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We Survived AwesomeCon!

Jun 20, 202326 min
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AwesomeCon goes a little harder than we last thought! Join Hoody and Erick as we recap our adventure to AwesomeCon this past weekend and talk about why Hoody is worried about the day before his wedding next year! Plus even more real Missed Connections from the DMV and can Hoody convince Erick to cosplay next year at AwesomeCon?!! All that and more in this week's Let's Get Weird!

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Yeah, get a gulp of water. There you too, You also listen to get a gop of water because it's gonna be a good time. And hopefully I read it because this time it's about to get weird. He's preparing to get weird. Things are gonna get weird. It's getting weird. I'm gonna get real weird. That's scaring whird. Let's get where? Where? Get where? Are you ready to get weird with Hoodie and Eric list you're reading funny part episode Let's get weird. My name's Hoodie and I'm y and

we're dealing with broken equipment in the studio. Let's just put your hand on it. Stop talking, mice, keep you going twisty twisty in here and then the other big studio. For no random reason, I'm gonna tighten this nut. Yeah, and how to I don't know who We tighten that. We get the letterman. We grapple here and we twist. Oh yeah, there you go, there you go. It's called fricks and Sweetie gotta rub it and squeeze it and twist it and make it go. Oh so it's

fasts and body the thing they see you do it. And it was Elliott two, which I saw this man doing this. They'll talk about you. Well, at least it's not like remember the one time upstairs with the guy who was in the studio and they got them fired. Man, would you would if you were the employee that caught that guy? We get tuble to

talk about it. It's statue of limitations. Okay. So someone was working on the weekends and one of the radio stations upstairs, and another employee came in and sought them jay owing in the studio masturbating to porn while doing their shift. Would I have said anything? Not to management? I would have said something to the employee though you've been like hey buddy, now, yeah, like your your relationship with that person would be forever changed, forever because

you're like, oh hey, like his name's Hank, Hey wink. Every time i've seen your man parts, we're good. I think our bond would be better, don't you think. I've seen a couple of buddies man parts, and I feel like our relationships younger. Yeah, good for you. I have one buddy loves to whip it out all the time, all right, that's his thing. When I live with my buddy, Julian, he'd have it out all the time too. I mean you didn't have in college.

No, at the Young Lighthouse. No, everyone just dong hanging out and dong hanging out because everyone privately changed in the show. Are all ashamed because you're little young life boys bodies. No proud of that body. No, it's sorry, it's an all right buddy. You know it's a sexy hoodie. But get by, you know, we get by. You are getting married. So yeah, by the way, have you still stopped running

walking? What are you doing? Yeah? I took a pause on just this is getting too hot and and yeah that I just took a pause. One. It's ninety degrees. That's too hot, baby. No it's not by yeah it is not for some. But they did the last stuff. It's it's weird because like you, it's just a whole thing with exercising. Is you think you have time to exercise, then you put that in your time frame like crap, everything's thrown off again. So but we're going to

the gym today, called life. We're going to the gym unless I gotta I gotta get teddy. Say, if you want to get drunk today, we can get drunk. If not, we're going to Himnacio, I'm not going with you. You didn't drive me here, drive you wear I gotta What can you say? Why are you saying we are? You mean I'm going? We as an Eric, he's going to them. You need to clarify if you want to go get hammered. Huh, we can go get hammered. I don't need to get I gotta pick up Teddy. I gotta

drive uber. That little rat. Nah, he's not a little rat. He's a big boy, twenty pounds baby. Just right there, right there in the sweet spot, Teddy my dog. You know an No, he's not. He's great. I don't even met him. You've never met him. No, I've never met him. No no, no, no, but something you didn't meet No, no, no. It is awesome. Cut three. It was great. We got lost separately at our owns y minutes trying to figure out the convention center is massive? Are all convention center?

Is that big? I think that one is it is? I think every city has a big one, right, and then there's a small ones like in this area DCS. The Wall three Convention Center is the big one. Then there's like Arlington convention Center, dullest Expost Center. You know, all the tiny ones that are a little small, but you know, when

you drive by it, it doesn't look that big. It doesn't look that big, but it's this like tiered and I think it technically is underground, dude, some bits of it or at least well, yeah, I think where the main hall was is underground because well, yeah, when you enter a street level to pay on the street level yard area, yeah, you could be on the second floor. But it's awesome, Tom, you don't know what that is. That is sort of the big comic book, video

game entertainment convention in this area. And we got invited. It was great. We went, Eric, Sun Max went. They they Max pootered out during the day. That's when Eric had to leave. He walked to the whole Mind you, you guys were there an hour before I was there. But I told you even early. I mean I think dad early, I got a great parking spot in front of the building. Good for you.

