Adam Savage and John Hodgman Talk Comics and Film!

Adam Savage Talks Comic Con 2016 Experience with Jon Hodgman

Comic Con 2016 was an unforgettable experience for Adam Savage, and he couldn't wait to share his stories with us. As he sat down with Jon Hodgman, they dived into a conversation about their shared passion for Marvel and the art of cosplay.

Modok, a Marvel supervillain, was on the mind of both Adam and Jon as they chatted. "I've been pushing the Hodgman for MODOK campaign for a couple of years," Adam revealed, "so I think I would have to do that." He joked about the logistics of creating his own MODOK costume, saying "my little hands would you ever consider coming to one of the cons in costume and if so what would that costume be?" Jon Hodgman, known for his impressive cosplay skills, was more than happy to offer his support. "I would help you if you were that," he said with a smile.

Adam Savage's love for comics and pop culture is evident as he talked about his recent appearance on John Blazer's new TV show, where he played the role of Curie in an adaptation of the classic manga series. "It was all that floats it is so I had it I had the right bag and I saw the line to get in it's Comic Con," he said, recalling the experience of walking into Comic Con for the first time. He joked about not wanting to get "thrown in comic-con jail" but instead walked in with confidence, like a "full human being." The crowd roared with laughter at his clever anecdote.

As they continued their conversation, Adam Savage revealed that he had an unexpected encounter with Jonathan Ross, Paul Duddridge, and Storm during the con. "Jonathan was going to be here but of course he is," Adam said, "and I ran into him and Paul and they were all so cool." The group also stumbled upon Jean Grae, who was signing copies of her work as part of a Marvel event. "It's amazing how super spy I just was because I happened to have been here yesterday talking on a panel," Adam exclaimed.

The conversation took an interesting turn when Jon Hodgman quipped about the pros and cons of attending Comic Con. "Sometimes you that there's too many shows yeah I don't recognize most yeah I don't know who it was I just went along with it and got the elevator and they let me right on through," Adam said, chuckling about his own experience navigating the con. Jon added his own thoughts on the matter, saying "it's my world show floors my tinnitus." The lighthearted banter between the two continued as they wrapped up their conversation.

Comic Con 2016 was a truly unforgettable experience for Adam Savage, and he credits it with bringing him face-to-face with some of his favorite celebrities and cosplayers. From MODOK to Marvel TV shows, Adam's passion for pop culture is evident throughout our conversation. We can't wait to see what the future holds for this enthusiastic fan and his fellow comic book enthusiasts.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI am on the floor of new Gardens comic-con 2016 talking to my friend John Hodgman Judge John Chuck John Hodgman seasoned me that's the name of my podcast it's very difficult to pronounce I realized George George judge judge Jim Hodgman is trying to get a judge to Hodgman how's it going done I'm a little over see you later Oh Jonathan Coulton ladies and gentlemen of the cult Jonathan Coulton lost a bunch of weight just like you did yeah everyone's losing what Jonathan is my old friend and we've been on a diet that inspired by it by you know lunch day yeah I call it the night where is this going it's good this is going up untested may I swear yeah I mean I'm I don't usually work blue but my friend my friend Liz Gilbert termed it as they don't meet so much all the time diet that's exactly it yeah and it's really it's been profound yeah I found that my stomach gets smaller so I get fuller fast we're middle-aged yeah I hope you like comics so this is cheb you've been given to new york comes to my second time or ever I was here once before with the thrilling adventure hour right the great multi-person comedy troupe and this is the and that was overwhelming but I discover it is of course I you know what I love going down to that artists alley yep I'm meeting Howard Chaykin right-hand Adam Hughes and all these creators absolute heroes of comedy throwing and they're sitting there right there they're ready to talk and also is a lot easier to move around down there because people don't care about actual human to make things they're simply don't care about comics yeah that comic comic God no it was like they're tumbleweeds going down though this is a hint if you want to go to comic-con New York San Diego wherever go to the artists alley yeah that's it you'll meet incredible people there you know the people who make all the rest of this possible but all the rest of this is fantastic as well you know I don't know the only other comic-con ah I had been to probably was at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston in 1985 whoa and that