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The Boone Show S5 E7: The Dynamic Duo of Geekdom: Meet the Power Couple Running SC Comic-Con
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What does it really take to create a massive pop culture convention that draws thousands of fans and A-list celebrities? In this fascinating conversation with Rob and Michele Young, we pull back the curtain on SC Comic-Con to reveal the extraordinary partnership, meticulous planning, and passionate vision behind one of the Southeast's premier geek gatherings.
Michele shares her journey from Clemson University business manager with zero comic book experience to becoming the organizational mastermind handling celebrity logistics, travel arrangements, and the color-coded spreadsheets Rob describes as "something out of Star Wars." The couple's complementary talents have transformed their convention from a 350-person charity event in a Howard Johnson's motel to an impressive 185,000-square-foot extravaganza at the Greenville Convention Center.
The 2025 lineup showcases their strategic approach to guest selection, featuring Vincent D'Onofrio (Kingpin from Daredevil), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Mandalorian), Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso), Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner (Star Trek), wrestling legend Sting, and many more – carefully chosen to represent different fandoms and entertainment genres. We learn how planning begins 14 months in advance, with advertising spanning traditional media, streaming platforms, and grassroots promotion.
Beyond the business aspects, we discover the Youngs' commitment to supporting veterans through ticket donations and their dedication to featuring local restaurants in their green room catering. Their story is a masterclass in turning passion into community impact, proving that sometimes the most powerful superheroes at a comic convention are the ones working behind the scenes. Don't miss this chance to learn from the dynamic duo bringing geek culture to life in Greenville on April 5-6!
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Hey, welcome everybody to another edition of the Boone Show on my Pulse Radio. Yes, we are back, a long little hiatus there.
Speaker 2:It's about time to be back. It seems like we've been gone a while.
Speaker 1:It feels good to be back. It's been a very busy year and we're hoping to end it with a bang as we talk about school year anyway.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, because we always talk in terms of school year, because everybody knows school year, yeah, except Rob.
Speaker 1:We always talk in terms of school year because everybody knows school year. Yeah, except Rob Right. I think he's past that, but our guest was probably one of our last guests before we stopped doing it for a month or two Back in the studio. We had him on right after the hurricane.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1:And you were handing out sandwiches and stuff and talking about all the things you're doing to help out, which you always do. And so Rob Young from SC Comic-Con is back Borderlands Comics and Games as well but he has brought a special guest himself. Very special guest. We promised this back in the fall and we're getting delivery on the promise. As, for the very first time anywhere, michelle Young is here with Rob to be on the radio. First time ever, holly.
Speaker 2:Absolutely and it's exciting to have you here because we've heard so much about you over the years.
Speaker 1:Yes, he just man, he brags and brags.
Speaker 2:He does. There's never anything bad. He always says he's never alone in it. That's right. There's a lot to brag about.
Speaker 1:That's right, In fact the more I looked into it, because you know I'm trying to come up with questions for Michelle, but it looks like really she does most of the work.
Speaker 5:I keep saying that Everybody tries to give me credit.
Speaker 1:I'm like I'm just a monkey that goes in front of a camera.
Speaker 5:She does all the work.
Speaker 1:But anyway, it's great-Con time of year coming up. In just a couple of weeks It'll be on the tail end of our spring break, but yet there are several kids that are still going to represent us and go out there to Comic-Con. And this year it looks bigger and better than ever. But we'll get to that in a minute. We want to get to know Michelle a little bit, because we only know what Rob said and you know how that goes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if I'd want everybody to take stake on what my husband says about me Right, right, not that it's anything bad, right, you know.
Speaker 1:So, michelle, tell us a little bit about your background, where you grew up and how you got to meet this guy.
Speaker 4:Well, I actually grew up in Maryland. I moved here in the mid-'90s and have been here ever since Met Rob 22 years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's been a minute.
Speaker 4:It's been a minute.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So all you just celebrated 20th anniversary yeah, we did.
Speaker 4:We did.
Speaker 5:I can't believe she stayed this long.
Speaker 1:I say that to my wife all the time I have a background in accounting.
Speaker 4:Uh, worked at clemson for years as a business manager in the parks and rec department and then um rob introduced me to the world of geekiness.
Speaker 2:So do you like it? I do did you like it prior to meeting rob?
Speaker 4:no, okay, no, I mean, I knew some superhero things because of having a younger brother, but it wasn't really my thing, I knew who Captain America was. You never read a comic. Never read a comic book.
Speaker 1:This may have some impact on what I was telling you we were going to do later on, but maybe you'll still stand a chance. Well, that's interesting because, rob, you were always into the geekiness.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I grew up on naval bases moving up and down the eastern seaboard, so the only things that were everywhere were like 7-Elevens or what was it, little Generals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, some of those.
Speaker 5:So it was comics and baseball cards were kind of in slurpees, were the only things that were in all these places and uh, and that's what got me into them and um, it was something that, no matter where I traveled to if I didn't know people, they had familiar stuff, so uh, so I think that's what was kind of the gravitation all those years.
Speaker 1:All right. So you guys, uh, you get married 20 years ago and, uh, and it's been how long? Almost 15 years with the Comic Con stuff, right, we're 15 in the store and the con.
Speaker 5:this would be the 11th con 12 years, right. Because of COVID yeah.
Speaker 3:So yeah.
Speaker 5:But we did. Our first show that we did together, though, was in a Howard Johnson's.
Speaker 2:Howard Johnson, that's a hotel. Yeah, a motel, a motel, that's it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and it was. I had done some in the past for fun and this guy came up to us in the mall it's in the mall, right, yes? And he was like when are you going to do another show? And she's like what's a show? Like a comedy show, like remember, it's not our world. And so I explain it and she goes that really sounds like a lot of fun. What could we do? And we did it, and I think we did canned food and we gave it to a boy's home out in Greer for admission, and we did it for fun. And I think that was really important because it sort of set the stage. This thing could exist. Maybe what 350 people came or something.
Speaker 5:Yeah and um, and we thought that was great at the time. And then um, and then, when we decided to do it on a bit more grandiose scale, you know she was, she was on board, understood and thought I was insane.
Speaker 1:well, that, accounting background must have helped as well planning such a show like that. I mean, tell me a little bit about you know what goes into it? I know it's getting huge now, but I mean, how do you plan such a thing?
Speaker 4:picking the guests uh, one of the big things to try to see what might fit into different genres. We try to pick something from each genre. A lot of flights, hotels, scheduling, social media. We do a lot of the social media pushes.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the advertising piece. I do a lot of outside of social media. So radio advertising on cable, advertising on over the air, so you can do cable advertising. You can advertise specifically, like with fox or with cbs. We're running specific ads with those companies, then ads on spectrum on certain shows and then something called ott, which is where when you guys do all your streaming stuff and then you have ads. So we have ads running in that as well. Um, it's a. The advertising is crazy. All the stuff we do, not to mention all the posters that get hung around town and uh flyers that we take everywhere and postcards, yeah, postcards, and all of that is separate really from social media.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah because that's a whole other. It's another whole thing yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 5:Um, I always say when somebody's starting a business, like you can have the coolest restaurant or the neatest store, but if you're not shouting it from the top of a mountaintop somewhere, nobody's ever going to know that's right, that's the part everybody seems to forget about.