I oh my god, I asked, I don't walk thirty minutes to the convention center because so this I was like, oh, there we go. Anything it was was. It was kind of busy, so I didn't want to park there, so I spot heroed something and I was like, Oh, that looks close on the map. And then when you do the walking distance, I was like, oh, this is a lot farther on the map than I realized. I parked in the Washington Plaza Hotel. I think

that's what a Crown Plaza hotel something like that. It's where it's where we ended, uh the Pride parade at it was by there, Jesus. Yeah. So I was like, oh, the map looks so close. I was like, oh, this is not at all. So I was walking through like some burrows. I was like, am I in DC? Still it doesn't feel like DC? Wow? You you should have yet next year. I got my steps in Mabe, I got my steps in two. We walked up and down that thing twice, you know. In Max,

that's why I pooped out. He should have should have sat him down a little longer than He's fine. He's fine. But yeah, there's the thing. If I got the parking on Wednesday, I would have gotten right there, right next to the building, have been like fifteen bucks. But oh, wow, that's what you're gonna do. I don't know why you just don't just park randomly. You're not gonna I didn't get a ticket. I don't even pay for parking on Saturday. Oh good for you. Knock on

wood scratch, as you'll find out in a couple of days. Probably no, I didn't get a thing yet there. Maybe it's the delayed one. Never trust those parking tools. They aren't out in DC during the week they are during the weekend. They're a little When I wanted to go see Spider I wanted to go see across Spider vers this weekend, I did it. I parked in like a paid parking spot temporarily to go get my ticket because fun fact, you buy a ticket in person, you're not paying five bucks

of booking fee and online fee and all that. So I did that, say five bucks, you know, paid paid for it on my soda, and uh. I was like, I gotta get out of here. And literally as soon as I was leaving, the parking person entered that like paid area, Like, ha, not today, Yeah, what does that mean? That would have gotten caught and that would have given me a ticket because I didn't pay for the parking How did you pick? How'd you get in?

Then it was like an open line. It's like those like we go to the little Kiosk thing or whatever that's in the that's right at the end of the lot. But anyway, Awesome Con up and down. What was your highlight of awesome Con was in your low light? Highlight? In your light the highlight was watching Max see everything that was going on and him going crazy for all of the cool things. He's going in and out of the crowd. He was going in and out come back. Um. Highlight was

that. The low light was that we didn't get to stay longer with you and see more of the vendors because, like I said, he did tap

out. Even though my dumbass thought that Awesome Awesome Con Junior was on the other end of the thing, but when it was actually right next to one, it was it was the same setup as the we went I think in twenty eighteen, which was nice because it was like, all right, we know where everything Well you didn't, but I remembered where everything was, like, oh, the artists are over here, this is where the kids stuff is. Um, what was it in your little lette was just not knowing

the setup. Not knowing the setup. Yeah, and then also to not getting my press pass because I love having a press pass. What happens Eric Willie Nilly was like, let me go to will call. I saw a text. Everyone stuck on was like, I don't think there's a will call. There's a press because I saw the emails saying go to the press room. But then I thought it was through the main entrance. But it was through that side door that I should have gone through it to press and been

like, I need to go get my press pass. Well, the press room was like some badass room that wasn't by any entrance good I found and I was like, all right, how do I get it into this damn place? Now? That just walked through a convention center. If you know you used to the car Expo, you're going for a wedding expo. They kind of having one specifically the car expo is that whole area that we were in, and then upstairs is where the European cars. Yeah yeah, well

but this is like, oh where everything is here? It's there, it's here, it's you miss things you don't get you gotta go all three days to find out what's what's what? We should have gone max some time. It wasn't fathers there would have gone something. It is interesting though, because like we my highlight was probably hanging out with you guys. We got a little key chain, so a little matching key chain, which was fun.

