Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: I'm going to embrace it. I have to. I am the deviant and the deviant is me.
Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host John Fisher.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: And I'm your co host David Williams. And Johnny, it's. It's nice to talk some Spawn, don't you know?
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Yeah, a little.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: A little Spawn since now and then as Jim, cherished by the wisest men.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Wow, you just come up with that?
[00:01:02] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Like I come up came up with it by stealing it from Willy Wonka.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: Like most good things.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Because I was thinking to myself, you know, self, candy is sweet, but you know what else is sweet?
Fucking Spawn.
Yeah, Spawn's pretty sweet.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Yo. Willy Wonka on the brain.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: No, it kind of wanders in and out from time to time because it was one of those movies that was just like on constant repeat.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: Oh yeah. So it was one they showed at school like on like recess days, like or on inside days and stuff a lot.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: One of the, the day camps I went to during summer, they played a movie every day and they only had like seven movies.
There was Milan, Goofy Movie, Willy Wonka fucking. One of the. One of the old live action Disney's, but it wasn't Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Peach Dragon, Pete's Dragon.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Oh, Pete's Dragon.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: And then I think that, I think that was the main number of movies they had.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: And then all like, all the older kids during the day were like, we want to watch Saved by the Bell. And I fucking hate Saved by the Bell. Boo.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: Boo.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Boo. I don't like Saved by the Bell. Probably because of day camp.
The older kids wanted to watch Saved by the Bell.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: Probably.
Yeah. Willy Wonka, they showed at school a lot. I remember always wanted to blow my head off when they got to. Cheer up Charlie.
The song's interminable.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: Oh, it lasts for like a week too.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: It's so long. Oh, oh, cheer up already, Charlie.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: It is, it is quite nice that it like jump cuts to like just a straight shot of candy.
Like don't forget this isn't a sad movie. This is about some fucking sweet treats, guys.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I never, I watch Goofy movie a bunch. I've never, I've never fully seen Mulan. I don't think it's good.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, it sounds like you need to get down to business to watch Mulan.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: It's fun.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: It's fun. It's a good one.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's see how culture Appropriate that movie is in these years, David. Yeah, let's see.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm sure there's no problems. Zero, none. Nothing. Nothing wrong with a. With a middle aged Mormon man singing like he's a member of the Chinese army.
[00:03:24] Speaker A: What's so weird is BD Wong did the voice of that character and he can sing. He's like on Broadway and stuff. Why didn't they just have him do it?
[00:03:31] Speaker B: Because it was the 90s and you had to the fucking. The Osmonds were. Osmonds were gold, Johnny.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: It's true. You ever see the Donny Osmond, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?
[00:03:42] Speaker B: I didn't. But I do know that he is very happy that he got to start as Joseph and now is King Herod.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: He loves that. Yeah, that's King here.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Well then he's basically got to play. He's gotten to play so much of the show as just himself, but he gets to be both the good guy and the bad guy now because he's. He's lived long enough to become the bad guy.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: That's what happens. You live long enough, you see yourself become the villain.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Yeah, true, true, true. Although it must be said, Donny Osmond is currently touring and like does let's get down to biz or Make a man out of you, Whatever the name of the song is, man can still do it. Man could still do it.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure he was good as Joseph.
I look handsome, I look smart. I am a walking work of art.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: True facts, dude.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: There's one lyric in there that cracks me and Bran up. It's such a dazzling. Cody Took the biscuit.
Quite the smoothest person in the district.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Do biscuit and district really rhyme though?
[00:04:51] Speaker A: Angela Weber and Tim Rice say they do.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: We. They made it work. They made it work.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: They did. Biscuit district. I mean, kinda wandy in a British accent. They kind of rhyme.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: Oh yeah, I guess that's true.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: I was saying took the biscuit. That's like the most British thing I've ever heard.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Took the biscuit. Sounds like something that sounds like something dirty.
Sounds like something that they have to. They have to. They have to bleep out on all the social medias.
Sounds like a sex deck, Donnie.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: No, it doesn't.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Biscuit. Well, when you think about things as a dirty old man, which evidently you.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Do, you're always thinking things sound like sex acts and.
What's going on, David?
[00:05:30] Speaker B: What's going on? Well, Johnny, I have a rich imagination, I guess.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Just like Willy Wonka Just like Willy Wonka. Pure imagination.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Only I don't lure children into my factory and slowly kill them in, like the most Rube Goldbergian ways.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Yeah, hopefully not.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: I can. I can. I can honestly say, Johnny, I have never killed a single child.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: Okay.
Well, I'm glad for you.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: What about you, Johnny?
[00:06:02] Speaker A: I'm not even gonna say it.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: It's one of those things that needs to go without saying. Except for the world we live in.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: Johnny, we're gonna get delisted. You gotta say unalived. A child like some idiot on Tick Tock.
[00:06:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, I guess that. That's stupid. The word is death. The word is death. We've abstracted death from life sentence so much as it is already that it has skewed our ability to think about what's important or anything. So this is. This is a longer conversation. We should get off this topic or I will talk about it for days.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: I mean, what else deals with life and death but spawns universe?
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the. It's the. Well, it is also the life after death and the death within both. Yes.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a lot of people who.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Have died and are back and occasionally a petite morte.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: Occasionally. Yeah. Not very often.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Occasionally. A. A very. A very like shoehorned in there. Whoa. Where the hell this come from?
[00:07:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: Todd McFarland. Not a. Not a romance writer. Not a. Not a romance writer. That's.
Which.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: Not. Not usually.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: I'm. I'm For. I'm not as. As has been discussed before, not a romantic, but that doesn't mean that in the writer sense. Yeah, in the writer sense. In the. In the. In the popular genre sense. Not in the period of time before the Industrial revolution, including writers like Wadsworth and Longfellow and fucking Thoreau.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Did I ever. Did I ever tell you my idea for a musical, Johnny?
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Maybe.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: Okay. Okay, I'm gonna tell you again, and then you're gonna tell me if I told you before.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: I mean, I don't remember now. I don't think so.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Okay, so. So it's. You take a girl from the city who grew up on the mean streets of New York City, right? And you throw her in the middle of the wilderness.
Thoroughly Modern Millie.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: The what?
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Thoroughly Modern Millie.
It's the reverse of Thoroughly Modern Millie via the. The life. The life trajectory of Henry David Thoreau, who wants to go live in the middle of fucking nowhere.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
Wow. That's a very interesting joke.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Is that. Is that. Is that.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: I mean, I didn't know that Thoreau went to go live in the wilderness, so.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: Oh, you never. Never heard of On Walden Pond?
[00:08:28] Speaker A: I've heard of it.
[00:08:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah? Well, the. I mean, I've never read it.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: I've heard of it. I didn't know that's what it was.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: Or that he moved to the middle of nowhere in upstate New York to Walden Pond, to. To remove himself from everything and create.
[00:08:43] Speaker A: That sounds nice.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if I did that, I would just be like, oh, I'm bored. I can't create anything. And then we'll just lay around all day.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: I don't know. If I was in the middle of the wilderness, I'd probably.
I don't know. It might be a little scary. Do you have a house?
[00:08:57] Speaker B: Yeah, he had a cabin.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: Okay, well, that's fine.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: But the problem is I can't create without a deadline. So, like, given, like, carte blanche and no responsibilities, I would just be like, oh, I don't have to do anything, and I can't do anything.
I should probably.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta have a deadline, I think.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: That's always helpful for me when I'm writing plays and stuff. Just to have, like, a festival or, like, you know, a reading set up so that, you know, you have to have it done by that day.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's. You don't. You don't have to wait until the very last minute to do the deadline, but you have to know the deadline's there. So it's something like, ah, I gotta get this done.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: Sitting at the typewriter, just angrily pecking the.
Because you still write with the typewriter, right?
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I'm friends with Tom Hanks, and he wants me borrowed typewriters.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: You've got one of those portable typewriters, and you're just setting up in the coffee shop in the corner, dinging and clicking and clacking and dinging and ordering the cheapest coffee and staying there for six hours.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: We've talked about it before, but that.
I can't remember what it's called.
That, like, kind of modern typewriter that Thomas Healy has.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Yeah. That just has, like, a.
Like a black and white display that just shows, like, one line of text.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: Pretty cool.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: That would be pretty cool.
That would be pretty cool.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: You'd look pretty cool in a coffee shop using it.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Absolutely would. Man. If I applied myself, I think I could look pretty cool in a coffee shop on a regular basis.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: The problem is I'd have to shut up.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta be quiet. People are reading. I'M not.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: I'm not very good at being quiet.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: It.
People are working.
It's so weird. I went. I was in a coffee shop one time. People were, like, doing, you know, work from home work, but they were, like, having conference calls and stuff.
I was like, what the fuck?
[00:10:46] Speaker B: How many. How many of those people?
For. For a while there, like, you would call customer service, and you could tell it was just like, people in coffee shops or like a cubicle room full of people. And it's just like, so much noise in the background you can't hear what's going on.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Just like the low murmur.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
Sucks.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. If you're gonna have a conference, just go to the conference. Don't. Don't try to be trendy. Conferences aren't trendy.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: No one wants to hear you talk on your. To your team on the phone while we're fucking trying to read a book at a coffee shop.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm trying to lose my hearing because I'm sitting next to the screaming steam machine that is the espresso maker.
Very nice. Very exciting coffee.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: They're not that loud.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: I mean, I perceive them as loud because I have an inability to focus on stuff when there's sufficient background noise. So as soon as it starts making any noise, that's literally all I can hear. And then I gotta get up to the barista like this to be like, what did you say?
[00:11:47] Speaker A: What's that?
[00:11:48] Speaker B: I can hear you.
Another reason that I can't be cool in a coffee shop without applying myself, myself.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: I've heard a lot of spawn in coffee shops.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: That's a good one. That's a good one. The thing about reading in coffee shops, it's got to be the right kind of book. It's got to be something that you can bounce in and out of very easily and not be like, I got to go back a page. That's. That's my problem, is I'm bad at choosing public reading material.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: I don't go back pages and I don't reread. David, I'm serious. A book's that long. You can miss a page and be fine.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Oh, man.
That's true. Obviously, we live. We read. We read different books. I have read so many different books that I have been like, I'm not going to reread that page. And the rest of the book didn't make sense.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I read some nonsense, Johnny.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Sounds like it.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Although one of my favorite books of the past few Years is called Ducks Newburyport, and it's about a woman who bakes pies in her home and sells them to local restaurants. And the whole book is her inner monologue while she's making pies.
And it bounces around, and it doesn't have a cohesive thread. It has, like, code words that anchor you to whether this is nonsense or this is actually a real thought. This book is 1200 pages long, Johnny. Wow.
It's wonderful.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: What's it called again?
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Ducks Newburyport.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Why is it called that?
[00:13:20] Speaker B: Because that's a phrase she says in the middle of it somewhere, but her name is Lucy Elman.
Ducks Newburyport.
It's. It's fantastic. It's fantastic. It's one of those books that, like, the first ten pages or so teaches you how to read it. So you have to basically read that twice.
But then after that, it's just.
You could just. You could just go. It's. It's.
It's a book that happens to you.
