Episode 137 - Rat City 9 and Spawn 363

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Heavenly father, forgive me for I have sinned. I have failed to kill the hell spawn. Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:49] Speaker B: And I'm your co host David Williams. And Johnny. Johnny. I think I picked up the wrong pack of Klondike bars. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Huh? [00:00:59] Speaker B: Klondike bars. You know, the little ice cream ice cream thingy. [00:01:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. What would you do for one? [00:01:04] Speaker B: Well, yeah, that's the, that's the thing. And the package that I picked up recently, the. The dare for the Klondike bars in this pack is to bust out in a show tune at gym. Little does the do the Klondike people not realize that's kind of just like base level. You go into a public place, you. You just sing a show tune. That would be a real easy thing to do is to sing show tunes at the gym. [00:01:29] Speaker A: I mean, I would sing in the gym for a Klondike bar. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. I would do. Klondike bar is delicious. I don't know. [00:01:37] Speaker A: See, I thought you're gonna open with the dust storm. [00:01:39] Speaker B: The dust storm? Nope. I was inside washing a dog when that happened. [00:01:44] Speaker A: So there's a Chicago dust storm, everybody. [00:01:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it was wild. I know people who like had their windows open to get a breeze because it was nice and breezy that day and just like, like a quarter inch of the dust everywhere. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah, wild. I like a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich. [00:02:03] Speaker B: That's a good one. [00:02:04] Speaker A: I'd sing a show tuning a gym for that. [00:02:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I like, I like the regular, like the just plain old boring regular ones. Just vanilla. [00:02:11] Speaker A: They're good. Oh, yeah. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Sandwiches good. The, the ice cream truck that comes through my neighborhood has a soft serve machine on it, so. So you get a twist cone. Twist cone with some sprinkles on it. Hell yeah. It's like $1.50. [00:02:25] Speaker A: The last sweet treat I got is I got some toaster strudel on an impulse buy. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Ooh, I haven't had a toaster strudel's good. I haven't had one of those in a very long time. [00:02:33] Speaker A: It's like a super pop Tart. [00:02:35] Speaker B: Is there still not enough? The problem is there was never enough icing. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Icing. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Is that still a problem? [00:02:42] Speaker A: No. I mean, you get a good amount of icing. I'm not as greedy as I was in my younger days, I guess with the icing. [00:02:48] Speaker B: I mean, you can't sit on a regular pop Tart. Regular Pop Tart's pretty good too. [00:02:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I love a Pop Tart, Especially when they're warm. [00:02:54] Speaker B: Yeah. What's your favorite? What's your. [00:02:56] Speaker A: Go to the berry ones? [00:02:58] Speaker B: Any of the berry ones I like. I like the cinnamon and sugar brown sugar ones. Those ones are nice. [00:03:03] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:04] Speaker B: Or the s' mores. I tended to go to the s' mores a lot. [00:03:07] Speaker A: See, I prefer the berry. Any of, like, movie ones. Like, if there's like a princess one that's like, pink. That's what I want. [00:03:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's real nice. That's a nice man. Now I just want some pop Tarts. Whoops. We messed up again, Johnny, man. No, I really just want a baked good with a. Like a cherry filling right now. Like, a cherry turnover would go down so nice right about now. [00:03:32] Speaker A: That sounds good. [00:03:33] Speaker B: That does sound good. Cherry turnovers are great. [00:03:35] Speaker A: I do have some more toaster strudels in my freezer, so I can make one technically, after recording. [00:03:39] Speaker B: So, I mean, if. If you leave it to me to vamp, you can have one while we're recording. Nobody needs to listen to that. [00:03:47] Speaker A: I just start you off on a. [00:03:48] Speaker B: Rant, sneak out of the room, I wouldn't even notice. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Squeaky, squeaky, squeaky toasted toaster strudel. Eat it. Come back. You're still talking. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but you haven't. You haven't missed anything because I'm just circularly yelling about something. Yeah, or you could just. You could just like, loop yourself going, uh, huh. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. [00:04:14] Speaker A: That's what I do. David, I'm not really here. This is AI. [00:04:18] Speaker B: Oh, man, oh, man. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Did you hear about the AI Darth Vader? [00:04:22] Speaker B: I didn't know. [00:04:24] Speaker A: So Fortnite, they're doing a Star wars promotion right now. [00:04:27] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:27] Speaker A: And one of the things is, they got. You could literally go talk to Darth Vader. And it's AI that uses James Earl Jones voice. Like, he gave Lucasfilm his. Their permission for his voice in perpetuity when he died. So it's his voice, but people have been fucking with it. Here's some of the crazy things. Here's a couple of the crazy things they got him to say. One of them was, your performance thus far suggests you are adopted. Here's another one. Test my patience again, and you will learn what it truly means to need a job. He's got to look up Darth Vader AI quotes. It's so funny. Makes me want to play Fortnite. I'll get on there to talk to AI Darth Vader for sure. I'd ask him some questions. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be fun. That would be fun. Maybe that's a. That's what this episode can be, is just Johnny asking Darth Vader questions. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Are you saying that you're a child killer, David? Because I ask you a lot of questions when we record. [00:05:32] Speaker B: No, what is. What does that have to do. [00:05:35] Speaker A: Because Darth Vader's a child killer. Don't ever forget. [00:05:37] Speaker B: I get that, but what does that have to do with. [00:05:39] Speaker A: Because I asked you a lot of questions. Yeah, but you said you're asking questions to Darth Vader. I'm asking. Maybe you're Darth Vader. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Well, but I thought you said that you were. [00:05:49] Speaker A: I am. [00:05:49] Speaker B: You're a child killer. [00:05:51] Speaker A: No, you are. [00:05:55] Speaker B: Man. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. [00:05:57] Speaker A: Never forget, Darth Vader murdered children. [00:06:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And not only the men, but the women. Women and children, too. [00:06:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess multiple times. He did. He loves it. [00:06:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Is. I don't think he was ever a good guy. I mean, I guess when he beats the boba and the Padres, he was a good guy, but after that, he went downhill really quick. [00:06:17] Speaker A: They made him leave his mother too soon. [00:06:19] Speaker B: Sad. You hate to see it. [00:06:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he was, too. He was too emotional. Yeah. Anakin Skywalker is interesting. [00:06:25] Speaker B: It's very, very, very interesting. It's. It's just so weird that. That we go back and it's like, here's him as a child, and it's like, but what? I don't. I don't. That's like. That's like making a movie about Hitler as a child. I don't care. I don't care. [00:06:43] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:43] Speaker B: Like. But you know what I think? I think episode one might still be my favorite of the prequels, so. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Oh, it's definitely my favorite of the prequels. Speaking of favorites, one of my favorite books going on right now. [00:06:56] Speaker B: Which book is that? [00:06:57] Speaker A: We're finally getting back to today for a long break. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Oh, a hiatus that has lasted too long. [00:07:03] Speaker A: A hiatus lasted too long. We were trying to save. All right, here's some kayfabe for you all, some background information for all you sickos out there, all you parasocial relationship spawn verts. We wanted to hold episode nine or issue nine of Rat City for Erica Schultz. We couldn't make the schedule work out. We just, like. We can't leave Rat City behind and just hold this. So we were like, we'll go ahead and we'll get Erica for another episode. I'm sure we Love having her. [00:07:28] Speaker B: The. The stack of unread Spawn books is currently a little over a third Rat City. So yeah, we need to get on it. [00:07:37] Speaker A: Plus, we want to bring it to you. The people you love Rat City. You want to champion it. And why do we do that? Because we are respawn or. Each week we bring you two issues of Spawns Universe. Except when we don't. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. [00:07:49] Speaker A: This week is no different. We have two issues with Swans Universe. One of them, as I mentioned, is Rat City number nine. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Good. [00:07:56] Speaker A: Dude, it's great. It's action packed. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Oh, man, I've missed this book so much. [00:08:01] Speaker A: I know. I'm glad we're talking about it again. [00:08:02] Speaker B: Me too. [00:08:03] Speaker A: And then we have our second book up. Oh, that's all the way back from December 2024. [00:08:08] Speaker B: Oh, geez. That was like six. Almost six months ago, Johnny. [00:08:12] Speaker A: Yeah, we were fools. [00:08:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, we're EEGITS. [00:08:17] Speaker A: And then we have Spawn 363 from April 2025 actually. [00:08:22] Speaker B: Pretty good too. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I enjoyed it. [00:08:25] Speaker B: I mean, it's no Rat City, but it's good. [00:08:28] Speaker A: What is Rat City? [00:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a. It's a one of one. A perfect book. Almost. No, not even almost. I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna call it right now. It's a perfect book, Johnny. [00:08:40] Speaker A: It is a perfect book. And that's my review. And that's the end. Because as I told you, David, friend of the show, Bran texted me that Mission Impossible Rogue Nation is on Pluto tv. [00:08:51] Speaker B: Gotta go see that Tom Cruise. You gotta. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Gotta go watch it. [00:08:54] Speaker B: Good. He's good. He's a good movie. [00:08:55] Speaker A: I love those. Mission Impossible. [00:08:56] Speaker B: They're good. They're fun. They're hella good. I like. I like when they get to the point where they're like, okay, love interest is just dragging the story down. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, they'll have a woman, but she's never like a love interest. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Which is. Which is awesome because then it's like a. Like they're. They're equals and not. [00:09:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I thought Rebecca Ferguson was great as Isla Frost. I think was her name Elsa Frost? [00:09:21] Speaker B: Something like that. I think. I think Isla sounds closer. [00:09:26] Speaker A: And then I really liked Haley Atwell in the newest one. [00:09:30] Speaker B: Haley Atwell is just very good. [00:09:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:33] Speaker B: Two thumbs up. [00:09:34] Speaker A: Like Haley thumbs up. She kept up with Tom Cruise. [00:09:36] Speaker B: She was Agent Carter in the eponymous television show. [00:09:40] Speaker A: He definitely has a type, though. They're always like kind of mousy brunettes. [00:09:44] Speaker B: So what you're saying is you've just you've outed yourself as the. As the casting director for Tom Cruise's love interest. [00:09:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I like mousey brunettes too. How do you know this? Have I said this before? [00:09:57] Speaker B: Yes, you have mentioned that specifically on this podcast. Johnny, your type is milktoast brunettes. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Or mean brunettes. [00:10:06] Speaker B: I would. I would know that one as much. Johnny. Yeah, you're making. You're making more. This is more confessional than I think it needs to be, Johnny. [00:10:13] Speaker A: No, it's not. That's just a joke. I say. I just like. I like sassy brunettes. I like someone talking to me like a Howard Hawks movie. Ah. What are you doing there? [00:10:23] Speaker B: Say you're like. You're like someone that you can legitimately refer to as a dame. [00:10:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I like a dame. [00:10:31] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:10:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I like this. I like the women. Mission possible. [00:10:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:35] Speaker A: A plus. John Fisher approves. And yes, I was the casting director. [00:10:39] Speaker B: I've recently watched Days of Thunder and Days of Thunder was fucking good. [00:10:43] Speaker A: He's been talking about making a sequel. [00:10:44] Speaker B: That I think it would be so weird because it's like so like gonzo journalism. Like they were in it. And Nassar has gotten so much more corporate. I mean, I guess it's always been a corporate entity because they got sponsors all over the fucking cars. But like, you gotta be. You gotta be a rich asshole to be able to park in the. The middle of the track now instead of just being somebody with an rv. I think it lost a lot of its grit when it got as big as it did. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Have you seen that trailer for F1 with Brad Pitt? [00:11:16] Speaker B: I have not, no. [00:11:17] Speaker A: Looks good. [00:11:18] Speaker B: Does. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Yeah, it's from The Top Gun 2 guy. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I'm. I might actually like Top Gun the Legacy Top Gun 2. [00:11:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Top Gun Maverick. Sorry. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Well, no, I. I just didn't. I just didn't know if there was an actual Top Gun 2 that I never saw. [00:11:36] Speaker A: No, just a hot Shots part. [00:11:37] Speaker B: Dude, Top Cop Maverick was a good movie. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Top Gun Maverick was a good movie. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Very good movie. [00:11:42] Speaker A: You know what made it better? [00:11:43] Speaker B: What's that? [00:11:44] Speaker A: You just put a sci fi skin on it and just make it a Star wars movie. But it's just that only a couple of aliens. [00:11:52] Speaker B: I'd watch it. I'd watch it. Speaking of. Speaking of watching, I watched that Y2K horror film this weekend. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Oh, how was that? [00:11:59] Speaker B: That was actually really fun. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:02] Speaker B: Because it's like the first half of it is just like a straight up teen sex comedy and then midnight hits and it shifts completely. It's it was actually pretty fun. [00:12:13] Speaker A: The stream somewhere. [00:12:15] Speaker B: It was on Max. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:20] Speaker B: I think it was. [00:12:20] Speaker A: I'll check it out. I recently started rereading Misery. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Ooh, nice. [00:12:26] Speaker A: Good book. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Very nice. [00:12:27] Speaker A: One of my favorites. Stephen King books. [00:12:29] Speaker B: Nothing like being shackled to your art. Literally. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Quite literally. [00:12:35] Speaker B: I mean, are you. Are you. Are you just reading Misery again and saying it's one of your favorite because you got the Stockholm syndrome? Because I have you shackled to your. Your podcast computer and I'm like, johnny, you read these spawns. [00:12:48] Speaker A: Read these cockatooie spawns. [00:12:51] Speaker B: You will give me good audio content or I will break this leg. [00:12:55] Speaker A: Oh, my God. In the book, she. Well, I don't want to spoil it. [00:12:58] Speaker B: I mean, it's like a 40 year old book, Johnny. [00:13:01] Speaker A: I know, but someone I know that listens to the show. I'm reading it with David. [00:13:05] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:13:06] Speaker A: And I don't want to spoil it. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Well, on that note, we should probably talk about what we're here to talk about, Johnny. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Why not? Let's do it. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Let's. Let's talk about some spoilers that everyone can get behind. [00:13:19] Speaker A: Yeah, let's spoil this December 2024 issue of Rat City Number 9. [00:13:25] Speaker B: In comic book terms, that's about equivalent to a 40 year old story. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Yeah. We gotta start with these covers, Johnny. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I got the A cover and it is by Federico Sabatini. [00:13:40] Speaker B: And it is a good one. It's. It's just that deviant standing in an alley with like a. A trash tornado spiraling around him, you know? [00:13:51] Speaker A: Yeah, there's like an eyeball, like a cybernetic eyeball in the foreground. Yeah, he looks cool. Love the neon. I love the orange title treatment. [00:14:02] Speaker B: It's a good. A good use of the orange title treatment there. I have cover B, the Seth Adams cover. And it is the deviant. Just like Batman ing up on a roof in some acid rain. And there's a whole bunch of. There's like a whole bunch of like green light reflecting off of the. The drizzle. [00:14:22] Speaker A: It looks like the spawn, the movie deviant. [00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. [00:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Cut that in. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Jason, you sent me to hell. I'm here to return the favor. [00:14:34] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Yeah. It's all. It's all dark and broody and it's. It's. It's like the exact same angle, just he's in a different position as the COVID Yeah, it's a good one. So good. [00:14:46] Speaker A: It's kind of got a bluish background. Ish. [00:14:50] Speaker B: It's kind of got like Mark Spears colors background. [00:14:53] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I was thinking that too. It does look a little Mark Spears esque. [00:14:56] Speaker B: It's got that. That blue and that green that makes it kind of sickly. [00:15:00] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah, Real good. Oh, it's the. This cover unmentioned in the credits, but it's got FCO Plia doing the. Doing the colors. So that's why the colors are so good. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Oh, nice. I have said it before. I just love the title treatment of Rat City with the, like, staticky city. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like you. It's like you paused an old vhs. [00:15:19] Speaker A: Let's take a pause to pop it open. We got the script plot. Well, we got the credits, first of all. Yeah, I'm getting ahead of myself. [00:15:25] Speaker B: You gotta get credit where it's due. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Credit is due. We've got script plot by Erica Schultz, art by Zay Carlos, colors by J. David Ramos. All of them. Not all three of them. Knocking it out of the park, by the way. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Lettering by Erica Schultz. We already covered the covers. [00:15:43] Speaker B: Sure did. [00:15:43] Speaker A: Creative Director is Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:15:47] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, sir. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Previously in Rat City, a showdown ensues at pts. Sorry I'm out of practice. We took a couple weeks off. I feel like. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Forgot to do your. You forgot to do your vocal. Warm ups. [00:16:03] Speaker A: The lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue. To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark doc. [00:16:10] Speaker B: Yep. [00:16:12] Speaker A: All those. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Not even gonna try. [00:16:13] Speaker A: All those things I learned in college. [00:16:14] Speaker B: I'm so bad at all of them. [00:16:18] Speaker A: A showdown ensues as pts forces led by Victoria close in on the deviant. Meanwhile, Quinlan makes moves to broadcast the brutality for the whole world. Yes, they did. [00:16:30] Speaker B: I would say that's accurate. [00:16:32] Speaker A: And we open on a flashback. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:16:36] Speaker A: A man in a confession booth. It's the music video for Sage and Ice. [00:16:42] Speaker B: Yes, it is. And the priest is just there writing, masturbate, question mark. Scratches his out, scratches out. [00:16:55] Speaker A: Then later he like, yells at him, like, are you drinking? No, it's just Peter Karen in the confession booth. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Yeah, but it has purple curtains. [00:17:07] Speaker A: It's kind of very Papa Perpetua. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it definitely is. [00:17:10] Speaker A: He's got the purple. [00:17:11] Speaker B: But we're at San Basilio de Planic in Colombia. The year 2097. Johnny said it was a flashback already, but, you know, we got exact year. Let's get exact year. [00:17:22] Speaker A: Let's get exact. Let's get exact. [00:17:25] Speaker B: Let's get exact act. Exact act instead of physical exact act. What, like the. The. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. [00:17:38] Speaker B: That's. That's the only way it fit the rhythm is they had to say exact act. Have I told you about. So at work, there's some. Sometimes we have to lyse red blood cells, and you can just use water to lice red blood cells. That's a. That's a approved way to do it. But there's actually a commercially available lysis buffer called ACK Buffer, or as I like to call it, ack buffer. And of course, the EK buffer has a little bitty sticker of a Martian from Mars attacks on it. So that way we know what it is and just ack, ack. End of story. [00:18:18] Speaker A: I like it. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah. The fun. The most. The most fun part is none of the young people at work know what fucking Mars attacks is. So I had to explain. Explain it. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Like, oh, that's too bad. [00:18:33] Speaker B: They're aliens and they say ack a lot. [00:18:36] Speaker A: They say. And they get killed by the by. [00:18:42] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, what is it called? [00:18:46] Speaker A: It's called a not great word. Love song. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Yeah. When I'm calling you. Oh, funny. [00:18:56] Speaker A: Called a word. I'm not supposed to say love song. [00:19:00] Speaker B: Zoom. Didn't think that was singing, so I guess I have to try it again. [00:19:04] Speaker A: It's not. No, no, you're gonna kill. You're bigger. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Johnny's head is about to explode, guys. I see it. But yes. So we open in this confessional booth. Peter is there talking to the priest, and the priest is just like, hey, man, don't. Don't hurt me. Please don't hurt me. And Peter's like, I don't. But Spanish is terrible. I'm just gonna keep talking, you know, Peter's just, like, actually confessing. And then we. We go to see outside of the confessional booth in the church that's seen better days. We've got Rhys and Becker, you know, the certified asshole Becker that we remember from issue one. Reese is just like, peter needs this. And Becker's like, this is fucking stupid. Reese is just like, peter needs this. And Becker's like, he's fucking stupid, dude. And then while they're having that conversation, their commander comes up and is like, where is. Where is Trooper Karn, Karen? And Rhys is just like, Becker tries to blow up his spot here. He's like, he's speaking with an enemy combatant. And then Becker gets his ass handed to him for speaking when not spoken to, which is nice, but also, I like that the commander's got the. The floating cigar of. Of angry. Angry boss. [00:20:26] Speaker A: Yes. Just floating between his mouth oh, man. Mystical sausage. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And it was like, Karen needs to get his ass out here right now. We. We flash back to Peter in the. In the confessional, you know, looking very, very serious and doing the sign of the cross. And then he comes out and he's like, yeah, yeah, Commander Ford, I'm here, I'm here. Commander Ford says there's no time for the superstitious bullshit that goes for all you. And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They start to leave the church behind. Commander Forge and Rhys is just like, hey, Pete, you feeling better? It's like, hell yeah, man. Thank you for that. [00:21:06] Speaker A: A little bit. Yeah. [00:21:07] Speaker B: And then so they walk away and then Becker's just like. And then shoots the fucking priest. What a goddamn. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Shoots right in the head. [00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Piece of shit. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:19] Speaker B: What a dick asshole. And then from there we. We flash to the used storage facility in Rat City. [00:21:29] Speaker A: The year of now last here, now last left Peter. Last left. Last left Peter. [00:21:35] Speaker B: Peter and Quinlan. [00:21:37] Speaker A: And Peter is out of it. But the deviant has like come alive of its own free will. [00:21:41] Speaker B: Oh, man. And we got this beautiful, beautiful two page spread of the deviant just fucking up these guys that. That were sent after him. Oh, man. Victoria's there just like hiding between the Humvees. And these big armored guys are just getting around on these chains. Oh, man. Brutal. It's brutal. And then I do like the. The touch of these two big armored soldiers that are wrapped up in the chains. The deviant just goes spark and smashes them both together just like their little action figures in the. This like gore. And there's like a brain and an eyeball over here. And there's an eyeball over here. And this is. Oh, it's. It's fucking disgusting. Yeah, it's real gross. And. And then Quinlan sees and it's just like. No, wait, that's Victoria. Victoria sees it with her cybernetic eyes. And it's like, Christ. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Because they're transmitting through her eyes onto the news. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Because Quinlan has hacked them. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Yes. And the. The news anchor is like, oh, we're still broadcasting. Geez. And then I like this little mini. This little panel in the middle here, Johnny, because do you remember that I made a guess about what was in that fucking back to tank in the background? Yeah, yeah. And doctor. Dr. Dickhead Sahir says even Ammon is amused by this turn of events, referring to the movement of the being in the back to tank. So that's Dr. Amen in there. [00:23:20] Speaker A: You're right. [00:23:21] Speaker B: Nice. [00:23:22] Speaker A: I thought maybe it was Rhys. [00:23:25] Speaker B: That's. That's sad that it's not Rhys, but I think it's. It's more likely Doctor. Yeah. Ammon. And then Quinlan's just like, ah. Ah, shit. And then we cut to the Chairman in Basel, Switzerland, watching the carnage through Victoria's eyes on these screens. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Glowing cross in the back of his head. [00:23:43] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like, well, this is hell. And Quinlan is. There's a monologue over all of this of Quinlan being like, man, I just wanted to show the world what was happening, but I accidentally showed the world the bad side of Peter in the deviant suit, and it made us villains, like, real bad. [00:24:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Victoria's like, let's get the fuck out of here. [00:24:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And then as soon as she says that, the deviant chains the. The Humvee driver right in the head. And then Victoria's, like, furiously trying to get a hold of the Chairman on the phone, and he just. He's just not picking up. And so she calls for a retreat. [00:24:24] Speaker A: Newscaster's like, this is the fucking story of the year, baby. [00:24:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like, gonna get me a Pulitzer for this. So they. They launch another drone so there they can get more coverage of the events. And then inside the. You start. Facility, Quinlan's just like, fuck. Fucking. Fuck. [00:24:40] Speaker A: Shit. [00:24:41] Speaker B: Fuck. Typing away like, fuck. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Yeah. They're trying to sever the feed, but it's too late because the drone is active. And now they can see all the stuff going on from the drone. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then. And then they. They just, like. They're like, we're going outside. And they step outside and they see the carnage and, like, the atomized bodies from being smashed together. Just like they take it into their lungs. They say the blood settles on your tongue. The taste of metal burns your throat. And they're just like, this is all. This is a war zone. And, well, Johnny, you know what they say. War is hell. So Quinlan and the Chairman are both speaking the same language right about now. [00:25:24] Speaker A: This is hell. [00:25:25] Speaker B: And then. And then the. The news anchor is like, holy shit, is that Quinlan? Wally. And then focuses up on Quinlan, gets the positive facial id. And then we. We bounce around to first Peter's parents up in Connecticut being like, ah. Oh, no, that can't be our Peter. That can't be our sweet boy. And then what looks like a fucking drug den being like, hey, that's. [00:25:49] Speaker A: That's. [00:25:51] Speaker B: That's where that motherfucker went. [00:25:54] Speaker A: Looks like the guy's done a lot of cocaine. They will have metal Noses. [00:25:58] Speaker B: This is, this is, this looks like the mutants from the Dark Knight Returns. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it kind of looks like they kind of like Mad Max characters kinda. [00:26:07] Speaker B: Kinda. [00:26:08] Speaker A: I mean, I can imagine. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Yeah, they got the, they, they run the snow. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah. But it looks like there's a drug den that I guess Quinlan used to have something to do with because they're like. Well, there's cue ball. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:19] Speaker A: So that's where that motherfucker went interested. [00:26:21] Speaker B: And interested in learning about cue ball. And then we're, we're back in the, we're back in the fight. And one of the, one of the Humvee drivers is still, still with it, even though they're a little worse for wear. And they're like not going, not retreating. Never, never give up, never surrender. And just like floors it towards the deviant and just like full on crashes right into Peter. And Peter doesn't it. No flinching, just like absorbs the shock of it all. Deviant reaches inside and grabs this Humvee driver just like by the throat and lifts him up into the air. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And Quillen's like, peter, no. But yeah, Peter slaps him or the deviant slaps them away with his chains. [00:27:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, and then as this is happening, we cut back to the chairman in Switzerland and he's, he's seeing what Victoria is seeing still. And he's pointedly ignoring her phone calls. And he cuts the feed from her eyeballs and goes to the back of the room where there's a little, a little like votive station set up. There's a little tabernacle with some, some candles around it. And he says, I was a fool to think Victoria and her ilk could handle this. I was hoping it would never come to this. And he opens the tabernacle and his, his visor moves away from his face and you can see that like his eyes have been fucked up and he's got a, like tattooed cross in the middle of his forehead. And within this tabernacle is just, it's a, it's a, it's a crucifix. Well, I guess it's just a cross because it doesn't have a dead Jesus on it. But it's very, very much like the, the ornate cross that gets carried via, via altar boy up to the or server, as we called them when I was, when I was one, that the procession of the cross begins and ends Mass. It's very much like one of those. [00:28:22] Speaker A: Yes. [00:28:23] Speaker B: And then we get the opening reading. [00:28:27] Speaker A: Heavenly Father, forgive me for I have sinned. I Failed to kill the hellspawn. Yeah, his eyes are all fucked up. Do you think this is our Redeemer? [00:28:34] Speaker B: I don't know if this is Redeemer or if we're trying to say that it's a. That it's Becker having been turned or captured by some individuals or. Because very specifically, like, ends with the same prayer that it starts with. And so I thought that it was trying to tie them together. My money would probably be on that this is a reformed Becker. But I very much. I very much could. [00:29:08] Speaker A: I don't think so. [00:29:09] Speaker B: Very much could be wrong. [00:29:11] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:29:12] Speaker B: I don't know either. [00:29:14] Speaker A: I think it's Redeemer. [00:29:16] Speaker B: It could be Redeemer. Then we get a scorch skull. The end episode issue, Johnny. [00:29:21] Speaker A: Yep, there it is. It's just more. There's the Spawn skull. I guess they use it for the scores. [00:29:26] Speaker B: Yeah. New. Then we got advertisements for all the spin offs. New generation, new stories, new you. Some good stuff there. The image classic set, the UFC toy ad. And then the toy ad on the back page is that issue number one inspired Spawn statue. [00:29:45] Speaker A: I saw that. K7 Lethal Chile got one. [00:29:48] Speaker B: Ooh, nice. It's a. It's a real. It's a real fucking good. I wish I had like a good reason to. To justify a purchase, but. No, there would be way too much explaining involved in that. [00:30:01] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:30:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker A: I'm moving, David. I got so much Spawn stuff. [00:30:05] Speaker B: Hey. Hey. Well, I mean, now you can. You can take the time to catalog it. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. [00:30:12] Speaker B: But hey, at least in packing it, you're not like, just like, jesus, this fucking garbage. You're like, hey, man, this is some good shit. [00:30:19] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I got rid of some stuff. I sold $140 worth of books to Myopic. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Nice. I would have taken them off your hands for free. [00:30:27] Speaker A: I got the money. [00:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I know, but that's what I'm saying. [00:30:32] Speaker A: Well, you can go to my office and buy them now. [00:30:34] Speaker B: I'm real bad about knowing the resale value of things. [00:30:37] Speaker A: I just went to Myopic and they took most of us. I had a lot of Star wars books I didn't want anymore. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Nice. [00:30:43] Speaker A: But Myopic. Great bookstore in Chicago, Illinois, in the heart of Wicker Park. This issue is so good. It's so fast and just. Oh, yeah, it's just action packed. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Like there was like. No, there's like no room to breathe in it when you're talking about it. Like we do. But it flows. [00:30:59] Speaker A: The economy of storytelling is great. [00:31:01] Speaker B: Flows so great. It's just. It's. It's packed in there and it just moves is. It's a quick little book. [00:31:08] Speaker A: It's fun though. [00:31:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. It's real good. That's Rat City 9, ain't it? [00:31:13] Speaker A: Fine. I got bronchitis. I know. [00:31:33] Speaker B: We might have got time for that. I was very, very happy that I got to use that as an announcement for what was wrong with me though. [00:31:40] Speaker A: Yeah, that was fun. Well, we do have time for. See, I'm using this as a transition, so you have to keep this in. [00:31:46] Speaker B: Thanks. Thanks for that. [00:31:48] Speaker A: We do have time for is spawn.363. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Ain't nobody not got time for that. Because everybody's got time for that. [00:31:56] Speaker A: You better because you get that Nick's cover looking awesome. [00:31:58] Speaker B: Oh hell yeah. Hell yeah. I don't even. There was. There was a second cover. Yeah, I guess there were two other covers. [00:32:05] Speaker A: There's two other covers. [00:32:06] Speaker B: What a. What a. What a. A bad time to get to get a variant cover on a spawn. Oh, I got a variant cover on a spawn. Spawn issue. Oh, wonderful. Who's got the main cover? Oh, it's Bjorn Barons. Oh, it's the fucking dopest Bjorn Barrons cover we've seen in a minute. Although the Vaughn Randall is pretty good as well. [00:32:29] Speaker A: So this is something funny. You notice on the COVID What's different about it than normal in the top left. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Top left. You saying that the. [00:32:41] Speaker A: The price Davis is 399.9. [00:32:43] Speaker B: Oh shit. [00:32:45] Speaker A: But this was an error. Okay, so I just looked this up. It was an error and it should be 299. But the first title that will be 399 will be Rat City Number 14. [00:32:56] Speaker B: Interesting. Interesting. [00:32:57] Speaker A: And it is going. They are going up to 399. [00:32:59] Speaker B: Which unsurprising. [00:33:01] Speaker A: Unsurprising. [00:33:02] Speaker B: They held out for a really long time. [00:33:05] Speaker A: 10 years. It was at 299. Evidently everything. [00:33:09] Speaker B: Everything else is fucking falling apart. [00:33:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:12] Speaker B: Consider considering only an additional dollar per issue. It's. That's. [00:33:16] Speaker A: That's not. That's. [00:33:16] Speaker B: That's not too bad. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Not too shabby. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Not too shabby. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Yeah. That's one thing funny note about this cover, but yes, we have the. A cover of Norm Barons and it's Queen Nyx. [00:33:28] Speaker B: She is on her throne and all of her regal. Regalia. And is she holding the snack? Is that what that is? Is that a snack? Is she gonna eat that? [00:33:38] Speaker A: Yeah, she could eat that guy. [00:33:40] Speaker B: It looks. [00:33:40] Speaker A: I don't know. She's got like a little Demon. [00:33:41] Speaker B: It looks kind of like one of the little. The little things that are in the fishbowl next to Jabba the Hut does a little bit. [00:33:48] Speaker A: It looks like the creatures on. Have you ever seen the Pit? [00:33:51] Speaker B: I don't think so. [00:33:52] Speaker A: It was like an 80s horror movie. [00:33:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:54] Speaker A: They open a gate to hell and there's these little, like, little demon guys come out. They look like that. [00:33:58] Speaker B: I have not seen it. [00:33:59] Speaker A: Oh, you love it. They open the gate to hell by playing a metal record backwards. [00:34:03] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell, yeah. And there's just like, a whole bunch of hell debris. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Oh, it's called the Gate. Sorry. [00:34:10] Speaker B: Okay. [00:34:11] Speaker A: Not the Pit. [00:34:12] Speaker B: You have a. You have the Gate shirt, don't you? [00:34:14] Speaker A: I do have the Gate shirt. [00:34:15] Speaker B: Because I think you were telling me once about somebody recognizing the movie from your shirt, and you were like, hell, yeah. [00:34:22] Speaker A: He was at the Eye Doctor Wild. [00:34:24] Speaker B: Well, I mean, she was like. I guess she got a seat to be able to watch horror movies. [00:34:27] Speaker A: So she started cracking up. She's like, you used to scare the shit out of me. I thought about that movie in forever. [00:34:32] Speaker B: That's why. That's why we have Johnny to remind us about stuff that we haven't thought about in a while. I'm here, but there's. Yeah, there's Hell debris down by Nyx's feet. There's just a pile of skulls. There's, like, a body. There's tentacles. She's killing Eldritch beings now. She's got Cthulhu's down there. [00:34:49] Speaker A: All shall worship me and despair. He's very much got that, like, instead of a dark lord, you would have a queen. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:59] Speaker A: From Fellowship. [00:35:01] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Very. Galadriel. Evil Galadriel. How are you? Look like a Hell's Angel. Vroom, vroom. [00:35:10] Speaker B: And then we got. We got this Von Randall cover, and Von Randall is one of the. One of the variants. And the Von Randall cover is pretty dope. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Get a cloud back there. [00:35:19] Speaker B: Laughing got clown. Laughing. It's Spawn standing on top of pile of skulls with a classic medieval axe and the big anime sword. Yep, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. [00:35:32] Speaker A: Love on Randall. [00:35:33] Speaker B: Looking for this. This third cover, but I'm not finding it. [00:35:37] Speaker A: It's really cool. [00:35:38] Speaker B: Cover B, cover A. I guess if I look for cover C. Cover C is. Oh, man. Like those. Those ninjas. It's kind of. Kind of like those Ninja Spawn covers from, like, the 320s. [00:35:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it kind of is. It's by Edward Delandra. Hopefully I'm saying that right. My apologies. [00:36:01] Speaker B: It's. It's very cool. It's. It's Spawn with a gun. [00:36:06] Speaker A: Smile the gun and it's like he looks like he's in motion. I like the strip of chains in the background. It's real cool. Very minimalist and cool. [00:36:16] Speaker B: It's. It's a very good cover. Don't let. Don't let. How flippantly I said Spawn with a gun. That doesn't make it sound anywhere near as cool as it is because it's very cool. [00:36:27] Speaker A: It is. It's Spawn with like a normal gun. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Now that we've talked about these covers, we got a pop them open and we gotta give credit where credit is due, Joni. Because in this world record breaking comic is written with script, plot by Todd McFarlane, art by Brett Booth, inks by Adelso Corona. Robert Nugent doing the colors. Tom Orzykowski, the Tom father himself, doing the letters. Yes, we covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is also the creative director. And Thomas Healy, as previously mentioned, is that dang old editor in chief the eic, baby. And then we have previously in Spawn, Nix's plans for her attack on Heaven are fully revealed. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Eh, kinda. [00:37:16] Speaker B: I think they're more fully revealed in this issue than they are in this issue. Yeah. Yeah. Cause like she actually says what her entire plan was in this issue. But I guess. I guess we did learn that she was making fuck the heat. Not the heap. [00:37:32] Speaker A: The big old guy. [00:37:32] Speaker B: Yeah, Whatever the fuck she called it. Out of all of the dead Heaven creatures. [00:37:38] Speaker A: All the dead bodies. Yes. [00:37:40] Speaker B: But we start in Media Void with Al Simmons holding the Wanda, the Mandarin Wanda. [00:37:50] Speaker A: The Mandarin Wanda. [00:37:53] Speaker B: And Al Simmons is grieving the way most grieving spouses deal with losing their loved one. That's like most of the recent toddfather issues. Hella. Hella voiceover. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Yes. This just keeps bothering me though. Cause it's like, Al, she's married to Terry. Yeah, okay. [00:38:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:38:13] Speaker A: Need to respect that. [00:38:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Like for fucking real. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Come on, Al. [00:38:18] Speaker B: Come on. It's been What? It's been one. It's been 30 years. How long were you married? Like four or five. 30 years Albert. Come on, that's enough. That's enough time to get used to that change. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Well, in Spawn time, they say he's been Spawn like five or six years is what they're saying. [00:38:35] Speaker B: Well, I mean, but I guess that's. [00:38:36] Speaker A: About as though that can't be true because Cyan's older. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. Comic books. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Comic books, dude. Hell powers and shit. Johnny Al's. Al's there holding Wanda, and he's being like, oh, Wanda, are you okay? And she's. Boy, how do we talk about this? Wanda. [00:38:57] Speaker A: It's hilarious because she did not have boobs before when she was Mandarin Spawn. [00:39:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, Now. Now that. Now that she has been revealed as being Mandarin Spawn, it's just like, oh, hey, yeah, here, here. You know, so, as if you had any question, here's some tits. Wanda says that they stole her soul and shoved it into the Mandarin Spawn armor, and that the. That, you know, they did it because she knows him, and they're going to use that against him at any point they can. And then. And then she's like, we need. I want you to get into the light again. This darkness is poisoning my symbiote. And so Spawn Shadow blasts them out of the void back up to the real world, where Bulletproof and Curse of Spawn and Trimmer are just still. They're just waiting there. They're just like, hey. And Wanda's like, I need to get my children. And by her children, she means the little Goonies, the shit. What are they actually called? Them not the Minions. [00:39:54] Speaker A: The Omens. [00:39:55] Speaker B: Omens. So when they. When the. When Wanda and Al come back, Trimmer and Curse of Spawn and Bulletproof are all like, hell, yeah, we're gonna jump back into this. And then after the Omens jump towards Wanda, they're just, like, in the background, like, huh? What? Huh? [00:40:10] Speaker A: What's going on? [00:40:12] Speaker B: They give her a big old hug, and then. And then Wanda says, we need to. We need to go somewhere else. Let me open a portal for you. And Al Simmons pauses for a moment before he is just unceremoniously sucked through the portal. And then once he's. Once he's over on the other side of the portal, she says, you hesitated, my love. Why? Huh? Huh? Why? Why? Why would you do that? Huh? Why would you do that? And she says, this is war. We can't afford a hesitation. [00:40:42] Speaker A: I'll not let you do that to my children. [00:40:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And so the. The omens start attacking Al Simmons. He's just like, ah, trying to get him off of him. And then Wanda comes up to him and stabs him with her sword, Johnny. Just right into his chest. [00:40:57] Speaker A: And we get the round eyes. [00:40:58] Speaker B: Yeah. He's just like, whaaaat? What? We cut from there to the bowels of hell. And we got Nyx at the. Like, with the hand on her chin being like. And yeah, yeah, I think we can. I think this is fine. I think this Is good. We can go with this. It's perfect. [00:41:14] Speaker A: This is perfect. [00:41:15] Speaker B: And then in the background we see the two lackeys who built her giant beasts from all of the dead Heavenfolk bowing down. And then her, her advisor, the multi armed dude who just like showed up at the end of 350 and was like, hey, hey, I'm here. I come with the throne. So congratulations, I'm now yours. And this is where she starts to. She starts to explain what her plan was. Her plan was that she was gonna drain Al Simmons of all of his. All of his necroplasmic power to power this beast that she's created so that way it would have enough juice to get up and go start causing havoc on Heaven. But now that timeline's been altered since she's already had to use some of her power to get Al Simmons to come back to life. And so now she has to contend with all of the other beings that got power. And so she's like, ah, everything's harder than it needs to be. But then we do get this awesome two page spread of this beast just like 60, 70, 80ft tall, standing above everybody. And like, since it's the throne of hell isn't obviously in a castle. There's just like people standing up on the turrets, like looking at this beast and being like, yeah, cheering them on. Yeah, it's massive. It's very good, this Brett Booth art, Johnny. It's some good shit. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:42:51] Speaker B: And then from there we cut to the Pentagon and then we got some, some generals talking. They don't want it. They don't want to bring the President into this yet. And good call, sir. They're like, here's, here's every, every pink spot on this screen is where some is happening. We know that some bullshit is happening here. But making matters where worse, Jason Wynn and his agency are giving us intelligence that says exactly the opposite of what we are seeing here. That's making our jobs harder. [00:43:23] Speaker A: Combined with the recent confirmation of real life vampire activities. Yeah, they just got everything being thrown out. [00:43:29] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. And this is, this has all come out of that green flash that I thought, I thought nobody remembered. The green flash happened. Johnny, wasn't that in the text that nobody's going to remember in the second green flash? Yeah, the one where Al got all his powers. Where, where Albert got his groove back. [00:43:45] Speaker A: Okay. I mean, I don't remember to say that. [00:43:47] Speaker B: I thought, I thought it was. I thought, I thought they said that nobody would remember, I guess, except for the scientists, because they specifically Said that it would befuddle the scientists. [00:43:56] Speaker A: Yeah. So the scientists, remember, they told the government, naturally. [00:44:01] Speaker B: And this general has a very, very, very wicked scar. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Crazy scar going all the way down his face. Yeah. [00:44:07] Speaker B: He goes like, all the way from hairline to chin, like through an eyeball. [00:44:11] Speaker A: Yeah. God. [00:44:12] Speaker B: Yeah, he did. And then from there, we cut back to Albert Simmons with this Wanda sword sticking out of his chest. And then. And then Wanda slowly melts away, revealing just. It was Mandarin Spawn pull him a goof him. [00:44:28] Speaker A: The whole time. [00:44:29] Speaker B: The whole time. It's. He was doing. He was doing a symbiote pranks. And it's like, you see? You see? [00:44:35] Speaker A: And his boobs are gone. [00:44:37] Speaker B: Well, I mean, obviously Johnny, the. The grift is over. It must get rid of all. [00:44:43] Speaker A: He's kept the boobs. [00:44:44] Speaker B: They're nice. And then he's like, you see? You see what's wrong with you? You let emotions. We got. We got Johnny, much like with that gunslinger. It's the emotions. The emotions that are getting in your way. We're just emotional beings acting emotionally. And then Mandarin Spawn, like, after this little. This little monologue at. @ spawn, like, tries to remove his sword from Spawn's chest. He's like, hey, what. Hey, hey, hold on a second here. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Can't get it. Can't budge. Just like the mythical sword Excalibur buried deep into a stone. [00:45:17] Speaker B: You get your sword back when I say so. And then I like how. When. Now that. Now that Spawn has the upper hand, the omens are just like, hell, yeah. Hanging out with this guy. [00:45:27] Speaker A: Yeah. They'll easily jump sides, so. [00:45:31] Speaker B: They're so fickle. I love it. And then, like, Al Simmons starts, like, covering. [00:45:40] Speaker A: Shoot him necroplasm. [00:45:42] Speaker B: He's like, covering Mandarin Spawn with his symbiote. Guess maybe a little brainwashing is going on here. [00:45:49] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, choking him or choking him with it. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, I. I knew. I knew. You know, he's like, wanda. Wanda isn't coming back. He's like, I know. I. I knew you were playing me the whole time, motherfucker. I already said goodbye to Wanda. And then he's like, but. But now seriously. Seriously, though, I can. I can take your fucking weapon. Whatever I goddamn want to do. So just fucking chill a minute. This is. You're rash, and you. You think. You think you know what you need to know, even though you don't know what you need to know, and that's what's going to get us in trouble. Not emotions. And Then Al Simmons starts walking away and he's like, we'll. We'll join forces one day, but I'll never follow you. And the Mandarin's like, wait, hold on. Hold on a second. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait. And then, like pledges his life to Al Simmons. [00:46:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's completely bows to him. [00:46:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like, I have. I have shamed myself and several centuries of ancestors decaltows to him my cause. My cause is the same as yours. And then after this, after this, they. They portal back again to the rubble where. Where Trimmer and Curse of Spawn and Bulletproof are waiting. But now they're just like, there's like, chilling, chilling. They're just like, oh, they're back. Come on, stand up. We gotta stop sitting down, guys. And the manager's like, no, no, no, no, just stay sitting. Just stay sitting. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Don't worry, we're cool. We're cool. [00:47:13] Speaker B: And then basically Al's like, okay, you go do some shit and I'll go do some shit, and then we'll meet up later. And then I'll tell you to do some more shit. And I'm gonna take these little omens with me. And then he just walks away. He just walks away. I like this one. The little omens are just playing with the cape. And there's this one that's like wrapping around his head and he's like, silly, silly little omens. And then from there we cut to Jessica Priest in a commander center. She's, she's. She's telling somebody on the other end of the phone. You know, she's just looking at the patterns right now. Military people are fucking clueless as shit. She's like, there's absolutely no way this is a man made incident here. You guys just gather as many friends as you can. I'll call back at 10. And then she's like, redeemer, I need you to go find some friends. We got all this beer we gotta drink, and I need you to help us drink it. [00:48:16] Speaker A: Go get all my friends. I have to move. [00:48:18] Speaker B: And then from there we cut back to the Pentagon. Another control room. And the. The Pentagon has some, some fresh intelligence. They lost. They lost a lot of. They lost a lot of men getting this footage, Johnny. But there's a new. A new pink dot opening up on the screen like it's a thousand miles south of Hawaii. And we tried to send a ship over there to go see it, and then we lost contact with the ship. But they did give us this picture of a gigantic fucking whirlpool. And then we see this gigantic fucking whirlpool that's not only messing up battleships and whales, but is like sucking helicopters out of the sky, Johnny. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Yep. It's just decimating this section of the ocean. [00:49:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And then it pulls back, and it pulls back, and we see what's coming up from this whirlpool, Johnny. What's creating it, what's making it. And it's the final image of this. [00:49:13] Speaker A: It's the behemoth beast that Nick's made. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's just clawing his way out of the ocean at the moment. It's a complete mystery as to what we should be getting prepared for something real bad. Yeah, it's not gonna. It's not gonna be good, Joni. Not gonna be good at all. Then we get necroplasm meter 3613. I don't know if that would have been enough necroplasm to juice up this super bad guy, Johnny. [00:49:41] Speaker A: I don't know. Maybe. [00:49:42] Speaker B: Maybe. Then we get some spawning ground presents, some fan art. We get a super cool wraparound cover from one of those blank cover issues by Jake Harris. [00:49:53] Speaker A: It's got, like, starry, starry night vibes. [00:49:54] Speaker B: Yeah. It's Spawn on the front, and then on the back is a little clown and violator action. And it is. It does have the very starry, starry night sky. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Pretty cool. [00:50:06] Speaker A: We've also got some action figure photography, which is meatball head spawn screaming with, like, a really cool poseable cape. [00:50:12] Speaker B: Yeah. He's just, like, in an abandoned. In an abandoned room off the alley, just screaming, why? [00:50:20] Speaker A: Or Wanda. [00:50:20] Speaker B: Probably Wanda. Or no, you know, Darth Vader's favorite. [00:50:25] Speaker A: Darth Vader's favorite line. His most famous line. [00:50:27] Speaker B: Most famous line. Yeah. It's some excellent fan art. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Not as famous now as your performance thus far suggests. You are adopted. [00:50:37] Speaker B: That's classic. It rolls off the tongue, Johnny. Need more Spawns universe. Yeah, well, don't miss the ongoing titles. Johnny got here. The. We got here the Core 4 advertisement. [00:50:48] Speaker A: Yep. Got the Image classics ad, of course. [00:50:51] Speaker B: And the back cover toy ad is once again, the UFC toys. [00:50:57] Speaker A: Oh, boy. We love the UFC toys here. Let me tell you. Give me some more Shrek. [00:51:02] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely that one. Didn't that. Two issues only we've gotten with that one. [00:51:06] Speaker A: Come on, give us some more Shrek. Todd McFarlane. [00:51:09] Speaker B: That's Spawn363. Or Shrek. Shrek363. There should be a Shrek spawn sponge trick. [00:51:17] Speaker A: They did. McFarlane did the toys for sp. For Shrek, back when the movie came out. [00:51:22] Speaker B: Yeah, but did he put a symbiote on one? [00:51:25] Speaker A: He did not. [00:51:26] Speaker B: We should get out of my mouth balls. [00:51:29] Speaker A: Get out of my alley. [00:51:30] Speaker B: That would be great. That would be great. Well, well, Johnny, speaking of alleys, you know what? You know what? You know what you tend to find sometimes in alleys eating the. The worst, terriblest, grayest garbage you've ever seen. [00:51:45] Speaker A: Rats. [00:51:45] Speaker B: Rats and dogs that look like rats or. [00:51:49] Speaker A: Oh yeah, little rat. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Rat sized dogs. And you know, even if, even if they're a wild scamp eating garbage in the, in the alley, they're still. They're still good puppies. Johnny. We got. We can't, we can't. We can't rate them poorly just for being alley dogs. They're just trying to make do. I guess that's. That's a long way of saying it's. It's time to rate these puppies down there. [00:52:09] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up today we had Rat City number nine. A action packed thrill ride of a color explosion and gore and action. [00:52:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:25] Speaker A: And just so much momentum and thrills. It's just a really thrilling, thrilling, thrilling issue. [00:52:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:31] Speaker A: I love Rat City. Love the art, love the colors. It's just exciting story. I'm always ready to go right to the next one when I read it. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's a good one. [00:52:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm gonna give it five confessional booths. Out of five. [00:52:47] Speaker B: Hell yeah. You like those, you like those purple curtains, huh? [00:52:50] Speaker A: I like those purple papa curtains. [00:52:51] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Well, well, since, since. Since we know that appendance is now 10. Oh, sorrys. You're gonna get. You're gonna get. You're gonna have to do 10 oh, sorrys in this confessional journey. Yeah. Because he's a midwestern pope. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Pope. Pope. [00:53:12] Speaker B: Pope. It's an excellent issue, Johnny, as always. Zay. Carlos, art is fantastic. Erica Schultz is giving us all of the goods. Erica Schultz doesn't waste a goddamn pinstroke. It's incredible. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Yeah, she's so efficiency in storytelling and. [00:53:35] Speaker B: The story is just amazing. This is an absolutely killer team, Erica and Zay. And yeah, I'm just loving it. I am loving it so much. And I am also gonna give it five, Johnny. I'm gonna give it five tabernacles at the back of the chairman's office. We love it, love it, love it. [00:53:58] Speaker A: That means, John, that means it's entry into the hellfire. [00:54:01] Speaker B: Hell yeah, it is. It's the. The firest of hell. Fires brings us to spawn 363 channel. Gotta rate this puppy too. As far as Todd McFarlane stories goes. Actually it's pretty good. It's a pretty good one. It's got a lot of. A lot of words in here, but hey, it's going someplace. And that's. That's what we like to see, huh? [00:54:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it's good. It has the convoluted Todd McFarlane stuff. It like, just doesn't make sense sometimes where it's like, okay, so you needed Spawn alive to power this thing, so you brought him back to life, but then you didn't use him to power it. [00:54:39] Speaker B: Okay, like, what the fuck? But you know, but it has stuff going on. [00:54:43] Speaker A: It has a good sense of humor about it with the minions and like just bouncing back and forth between like, where bulletproof all them are and them just like lounging. Like, it's just. It's. It's fun. It's. I liked it. I think it was a lot better than the last few issues the Tom McFarlane has done. So maybe just needed some time to wind up a little bit. [00:55:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, Yeah. A Todd McFarlane issue that goes somewhere is usually pretty solid. And this one goes somewhere. It's pretty solid. And the art and the Brett Booth. [00:55:09] Speaker A: Art is just crazy. [00:55:10] Speaker B: It's insane. It's very good. It's so fucking detailed and just so much of it is so detailed and. [00:55:19] Speaker A: So much like energy just popping off of every panel. [00:55:23] Speaker B: He's having a good time drawing these omens too. [00:55:25] Speaker A: And we'll say somebody needs to get his spawn a sandwich. He's a little thin. [00:55:31] Speaker B: He's a skinny boy. [00:55:32] Speaker A: He's a skinny spawny. That's okay. I'm not body shaming him. I'm just saying maybe he needs a meatball sub. [00:55:39] Speaker B: Well, he needs the meatball sub that's pulled out of the bottom of a dumpster that has a whole bunch of earthworms in it so he can up that necroplasm meter too. [00:55:46] Speaker A: Oh, right, right, right. [00:55:48] Speaker B: He himself would be the alley dog eating questionable things. It's a good issue. It's a good issue. I know I've been down on the Toddfather issues a lot recently, but now this is. This has all of the fun ridiculousness that we did we come to spawn for. I. Yeah, I'm going to give it three and a half trimmer and bulletproof and Curse of the sky spawns. Just chilling out and seeing Spawn and. And Mandarin Spawn just like come and go and come and go. Come back. [00:56:25] Speaker A: There's like, okay, what's going on here? [00:56:27] Speaker B: What? What? Okay, yeah, we're chopped liver. Okay, that's fine. [00:56:31] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it four minions. [00:56:34] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:56:34] Speaker A: Four Goonies. Four omens. I love them. [00:56:37] Speaker B: They're so. They're so funny. [00:56:39] Speaker A: They're so fickle. [00:56:41] Speaker B: They're like, yeah, no, I like this guy. [00:56:42] Speaker A: I like this guy. He's the most powerful one right now. [00:56:45] Speaker B: I like this guy, though. I'm back to this guy. Ridiculous. It's so fun. [00:56:52] Speaker A: It's fun. I'm excited to see where it's going. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:55] Speaker A: See if things come to a head here. [00:56:56] Speaker B: I'm this gigantic monster made out of a whole bunch of dead. Dead angels and shit is so cool. [00:57:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:06] Speaker B: I'm real excited to see where it goes. [00:57:09] Speaker A: Sweet. [00:57:10] Speaker B: That's those puppies ratings, Johnny. And you know what else I'm excited to see about People's goings? [00:57:17] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. I don't understand the question. [00:57:19] Speaker B: I'm excited to see. [00:57:20] Speaker A: What are you excited to see about? People's goings? [00:57:22] Speaker B: I'm excited to see people going to Instagram and making friends with some of our friends there. [00:57:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm always excited about that. We love to bring the greater Spawn immunity together. [00:57:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's fun. We're. We're all. We're all joined by a single cause. Could we call it a cause? A single. A single. A single love. A single enjoyment. [00:57:41] Speaker A: Yes. [00:57:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And this week. This week we got. We got somebody who's. It's a very fresh. It's a very fresh Spawn Munity individual here. At least posts wise. I don't know about their history with Spawn, but they've only recently started posting, and they have a very good overlap with many of our other Spawn Munity friends. So I should probably make sure that more of our Spawn Munity friends get out there. And it is Ink, root curations. Yes, they say. Collectibles and culinary arts. [00:58:17] Speaker A: So they've got Witchblade. [00:58:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:58:21] Speaker A: Spawn Dog. They got a copy of Dog Spawn. [00:58:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. They got that new released trade paperback of Spawn God Slayer. Oh, hey. They put out a trade paperback of the original Violator miniseries. Hell yeah. [00:58:33] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:58:33] Speaker B: Oh, it's got exclusive bonus content. Shit. [00:58:36] Speaker A: What the hell? What are we doing at the letters, though? I bet. [00:58:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, that looks awesome. Yeah, they got that dog Spawn. They got some Invader Zim. Hell yeah. [00:58:45] Speaker A: Yeah. So get it on the ground floor and give them a follow. [00:58:47] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Do it. Do It. Do it, do it. Speaking of. Speaking of doing a follow, you gotta follow. You gotta follow Lonnie Bones wherever he's making his music. Just gotta Google Lonnie Bones music and I'll take you right there. But get it on the ground floor on a Lonnie Bones too. [00:59:02] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:59:03] Speaker B: Sure did. [00:59:04] Speaker A: We did. We invested early and often. [00:59:06] Speaker B: It's awesome. We need to. We need to come up with some ideas just. Just to have a reason to have him write some more music for us. [00:59:13] Speaker A: We do. [00:59:13] Speaker B: We do. But yeah. Lonnie Bones. Lonnie with a Y. [00:59:17] Speaker A: While you following our friends and music makers on the Internet, make sure to give us a follow. We are regarding Spawn Pod on Instagram. And if you want to reach out, you can reach out to us at. Regarding SpawnPod gmail.com. every week I like to ask a question to spur fan thoughts. And this week I would ask, what do you think of Brett Booth Spawn? Is he too skinny? Does he need a meatball and Earth room sandwich or what? Or is he looking good? He's just trim. Maybe I'm just jealous, David. [00:59:49] Speaker B: Hey, you know, that could. That could. That. That could factor into it. But then again, you know, you know, there's a. There's a body positivity to Spawn that we don't think about a lot because everybody is a different shape. Like, even though. Even though this Brett Booth Spawn is awfully skinny, he's nowhere near as waifishly thin as Javi. But then as soon as Carlo Barberry gets on Javi, he bulks that boy up nice. [01:00:16] Speaker A: Yes. [01:00:16] Speaker B: Then I mean, like fucking Monolith. Monolith is just a beast. Fucking Redeemers. [01:00:22] Speaker A: Redeemers. [01:00:23] Speaker B: Redeemer is that guy who. Who's way more ripped than you realize just because he always wears clothes that hides it. Hides it really well. [01:00:32] Speaker A: Neighbors, like baggy shirts. [01:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah. We got Mark. Mark's just. Mark's the everybody man. Mark looks like a normal person. Oh, yeah. We got Terry. Jessica Priest is kicking ass. Hell yeah. We got Twitch. Twitch is also like a. Like a. Just like a middle aged dude with a little, you know, he's. I like it. I like it when he gets a little pop belly. We got the Balboa show with the little belly. Oh, yeah. [01:01:01] Speaker A: All different body types. [01:01:03] Speaker B: If. Yeah. Image. They're image icons, Johnny. And I don't mean that in a punny way. [01:01:10] Speaker A: I agree. Yeah. Let me know. What do you think? Yeah, let me. What do you think about Spawn's body? [01:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Or if you're perhaps an Ink Root curations. Person who is into comics and culinary arts, what kind of sandwich would you make, Spawn, to help bulk him up a little bit? [01:01:30] Speaker A: Buffalo chicken. [01:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Give us. Give us a recipe for a buffalo chicken and meatball and earthworm sandwich. We might. We might do a taste test if you. I know where to find a lot of earthworms, Johnny. [01:01:43] Speaker A: I don't want it. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Did you never. Did you. Did you ever eat bugs or worms as a child? [01:01:50] Speaker A: No. Did you? [01:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah. You fucking kidding me? [01:01:55] Speaker A: Of course you did. [01:01:56] Speaker B: Of course I did. Yeah. The worst part about earthworms is they got a lot of dirt and stuff inside of them, so they're. They're real gritty. [01:02:03] Speaker A: Oh, gross. Oh, my God. You almost made me puke, dude. My stomach just merged. [01:02:09] Speaker B: Sorry, sorry. [01:02:11] Speaker A: Oh, it's so gross. [01:02:13] Speaker B: It is. [01:02:13] Speaker A: You chewed them. [01:02:15] Speaker B: What? What? What, am I supposed to just slurp them up like spaghetti? [01:02:19] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. That hurts my stomach. [01:02:25] Speaker B: I'm not. I'm not going to talk about it anymore because I could go. I could go into detail for you, but I have a feeling. I feel like that would not be good for you. [01:02:34] Speaker A: No, I don't think it'd be good. Might be good content if I puke on Mike. [01:02:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's worth a thousand listens. [01:02:43] Speaker A: Johnny pukes this episode. I can see the Instagram post now. [01:02:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I mean, speaking of Instagram posts, Johnny, we like to post about our new episodes every week. Week. [01:02:56] Speaker A: Don't we do. [01:02:57] Speaker B: So that means. [01:02:57] Speaker A: I remember. [01:02:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that means the next time that we do a post, we need to make sure that we have an episode to post about it. [01:03:05] Speaker A: Yes. We're doing something very special. We're finally getting around to it. We're going to start it. We're doing Violator Number One. [01:03:10] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:03:11] Speaker A: The new miniseries. [01:03:12] Speaker B: Hell yeah. It's so fucking good. I'm so excited. [01:03:15] Speaker A: Yeah, we're just doing that. It's an extra thick issue, so it's an extra big episode for it. Yeah, just the one issue. [01:03:21] Speaker B: We've been. We've been. We've been. We've been dragging our heels and we just need to jump into it because the miniseries is now over. So we should got a HUP2. HUP2, Johnny. [01:03:31] Speaker A: Yep. HUP2, HUP2 and get it going. So, yeah, we'll be reading that. [01:03:34] Speaker B: It's very good. So find yourself a copy of Violator Number One and come back in a week and make sure you hear us talk about it. I got a lot of things to say about it. And very few of them bad. None of them bad. Maybe I remember really liking none of them bad. I really like this fucking miniseries, Johnny. I don't know if you like it anywhere near as much as I do. [01:03:57] Speaker A: I haven't read it. [01:03:57] Speaker B: Oh, well, shit. You need to get on that because it's fucking great. [01:04:01] Speaker A: We have to. I've read the first one. That's it. [01:04:03] Speaker B: Okay. But yeah, yeah, no, like the. The first one is good. And I'm gonna say. I'm gonna call it right now. The first one is the weakest issue of all six. Wow. And it is a phenomenal issue. [01:04:15] Speaker A: Damn, that's cool. [01:04:16] Speaker B: It does have a lot in it though. So we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to block off like three hours to talk about. About it. [01:04:23] Speaker A: All right. [01:04:24] Speaker B: It's a beefy ass book, but yeah. Violator number one. I guess we should say violator 2024. Number one. [01:04:31] Speaker A: Number one. Correct. Correct. Correct. [01:04:34] Speaker B: If you accidentally. If you accidentally read the old 90s Violator series. Well, hey, we. We are. We already have an episode of that for you. So we covered it with. With our good friend editor in chief Thomas Healy. [01:04:51] Speaker A: That's right. I forgot Thomas Healey was on that episode. That's great. [01:04:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we had a hell of a good time talking about that one. [01:04:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back and check it out. For sure. [01:05:00] Speaker B: Absolutely. It is episode 76. [01:05:03] Speaker A: David correctly guessed who's going to be on the throne of hell. [01:05:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And he couldn't say a goddamn thing about whether I was right or not. [01:05:10] Speaker A: Nope. He just sat there. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Oh, man. I really do still wish that you were right though. That it was just Sam being a. Being a fat man who needs to take a load off. Just being like, I'm just gonna sit in this fucking chair. [01:05:25] Speaker A: Because I'm gonna sit in this chair here. [01:05:28] Speaker B: That would have been amazing. [01:05:30] Speaker A: Oh, no. You're the king of hell. Oh, no. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Oh, man, that would be fun. That'd be fun. We need some. Some Spawn Elseworld stories with some goofy, goofy stuff like that. Yeah, well, you know what? Isn't Goofy Johnny telling your friends, your family, your co workers, your loved ones, your. Your not so loved ones, random people you see on the street that they should. Frenemies that they should listen to, like and follow and subscribe to regarding Spawn, the podcast. [01:06:04] Speaker A: Absolutely, Absolutely. [01:06:06] Speaker B: Give us a rating. Ratings help. It's real good review us. [01:06:10] Speaker A: Subscribe to. [01:06:11] Speaker B: Us do it. Listen all the things to it. A lot. We like doing it. [01:06:17] Speaker A: Listen to nothing else. [01:06:20] Speaker B: You must forsake all others. No, that's a. I felt gross saying that. I mean, we don't even have to be the only Spawn podcast you listen to. We just like talking about Spawn at you. [01:06:29] Speaker A: So, yeah, we hope you're not. [01:06:30] Speaker B: Hope you're listening to Spotography is fun. They. They. They come at it from a different angle than we do, and it's. Listening to both of the shows in tandem is probably the closest thing you can get to a Spawn audiobook. So, yeah, if you. If you just aren't. [01:06:47] Speaker A: And they got the old stuff, we're doing the modern. I guess. I think we're just a modern Spawn podcast now, David. [01:06:52] Speaker B: I don't. [01:06:53] Speaker A: I don't ever get back to the old stuff. [01:06:54] Speaker B: I'd like to, but I don't know if Thomas Healy and Todd McFarlane are ever going to give us the ability to. They're gonna come out with 14 new books every go. [01:07:05] Speaker A: I know. [01:07:05] Speaker B: That's fine. Keep it going. [01:07:07] Speaker A: We love being here with Spawn. [01:07:08] Speaker B: Yes, we do. It is a. [01:07:09] Speaker A: Maybe we should change our tagline to the world's best modern spot podcast. [01:07:14] Speaker B: Or the. No, I'm trying to think of. We can't say the world's newest Spawn podcast, because that. [01:07:20] Speaker A: No, that's a lot. [01:07:21] Speaker B: That implies that we're brand new. Yeah, maybe I'll leave. I'll leave that to you, since I. [01:07:28] Speaker A: Just feel like people think it's, like, a mean thing to say now. There's two small podcasts, and that's not the point. The point was we were the only ones in town, and it was a joke because we were bad. [01:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, we're. We're better now, so it might actually. It might actually be, like, empirically true now. But I don't know. I don't know if we're the right judges. [01:07:48] Speaker A: Yeah, probably not. [01:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah, probably not. Why don't you tell us? By rating us and letting us know if we actually are the world's best spah cats. Do it. What's it. What's it gonna hurt you? I mean, if you really. If you really don't like it, maybe it'll make you feel real good for leaving us a bad review. I mean, if you need that, well, we're here for you. Whatever you need. [01:08:09] Speaker A: Regarding Spawn, Ask AI was a good Spawn podcast, and it listed both us and Spawnography. [01:08:14] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:08:15] Speaker A: So AI knows what it's talking about. [01:08:19] Speaker B: Even though it doesn't know what movies were made in 2024. [01:08:22] Speaker A: Right. [01:08:25] Speaker B: I have yet to see an AI summary on Google that isn't just exactly wrong. [01:08:31] Speaker A: No, they're terrible. [01:08:32] Speaker B: I don't understand. You get. You got the fucking Google right there. I. What is. What's wrong with you? [01:08:38] Speaker A: I know it's terrible. [01:08:39] Speaker B: It's real fucking dumb. But you know, it's not terrible. Johnny Spawn. But you know what is actually the worst, most terrible thing? [01:08:47] Speaker A: Saying goodbye. [01:08:48] Speaker B: I fucking run out of goddamn shit to say. That's why I'm using such fucking foul languages. I can't think of another. [01:08:54] Speaker A: Jesus fucking Christ. [01:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm so. I'm so upset that I ain't got nothing to say, but may the scorch be with you. [01:09:01] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:09:02] Speaker B: Hell yeah. That makes me feel much better. [01:09:04] Speaker A: Hell yeah. Good. I'm glad you feel better. [01:09:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Man. Man, this Rat City is so fucking good. [01:09:10] Speaker A: I know. I'm sad we went away for so long. I'm glad we're back. We'll definitely get Erica back soon. Yeah, we just had to get back to it. Love it. [01:09:17] Speaker B: Now we get. [01:09:18] Speaker A: It feels electric. [01:09:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Because. Because I, I, I, I got sidetracked like halfway through the. The. That, that third. That third salmon twitch mystery. Second. Second. That second salmon twitch mystery that I'll have to start all over again because I don't know where it is. [01:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:40] Speaker B: But it'll be. It'll be good to see all of our friends on a regular rotation again. Our future friends, our current friends, our fantastical friends, our street level friends. [01:09:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I just hope in my move I don't misplace anything. I haven't. We haven't covered yet. Because that'll be a fucking bag. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Well, be sure that you keep all of those in your go bag. [01:10:00] Speaker A: I do. I have all the ones that, like, we haven't covered. [01:10:02] Speaker B: So that way. That way, if for some reason, while everything is packed, your apartment catches on fire, you can grab that and at least know that you'll be able to record some. Regarding Spawn. [01:10:13] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:10:14] Speaker B: That's the most important thing, Johnny. [01:10:15] Speaker A: It's what you need. [01:10:16] Speaker B: I mean, it's what I need. I think. I think it's. It's important enough to me that I don't. I don't really care if nobody else cares. This is important to me. Hanging out with my buddy Johnny talking Spawn. It doesn't even matter if we're talking about Spawn half the time. We aren't. [01:10:32] Speaker A: Yeah. But the spawn keeps us on track and gives us the structure. [01:10:36] Speaker B: As much as we can be said to be on track at any given time. Choo Choo. [01:11:04] Speaker A: Sam.