Which that that's that's how you make money at those conventions. Serious these key chains. They were selling Pokemon, Pokemon, Yugio, Magic, the Gathering. But what Pokemon set was it from? It was the first edition Pokemon they had. It was like the first wave of Pokemon cards. And then they had um sort of like a newer one that was like the newer Pokemon. Look at least um. They weren't cards. They were like stickers or pictures someone cut put in a key chain thing. It looks dope, I

have the Magian. Why do you? Because I think for me I was more tuned to Yugio cards than Pokemon cards. Are you talking about You can name every hundred for the Pokemon, but that's the Pokemon the cards when we're getting cards. And that's why I was kept a bating back and forth. Was Yugio was my game? Baby? Oh so you played Yugo you didn't play Pokemon? Yeah, I remember, I want a regional tournament, yes, in Yugio. And then you played both because you're Pokemon is too much,

Hugo is like straight They're both not straight forward, especially nowadays. But can you explain to me how do you play a Pokemon? Not right now, but how do you play Pokemon the card game? Yeah? Because because Max, he's in a club at school. Well, I wish I could, Oh, I wish I could I have this. We used to have this. Every child of the nineties had this, Like late nineties was they

would release a VHS. Is how big Pokemon was? That was a guy teaching you how to play the card game and it was a two VHS tape. One was like beginners and the second one was like now you know things, and it's like that. It's on YouTube. Probably it would take looking up. Yeah, Pokemon, because I kind of want to. I want to help Max. He I love that he likes it. We've got a

lot of cards. I don't think we got a couple. I gotta take his cards to go check to see what they're actually legit or not, huh, because I think he's got some money in those cards too, But you never know what Pokemon this is the one. I don't want to click up, but I want to help them a guy. No, it's not that one. Oh somebody instructing you. Yeah, it might have been this one. Is that guy for air? No? But it's like so nineties of like this how you do it? If he's interviewing the kids and all that

stuff. There was a cool table there actually at Awesome Con that like it was primarily like Eastern stuff, but it was primarily Pokemon and like all this stuff that's in this video, like they had back there, like all the Pokemon stuff. They had Pokemon yellow and oh and green. They had um the Japanese versions of them. It was like sixty bucks each. I was very tempted to buy it, but I don't know. Also, I'm like,

this is cool, but does it work? And then I lost the table and I couldn't find it, and I was like, where is it? There also was a Muppet table we passed by at one point. I wanted to go back and just just inquire how much a muppet would be, like if I owned a Muppet. It was an actual mump. It was like whatever puppet, but like would have been cool. I'm kind of mad we didn't buy the mystery box you guy. You guys can buy them online

on Amazon. Remember they were promoting that no where they really yeah where? I don't remember what the website was though you should have took a picture of it. It is funny the awesome cons like retweeting recap things people in the comments like what's the name of the fudge place? And awesome cons like oh is this so? People like finding all the vendors by right because there was that fudge, a huge table of fudge. Good not a fudge man,

but look good. Also another interesting thing is if you go to one of these conventions is they have obviously there's the in convention center like food stops there. Obviously DC has a couple more in that weird like Big Food Court too, um, but they have root beer or soda stands where essentially can you buy a mug for like fifteen bucks and you can refill it throughout the whole convention space. That was packed. That was you sure wasn't beer, No,

it was like soda. I think there might have. There might have been an alcoholic one too, but that that one we passed by. It was so I think it was over by Worth as was soda because then they had the nitro brewtro brew things throughout the whole thing as well, right, which which was self pouring because you just scanned your credit card. Yeah, and then they took your money. By the way, you should be impressed. And I didn't spend that much money at all. Buyer at buy,

I really encouraged you. You really did too, because there was that game boy sp that I was like, I almost went back and bought it for you. I wasn't gonna lie, but then I got chastised again by that lady who was commenting on my crisis shirt. I was like, I'm not here for this right now. What did she see? Like? Had an edge to her right. I was wearing my Crisis Crew shirt, which has Crisis Crew on the back, and she's like, what if I'm in a

crisis, will you help me out? I was like, maybe I think she might have been flirting with me, but I was just scared and I ran away. So I didn't go back because she was still there. That's what happens when you're in Geese. Maybe you just run away because you don't have your ring. I don't have nothing. Don't even engage. You are engaged to lie. Flee? Oh my god, you know I can, but Uh yeah, there was game Boy, vans, spas, tons of comics. It was. It was cool to see a lot of kids like

in parents. Like there was stands in that merge that were like completely new IP comics and stuff that they were buying their kids. Just see where I would take off from now, Yeah there was yeah, and like that the comic book thing look cool. A couple of comic book displays look cool. Max again was like, what's a comic book Daddy? I'm like, oh God, I almost bought um all three um God Egyptian God cards for Yugio. They were like five bucks at one point, I was like fifteen bucks.

