiled. Nobody knows who it was. And then some people kind of murmur, David Pierce? Is that David Everett? And then you get on a mic, actually, he's been a bit of a chameleon in recent years. Is that all you have? Now will you cheer? Wonderful performer. Very

versatile. Wait till you see how long his hair can grow. And then you'll know. Then you'll see. I know you think he's just nice, but he can also grow long hair. He can do Shakespeare. I had two free complimentary drinks at the Bread to Buck Saloon. Damn. I had the specialty, the Golden Driller and the General. The General was good.

It was a little sweet, but good. And the Golden Driller was awful. I didn't like it at all. I drankiller was awful i didn't like it at all i drank it but i did not like it at all uh they have a lot of uh uh like uh there's a photo opportunity for the for paramount's uh if yeah the movie if yeah uh uh and there's a like a like hopscotch sort of on the ground here you could could sort of do the hopscotch from If. Tired of doing your own crummy hopscotch on your own sidewalk or backyard. Well, guess what?

Oh, hopscotch, so boring. This hopscotch doesn't teach me about any movies. And then, yes, my friend Aniz and I took the photo op, and we were there with one of our favorite characters from If. Yeah, there he is. So what's that character's name up there? You know what? It's funny.

I thought I knew the name, but I sent it to our friend Andrew Grissom, and he just said, hey, that's one of the better characters in If. So all I know about that character is that's one of the better characters. It's Goobles. You got your picture with Goobles. Goobles? Very close to Goobles. Oh, I think that's Goobles. got your picture with goobles very close to gobles oh i know i think that's gerbils oh excuse me yes you're right gerbils uh uh we got free pizza the ninja

turtle area which was a lot of competing turtle bars turtle pizza that is licensed okay the pictures were there and then my favorite part of it is that the show Ghosts, which I don't know. Jason, are you familiar with Ghosts? I know of Ghosts. Okay. Nobody watches it. Ghosts is not evil. Ghosts is not evil.

No. But you go into like a perfumery or something room and and there's all these different scents, and they're like, you know, ghosts can't taste, but they can smell, which I didn't know, and I'm excited about this lore, this ghost lore. And so they had like six different scents or seven scents that you could pick one, and then they would give you a little piece of,

I don't know, paper that had the scent on it, and you could use the scent. And I was like, this is interesting. I've never seen this in one of these Activation Report comics. That is unique, yeah. So I got some. I was like, I don't know anything about scents. I just said, musk?

What about musk? Do you have anything musk related? And they're like, oh, we do. Yeah, absolutely. And it's this one. And I think I took a photo of it. And that was one where I went you know I went

oh that was very nice like that was I really so thumbs up on ghosts I'm feeling you know I'm looking at the Wikipedia ghosts too

and apparently Betsy Sedaro is a recurring ghost cholera victim from the 19th century is that true?

I believe Mary Holland also recurring in the upcoming season so past guests of this show are yeah she's patience a puritan ghost all right look out for patience and look out for nancy friends of the show patience and nancy lenape legends i don't know what this is called but it's originally it says from the mind of a storyteller fragrance description sage cedarwood amber pepperoni spice uh uh and then yeah so they have all these different things and there was a very nicely themed room and that was the last thing we did which was which was good oh the last thing we did was that i got a free poster

for the movie if great and i tried getting rid of it the rest of the i would try to hand it to people and i you know i try i almost left it behind i had like a quick like a bowl of salmon and something and so i could get a vegetable and there's broccoli in there and i left it on the seat and i was walking down the street and i hear hey hey hey excuse me and i go what i turn around it's like an it's uh like a wait staff person going like hey uh your poster your poster ah shit that would have been a perfect way to like guilt-free get rid of the if poster the broccoli diversion would work and then yeah so then we met up with friends that day that was really fun saw a lot of different people uh lindsey got to meet mr morrow yeah i was gonna say that was part of

the mr mar experience i got i watched this moment from across the table, and Lindsay did like a full body shiver. It was unreal. It was like watching a child meet the real Easter Bunny. Yes. If one of the characters from If, who you've only imagined, shows up in your real life, that was what Lindsay did to Mr. Morrow. She would have really liked to have gone with us to uh orlando last october but you know she stayed behind watched baby um but the one thing in that during that

trip that she was really jealous of was not guardians it was not velocicoaster it was that we got to meet mr morrow that was the thing she was insanely like seething with jealousy uh over her wow so i remember because, because I had alluded, oh, I think Mr. Moreau will be a comic, maybe we'll see him or something. But I hadn't told,

I hadn't reminded her about it. She also really wanted to see the Bourne stuntacular and I'm like, Lindsay, actually, none of us made it to that. That's not true.

Griffin and I did. We haven't talked about it at all. What? Yeah. Uh-huh. Oh my God. Didn't rush to do that episode.

That doesn't be, actually, well, I'll keep it i don't know i think i liked it enough okay it's just sometimes you know well we'll wait until i do rather it be like insanely good or insanely bad to fuel that that but now i did get to do it i got instructions from julius styles on how to move into the next room. Whoa, is it Stiles? Is it really Stiles? That's a spoiler if you actually know. Oh, man. That's your custom theme park celebrity appearance.

I want to go just to see the preview center and do Stuntacular and get a bright blue Trolls ice cream. Are you going to try to fit in a trip for preview center before the park itself opens? That park is opening soon. Yeah. That park is opening very soon. We'll see.

We'll see. I don't know. The rumors continue that this thing is like March or something. Yeah. Like that. We're coming up quick. Keeping an eye on. That's going to have to be there for and we'll see.

Getting a hotel, renting a scooter solely to do the preview. I think you should do it. Jason. It does sound like you. I think you would do it. It does sound does sound like you. It does sound like... I consider that... You can do it tomorrow. I...

