CHICON 2007 solo panel with Jared Padalecki. Jensen Ackles also shows up near the end. This is a revised version of the video posted in January 2024. It has significantly better video quality. The source video is not my own; it was generously provided by AgtSpooky. The event took place on Sunday, November 11, 2007. I enhanced the original video as described below.

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ENHANCEMENTS
1. I ran an upscale and stabilization program to improve video quality and reduce shakiness. It isn't perfect; the source material was recorded with 2007 technology. However, it now looks significantly better than any other video of this event published to date.

2. I added some small and (mostly) subtle content to help explain pop culture references that viewers might not be familiar with and to refresh people's memories on specific episode references being discussed.

3. I added GOOD, color-coded subtitles, unlike the auto-generated atrocities most of these older videos have that don't even make sense. If you turn on the CC button, these sometimes chaotic videos will make a LOT more sense! If I wasn't confident about what they said, even if I thought I could guess based on context, I marked it as [inaudible] in the subtitles.
Red = Jared
Blue = Jensen
Green = Audience
Yellow = Fan at mic
White = Staff

VIDEO REFERENCE NOTES
1. A video of Jared's appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show can be found here. I also used this video to capture the still image I displayed on my video.    • Jared on Ellen  

VIDEO SOURCE REFERENCES
This video was generously provided to me directly from AgtSpooky who attended and recorded the event. This is why I released a revised version -- the original file upscaled so much better than the one I'd originally used from YouTube that my original enhanced video seemed embarrassingly bad by comparison.

Additionally, I used the following one-minute video from BabyBlueSteel in the section where Jared talks about filming the love scene in Heart. It had fewer audience heads blocking Jared's lower body, so you could see him acting it out better.
   • Jared in Chicago: the Love Scene in H...  

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
The photos and details about Jared's dogs came from the Supernatural Wiki at www.supernaturalwiki.com/Harley_and_Sadie.

The amazing photos of Jared and Jensen jumping at later conventions came from here: imfinesaysdean.livejournal.com/29103.html

The picture of Jared on Gilmore Girls came from here: www.thewinchesterfamilybusiness.com/20269-the-gilmore-girls-revival-the-jared-padalecki-files/

The picture of Scott Patterson on Gilmore Girls came from here:
annotatedgilmoregirls.com/2017/09/05/luke-danes/

The picture of Milo Ventimiglia on Gilmore Girls came from here:
www.fanpop.com/clubs/milo-ventimiglia/images/14978433/title/gilmore-girls-s3-promotional-photo

All screen shots and clips from the show were captured by me using my Blu-ray discs, with the exception of the one that shows Jared and Sandy both facing the camera in Bedtime Stories, which I got from IMDb. I think they must have received that from the studio or edited it together or something, because there is no shot in the actual episode without one of them blurred out while they're both facing the camera.

June 22, 2024: Several subtitle corrections were made with thanks to the transcript created by the following Tumblr blog: www.tumblr.com/j2spntranscripts.