I'm bad. But wait, did you get the Ronan uh Ronan thing? The Runan comic book comic run? Now I didn't. I'm gonna wait. I realized, I'm like, let me just go to the library bringing rent it for free instead of paying for it. You know what I'm saying, Because you could rent video games and comic books from your local library in Virginia. Maybe not man in Maryland who just gotta go the right one abously not everyone's gonna have him give you back that one of the Max. He

does not want to give it back to your buddy that Mary's game. He is like, I'm gonna tell you, Daddy, I want to keep playing. I'm like, farty, we gotta get back to Hoodie and I played Fortnite together with Max and his day and night with that kid at the convention hand Max hoday, this is Fortnite. Max. Literally, he just loves screaming your name. It's fine, that's fine. I called I called me my name. So what happened? So the other night Hoodie was gracious enough

to play with me and Max on Fortnite? We did little trios, was gracious to let me blow. Thank you very much. But what happened? Your WiFi went out because your attachment went out. None your text made sense. I said, my power went out. Waitist, I might be back, hold on, and then I came back on. You guys were already like copping off for dinner or something. Well, because I thought you said you were off, because it didn't it didn't come in right, hold on,

let me let me grab my where's my hoodie? And handed dandy hand and Andrew Hoods also talk about the celebrities that were at Awesome con After you find this text message where's it? We just text each other so much you can't find it. Oh, not yesterday, that's Sunday. That's Saturday. If I were to convince you to do cosplay next year, was Austin cons in March? What would you do? Nope? Nope, Mario, Nope, Luigi? Where did it go? It's not even here? When do

we play Thursday? Right? We played Friday? I guess you guess you deleted text? No? Oh, Prob's gonna need Okay, that's not what it came out with. Power went out. It didn't say that. Right there there it is. I said power went out? YEA said the other day. It didn't even say that. It said next Yeah, I don't know that's what I see. But back to our awesome con celebrities. Uh, longest line was for Vegeta, the voice of Vegeta. Was that awesome

con? Obviously Karen Gillen was There's Nebula, a bunch of doctor who's Jody Winnaker? Uh? Amy, Joe Johnson was there. Oh she's beautiful. Andy Serkus was there. We we literally like what we're like three feet from him, which was great because I'm like, because he was the very front.

Yeah. Usually in the front celebrity look like the autograph row. It's usually like a lower celebrity Andy Circus, say what you will, but I feel like there were lower select I mean he's played some like a lower celebrity, put like a Phil Lamar, one of the anime voice actors there, not Andy Circus. Well, Vegeta was like right right after the Lord of the Rings Crew and had the long line. I know Elijah would there's nobody there for him. I think maybe it's just the blind got through or something.

It also is like you have to think people might have been waiting there. That person just came to the convention. Apparently some people were waiting five hours just to get Karen Gillen It's autograph real, or even just meet her if they didn't want to pay for it. And then m Ashley Ackstein, Matt lanter Um and the guy who voices Obi Wan Roll there too, which was cool, And I was shocked they didn't have a long line because I'm

like, these are clone wars. Why didn't you get a picture or autograph but one of the money and then the money slash didn't have didn't want to wait in the line. There was a line, but I was like, I think also there was a person there that was cutting people off, like they had to go do something after. Maybe. Interesting thing is I found out as Ashley x titing voices Aska Star Wars, she got stuck at Dullars on Sunday night convention because apparently, like the flight got canceled. I'm like,

oh DC, goodbye. Right there, right, that's the worst stuck at two dollars because you're literally in the middle of nowhere, Virginia. Like, where did we go? We got the dollarst X Post Center. Let's get ready for the next convention. Or you go to the NA which is close by two Yeah, that's right by my house. Actually, let's go get our license. I'm good. I don't want to go there. Or I'll let you get a license. I mean, I'm not gonna have a

gun, so all right, I have. I have both marrit badges, so that's all I need, and rifle shooting and shotgun shooting, so I think I'm a little more trained. I wish I could find my merit badges. I don't know where they bomb. Didn't keep your sash of Marrior badges? No, I kept all that stuff. I feel like and I don't know if I put it because they demolished the house that I grew up in to rebuild a bigger house, so I don't remember where we put all that

stuff. I gotta I gotta take a picture of that next time I go home. Is what's the weirdest merit badge I have? I feel like there's weird ones. There's like golf merit badge, which is like, go play golf. You got a golf merit badge? I think, so, like, how many do you need to get a hundred? Right? I think

thirty something. I mean that this was when I did it, so I don't know if it's different now, but yeah, but I mean there was always the days like I worked for mine up until likely like the week before I turned eighteen, which is when you're supposed to cut out. And then there's some where you're like their parents are the scout master and just signing through everything, and they're thirteen and he already an eagle scout. I'm like,

