Con Life: Artemis the Impala Part 2

A full-size 1967 Chevy Impala rolling into a convention hall is already a statement. When it’s built around Supernatural fandom and backed by a crew that loves talking to strangers, it turns into something bigger: a moving meetup spot where car nerds, cosplayers, and longtime fans all end up in the same conversation. We’re joined again by Artemis the Impala, Emily, and Chris to unpack what “con life” really looks like behind the photos and why their first event losing money still became the best investment they made.

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Transcript

Welcome Back With Artemis Crew

SPEAKER_03 0:03

Welcome to NOLA Film Scene with TJ Play-Doh. I'm TJ. And as always, I'm Play-Doh.

SPEAKER_04 0:10

Welcome back to NOLA Film Scene. We're back with part two with Artemis the Impala and her crew.

SPEAKER_03 0:17

We can't get rid of these people.

SPEAKER_02 0:20

Sorry. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 0:23

Emily and Chris, welcome back. Great to see you again.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Absolutely. It's great to be back.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

As always.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

I like how you put the boss first, TJ. Emily. Oh yeah. Look, I'm just lucky to I'm just I'm just happy to be here. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

I'm lucky to have him. Oh.

Losing Money Then Growing Fast

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Yeah. Matter of fact, uh, our first convention, I think we made a grand total of what, like negative 80 bucks. I mean, we ended up losing money on the whole thing. Um, you know, after you take into account the amount of preparation we put in the car, the fact that, you know, we had to pay to go to that first convention, but then it was like, it was almost like a little investment because that that little seed all of a sudden became like, you know, a much bigger tree than I thought it was going to be, you know, to use a really bad analogy there. But um, I I didn't expect, like I said, it just kind of snowballed from there. And it it's been fun, you know, interacting with people. I mean, it's almost like, because in my day-to-day life, I'm a dentist, you know. I already have to talk to people all the time. And it's usually not a very exactly, exactly. It it's not a very fun thing to tell, you know, to talk to people about their mouth. This is something that people actually like, you know, they love supernatural. It's more way more fun to talk about that than be like, hey, you need a root canal or hey, some fillings, you whatever, you know. It's it's a lot more fun to go out and interact with people with stuff that they do like.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Yeah, and I think that was probably my favorite thing that he learned very quickly in the process was that people really, really did like that show. Um, I think he thought it was a lot more niche, and in a lot of ways it is. Uh, but like I said earlier, it's so hard to explain that like while it is a a sort of specific group, it's actually a fairly big amount of people. Um, and I think he figured that out at the second convention when we were at Mississippi because we had a line the entire time.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

People to take pictures with the car.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

Yeah, blue is mine. He was like, Yeah, okay, I get it now. I think I think I understand what you meant by we could just go do this. It's like, yeah, you don't need to need much.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

Until you experience con life and you're fandom and you find what you like, people they just don't understand this. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? Uh I had to kind of drag TJ a little bit into this life, and then oh, okay, this is cool. He's not gonna be as you know, you know me, I'm photo ops. Oh, what can I do? What can you know? And he has his fun with it.

SPEAKER_04 2:44

But I enjoy stuff, I enjoy yeah, movies and comics, and I enjoy all the attractions and things. Oh, yeah. For me, I've got a bad hip, and it's just not pleasant for me to be on my feet for a long time walking around a lot. I honestly do have a good time when I go, and part of that is meeting people like y'all and talking about your booth. There's some other cool ones that we see at a lot of them as well. Emily, we talked about the car. I've seen the show. I don't count myself as a you know a diehard fan of the show. I I I watched it one time through, but it's honestly a big accomplishment.

SPEAKER_03 3:21

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

The car was a really cool thing for me to see because I'm a I mean, I'm a car guy, and you were able to rattle off all the stuff that y'all have done to the car to get it ready for the convention. And I I really enjoyed talking to all of y'all about it. It it's a neat, it's a really neat attraction.