And I like that. I like.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: I guess it's not always true. I guess I. I just reread the first, like, 12 to 15 pages. When I read the Color Purple, I read the first 15 pages and I was like, what's going on? So, yeah, I was like, I started over.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially things written in dialect like your. Yours.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Right. I had to get used.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Zora Neale Hurston's your.
Some.
Some. Oh, what's her name?
Bluest Eye, 1693.
[00:14:26] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: I know why. The Caged Bird sings. Toni Morrison.
Your Toni Morrisons, occasionally. You gotta. You gotta get used to it.
Your Shakespeare's.
You gotta get used to reading a Shakespeare.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: That's. That's the beauty. That's the beauty of the written. Written word, Johnny.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: It can be many things.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: It can be. It can be literally whatever the. You want it to be.
[00:14:48] Speaker A: Scary.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Vast.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: That's why. That's. That's why the blank page is so scary. Because it can be anything. But what is it gonna be?
[00:14:58] Speaker A: You gotta. All it starts. All you need is an idea, David.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's. But it's. It's this. It's like the same thing is. It's. You aren't afraid of the dark. You're afraid of what's in the dark. And it's. Right. You aren't. You aren't scared of the blank page. You're scared of what's missing from the blank page.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: It's true.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Like, what if I forget?
[00:15:16] Speaker A: What if I. What if I have an idea, and I forget it. Yeah, you don't get it out fast enough. Sometimes that happens.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: Sometimes. Sometimes it's like instant. Like, you'll have a thought. You'll be like, holy shit, that was amazing. Wait, what was that thought?
That happens to me on the regular.
Well. And the problem with me is when I try to write down a note to remember a thought.
I don't know if you've ever seen my handwriting.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: I don't think so.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: It's because I try to keep up with my mind when I. When I make a note. So largely, I just put, like, the first couple of letters of the word and then just like a line like, I'm like, I'll know what that means. I'll know what that means.
And then I'm like, what's this?
Huh?
[00:16:02] Speaker A: Huh, huh?
[00:16:04] Speaker B: So it might as well just be a last thought.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: I think I have bad handwriting, but yours sounds worse.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: There's absolutely no way your handwriting is worse than mine.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: Okay, Good to know.
That's one thing I got on you, David.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's. There's. That's one of many things you have on me.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: You got things on me.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: What do I. What, like what? Dogs?
[00:16:26] Speaker A: You're. You're a homeowner.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Oh. I mean, is that really.
Is that really something to lord over? Because that just means I got to do more work. I gotta. If something breaks, I gotta fix it instead of having somebody else do it.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Say fix it for me, landlord.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: I know. I know some people who won't even change their own light bulbs in a renting situation.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: That's a little excessive.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: A little excessive.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: A little excessive.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: That's a lot excessive.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: I had to order specialty light bulbs my last apartment. I left them behind for the next person. There's this weird light fixture that required these really special light bulbs.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: That's. That's so weird.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: I mean, they were expensive, but I was like. I bought like a, you know, 10 pack on Amazon, man. You know? And it was just.
I was like, well, I'm not taking these.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Obviously, Amazon would have been wonderful in the mid-90s.
Because I can tell. I can't tell you how many times we went on a visit to visit my grandmother. And all of these grandmother visits were.
We had to do stuff around the house because she refused to pay for strangers to come into her house to do stuff.
And I can't tell you how many days we spent going all over Oklahoma City looking for one specific kind of fixture or, like, plug or light Bulb or something and it just like not existing well sucked. Amazon would have been great for rean.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah, Amazon, just great all around.
[00:17:58] Speaker B: Best company, no problems.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: Number one, treat their employees right.
Yeah.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Oh boy. Are you excited for all of the. Everything produced by Amazon Video Studios now going to have Jeff Bezos, his new wife in him.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I know she wants. He wants her in James Bond. It's like, what the hell?
That's so funny.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: So dumb.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: So dumb. You hear about their like truly evidently awful War of the Worlds that came out.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: No, I didn't even know. Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is the one with ice Cube in it, right?
[00:18:31] Speaker A: It was made during COVID so it all takes place over zoom.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Okay.
I didn't, I didn't know it actually came out.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: But I, I heard that there was basically like a section that was basically like nobody had seen the. The script before and it was just like an advertisement for a specific application.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Oh really?
Yeah. It all takes place over zoom because it was filming the pandemic and it's so bad they shelved it. But they just quietly released it on Amazon the other day. It got a. It has a big old whopping 0% on rotten tomatoes. A goose egg.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: That's pretty. That's. That's pretty difficult to get.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: It is.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: Cuz. Cuz there's somebody out there that likes anything. There's at least one person that likes everything that's produced.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Right.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: It's very hard to get that. Zero. Damn.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: I mean, I'm sure there's someone that likes that War of the World somewhere.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: I mean either that or that's like the one thing that they have. I mean there's no longer any. Just you watch this movie because it's the movie you have in the.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: No, there's so many, so many choices.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: Kids would really like something to watch it again, I guess.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: Yeah, there's no. I heard the.
There was a fun concept I heard of as like the cousin movie or the cousin video game growing up because.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Oh yeah, of course.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: It's just like this. The off brand things that just like random people had. That's a. That's a bit of our culture that's not gonna exist anymore. Johnny. Cousin movie.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: We didn't plan it, but my cousin had Sega Genesis and we had Super Nintendo. So it was always interesting to go over their house, be able to play Sega.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's real fun, man.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: Or maybe they did plan it. Maybe my mom and her sister got together like you get a Sega. We'll get them a Super Nintendo.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: Yeah, well, then they could. They would always know what to get for. For birthdays and Christmases, of course. Although your. Your mom and your aunt totally just called them both Nintendo's.
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: They didn't know.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: We asked for what we wanted. We wanted. We were a Nintendo family.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: I mean, I can't make fun of them for that because how many things that are popular with children nowadays? Am I just like. Yeah, that's a.
I don't know what this is. I was gonna make a joke about they're all Pokemon, but. No, I. I know Pokemon, so that's not a good one.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: You know, Pokemon people are crazy over Pokemon.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: Pokemon is awesome.
I know very few of the new ones, but Pokemon is great.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: They're cool.
[00:20:57] Speaker B: They're cool.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Yet there's just. Yeah, I don't know. God damn it. We gotta get to these issues.
[00:21:02] Speaker B: We've become a Pokemon podcast episode.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: We've become some kind of podcast something.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: Well, then what. What are we, Johnny, if we aren't a Pokemon?
[00:21:13] Speaker A: We are regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't.
This week is no different. We have two issues from Swans universe. We have Rat City number 12.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: And all the way back from the far off land of March 2025.
And we have Sam and Twitch, number 12, also from the far off land of March 2025.
[00:21:41] Speaker B: As hard as it is to understand a better time.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Somehow, somehow March is a good month.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: Yeah, March was a very good month. Oh, wait, no, no, no. April was also a very good month.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Was it?
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Yeah, they were a good couple of months.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: I want a trip in March. I went to Oklahoma. That was always. That's always fun.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: Very nice. Was it already like 87 degrees in March?
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. It was 101.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: Jesus.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: No, it wasn't cold, though.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: That's true. Oh, whoa.
Hold on. Somebody's crying bloody murder. Oh, puppy just got too close to him.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: These old dogs, dude, they got a. They're set in their ways. They get really grumpy when the little youngins come by.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. We're a little bit behind on Rat City and Sam Twitch. We're catching up.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: That just means good days for us, because a Rhett City Salmon Twitch reading session is always very good.
Yeah, this one's no different.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: No different. Nothing's different.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: Nothing. Everything's different.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: There's a double. No different.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: We like to cover these covers when we start, Johnny, because the COVID is the first thing you see, isn't it?
[00:22:55] Speaker A: Absolutely. It's the thing that draws your eye to it, the thing you fall in love with.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: And I have the. A cover.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:23:03] Speaker A: The Key Bar by Kebar. A French. A French gentleman.
I know that because he was at Spawn Con.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Excellent, Excellent. Did he have any concepts for posters or covers for sale while he was there?
[00:23:20] Speaker A: Oh, he had a whole bunch of stuff there. I didn't approach the artist as much. I wasn't trying to spend a ton of money. And I always feel bad if I, like, went over their booth and talked to him and didn't buy something.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah, true.
[00:23:32] Speaker A: I did from a few, but I just didn't, you know.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I get it. I get it.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: It's also one of my first cons. I was by myself.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: Yeah. It's also a little weird to just, like, walk by but not stop and just be like.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. It's just. It's a. It's a weird. I don't know.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: It's. It's a weird. It's a weird dynamic, the convention. But, you know, hey, Fan expo this weekend is happening here in Chicago, so. Yeah, you could go if you wanted to. I'm not going.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: Is it in the burbs?
[00:24:04] Speaker B: It's a. It's in Rosemont.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I've been to that. I went to.
I think I went to that one. I went to one with my brother.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: It used to be called Wizard World, so.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: Yes, I went to Wizard World.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: Yeah. It's at the Stevenson, though. And I. Oh, I always feel so gross when I leave the Stevenson. It's just why it feels. It feels.
I don't know. It just feels dirty.
It's just. It's just an older convention center, and it's. You know, it's hard to keep things clean.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Or maybe it's because those were the conventions that Wanda had, like, the most. The most intensive cosplay for. So I was just sweaty and carrying.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: The bags that could be carrying the cosplay bags.
I was out there. When I was out there for that ghost concert in Rosemont, there was a baseball card convention.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:24:55] Speaker A: And there are, like, tons of dudes, like, just, like, suitcases and like. Like, bags full of baseball cards.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: It's just a fun. It was funny, fun, funny mixture of ghost fans and baseball card people.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: The. How many. How many Papa Papa baseball cards were there? I don't know.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: I didn't get to go.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: Dang.
[00:25:13] Speaker A: Hopefully they made one. He did throw a pitch.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
Pretty exciting. Same number as The Pope?
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: It's. It's amazing to think that the Pope right now probably knows who Papa is, Right?
[00:25:28] Speaker A: Because he's. He follows the White Sox.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Very interesting.
Interesting. Like this cover, a. Johnny. It's.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Yes. The Kabbar.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: It's got so much action. I like this little. This little swoopty around.
Around the deviant's head that you can tell the deviant's gone.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: Just like he just swirled his head. Yeah.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: It's real awesome. And he's. He's like. He's, like, falling with grace.
It's. It's almost like he just got kicked out of a window. And instead of just, like, falling helplessly is, like, taking control of the fall.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: Very awesome.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: And the background's cool. It's like.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: It's like the Matrix coming up.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Matrix. Yeah.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: Or like. Or like those old. Old computer. Computer simulation images of a city.
Kind of like the beginning of Escape from New York.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. With a show like that. Yeah.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: Only that was all practical effect.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: Cool. Yeah.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: They built, like, a whole little city and put, like, glow tape on the side of it.
Oh, wow. Yeah. Pretty interesting.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it would have been before cg. Really.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: Good movie.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Well, I, Johnny, have the B cover, the Sabatini cover. And it is.
It's the deviant, basically. Spider Manning.
