{"id":1808,"date":"2016-12-29T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T01:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobrandcon.org\/p\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2017-01-13T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T04:30:50","slug":"guest-announcement-uncle-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobrandcon.org\/p\/2016\/12\/guest-announcement-uncle-yo\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Announcement: Uncle YO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce our first Guest of Honor, Uncle YO!<\/p>\n<p>Karl &#8220;Uncle Yo&#8221; Custer is New York&#8217;s premiere geek-specific comedian, having appeared at over 100 anime, comic book and video game conventions. His self-proclaimed style of &#8220;rantcore&#8221; combines long-form stories with motivational rhyming couplets. Panel leader, emcee, Off-Broadway playwright, puppeteer and podcaster, Yo show-runs his original Youtube&#8217;s fantasy sitcom with puppets, Dungeon Crawlers. You can listen to his latest project on Youtube, a bi-weekly narrative horror podcast called Chroniclers of Darkness. <\/p>\n<p>His entire 4-CD collection is available through Amazon, iTunes, and streaming on Spotify. He&#8217;ll also have DVD&#8217;s on him exclusively for No Brand Con. Alternatively, you can spot him in several cameos alongside Channel Awesome, where he was featured alongside the Nostalgia Critic, Demo Reel, and the channel&#8217;s 5th anniversary feature, DragonBored. For older kids, you can see him as corporate, flower-loving super-villain Jeff Regan on Youtube&#8217;s suburban super-hero series, Schnoz-Man and HolePunch: the Justice Lease.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1808\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nobrandcon.org\/p\/2016\/12\/guest-announcement-uncle-yo\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1808\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nobrandcon.org\/p\/2016\/12\/guest-announcement-uncle-yo\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nobrandcon.org\/p\/2016\/12\/guest-announcement-uncle-yo\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nobrandcon.org\/p\/2016\/12\/guest-announcement-uncle-yo\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce our first Guest of Honor, Uncle YO! 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