I had a very funny... Jason, get your phone out and book a ticket to Orlando tomorrow. Let us know you did it. I did it. We had a funny moment the other day

because we were talking about we were going to try to go back east and see my family in the fall. No. Orlando. No, no, no. You're boring. Orlando. No, no, no. Mike Pogba and his family.

Boring. You're seeing your family. But then I was like, hey, Philadelphia to Orlando is really short. We go to Universal for a couple days. That's true. I thought you were going to say, go see my family. No, boring. Sorry.

Sorry. No one should see their family your only family should be the minions augmented reality little model my family

are the imaginary family from if my extended family the island of Burke residence

the isle of Burke isle of Burke thank you excuse me but we'll be back we'll do Stuntacular if you don't go

in a few days which you should we'll be back sooner rather than later to Orlando but yeah you know what was great was getting

to do a little live experience again which we hadn't gotten to do in a minute and this this was a blast to do and as we sort of referred to

getting to go to Mattel and see behind the scenes of Mattel and have their participation and top secret street sharks info we get into all that in the show is there anything anything final to say about comic-con or do we throw to it's a lot those are the highlights uh um i'm already sort of i'm already like trying to like how do we make comic-con bigger and better next year? And I don't know. I don't know.

I don't have an answer yet, but I'm working on it. I'm thinking about it. Yeah. Well, it requires a big jump, I guess. I know, because we would have liked to have done some other thing, but we didn't know we were going until kind of recently. But I was glad this came together. And, yeah, thanks to everybody at Mattel and Griffin and you, Mike, for helping put it all together. So I think we'll probably do some sort of little break here.

And then after that will be our panel. Audio is fine. Like you said, Griffin's a little blown out. Anything you want to warn anybody about? The first couple minutes, I think it'll end up being fine. First couple minutes, it was turned up a little too much, but I'll adjust that. It should be fine. But then Griffith's a little blown up, but I think it's fine.

You'll be fine. Worth posting anyway. That's what happens when the panel's about to start and you're plugging in a Zoom on the floor. Yes, that was wild. The way the emails leading up to the panel, I don't want to throw too much shade at Comic-Con. It's like, oh, yeah, and this will be this, and then they'll have a person there that will record everything for you. But if you want to bring a recorder, and then I got there, and it's like, oh, so you're recording the panel. They're like, no way.

Not happening. I'm not doing that. And I'm like, oh, okay, okay. So I have a recorder, and then what? Well, I'll just go over to the side and say, plug it in. I go, okay, plug it in over here, but you're in the back. Why are you over here? Why can't you look at it while it's – no, no here okay uh the panel starts in two minutes okay great uh boy again

i'm doing so like i left two minutes into us talking to check and i turned it down a little bit there is also like there are instructions on by the microphones of how to use microphones and we immediately sat down and i feel like we all started moving them and bending them. Like, no, no, we got this. No, yeah. The instructions made no sense. I didn't understand. You are fascinated by what's behind the signs, I got to say. Oh, I'll post it.

You'll hear it. Jason is about to refer to it for the third time in this episode. I'm so excited. That's a different sign. No, no. I'm not referring to the same sign. That's a different sign. There's Mike Etiquette's sign.

And then what's behind the name? I'll post the behind the scenes of the signs, because I took them all when I left. Okay, but yeah, hey, look, it's better than if we recorded off a phone, right? It is better, yeah. You'll hear that. It was a blast to do, and it'll take a a quick break And then you will hear our panel Put together by Mattel With our pal Griffin Newman

Street Sharks 30 Years of Jawsome How is everybody doing? Hello Comic Con What's happening? This is like Hello, hi, hi My name's Mike

This reminds me of like We're in like a Senate hearing or something Where I'm like Yes, Mr. Yes, Mr. Secretary I did not help dr paranoid i was no part of his experiments welcome to comic-con please be aware that many members of your audience may be under 18 years of age did you know there's stuff on the back of these i never knew that oh did he wow he? Wow, okay. Jason, we love you! Hey. Thank you. Great, great.

Was that for all three or just one of us specifically? It was Jason only, apparently. Jason only? You know, here's something to calibrate here as we begin this. Who here is aware of or a listener to our podcast, Podcast the Ride? That's pretty good. Pretty good. We're happy to hear that, So thank you for coming out.

But let me ask another question. Who here does no idea who we are, and you are just big fans of the ultimate fin force known as the Street Sharks? Okay. Okay, okay. This is extremely helpful to calibrate. And I just want to say in terms of just balancing out everything

and you know we're in the library right now and I don't want to end up with library energy I actually need everybody to kick it up a notch because we're here to celebrate 30 years of Jawsome with the street sharks let's do it yeah great

but now not too loud. We are in a library, so we need to be considerate. Yeah, a little less Jawsome would be fine. So, yeah, look, I mean, if you don't know our show, it is usually about theme parks. So why are we here talking about street sharks? My theory is that somebody mumbled on the phone and misheard what was said.

They do a podcast about street sharks? Yeah, that's it. That's it. Let's get them. But you know what? It doesn't matter anyway, because the podcast, the ride you thought you knew is dead. Let's remind you of the logo. This is our normal logo.

But it doesn't matter. It's dead because we are now today. Jod cast the bite. That's right. And in fact, let's reintroduce ourselves. I'm Scrod Gairdner. That's Josson Sharkadin. And that's Pike Carlchum.

Yeah. We wouldn't be street sharks. We would be like book sharks. We would be... Well sharks. We would be, well, there's, you know, there's like street smarts and then there's book smarts. And I think we're more book smart than street smart. Am I wrong? I see. Shark was a pun on smart. Okay. Yes. Great. We got it. Wasn't it obvious? I think, you know, I think that we're playing in the right area here because as we have delved into 30 Years of Jossam

with the Street Sharks, it does seem like puns are a big part of this property, so we will try to bust out as many of them as we can while we're here. You know, something we do love on our show, regardless of where it comes from, is big, silly entertainment, especially from the 1990s. Properties that aren't afraid to just be a big, dumb, unbridled fun.

