Episode 107 - Gunslinger Spawn 33 and Sam And Twitch: Case Files 4

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Twitch. Come on, dude, pick up. I get it. You're pissed. Message received loud and clear. What are you gonna do, ignore me the rest of your life? What do you want me to do, say I'm sorry? Fine. I'm sorry. Good evening and welcome to the Mal bulge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, Jon Fisher. [00:00:55] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, happy Friday the 13th to all who celebrate. [00:01:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. It's a spooky day. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Well, I hope. I hope you celebrate in wholesome ways and not by murderizing a whole bunch of promiscuous teenagers in the woods. [00:01:14] Speaker A: They deserve it. [00:01:15] Speaker B: They shouldn't be having sex or drinking or smoking. The marriage you wanted, Johnny, that's what they did. [00:01:21] Speaker A: None of that. And they get an arrow to the throat. [00:01:23] Speaker B: Yeah, or they get tied up in their sleeping bag and against the tree. [00:01:27] Speaker A: My cousin once said that one, the kill of Kevin Bacon, where the arrow comes out through the throat. I think it's like, in two or three. [00:01:34] Speaker B: No, that's the first one. [00:01:36] Speaker A: That's the first one. [00:01:36] Speaker B: That's the first one. [00:01:37] Speaker A: Okay. He had never seen Gore or anything like that before. And he saw it at a friend's house and he passed out. He, like, fainted. [00:01:44] Speaker B: Holy shit. Yeah, I think famously that was, like, where most of their money went in the budget. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Cause those are all Tom Savini effects, I think. [00:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Cause they were. That was made with, like, a shoestring budget. Would have been generous. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Well, I think that's what forced them to do the POV camera. Cause, like, they couldn't afford to, like, shoot it more. You know, made it kind of, at least for the killer. Maybe that's what pushed them into that. Cause there's probably a cheaper way to do it than actually depicting somebody. Plus, it was hiding the identity, of course. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, also, you know, it was used to great effect in Halloween. So they were like, ha ha. [00:02:21] Speaker A: So we'll use that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, definitely that too. Friday the 13th. Freaky Friday. Does freaky Friday happen on Friday the 13th as well? [00:02:31] Speaker B: Or is it just a freaky. [00:02:33] Speaker A: A random freaky Friday? [00:02:34] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know. The quintessential. Quintessential freaky Friday in my brain now is that, uh, that that blumhouse freaky? [00:02:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I love that movie. [00:02:45] Speaker B: And that. That's just because they. They messed with some cursed artifacts, not because it's the day. [00:02:51] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. So if you have not seen freaky, it's a horror movie starring Vince Vaughn and an actor whose name I can't remember. What's her name? [00:03:02] Speaker B: Remember? [00:03:03] Speaker A: But she's really good at it. Basically it's a body swap with a jason. What if a teenager body swapped with like, Jason Voorhees? [00:03:12] Speaker B: It's. It's amazing. Vince Vaughn plays a teenage girl the whole time and it's his best work. Probably his most untypical work at least. [00:03:25] Speaker A: Oh yeah, for sure. No, that's a fun movie. [00:03:28] Speaker B: It is fun. [00:03:28] Speaker A: I think that's the person that made. Not hot tub time machine. What's it fucking called? Happy death day. [00:03:34] Speaker B: Happy death day. Yeah. [00:03:35] Speaker A: I want to call it hot tub time machine because it gets me time. [00:03:40] Speaker B: It's at least the same production house. [00:03:42] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure the same guy made it. [00:03:44] Speaker B: I mean, I love happy death day. I'm still waiting for happy death day. Three. [00:03:48] Speaker A: I know one and two are great. Two is like a crazy science thriller. It's wild. [00:03:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. It's so good, man. [00:03:55] Speaker A: And that baby mask in that is probably one of the more iconic recent horror slashers besides art the clown. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Yeah yeah, that's true. It's the cherubic. What's the word I'm looking for? Adulterated? No, adulterated is not the word. It's a cutesy thing that has been turned evil, whatever that word is. And art the clown is just straight up evil incarnate. There's no subtlety there. All evil. Yes, I was about to say, you see the picture of that clown in the clown catalog? And you don't order that clown from the clown catalog. No no. [00:04:36] Speaker A: Much like how Wanda and Terry in the spawn movie order the clown to be at the birthday party for Cyan, which you wouldn't do. [00:04:44] Speaker B: I'm going to assume that he's like, he was like a local celebrity since he had the branded car air freshener. [00:04:53] Speaker A: Yeah yeah. And the doll. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Either that or it's part of his marketing campaign. He just sends this stuff out so people know his face and they're just like, hey, I get that clown. [00:05:02] Speaker A: He's just on low. He's on like public access tv in the spawn universe. Just because he's like, why not? I would love to see that show. [00:05:10] Speaker B: They can make a Wayne's world style movie about the violator, about how he finally gets pissed off enough that he just starts his own cable access show in a basement and then rises to prominence to bring evil to the world. [00:05:25] Speaker A: Maybe that's what the new violator mini series will be about. [00:05:28] Speaker B: Hey, if not, do I know a man we can pitch a story to? [00:05:34] Speaker A: Now, what if the violator had a public access show? Yeah, that spin off got delayed. Did you hear that? Delayed. [00:05:41] Speaker B: I didn't hear that it got delayed officially. I just know that I was talking to the guys at the comic book shop, and they're like, yeah, it's going to come out in a little bit. For issue one, they have pre orders now for cover c, but not covers a and b. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:05:59] Speaker B: So a and b covers are delayed longer than cover c is, at least. [00:06:04] Speaker A: Yeah, a bunch of image books got delayed, and that was one of them. I don't think it's coming out too. [00:06:08] Speaker B: Did they have some reason why or just. [00:06:10] Speaker A: I can't. I didn't. Like, I kind of skimmed the article. That's my fault. [00:06:14] Speaker B: You did more than I did. [00:06:15] Speaker A: So something to do with the distribution or the printing. [00:06:18] Speaker B: I mean, I know, I know. Distribution's been an issue lately, especially challengers. A couple weeks ago didn't get, like, half of books. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. I had to wait a day. [00:06:29] Speaker B: How dare they? [00:06:30] Speaker A: How dare they? [00:06:31] Speaker B: Curses. Curses. How dare they? [00:06:32] Speaker A: I had to wait a day for a glorious issue of Spawn. But you don't have to wait but mere seconds, minutes, maybe. Depends on how long we keep talking. [00:06:41] Speaker B: You just have to hope that we shut up sooner. [00:06:44] Speaker A: But, yeah. Welcome to respawn. Regarding spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. This week, we are doing two issues. We're doing two modern ones. We're kind of getting through the mal bowls of this modern spawn. We've got. We kind of got behind a little bit because we were covering some classics, doing some special episodes. [00:07:03] Speaker B: We accidentally made a Malbolge out of a molehill. Johnny. [00:07:06] Speaker A: Yes, the spawn of Boris. What'd you call it? [00:07:08] Speaker B: Yeah, the spawn of Boris. It just never ends. It's eating its own caveats itself. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Eats its own cave. So we're doing a modern gunslinger 33. And speaking of spinoffs. Not the violator spin off. We're doing Sam and Twitch, case files number four. And David, I have to bring up a point that I mentioned on an episode before that I was right about. Okay, there was, when I was looking up the covers for this on cover price, there was a salmon twitch, okay. It was called case files Twitch from 2003 to 2006. [00:07:44] Speaker B: Oh, man. This is like the. This is like when a horror series gets so long that they start putting a the. At the beginning of it, and then it's a distinct movie. Because it's the. [00:07:56] Speaker A: The final destination. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Yeah, the final destination. [00:08:00] Speaker A: The predator. [00:08:01] Speaker B: The predator. [00:08:02] Speaker A: No, but yeah, it was case files, colon, Sam and Twitch. But this is Sam and Twitch, Colon, case files maybe? No, Colon. I don't know. [00:08:10] Speaker B: I wonder if that one shows up in the, I'm gonna have to look to see if that shows up in the collected Sam and twitch that I have or if I gotta go find another mini series. [00:08:18] Speaker A: Might have to, might have to go hunting. [00:08:20] Speaker B: Might have to go hunting. I make it seem like a burden. I might get to go hunting. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Might get to. I'm sure they'll get around to reprinting some of the Sam and twitch at some point. Seems like they're gonna try to, I don't know, maybe not, but it seems like it'd be a good idea to go back and reprint some of those old spawns. I don't know, this whole mini series. [00:08:37] Speaker B: It's also a very easy series to get people into spawn stuff because everybody knows the detective story. [00:08:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I wish they'd bring out a big thing of the curse of the spawn because those are fun, like short stories. And that'd be cool to get that all together. [00:08:50] Speaker B: They had a big collection that they put out a few years ago that's no longer in print, that didn't have every issue in it. It only had like 70% of them. So there's a lot of them that they just never even bothered trying to reprint. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Sure. [00:09:05] Speaker B: I don't know if it was reasons with the creators or just because whoever was putting the collection together was like, oh, this book. [00:09:17] Speaker A: Yeah, well, actually, when I was looking this up on cover price, so I was looking up, I was just looking through my comics that I have that I could have registered on there. And some of those early king Spawn comics since they announced the movie. Woo. [00:09:28] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, man. [00:09:29] Speaker A: They shot up to like 1015 bucks. [00:09:31] Speaker B: Woo. $15, man, Johnny, you're sitting on a gold mine. A gold mine of kids. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Yeah, they're, all the middle pages are ripped out and they got like fucking pizza and mustard all over them. [00:09:41] Speaker B: Hey, Johnny, that just makes them, you should totally try to get them slabbed, see what you can get them rated at. [00:09:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I love the, I remember Mike Jones said he wanted to get his original copy of Spawn Slab. Just, it'd be fun just to see like, what it would get, like a 2.8 or something. [00:09:59] Speaker B: It's like there are people who find, like, comic books from the early forties up in like their grandparents attic, and they're just like falling apart. And they get them slabbed and they're graded like a 0.5. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:11] Speaker B: It's like, okay, we did it. You did it. Yeah. [00:10:16] Speaker A: I wonder which is more interesting for the grader if they like doing the really shitty ones. And that's fun because it gives you a wider scale to deal with, and they, like, deal with the really pristine ones. We're only dealing with, like, 0.1 or 2% off. You know, I'm sure. [00:10:27] Speaker B: I'm sure there's. There's. I'm sure there's gradients of graders. I'm sure there's the ones that are just, like, super focused in on, like, you know, slight bends in the side of the. The thing or, like, extra creases on the side. And they're just like, ooh, ooh, look. And there are some that just like, if it falls apart, please bring it to me. [00:10:46] Speaker A: I want to do it. Yeah, they're different specialties. Speaking of specialties, we've got a man who's got many specialties. Up first. [00:10:53] Speaker B: He's got one special talent, Johnny. And that's literally just the one. [00:10:58] Speaker A: Killing. [00:10:59] Speaker B: Killing. [00:11:01] Speaker A: That was good at the talking. He ain't much good at the talking as we learn in this issue. [00:11:07] Speaker B: He ain't got much use for learning neither. [00:11:10] Speaker A: No siree or reading. Because we're talking Javi. We're talking Gunslinger. Gunslinger 33. All the way from July 2024. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Our favorite cowpoke, Johnny. I just realized we should probably do Oklahoma State gunslinger costume at some point. [00:11:29] Speaker A: That'd be a great idea. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Hobby would totally be an Oklahoma state fan. [00:11:34] Speaker A: He'd love going to OSU games, and he'd love it. I'm actually going to go to one in a month. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. That's exciting. [00:11:41] Speaker A: Going home. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Who are they going to play, do you know? [00:11:43] Speaker A: I don't even know because the conference has changed up. I don't even remember the name. It's some really long name. But I'm going to be home for a bit before I go on that trip with my dad. So we're going to go to OSU game. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Nice. That gets you enough time to hire a friend to make a hobby face in the style of pistol Pete. And you can wear that to the. [00:12:00] Speaker A: Game or just get a full regalia, but it's orange instead of red. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Yeah. You just have to leave all the guns and knives at home, please. [00:12:09] Speaker A: And it's Oklahoma. [00:12:12] Speaker B: There's a limit for a public football game, Johnny. [00:12:16] Speaker A: That's true. That's true. [00:12:18] Speaker B: The limit does exist some places. Sometimes. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah. We always start with the covers, and this time is no different. And we've got. I've got the a cover. [00:12:29] Speaker B: I've got the a cover as well. The Daniel Enriquez. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Yes. I love it. Cause it's like Javi coming down with a smoking gun. He's looking to fight some eldritch creature. [00:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:39] Speaker A: He's, like, going down to the depths of, like, a tomb of HP. Lovecraft's mind. [00:12:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a staircase. That's, like an impossible staircase. I love an impossible staircase. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Joey, he looks pretty badass. He's gun smoking. He's got a very tall hat and very tall collar. [00:12:56] Speaker B: Very tall color. There's, like, a stiff hell breeze blowing both his. His jacket and his gun smoke away. [00:13:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:05] Speaker B: I like how it'll probably be the. [00:13:07] Speaker A: Breath of the beast, like a rat king of tentacles, because there's some different textures. There's, like, a smooth one and, like, spiky one. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Yeah. One that looks like the back of a big snake. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:18] Speaker B: And there's a whole bunch of. Whole bunch of. Just, like, in the background. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Yeah. It reminds me of some of the pits in Diablo IV. They have, like, these, like, little spider legs sticking out of them. Basically. They're all creepy. [00:13:31] Speaker B: It's awesome. It's very dramatic. [00:13:33] Speaker A: Yes. [00:13:34] Speaker B: That bee cover, though, that Jonathan Weishardt cover is tonally, like, the complete opposite end. It's not eldritch. It's not like, high drama horror. It is a whole bunch of goonies. [00:13:50] Speaker A: Trying to hang javi. [00:13:51] Speaker B: Trying to hang Javi. The return of the little. [00:13:56] Speaker A: The omens. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Omens. I was gonna call them damiens, and that was not right. [00:14:02] Speaker A: No, the omens. But I always liked Mark spears, called him goonies, so I prefer Goonies. They're, like, stringing them up. It's like that scene in wild, wild west where they're gonna hang Will Smith. [00:14:12] Speaker B: They're pulling him by his own chains. He's being hoisted by his own Chitaurd. [00:14:17] Speaker A: Indeed. [00:14:19] Speaker B: That was a weird portmanteau. [00:14:21] Speaker A: That was. [00:14:26] Speaker B: Leap it in, double it. [00:14:27] Speaker A: All right. But, yeah, I like the style. Kind of cartoony, kind of rough. Yeah, that one screaming at the top is hilarious. [00:14:38] Speaker B: Yeah. They've got the guy with the snake fingers from nightmare before Christmas whose head, like, he doesn't have a jaw. It's just the top of his head goes up and down. That's kind of how their mouths look. [00:14:55] Speaker A: Played by Greg proops. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:15:00] Speaker A: Yes. Also did the podracer announcer in episode one. [00:15:03] Speaker B: Ooh, hell, yeah. I was wondering I was wondering where the Star wars connection come. I was like, I don't recognize that in terms of Darth Vader. Rip. Rip. All the Darth Vaders. [00:15:14] Speaker A: James will Jones. Yeah. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Are there no longer live any living Hayden Christensen motherfucker? No, no, for the. For the original. Oh, the original. Since there were, like, three different people who went into that performance for the original. [00:15:27] Speaker A: David prowse die already. [00:15:28] Speaker B: Yeah, he died a couple years ago. [00:15:30] Speaker A: What about Sebastian Shaw? He's the one who played the face. [00:15:38] Speaker B: I don't want to. Oh, yeah. 1994, dude. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He actually looked okay. So he just looked like Darth Vader looked in at return of the Jedi. They didn't have to do anything to him. He was that old. He's born in 1905. That motherfucker. Damn. McClunky. [00:15:57] Speaker B: It's the. It's the most important thing in the world. Johnny McClunky. Yeah. Rip. Original Darth Vaders. [00:16:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. I didn't think about that. Damn. Just hating now. [00:16:09] Speaker B: It's a burden on his shoulders now. Carry that weight. [00:16:16] Speaker A: One and only Darth Vader. And this issue, if we pop it open and go to the credits, is written by the one and only Todd McFarlane. [00:16:24] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:16:24] Speaker A: If you couldn't tell a lot of exact time in here. [00:16:29] Speaker B: A lot of the exact time. It's pretty. It's pretty. It's good. It's good, though. It's, uh. [00:16:33] Speaker A: No, it's good. It's good. I'm not making. I'm not. I think this is the one. I read a whole bunch of spawn yesterday, so maybe this isn't the one that has the. All the exact time. No, it's the next. It's a different one. I'm sorry. [00:16:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Cut it out. No, I was reading that Kingspawn, or Kingspawn, where Cygor shows up and talks about. He has, like, two minutes to get out. It breaks out every second. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:16:56] Speaker A: And he spins him around. That's pretty awesome. That's pretty fun. [00:16:58] Speaker B: Spoilers for Kingspawn, whatever number that is with the return of Cygor. [00:17:03] Speaker A: So. Yeah. Script plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Carlo Barberi, colors by Ivan Nunes, lettering by Tom Wojczakowski. We already covered the covers. [00:17:12] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Creative director is Todd McFarlane, and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:17:18] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:17:19] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. Had a burp. [00:17:21] Speaker B: No worries. Better out the name. [00:17:23] Speaker A: Leave it in. Double it. Previously in Gunslinger. What does that fucking mean? Better out than in? [00:17:33] Speaker B: It was from Shrek. [00:17:35] Speaker A: Oh, it's true. I know, I knew it was from something. Okay, but better out than in. What does he mean by that? [00:17:42] Speaker B: I mean, I guess. I guess it's better to just seem impolite and a little disgusting than to just sit there and let it boil. And. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Well, he needs to learn his own lesson because Shrek lets his emotions boil and keeps them in. He needs to let those out. Maybe he wouldn't be so angry. [00:17:58] Speaker B: That's part of the emotional arc of the story, though, Jamie. He learns. He learns to share his emotions and not be upset at Eddie Murphy when he offers to make waffles. [00:18:06] Speaker A: That's true. Previously in Gunslinger. Gunslinger checks another name off his list. But unbeknownst to him, the law is closing in fast. I like how law is capitalized. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah. I also like that the previous lian literally gets repeated on the first page. [00:18:28] Speaker A: Yes, you get a double. Previously on oh. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Oh. It's like. Yeah, but, yeah. The first page of this is the aftermath of the last page of the last one. And we got Javi standing in front of a body with a big old hole in its head. [00:18:44] Speaker A: Big old hole in its head. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Big old hole. We got. We got brains and viscera coming out of that thing. [00:18:50] Speaker A: This guy's name's, like, McDougal or something. I can't remember. It's like Donald McDougal. [00:18:54] Speaker B: It's McClunky, Johnny. [00:18:55] Speaker A: It's McClunky. Yeah, it's Donald McClunky. [00:18:57] Speaker B: And he's just staring right at you. Those baby blues just staring right at you, Johnny, right into your soul. And it's just disturbing. But Javi is doing his little, you know. I guess it's not Javi. This isn't an internal monologue. This is just a straight up narrator. Just since Javi's sister died, he has made it his mission to destroy the men who destroyed his sister. He gets to cross another name off the list tonight. Johnny, this guy's. [00:19:30] Speaker A: But then as he's looking over the dead body, beep. There's a little camera beeping at him. [00:19:35] Speaker B: A little droid back on this first page. Johnny, I got a question for you. [00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah, what's up? [00:19:40] Speaker B: Where did he pull this gun from? Because both of his holsters are full. You don't want to know which gun is this specifically. We're going to have to start keeping tracks of where he keeps all of his guns so we know which gun it is. [00:19:54] Speaker A: That was the gun that was hidden in the hat. [00:19:56] Speaker B: In the hat. But not that the hat just had knives in it. [00:19:59] Speaker A: Maybe it has a gun, too. [00:20:01] Speaker B: We should call up Thomas Healy and see about weapon continuity. [00:20:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:05] Speaker B: Too many guns, but, yeah, yeah, the little beepy camera. But I like how after he kills the guy, he's like, okay, time to put my mask on. [00:20:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Which comes back later. But Javi says, soon, Amy. Soon, Amy, this will all be over. [00:20:25] Speaker A: And Amy flashes in his head, and he just. Bam, bam, bam. Shoots the guy, like, three times in the chest. [00:20:30] Speaker B: There's no kill. Like overkill, Johnny. You know what they say. I do like that. There's a little dialogue box that's missing. I wonder what's supposed to go in there. [00:20:40] Speaker A: Yeah, you're right back. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:42] Speaker A: Because you can see revenge still consumes him. Continues from something, and there's nothing. And there's nothing to continue from. [00:20:49] Speaker B: In one of those early issues of spawn, they had an empty bubble. And, like, two issues later, we're like, hey, we're sorry about that. Here's what that bubble said. So I'm. I'm hoping they're gonna put what the bubble actually said in the. In the spawning grounds of a. Of an upcoming gunslinger. [00:21:07] Speaker A: You might have to wait for the trade paperback. [00:21:08] Speaker B: I have to. I have to know, Johnny. [00:21:11] Speaker A: When this trade paperback hits, I'm thumbing through it and finding out. [00:21:14] Speaker B: We could just, like, write it in afterward. Yeah. [00:21:17] Speaker A: Javi tells the guy, I hope you rot in hell. And his dogs, as he's walking out, his dogs are still following him. [00:21:24] Speaker B: He gathers a new dog every panel. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I like this little shot where he's, like, walking across. Yeah, or this page with the four different panels side scrolling. Javi. [00:21:35] Speaker B: And they're just like. But then. And then Javi gets. He gets to the flaming horse, and he's like, no further, guys. [00:21:44] Speaker A: And then he takes on flames on and flames off. [00:21:46] Speaker B: And a very. A very classic western action shot there of just riding the horse across the horizon. Johnny. Yes, it's wonderful, Carlos. Barbara does a very good job. Johnny. [00:22:00] Speaker A: And he hates the fact that some of the people he's hunting are still alive back in the 18 hundreds, and he wants to get back there soon. [00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah. So he's looking forward to not only killing them in the normal time, but finding a way to go back in time and then killing them again. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Double kill. [00:22:17] Speaker B: Double kill. No, kill. Like, overkill. But if he kills them in the 18 hundreds, does that invalidate the killing them in the future since they no longer exist? [00:22:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it depends on the rules. Depends on the rules. Like, lost was, whatever happened, happened. So even if you went back in time and tried to change things that had already happened. So, like. But it was so mind blowing. So we don't have free will, and it's like, you do, but you already did what you did, and you're gonna do what you did, and that was lost rules, because, like, it didn't create string universes. If you create string universes, then yes, I'm assuming he could go back and kill them. If it's lost rules, then the answer is no. [00:22:55] Speaker B: So. So you're saying lost rules had, like, a personal timeline that everybody was on in a single direction, but they could. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Go through world if they went back in time. [00:23:05] Speaker B: Okay. [00:23:06] Speaker A: And did stuff, even if they tried to change things, that was the thing that had happened. [00:23:10] Speaker B: Okay, so, like, their personal timeline keeps going. [00:23:13] Speaker A: Yes. Whatever happened, happened. [00:23:17] Speaker B: This. It's so messed up. It's so hard to think about people who write time loop stories fucking way smarter than I am. [00:23:25] Speaker A: So we're back at the moonlight motel. [00:23:28] Speaker B: It's air conditioning, Johnny. It's very important. [00:23:31] Speaker A: Yeah, no vacancy. They got that air conditioning. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Very important to note later, because it is. This is Chekhov's air conditioner right here, Johnny. We see not only is Ollender's little vw bug there, but there's a hippie van and what looks like a fifties Buick with the. With the wings. Oh, boy. This. This motel in the middle of fucking nowhere has some people with some sweet cars staying there, Johnny. [00:23:59] Speaker A: Really does. In that top panel, if you look on the right, there's like, a Lamborghini or something, like a sports car, whatever. [00:24:06] Speaker B: That yellow dude is. [00:24:07] Speaker A: And Linda's out there just smoking. [00:24:09] Speaker B: I would. I would assume it's probably an italian car, given the, uh, provenance of the artist. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Oh, there you go. Belinda's out aside the hotel, just smoking a cigarette, which we find out she started today. Smoking. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Hanging around. Javi is not good for your health. Both because he'll probably get you shot, and he'll force you to smoke. He'll force you to smoke, or he'll drive you to smoke, I guess. [00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:36] Speaker B: And so Javi sits down and is like, okay, yeah, now I'm really gonna start being honest with you about stuff. And then continues to not be honest with her about most things. [00:24:46] Speaker A: Yeah, Linda just kind of goes off on him, is like, look, I got my own shit going on. I've had stuff with my family going on that you don't even need to know about. What's up? [00:24:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:57] Speaker A: Did you find that bank guy? [00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And he says, no, no, nothing turned up, but I'll keep looking and when he says that we get the dead body comes back up, the camera zooms in on the camera, proving Javi's lie. [00:25:13] Speaker A: Toddfather's really obsessed with this camera. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Comes up a lot. [00:25:17] Speaker B: It does. All right. Camera obscura. Johnny, we're in the panopticon. We're always viewed at all times. [00:25:25] Speaker A: No, that's true. [00:25:26] Speaker B: I think the toddfather is bringing up a societal critique about our obsession with. With always being viewed. I don't like it, but, yeah. And then Linda's talking about how she spoke to Wyatt, and she's like, what did ya say about that friend of yours that you drove off, Taylor? And so Linda's really got massive misgivings now. She's like, what the hell have I done? Why did I do this? [00:25:54] Speaker A: She's basically like, look, I gotta get back to my job. I got friends. I got life. I'll drop you off wherever you want to. [00:26:00] Speaker B: Mm hmm. And then off in the distance, there are some. There are some sirens, Johnny. And he's like. Javi goes, what's that noise? And then it says, I don't know, just like, police or fire trucks. And Javi's like, police? Like sheriffs? [00:26:16] Speaker A: Like sheriffs. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly like that. And then the most well connected fucking police department shows up because they're driving camaros. [00:26:26] Speaker A: Yeah, that's some nice s car. Looks like a transformer, man. [00:26:29] Speaker B: There's. There's, like, six camaros that are just regular old police cruisers here. That's. That's a loaded police force, Johnny. [00:26:38] Speaker A: Yeah, they got all that. What are they, North Dakota? [00:26:41] Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. [00:26:43] Speaker A: I think all that North Dakota money. [00:26:45] Speaker B: I mean, it makes sense. There's a lot of. There's a lot of empty space in North Dakota. You got to get across it with quickness. [00:26:52] Speaker A: That's true. And they're telling me, get his hands up. And Linda's like, get your hands up. [00:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah, Javi, get your hands up. Cause the cops just come right out of the car, don't even fully exit the car, and they've got their guns out. [00:27:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:04] Speaker B: And Javi's like, we don't know this man. Linda, grab my arm. I'll keep you safe. [00:27:09] Speaker A: And he does, like, a jump behind the picnic table they were smoking at and uses it as, like, a shield. [00:27:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Johnny, that is a. That is a massive picnic table. If it's stopping those bullets. [00:27:20] Speaker A: It's thick. [00:27:21] Speaker B: I was going to assume it was one of those. Those really thin, cheap ones that, like, fresh out of the box are already wobbly, but apparently this is. This is apparently a high quality pickup table. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Javi says, this table's not going to last long. Glinda, get to the room. And so they. They dodge the bullets all the way to the hotel room, and then, you know, Javi, like, throws Linda to the floor and slams the door shut with. [00:27:45] Speaker A: His foot, which I thought was a nice detail. He kicks it shut. [00:27:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:48] Speaker A: And then they just light up the hotel room just like crazy. [00:27:51] Speaker B: And then Javi's like, Linda, you gotta. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Go out the back. [00:27:53] Speaker B: And she's like, but it's locked. And she says, uh, uh, you know about my foot indoors crack? He just kicks it open. Um, and then Javi's like, my pet. My pet will take care of you, Linda. And he throws the little dinosaur, and it turns into big hell beast. And Linda's like, what? [00:28:11] Speaker A: What the heck? What the heck? [00:28:14] Speaker B: Voila. There's pressure being put on them because of the door that Javi kicked closed. They got the battering ram out. They're about to bust it down. The police are. [00:28:26] Speaker A: So he basically sets her up on the horse and slaps her in the ass. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Is like, ride. Ride like the wind. And then Javi dives back into the bedroom to grab his big bag of money and guns. [00:28:39] Speaker A: You need that? [00:28:40] Speaker B: Yeah, he needs. For the standoff. He definitely needs it. [00:28:44] Speaker A: And then the second they open the door, there's a little tnt. [00:28:48] Speaker B: It's a comic book stick of dynamite. [00:28:51] Speaker A: Yeah, like, literally, the wile e. Coyote gave it to him. [00:28:55] Speaker B: Oh, it would have been great if one of them picked it up and been like, huh, huh. Looked at the viewer and been, like, blinked slow and been like, oh, no. [00:29:05] Speaker A: Then it blows them in their face. They're covered in, like, ashes, and their hair's all big. [00:29:09] Speaker B: It, like, blows their mouth away, and. [00:29:11] Speaker A: They have to chase it. [00:29:13] Speaker B: Put it back. [00:29:14] Speaker A: Put it back. [00:29:16] Speaker B: But, no, they retreat from this stick of dynamite, and then it explodes, and it, like, throws all the police to the ground. And using that as a distraction, Javi goes to the back of the building and starts climbing up the drain pipe. He's got only one left, one direction left to go. Johnny. And that's up. So he's up. He's up on the roof. He's hiding behind the neon sign. They're shooting at him, and he decides, as he gets up on the roof, he decides he should put his mask on. So they don't know who he is. They know who he is, even though they literally just saw his full face. [00:29:56] Speaker A: And they're coming after him because of a videotape. [00:29:58] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:29:59] Speaker A: He always put his mask on too late. Javi, come on. [00:30:02] Speaker B: You gotta either leave it on or leave it off. Don't. No half measures. And this is where we get the little narration that. One of Javi's biggest weaknesses is he doesn't understand modern technology. Cameras, video evidence that people know what you. If people see your face before you put on the mask, they can keep the continuity. That. Oh, hey, that mask guy's this guy I saw earlier. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Yeah. He doesn't know about the surveillance state we live in, that everyone is recorded at all times. [00:30:37] Speaker B: The lesson he took from the people don't recognize Superman. And Clark Kent is just. You have to change the face a little bit. He keeps the same clothes on. Come on. [00:30:47] Speaker A: That's the problem. [00:30:47] Speaker B: You got to change the whole outfit. You don't see Clark Kent walking around in his big, blue underwear. No, no, no, no. He's got the. He's got the suit. The disheveled. The disheveled suit. So that way he looks kind of like a dork. [00:31:01] Speaker A: He's tiny, and. Yeah, it's like his dad's suit. [00:31:04] Speaker B: Yeah, he's all hunched over. So Javi's up on the roof, just, you know, trying to avoid these bullets while they just. Man, these cops do not like this moonlight, moonlight motel sign, do they? [00:31:18] Speaker A: I love a neon sign. I love neon signs. Are fun. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Yeah, they're great. But the cops don't. The cops don't think so, Jimmy. They're pumping it full of lid. [00:31:27] Speaker A: I love the neon sign outside the California clipper that says. It says air conditioned. [00:31:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker A: It's very old. [00:31:33] Speaker B: There's, I think, like, one company that still services all those old neon signs in town. It's pretty great. But, like, they'll come out like a. They'll come out and, like, custom bend the bulbs on site, and so whenever anybody's getting their neon sign fixed, you can just, like, sit there and watch them, and they're, like, on a ladder, balancing, like, this big blowtorch, and just like, oh, it's amazing. [00:31:59] Speaker A: That is amazing. [00:32:00] Speaker B: But so the cops thoroughly destroy this sign, and it falls through the roof of the hotel johnny. [00:32:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Because the cops know he's a cold blooded murderer who just killed one of their high profile residents. So they'll do everything in their powers to bring him to justice. [00:32:16] Speaker A: Just a giant page of everything exploding. So I guess they set off a bomb as well. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Don't think they set off a bomb. I think there's just a fire from the dynamite that Javi set off. And then also the crashing sign kind of gives it. Gives it life, as they say. [00:32:38] Speaker A: Gotcha. Gotcha. [00:32:39] Speaker B: Uh huh. And then as the. As the sign crashes through the roof, javi gets tangled up in some beams. [00:32:46] Speaker A: He's tangled up some beams. [00:32:48] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got. He's got the white eye of surprise, like, oh, my goodness. Being on a roof that is on fire, maybe not the best idea. I'm pretty sure that roofs of buildings that were on fire was also not good in the 18 hundreds. Hundreds. Javi. [00:33:06] Speaker A: Javi. Really bad. [00:33:07] Speaker B: You should know that one by now. And then, you know, he's stuck. He's trying to get out there. The cops are still shooting at him. He's trying to shoot back at him. And then Javi, he gets hit by the air conditioner as it falls off of the roof into the whole of the building, air conditioned. And Chekhov's. Chekhov's air conditioner has been fired before the third act, or by the third. [00:33:31] Speaker A: Act, and the very thoughtful police yell, call an ambulance. [00:33:38] Speaker B: So Javi is just on the floor in the rubble of this bombed out room, and all of the cops in Swat gear are just slowly going in. That's where the issue ends, Johnny. [00:33:52] Speaker A: Our hero in peril. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. [00:33:55] Speaker A: And you have a power meter, and it's a one. [00:33:58] Speaker B: Oh, I just realized that there's cops coming from both sides, Johnny. There's cops coming in the back door, too. They're getting him coming and going. [00:34:06] Speaker A: He's not going anywhere. [00:34:07] Speaker B: How's our hero gonna get out of this one, Johnny? It's a very. A very western serial ending. [00:34:13] Speaker A: Yes. Arrested by the cops. [00:34:15] Speaker B: The inescapable, inescapable situation. [00:34:19] Speaker A: It's like an end episode of like a. Yeah, like a western cereal on tv. [00:34:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:24] Speaker A: They can watch on Pluto tv if you want. They got a western channel. [00:34:27] Speaker B: They do have a western channel. They seem to mostly play lonesome dove. Yeah, people love lonesome dove, though, Johnny. [00:34:34] Speaker A: They do. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Like, even people who don't like westerns will read lonesome dove. It's wild. Especially if they're from Texas. I think it's. When you're born in Texas, you are given two books. You're given the Bible and lonesome dove, and you're expected to read and know both. [00:34:53] Speaker A: Okay. I've never read Lonesome Dove or seen any versions of it. [00:34:57] Speaker B: Neither have I. But I've been told I'm missing out. [00:35:00] Speaker A: So there you go. [00:35:01] Speaker B: Maybe we can become a lonesome dove podcast. [00:35:03] Speaker A: Yeah, we could. We could do that. Or maybe those people should read some spawn, those lonesome dove people. [00:35:08] Speaker B: Oh, cross cultural exchange, Johnny. [00:35:11] Speaker A: We get a spawning grounds and it is. We got a picture with Todd McFarlane at the Phoenix fan fusion and then. [00:35:19] Speaker B: The editorial team, like the interns hanging out with a gunslinger cosplayer who. Look at that tall hat, Johnny. That's a really nice tall hat. [00:35:32] Speaker A: Nice and tall. [00:35:33] Speaker B: Nice and tall. Then we got some fan art. [00:35:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I really like the tattoo. [00:35:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that tattoo is awesome, Johnny. This should be your second tattoo after youre dinosaur on a old timey boat. Oh, it's a boat captain. I thought it was. [00:35:47] Speaker A: No, it was like a pro compact Nathan from the lost world, Jurassic Park. A compee, smoking a pipe, wearing a ship captain's hat. [00:35:55] Speaker B: Okay. For some reason I thought it was gonna be a compie on one of those old one wheel or one big wheel bicycles from the. [00:36:05] Speaker A: That would work too. I'd like that too. No, I'm going to remain tattooless, David, so I can get into heaven. Thank you very much. [00:36:12] Speaker B: Let me know what it's like. I have already lost that. I've already lost that ticket. [00:36:17] Speaker A: It's okay. We'll be on opposite sides of the hell heaven. [00:36:19] Speaker B: I'm going to have to lose some limbs in order to get that one back. Need more spawns universe, Johnny. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Always nice. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Well, they got ongoing titles for us to check out. [00:36:31] Speaker A: Whole bunch coming out in July. All the July titles coming out is in this ad. Then we get image classics ad and the Fallout toy ad. Yeah, probably get fallout season two in. [00:36:42] Speaker B: Like five years, the way these things go. Yeah. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Well, it's just gotta be a huge production, I imagine. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it has to be. It very much does. But I mean, Amazon is. Amazon is not scared of pumping money into something. [00:36:55] Speaker A: That's true. That's true. [00:36:58] Speaker B: One good thing you could say about them. [00:36:59] Speaker A: That's one. [00:37:00] Speaker B: That was gunslinger number 33. Very good one. [00:37:04] Speaker A: Yep. A fun little shootout. Little western style shootout. [00:37:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Pew. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Pew. [00:37:18] Speaker B: Is that a japanese Star wars poster? [00:37:21] Speaker A: Well, this should probably keep this in the episode. So I took off my sweater because I'm in a closet because it's hot. And David asked me what my shirt was. It is. It is a shirt that I won for free at Comic Con two years ago. You know, like, those boosts are just like, come do this and you get a. You can win a shirt. [00:37:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:38] Speaker A: It's from some other called Asin, which has some kind of anime. [00:37:41] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, the anim anime central. It's the midwest's largest anime convention. [00:37:46] Speaker A: Okay, well, it's. It's episode. Episode 20, which I assume it's the 20th Asin, but it's called a new soap, and it's ladies holding soap because. And it says, use your soap. And I think it's. My friend Eli said they did it because people were so stinky they had to, like, start being, like, use soap. [00:38:03] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:38:04] Speaker A: So it's episode 20. A new soap is my t shirt. [00:38:07] Speaker B: It's a little. Man, that's a little, like, berating your customers because you think they like it. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know, man. You go to some nerd stuff. There's some stinking nerds. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:38:23] Speaker A: They should even, like, even, like, trading card game stuff. There's some people, I'm like, holy shit, man. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, they're focused, Johnny. What can you say? They've got a singular focus, and hygiene is about it. They're there for the cards and the cards only. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Yep. Or the anime, but no, that's the shirt I'm wearing. Welcome back, everybody. After shirt talk, we've got a new twitch talk. [00:38:47] Speaker B: We need Lonnie bones to write a song. [00:38:49] Speaker A: For shirt talk, we just describe our shirts. [00:38:52] Speaker B: We do talk about shirts a lot. So you know Sam and Twitch, case files number four. We got some covers to cover, Johnny. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I've got the a cover. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Donna Giulio, I have the b cover. So let's take a look at that a cover you got, Johnny. [00:39:05] Speaker A: It's Sam and twitch. [00:39:07] Speaker B: Uh huh. [00:39:08] Speaker A: And they're in. They're in the sights. They're in someone's sights. And twitch has, like, a sniper rifle and a pistol, and Sam has, like, two guns, and he's holding them akimbo. [00:39:19] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got. He's. He's just smoking. [00:39:22] Speaker A: They're ready to take some people down. [00:39:24] Speaker B: I like how. I like how twitch's tie is all nice and pristine, and Sam's tie is just, like, ripped. Like, it got it, like, got caught in a door or something. [00:39:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:35] Speaker B: Oh, this is the COVID for the anime, Johnny. [00:39:38] Speaker A: Yeah. I thought this was pretty dynamic and exciting. I like them coming out of the. [00:39:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real target reticule. It's real awesome. I got the. I went. I decided to go for the grittier one. The. [00:39:50] Speaker A: I like that bee cover a lot, though, too. It's very mellon. [00:39:52] Speaker B: The colac. The colac cover. And it's just Sam and twitch walking on a foggy New York City street holding some rifles. It looks like they're. It kind of looks like a. [00:40:07] Speaker A: They're going hunting and twitch is smoking a cigarette. What the fuck? Yeah, they must have done some heavy shit. [00:40:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. I chose this cover specifically because it felt more in tune with the tone of what was inside. But the a cover just by itself is amazing. [00:40:25] Speaker A: Very bombastic. Yeah, they're very different. You gotta imagine twitch occasions just like, Sam, give me one of those fucking cigarettes and just take some smokes. [00:40:35] Speaker B: Secondhand smoke wise, he probably smokes at least a pack a week, so why not just occasionally when the mood. I mean, it's not like he doesn't come home smelling like cigarettes to begin with. [00:40:47] Speaker A: So what's the cigarettes and jelly donuts? [00:40:52] Speaker B: Helen's just like, you better not come back here smelling like jelly donuts again. [00:40:56] Speaker A: I'm sorry. He just goes everywhere when he eats them. [00:41:03] Speaker B: Sam hatch to get the anchovy sandwich today. It's not my fault, but we gotta crack open these covers, both a and b, and we get ourselves some credits. And, Johnny, we didn't mention it, but it's another double toddfather day. Cause we got script plop by Tom McFarlane with co plop by John Gough. I'm wondering. I'm wondering if who was the one who came up with the more fucked up parts of this story. Was it is the toddfather? Who's the nasty boy? Or is it John Goff being like, make them Frankenstein to people? [00:41:45] Speaker A: I don't know. Or maybe they get them two together and they come up with crazy ideas. [00:41:49] Speaker B: They're just two nice, mild mannered boys, but when they get together, they come up with the gnarliest shit. Yeah, we got art by Simon Kudranski. He's doing that. This art is just makes this so creepy and gritty. Yeah, it works so well. It's especially good for Friday the 13th day, Johnny, because it is. It fits very well. We got coverage. [00:42:15] Speaker A: We're clear. That's the day we're recording, not today's. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Episode, unless you listen to this on some other Friday the 13th and then both. [00:42:24] Speaker A: Correct. [00:42:25] Speaker B: We got colors by FCO placencia and Sheila Saldania. She's doing the color flats, which I still should probably google to see what that means. [00:42:36] Speaker A: No. [00:42:40] Speaker B: What we have to do is we have to not look it up until we invite a colorist on and then ask them. [00:42:46] Speaker A: That's what it's called. [00:42:46] Speaker B: That's a good plan. That's a good plan. Lettering by the Tom or Zakowski himself. That's another Tom O issue, Johnny. A double Tom O day. We got a. We covered the covers real good. Creative director Todd McFarlane and the editor in chief Thomas Healy. Previously and Sam and Twitch. Sam and Twitch are still on the outs. Meanwhile, out in the middle of nowhere, Twitch and his old pal Jim's investigation takes an unexpected twist, catching both detectives off guard. Poor, poor Sam and twitch. Still. Still on the outs. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Still on the outs. We open with our opening quote for the episode. [00:43:19] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:43:20] Speaker A: Sam is trying to call twitch. Voice message. [00:43:23] Speaker B: Yeah, voicemail from. From Sam Burke. And it's over a couple things. Yeah, it's. It's. It starts out over. There's a house in the middle of the cornfield, and it's getting raided by the police. A lot of. A lot of police in SWAT gear bursting into buildings in this episode of regarding spot Johnny. [00:43:44] Speaker A: Yes, there is. [00:43:46] Speaker B: So there's a. There's a lady out. So there's the house that the cops are going into. And there's a lady out in the field who's just, like, hanging up some laundry to air dry. [00:43:55] Speaker A: And they're going in there because a streamer got swatted, right? [00:43:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. [00:44:00] Speaker A: What if we got swatted while we were recording? [00:44:03] Speaker B: I would be very confused because I don't know if. Who else knows? There's only one other person on this discord, Johnny. Would they let us out? Would they sell us out? They might call your friends, everybody. Make sure they won't sell you out. [00:44:17] Speaker A: Yeah, make sure they won't swat you. That'd be terrifying. Plus, they'd never find me. Cause I'm in a closet. So they'd be looking for me, and I wouldn't even know they were in there. [00:44:24] Speaker B: I'm literally right next to the front door. So I'm a Connor, Johnny. I'm not making it. You'll have to carry on the show in my stead. But. So, actually, I guess. I'm guessing these are two different houses, Johnny. I thought they were okay. I don't know why I thought this was the same house. [00:44:41] Speaker A: I got confused the first time I read it because they look pretty similar. [00:44:43] Speaker B: They look pretty similar. But also like the lady doing the laundry wouldn't confuse the sound of some police knocking the door down with an old man potentially building a scarecrow. Yeah, or watching a tv or sitting on the toilet. So. So in the one house, the police are kicking down the door, busted in, guns blazing, shooting a guy in an american flag bandana. And then at the house with the lady hanging up the washing, she's yelling at her husband, who is on the. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Crapper on the crapper, just taking a shit. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Classic. [00:45:22] Speaker A: Tom McFarlane is like, what? What? I'm not doing anything. [00:45:26] Speaker B: There's always. Somebody always wants to have a conversation while you're in the bathroom. And it's like, can you just fucking wait a second? Christ. Always, never fails. And so the lady hanging the laundry is trying to make sure her husband's not building his scarecrows. She's like, they don't work. Why are you doing it? [00:45:45] Speaker A: She's got some laundry to hang. [00:45:47] Speaker B: And then back at the house that's getting raided, the police are about to go down into the. The creepy basement. Johnny. [00:45:54] Speaker A: Yes. [00:45:54] Speaker B: Look at this. This is. I have seen this basement in at least three different movies this year alone. Uh, you. Nah, if I were that copper. Nah, you guys are good. Somebody else. Somebody else can get this one. [00:46:07] Speaker A: Don't go into the basement. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Don't go into the fucking basement. That was the best part about barbarian, where that lady shows up, sees the stairway to, like, fucking the middle of the earth. It was like, uh, uh, fuck that. [00:46:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that was hilarious. [00:46:21] Speaker B: That was a good movie. Barbarian. I liked it. [00:46:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I liked it a lot. [00:46:26] Speaker B: This lady, you know, she's out. We get a nice. A nice picture of this lady hanging her laundry and the scarecrow that is covered in crows. So, not a good scarecrow, Jeremy. No, it's more like an attract. Crow. [00:46:40] Speaker A: Yes. Friend of Crow. [00:46:42] Speaker B: Friend of. Friend of Crow. Crow friend. And so back in this basement that's getting raided, it looks like there's a nice little drug operation going on. The cops are cleaning up the filth of the city, but they're. [00:46:54] Speaker A: I don't know what they're doing is really that good. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know either. It's. It's very. There's some caches told to grab. Be grabbed. [00:47:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Usually that's not a sign of something on the up and up going on grab the cash. [00:47:09] Speaker B: They're talking to one of the guys that they have on the floor at gun point and being like, what are you. What are you doing? Why are you doing this stuff? And the lady, the lady who was hanging the laundry is just walking to the scarecrow, being like, let's look at this piece of garbage that my stupid husband made. And all the while, we're still getting Sam basically being like, what the fuck are you doing out there? You belong in a city's twitch. You don't belong out in a booth. [00:47:34] Speaker A: You're a city slicker. Yeah, this is interesting. It's kind of three things intercutting the Sam message on the dialogue. The farmhouse where she finds the scarecrow and the house where they're doing the drug bust. And I think the only reason it didn't work for me the first time, they should have made the surrounding area of the houses look a little bit more different because they're both like. And I know they're in the same town surrounded by corn, but it's just like. It kind of is confusing at first. Maybe it's supposed to be disorienting. [00:47:58] Speaker B: Yeah. But, I mean, I think it is supposed to be disorienting. But, like, reading back through it, they're definitely making the distinctions where one is. [00:48:07] Speaker A: A day and one is in darkness. [00:48:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. One of them is in the morning, and one of them is, like, at sunfall. So one's at sunrise, the other's at sunset. [00:48:17] Speaker A: Right. [00:48:19] Speaker B: So. And very quickly, as soon as. As soon as the cops go inside the building, you can tell there's a. There's a definite color difference. [00:48:27] Speaker A: Right. [00:48:28] Speaker B: But it does work much better on the page than it does us. Talking about it. [00:48:33] Speaker A: It does. It's probably very confusing for us. But luckily, from head on out, it's pretty much linear. [00:48:39] Speaker B: Yeah. So we turn the page and we get the full reveal of that scarecrow that was being stuffed at the last issue. Johnny. And it's half human. It's a half human scarecrow. [00:48:52] Speaker A: It's got body parts, it's got a real head. And those crows are eating that head. [00:48:55] Speaker B: And this lady is terrified. She's got her hands to her face and she's screaming and she's staring at this head that's on the scarecrow, and she's watching the crows just dig its eyes out. [00:49:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Just that. Insult to injury. If you're finding a horrifying corpse in your yard, the crow pops an eyeball out in front of you. [00:49:19] Speaker B: Well, I mean, maybe the bird's like, look at this. [00:49:21] Speaker A: What do I found? I want one of these. [00:49:24] Speaker B: These are the soft bits. They're the best. And then from there, we just slam cut back to Healy's hideaway. And it's. It's twitch getting ready in his hotel room, listening to the voicemail from Sam, brushing his teeth. Sam ends his message. So call me, you little prick. I'll be here. [00:49:46] Speaker A: What a good friend. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Hey, it works. And then after twitch dresses, he. He makes a phone call to Helen, who hasn't. [00:49:56] Speaker A: Her phone is Max Williams. [00:49:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that's. That's a little. [00:49:59] Speaker A: You're just me, Max. [00:50:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And so Sam's their twitch is calling. Just be like, hey, I miss you. And Helen's like, I miss you too. [00:50:09] Speaker A: But this is bullshit. [00:50:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, obviously, some, some longer running issues vis a vis twitch's obsession with his job. Yes. Some things twitch has got to work on there. But, you know, and then while they're. It seems like they're having a little bit of. A little bit of a breakthrough in this conversation, and then somebody starts calling him. And Helen's like, what's that? Twitch is like, nah, I'll get him later. And she's like, nah, I got shit to do. You take that phone call. It just hangs up on him. [00:50:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:43] Speaker B: Twitch is just back in his hotel room with his, his wall of images or of pictures tied together with string. [00:50:54] Speaker A: Just figuring out the case. [00:50:56] Speaker B: Just doing his casework. [00:50:57] Speaker A: And then we cut back to the, we cut to the farmhouse. [00:51:01] Speaker B: It's the, the farmhouse of the. The lady hanging the laundry and the scarecrow. [00:51:07] Speaker A: Not the drug bust. [00:51:08] Speaker B: Not the drug bust. And the husbands. So there's. Twitch is getting some background information from everybody who's there. The husband is just like, anyway, this guy was like, I was on the crapper. Why did I have to use the crapper? [00:51:22] Speaker A: I was just using the bathroom. [00:51:25] Speaker B: He's never gonna want to go to the bathroom ever again. Oh, boy. [00:51:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Come outside to this. Because we find out, as they're investigating this corpse, scarecrow, the lady died. [00:51:36] Speaker B: Yeah, she had a heart attack because she was so sick. So that's the most Friday the 13th thing I've ever heard of, Johnny. It's getting scared to death. [00:51:44] Speaker A: Scared to death. [00:51:45] Speaker B: That's my goal for this evening. You'll find out if I was successful in scaring myself to death. [00:51:53] Speaker A: What are you gonna watch? [00:51:54] Speaker B: I don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead, Johnny. [00:51:57] Speaker A: All right. [00:51:59] Speaker B: It will probably be unsuccessful is what I'm saying. [00:52:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I saw beetlejuice, which made me laugh to death. [00:52:06] Speaker B: Oh, nice. So it was good. [00:52:08] Speaker A: It was pretty good. Yeah. It wasn't, like, fantastic, but it was a fun, cute movie sometimes a lot of good practical effects. [00:52:15] Speaker B: Oh, that's good. That's nice. That's nice. It's especially good for a Tim Burton film since he's been just like, on that CGI tv. [00:52:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I think he said in some interviews that this really helped him bring him back. So that's good. [00:52:30] Speaker B: That's good. [00:52:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a fun movie. Recommended Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. [00:52:33] Speaker B: Don't say. Don't you say it again, Johnny. I won't I think you've already said. [00:52:39] Speaker A: We'Ve already summoned him on this show once. [00:52:41] Speaker B: I'm also pretty sure you've already said the name, like, four times. [00:52:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:52:47] Speaker B: But, uh, Twitch is just, you know, he's taken in. He's not focusing just on the dead bodies that are there. He's looking around. He's seeing, you know, this cornfield. Why this friggin cornfield? This one. Why this cornfield? The whole place. The whole goddamn place is corn, Johnny. And Twitch is just like, why this cornfield? You know? Twitch is like, you know, this killer, this killer is trying to taunt us. They're trying to show us that they think they're better than us. And we get to, we get to see little snippets of what the body is. And they literally say, like some frick, like some sick doctor Frankenstein. [00:53:25] Speaker A: I mean, pretty much. [00:53:26] Speaker B: So they're gonna get the, they're gonna get all these body parts to the lab to try to get some DNA analysis to see which bodies these parts go to. [00:53:33] Speaker A: Someone sews themselves together in the beetlejuice. [00:53:37] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Very exciting. [00:53:39] Speaker A: Yeah. There you go. Hey, hey, Sally. It's just like Sally in nightmare. [00:53:45] Speaker B: In nightmare. And so twitch is just like, man, this town. This town. Town might be little in the middle of nowhere, but it doesn't deserve all this nonsense. [00:53:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:57] Speaker B: Then he's like, these birds. Do these birds usually fly in a flock? Jim's like, not really. Why? And Twitch is like, well. Cause there's a fuck ton of them over there. [00:54:06] Speaker A: So I think there's a whole bunch of scares. There's a whole bunch of scarecrows. Yeah. [00:54:11] Speaker B: And then we cut to nighttime. So they've been at this all day, and they've got more parts they found in other parts of the cornfield. Jenny. [00:54:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Like a woman's torso, an arm, a hand, a leg. [00:54:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Twitch is, you know, recording his thoughts into his little mobile recorder. And then one of the other detectives, that's not Jim. The, the guy with the, the white on. [00:54:34] Speaker A: Justin Theroux. [00:54:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:35] Speaker A: Who's also in Beetlejuice. Oh, my God. [00:54:39] Speaker B: It's showtime. He comes up and he's like, hey, hey, hey, detective, we've been at this all fucking day. We should, we should, we should go home. [00:54:47] Speaker A: Let's go eat some food. [00:54:49] Speaker B: And then they cut to the restaurant, and Justin Theroux talking about how twitch put in 14 hours and he didn't want to leave. [00:55:00] Speaker A: And he says, 100 guys like Detective Twitch here. [00:55:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:04] Speaker A: And this other cop corrects him. He's like, his name's Williams, not Twitch. [00:55:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I like that. Basically, Twitch is just, like, silent through most of this until they ask him stuff directly. [00:55:14] Speaker A: Yeah, he's kind of a silent partner. [00:55:16] Speaker B: He's. He's. He's thinking some stuff. And I don't think he's thinking some very good things about the people he's with. And we learned Simon Simon Kudransky's been very, very, very good across this whole series of, you know, even though Twitch doesn't twitch, he has twitches. So there's little things that he does as sort of his kind of obsession with trying to figure out the puzzle. And so it's fun watching him do his little. [00:55:52] Speaker A: His little eye rub. Yep. And he's just listening to him and saying, we gotta wait till he makes a mistake and make sure we don't let him make a second mistake. [00:56:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I gotta jump on that. Jump on that. Jump on them. As soon as they make that first. [00:56:07] Speaker A: Mistake, we cut to the bar. [00:56:10] Speaker B: To a bar. And there's the lady whose cop boyfriend was the one who ran away to Kentucky. But he fucking hated Kentucky. Johnny. [00:56:20] Speaker A: Yep. [00:56:21] Speaker B: And we got this. [00:56:22] Speaker A: You don't want any bourbon? [00:56:23] Speaker B: No more for me. [00:56:26] Speaker A: There you go. [00:56:27] Speaker B: And the bartender is cutting her off and she's like, fine. Your whiskey tastes, like, pissed. Anyway, so, I mean, she was probably getting. But the well whiskey to begin with. [00:56:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, my God. I was waiting for the bus and I went into. It was like 25 minutes. And there's a bar there on western. Green line or green eye? Right under the blue line. And I was like, they had, like, a modelo and a tequila shot combo. So I just got that. It was the worst fucking tequila. I almost threw up. Like, I got it close to my mouth and I was like, no. My body was like, no, no, no, not do it. I don't know what fucking tequila they were giving away with their shot combo, but it was. [00:57:07] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:57:07] Speaker A: It was. I hadn't had some awful liquor in a long time. [00:57:10] Speaker B: I mean, it's bad. [00:57:12] Speaker A: It's cheap. [00:57:13] Speaker B: I'm sorry, Johnny. Well, at least you didn't have this experience where you then stumbled out of the bar and immediately threw up. [00:57:19] Speaker A: I didn't do that. I just. I just didn't do the shot. [00:57:23] Speaker B: And then, you know, while she's down there throwing up, a guy comes by and is like, hey, I can help you up. And then offers to take her home. And then when it gets home, she's like, why didn't you come inside? And he's like, I thought you'd never ask. Creepy. Hanging outside of bars, hoping that compugen come out and you can take them home. So. So they get inside, and they start doing some hanky panky fumbling. And the guy's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna try to be quiet so I don't wake up your old man over there. And she's like, what the fuck are you talking about? My old man? And then we see looks behind him. Is her. Her cop ex boyfriend. Yeah, sans lives. [00:58:10] Speaker A: Everything. [00:58:11] Speaker B: San's hands just propped up in a chair with a little sign taped to him that says, no more hiding. And she screams. She screams. She gets the screams so loud, it's just coming out of the window across the page. [00:58:27] Speaker A: We end on another gruesome dead body as the death toll rises in this small Indiana town. [00:58:34] Speaker