0:08 - Boogie was not only apparently late for his own panel but the entire day of the con, 8biteric says he was going to troll him by snapping a picture of his empty booth @ 11AM and post it like Boogie no-showed. Boogie immediately relinquishes responsibility telling 8BE 'In about a week you and I are gonna have a conversation about why I'm late today. It's gonna be so funny, it's gonna be so funny'. Not so funny that he couldn't just tell the story right then and there, who wants to bet he just slept the fuck in?
0:44 - 8BE says he likes Boogie's hair, who replies that he 'does not' despite having previously claimed the exact opposite. Boogie claims the hair 'will be gone by Wednesday, I promise you' and that he's going to Supercuts Tuesday night. Repeats that he'll be 'balder than Keemstar by Wednesday', talks about growing up with hair down his back and Weird Al Yankovic's 'Fat' video being a 'huge inspiration to the 8 fat kids that existed in the 80s, right?'. He noticed they have similar hair and the other reason is because he didn't like haircuts 'because as it turns out I'm somewhere on the autism spectrum, like pretty much anyone who ever goes to these things'. Claims he didn't like his face or hair touched, this is a new story I'm pretty sure.
Nothing like calling your panel audience/the entire convention autistic, comments like this just go to show a) how desperate for the autism label he is and b) how little he really understands about it in general (probably because his psychiatrist is Google'.
2:20 - 8BE talks about Boogie missing out on titties being rubbed in his face during haircuts, I'm going to note that this is by no means an 'adult only panel' as evidenced soon. Just keep note of this conversation material throughout, and how appropriate you think it might be for the literal children in the audience.
2:50 - Boogie says Keem told him to grow his hair out for both of them, he makes a joke about lolcow being '2 bald fucks and Flabio over here' referencing himself, repeats the "Flabio" punchline just in case anyone missed it 2 seconds previously.
3:05 - Boogie complains about the Texas heat and makes a comment about there only being 10 people in the room, 8BE says this is more than he had the previous year. They joke about some of the '12-14' people being there just for Eric, or because it's somewhere to actually sit down. Boogie cracks a joke about how he's 'always sitting' before 8BE talks about jobs and having to stand for too long. Of course Boogie pipes in with 'You should try it my way, never get a job.'
4:40 - 8BE talks about Boogie potentially being a stand-up comedian who can't even stand up, Boogie snipes his punchline and immediately says that he's made this joke himself before.
5:10 - In reference to trying stand-up Boogie replies 'I'm on the lolcow podcast, my self esteem can't get any lower! The last thing I need to do is bomb at a comedy club tonight!'
5:32 - What is pretty obviously a father and his young son take some seats in front of the camera, remember this for later. There are 10 people visible in the audience at this point.
5:54 - Boogie finally introduces himself and immediately launches into 'And if you guys haven't noticed I'm fat, wait you didn't notice? Are you blind sir?' He revisits his whole tired 'turns out it was the food' bit and follows it with "Like Thanksgiving dinner, I don't know if I want to eat it or fuck it. Maybe both, it depends on the Thanksgiving really.' LOL having sex with food, so funny!!!
6:20 - 'But here's the thing about fat guys, we love to eat. Ladies? *literally points out women in the audience* Ladies? Talking to you, the one in the back. Ladies we like to eat, you know what I'm saying? Orally fixateddd.' while he stares out like the fucking pervert he is. What the fuck kind of panel material is this, and doesn't he have 'the love of his life' in Dezi already? This is some turbo-creeping, some of the audience awkwardly chuckles after this (one of the first signs of life they've shown).
6:45 - Even though Boogie has eyes, he asks the crowd if there are any children present. Someone immediately points to a child in the audience while 8BE confirms that there are in fact kids present. Boogie tries to shift from this by saying 'the point that I'm making is ladies, you could do better than a fat guy. You could do worse than a fat guy too, don't get me wrong.' Nice save, idiot.
What adult woman is taking any kind of relationship advice from fucking Boogie of all people? Also note that Boogie is well aware there are children present, so he should obviously be curbing his edgy content from here on out... right?
7:05 - Blah blah, they talk about fat guys in Texas. Boogie apparently doesn't understand that hot weather doesn't magically make people skinny. They talk about fat people staying inside and how you have to drive in Texas instead of walking to subway stations/public transit like in NYC/LA. This is all so self-centered, like do these clowns think anyone showed up to hear them talk about this shit? They start talking about public transit in different cities, fucking yawn.
