Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of pseudo-intellectual live and a special

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amazing stuff today. We have a guess that I'm sure a lot of you already following. If you're not,

you can find his links down in the description, but we have none other than Nerd Roddick,

also known as Gary, I guess guess in the IRL world.

Gary it's so great to talk to you. Thank you for coming on this is going to be such a fun show.

Thanks for inviting me on Lauren. It's a pleasure and it's an honor. Well I mean we've we've

been on streams together for Friday night Tights. You're amazing just smash hit show that anytime

I tune and I'm always amazed the numbers who are watching live keep growing it's definitely well deserved but for people who aren't yet familiar with you you do a lot of amazing commentary and reviews and the pop culture

sphere. So you're basically one of my go-tos if I want to know what I should or

should not watch, what's going on in the world of entertainment all the latest amazing stuff for people who

haven't followed you know your origin story would you mind talking a little bit about how you got into

YouTube because I know you're someone you

used to own a comic book store right? That is true that is true you might have heard

that I'll try to do the Cliff Notes version So yes back from 2003 to 2013 I owned a comic store in San Francisco.

I am a grateful recovering addict. I fell off the wagon towards the end of that because ego and hubris got the best of me and I had to sell the store to Brian Hibbs for basically a song and I had to rebuild my life and when I part of doing that

would be hey I still want to stay connected because one of my favorite things

about the shop was sitting behind the counter and BSing with all of the

customers. And so I started a podcast with my friend, never ever believing that anybody would ever listen to it outside of my mom which

Ironically enough my mom never listened and we just started you know

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