was truly just one ballroom full of thins of comics what maybe some t-shirts what brought you there I liked comic okay I I I was exploring my feelings you were 17 18 I've no I was but at that time I was 14 13 14 so you know I was starting to have emotions and and feelings and so I wanted to I was in that prime moment for the grand soap opera of the x-men where I really hit me oh you know that was pure General Hospital with it with it with a shellac of science-fiction on it and and and an extra bit of self-pity because aren't we all mutants we have we are all well this is actually the next question that was gonna hazard we are all mutants and I I think this is true about you it's definitely true mummy I grew up feeling a bit like an outsider yeah in my own community I got anymore didn't get along along with my peers very well and this seems to be a celebration a deep celebration of all of those ways I felt back then and the passions that I had back then and letting everyone sort of let it all hang his call Sabourin and the great commute from the song that all of us or you're gonna get everyone you world of each of these yeah well cut them in later like it really happened ya know we may be at the last Jenner the last generation of nerds to be thoroughly marginalize right and and that's in part I mean obviously due to the internet because that was the first thing I saw when I turned on the internet at any meaningful speed in 1997 right our office at the literary agency I worked on got a t1 line or something right and it was suddenly at our desk and I did the first thing everyone does looked at my own name nothing there and then I looked up Bruce Campbell because he was a client well then he was it wasn't okay because I loved Chris Campbell Jonathan Coulton whom I knew at that time also loved his kids and Nick McCarthy love Bruce Campbell Nick McCarthy is now a director of horror movies but he was my high school friend who introduced me to the Evil Dead an overnight viewing session yes very difficult to explain to girls all things were found to be the most cheesy movie marathons overnight cheesy movie marathons and oh that's some ways now he directs horror movies and he directed a great movie called the packets which you should check I don't know about it okay anyway I'll agree scandal but as far as I know those are the three data points I had right I still do love Bri scandal I knew my girlfriend didn't love super scandal because I made her watch Evil Dead 2 when it came out she's like do not get it and she still doesn't and I'm married to her never but I put in Bruce Campbell and all of a sudden I found all these points of light yeah but whose table fans all over the place finding each other for the kind of the first time outside of a convention hall right and I've also found whose Campbell who had a website at the time and was writing essays and I wrote to him and I said do you want to write a book because I work at a literary agency and that was the that wasn't still is the beauty of the internet where he could be convinced by a twenty-something dum-dum to write a book and now he's going to write the sequel to that book and that book was called if Chin's could kill and I represented it and I just found out he's doing the sequel are you representing this one - no no I mean no longer as literate know that I somehow harbored a fantasy I think I think I think I am he has asked me to write it one of the introductions or four words or a little piece of something in it for free you're welcome please as I owe him everything but what I saw at the time when the internet was around what we now try to turn generally as nerd culture fan culture around comics and science fiction fantasy films and novels and everything in between people who would have to come to rooms like these to find each other you have now find each other all over the world and everywhere yeah they began you know obviously and if we dated my entry point to the internet but did they be they began a shadow convention that spanned the globe that is been constantly going on ever since I find that I have many friends on the web that I haven't actually met in person yeah people I have relationships I've never met I'm not even here he's not he's this is my this is my avatar that I send into the world you never met the real time I did not know that I'm a floating head Wow yeah Wow yeah I'm in Omaha and one of the benefits of being in Omaha disembodied oh mom don't ask me I was just engineered this way I'm in a deep deep sub-basement and in a government facility in Omaha I hope no one shuts off the power I'm the real-life MODOK y'all by the way why have I not been cast as MODOK in any Marvel Cinematic Universe property I'm looking around iron fist coming out on this thing I'm plugging you guys marvel but the defenders coming out you know that ants man and wasthis that's where motox got it right Peyton Reed you know we've talked about this put me in I'm ready to go coach MODOK see my little hands