Speaker 1:And nowadays, with all the different forms of media, there's so many different things you have to do. Before it might have been just traditional media, tv, radio, print.
Speaker 5:Now it's tons of platforms. We're all so diversified in how we consume things. Then it's how do you touch people so they know? And it's tough, it really is, but that's part of the fun. If it was easy, everybody would do it.
Speaker 2:That's right. So what on earth thinking, michelle, 15 years ago when y'all opened the store? Where on earth was your mind? When he's like, I'm assuming he said what do you think about opening a store? Uh, on what you call geeky stuff, yes, I mean, where did that?
Speaker 4:I trusted his passion for it. I knew that he knew what he was doing and that he had a real passion for selling comic books and games and I went all in with it. I actually he had come to me and said he was going to do it, but he was unsure. He didn't know if we were going to do this and I told him I wouldn't talk to him until he said yes to buying the store. So I said this is something you need to do.
Speaker 5:It's something I believe in. You wished you'd held out longer not talking to me, didn't you?
Speaker 4:I mean I should have let it go a little bit longer, but I knew that he had a real heart for it and that he would be successful with it.
Speaker 2:So you were still working at Clemson at the time. Yes, oh, yeah, okay. So you now don't work for.
Speaker 4:Clemson.
Speaker 2:You do this full-time, both of you. So when did you decide it's time to quit doing my full-time job? At Clemson, and I'm sure you came home and did a full-time job. When was that break where you said this is it?
Speaker 4:It took some convincing. It was how many years in about.
Speaker 5:Gosh, I bet it took me at least five, six years to get you to to get me to quit Clemson.
Speaker 4:I kept saying, no, I'll just help out in the evenings or I'll do our bookkeeping.
Speaker 5:But I think it was that um life preserver, that if something went wrong, right and uh. But I knew how good she'd do, so I just kept nagging her until she did it just so I'd shut up.
Speaker 4:So he, yeah, I gave in, uh, been there ever since, but it's, it's been a full-time, definitely a full time job and a half she works full-time for sure.
Speaker 5:You get this time of year and I'm home eating dinner and I look over and she's got the laptop out. She's still going. She's been going since we got up in the morning because this time of year it's really two full-time jobs really for her to do everything she does well and realistically.
Speaker 2:When you own your own business, anyways right, it's a full-time job, and then some, anyways right. So I mean you work all the time, weekends, everything. You have to almost schedule those times to be off.
Speaker 5:Yes, we do, and not do that we might be doing that when we leave here we scheduled dinner nice, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Um. So who who helps you, michelle? Do you do this all yourself, all this travel planning hotels? Oh my gosh, do you see how many people they have come?
Speaker 5:oh yes, she's pretty incredible if you see her spreadsheet. It looks like something out of like star wars or star trek or something.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I love that. I love me too. Everything, yes, everything color-coded all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 5:It's crazy I can't understand it when I look at it.
Speaker 2:I have to just ask. I'm like just tell me, tell me yeah, just tell me what don't give me access to that, just tell me what's going on wow that, that's incredible yeah very cool and it's cool how you guys challenge each other to do things.
Speaker 1:She challenged you to do other to do things. She challenged you to do the store. You challenged her to trust you and move on into the full-time.
Speaker 5:Comic-Con. That was part of the conversation. Yeah, that's. You believed in me, I believe in you. That's awesome.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Things are working out pretty good. We're going to jump into the Comic-Con stuff coming up in just a minute, but before we go to the first break I had to ask you about your visit to the Sphere in Las Vegas. It was incredible. They saw the eagles oh yeah.
Speaker 5:And just describe it to me. So, first off, no video or picture will do it justice. Everybody talks about the visuals, but the thing that blew us away when we talked about it later there's got to be 10 or 20,000 speakers because the Eagles are so harmony based. So if you just try to put a bunch of speakers up and crank the volume up in the front, that doesn't work and we could hear everything, but it never felt loud and I don't know another way to describe it. It's strange. You're just experiencing it. Yeah, no matter where you sat, it felt like there had to be speakers near you. You couldn't see.
Speaker 4:And we didn't have to yell if we were talking to one another. It was you never felt like you were screaming or yelling, but yet you could hear the music. You could hear everything perfectly clear. It was, the visual was incredible. Visual is difficult to describe.
Speaker 5:Like cause.
Speaker 1:It goes above your head and all the way around you 300 feet high.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's, it's wild and I you know it's. It's expensive, right Cause that place is. I can't imagine what it costs to run it Right or much less to design all this graphic it three billion or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:But I will say that if you have a band that you really like and they put on a show, there it is worth whatever it costs to go, because it's an experience that you will not be able to get anywhere else.
Speaker 2:So is it multi-layer or is it everybody's on the ground floor? Three levels, so it is three. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:It builds up the back, kind of tall in the back and but people are all the way down on the floor. If you want that traditional concert experience where you're really close and you don't care about the screen, then you sit there. We sat about halfway so that we could try to get a little bit of both. It was also a lot cheaper than sitting on the floor and it was just the best experience. Like, I don't like going to Vegas, it's not my place, neither does she, but then we're leaving and she's like you know they are coming back.
Speaker 4:I would go back and see them again. It was great it was that that incredible?
Speaker 5:And I think anyone who is a music lover and has a band there it's it's worth making an excursion.
Speaker 1:So do you think where you sat was the best area to sit in, or do you think sitting up higher, or where do you think would be the best place to sit in there?
Speaker 5:I liked where we were, cause you could still see the stage pretty good, right, and yet you could look up and around and still see everything. We were a little bit to the right, but it it it truly like they kept saying it doesn't matter. I don't think it matters, that's cool, maybe a little more centered. It just envelops you. Yeah, it does surround you. And then, man, the stuff they did for like Hotel California, it had the car driving through the mountains and you're in the car and it goes into the hotel and the door closes behind you and everything you could think of they did and it really wasn't cheesy. I think out of all the Eagles ones, there was only one that felt like a cheesy music video in two hours.
Speaker 2:So was the screen all the way around you All except for the very back, but all the top and the sides. And then they were positioned dead center on the floor.
Speaker 1:And think of this Holly, you think 4k tv is is high resolution that video is 16k holy cow, so it's four times what you see on the high def tvs. Four times oh, wow clear it's, it's.
Speaker 5:That's how clear and then it's produced so well that there may be showing the video. But then they'll have inset videos of the musicians playing on the sphere. So then you'll see Vince Gill playing or Don playing or whatever. So then you get everything. You get kind of. Whatever the video is, you get to see them playing. You can hear it. The sound's unreal. It was a crazy experience and worth it Like it's rare. Something is better than the hype, but I would say it's better. Yeah, I got to do that that.
Speaker 2:So can you hear outside of the facility? So you're in this facility listening to the eagles. If you are outside, could you hear?
Speaker 5:don't know, because the show wasn't going on when we were outside.
Speaker 1:They were they were inside. How are they going to hear outside?
Speaker 5:so and believe it, or not, but, believe it or not, we were there. They had other shows that weekend, but we were, so we were there for a trade show called ASD, which is like a retail show, and then I think, when they did their other show, it's possible, since we were in Vegas, that we were sitting at a long stretch of counter where beverages are served.
Speaker 1:Right, they have a few of those.
