Episode 151 - Rat City 13 and Sam And Twitch Case Files 13

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This your first time in New York? Broadway's a great road. I drive it a billion times a day. Gets you everywhere. Good evening and welcome to the Mal Bulge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:49] Speaker B: And I am David Williams. And hey, I'm co hosting here. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Hey, it's New York, baby. We got two New York issues for you today. [00:00:57] Speaker B: Yeah, and I'm gonna stop with the accent because it's gonna just be bad. But yeah, co hosting here. New York issues, Johnny. We're talking Spawn and it's great. [00:01:08] Speaker A: We're talking Spawn. We're talking New York. We got two New York. I mean, most Spawns are set in New York except for like, Scorch and. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Scorch the Kitchler shows up in New York. [00:01:18] Speaker A: They show up in New York. [00:01:19] Speaker B: I guess absolutely none of the gunslinger. That's all west and that's all terrible, terrible geography. West. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. He was like, at Gettysburg when he was in Wyoming or something. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Gettysburg's in Pennsylvania, Todd. Father, you goddamn Canadian. [00:01:33] Speaker A: Don't you know your American history? I mean, it was. This is the week of 9 11. [00:01:39] Speaker B: It is. It is the most momentous week of American history ever. And I work with people who weren't born in a war with two standing towers, Johnny. I did. It's so hard to believe that that's something. [00:01:53] Speaker A: I got people that I work with. At least one. One guy is not. Is under 24 years old. [00:01:59] Speaker B: It's so. But then you talk to older people at work and they're like, yeah, my sisters were there when JFK got shot and I wasn't born. And so they lorded that over me. And it's like, wow. [00:02:10] Speaker A: I tried to make a good old millennial style 911 joke to my dad. It did not go well. I was talking to him yesterday, which was 9 11, okay? And he was like, is it. He was like, is it Wednesday or Thursday? I can't remember. And I was like, dad, you're supposed to never forget. And he was like, what? And I was like, you're supposed to never forget. He's like, what do you mean? And I was like, it's 9 11. He goes, I didn't forget. I watched the covers this morning. And I was like, okay. I heard him ring the bells. And I was like, okay, all right. Well then you follow the edict. And he was not, not, not pleased. You didn't think it was very funny. So a note, David. Boomers don't think 911 is as funny. As millennials do. [00:02:57] Speaker B: Well, that's because for boomers, it was not the first in a long laundry list of garbage that's happened to them as they grew up. So. [00:03:07] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:07] Speaker B: Probably a bit of a fresher wound. It's the. It's a. The. The first cut may be the deepest, Johnny, but it's also the one that's furthest away. So they. They do have a. A innate sense of patriotism. That just seems icky. [00:03:24] Speaker A: It doesn't seem icky to me. It just is different. [00:03:26] Speaker B: I'm. I'm not a big fan of patriotism. Like, enacting patriotism no matter where you are. Like, cool. That's your country's flag. Awesome. I don't care. Wow. Yeah. Now, wearing somebody else, carrying somebody else's flag. That's pretty cool. [00:03:46] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:48] Speaker B: Just because, you know, showing support. Showing support for other people is always awesome. But, you know, we get. We get it. [00:03:57] Speaker A: You don't want people tooting their own horn. [00:03:59] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We all. None of us are Dr. Doom, and none of us can toot as we please. [00:04:05] Speaker A: So, yeah, Robert Downey Jr's gonna be tooting all up in that suit. I bet he doesn't even leave his closet when he films that movie. He's probably at his house. They're like, okay, yeah, probably. Probably take a picture of your head and we'll put it on the body. Don't worry about it. Yeah, because he wasn't in that suit for, like, the last, like, eight Marvel movies. [00:04:25] Speaker B: Yep. I believe it because, I mean, there's so much of it that's cgi. And then you got to have somebody who's, like, really a. Like a mime, basically. And I don't know if he's mime trained. I mean, he's got presence, but for being just a voiceless suit, you got to be a big physical. [00:04:45] Speaker A: It's just crazy how much the escalation just keeps going in movies. So I'm like, how could they get crazier than End Game? And this has, like, the original X Men actors in it. Robert Downey Jr. Back as Dr. Doom. Chris Evans back as doctor. As doctor America is doctor America, not captain. But it's just like, damn, this is crazy. How long is that movie gonna be? [00:05:06] Speaker B: He. Grant. He. He retired from the armed services and went to medical school. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Yes. Probably got Dr. Deadpool in it. [00:05:14] Speaker B: Probably. I bet. I bet Captain America. So I think Captain America would make a good surgeon, because I don't know if you ever. Did you ever watch Scrubs at all. [00:05:25] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. [00:05:26] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. So the. The characterization of the Todd is actually very perfect for surgeons because surgeons are people that if they have any sort of doubt about what they're doing or themselves at all, they're going to fuck something up massively. So they all like. They're like, hell, yeah, I'm the best at everything. And because it's necessary for them to do their jobs. Have you seen what they do, Johnny? That's what's. No, no, it's crazy. It's crazy. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Like Dr. Jack Shepard on Lost. [00:06:01] Speaker B: My favorite. [00:06:02] Speaker A: My favorite surgeon. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Guess what I still haven't done, Johnny. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I know you haven't watched lots of it. What am I going to stop referencing it? So this is. Mention it? I can't mention anything. [00:06:11] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure the last time we referenced it, we were like, it's back on Netflix. I'm gonna watch it. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Okay. It's fine. It's just the best television show of all time. [00:06:22] Speaker B: I mean, if I. [00:06:24] Speaker A: If I say that, people get mad, but it's true. [00:06:27] Speaker B: I mean, I. And I know nobody who watched it who didn't love it. I guess it's because if you didn't like it, you just didn't watch it. [00:06:34] Speaker A: You stopped watching it. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:36] Speaker A: I know a few people that watch it to the end that didn't like it, but not very many. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's lovable. [00:06:42] Speaker A: They got lovable characters, just like Spawn's universe. [00:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Like New York City cab driver. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Like New York City cab driver. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:52] Speaker A: Like Phoenon. What's his name? [00:06:56] Speaker B: Feedan. [00:06:56] Speaker A: Feedan. [00:06:57] Speaker B: Feed him, like, getting domed. Like we. We figure out why. Why, why Twitch's wife is so nasty. [00:07:09] Speaker A: She's not getting railed. [00:07:10] Speaker B: No. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. [00:07:14] Speaker A: Jesus. [00:07:15] Speaker B: You said it, not me. That means I'm not the old perv this time. [00:07:20] Speaker A: I'm the old perv. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Nice. [00:07:22] Speaker A: What are we perving about, David? Today we're perving about Spawn. Every day we perv about Spawn. [00:07:28] Speaker B: We are sponverts. [00:07:30] Speaker A: We are sponverts in the ultimate definition. [00:07:32] Speaker B: Yes. [00:07:33] Speaker A: And David's favorite word, Spawn Vert. Spawn vert. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:37] Speaker A: And what that means is we are respawn. Where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. [00:07:43] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:07:44] Speaker A: We're back to two issues. Last week we did one because it was our 150th with special guest Bran. Thank you, Bran. [00:07:50] Speaker B: Thank you very much, Bran. [00:07:51] Speaker A: It was an episode. [00:07:52] Speaker B: So much fun talking to Bran. [00:07:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it was good, Bran. Always keeps us on track, too, which is good. We need Bran. They are. They're really good about keeping you on track. They're like, what's next? [00:08:03] Speaker B: And I'm like, okay, yeah, we need a moderator that. With, like, a stick that's just like. Get back. Back on track. [00:08:11] Speaker A: Back to Spawn. Back to Spawn. [00:08:13] Speaker B: Stop talking about Star Wars, God damn it. [00:08:15] Speaker A: Stop talking about 9, 11. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Never, Johnny. [00:08:19] Speaker A: No. Yes. We're back to talking about Spawn. [00:08:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:22] Speaker A: And what spawn are we doing? We're doing a couple of 13s. We're doing 1313. Oh, my God, David. [00:08:28] Speaker B: 1313? What, are we on Mockingbird Lane? Johnny. [00:08:32] Speaker A: No, it's. It was a. So it's a. It is also a level of curascant. [00:08:39] Speaker B: Oh. [00:08:40] Speaker A: There was supposed to be a video game that was canceled. It was called Star Wars 1313, and it never came out. [00:08:49] Speaker B: And the numbers. The numbers go up as they go down. Yes. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Yes. So that's pretty deep. [00:08:55] Speaker B: That's. That's hella deep. Damn, I love a. Oh, man, I love a deep Coruscant setting. So fucking weird to think about living that stacked up on top of people. The planet is a city, Johnny. [00:09:08] Speaker A: The whole planet is a city. That's pretty quick. You pick up stuff pretty quick. [00:09:16] Speaker B: No, stop talking Star Wars. [00:09:18] Speaker A: Okay, so we are doing 13s. Rat City 13. And Sam and Twitch case files. 13. [00:09:27] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:09:28] Speaker A: Two of our favorites. There are two good ones today. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Oh, boy, Johnny. It's. I had so much fun reading these. [00:09:39] Speaker A: It's an embarrassment of riches. [00:09:41] Speaker B: It is. It's. It's gonna be a real hard to not just be effusive about everything. Okay, man. I guess. I guess that's why we started. This is just gush. Our love for Spawn. We get to do it. It's like the. The Platonic ideal of. Regarding Spawn episodes. [00:10:04] Speaker A: Pretty much, yeah. Unless you like the earlier, more chaotic ones where you know what you're doing. [00:10:10] Speaker B: I mean, there's something to say for a little chaos. [00:10:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:14] Speaker B: All of. All of our good ideas were born out of some sort of chaos. Unfortunately, we are all bad ones. [00:10:20] Speaker A: We ourselves were born out of chaos. [00:10:23] Speaker B: From Stardust and etc. [00:10:27] Speaker A: We are all made of stars. No one can stop us now. [00:10:31] Speaker B: Nope. Except for maybe like a, you know, a big 747. Yeah. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Or a drone. David, which one was it? [00:10:48] Speaker B: Are you gonna. Are you gonna tell me what steel beams can't do when reacting? [00:10:53] Speaker A: I'll tell you what, jet. I'm telling you what jet fuel can't do. You're the science man. What do you think of that? [00:10:59] Speaker B: That's not my. That's not my science. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Okay, okay. [00:11:02] Speaker B: That's chemistry, Johnny. That's chemistry. And me and chemistry are not friends. No, no. [00:11:09] Speaker A: You didn't watch that Brie Larson show, Lessons in Chemistry? [00:11:13] Speaker B: Nope, I didn't. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Because you were like, I don't need that shit. [00:11:17] Speaker B: That's just gonna confuse me. And I don't like it. [00:11:20] Speaker A: I think it's a Netflix show. [00:11:23] Speaker B: I've just never even heard of it. [00:11:24] Speaker A: Really? [00:11:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:25] Speaker A: I feel like I see that book everywhere. It's like a really popular book and then it's a Netflix show I see at the airport all the time. [00:11:31] Speaker B: It was a book. [00:11:32] Speaker A: Lessons in Chemistry. [00:11:34] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:11:35] Speaker A: I don't know what it's about. It's about a woman who does chemistry, which sounds like a fantasy to me. I'm gonna be grumpy and grumpy old man. Yeah, please. [00:11:51] Speaker B: Whatever. Whatever, Johnny. [00:11:52] Speaker A: No, I'm not going to be. I'm kidding. It's a bit. But is it or is it. We're going to start today with rat city number 13. [00:12:04] Speaker B: Yes. 13 it is. [00:12:06] Speaker A: We always start with the covers. And I have the A cover. [00:12:10] Speaker B: I also have the. [00:12:12] Speaker A: By Zay. Carlos. [00:12:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:14] Speaker A: The man himself with the. [00:12:17] Speaker B: The good. The good ass art style. Oh, man. I didn't see the second cover, but. All right, so we're talking about this first cover. [00:12:25] Speaker A: First cover. First cover. We got the deviant at the ready. [00:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:33] Speaker A: This cape. But it's like he's kind of fighting himself. It's like his cape's like clawing in on himself. Yeah, it's like he's in conflict with which. He is. He's in conflict with the suit. [00:12:44] Speaker B: Yeah, he is. The suit has a bite of its own. It always has. [00:12:49] Speaker A: It always has and maybe always will. Yeah, but he looks cool. I mean, Carlos, what are you gonna say? He's the guy. He's the man. He's the one that does the art. [00:12:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's beautiful. It's really all there's to say. I like the. The blue of the. [00:13:05] Speaker A: I could imagine. He's the one that came up with the design for the deviant. Right? I mean, he's the artist. [00:13:11] Speaker B: He's. He's the one that. He's the one that knows all the little whoopty foops that the. The cape will do. [00:13:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got that really clean. Aren't really vibrant colors like we're used to in Rat City. [00:13:22] Speaker B: I like the. It's like a smoggy. Green background. [00:13:28] Speaker A: Yes. Looks like my dorm room. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Just filled with smoke and, like, one light. One lamp. [00:13:36] Speaker A: One lamp. Smoke. No, there's no lamp. It's just the glow of the tv. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Just the glow of the tv. Yeah. [00:13:41] Speaker A: And Halo. The Halo theme playing on repeat. Exactly. But, yeah, it's great. I was gonna be like, man, I can't believe they haven't made that into a movie. Like, oh, yeah, they made a TV show. I forgot about it. [00:13:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:00] Speaker A: You watched it? [00:14:01] Speaker B: I. Yeah, I didn't watch the second season. The second season started out promising, but then I just got distracted. [00:14:09] Speaker A: I heard the second season was better, but then they never made a third. [00:14:12] Speaker B: That the problem is the first. The first season they were like, we need to set this up so that way we can have 12 seasons off of this instead of making one good season of television. [00:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:24] Speaker B: And so there was a whole bunch of, like, storylines that were just like, seeds for obviously, you know, like the epic storytelling where you break your people up and send them in different ways. They went that route instead of just making a good fucking story. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:14:43] Speaker B: So the stuff that they. The stuff that they did good, they did good. Like the. The combat, excellent. But there was a side story with, like, a fucking annoying character. And it was just like, fucking, get. Go out of here. Give him the boot. [00:14:57] Speaker A: Get out of here. And there's a time, like background Halo 3 that Peter Jackson was supposed to make a Halo movie. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Could you imagine it would be 14 hours long. [00:15:05] Speaker A: Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp. I think we're gonna go together. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Oh, damn. That would have been amazing. [00:15:11] Speaker A: Yeah, but it got canceled. Just like Star Wars 1313. [00:15:15] Speaker B: It got. It got canceled because Peter Jackson wanted to make 400 Hobbit movies. [00:15:19] Speaker A: You want to make 400 documentaries about the Beatles? It's sad. We need Peter Jackson back directing movies. Yeah, he's making those documentaries. But, like, I feel every so sad if the Hobbit movies were his last fiction films. [00:15:33] Speaker B: Yeah, he needs to. He needs to do something original again. [00:15:35] Speaker A: He needs to do, like, Brain Dead two or, like, you know, another. Like, not necessarily Brain Dead two or Dead Alive too, but like another horror. [00:15:44] Speaker B: Disgusting. [00:15:45] Speaker A: As low budget as he could get now would probably be like 60 million. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:51] Speaker A: But, yeah, he should make another, like a Drag Me to Hell. Like Sam Raimi did that. Yeah, he made all the Spider man movies. He went back and made Drag Me to Hell, so. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Come on. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Come on, Pete. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Come on, Pete. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Yeah, pj. Let's go. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:05] Speaker A: Driving Hell's a fantastic movie. Peach People call him that. They all call him. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Interesting. Interesting. It's fun. Nicknames are fun. Johnny. [00:16:15] Speaker A: I got many. Johnny Fish. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Fisher. J. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Fish. [00:16:20] Speaker B: J. Fish. Oh, nice. [00:16:21] Speaker A: John. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Nice. [00:16:23] Speaker A: It. [00:16:26] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't. I don't think I have very many. I think people just call me David or Dave. [00:16:32] Speaker A: I've never called you Dave. [00:16:34] Speaker B: I mean, I allow people to call me Dave. I just don't think they do. [00:16:39] Speaker A: Yeah, you're much more like a David. [00:16:42] Speaker B: My whole thing is, if I know you're talking to me, you can call me whatever it is, but I have to know you're talking to me. [00:16:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:16:48] Speaker B: So usually she's like, hey, although it is real nice when there's two Davids that the other David always gets to be the Dave. And they tend to like that. Something about being a Dave. A Dave Franco, if you will. [00:17:03] Speaker A: I want to see that movie with him and Alison Brie together. [00:17:08] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Oh, that. That looks like it's gonna have me squirming in my seat. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Like, I don't know if it'll be substance level of. Of squirming, but it looks good. Yeah. [00:17:22] Speaker A: Together. [00:17:23] Speaker B: It covers a different issue. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Together. [00:17:25] Speaker B: I think it is called together. Yeah. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Now you can't beat the substance, man. That was. I was playing a board game with the Branhams the other night on Tuesday. Put on it. Put on. It was like a Arkham horror board game. So I put on, like, I found an Apple playlist that was just, like, horror movie themes, like, 10 hours long. And the substance music came on, and I was like, this rules. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Nice. [00:17:46] Speaker A: Because has that, like, horn and then, like, that, like, warning signal. [00:17:54] Speaker B: Oh, man. Like a klaxon. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Like a klaxon. [00:17:59] Speaker B: Klaxon. Klax off, as they say. [00:18:01] Speaker A: So the B cover. [00:18:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:18:04] Speaker A: For Rat City 13. If you have it up, start talking about it, because I'm pulling it. [00:18:10] Speaker B: It's a Marco Falia cover, and it is a blue background. It's got very, like, industrial cyberpunk anime hallway background. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Yeah. He looks like he's in the Death Star Trench. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's got the. The deviant just standing there, like, staring at his fist. And then behind him is, like, the ghost of Spawn. It's like. It's like. It's like if they did a Spawn Christmas Carol, this would be the Jacob Marley ghost just being like. You will be visited by three spirits, Spawny and spawny. Whoa. They should make a Muppet Spawn movie. Oh, hell, yeah. [00:18:55] Speaker A: A Muppet Spawn movie. [00:18:56] Speaker B: A Muppet Spawn. Yes. [00:18:58] Speaker A: That'd be hilarious. They come back and they're like, we're doing the Muppets again. And we're all like, yes. Like. But it's going to be Spawn. And we're like, what, though? That be so confusing. [00:19:07] Speaker B: It would be so good. It would be so good. Because Pepe the King Prawn could play the violator. [00:19:15] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:19:16] Speaker B: You could just be like, I'm gonna eat your heart. What are you saying? [00:19:20] Speaker A: So who would be Spawn then? I think Sam the Eagle should be spawned. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Well, Sam, Eagle, or. I mean, the obvious choice is Kermit. Kermit? Kermit dies, and his last. His last. He sells his soul for Miss Piggy. [00:19:35] Speaker A: Miss Piggy? [00:19:39] Speaker B: Then who does. Who would Miss Piggy marry while he's dead? [00:19:42] Speaker A: Gonzo. [00:19:45] Speaker B: No, but what about Camilla? Camilla? The chicken would be all very. [00:19:49] Speaker A: They gotta be analog to Terry Fitzgerald. So maybe. Who's handsome? The Muppets is Fozzie. [00:19:55] Speaker B: Gonzo is pretty handsome. [00:19:57] Speaker A: Gonzo's handsome. He gets those chickens pulled in. Yeah. [00:19:59] Speaker B: No, I guess. I guess Fosse would probably fit better as the Violator because he makes all the bad jokes. [00:20:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Fozzie Violator sounds terrifying. [00:20:11] Speaker B: Waka waka. He'd be the walker later. [00:20:18] Speaker A: What was that comic? It's called, like, Murder Street. It was like a Sesame street parody. I think it's still going. I can't remember what it was called. It was pretty good. I read the first run of it, like, the first six issues. [00:20:27] Speaker B: Oh, no, I don't. [00:20:28] Speaker A: It was called, like, Murder street or, like, Death street, but it was like Sesame street but, like, twisted. [00:20:32] Speaker B: Oh, dang. That sounds fun. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:34] Speaker B: Is it, like. Is it, like, Avenue Q? [00:20:39] Speaker A: A little different, but the Avenue Q. [00:20:42] Speaker B: A show that could not be made today? [00:20:45] Speaker A: Probably not. [00:20:46] Speaker B: A little bit problematic. [00:20:48] Speaker A: What's problematic about it? [00:20:50] Speaker B: It's just. Just some of the jokes. Some of their jokes don't. Not as Evergreen. [00:20:58] Speaker A: I don't know what. What is just. [00:21:00] Speaker B: Just some of their racist jokes. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Oh, they have racist jokes? [00:21:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, they've got the whole song. Everyone's a little racist. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Sorry. That you can't handle Truth. David, let's crack this puppy open. We didn't even talk about the other cover. Really? [00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Blue. He's. Yeah, we did. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Yeah. He's got the ghost behind him. [00:21:19] Speaker A: He's got the ghost. [00:21:20] Speaker B: It's fucking awesome. [00:21:21] Speaker A: It's great. [00:21:22] Speaker B: He's. If Johnny. He has ghosts, so he has everything spotty and spawny. [00:21:28] Speaker A: Oh, it's almost time to watch that movie again. [00:21:32] Speaker B: I mean, technically, he wears the chains he forged in life, Johnny. [00:21:36] Speaker A: Mm. [00:21:36] Speaker B: They just move of their own accord. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Two more months and we're. It's okay to watch Muppet Christmas Carol. [00:21:44] Speaker B: Do you gotta? Do you gotta. How many sleeps is that, Johnny? [00:21:48] Speaker A: Actually, maybe three more months. It's okay to watch. [00:21:50] Speaker B: There's only. There's only 90 more sleep. Still, it's appropriate to watch them up at Christmas Carol. [00:21:55] Speaker A: Well, I have sleep apnea, so I only sleep three days a week, so 24 sleeps. [00:22:00] Speaker B: 24 sleeps. [00:22:03] Speaker A: I'm kidding. I probably do have sleep apnea. [00:22:05] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:22:06] Speaker A: I've been told I have mild sleep apnea. [00:22:08] Speaker B: Didn't. Didn't you go. Didn't you go get a sleep test? [00:22:10] Speaker A: Yeah, and they said I had mild sleep apnea. And they wanted me to pay, like, $5,000 to do this one surgery. And I was like, I'm not gonna do that if it's mild. [00:22:16] Speaker B: You should probably just get a cpap. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Probably. I'll explore that once I. [00:22:22] Speaker B: You could get the. The one with the facehugger so it looks like you've been attacked. [00:22:28] Speaker A: No, I don't want to fall asleep to get a xenomorph to scare me. Used to be terrified of those things. I mean, I still am. [00:22:36] Speaker B: I supposed they used to be, but. [00:22:38] Speaker A: Like, when I was a kid, they were, like, real scary. [00:22:40] Speaker B: Yeah, that's scary shit. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Yeah. They were almost made at Aliens. Kids TV show. We're talking about canceled media. This is great. That's the through line of the episode. [00:22:52] Speaker B: Was it. Was it gonna be like an animated show? Like the Robocop show? [00:22:56] Speaker A: Yes, it was called Operation Aliens. And they have. There's, like, toys. They actually released the toys and they just called it Aliens. But there were, like, Trapper Keepers, like, lunch boxes made and stuff. But the show was pulled because people were like, parents are gonna get pissed at us. We can't introduce kids to aliens. It's like a giant walking penis. Like, I'm gonna make this for kids. [00:23:20] Speaker B: I mean, it was a wild time, Johnny. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. They just like, let's make a kid show out of it. [00:23:26] Speaker B: The absolute wild west. [00:23:28] Speaker A: There were toys for, like, Demolition Man. That's funny. [00:23:35] Speaker B: They should have. They should have had Demolition Man. Taco Bell kids boxes. That would have been awesome. [00:23:40] Speaker A: They probably did, like, an adult promo. They probably did, like, watches or something. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Well, I know. I mean, like six or seven years ago at San Diego Comic Con, they made the fancy Taco Bell restaurant that you could eat at. [00:23:54] Speaker A: They did? [00:23:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Oh, man, I wish I could have gone to that. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it like, immediately filled up. There were so many people that just, like, were standing in line and weren't able to get in. But yeah, Fancy Taco Bell. [00:24:09] Speaker A: Tonight we dine at Taco Bell. [00:24:14] Speaker B: The three shell problem, Jody. [00:24:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Hey, that's appropriate because, hey, there were three shells in Rat City. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Yeah. When Erica Schultz was on the show, she mentioned the three shell problem. [00:24:23] Speaker A: Yep. Because it was in one of the issues. [00:24:25] Speaker B: Yeah. The issue be covered in the background. Yeah. [00:24:29] Speaker A: Hey, Simon Phoenix would be proud. [00:24:32] Speaker B: I still think that Sylvester Stallone's solution to the problem was excellent. [00:24:38] Speaker A: Are they cuss, recursive? [00:24:39] Speaker B: Say so many bad words and then you got a whole stack of papers. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Hey, can we do the horizontal mambo or something like that? All right. [00:24:53] Speaker B: They don't exchange fluids, Johnny. [00:24:55] Speaker A: I know how boring. Let's crash it. [00:24:58] Speaker B: It's not boring. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Rat City. [00:25:00] Speaker B: Yeah, the credits. [00:25:02] Speaker A: I mean, the credits are. [00:25:04] Speaker B: The credits are necessary, Johnny. [00:25:05] Speaker A: They're necessary, but never boring. [00:25:07] Speaker B: They're due. They're due, Johnny. [00:25:09] Speaker A: They do. And what we do do is read the credits. And we've got Script plot by Erica Schultz. Art by Zay Carlos, color by J. David Ramos. Lettering also by Erica Schultz. We already covered the covers. Creative Director is one Mr. Toad McFarlane. Editor in Chief is one Mr. Tamis Healy. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Tammis A Tammy boy. [00:25:35] Speaker A: Tammy. Previously in Rat City. Power listed on the run. The deviant is pushed too far in. His true power is revealed. [00:25:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he. That building up. [00:25:46] Speaker A: He did. He went right through it. [00:25:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:49] Speaker A: And then AAN set off a big old bomb. [00:25:52] Speaker B: What a. What a jerk face AAN is. [00:25:55] Speaker A: That's where he left it. And that's exactly where this issue will pick up, I imagine. Oh, my God. [00:26:00] Speaker B: No, this. It picks up like 12 years before. [00:26:03] Speaker A: University of Dubai, 2107. Where are we? [00:26:07] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, speaking of dorm rooms. We're in a dorm room. [00:26:12] Speaker A: We're in a dorm room. He's got like, a Majora's mask on the wall. And like, it's. [00:26:17] Speaker B: It's. It's like a. It's like a poster for the Dora Milaj from Black Panther. Yeah, there's just like a random. I love you too, right? Yeah. [00:26:30] Speaker A: What is that? [00:26:32] Speaker B: I just noticed that. I think that just might be an error, Johnny. [00:26:36] Speaker A: I think so. [00:26:38] Speaker B: Unless. Unless they're watching, like, a holo program. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I was thinking maybe he's, like, talking to somebody. He's working on his computer. I don't think he's like. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's. I think it's Just the digital of it all. They. Somebody thought they deleted it or we're just like, where did it go? Where did that thing go? [00:26:56] Speaker A: Oh, well, yeah, and then it's saved there. [00:26:59] Speaker B: We've seen that happen a couple of times. [00:27:02] Speaker A: We got Malcolm. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Yeah, we got Malcolm and Aerith. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Malcolm's working on his computer. [00:27:07] Speaker B: No, Aerith is working on his computer. [00:27:08] Speaker A: Aerith's working on his computer. [00:27:11] Speaker B: And Malcolm is his roommate. And he's like, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? He's like that. That old Dexter's Lab episode. He's like, hey, party now, study later. And Malcolm's like, study now, party later. [00:27:23] Speaker A: They're all going to the cafe tonight. Want him to come? [00:27:26] Speaker B: And Malcolm's like, nah, I really need to. I really need to do this. This homework. I gotta. I gotta analyze the satellite stuff. [00:27:32] Speaker A: You mean Aerif? [00:27:34] Speaker B: Aerif. What? What did I say? Did I say Malcolm? Oh, I thought I said Malcolm says. All right, you know, whatever. Oh, yeah, right. God damn it, Johnny. [00:27:45] Speaker A: What? [00:27:45] Speaker B: My brain is bad. I'm already forgetting these guys names. It's dude man and what's his face. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I was trying to correct you. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Which one's which? [00:27:53] Speaker A: Aeris of the computer. [00:27:54] Speaker B: Aris of the computer. And Malcolm. [00:27:58] Speaker A: Malcolm's like, there you go making the rest of us look bad. Doing your homework. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And Aerith's like, we don't have billionaire fathers, all of us. And Malcolm's just like, yeah, but you do have a millionaire uncle. [00:28:12] Speaker A: And what he wouldn't have given to gone with Malcolm to the cafe that night. [00:28:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And Malcolm was just like, oh, well, you know what? You gotta. You gotta have some fun while you're young. And. And Aerith's just over there like it wouldn't have changed matters even if I had. [00:28:28] Speaker A: Then we cut. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:30] Speaker A: To a lot. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Azerbaijan. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Azerbaijan. [00:28:35] Speaker B: And Johnny, we've seen this. We've seen this big boss man before. [00:28:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:40] Speaker B: From. Seen this scene before, issue one of Rat City. [00:28:44] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:28:45] Speaker B: Way back from whatever time and date. [00:28:49] Speaker A: It was like over a year ago. [00:28:53] Speaker B: At least. At least a year and a month ago according to the numbers. [00:28:56] Speaker A: Well, no. Well, this issue's from April, so probably a year in 16. [00:29:00] Speaker B: So it's probably March of 2024. [00:29:02] Speaker A: I think it's about when it premiered. Yeah. Somewhere around there. [00:29:07] Speaker B: I don't know, Johnny. I just saw an advertisement for kingspawn50 and I was like, what? So time doesn't mean anymore. [00:29:15] Speaker A: And they're making a new Christmas issue. [00:29:17] Speaker B: They're making a new Christmas issue. Johnny. They're gonna fuck up our business. [00:29:20] Speaker A: They're gonna fuck up our bit of doing every year. [00:29:22] Speaker B: We're just gonna have to, every year do all of the Christmas issues. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:29:26] Speaker B: It's gonna slowly get to be like a four hour. We're go. We got five issues to get through this week. [00:29:31] Speaker A: We got five issues. Our Christmas episode just. Yeah. Just becomes like a week long. [00:29:37] Speaker B: Hey, that's fine. [00:29:39] Speaker A: We love Christmas. [00:29:39] Speaker B: We could. Hopefully they'll have 12, and we can do the 12 days of Christmas, and we could start on the right day. God damn it. [00:29:46] Speaker A: Or we could just do a month of Christmas all December, because there's three. There'll be three Christmas issues. So it's closed. [00:29:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [00:29:54] Speaker A: Think about it, David. [00:29:55] Speaker B: These are the things we gotta think about. [00:29:57] Speaker A: I know, but. Yeah, we cut. [00:30:00] Speaker B: Regarding Spun potgmail.com, what should we do. [00:30:02] Speaker A: For a Christmas episode? We should do the Muppet Christmas Carol. [00:30:06] Speaker B: Yes, we should. That would be awesome. No cheeses for us. Mises. [00:30:12] Speaker A: It's Christmas. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:30:18] Speaker A: It's the sound of the wood by the fire. It's Christmas. Love that one. Do you know that Paul Williams, he wrote the music for all the Muppets, and he wrote the music for Phantom of Paradise as well. [00:30:36] Speaker B: Nice. [00:30:36] Speaker A: You ever seen that? [00:30:37] Speaker B: No, I haven't. [00:30:38] Speaker A: It's really good. [00:30:39] Speaker B: I should probably watch it. [00:30:40] Speaker A: The Phantom of the Paradise. It's a really fun rock opera. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Is it the Phantom of the paradise is here. [00:30:51] Speaker A: No, it's a little different. It's a little more Muppety sounding. [00:30:55] Speaker B: Okay. [00:30:56] Speaker A: The only one I remember is to let it out. I let it in. But it's a really good. It's a good soundtrack. [00:31:03] Speaker B: I would 100. 100% watch a Muppet. Phantom of the Opera. [00:31:10] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely. [00:31:11] Speaker B: Absolutely. I would get. I would get over whatever I have with it. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Kermit would be Raul. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Yes. Yes, indeed. [00:31:19] Speaker A: I think Gonzo would be the Phantom, obviously. He's, like, hiding his nose. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:24] Speaker A: Miss Piggy would be Christine. [00:31:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Who would. [00:31:27] Speaker A: No, she'd be Carlotta. [00:31:28] Speaker B: Yeah, she'd be Carlotta. She'd be. [00:31:30] Speaker A: Steve would be like a new character or human. [00:31:31] Speaker B: Because. Because Miss Piggy totally already has. Has Fifi. And she says, me and my doggy, we go bye, bye. [00:31:38] Speaker A: Yeah. We need a human would play Christine. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Would Statler and Waldorf be the producers? [00:31:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:46] Speaker B: Or would they just be themselves? [00:31:47] Speaker A: Oh, in the audience. Yeah. I don't know. Now, the managers would probably be Fozzie and Ralph. [00:31:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that would be good. Fuzzy and Ralph would be good because. [00:31:59] Speaker A: The manager is a little goofy. [00:32:04] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Who would be Madame Cheery? [00:32:13] Speaker A: I don't know any more female Muppets. [00:32:18] Speaker B: It wouldn't be Jan, because all of the Electric Mayhem would be the band on the band. [00:32:25] Speaker A: They'd be orchestrating. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:28] Speaker A: I don't know. They could just get a fucking. [00:32:30] Speaker B: No. Madame Giry would be Carmela the chicken. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Oh, Carmela the chicken. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Because she's in love with the Phantom. With the Phantom. [00:32:38] Speaker A: Just like Madame Giry is. [00:32:40] Speaker B: Nice. [00:32:41] Speaker A: We figured it out. [00:32:42] Speaker B: Hell yeah, Johnny. We gotta get this episode in the hands of the Walt Disney producers. [00:32:47] Speaker A: Yeah, come on, Disney. Yeah, it's fucking weird that Disney owns the Muppets. They don't do shit with them. [00:32:53] Speaker B: Yeah, sad, sad. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Well, we're about to get some more sad stuff because we cut to a lot and we have. This is a scene from the first issue of Rat City. [00:33:06] Speaker B: Yeah. We've got Fidan and his uncle. What's his uncle's name? Elise. Elias. Elise. [00:33:14] Speaker A: Elise. Elias. [00:33:16] Speaker B: El. Yes. [00:33:17] Speaker A: L. Yes. The. Yes. [00:33:22] Speaker B: And it is. Yeah, as I said before, it's the big boss man from the first issue. And they're, you know, they're just talking about their family dynamic, you know? You know, Uncle Elise is like, man, Fidan, I love you more than a son, even though you. Even though you're my nephew. I love you and your brother like sons, only more than sons. And then as they're. But Elise is also like, but you're my. You're my favorite. Don't tell anyone else. And then as they say that Aerith calls and Fidan's like, yeah, I can get that later. And Elise is just like, no, no, no, no, no. Answer the phone. Answer the phone. Go. I got some paperwork done do. So Sophie, Dan goes, takes the. The phone call. Uncle Elise sends the bodyguard after him. And then when they're both gone, he's just like, oh, I can finally watch my stories. [00:34:25] Speaker A: He's secretly a grandmother. [00:34:27] Speaker B: He turns on Lost Johnny. [00:34:29] Speaker A: He does. No, in the future, they'd be watching Found the sequel in under the Dome, the book. Stephen King's in the set in the near future, and Stephen King says they're watching the sequel to Loss called the Hunted Ones. That's all he says. [00:34:50] Speaker B: Interesting. So this is so far in the future that they're watching the hunted ones 4. [00:34:57] Speaker A: This one they'd be watching the Hunted Ones for. I always thought that was enigmatic that he just named the sequel to Loss but never said anything about it. [00:35:06] Speaker B: I don't know. Who knows? [00:35:08] Speaker A: I gotta ask him I see him and ask him about it. [00:35:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:11] Speaker A: Because I have my pitch for sequel to Last, but I want to see if it's as good as Stephen King. [00:35:16] Speaker B: That sounds like it should be its own special episode, Johnny. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Yeah, we're not going into that. Misunderstand it. [00:35:24] Speaker B: But. But. So Fidan is walking down the hall, answering the phone. The bodyguard is like, I am here. Fidan's like, nah, you can go. And he's like, I'm just gonna stay here. So Fidan answers the phone call, and Johnny, we get to see the other end of the fateful phone call from the first issue. [00:35:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:46] Speaker B: And so. So using. Using the. Like, during this phone call, there's like some. Some hacker hackerizing going on, and the computer's just like, using your Internet connection to find your brother. And Aerith's just like, wait, what? Huh? Wait, what. What's happening? And then. And then there's like a satellite image of Fidan getting shot in the head. And Aerith is forced to watch it. Johnny, it sucks. It's intense. That's intense. I couldn't imagine. Couldn't imagine seeing your brother shot in the head while you're on the phone. And then we get to see the. The very angry scream of Fidan that previously we only heard coming out of the phone. [00:36:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:41] Speaker B: And so Aerith is just like, what is happening? [00:36:45] Speaker A: And then who the fuck are these people? [00:36:47] Speaker B: He's using this satellite link to. To get facial recognition from all of the people that are. That are storming his uncle's compound. And we see, Johnny, the coalition forces, including one Commander Owen Reese, and one First Lieutenant Peter Cairn. [00:37:04] Speaker A: Oh, this Maria Jose Alcazar. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Is that Corporal. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Is that Corporal. Corporal Maria Jose Al. [00:37:15] Speaker B: I also do like that. They are all from different countries and that is what their call signs are. [00:37:22] Speaker A: Yes. Is Owen British? [00:37:25] Speaker B: No, he's. He's Welsh. [00:37:26] Speaker A: Welsh, that's right. We knew that. [00:37:28] Speaker B: So he's Simri 1 Simri. Captain Lewis Becker is. Oh, it's Becker. Is that. Is that really. What's his face? [00:37:37] Speaker A: Ted Danson. [00:37:38] Speaker B: Ted Danson, yeah. No, damn, that would be awesome. Becker. He was an asshole. [00:37:45] Speaker A: Yeah, he's an asshole. [00:37:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:37:48] Speaker A: We got Peter. We got Akio Sato, Second Lieutenant Corporal Khalid Garvey. [00:37:54] Speaker B: We got Corporal Corporal Khaled. Dj. Corporal Khaled, Like DJ Khaled? [00:38:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:03] Speaker B: So he just. I wonder if he just sticks to the. To the intercoms every once in a while. It's just like Corporal Khaled. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Probably. [00:38:13] Speaker B: And then Corporal Maria Jose Alcazar as Toro1. [00:38:18] Speaker A: Yes. These are all the Coalition forces that we know. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Then we cut to a flashback. To a flashback that Johnny. There is no indication of another artist in this book. So this is literally just Zay Carlos doing something that Zay Carlos doesn't normally do. And it is awesome. [00:38:37] Speaker A: Yeah, the flashback is cool. [00:38:39] Speaker B: This is. This is. This is a great little bit of style work here. [00:38:42] Speaker A: It's like a little more cartoony, a little more like watercolor, kind of. [00:38:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's. It's not like, so jagged. It's a little softer. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Yes. A little warmer. [00:38:54] Speaker B: Doesn't have those little, like, zibbidy, zibbity, staticky bits that the normal. The normal art has. [00:39:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:03] Speaker B: And it's when Fan and Aerith's parents were just, like, killed in a bombing raid by the Coalition forces, and they were labeled collateral damage. [00:39:17] Speaker A: And their uncle is just like, you're my boys now. [00:39:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we cut from there to the ruins of Uncle Elis's compound. And Aerith is just there in the rain, just like, picking up the dirt and watching it fall through his fingers. He's just like, I have nothing but hate. [00:39:42] Speaker A: Yes. [00:39:43] Speaker B: And so we see him traveling the world, you know, looking for the Coalition forces that have taken the last of his family from him. [00:39:53] Speaker A: Even travels outside the world. He goes to Moon Base Alpha. [00:39:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Pretty awesome. [00:39:58] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Obviously, four of them died. And the actual action, which we remember from issue one, and it's like. But the final two, Owen Reese and Peter Cairn. [00:40:10] Speaker A: I'm going to find them. [00:40:12] Speaker B: And what's he gonna do when he finds them, Johnny? He's probably gonna kill him, isn't he? [00:40:16] Speaker A: Fucking kill him. Yeah. So this is like the flashback tying in. Now we realize why we're watching this. This guy is a. On a helmet mission to kill Peter and Rhys. [00:40:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:31] Speaker A: And he's like, I'm a computer science major. How could I hell Ben on murder? [00:40:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:35] Speaker A: I was like, well, that's America. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. So we see him at customs in Lisbon on his way to America, and he's lying to the customs official, being like, I'm just gonna go see some old friends. [00:40:55] Speaker A: And she, like, scans his little beep, bop, boop, his little. [00:40:58] Speaker B: His little bedoop. And he says, once everyone's taken everything from you, then you don't have any anchor holding you to sanity or morality. Johnny. So he's. The parlance would be he's a psycho killer now, Johnny. [00:41:14] Speaker A: Something in French. Is that French? [00:41:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. [00:41:19] Speaker A: I think they're saying French. [00:41:20] Speaker B: It's either French or nonsense. [00:41:22] Speaker A: It's French. [00:41:23] Speaker B: David Byrne, Please email us reardingspawnpodmail.com he. [00:41:27] Speaker A: Doesn'T have an email. You know, he doesn't have no email. He's just sitting there getting snail mail. [00:41:34] Speaker B: But he did. He had that. That single that was released on, like, all Windows XPs. So how does he not have just, like an honorary Windows email account? He just probably doesn't ever check. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Never uses it. [00:41:46] Speaker B: No. [00:41:47] Speaker A: That's like Christopher Nolan saying he doesn't have a cell phone. I'm like, yeah, because you're fucking Christopher Nolan. You have like five assistants that can tell you, oh, someone just texted you. Yeah, they have cell phones. [00:41:58] Speaker B: So Aerith is in the back of a cab saying, Rat City is an apt name for this l hole. And then we get the wonderful opening reading. The New York City cabbie. Hey, he's driving here. And Arif. Arif is just like. He's got, like a low jack on Karen and Karen and Rhys. And he's like, they're here. And then a wonderful commentary. The most powerful country in the world and its people live like this. I mean, sad that it is that way in the future still. We've yet to learn, apparently. Yeah. And the cab driver turns out to be a little bit of a jerk. He's like, you speak it? You speak English? [00:42:40] Speaker A: These guys, like, Sam Burke's great grandson. [00:42:44] Speaker B: Probably would be good. And then, like, all of a sudden, the cab driver has to slam on the brakes and is like, what? Get out of. Get out of the way, you freak. [00:42:56] Speaker A: This guy's got to be super racist if he's asked about English in 2011. 2111. Because, like, probably no one speaks English. Yeah, probably very few. [00:43:04] Speaker B: What. What a man. What a. What a guy. And he has to slam on his brakes to. To avoid Peter Cairn holding. Oh, Reese. And then the cab just like, zooms off and Peter's like, wait, we need help. And then. And then Aerith is just like, what the hell was that? Looking out the back window. Because when the bus. When the driver slammed on the brakes, he dropped his little dude pad and he was like, oh, I need that little doodle paddle. And then he sees the face of Owen Reiss at the back window and he's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. And Reese and starts chasing, chasing after Peter with Rhys. And, you know, he's like, I finally get my chance to get them back for all the pain they've caused me. And Peter runs into an alley and aer. But then Peter has shadow blasted. Shadow walking, I think is what Erica Schultz called it. [00:44:05] Speaker A: Shadow walking. [00:44:06] Speaker B: Shadow walking. But, you know, I prefer shadow blasting still. [00:44:10] Speaker A: So shadow blasting. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Shadow blast. He shadow blasts. And then Aerith just walks to the. The dead end of this alley and is like, shit, they're gone. And I like this little graffiti of a guy wearing a Furby mask. [00:44:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:26] Speaker B: That'S pretty good. And it's like, how. [00:44:28] Speaker A: How. [00:44:28] Speaker B: How did I lose them? Where did they go? Uncle Elis Fidan, forgive me. I failed you. [00:44:35] Speaker A: Then a strange voice comes out of the alley. [00:44:38] Speaker B: Yeah, we get the creepy. The creepy texts. [00:44:40] Speaker A: Johnny, you have failed no 1 era format. [00:44:45] Speaker B: We are here, here, and we can help you. [00:44:49] Speaker A: And it's a dog and a kitty. [00:44:50] Speaker B: It's a dog and a kitty. And they say you may call us the progeny. [00:44:55] Speaker A: It's a little black kitty, just like Barbie. [00:44:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's. It's David and Johnny. [00:45:00] Speaker A: Yep. I'm a cat guy. You're a dog guy. [00:45:02] Speaker B: Big. I'm the. I'm the big black lab. Look at that. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Black lab. And I'm a little tuxedo cat. [00:45:07] Speaker B: Black labs are some of the most ridiculous dogs in the world. [00:45:11] Speaker A: Really? [00:45:13] Speaker B: They don't know how to not be happy. It's pretty awesome, actually. And Aerith is like, I'm going crazy. And they're like, you are not going crazy, Aerith. I guess they call him his full name every time. Aerith or met you have been blessed. And they say they are but two of six, but they are still quite powerful. So we're not sure if they're just separated from the other four or if they're the last two we'll see. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Come with us. [00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:41] Speaker A: And we will give you what you most seek in this world. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Like, what do you have to lose? [00:45:47] Speaker A: If I had a talking dog and cat with glowing green eyes, I'd listen. [00:45:50] Speaker B: To him that knew my fucking name. Yeah. [00:45:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:55] Speaker B: Like, if I don't follow you now, you're just gonna keep coming after me. So let's get it over with. [00:46:00] Speaker A: And they're so creepy when they. They turn their heads to the side. [00:46:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:05] Speaker A: Very creepy. I'm really interested in what is going on here. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Mm. Creepy. Kind of like Dee Dee and Dee Dee. Or I guess just Dee Dee from Batman Beyond. Bat. Dee Dee are the two. So have you ever seen Batman Beyond? [00:46:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:22] Speaker B: Oh, okay. So Dede are the. The. The clown girls that are both called Dee Dee, and together they're called Dee. So they always. They do shit like that. They, like, finish each other's sentences, which is usually just Dee Dee. [00:46:37] Speaker A: The favorite episode of Batman beyond was the one where they took him to see Batman the musical that I watched. [00:46:44] Speaker B: It so long ago. I remember very. [00:46:46] Speaker A: He takes Bruce Wayne to. They make a Batman musical and they go see it. It's pretty good. [00:46:54] Speaker B: It's good. It's a great show. It's a great show. Have you ever wondered what if Batman was Spider Man? Hey, guess what? [00:47:02] Speaker A: Batman Beyond, Batman Beyond. It's crazy. I started out as an animated show and is like permeated into comic books and stuff. [00:47:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's the Bruce Timm. That's. That's basically everything Bruce Timm does. That's Harley Quinn started on the original animated series. [00:47:19] Speaker A: That's pretty crazy. Now she's like one of the biggest characters. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Yeah, it's wild. Speaking of big characters, Johnny, we cut to now and the big character of this book, Peter Cairn the deviant, is being boomed out of the building from where Dr. Amen exploded it. [00:47:41] Speaker A: He said, yes. We're back to the where we ended. [00:47:43] Speaker B: Last issue and Peter's. Peter's worrying about all the other people in the building, but he's like, fuck, how can I help? I have a feeling this is how everybody feels when there is a massive casualty event in a big building. It's like, but what can I do? What can you do, Johnny? [00:48:03] Speaker A: I mean, not much. [00:48:04] Speaker B: Well, I mean, if you're Steve Buscemi, you can go back to your old firehouse and steal somebody's equipment and just go help on a pretty awesome. [00:48:12] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. [00:48:12] Speaker B: He's a cool guy. He's solid. Solid guy. [00:48:16] Speaker A: Steve Buscemi. Hello, fellow kids. [00:48:19] Speaker B: How do you do? [00:48:20] Speaker A: How do you do, fellow kids? [00:48:22] Speaker B: I love that. I like that his shirt just says band name. [00:48:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Computer's like Bose incinerating himself and everyone else. For what? [00:48:34] Speaker B: Yeah, Bo's not Eamon Damn Bose. