Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Half-Ass Productions
Well... ALL-CON is 21 years old and Cole is 21 years OLDER! Fandom's Biggest Fan (that is the biggest fan of Fandom) returns to his favorite con and annual home away from home. Involved in nearly every capacity since the earliest days of ALL-CON at the Sterling Hotel back in 2005, this former vendor turned content provider turned department head is pushing 60 and pushing forward with a great lineup of fun for your convention weekend!
With the most welcome help of co-producer Cat Houston and the whole Games and Theory (ALL-CON's Game Shows Track) team you will find him running himself ragged between producing and hosting game shows and producing and hosting his own unique panels and annual talk shows. If you are at the convention over the course of the weekend you are bound to see JediCole!
Producer: Half-Ass Productions
THU 11:00 AM: ALL-CON Opening Ceremony (45 mins.)
Room: AMETHYST (Lobby) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
An ALL-CON tradition!
Every journey has a beginning. Let your convention weekend journey begin in the best possible way with a lively overview of an experience 20 years in the making!
Join Cole ''JediCole'' Houston, veteran of all prior 19 years of ALL-CON Dallas, as he acts as your guide to the entire four-day event ahead. There is a lot ground to cover (with over 300 events in this year's lineup) and precious little time to inform and entertain the show's early arrivals. For over a decade now JediCole has been introducing attendees, new and seasoned, to an overview of what is in store for them in a rapid-fire orientation on ''Your Favorite Con'' and he is more that up for the challenge yet again!
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Category: Presentation
FRI 8:00 PM: JediCole Universe Live! (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: ALL-CON Games and Theory
JediCole returns to The JediCole Universe for another year and you are invited to join him! Be a part of ALL-CON's second-longest-running talk show (of four in 21 years*) with all of the timeless antics you have come to expect. This, because you have come to expect that JediCole won't have time to come up with any genuinely new material in time for 2025!
Audience participation is the order of the day as your host and his to-be-announced guests invite you to play along with such features as ''It Came From the Dollar (and a Quarter) Store!,'' the return of ''What Would Comic Book Villains Do?', and the inevitable game show, ''You Can't Win!'' Plus there is that whole challenge to eat some oddball dollar store find along with Cole and friends.
*Fandom at Random DFW, JediCole's Morning After, The JediCole Universe Live, JediCole's Insomnia (in order of first and/or last ALL-CON appearance).
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Category: Discussion
SAT 7:00 PM: Someday Monkey Not Play Piano Song (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Teen
Produced By: ALL-CON Games and Theory
With a title like this, it's got to be something unusual!
Cole ''JediCole'' Houston delves into an aspect of popular culture that is decidedly not his forte - music!
Cole hosts this lively panel which will feature members of Games and Theory as well as some familiar faces at ALL-CON on a journey through music and lyrics and what we sometimes hear and hear incorrectly. From the obvious, like your odd ''One Ton Tomatoes'' and ''Bathrooms on the Right'' to more obscure and decidedly personal anecdotes on lyrics that sounded like something wholly other to tales of fun encounters with popular songs.
The hand-picked panelists will ''play it by ear'' in an interactive exploration of decades of popular music that affords the audience a chance to get in on thact. No singing required!
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston; Becca Thomas; Zach Schrotter; Dean Phillips; Jason the X; Shawn Padilla
Category: Game Show
SUN 9:00 AM: JediCole's Morning After (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions; Happy Cat Productions
ALL-CON's longest running talk show is back! To make it worth sleepy, hung-over, and otherwise worn out ALL-CON attendees' efforts to wake up early on Sunday morning, JediCole brings the fun in the A.M. with all kinds of laughs and surprises. Get over that hangover from Saturday night, drag yourself to the Lantana Room at 9 AM on Sunday, and join in on the annual antics! JediCole and friends will be looking for YOU on Sunday morning!
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston; Zach Schrotter
Category: Discussion
SUN 11:00 AM: The Fault in Our Star Wars (45 mins.)
Room: QUARTZ (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: ALL-CON Games and Theory
Show me on the Death Star where Star Wars hurt you...
The one thing all Star Wars fans have in common is disappointment. Not overall disdain for the cultural juggernaut that is ''The Star Wars'', bur rather point where the Saga let us down. Even the most loyal aficionado of George Lucas' cultural phenomenon has been put off to some degree by one or more of the franchise's movies and television shows. With so much to love there is often a little bit to hate.
Cole ''JediCole'' Houston expands on one of his favorite episodes of his past podcast, ''The Rantcor Pit Live'' in a panel that explores his personal journey as a Star Wars fan from that fateful summer of 1977 through the present day. While the Disney era is often the target of fan-boy disdain, expect a more even-handed approach to revelations of the times that Star Wars fell just a bit flat from the 80s through today.
Special surprise guests will be joining the panel and will be announced as they are confirmed.
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Category: Game Show
SUN Noon: State of Toy Collecting (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Super Cool Nerd Show
Toy collecting is serious business, okay it's not but there's plenty of us that love this hobby. Every year Jason The X of SCNS Live and Jedi Cole gather like minded collectors to go over the state of toy collecting. Everything from action figures, Barbies, to Hot Wheels how we are as collectors guiding the toy industry? Let's talk about it and join the discussion on the State of Toy Collecting.
Speaking: Jason the X; Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Category: Performance
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