Speaker 5:Maybe we may have done that in Vegas, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think, as far as the speakers look it up during the break, holly, because I think I will hit that rob's uh estimate is really low I think there's like over a hundred thousand speakers literally, because they have them everywhere yeah and they have and like in the seats too. I was reading this too, isn't? Don't you get like high speed internet access at your seats and all that? Or certain seats maybe? Um, I mean, it's just ridiculous the technology that's gone into this place it's.
Speaker 5:It's really cool. I hope it works, because I've heard they're having trouble, yeah, because of how much it costs to build it. But man, I hope it works because it really is an experience that's not like anything I've ever seen before, like people tried to compare it to imax or something.
Speaker 10:I'm and I'm like that's. I said that's like looking at your flip phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, while we're on that topic, have you ever gone to Red Rocks Cause?
Speaker 5:that's another place, they say you got to watch a concert.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've got to go there too. I mean, we were out in Colorado a couple of years ago, didn't get a chance to go up there. We were pretty close chance. But that's on the list too, because they say and talk about you know, technology with the sphere, this was all natural, and with the acoustics in there.
Speaker 5:So I love to do that. It looks gorgeous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure does. All right, we're going to take a break and we'll come back and talk about this year's Comic-Con with Rob and Michelle Young and the boss, lady Holly. By the way, zach is trying to call in at 430, holly, he Holly. By the way, zach is trying to call in at 430, holly, he is late coming home from work. Ok, so he may have to call while he's driving.
Speaker 2:OK, so it's a good thing he's not in Georgia Exactly, and I will try to pay attention to it, so and try to remember how to pick it up.
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Speaker 1:Late night with sound and cow and we're back on the boon show, my pulse radio. Robin michelle young from comic-con and borderlands comics and games with us tonight, as well as the boss lady. Where is Little Harold?
Speaker 2:Oh, she's driving.
Speaker 10:Oh.
Speaker 2:And you know, if a 15-year-old gets their license and the state of South Carolina says you can drive until 8 o'clock, that car does not come in our driveway until 7.55. Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, be safe out there.
Speaker 2:Yes, little Harold.
Speaker 1:All right, a couple of show announcements here, just real quick. We don't have a show next week. We're taking a week off after just coming back. We've got spring break, though, so week after that we're having Belton's Mayor on for the very first time, eleanor Dorn will be here, sam Gilmer will be here, and then we'll be talking about the South Carolina Chili Cook-Off and some other things that's coming up in a few weeks, a week after Comic-Con. So some things to talk about then, but right now we've got what's going on in just a couple of weeks, less than a couple of weeks now.
Speaker 1:SC Comic-Con at the Greenville Convention Center April 5th and 6th. Tell us about it, rob. What do we got going on this year? Oh my gosh man, it seems bigger and better than ever.
Speaker 5:Well, I'll tell you something. You were joking when we came in that possibly the guest list could be even better than last year.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 5:And I think it's definitely more varied and there's a lot more guests. I mean, you've got to think. I mean I think it's definitely more varied and there's a lot more guests. I mean you got to think. I mean last year the big ones were Shatner and Jim Lee. For those who don't know, jim Lee is the president of DC Comics and probably the largest guest in comics you can get, and he was great. But this year we kind of went a little crazy too. This year we've got John Romita jr, who's huge in the comic industry. His father was john ramita senior, who was a big spider-man artist, but in the the kind of media area, vincent d'onofrio, who's kingpin on daredevil that's airing right now, you know.
Speaker 1:And he's been in a bunch of other things too. I like him.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, law and order and so many people keep joking about him and men in black being the dude that's full of bugs.
Speaker 9:Yes.
Speaker 5:Which I think is hilarious. It's fun that that's what sticks right. But when you think you've got him and Giancarlo Esposito, who's been in everything Breaking Bad, breaking Bad, mandalorian, he's in the new Netflix movie as a bad guy with Chris Pratt, phil Dunster from Ted Lasso, jamie Tartar.
Speaker 1:Jamie Tartar, jamie Tartar.
Speaker 5:I mean, those are all big names.
Speaker 1:And they're coming back for season four.
Speaker 5:Yes, yeah, that's man. Look, it's one of the best TV shows ever made. I love it. I love that show. And then you've got Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner from Star Trek Next Generation. The Hardy Boys, sting, kane, hodder.
Speaker 5:Holy cow, chuck Huber from Dragon Ball, the voice of Scooby-Doo, the voice of Mario. If you're a big fight fan, which I am, we're going to have Don Fry, who is just a character and is one of the greatest fighters ever in the UFC. And then we have a real-life, real-life superhero in Mark Coleman. He fought in the UFC and he fought in Pride. He's a champion in both, but last year he fought in the UFC and he fought in Pride. He's a champion in both, but last year he was staying with his parents and the house caught on fire and he carried his parents out of a burning house and nearly died.
Speaker 5:Oh my goodness True hero right there. For sure. Wow, pretty cool. There it is. I haven't even mentioned Vicki Lawrence yet, so we're going to have Grandma there. I haven't even mentioned Vicki Lawrence yet, so we're going to have Grandma there. We've got Craig Parker from Lord of the Rings, priscilla Presley, michelle Ruff, tara Strong, huge voice actor yes, staying on Sunday from 11 to 2. He's only there.
Speaker 10:Sting only does three-hour signings, so he'll be there Sunday from 11 to 2, the stinger and not the guy with the drummer and the basses. Yeah, the other sting, the other sting, although he's pretty good too. Yeah.
Speaker 5:He's not bad, but yeah.
Speaker 2:That is just amazing. So do you two sit around.
Speaker 5:The list is ridiculous, I know it.
Speaker 2:Do you just sit around and say ah yeah.
Speaker 5:I mean, what we like to do is put names on a dartboard. Fair enough, and yeah spin around with your with your head on the baseball bat and throw darts and see who we can say that's who we're getting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it works pretty good. I mean you have to start recruiting like January for next year.
Speaker 5:It's about a 14 month process, I would say on average for each show that some stuff is getting booked that far in advance Right. For sure.
Speaker 4:I mean, that's a lot of talent lists and looking to see which you know which guests would do well in this area, or what is a relevant show right now, or you know a good pop culture type show that everybody can relate to, or just or what's popping up, what's popping up now Like what's kind of coming?
Speaker 5:back into vogue, because sometimes it'll pop up on streaming and you'll find it starting to show in all your social media posts because people are starting to watch an old tv show yeah, yeah you remember seinfeld had that big resurgence a couple years back because all the reels and stuff fit perfect for seinfeld jokes yeah and seinfeld had a resurgence and they made a bazillion dollars getting it back up on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever, it was netflix or whatever so you guys, when you get these guests, you is there a have you built up, obviously over the years, kind of a rapport with agencies and stuff like that too?
Speaker 10:So there's another thing that you do.
Speaker 1:She's the people, person right.
Speaker 5:Rob, she's the people person, yeah for sure, Cause that's gotta be.
Speaker 1:you know that's gotta be tough to do. Not only is she doing the logistics, for all the everything but everybody's schedule has to fit, and, man, and to think that you're already thinking about next year. We haven't even had this year, so, wow, I'm continuing to be impressed, rob.
