Episode 125 - Rat City 8 and Sam And Twitch Case Files 8

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I already know what he is. Pure evil from the depths of hell. And he must be destroyed. Good evening and welcome to the Malibols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host John Fisher. [00:00:52] Speaker B: And I'm your co host David Williams. And Johnny, it is what is what would we consider this? Would consider this second winter, maybe third winter even. It keeps going. Whoop whoop, whoop whoop. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it goes back and forth and back and forth. It was really warm. Now it's really cold again. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Can't decide if I gotta bust out my long underwear or not again. [00:01:13] Speaker A: It was really icy the other day. [00:01:15] Speaker B: Oh yeah, the only, the, the only thing that kept me from just eating a whole bunch of asphalt on the way into work the other day was I got these little, these little crampons. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:01:26] Speaker B: Strapped into the bottom of my feet and I was just like hup a duppa dup da da. People were sliding left to the left of me and to the right of me. But me, I was just trucking. [00:01:35] Speaker A: It was like a Mario ice level in Chicago a couple days ago. [00:01:38] Speaker B: It was wild. I saw a video of somebody just like ice skating down the sidewalk. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Oh man, I'm so glad I wasn't driving. [00:01:47] Speaker B: Oh man. Yeah, it had to. I mean at. Around like by like 10 o'clock, it's always fine. But I can't imagine those early mornings being the first people on the road. [00:01:58] Speaker A: Oh no, no, no, no. Wouldn't want to do it slicker and. [00:02:03] Speaker B: Snot than they say, Johnny. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Oh gross. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah, snot is pretty slick actually at work I use that phrase and we got to wondering if you could, you could probably mathematically prove whether something is slicker than snot. It just depends on the mu. Coefficient of friction of snot, whatever that is. So yeah, you get into some nerdy. [00:02:28] Speaker A: Stuff at your job. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Well, we get to the precipice of being extra nerdy because all of us are bad at math. But man, if there were a mathematician at work, you bet your sweet bippy we'd be. We'd be knee deep in that nerdery. [00:02:41] Speaker A: Doing equations about snot taking samples of poop. [00:02:46] Speaker B: I mean the, that second one actually isn't a joke. [00:02:51] Speaker A: It's not? [00:02:51] Speaker B: It's not. No, no. Actually snot samples are worse than, than poop samples, if you can believe it. The worst of those, the worst are when we get the nasal swabs that have like that big old ball of mucus on the end of them and. [00:03:04] Speaker A: It'S like oh, my God. [00:03:05] Speaker B: Oh, those are the worst. [00:03:06] Speaker A: So gross. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Urine. Urine is a close second, but. But snot is definitely the worst. [00:03:11] Speaker A: Mmm. Well, that's lovely. [00:03:16] Speaker B: So number. Number one is number two, and number two is way down there. But we have a good number of two today, Johnny. Number two. That is number one. [00:03:29] Speaker A: What? I thought you said you're bad at math. [00:03:32] Speaker B: Oh, that was bad math. I don't even know what happened. I went into a fugue state. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Are you trying to say we have two issues from Spawn's universe? [00:03:40] Speaker B: That's exactly what I was trying to say, Johnny. Number two that are number one, but they're number eights. [00:03:46] Speaker A: We got number twos. We got twos that are number ones. Number ones that are number eights because they're number one in our heart. But they're both issue number eight. [00:03:55] Speaker B: Johnny solved my equation. [00:03:58] Speaker A: I think I did. [00:04:00] Speaker B: You win an hour and a half of talking to your friend about Spawn on the Internet. You, Johnny. [00:04:05] Speaker A: Congratulations. Wow. No, I'm kidding. I'm so excited. These are great issues of Spawn. [00:04:12] Speaker B: These are amazing issues of Spawn. [00:04:15] Speaker A: Both really good. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:15] Speaker A: We're doing today. This is respawn. Each week, we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. This week is no different. We are doing two issues. We are doing two of our favorite ongoing stories. Right now, we are doing rat city number eight, all the way from November 2024, and Sam and Twitch number eight, also for November 2024. [00:04:42] Speaker B: You put them both together, and they cancel each other out to become one. As in one really good time of reading Spawn. [00:04:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I had a blast. I was reading last night. [00:04:54] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:04:55] Speaker A: At the bar. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Oh, Johnny, you. You should just. You should just have them ship all your books directly to the bar. [00:05:02] Speaker A: I had been there forever. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Sure, sure. [00:05:06] Speaker A: No, I took a hiatus during the last end of the football season because it was crazy. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Oh, I believe that. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Especially it's a sports bar. [00:05:13] Speaker B: Especially that one game that the Bears won. [00:05:15] Speaker A: No, that's been crazy. [00:05:17] Speaker B: It had to have been a crazy day. [00:05:18] Speaker A: Mondays, Thursdays, and Sundays. You couldn't even go. [00:05:21] Speaker B: I believe it. I believe it. [00:05:23] Speaker A: Football's really popular. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. It is very popular. Said on the. On the doorstep of the biggest football night of the. Of the year. We're here. I don't think we can say the word without getting potentially the superb owl. Yeah, this. This owl is so dang superb, you guys. [00:05:44] Speaker A: Yeah, we're a couple days out from the Super Bowl. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm excited for the commercials. And nothing else. [00:05:52] Speaker A: Do you watch it? [00:05:53] Speaker B: I watch it for the commercials, usually. Usually. So usually when I'm watching stuff, I watch it, and then during the commercials, I read. But for football games, especially the big game, I read during the show and then watch for the commercials. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Wow. [00:06:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:10] Speaker A: I feel like I have to watch it. It's like an American tradition. It was just always something we did. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Like the one year I didn't watch it was the fucking year of the left shark. And I completely missed a whole meme cycle. Back when meme cycles were months long. [00:06:23] Speaker A: I saw the left shark. I know him dancing. [00:06:26] Speaker B: I know, I know. And I was like, I can't connect with my friends, Johnny, because I didn't see this ding dang, left shark. I don't even know what's happening. [00:06:33] Speaker A: What kind of shark are you guys talking about? [00:06:37] Speaker B: I would prefer to talk about a hand. Speaking of sharks, Johnny, what's your favorite shark? [00:06:43] Speaker A: Like, fictional shark? [00:06:44] Speaker B: No, just. Just. It doesn't matter if it's fictional or real. Just favorite shark. [00:06:49] Speaker A: I don't know. I guess the great white. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Great white. That's a good one. That's a good one. I just learned that there's apparently a spot between, like, a spot off the coast of San Diego, like 30 miles or so, where, like, all of the Pacific great whites just randomly meet up there every couple of months. And so they call it the Great White Cafe. [00:07:08] Speaker A: That's hilarious. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Because they just hang out and party. That's pretty cool. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Like shark tail or. [00:07:14] Speaker B: Yeah, Will Smith is out there with. [00:07:17] Speaker A: His eyebrow raised doing the DreamWorks face. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. My. My favorite shark is the hammerhead because they look dumb as hell. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's part of the hammerhead. I remember the gummy sharks. I always liked the hammerhead. [00:07:32] Speaker B: Oh, I fucking love gummy sharks. Those are my favorite. Those are my favorite. They're so good. [00:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I like any kind of gummy. I remember, like, the episode one gummies a lot. There's like a little qui Gon gin. That was green. [00:07:44] Speaker B: Oh, man. I don't know if I. I don't know if I was as into gummies around episode one as I. I was or I think I was into fruit snacks. I think I might have had a Yoda fruit snack around that time, but. [00:07:57] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Fruit snacks are good, too. Fruit snacks are when you want a gummy, but you want to feel healthy, but then you just still feel bad afterward, so you should have just gone for the gummy bears. [00:08:08] Speaker A: I never feel bad after eating a nice gummy fruit or a snack in My. [00:08:14] Speaker B: In my soul. No, absolutely not. It feeds me in my. My actual 37 year old body. Yeah, it's like, oh God, what did I do? I gotta go take a nap. What have I done? I've made the mistake of having sugar lunch a couple of times. Yeah, it seems like a good idea at the time, but it's not. [00:08:34] Speaker A: I had ice cream for breakfast the other day. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:08:37] Speaker A: I mean, I was really hungry and I didn't have any. I hadn't been to the store in a bit. I didn't have anything. But I had some ice cream and I was like, that sounds good. [00:08:43] Speaker B: I mean, that's basically cereal. Cereal. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cereal. It's just frozen cereal. Ice cream for breakfast is fine. [00:08:50] Speaker B: That's. I think, I think actually what would make it more fine is if you sprinkled like a little Frosted Flakes on the top of it. [00:08:56] Speaker A: Ooh, delicious. Give a little crunch to it. [00:09:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Damn. Now I just want some ice cream. [00:09:04] Speaker A: I know I do. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Let's. Let's just go. We should record an episode at Maggie's. Is that what it is? Is it Maggie or Margie's? [00:09:13] Speaker A: Margie's. [00:09:14] Speaker B: Margie's. Just get one of those big sinks full of ice cream and we can't finish recording until it's done. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Yeah, they have those huge ones. They're like. They have like a Sundae that's like $100, but if you finish it, it's free or something. [00:09:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. Because I know most of their sundaes are designed for sharing too, so. [00:09:32] Speaker A: Yeah, they're huge. They're like, like clamshell, like big bowls. [00:09:36] Speaker B: That's wild. [00:09:37] Speaker A: It's a really good Margie's candy's in Chicago if you're ever in town, check it out. They got candy and ice cream. It's just like an old fashioned soda jerk. [00:09:45] Speaker B: They got. They got one of the biggest old fashioned neon signs that's still going. [00:09:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. [00:09:53] Speaker B: It's great. There's. There's apparently only one company in town that still services those. [00:09:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, there's a neon sign store in Western. I wonder if it's that one. [00:10:03] Speaker B: It's probably that one because. Because a pharmacy we used to go to said that they were sorry that their sign was broken, but there's only one group of people in town that can fix it and they always have a wait list, so. [00:10:14] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sure. [00:10:15] Speaker B: Man, I miss those old fashioned neon signs. These, these bright LEDs. [00:10:21] Speaker A: I know. I've got a liquor store right across the street from my house and it just like shines in constantly. [00:10:26] Speaker B: There's. There's one like just around the corner on the major street next to me. And I can't see the liquor store, but there's like a haze on the horizon from, from the sign, from their signs. It's ridiculous. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Yeah, those LED signs. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah, they're too much. [00:10:43] Speaker A: It'd be like living in Rat City. [00:10:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be. Only without all the, the cool things that come with living in Rat City. Like, you know, cyberpunk, cyberpunk accessories, super hot PBS documentary hosts. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Yeah. All our favorite things. [00:11:04] Speaker B: Those are the two things worth living in Rhett City for, Johnny. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that's about it. Other than that, it's just a pretty. Seems pretty oppressive. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Yes, it does. It seems like. Not where you want to end up. [00:11:15] Speaker A: No. But tiny apartment in Rat City. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Yeah. That means it's a great, A great place to set a story. [00:11:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. And we're on issue number eight of Rat City. [00:11:28] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:11:29] Speaker A: That's our first issue up today and it is an action packed romp. [00:11:35] Speaker B: It is indeed. There's action, there is pack, there is romp, there's romping. [00:11:41] Speaker A: They were the deviant puts on a romper. [00:11:45] Speaker B: It's one of those, it's one of those. Those lacy ones that were real popular a few years ago. [00:11:50] Speaker A: Yes, it's on a lacy romper and romps around the city. [00:11:54] Speaker B: Man, I'm really sad that rompers for men didn't take off in America because those things look comfy as hell. Every time I run into anybody I know wearing a romper, I'm like, you look way more comfortable than I have ever felt in my entire life. How wonderful is it? [00:12:08] Speaker A: As long as they have pockets. [00:12:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's the, that's the big thing. Although, I guess, you know, we should, we should bring. We should start making. I mean, fanny packs need to actually make a full ass comeback. [00:12:21] Speaker A: They're kind of coming back kind of a. [00:12:24] Speaker B: The. They tend to be like smaller backpacks instead of fanny packs proper for. [00:12:31] Speaker A: Our friend Tom wears a fanny pack. [00:12:33] Speaker B: I mean, our fan Bran wears Brandy pack. [00:12:36] Speaker A: Our fan brand wears a fanny pack. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And he talks like they talk like Zoidberg. Not Zoidberg. Who's the fucking gress? Praying mantis. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Zorak. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Zorak. Ah, Jesus. I am the lone locust of the apocalypse. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Think of me when you look to the night sky. [00:13:02] Speaker B: I was doing so well, Johnny, and then my brain was like no further. You're done. Quit it. Speaking the third Manti of the Apocalypse. This is a pretty apocalyptic cover we got here for cover A, Johnny. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. I got cover A. [00:13:16] Speaker B: That's the COVID I got too, because it's the Bjorn Barons. You don't pass up of Bjorn Barons, Johnny. [00:13:21] Speaker A: I sure don't. [00:13:21] Speaker B: I catch you passing up a Bjorn Barrens, I'm going to give you one of these. A little finger wag. Be like you didn't say the magic word. [00:13:29] Speaker A: Deviant. In like a building that's like crumbling or exploded or on fire. [00:13:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And there's like skulls that just flying through the air, just leaving trails of viscera behind them. Yeah, that's frightening. I could not imagine, A, I couldn't imagine being in an explosion. Explosion. B, I couldn't imagine being in an explosion where skulls are flying around me. [00:13:52] Speaker A: And springs. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Oh, man, there's springs and there's Jaws. I'm wondering if the. The springs are probably integral to the PTS design systems, because that all looks like parts. Spare parts that Dr. Bose has been fiddling with. [00:14:10] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's pretty cool. It's got that 3D Bjorn Berens look, but it also isn't as. It's also a little more flat than his. Usually a little more. Not in a bad way. I'm not saying. But it's just a little bit more like a drawing than a 3D rendering. [00:14:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks. [00:14:26] Speaker A: His usual stuff does. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks more like a poster than a statue. [00:14:31] Speaker A: Right. Because a lot of his stuff just look like a statue. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Yeah, but there's. There's a. There's a lot more motion in this than a. Because a lot of his. A lot of his covers are like, statuesque in its pose, but there's a lot of. There's a lot of motion in the. In the figure of this, like. Because there's like little trace lines from the little. The little necroplasm from the skulls. So. [00:14:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:14:52] Speaker B: He's got the motion. [00:14:54] Speaker A: He's got the motion. [00:14:57] Speaker B: He's got the motion of the ocean. [00:14:59] Speaker A: I love the blue tidal treatment. Looks nice against the orange. Blue and orange. You know why they use that on movie posters? It's supposed to be, like, very attractive to the eye. Blue and orange. [00:15:09] Speaker B: There's not enough. There's not a lot of overlap. I know if you're making a presentation for people who are colorblind, especially red, Green. Colorblind, because red, red and green apparently have the lowest amount of overlap of any color pairs. So they're good for distinguishing. But red wing colorblind is the most common form of colorblindness. So blue and yellow are the second set that have the least amount of overlap. [00:15:37] Speaker A: Okay. [00:15:37] Speaker B: So you can. You can see things better. So if you're ever putting together a poster or presentation for people who are colorblind, you want to use a blue and a yellow for maximum distinction. If you. If you can't just get away with black and white. [00:15:51] Speaker A: There's this hilarious glitch on Diablo this week. David. [00:15:54] Speaker B: Okay. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Where you turn it on and the menus were like, searing red. Like, it happened. I looked it up. I thought something was wrong with my tv, but, like, you couldn't even look at them. They were so intense, like, bright and, like, red. My eyes hurt looking at it. The way to fix it, you had to turn on each separate. I think there's four. You had to turn on each separate colorblind mode one by one, and then reset to default. And then that fixed it. Jeez, I don't know why. [00:16:18] Speaker B: What the hell? [00:16:18] Speaker A: Imagine after the new update that happened. [00:16:21] Speaker B: Imagine being the tech support guy who had to figure that out and being like, I don't fucking. What the shit? He's just back there plugging stuff in. [00:16:30] Speaker A: I found out how to fix it on Reddit. So it may not even been a tech support guy. It may just have been a Reddit guy. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. I. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Speaking of Reddit, tips and tricks to please your mind, remember the conversation we were having about you and Bran trying to find out the top grossing films of last year, and it kept giving you the previous years because it was using the AI nonsense? [00:16:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Apparently the easiest way to circumvent having AI be the top result in your search is to put swear words in there. Just random. Just be like, fucking top movies of 2023. And it'll. It won't give you an AI summary. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Okay. [00:17:09] Speaker B: It'll just take you to the results that you wanted. [00:17:11] Speaker A: David, I did something bad. [00:17:13] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:17:14] Speaker A: And I. I went into AI. I went into Chat GPT and I asked it to make a transcript of a typical 10 minutes of the first of an episode of Respawn. [00:17:21] Speaker B: Oh, are you going to. Are you going to read it? [00:17:24] Speaker A: I don't know. It's kind of boring. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Oh, no. Oh, no. The machines are onto us, Johnny. [00:17:31] Speaker A: No, not that we're boring, but, like, it's just really like, you do give a chef's kiss at one point. It has. David, give something a chef's kiss. [00:17:40] Speaker B: I don't know if I've said the word Chef's kiss, but I've definitely given the impression of a chef's kiss. I know that. [00:17:46] Speaker A: So here, I'll read you the intro. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:48] Speaker A: The episode that came up for us was episode 122, deadly tales, the gunslinger number one, and spawn number 34. [00:17:56] Speaker B: Okay. [00:18:00] Speaker A: John, excited? No. Okay. Podcast intro music. Dark moody rock music with a haunting riff. The theme fades out. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Accurate. [00:18:08] Speaker A: What's. John, excited. What's up, Spawn fans? Welcome to Respawn the podcast, where we dig into the world of Spawn one issue at a time, both the latest releases and the classics. I'm John. And I'm David. Today we got a great lineup, and the only thing that's wrong is they go through the issues very fast and in 10 minutes, it's over. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Oh, man, Johnny, I bet there are so many people who Wish that in 10 minutes this were over. Oh, I know, I know, I know. Sometimes, sometimes during editing, it's like, ah, jeez, how long did we go? [00:18:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we don't know. It just goes on to, like, have a little bit of banter, but it's just. It's kind of stupid. [00:18:50] Speaker B: I mean, one of these days, Johnny, we should. We should do a teaser episode of an episode that we've got upcoming and just do the chatgpt version and then do the real version and see what everybody likes better. [00:19:05] Speaker A: Like, here's an example of something I say to you. The first story, Blood for Blood, has Gunslinger tracking down this outlaw who, let's be honest, had it coming. But the way Palmiani writes it, it's brutal. Man. [00:19:18] Speaker B: That sounds exactly like my friend Johnny. [00:19:21] Speaker A: Yeah, there's too. There's not enough us. And like, long pauses. I don't know. I thought it was a funny experiment. I was just dicking around on AI the other day. [00:19:31] Speaker B: I mean, that is a fun experiment. I like it. I like it. [00:19:34] Speaker A: It took me a second for it to, like, get it, because originally just, like, I can't give you a transcript, but I can give you an overview and wrote, like, an overview. I was like, no, give me a fake transcript. Like, make one up. And then it finally, like, figured out what I was asking for. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Interesting. Yeah. I have been on the record as being firmly anti AI because I've seen too many Terminator type movies. But then somebody was pointing stuff out to me yesterday and I realized Star Trek, one of my top two favorite characters of all times. Data AI as hell. And then Star wars, my favorite part about Star wars, besides the on the nose names or the goddamn Droids. And what are the droids but Artificial intelligence, Johnny. [00:20:12] Speaker A: They're real intelligence. They have souls in Star Wars. Droids have souls. [00:20:15] Speaker B: I need to just embrace. Embrace the robots. The robots, yeah. [00:20:22] Speaker A: It's just like, everything AI makes is so shitty, dude. I've been getting the weirdest AI thing on Instagram, Okay? So it is, like, very realistic videos of Jenna Ortega, Hugh Jackman dressed as Wolverine. Usually Margot Robbie's in there, and sometimes Beetlejuice, like, doing stupid meme shit. And it's all AI generated, man. I'll send you one. They're terrifying. [00:20:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:20:46] Speaker A: They look real. [00:20:47] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, they're getting really good at it. They're doing Nigerian print scams with, like, actual Instagram influencer voices. It's wild. There's a. There's a. An attorney, workers rights attorney on Instagram who was the. A victim. Like, they took his voice and got people to send them money using his voice. [00:21:11] Speaker A: Oh, wow. So if Mr. Beast calls me and asks for money, don't give it to him. [00:21:15] Speaker B: Oh, no, absolutely. Give it to Mr. Beast. He needs that shit. That man is poor. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:20] Speaker B: He's never made a cent off of YouTube, Johnny. Don't. You know? [00:21:23] Speaker A: All right, I'll send that money to Mr. Beast then. [00:21:25] Speaker B: Also, isn't he. Isn't he buying prosthetics for veterans and stuff? Stuff. I don't know. There's. There's some YouTube guy who does, like, has been making prosthetics for people who are unable to afford it because my health care is so high. [00:21:41] Speaker A: Well, he would be. He'd be really f. Big fan of Rat City. [00:21:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [00:21:48] Speaker A: And there is a B cover to this, David. [00:21:51] Speaker B: Okay, who did that B cover? It says here in the book, Mirko Kolak did it with Lewis nct. [00:21:57] Speaker A: And it's pretty badass. [00:22:00] Speaker B: It's excellent. It is like a classic, classic cyberpunk novel cover. [00:22:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Very Blade Runner esque. [00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Or like. Like a. Like a late 90s just got translated into English anime poster. Very Ghost in the Shell. [00:22:18] Speaker A: It's got the city. The crazy sprawl of Rat City and the whole city of New York. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:24] Speaker A: And then with a giant tower. And then you've got the deviant kind of like fading in. In the background. [00:22:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's. It kind of is like the deviant is standing next to a window looking out of it, and you're just seeing his reflection. [00:22:40] Speaker A: Right, Exactly. No, it's. I don't know, man. It's tough to choose between these two. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I love It. When it's an easy choice. In that this was a tough choice, but I have to get the Bjorn Barrens. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Right. [00:22:55] Speaker B: So it's just like. Okay, that's my internal rule, is just default to the Bjorn Barrens. But it is a great cover. Holy shit. I might be having buyer's remorse, Johnny. [00:23:06] Speaker A: I know. Yeah, you're really right. It does look like a cyberpunk novel. Or like an anime poster from the 90s. Pretty cool. Check it out. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Absolutely. Do it. Do it. [00:23:15] Speaker A: Let's pop it open here. We got our credits. Script plot by Erica Schultz. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Art by Zay Carlos. [00:23:22] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Color by J. David Ramos. [00:23:25] Speaker B: They're popping. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Lettering by Erica Schultz. [00:23:28] Speaker B: There's letters. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Creative director. We already covered the covers. [00:23:32] Speaker B: Yes, we did. [00:23:32] Speaker A: Creative Director is Todd McFarlane. Editor in Chief is Mr. Thomas Healy, who's been writing on one of those free writes. I've always been curious about those. Have you seen those? [00:23:44] Speaker B: The ones that are just like a. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Keyboard with a keybo, Like a tiny LC LCD screen. [00:23:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I've looked into them. I don't think that I do enough actual writing to have to justify a purchase of them, but they look incredible. [00:23:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Because that's something that I would need because I'm fucking distracted by the slightest thing and trying to do anything on a computer, writing or creative wise. I'm just like, you know what the Internet is right here. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm pretty good about it because as a playwright, but humble. I don't know. I. Thank you. I. I do. I would, like, I would use it sometimes. Sometimes I do have long stretches of writing, but like a lot of times I'm like pacing and talking to myself and writing down like one line at a time. So, like, it really doesn't. I feel like having a Google Doc or whatever is easier for that because I feel like I get lost where I was. Like, I go back and look at like a lot. So like, I think on that thing, it'll be hard to go back and look. [00:24:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And kind of, I think, I think if you do, like, especially if you are a person who does well, typing on. On a typewriter, that kind of. It comes out, you can either just like spit it all out and rewrite it totally later, or you're good at sort of like having a pretty polished first draft. I think it's. I think it would be good for that. But me, I. Oh, boy. I hem and ha over everything four or five times before I can go to the next paragraph. And that's. That wouldn't work for Me, sometimes you. [00:25:22] Speaker A: Just gotta barrel on through, come back to it later. Yeah, I do a lot of, like, going back to the beginning and like, I have a pretty polished first draft. Usually when I'm writing a play. Yeah. I've only really ever had to do, like, usually I only have to do a few adjustments. [00:25:37] Speaker B: So I. I tend to. I tend to need a gigantic first draft because my second draft is going to be removing 75% of it. Sure. So I want to make sure there's enough there to get cut out. [00:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like with a play you want the momentum. You got to get a feeling of the momentum, what's happening before. So I go back and read a lot, so I feel like just one of those things might be a little difficult. But it looks cool. The Free rite. If you haven't seen it, it's like a. It's just like a big old typewriter thing with a tiny screen. [00:26:11] Speaker B: Yeah. It looks like it's designed to fit pretty well in a backpack. So you can just like whip it out at. Whip it out at Cleos. [00:26:18] Speaker A: I bet it's satisfying to click. [00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I bet, man. [00:26:23] Speaker A: So. Previously in Rat City. Yeah. Anyway, Thomas Healy has one of those, so nice. Previously in Rat City. As the chairman's plans are slowly starting to be revealed, PTS forces are closing in on Quinlan and the deviant. [00:26:39] Speaker B: The game is afoot, Johnny. It's a cat and mouse game. And the mouse is cornered. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Right. And we open with a newscaster, Alana Z. Who we've seen before. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:52] Speaker A: But she's kind of becoming a more major character in this issue. [00:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah, she's. She's a little April O'Neilly now. She's not cooped up in the. In the studio. She's out. Out in the truck trying to get the. The breaking news from the front line. [00:27:08] Speaker A: And it's just like, I don't know, it's just so refreshing that they just come out in the open and everyone knows what's up. Like he's the deviant. Like, I don't know, it feels like with superheroes, everything's in the shadows or no one knows. It's like these people, like citizens don't know what's going on or they're so far removed from it. But this is cool because it's like everyone knows what's up. There's this deviant. He's with Quinlan. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:29] Speaker A: He's been doing some crazy shit. [00:27:30] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, by. By design by the chairman himself. Right. Get that. Get that information out there. Right. [00:27:38] Speaker A: That's what he wanted. [00:27:39] Speaker B: They're not trying to cover it up. So it's very. It's very like the antithesis of early action of early main title Spawn. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Right, Exactly. That's why it's kind of refreshing where he's turning it on its head, where. [00:27:52] Speaker B: He wallowed in obscurity for 25 years. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Yeah. It was like, for 25 years, no one knew who he was. And finally he went on the news. It was like, I'm Spawn, baby. [00:28:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Nobody but the drunks and the downtrodden who nobody paid attention to. Yeah. [00:28:06] Speaker A: ALANA Z's interviewing Dr. Bose. Forneus Bose is his full name, man. He's just asking him about this stuff. [00:28:14] Speaker B: His mother must have hated him to name him Forneus. [00:28:18] Speaker A: Forneus Bose. [00:28:21] Speaker B: That's not even a fun word to say. Forneus. [00:28:24] Speaker A: And she's asking about the rumors of Lieutenant Cairn being some kind of, like, mad experiment from pts. He's like, I can't talk about that. [00:28:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:37] Speaker A: And we're doing everything in our power to contain the deviant. [00:28:40] Speaker B: Contain Your word, not mine, man. Alana Z is the consummate professional when it comes to broadcasting. [00:28:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:49] Speaker B: I like it. I like it. It's refreshing, especially in this day and age. [00:28:53] Speaker A: Hey, David, you don't watch the Today show like I do. That's some high quality journalism. [00:28:57] Speaker B: I mean, they talk about food a lot, right? That's. That's journalism. [00:29:02] Speaker A: Talk about food and buying stuff online. Weather. [00:29:05] Speaker B: I used to. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Entertainment. [00:29:07] Speaker B: Fucking. I used to love Regis and Kelly. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Live with Regis and Kelly. And then I used to love Kathie Lee back in the day. [00:29:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's. Yeah. My. My sister. My sister jumped ship when. When Kelly Ripa came on because she was. She was a Kathy Lee, Stan. But I mean, Kelly Ripa probably one of the top five most frightening people in entertainment, I think. [00:29:34] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:29:35] Speaker B: Like, I think if. If she. If Kelly Ripa were mad at me, I don't think I would ever recover. I would soil myself immediately. But a joy to watch. [00:29:46] Speaker A: You know what's funny to me about that show is that it's just called Live Knife. Yeah, like you always call it, like Regis and Kathy Lee. Whatever. But the name of the show is Live. [00:29:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:29:56] Speaker A: It's just like Saturday Night Live. But it's just. The show is called Saturday Night. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:02] Speaker A: And it's Live. But this show is just called Live. Think about it, Johnny. [00:30:06] Speaker B: My brain just broke. I need Dr. Forneus Bose to give me some augmentations. So that way we can get through this episode, or else it's Saturday Night Live. Oh, that was a good one. That's one. What's. What's your favorite cast member name to say in the announcer voice? [00:30:26] Speaker A: Chris Parnell. [00:30:29] Speaker B: That's a good one because he's the impressionist. Nice. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a good one. I just saw an Instagram reel that was like, Lazy Sunday is like, 20 years old or something. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Oh, geez. Really? [00:30:45] Speaker A: Maybe, man. Maybe it's not 20 years old, but it, like, it was a video that was like, Lazy Sundays Old. You're old. I don't know. I clicked on one thing about being old because of Halo 3. Now everything is just memes about being old. [00:30:59] Speaker B: I mean. Yeah, that's. That's so. So. You know that Bowling for Soup song that was popular when we were in High School? 1985, Johnny. [00:31:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:08] Speaker B: If Bowling for Soup made that song this year, it would be about 2005. [00:31:12] Speaker A: She's still preoccupied with 2005. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Also, the guy from Bowling for Soup has been doing the music for Charles Entertainment Cheese for, like, the past 15 years. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Chuck E. Cheese? [00:31:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:29] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:31:29] Speaker B: He's got a Spotify account and everything. [00:31:32] Speaker A: It was. What would the lyrics be for the 2005 version? It was post 9 11. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Something about the shotgun wound, haircut, long sleeves with the. With the hole that your thumb goes through. Nautical stars, black and red stripes. Hot Topic being on its decline. Something like that. [00:31:59] Speaker A: To decline a Hot Topic. [00:32:01] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:32:01] Speaker A: I was having to explain to my nephews what an emo kid was. It was hilarious. And I was there like, were you emo? And I was like, no. I was never stylish or cool enough to be emo. I was just a nerd. I always wanted to be emo, but I just bought, like, Nightmare Before Christmas shirts at Hot Topic. So. Yeah, I mean, didn't have all the accessory. [00:32:20] Speaker B: I mean. I mean, you do. You do what you can. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I had a fairly emo haircut in, like, 2006 or 7. [00:32:28] Speaker B: It's not a phase, Mom. [00:32:30] Speaker A: You'll remember that. It was when I was in fucking and they dyed my hair black. When I was in Romeo and Juliet, I had, like, a emo haircut. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Yeah, that's where. That's where I got the nom de plume. David Whittingham. [00:32:42] Speaker A: What? [00:32:43] Speaker B: So. So for the. The background of the. Of Romeo and Juliet, they needed a whole bunch of sparkles, and they wanted to use, like, old CDs. And they were like, oh, we don't have enough old CDs. And I was like, hey, guys, guess what? I had like 500 just old ass old burn CDs that they. They used for the background. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:33:03] Speaker B: And Rory. Rory wanted to put a special thanks in the program, but couldn't remember my last name. So she just put a special thanks to David Whittingham. Which is why every time I go to a socks, I have to take a picture of the Whittingham meet sign and send her. Send it to her. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Oh, nice. David Whittingham. Isn't that one of your screen names? [00:33:25] Speaker B: I think it was one of my screen names somewhere because of that. [00:33:28] Speaker A: Okay, I thought it was, but I don't, like, I don't remember where because I was like, is that his name? Didn't you change it up? Did you change it on Facebook once? [00:33:36] Speaker B: I think so. I think. I think it was around that time. But that was. That was the joke for a long time. And then every time that I got a special. A special thanks in the programs at osu, I was David Whittingham. [00:33:47] Speaker A: Yeah, you probably got one for Sweet Charity for being the dog handler. [00:33:51] Speaker B: Probably. Probably the best part about that was waiting after the show and then kids coming up and being like, that was a real dog. [00:33:59] Speaker A: What else would it be? Sorry, we're just talking about our glory days in OSU theater. [00:34:04] Speaker B: Oh, man, we're looking down the barrel of midlife crises. [00:34:09] Speaker A: And, you know, ain't that the truth? [00:34:14] Speaker B: I mean, if things keep going the way they are, we've well passed midlife, Johnny. We're 80% through. [00:34:23] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:34:25] Speaker B: Because if the planet collapses, I mean, that's not. I have. I am firmly on the record as if a Mad Max type apocalypse occurs, I'm just gonna exit. I do not need to live in that. No, thank you. [00:34:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that's how I feel about these. Price of these eggs around here, man. [00:34:44] Speaker B: Man, they got me going crazy. Yeah. Did you? Did you. We don't need to talk about bird flu and shit. Let's get back. [00:34:53] Speaker A: I had swine flu when I was a kid. [00:34:55] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:34:56] Speaker A: In high school? No, in college. Yeah. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Holy shit. How was that? [00:35:00] Speaker A: It was actually right after I graduated. Swine flu is fine. It was just really sick for like a week, man. You know, I watched a lot of, like, movies. [00:35:08] Speaker B: I could really. I could really go for something that knocks me on my ass for a week right now. I could use the time off. [00:35:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't. Knock on wood. I got too much going on at work right now. But maybe, maybe in A week or two. I can take it long. [00:35:24] Speaker B: That would be great if you could just like, like have your body be like, okay, there's a bacterium there, right? Awesome. Hold it at bay for like two weeks, and then we can just let it go wild. [00:35:35] Speaker A: Then we can just let it go. [00:35:38] Speaker B: Speaking of letting go, we let go from this, this, this hollow, hollow News story of Dr. Bose being interviewed by Alana Z. And then we see the chairman sitting in front of a big ass tv. [00:35:54] Speaker A: Watching it in Basel, Switzerland. [00:35:57] Speaker B: Just send some samples to Basil. [00:35:59] Speaker A: Basil probably listen to some good music. [00:36:02] Speaker B: What do they listen to in Switzerland? [00:36:04] Speaker A: Oh, I was thinking of Sweden. Sorry. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. [00:36:09] Speaker A: I don't know what they listen to. I was thinking of Sweden with like ABBA and ghosts and everything. [00:36:12] Speaker B: I think, I think. I think Switzerland is where like the serious, boring Germans go. So I think they just listen to. [00:36:22] Speaker A: 99 Luft balloons over and over again. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Not even that. They probably just listen to classical music. No music. No music made past, like, 1902. [00:36:31] Speaker A: You finally listen to Wagner. I love that episode of curb your enthusiasm where Larry David's humming Wagner and someone's like, you're a. He goes, you're a disgrace of a Jew. It's like yelling at him. And Larry David's like, what? [00:36:49] Speaker B: What? I mean, it's some impressive music. [00:36:55] Speaker A: Just because he turned Star wars wouldn't exist without Wagner, probably. [00:36:58] Speaker B: Absolutely not. There's a lot of things that wouldn't. The world. The world is terrible. But sometimes good things can happen. [00:37:05] Speaker A: Yeah. But, yeah, the chairman's just watching this news story and he's like, good work leaking the story to the press, Victoria. [00:37:13] Speaker B: I like how he's. He's just eating a little. A little. It looks like a little cocktail sausage on a stick. [00:37:19] Speaker A: I think it's an olive. I think he's drinking a martini. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Okay. I. I didn't take him. I didn't take him as a drinker. He seems. [00:37:25] Speaker A: I didn't either because he's got the crucifix on the back of his head, so I think he's a religious man. But this is the. [00:37:31] Speaker B: The chairman. I don't know. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Could be a redeemer. [00:37:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna assume he's. He's an updated version of the redeemer. Maybe he's like the great, great, great grand grandchild of Jason Wynn or something. Or. Or maybe Jason Wynn found a way to live forever and it's still just good old Jason Lynn. [00:37:51] Speaker A: It could be. We cut to Victoria who, remember, is. [00:37:54] Speaker B: The chairman's like Darth Maul, his eyes and ears. [00:37:58] Speaker A: He showed up like, this is my apprentice, Victoria. You will find your deviant. [00:38:09] Speaker B: And then she. Then she almost runs over him on a hover bike without realizing it. [00:38:14] Speaker A: She's got red and black sleeves, kind of Darth Mauley. [00:38:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm just waiting for her to pull out her little. Her little holo pad, and one side opens, and then another side opens. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Oh, she has, like a double lightsaber. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:28] Speaker A: That's crazy. That was in the first trailer. [00:38:30] Speaker B: Yeah. It was fucking so cool, though. [00:38:32] Speaker A: I remember I saw it. I was like, oh, my God. But, like, they had to put it in there because it was going to leak or, like, people would figure it out. [00:38:38] Speaker B: So how much. How much merch was there based around that lightsaber? [00:38:43] Speaker A: Oh, my God. So my friend James had it. He had the toy one that could go in and out. The. [00:38:50] Speaker B: The one that whooped and then whooped. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Nice. [00:38:53] Speaker A: I had a Luke Skywalker lightsaber like that. The green one. [00:38:57] Speaker B: So the one he made himself. [00:38:59] Speaker A: The one he made himself. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Nice. I wonder where he got the Kyber crystal for that. I guess he had to go to the cave of the Kyber crystals, didn't he? [00:39:07] Speaker A: Illum Ilum, which became Starkiller Base. That's canon. [00:39:11] Speaker B: Oh, hey, nice. Interesting. [00:39:13] Speaker A: That's how they're able to, like. Yeah, that's like they. They revealed that in the video games and a couple other things, but, like, Ilum is what they used to mine, and that became Starkiller Base. [00:39:22] Speaker B: Nice. [00:39:23] Speaker A: So Illum is no more. Because it got blowed up by the Resistance. [00:39:26] Speaker B: So that means you have to. [00:39:27] Speaker A: You. [00:39:28] Speaker B: So basically, if you want to get a new Kyber crystal now, you've got to basically be like a guy who's on the beach with a. With a metal detector. You just got to go where Starkiller Base was and see if there's any crystals in the debris just floating around. [00:39:41] Speaker A: I don't know. Maybe they'll dress it in the new Rey movie. Oscar Isaac they just announced is going to Star wars celebration in April, so he'll probably be back. [00:39:49] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:39:50] Speaker A: My friend James is actually going to that. It's in Japan this year. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:39:55] Speaker A: I went to it when it was in Chicago. It was a good con. [00:39:57] Speaker B: I know a couple of people who went to it and they enjoyed. [00:40:01] Speaker A: Was fun. Yeah, it was really fun. Like, I. I didn't know what it would be like because, like, you see all the jaded Star wars fans online, there's so much like hate and like just like discourse is exhausting. But everyone there was just super to Star wars and like really happy and it just felt like a really good time. It was a nice community. I was surprised. I thought it'd be like people like Rey sucks, you know, I mean it's. [00:40:23] Speaker B: Really the, the redeeming part of those things tends to be the children who are just like, oh my God. Star Wars. Yeah, Star Wars. [00:40:31] Speaker A: Yeah. I got to see the first 10 minutes of the Mandalorian like six months before it came out dope. So that was pretty cool. [00:40:38] Speaker B: Nice. So you knew about Baby Yoda? Little Grogu. [00:40:41] Speaker A: No, no, no, not Baby Yoda. It only got to the point where like he met. I saw one or her zog. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:40:48] Speaker A: I think that was it. Equally important it got to the point where we saw one or Herzog and I think he had that conversation. I think that was all they showed us. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Nice. I want to see the baby. [00:40:58] Speaker A: I want to see the baby. The child. [00:41:01] Speaker B: But yeah, Victoria, Victoria is in her little Humvee with a cool space guy driving it. That's a cool space guy. Look at him. [00:41:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a mass effect character. [00:41:13] Speaker B: And they, they roll out. They roll out in search of Quinlan. [00:41:17] Speaker A: And the narration is like most people think PCs is just a bunch of eggheads in a lab. Like David. [00:41:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Making. Trying to figure out the fuck which is. Which is slippery or ice or snot. [00:41:30] Speaker A: But they don't know about the military hardware, the private army or the chairman basically controls the nuclear codes. [00:41:35] Speaker B: So is Elon Musk, you say? [00:41:37] Speaker A: Yes. BT yeah, there you go. [00:41:39] Speaker B: I like how Dr. Bose has like a little internal security camera heads up display in his eyes and he sees the Humvees rolling out and he says the bastards. And yeah, it's like 3D. And ends the interview. [00:41:53] Speaker A: I love that. We're not done with the interview. Yes we are. [00:41:57] Speaker B: Oh man, what a jerk face. And then we go back to the. You store it Johnny storage facility. We got Quinlan putting stuff together, making jokes about how old it is because. [00:42:11] Speaker A: At the end of last issue they were putting together a computer from a bunch of old parts. It looks like they have succeeded. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Yeah. We now know exactly approximately how old those parts were. Older than their grandfather. Could you imagine trying to put something together that was electronics from before your grandfather lived? [00:42:31] Speaker A: No, I don't think you could do it. Maybe a light bulb. [00:42:34] Speaker B: I mean it would be like those, those cloth wrapped electrical wires that are. You plug those in, they immediately catch on fire. Like crumbling Bakelite oh, my God. [00:42:46] Speaker A: Sounds terrifying. [00:42:48] Speaker B: I haven't cleaned out a couple of old people's houses. No, never. Not me. [00:42:51] Speaker A: But Quinlan tells Peter thanks for saving me. And then they hook up to the Internet on their thing, and then boom, they see the news story that they are looking for them. [00:43:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're like, shit. Well, shit. Peter just went to take a nap, so I better not wake him up. [00:43:10] Speaker A: He looks exhausted. [00:43:11] Speaker B: He sure does. He. He does that thing. He sits down and he, like, unhooks his. His legs and then just like, falls back. [00:43:20] Speaker A: Just falls back on the bed. Ain't no rest for the weary. [00:43:24] Speaker B: None. None whatsoever. And then we cut back to Victoria and the Humvees just zipping down the alleys. And Victoria is talking to the Chairman, being like, hey, but, you know, so basically asking the questions that the viscerator asks of Jason Nguyen in main title Spawn. Like, why don't you. Why don't you just have him kill him? Why don't you just have. Have him kill him? And he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. This deviant is more important than Dr. Bose knows. We can't. We can't let Dr. Bose know how important he is, and we can't just let Dr. Bose dispose of him. So. [00:44:04] Speaker A: No, it's actually the exact opposite. [00:44:06] Speaker B: It is. [00:44:07] Speaker A: Dr. Bose wants to take him and dissect him, and the Chairman just wants him fucking destroyed. [00:44:12] Speaker B: Okay. Damn, man. [00:44:16] Speaker A: Right. Boze just seem wish to capture and study him. They want to dissect him to find out what he is. I already know what he is. Pure evil. And we get the opening reading. Pure evil from the depths of hell. And he must be destroyed. [00:44:27] Speaker B: So, yeah, okay, so he's opposite. [00:44:29] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, he wants. That's why Bose was pissed that the military was going after him, because he wants him and he knows that they're gonna get him. Yeah, not military, the militarized pts. I mean, he knows the Chairman's going for him. [00:44:42] Speaker B: So, Johnny, it looks like you were right. It may have been an olive because he's enjoying himself a little. [00:44:47] Speaker A: What? [00:44:48] Speaker B: Looks like a little tiki drink, though. What? Tiki drink has an olive in it? [00:44:52] Speaker A: I don't know. That sounds weird. [00:44:53] Speaker B: This sounds weird. A sausage in a tiki drink would be also weird. [00:44:57] Speaker A: So I went and got a Bloody Mary the other day with bran, and it had fucking, like, a fucking sandwich on it. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I've seen some that. It's just like a bouquet of. Of foods on top of a. [00:45:10] Speaker A: On top of a. No, it was salami. An olive, a cocktail onion, pepperoncini, some other kind of meat, maybe cheese. [00:45:20] Speaker B: That sounds fantastic. [00:45:21] Speaker A: Actually, it was a good Bloody Mary, man. It was at Twisted Spoke. [00:45:24] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Very nice. [00:45:27] Speaker A: Yeah, we went there last weekend. [00:45:30] Speaker B: So if you find yourself in Chicago and you're looking for a Bloody Mary, Twisted Spoke. [00:45:35] Speaker A: We went to the Music Box to see the early morning movie, and then we went to brunch. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:45:41] Speaker A: They had the organist out before the Music Box movie. [00:45:44] Speaker B: Nice. [00:45:45] Speaker A: Music Box is a very classic. Amazing movie theater in Chicago. If you're ever in Chicago and are a cinephile, I would definitely recommend checking it out. It's like over 100 years old, but they do great programming and just great quality stuff. [00:45:58] Speaker B: Yeah, or say your mom is coming to town and you want to watch a vampire movie. They probably got a vampire movie for you to watch. [00:46:06] Speaker A: You went and saw Nosferatu, right? [00:46:08] Speaker B: Yes, we did. Yeah. It was very good. [00:46:10] Speaker A: The Kaunchinski one. [00:46:11] Speaker B: The. Yeah, the Werner Herzog one. [00:46:14] Speaker A: Nice. Yeah, there's a Joe Bob Briggs episode on that if you want to learn some more about it. [00:46:18] Speaker B: Nice. Is it still streaming on Shudder or is that one of the ones that. [00:46:21] Speaker A: They got taken away? I don't know. They're so random because it all depends on if the movie's on there. [00:46:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:26] Speaker A: And so they'll come and go all the time because, like, it just depends on if the movie's there, which is interesting. Joe Bob Briggs may become some kind of lost media in the future. [00:46:34] Speaker B: That's sad, though. [00:46:34] Speaker A: I think they added just Joe Bob where you can just get the parts that he talks about it. So I guess you kind of do it on your own. Just like, watch it, pause it. Go watch Joe Bob watch it, pause it. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Kind of takes the fun out of a. Takes the fun out of the spooky late night movie host. [00:46:52] Speaker A: That's my real dream job. I want to be a. I want to be a. A horror host. I feel like everyone probably does these days. [00:47:00] Speaker B: You should try to. You should try to take over Elvira when she's done. Just like, where I would never wear her dress and be like, what are you going to do about it? Nobody. [00:47:10] Speaker A: No. No one wants. No one wants to see that. [00:47:13] Speaker B: She's hilarious, man. I love Elvira. [00:47:16] Speaker A: Yeah, both of her movies are pretty funny. [00:47:20] Speaker B: They're great. They're so good. They were. They were on Pluto for a little bit. Running in. [00:47:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:27] Speaker B: Very nice. [00:47:27] Speaker A: One of them has a boob joke. Much like Legislute Larry has a. Elvira. [00:47:32] Speaker B: Elvira making a Boob joke, Johnny. No. Yeah. [00:47:35] Speaker A: It's called Elvira's Hollywood Hills. I'm pretty sure is the second movie. Because Elvira. Mistress of the Dark, then Elvira's Hollywood Hills because. [00:47:45] Speaker B: Because Mistress of the Dark is where she inherits a house in the middle of fucking nowhere, Right? [00:47:50] Speaker A: Yes. [00:47:50] Speaker B: And she gets her little Chihuahua. Or her poodle. Her poodle that she gives a punk haircut to. [00:47:54] Speaker A: No, if I was the one where she's in la, I think. I think you're thinking of the second one. Maybe not. I don't know. They're both good. [00:48:02] Speaker B: Well, because the first one starts with her in LA and she's having a rough go of it, and then she inherits a lot of money from somebody she didn't know. [00:48:11] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. That's right. [00:48:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:13] Speaker A: You know, Paul Reubens was a writer on those. [00:48:15] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:48:16] Speaker A: Yeah, they were friends. [00:48:19] Speaker B: I would. Elvira probably showed up on Peewee's Playhouse at some time. [00:48:23] Speaker A: I feel like maybe she did. So they're very similar. Kind of very, very. Same realm. [00:48:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Very goofy and very campy. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:33] Speaker B: What's not campy is Quinlan. Quinlan is just dialed in. So focused. [00:48:39] Speaker A: Define camp David. I'm kidding. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Uh. It's like pornography. I know it when I see it. [00:48:46] Speaker A: Exactly. And I love it. [00:48:49] Speaker B: It's great. Oh, man. Quinn. Quinlan's just, like, falling asleep staring at these. Staring at these numbers. And then the box that they sit. [00:48:56] Speaker A: There, they look like me editing an episode of this podcast. [00:48:59] Speaker B: Oh, man. There's not enough. [00:49:00] Speaker A: Really? [00:49:01] Speaker B: There's not enough beverage around them to be me. [00:49:04] Speaker A: No. And also, I am tired when I do it because I always do it on Wednesday morning. And I'm afraid I'm not going to get it done before work, even though I have, like, tons of time because I work at night, but I'm like. So I always get up at, like, really early and start it and then usually do take a nap, like, halfway through and go back to it. [00:49:19] Speaker B: That's fine. Yeah. I have to do it over a couple of days because I can. I only have so much energy for a sustained focus. [00:49:25] Speaker A: Usually like 45 minutes in. Not like. Which is like an hour and a half to me. [00:49:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:30] Speaker A: Is about my limit. [00:49:32] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like, ah, dude, I gotta. I gotta stop. [00:49:35] Speaker A: I gotta do something else. [00:49:36] Speaker B: Gotta do something else. [00:49:37] Speaker A: It's just the sitting there. And, like, it's not the content, obviously. Like, it's fun to listen to, but it's just like the scooting everything around. [00:49:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Oh, I gotta get that little. That little tick. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:48] Speaker A: You know? [00:49:49] Speaker B: Yeah. It's actually enjoying what you're listening to. Makes it even harder because sometimes I have to listen to something three or four times because I was so tickled by it. [00:49:58] Speaker A: Right. I'm like, that was funny. But also I burped, so I gotta edit that out. [00:50:04] Speaker B: But yeah. Yeah. Quinlan. Quinlan accidentally collapses the. The box that they're using as a desk and a whole bunch of cybernetic eyes fall out of it. [00:50:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:12] Speaker B: And they're like, what do we have here? [00:50:17] Speaker A: There's always some kind of eye shit going on in cyberpunk. [00:50:20] Speaker B: Oh, it's. It's very distressing, Johnny. [00:50:23] Speaker A: I like the eye transplant in Minority Report. [00:50:26] Speaker B: I don't. I haven't seen the Minority Report in so long, I don't remember the eye transplant portion. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Tom Cruise gets an eye transplant. [00:50:32] Speaker B: That's wild. [00:50:33] Speaker A: So he's cuz you to hide from the. [00:50:34] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Cuz the things that read your eyes. [00:50:37] Speaker B: Okay. [00:50:37] Speaker A: He had to hide from them. But then he steals back his own eyes at one point, uses them to gain access and he's like. He's like walking around with his eye in his hand. [00:50:45] Speaker B: So gross. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it's gross. He like drops it. It's like rolling. It doesn't like. It doesn't like really like comedic stuff. We're having some fun. [00:50:55] Speaker B: I need to watch that movie again. I remember it being real good should. [00:50:58] Speaker A: It was on Pluto TV not too long ago, so maybe it'll pop back on there. That's amazing. I love it. It's one of my favorite Spielbergs. [00:51:03] Speaker B: We need to request that Pluto TV start sponsoring us. Johnny. We're gonna. [00:51:07] Speaker A: We should. We talk about it a lot. They're probably mad at us for being mad about the Godzilla and James Bond channel going away, so they wouldn't sponsor us. [00:51:15] Speaker B: But we haven't. We haven't stopped watching, so that's something. They got us hooked, Johnny. We're couch potatoes. [00:51:21] Speaker A: It's true. I've been watching. I actually haven't put on Pluto TV in a while. [00:51:27] Speaker B: The TNG channel has been a constant for me lately. [00:51:30] Speaker A: No, it is as I've talked about before the new season of Diablo started. So I've been spending a lot of that with my free time playing that with my friend James having a great time. [00:51:41] Speaker B: He old Jimmy St. Jimmy of James Doty. [00:51:44] Speaker A: Shout out to James. [00:51:45] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Well, also shout outs to. [00:51:48] Speaker A: I've been friends with him since the first day of seventh grade. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:51:53] Speaker A: That's awesome. He had a Tantive iv, which is Leia's ship. And I was like. He was like, you like Star Wars? I was like, yes. [00:52:00] Speaker B: That was like, about how we started Star Wars. Bringing awkward young kids together since the late 70s. [00:52:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Actually, two of my best friends, we got to know each other because of Star Wars. So nice. We were right in the 90s resurgence. It worked perfectly on me. They were like, let's target these 90s kids to love Star wars for life. [00:52:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:21] Speaker A: Just go really hard on him. That was right about 1997. [00:52:24] Speaker B: That was me and my friends too. Yeah. [00:52:26] Speaker A: It was really smart of George Lucas. It made fucking Episode one huge. [00:52:29] Speaker B: Yeah, Very huge. [00:52:30] Speaker A: It was very deliberate. Like, they were like, okay, we need to bring this back to the public conscious, so let's consciousness. So let's get these kids. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I think they call that grooming. [00:52:42] Speaker A: Yeah. George Lucas groomed us. [00:52:44] Speaker B: He groomed us. [00:52:45] Speaker A: How happy is he? How happy is he right now? There's a fucking trade war on. [00:52:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. [00:52:49] Speaker A: He's probably like, I told you there's going to be a trade war. [00:52:53] Speaker B: The. The number of analyses of Episode one predicting our current political climate that I've seen lately is ridiculous. [00:53:04] Speaker A: But we're the Trade Federation, right. We're not the Naboo. [00:53:08] Speaker B: Yeah. The. As a country. Yeah. We would be the Trade Federation. Definitely. [00:53:12] Speaker A: We would be the Trade Federation. We're the Nemoidians. [00:53:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:53:16] Speaker A: That's all geopolitical, as Alex Jones would say. [00:53:20] Speaker B: So we cut back to Elena Z, Senator Palpatine taking. [00:53:24] Speaker A: Taking a break from a small planet onto. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Taking a break outside of the news truck, just smoking a cigarette. Yeah. We cut to Elena Z smoking a cigarette outside of the. The news truck, Talking about how Dr. Bose is a piece of shit. Piece of. I said Bose was full of shit. And her driver slash camera. [00:53:49] Speaker A: This is the future. That's a death stick, David. Not a cigarette. [00:53:55] Speaker B: I'm surprised. I'm surprised they still have combustible. Combustible, Right. [00:53:59] Speaker A: I thought it all be vape. [00:54:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:01] Speaker A: That's why I vape, because I feel like a futuristic bounty hunter. [00:54:05] Speaker B: It makes you feel like one too. [00:54:07] Speaker A: Everyone just needs one of those hookahs like Jabba has. [00:54:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Or there's a. In Star Trek Next Generation, there's a. There's a species of alien that requires like a personal, like, humidifier, or else they dry out everywhere. And so it's just this little rig that sits in front of them and spits vapor at their face. That's what we need, just a little vapor Rig to. Don't even have to worry about actively being like, I got to hit the Penjamin. Just always breathe it in. [00:54:37] Speaker A: Just always breathe it in. [00:54:39] Speaker B: Abv. Johnny A. Always BB vaping. [00:54:42] Speaker A: Elena throws the cigarette, busts open the van. [00:54:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:46] Speaker A: Because her camera's like, we got something going on. [00:54:48] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like. He's like, look at this. And she says, are those PTS security trucks? And they send a drone after it to follow. They're like, skeets. They got another Skeets. [00:54:59] Speaker A: But I will. David, is this a Chicago Easter egg? It's drone number 312. Pick them up. [00:55:04] Speaker B: Nice. [00:55:04] Speaker A: 312 is the Chicago area code. [00:55:06] Speaker B: Area code. Yes, indeed. [00:55:07] Speaker A: And a beer. [00:55:08] Speaker B: I have remarked before that it is quite hilarious that for a good number of phone numbers in Chicago, depending on where you call from, you have to dial 1312, which, as we know, is ACAB 1312. [00:55:25] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't realize that. [00:55:26] Speaker B: That's hilarious. I think, actually, to call the police department, you have to dial 1312. [00:55:31] Speaker A: Uh. [00:55:31] Speaker B: Oh, but yes, so we got the. We got the second city drone here. Look at him go. Cute little guy. [00:55:39] Speaker A: There it is. [00:55:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:41] Speaker A: The drones filming the Humvees going after Peter and Quinlan. [00:55:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we cut to Quinlan placing the cybernetic eyes, like little motion sensors at the front of the storage facility. And they're like. After they test their work, they get a little tired, and they're like, just close my eyes for a second. And then they see the terrible things. The deviant. [00:56:04] Speaker A: And Rhys with his electric spawn face. [00:56:08] Speaker B: Electric spawn face. Ooh, that sounds like a good band name, Johnny. [00:56:11] Speaker A: Electric spawn face. [00:56:12] Speaker B: Electric spawn face. And then Quinlan's like, no, no, no, I can't remember Rhys that way. I have to remember. I have to remember Rhys the way that I know him. And then we get a nice little. A nice little quiet panel of them just embracing. And then Quinlan's like, oh, shit, the ground, it's shaking. And the ground is shaking, Johnny, because the Humvees are nigh. [00:56:36] Speaker A: They have arrived. And they roll over the fucking fence and just come right in there. [00:56:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Then Victoria shoots an EMP at the drone to take it out, and she shoots it down, like, while Elena is in the middle of doing a live broadcast. [00:56:56] Speaker A: Then she gets fined by the FCC for saying, bob, where'd my picture go? [00:57:02] Speaker B: Oh, man, poor drone. We love. We love. We love the. The Chicago drone rip. But then we cut to the next. The next page says that it's got a little Quinlan voiceover that says pts. PTS was Only one of our problems. And then we. [00:57:21] Speaker A: P test. He said P test. [00:57:23] Speaker B: PTS was only one of our. [00:57:25] Speaker A: No, you said PTS the second time. But the first time you said P test. [00:57:28] Speaker B: P test. Johnny, we're. [00:57:29] Speaker A: That's one of your problems at work is the P test. [00:57:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it is, actually. [00:57:34] Speaker A: True. True. Yeah. The other problem is that Peter, while asleep, the suit just comes on. [00:57:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:43] Speaker A: And awakens him. [00:57:44] Speaker B: Yeah. The electric necroplasm. The electric plasm. Sure, that was a little rough. The electric necroplasm just, like, takes over his body. It, like, forces open his eyes and, like, sticks his legs. His. His stumps into the. The leg prosthetics and just, like, gets up and then he, like, somnambulates out of the room. And Quinlan's. Quinlan's over by the door being like, oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit, Peter. And as they rush towards Peter, the deviant just, like, saunters out from where Peter was trying to nap and says. [00:58:25] Speaker A: They're like, what the fuck? [00:58:26] Speaker B: And says, I will handle this. And it's just a big, big moody cyberpunk spawn standing there. I don't know if we can fully say this is the deviant or not, since it's. Since it's all autopilot and. No Peter, but. Oh, man, it is. [00:58:44] Speaker A: It's K8 Letha. [00:58:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:58:47] Speaker A: K9. [00:58:48] Speaker B: K9. K9 would be what dog spawn got. [00:58:53] Speaker A: Oh, he got the K9. [00:58:54] Speaker B: He got the K9 Letha. [00:58:55] Speaker A: That's a good one. [00:58:56] Speaker B: That's a good one, Jet. [00:58:57] Speaker A: K2. Lethal. Gets you real high for, like. Actually, it makes you go crazy. Like, 10 seconds for, like, 10 seconds. That makes you, like, chew your own hand off or something. [00:59:07] Speaker B: That's for the. That's for the old heads out there. [00:59:09] Speaker A: That was spice or whatever. [00:59:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Remember they sold K2 at, like, gas stations? [00:59:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. [00:59:18] Speaker A: It's just like potpourri sprayed with a chemical agent. [00:59:20] Speaker B: It's. Ugh. We tried to kill ourselves in such ridiculous ways, Johnny. Like, unintentionally, but boy. [00:59:30] Speaker A: Four Loco. [00:59:31] Speaker B: Four Loko fucking whippets. Goddamn. [00:59:35] Speaker A: I see those cartridges on the street sometimes. I'm just like, what are y'all doing? [00:59:40] Speaker B: Weed is fucking legal, guys. Just take that. [00:59:43] Speaker A: Let's do the weed. [00:59:44] Speaker B: So. But the deviant just starts, like, slow motion, walking out the door. And Quinlan's like, wait, Peter, wait. Peter, wait. Shit. Fuck. And then. And then Quinlan's like, well, not gonna be able to stop this, but, I mean, I gotta take an opportunity where I Got one. And then we cut away from Quinlan for a second, and we cut back to Victoria, who is all. All fired up and is, like, gonna attack you. Gonna destroy you. We're gonna. We're gonna you up, basically. And we get a nice. A nice splash page of just Victoria striding, invisible, orange in hand, saying, let's not disappoint the chairman. That's a good page. Joanie. She's a very cool character, and she's got. She's got, like, those big, big beefy leg prosthetics, so if. If you have to try to run away from her, she's going to track you down in, like, three seconds. Jon. Yeah, there's no. There's no escaping her. [01:00:51] Speaker A: Much like Darth Maul. [01:00:52] Speaker B: And then we cut back to Elena and Bob, and Elena's like, where's the goddamn picture? And Bob's like, I don't know. Wait, there's something coming in. [01:01:01] Speaker A: And Quinlan's like, look, I can do this if I hack Victoria's eye. Yeah, you can uplink that and that. We can put that on the news. [01:01:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's exactly what Quinlan does. They. They show the world the deviant in its most brutal form, and it's something. [01:01:22] Speaker A: That they will regret for the rest of their life. [01:01:24] Speaker B: Mm. The deviant just, like, kicks open that Rollie down door from the. From the storage unit. Whew. Whew. Boy, that's a powerful one kick. [01:01:33] Speaker A: One leg kick. [01:01:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:35] Speaker A: He goes, storage war is my ass, and just kicks it out and says. [01:01:38] Speaker B: This is my property now. And then. And then Victoria says, fire. And then we close on the. On the soldiers and the Humvees just letting loose on this deviant. [01:01:50] Speaker A: He's just blocking them with the chains. [01:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah. With his change and his cape. [01:01:54] Speaker A: Just kind of an abrupt ending. [01:01:57] Speaker B: Kind of an abrupt end, I guess. Unfortunately, I don't know how the next episode or the next issue starts, because that's, like, the number one book on the stack of spawn that I've forgotten to read, so. [01:02:11] Speaker A: Oh, you haven't read Number nine? It's good. [01:02:12] Speaker B: I haven't read Number nine yet. No. Oh, boy. [01:02:16] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Well, we're catching up with it. David, you'll have to read it. [01:02:19] Speaker B: It's gonna get to the point where we're gonna start covering them. I've only read them once, so I won't have anything productive to say, so it'll just be the Johnny Show, Man. [01:02:27] Speaker A: When I was reading this last night, I don't know, it was just like. It's so Slick. And like, the art. So good. I was like, this is a good product for $2.99. [01:02:35] Speaker B: It's a great product for. For 2.99. It's so good. [01:02:39] Speaker A: Yeah. It ends with the Spawn skull. And then we get our new generation, new stories, new you add for the spin offs here. [01:02:50] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Got the Deadly Tales number one that we've already. Twitch number eight that we're about to cover. Spawn kills every spawn number five, which will be covered eventually. [01:03:01] Speaker A: Sauce was a liar because didn't Deadly Tales come out in December? [01:03:06] Speaker B: I think it actually got pushed back to January, didn't it? Or was it December? [01:03:09] Speaker A: No, because. [01:03:10] Speaker B: Oh, it was. It was the week. It was like the week before Christmas and New Year's, wasn't it? [01:03:14] Speaker A: Or like the week before. [01:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah, because it did get pushed back a couple of times. I know that. [01:03:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Then we got the Spawn Origins collection AD. Still not Classics ad. And my favorite, the movie Maniacs AD I love talking about these Maniacs, dude, man. [01:03:33] Speaker B: They're so maniacal. [01:03:35] Speaker A: We've spent like six weeks talking about the Big Lebowski, the 40 year old virgin, and Dazed and Confused. Like, what else can you even say? [01:03:41] Speaker B: I mean, that's just like your opinion, man. [01:03:44] Speaker A: I'm trying to think of a 40 year old virgin quote, and I can't think of one. [01:03:48] Speaker B: The only. The only. [01:03:51] Speaker A: Oh, you're putting the pussy on a pedestal. But it's not him. I think that's Seth Rogen. [01:03:55] Speaker B: What's the actor's name? Fuck. [01:03:59] Speaker A: Paul Rudd. [01:04:00] Speaker B: No, this guy. That guy. Fucking. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Oh, that guy. [01:04:04] Speaker B: That guy. Yeah. [01:04:07] Speaker A: Steve Carell. [01:04:07] Speaker B: Steve Carell? Yeah. The only. [01:04:09] Speaker A: That guy. [01:04:09] Speaker B: The only Steve Carell quote I can ever think of off the top of my head is, I love lamp. [01:04:15] Speaker A: I love lamp. [01:04:16] Speaker B: I love Lamp. Or loud noises. [01:04:22] Speaker A: Right. [01:04:22] Speaker B: Oh, man. Did Anchorman hit you and your friends as hard as it hit us? [01:04:26] Speaker A: Sounds like you're still preoccupied with 2005. [01:04:29] Speaker B: Johnny, let me tell you, I can't quit. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Was Anchorman and Linkin Park. Johnny, play him. Perfect Dark. [01:04:40] Speaker B: Oh, hey, hey. [01:04:42] Speaker A: I did it. But Perfect dark was like 2001, so. [01:04:46] Speaker B: It's fine. It's fine. I'm sure somebody's fact checked the song 1985 and found it to be inaccurate. [01:04:53] Speaker A: Inaccurate. Okay, 2005. I was probably playing a lot of Halo 2 2, baby. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Oh, man. Yeah. Going to Land parties. [01:05:00] Speaker A: No, Halo 2 is the one first one online, so I was just playing Online, baby. [01:05:04] Speaker B: Oh, man. But we. We still did. We still did Land Parties. It was fun. [01:05:08] Speaker A: Not for two I don't know if I think. We had tons of land parties for Halo 1, like, so many. [01:05:13] Speaker B: At. At some point, we switched from Halo land parties to Counter Strike Hit land Parties. And I. Those ones I just showed up at and watched because I didn't have a computer capable of running Counter Strike. [01:05:26] Speaker A: Oh, no. [01:05:26] Speaker B: That's what we got into. We got real big into, like, wanting to do our own jackass. So we did a lot of antiquing. Or you just throw flour in somebody's face. [01:05:37] Speaker A: It's called antiquing. [01:05:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's what we called it, at least. Wild times. [01:05:41] Speaker A: Well, yeah. Movie Maniacs ad. And that's the end of the issue. [01:05:44] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [01:05:46] Speaker A: And that is Rat City number eight. [01:05:48] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [01:05:51] Speaker A: Not a hateful eight. A great eight. Well, speaking of great value. [01:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:10] Speaker A: I was saying how this is a great value for the 299 for Rat City. Our next issue is even a better value because it's Sam and Twitch number eight. And right on the COVID there, baby, it says 29 pages, same low price. [01:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that, Johnny, equals out to being like 10 cents a page. [01:06:31] Speaker A: That's great. [01:06:33] Speaker B: That's pretty great. [01:06:34] Speaker A: It makes me wonder how my comic shop makes any money off of me. They probably don't. They probably hate me. I only buy Spawn now and a couple other things. [01:06:43] Speaker B: They need you to start buying those expensive books, Johnny. They're gonna. They're gonna. They're gonna, like. You're gonna go in one day and they're gonna be like, Mr. Fisher, please join us in the back room. Have a seat. [01:06:54] Speaker A: I like. They're doing their Challengers is doing their Valentine's Day. [01:06:57] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [01:06:59] Speaker A: I always. My plan is one day to go buy, like, the three Spawn compendiums I don't have. Because you spend over a hundred dollars, you get a free t shirt, 20% off, and a free T shirt. [01:07:09] Speaker B: So that's not bad at all. [01:07:12] Speaker A: Might have to do that one day. [01:07:13] Speaker B: It's good. It's a good sale. It's a real good sale. [01:07:16] Speaker A: I just don't need more spawn right now. I have to be caught up. Can't buy more comics. Those are the ones I'm subscribed to currently. [01:07:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that's absolutely true. There's. Oh, there's so much comic. There's so much Spawn. That's the problem. It was easy to keep on top of before the Todd father gave us all the Spawn. [01:07:33] Speaker A: I know. We're blessed because we get stuff like Sam and Twitch number eight. [01:07:37] Speaker B: Yeah, we Do. Yeah, we do. We got. We got. [01:07:40] Speaker A: And I've got a really, really badass cover here. [01:07:43] Speaker B: Which cover do you have? [01:07:44] Speaker A: I've got the Raymond Gay. [01:07:45] Speaker B: I also have the Raymond Gay. And it is. [01:07:48] Speaker A: It's like Sam and Twitch, the fucking movie. Or like the Animated series. Or like the series. [01:07:53] Speaker B: Yeah. They're just standing. Standing in an alley and like. Like action pose. I like how Twitch's action pose is. He's all business. And Sam's action pose is like. Hold on, I gotta. I gotta finish the cigarette, guys. [01:08:09] Speaker A: He's got the police vest from that one action figure. [01:08:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And the. The walkie talkie, too, because they come with little walkie talkies. [01:08:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he does. [01:08:16] Speaker B: Sam is Sam's donut. [01:08:18] Speaker A: Unfortunately, he switched out the donut for a cigarette. [01:08:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And there's like a. There's like a stiff breeze blowing through the alley. Oh, you know, that air's gotta smell so bad. [01:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Nothing like it's a crime scene. It says King Drip. [01:08:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:36] Speaker A: On the graffiti. [01:08:37] Speaker B: But. [01:08:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a great cover. I love the kind of purple blue. Well, the red blue kind of creates this, like, purpleness to it. [01:08:44] Speaker B: Absolutely. It's very good. It's. It's the boys in their element. It's wonderful. And I also. I love the. The water towers. The water towers are slowly going away from the tops of city buildings because. [01:08:57] Speaker A: That one lady got trapped in