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Oh, God. Yeah. Frankenstein monster. [00:48:41] Speaker B: Yeah, he's Frank and Frankenstein. [00:48:43] Speaker A: Oh, pack it up. We have no credibility. [00:48:47] Speaker B: I like the. The Peter falls next to this, what is obviously a Chinese restaurant sign. I'd eat there, Johnny. Yeah, I'm in a heartbeat. Look at that. The Golden Dragon right now. Oh, hell yeah. [00:49:02] Speaker A: I haven't had Chinese food in a minute. I need to get some. [00:49:05] Speaker B: It's so good. I'm gonna but to break in a little behind the scenes. Look, Johnny, my sister and my mom are coming up this week. We're gonna go get some fucking Peking Duck. I'm so excited. [00:49:17] Speaker A: Oh, really? Where are you going? [00:49:19] Speaker B: Sunwa. [00:49:20] Speaker A: Is that down in Chinatown? [00:49:21] Speaker B: No, it's up on Argylle. [00:49:23] Speaker A: Cool. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Very excited. Never had it before. [00:49:26] Speaker A: You get the full duck? [00:49:27] Speaker B: Did I get the full duck? [00:49:29] Speaker A: Wow. [00:49:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm very excited about this. [00:49:32] Speaker A: What else are you going to do with them, David? Are you going to go see any shows? [00:49:37] Speaker B: Thinking about it. Going to take them to see a little horror show with Mr. Morrell and friends. And friends, yes. And one of those friends just happens to be one co host of. Regarding spawn. Me, Mr. John Fisher. [00:49:54] Speaker A: I'm not one of the friends. I'm in the ensemble and I. I helped create the show. But not create. I helped facilitate. [00:50:04] Speaker B: You did stuff on it, but yeah. [00:50:07] Speaker A: Basically a producer seeing. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Seeing a show with Johnny in it. Because I love seeing the show with Johnny and I love seeing a show Johnny does. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Mr. Moral and Friends. It's a woke demented Pee Wee's Playhouse. [00:50:19] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:50:20] Speaker A: And it goes on Mondays in Chicago for the month of September. [00:50:24] Speaker B: I didn't tell either of them about this. And my mom fucking hated Pee Wee's Playhouse and wouldn't let my sister watch it. So this is gonna be a good time. I don't know what my. I don't know what my mom had against Pee Wee's Playhouse. [00:50:38] Speaker A: Yeah, some moms didn't like it. It's a good show. [00:50:41] Speaker B: It's fun. [00:50:42] Speaker A: My mom was cool with it. [00:50:43] Speaker B: He was cool. Peter says that, doc, even though Dr. Bose set off the explosion, he's sure as hell gonna get blamed for it. And so he's just. It's like, well, at least. At least my suit's taking care of me and I'll just give myself over to it. [00:51:00] Speaker A: Take me now. [00:51:01] Speaker B: He's just like, I guess. I guess I'm going where it wants me to go, but where's that? And then that's the end of the issue. Yeah, we end with like. Like the. The suit is like crab walking him down to the ground. And then we end up in the dirt of an alley. Johnny just like, starts shoving him into the ground. [00:51:27] Speaker A: What is it doing? [00:51:28] Speaker B: I don't know. We'll have to come back next Ash. [00:51:30] Speaker A: Johnny and find out. [00:51:32] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. And then we get the skull and the issue. [00:51:36] Speaker A: The skull, then the issue. I like those issues that, like, start kind of out of context and you get the broader context as you go along. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. Erica Schultz has been very good about that. [00:51:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely. [00:51:49] Speaker B: It's awesome. [00:51:50] Speaker A: And Just ties it back when you come back with dovetails up to where you know, it's always pretty cool. [00:51:56] Speaker B: It's very. It's. Yeah, it's beautiful. New generation, new stories, new. [00:52:01] Speaker A: You add the Sam and Twitch Rat City Gunslinger Book of Nyx. [00:52:08] Speaker B: Yep. Very exciting. Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. I just convinced somebody to buy the first trade paperback of Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger, so. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Oh, hell, yeah. [00:52:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Somebody who's never read Spawn and was like, I stopped buying comics, like, six years ago. And I was like, butch Noch, do you like westerns? And he's like, yeah, I like westerns. Hell, yeah. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Was the first six issues? First five? [00:52:31] Speaker B: I think it's the first six. Cool. Because it's the. The first two. The Brothel. Brothel, Circus and the Circus was three issues, right? [00:52:41] Speaker A: Two or three. [00:52:43] Speaker B: It's those first two arcs. [00:52:44] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [00:52:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:46] Speaker A: That'd be fun to get. [00:52:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Very exciting. Image Classics, Ed. We get my favorite iconic Shrek the Shrek toy ad. [00:52:58] Speaker A: Somebody. [00:53:00] Speaker B: Oh, boy. This is. This is Johnny. This is if Donkey died and with his. His final breath, sold his whole soul to Malbolia for Dragon. And then he comes back five years later, and his best friend Shrek has married his wife, Dragon. [00:53:18] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Oh, God. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Donkey Spawn. [00:53:21] Speaker B: We're gonna have a Donkey Spawn crossover. I'd read a Shrek Spawn crossover. That would be awesome. [00:53:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Then we get my favorite toy ad. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Diablo 4. We got that Lilith coming in soon. [00:53:38] Speaker B: Did you. Did you send it to your future address, or does it need to show up before you move? [00:53:44] Speaker A: It's gonna show up before I move. [00:53:46] Speaker B: Okay, cool. That's always tricky. [00:53:49] Speaker A: I did send the spawn Special Edition 4K to my new address in Tulsa. [00:53:53] Speaker B: Nice. [00:53:54] Speaker A: That doesn't come out till, like, October 7th. [00:53:57] Speaker B: Dang. [00:53:58] Speaker A: So I'm gonna make my girlfriend and my mom watch Spawn the director's cut. [00:54:04] Speaker B: Who's gonna walk out first? [00:54:06] Speaker A: My mom. She'll be like, I didn't like this in the 90s, and I don't like it now. [00:54:15] Speaker B: What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? [00:54:17] Speaker A: Mom, Megan loves Spawn. She'll love the movie. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. It's a fun movie. [00:54:22] Speaker A: It's a fun movie. [00:54:23] Speaker B: It's a good movie. Not really. Fun movie. Yes, absolutely. [00:54:26] Speaker A: I think it's kind of good. [00:54:27] Speaker B: Great movie. No. [00:54:29] Speaker A: There's five commentaries on the dvd. David. [00:54:32] Speaker B: Who all's doing it? [00:54:33] Speaker A: Let's pull it up and see. [00:54:35] Speaker B: I was gonna say, well, Johnny, That's Rat City 13. [00:54:38] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, that's Rat City 13. But we need to know this. This is. [00:54:43] Speaker B: Well, no, like, we can. We can come back from the break. [00:54:46] Speaker A: Okay. All right. In the break, I'm gonna look up who's doing these commentaries, but yes, that is Rat City 13. So on the break, we looked up. So here we go. Brand new audio commentary with comic book expert and podcast host Dave Baxter. What the. Who's this? Why did we get this gig? [00:55:22] Speaker B: I don't know. We need to start writing an angry email. [00:55:26] Speaker A: Audio commentary. Audio commentary with Todd McFarland, Mark Az Dipple, Clint Goldman, and Steve Williams from 1998. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Oh, is that all just one commentary? [00:55:36] Speaker A: God, yes. That's one commentary. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Oh, shit. [00:55:37] Speaker A: I guess it's okay. I guess it's just two. I just. I remember there were like five people. [00:55:40] Speaker B: On one of them. [00:55:41] Speaker A: Okay, so it's just the two. There's just a shitload of people on one of them. Ooh, there's called Spawn Support. A brand new interview with actors Melinda Clarke and D.B. sweeney. So we get to talk to Jessica and. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Terry White, Father Terry Fitzgerald himself. [00:55:54] Speaker A: The devil's music. A brand new interview with music supervisor Happy Walters. [00:55:58] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:55:59] Speaker A: They got like a ton of brand new stuff on here. That's crazy. Oh, man. Yeah, this is. It's a pretty intense special edition. [00:56:11] Speaker B: Do they have. Do they have Martin Sheen with special guest cocaine? [00:56:17] Speaker A: Hopefully. Guys, a double sided foldout poster. Illustrated collector's book with new writing on the film. [00:56:26] Speaker B: Nice. [00:56:27] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:56:29] Speaker B: This. Johnny, this is gonna have to be a huge episode. That's gonna have to be a. Oh, what do we call it when we open stuff? A toddler's gonna have to be a Todd's Toy box episode when you. When you. When you get it. [00:56:42] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely. Oh, man. There's in the Mouth of Madness coming out. Oh, Jesus, I gotta buy that. Pretty cool. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Very cool. [00:56:57] Speaker A: Anyway, so, yeah, get that Spawn Arrow video. Great. Fantastic DVDs. I've got a lot of their stuff. And they're doing a Spawn special edition. It's still available pre order. It's not as cheap as it was a few weeks ago. It's now it's up to $50. It was like 40 when I ordered it, but check it out. I got a lot of good DVDs coming in. I got the 4K steelbook of master and Commander headed my way. [00:57:19] Speaker B: Nice. [00:57:20] Speaker A: One of my favorite movies of all time. Yeah, it's going to be beautiful. It is going to be Beautiful. Arriving by September 24th. [00:57:29] Speaker B: I hope it. I hope it comes with a little Piece of the actual ship. [00:57:33] Speaker A: Me too. [00:57:33] Speaker B: You know, like the special edition episode one came with a film strip. [00:57:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I had that. Well, next up on the docket, we got Sam and Twitch case files number 13 in the middle of this shooting case with Twitch where he disarms his firearm into a man. [00:57:51] Speaker B: Yep. [00:57:52] Speaker A: And shit's starting to hit the fan for old Twitchy boy. [00:57:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Fired his gun into a man is a weird way to. [00:58:00] Speaker A: Fired his gun into a man. [00:58:02] Speaker B: It's a weird way to do a man. [00:58:03] Speaker A: You're the one that said we were talking about the amputee on the thing. You said, like the person who has had a surgery of some kind. I was listening to that episode. [00:58:12] Speaker B: My. My idiocy is seeping into you, Johnny. [00:58:15] Speaker A: I just figured you couldn't think of the word. [00:58:17] Speaker B: I really can. I can. [00:58:19] Speaker A: I cannot. I can. [00:58:22] Speaker B: Can I ever think of a word, Johnny? No. Sometimes the wrong word. Yes. But, Johnny, this is. This is two covers with one cover artist. [00:58:32] Speaker A: Two covers, one cup. [00:58:39] Speaker B: Maybe. [00:58:39] Speaker A: Two covers, one man, two covers, one man. And that man is Marco Falia. [00:58:45] Speaker B: And Johnny, this is Sam and Twitch. So the two covers are one with Sam and Twitch, one with Twitch. [00:58:53] Speaker A: Which one's? [00:58:54] Speaker B: Guess which one. Twitch. [00:58:56] Speaker A: Sam. [00:58:57] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:58:58] Speaker A: You know it. We gotta go for our avatars. Our avatars in the Spawn universe are Sam and Twitch. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's the first thing I do when a salmon twitch comes out is I look at the COVID and then I go over to the shelf and it's like, do they actually have a Twitch one? Okay, I get the Twitch one. [00:59:15] Speaker A: I got the Twitch one. [00:59:18] Speaker B: Sometimes. Sometimes they know and they're just like. Yeah, we'll put the Twitch one in there for you. [00:59:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's like kind of like anime. [00:59:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:59:28] Speaker A: Style a little bit. [00:59:30] Speaker B: Or like. Like the. The. An old, like, Street Fighter style fighting game. It's like the. The character introduction, like Sam versus Twitch. And it's kind of how they. [00:59:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like they're little, like, comes over the side of the screen. [00:59:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And it's like the only movement is the static picture moving to the middle of the screen. [00:59:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:55] Speaker B: Or it's like. [00:59:55] Speaker A: Or it's like. Yeah, in RPGs and they have like the little avatar come out and talk. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just them in front of the New York City skyline. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I like, the Twitch is like, outlined in like, a fluorescent green. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Yeah. And the red of the Spawn universe title kind of bleeds down. [01:00:18] Speaker B: Mm. It's very good. It's very good. Work of failure knows what he's doing. [01:00:25] Speaker A: Yeah. The two Falia covers this week. [01:00:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:27] Speaker A: Busy man. [01:00:28] Speaker B: Busy, busy. But you know who else is busy? The people who are writing this book. Johnny. So let's pop. Pop this puppy open. Give these credits where they're due. [01:00:38] Speaker A: Let's do it. [01:00:39] Speaker B: First up we got plot script by Jordan Barrel with additional script by Todd McFarlane. Speaking of busy Jesus. Then we got art by Thomas Nachchlick. A special thanks to Magnus Arts. Thomas Nachchlick is going to be drawing that new Santa spawn series. So, you know, that's exciting. You know it's gonna be gn. [01:00:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:59] Speaker B: Color by FCO Plasencia and color flats by Sheila Saldana. Got lettering by Tom Orzikowski, the Tom father himself. We covered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and old Tommy boy is the editor in chief. [01:01:17] Speaker A: We love it. [01:01:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Love to see it. Previously in Sam and Twitch. The shooting case against Twitch continues to mount. [01:01:27] Speaker A: This is what they up. I should have said the time that Twitch let. Shot his weapon into a man. [01:01:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that would have been. That would have been perfect. Just like you remember when, when, when Twitch shot his. Shot his weapon into a man and you know, he got in trouble for it. And now there's all this and there's like a case is building. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what we are still doing that. They're still doing it. [01:01:56] Speaker A: They're still doing. [01:01:59] Speaker B: Would be great to have like a little, like a little video of, you know, Rip Stan Lee but just like having a little Stan Lee being like it's always got this and then he's doing this stuff. [01:02:10] Speaker A: You mean Todd McFarlane? [01:02:12] Speaker B: Well, I think Todd McFarlane's mannerisms are slightly. Maybe based on Stanley a little bit. [01:02:17] Speaker A: I can see that. [01:02:18] Speaker B: Maybe a little bit more. A little bit more, you know, more of a tude than Stan Lee had. But they very similar kind of pitchman. [01:02:28] Speaker A: Yes. [01:02:30] Speaker B: Pitch men, not pitchers. Because I don't think Stan Lee ever played baseball. [01:02:34] Speaker A: Todd McFarlane did. [01:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah. So he. He would be a pitchman in two ways. [01:02:39] Speaker A: Yes. [01:02:42] Speaker B: So we start with Sam at the front of a briefing room with a PowerPoint presentation showing what he has so far about the individual that, you know, was shot. Twitch. That Twitch emptied his. [01:03:00] Speaker A: Oh my God. [01:03:01] Speaker B: Shot the Twitch shot. And other similar cases of individuals who have acted the same way. How they showed signs of being dead days before they actually died and right. Like you know, doing random like jumping three stories to the. The Alley. And then, you know, just being like, nope, I gotta run away. But they don't have a drug name. They don't have a drug sample. They don't have a drug dealer. They don't have much. I got much. But it's. I like how it ends it with. So, yep, that's it. That's what I got. Just kind of like, what do you want to do? [01:03:43] Speaker A: Just land it out there. [01:03:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:46] Speaker A: And then cut to 20 minutes later. This is chief's office. [01:03:49] Speaker B: That additional script by Todd McFarlane 20 minutes later. [01:03:51] Speaker A: You know, he loves that time. It would have been 21 minutes later. [01:03:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, true. [01:03:57] Speaker A: Like 23. [01:03:59] Speaker B: So, you know, Sam is talking to his chief and his chief says, what do you mean that's all you've got? Sounds like it's still a good case, you know? And I get. And when Twitch gets back, his chief is like, oh, he's. Oh, no, we. There's a speed bump with that. Yeah. And Twitches, or Sam is not having it. He's like, this is. It's a witch hunt. And so the chief is like, the only way to get Twitch out of this is to prove his innocence. [01:04:28] Speaker A: Prove this zombie drug theory. Yeah, it's too thin to take to the DA now. [01:04:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So same as. Just like berated. But, like, I got all this stuff to do. Then we get a little bit of product advertising. [01:04:42] Speaker A: Yeah, product placement. [01:04:45] Speaker B: Man. If this were. If this were a television show, they would have put the ring noise in there. And all of my dogs were gone fucking crazy for three and a half minutes. [01:04:53] Speaker A: You have a ring camera? [01:04:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I have a ring camera. And everybody. The news on the radio, television shows, movies, they like to keep the noise in there. And dogs always go crazy for it. [01:05:06] Speaker A: That's so. That's hilarious. Yeah, the commercials for it. [01:05:09] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Or like, you know, because NPR likes to do the. We went to their home to ask them some questions, and then there's like a little audio cut scene of them going. You know, it used to just be the doorbell noise, and now it's the ring noise. And I can't hear the rest of the story because the dogs are barking. [01:05:28] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:05:29] Speaker B: But so basically, legal counsel comes to Twitch's house and is like, this is. This is what we're gonna need you to do. We're gonna protect you as best we can, but there's specific things we gotta do to make sure that you're gonna be good. [01:05:45] Speaker A: Union's gonna help him fight it. They're gonna put up a blue wall. [01:05:47] Speaker B: The Blue wall. [01:05:49] Speaker A: Helen kind of freaks out. [01:05:51] Speaker B: I forgot the name of Helen. Helen is. Helen is very upset. But, you know, council is just like, this is what we got to do. Then when the counselor leaves, Helen just says, call Sam now. Right now. So Sam is. Sam is at work just, like, digging through files, you know, talking to. Talking to coroners from different cities. I like that he used those actual words. Feet charred from walking 50 miles barefoot. [01:06:24] Speaker A: Damn, that's rough. [01:06:27] Speaker B: Yeah. He's gone to, like, a distance, A distant morgue where the sheriff's deputy is like, I have no idea where these people came from. And Sam's like, I'm pretty sure they walk from Manhattan. [01:06:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:43] Speaker B: And then he calls Coroner Joe. You know, our buddy Coroner Joe. And he's like, hey, these bodies out here have that same weird shaped spot on their head. So now we've got a connection, Johnny. [01:06:54] Speaker A: Yep. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Shaved spot on the head. [01:06:57] Speaker A: And then Sam's chilling with Helen. [01:06:59] Speaker B: Yep. Sam's eating a donut. Twitch is outside being a pitchman with his son. [01:07:04] Speaker A: Yeah, there you go. There's the pitchman. [01:07:08] Speaker B: Helen apologizes for the things she said previously. And Sam's like, I. I get it. I get it's fine. And he's like, so how is. How is. How is he doing? Because, you know, he's not gonna talk to me as openly as he thinks he is. And Helen's like, how would you feel if you had a murder charge hanging over your head? [01:07:28] Speaker A: It's crushing him. [01:07:29] Speaker B: It's crushing him, but he won't talk about it. And she's like, please, get him out of this goddamn house. [01:07:36] Speaker A: Take him on a damn ride. [01:07:40] Speaker B: And so we go out, and as Twitch's son throws the ball back to him, he's like, so you gonna go to jail, dad, or what? [01:07:47] Speaker A: Yeah, he's throwing the hardball. Literally. And with the questions. You're going to jail for shooting that man. [01:07:53] Speaker B: For emptying your gun into that man. And Twitch is like, no, no, no. I ain't going nowhere. And so we get Sam and Twitch and old Bertha. Bertha. Is that what her name was? What he named the car? [01:08:07] Speaker A: I don't remember. [01:08:08] Speaker B: I don't remember. So they're driving downtown to meet the hostage because. Because Sam was like, we need. We need her testimony if we're going to make this work. Right. [01:08:21] Speaker A: The hostage of the drug guy had taken. Yeah, that Sam or that Twitch saved. [01:08:26] Speaker B: And Twitch is like, I don't. I don't think I can do this. And Sam was like, I don't worry about it. You just you just wait here in the car, and if anything happens, there's a gun for you in the glove compartment. [01:08:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Before he tells him that, we get a little bit of. [01:08:41] Speaker B: Oh, that's the next time they stop. God damn it. God damn it. But. But. Yeah, so. So they. Twitch is just hanging out in the car, and Sam is having, like, a very lovely cafe lunch with. With the hostage from this particular case. And so we see them, they start talking, and then we flash back to Twitch, and Twitch is seeing, like, a ghostly visage of his son just saying nasty things to him in the car. [01:09:09] Speaker A: Yeah, you want to get. You want to. You killed a guy, now you want to get away with it. Some role model you are. [01:09:14] Speaker B: You're not real. You're not real. Not real. And then we cut back to Sam and hostage lady holding hands on the table. Interesting as she's agreeing to testify for this, for this particular case. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Sammy boy, what are you doing? [01:09:33] Speaker B: Oh, man, he's a. He's a ruggedly handsome man, Johnny. [01:09:37] Speaker A: He is. You lost all that weight when he cleaned up. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Mm. Then. Then they. They're on the move, Johnny. They're going to a shelter that previously held a couple of the victims. It's the Armory shelter. [01:09:53] Speaker A: Yes. [01:09:55] Speaker B: And it looks like a big castle because that's how armories usually are. [01:09:59] Speaker A: Yep. [01:10:00] Speaker B: And then, so they. They park, and Sam is like, I'm gonna leave you here, Twitch. There's a glove for you. Or there's a glove for you in the gun compartment. [01:10:07] Speaker A: There's a glove for you in the gun box. [01:10:12] Speaker B: And so Sam goes in, and this shelter place is wild. There's just. It's jam packed full of people. [01:10:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:10:21] Speaker B: Sam goes into the administrator's office, and it's just, like, boxes and stuff. And Sam's like, these people. These people stayed here. I need all of your records on these people. And this guy's like, records? Records? The fuck you think this is? [01:10:35] Speaker A: We didn't have a damn computer. [01:10:38] Speaker B: So he offers to give him a tour, and, man, they start touring, and it literally looks like the. The open air drug market streets in Philadelphia just inside a building. Or like, a Resident Evil map. [01:10:53] Speaker A: This is like a Resident Evil map. And someone's been, like, knocked down. Knocked down. They're all bloody on their throat. [01:11:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And Sam's like, what's this? And some guy in the back's like, it was Benny. He ran that way. And so Sam's just like, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna get him. And so he bursts into this room. [01:11:13] Speaker A: Gun Drawn four dead people. [01:11:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And there's this dude just. He's holding the bloody machete and a decapitated head. And there's bodies everywhere. [01:11:23] Speaker A: Scary. [01:11:24] Speaker B: And Sam can see from across the room that he's got shaved patch on the side of his head. Sam just starts blasting. [01:11:30] Speaker A: Well, he tells him to freeze, and he doesn't, so then he starts blasting him. [01:11:34] Speaker B: Yes. Sorry. Protocol. Protocol matters. Yep. And this guy just runs at Sam, tackles him and runs by him and runs out the. Runs out the building. You know, he's bleeding from all the shot. From all the. The bullet holes where Sam shot him. And his. He's still dripping blood from his machete. And Sam chases him outside and is, like, chasing him down the street. And he calls Twitch and he's like, twitch, I got a. I got a hostel. I got a hostel. I'm gonna need your help on this, bud. The guy runs into a building, and Sam follows him in there. And they go up to the third floor. It's like an abandoned office building. [01:12:13] Speaker A: Yeah. And Twitch swings the car around the back. [01:12:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:17] Speaker A: And pulls the gun out. He's just contemplating it. [01:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:20] Speaker A: He's just the ghostly vision of his kid. Says, bet you can't wait to kill again, right, dad? [01:12:27] Speaker B: What a little shit. [01:12:28] Speaker A: What a little shit. [01:12:29] Speaker B: And then we cut back to Sam in this room. Just tarps over everything. And then he hears. He hears the crazy guy step on something. And he goes, gotcha now. But then the crazy guy throws a computer monitor at Sam. [01:12:45] Speaker A: Hits it right in the face. [01:12:46] Speaker B: Right in the face. And he says, no way. Not another jumper. [01:12:51] Speaker A: He just jumps from, like, the third floor. [01:12:53] Speaker