would you ever consider coming to one of the cons in costume and if so what would that costume be well at this point I've been pushing the Hodgman for MODOK campaign for a couple of years so I think I would have to do that something yeah we can do that well I would help you if you were that if you want I would go make my head this big and my body this small I would that's a good question the thing I like about the mode our costume in yeah not a lot of walking yeah I need a hovering you know it's a vehicle to be rides around right right oh I'm talking to miss yes yeah okay mental orgasm organism designed only for killing I was the inspiration for that I'm a timeless giant head that was genetically engineered in the basement I think we can try to 1937 I think we can totally this is just one of my many guises pet views I am in gyeom in disguise I'm in disguise as a regular you are that's the baseball cap means that we're regular people yeah that's right sorry I went off in them we go that's totally selling promotional vision society how that should go disturbing delusion have you seen any costumes out here today that have rocked your world or that you provide a particular inspiring here's what I literally just walked in today like I it's unbelievable how super spy I just was because I I happen to have been here yesterday talking on a panel for John Blazers new TV show John Glaser lives here starring me as Curie it's another thing it's all that floats it is so I had it I had the right bag and I saw the line to get in it's Comic Con everyone it was all amazing yeah Harry play full like what's that from Pacific Rim jaegers Yeager's yeah Yeager's right yeah like 30-foot tall right Hagar's really oh yeah that's Wow fully functional when I went in through the speaker's to work yeah and for the first time of my life i intuited and acted upon the premise if you ask for help you will be stomped so just walk as though you belong yep which i think is very hard for every nerd do never do totally I belong there's every cell in my only child body wanted to go up to a person of authority and go I have this badge from yesterday and I think it means I can come in this way and I have to talk to Adam Savage and can you help me please I don't want to get I don't want to get thrown in comic-con jail because you know they happen they do but instead I just walked in purposefully like a full human being like a non damage a full human being and I nailed it into this group of oh there was somewhere between executives and celebrities I can't sometimes you that there's too many shows yeah I don't recognize most yeah I don't know who it was I just went along with it and got the elevator and they let you right on through and they said yeah and they were like and I said I actually have to get off on they're going up to four this is where the interview rooms are my god be off on three and they looked at me you don't want to get off on three that's that's the show floor you don't want to go anywhere near it's my world show floors my tinnitus it was amazing I was said I would be here at 12:30 and I was here exactly at 12:30 I precisely like on the nose when you look at your watch it said 12:30 yeah and you know the thing of it here is I didn't know that Jonathan was going to be here but of course he is and I ran into him and Paul and storm in the back of their hand seer hand route back here Yeah right and Jean Grae the amazing my friend also part of thrilling adventure the amazing rapper and artist and actor is signing over signing copies of black panther over the Marvel booth I didn't know she was gonna be here but it is really behind your people in life this is where you get your Sangha okay next question no I think that's it I think that a good place to wrap it up we've been talking for 15 minutes all right shall we wrap it up this is Adam Savage at Jon Hodgman Comic Con 2016 I love you brother I love you too Hodgman for MODOK hashtag Hodgman from a Hodgman for MotoI am on the floor of new Gardens comic-con 2016 talking to my friend John Hodgman Judge John Chuck John Hodgman seasoned me that's the name of my podcast it's very difficult to pronounce I realized George George judge judge Jim Hodgman is trying to get a judge to Hodgman how's it going done I'm a little over see you later Oh Jonathan Coulton ladies and gentlemen of the cult Jonathan Coulton lost a bunch of weight just like you did yeah everyone's losing what Jonathan is my old friend and we've been on a diet that inspired by it by you know lunch day yeah I call it the night where is this going it's good this is going up untested may I swear yeah I mean I'm I don't usually work blue but my friend my friend Liz Gilbert termed it as they don't meet so much all the time diet that's exactly it yeah and it's really it's been profound yeah I found that my stomach gets smaller so I get fuller fast we're middle-aged yeah I hope you like comics so this is cheb you've been given to new york comes to my second time or ever I was here