This is an IHeart podcast.

Hey, this is Annie, and welcome to Stuff on Never Told Your production of IHeart Radio.

And today, Samantha is out sick, but I am very, very happy to be joined by friend of the show,

contributor, Joey. Welcome back, Joey. Hello, it's me. I'm Samantha McPay for the next hour, however long we end up recording.

But yeah, thanks for having me, Annie.

Always fun to be on the show.

Yes.

I actually just spoke to Samantha before this.

And she's got a lost voice, a very croaky voice.

And she was like, tell Joey, I'm so sad I'll miss it.

But we both know it would have been mostly the two of you talking.

Yeah.

I mean, Samantha, wherever you are where you're listening, you are missed, of course. So, sad that you're not here. But, um... Yes. Even if she isn't on our same nerd level, she's always got fun commentary. So we do miss her. But we... We need somebody in the room to, like, bring us back to Earth, you know? Yeah, somebody would be like, no one knows what you're talking about.

Nobody knows you're talking about, yeah.

So hopefully we don't go too off the rails in this.

But yes, we did want to have you back because we recently had you on when you, after you went to FlameCon, which was a convention that was largely focused on LGBTQ plus people and creators.

And in there, of course, we got to talking because both of us have a lot of thoughts about

conventions.

And you mentioned you were going to New York Comic-Con in October. And we were like, well, we'd love to have you back after that and hear what it was all about. So here we are.

Yes, I was on earlier this year for FlameCon. And yeah, of course, I always happy to talk all of the nerd things with Annie.

But yeah, I went to New York Comic-Con this past.

I think by the time this episode comes out, it'll be November.

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