Oh, hey, it's your friend's new boyfriend who makes really good onion dip, Allie Ward.

Come along with me, if you will, to Anaheim, California, to a little place called WonderCon.

Now, if you have heard of the annual Comic Con convention in San Diego, WonderCon is kind of like

its younger, scrappier little sister. And it takes over Anaheim for a few days every spring

with like tens of thousands of people in this big convention center full of booths and comic book art

and film stalls and collectibles and artists like making and signing work. Also, adults and capes.

Join me. All right. We're in front of the fountain at WonderCon.

So far, we've seen a Loki.

I've seen a West World lady.

Oh, there's a Winona writer from Beetlejuice costume in the red, the wedding outfit.

Oh, with a Beetlejuice accompaniment.

We've got a lot of Pokemon's. We've got some Star Trek outfits.

Plenty of those. That's a Captain America, but he's Captain Mexico. Oh, I love that. Check that out.

That guy's Captain Mexico. He's my favorite one so far. I love the Captain Mexico.

It's like Halloween, but it's in March, and no one's dressed like a hot dog. Everyone's specific. And I like that.

I loved it. Now, another perk was that I was there to moderate a panel with a dear, dear friend, see Andrew Hall or Andy Hall, who you may remember from an episode we did in 2021 about his environmental nonprofit. He founded it. It's called Functional Magic. And it commissions these really

incredible artists to create gig poster style artwork that's collectible. And because of that episode we did

and y'all, ologies listeners, that first print run he did in 2021 sold out and Functional Magic was

able to donate $25,000 to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.

And just a side note, functional magic was then known as the Drawdown Design Project, but has since been renamed.

And Andy says that functional magic is dedicated to spreading this unapologetic hope about our shared future via pop art that they put out into the world.

So we'll link that original episode in the show notes because it's a great look at climate

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