[00:26:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: But it's holding on to, like, an antenna on top of a building, just looking down in the rain.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: I like how clean it is.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
Sabatini does good covers.
I actually think the keybar cover might be my favorite out of these two. But the Sabatini is very good.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: I like the shape of the deviant's head in the Sabatini.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. It's a good profile.
It's very. It very much, like, emphasizes how this kind of looks like a jaw.
[00:27:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
Or like a skull. Yeah.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: Pretty cool. Pretty nice.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: Two different. Two different colorways, too. This is much more orange and red versus the. The keybar being green and blue.
[00:27:40] Speaker A: How new could the new you be? If this is issue 12, it's not that new.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: I mean, they'll milk it for all it's worth, Johnny.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: That's true. Let's like what they called it Brand spanking new, Doug. It wasn't new forever.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: I never. I never watched much Doug until it got sent to one Saturday morning on abc.
[00:27:59] Speaker A: That's brand spanking new, Doug.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: No. At which point I think. I think most people didn't like that version of Doug.
I know my sister wasn't real wild about it. She Preferred the Nickelodeon. Doug.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: I liked them both.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: I mean whatever I've.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: I liked one Saturday morning.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: One Saturday morning.
[00:28:19] Speaker A: Once a week.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: Five hours of summer. Once a week. Johnny.
Five hours of television. I mean recess. Recess was an all timer.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: Recess was good. They had like Toy Story shorts.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: I don't really between. I don't really remember what all was on there except for recess and Doug.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: Pepper Ann.
[00:28:37] Speaker B: Oh yeah, Pepper Ann. Pepper Ann was great teacher's pet.
I didn't watch that one. That was like really Blue dog, right?
[00:28:44] Speaker A: Yeah. One fucking rule, Nathan Lane.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: We weren't allowed to watch the whole. We weren't allowed to watch the whole thing.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: So you weren't allowed to watch the blue dog. They're like. Dogs aren't blue. You can't watch them. It's like. Actually some dogs are kind of blue.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: And there's a blue heeler. Yeah, they're blue to count.
Australian cattle dogs are a little blue sometimes.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: There's some blue cats.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: I mean huskies can be kind of blue.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: Russian blue is a cat.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I used to have a.
Not exactly a Russian blue because it was a long hair instead of a short hair. But it's so it would have been a mix, but yeah, okay. Russian blues are good. Russian blues are fucking big too.
They're meaty.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: They're meaty.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: They're meaty. Yeah, they're like. They're like. They've got bigger heads and they tend to be a little denser around the middle.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: I got a little tiny kitty.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: Tiny kitty cat.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: Don't say her name.
Charge.
No, she wants to mess up the record again.
[00:29:42] Speaker B: She just wants to be a co host. Johnny.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: I was editing the other day our show and I decided to take a little break and was lying down. It was my next to my desk and just like watching tv.
And I left my last when she immediately beeline for was open. So I was like, oh, she's gonna delete it. So I had to get up and chase her off and close it.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: They are wonderful, but also little agents of chaos.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And this is a. I don't have a. What's it called? Screensaver on this one. I don't have a screensaver on this one because it's a show computer. We use it for when we do plays. So like you don't want it shutting down. Yeah, I'm too lazy. I could turn it back on.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: But yeah, whatever, you know, I get it, I get it. It's one less thing you had to think. You had to think about.
It's much better to Just deal with it. Than be in the middle of the show and be like, oh, shit, the laptop.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: Exactly. That's exactly what I don't want to forget. I'm in the middle of the show and then it goes into screensaver mode.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: Could you imagine the incident at Walnut Creek just in the middle of the middle of Logan Branham's little monologue? Just it shutting down.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it just goes to like the Starfield or the little bouncing beach ball.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: You got the 3D pipes.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the 3D pipes. I feel like there's one with, like, clownfish swimming around.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: I think there was an aquarium one.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. I like the Starfield.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: I mean, Starfield's classic.
[00:31:14] Speaker A: Well, let's open this modern classic, Rat City. Yes, indeed.
Give credit where credit is due.
We got script, plot by Erica Schultz, art by Zay Carlos, color by J. David Ramos, lettering by Erica Schultz. Pulling double duty yet again.
We covered the covers.
Creative Director is Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy.
Previously in Rat City.
Peter's suit has been deactivated in Quinlan and here at the mercy of Dr. Amen.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:49] Speaker A: And we open on a flashback to.
[00:31:52] Speaker B: A high school dance. Johnny.
[00:31:54] Speaker A: A high school dance in 2096.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: Do you think they're still spiking the punch in 2096? I don't even think. I don't even think they still have open container of punch in year of our lords, 2025. So probably not.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Actually, you know, I saw a thing that it's an all time low for Americans who consider themselves, you know, the drink.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: So it's like an all time low. So.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:16] Speaker A: And I know maybe in the future they won't be.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll soon be. It'll soon just be us old people drinking and all the young people being like, loser.
[00:32:27] Speaker A: Losers.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: I don't be like, get off my lawn.
We're straight edge and they gotta tell you about it. No, they can't just. Just be like. Yeah, no, I don't. They gotta tell you that they're straight edge and then tell you about why.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: They are not always.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: Obviously, we've met different straight edge people.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: Mostly if you're straight edge. Yeah, I mean, like, there's a difference between, like, being straight edge and being, like, sober.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
[00:32:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Friends of Bill W. I have friends who are friends of Bill W.
Which I guess makes me kind of like a friend of Bill W. Once removed. Except for I, you know, I drink.
[00:33:05] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: A lot.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: Oh, God.
[00:33:08] Speaker B: Do you have. I have, like a drink A day.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: Is that a lot?
I drink a lot.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: I mean, I think. I think you're supposed. I think current guidance is. Is you're supposed to have maybe five a week. Maybe five drinks a week.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: What the fuck?
[00:33:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very low.
It's a number that is very low.
But we also do live in a heavy drink in town, Johnny, so.
[00:33:35] Speaker A: We really do. I'm like, yeah, as the viewers, I guess listeners don't know. But it's gonna be happening very soon.
I will be moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: Living on Tulsa time in October.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: That doesn't mean the podcast is not gonna continue. In fact, it will continue. Will this be taking over two cities this time?
[00:33:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Let's be able to talk about more local business in more places.
[00:34:03] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: So I'll be moving and I don't remember why I was saying this. I was getting to a point.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: Drinking, drinking.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: I imagine I'll drink a lot less, probably.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: Although if you start hanging out with any of those cowboys, Johnny, you're gonna be sunk.
[00:34:22] Speaker A: Them cowboys drink, they can put it back.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: Yeah, no, Johnny's gonna start hanging out with ranch hands.
[00:34:29] Speaker A: You know it.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: No, it's just like it's Chicago's walking. I'm in the restaurant industry.
There's like bars on the way home.
[00:34:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Fewer opportunities when you have to.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Fewer opportunity. Time to settle down a bit, David. I'm settling down.
I mean, my rough and tumble lifestyle gotta.
[00:34:49] Speaker B: You gotta simmer, simmer down.
[00:34:51] Speaker A: Gotta simmer down.
So, yeah, this. This woman wants to simmer down.
[00:34:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:57] Speaker A: Settle down with Peter. Because Peter's dancing with her at the high school dance in 2096.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
And we are in a flashback of Peter's while he is functionally dead, I guess, for the time being. After being impaled on the tree.
[00:35:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: And we learn something, Johnny, that this.
This person, this person that is expressing love for Peter is Kizzy, she of the stolen credits.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: Yes. Who seemed very interested in Quinlan.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And then Peter's reality starts breaking through in this flashback of his flash life flashing before his eyes. And just like the entire gymnasium is like Kaiju style broken away by the deviant coming. Giant deviant grabs him like. Like it's King Kong and he's. Whatever. The name of the lady that King Kong grabs is.
[00:35:56] Speaker A: Andarrow, you uncultured swine.
[00:35:58] Speaker B: I've never seen it. I've never lived in New York at Christmas time, so I've never seen King Kong.
Come on. But I do know that they watch King Kong at Christmas Time in New York.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: Is that a thing?
[00:36:10] Speaker B: Apparently it's a thing. Yes.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:36:14] Speaker A: It's good. The original and Peter Jackson's remake.
[00:36:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we all know the story about watching the Peter Jackson's remake where I got out of the theater and I missed 20 calls from my mom because all the county was on fire. So.
[00:36:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And you're just watching Peter Jackson's three hour King Kong movie.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I was just watching Jack Black and what's his Adrien Brody getting attacked by giant bugs.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Those are gross. Yeah, I saw it the night before as a final and I had to do a paper but I was like fuck it, I'm just going to go.
I ended up doing good on the paper.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: Nice.
Very nice. Do you remember what the paper was about?
[00:36:52] Speaker A: No.
Some book. Some history book.
[00:36:57] Speaker B: I mean it's good to know you can watch a King Kong and still write a good paper.
[00:37:01] Speaker A: Yeah. I stayed up all night, but whatever.
[00:37:04] Speaker B: Oh, to be young and be able to just stay up all night doing something you should have done two weeks ago.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:10] Speaker B: Ugh. Ugh. I mean it was rough even then. I couldn't even imagine doing it now, boy.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: Not without heavy assistance from drugs.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
The problem is, is the first time you don't do that. And then your professor is like, I can tell you didn't just do this last night. And it's like, oh yeah.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: They got me. But yeah. The deviant scoops up Peter out of.
[00:37:34] Speaker B: His dream nightmare, says you can adapt or die.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: And he's being carried by Aemond. We left him last time after he's been impaled.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: We are back in the Hudson Valley River. Hudson River Valley nowadays.
And Peter's just hanging limp in the arms of Dr. Amen.
I think Dr. This Dr. Aemond would make a really.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: Cool action figure with the jaw and stuff.
[00:38:00] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know if it would be a big seller, but yeah, pretty cool. Pretty cool design.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: And then his suit activates.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. The like eye outline and necroplasm that we've on respring previously.
[00:38:14] Speaker A: And he's back. The deviant back in his suit.
[00:38:16] Speaker B: Yeah, he's back in his suit again. Yes.
And then we get the. We get the opening reading.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: I'm the deviant and the deviant is me.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: And then we get one of the the coolest superhero comic tropes ever. Johnny. Is a battle while two people are flying a midair fisticuffs.
[00:38:40] Speaker A: This is a really fun battle.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And Dr. Amen. Dr. Amen. Like power kicks Peter into the river.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And then you turn the page, you get this awesome blue.
Just pop so big with like the blue water.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:56] Speaker A: One thing I will say is I doubt the water in Rat City would be this blue.
[00:38:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:39:00] Speaker A: Especially maybe they use like some kind of futuristic technology to make it blue.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yeah. It's also. It's also an indication of the ecological creep that's happened that in the Hudson river there's a fucking shark, Johnny.
[00:39:14] Speaker A: Yeah. This is awesome.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: This is a. This is a. This is a well worn shark, Johnny. It's seen action.
[00:39:21] Speaker A: He's got dino damage on him.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh, a fun. A fun aside that I wanted to stick in here. Did you know that the shark on the poster for Jaws isn't a great white shark?
Yes, it's a mako shark.
[00:39:36] Speaker A: You told me this.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: Oh, I did? Okay.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: I think so. Someone told me it.