B: How many bodies are they up to now? [00:58:36] Speaker A: It's like seven or eight, at least. [00:58:38] Speaker B: Almost double digits, maybe already double digits. Dang. Cause I guess it depends on if these new parts belong to any of the old bodies, right? [00:58:46] Speaker A: He's missing his hands, so maybe they use some of his hands in the scarecrow. [00:58:50] Speaker B: I'm gonna assume so, yeah, boy. Gruesome. [00:58:54] Speaker A: Boom. [00:58:55] Speaker B: Gruesome. Johnny new generation no power meter. [00:58:57] Speaker A: That'd be hilarious if you have. It's like Sam's, like, hunger meter. [00:59:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's like, how many? It's. It's donuts. What would Twitch's beat meter be? [00:59:07] Speaker A: I don't know. It would just be his intellect. His intellect level. [00:59:11] Speaker B: We got the new universe titles that they're talking about. You know, some books that we like. Some books that we like. Sam and Twitch, Red City, monolith, misery. [00:59:22] Speaker A: And monolith is also there even saying puts we like and monolith, not monolith. [00:59:31] Speaker B: We got the image classics ad like we normally do, and the fallout toys again. [00:59:34] Speaker A: Johnny crawl out from the fallout, baby. I was thinking about toys today. I was looking at it, and, like, I don't know. I might have the money for. I might buy that medieval spawn. There's only, like, three or four days left. [00:59:46] Speaker B: I'm thinking about it for the Kickstarter. [00:59:48] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, $58 isn't that bad for all the shit you get. And, like, I'll pop. I don't know if it was regular spawn. I get it in a heartbeat. [00:59:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Weird. [00:59:56] Speaker A: I'm so sad. I miss out on that. Like, I. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Like, we only missed it by, like, six months too. [01:00:01] Speaker A: I know, I know. But, like, if they do a gunslinger? [01:00:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:00:05] Speaker A: Definitely. [01:00:06] Speaker B: Definitely, definitely. [01:00:08] Speaker A: It's just like, I don't know. Medieval is cool, but I have a medieval figure. But I kind of want it because it's got all the fun accessories and it'd be fun to mess around with. [01:00:17] Speaker B: But it's. It's also fun to watch the Todd father be like, you see all these little spaces? [01:00:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:21] Speaker B: Those are stretch goals that he's like, we're gonna get all the little spaces. [01:00:25] Speaker A: They did. They hit them all. They're $1.7 million. [01:00:29] Speaker B: Nice. [01:00:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Sold, like, 8000 or something. [01:00:33] Speaker B: Damn. Damn. [01:00:35] Speaker A: It's almost 9000 backers. Yeah, man. So, yeah, I'll think about that. I'll make that decision. I'll let you know next time. [01:00:42] Speaker B: Okay, awesome. We'll have to do an unboxing. [01:00:45] Speaker A: Oh, I will if I can. [01:00:46] Speaker B: Like a video unboxing. Yeah, well, you know, that's. That's Sam and switch case files number four, Johnny. [01:00:54] Speaker A: That is saving Twitch case files number four. But I'm just. You mentioned unboxing, and now I got the hankering to do some unboxing, David. [01:01:01] Speaker B: Oh, you do? [01:01:02] Speaker A: I do. Yes. [01:01:03] Speaker B: Wow. [01:01:04] Speaker A: And luckily for me, I got this great present from a friend of mine and friend of the show and listener of the show, Manu. Manu was listening to our spawn 100 episode where I said I'd always wanted that Al Simmons action figure, and I never had it. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [01:01:21] Speaker A: And they showed up when I hung out with them, and they got me the fucking Al Simmons figure. [01:01:27] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Al Simmons from the movie spawn. [01:01:29] Speaker A: Al Simmons from the movie Ultra action figure. That means it's time for Todd's toy dock. Yeah. So thank you, Manu. We really appreciate it. This is a figure I always thought was really cool. I remember looking at it at Target and, like, wanting to get it, but I kind of sucked to Star wars, you know? You wanted to pick one. [01:02:04] Speaker B: Yeah. You really. You really had to choose one or the other. You couldn't really do both at that time. [01:02:10] Speaker A: Yeah, that time. When you're a kid, you're like, you gotta have one thing. Cause you're not good. Yeah. But, yeah. Spawn action figure of Al Simmons from the 1997 movie. Yeah. So I guess I'm gonna pop it open and we'll smell some of this 1997 air. [01:02:26] Speaker B: Bring it. Bring it, Johnny. [01:02:27] Speaker A: It's really nice. In the package got, like, the spawn movie logo. Big package, big figure. Yeah, it's pretty cool. So here we go. Let's get this open on, Mike. Oh, yeah. Peel it back. [01:02:47] Speaker B: Oh, it's stuck. That glue is really good, Judy. [01:02:49] Speaker A: That's some good glue, man. [01:02:52] Speaker B: Usually the nineties. The nineties toys that we get, that plastic that just, like, falls right off. [01:02:58] Speaker A: That bubble is very yellow. Very yellow. [01:03:01] Speaker B: How was that air? I saw you take a big sniff of it. [01:03:04] Speaker A: Feels a little like plastic, but not really that much of a smell. So it says on the back, the legs on the rocket launcher fold out, and it can hang on to the backpack, and it can fire the missile. And his gun can fit in either hand. [01:03:17] Speaker B: Oh, hell. Nice. [01:03:19] Speaker A: All right, taking him out, Dan. Good articulation. [01:03:22] Speaker B: He could dual wield, then, is what they're saying. Yeah, probably take some of that stuff from the McFarland gun. Give him another. [01:03:31] Speaker A: There is Al Simmons. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Nice. That's a real big gun. From the angle I was looking at, I thought it was a sword, it was so long. [01:03:40] Speaker A: No, it's a gun. [01:03:41] Speaker B: It's a gun. [01:03:41] Speaker A: It's got some. It's got some good articulation on him. [01:03:44] Speaker B: Nice. [01:03:46] Speaker A: Let me see this missile backpack. So it folds into a backpack. Oh, it has some hooks you can put in his back. That's cool. Yeah. Missile backpack. Look at that. It looks a lot like Michael Jai white. It's a good likeness. [01:03:57] Speaker B: Oh, that's good. [01:03:58] Speaker A: You hold the gun to the side. The backpack fits in nicely. This is a cool figure. [01:04:02] Speaker B: Nice. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Pull back the missile. You can fire it. I don't want to do it, so I don't, like, break my computer screen. This is one of those nineties missiles, so, you know, it's got, like, some power to it. [01:04:11] Speaker B: Nice. [01:04:11] Speaker A: This is a cool accessory. And the legs pop out, and you can make it stand up. [01:04:17] Speaker B: That's what I said. You could do as it says. [01:04:19] Speaker A: It's hard to get them out. [01:04:21] Speaker B: That's definitely not a school approved backpack. I can tell you that right now. [01:04:25] Speaker A: No, there they go. Yep. You can stand it up. It's like a little dog missile launcher. [01:04:31] Speaker B: It's like a Boston dynamics dog. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you so much, Manu. Like I said, there's a figure I always kind of wanted, and so glad to have it. [01:04:39] Speaker B: Nice. It looks. It looks real good. [01:04:41] Speaker A: I'll pop some pictures up on the instagram when I post the episode. [01:04:44] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:04:45] Speaker A: All right, add that to the spawn collection. [01:04:47] Speaker B: Johnny's just gonna be hanging with Michael now. [01:04:50] Speaker A: I'm gonna, like, want to collect all the spawn movie figures. [01:04:53] Speaker B: Well, I do believe the back of the package had a couple of the other ones on there. What are the ones you looking for? [01:04:57] Speaker A: Oh, we got Jason Nguyen, Jessica Priest. Clown spawn, burnt spawn. [01:05:07] Speaker B: Good old Christmas. [01:05:08] Speaker A: We got a giant malbolgia, which is based off the animatronic puppet. So it's, like, looks actually good, as. [01:05:15] Speaker B: Opposed to the one in the movie, the CGI one. [01:05:18] Speaker A: There's a violator deluxe box edition and a spawn deluxe box edition. [01:05:23] Speaker B: Nice. [01:05:24] Speaker A: It's got some ads for some other toy lines. Kiss McFarland monsters. I have McFarlane monsters play set. I had the Phantom of the opera one. [01:05:32] Speaker B: Oh, nice. That's on brand? [01:05:35] Speaker A: Mm hmm. [01:05:36] Speaker B: Both for Johnny and the show. [01:05:38] Speaker A: Yeah. No, this is great. They don't make, I mean, like, I don't know. Kids actually figures like this, like, price range. They don't make his quality as this anymore, that's for sure. [01:05:46] Speaker B: Yeah, no, they definitely don't, at least not with all that articulation. [01:05:49] Speaker A: Kids don't like toys. They like apps. [01:05:51] Speaker B: Yeah. They're like, amiibos. Amiibos. Amiibos. [01:05:55] Speaker A: Amiiboys. Ami. Something cool. Well, yeah, that's a great figure. [01:06:01] Speaker B: Nice. Well, Johnny, I'm surrounded by doggies, so we need to rate all of the puppies from this episode. [01:06:11] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I'm an idiot. I can't believe I did that before. The rating of the puppies. [01:06:14] Speaker B: And one of those. One of those puppies is gonna be this action figure. So, Johnny, why didn't you stop me? [01:06:21] Speaker A: I didn't realize. I forgot we didn't do the reviews. [01:06:23] Speaker B: It's fine. It's fine. Just. Just review the action figure. So one of those puppies, Johnny, we have. We have three puppies this episode. We've got the two issues and this toy. So let's go ahead and start with that rating some puppies. [01:06:37] Speaker A: Let's try them to rate the puppies. Even though I already opened an action figure and ruined the order of things, we were supposed to do them in. [01:06:44] Speaker B: You were too excited. [01:06:45] Speaker A: Yeah, well, we also were talking about unboxing, so it was just a perfect segue. It's time to rate the puppies. So, first up, we had Gunslinger 33. You know, it's a fun, like. It's like, a lesser issue. It's really just like the one fight to kind of set up the next stage of the story. Carlo Barberry's art is really bombastic, which is fun. But, yeah, it's just kind of like a western, classic shootout. You know, we've kind of been doing some other stuff with Javi, so it's nice to get back to, like, a classic shootout with, like, a very western serial ending. I'm gonna give it 3.5 cigarettes that Linda's smoking for the first time out of five. [01:07:22] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. That's a great score. It's a great score, Johnny. I agree. Curler by Barry Art. It's wonderful. The Todd father is doing a good job. Making a little western story about a hell dude. [01:07:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:35] Speaker B: I am also gonna give it 3.5. I'm gonna give it 3.5. Really fucking cool cars in this. This hotel parking lot. [01:07:44] Speaker A: They must be having a car convention around the world. [01:07:45] Speaker B: Motel. Sorry. Motel. [01:07:47] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a motel for