8:50 - Boogie talks about living in NW AR and how it's so nice to live there, but that people in Texas have way more guns and he 'really appreciates that' about them. 8BE immediately retorts that he knows way more people with guns living in Texas, but doesn't know anyone 'that got out of their front door and shot a gun at somebody'. More wholesome panel topics for the crowd!
'The reason I like it here is I'm no longer allowed to own one, but at least I can look at them still here. They're very nice, I enjoy seeing your guns'. This is immediately followed by 'Did you guys hear that I was shooting blanks that day? Did you guys hear about that? *looks to 8BE* Did you hear about that Eric, what did you think about that?"
This fucking loser still going with this re-hashed version of reality, trying to have his friends co-sign it now too. 8BE replies that he thought Boogie should have just beat his ass and lay on top of him instead of using a gun, note how he actually dodges the obvious bullshit co-sign here (nicely played, Eric). Boogie claims Eric is only 4 foot 9 and Frank is 'like 9 foot 12'. Boogie talks about how he remembers opening his front door and having to crane his neck up just to see Hassle, we've all seen the video and know this is 100% bullshit. Remember how he was also 'beating down' Boogie's door? He's developed so many versions of this story by now.
10:05 - 8BE says that at least Boogie played sports, he replies 'pocket pool?'. Oh good, masturbation jokes for the kids now. 8BE has to remind him that he played football, and Boogie talks about his boring high school team before leading into how they told him how he had to hurt one of the opposing team if they ever hurt one of his teammates. He talks about being taught how to hit dirty and presumably his coaches telling him that he'll probably get away with hurting someone because he's a nose guard. He claims they literally said 'so we want the linemen to learn how to hurt other kids'
Says he quit football after breaking his own arm during practice and realizing that's what they wanted him to do to other kids, so he joined band instead. Have we ever heard this arm break story before? I'm skeptical at best, more boring small town Arkansas football talk. Do they really think that anyone at fucking Retropalooza, a retro video games convention, is really interested in any of this material? You can pretty much see how bored the crowd is, virtually zero energy whatsoever.
13:45 - 8BE talks about getting to eat extra lunches at school, Boogie ironically calls him a 'fat bastard'. Eric mentions having all sorts of different foods available including Chic-Fil-A, Lil Caesars, and Blue Bell ice cream. I think Boogie is actually jealous of 8BE's high school cafeteria at this point.
15:00 - Talking about being popular in high school 8BE brings up Chris-chan, amazing. They start by bringing up the Nick Rekieta which involves arrests, drugs, and a hot-wife; AKA perfect topics for a con panel with literal children in attendance. What the fuck are these idiots doing? Boogie re-hashes the whole stolen Chris-chan's cursed medallion bit, mentions Rekieta/Idubbz before launching into a Francis toned screaming bit about how he's 'searching my house when I get home! I might have one! That explains it all, there's one in my home!', complete with banging his hand on the table repeatedly. LOL loud is so funny guys!!!
15:43 - Boogie brings up his shaman for some reason, obviously pretty desperate to talk about him. 8BE says if he thinks he's cursed, he should have someone search his backyard for some kind of cursed item. They talk more about the Chris-chan situation and people taking this curse bullshit seriously.
17:32 - 8BE mentions how Rekieta looks like he's being eaten alive (hint: it's the drug abuse moron), Boogie says he would love to get the same curse 'for about 250lbs please'. Boogie starts talking about the Stephen King book/movie thinner, and says 'A guy pisses off a gypsy, am I allowed to say that? I don't give a shit anymore.' Uhhhh, considering his recent negro incident on LCL it seems to me he very much cares about that kind of thing no?
Boogie rehashes the book's story, and says how he thinks the curse is a good deal asking 'Where's me a gypsy? I need to upset a gypsy today.' Of course it's everything to lose weight except actually stopping eating with this guy, and what a brutal one trick pony he is. Imagine having to sit there and listen to this guy cry about being fat while pretending to joke about it, yikes.
19:00ish - You can visibly see the child in frame suffering from boredom in real time, his dad and some other audience members have some words with each other.
