Welcome to Fine Tuning with Drew Taylor,

you're one stop shop what a cumts animation news and commentary.

I'm Drew's co-host, entertain writer Jim Hill,

and he and I are recording the show on Friday, July 8th, 2022.

Now, Drew, two weeks from today, Comic Con International

be in full swing at the San Diego Convention Center,

as well as in the various hotel,

ballrooms and meeting spaces around that cavernous venue.

This is the first time that Comic Con is back in full force since the pandemic started shutting down

things, stateside, and March of 2020. I mean, yeah, there was that Comic Con special edition in

November, which neither of us went to, right? You didn't go down. I didn't go out.

I don't think anybody went to that one. Yeah, that one felt like kind of a bust,

but it was trying to make up for the fact that there wasn't one in the summer. I understand

why they did. No, no, no, absolutely. But again, to keep people safe, you could

enter the convention center without wearing a mask and you had to show proof of vaccination

or have had a COVID test, 72 hours out, and the very same rules apply to this year's Comic Con

International, which is July 21st to the 24th. Now, they've relaxed the mask mandate,

and that sort of thing out in California, right? They have, although there is speculation right

now that the mask mandate will be back in time for Comic Con. Yes, I saw that they're predicting in

like seven days, it's Los Angeles County that supposedly will be back to up to a high COVID

rate, and that'll then kick in the mandatory indoor mask mandate. Yes, I think we're hovering

around 15% positivity rate right now, which is not great. And I'm sure that is also like under

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