one. [01:08:59] Speaker B: Multiple. Multiple people have been trapped in them. [01:09:02] Speaker A: Well, there's one lady that was like, mysterious because she got caught. I think her name's like Christina Lamb or something. And she was on like a video being weird in the elevator. [01:09:11] Speaker B: And she was found at that hotel in la. [01:09:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:14] Speaker B: Well, also water towers from the top. Have you heard of Legionnaires disease? [01:09:20] Speaker A: No. [01:09:20] Speaker B: Oh, well, Legionnaires disease is a disease that a whole bunch of legionnaires got at the Legionnaires headquarters all at once. And it was just a bacteria that was growing in their. In their water tower on the top of the building. [01:09:35] Speaker A: Oh, gross. [01:09:36] Speaker B: So it's. It's real nasty stuff. [01:09:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Stagnant water is not. Not a good thing. There's another cover, Johnny. And unfortunately, I think I've got the buyer's remorse again because it is also a miracle kolak cover. And it is. Well, it looks like Sam and Twitch walking down like a. Like a late 19th century London street because there's like a. One of those super fancy cast iron street lamps and there's just like old telecommunications wires and it's super foggy. And Sam's just Tromping. He's got a cigar in his mouth and his. His rifle over his shoulder. And Twitch is just in front, like following a map on his phone. And it is gritty and beautiful. [01:10:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I like the fog and the steam coming up. [01:10:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like they're looking for Jack the Ripper or some shit. [01:10:32] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [01:10:33] Speaker B: It's like, same with Twitch is depicted by Edgar Allan Poe or Alan Moore. [01:10:40] Speaker A: From Hell. Good comic. [01:10:42] Speaker B: There needs to be. There needs to be a little bit more magic for it to be Alan Moore. [01:10:45] Speaker A: Nowadays though, there's no magic in From Hell. I guess he does have like. He has like a crazy vision and sees like. [01:10:50] Speaker B: That's why I said nowadays. He's fallen fully into just being a wizard. [01:10:57] Speaker A: Okay, cool. From Hell is really good if you've never read it. [01:11:00] Speaker B: I have not read it. I have read. I've read a lot of Alan Moore, but I haven't read that one. [01:11:05] Speaker A: That was the early one I got. I got that in like 9th or 10th grade because I thought I was pretty cool with that big old phone book size fucking. [01:11:13] Speaker B: I mean, Johnny, let me tell you, you were absolutely fucking cool with that big ass phone book style. [01:11:20] Speaker A: And I lent it to someone who. I don't know who it was. And now I don't have it anymore. [01:11:24] Speaker B: That's the worst. That's the worst. [01:11:27] Speaker A: I don't remember who I lent it to. [01:11:29] Speaker B: I mean, I mean, unfortunately you can never buy another copy of From Hell by Alan Moore ever again because they just don't exist. [01:11:35] Speaker A: They're like 45 fucking dollars. I'm not buying one of those. [01:11:38] Speaker B: I mean, you could buy one on ebay. [01:11:40] Speaker A: Yeah, like my one back. I get my own one back. It was the one I lost. The guy I figured out, the guy I lent it to selling it on ebay. [01:11:48] Speaker B: Sometimes I. Sometimes I like. I like getting an already beat up copy of something so that way I don't have to feel bad about putting the beat into it. [01:11:56] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. There's a. The paperback's only 30. [01:11:59] Speaker B: Not bad. [01:12:00] Speaker A: Hardcover's $40. [01:12:02] Speaker B: Oh, hardcover hard. The hardcovers and the big hardcovers are real hard to read though. You got it. [01:12:09] Speaker A: The edition I have is only $14.95. It was the one with the movie poster cover. [01:12:15] Speaker B: Ah. [01:12:16] Speaker A: Which was a. [01:12:17] Speaker B: Which you probably. I remember it not being a very great movie. [01:12:21] Speaker A: It just was boring. Yeah, it was just like. It was just like nothing. [01:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Since I haven't read the. Read the comic, I have to just go by what people say. But like all of the stuff that made the comic cool apparently didn't make it into the movie. [01:12:37] Speaker A: Right. Also, the comic told it. It's insane because the comic, you know, he's Jack the Ripper the whole time. It tells it from his perspective. And in the movie, they make it a reveal. So they have to, like, sum up everything in, like, the last five minutes of, like, this is what he was doing. Yeah, it sucks. [01:12:52] Speaker B: Yeah. They just. They just wanted to cash in on some Johnny Depp. [01:12:55] Speaker A: I do remember when I saw the trailer in the theater, I got really excited because the first, like, five minutes, I thought it was a sequel to Sleepy Hollow. [01:13:00] Speaker B: Oh. [01:13:01] Speaker A: And I was like, they made a sequel? Sleepy Hollow. I didn't know about this. And then it was like, oh, this is from hell. [01:13:05] Speaker B: Can you imagine? What would a. What would a Sleepy Hollow sequel look like? [01:13:10] Speaker A: He'd go after, like, another. But who would call him Fourth American Folklore. [01:13:15] Speaker B: Oh, oh, oh. So. So just not. [01:13:17] Speaker A: He'd go after, like, the Windigo or like. Or like, what's the. [01:13:22] Speaker B: More Mothman. [01:13:23] Speaker A: The Mothman. I don't know. I mean. Or the Headless horseman comes back. Someone goes and gets that head again. [01:13:29] Speaker B: Maybe. [01:13:29] Speaker A: Because if you take his head in that movie, you control the headless horseman. The horseman comes, and tonight he comes for you. [01:13:36] Speaker B: It's a good fucking movie. [01:13:39] Speaker A: Sleepy Hollow rules. [01:13:40] Speaker B: And we should do it. We should do a special episode about Sleepy Hollow on the. What will it be? The 30th anniversary in 2029? Yeah, we should. We should do a 30th anniversary. [01:13:51] Speaker A: It's one of the best Halloween movies. I think it really has that feeling. [01:13:54] Speaker B: Of Halloween because we just missed being able to do a 25th anniversary, which would have been last year. Yeah. [01:14:01] Speaker A: First DVD I ever owned, man. [01:14:03] Speaker B: I still remember. I still remember my parents went to it for a date night. That's, like, the last time. I remember my parents being like, we're going on a date. You got to stay here with your sister. [01:14:13] Speaker A: I got to see it in theaters. Like, beg. I was like, I have to see it, please. And, like, begged my parents, and they let me go. [01:14:19] Speaker B: Nice. [01:14:20] Speaker A: Even though it's rated R. Rated R. But I would, like, do research and present it. I'm like, look, there's no nudity. It's just violence. I've seen violence. There's no cussing. Even in this movie, there's no nudity. [01:14:31] Speaker B: But Christina Ricci looking very nice. [01:14:34] Speaker A: But I, like, it was always a big point with my dad that there was no cussing. I Was like, look, there's no cussing. Okay? They didn't cuss back then. [01:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:14:41] Speaker A: In 1740. [01:14:44] Speaker B: Absolutely not. Never. The cuss words just suddenly appeared out of nowhere. [01:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:50] Speaker B: I wasn't allowed to watch movies with a lot of cussing in them because I'd repeat things. [01:14:57] Speaker A: I swear. My dad was really mad after we saw Panic Room. He's like, there's so much cussing in it. And I was like, dad, they were. [01:15:02] Speaker B: Like about to die. [01:15:04] Speaker A: Evil robbers. Like, oh, my God. We've been recording it out. We gotta get going. [01:15:10] Speaker B: We've just been having a good time. [01:15:11] Speaker A: Time. Johnny, I know what time you gotta go though. Like 11. [01:15:16] Speaker B: I don't. I don't have anything pressing today. [01:15:19] Speaker A: Okay. [01:15:19] Speaker B: But I do have to go to work. [01:15:20] Speaker A: We've been talking. [01:15:21] Speaker B: Yeah. It's. We got to get it out. We've not. What's. [01:15:23] Speaker A: Because we didn't record for a week. We missed each other. [01:15:26] Speaker B: We're pent up. We gotta. We gotta get it out. We gotta get the. The humor's balance. [01:15:30] Speaker A: All right, so those are the covers. [01:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:31] Speaker A: Let's say I'm Twitch number eight. [01:15:32] Speaker B: Let's. Let's pop open this cover and start the thing. Give some credit where credit is due. We got script Flat by Todd McFarlane with Coplat by John Gough. Art Simon Kudransky. Still doing the artwork. Spooky as hell. Colors by FCO Plasencia. And Sheila Saldana is doing the color flats. Lettering by Tom Wozykowski covered the covers. Creative director is Todd McFarlane and the editor in chief is Thomas Healy. And previously in Sam and Twitch. With the plan fully revealed to Twitch, he realizes his chances for escape is going down by the minute. To be R or. Or Chance. [01:16:14] Speaker A: Chance. Sorry, you gotta call out the typhoons. [01:16:18] Speaker B: There's also the kerning and the. There's like an extra space in the second line between escape and Is. [01:16:28] Speaker A: Oh, you're right. [01:16:28] Speaker B: Space. And it's. [01:16:31] Speaker A: Drives you crazy. I remember I wasn't like super hot on the last issue. I thought it was confusing. But I really like this issue. Reading it last. I had read it in a while, I guess since November. [01:16:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Getting the. The confusing issue out of the way before this one just lets. This one. This one just take a great action. [01:16:48] Speaker A: Ending to like seven or something. I mean it was just. It's really cool. [01:16:52] Speaker B: Yeah. It's an all out sprint. [01:16:54] Speaker A: Good job. To the Todd father here. [01:16:56] Speaker B: But we start. We start at the farmhouse where we were. [01:17:00] Speaker A: And all the bodies hung up. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And numbered with. But with no Heads. Because remember, the heads were delivered to the. No resolution on people finding the heads on their doorsteps, Johnny. But so it starts off with, so the place is empty. Well, almost empty. And then it shows us all the dead bodies. Yeah, that's funny. Would you consider a house empty if it were filled with dead bodies? [01:17:24] Speaker A: I don't know. That's grim as hell. [01:17:26] Speaker B: Or do the bodies have to be live for a building to no longer be empty? Like, is a morgue ever truly empty? [01:17:34] Speaker A: No, because they say you'll find nothing but an empty tomb. Like, that means there's not a body in it. So. [01:17:39] Speaker B: Okay, nice. And so. So they're all just standing down there in the basement being like, well, we're at a stalemate. And we get a super awesome shot of this. This creepy ass house. And I like this little. I bet in the summertime that there's vines that grow over this. And it's just like a wonderful little patio space to just sit and drink your coffee in the morning. [01:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. [01:18:02] Speaker B: It's great. [01:18:04] Speaker A: The detail in the house is great. [01:18:06] Speaker B: They're. They're just fighting. They're fighting now. There's. [01:18:10] Speaker A: Well, Twitch is just like, yo, this has gotten away from everybody. Let's all just. We need to fucking. You guys have done wrong. This killer's done wrong. I'm. Why did you even bring me here? Jesus Christ. [01:18:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he's like, we gotta stop this right now. Let's just call it in. And they're like, ah, no, sunk cost fallacy. We. We've gone too far. And then, you know, so there's. Then they get a nice little. A little good, the bad and the ugly eye stare going on because they realize that there's. There's no good move. And Twitch is like, come on, you guys. Can't you see the gym is setting you up? Just fucking. Just fucking leave him. Just do it. [01:18:48] Speaker A: No, he means the killer. [01:18:49] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, the killer. [01:18:50] Speaker A: Yeah, he wants us here. Why? [01:18:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we cut back to Sam knocking on the door. [01:18:59] Speaker A: Knock, knock. Knocking on Twitch's door. [01:19:04] Speaker B: He's like, come on, Twitch, open it up. Come on. Can you hear me? And then a guy who looks like an older version of the Mario Kart fox from. From the first issue opens up the. This. The. The white gangster talking about how he up some guys in Mario Kart because he always plays with toad. [01:19:24] Speaker A: Yeah, kind of does look like him. [01:19:28] Speaker B: This guy's got like a. He's got like a. Like a burn on his mouth and like a wharf mustache that doesn't grow in the middle. [01:19:37] Speaker A: Some orange shades. [01:19:38] Speaker B: Those are actually pretty sweet shades. But it's like, hey, can I help you? And Sam's like, this. I have a friend who's supposed to be in here. And he's like, oh, but I'm the electrician. I'm just fixing the AC. And Sam's like, at 5 in the morning? [01:19:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Sounds a little suspicious. [01:19:55] Speaker B: And it's like, hey. And I was. Sam's like, my friend. My friend who's staying here. Where is he? And the electrician's like, oh, he said something about having to go to an old farmhouse. That's cool. I just got off work. Just follow me in my van. I'll take you there. Oh, man. [01:20:13] Speaker A: Not weird or creepy at all. [01:20:15] Speaker B: No, there's. I would like to. To see an internal panel of Sam following this van being like, what the. Am I doing this? This. Am I seriously doing this? What is going on? [01:20:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:20:25] Speaker B: Because the. That skeptical face that Sam is making right there is, like, accurate. Like, he's like, this doesn't. This doesn't add up. Sam, while occasionally a bumbling fool, is a good detective. Then we cut back to the argument between Twitch and the Plainfield caps, and it gets to the point where they pull a gun. [01:20:51] Speaker A: Is that Trussel? [01:20:52] Speaker B: I think that's Trestle. Yeah. Because Jim. Jim's the head. Yeah. [01:20:57] Speaker A: And Trasle's the one with the. Kind of looks like Justin Theroux. [01:21:00] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got the. He's got the Jason blood, because Jason blood from. From the demon. He's got red hair with a little white streak in it. Yeah. But I think he gets the white streak when he gets. And when he hosts the demon Etrigan. So that's like a. A symbol of their pairing or something. Something. [01:21:20] Speaker A: One thing From Evil Dead 2, I wish they would have kept is at the end of Evil Dead 2, Ash gets a white streak and he sees the. The rotten apple head, they called it. I wish he would have had that wide streak in army of Darkness now. [01:21:32] Speaker B: Oh, now. Now he's got all white streak. [01:21:35] Speaker A: He does. [01:21:37] Speaker B: So, yeah. Trestle. [01:21:38] Speaker A: Yeah. They're getting arguing, and Twitch is like, you're delusional. And he's like, you can't leave. And pulls his gun on him. [01:21:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And Jim's like, ho. Hold on. Hold on a second. Trestle's like, are you taking his side? And Jim's like, no, no, no. But you're gonna complicate issues. It's already complicated enough. It's so tender. Just how he puts his hand on the muzzle of this pistol. I. I don't think I could ever be in a position and do that so gently. I would probably try to do it as quickly as possible. So that way the gun is out of the. Out of play. But Jim is just so methodic about it. [01:22:16] Speaker A: He shoots him in the head. [01:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah, but then. Yeah, because. Because the other. The other guy. Who's the other guy? Shit, I forget. His other guy, I don't know, starts. Starts joining in with Trestle and is like, man, what the fuck are you doing, Jim? And Jim's like, well, yep, okay, fine. And then he shoots Trestle in the face. Look at that. Shoots him, shoots him. And then the other guy starts wrestling with Jim for the gun. And Sam's like, twitch. Twitch is like, open door, do I help them? Open door. Do I help them? And then while they're wrestling, the gun goes off and Twitch is just like, fuck. Runs out the door. And it turns out that the other cop shot Toby. [01:23:01] Speaker A: Is his name Toby? [01:23:02] Speaker B: Toby? [01:23:08] Speaker A: Who the fuck is Toby? Remember that from Reservoir Dogs? Probably not. [01:23:13] Speaker B: I do not know. I remember Toby the child from. From fucking Sweeney Todd. [01:23:21] Speaker A: Who the fuck is Toby? We get this awesome action shot of Twitch just running through the cornfield. [01:23:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just. He's just booking it. And then while. While Twitch is running through the cornfield, the. The killer stops his van. And Sam's like, hey, why are we stopping? And he's like, yeah, the farm's about. A little bit back there. And he's starting to try to give Sam an excuse. So that way Sam gets out of the car, but then they hear a gunshot that the killer wasn't expecting. And Sam was like, fuck that. And just like, fuck that. [01:23:53] Speaker A: And just books it. [01:23:54] Speaker B: Just like. Like pedal to the metal. I do like the. The crow continuity throughout this issue, though. They're just hanging out, doing crow stuff. [01:24:03] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot of cool crows. [01:24:06] Speaker B: And then we've got a. A really cool page. I love this page. So it starts with. With Toby like, running out of the basement. And then we get to this one where there's just this long box to show that. Like, to show that he's running. I think that's. I think that's a real cool touch. And then he's nice. [01:24:26] Speaker A: And then the crows are in a cut. And then you see him see the crows. So he's like, ah, that must be Twitch is. [01:24:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you see. You see Jim get up and just wounded state and grab a. Grab a pistol. That's on the floor. [01:24:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:39] Speaker B: And then we're back in Twitch in the middle of the cornfield. And, boy, I feel. I feel lost seeing Twitch in this cornfield. Because, boy, I would be. I would be, too. And then we get confirmation that the empty gun that was given to Twitch is, in fact, empty. I think this is. I think this is the third confirmation we have that Twitch's gun is empty. [01:25:01] Speaker A: I know. [01:25:03] Speaker B: Just. Just in case you forgot in the previous issues, Johnny, I also do like this close up on this corn right here. It's looking. It's looking real good. I love me some corn. [01:25:12] Speaker A: Corn. I love corn. Just like that little kid. [01:25:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:18] Speaker A: Corn. [01:25:20] Speaker B: It's got the juice, Johnny. [01:25:22] Speaker A: Toby's like, you got nowhere to go. [01:25:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:25] Speaker A: And so Twitch is like, I got this empty gun. So he throws it at some crows, hoping that they will think that that's where he is. [01:25:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And then as Twitch, pretty smart, standing there, trying to complete the ruse, they sneak up on him. Toby's there with a gun, and he's like, ah, nice trick, but it didn't work. We just wanted our town to be clean. And Twitch is like, Twitch is at his mercy. And then as Toby's, like, narrowing his eyes and you can tell, getting ready to pull the trigger, he gets shot from behind. [01:25:57] Speaker A: Blam. [01:25:58] Speaker B: And Jim's like, he's right. We're only protecting our town and our families. But you were too blind to see the good we were doing. Like, man can't admit when he was wrong. You done fucked up, Jim. Yeah. And then as Jim is holding Twitch at gunpoint, Sam just comes by and pat right on the head. Look at that. [01:26:22] Speaker A: Go to hell. He's just beat the shit out of Jim. [01:26:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you hear me? Twitch is like, hold on, Sam. Leave. Leave it. We're not like them. Twitch is like, we got it. We gotta get him some medical attention now. So that's always. That's always fun to show. [01:26:37] Speaker A: He's been shot and got the shit beat out of him. [01:26:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's like, okay. And then Jim is like, we gotta get out of the cornfield or else we won't get cell reception. And Twitch is like, okay, follow me, Sam. Sam's like, got your back. Oh, the boys, Johnny. The boys are back. [01:26:51] Speaker A: They're back together. [01:26:52] Speaker B: They're just falling right back into it. It's like they need this. As much as sometimes they feel like they might hate each other, they really do. They're more codependent than they when they realize. Yeah. And not in a bad way. Just. That's how they. That's what they need. That's what they need. And then Jim, as they're walking out, Jim's like, what happened? What happened to the killer? What happened? And he gets shot right in the head. [01:27:16] Speaker A: Bam. [01:27:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's the mechanic, Johnny. It's the AC tech from the hotel. They really need to do. They really need to do better background checks on their contracted employee. [01:27:29] Speaker A: I guess so. [01:27:32] Speaker B: And he starts. He starts giving his James Bond villain monologue about why he needed to do what he needed to do. [01:27:40] Speaker A: Yes. As the cops killed people unjustly, he killed more people. [01:27:45] Speaker B: And he's like, my God. [01:27:46] Speaker A: Which is a pretty weird logic system, but do what you got to do, buddy. [01:27:49] Speaker B: My Lord told me it was so. It's very much like that one guy in the Musical Assassins that said that God told him to kill the president. [01:28:00] Speaker A: Yeah. He's. We got this angle that we didn't see before that we now know. This guy's like a religious zealot. [01:28:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And Twitch is like, come on. I mean, every. Everybody you killed was one of God's children. They were innocent too. And this guy's like, no such thing as innocent. And it's like, come on, come on, come on. If you're gonna. If you're gonna believe. If you're gonna believe in. In God the way you do, you've got to believe in innocence because that's what. Are you Catholic with the original sin? Come on. Babies can't be born with sin. We're going to get the Catholic contingent after us now, Johnny. They're going to be like, no, that baby's got to be baptized or it's going to purgatory. [01:28:41] Speaker A: The purgatory. There is a Dante's Inferno video game, the Xbox 360 into the purgatory level, you had to fight a bunch of like, evil babies. You can imagine. This is made in like 2008 or 9. You can imagine what the lust level was like. It was an M rated game. You should look it up. [01:29:02] Speaker B: Is it just called Dante's Inferno? [01:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just Dante's Inferno. [01:29:05] Speaker B: Was it made by the American McGee Company? [01:29:09] Speaker A: Very similar in that it's like, yes. What if we did that? Yes, but it's like an action game. It's kind of rare. Rip off a God of war. But it's hilarious. You should check. Look up something about it. It's funny. I'll try to look for those evil babies and send it to you. [01:29:21] Speaker B: Oh, boy, that's great. And then. And Then you know, this guy's ending, the nearing the end of his monologue. And then he finally, he finally says in full the, the whole quote that he's been dancing around these, these eight issues. And it's because no good deed, no good deed will go unseen. And then shoots himself in the head. For somebody who's working for the Lord and doesn't believe in innocence and is trying to stop the devil's screamings, you sure think that he wouldn't commit like a mortal sin at the end of his reign of terror, huh, Johnny? [01:30:05] Speaker A: Well, he did. Well, he did so very seven esque. [01:30:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get like, like all the, all the details of like the, the quiet farm, bits, the crows, the, the drops of blood all over the place. And then Sam just like slowly lowers his gun because he's dead. Yeah. And Sam's like, you okay, Twitch? Twitch says, I just want to be home. Sam, you owe me both, pal. You owe me both. We get a great two page spread of just the farm. Don't see, don't see any peoples, Just the vehicles and the house. That house looks like it's about to fall down, Johnny. [01:30:52] Speaker A: Looks like fucking Texas Chainsaw Massacre. [01:30:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. Although that patio looks very new. It looks like they put a new patio on an old ass house. [01:31:02] Speaker A: They did. Yeah. That's the end of the first arc or story of Sam and Twitch case files. [01:31:08] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Then we get a couple of pages of inks. Two of the best pages in the book, I think. The house, the House in the moonlight and Twitch running through the cornfield. Since they overloaded us with story pages, we only have one advertisement in the back, Johnny, and that's the back page. Is the new generation, New Stories, New youw advertisement. [01:31:32] Speaker A: Yep. It's got Sam and Twitch, Rat City, Spawn Kills Every spawn. And Knights versus Samurai. [01:31:37] Speaker B: Yeah, indeed. [01:31:37] Speaker A: There's a great Oingo Boingo song called Reptiles and Samurai. [01:31:41] Speaker B: Reptiles and Samurai. Reptiles and Samurai. I'm gonna have to listen to it. I, I, I've listened to an embarrassingly small amount of. Basically, if it wasn't on Dead Man's Party, I don't know it very well. [01:31:59] Speaker A: Oh no. [01:31:59] Speaker B: But when I, when I go back to listen to, to older artists, I tend to listen to albums until one of them catches my attention and then that's the one I listen to. And then I'm like, well that's now what I associate with that. [01:32:16] Speaker A: Reptiles and Samurai is a funny song from the album Nothing to Fear. [01:32:21] Speaker B: Nothing to Fear. [01:32:21] Speaker A: Okay, I'll send it to you. [01:32:23] Speaker B: Okay? I mean, I'll. [01:32:24] Speaker A: So you don't forget. [01:32:24] Speaker B: I'll Spotify it. [01:32:27] Speaker A: I don't want you to forget, David. [01:32:28] Speaker B: I'm probably going to see. Man, Danny Elfman's just having fun, isn't he? [01:32:39] Speaker A: He is always. Well, that's Sam and Twitch, number eight. That's the first story arc of Sam and Twitch case files. [01:32:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:45] Speaker A: That's 29 pages for the same low price. [01:32:48] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's not a bad deal. It's not a bad deal at all. Well, Johnny, we got a couple. We got a. Got a. Got a little eyeless. A little eyeless puppy here. [01:33:00] Speaker A: What? Oh, a blind dog. [01:33:01] Speaker B: No, he has no eyes. He had underdeveloped eyes, so they had to take a out. [01:33:05] Speaker A: Oh. [01:33:06] Speaker B: But so. So this little dog here, he ain't got no eyes, but why don't we take a look, see and rate these puppies? [01:33:13] Speaker A: I feel like people are like, what is going on at this man's house? He's a dog with no eyes. [01:33:16] Speaker B: Hey, we've got this dog with no eyes. We're gonna have another dog with no eyes coming on Saturday. We've got a dog with one eye who's blind in the one eye that remains. We've got three dogs that have cat cataract so bad that they're functionally blind. Then that's. [01:33:33] Speaker A: You're doing God's work. [01:33:34] Speaker B: I mean, it keeps me from having to. It gives me a great excuse to be like, sorry, I can't do that. I have to stay home tonight. [01:33:41] Speaker A: I have to take care of my dogs. [01:33:43] Speaker B: But they're. They're great. They're good dogs. Even when they're bad ducks, they're good dogs. [01:33:47] Speaker A: So I guess you're right. It is time to rate the puppies. [01:33:53] Speaker B: Those are. Those are. Those are getting a little. A little sweatier and sweatier as I run out of my. [01:33:59] Speaker A: Well, if people don't have the context what you do, it's very confusing. [01:34:02] Speaker B: Just have to remember that every 10 episodes or so that we have to bring up. Oh, yeah, I remember, right. I rescued dogs. [01:34:08] Speaker A: Yeah. David rescues dogs. That's why he has dogs. No eyes. It's time to rate the puppies. So first up today we had Rat City number eight. [01:34:16] Speaker B: Oh, yes, indeed. [01:34:17] Speaker A: And it's just. It moves like. It's just like both of these issues are really actiony and just move like, so fast and just like, bam, bam, bam. Like, I loved this point of view from the reporter. I love just everything kind of coming to a head and Just, like, the tension of them coming for Peter and Quinlan. And, like, it was just really exciting. I had a great time reading it last night again for the second time. [01:34:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:34:45] Speaker A: I love the art. [01:34:46] Speaker B: Excellent. [01:34:47] Speaker A: It just pops. It's neon. Like, there's just so many shots that looks like straight out of, like, some cool anime. [01:34:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:34:52] Speaker A: Like that one when they're driving in the cars, you can just like, see the, like. [01:34:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very. It's very. It's very Akira when they're on the motorbikes. [01:35:00] Speaker A: Great. Like, I. I love this. I love this comic. It's cool because there's just. They're adding. Erica Schultz just added a whole bunch of new characters. Exciting. You've got Reese. You've got two evil doctors. You got the chairman. You got our reporter. [01:35:18] Speaker B: You got the cameraman. You got Quinn. [01:35:20] Speaker A: You got Bob. [01:35:21] Speaker B: Yeah. You got Victoria. [01:35:23] Speaker A: It's cool. It's just great to have this whole sandbox of people to play with, and I can't wait to see where it goes. [01:35:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:29] Speaker A: I'm going to Give this issue 5 Cybernetic eyes, because there's a lot of them. Got to have a lot of them in this issue. [01:35:38] Speaker B: As far as eye torture goes, just a whole bunch of cybernetic eyes. Guys rolling around is low. Low stakes. Yeah, Low stakes. [01:35:45] Speaker A: But, yeah, I could have it. Five cybernetic eyes out of five. [01:35:49] Speaker B: I. Oh, man. This story is just fantastic, Johnny. And the art is amazing. All of this. The sandbox of this cast of characters that Erica Schultz put together is just incredible. I do love that instead of just having the talking head news pundit, we've got the April O'Neill version. [01:36:11] Speaker A: She's out there in the field, man. [01:36:12] Speaker B: It's a great. It's a great sort of narrative. Narrative technique. I love it. I love. Like, they're very you. You. As you said, this. This. This issue books. It. It's like it's going 95 down the interstate the whole way. [01:36:30] Speaker A: I mean, literally, they are in the Humvees. [01:36:31] Speaker B: Yeah. But, like, the. The few times that it actually stops to do any sort of breathing is for Quinlan, and Quinlan is here. Quinlan is stuck between all of this. They don't know what the fuck is going on. They don't know what they're. What. What are they supposed to do? They don't know. Like, this is uncharted territory for them. And, like, I. I do love this. This page where they're falling as, like, the. They've got frustration and they're falling asleep, and then they knock over the Box of cybernetic eyes. And then as soon as they get an idea of, like, something they can do, they're just like, oh, hell yeah. Look at that. [01:37:07] Speaker A: Like, I'm back again. [01:37:09] Speaker B: The face, facial expressions from the top of the page to the bottom of the page. It's like a full 180. It's. It's so good. I'm going to agree with you, Johnny. This is going to be another entry into the Hellfire Club. I'm going to give this five tiki drinks in the chairman's hand. [01:37:24] Speaker A: That chairman, he's drinking tea. Sneaky tea. We're eating olives. [01:37:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to ask Erica Schultz what kind of. What drink he's make. He's drinking there. And then make them. [01:37:35] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll make a live on air next time we have her on the show. [01:37:38] Speaker B: That'll be. That'll be great. Great audience. [01:37:40] Speaker A: Have a full bar. Yeah. Another entry into the Hellfire Club. We both give it five out of five. It's Rat City Number eight. [01:37:49] Speaker B: It's. It's a good time. A better time. It's hard to find a better time than this, Johnny. [01:37:54] Speaker A: Well, another good time was Sam and Twitch Case Files number eight. And I love this issue as well. It was in like, rat city number eight is very action packed. It moved. Moves 95 miles an hour down the highway. But it's a great conclusion to all the build up of this story