19:25 - Boogie brings up the Clum doc, immediately lying about it. 'I hope you haven't seen this, I made a documentary with a documenterian by the name of Mike Clum. We call it a documentary, but there's bits in it too' LOL yeah, sure thing Steven. He claims that hopefully Mike will have a documentary on Chris-chan as one of his upcoming releases, talks about having both Chris and his family in it. Says he desperately wants this doc to happen and it would be 'the best film I've ever seen', sucking ol' Clum off a lil hard there buddy.
20:47 - I'll also note at this time that Boogie is misgendering Christine basically this entire panel, he really flip-flops back and forth on whether he's willing to call her by her preferred pronouns or not. You can also see more conversation in the front row of the audience, no one is paying rapt attention. They keep talking about Chris-chan and Boogie eventually says he sometimes wants Chris to be right, for Sonichu to be Jesus Christ, living in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog is running around doing cool shit. Is this supposed to be funny?
21:00 - 8BE is actually paying attention to the audience and realizes some people have no fucking clue what they're talking about, so he gives a synopsis about the dimensional merge. 8BE mentions another of Chris' OC characters and Boogie pipes in with 'That's his original content Eric, that's his OC! Hers? I don't know, I'm done being politically correct honestly. Again, I'm not so sure that's really the case Mr. Negro! Boogie says that poop is probably the worst thing he could say and they engage in some poop talk.
22:18 - Boogie talks about 'who was supposed to be here today originally, for one brief moment', Keemstar. Boogie decides that calling Keem live is something that would be entertaining for everyone (fuck me), so that's what he does in a pretty obviously orchestrated bit. While he's dialing he talks about LCL and how 98% of the audience hate-watches it, says that his haters are hobbyists while Wing's haters are in it for a career. Boogie talks about wings haters destroying their own lives, one being in jail and the other being wanted by police. Note: someone Boogie's shape joins the audience at this point directly in front, meanwhile at the same time someone take the opportunity to save themselves from this experience and dips out. The former pretty obviously has something wrong with him, and regularly makes involuntary movements for the remainder of the panel.
24:02 - 8BE comes up with the idea of some movie in the vein of Blood In Blood out where a troll goes to jail for trying to troll an internet influencer, they decide to ad-lib scenes and it's just as unfunny as you think. Boogie mentions 'kill yourself' twice, again remember there's a kid literally sitting feet in front of him. Asmongold is mentioned and 8BE goes off on how disgusting his house is, Boogie agrees with him initially then immediately changes his mind and says "I think it's based, if I'm being honest with you. Like he's like this is how I grew up, it's how it is, it's how I like it, I don't really care about that kind of thing. That's pretty based, that's the definition of based; he does not care. He's like I have 10 million dollars in the bank, I just don't care.'
26:20 - Boogie remembers he wanted to call Keem, so he dials him on speaker. Keem answers on the second ring, almost as if this was a planned bit! Boogie tells him there are 14 people in the crowd including someone wearing a LCL t-shirt, and then calls said person up to the front and asks Keem to apologize to 'this man specifically for me, could you do that for me?' The guy walks up and stands there, Keem apologizes for not being there but then says it's all Boogie's fault. The guy turns around and goes and sits back down while Boogie shifts into Francis and starts screaming 'HOW IS IT MY FAULT YOU PIECE OF SH-!?' and then either him or Keem immediately hangs up. That's it, that's all, that was the entire bit folks.
27:45 - Boogie talks about being invited to Keem's for 4th of July and shit talks it, 'Could you think of anything worse than going to Keemstar's house? Sounds like SUCH a bad time. I'm like man can my heart attack happen between now and July, is there a way I can get out of this by dying?'.
28:10 - 8BE asks for permission to clickbait Boogie's death, and he starts talking about 'something important'. He starts talking about KidBehindACamera clickbaiting Angry Grandpa and people being angry about it, then says that he'll be very upset if 8BE doesn't clickbait his death. Boogie starts talking about snorting his ashes or mixing them into a Shamrock shake, very funny stuff guys. "I will personally send you chunks of my bones so that you can smash them and snort them like coke'. Don't forget about the kids in the audience there you actual fucking buffoon.
30:00 - 8BE says Boogie will outlive most people because he wants to die so much, he replies that "Nobody every really wants to die, right?' but that he's 'cool with it'. Yeah, sure thing man. Whatever you say to help you sleep at night, just forget all about your decades of suicide talk.