Speaker 5:She killed it. You told me I'd be impressed, I'm impressed, and the thing that didn't come up is we have folks that help us with our transport team, so we have to have all these vehicles and we have folks transporting them to and from airports, and hotels and all that kind of stuff too.
Speaker 4:Wonderful volunteers. We have a ton of volunteers.
Speaker 5:We have an army.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we have an army and they're amazing. We couldn't do it without them, you know.
Speaker 1:Kane Hodder played Jason in the Friday the 13th. A couple of movies, one of them Mr Seeley's dad worked on.
Speaker 1:One or two it might have been two of them and Kane Hodder was in that movie and Mr Seeley's dad, Winston Seeley's dad, was working with the special effects and such, and so he got to be involved with a lot of the kill scenes and all that to be involved with a lot of the kill scenes and all that. And I think Winston was saying that he has a picture of Kane Hodder like strangling his dad or something and one thing he was trying to find it so he could take it and get it autographed. That'd be awesome. But but yeah, there's a little connection there and keeping it on seal, he's a big Ted Lasso fan. He's taking his kids. I mean, you really did hit all the different areas.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So everybody has somebody that they can see.
Speaker 2:I would assume that you literally go through and you have categories and you want to make sure you've checked each one of those categories.
Speaker 5:Yes, May not always succeed, but we try to get close, right yeah.
Speaker 4:Sometimes we'll luck out and get a guest that kind of fills two genres. You know you'll have a voice actor, but he's also done some sitcom work, so you kind of have a little bit of popularity in both aspects I love the fact you're getting tara strong, because we've studied her work a little bit in our program.
Speaker 1:She's one of the big time ones that the kids have grown up with. So, yeah, it's great. It's going to be a great weekend.
Speaker 2:And you get all that for one price.
Speaker 1:Yes, so let's talk about tickets. How do we?
Speaker 5:get tickets? Sccomiconcom. You can get them at any Ingalls location. You can also buy them at Borderlands Comics and Games, 410 South Pleasantburg Drive. They are $40 for the weekend, 30 for Saturday, 25 for Sunday. How much is VIP? $125. Vip is $125. See, I told you she wouldn't need her. And the advantage of the VIP is not only you get in 30 minutes early, which is huge because you guys know how big the lines are, but both days. But the other catch is is there will now be a fast pass in the media areas where, if you get VIP, you cut that big line to get to the front. It'll save you so much time at the show. I cannot For folks that haven't been. Sometimes there's waits to get to them. You could wait for two hours to meet a guest and if you can just cut to the front of the line, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So you just show your VIP badge and they escort you right to the front?
Speaker 5:Yeah, they have a spot where they can take you to the front and if there's like five people waiting, they may alternate one from the regular line, one from VIP. It's so much faster and it's something that people had asked for, so we literally just added it to the VIP.
Speaker 5:It's not something they have to pay extra for if they buy the vip very cool, but it really will save folks a tremendous amount of time, and when you're in an event that has a limited window of time you know it's uh, it's 10 to 6 on saturday and 11 to 6 sunday it'll save you a ton of time and you can get a lot more done and see a lot more at the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean imagine a line for giancarlo. Yeah, with all the different things he's been in. In fact, right now we're watching him in the residence. Have you watched that?
Speaker 5:It's a new comedy, that's out on Netflix called the residence.
Speaker 1:He's actually the guy that gets killed in it, but then the whole thing is going back. It's a whodunit. It's kind of like knives out except it's a series.
Speaker 5:It was funny, so he's in that so.
Speaker 1:So I mean he's right now. He literally is everywhere. All right, when we come back we'll hopefully talk to Zach. If not, I'm going to talk some baseball with Rob here. Yes, big baseball fan as we head into the season this week. So that's when we come back. And then later on a little trivia contest between Rob and Michelle Booyah.
Speaker 2:Hey, I got my money on Michelle.
Speaker 1:She may surprise us.
Speaker 5:There's some music in there, she'll crush me.
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Speaker 1:Oxford spinoff, where genres collide and only the best survive every afternoon until spring break hey, welcome back to the boon show on my pulse radio with robin michelle young from sc, comic-con, borderlands comics and games. Uh, now let's head to the phone lines and I believe we have Zach on Zach Howard with Sports. How are you doing, zach?
Speaker 8:I'm doing good, just trying to get back to the store, but hey, I'm on the clock so I'm just kind of milking it. Y'all need any deliveries over that way. No, you need any deliveries over towards Williamson.
Speaker 1:I don't think so right now. If you can pick up a pizza or something for me, that would be nice.
Speaker 8:Hey, I'm on the clock. I don't mind doing that at all. Nobody's listening from corporate right now.
Speaker 1:Okay Well, you're not supposed to be calling on the phone and driving. Are you hands-free, at least?
Speaker 8:Yes, I am.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right.
Speaker 8:Do I sound okay there?
Speaker 1:Yeah, good enough, good enough, Okay, I mean, you can't help what you sound like, so we'll just have to accept it.
Speaker 8:Well, you know, I could also be a Phillies fan so I knew you were going to start with that.
Speaker 1:The season hasn't even started yet, but I'd rather I disagree.
Speaker 5:It has started.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, for you guys. That's right, because you were over in Tokyo.
Speaker 5:That's right, we're 2-0.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, the team that money can buy the Dodgers, that's Rob's team. But hey, if it's your team, all power to you.
Speaker 8:It didn't work for the Padres, hey, I will say, at least they were able to have a World Series ring ceremony instead of the National League East ring ceremony.
Speaker 1:He's always ripping on the damn Phillies, it's like okay, why don't we talk some Clemson basketball? Oh, I mean, that was such a glorious season Like you didn't know how it was going to end from the very first tip-off.
Speaker 8:You're right, hey, but you know, that's why you play the game.
Speaker 1:It was certainly inflated I can tell you that it was certainly inflated. Boy, oh boy. You know, I don't know. Have you been watching the tournament any, zach?
Speaker 8:What I can watch, I will. But when you have, you know, a five-year-old by the way, she had the flu, so dealing with that and then when you have an 18-month-old telling you what to do, you know it's kind of hard to keep up with it. Then you know the different times you know I'm at work when most of them's playing and then on the weekends we have stuff to do. So really the only way I keep up with it is my bracket On the bracket challenge. I just kind of look at scores there, but I've had really a lot of upsets this year.
Speaker 8:I mean because that's why I'm doing. We do a bracket thing at work and then I do one with my family, and the year I pick the upsets, the year the upsets don't happen. So I mean, you know, I should have went with my. I always look at it and say, man, I was fixing to pick that team, or I was fixing to pick this team. That's happened four or five times this year where that was the team I should have picked.
Speaker 1:Well, you got to do. Four or five brackets is what you got to do.
Speaker 8:I know I know, hey, believe it or not, seriously believe it or not, tiffany is one in the family.
Speaker 1:Good for her.
Speaker 8:And she. You know, I started to divorce her because she had, so my gosh you try to divorce her like four times each year.
Speaker 1:It's, this has got to stop.
Speaker 8:But you see how that's working out, you got.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have more kids, that's how it's working out.
Speaker 8:Yeah, yeah, but I do want to talk about something, though I know.
Speaker 1:I wasn't able to get you All right. Well, just so you know, it's only an hour-long show.