And that's what I think the Street Sharks are. And that's why we're excited to be here and talk about the property, talk about the relaunch of the tour. There's brand new figures. Are people aware of this, that you can get new street sharks this year from the fine people at Mattel? And I do say the fine people at Mattel who put this thing together and who gave us a tour of the Mattel facilities. That's one of the cool. It's actually a place that is as cool as you might imagine it is.

Like if a kid had to draw their idea of what the Mattel factory is like, it actually matches. There's a big Hot Wheels loop. They get that every day. I work on Zoom in my house. That's much more boring. And they do have a William Frawley head from a doll a few years ago. I was very excited to see that.

We have limited time here, but there was a whole roll of Lucille Ball heads in there. I don't think we're spoiling anything by saying that. I got very excited very quickly, and then I went, oh, my God, is that William Frawley's head sitting in a glass case? And the answer was yes. And then eventually they turned the lights off because they're like, we need to go home. Please leave, sir. I tried to break the glass, but it was tough glass.

If I had been a street shark I could have done it longer we're not here for Frawley talk we are here to talk about the street sharks we're here to talk about how they fight we are going to delve into how they bite and time permitting we will address how they kick some serious Finn are you guys ready for that? Great. As you may know, street sharks are the ultimate fin force, the only big and buff half-man, half-shark action figures

that empower kids with jossam force to bite and battle the world's most evil creatures. What I have just read is from the official original Bible for street sharks, for the toys, the advertisements, and the series,

the people at Mattel opened the shark vault for us and therefore for you as dangerous as that may seem they were willing to do it uh so we'll be you know reading snippets and getting some cool stuff out of that um I hope before Biden leaves obviously declassifies the street sharks Bible yeah yeah because we cannot our names are watermarked all over it and we'll get into a lot of trouble if we share yeah he'd be a legend if he did that freedom of information act should be in play here i think but anyway um you know there's three of us but there's four street sharks and i feel like we aren't really uh matching right now we aren't matching and

stacking up to the Bolton brothers the group that became the street sharks so I think we need to up our ranks here and that is why I'd like to introduce our fourth Bolton brother he is the voice of Orko on Masters of the Universe revelation he has a podcast blank check and I hope he's actually like in the room and ready that's a question I have and if not we'll just do this again uh but hopefully we'll find out uh do we have with us the round mound of pound good wow there he is the completer himself, Griffin Newman. Hey. Hello. Fantastic to be here, boys. Fantastic. You have a better sense of the microphones,

I think. You're an expert at these things. You've done plenty of these, so I gotta admire your microphone work. Thank you. Great look, also. This was just, yeah. Some people like to cosplay at the convention and for me it's all about comfort i'm just gonna wear whatever's easiest to walk around i'm not really trying to show off for anybody you know uh-huh and so the and the the necklace with the shark tooth

is that's part of the oh i guess you know what actually yeah you're right that is kind of funny for this panel you didn't even think about it that's's just so your day-to-day style. I was just like, what's a good walking outfit? Yeah. No, you're right. That does line up pretty nicely. Well, it gives you a weapon, too, in a pinch. I got two weapons right here. Wow.

And a killer bite. You're going to have to move one seat over. I'm scared to be next to you now. And that thing on your head is to protect your hair from getting too hot? Correct. Yes. It's a hair coolant system uh i feel like when hair gets hot the best thing to do is to wrap it in rubber smart smart kind of cook your noggin yeah okay yeah it makes a lot of sense yeah uh uh welcome thank you for joining us for the street starts uh conversation for taking a trip

to fission city a symposium let's say the first annual street shark symposium today this is the fission city library uh uh i your your previous uh familiarity with the genre with the toys do you what do you flash to uh when we say street sharks uh well i think the toys primarily were were the thing uh i think the folks at Mattel sent you some of the new figures, right? Indeed, we did. We got some figures. Some are down here. Here, talk while I fish out some sharks. Oh, yeah, go.

So, yeah, no, we got some of the new figures. They're very cool. Wave one available now. Wave two up for pre-order today. Jason knows his talking points. Jocking points What I believe they call the real feel rubber skin That was a big appeal in the day

Was like you could walk down a Toys R Us aisle And the street sharks had like the access You could feel them Still in the packaging You know You could touch They're open They came in cages

They come in cages And there was enough like room to reach through the, not enough for them to escape, thank God. Yes. But enough for us to real feel. Yes, of course. Right. And a lot of the other anthropomorphic sort of crime fighters of the time, the toys did not have accurate skin. Yes.

So they've corrected that mistake with street sharks. And Mike, you and I are both big action figure collectors, and we always talk about flesh. That is where a lot of toy companies fail, where they come short, is in approximating flesh. I am still waiting for any human character figures to have realistic human flesh. Yes, of course.

I feel like that has not happened yet. If Mattel wants to make a new William Frawley with realistic flesh, I would be very interested. Real feel Bill Frawley with bite action. Bill Frawley. Bill Frawley with realistic flesh, I would be very interested. Real feel Bill Frawley with light action. Bill Frawley. Bill Frawley. Yeah. Well, let's bust him out.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the panel, Ripster. Wow. Look at that. And this is, it's both an audio medium and also you guys are far away, and I guess we could pass it through the aisles for everyone to real feel. But it's hard to not go straight there, because you're absolutely right. It is really addictive to touch these figures.

Because pants are hard. They're hard at the bottom. But up here, just so gentle. It's really like you cannot stop. It's a sensual toy. Yeah. It is. It is like, and they're like, the street sharks are jacked and very vascular.

Yes. So I'm not a vascular man. Yet. But I would be interested to feel like somebody's arm that was very vascular. So this is the next best thing to doing that. But Ripster does have like tasteful shoes and casual slacks. So that's how he balances out his extreme muscles and large jaw.