I don't think you told me on the podcast. I think you told me it's Superman.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: When I saw it, I'm pretty sure. So it. The. The preserved head of the mako shark that the.
The drawing is based off of is literally still at a museum. And like they pull it out and it's like, ah, that's, ah.
[00:39:57] Speaker A: It's like it's a Jaws head.
[00:39:59] Speaker B: Jaws head? Yeah. Pretty awesome. Pretty awesome.
[00:40:01] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: It's because. It's because from the bottom, a great white shark just looks like a doofus.
Not much minutes from the bottom.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: Happy 50th anniversary to Jaws.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Hell yeah, it's still good. It's a good movie. It's very good.
[00:40:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, man. Scared the shit out of me. That scene at the beginning, the.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: The.
The. The lady skinny dipping and the drunk guy trying to get his pants off.
Just like laying in the surf, being like, I'm coming.
I'll be there in a second.
[00:40:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: Oh, hilarious.
Hilarious.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: But they're fighting the sharks, like, lingering in the background.
[00:40:42] Speaker B: And then. And then Peter blows Dr. Amond's arm off and the shark is like, oh, hell yeah. I smell blood in that water.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: I smell blood.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: And just like he crunches him just like, like it. Like Dr. Amen is a seal.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: Jumping out of the water with him.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: Yeah. I love that. It's so just over the top.
[00:41:05] Speaker B: I love a shark.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: We love a shark.
[00:41:08] Speaker B: And then we cut from there to the control room in PTS and Dr. Bose is like, well, Dr. Amen's out of commission.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: Well, he's dead. He's got eaten by a shark.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: No remorse. Dr. Bose is. Is such an evil bad guy, Johnny.
[00:41:22] Speaker A: His assistant's like, we just need to evacuate. He's gonna kill us.
[00:41:25] Speaker B: Yeah. And Dr. Bose is like, no, no, no. I've got a fail safe. It's fine. And Dr. Nomux is like, no, I'm getting out of here. I quit. And so. So the. The security guards are just standing around like, Dr. Bose, we're here for you. And then one of them looks out the window and just sees Peter coming right for him through the. Through the window, just like.
[00:41:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And he burst through and just, like, zips around the building, cutting it, like, holes through, like Swiss cheese.
[00:41:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It's like, I don't know where I'm going, but I just, like, just cut through a whole bunch of floors, see where we're going.
Tears through the building like butter jelly.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: That makes a dramatic entrance in front of Dr. Bose with like.
Like, blades extended and just, like, jetpack going. And it's like, you wanted me, Dr. Bose.
[00:42:15] Speaker A: You wanted to see me?
[00:42:16] Speaker B: Oh, boy, here I am. And then he gets. He gets sucker shot. It's like a sucker punch, only a shot.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: The security guard emps him in the back.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think this is the EMP yet. I think that's just a. Just like a shot.
Yeah, because it very clearly takes out the. The jetpack. So he's.
Yeah, his wings is clipped.
Dr. Bose is like, you can't fly away just yet. Peter says, I'm not going anywhere.
Dr. Bose thinks that Peter is locked in there with him, but Peter knows that Dr. Bose is locked in there with him.
Yeah.
And then Dr. Bose puts up, like, a D20 shield around him.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that's more like a D8.
[00:43:08] Speaker B: A D. Some number more than six.
Yeah, maybe it's a dodecahedron. Oh, hey, we can get our buddy, the dodecahedron from the phantom toll booth in here.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: Johnny, get him in here.
My angles are many, my sides are not few.
[00:43:21] Speaker B: I'm the dodecahedron.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: And who are you?
[00:43:24] Speaker B: Good book. If you've never read it, I've read it. And Peter's just like, you have no idea what I'm capable of, Dr. Bose. And Dr. Bose is like, chop, I know exactly what you're capable, but I know how to stop you.
And then he's like, I learned. I learned from your battle with my flunky, who I just kind of let die because I don't give a shit about people. That a localized EMP will take down those nanites that you got inside of you, which by the way, are my properties, so I'm probably gonna need to get those back from you.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
The security guard clicks his gun over to EMP mode to see him do it.
[00:44:01] Speaker B: And then he zaps him right in the chest.
And then Peter's like, you know, these. These nanites, they aren't what you put in me. They've become something different, something only I can control. And then, like, very quickly after, the EMP just, like, reactivates the deviant suit.
[00:44:20] Speaker A: Yep. Just like, sorry.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: And the guard who shot the EMP is like, oh, shit.
Goodbye.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: Let's get the fuck out of here.
[00:44:27] Speaker B: And Dr. Bose is like, you will stayed there. And then Peter's like, maybe you should have listened to your security guards, Dr. Bose. And just like.
Like Superman breaking a chain with his chest. Just like padecahedron. What's a dodecahedron?
[00:44:44] Speaker A: It says.
[00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's such a good. Such a good little bit of action. Just like the deviant is obviously just static because it's a picture. But, like, you can see, like, all the. All the strain and all the glass pieces and we haven't talked about the.
The little of motion that Zay Carlos does in a very long time.
[00:45:09] Speaker A: Those are cool, but it's.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: It's an amazing effect.
I love it.
Gives just, like a little bit of motion in things that don't have much motion, or in the case of this glass, extra motion to things that are already in motion.
[00:45:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:25] Speaker B: So Peter grabs Dr. Bose by the throat and lifts him in the air, says, it's over for you. And pts.
Dr. Bose says, perhaps, but I always go on my own terms.
And then he hits a little button click. And then boom.
The whole top of the building explodes.
[00:45:44] Speaker A: Huge explosion.
[00:45:46] Speaker B: Oh, that is a great explosion shot too.
Like the neon city in the background. And just.
It's a great shot. It's a great shirt.
Zay Carlos. Good artist.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: And then we cut to Quinlan opening their eyes and seeing the sun peek through the trees.
The first indication that something's weird. Johnny, there's a motherfucking canopy.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that's weird.
[00:46:13] Speaker B: That's weird. Thought that the trees previously were kind of scrubby and there's this grass.
Quinlan gets up and is like, oh, my head. Oh, Bleeding from my head. Oh, God, where am I? What's going on? And they're like, I gotta find Peter. That's all I. That's all they know. They gotta find Peter. And so they stand up and they start walking.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Where are you, Peter?
[00:46:35] Speaker B: Like, hello. Hello, Peter. And then they. They pull a Cue from Commander Riker from one of the first episodes of tng. And they're just like anybody.
[00:46:47] Speaker A: And they're in the middle of nowhere.
[00:46:49] Speaker B: Yeah, they're in the middle of nowhere.
[00:46:50] Speaker A: It just pulls out and they're just like in the middle of the wilderness.
[00:46:53] Speaker B: Well, or if you remember whatever issue with issue 6, issue 7, the history of New York, that this. This looks oddly familiar to individuals who remember the history of New York issue.
[00:47:12] Speaker A: What is it?
[00:47:13] Speaker B: I'm going to assume that's the Hudson Valley river or Hudson River Valley prior to Dutch colonization.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: You think they were transported through time?
[00:47:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I think Quinlan got thrown into the past.
[00:47:24] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I think they're gonna, you know, have a fun time getting back.
[00:47:32] Speaker A: Okay, I didn't think about that because where.
[00:47:35] Speaker B: Where else? Where else in the.
I mean, there's no, like. Look at that, Johnny. The sky is beautiful.
[00:47:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: The sun is shining. There's no rain.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:46] Speaker B: I bet there's no sharks in that river.
[00:47:48] Speaker A: No, it's good.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: Then we get the little skull to end the issue.
[00:47:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:54] Speaker B: Boom, boom. The new generation, new stories, new. You add. They're gonna have to come up with a new slogan. Maybe that's why they haven't done it yet. Johnny.
[00:48:02] Speaker A: Yeah, you got.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:04] Speaker A: All the ads for the spin offs.
[00:48:05] Speaker B: Although every time they add a new title, they can probably still. Because these are. This is a new book. It's new. So it's still the new. So that.
[00:48:13] Speaker A: That's new. You.
Yeah. Get the image Classics ad.
[00:48:17] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:48:18] Speaker A: Our Mortal Kombat Sub Zero toy ad.
[00:48:20] Speaker B: Hell yeah. I watched.
[00:48:21] Speaker A: Which I think I mentioned it on the show, but that.
[00:48:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I watched the trailer. It was awesome.
[00:48:26] Speaker A: Looks good.
[00:48:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks great. I've. I love John scene is great.
[00:48:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm definitely gonna go see it.
[00:48:33] Speaker B: It's funny. The spawn Call of Duty toy is the back end.
Look at that. Bazooka.
[00:48:40] Speaker A: Bazooka.
The new battlefield's coming out on Xbox. That looks cool.
[00:48:47] Speaker B: Gonna shoot some clankers.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: No, not Battlefield. Not Battlefront.
[00:48:52] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:48:52] Speaker A: That's the Star wars one. Battlefield's just like the war one.
[00:48:55] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: I wish. There's a new Battlefront.
Blankets. Oh, I was watching Clone wars the other day, David. Episode with Fives. I was watching that arc.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Fives is. Oh, Fives is a tragic tale when.
[00:49:10] Speaker A: They had to remove the tumor.
[00:49:11] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it was crazy.
[00:49:14] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: They might have turned me to Clone Wars.
[00:49:17] Speaker B: There's. There's some devastating in Clone Wars. Wars.
It's.
[00:49:23] Speaker A: Well, the final two seasons are the ones that they did when they came back. Right.
[00:49:27] Speaker B: So, yeah, the final two.
[00:49:28] Speaker A: The original show ended where Ahsoka, like, quits, and then it, like, got canceled when Disney bought it, and then they brought it back and finished, like, two seasons, I think.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: Yeah. So the. The final two seasons cover, like, basically right up between. Between episodes two and three. Three.
[00:49:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:48] Speaker B: Although I guess. I guess all of it happens between episodes two and three, so.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: No. Yeah, it does.
[00:49:52] Speaker B: But then, yeah, the last.
[00:49:54] Speaker A: Last two seasons, it leads, like, right into revenge.
[00:49:56] Speaker B: There's actually, like, order 66 happens in one of the last seasons. Yeah.
[00:50:02] Speaker A: Right. Yeah.
[00:50:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:03] Speaker A: I mean, I know it goes down, but I'm excited to watch it.
[00:50:06] Speaker B: Yeah. No, that's. Man, I love the clones.
[00:50:09] Speaker A: Love those clones.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: Love them, love them. And Commander Cody. God damn it.
[00:50:15] Speaker A: What? I can't believe. What a betrayal. It's the biggest betrayal, truly.
[00:50:20] Speaker B: And then. And then after that, Johnny, you got to watch the bad batch. The bad batch is good.
[00:50:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm going to watch through all of them.
[00:50:26] Speaker B: You might. You might be able to watch just the bad batch isolated by itself because, you know, you know enough about what happens in Star wars as a whole that you can.
It's its own little adventure.
[00:50:37] Speaker A: I'm going to finish Clone Wars. I'll probably watch Rebels.
[00:50:40] Speaker B: Rebels is fucking great.