Speaker 8:Yes, I know, I know. That's why, If you knew the type of day I had, you would understand why you didn't really get a text message back. But the number one thing I want to talk about and I can let you go is the John Cena heel turn.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, Rob, you're into wrestling. Yeah, yeah, okay. So yeah, what do you think of it? Zach, Did it surprise you at all.
Speaker 8:Well, you know, obviously it surprised me because the John Cena that I know has always been a good guy and of course Carson coming up is just watching it. Sure enough, john Cena has a bad guy. Of course he's going to retire, but I don't know if they're just kind of throwing it in there to kind of see how it goes or if it's just one of these things where you know he's been good for 25 plus years. Let's just see how, how it happens and then let him retire.
Speaker 8:There's all these kids are crying out there I know, man, because I mean he's always what the dad favorite. I mean it's crazy, just like I see something on facebook the other day talking about we're living in a crazy world because we've got to heal John Cena and a face, randy Orton. Randy Orton was always the bad guy. When I was Carson's age he was always the bad guy and now he's the good guy.
Speaker 5:Well, one thought I had is he kept losing to the Rock at WrestleMania. If one thought I had is you know he kept losing to the Rock at WrestleMania, what if this is all just a big swerve of Cena to stab the Rock in the back on his?
Speaker 1:last WrestleMania. That's not the first person I've heard say that Yep, yep, I mean he's not going to retire as a bad guy.
Speaker 8:Right.
Speaker 5:I think he'll go out on his back.
Speaker 8:I think that he's old school. I had thought about he's not going to retire as a bad guy. I think you know you go back to 2010, 2011,. Somewhere in there, where Mark Keaton was supposed to retire, he ends up slamming John Cena Kind of reminds you a little bit of that. That I think the end of the year he'll come back and it won't be part of the show. It'll be a thank you and how he was a hill guy didn't like it, I mean you know just. But yeah, I haven't really thought about that. That is. That is interesting.
Speaker 5:Even though you're a Dodgers fan, you're a smart man Can't all make good choices.
Speaker 8:I haven't really thought about that. Yeah, that would be something to see.
Speaker 1:That would make sense.
Speaker 8:It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure, yeah, love this time of year with all the storylines.
Speaker 8:My poor sister. One more thing and then I'll let you go. My poor sister, she's an AJ Lee fan. That is her all-time favorite and we were all anticipating we didn't get to watch the Rumble this year together like we usually do. We were all anticipating that 30th woman to be AJ Lee.
Speaker 8:And it was Nikki Bella, of all people. And where has Nikki Bella been since then? You know, I just I told her, I said one day, I said it's gonna happen. I said if CM Punk comes back, I said she's bound to come back. So you, know, it's all about anticipation and stuff he's been back a while now.
Speaker 1:I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 8:We'll definitely see, but hey, it's good to be part of the show again. I'm glad you got this thing rocking and rolling again.
Speaker 1:I know you are.
Speaker 8:Yeah, we're taking next week off, but we'll be. You said that about six seven months ago. Six seven months later, here we are.
Speaker 1:But we will be back on the 8th. But we're on spring break next week, so I have a legitimate excuse.
Speaker 8:Do you know what April the 8th is? What is it? Do you happen to know what April the 8th is?
Speaker 1:Think about it. I don't know, it's a Tuesday. Yes, april, the 8th April the 8th Is it your anniversary.
Speaker 8:Eight years ago, April the 8th, I married my best friend.
Speaker 1:There you go. Yeah, I knew it was sometime in the spring. Yeah, april the 8th, wow, eight years ago.
Speaker 8:Eight years, yeah, well, I hope that divorce doesn't go through before then.
Speaker 10:I know, yeah, divorce doesn't go through before then. Uh, because I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah and you know, this is high school, isn't that crazy I know school students.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I'm getting old or you're getting old. No, it's just you. It's just you. Yeah, all right. Well, enjoy the opening day for baseball. And, uh, we've got more wrestling. We'll talk about next time we're on, because that'll be what right the weekend before the uh, uh wrestlemania. So, uh, yeah, all right. So, uh, thanks for calling in. I appreciate your dedication. Doing it while on the job hopefully your boss isn't listening uh, yeah, yeah, anyway oh all right.
Speaker 8:Well, y'all, uh, y'all take care and uh, good braves yeah, yeah, sure, all right, see you zach.
Speaker 1:Uh, zach, thanks for chiming in, all right, yeah, didn't you? Last year wasn't Comic-Con on the same weekend as WrestleMania For two?
Speaker 5:years in a row. Yeah, we were sitting at our teardown party on our phones trying to get WrestleMania to see the main event at local queue, like everybody was trying to watch it.
Speaker 2:So now do you know when wrestlemania will be next year, so you can plan around. So you just gotta they don't announce it, yeah so you just gotta hope to get in the set of silence. I mean, it doesn't, it does affect certain guests.
Speaker 5:Um, so some of the wrestling guests wrestlemania week, there are wrestling shows every day. Every indie organization tries to run shows in the town. Gcw does, roh does, new Japan does sometimes MLW and I think there's one out of Mexico I don't know AAA. They'll run shows in town. So if you're a wrestling fan, you go for a week, you can see all kinds of stuff, and so a lot of your old timers will end up doing spots on the shows, even if they're not in WrestleMania, and they'll make some good money going from show to show.
Speaker 5:So I know one year when the Lucha Brothers I didn't know who they were. I got introduced to them pre-COVID at WrestleCon. A friend of mine wanted me to come up for it in New York and I think they wrestled seven matches in four days. Oh wow. There were matches for breakfast cards that didn't start till midnight. There was one where they served pancakes. It's the craziest, weirdest stuff you've ever seen and it's fun. It's a crazy event. That whole week is crazy. If anybody has a chance to go and they're a big wrestling fan, there's more to do than you would ever dream of. Usually WrestleCon's in town, so there's a convention with all this talent there signing autographs which you might never get to meet. It's a pretty neat week. If you're a wrestling fan, alright, it's in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2:Very cool.
Speaker 1:Coming up in a couple weeks may take a few more days off.
Speaker 2:There you go. John, I think that's a great idea when I don't think you've taken enough.
Speaker 1:Yeah uh I still got like 80 served up.
Speaker 2:I could take the rest of the semester off yeah, yeah, all right, we're getting off topic here, getting off topic well, we're going to take what could go wrong, exactly yes, I got about 130, so I could take like a whole year off.
Speaker 1:And you probably will at some point, hr told me.
Speaker 5:I was out of days.
Speaker 2:I bet she did, or if?
Speaker 1:you do take a day off. It's got to be with her.
Speaker 2:That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1:All right, we'll be back with more. We're going to do the trivia contest coming up next. Get your brains ready, Rob and Michelle. That's coming up next on the Boone Show, Michael's Radio.
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Speaker 1:Welcome back to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. Rob and Michelle Young from SE Comic-Con and Borderlands Comics and Games with us. We're going to talk about the store coming up here in a minute, but I wanted to have some fun. You know these guys run this huge Comic-Con. It started at, you know, howard Johnson's. How many square feet. Is it now Rob?
Speaker 5:I think we use is it 185,000? 185,000.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so much bigger than You're asking the wrong person.
Speaker 2:John.
