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What's up and welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Monday, August 17th, 2026 Of course, I'm your host, Tim Gettys, and I am joined today making her return to the show. It's hosted creator of Gaming Decoded, Andrea Rene.

**Andrea Rene** (0:53)
What's good, Tim? So nice to see you.

**Tim Gettys** (0:55)
Nice to see you, Andrea. It's been way too long. I feel like the last time I saw you was WrestleMania, not even last year, not even the year before. It must have been like the three years ago one. Maybe I'm wrong.

**Andrea Rene** (1:07)
No, I've definitely seen you before then.

**Tim Gettys** (1:12)
It was two years. It's still a long time. How are you doing?

**Andrea Rene** (1:15)
I'm doing really well. It's been a very interesting year in terms of what's happening in the gaming world. And my daughter just started kindergarten. We were talking about what is the passage of time. It's wild.

**Tim Gettys** (1:28)
I know.

**Andrea Rene** (1:29)
But yeah, it's going well. Thank you.

**Tim Gettys** (1:31)
Yeah, that is exciting. You just spent the weekend at D23. I'm very jealous.

**Andrea Rene** (1:35)
I did.

**Tim Gettys** (1:36)
I've never been to one.

**Andrea Rene** (1:38)
That is so tragic, Tim. We have to fix that.

**Tim Gettys** (1:41)
No D23 and no Star Wars Celebration. I'm just like, man, I would have so much fun of these things, but I get it. There's stuff we have to do here. This whole life thing, you know.

**Andrea Rene** (1:51)
Yes, it's true. But I feel like the next one, we need to plant the seeds now so that you can come down and experience the magic. I mean, it really is like something truly special. And I'm happy to tell a couple of anecdotes, but I had some really fun run-ins while I was there.

**Tim Gettys** (2:09)
I will go for it. That's what this is all about.

**Andrea Rene** (2:11)
This little rigmarole section of the show. Well, so anybody who knows that I enjoyed Disney or has seen my bounding outfits on Instagram knows that Ariel is my girl. Prince Stereo, Little Mermaid, I don't know why it's it's my vibe.
Obviously, the red hair is a huge part of that.
I've been a huge fan for a long time. I decided for D23. I was like, I don't want to go hard because like they have really amazing cosplayers at D23, like Comic-Con. So it's like, I'm just going to go for a casual bounding look. And for people who aren't familiar with the bounding is when you go to the Disney parks, you as an adult are not allowed to wear costumes as the favorite characters because they don't want guests, kids, et cetera, confusing you with the actual cast members who work at Disney. So if you want to dress up like your favorite characters, you have to do this thing called bounding, which is like no casual version of what the character wears. And I have several of these looks for Ariel. And so I wore one of them to the show and this producer walked up to me randomly and was like, what are you doing in like 45 minutes? And I was like, if I didn't work in video, this would have been like a really random, weird conversation to just start with somebody. But I was like, what is it? He was like, well, we're doing a surprise video shoot with someone that's part of your world, wink, wink. And I was like, what does that mean? I was like, hey, I'm here for it, let's go. And so then I show up where he tells me to meet and it's these people in incredible costumes, handmade, hoop skirts, the wigs, full makeup, everything. And here's me, my casual bounding look feeling like very inadequate. But I'm like, okay, I'm just going to be here as the casual girl. That's fine. And then they have us all face the same direction. And then up from behind walks Jodie Benson.

**Tim Gettys** (3:59)
Jodie Benson, that's awesome.

**Andrea Rene** (4:00)
The original voice of Ariel.