UI-Con 2026: Ninety For Chill in (Aeon) FLUX with Andrew Tiede

About this episode

CatBusRuss and Andrew Tiede discuss their experiences at UI-Con 2026 and the challenges of engaging an audience at an anime convention.

CatBusRuss and Andrew "Couchman Bakes" Tiede , knew that UI-Con was primarily an anime convention once they walked into the Illinois Conference Center at the iHotel, but their first of three panels that Friday demonstrated that the crowd may not have that much love for flesh-and-blood, English language-focused conversations. Perhaps they will color their hair or at least get some kawaii wigs for 2027. This was essentially the first empty room for the " Ninety For Chill: The Panel ". A situation like this does not really affect an underemployed pro-wrestler and an aspiring comedian. They have both performed in front of smaller crowds. If anything it was educational to the crew from the convention who would walk in and take pity on the two. The staff was provided a demonstration of how to roll with the punches. And it let Andrew practice his crowd work. "Ninety For Chill" was what " I Dig Crazy Flicks " evolved from. Russ believes that a movie should be no shorter than 70 minutes and no longer than 100. Andrew is just a few years behind our host age wise, which still places the two closer to 50 than hopeful. So they both grew up squeezing…

People in this episode

Host: CatBusRuss

Guest: Andrew Tiede

Topics covered

• anime convention
• panel discussion
• crowd work
• film reviews
• Midwestern upbringing

Keywords

• UI-Con
• anime
• panel
• crowd work
• film
• Ninety For Chill

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UI-Con

Books & works: Ninety For Chill, I Dig Crazy Flicks

Places: Illinois Conference Center, iHotel

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