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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

1329 - Talking with Tiz

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Comic Book, Comic Books, Superhero, Arts, Comic, Comicbook, Graphic Novel, Comics, Comicbooks, Arts & Entertainment

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2013

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Tiz from Fan Expo Canada gives us the skinny on this year's Toronto Comicon, Fan Expo Vancouver and Fan Expo Canada. In between con talk we discuss 'Titanic', Lucca, Amsterdam, 'Duck Dynasty' and so much more. (1:36:24)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geeks Speak, episode 1329, talking with Tiz.

0:09.0

You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the ball you love.

0:15.0

These guys will talk about it, everything the geeks love.

0:17.6

Look at it's a laser beams, like the seas, there's on everything everything you read. Comic, movie, game, toys, artists, come. Come on, deep speak. Come on, come, come, come, come, come, come, deep speak. Come, come, come, come, come, deep. Come, come, come, geek speak. Come, come, a geek. United's the world. The greatest hero. This is... I'm Brian Christman. I'm Jamie D. I'm Shane Kelly. And I'm Adam Christman.

0:38.8

I'm Jamie Dee.

0:39.8

I'm Shane Kelly.

0:40.6

And I'm Adam Murdo.

0:42.4

And welcome to the show.

0:47.0

Tizzy Idle DeSantis, nice guy, the gray goose.

0:51.8

Works for the Fan Expo candidate.

0:53.8

It does a myriad of things. Great guy. Let's just jump right to this. Here's Tiz. What do you want to talk about? What are you going to talk about? I mean, I see now there's a third convention that Fan Expo has under their umbrella, shall we say. What are you talking about?

1:10.9

We've always had three. Well, but this one seems to be, the other one, we assume more like a, like a smaller scale, the Toronto Comic-Con. This is, like, really big now. Bitch. March? Yeah, one of March. Yeah, it was pretty big last year. Okay. Toronto Comic-Con. It was pretty big last year. This one is

1:27.8

about equally as big as last year.

1:30.3

I mean, we got about 20,000 through the door last year. Oh, wow. Okay. This is pretty big. I thought it was the old fan appreciation show. Is that what that came out of? Well, fan appreciation started for a reason, and then it was tweaked, and then we changed it around a little bit,

1:46.5

and it became a one-day show, and a two-day show, and then I think one year we got stupid and did three years.

1:54.7

And then we decided, after a few years of arguing, I said, listen, these guys are starved. Why don't we, you know,

2:03.9

bring in some celebs and some anime, and they just kind of looked at me and they went, what? Have you hit your head? And I said, oh, it's a real cool comic lineup, and it was a really cool concept. but I said, you know, why don't we try to, you know, turn it into a million expo.

2:17.6

So we did that last year, and it went really, really, you know, why don't we try to, you know, turn it into a million expo?

2:17.6

So we did that last year, and it went really, really, really well.

2:21.2

And I guess, I didn't even know.

2:24.9

I heard about it.

2:26.0

I had heard that Patrick Stewart might be a guest because he had to pull out a fan expo last year

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