HerdCon 2025 Guest Events and Screenings
WMUL Live Remote
MSC 1at Floor Lobby
10a-6p
“Survival of the ‘Wild'”: The Supply Box Challenge by Le Moyne College
Shawkey Room
10:30a-5p; Games start on the half hour
Screening: “Unlocked: Escape Rooms of WV”
2W16B
11a-12p
Lightsaber Workshop by Outer Rim Praxeum
11:30
Screening: “Grappalachia”
2W16B
12p-1p
Marshall Fencing Club Demonstration
Memorial Fountain
12p-12:30p
Screening: “Dark Folklore: Strange Place”
2W16B
2p-3p
Lightsaber Show by Outer Rim Praxeum
Memorial Fountain
2p-2:30p
Screening: “Hey Cartooners!” (WVPB)
2W16B
3p-4:30p
Past Guest Appearances
Special Guest 2024: Beau Smith
Beau Smith, a Huntington local and Marshall Alum, is best known for creating the popular comic, Wynonna Earp, which features Wynonna Earp, descendent of Lawman Wyatt Earp, fights against evil supernatural forces as a member of the US Marshall’s Monster Squad and has been adapted into a television series which is currently streaming on Netflix. In addition to Wynonna Earp, Beau Smith has worked with DC Comics and created other comics, such as Cobb, Lost and Found, and Primate.
Click Here to read an article of Beau discussing his work and its adaptation!
SPECIAL GUESTS 2023: Justin & Dr. Sydnee McElroy (Sawbones)
Justin McElroy grew up in Huntington WV, attended Marshall University, and has remained an active part of our community, raising funds and awareness for Harmony House, the Huntington Children’s Museum, and working with our local theater group HART in the Park. He worked with the Ironton Tribune and eventually started working with Joystiq as a journalist, where he entered the podcasting realm as their producer for the Joystiq podcast. He went on to co-found Polygon in 2012, a website providing reviews, blogs, guides, and videos for a wide range of pop culture topics such as games, movies, television, comics, and more.
In 2010, Justin began co-hosting a podcast with his brothers, Griffin & Travis McElroy, called “My Brother, My Brother and Me”. Setup as a comedic advice podcast, it often highlighted their memories of growing up in Huntington, WV. The podcast later spawned a television show by the same name in 2017 and was filmed locally.
In 2013, Justin and his wife Dr. Sydnee McElroy began the “Sawbones” Podcast, providing a lighthearted, comedic and educational view of some of histories now debunked medical practices. Sawbones eventually spurred a book in 2018, The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine that was illustrated by their sibling Teylor Smirl.
Dr. Sydnee Smirl McElroy is an alumnus of Marshall University and the Yeagar Scholar program, graduating from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in 2009. Sydnee is currently an assistant professor at the Marshall University School of Medicine as well as a family doctor in our area, and has a passion for our community that can be seen in her work with Harmony House and her recent political big for the 2022 WV House of Delegates.