30:16 - 'I don't talk about this a lot publicly, but I found God again a few years ago' ROFL. 'And him and I talk from time to time, and I personally believe there's something after this right? And based on the life that I have led, it's absolutely Hell.'. 8BE tries to spin this into Boogie actually being eligible for Heaven simply because he doesn't think he deserves to be there. Boogie says heaven would be cool but that hell 'has much better people in it, right like Hitlerrrr. But like all of the Rolling Stones are down there, every artist, every painter, every philosopher, they're all down there dude'.
Wow, such original and stimulating material from Boogie. Surely this joke hasn't been beat to death a million times. At this point you can literally see the kid in the crowd doing the whole bored out of his skull hands clasped behind his head thing, hahaha. This must have been like legitimate torture for that poor lil guy. Boogie says that Mormons are the only people in heaven and makes a joke about them doing missionary work while Jesus is right there, hurr durr.
32:15 - 8BE talks about going out to the 'saddest' you can eat fish and shrimp the night before, which Boogie and Dezi apparently flaked on. Boogie says how sad he was, blah blah. 8BE tells the age-old story of AYCE, where they load up the first plate and then trickle the subsequent ones. Just riveting conversation here. Boogie brings up Red Lobster going out of business and they blame 'AYCE shrimp, which is just a really covert way of blaming me. I'll tell you, I put that place under the floor.', oh good even more fat jokes!
33:35 - Boogie says the quiet bit out loud, 'I go to Captain D's and Long John Silver's all the time, because it's like a really shitty slow break-up you know? It's like I will really miss you one day Red Lobster, or I'll really miss you one day Long John Silver's.' He asks the crowd who's been to a Long John's recently, unsurprisingly the crowd shakes their head. 'Who works at a Long John's man? It is the coolest people I've ever met, I went to Long John's and got waited on by a person with no teeth, a squinty eye... She was clearly only 25, she looked 50 and my first thought it well this is Oklahoma so it's meth right? No, I realized: ACTUAL PIRATE. They're run by actual pirates, at least they look like it.'
35:35 - Boogie talks about him and Dezi instead going out to the Rainforest Cafe the previous night, how they're also shutting down, and going on some $12 'dark ride' that has animatronics on it. Boogie then claims that 'my date' (why is he calling Dezi this, who knows) threw up halfway through dinner. He apparently blames the appetizers for this, even though that's not at all how food poisoning works whatsoever. I don't know why anyone needed to know this.
37:10 - They talk about 8BE's content and he brings up Eric's 'impression of The Quartering', god this is so painful to sit through. Boogie manages to turn it around to himself again and talks about a population of the commentary community hating on LCL, 'and when they do that I'm always like, hey Bowblax where's your show? Let's see your numbers on your non-existent show'. He spins this back to TheQuartering saying that he thinks Jeremy is one of these haters, 'I think Jeremy's like oh is Boogie feeling any amount of happiness these days, well I dislike that'.
8BE immediately pipes up that he hasn't heard TQ specfically saying anything about him, and Boogie immediately pulls a complete 180 saying 'No honestly recently him and I had a conversation and he actually reached out to me, it was really nice of him.' Uhhh so what the fuck are you doing here then Steven, why refer to him as a hater literally seconds ago?
38:50 - Boogie talks about the documentary and how he thought 'If I just keep pushing through, it'll be like getting to the other side. I call it my, anyone seen Shawshank Redemption... But it was my mile long pipe of shit, right, and I thought if I get to the other end of it things will get a little bit better. And at first they did, then they got worse, then they got better.' He claims people like TQ told him 'Dude that was entertaining as shit, you're a really entertaining guy and were nice to me again. It was kinda cool.'
Pretty sure he must have misread 'your entertainment is shit'. They segueway into talking about/trying to hock 8BE's book, don't forget it's free on Audible! There are literally now only 3 visible audience members, awesome.
40:40 - Remember that book Boogie claimed he was writing? 'I was gonna write a book, and then I realized there's a lot of typing involved'. Eric offers to help, Boogie counters with a suggestion that they go to Vegas, get a hotel room, do a tremendous amount of '... pork chops' and bang it all out in a weekend.