[00:50:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And I've seen some of Rebels. I just haven't, like, sat down and watched the whole thing.
[00:50:47] Speaker B: Chopper is one of my favorite droids of all time.
Even more foul mouth than R2D2, if it's possible.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I just been playing the Star Wars Unlimited game, so I'm just like a Star wars on the brain.
[00:51:02] Speaker B: Don't you mean it's a day? So.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's adorable. Day in my life.
[00:51:08] Speaker B: Well, that was rat City number 12, Johnny.
[00:51:11] Speaker A: That was Rat City number 12.
Welcome back, everyone. Everybody, I hope you enjoyed that little musical interlude, because we've got another issue from Spawn's universe for you.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: I. I love that musical interlude. Can we go back to the musical interlude? It's a good one.
[00:51:42] Speaker A: Play it again.
[00:51:43] Speaker B: I like. I like how it builds.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: Well, it depends on which one we pick.
[00:51:47] Speaker B: Well, I always use the same one, and I'm editing this episode, so.
[00:51:51] Speaker A: Oh, okay. We know what it's gonna be.
[00:51:52] Speaker B: I know exactly what it'll be. Watch. I'm gonna do something different.
[00:51:56] Speaker A: Don't you do it.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: Tempted.
[00:52:01] Speaker A: Sandwich. Which number 12. Case files. Number 12.
[00:52:04] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: Ran the smack dab in the middle of our second case.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: The case is afoot.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: Case is afoot.
And before we Crack this case. We're going to start with the covers.
I have the. A cover.
The Federico Sabatini.
[00:52:22] Speaker B: It's. It's a gooey cover, Johnny.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: It's gooey. It's like they're like in. It's like they're under like, one of Jigsaw's victims who's like, intestines have been like, strewn about the ceiling or something.
[00:52:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
And Sam is just lighting a cigarette. A cigar. Is it a cigar or is a cigarette.
[00:52:39] Speaker A: It's a cigarette.
[00:52:40] Speaker B: He's just lighting up like, unconcerned at the.
There's literal stuff about to drop on him.
[00:52:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:48] Speaker B: He's just like, eh. He's got blood on his shirt already.
[00:52:53] Speaker A: You don't care.
[00:52:53] Speaker B: It's a great cover, Johnny. Yeah, it's a real good one.
[00:52:56] Speaker A: Tells a little mini story. They found a really grisly crime scene.
[00:53:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're both. Both rather unfazed.
[00:53:03] Speaker A: They're both rather unfazed. Twitch, is the gun at the ready?
Yeah. Pretty cool.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: I have the B cover, the Marco Falia cover. And it is colored in such a way that it looks kind of like a still from a cartoon.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:53:18] Speaker B: And that they're in a similar situation in that it's Sam and Twitch checking something out. But this is. This is basically them walking through the warehouse before they notice the. The victim in.
In the.
[00:53:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like. It's like the prequel to this cover.
[00:53:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:35] Speaker A: That's kind of cool.
[00:53:36] Speaker B: It is cool. It's got. It's got like, chains.
Twitch has the. Twitch has the flashlight. Twitch's flashlight, man.
[00:53:44] Speaker A: Or if they say it English, Twitch has the torch.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good one. Good covers. But the covers were meant to be opened, Johnny.
So we.
[00:53:56] Speaker A: That's what they say.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: Pop those.
Pop these suckers open so we can get to the credits and give them where they're due.
So we got the plot. Script. Ooh, plot. Script. Usually it says script. Plot.
Simon says plot. Script.
[00:54:10] Speaker A: What the heck?
[00:54:14] Speaker B: Whoa.
[00:54:16] Speaker A: Mind blown.
[00:54:16] Speaker B: Plot. Script by Jordan barrel and Todd McFarlane. Art by Thomas Snatchlick. With special thanks to Magnus Arts.
Color by FCO Plasencia and Sheila Saldana, who's doing the color flats.
Lettering by Tom Orzykowski himself. Hell yeah, we covered the covers. Creative Director is Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy.
Previously in Same In Twitch, Twitch is brutally attacked and left for dead.
That might be the shortest previously on. We've read in a very long time.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what we can't. I Don't know if you even play the ambient noise underneath it or not.
[00:54:54] Speaker B: I don't think it'll get a chance to, like, get to a hearable level because it's got that kind of ramp up at the beginning.
We'll have to choose something else to put underneath it. It.
So we start with the sepia tone of past days.
[00:55:13] Speaker A: Fight.
[00:55:14] Speaker B: Yeah. It starts with that fateful morning. And it's just the way they portrayed.
[00:55:19] Speaker A: Helen in this series so far. Hasn't been great.
[00:55:21] Speaker B: It's. It's been very bad. Helen is just upset that Twitch isn't taking her on vacation. And she says, I bet if Sam was me, he'd take me on vacation.
[00:55:30] Speaker A: And Jesus Christ, good Lord.
[00:55:34] Speaker B: Like, it's comically bad.
[00:55:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. It's just like.
I don't like it.
[00:55:42] Speaker B: Although that combination of sweat pants and oversized shirt that Helen's wearing looks comfy as hell.
[00:55:49] Speaker A: It does look comfy.
Anyway, she's yelling at him.
[00:55:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And Twitch is like, I gotta go. And she says, go ahead. Run away, Max.
So then we cut to today, and it's New York City and it's raining cats and dogs. Johnny.
[00:56:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like it's. Looks like some seven.
[00:56:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
Also. Also looks a little bit like that scene out of the 1998 Godzilla where the. The French are in the back of the.
That. That van and that guy comes in and is with the French roast. And they're like, you call this French roast? And he's like, the French roast?
The surveillance van. That's what it's called.
And Helen is just taking the taxi to the hospital, which is just looking at the decay of the city all around her.
She hates what the city has become, what it's done to Max.
Then she gets to the hospital and asks to see her husband. And then we get one of those awesome lobby scenes that Thomas Natchlick does so well.
Yeah, this is like Thomas Natchlick doing Theme Hospital.
[00:57:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:04] Speaker B: Very exciting.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: And they wheel out Twitch.
[00:57:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Sam's pushing him in his little wheelchair. There's a nurse walking behind him. And so Sam is the chariot that shall carry them home.
And Twitch is just the same as just like the bridge at this hour and the rain gotta suck.
And then Sam or Twitch and Helen are walking under the umbrella behind. And Twitch is saying, thanks for coming.
Helen's like, why wouldn't I? So, you know, guess they're patching stuff up, I guess. Yeah. And there's just the rainy car ride home where Sam is. Sam is Like, I'm gonna take care of this. I'm gonna make sure this bastard pays. And Helen is just staring out the window at the decaying city again.
Then we cut to the Chief of Police, Chief of Detectives, actually talking to.
I'm not quite sure what this guy's position is, if he's, like, a press secretary or, like, the chief's boss, whatever. They're talking. They're talking about upcoming press conference that he's gonna give with regards to crime in the city.
And he's like, hey, I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna leave my boy Twitch out of it, because I don't necessarily need to talk about it.
And this guy over there is like, people are talking about it. You're gonna need to address it. And literally, the only way you can not talk about it is if you have something wilder to put in there. So now they're on the. On the hunt for a bigger indictment.
[00:58:43] Speaker A: Yep. We gotta keep the constituents happy.
[00:58:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Sam is pulling up in front of Twitch's house, and just as he pulls up, the rain stops.
So Twitch and Helen get out, and Sam's like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna fucking make sure this goes. And Twitch is like, anything you give me, anything you get, give it to me immediately.
And Sam's like, no, you rest me. Do me.
[00:59:10] Speaker A: Will do.
[00:59:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
And so he drives away. And then Twitch just stares at his house.
[00:59:17] Speaker A: He says, it looks very ominous.
[00:59:18] Speaker B: This is not my beautiful house.
[00:59:21] Speaker A: This is not my beautiful wife.
[00:59:22] Speaker B: He's his wife and his child. This is not my beautiful wife.
[00:59:25] Speaker A: You ever see Kermit the Frog cover that I have?
[00:59:27] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:59:30] Speaker A: This big suit.
Learning the days go by.
[00:59:35] Speaker B: It's a good. It's good. It's a good one. It's a good time.
[00:59:38] Speaker A: Yeah. That's from Muppets tonight. The one that was on in the 90s.
[00:59:41] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:59:43] Speaker A: Did you watch that?
[00:59:43] Speaker B: I did. I did not.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: It was on, like, abc, I think. Unlike Sunday nights.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't. Sunday nights was when my sister watched the X Files.
[00:59:52] Speaker A: So, yeah, you better be watching the X Files.
[00:59:54] Speaker B: That was.
Oh, boy.
I'm pretty sure my mom was upset that I watched it as much as I did it.
[01:00:01] Speaker A: Scared.
[01:00:01] Speaker B: Because that was.
[01:00:02] Speaker A: For a little bit.
[01:00:03] Speaker B: I always thought that whatever I was scared of was going to, like, generate itself in my closet and come out and get me. And more often than not, on Sunday nights, I would be afraid to sleep in my room because my closet was gonna have monsters in it.
[01:00:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I was just afraid of getting Abducted by aliens. I was, like, almost certain I was going to be. I was like, well, it seems like this happens all the time in the 90s, so there's alien fever.
[01:00:26] Speaker B: At least David Duchovny will come to my house and ask questions about me.
[01:00:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:00:31] Speaker B: Hopefully, if he finds me, I'll be able to talk to him about Spawn or.
[01:00:36] Speaker A: Do you like Spawn?
[01:00:37] Speaker B: Or Teenage Mutant Ninja. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, whichever.
Which I would have been much more into as a child than Spawn. No, no, just like, you know, as a child, when you're rescued, you talk to your rescuers about the shit that you like. Right.
That's how they. That's. That's a shorthand for showing that, you know, the kid's all right. He's blabbing off about this nonsense that nobody cares about.
Okay, whatever. Well, Johnny, we get a nice little bit of Sam here. Sam driving home, going to his apartment, which must be pointed out, is unrecognizable to the apartments that we know of. Sam Burke.
[01:01:18] Speaker A: It's clean.
[01:01:19] Speaker B: It's clean. It's tidy. He's got a cat. His name?
[01:01:23] Speaker A: Nostradamus.
[01:01:24] Speaker B: Nostradamus. Yeah. So. So it's. It's like we chose the correct individuals to be. Johnny, you are Sam Burke, cat and all.
[01:01:32] Speaker A: Yeah, well, it's got my cat because Barbie's black with little white booties and this cat's little black with little white booties.
[01:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Pretty awesome.
[01:01:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:41] Speaker B: And then. And then. Same. Same's basically just like work, work, work, work, work, work.
He's doing some casework, watching the press conference from the chief of detectives on the telly.
Nostradamus is watching the tv, too.
[01:01:59] Speaker A: Barbie loves watching the tv.
[01:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah, cats love tv.
[01:02:03] Speaker A: She loves Diablo because there's, like, little characters that move around.
It's funny. She gets pissed, even though it's a little version. There's like, a little dog that walks around the town in Diablo.
[01:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:14] Speaker A: And she sees the dog, she's like.
She attacks it.
She, like, goes to the screen and hits it. She hates that little dog.
