Aug 5, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
Good news: Isabel went to Comic Con! Bad news: There is so much AI discourse. Everything is AI. We talk about -- the Hank drama, the new AI friend, the AI crime thriller situation... There are a lot…
Amanda SilberlingHost
Isabel J. KimHost
Okay, so this episode is late because I was at Comic-Con and also doing like 5 million events.
If we're talking about jobs that are like 40 hours a week, I feel like I've entered the mirror dimension where my job is both zero hours a week and like infinite hours a week where a lot of my weekends have been going to places and being an author.
But it was really cool to be invited to Comic-Con to be on panels because, first of all, never done that before.
You're going to San Diego Comic-Con for panels, and you will be on the panels with people more famous than you.
San Diego Comic Con, truly, I'd been to the New York Comic Con, and I had not expected how big San Diego would be.
And by this, I mean, like, I feel like New York will absorb whatever convention is happening in it.
You know what I mean? Like, the Javits Center will have people in it, but it's only, like, a block out that's kind of fucked.
And everywhere else, it's like, if you see a cosplayer, it's like, this is just something that could
Yeah, San Diego is a much smaller city, and also Comic-Con there is just bigger, so it does feel like a small town has descended on the San Diego Convention Center and the five blocks around it, which is like every bar there is like, we're a nerd bar now.
Okay, so this episode is late because I was at Comic-Con and also doing like 5 million events.
If we're talking about jobs that are like 40 hours a week, I feel like I've entered the mirror dimension where my job is both zero hours a week and like infinite hours a week where a lot of my weekends have been going to places and being an author.
But it was really cool to be invited to Comic-Con to be on panels because, first of all, never done that before.
You're going to San Diego Comic-Con for panels, and you will be on the panels with people more famous than you.
San Diego Comic Con, truly, I'd been to the New York Comic Con, and I had not expected how big San Diego would be.
And by this, I mean, like, I feel like New York will absorb whatever convention is happening in it.
You know what I mean? Like, the Javits Center will have people in it, but it's only, like, a block out that's kind of fucked.
And everywhere else, it's like, if you see a cosplayer, it's like, this is just something that could
Yeah, San Diego is a much smaller city, and also Comic-Con there is just bigger, so it does feel like a small town has descended on the San Diego Convention Center and the five blocks around it, which is like every bar there is like, we're a nerd bar now.
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