41:43 - Boogie talks about how when Keemstar/etc. were supposedly going to attend Retropalooze internet people were telling him they were coming to troll him, 'and what that probably meant is some 14 year old was going to knock on the door once' in reference to a random knock earlier during the panel.
42:40 - 8BE talks about some SJW hater he's attracted, Boogie immediately goes 'Is it Vaush? Is it Vaush? Mention the horses', more PG content for the panel. Boogie re-tells the story of the panel where someone in the crowd accused him of beating Dezi 1.0, he re-enacts it much cooler and level-headed than he actually was. Who fucking cares about this? 8BE says he's had two confrontations but talked both out, and they bought him beer after (sounds sussy to me). Boogie replies 'So you went the Boogie method, you went the Mr. Roger's method. You were like *weird voice* well what if I bought you a beer? 8BE then corrects him about who bought the beer and tells the story, it's fucking boring as shit and portrays him as some kind of 5 foot alpha badass. They're even actually friends now!
45:10 - Boogie puts on his old-man hat and talks about the OG internet and says 'we got on it to love things together', talks about message boards and 'IRC chats where some very strange people loved children apparently, and had to go to jail'. The internet then became more wide-spread and a 'fun thing' where people loved things on the internet, and it was great. Then Youtube came along and everyone made videos about what they loved, 'but then 2016 happened'. 'In 2016 people learned you could make a helluva lot more money by hating things, which is what my Francis character was about right? You know there's people back then that made like angry videos, but we were kinda making fun of them right?... But when you mean it, when you absolutely hate the thing, when you genuinely hate Marvel films you'll make a fortune. And that's how we've raised an entire culture on hate, an entire generation, 8 10 years of just the algorithm pushing hatred. And I used to hate that, I used to hate being hated, I used to hate other people hating the things I love. And now I get paid to do it, I get paid to be hated and it's so much more fun. So I think hating something is a form of loving it, does that make any sense? You love to hate it.'
8BE is fuckign around on his phone near the end of this and accidentally plays some audio, it's like he's just as bored as everyone else hahaha. Boogie starts asking the crowd about video games they hate and Boogie starts screaming about Solomon's Key being bullshit. More loud is funny, just kill me already.
51:20 - Boogie claims that he 'got his two dogs a fish', wasn't this fish for Dezi to learn responsibility though? They start talking about his fish tank being filthy and people hating that. Boogie asks if there's any aquarium keepers in the crowd, and then says 'So I didn't know a lot about aquariums (see:anything) when I was getting into the hobby, and uh first off WOW it's pricier than I thought. And uh I went to the fair and I gave them $5, and I threw a pingpong ball into a bowl and then they gave me a living thing in a bag and said good luck. SO we took it home and I got a 10 uh gallon tank for a goldfish, which apparently is not enough room for a goldfish. Uhhhh but I had to buy a filter with it and I had to buy decoration with it and I had to buy rocks with it, so that was all like 150 bucks. And then like 2 weeks later the goldfish was too big for that so I got him a 20 gallon tank, and now 2 weeks later he's too big for that... So I'm just gonna buy a fucking lake, I don't know man. Like I'm just gonna, I don't know how to take-well ANYWAY.'
You'd think when he outgrew the first tank, any not retarded adult would do 2 minutes of research and figure out what size tank it actually needs instead of just buying the next cheapest tank size up. Once again 8BE comes up with yet another clickbait scheme for Boogie, what the fuck is with this guy and clickbaiting shit??
Boogie returns to his original intention, explaining away how he neglected this fish. 'So here's the story though, um we were having some algae issues right, and we were cleaning the tank but the internet said go get a couple of algae-eaters. They'll take good care of the tank and they were great, they moved in but when you have algae eaters when they run out of algae what do you got to feed them? Got to feed them algae right, otherwise they'll starve to death sucking on that glass so we got them algae pellets. Well our goldfish loves algae pellets, I mean to the point where we had to start hiding them in the fish tank so the goldfish wouldn't eat them and then the little babies could. And where we hid them was inside one of the caves we got for the 10gal tank back in the day. It's in the back in the corner, it'll be fine. Well buddy forgot that he doesn't fit in there anymore, so he's snotting and a-rootin through there... tries to get the algae pellet, came out missing an eye. His right eye was flipped like this, so that he was literally looking at God. And we panicked, we immediately went to the pet story and I'm like what do we do. They're like give the fish antibiotics, buy $30 worth of antibiotics, go add it to the tank, and at some point he's like dude I'm missing an eye! What is this cream going to do? I'm like man look, I don't know how to give you back an eye. Um, so he lost his eye yeah. And we have a one-eyed goldfish from the fair.'
