Can't Con a Con Man

I have a very interesting serendipity type story to share. Years ago, about 7 to be exact. Episode I of Star Wars came out in theatres and Star Wars geeks around the globe united in joyous glee. There glee consisted of camping in front of every movie theater in the nation for 3 nights to get tickets for opening day. I like Star Wars but there was no way I was going to wait in line for 3 days to see anyone or anything. So did the next best thing. I took a video camera and set up fake interview with the many geeks camped out the day before tickets went on sale. I met all kinds of people but there was one particular person that stuck out, and he is still sticking out. His name is Skyler Stone. I remember this particular interview, for one, because he has the same name as my nephew and two because he had a great story for my mock interviews. I was telling people I was doing a college study on the impact of media in today's society. These SW geeks ate that up like Cantina steak. Skyler had a huge moving promotional sign infront of his camp. The sign showed little Adikin Skywalker running and eventually turning into Darth Vadar, really cool. I asked, "where did you get this sign" he said "Well, I let me tell you. This is a promotional sign right? You can't buy this an in any store. The sign was sitting at Meijer infront of a bunch of Star Wars merchandise. I really wanted the sign so I went to the poster section took the bar code off a SW poster and put it on the promotional item and went through the scan-it-yourself line and bought this puppy for $3.99!" Great story.

Here is where it gets good. I thought I was really doing a great con on all these people. Tricking them into answering ridiculous questions for a mock interview. Questions like "do you think Brittany Spears will do the soundtrack for the new SW?" oh man, that really made some die hard geeks mad. Anyway, I saw the same Skyler Stone on TV the other day getting interviewed by news 3. I guess he is a host on a Comedy Central show that cons models into thinking they are getting a serious interview and then he asks them ridiculous questions. This guy is now famous! I couldn't place the face at first but I eventually realized where I knew this guy from and that he is now doing the same thing I did to him 7 years prior, but on a much larger scale. Skyler, if you are reading this, way to go man and I hope you still have the SW promotional sign.