iraqi with the name of a lot of books graces the most verses and me i mean heroes matter to stor we'll be talking about superheroes and then we're also going to be talking about muslims in comic books and illustrators and the title of that part is nerds and geeks so we're going to have several different pitches come on the monitor and i'll talk about that and you can ask me some questions about that so if they'll just put some pictures on the monitor and i don't know what order they're going to come in but we'll just talk about those things right let's go ok rock n roll ok so this is at the new york city comic and if you know anything about comic on it's were some of the thing things of it is people dressed up in different costumes superhero superman batman black panther and so forth but this one if you remember the movie coming to america this is prince a keen when he was at the who was working at mcdonald's not mcdonald's but so this gentleman here if you look at his that wow it looks just like me people they dress seriously for these things and i just happened to see him and i said man we take a picture he didn't work there he was just one of the people that came to come across on dressed in a  commands for the day what to do you know just like in the military and everything but it was just interesting so i wanted to give a shout out because you know we do have issues with police you know across the country but i want you know i think they should be commended when they do a good job so the people felt safe i know i felt safe so i just want to say that ok all right so we'll see what the next picture is and we just kind of go from there ok so this they did she was in a black  i was going to kick his butt for you know all the stuff that he did you know in this last movie i'm not going to spoil it because i know how you guys do on the movie reviews you know you guys do a thing on a movie review but yes now i know so i do i just wish to turn in there a people you know ok so this picture here so that's the black panther of course and that's me in the middle in captain america so you know they're super heroes black parent there and captain america but the real superhero is in the middle and i'm not talking about me i'm talking about the t shirt i had mohammad ali right that's the real superhero right so you know it's fun to make believe and you know you kind of need some release and this  environment that we're in the day you know just to have some kind of release and you know to have some hope that just like the series i've always like star trek because i saw african american people and people of color in the future you know so i said we have we did make it to the future you know so as one of the themes go black heroes matter you know young african american kids they need to see  these different type of heroes that look like them and it's just house a different society started i think rome started on a myth it was what to wolf's you know and so off of that's dead myth picture you know do it when you can because you might not see him again this next picture is new the grasse tyson and it was very it was very interesting we saw we got to see him two times so i'm thinking that the first time that we saw he was talking and it was it was his birthday was coming up the next day there or i think you're at the fifty eight and that's when neil de grasse tyson was born so he kind of gave the time of what was happening in nasa and what was happening in his life and it just you know need if you go you know so many years five years ten about that going to get i'm going to go back and talk about the civil rights what was happening where you know a lot of african americans couldn't get into these science programs they wouldn't let them in good story and that was hidden figures who knew we'd never heard about these black women doing these complex mathematical equations to get you know the space program going where they could get a man to the moon and are in space and so did you ever hear about that coming up never had you heard about it recently before the movie no yeah so these were the the things that he talked about and then near the end he got you know scientists and everything but he got really emotional about this whole thing that was happening to him and what was happening in nasa and what was going on with you know race relations and the whole bit i mean on t v you know i mean we've never seen that side  so it was it was really worthwhile and then we saw him again speak a few days later to him in this well i can't i can't remember at all but it was just the correlation with the civil rights movement and him just just growing up the two thing all the stuff was that was happening it was you know things that have happened in his life you know it's just he had to go through being an african american man i just got a short african american man in america you know trying to be a scientist right you know so yeah he was he was very good very good so yeah that was neil de grasse tyson did you get his autograph i couldn't also you get a book that you can see there but if you pre planned you kind of know who you want to see you might want to see a illustrator illustrator be one who draws the comics and everything and then you might want to see a writer so you kind of known before and you've got a game wait a minute so then what you had to do you had to buy either his book or a comic book and he would autograph it and you know you take a picture going to cost you thirty bucks or fifty if you brought the book whatever it is once a lifetime you know just i don't know what exactly i just said you know i was concerned about you guys and your pray for you that you know because you're so hyper you know kind of paces so you know what i felt you know sometimes you feel something if you don't say so not tell the guy you know hey matt just take a slice it just take care of yourself i'm just a regular guy you know i have no influence but you know you just hope sometimes somebody takes he did that because you know as you saw you know you know how that go he had a picture and a book and if he got one of those he would sign it and you could take a picture for like twenty dollars or fifty so i got the picture in a book i love i never see him again but i just read the little bit of he just was if you've done some wrong you'd be on the news a lot but i got his book i haven't i just read one page but he's been through a lot he talked about how we was with after the movie you know sober things he did  was he was good friends with eddie murphy for a while and everything but it's just an interesting story and i guess i just happened to walk down the aisle and saw him didn't know he was going to be there and like so when you see these people you got to take it  so she had a pitcher guy williams and with because they both they played on lost in space back in the day that all eisenberg so she was there so she had a picture of a guy williams who says he didn't sign it guy get this is me with the person who was spider man so and he got his little arm out doing the where slinger thing and everything and this is a regular person in the costume just asked him so i think his wife or girlfriend took the picture and he was good about it you know and we've just fun and it was no like you know it was just you know people really real nice yeah so yeah that was me and me and spidey so that was fun  was well attended and you know how we have