I think you're getting at something here though, Mike, which as a child, you're fascinated by super muscly men, but it is a social faux pas to go up and just touch them. And Street Shark solved that problem. You know now what veins feel like. I finally know what veins feel like because of the Street Sharks.

Yes. And that, yeah, very good point. And that, yeah, so the abs, they have so many abs. Yeah, can I say also, something that came out of our visit to Mattel was discussion of the bodies and the jacked nature of the Street Sharks. And what we were told from people who were there 30 years ago when the original toys were designed was that often specific features would be based on the bodies of the people making them.

Like there was like, I think a gym was new to Mattel and everybody was going and getting ripped. So I guess all of the Mattel designers in the nineties looked literally like this. Well, you had to have those sculpting arms, you know? Oh,

that's true. In a pre digital age. Yeah. You're required upper body strength, but that's, they said that that like, Oh, check out this vein.

I got a new vein here. You got to represent that on jab. So good for them. Uh, we'll try to, we'll, we'll, we'll try to find old photos of what they looked like back then, shirtless, and release those to you guys. Yeah. But he, okay, wait, Ripster, like,

Ripster spins, correct? Like, there we go. He got a power punch. Power punch, power punch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then let me bring Jab out. Jab is here as well. Our round of applause for Jab.

Thank you, Jab. Great, great. Jab, you crank an arm, and then out that hammerhead goes. Pretty solid. Yeah. They all do cool stuff. You want to do some real feelings, by the way? Let me pass them around. I love to do some real feelings.

The other thing, as a puppet-obsessed child myself, the fact that the Street Sharks figures kind of doubled, there was an animating factor here. And they had giant puppets. Well, we're talking about hand sharks, of course. Yeah, hand sharks. Yeah, but Jason, you're getting ahead of yourself, I think. All right, all right.

But yes, I, as a child And as a Middle aged man I enjoy making Little toys talk And these things Can bite and talk And I can You can do any voice

You want Obviously they had voices In the cartoon A lot of them were like Like a lot of voices Were like this On the old cartoon But I could do anything

You could make it sound You could make them Sound like Jab could sound like this In your own universe Like you could do Anything you want And now that Yes i have a i have a daughter that's two years old and now i can really justify making all these toys talk and not doing it to the wall yes like i like i was doing two years before yes uh so yeah that's it is very cool I think what's cool about this line

Is that they have The sharks have maintained Their inherent 90s-ness They have not hid from the 90s In terms of their style In terms of their attitude In terms of the box fonts In terms of the pants

But what Mattel has done is up the degree of articulation to what we now uh expect and demand out of our action figures yes uh so the so the puppeting is so much more uh fluid and uh and and their battle modes are uh that much tougher yeah i really think like the street sharks is like the pinnacle of 90s everything in my mind yeah because like obviously there were other uh anthropomorphic animal teams but everything is just so aggressive in 90s and in a lot of ways they're the face of the 90s to me just as far as a decade american culture in the 90s is the street sharks so if you see some cnn special about the 90s and it's the face of

bill clinton or bill gates or something don't trust it right it should be big slamu it should be i would hope yeah that there would be a talking head hopefully me on one of those specials where they're talking about like the monica lewinsky scandal or something. And I'm like, yes, but you understand Ripster's pants really for me define the 90s. And you drive every question back to that. Like, well, the 90s is when they first cloned a sheep. Can you answer some questions? Why don't you talk about Dolly?

And your answer is? Dolly was jean slammed in Scotland in the late 90s. And Dolly didn't wear pants. Like she didn't wear pants. Slammed in Scotland in the late 90s. Dolly didn't wear pants. She didn't wear pants. She didn't roller blade. Roller blades. Dolly could have been cooler.

She will not give her the time of day. You raised an important point, Jason, which is that the technology that allows the four human Bolton brothers to become the Street Sharks is called gene slamming. Yes. And here, this is a picture picture I took a little screenshot of the cartoon these are the Bolton brothers being gene slam right before yes just before slam it's a slam shot I think I love I mean talking about the essential 90s Ness Mike the Bolton brothers kind of represent the four social archetypes of the 90s yes football quarterback rollerblader slacker and normal guy but they are all they here's what i also i was like they are all pretty ripped before too so it's like sometimes like it's you know captain america got ripped because he took the super

soldier serum but like these guys were doing well before and then they just got they got even weller after the gene slamming well i think there's a core underlying theme of body positivity to the street sharks universe as long as you're ripped as hell you should feel proud of the way you look that's the only thing that matters and you can be ripped inside in your heart in your mind but also if you have the vascular system it doesn't hurt but i feel like they are transformed their genes slammed against their will right yeah and we've seen so many narratives where people are transformed and mutated and they immediately go through the arc of i'm hideous i'm a monster i have to learn to love myself i live in the shadows even spider-man right yeah he's like oh god i'm a freak he doesn't look any different he has a glow up he loses the glasses street sharks have a three second acceptance arc you watch the pilot you

just watch the pilot so you can affirm this yes they transform then they all pass around a hand mirror and each take a look at themselves and the first blown brother goes whoa and the second one goes hey i kind of like it and they're immediately on board they're just taken to the streets they're ready to be the sharks which as a kid is what i want i don't want all that boring stuff where they deal with emotions oh yeah loving it straight to kick and pin they're jacked they can eat all items and they live underneath a comic book store. My dream. All of my dreams. Yeah, it is so quick. Because every version of this, other than Street Turks,

has full arcs of a character like, should I go back? I don't know. Beast from X-Men is, I don't know. What's the cost of looking like this? And I'm like, yeah, Street Turks are just like, hell yeah, let's go wreck some crap no cost zero cost uh could i get like just in case we don't know uh the names john uh we have coop bolton we have clint bolton we have robert bolton jr and then ripster is john bolton who is

not former defense secretary John Bolton. Just in case you want to know, they had nothing to do with each other. This guy worked in a lot of, he worked in the Reagan administration. But yeah, he is not a shark currently. He was never a shark as far as I know. But yeah, these are the four iconic brothers. I will say this. I would love in the new Street Sharks line to have the brothers pre

transformation. I know maybe most people think of sharks when they think of these characters, but I want the guys. You want the street guys. I want the street guys. Yes. Do you want them lying down being horrified by the needles that are coming for them?