Why Fans Love Con Conversations

SPEAKER_02 3:41

Well, thank you for that. That's the way that we tend to see it is I mean, at least half of the people that we get at every convention are there just to look at the car itself, whether or not they know what it is related to and why it's there. So um, I usually throw those guys at him because they'll want to look at the engine and talk about that part of it as well. Uh so I can run off all those stats and the and the work that we've done, and they're happy to hear all of that too. And then I go, okay, for the technical side of it, here's Chris.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

I I guess I didn't realize I'm sorry, man. No, go ahead, Chris. No, no, no. I was gonna say I I guess I'm uh I was surprised that it wasn't just the supernatural people that would come over and see the car. It was a lot of people that just like the classic car there because I mean it it is a pretty striking feature in any of these places. You walk in and oh my god, it's an 18-foot-long car.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

That's not doing there.

The Impala Draws Car People Too

SPEAKER_00 4:32

Yeah. And it but it is really cool to see like talk to people that are like, oh man, I used to have a classic car, I got rid of it and regretted it ever since. Or they tell me their stories with, you know, their own experience with like trying to get a carburetor tuned and you know, all these little things that, you know, uh I'll be 34 in about a week. Uh and you know, I've never I've never had to experience, you know, like really working on a carburetor or anything like that until this car. And so all those little bitty things that you just don't really have that experience with for a lot of people, I guess, that are, you know, that just don't really deal with cars all that much. It was fun to kind of connect with them in that way. And it means that there's a little bit of something for everybody with this thing. I mean, it's you know, like she'll talk, you know, anybody's ear off about supernatural. And then, you know, somebody will come up to me and be like, hey, you know, what kind of engine do you have in it? I have a 350 small block, you know, Chevy, you know, engine in there. Uh, you know, what do you want to know about it? And, you know, we'll we can, you know, kind of prattle on and on and on about this for, you know, a good bit of the convention. And that's the kind of stuff I like with it too. I mean, it's just, you know.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Yeah, he'll let people stand around for 30 minutes to an hour talking to them about just the engine.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Whatever, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

Yeah.

unknown 5:41

All right.

SPEAKER_04 5:41

Now here's the real question is it a crate motor or is it is it the numbers matching original?

SPEAKER_00 5:46

So it is not a numbers matching original. Whenever we got the car, uh the engine originally was a 327 small block. This one has a 350 from a 1974 Police Caprice. And okay, whoever had the car, because everything else on it matches except for that. And um the um I guess the thing that I'm glad that they kept it with the kind of that same, you know, era, I guess, because it is still from a 1974. It's not just the, you know, a crate motor they ordered from GM. Um, and they did do a lot of work on it, whoever took on that part of the car, which like I said, I'm kind of grateful for just because it's, you know, there's a little bit less stress whenever you do bring it to places and it's not a completely numbers matching car. Uh those numbers matching cars, I mean a lot of a lot of those guys, you know, you'll see them in their garage, and that's where they stay. They don't move them anywhere because I mean, you want to keep these things as pristine as possible.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

Which I I want to keep mine as pristine as possible, too. Sure.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Oh, yeah. Sure. They probably win, honestly, with how heavy that thing is.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

But it is the only thing that's not numbers matching on the car, as far as we're aware. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:53

I mentioned it to Emily briefly when we were talking. I had a 1980 Camaro when I got it. It came with a a 383 stroker in it, but the guy gave me the original numbers matching block and some of the parts, but it was completely, it was shot. It was the the cast iron was cracked. There was no way that that block would come back. But I had it. I had the numbers matching block, the transmission matched and everything else was original in the car. But I get what you're saying uh about the stress of it. I didn't mind driving it, I didn't mind pushing the car, and it looked good from a distance, but the paint, it wasn't even the original paint. It had been repainted and it had some scratches in it. So I wasn't worried. I didn't care driving it to the grocery store if somebody scuffed it. I mean, I completely restored the interior of the car down to the bare metal and started over from scratch. Everything had been gone through and it looked great, but I wasn't scared to drive it. You know, I I enjoyed it. And you gotta you gotta enjoy a car like that. You can't let something like this it.

SPEAKER_02 7:57

That's exactly how how we feel about it, or at least how how I feel about it. Oh no, for sure. I mean I'm like, I got it, and I'm like, why wouldn't I want to use it? I got it for me to enjoy mostly, and then and then to be able to share it as part of my enjoyment. Um, but I got it just as much for me to be able to drive around and be like, ha ha, look at me and my cool car.

