Overview

We have a special guest on today – Stephen’s son Colin! Colin works at a comic book store and recently attended C2E2 in Chicago. We eagerly await the nerdy updates.

Colin tells us about the people he met and signatures collected.

then we talk about the new Spider-man movie – so SPOILER ALERT!

Merry Christmas!

Pinball kit – https://www.scientificsonline.com/product/build-your-own-pinball-machine-kit

C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) – https://www.c2e2.com/

Hoopla – https://www.hoopladigital.com/

Spider-man: No Way Home: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10872600/

Substack – https://substack.com/

Recommendations

Tom Zahler Cupid’s Arrows – https://thomzahler.squarespace.com/#/cupids-arrows/

Richard Kadrey Sandman Slim – https://www.richardkadrey.com/sandman-slim

Trivia

What actor, famous for a starring role in a classic Christmas movie, played Ming Ming in Elf?

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Transcript

[00:00:41] Alan: products. Is that all right? Yeah. Let me leave that. One of the overall joys of the, of the Mac platform nowadays is that it really integrates well so that I can be working on something on my desktop, and then it can be easily available on my laptop without having. Save a [00:01:00] file somewhere, make sure that it’s shareable, you know, all that kind of stuff.

So I love that little, what they call it, you know, uh, uh, compatibility integration, whatever they have a nice of course, near copyrighted term, you know, just like they try to cover it from windows. Okay.

[00:01:18] Stephen: Welcome. And welcome to the fun buying for volunteer and see me. Okay.

[00:01:23] Colin: Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[00:01:25] Stephen: So we got our third guest on, as Alan pointed out our third esteem.

Yes. My son call him and he’s the geek of the week because he works at a comic bookstore, which is like the dream job for any 20 year old.

[00:01:42] Alan: Right. Exactly. That either that or pinball testing back in the old days,

[00:01:47] Stephen: by the way, Allen side too, before I forget, I was at the little red wagon, which is a really cool toy store in the area.

We had a kid. Cardboard kit, you put [00:02:00] together as a pinball machine, working pinball machine, it’s all peppered fold it and put it together. And then you have a cardboard working pin moment.

[00:02:08] Alan: Wow. That’s I was thinking the other day, you know, I haven’t gotten a 3d printer yet, but it’s, it’s literally like Christmas money is going to do that for that, for,