once before with the thrilling adventure hour right the great multi-person comedy troupe and this is the and that was overwhelming but I discover it is of course I you know what I love going down to that artists alley yep I'm meeting Howard Chaykin right-hand Adam Hughes and all these creators absolute heroes of comedy throwing and they're sitting there right there they're ready to talk and also is a lot easier to move around down there because people don't care about actual human to make things they're simply don't care about comics yeah that comic comic God no it was like they're tumbleweeds going down though this is a hint if you want to go to comic-con New York San Diego wherever go to the artists alley yeah that's it you'll meet incredible people there you know the people who make all the rest of this possible but all the rest of this is fantastic as well you know I don't know the only other comic-con ah I had been to probably was at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston in 1985 whoa and that was truly just one ballroom full of thins of comics what maybe some t-shirts what brought you there I liked comic okay I I I was exploring my feelings you were 17 18 I've no I was but at that time I was 14 13 14 so you know I was starting to have emotions and and feelings and so I wanted to I was in that prime moment for the grand soap opera of the x-men where I really hit me oh you know that was pure General Hospital with it with it with a shellac of science-fiction on it and and and an extra bit of self-pity because aren't we all mutants we have we are all well this is actually the next question that was gonna hazard we are all mutants and I I think this is true about you it's definitely true mummy I grew up feeling a bit like an outsider yeah in my own community I got anymore didn't get along along with my peers very well and this seems to be a celebration a deep celebration of all of those ways I felt back then and the passions that I had back then and letting everyone sort of let it all hang his call Sabourin and the great commute from the song that all of us or you're gonna get everyone you world of each of these yeah well cut them in later like it really happened ya know we may be at the last Jenner the last generation of nerds to be thoroughly marginalize right and and that's in part I mean obviously due to the internet because that was the first thing I saw when I turned on the internet at any meaningful speed in 1997 right our office at the literary agency I worked on got a t1 line or something right and it was suddenly at our desk and I did the first thing everyone does looked at my own name nothing there and then I looked up Bruce Campbell because he was a client well then he was it wasn't okay because I loved Chris Campbell Jonathan Coulton whom I knew at that time also loved his kids and Nick McCarthy love Bruce Campbell Nick McCarthy is now a director of horror movies but he was my high school friend who introduced me to the Evil Dead an overnight viewing session yes very difficult to explain to girls all things were found to be the most cheesy movie marathons overnight cheesy movie marathons and oh that's some ways now he directs horror movies and he directed a great movie called the packets which you should check I don't know about it okay anyway I'll agree scandal but as far as I know those are the three data points I had right I still do love Bri scandal I knew my girlfriend didn't love super scandal because I made her watch Evil Dead 2 when it came out she's like do not get it and she still doesn't and I'm married to her never but I put in Bruce Campbell and all of a sudden I found all these points of light yeah but whose table fans all over the place finding each other for the kind of the first time outside of a convention hall right and I've also found whose Campbell who had a website at the time and was writing essays and I wrote to him and I said do you want to write a book because I work at a literary agency and that was the that wasn't still is the beauty of the internet where he could be convinced by a twenty-something dum-dum to write a book and now he's going to write the sequel to that book and that book was called if Chin's could kill and I represented it and I just found out he's doing the sequel are you representing this one - no no I mean no longer as literate know that I somehow harbored a fantasy I think I think I think I am he has asked me to write it one of the introductions or four words or a little piece of something in it for free you're welcome please as I owe him everything but what I saw at the time when the internet was around what we now try to turn generally as nerd culture fan culture around comics and science fiction fantasy films and novels and everything in between people who would have to come to rooms like these to find each other you have now find each other all over the world and everywhere yeah they began you know obviously and if we dated my entry point to the internet but did