SPEAKER_04 8:16

You know now I I will say this, I couldn't daily drive it because the I had the classic car insurance on it.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

Because if I would have just insured it to where I could daily drive it, if it was stolen or totaled, it it wouldn't have replaced the value of the car. But with the classic car insurance, I was able to tell them, okay, it's worth this much. That way, if it was stolen, but with that comes, you can only drive it so much in a month, and you're not supposed to drive it to go to the grocery store and go do all that kind of stuff. Yeah. So you know, I would like whatever.

Engine Swap And Originality Talk

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Yeah. I think the limit on our insurance is like two or three thousand miles uh for the year.

SPEAKER_04 8:58

So it it's super y'all have Haggerty or or one similar.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

It's Haggerty, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:03

Yeah, that's what I had.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Nice, nice.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Yeah. No, I mean, it's it definitely whenever there isn't, you know, that uh so our car has been repainted. Uh matter of fact, it was kind of like the one used in the show, the main hero car. Uh ours was originally a blue on blue car. And that's just a random little supernatural tidbit is that the 67, yeah, the 67 Impala that they first used was originally a blue on blue car that they fixed up to be a black exterior, tan interior car. And uh so ours just happens to be, you know, like I said, it was originally a blue on blue car. And uh whoever, like I said, I say whoever had it before us, we've owned it for a couple of years. We bought it in Georgia. Um, the people that had owned it in Georgia had it for about four years and they didn't really do much with it. They kind of wanted to do what we're doing with it now. Um, but they ended up uh having a child and you know, it it gets a little bit more your life priority changes whenever that does, you know, happen. It's a big thing in somebody's life. And um, whoever he had bought it and it was in Michigan for about a year, and before that it was a West Coast car. It was actually made in Los Angeles and all that other fun stuff. Uh, we've gotten a pretty detailed history on like where it's stayed most of its life. And uh probably the best part about it is that somebody actually took it upon themselves to completely restore it before we got to it. Now it fell in disrepair before we actually bought it, but somebody took it off of the frame. They've had the frame, you know, powder coated and whatnot. The thankfully, the paint job was really good.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

The interior was kind of a complete wreck, but um that's why we also way better than some people, you know, because like they'll have like the old headliner will be hanging off and we got lucky with that.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Um, but we also took ours down to bare metal.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Um yeah, we have to replace it anyway.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

So yeah, in order to reupholster the seats and I mean we had to re-weld a couple of things and you know, couple, you know, something like that.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Some dust spots, you know. Yeah, nothing crazy compared to most project cars. So yeah, with the paint job, I mean, anytime we have taken it to somebody just to get an opinion, um, we've got at least four professionals at this point who have been like, if you don't need to, don't touch it. Right. I don't want to touch it. They don't want to mess it up. Yeah. I'm like, okay, I guess, you know, um, because the big thing for me, like that that's a screen accurate thing, is the car is not supposed to have any of the badges on it. Um and the badges that we do have, at least on the front fenders, are are really they're a remake quality, um, which, you know, yeah, you can buy them. They're the reproduction um ones. And if I wanted to get ones that look nice, I could. Um, but they're definitely not the original badges and the paints off of it. And I I would just like to take them off and fill it and paint it black. Um, but nobody wants to put their hands on it.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

So Well, also not to mention, she's not mentioning the fact too that we don't want to, yeah, we don't want to necessarily pay that much, too. I mean, because it's not cheap to repaint a classic car.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

Nope. No, it's not. Not to do it right. That's exactly my neighbor across the street when I had that car, just so happened that his occupation was uh he was a painting and body guy at kind of a high-end German dealership. So and he had all the stuff he needed at home. So if I ever needed anything when we painted the inside and inside the trunk, he was able to do it professional grade, you know. And he said the same thing. You don't have any rust. I I wouldn't I wouldn't paint the outside of that car because even him giving me a deal, it was still gonna be three to five grand.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Yeah, you know, it's that's a great price.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

Yeah, but that I mean that was you know, we're talking 15 years ago and talking the buddy deal with him getting yeah, getting paint, you know, at cost.

Restoring Without Being Afraid

SPEAKER_02 12:47

Oh yeah. The best the best prices we got when we were shopping around when we almost bought a white one was between 10 and 15. Um we had at least a couple of bigger shops try to tell us, oh, it might be over 30 grand.