I would like the option to display them like this, but I don't the option to display them like this. Okay. But I don't need it to be, they don't need to be stuck to the slabs or whatever. I want the option every couple months I change out my displays for my toys and I would like the option.

I would also like the display so I could put other toys in and get other toys could be gene slammed. I have a couple of Steven Tyler from Aerosmith toys and I would love to see what a pre gene slammed Steven Tyler looks like on the way you're saying that he currently is post gene slam I mean that it does explain a lot yeah well spin around with a scarf he in a lot of ways Aerosmith Steven Tyler is a superhero to me. And he has special powers to rock an entire audience so thoroughly.

There is the character Rocks, R-O-X, gets jeans slammed. He's a rock and roller. That's true. If I could have Rocks displayed on my shelf with Steven Tyler, and they were sort of doing a duet or something on the mic, you know when they share the mic and they were sort of doing like a duet or something on the mic. You know like when they share the mic and they can kind of like go back to back. If I could have rocks and Steven Tyler. Like

Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Johnson in duets. A perfect reference. A perfect reference for all you toy heads. No more relatable time when two singers go back to back than the film duets. Jason really just back than the film Duet. Duet. Jason really just playing to the Comic-Con crowd, trying to get that cheap pop on Duet.

Duet Nation. There's too many Duet cosplays here to even point out. Jason, are you going to the Duet's reunion panel in Hall H later tonight? I got shut out. Oh, yeah, there's a lottery. And you missed the pre-order on the toys, lottery. I missed the pre-order and I'm going to have to go to the panel for sliding doors because I got shut out of duets.

The rumor is that Giamatti is going to come out at the duets panel and announce duets retribution. The Lego sequel. There's another rumor also that they're going to do a duets drone show over Petco later. It's another rumor also that they're going to do a duets drone show over Petco later. It's ten minutes

and it'll tease the future of the franchise. It's too exciting though. Ships will crash. Big drone duets! Ah! So yeah, I want to have duets. I want to have duets figures for sure, the movie duets.

And I want to have duets with all the various franchise figures I have. We gave some love to two of the post-Gene Slammed sharks I'm talking about, to Ripster and Jab, and they are part of Wave 1, which are currently available from Mattel. Let's talk about some of these Wave 2 characters that are available for pre-order. You can get them now. The other half of the team, Stre streaks streaks with an X do

you have a streaks available that's the roller blade yeah yeah great yes Wow uh-huh yeah indeed everybody take it in it's a tremendous amount going on this is one of those this is the Mike you going to have to say the technical term for it, but he's got multiple sets of hands. That's something you like? I do like multiple sets of hands. I have six, like, sewing kits full of hands at home for all the different figures. Anyone who collects figures knows what I'm talking about.

There are heads, there are hands. Sometimes they're like half heads if they just go with like the mouth. They're like, I think the turtles, like you can take the top of their heads off and the bottom. So it looks, I do look like a mad scientist in a lot of ways because I can make some like abominations. I was going to say, so far, yeah, you have a box full of hands and you wish that toys felt like human flesh. I was going to say in a different context. Yeah, the phrase i have boxes of hands at home sounds like a confession it is yes uh uh jason do you like this do you want to talk

about yeah you like this guy a lot streaks was my guy in the original one because he had roller blades and i was a very short uh a very chubby child i'm not the the perfect specimen of health like i am now um but uh thank you that's what he was fishing for he told us i had no center of balance so i lived vicariously through streaks and his rollerblades i also thought like oh rollerblades what do those cost this is a thing that comes up on the podcast lot i can't have those those must cost a million dollars and uh i looked up the other day on amazon and you can get an adult pair of rollerblades for 40 or 50 dollars i didn't sense a surprise from the audience in the price of

he also had big claws and claws were also very big in the 90s so that was uh very cool and those you can't just get on amazon uh no you can't and i've always been a nail biter so they're not really growing out myself option for'm an option for you. Did you think as a kid that the rollerblades had a motor in them to make them go independently of when you would push off? Why did you think they were so expensive, I guess what I'm saying? I don't know. I just didn't know anything about that. I didn't know anything about rollerblades.

We went roller skating at the roller rink once or twice for birthday parties. Right but you were the traditional roller skates you wouldn't yeah yeah yeah i i was just like if i put those on i am gonna get injured immediately i thought roller blades were like kind of futuristic technology definitely when i was a kid like i i felt like oh wow we are really advancing uh technologically as a species. Like, I think because of the blades or whatever you call the wheels, they're wheels. They were neon colors. And it didn't seem right that you could do that on just one, like, thin, you know, whatever you call it. Thin line of wheels.

It seemed morally right. It seemed like you were yeah you were spitting in the face of god when you would rollerblade because this didn't seem like it made sense um from a physical standpoint can i say in the actual uh description of the premise of the series this is from the shark vault from the bible uh it does talk about the villain of the show and now one brilliant genetic engineer chose to play god seeking to tailor humanity to his idea of perfection which involves sharks i guess this is sharks and squids and whales lobsters yeah yeah a lot of them in there yeah This is a Dr. Paradigm we're talking about. Well, you got two names here, right?

