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from the first OCK Flyaway:

The first Overcast Kids Flyaway was in Tucson on October 28-30 during the 2005 Nintendo Fusion Tour. Obviously that was a FOB thing, but the P!ATD guys showed up at the breakfast event at a hotel on October 29th. A fan had Bden talk to someone on their phone and then he was given the ��I died on the Oregon Trail" shirt that ended up becoming part of his offstage wardrobe in the early Fever era.

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from fall 2005... most are from the Nintendo Fusion Tour

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10/20/05

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11.23.05

the flour on Brendon's tshirt was from the prank unfolding during Panic's set

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the Nintendo Fusion Tour prank (final night)

P!ATD got hazed pranked during the last song of their opening set (Time to Dance). Some main details:

Panic walked onstage to Backstreet's Back

Several fans who were there said that Pete Wentz & FOB people ran out to strip Brendon and tried to rip his underwear off through his pants.

fan reports from that show were all over the map so I’ll just stick with what the band shared (although almost every fan mentioned silly string & flour and how the drums were getting taken down as Spencer played).

these pics are from this night.

here are some other unrelated moments from the final show.

Pete came onstage to mess with Brendon on a few other nights too (ex: on the 22nd). To me, all of that blends together into the concept of Pete pranking P!ATD. But I suppose "the prank" usually refers to the hazing they did to Brendon on the 23rd.

I used pictures from both nights in this edit of Brendon talking in January 2006:

Basically, he tried to be a good sport & play along with the prank but he was uncomfortable. In August 2006 Kerrang asked Brendon what his most embarrassing moment was, and he answered:

"I got stripped naked onstage on our second tour. We were touring with Fall Out Boy and it was a tradition that they played a joke on the opening band. They started by taking away Spencer’s drum kit so we couldn’t finish our set. Then they undressed me. Then they threw flour on us.”

Rock Sound asked him the same question about an embarrassing moment in 2008 and he said  “I was stripped naked on the second tour we ever did by Fall Out Boy and their crew. It got down to the wire but my modesty was spared. I guess we were being hazed; it was an act of assholery.”

I'm so glad that Dan literally walked onstage towards the end and stood with his arm around Brendon. I swear that Brendon's delivery got more confident & focused once Dan was there supporting him (it's around the 2 minute mark in the video):

I also love how Ryan tries to sing at 00:27 and Spencer keeps drumming valiantly despite having less & less gear to work with haha.

Here are some pics:

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Pete had Spencer & Ryan come onstage during FOB's set on the last night of the Nintendo Fusion Tour and just stand there lol.

Panic had been pranked earlier during their set.

The support bands also came onstage during BNO's set for Composing (Brendon's in the red jacket, Ryan's under his right arm, and Spencer is lurking in the back in his brown striped scarf):

During intermission the support bands + Dirty went onstage to dance & rap again. This example is from the previous night:

idk for sure which night this picture was from but it fits the context of this post:

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11.22.05

This was the second-to-last show of the Nintendo Fusion Tour. It wasn't the night of the full-blown prank, but Pete & Co still ran out to mess with Brendon here too:

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his poses though. he was such a relatable teen girl lol

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Brendon's autograph in fall 2005

August 12th:

(Spencer's is above Brendon's heartbeat line autograph)

September 17th:

(Spencer's autograph is above Brendon's. that's a fan-made bag btw)

October 2nd:

October 16th:

and again, that's Spencer's autograph with Brendon's.

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I got really confused when I saw some of your posts tagged "nft" until I saw one mentioning Nintendo fusion tour

I agree lol I started using that tag before NFTs became a popular thing 😭 it's so weird now ugh. but I'm stubbornly sticking with it because it will always be the shorthand for that tour for me

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Mad as Rabbits: Who is Paul Cates?

“You know that Paul Cates, Bought himself a trumpet from the salvation army, Well, but there ain’t no sunshine in his song, We must reinvent love, reinvent love, reinvent love.” Who is Paul Cates? Is he fictional, non-fictional? Why is he in this song? What does he have to do with the song? Paul Cates is a real person. He is public education director for the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Here are some of Paul Cate’s blogs. A large percent of them are related to LGBT rights, gay/lesbian marriage and adoption, and free speech. Obviously, he’s pro on the subject and clearly fights for it. Now let’s move onto the line: Bought himself a trumpet from the salvation army. Trumpet: Proclaim widely or loudly; the press trumpeted another defeat for the government. Salvation Army: A widely known and supported organization designed to help the public. Let’s put it together. A LGBT supporter. Something being procalimed loudly. Helping the public. In an earlier tweet, someone asked Ryan on Twitter what this song was about. He said it was a love song. (He’s also said it many times live that it was.) What it sounds like they’re trying to say is we need someone to start giving voice to gay rights for the good of the public. ~ The line we must reinvent love comes from ‘Délire I: “Foolish Virgin”’, The Infernal Bridegroom.” by Arthur Rimbaud. (*Note that Arthur is gay.) “‘I am a widow… - I was a widow… - yes, I was really serious once; I wasn’t born to become a skeleton! He was hardly more than a child. His mysterious delicacies had seduced me. I forgot all my human obligations to follow him. What a life! Real life is absent. We are not in the world. I go where he goes, I have to. And often he flies into a rage against me, me the poor soul. The Demon! He is a demon, you know, he is not a man. He says: ‘ I don’t like women: love must be reinvented, it’s obvious. All they can hope for is a secure position. Once that’s achieved, heart and beauty are put aside. Nothing left but cold disdain, the food of marriage nowadays. Or else I see women with the signs of happiness, women I could have made my friends, devoured instead by brutes with as much feeling as a log…” (Source) Not only one (She’s a Handsome Woman), but two references that Ryan used in his lyrics. Now read back; in the line, love must be reinvented, he’s talking about same sex love. We must reinvent love. ~ Mad as Rabbits. A song about gay rights and support? I think so.

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some examples of Spencer wearing the pink pin