SPEAKER_04 13:02

And I was like, I have a feeling for what? That's if you don't have to fix any metal underneath.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

Yes. Which I mean, it doesn't seem like obviously for our car we would need to do that, but you never know. So I don't yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:15

Some people could find something you need to fix, you know.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Wink, wink, nudge nudge. Yeah, exactly. Well, sometimes too, I think they give you those insane prices too, as what we like to call the FU price. Like they don't want to do it, yeah. They don't want to touch it. So we'll give you a price, but you're not gonna say yes to this.

SPEAKER_03 13:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:33

Okay. I just wanted to pause there's a plane passing over. I think we've got enough almost for two episodes. You know what I mean? I don't think we need to go into the Twitch at this point. But I was thinking of a last question, but I'm asking it this way before I ask it officially, because we've had the celebrity interaction. Can y'all think of outstanding fan interaction, like something that would that's a good story? And if you don't, yeah, we don't have to do it. No, no, no. And you don't have to tell me, just say yes and I'll ask the question and we can go into that.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

But I've just had so many, so it's harder for me.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

No, I mean, well, think about all of our all of our fan favorite pictures.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

I mean, there's we had Aaron, uh, the Louisiana Ghostbusters.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

Um, you know, let's stop there, we can record, and if we don't use it, we don't use it. Yeah, yeah. All right. Sure. So I I haven't asked you that.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

I know which one. Can I think of my tiny fans first? Can I say that one for can I record?

SPEAKER_03 14:28

Also, we should cut this out as an advertisement. Watch our show.

SPEAKER_04 14:36

So before you ask the question, Brian, I just want to say, see, I can nerd out too. Oh, well, I know.

SPEAKER_03 14:42

Yeah. It's we just have to find you just have to find my thing. We have to find your nerddom, your fandom. That's right. It's just me with photos and plussing it and doing crazy stuff, and I get my reaction. That's what I meant. You didn't you're not gonna follow me around around. Let me try that again. You're not gonna follow me down the road to pay for photo ops. That's right. Until we hit big money. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:51

My thing is I'm just not I don't want to pay a celebrity for an autograph or a picture, you know. I uh that's fair. That's trying to get into that peer group, not not right, you know. Oh yeah, no, I get it.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

Oh, if if I if I bring this prop, I can make them laugh. You know, yeah, and they will love it.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

Yeah, I'm I'm trying to get a whole interaction out of it myself, clearly.

SPEAKER_03 16:12

So I get it. We may drop this back to where we were talking about, but it's also I've learned how to almost like a surgeon, how to talk with celebrities. I I was at one with Kevin Smith at GeekCon, and the people with the pictures were like, Come on, Brian, keep it moving. The other time you get in, like they're like, No problem. This is my prop. What do you think? Let's play picture, you know. Uh with uh Linda Ham Linda Hamilton and the cast of T2. I got in that's awesome. And I printed out pictures, and it was right after AI started. It's like, yeah, Asa La Vista AI. Uh the only AI we like, and it's a picture of Arnold is the Terminator, you know. And it's five of them, it's me and Jim. So I handed out blah ba-bum. We do this, and as we walk past Linda, it's like, oh, it's nice meeting you. We know this director, I know somebody who filmed something for. Oh, yeah, okay. And we're out. You got to say your piece and move.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

But I get or I tell them my idea. So that's what I love plussing the pictures, and even with y'all, I'm I take pictures with y'all. I haven't taken them with the car. So maybe we'll correct that at the next con.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

I was about to say, yeah, come on by. We we gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

Oh, I'll be there. And uh we announced it before. I'm doing my first con by myself. We were at Cajun Con as no little film scene.

unknown 17:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

We're going to Louisiana RetroCon, which TJ can't make. So this will be my first time at a booth. So that should be fun. Actually, it's Morgan City, so if I know you're not going to the con, but maybe y'all can help.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

Yeah, I I had to uh I had to rock the swag today, you know.

SPEAKER_03 17:45

So nice. I got mine. When TJ comes back, I know y'all asked me if you should wear the shirt, and I was like, well, that'd be nice. And you know, oh, where are your stuff? And I saw you with that flannel. I was like, oh, if only he was wearing it, he could rip it open. Bam. Now you got it. TJ, you see what he's got? Nolafilm scene.shop. Merch.shop what's a what's the website?