Speaker 1:Much bigger than. Oh yeah, what is it, Michelle? It's much bigger than. Howard Johnson's now. So but yeah, it's amazing where you guys have come from and how big things are getting and I know you do some things as well for charity, charity and community kind of tied into this whole thing. What are you, what are you doing with that this year?
Speaker 5:I tell you, one of the biggest things that we love to do is vet ticks, and we give thousands and thousands of dollars of tickets to them. It's gotten so big they have to do is vet ticks and, uh, we give thousands and thousands of dollars of tickets to them. Um, it's gotten so big, they have to do a lottery for all the tickets that we give them.
Speaker 2:um, I actually saw that come through because my husband's in the military and we saw it come through and you have to do a lottery now yeah and um, we appreciate his service, thank you.
Speaker 5:So yeah, that's a big one that's good.
Speaker 1:that's good. Uh, by the, we have some golden retrievers available. Most of no, but he brings that up. I'm not doing a commercial, but a lot of the dogs that we sell go to vets for emotional support dogs and such, and we have some available, so anybody wants to let us know or need.
Speaker 1:Somebody needs to have one donated or whatever they're top of the line AKC Golden Retrievers. Just let me know. All right, Are we ready for this trivia thing? What we're going to do is so you're not like doing your answer at the same time We'll just give Rob one and then Michelle one, and if either one gets it wrong, the other one can guess the correct answer or move on to the next question. We have several different categories. We have movies and TV, which is superhero and sci-fi, basically Comics and manga. We have gaming. We have fandom culture, we have role playing and board games. I wish y'all could see these two they're all pointing.
Speaker 2:They're pointing at each other every time you say something. Yes, they're pointing at each other.
Speaker 1:It's so cute so, um, I should have printed this out, so you know what category? Um, let's start with michelle. Is there a particular category you want to start with?
Speaker 4:there was a tv one. Yes, we'll do that okay.
Speaker 1:Well, the first one is real easy, if I can get it right. It's real easy when, when rob goes on with the, the guys on word, with the upstate pulse and those guys so into this stuff, and I'm just, I feel like an outsider, but I'm trying to learn through these two times a year that Rob comes on, but I even know this one, okay.
Speaker 1:So I'm sorry, it's going to be a softball. Rob, she's going to take the early lead, she'll hit it. She'll hit it. All right, here we go. What is that becomes Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Oh my God, it's in a lot of the movies.
Speaker 4:I know it is.
Speaker 3:I can't remember.
Speaker 1:Oh no, Are you passing? Is that your final?
Speaker 4:answer. Yes, that's my final answer.
Speaker 1:Rob. What is it? Is it Jarvis? It's Jarvis. I was going to say that Rob's got a one to nothing lead early on. Okay, rob, what is it? Is it Jarvis? It's Jarvis. I was going to say that Rob's got a one to nothing lead early on. Okay, rob, your question. I wasn't sure it is Jarvis.
Speaker 5:You weren't sure, I wasn't 100%. I thought it's got to be Jarvis, but I wasn't 100% sure.
Speaker 1:All right, Rob. What category? Oh, surprise me. All right, then let's do comics. And am I missing a question? I don't know at all. Oh, this is this.
Speaker 5:First I gotta find a, I'm gonna go with one. That's not that easy. That means I'll miss it.
Speaker 1:I mean you already have the lead, so right, which, uh, which mutant was the first x-men character to appear in a marvel comic that'd be submariner god dang God dang he's smart. What is it? Namor or whatever Namor, yeah.
Speaker 5:He's the first Marvel character, really.
Speaker 1:Look at that. I would have had no clue.
Speaker 5:Good job.
Speaker 1:Rob man, that's impressive. That's impressive.
Speaker 10:All right, michelle. What category?
Speaker 5:What category, that was an easy one.
Speaker 1:He runs a comic book shop.
Speaker 4:Was there a movie category? That was an easy one he runs a comic book shop. Was there a movie category? That was?
Speaker 1:also under the TV, but we'll go over there. Surprise me which Star Wars film this is not that hard Was the first to show Luke Skywalker with a green lightsaber?
Speaker 4:Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, that's incorrect, rob. Oh, I don't know Choose one. He's going to get it.
Speaker 5:Mandalorian Dude, I don't know, I don't know You're just trying to be nice to your wife.
Speaker 1:Return of the Jedi.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the green lightsaber and that. So we are not big Star Wars people.
Speaker 1:That's okay. I didn't know that.
Speaker 4:Now I do, we're looking like bad geeks oh we're okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1:That's all right. All right, michelle. Actually, you took the role-playing games, okay, board games. We have a bunch of questions for some reason under the role-play games All right In Dungeons Dragons. What is the maximum number? A standard D20 die can roll Really.
Speaker 5:Whoever phrased that question.
Speaker 1:All right, I'll give you another one, I assume the kids came up with it, the kids wrote that one. It's 20. It's 20. I'll give you another one. I assume the kids came up with it.
Speaker 2:The kids wrote that one. It's 20. It's 20.
Speaker 10:I was like it's a D20. I didn't read these. I didn't read these ahead of time too carefully.
Speaker 1:All right. Next question that was awesome. Really that was great. Which fantasy world is the setting for most official Dungeons Dragons campaigns, including Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate? Greyhawk? No.
Speaker 5:What do they?
Speaker 1:have. They have the Forgotten Realms.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's also one. Greyhawk's a big one too. Alright, we'll go to another one. That's a great question though, because there really are a ton of them.
Speaker 2:It's really Michelle's turn. Yeah, it's her turn. Well, these were like really vague questions.
Speaker 1:I was afraid this was going to happen.
Speaker 12:That's why it's fun, because I don't know what the true answer is.
Speaker 5:If it's right or not, yeah, but hard questions are fun. That's what makes them fun. If you can just get them all, that's not fun.
Speaker 1:All right here, Michelle, I'm going to go back to movies and TV. In the DC Extended Universe, what is Aquaman's Atlantean name?
Speaker 4:Oh geez, Can I phone a friend?
Speaker 1:Sure, you want to.
Speaker 2:Like I want to pull up the Jeopardy music.
Speaker 1:There you go. What is his name?
Speaker 10:I got no idea.
Speaker 1:Aquaman, he's got to have a name.
Speaker 4:His real name is Arthur Curry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his real name Well according to our experts experts, his name is orin oh or it'd be like bubble, bubble, bubble. Okay close enough.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, close depends on how sound travels.
Speaker 1:I guess underwater all right, um, let's see, let's go back to comics and manga. This is fun, this is fun, all right, here you go, rob. In the manga Attack on Titan. What is the name of Aaron Yeager's childhood friend and elite fighter?
Speaker 5:Bill, I've never read Attack on Titan, I mean.
Speaker 12:I know what it is, but I've never read it. Mikasa Ackerman.
Speaker 1:Gesundheit Okay, all right. One more in the comics and manga category Okay, all right. This just shows you how much there is out there to choose from.
Speaker 5:Oh, this is fun. The experts here. I always love it. Everybody thinks you're going to know everything and I love missing them. I think it's fun.
Speaker 1:It's educational.
Speaker 2:All right well we'll finish with an easy one in this category anyway, which DC villain is known for saying why so? Serious Joker, that's correct. There you go. I got one Where's my bell.