I mean, this is the rare, like, you know, sometimes the hero or the villain post-transformation has an exciting name, and before, it's boring. But his before is Dr. Luther Paradigm. We're already set in terms of villainy from the get-go, but he ups it and becomes Dr. Paranoid. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a paranoid in there? Is there any mode of paranoid? You could just put up John Bolton in his place if you want.

Just to stand in villainy-wise. Okay, there he is. But as you said, often there's this sort of villainous transformation. You know, they're scarred. They're hideous beyond belief. They take on a new persona. They change their name. The thing I love, cold open, just the opening shot of the Street Sharks pilot

is Dr. Paradigm sitting behind a monitor jean slamming, wearing a leather duster, shaved head, and a bolted metal eye patch. And you're like, this is his before look. This is when he's just a guy clocking into work at the lab doing normal scientific experiments kidnapping people's dads and children yeah that's that's what i mean like 90s wise i'm like this is the ultimate version of the genre if you

because yeah it's like this doctor paradigm is enough Paradigm is enough. Yes. He is enough, but no, no, they're going to put a hat on a hat, as they say here, and make it even more extreme. He didn't feel like he was enough. Yeah. That's the lesson. That should get an awe too.

Can I read something else from the Bible that I like a lot? This section is called The Quest. The street sharks are heroes by instinct. They did not set out to become modern day Robin Hoods. But then you have to see what I'm seeing or just visualize it because where it says Robin

Hoods, they fit in parentheses and an F, thus making it Rob Finn Hoods. They committed to the pun. Internal use documents only. They still were punning it up. Very impressive. Let's look at some of the vintage toys real quick.

Can we give a little shout to, we have missed one of the big ones, maybe the biggest one, Big Slamu. Yes. Let's see a Big Slamu. There he is. Wow. Yes. It's hard to say who's the most 90s.

He's very 90s. I mean, he's got his athletic wristbands like that. And he keeps his football pants on. Is that the term? Football pants? We wouldn't know. My dad, can I real quick? My dad just listened to one of our episodes where we were trying to figure out baseball rules.

He was so upset with us. He was like, I listened to the episode of Sky Dome, and I go, oh yeah, what did we say? And he goes, the sports talk. Oh man, come on. I go, oh yeah, I don't know. I'm sorry, Dad. I really...

I'll get around to understanding the infield fly rule soon. That's what it was. That's what I remember. Maybe we're right by Petco Park. Maybe I'll get it there. You know, you think there's like a guy outside that'll just explain the rules of baseball to you.

I know. Yes. Rules. Booklets of rules. Or it's on like the plaque of a statue or something. Maybe just the entire. Oh yeah. Maybe.

I don't know why your dad was surprised. Does he not remember the 18 years of raising you? It's been a while. He forgot. Thought he liked sports. Thought he was a sports kid. Yeah, okay. So Slamu, I mean, this is the best name for sure,

and it reclaims the naming mechanism S-Amu from a San Diego institution that does some unsavory things so then we need slamu to allow this and this cool naming structure to be with us today thank you big slamu for liberating the rod the rhyme amu yes thank you and move and we could argue we could argue in a certain way the entire idea of street sharks as a property is standing in opposition to that San Diego landmark. And that the street sharks are not only not held in captivity, they roam the streets freely.

Wow. Yes. Their cages are easily pliable. They're just packaging. Yeah. They're collectible packaging. That's all the cages are. Yeah.

It's a tiny, tiny apartment is what it is, and they can come and go as they please. Every street shark comes with a modest studio apartment just in case you can't visualize. Now that is also a place that I would like.

If I could get the street shark's apartment and see where they sleep, I would want that. Like their big shark bed. Yes. But you don't want it to be like a cool lair? You want it to be little boxy apartments? I would like the option to have a small studio apartment and a cool like Batcave style lair.

Now, not to shark-splain. I was jumping around watching a handful of different episodes last night. I don't know if this is kept as canon across the entire series, but there was an episode I watched last night where they mentioned that they don't sleep because they're half sharks. That, in fact, the street sharks must be

moving at all times. So they might not have beds. Wow, it sounds like they don't have beds. Or if they do, the beds are just for jumping on. All right, bedtime. At the very least, they would have like a water bed because it's the 90s and they should have at least, yeah, right.

They could go inside. Somebody take a note here. Somebody from Mattel, they could go inside the bed and go on top of the bed if it's a special water bed. That's a cool idea. Those fins are ripping through water beds.

Well, these are different water beds created by a mad scientist. Yeah, you've never seen beds like this. They're gene-slammed beds. Gene-slammed beds. Uh-huh. You can bind a bed with the ocean.

Yes. Can rebuild themselves. That's cool. Alright, a waterbed that can rebuild itself. Get on that, Mattel. And get on creating the book sharks, characters based on the four of us. The book sharks? Yeah, that was said, I think, while you were getting ready.

It was a joke in the beginning that went really well so mike is bringing it back around very clear it's called a callback you created a cool indoor retreat now let mountain air comfort systems provide the quiet and energy efficient comfort you can depend on with a range of innovative cooling solutions like the carrier infinity heat pump that delivers premium home heating and cooling performance. Learn more at mountain air mobile.com. You make it a home. Let mountain air comfort systems make it more comfortable. Rebates, incentives and financing are available for a limited time. Mountain air comfort systems and carrier. Turn to the experts. The only book I care about is the Street Sharks Bible that I was given access to, which I, there's also a slamu thing, here's another thing that I like

is, you know, when he's built to a pressure point, that he will then bellow his battle cry of slamu jamu! Parentheses, or something even cooler, i..e alternatives will be considered you know scott just because there is a fixed time on this panel yeah yeah it might help us

if we just started you know not saying the street shark story bible in full and instead just said the holy bible they can carve a couple words out there yes Yes, the Bible. The Bible. We haven't said the most important thing from the Sea Race Bible, is that an early iteration Streaks was called Blades. And some of the early toys said Blades. Some of the designers were like, I had a toy box that said Blades, and then the cartoon called him Streaks. So as you're walking around for the rest of the con, find a stranger and let them know.