SPEAKER_04 18:11

It's uh the merch is nolafilm scene.shop. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 18:15

Buy our merch. Buy our merch.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

So I think I have a picture of like you know, the sticker of y'all too, somewhere else. So, you know, it's probably on my computer or something like that, you know. You've got pictures of me?

SPEAKER_03 18:27

Oh we'll talk blackmail and I'll pay the ransom soon.

SPEAKER_04 18:33

So I'll pay the reverse ransom for you to release it?

SPEAKER_01 18:37

All right. Post it for Brian.

Best Fan Stories And Cosplay Crossovers

SPEAKER_03 18:42

TJ, I gotta tell you how these things work. Anyway. So we're we're coming to an end. And it's it's been a great pleasure talking to you. But I was thinking y'all too. Thank you, thank you. Uh and then I let you get a word in edgewise. That must be a miracle. So we've talked about a great celebrity interaction. Can you think of one, two, three, five? Your favorite fan uh interactions with you and the car.

SPEAKER_02 19:11

There are definitely a few, but I think most of our favorite fan interactions all came from our very first convention. Um, so for me, uh which was it was so exciting and also like, oh my god, no way, really. Um was we were at I think it was on Sunday, um, these two girls came up to the car and she just comes right up to me and she's like got her hands over her mouth and she's looking at me and she's like, I follow you on Twitter. And I was like, oh no. Um so that was so crazy. And they're they're young girls, you know, they're in like their last year of high school, super sweet um fans uh that had dressed up a little bit just to come see us. There was a another group of girls that also dressed up entirely just to come see us because they happened to hear that the car was gonna be there. But it's really great because they lived locally. Um, and they were so, so sweet. I ended up giving them a fan ride um, you know, a couple months later just so that we could work that out because it was very important to me. These are my first little fans from social media realizing that we live in the same, you know, 10 square miles and going, oh my God, let me go to the convention. Um so that was really, really awesome. And at this point, they have stopped by most of the major local conventions uh just to come say hi and have a chat and and drop off a gift with me. It's really sweet.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Yeah, I have to say that mine were we had a few. Usually the the best interactions we have are the ones that are a lot of times the people are dressed up, they're, you know, and they interact in a way that you probably wouldn't normally get with the car itself. So uh we have a friend of ours named Aaron who always dresses as uh the Mandalorian and he has a little remote-controlled Grogu. So we had a whole photo shoot with him in the car. I loved that. Yeah, it was great. And at Mississippi, we actually ran into a couple of Jawas that uh we got to do a lot of fun with that. We took off the little air box on our car and handed it to them like they were raiding our car for parts. And that's funny.

unknown 21:17

That's nice.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

And I mean that that was the kind of stuff that I love because you know, it's not, you know, I I mean, I guess you had a witch.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Specifically supernatural, it's fun meal server.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

Jawassies car or like machine. Let's take it apart, let's sell it for scrap, you know, whatever. Yeah. Um, and those have been the ones that have been the most fun. We've had Batman, we've had uh the Ghostbusters.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

Yeah, the Louisiana Ghostbusters had a really awesome little photo shoot with the little ghost sensing thing and search the car.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Any anybody that has a prop, you know, we try and incorporate it in whenever they do interact with us, but those are the ones that like really just stick out just because they were, you know, they took it like to that extra level. And it just was, I don't know, it was it's almost funny to see that that joining of universes right there, you know, supernatural. And I guess in this case, mostly Star Wars and Ghostbusters. But I mean, even Scott came up to us uh during our first convention and he he had a magnet that was from Scooby Natural and he said, You want this? And we were like, Yeah. So he signed it and he stuck it to the trunk of our car, and it's been there ever since.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

We didn't even ask, I don't think, actually, because I was at the front of the car and there were a couple of folks looking at the back of the trunk at the time because we couldn't we could open the trunk, but we couldn't open the box. Um, we had only just made the box and we didn't have enough to fill it. I just had stuff to put on top, um, which I was like, whatever, as long as it's open, great. Um, people just want to be able to look at the trunk and see if. few props. So it was open and he he was on the other side of it. And I just happened to look over as he like walked over and like smacked the underside of the trunk and I go walk over to him and I was like, what are you doing? And he just points and I was like, oh, thanks. And now I'm pretty sure it's melted there in the heat. So it's just going to stay there.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