sure. [01:07:48] Speaker B: It's a motor hotel. [01:07:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Then second issue of the day was Sam and twitch, number four case files. Digging deeper into the case. Things are heating up. [01:08:00] Speaker B: This is, like, the never ending case. It just keeps throwing. It just keeps throwing stuff out. [01:08:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Like I said, I'm really digging this. I think top five is great at this kind of story. It's just creepy and intriguing, and you want to know what's going on. And, you know, I like Sam and Twitch, so it's good to see twitch doing some stuff. And this return of Sam will be glorious. [01:08:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It's the next issue definitely, like, heralds the return of Sam. [01:08:29] Speaker A: Yep. So we can't wait for that. [01:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it's gonna be good, but, yeah. [01:08:33] Speaker A: I like this story. I like this series. It's always fun to get fun. Little crime drama. Good, like, alternative to. It's a good thing if you don't really know, if you'd like spawn just to check out, because it's pretty different. [01:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very different. [01:08:47] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it four. Talking to you while you're on the crappy out of five. [01:08:53] Speaker B: That's a real good score. I agree. It's. We're in the home stretch so much. Like, we can tell everybody's figuring stuff out. And we're just waiting for the reveal to come, Johnny. And it's gonna be real good. I'm gonna give it the. Like I said, the art is very good. It's real. It's real nasty. It's real nasty. It's so much fun. [01:09:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:09:15] Speaker B: The toddfather should just write these stories all the time. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it three and a half busted drug dens, Johnny. [01:09:21] Speaker A: Sweet. [01:09:22] Speaker B: They busted into that drug den. [01:09:24] Speaker A: They busted in and busted it up. [01:09:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And then they grabbed that cash. [01:09:29] Speaker A: Sorry, I'm just playing with the action figure. [01:09:31] Speaker B: No, you didn't rate the action figure. [01:09:33] Speaker A: Johnny, because I'm playing with it. I love it. Thanks again to Manu. He's kind of in a fun, like, kind of, like, over to the side and a fun pose. The gun looks cool. The backpack's cool. Movie accurate. Like, it's really detailed. Like I said, it's a figure I've always wanted, so I'm going to give it five rocket shooting backpacks out of five. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:09:57] Speaker A: It's all you can want from Al Simmons figure. [01:09:59] Speaker B: I mean, except for maybe more rockets. [01:10:03] Speaker A: More rockets to fire both directions. Like you said, you can shoot your mom and your sister at the same time. [01:10:09] Speaker B: Gotta watch out, though. He might get it taken away and put on the top of the fridge. [01:10:13] Speaker A: Don't want that to happen. [01:10:14] Speaker B: You know what? You know what else is worth five rocket launchers as far as a rating? Johnny? [01:10:21] Speaker A: What's that? [01:10:22] Speaker B: Some people we know on instagram. Yes. [01:10:26] Speaker A: Yes. [01:10:26] Speaker B: Specifically, one very talented individual who actually gets shouted out in the back of Gunslinger number 33. [01:10:34] Speaker A: That's right. It is. Tattoo artist, sick ink custom art. That's Sik ink. So not sick, but sick Sik. And it is. She's a tattoo artist who did that awesome gunslinger that was in the back of Gunslinger 33. [01:10:55] Speaker B: It does a lot of really good shit. [01:10:57] Speaker A: A lot of really good shit. Like a really cool evil. Like Alice from Alice in Wonderland. We got Harley Quinn smoking a cigarette. [01:11:09] Speaker B: A lot of bugs. [01:11:11] Speaker A: A lot of bugs. Harley Quinn's good. I'm excited for Joker. [01:11:16] Speaker B: Two foll, adieu, fall dew. [01:11:20] Speaker A: See Lady Gaga. I don't know. The movie just seems wild. It seems like it's gonna be really interesting. [01:11:26] Speaker B: It will be an event, if nothing else. [01:11:28] Speaker A: That's true. It will be an event. And I like the first joker. So, yeah, it's good. That part that they shoot, the part where he kills Robert De Niro on the talk show is really creepy. [01:11:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I wasn't show it. [01:11:41] Speaker A: When they show it on the tv, it just makes it so creepier because it's like it's the Bud Dwyer video or something. Like, it's just like, really. It's like one of those, like. It seems like something you shouldn't be watching. So, yeah, I enjoyed the first joker. I mean, there's some stupid stuff in it, too. Like the Fight club girlfriend thing, whatever. [01:11:58] Speaker B: Yeah. But. [01:11:59] Speaker A: But that was barely part of the. [01:12:01] Speaker B: Movie, so it was real fun. It was real nasty. It was very Sam and Twitch case files. [01:12:06] Speaker A: Yes. Very similar kind of thing. [01:12:09] Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah. Follow. Follow sick art. Sick Inc. [01:12:12] Speaker A: Custom art for some really good art. Really good. And hopefully they do some more spawn stuff at some point. [01:12:18] Speaker B: Yeah, hopefully we'll be there to catch it if they do. [01:12:21] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:12:22] Speaker B: While you're over there, you should also follow us regarding spawnpod on instagram, we aren't showing any spawn tattoos, but we are sharing a lot of other spawns stuff, so it's fun. We like hanging out over there. Come talk to us. And if you want to talk to us in a more long form setting, you can always send us an emailguardingspawnpodmail.com. [01:12:45] Speaker A: Please do. [01:12:46] Speaker B: We would love, love to read a letter from you guys. [01:12:50] Speaker A: And if you need a little inspiration as to what to say, I was just wondering if there's an action figure that you never got as a kid that you always wanted. Um, this is one of them for me, but I'm just wondering, is there a toy that you always like? Some jurassic park figure or something that you never got that you always wanted? [01:13:07] Speaker B: I'm trying to think, because I knew for the longest time I always wanted one of those mutating ninja turtles that go from a regular turtle to a ninja turtle. [01:13:16] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:13:17] Speaker B: I finally got one when I was, like, six. [01:13:19] Speaker A: Those are cool. [01:13:20] Speaker B: I can't remember another that existed that, like, I wanted really bad but never got a chance to get. [01:13:29] Speaker A: I'm glad you got one. Those were cool. [01:13:30] Speaker B: Yeah, they were real cool. They came with, like, a little bitty. A little bitty violet ooze. [01:13:35] Speaker A: Mm hmm. [01:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:37] Speaker A: Well, to show how spoiled I was, me and my brother had all four of them. [01:13:40] Speaker B: Oh, dang. I like how they came with pizzas that then turned into thrones. [01:13:48] Speaker A: Yeah, they came with a transforming pizza as well. [01:13:51] Speaker B: Hey, it fits the theme. It moves from one to the other. [01:13:55] Speaker A: But then they eventually made crazy ones. They had, like, ones that transformed into fire trucks. [01:13:59] Speaker B: I had the Leonardo that turned into a dump truck. [01:14:04] Speaker A: And then they had, like, Shredder would turn into, like, the drill machine. He had, like, they did some crazy ones. [01:14:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Mid nineties toys. Got a little bug nuts. [01:14:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they were wild. [01:14:16] Speaker B: Just a little. Speaking of bug nuts, but in a good way, our music is done by Lonnie Bones. You should look him up. He does a lot of good stuff. [01:14:23] Speaker A: Lonnie nuts music. [01:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah, just Google Lonnie Bones music. That's Lonnie with a y, not an ie. No Canadian here. And, Johnny, I had a really good time this week. [01:14:35] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:14:36] Speaker B: What do you say we do this again sometime in the near future? [01:14:38] Speaker A: I say we do it next week. Yeah, let's do it. [01:14:40] Speaker B: All right, nice. You want to read a couple more new issues? [01:14:44] Speaker A: Let's do it. We gotta keep on that new track. [01:14:46] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. We got a. We got a couple here that just keep going. What do you think about monolith number two and spawn 355? That sound good? [01:14:57] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. [01:14:58] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:14:59] Speaker A: See what monolith's up to and his weird time travel adventures. [01:15:02] Speaker B: Speaking of time travel. [01:15:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:05] Speaker B: Oh, man. Issue two is. Issue two is the real heavy one, too. [01:15:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:10] Speaker B: It's got a lot of nastiness in it. [01:15:12] Speaker A: I'm excited to get to it. [01:15:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And spawn 355, I'm just. Just loving on go and spawn right now. It's very good. [01:15:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It's been really fun. This news issue was great. [01:15:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:22] Speaker A: The one from last week, I think. [01:15:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:24] Speaker A: Lyra's backstory. [01:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think it was last week. I think it was two weeks ago. Cause I think last week there was nothing. [01:15:30] Speaker A: Oh, okay. It was great. [01:15:32] Speaker B: It's weird to have a spawnless week. [01:15:35] Speaker A: Always strange. [01:15:36] Speaker B: Well, you know what else is always strange, Johnny? Us. [01:15:40] Speaker A: I don't. Yes, us. So please rate reviews, subscribe, let people know about us. [01:15:46] Speaker B: Give us that strange bump. [01:15:47] Speaker A: Give us that strange bump. [01:15:48] Speaker B: Say, hey, talk to all the people you know who are weird. And be like, hey, I know some weirdos you should listen to. [01:15:54] Speaker A: Please spread the word. We really do appreciate it. [01:15:57] Speaker B: Yes, we do. And, well, Johnny, I am very appreciative, both to you and to the listeners and to Spahn and to Todd McFarlane for creating Spahn. And my appreciation has made me speechless. So I'm afraid I have nothing more to say. But may this scorch be with you. [01:16:17] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:16:18] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:16:20] Speaker A: Hell, yeah, man. I was excited to get to play with this action figure. Let me see if I can mess with this. I'm scared of these nineties missiles, though. They're so powerful. [01:16:28] Speaker B: They are powerful springs. [01:16:30] Speaker A: The springs, man. They'll get you. [01:16:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:32] Speaker A: All right. Let me just click it in place here, and I'll let it go. [01:16:44] Speaker B: Johnny. Johnny. Hey, Johnny, you okay? Johnny? Johnny.