Another audience member stands up and leaves the panel at this point, as Boogie continues: 'And my thought process was have I taken very good care of this goldfish? No, I've tried but he could have had a better life... But you know had some little snot-nosed 8 year old Fornite addict thrown that ping pong ball into that bowl, that fish would have died 2 days later cuz ain't none of them buying them a 10 gallon tank then a 20 gallon tank then a 30 gallon tank then antibiotics.'
You're probably right Boogie, because 8 year olds don't have disposable income. Their not-retarded parents would have, and they probably wouldn't have wasted 2 tanks too small by doing zero research either. 8BE asks if the fish ate the eye, Boogie says Desi threw it in the trash. 8BE gets right back on his clickbait train and says there needs to be a clickbait thumb for this.
56:00 - 'My clickbait is just me in the thumbnail, that's enough to make people like hate-click on it.' 8BE: 'but dude how golden would it be if you made people think you are your goldfish'. Boogie replies 'OH, I'm gonna do that as soon as I get home. Yeah that's one's perfect, that's actually really good'. These are possibly the two least entertaining and unfunny panelists in existence, I swear.
56:42 - Boogie asks 8BE what it's been like beefing with the chief and editor of Kotaku, this should be riveting. Boogie steretypes this person as a 'woman in San Francisco that like goes and gets her like chai latte and then sits down at her like overpriced desk' and then uploads hate against 8BE. More boring talk until Boogie says 'I never even got on her radar, she just blocked me one day'. Sure sounds like you made her radar, idiot.
57:30 - 'I made a tweet, by the way it's medication time. I need to take my heart pills, I would like to not die so forgive me please.' This guy couldn't wait 5 minutes to take this pill, talk about manipulating the audience. Who the fuck takes pills on stage like this, someone desperate for pity, ass-pats, and for people to believe his cancer lies.
'I made a tweet, and it got five point seven million views. Do you know what the tweet was? The very controversial statement: video games are supposed to be fun, NOT lectures about why being a white man was bad. Now I think everyone can agree there's never been a video game that was exclusively a lecture about why being a white man is bad, right. It wouldn't be much of a video game if it did come out, you wouldn't have heard of it, right. But does anybody here believe that video games are supposed to be fun!? Am I the only one that wants to have fun while playing a video game? Right? ... I like turning on a game and tuning entirely out of this universe because this world has some really great stuff in it, it's got puppies and all you can eat fish and these wonderful people, you're all quite wonderful. You not quite so much, just kidding'
At this point 8BE actually answers a phone call from someone named 'Billy', and tells said person they interrupted Boogie's panel ending. Boogie pretends to answer his own phone with a "Oh hi mom, still dead I see?'. 8BE tells Billy he'll see him in two minutes and says he has to go sell someone something and leaves.
1:00:02 - 'But anyway, the point that I'm making is umm. Life has some pretty amazing stuff about it but there's some pretty shitty things about life too, and uh I know some of y'all are going through it whatever it is you're dealing with. And uh just know I love ya um, life can be hard. That's the point of video games right, it's one of those things we're all here to enjoy. There's this great moment at every retro gaming convention that some of you might have experienced at some point where you go out onto the floor and you find that Gremlin's doll, or that Transformer, or Robotech figure, or that piece of art you're going to hang on your wall, or that stuffed animal you're going to take home and add to your collection, and I don't know man. It's magic, right? Video games and magic, we all have these incredible memories tied to them and I miss that, right? I think that's why we're all here today, modern video games they can be great. I've been playing Fallout 76 and stuff but nothing ever catches that magic like Pac-Man in the arcades, or Super Mario at home, and I hope you guys whatever game you're looking for, whatever memory you're trying to chase today I hope you find it.'
If reading all this was like pulling your fingernails out, imagine having actually sat there and witnessed it in person. Holy fuck, this has to go down as one of the absolute worst retro game panels in history. I'm pretty sure they talked about retro games for literally less than 2 minutes throughout an entire hour, jesus christ.