they be they began a shadow convention that spanned the globe that is been constantly going on ever since I find that I have many friends on the web that I haven't actually met in person yeah people I have relationships I've never met I'm not even here he's not he's this is my this is my avatar that I send into the world you never met the real time I did not know that I'm a floating head Wow yeah Wow yeah I'm in Omaha and one of the benefits of being in Omaha disembodied oh mom don't ask me I was just engineered this way I'm in a deep deep sub-basement and in a government facility in Omaha I hope no one shuts off the power I'm the real-life MODOK y'all by the way why have I not been cast as MODOK in any Marvel Cinematic Universe property I'm looking around iron fist coming out on this thing I'm plugging you guys marvel but the defenders coming out you know that ants man and wasthis that's where motox got it right Peyton Reed you know we've talked about this put me in I'm ready to go coach MODOK see my little hands would you ever consider coming to one of the cons in costume and if so what would that costume be well at this point I've been pushing the Hodgman for MODOK campaign for a couple of years so I think I would have to do that something yeah we can do that well I would help you if you were that if you want I would go make my head this big and my body this small I would that's a good question the thing I like about the mode our costume in yeah not a lot of walking yeah I need a hovering you know it's a vehicle to be rides around right right oh I'm talking to miss yes yeah okay mental orgasm organism designed only for killing I was the inspiration for that I'm a timeless giant head that was genetically engineered in the basement I think we can try to 1937 I think we can totally this is just one of my many guises pet views I am in gyeom in disguise I'm in disguise as a regular you are that's the baseball cap means that we're regular people yeah that's right sorry I went off in them we go that's totally selling promotional vision society how that should go disturbing delusion have you seen any costumes out here today that have rocked your world or that you provide a particular inspiring here's what I literally just walked in today like I it's unbelievable how super spy I just was because I I happen to have been here yesterday talking on a panel for John Blazers new TV show John Glaser lives here starring me as Curie it's another thing it's all that floats it is so I had it I had the right bag and I saw the line to get in it's Comic Con everyone it was all amazing yeah Harry play full like what's that from Pacific Rim jaegers Yeager's yeah Yeager's right yeah like 30-foot tall right Hagar's really oh yeah that's Wow fully functional when I went in through the speaker's to work yeah and for the first time of my life i intuited and acted upon the premise if you ask for help you will be stomped so just walk as though you belong yep which i think is very hard for every nerd do never do totally I belong there's every cell in my only child body wanted to go up to a person of authority and go I have this badge from yesterday and I think it means I can come in this way and I have to talk to Adam Savage and can you help me please I don't want to get I don't want to get thrown in comic-con jail because you know they happen they do but instead I just walked in purposefully like a full human being like a non damage a full human being and I nailed it into this group of oh there was somewhere between executives and celebrities I can't sometimes you that there's too many shows yeah I don't recognize most yeah I don't know who it was I just went along with it and got the elevator and they let you right on through and they said yeah and they were like and I said I actually have to get off on they're going up to four this is where the interview rooms are my god be off on three and they looked at me you don't want to get off on three that's that's the show floor you don't want to go anywhere near it's my world show floors my tinnitus it was amazing I was said I would be here at 12:30 and I was here exactly at 12:30 I precisely like on the nose when you look at your watch it said 12:30 yeah and you know the thing of it here is I didn't know that Jonathan was going to be here but of course he is and I ran into him and Paul and storm in the back of their hand seer hand route back here Yeah right and Jean Grae the amazing my friend also part of thrilling adventure the amazing rapper and artist and actor is signing over signing copies of black panther over the Marvel booth I didn't know she was gonna be here but it is really behind your people in life this is where you get your Sangha okay next question no I think that's it I think that a good place to wrap it up we've been talking for 15 minutes all right shall we wrap it up this is Adam Savage at Jon Hodgman Comic Con 2016 I love you brother I love you too Hodgman for MODOK hashtag Hodgman from a Hodgman for Moto\n"