[01:02:22] Speaker B: But what you need to do is you need to work out a way to somehow have screen interactions from cats. Be.
[01:02:29] Speaker A: Yes, she hit the enemies included.
[01:02:30] Speaker B: So that way when you're fighting Lilith.
[01:02:32] Speaker A: She can be like, yeah, she batting at it and, like, does more damage. You get, like, bonus damage if your cat's hitting the screen.
We need that.
[01:02:40] Speaker B: Yeah, we do.
There's a lot of bullshit out there, but this is something we need.
[01:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
Cat attack action in the video games.
But she's a cute kitty. She got a big old white paw.
[01:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, she's. If it's a white paw, Johnny, then she's bringing the light. She's bringing the light to the. The denizens of hell.
[01:03:01] Speaker A: The white paw.
[01:03:02] Speaker B: The white paw of justice.
[01:03:04] Speaker A: I hope Nostradamus becomes the main character.
[01:03:07] Speaker B: I mean, there better be a Nostradamus issue.
Yeah, there's precedence for a whole issue devoted to just an animal.
[01:03:14] Speaker A: And, yeah, the police chief is just talking about fatality. They're down in fatalities, they're down in shootings.
And then this comptroller guy comes up.
[01:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:24] Speaker A: What does a comptroller do, David?
[01:03:27] Speaker B: I honestly don't know. I think. I think something to do with budgets. I think something to do with revenue.
Okay, but I'm.
It's.
[01:03:37] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, I voted for it.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: It's a funny word, but I. I honestly don't know.
[01:03:41] Speaker A: It is a funny word.
[01:03:42] Speaker B: Comptroller.
[01:03:44] Speaker A: And he's like, yo, I'm not gonna bore you some stats, but fiscal revenue is up.
[01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like something, something pensions. Something something pension something.
That second panel that he's in, I honestly don't know what to make of. I. I understand what those words mean individually, but put it together, I'm like, what the hell is this saying?
[01:04:09] Speaker A: Yeah, what the hell is he talking about?
[01:04:11] Speaker B: I'm wondering if maybe Todd McFarlane doesn't know what a comptroller does either. And it's just like, yeah, this is some nonsense.
[01:04:17] Speaker A: Yeah, just put some shit in there.
[01:04:21] Speaker B: And so while comptroller is going on and on and on, Noreen comes by and bings, goes bing on. Sam Burke's door, has something she needs to show him.
And it's the gun that was found next to Twitch.
[01:04:41] Speaker A: It was placed on him by that one guy.
[01:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's from a cold case, A tomahawbicide that was never solved.
It was admitted into evidence and never checked out. And yet it was found on Twitch's person.
[01:04:59] Speaker A: And it was discharged.
[01:05:00] Speaker B: It was discharged. And Sam's like, okay, I'm gonna keep this here. Let's figure out what's going on.
He's like, this cold case. What was it about? And so Noreen's telling about how it was in Hudson Yards. It was a couple of executives going home after work, gunned down.
No witnesses blamed on an unhomed individual.
But, you know, no statements were ever taken.
Just kind of like, ends.
[01:05:32] Speaker A: So the girl and the family members, like the surviving spouses of the Victims.
[01:05:37] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[01:05:38] Speaker A: And they're basically like. I don't know, the.
[01:05:41] Speaker B: I like the. I like the two entirely different types of people, but they have the exact same story.
We got the. We got the.
The single mom left taking care of a child by herself, and then a man who doesn't. Doesn't appear to have been affected by the loss of his wife at all.
[01:06:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
And they. Both of these people that got killed worked at ngri, some big pharma company.
Interesting.
[01:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And they were like. Like, they mean, they. They didn't ask for anything. They were just like, hey, here's a check.
Sorry about your loss. And so we just went from there.
So after these interviews, Sam and Noreen are at a bar talking about it. Sam's like, so they just paid to sweep it under the rug. And then trying to figure out how Twitch fits in with all this.
And then the comptroller walks into the bar and then comes over and he kisses Noreen and is like, whaaat?
But apparently. Apparently they are an item.
[01:06:43] Speaker A: This is like the third time, like, it's been a reveal that two people you've seen in, like, working in the city.
[01:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:49] Speaker A: Are together. Like, they did it in Misery. They did it in this a couple times.
[01:06:52] Speaker B: It's like. It's like city employees are only allowed to. To.
To fraternize with other city employees.
[01:06:59] Speaker A: Right. Funny.
[01:07:02] Speaker B: Does a little gentle ribbing. Getting pretty slick at the TV thing. Mr. Comptroller.
Then the comptroller makes a joke about maybe his wife becoming Sam's new partner. And Sam's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[01:07:17] Speaker A: She's coming back.
[01:07:21] Speaker B: And then while they're. While they're doing their little back and forth, Sam gets a call because.
Accidentally skipped over this. But he had put in. He had put in with some patrolmen. Like, if you see any, like, junkies that are dead in a weird way, call me, like, immediately.
[01:07:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:07:36] Speaker B: Like, please, if there's some weird shit.
And so he gets a call, and they're like, hey, we got a. We got something for you. And Sam's like, be a second. Just a second. And so we go to this crime scene.
Like the neighbors said, he jumped out of the windows, claiming that he could fly. So they go down to the alley, and he is just, like.
[01:07:59] Speaker A: Mangled.
[01:08:00] Speaker B: Like nothing is the direction it's supposed to be.
[01:08:03] Speaker A: And next, backwards. His arms backwards. His feet are all his legs back.
[01:08:08] Speaker B: Like, his knee is bent the opposite direction.
[01:08:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:08:12] Speaker B: Just. It doesn't look good. And Sam's like, You're forensics. We need to scoop this guy up. And then his eyes open up and he stands up and starts running. And he's just like.
[01:08:23] Speaker A: He's running out like a zombie. And 28 days later.
[01:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah, Samus says, no, you don't. To just clotheslines him.
[01:08:31] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:08:33] Speaker B: And then we cut from there back to the Williams house.
And we've got Johnny. We've got the Shape. We've got the Shape hanging.
[01:08:40] Speaker A: Yes, they're watching.
[01:08:41] Speaker B: There's the Shape. The Shape finds their way throughout the house as we go through.
Very menacing. Twitch's son asks if they've got the guy. And he says, nah, not yet. We learn that Helen is no longer upset with Twitch, but the doctor says they had. Twitch has to sleep by himself for a few days for full recovery. So Helen goes to sleep on the couch, and there's the Shape.
And Twitch is sleeping alone in his bed.
And there's the Shape and Twitch's. Twitch is having trouble falling asleep. And then he's jogging with the dog and taking a shower and making breakfast and getting ready for a meeting that he has to go to.
And this meeting turns out to be Cops who Shot People Anonymous. Yep.
[01:09:29] Speaker A: Cops who Shot People Anonymous.
[01:09:31] Speaker B: That's the Friends. Friends of. Who's the famous cop who shot somebody?
[01:09:37] Speaker A: Oh, God.
[01:09:41] Speaker B: They wouldn't be friends of Rodney King.
You know what? Don't worry about it. Friends of Aaron.
[01:09:47] Speaker A: The only one I know is Derek Chauvin. But he's the one that killed.
[01:09:49] Speaker B: Well, friends of Friends of Aaron Burr maybe. Since Aaron Burr killed Hamilton.
[01:09:53] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:09:54] Speaker B: Friends of Aaron Burr.
And you know, they're all talking about it. Twitch is doing the. Twitch is doing the classic. The classic first time at Alcoholics Anonymous. Being like, I don't need all this. This is. This is unnecessary. I'm just here as a formality. And then they're like, six weeks is not a fucking formality. Dwud, you're here for the long haul.
[01:10:20] Speaker A: You shot a guy.
[01:10:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
And so Twitch leaves from this first meeting kind of unhappy. And he's walking down the hallway, and Johnny in the hallway is the Shape.
[01:10:32] Speaker A: There he is right there, just stalking him.
[01:10:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
So. So Twitch decides to go blow off a little steam. And he goes to the. To the gun range. And he talks to the guy at the booth there. And he's like the regular.
[01:10:47] Speaker A: Give me the regular setup. Yeah, 50 rounds.
[01:10:51] Speaker B: So Twitch starts. He starts blasting away at this target.
He's having a hard time focusing and aiming. He's not doing very well.
[01:10:59] Speaker A: No, he Keeps missing.
[01:11:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:11:00] Speaker A: Twitch is the best shot in the biz.
[01:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah, because he doesn't Twitch, Johnny.
[01:11:05] Speaker A: Nope.
[01:11:06] Speaker B: And then. And then, like, he sees. He sees the man he shot standing there, and it's like he's unable to shoot him again. Says, you're dead. You're not there. You're not there. But then he comes over, like, right to his ear and says, I am because you killed me.
Oh, terrifying. And then we cut back to the Williams household, and Helen and the child are playing some baseball in the back. Todd McFarlane gets to write a little bit of baseball action.
[01:11:36] Speaker A: He loves it.
[01:11:37] Speaker B: He loves it. Aaron Judge is at the plate. Can you hit my heater?
And the son's like, hey, Dad's here now. He could be the catcher.
[01:11:46] Speaker A: And Twitch or Twitch just kind of rolls past them.
[01:11:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Twitch just into the house, silently walks inside, and his son is like, come play with us. Come play with us. And Helen is again, like, hello, Your son is talking to you.
[01:12:00] Speaker A: Hello, Twitch.
[01:12:02] Speaker B: Twitch. Not in a good. Twitch. Not.
[01:12:04] Speaker A: Not a good place.
[01:12:04] Speaker B: Not a good place. It's not good.
And then we cut back to forensics, where that junkie that Sam brought in is tied to a. Tied to a gurney and just, like.
[01:12:16] Speaker A: Just screaming.
[01:12:17] Speaker B: Yeah, just, like, pulling against his bindings.
And then there's, like. There's a nurse there just saying, what all is bad with him. He's broke his neck. He's got, like, no blood. He severed his spinal column.
Like, how is he alive? I don't know. And Sam's like, but he's not dead. And he's like, okay, I'll have to talk to him. I'm going to have to talk to him.
And then says, hey, dipshit, I'm coming in.
[01:12:43] Speaker A: He shows him the picture of the guy that Twitch shot, and he's like, you recognize this guy?
[01:12:47] Speaker B: Yep, yep, yep.
And Twitch is like, what are you. What were you taking, boy? I'll give you a reward if you tell me what you were taking.
[01:12:53] Speaker A: What drugs are y' all on?
[01:12:54] Speaker B: It was like, we just took what they told us to take.
They don't give a about us. They just like, here, take these. And we take them.
And Sam was like, who's they?
And guy's just like, I can't.
[01:13:07] Speaker A: I got.
[01:13:08] Speaker B: And just like, his.
[01:13:10] Speaker A: Like, it's like his brain melts. He just throws up blood and dies.
[01:13:13] Speaker B: Yeah, he just, like. It's like he swallowed a cyanide pill without swallowing a cyanide pill and just, like, collapses on the table.
[01:13:21] Speaker A: Yep. Sam's Like Jesus.
[01:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
Then we cut to the Flatiron Building.