what the hell makes no sense? You only find out when you go to summer camp, like, oh man, I'm in the hard ass troop, not the easy ass troop. Over yere. They all got their phones and candy and their camp. We're in the flood zone. When our tents would flood down into the ravine, Like what the hell you guys can survive? Your eagles were so because we always stay at the same campground every year, or same camp area of that camp every year. It was like one year

we now have plumbing. Guess what. Only the older scouts can use the plumbing. You younger scouts guess what, go use the out house over there. It's be ridden. My god, um, I do we need to shout out real quick my cousin Brian for finding me the video from Mark Wahlberg and seeing that song the Touch You Got, The Touch You Got the b It was from Boogie Knights. Mark Wahlberg played Dirk Diggler, which is a great movie. If you haven't seen it, go see it right now.

I think it's still I think it's still on Netflix, Boogie Knights, So go check it out because I love that movie. Riley John c Riley, Mark Wallberg, Heather Graham, Don Cheetor Reynolds, Burt Reynolds, and there's somebody else. There's one more Eric LEAs I saw myself in that film. It was speaking of the Diggler. Let's get on over to I don't know, here's something, ask Cotch. I don't know what order I put in these, but we're just gonna go through them as we got where we read

real misconnections from around the DMV. First one is social activity bud Ganesville. That's far away, nice weather calls from surrounts for some outdoor activities. Would be nice to find a buddy serious and genuine to tang with and do things with a real professional type mail. I think that's more of a let's down to business and defeat the dick good one. Andrew, that was pretty easy. It's inserted word. All right, you got the next one. Any

Girl twenty thirty Silver Spring, Any Girl, twenty thirty DMV Area. I'm a Latin boy in thirties looking for petite girl for friend and more. Note me me, man, you should be one hundred percent girl. They spelled girl gene you r l by the way. That's why I set a girl. If not saving any time you is right next ye on the keyboard. As we both look down, Why would you do so? How would you? Okay? I mean girl, I mean it depends how you type. I guess yeah, sure, okay, sure, anyone liked to have lunch

in the park Lake Lake Needwood. That's close by. It's in Rockville German Creek Park right there, Baby, anyone else like to have lunch in the park and enjoy the fresh air in nature? Hit me back and men woman man here here? Maybe men women men white man maybe male white male here. Maybe we can set up a group break up the day some they're gonna go. That's where you go find one of those wood has one of them? You can rent u uh no, cavin canoe? Canoe you can go

out in time. Not on the canoe. That dangerous. Why you'd be like one false move a tip over that awaken. No, it's not a rude awakening. Oh it's cold. That's the root awakening. That's awakening. All right, You have the next one. Guy looking for couples landover. Hi, I'm a guy that is looking for a couple, couples of for a couples or females to meet and see what's what's happening? Please? No guy, So no noosexual couples for female friends hanging out with you or females.

Man, if you're dating another female that's a plus. Apparently this okay, yeah makes all right? Whatever? The next one also doesn't make them sense? Oh, missing no in the DF ladies, has it been a while? Are you in need of help achieving the big old? I'm here to help experience. Attractive white male will help you get what you deserve. We all need one or multiple right, I've helped all kinds of women. Don't delay. Let's get started today about me six foot, one hundred and

eighty five pound, blonde hair, blue eyes. You won't be disappointed. Please get in touch, learn more. Commercial. Oh it isn't benthesdaa zoo man? Where is? Where is the circle at? Are we in a circle? I think? Oh? Chevy Chase country Club. That's Oh, that's Richie neighborhood. They got some money over there, and they're missing a no over there too. That's what it's called Chevy Chase that Chevy chose because

they're missing to no the next on plate date, chill them. We had uh hold, we had a nicest discussion about a lot of topics while the kids were playing, including getting together the time for our own plate date. In all the chaos of getting kicked out, we never got to exchange information. I doubt I doubt you'll see this, but I'm hoping you do. M WM for MBF looked up right there? Uh married white black female,

black female, most likely right, most likely my best friend. No, I think it's Mary, black female for misconnection, my best friend, my best friend. Hi, So there you go. So there you go, your misconnections. Miss We're missing some letters. Apparently this tweel did not send for work, so I'm gonna have to schedule that. What happened here? Twitter just froze on my computer because that makes sense completely, but you know,

it does make sense. Interacting us keeping a lock to our social media is at Andrew Hoodie with the Why or at mister Eric V m R E R I c k V. Have a great week. We'll be back for the end of June episode next week. Summer Solstice, right, what the hell that is? And I always remember it's okay to be weird. The IDEs of March. It got weird, didn't it. Yeah,

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