It's fused to the car at this point.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

It's a part of Artemis.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

It's on the inside of the trunk.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Yes. Yeah. It's it's on the underside of the hood uh to the right of the sigil.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Yeah. Next time you see the car you can go and like point it out.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Yeah, it's right there.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

That's the that's that thing that's fused to the car now. They thought it was about it.

unknown 23:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:23

Very cool. And do you have some socials you want to share?

SPEAKER_02 23:26

Sure. Honestly, the number one social account that uh I have for the car is the TikTok account, which is um 67 Artemis. So the number 67 Artemis A-R-T-E-M-I-S. Yes, I guess out of that now. There is a there is an Instagram that's Artemis the Impala and a Facebook, which is where I try to do more of like the actual event posting and where we're going to be and updates on the car. And that's also Artemis the Impala. So very easy to find. And any of those should also have a link to our website where we also keep an updated list of our events that I really, really need to update for this year. And all of our best photos go on there as well.

unknown 24:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:13

Some some collaboration by a pretty good photographer.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

Yeah. You know what? Now that now that you mention it, whenever you said, you know, fan interactions, uh, you know, you you you do all right, you know, like with you know poking around and uh you know taking some actually really awesome you know selfies with us all the time.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

I we Every single yeah I think I had I missed out on most of them until the last one because I'm always running around and he was like yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

So I try to I try not to interrupt you. Um oh by the way thank you uh TJ knows that my dad had a photography he had his own dark room so all the way back from the 70s photography has been part of my life too and I like the interaction with people taking a selfie there are actors we know and like it was an improv class. I was like oh nice let's take a picture. Now that wasn't calculated to do anything but she's like oh Brian decided we were friends and it has become this there's a couple people like waited and when we finally met in person they were like oh thank god I made it to the selfie store so I've been told that a few times and I have I'm gonna toot my own horn it it's I guess it's composition but I can look at something and I go uh not that it's great art but because I love it so much it'll make a better picture. You know what I mean? Happens with the selfie oh we got to get our faces or you know let's do this be funny.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

Whatever it is I I I'm almost shy to toot my own own horn but toot toot I love taking a picture and I think it shows I mean honestly that that's you know I it it's really fun whenever you know I see it you know show up on Instagram and I'm like oh yeah that that was fun I you know it's like a nice little snapshot of you know just that that nice little almost like the calm and the storm of all these conventions you know I that's why I always look at them kind of fondly I'm like oh look at that yeah hopefully it shows that I like to do the same since it's all I do all day it does when I get when I can get you away from the customers it's a great picture.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

But I'm not gonna interrupt your money making or their interaction. Right. Yeah no worries it has been a pleasure having you on. Yeah I knew it was gonna be fun I didn't know it was going to be this much fun.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

No always and now you've got more in store for another by the sounds of it you know we've only scratched the surface.

Thanks Future Plans And Goodbye

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Yeah yeah let's we'll say goodbye and then we'll say let's just do a regular goodbye and then we'll record some things just in case. Sure. Sure. So it's been great having you on and uh we can't wait for you to come back.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Yeah we're looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

Uh it's been great being here. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

Yeah. I mean y'all were some of the first people we met at whenever we started doing the con scene and you know I had I have to say whenever I saw your you know your your little thing your booth saying you know like you know the NOLA film scene and all that stuff I was like yeah one day one day and it's kind of exciting to be a part of that now you know yeah it's been awesome and that was all TJ I I love talking to y'all but I didn't think NOLA film scene and that and then we were like it's New Orleans and it's good we go to conventions and now we sponsored one and you know that's our scene and we're a big artist.

SPEAKER_03 27:23

Look before everybody's come yeah it's entertainment it's just a different form of entertainment and finding your tribe like we talked about in a another research and you found your con tribe we found our you know it keeps going I'd love to mix into your acting tribe there personally we will talk about your acting too and I haven't forgotten you if I'm making something you know I'll reach out. Oh please thank you all right have a good one folks y'all too see you next time folks