Speaker 1:What is it? Two to one? All right, let's go to gaming. You'll probably know this one In the Legends of Zelda series. I'm waiting to see his expression before I go on. What is the name of Link's horse? Nope, I never played it Epona, I never played Zelda. All right, how about this?
Speaker 5:I got a buddy's daughter who would know every single question you would ever ask, and I have employees that would too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I bet you would. My son could probably do this too. Which 2020 game won Game of the Year at the Game Awards? It's now a series on TV. If that means anything Fallout Close Another series on TV.
Speaker 3:The Last of Us.
Speaker 1:Part II oh yeah, okay. And then to finish off this one, this will be an easy one. All right, here you go, michelle. What? Video game character was the first to appear as a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Video game character. Video game character.
Speaker 4:Sonic.
Speaker 1:That is correct.
Speaker 4:Is it me?
Speaker 9:Did you give her a clue.
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 1:Rob was cheating there.
Speaker 5:I would never cheat.
Speaker 4:Did you give her a clue? No, rob was cheating.
Speaker 1:There. I would never cheat. All right, all right, rob.
Speaker 5:What does cosplay stand for?
Speaker 2:Cosplay. Seriously, the kids wrote this.
Speaker 1:It's costume play. Yeah, what do you think it would be? And I'm just being sarcastic. Yes, he's being very sarcastic. Yeah, do you think it would be? And I'm just being sarcastic. Yes, he's being very sarcastic. Which anime convention, held annually in Los Angeles, is known for hosting the US finals of the World Cosplay Summit?
Speaker 5:No idea, because I don't go there.
Speaker 1:You don't do anime Well.
Speaker 5:I don't go to California.
Speaker 4:Is it WonderCon?
Speaker 1:No, I'm sorry, this is falling flat.
Speaker 5:No, it's pretty fun, it's all right.
Speaker 1:Anime Expo Again. If I actually knew the answers to this, it would be a little easier.
Speaker 5:There's probably 300 or 400 anime companies a year in the US. It's crazy how big it is. Folks sometimes don't realize how big it is.
Speaker 1:I thought Los Angeles would be really big. But what color is the Power Ranger who typically pilots the Triceratops? Zord, who knows Power Rangers? Come on.
Speaker 4:Is it red, green? Okay, we only got a few more colors.
Speaker 5:So it's fun when you've got folks in their 50s and you're asking them about Power Rangers. You're like yeah, we are definitely not the age of Power Rangers.
Speaker 1:I've always wanted to do this.
Speaker 5:I think it's fun because there's so much stuff we don't know. You're like, no, we can't. Well, you'll know this one, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, which long-running oh my God, the way this is worded. This is going to be so fun, this is going to be really hard. Which long-running British sci-fi show features alien known as the doctor. Doctor who? There you go there you go all right back to role playing and we'll wrap this up in a minute. We're going over time. You got a few minutes oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Good, yeah, they just have a date tonight do you have reservations?
Speaker 5:no okay, we're not that high falutin, not like holly okay, um, let's see.
Speaker 1:Uh, did we do this? No, what is the name of the board game where players collect and trade resources like wood, brick and wheat to build settlements and cities?
Speaker 4:Catan Correct.
Speaker 1:I think that gives her the lead now.
Speaker 5:She's winning.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, all right. Next In the Call of Cthulhu that's how you say that. Right, yeah, mm-hmm.
Speaker 5:What happens when your sanity score hits zero? Well, your sanity score and your Cthulhu mythos knowledge work inversely. So, for example, if you because I might have played this game so if your knowledge of Cthulhu hits 100, your sanity hits zero. Because they basically work inverse, you go insane the more you know, so you go completely crazy.
Speaker 1:That's correct. Your character goes insane and becomes unplayable. There you go.
Speaker 5:Well, it depends on how good you are. Your DM may tell you what horrible thing you need to do, and then you get to do it, but yeah, Alright, which cooperative board game involves players working to stop the global spread of diseases.
Speaker 4:Pandemic Correct.
Speaker 1:Cooperative board game involves players working to stop the global spread of diseases Pandemic Correct. Now we're picking up some steam. These guys know the board games In Magic the Gathering. How many basic land types are there? Five Correct.
Speaker 2:Dang, she's nailing it.
Speaker 1:Plains islands, swamp island, swamp mountain and forest. What is the name of the storytelling rpg where players use a tower of jenga blocks instead of dice?
Speaker 4:I don't know that one oh I don't know that one either, I don't know what is it dread? Oh, I haven't heard of that?
Speaker 1:no, no, okay. Okay, which RPG system uses the D100 system and is known for its brutal realism, especially in games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay? Hold on Repeat that. Yeah, that's kind of a complicated question. Which RPG system uses the D100 system and is known for its brutal realism, especially in games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay?
Speaker 5:Well, Warhammer Fantasy is an actual RPG, so I'm not sure what they're.
Speaker 1:It's Percentile System, whatever.
Speaker 5:They just got confused how they wrote it.
Speaker 1:Let me see if I forgot anything, because, lord knows, we need to keep them here as long as possible. Oh, there was one more in the TV category. What Netflix series features a super-powered woman with a drinking problem and a dark past as a PI?
Speaker 4:Jessica Jones Correct.
Speaker 1:Rob, she is crushing you. Told you All right.
Speaker 5:I already asked all that I may be out of questions. I was like you hit the right one. She's going to do good yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good. So I'm impressed because obviously you've learned a lot over the years. When you said you came into this not knowing anything yeah, that's all the questions. So I think we can say that Michelle is victorious Absolutely. Rob buys dinner tonight.
Speaker 5:She used to help me do the questions. We used to do geeky trivia and we did it for several years. We would travel around and get paid to hold events at local pubs. And we did geek trivia in the early days of the store. It's just another way to advertise us and that was really fun. But it was a lot of work Because the goal was to come up with questions you couldn't search on your phone fast enough.
Speaker 5:So we had a whole database of crazy questions that she helped with and we would mess with people and make them tricky, and it was a really good time. We had a lot of fun. I mean, Sometimes we were pulling 50 people to come do trivia which is a pretty good crowd.
Speaker 2:Nowadays you can type and look this, they just hit.
Speaker 3:Alexa and listen to y'all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that too.
Speaker 2:Your answer is there.
Speaker 1:If you use the video portion you can just show it a book and they'll tell you everything.
Speaker 5:It's a shame that people are so small that you're like hey, the point is, do you know it? Like everybody can Google it. Boy, you're special yeah.
Speaker 2:Takes the fun out of it.
Speaker 1:Well, it's their small-minded, and you know the sad part of that is they say that that's contributing to dementia as people get older because they don't learn anymore, they don't have to remember, they don't?
Speaker 1:yeah, they just look it all up so their brain's not working hard anymore, and it tends to lead to that, and that's obviously a big problem nowadays for various reasons. Um, all right, but anyway, let's move on to more happier things. Uh, way to be a downer, john. What's going on at the store? What's, uh, what's going on at the store? What's going on at the store? What do you got going on? You got some trends or things you can tell us about? What's everybody buying?
Speaker 5:What kind of sales you having, I tell you, comic-wise, dc relaunched everything with a story called Absolute, and the concept behind this is that the big bad guy, darkseid, created a universe where all the major heroes he took away the thing that he thought made him special and then these characters developed in a different way and he thought they would be weak and useless.
