Nerd of Mouth.

It's Nerd of Mouth. That's right, your weekly, geekly look at a fandom that has ascended to the highest of highs, and yet we're feeling the lowest of lows.

I'm Jake Young with me, as always is Holden McNeely.

Hey, hi, ah, and Mike Lawrence.

Hello.

And this week, we're going to get, we're going to, I don't know, is this friendly fire?

We're going to talk about fandoms that, can they ruin it for everybody else?

Yeah.

But first, I see, I see an item.

I see a rope of some kind.

I believe it's called the lasso of shame.

Absolutely.

I'm going to don't it.

Would you like me to hand it to you?

Please, it's heavy.

Heavy is the head that wears the lasso of shame.

This is the part of the show where we admit an unfortunately true,

shameful moment from our very geeky childhood. By the way, if this takes off, we will be selling lassoes of shame. Oh my God. Are you kidding me? Like, you can get LEDs and it like remote operates? Yeah, yeah, for sure. I definitely wanted to light up. But I do want it to be covered in this line. They will all be lassoes of truth that female cosplayers had to use to defend themselves. Oh my God. I want to be like the giant versions of those sticky hands they would sell. Oh, yeah, yeah. Just covered in dust in air. Yeah, yeah. They come pre-covered in dust in hair. We hand-drop all of them on carpets.

And they're just ruined.

Man, those things, man, you realize they did not want to be Spider-Man.

For this lasso with shame, I, uh, ooh, okay, I got, I think I'm going to go with this one.

Uh, the time I convinced myself I had superpowers at Fat Camp.

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