B: That guy just jumps right through the window. Johnny. I thought he was gonna land on the car. And I was like, no, not. Not Sam's pride and joy. [01:13:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:04] Speaker B: He, like, lands on the sidewalk in a superhero pose. And Twitch. Twitch has gun drawn. And it's just like, get your hands up now. But he's. Johnny. Johnny. He is twitching. [01:13:18] Speaker A: He's twitching. Twitch is twitching for once. [01:13:20] Speaker B: But he doesn't. He does. He doesn't twitch, but does now. And this guy. [01:13:25] Speaker A: This. [01:13:25] Speaker B: The. The. The bad guy just says, screw you, and runs away. And Sam's like, shoot him. Shoot up, Twitch. Shoot him. [01:13:33] Speaker A: Shoot him. His leg. [01:13:34] Speaker B: But Twitch can't do it. Twitch. Twitch can't. [01:13:37] Speaker A: And he probably shouldn't do it. [01:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah, he probably shouldn't. [01:13:39] Speaker A: You know, being under investigation for the exact same thing. [01:13:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And then it's just quiet as the man has disappeared. And Sam comes down and is like, hey, hey, Actually, don't. It's cool, Twitch. Because Twitch is like, I couldn't. I couldn't, Sam. I couldn't. [01:13:56] Speaker A: Sorry I put you in that position. [01:13:59] Speaker B: It's like, okay, you were never here. I'll fix it up. [01:14:03] Speaker A: Go home. [01:14:04] Speaker B: Then we cut back to the house, Twitch's house, and Twitch is talking to his son because the lawyer is there, and they're on their way to the deposition, and he says. He says, I love you and goodbye to his son. And then we're at the deposition and Sam is waiting, and he's like, oh, oh, hey, is that Holly, the victim? Oh, hell yeah. She came through. And she comes in, she gives. She gives Sam a little smoocherino. [01:14:33] Speaker A: Slips him her card. [01:14:34] Speaker B: Slips him her card. Says, if you need anything, maybe call my private number. [01:14:40] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know if this lady's all she seems to be. [01:14:42] Speaker B: That seems. That seems. I mean, not to say that anytime a woman shows interest in Sam that he cannot be allowed to be happy. [01:14:51] Speaker A: But usually that's the case. [01:14:53] Speaker B: Usually. Usually if somebody is interested in Sam, they're trying to get something, so. [01:14:57] Speaker A: Or they're like a demon. [01:14:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Poor Sam. [01:14:59] Speaker A: But this Holly Baumont, on her card, it says she's a life coach and spiritual teacher. [01:15:06] Speaker B: We should call that phone number. It probably won't go anywhere. Doesn't exist. [01:15:10] Speaker A: 555. Fake. Yeah, fake baby. [01:15:14] Speaker B: Fake numbers. And so then we're just seeing bits of the deposition. So we've got Sam's being asked questions, and he's, you know, he's just like, Twitch doesn't Twitch. Twitch doesn't do anything. That's not by the book. Incorrect. And then we cut to Twitch in the bathroom. And he's seeing. He's seeing the victim, the guy he shot in the eye, overlaid with his son in the mirror. And he's just like. Ah. Punches the mirror. Oof. [01:15:45] Speaker A: Gotta hurt. [01:15:46] Speaker B: Then we see. Then we see Helen. And Helen is telling some stuff. To our recollection. Johnny, Helen never took their son to school. Never said, hey, I need you to walk the dog. What's going on? What's going on there, Johnny? Is she lying? Seems like Helen might be lying there. Johnny, what the heck? [01:16:06] Speaker A: The heck's going on? [01:16:08] Speaker B: And then. And then we see that it's Helen and Twitch, and they're not like their. Their stories aren't matching up, even though we know that they were together that morning. Johnny. [01:16:21] Speaker A: Yep. [01:16:22] Speaker B: And it's like they're dancing around. They're trying to make sure that we don't know about the big fight. And. And the. The. The. The detective at the deposition is like, Helen mentioned you spoke that morning. And Sam, Twitch is like, you told him about that. So he's trying to be as magnanimous as possible. And I was like, we had a conversation this breakfast. [01:16:47] Speaker A: And Helen says, we don't. Like we used to, because of your damn job. [01:16:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And. Oh, boy. So, yeah, it's like we're just making plans for our son's birthday. He's like, and then went to shift. Sam and I do our drive arounds, our patrols that we do twice a week. And that's where they found the perpetrator. Holding on to Ms. Beaumont. He was like, I believed he was a threat, so I figured if I pulled my gun, he would bolt, and he did. And so I pursued. And then. [01:17:27] Speaker A: And he still had reason to believe he was a threat, though. [01:17:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get to the point where the lawyer coached Twitch to basically say, if it's not good, say, I don't recall. And Twitch just like. Twitch is just so pure. He's like, I can't. I can't tell a lie. And he's like, I missed. I missed. I set up my shot and I missed. And so the detective leaves and the. The deposition and stops by Sam and is like, ah, Sam, we're not gonna need those case files anyway. And twice Sam's just like, wait, what did Twitch say? What did that motherfucker say in there? Twitch is just like, I had to tell the truth. I'm sorry. And Helen's like, the truth. Why did you tell him that bullshit about talking about our fucking son's party? And Twitch is like, but, but. But we did. We did. And she was like, I wasn't there. I was taking our son to school because the lady who was scheduled to take him had Covid. Like, I told you to walk the dog. That. That's all the conversation we had before you went to work that day. [01:18:29] Speaker A: And so what's going on here? [01:18:31] Speaker B: Twitch is like, but we got. We got in a fight. We got in a fight about sex. You said that you wanted to fuck Sam. [01:18:41] Speaker A: Are you delusional? I said I wasn't there. Yeah, and then what the hell's going on? [01:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah, then we see, like, what looks like a shadow bleeding out of the broken mirror in the bathroom from where Twitch punched it. And then it slowly goes into the elevator. So the elevator closes, and when it opens again, hey, it's that asshole from the. From the docks. [01:19:07] Speaker A: Yep. [01:19:08] Speaker B: Who knew that Sam was doing a stakeout? [01:19:11] Speaker A: Who the is this guy? [01:19:13] Speaker B: Little Man Bun and everything. Yeah, Then we get bloody Spawn orb to end the issue. [01:19:20] Speaker A: Also, this really makes me think there's some supernatural stuff going on here. [01:19:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I would. I would say. I would say a shadow. Shapeshifter. Definitely A little supernatural. [01:19:29] Speaker A: A little supernatural. Just a little bit. [01:19:31] Speaker B: Just a little bit. But now we know. Now we know why the terrible, terrible characterization of Helen for the last few issues. [01:19:39] Speaker A: Yes. It was this man. You think it was this man clouding Twitch's mind? [01:19:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he's the shadow, Jimmy. [01:19:45] Speaker A: That's what I think too. It's only the shadow knows. [01:19:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I wonder if he has a big. He has a pretty big nose. So. [01:19:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's hilarious. In that movie, when Alec Baldwin became the shadow, he got a giant nose. [01:20:02] Speaker B: Oh, I haven't seen that movie in so long. [01:20:04] Speaker A: I used to love that fucking movie. [01:20:06] Speaker B: I watched it. I watched it a lot in middle school. And then very shortly after we moved to Chicago, I made Wanda watch it. And I was like, I don't remember any of this movie. What the hell? Very weird. [01:20:21] Speaker A: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, David? [01:20:24] Speaker B: Only the Shadow knows. You already answered that question. [01:20:26] Speaker A: That's right. Only. [01:20:27] Speaker B: Only then we. This is from far enough ago that there was still the pre order for the statue of the issue number one inspired spawn. [01:20:37] Speaker A: Yes. [01:20:39] Speaker B: Also back far enough that it's got the UFC toys. [01:20:42] Speaker A: Yes. [01:20:43] Speaker B: Then we get. [01:20:43] Speaker A: The station's recently been bought by Paramount. [01:20:46] Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. [01:20:47] Speaker A: For like billions of dollars. [01:20:49] Speaker B: Yeah, for some. Some ridiculous bullshit like that. Then the new generations, new stories. New you AD that has the curse of Shirley Johnson. Johnny. Hey. Hey. [01:21:02] Speaker A: Yep. [01:21:03] Speaker B: As well as Rat City, Deadly Tales and Black Book or Black Ritual, the book of Nyx. We need to cover that Shirley Johnson sometime. [01:21:11] Speaker A: And Black Ritual. [01:21:12] Speaker B: Yeah, we got a lot of Spawn to cover. Image Classics AD Is on the back there. And that is Slam and twitch case files 13. [01:21:21] Speaker A: Slammin twitch. Slammin Mitch Salmon. [01:21:25] Speaker B: Twitch Salmon kitsch. [01:21:29] Speaker A: Ooh, I like a salmon. A kitschy salmon. [01:21:33] Speaker B: It's just. It's just like a little keychain of a little fish. Some of my bitch, Johnny. [01:21:40] Speaker A: Some of them a bitch. [01:21:41] Speaker B: Some of them a bitch. Well, speaking of a. Some of them a bitch. This dog here technically is one because he had a little boy dog and he's doing pretty good. He's behaving, so I'm gonna rate him two thumbs up for being a good boy. [01:21:59] Speaker A: That's good. [01:22:00] Speaker B: Which means Johnny it's time to rate the puppies. [01:22:03] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So this week we had two 13. 13, 13. Not the canceled Star wars video game, but the uncancelled issues of Rat City and Sam and Twitch. [01:22:18] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:22:19] Speaker A: And first up was Rat City 13. And it was really cool because I love, like I said, those issues that start kind of out of context. You're like, wait, what's going on? This guy was in the first issue. [01:22:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:22:28] Speaker A: Oh yeah. And you get the context. We have a new character. We have Arif who Or Aerith. And we don't know what he's gonna do. I bet he's become a villain. These creepy prodigy progeny is gonna help him do something bad. I bet. [01:22:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:22:46] Speaker A: He's got a great villain motivation. [01:22:49] Speaker B: Great, great character work. Absolutely. [01:22:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm excited to see where he, he goes. But it's just a really fun like, I mean it's just really action packed story. It's cool that when it dovetails into stuff we've seen before, again, the art and colors is just out of this world. Just neon and vibrant and just everything feels so alive. Every issue of Rat City is just a hell of a good time. [01:23:17] Speaker B: Truth. [01:23:18] Speaker A: I love the progeny. I love the creepy cat and dog. I'm excited to see what's up with them. [01:23:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's going to be, that's going to be a good one. [01:23:27] Speaker A: I think they might be causing some trouble for our heroes. [01:23:30] Speaker B: Oh, most definitely. [01:23:32] Speaker A: But yeah, it's a great issue. Introduces new character, gives more context to other stuff we've seen. I'm gonna give it four tuxedo cats out of five. [01:23:45] Speaker B: Nice. Nice. Absolutely wonderful. I like that it's doing. This is one of the things that I like most about Time Loop movies is going back to see a part of the loop from a different side or like the little bits leading up to it. And that's very much what this does. It shows us the other side of the conflict from the first issue. It shows us, I mean obviously a few issues ago there was Peter carrying Owen away from pts and we didn't know somebody was trying to chase after him. And yeah, just dovetails so nicely. Is, is wonderful. The art, as we said fan fucking tastic Jessica or Erica Schultz is just killing it on this book. Zay Carlos is just killing it on this art. It's so good. It's so good. I am gonna give it four and a half. Golden Dragon Restaurant science. Joni. Now I'm hungry because man, that is a good Sign for a restaurant. [01:24:53] Speaker A: Indeed it is. [01:24:54] Speaker B: Mm. Four and a half. Yeah. So speaking of hungry Johnny, now we gotta go to the. The. If you look at it wrong, it looks like it says sandwich. [01:25:05] Speaker A: Sandwich case files, number 13. Sandwich case files. And this is a great issue. It's one of the better ones so far in this arc, I think, because it's really moving the story along. Great character. Sam and Twitch, you get to see them interacting. They've been apart. The plot is thickening. [01:25:23] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [01:25:25] Speaker A: So I'm excited to see where this goes. I really have no idea, like, how this is all gonna connect. The shadow man, the drugs, the witness, the hostage. It's pretty cool. [01:25:35] Speaker B: Mm. It's coming together in a real good way. [01:25:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, I definitely am preferring this case file to the first case file. [01:25:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. This one. This one feels like it's going to have a little bit less of a. A precipitous. Yeah, this should make sense. We're just going to put it all together there, right? Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. [01:25:53] Speaker A: And also, that was only the Todd father. And this. We've got Jordan Barrel doing a good. [01:25:59] Speaker B: Work keeping the Todd father on track. He's. He's the guy with the stick saying. [01:26:06] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:26:07] Speaker B: Stop talking about Star Wars. [01:26:13] Speaker A: But so I thought it was great. And Thomas Natural has this great gritty art that just fits this series so well. [01:26:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:26:25] Speaker A: No, I really enjoyed this issue. It's just like a good episode of like a cop TV show. Yeah, it's a great compliment I can give it. So I'm gonna give it 4.5 computer monitors to the face. [01:26:38] Speaker B: Ooh, Ooh. That's the last thing you want put there. Oh, yeah, this is great. The case is going. It's, as you said, thickening. And you know, I like a weight has been lifted with the reveal of why Helen was so nasty. Rubbed me so hard the wrong way. [01:27:01] Speaker A: I know. And now we're revealing. Okay. [01:27:04] Speaker B: No, Knowing now that it's this bad guy being bad and being like beating Twitch's head makes it feel a little better. [01:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah, me too. [01:27:14] Speaker B: But yeah, the. It's just gritty and grimy and it's just continuing to be all of the things that we love in a police. A police procedural. Right. It's great. I am going to give it four Holly Balmont rompers, cuz that is a great fucking outfit. When she shows up for the deposition. I fucking love a romper. I wish I had more rompers. I want a one piece suit to just romp around in that'd be fun. It's a good outfit. [01:27:50] Speaker A: We should all wear jumpsuits. [01:27:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we should. We should do it. Just do it. Yeah. So those puppies rated Johnny? [01:27:59] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:28:00] Speaker B: Very nice. Very nice. And speaking of very nice, Johnny, the spawn munity, full of a whole bunch of spawnverts of both types. Absolutely is a great place. It's very nice. And we like to help share the universe, the community. It's good. We like it. So this week we would like to shout out an Instagram friend, Sponparzi. That's Sponparzi. And they're a fucking spawn cosplayer. Johnny. [01:28:36] Speaker A: Badass spawn cosplayer. [01:28:38] Speaker B: It's so rare to find a spawn cosplayer that once we find one, we gotta tell people about him because it's fucking great. And the great part about this, this particular spawn cosplayer is they've got images from cosplays from a couple of years ago. So you can see the improvements that they make to the suit over time. So the suit they have now is fucking incredible. You can see that the suit they have now, they've gotten signed by Keith David. But, like, you can see, like their older suits, and their older suit, you can tell, isn't as good as their current suit, but it's still pretty fucking awesome. Yeah. And unfortunately, though, Johnny, unfortunately, the only problem is they do have a picture of them with confirmed Kitty Diddler, Mr. Frederick Krueger. [01:29:34] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:29:35] Speaker B: That might be. That might be. We might have to cancel our friend now. [01:29:38] Speaker A: Oh, my God. He's hanging out with Freddy Krueger. Oh, my God. [01:29:44] Speaker B: Because a lot of people, A lot of people don't remember that. That's why they pushed him into the fucking boiler to begin with. Johnny. [01:29:50] Speaker A: Yes, he's a bad man. [01:29:51] Speaker B: He was a bad man. He just turned into a funny old dead guy. And so people were like, ah, we'll forgive you for. No, don't forgive Frederick Kruger. He's a bad man. [01:30:00] Speaker A: Bad man. [01:30:01] Speaker B: Bad man. Get his drunk ass from a Christmas party into that fire. Yeah, but no, yeah, it's awesome. This is great cosplay. [01:30:11] Speaker A: While you're on the Internet finding him, make sure to find us. [01:30:15] Speaker B: Yes, indeed we are. [01:30:16] Speaker A: Regarding Spawn Pod on Instagram. And you can research on gmail@ regarding spawnpodmail.com youm can also do that. [01:30:22] Speaker B: Yes. [01:30:23] Speaker A: And while you're emailing us, I always like to ask a question. This week I would ask, what's your favorite Chinese food dish? What's your go to? And I'm talking like, American Chinese food. Like, you know, takeout. [01:30:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:30:39] Speaker A: What's your go to David? [01:30:40] Speaker B: Mine. So there was a guy in my hometown who made sesame beef, basically sesame chicken with beef. And I. That was my. It's my favorite, my absolute favorite. He is retired, and so it no longer exists in this world because nobody else makes sesame beef. They just make sesame chicken. [01:30:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:30:59] Speaker B: And it was so good. It was so good. [01:31:02] Speaker A: I love any variation of General shows. General spicy chicken, like Chang's Spicy Chicken at PF Chang's is really good. Or Pay Ways Pei Way spicy. But usually I go for that and like a noodle together. [01:31:18] Speaker B: Lo mein is good. [01:31:19] Speaker A: Lo mein, yeah. [01:31:21] Speaker B: What I like to do is I like to have a fried rice burrito. [01:31:25] Speaker A: Ooh. [01:31:26] Speaker B: Just you got. Because you got way more fried rice than you have of meat stuff. And then you just, like take some of the juice, the leftover juice from the meat, mix it with your rice, pop it in a little. A little tortilla, you're good to go. [01:31:39] Speaker A: That's a good idea. [01:31:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:31:41] Speaker A: I do love fried rice as well. [01:31:43] Speaker B: Fried rice is excellent. [01:31:45] Speaker A: It's awesome. I got some good fried rice the other day. Asian, it was. It's called Asian Choice Express. [01:31:51] Speaker B: Perfect for Ace. Perfect name. [01:31:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really good. It's over in, like, Little Village, and they have really good fried rice, but they're also really good Al Pastor tacos. [01:32:03] Speaker B: Nice. [01:32:03] Speaker A: And that's what they're known for. [01:32:04] Speaker B: Excellent. We love a combining of cultures, Johnny. [01:32:10] Speaker A: Fusion. [01:32:10] Speaker B: Fusion. That's the word I was looking for. Jesus. [01:32:14] Speaker A: At least when it relates to food. [01:32:18] Speaker B: And fucking nuclear power. We want that cold fusion, Johnny. [01:32:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. [01:32:26] Speaker B: Val Kilmer solved it in 1997 in the saints. What the fuck? Why is it not. Come on. [01:32:34] Speaker A: What's the deal? [01:32:35] Speaker B: What's the deal? Come on. [01:32:36] Speaker A: While you're on the Internet, make sure to check out Lonnie Bones. They just put out some new music for short film they're involved in. [01:32:42] Speaker B: Yes, they have a whole. A whole original soundtrack. They also have been pumping out individual tracks like Gangbusters this summer. So it's good shit. They do good music. [01:32:56] Speaker A: Give them a follow. [01:32:57] Speaker B: Do it, do it, do it. [01:32:59] Speaker A: Make sure you come back next week. [01:33:02] Speaker B: We're going to do something next week. [01:33:04] Speaker A: Some more spawn. [01:33:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:33:06] Speaker A: Without spawn, though. Yeah, yeah, there's some spawns in it. [01:33:11] Speaker B: Maybe there's technically. There's technically a spawn in it. [01:33:14] Speaker A: Okay. [01:33:15] Speaker B: Because there's a spawn in all of them. [01:33:17] Speaker A: Yes. We're doing violator number four. [01:33:19] Speaker B: Yes. Violator origins number four. [01:33:21] Speaker A: The 2025. One 2024. [01:33:23] Speaker B: One 24, yeah. 2024, yep. [01:33:26] Speaker A: Love that Violator series. Excited to see where it goes. So make sure to check that out. We're just doing the one issue because it's a big beefy boy. [01:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's a good one too. Which one is this? Did this one is the. I don't have it next to me, so I don't remember which one it is. We'll figure out which one it is next week. [01:33:45] Speaker A: Hold on one second. I have it right here. This one is. Looks like it takes me like Russia or some. [01:33:51] Speaker B: Oh, this is the Rasputin episode issues. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Actually, I don't think there's a spawn in this one at all. [01:34:00] Speaker A: Sad. [01:34:00] Speaker B: But this, this one is incredible. So I have a soft spot in my heart for anything Rasputin story related. He may have been a nasty man, but he was probably just a drunk old perv. And that's really the extent of all of it. Like he was a monk from the middle of like a fucking small town in Russia who like just claimed that he was a magical healer. And so, like, if you bought him booze, he would be like, you're healed. And that was basically his whole thing is he would show up, be drunk, sleep with other people's wives, and then, you know, would hang out with young little prince Nicholas and be like, don't cut yourself because you're gonna die, because you do not have the blood clotting factors. And people thought he was, you know, a demon, but he was just a horny old drunk John. [01:35:04] Speaker A: Most demons are. [01:35:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's true. Oh, man, it's gonna. Gonna be a good issue. It's gonna be a good issue. [01:35:12] Speaker A: Can't wait. [01:35:13] Speaker B: I just talked about all my Rasputin knowledge before we get to the issue, so gonna have to. Well, Johnny, that I'm excited to come back and talk to you about some spawn in a week. I'm glad that we talked some spawn today. It's got a little spawn shaped hole in my heart that gets filled once a week. [01:35:35] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:35:36] Speaker B: I am. I am on full, which means by the end of the week, I will be on empty and will need to be refilled. But until then, as a full of spawnman myself, right now I've got nothing else to say except for may the scorched be with you. [01:35:52] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:35:54] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:35:55] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:35:56] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:35:57] Speaker A: Hell yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna order some Chinese food right now, man. [01:36:03] Speaker B: I don't Think there's a. An easy spot for me to hit between here and work or. Oh, I would, too. Oh, that's so sad. [01:36:09] Speaker A: I really craving it, man. [01:36:11] Speaker B: I could go for. I could go for an egg roll, maybe some crab rangoons. [01:36:18] Speaker A: Barbecue ribs. I love the ribs. [01:36:22] Speaker B: Anything. Anything with a little baby corn in it. [01:36:25] Speaker A: You gotta have it. [01:36:26] Speaker B: I love a baby corn. I love it when I eat Chinese food with people who don't like water chestnuts because. [01:36:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Give those all to me, baby. [01:36:33] Speaker B: Come just over here, over here. Those little bitty straw mushrooms. You don't like those either? Just bring them on over here. [01:36:38] Speaker A: Not a mushroom guy, but I'll. [01:36:40] Speaker B: I'll eat your mushrooms. [01:36:41] Speaker A: All right. [01:36:42] Speaker B: Absolutely. That's the. There's no. There's no need to make fun of anybody for not liking a food that you like, because if they don't want it, you get it. It's like, you know, like going to lunch with people who don't like pickles. That means you get a free extra pickle. [01:36:59] Speaker A: You know what I'm tired of. We're talking about not liking food or, like, a food part of the ketchup shaming. Like, I like aioli on my fries, but I also like ketchup. And I feel like in Chicago, there's a big ketchup shaming culture. [01:37:09] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's because it was a meatpacking union thing where people would cover the spoilage of their meat by adding ketchup because it's. Oh, so that's. That's where the. No ketchup comes from is because it used to be a way to hide the quality of your meat. [01:37:26] Speaker A: Got it. Okay. Well, I like it on fries. [01:37:29] Speaker B: I mean, if you. If there's anybody who doesn't like ketchup on fries, what is wrong. What is wrong with you? Not. Not to yuck your yum or anything. [01:37:38] Speaker A: I like aioli, too. Don't get me wrong. [01:37:40] Speaker B: But, like, ketchup is the classic. [01:37:43] Speaker A: I like them both. [01:37:43] Speaker B: Any. Any kind of aioli fucking mayo. [01:37:46] Speaker A: I think a white and a red. A white and a red. You can dip both. [01:37:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Fries. Fries are basically a conveyance of getting the condiment that you like into your mouth. [01:37:56] Speaker A: Right? [01:37:56] Speaker B: So if there's a condiment you like, just put it on fries. [01:38:00] Speaker A: Do it. [01:38:01] Speaker B: I mean, I used to put mustard on fries, but that's a little. It's a little. It's a little. It's a little overpowering. You don't get to taste any of the salt in the potato, but it. [01:38:11] Speaker A: Sounds like something Sam Burke would do. Do mustard on fries. [01:38:13] Speaker B: Yeah, sometimes. Oh, man. Here in Chicago, you got mild sauce. Put mild sauce on your fries. That's just so good. Johnny's gonna be moving back to the land of the perfect barbecue sauce. Head Country. Head Country. Please sponsor us. [01:38:29] Speaker A: Please do. [01:38:30] Speaker B: Please do. It's so good. They sold it in town here for, like, four weeks once. And I was so upset when it went away. [01:38:38] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:38:38] Speaker B: Because now I have to buy it from fucking Jeff Bezos. [01:38:42] Speaker A: Jesus Christ. Just like my Spawn dvd. Thanks a lot, Bezos. [01:38:47] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks for that trip in your spaceship that I took sa.