Speaker 5:For example, batman grew up without the money. He's still Batman, he still becomes Batman, he finds a different way to do things. You know that superman doesn't have the kents to keep him grounded, but he still ends up becoming superman. So the stories show that the character of these people, it isn't just one thing, it's a character of who they are and that has been a huge hit. Um, ultimate spider-man, which they relaunched. Um is about a year in. It's still doing super well. And uh, transformers in gi joe um were licensed out to robert kirkman. This guy created this thing called walking dead. Might have heard of it.
Speaker 5:It was a little bit of a thing just a little bit yeah, and he loves them and so he was able to get all this big name talent and they relaunched transformers in gi joe and it has been incredible how well it's sold, how much different and awesome the stories are. Like Transformers is selling like 70% of Batman, which is insane. Like it's never sold like that ever. And it's because of how good it is. People pick it up don't even like Transformers. I'm not a Transformers person, I'm a little bit too old for it. But one of my guys said you got to read it, boss, and I read it and I went. It's incredible. It was a really great story and I connected to it without having that you know kind of emotional connection to these characters. So those have done great. Obviously, pokemon blew up again around November and it's been insane. Magic's doing great. Lorkana, star Wars and One Piece are all big card games people are doing. Now Warhammer is always big. Obviously, we have a lot of manga in the kids' section. All those things always do well.
Speaker 1:Manga or manga. What's the proper way to say it?
Speaker 5:I like to say manga, because it drives people crazy. I like that manga. It always drives them nuts.
Speaker 1:Okay, what else did I want to say here? Yeah, give the website for the store and the address borderlandsus in 410 South Pleasantburg nice big store doing well, we stopped by there after Comic Con Junior. In the fall, my son's going in there. He just spent the whole time at Comic Con and then he goes to borderlands afterwards and gets.
Speaker 2:I have a son that does the same thing. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1:We really do and now it's time for our favorite part of the show, when we wrap up and we ask for guest recommendations in two categories, one being entertainment. If there's a show or movie or something that's streaming, a series or something that that people can binge, uh, or a book that you're reading, something you can recommend to the listeners, we'll do the entertainment first and then we'll come back and do the food. Uh, rob what you got.
Speaker 5:I'm going to take it. Okay, rogue Heroes on. I knew that's what she was going to want to do. Rogue Heroes on Amazon, you might have to get MGM Plus. It's the story of the SAS, which is the British Special Forces, and how that was formed in World War II, but it's written by the people that did Peaky Blinders, so it's snarky and funny and has a bunch of good action in it and I really highly recommend it. It's not for the kids but it does have an amazing soundtrack. Like in the very beginning it was like ACDC and stuff like that, like a really cool rocking soundtrack.
Speaker 2:Is it a series?
Speaker 5:It's a series. It's a series Okay, yeah, it's really really good Rogue Heroes.
Speaker 4:All right, Michelle I was going to the same road, heroes.
Speaker 5:I know that's why he took it from me. We love it.
Speaker 4:I still like watching Ted Lasso, I still go back and watch. Ted Lasso any chance we get.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's one of those rare shows that leaves you feeling good at the end?
Speaker 4:Yeah, isn't that a nice plus?
Speaker 5:And that's hard to find nowadays it's too hip and cool to be negative.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and of course season four is supposed to. They're in the writing process now, which wasn't supposed to happen originally, and I guess they're exploring him doing a women's team.
Speaker 5:Yes, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Because that was kind of the tease at the end of season three. So that should be interesting. Whole new slate of material there, certainly. So we'll see what happens with that, but glad to see that coming back All right. So let's do the food. This can be a restaurant that you visited, local or chain or whatever, a particular dish you tried, or something you just tried at home, a new recipe, or something that you can turn people on to. Let's start with Michelle.
Speaker 4:We like a lot of the local restaurants. Our favorite is Local Q. If you like wings, yes, the best wings.
Speaker 1:Where's that at? It is on Orchard Park Drive. Okay.
Speaker 4:Across from. It's right off of 385.
Speaker 10:Haywood, right off Haywood, local Q, local Q.
Speaker 1:The best wings. They're flash fried. When you said wings, I had to know yeah, oh, that's when they're the best.
Speaker 5:They're smoked and then flash fried.
Speaker 4:And all the sauces are on the side. Really good tater tots.
Speaker 1:Very good.
Speaker 4:Everything's good. We've never had anything bad there.
Speaker 1:Alright local Q.
Speaker 5:What about you, ron? So today I ate at Miles Pizza on Pleasantburg.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I love Miles Pizza. How do you know?
Speaker 1:How do you know? It's every single recommendation that people make. She's already been there.
Speaker 2:Their cheese bread. It's a whole loaf of bread. It is, it's phenomenal.
Speaker 5:Their cheese bread, is they? Take a loaf of bread. They cut it, they shove garlic cheese and butter on it and then they stick the entire loaf in the pizza oven. It comes out looking like the lava monster from star trek, oh my god, it's so good um. They're really sweet people. It's family owned their sauce is great, they're good humans.
Speaker 5:Uh, everything's made there. Yes, um, they. Uh, it's possible that they're helping cater the green room and so is local q? Um at sc comic con. So we're trying to do local restaurants and trying to support local folks. So really, really good man I highly recommend. Miles is only open I think it's Tuesday to Saturday.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, they are kind of particular with ours.
Speaker 1:It's well worth going, sounds like a couple of great places.
Speaker 2:They have great ranch dressing too.
Speaker 1:If you want to Rob, I can come sign autographs and you can let me be in the green room, so I can get some of this good stuff. I'm open, I'll do it for free.
Speaker 5:I'm so generous of you yeah.
Speaker 1:I won't give you any rider stuff. I don't have to fly in or anything.
Speaker 5:I need mileage for my house.
Speaker 1:But anyway, all right, so that's about it. Let's wrap it up, rob and michelle. Thanks for coming. Michelle, how'd it go? First time ever on the radio, great, yeah, you were great.
Speaker 4:You gotta come back next year. Yes, I'll come.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah, we'll do it.
Speaker 4:You can come back in the fall, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 1:You thought it was gonna be bad. Well, I thought I wouldn't talk I've told you too much about me if it's a, that's the case, uh, but secomicconcom, get your tickets. You can get them at Ingalls too, and at Borderlands Comics and Games. Visit the store, visit the site. We'll see you at Comic-Con in a couple of weeks, less than a couple of weeks, april 5th and 6th, greenville Convention Center. Get that VIP pass, if you can, because the lines are going to be long for this one.
Speaker 2:Skip right up I hope there's good weather.
Speaker 1:Lines are going to be long for this one. Next show for us coming up on April 8th, Belton Mayor Eleanor Dorn and Sam Gilmer will be here too. Mr Everything for Belton and Honeypath. They'll be talking about the SC Chili Cook-Off and some other things. Don't forget to tell your friends if they missed the show today. You can hear it on a podcast. It'll be up in two days, wherever you get your your podcast. So thanks, guys again for coming in. You're our favorites.
Speaker 1:Thanks for having us for sure, we always look forward to entertaining us every year I always learn something always slowly but surely I'm learning about the industry and and we appreciate everybody tuning in, thanks for listening to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
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