[01:13:28] Speaker A: That's what it looks like.
[01:13:29] Speaker B: That is what it looks like to a dark corridor that's populated with people just milling about.
One guy making fun of another guy for wearing a hoodie because it's a million degrees.
And they're talking about, you know, they're here because they're gonna get paid for stuff. Right, right, right, right, right. And then a nurse opens the door and says, all right, everyone, the doctor's ready to see you now.
[01:13:56] Speaker A: So this must be that pharmaceutical company.
[01:13:58] Speaker B: Must be. Must be.
[01:14:00] Speaker A: They got all these junkies here waiting for their fix.
[01:14:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we have blood splatter spawn orb to end.
Nice.
Very good.
This was back in the pre orders for the spawn.
One inspired statue going on. So that's the first ad we got here, Johnny.
[01:14:22] Speaker A: The UFC toy ad.
[01:14:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:14:24] Speaker A: UFC was just. Oh, David, I heard. I read this article.
Paramount just bought ufc and like, because of that, it might spell the death knell for Pluto TV somehow. Oh, no, Paramount owns Pluto TV tv. I don't know why it would. I didn't read the article. I just read the headline and I was like, what?
[01:14:42] Speaker B: That's stupid. That's.
[01:14:44] Speaker A: Or maybe they'll have UFC on Pluto tv.
[01:14:47] Speaker B: I mean, I'm not gonna watch that channel.
[01:14:49] Speaker A: No, I wouldn't watch that channel. I hate that.
[01:14:51] Speaker B: Man, they better not get rid of my Pluto tv.
[01:14:54] Speaker A: Hell no.
[01:14:55] Speaker B: Hell no.
[01:14:56] Speaker A: Yeah, they just bought like ufc for like 6 billion. Or maybe not bought UFC, but made a contract with them.
[01:15:02] Speaker B: Jesus Christ.
[01:15:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Jesus Christ.
Then we get the new generation, new stories, new you with all the spin offs here.
[01:15:11] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. With this, the advertising number one for Black Book, Black Ritual, the Book of Nicks, written by editor in chief Thomas Healy.
[01:15:23] Speaker A: Indeed.
We'll get to it one day.
[01:15:26] Speaker B: Yeah, at some point, we got to get through a couple more Rat Cities first.
[01:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And we get the image classics ahead to end the issue.
[01:15:32] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. It's real nice, Sam. Twitch. Case files Number 13, Johnny.
[01:15:38] Speaker A: No, it's number 12, David.
[01:15:39] Speaker B: Ah, geez. I was seeing number 13 on the back there and just seeing what I say.
[01:15:44] Speaker A: Saying what I saying what you see.
You're seeing what you say and you say what you see.
[01:15:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the way it works.
And you know what else, Johnny, I'm seeing right now? I'm seeing a puppy.
So I think that means we need to rate some puppies.
[01:15:58] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies.
So first up today we had rat city number 12, a fun action packed issue.
I mean, what can you say about Rat City? I love the colors. They're so vibrant. I love the fight with Amon and the deviant ends of the shark bite.
[01:16:19] Speaker B: I love the shark.
[01:16:21] Speaker A: I just love that page turn where they're fighting in the air. They go in the water. You turn the page, it's just so blue.
[01:16:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like reds. You've instantly been submerged underwater.
[01:16:31] Speaker A: That blue and red just draws the eye, like we said. Like the blue and orange is like one of the big most like, like eye drawing color combinations.
Yeah.
Rat City is just a fun time always.
[01:16:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very good.
[01:16:46] Speaker A: I like to see the deviant kick some ass. He's been kind of down for the last few issues, so it's nice to see him come back and cause some.
[01:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's making up for lost time.
[01:16:56] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Four shark attacks.
[01:16:58] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:17:00] Speaker A: It's really fun issue, you know, no like big reveals or anything, but that's.
[01:17:05] Speaker B: Okay, you know, I mean, not well. I mean, there it starts. It starts with a big reveal.
[01:17:11] Speaker A: That's true.
[01:17:11] Speaker B: How Kizzy knows Peter because she love him.
[01:17:15] Speaker A: She love him.
[01:17:16] Speaker B: She want to. She want to go kiss a kiss on him.
[01:17:20] Speaker A: Kissy kissy.
[01:17:22] Speaker B: Peter and kissy sitting in a prom.
Uh, I was gonna say something about getting abducted by a big fucking deviant, but I can't spell that.
[01:17:34] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:17:35] Speaker B: Instead of K I, S, S I N G, getting abducted by a large.
Skip it.
[01:17:43] Speaker A: Skip it.
[01:17:45] Speaker B: It's in there, though.
[01:17:46] Speaker A: Yep. Four out of five. That's me. What about you, David?
[01:17:50] Speaker B: I mean, the story is great. I love.
I love how it's.
It's building, it builds. It's totally indebted to every issue of Rat City that has come before.
And it just keep going forward. It's great. Erica Schultz puts together of very good story and chops it up into individual pieces in a very, very good way.
[01:18:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:18:17] Speaker B: The fight between the deviant and Dr. A man are great.
Seeing Dr. Bose get one upped is awesome. Even though he's a very sore loser. Very interested to see how Quinlan's gonna get out of this pickle they find themselves in.
[01:18:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:18:35] Speaker B: And the art. Art is fucking fantastic.
[01:18:38] Speaker A: That's amazing.
[01:18:39] Speaker B: Absolutely good.
[01:18:40] Speaker A: This color, like I said, the colors in the ocean fight and just like. And the art tells the story so well.
[01:18:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:18:47] Speaker A: So much fun.
[01:18:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:18:48] Speaker A: Oh, the planes are starting, David.
[01:18:50] Speaker B: Oh, no, we gotta hurry.
So I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it four and a half letters of resignation from Dr. Nomics. Because I like the Dr. Nomex. Just sees the writing on the wall. I was like, fuck this.
[01:19:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm out of here.
That was funny.
[01:19:04] Speaker B: It's real good.
[01:19:05] Speaker A: Sweet.
Next up, we had Sam Twitch Number 12 sandwich case files. Number 12 they filed.
We're getting deeper into this mystery. I like this case so far. I like this arc better than the first one. I guess this is a little more intriguing to me.
[01:19:24] Speaker B: I would agree.
[01:19:25] Speaker A: I don't love the kind of one dimensional depiction of Helen in this series.
[01:19:30] Speaker B: It's almost as if it's written by two men.
[01:19:33] Speaker A: It's just exhausting. It's just like she's always got to be mad. It's like, okay, this is just. This dynamics, like, terrible.
[01:19:39] Speaker B: Yeah. It's very.
It's very 80s nagging life trope and.
[01:19:45] Speaker A: Right. It feels very dated.
[01:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:19:48] Speaker A: But besides that, it's really fun. Like, just like, you know, digging a little bit more into the mystery of, like, what's going on with these pharmaceuticals and he's drugged up junkies. And just seeing Twitch, like kind of adrift is sad, but makes for good storytelling.
I'm gonna give it three and a half heaters because mama's throwing a heater when they're playing baseball.
[01:20:10] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
Hell yeah. You know, you know, you know, Todd McFarlane was like, you gotta put the. Put those fingers in the right spot, Thomas.
[01:20:18] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta put those. You gotta put the fingers in the right spot for the pitch.
The art always serves. I mean, not serviceable. Always, always on point. Yeah, it's tells the story well. Clean, not clean. I don't know. It's dirty. Everyone always has crumblies coming out of their mouth.
[01:20:35] Speaker B: It's dirty, but it's clean. It's clean.
[01:20:36] Speaker A: Dirty, but it's clean.
Yeah. We love Thomas Nashley.
[01:20:41] Speaker B: Like everything, there's a clear distinction between what everything is.
But there's just like muck everywhere.
[01:20:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:20:51] Speaker B: But it's, it's not just like amorphous muck. It's very clean.
[01:20:55] Speaker A: Well, if you start to hear planes. It's the Air and Water show this weekend and they are starting.
[01:21:00] Speaker B: It's the Thunderbirds.
[01:21:02] Speaker A: Yes, they are.
[01:21:03] Speaker B: But. Yeah. So I also like this, this case more than the last one. I like that we were talking about what wonder whether this was going to be a supernatural thing or not a few issues ago. And I like that they're. They're firmly going, yeah, this is, this is just straight up some drug up drug. Yeah, yeah, it's. It's. Yeah. The art Is great.
Worried about my boy Twitch, though. He's. I know, going crazy. But yeah, Sam is. Sam is stepping up big time and, you know, doing what he needs to do. I am going to give it three and a half framed photographs of Nostradamus in Sam's kitchen.
[01:21:46] Speaker A: Oh, cute. We love Nostradamus.
[01:21:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Because that's what. Although.
Although there's a tennis ball indicating that Nostradamus likes to play with the tennis ball, which is a very big ball for a cat to play with.
[01:22:00] Speaker A: It is a big ball.
[01:22:02] Speaker B: It's probably got some jingly bells inside of it. Yeah, it's. It's ridiculous to think of Sam walking around his. His apartment kicking little jingly bell things or like with a little feather on a stick.
I love it. I love it. But yeah, three and a half. It's good. It's not too bad.
[01:22:21] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:22:21] Speaker B: It's very good. Yeah, it's very good. Some good issues from sponsor universe. And you know what else is good about the sponsor universe, Johnny?
[01:22:29] Speaker A: What's that?
[01:22:31] Speaker B: The people who enjoy the Spawn's universe.
[01:22:33] Speaker A: Yes, we love them.
[01:22:34] Speaker B: Yeah, we talk. We talk a lot about the fans of something being the reason that we don't like something. Or at least I do.
And luckily Spawn is immune from that because everybody we've met in the span.
[01:22:47] Speaker A: The span.
[01:22:49] Speaker B: Everyone we've met in the Spawn community has been fucking lovely.
[01:22:53] Speaker A: They're great.
[01:22:55] Speaker B: It's amazing.
It's a wildly wholesome community, which wasn't what we expected in any way, shape or form.
[01:23:04] Speaker A: Really wasn't.
[01:23:05] Speaker B: But it's refreshing.
And this week we want to help spread the knowledge of this wonderful Spawn community that we're a part of and share one of our friends on Instagram. And this week it's going to be ink root curations, all one word.
And they.
I mean, they've got a little curation of Spawn collectibles and it's very good.
[01:23:32] Speaker A: Pretty cool. They got a movie poster.
[01:23:33] Speaker B: Yeah, they do.
They got like a.
A medieval that they've Batmanerized.
Oh, no, it's actually a Batman figure.
[01:23:45] Speaker A: It's just.
[01:23:46] Speaker B: It's the Batman. But it looks very Spawny.
They got some. Some good single issues, right? They got the same at Twitch Compendium 1.
They got spawn Armageddon.
[01:23:59] Speaker A: That looks cool.
[01:24:01] Speaker B: A shirt for the. The Namco video game.
[01:24:04] Speaker A: Ooh, that's got a signed copy of Fight Club.
[01:24:06] Speaker B: It's got. It's got. It's got demon butt on it, this shirt. Johnny. Demon, but demon butt.
[01:24:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, check them out. They got a cool collection.