Accost them. Gene slam them with the knowledge of streaks and blades. And maybe they'll do an exchange and they will tell you what the infield fly rule is. Yeah, if anyone has access to a gene slammed baseball and I can learn more about the sacrifice fly rules that would be great mm-hmm do you want to show some because you've been like you found a bunch of like photos of the retro oh yeah old figures yeah I was on figure realm calm I want to shout out figure realm calm they have a pretty good archive of a lot of old figure lines so that's what a lot of these photos are from this of course

is Ripster. And these are definitely like, you know, these have been lovingly played with. It's because they're a little dirty. Lovingly real filled. Wow. Oh, the attitude.

And this Jason... Whoa! Jason referenced Rocks earlier. Rocks got a round of applause just from people looking at him. Just the appearance. That's how you know he's a star. He's got it. Can you imagine Rocks

jamming with Aerosmith? Because I can. He does have a Steven Tyler-esque mouth. Yeah. A lot of Rockstars have interesting mouths and Rox is no exception. Rox's real name

is Melvin Kresnik. He needed a name slam. Yeah, he needed a stage name. He accidentally digested contaminated popcorn and water that was tainted with a gene-slamming chemical. Well, we've all been there, right folks?

So yeah, so this was rocks. This was the toy of Benz, who was kind of like a surfer guy who helped the sharks out. He's their human friend and van driver, primarily. Yeah, and he had kind of like a

tactical vest. What would you even, how would you describe that he had kind of like a tactical vest. What would you even, how would you describe that vest? That's like a fishing vest? Yeah, I guess you're right. Tactical fishing vest. Yeah, so he was a cool guy, I think. Here's Jason's guy

with his million dollar rollerblades. Because you've got to buy the pads, too, and it really starts to add up. Pads, two million dollars. A lot of the toys, it is interesting, he didn't have crazy, he just had regular $40 rollerblades on,

at least of the figure. He seems like he didn't have some crazy technologically advanced rollerblades. That's where the street comes in. He has the regular, he has tools accessible to us, the humans on the streets. Yes. They're every sharks. Yes.

Yeah. But then a big thing was, as we referenced earlier, the hand shark, which is a bigger puppet that you could put on your hand, make talk, and I guess punch things. You could do that. And this is, of course, Ripster. And then they had here, this is, of course, Slobster. Slobster. The character Slobster. Slobster is great.

Slobster I love because there's some great backstory here. Obviously all of these characters were slammed together from human and fish DNA, but in this case they go into the specifics and we are told that Slobster has DNA from Genghis Khan. I don't know

how this was kept and given to Dr. Paradigm. He just has vials. You see it at the beginning he's just got a shelf of vials with the world's worst leaders well and then that's what i could be up because genghis khan starts you at a point like okay yes fearsome killed many okay then the other one that they say is colonel thomas blood colonel thomas blood was a notorious rogue from the 1600s who tried to steal the crown jewels and failed. So, guy who killed a million people,

sex with all these women, and then also a guy, a failed jewel thief. That is what is in Slobster. And, and a lobster. Don't forget the lobster. You're absolutely right, and I didn't forget, Griffin and I have the receipts to back it up, I made a little chart of the DNA,

how the DNA of slobster works. Just so we could all get eyes on that. Great. This plus this, con plus blood, plus slobster equals slobster. And that's your recipe you can take home to make your own slobster. And slobster is of course

one of the bad guys known as the seviance oh yeah combination c and deviant along with slash who's cool who that's a figure you could buy now this this is one this is deeper in the the villains rogues gallery this is uh oh wait what is it he this is this isie. Shrimp Louie, not to be confused with Bubba Gump mascot Shrimp Louie. Can we see the other Shrimp Louie? Yes, yes, I guess. And you decide. You can decide which is scarier.

Yes. I will say this. Shrimp Louie needs to hit the gym. This is not a jacked anthropomorphic sea creature. No, I also want to say, you said decide which one is scarier. I think if you ask the boy in this photo, he would say this Shrimp Louie is the scariest thing that's ever existed. And that boy was not in that photo when we looked at it an hour ago,

so we don't know what is going on. Oh, God. On god haunted slideshow um um so well let me go real quick back to a couple more retro things uh non-figures uh you could have got you could get a street sharks gift pack back in the day that had a zipped pouch which i guess is not a fanny pack but close um you could have a little watch uh they sold the lcd watch here which is cool do we have lcd watches as kids because i feel like this was a big kid thing for me big time sure um and then you could also get uh rings and shark tooth necklace uh which is pretty cool but it feels like it might get like hard to hold

a shark's head on your hand all day if you were wearing that ring. So not good as a wedding ring. Right. The proposal might not work out. Do you think anyone has ever proposed with a street shark's ring? Slash, does anyone have anything they want to say right now?

Oh, yeah. The floor is open. Yeah. We'll give you the microphone. So, yeah, I would say, too, I hope Street Sharks rings come back as well. They're doing Mondo, the company that makes a lot of like big one six toys and they're doing like some soft vinyl Street Sharks they just announced yesterday too so I feel and there's Hot Topic Street Sharks shirts so I feel like a high-end ring

company should license Street Sharks and start making Street Sharks engagement rings like hey jewelers you want to pay jewelers X Street Sharks collab. Oh, sorry, Graphing. We're a Zales podcast. So we're all about Zales. That's on me. Zales could license the Street Sharks, yeah. Every kiss begins with jazz! Can I, I think it might be worth bringing up that, you know, this has been cool for us to do, but also intimidating because being people in a public-facing setting talking about Street Sharks figures and hyping up what's cool about them, these are some of the biggest shoes there could ever be to fill.