the image of muslims you know are you know has been you know the whole terrorist thing and backward and always kind of thing but these are things if you go to and the general public learns more about you know you get a better understanding who these people were are and it was it was fun so another clip on that but it was fun to just talk to the muslim comic book writers and  illustrators so this is one of the comic book hero and his name is brett and he is a muslim superhero who are strong and of course you can fly so you know this is something good for in america i'm sure you can go somewhere and get and get it i didn't have a chance to talk to the people afterward addict took some pictures and i think i had from there try to go to another workshop but it was it was a really inspiring workshop and just to know that there are muslim illustrators who draw and then this is the panel there of the  salon nerds and geeks and the were muslim sisters brothers and sisters there the one sister there who has the tie on that you can see that has a short sleeve she is from saudi arabia which word with a short sleeve shirt and she has a tie on ok ok so she is from saudi arabia then i forget where the other people are from the sister who is in the red he japp all red in the background she's an american muslim arab all the other ones i believe are from different countries the sister in the middle i think she's from america or so but they all had unique stories talk about muslim person next to that that's just there is in store and then there are some other people there that are from the guardian of the galaxy so they got there he jab on and they got their costumes i love it yes no the yeah so they were there was there is i just you know i did they let me take your picture and everything and they were cool and they were demi and they were all in it you know but it was fun because you know what muslim women they can do anything you know they just have to stand behind their guy in very wholesome way yes they're in a hole and you know and all that kind of crazy stupid stuff so it was good to see them and they were i encourage the muslim brothers that they were there they had a coup ffion like you they were at the thing so i didn't want to ask the question but i didn't get a chance because they only had time for a couple questions i want to say what what does any of these e mails given you all in a mass any group at any get a chance to because they only took a couple  questions and i didn't get a chance to but that had been my question is i would it wouldn't you know your man's good and given you so for people don't know a man i'm sorry they would be like your minister or your reverend and i want to see if they were getting any flack from  the audience of the black heroes matter panel so that was the audience and you could see as well attended a lot of african americans there but one of the people say david walker and a couple other people they said you know they want that alice but they also want you know the european americans to be at these things because it's been so hard to get black superheroes and comics v and so forth you know the thing has been you know black panther which is good because i think that they did a good job on it but there's other superhero that have been written about that we don't know anything about that illustrators are writing about i mean drawing about in and writers are writing you know these fantastic stories but you know hear about them and it's hard for them to break into the mainstream comics because they talk to the executives in executives wanted to be a certain way you know so forth and so on you know you know going to be good or whatever you know something like that but that was the that was just the audience so we'll go to the next bit you hear and see what we have so this is david walker and he's been writing comics for a long time i met him that's where i saw the shirts somewhere and so when he came to seattle he came to langston hughes for a little panel discussion and he saw me with the shirt and he said all right and because that's what he was talking about there that black heroes do matter and he would just say the same thing i just said earlier that they try to talk to these executives you know it's like they don't get it you know they don't get it so he said i've been doing that for years so they try to do their own things and so forth so yeah that's mr david walker and it will get it they don't want to get i think it's both yeah yeah it's so you know that was  you know that was that was a good panel yeah so this is marcus williams he is an illustrator and he's done it i'll try to show i brought some of his collection here just to do paintings but he's illustrated he draws a lot of things he did did some drawing to kill monger and black panther i brought that picture and then he did one few member of the cartoon seri know you can see the work that's done and finance you know when you see i saw this i said man i gotta get this i just kate let this go by i've never seen a grown up you you know we and we've got it and everything s that was great that was great a picture so i guess he has a comic book too yeah daryl makes comics you know da da vinci they are ok i get it yeah i get it now i really actually looked at that and so we're walking walking by so i just took a bunch of pictures you know of him but yeah it was so you see they got all kind of people there you know all kind of things going on and you got you know t v stars you guys you know comic book writers and people dress and comedy so you know if you go there with you know kind of knowing what you want to do you know it's a lot of fun it takes a little strategy and then sometimes you just get lucky like i just got lucky you know but yeah it was a lot of fun so let me ask you a question do you get a similar pitches or do you want to go with the first three questions you know doing the show i don't know if we should do in the show because we've got about two minutes left just this let me just tell you i want to go gets the subway it was a little ways to get there so for so i just went in google missed it so then i had this address so we walked in so then we walk and we're near madison square garden so i see the address but i'm saying man what's behind this door there's the door it's kind of like when we got inside it almost kind of like a loading dock and but then there were some space so they had all these food carts there from people who were food vendors cab drivers were there people work for the transit t let you go through that door first did you don't know what to expect but it served a purpose it was close like is it a cab drivers again food vendors came there people who work for the subway and it was convenient but it was different and they didn't have rugs down they had like a vinyl flooring so when i came in there walked in there i didn't realize i was walking where that people put their head down and i kind of got that look because i'm looking for rugs you know where the rug  s just vinyl which made me kind of make sense because you come in there muddy and everything off the street so that was interesting but i think we're almost out of time glad you asked me and my wife to go we had a good time and it was just fun and you saw the new things and kind of open up your horizons and stuff like that so for the second time the next one will be in seattle with that's going to be march twenty nineteen