[01:24:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they do.
Yeah. So that's ink root curations.
Very exciting.
While you were out there on the Internet looking at Spawn community, you should follow us regarding SpawnPod over on Instagram.
[01:24:32] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[01:24:33] Speaker B: We like to. We would. We would love to introduce you to even more of the Spawn world than we already have.
And you know, if you want to introduce us to more of the Spawn world than we've already been introduced to, we would. We would not say no.
[01:24:49] Speaker A: We would not. We would not say no to an email.
[01:24:51] Speaker B: No, we wouldn't.
[01:24:52] Speaker A: Our email is regarding spawnpodmail.com.
[01:24:55] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Yes, it absolutely is.
[01:24:57] Speaker A: And each week I like to ask a question to spur those emails.
And this week I would ask. We had a really good shark fight in this issue.
[01:25:07] Speaker B: Yes, we did.
[01:25:09] Speaker A: I think I've already asked them what their favorite shark is. Or no, you just asked me.
I don't think I asked it as a question after the email.
[01:25:16] Speaker B: I don't know. I think I might have asked you off mic.
[01:25:19] Speaker A: Yeah, you did. But yeah. What is your favorite shark? Is it the mako shark from the Jaws poster? Is it the great white? Is it the shark in this issue? Is it the shark that Fonzie jumps over?
[01:25:29] Speaker B: Is it the best shark in the world? The hammerhead?
[01:25:31] Speaker A: That's David's favorite.
[01:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. They look so stupid from the side. Oh, boy.
[01:25:39] Speaker A: Or just general shark thoughts in general.
[01:25:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Or yeah. Speaking of sharks in comic books, what do you feel about the Punisher and the Punisher Max series relying on bull sharks to help him kill bad guys?
Interesting, interesting, interesting. Apparently bull sharks are very mean.
[01:26:01] Speaker A: I don't want to mess with them.
[01:26:01] Speaker B: I don't know.
I would like to see a shark from a distance, please.
[01:26:06] Speaker A: We're in an aquarium.
[01:26:08] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Well, Johnny, speaking of emails that you're requesting, occasionally people answer our requests.
[01:26:18] Speaker A: They do, they do.
And we call that respawning regrounds.
And this week we have an email from a devoted listener.
[01:26:47] Speaker B: Yes, indeed.
[01:26:49] Speaker A: Let me just pull it up here.
[01:26:50] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:26:52] Speaker A: It is titled Anniversary.
[01:26:56] Speaker B: What's that?
[01:26:57] Speaker A: I don't know. Let's read it. Happy Anniversary. I am biased. But it's been so much fun listening to your episodes. I went from knowing nothing about Spawn to looking forward to certain stories. Gunslinger. Misery. Rat City.
[01:27:09] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:27:09] Speaker A: Great job. Thanks for all your dedication and hard work. Jnd. Hell yeah.
Megan Smalley.
[01:27:15] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[01:27:17] Speaker A: Devoted listener. Also my girlfriend.
For full disclosure.
[01:27:22] Speaker B: That's where the bias comes in.
[01:27:23] Speaker A: That's what the bias comes from. But thanks, Megan. That's really sweet.
[01:27:26] Speaker B: Yes, thank you very much, Megan. That just goes to show that, you know, you don't have to know fucking anything about Spawn to enjoy the very good parts of Spawn.
[01:27:37] Speaker A: That's true.
[01:27:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:27:38] Speaker A: It's gonna be interesting dynamic when you meet her in September because she knows more about you.
Just 50 or 60 episodes on you, all about you. She has a whole psychological profile of you.
[01:27:50] Speaker B: She needs to start making her own podcast that I can listen to and I can be like, ooh, I'll reference that. I'll reference that.
[01:27:57] Speaker A: Has there been a podcast about another podcast yet?
[01:28:01] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sure there. Sure there has been. I don't know if it's been very popular, but.
But, but the anniversary in question is in fact, Johnny.
[01:28:13] Speaker A: Our three year anniversary.
[01:28:14] Speaker B: We've been doing this for three years. Three years. As regarding Spawn.
[01:28:18] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:28:18] Speaker B: Here's where we put in humble beginnings. The montage of all the good. The good bits.
[01:28:24] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:28:24] Speaker B: And the good bit that we put in is just that. Hell yeah. Montage from that.
[01:28:30] Speaker A: Yeah, just say hell yeah.
[01:28:31] Speaker B: From the Sketchcraft. From the Sketchcraft episode.
[01:28:35] Speaker A: No, we've had a lot of good times. We went to Comic Con. We did stuff at Challengers.
[01:28:38] Speaker B: We talked to some people that we never met would have ever had the opportunity to talk to before.
[01:28:43] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[01:28:44] Speaker B: Spawny boy.
Oh, man. Spawn Hunter. Yeah. Erica Schultz, Sketchcraft himself. Thomas motherfucking Healy. It gives me a chance to talk to my buddy Johnny every week.
[01:28:57] Speaker A: Mark Spears.
[01:28:58] Speaker B: Oh, man, I want to talk to Mark Spears again. He's a sweetheart.
[01:29:02] Speaker A: That was a fun episode.
[01:29:04] Speaker B: It's real good.
[01:29:04] Speaker A: Well, maybe when Spawn 77 comes out, we can reach out.
[01:29:07] Speaker B: Absolutely. That would be great.
Great. But yeah, thank you again, Megan, for your email. We fucking love it. And yeah, thank you for the anniversary wishes.
[01:29:17] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[01:29:18] Speaker B: So, yeah, if you've got. If you've got your own, don't forget, just send us. Just send whatever you want to. Regarding SpawnPodmail.com.
[01:29:26] Speaker A: I'D love to hear from you.
[01:29:27] Speaker B: Love to hear from you. You know who else we love to hear from, Johnny?
[01:29:31] Speaker A: Ourselves.
[01:29:31] Speaker B: Oh, I was gonna say Lonnie Bones, because he does our music.
[01:29:35] Speaker A: Oh, he does, yes.
[01:29:36] Speaker B: But.
[01:29:37] Speaker A: But yes, he does our music. Go find him on the Internet.
[01:29:39] Speaker B: We do love to hear from ourselves. I must say, at least 15% of the podcast is liking to. Liking to just talk.
[01:29:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd say more than 15%, if not more.
[01:29:52] Speaker B: But. But liking to talk, Johnny. We like to talk about Spawn and we should probably talk about some more Spawn in the future, keep this grave train going.
[01:30:01] Speaker A: Yep. I say it's been a while since we've done a Scorched.
[01:30:06] Speaker B: It's.
Jesus Christ. How long has it been? I'm gonna.
[01:30:09] Speaker A: I don't know. We're overdue.
[01:30:11] Speaker B: We are very overdue.
[01:30:12] Speaker A: So what we're gonna do next week is scorch 41 and spawn 365.
[01:30:19] Speaker B: Very nice. Spawn 365. Is that the. The. The value brand of Spawn from Whole Foods?
[01:30:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:30:29] Speaker B: That was sweaty. That sounds.
[01:30:32] Speaker A: I honestly don't get it. I don't go to Whole Foods enough to get it.
[01:30:35] Speaker B: Well, Whole Foods has a value brand called 365.
[01:30:38] Speaker A: Oh, really? That's. Why is it called that?
[01:30:41] Speaker B: Everyday Value, I guess, is what they thought. Oh, but. But it's one of their company brands, and it's the.
[01:30:47] Speaker A: Got it, got it, got it. I only recently.
One of the plays I've been doing our rehearsal spaces by Whole Foods. Only recently have I been to Whole Foods. Few times.
[01:30:54] Speaker B: The Whole Foods is not where it's at.
I don't.
The. The national brands that they carry are pretty good. Their slices of pizza are reasonably priced and not terrible. But I've had some pizza other than that. I mean, they have. They're of their pizza. They do have this one that is just literally covered in roasted garlic cloves. It's awesome, because if you eat that, then nobody's gonna bother you at work.
[01:31:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:31:24] Speaker B: They won't talk to you because there's like 40 cloves of garlic per slice. Yes, Johnny. It has been seven issues since we have had a scorched. So it is about time.
[01:31:35] Speaker A: It's time.
[01:31:35] Speaker B: It is time.
All right.
[01:31:37] Speaker A: So, yeah, that's it.
[01:31:38] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:31:38] Speaker A: Scorched 41 and spawn 365.
[01:31:42] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. It's gonna be a good time. So find yourself a couple of issues.
Read them, listen to us talk about them. Hopefully you read the same issues we talk about.
[01:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[01:31:55] Speaker B: That would make it much less confusing to listen to the podcast, I'm sure.
[01:31:59] Speaker A: I agree.
[01:32:00] Speaker B: Absolutely. And with that, Johnny, and with the knowledge that we're going to be covering one of our favorite issues next time or favorite series that being Scorched, I'm gonna have to say, may the scorched be with you.
[01:32:16] Speaker A: And also with you, David.
[01:32:17] Speaker B: Hell, yeah.
[01:32:18] Speaker A: Hell, yeah, man.
Three years.
[01:32:24] Speaker B: That's a lot. This is the third time we've had to be like, oh, sorry about the planes.
[01:32:29] Speaker A: Sorry about the planes.
[01:32:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the Thunderbirds this year. Pretty exciting.
[01:32:34] Speaker A: That means it's about. It's three years. Oh, well, the Yippie fest is the play festival I'm doing this weekend.
[01:32:38] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah.
[01:32:39] Speaker A: So that means it's been three years since Tom was in town and I got too drunk to record that one morning.
[01:32:46] Speaker B: Man, it's been. It's been a fun road.
[01:32:49] Speaker A: It has been, David. I'm excited. I'm glad we're taking this journey.
[01:32:52] Speaker B: Here's to three more and then three more after that, and then three more after that. And eventually this show will be 33 years old.
And hopefully it does not have to be like Jesus and diet 33.
[01:33:04] Speaker A: We'll be 69 when the show is 33 years old.
Oh God, another 69. What is. Yeah, because it's three years old. What's 30 years from 49?
I'll be 79.
[01:33:17] Speaker B: 49.
[01:33:18] Speaker A: I'm 30.
[01:33:19] Speaker B: 30.
[01:33:20] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:33:20] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:33:20] Speaker A: Okay. Well, God, I thought I was 49 for a second. Holy.
[01:33:24] Speaker B: I mean, I mean, it does feel like the last three years do feel like they've lasted a little longer than normal, but not that long. Oh, yeah.
Well, wonderful. Thank you. Thank you for going on this journey with me, Johnny.
[01:33:38] Speaker A: I'm just happy to be here.
[01:33:40] Speaker B: It's a fantastic time. And thank you everybody for the three years of listening to us be absolutely stupid more often than not.
[01:33:50] Speaker A: We appreciate it.
[01:33:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we really do. We love you. We love Spawn. We love doing this.
[01:33:56] Speaker A: All right, Dave, I'm going to take off with these jets at the Air and Water show in Chicago. Cuz they are overpowering my apartment right now.
[01:34:02] Speaker B: Is that a. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Johnny in a plane.
[01:34:07] Speaker A: Here I go. I'm taking off.
[01:34:25] Speaker B: It, Sam.