Because some of the world's great talents, one of the world's great talents. The world's single greatest talent. Let's just cut to it. some of the world's great talents, one of the world's great talents. The world's single greatest talent. Let's just cut to it. The world's most talented man did what we're doing years ago. Do we have audio? Do we have audio? Let's find out.

It is not coming through. Well, you know, it doesn't super matter. You know what's really funny? I'm actually realizing he's wearing something very similar to me in this video whoa whoa oh just to say yes this is a young this is a young vin diesel yeah and he is doing promotion he's like showing how the interactivity of the street sharks works and he's wearing wait oh my god as i'm adding it up he's got kind of it's a it's a destructive necklace necklace just like you yeah and then and then

sort of a relative lack of hair yeah that's really interesting he's got kind of like a strange griffin newman vibe going on wow sort of griffin newman before his time that's crazy and i guess he had like a he had a permanent head cooling system installed he did well that's why he's a star um you know i i've forgotten this footage he launches jab's head at a normal man action figure so that's also an option you know yeah in the competition i was talking to some of the folks from mattel about how crazy it was that that there is a that he was a toy fair demonstrator which was this job that was often done by like out of work actors in new york city okay to show off the upcoming toys to the media and the big buyers for the store

and whatever, you very rarely find evidence that people who did that job went on to become major stars. Sure. And they were like, isn't that crazy that he started out like this and then became this whole different thing? And I was arguing, no, I think this is still what he is. I think he's the rare example of someone who was a toy fair demonstrator and went i can ride this persona to the top of hollywood like dr paradigm

it was all there from the beginning everything he needed including the ball he had it all figured out uh uh yeah there's also in this video there's some of these alternate names that you referred to, Jason. He's like, all right, and here we got Boomer. Check out what Boomer could do. And I'm wondering if there was a name switch after that or if it was just Vin Diesel not listening carefully. Or he also knows them so well that maybe he has nicknames with them. Yeah, that's what I call it.

That matters more. You personalized it. Okay, so remember, it's Big Slam-oo. Okay, got it. Boomer. Go, go, go. Isn't that what you said? What else on our way?

We got five minutes here. What have we missed? The Comic-Con exclusive this year is very exciting because it's Ripster wearing a jacket. Oh, yes. Well, let's acknowledge he's a literal pool shark. He's a literal pool shark. Yes.

He's got the queue and the pool table and an explosion. He does pretty regularly play pool in the cartoon. Yeah, and he's wearing a jacket, which I asked a question at Mattel because I was like, well, he's got a soft goods jacket on, right? And then I realized I was trying to act cool, like I knew the terminology for toys.

But that is right. I was correct. And I was very excited to act like I knew the biz. And you call that acting cool, you say? For me. This comes from an episode that I believe is titled A Shark Among Us, which I watched last night and is about The street sharks and in particular Ripper trying to

Break open An underground network of Oral steroid sales to children They're all Getting ziplock bags of Blue pills called super blues That are getting them as jacked as street sharks And the street sharks don't believe in that if you're gonna gain

muscle mass you have to do it the honest way by getting jeans slams do not buy bootleg prednisone from CD sellers so Ripper puts on a leather jacket and sunglasses and tries to just be like hey I'm a guy who loves steroids. Where can I get some? And everyone's like, what a cool, normal human man who needs pills. Big blue human guy here. Pay attention to the jacket and not the face between the ends of the jacket.

But this is basically his like narc disguise outfit. Whoa. He's a street narc. Street narc. In a way. Street narc. That's actually a better name for what we would be as sharks. Yes.

There we go. Street narc. Officer, they're doing drugs over there. We're doing sharks when we say that. You're pointing at people who are drinking coffee. Yeah. They're drinking caffeine, officer. It's a stimulant.

Enhanced tattling powers. I think maybe it's time to address another thing, probably my favorite part of the Bible that we got to see, and that is there's a list of rules, things we should know in proceeding with this property, and rule number three, parlez-vous sharkies. And then what you get is a dictionary

of how the street sharks talk. If you were going to write for them, the kinds of things you should say rather than... It looks like you've got some of these. Yeah, I've got it too. Let me just...

I'll try to do it in order. And maybe I'll just, you know, we can pass it around a little bit. Yeah, yeah. A street shark would not say fantastic. He would say. Fintastic, of course. Very good. Okay, okay.

A street shark would not call something an impossible task. They would call it. A jawbreaker. Very good. Yeah. Very good. If somebody is not depressed, they are chummed out.

Oh, the panels. Panels and signings and travel arrangements is being really chummed out dealing with Comic-Con. I swear this week it's been Jawbreaker after Jawbreaker and it doesn't make me feel fantastic.

It makes me chummed out. It's also just nice to be up here on stage with friends just blowing bubbles. Yes, very good. Blowing bubbles, which is, I will censor and say, that's the official term for BSing. Don't say it. Street sharks don't swear.

No, they blow bubbles. Shut up is clam up um throw up is spout uh i have to shout out uh for just for fun is for the halibut and i like that a lot you were saying that before you read this though yeah no i didn't see the document and i was saying that uh well you know what i think you know i think it's been a lot of fun to be here just for the halibut uh and isn't that the spirit of the property isn't it really it's not about anything serious it's just a lot of silly fun it's a it's a property done for the halibut. Can we not agree on that? We can. I think it's a beautiful thing. Yeah. And I really hope that nobody,

I don't think anyone will be leaving here chummed out after everything we've addressed here. Reminder, Wave 1 is available now. Wave 2 pre-orders are available. The street truck stuff on the Hot Topic website. And I think with that you survived Podcast the Ride, Times Mattel, Times Street Sharks,

Times Griffin Newman. Thank you for being here, Times Vin Diesel. Times Vin Diesel. Griffin Newman, I should say. Griffin Newman and Vin Diesel. That worked out pretty cleanly. And thank you all for coming out here,

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