arc. It's just. It's just this great action ending where everyone's shooting each other and just like, you know, it's like seven. It's like a Tarantino thing. It's like, it's great. It's just a fun. Not fun, but it's fun. It's fun to read. [01:38:31] Speaker B: It has. [01:38:31] Speaker A: It has pretty great. [01:38:32] Speaker B: It has fun elements, but overall, I would not label it. [01:38:36] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's just like a lot of great action moves. Like with Twitch, like, I almost wanted to cheer. Like when Twitch is running out of the farmhouse and Sam shows up and punches the guy. Like you want to cheer. Yeah, just like great ending to like a great movie. Like, and it's probably. Except for maybe some of the earlier ones, probably my favorite issue of Sam and Twitch Case Files so far, I would say. I mean, obviously it should be. It's the ending. It's where everything culminates. But yeah, I thought Todd father, really. It shows restraint from the Todd father and John Goff helping out, I think probably helps. But I just love the art too. Simon Krasanski. Kudransky does like. I mean, he's doing his stuff. Like the little. The little boxes on that scene you were talking about the crows in and out. The kind of cutting to different things. [01:39:22] Speaker B: Yeah, his. The. The amount of pacing and just like sort of narrative flow that he's just able to do with just a couple of. Just a couple of boxes. Just a couple of shots of some crow eyes. It's fantastic. [01:39:35] Speaker A: I'm also going to give this issue five out of five. And I'm going to give it five ears of corn. [01:39:42] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, there's a couple. I was trying to see if there were five ears of corn in the little windows, but there's only two. There's only two close ups on corn. [01:39:49] Speaker A: Okay, five corns. Five corns out of five. [01:39:52] Speaker B: Oh, man. That's pretty corny, Johnny. [01:39:54] Speaker A: Campy, you might say. What is camp? [01:39:58] Speaker B: I don't know if. I don't know if Salmon Twitch classifies for camp. They're a little too. [01:40:02] Speaker A: No. [01:40:02] Speaker B: A little too normatively serious. [01:40:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:40:09] Speaker B: Now, I do believe that you could drop Sam into a camp story and have him basically be the straight man. That would be incredible. [01:40:20] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, some of their 90s stuff might be camp, man. I don't know. [01:40:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. Especially. Especially the Twitch at home. [01:40:28] Speaker A: He's like making that sandwich and. Come on. [01:40:30] Speaker B: Twitch at home with his seven children. That could be. That could very easily follow a camp premise. [01:40:37] Speaker A: Yes. [01:40:39] Speaker B: We need to have a camp expert on to help us. To help us understand Johnny. [01:40:43] Speaker A: Okay. We'll get like the fucking Boule Brothers or something. [01:40:46] Speaker B: Let's get John Waters. That's what we want. John Waters. John Waters or bust. I bet John Waters would. [01:40:52] Speaker A: Baz Luhrmann. He's campy. Let's get him on here, man. [01:40:55] Speaker B: I don't know if I have the energy to keep up with the Baz Luhrmann, though. He'd just be like, we'd have to up the cocaine budget for that. But that. No, I have to create a cocaine. [01:41:06] Speaker A: He just is nice. He's out on cocaine, hopefully. [01:41:09] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, if he is, that's fine. I mean, that's. [01:41:13] Speaker A: As long as Baz. [01:41:16] Speaker B: We're not. We're not big pro street drugs people. But, you know, it's not like. It's not like it's a moral failing if you use street drugs. Just be safe about it. [01:41:24] Speaker A: Yeah. It's just dangerous and expensive and don't do it. [01:41:27] Speaker B: It's more risk than I want to put myself through. But I mean, if you know, just be. Be careful. Be careful out there. Narcan. [01:41:37] Speaker A: Narcan. [01:41:38] Speaker B: Narcan. Nar. Can they call it. That's why they call it Narcan, John, and not Narcant. Yeah, I. I am also. I am also gonna. So I have a few reservations about this because there's a lot of threads left unconnected, and I don't know if that's intentional for carryover through other arcs or just, you know, ah, fuck it, we gotta cut it because it's not as clean. It's not as clean with that. But I also think this is a five out of five. That's wonderful. I'm gonna put five close ups on crow eyes because there's a lot of those. And those crows are just. They are the constant watchers. They are the. The audience for whom this drama is playing out. [01:42:21] Speaker A: No good. D. Goes unseen, David. Not by the crows. [01:42:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Ah, this is great. And like you said, Simon. Simon Kudransky is just his. His art always solid. It's. It's perfect. It's like pitch perfect for what the Todd father wants. It's. [01:42:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And the shocks of the shootings of people. [01:42:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:42:45] Speaker A: Are paced well. And just like the action's paced really well. [01:42:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And that sucker punch from. From Sam the Pat. Oh, man. [01:42:52] Speaker A: Yeah, man. [01:42:53] Speaker B: Making. Making our boy Sam look so good. Yeah, he's really. He's. He's. He's cleaned up real nice. [01:43:01] Speaker A: We love it. [01:43:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he looks. [01:43:03] Speaker A: That's great. That's two fives out of five. [01:43:04] Speaker B: He looks a little like Walter Matau in that. [01:43:10] Speaker A: Two number eights and two fives out of fives. [01:43:13] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Hell yeah. That's. That's what we call symmetry, Johnny. [01:43:16] Speaker A: It's like poetry. It rhymes. [01:43:18] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Well, you know what else rhymes, Johnny? [01:43:25] Speaker A: I read a lot of things, but I know what you're trying to segue into. I don't know what rhymes, David. [01:43:33] Speaker B: Our Friends Never ends on Instagram. [01:43:37] Speaker A: Oh, my God, that was worse than I could think of. [01:43:40] Speaker B: Yeah, but you didn't think of it, so you needed me for that one. That's. This is me. [01:43:45] Speaker A: Our friends never ends. [01:43:46] Speaker B: This is me making myself instrumental to the production of the show. But. Yes. Yes, our Friends Never ends over on Instagram because the Spawn community online is incredible, Johnny. [01:44:00] Speaker A: Yes. And we. Just. Because of our exposure with doing an episode with tiny spawning, we found another member of the Spawn community that we didn't even know existed. [01:44:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. We get a. The closer we get to these tent poles, Johnny, the further we can See in the. The tent of Spawn's cape. Be like, oh, hey look, there's some more Spawn people back there. [01:44:19] Speaker A: Let's go see them. And we got. Today we're highlighting modern comic Spawn. He's a modern comic collector, trader seller. And he's got Spawn shit. [01:44:32] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. He's got. He's got one of those. There's white. The. The white and gold cover for issue one for the record breaking comic that has gotten one of 1500 signed by the Todd father himself. [01:44:50] Speaker A: Nice. He's got a wizard with Jessica Alba around the COVID A lot of Spawn stuff. A lot of just general comic stuff, but pretty cool collection. [01:45:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:45:02] Speaker A: Very supportive. So just make sure to I'm guessing. [01:45:06] Speaker B: Give him a follow by reading the comment on the end of this. This gold and white variant, issue number one. Even there's one of 1500. I. I'm thinking based on this comment that the Todd father signed the first one of these and so he's the one that got the first one of them. So it's one of one out of the one of 1500. [01:45:28] Speaker A: That's great. [01:45:29] Speaker B: That's awesome. [01:45:32] Speaker A: You had to buy the Spawn figure pack to get it. [01:45:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:45:35] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. [01:45:36] Speaker B: He's got a. Yeah. [01:45:37] Speaker A: Modern comic Spawn. Give him a follow and join them in the Spawn community. [01:45:41] Speaker B: Look at that. Look at that. He's a fan of Rogue. Any fan of Rogue's a friend of mine. [01:45:46] Speaker A: I like Rogue. [01:45:47] Speaker B: Rogue kicks ass and takes names and then forgets the names because those names are below her. So she's just gonna kick some ass again. [01:45:57] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Give him a follow. Modern comics Spawn. [01:46:01] Speaker B: Absolutely. While you're over there, give us a follow. Regarding Spawnpod over on Instagram, we like to. We like to hang out with the friends of Spawn. Are you a friend of Spawn? We need to think of a friend of Dorothy style. Friend of Spawn. Friend of. Friend of Albert. Are you a friend of Albert? [01:46:20] Speaker A: Friend of Albert? Yeah, I am a friend of Albert. And you can also hit us up@ regarding swampodmail.com and every week like to ask a question. And this week I would ask what did you think of the ending for Sam and Twitch for the first arc? Was it satisfying? Do you think it left too many things loose? And what do you hope for the future of the comic? So I haven't read issue 10 yet. [01:46:46] Speaker B: Me either. It's in that stack. [01:46:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. So I don't know where it's going. Hopefully it's more of an urban setting. Hopefully they do a sw. [01:46:53] Speaker B: Were I mean, I haven't read issue nine yet either, so. [01:46:56] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, right. I haven't read issue. [01:46:59] Speaker B: I have read neither of them. [01:47:01] Speaker A: Okay. [01:47:01] Speaker B: Neither nine nor. [01:47:02] Speaker A: I haven't read nine or ten, actually. No, I haven't. Oh, my God. We're gonna get kicked off our own show. [01:47:08] Speaker B: Do we fire ourselves? Is that. How does that work, David? [01:47:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:47:12] Speaker B: We no longer require your services. [01:47:14] Speaker A: I'm watching some Cats on Monday, and I'm gonna read a lot of sponge. I'm just gonna be sitting around watching some Cats. [01:47:20] Speaker B: Mm. [01:47:20] Speaker A: And not the movie. Like I'm watching Cats for a friend. [01:47:23] Speaker B: I was about to say we have to. We now, unfortunately, have to specify right after the last. [01:47:28] Speaker A: After the episode a few weeks ago. [01:47:30] Speaker B: Oh, man. I'm sure they're probably pretty jellicle, though. What do you think those cats get up to when you're asleep? They definitely sneak out to the alley and try to. [01:47:38] Speaker A: One of them might be a Jellicle. One of them's too nice to be a Jellicle. I don't know. My cat's a Jellicle cat, though. Barbie. [01:47:46] Speaker B: That's good. That's good. We. We don't want her to go up to. To heaven anytime soon. [01:47:50] Speaker A: No, she won't. [01:47:51] Speaker B: What a. What a weird premise for which cat's. [01:47:56] Speaker A: Gonna get to go to heaven. You gotta compete for it. [01:48:01] Speaker B: Oh, man. Wonderful. What a wonderful. What a wonderful time to be alive, Johnny. [01:48:08] Speaker A: So hit us off about Sam, Twitch, or Cats. Either or. [01:48:10] Speaker B: Either or. Yes. [01:48:11] Speaker A: Also, make sure to rate, review, subscribe wherever you can find us online. [01:48:15] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:48:16] Speaker A: Tell your friends, family, and co workers about us. And while you're online doing that, make sure to look for Lonnie Bones. He does our music. [01:48:24] Speaker B: And after you're done doing that, why don't you do a little bit of. We ask that you do just a little. A little tiny. A little, tiny bit of homework. So that way, the next episode will be a little bit more fun for you. [01:48:37] Speaker A: And what's that homework gonna be, David? [01:48:38] Speaker B: That homework, Johnny? It's gonna be reading some issues from Spawn's universe. You know, nothing too taxing. Unless, of course, you've got a fat stack of pindic Spawn to get through. [01:48:49] Speaker A: Right? [01:48:49] Speaker B: But, you know, not everybody has that hang up. That's just. That's just a. An us issue. But for next issue, we're gonna be reading Main title spawn number 359, and gunslinger number 28. So. [01:49:03] Speaker A: Sounds good to me. [01:49:04] Speaker B: Two great tastes that taste great together, isn't it? [01:49:06] Speaker A: 38. [01:49:08] Speaker B: Did I say 28? Yeah, okay, it's gonna be 38. Yeah, we're gonna reread issue number 28, Johnny. I do believe Brett Booth is still on it then. [01:49:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that's probably the one with fucking Carl. [01:49:21] Speaker B: Carl. So again, and correct this time, Main title spawn number 359 against slinger number 38. [01:49:30] Speaker A: You got it, dude. [01:49:31] Speaker B: Boy, Johnny, there's so many numbers floating around. [01:49:34] Speaker A: Like, it's all that math. We've been doing this episode. [01:49:36] Speaker B: If you thought that math equation that we had at the beginning of the show was a doozy, wait until you start waiting into spawn math. That's a. I don't make no sense. Because it's not bound by our mortal realm, Johnny. It's all Malbolge spawn math. It's got Malbolges in all the wrong places. [01:49:55] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:49:56] Speaker B: I don't even know what I'm talking about. But yes. So, I mean, read some comic, come back and listen to us talk about it. And I mean, Johnny, I think. I think I've. I should probably stop talking. So what I should probably say is this very last thing, and that's. May the Scorch be with you. [01:50:16] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:50:17] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:50:20] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:50:20] Speaker B: I mean, so for a seventh grader these days, what do you think the. The Leia Organa ship equivalent for two kids meeting and becoming friends over Star wars would be? [01:50:32] Speaker A: Oh, like if what? They would have probably like a. Probably fucking iPad. [01:50:37] Speaker B: Not. [01:50:37] Speaker A: Not Fortnite. [01:50:38] Speaker B: Not like a. Not like a Babu Frick action figure. They don't have a Babu Frick action figure. Kenner. Babu Frick action figure, please. [01:50:47] Speaker A: Kenner's not owned by Hasbro, so you should ask Hasbro. [01:50:49] Speaker B: Hasbro. They. I don't know why they don't make the fucking clone troopers. It's one body. You just do different paint jobs and you'd be pulling in the. Pulling in. [01:51:01] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure they do, David. They make, like most everything. [01:51:04] Speaker B: Fuck. God damn it. This is. [01:51:06] Speaker A: There's like a whole line for the canceled Acolyte show. [01:51:09] Speaker B: Damn. Whatever. If I come across a Cody, I'm not buying it. Cody. You broke my heart. [01:51:17] Speaker A: How could you? [01:51:18] Speaker B: How could you. [01:51:18] Speaker A: Fucking all of them did. They're all order 66. [01:51:21] Speaker B: Yeah, except for. Except for the, like Rex, the. The bad batch. [01:51:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:51:26] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:51:27] Speaker A: Commander Cody, though. Yeah, he it up, man. [01:51:30] Speaker B: He was. He was like. He was like Kenobi's right hand man. They did. They went. They went everywhere together. I'm sure they even went apple picking in the fall together. [01:51:41] Speaker A: I hope they did. [01:51:42] Speaker B: That's a. That's a deleted episode from the Clone Wars. They got War in the title, so they can't have any peacetime activities happening. It's like. It's just. He goes. They go to the planet that Anakin and Padme are at, where Padme and her friends slam to the island every day. Clone troopers and Obi Wan Kenobi hanging out, picking apples. [01:52:06] Speaker A: I'd watch it. [01:52:07] Speaker B: I'd watch. I mean, a Jedi would be the perfect person to go apple picking with, because then you could get those. Those apples that are way up there. [01:52:15] Speaker A: Just pluck them right off the tree. [01:52:17] Speaker B: Yeah. You don't. You don't have to worry about him being within reach. Everything's in reach for a Jedi, Sa.