Episode 159 - Rat City 15 and Sam And Twitch Case Files 15

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Look at this. That's Helen in two places. Doesn't make sense. Simmons needs to get eyes on this, I think. Good evening and welcome to the Mal Bulge. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:50] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And that sounded like you were just a rocket taking off into space junk. [00:00:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I was doing this as a vocal warmup, so I'm trying to be more. Enunciate more and speak louder. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:03] Speaker A: For some reason, when I moved to a new house, when I moved to Tulsa, I feel like in this space, I got quieter. I don't know why. Because it's quieter outside. I'm not yelling over traffic. Yeah. [00:01:14] Speaker B: It's just quieter all around. And you're like, oh, everybody's going to hear me. [00:01:17] Speaker A: Everyone's going to hear me. They're going to call the Tulsa Police Department on me. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Johnny. Johnny speaking. Since we're just going to jump into the Tulsa of it all. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Tulsa talk. [00:01:26] Speaker B: Tulsa. Tulsa talk. You better. You better keep your eyes open for season season two filming of the Lowdown and run into the voice of Spawn, him very self. [00:01:36] Speaker A: I know. I heard. It's good. I haven't watched it yet. [00:01:40] Speaker B: It's. It's good. I've watched. Watched a couple episodes so far. It's good. It's good. I don't recognize any of the. They obviously did like a deep dive of where are places we can film that nobody is. [00:01:51] Speaker A: That's cool. I saw my mom was watching and they were. Keystone Lake. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. There was abandoned Bells roller coaster cars. And I was like, ah, Bells. [00:02:00] Speaker A: Nice. [00:02:01] Speaker B: I. The first roller coaster. Have I talked about this on the podcast? The first roller coaster probably was the Wildcat at Bells. Oh, my God. [00:02:10] Speaker A: People died on. [00:02:10] Speaker B: I wrote it like two weeks before those six people died on it and it closed forever. Wow. Yeah. [00:02:18] Speaker A: When I was in Silver Dollar City with my nephews, we were talking about our first roller coasters, and I was talking about Zingo, and we started talking about the Wildcat. I almost went like. We were trying to convince them to get on roller coasters, and I was almost like, yeah. Then six people died. I was like, oh, wait, don't say that. [00:02:32] Speaker B: Oh, man. But I wrote it like four times in a row. I, like, I instantly fell in love with it because I was so scared. But they were like, look at how small it is. It'll be fine. And yeah. Yeah. Then almost immediately, the xingo always scared me when it went underneath the little clown Mouth. [00:02:49] Speaker A: I know. [00:02:50] Speaker B: I was almost like, ah. [00:02:51] Speaker A: It was so close. [00:02:53] Speaker B: So close. [00:02:53] Speaker A: And people keep their hands up and shit. Your hands ripped off. [00:02:57] Speaker B: Oh, man. Probably. It's probably a good thing that Bell's is close. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Welcome to Tulsa Talk, where we talk about things that are closed in Tulsa. Like Bell's Amusement Park. [00:03:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:08] Speaker A: For those who are here for Spawn. I'm sorry. We're now at Tulsa Podcast. [00:03:12] Speaker B: We're now. We're now going to talk about Big Splash. [00:03:15] Speaker A: Big Splash. [00:03:16] Speaker B: How many hours of our life we spent to that big fucking wave pool. [00:03:21] Speaker A: Laser Quest. We can do an episode on Laser Quest. [00:03:22] Speaker B: Oh, do you remember when there was Laser Quest and, like, Laser. There was. There were, like, two competing ones. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah. There's Laser Quest and I can't remember the other one. Laser Quest was the better one. [00:03:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Because it was the bigger one, right? [00:03:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like. It was like Laser Trek. [00:03:38] Speaker B: It was Laser Track. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Laser Trek. [00:03:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Because it was over. It was over by Bixby. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Yeah. It was way out there. [00:03:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:44] Speaker A: I liked. I preferred Laser Quest. [00:03:47] Speaker B: I have a. I have a friend who got his front tooth chipped, like, right in half because he turned a corner and somebody's gun just went wham. Right in his mouth. [00:03:57] Speaker A: Oof. That's a high contact. Laser Quest. [00:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah. He has. He has spent the last 25 years dealing with that. With that tooth, actually. Not to put him on blast or anything, but he is the friend who just spent two years in the Netherlands. And while he was over there, he was like, I'm gonna get this tooth fixed because it's free. And. But, like, every two months, he would be like, guys, there's something else wrong with my tooth. Guys, there's something else wrong with my fucking tooth. So I think he's finally got it under control, which is awesome, but, man, good. [00:04:30] Speaker A: No one wants teeth pain or teeth discomfort. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Don't. Don't get knocked in the tooth with a laser gun at Laser Quest is the moral of the story. [00:04:39] Speaker A: I just think about Laser Quest. I was thinking about. You came up with, like, your tag, like, your name. [00:04:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:04:43] Speaker A: And, like, kids would, like, fight over who got to be like, Scorpion or sub Zero. I was always like, Boba Fett. So no one fought over Boba Fett. [00:04:54] Speaker B: I would have probably bought it. Thought of a Boba Fett. [00:04:57] Speaker A: I mean, kids knew he was. They liked it, but no one thought of it. [00:04:59] Speaker B: I liked the way it's. It just smelled like straight up fog machine juice. [00:05:04] Speaker A: Oh, it smelled so good. I love the smell of Laser Quest. Yeah. [00:05:07] Speaker B: It Was great. [00:05:08] Speaker A: Yes, Marshall, it was good. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Like two levels. [00:05:13] Speaker A: Two levels. There's a ramp. It was fun. You can see the laser. [00:05:18] Speaker B: They did a good job. They did a good job on it. It was. We're talking about it all these years later. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Yeah. My friend James. My friend. Yeah, no, no, the building's still there. My friend James Doty went, like, in his 30s, and they all did it. They, like, went on a. It was like kind of like an ironic millennial thing, but they, like, all dressed up nice, like, in suits and stuff, and went to Laser Quest. [00:05:42] Speaker B: That's pretty funny. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Pretty funny. Probably fun. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Real nice. Real nice. That. That was Tulsa talk. We're gonna have to. We're gonna have to commission a new little. Little. [00:05:54] Speaker A: Play it too much, David. [00:05:56] Speaker B: It would just be the whole. The whole episode is just Tulsa talk after Tulsa talk after Tulsa talk. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. We could talk about worse things. Oh, how was your Godzilla day? Did you do anything fun? [00:06:11] Speaker A: I worked. [00:06:12] Speaker B: You work? I worked as well. [00:06:14] Speaker A: I wish I was Monday, right? [00:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it was Monday. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Did you watch a Godzilla? [00:06:18] Speaker B: I did not know. [00:06:19] Speaker A: So why'd you even ask? You think I would do something? [00:06:22] Speaker B: You were the one who taught me about it. I figured I would. At least. I forgot the circle. I wish that. I wished, like, four people. Happy Godzilla Day. So. So that was exciting. [00:06:31] Speaker A: And they were like, what the fuck are you talking about? Basically, what the hell are you talking about? [00:06:36] Speaker B: But. Oh, come on, Johnny, it's me. People. People are long past the asking what the fuck I'm talking about. They're just like, ah. What is this nonsense? [00:06:44] Speaker A: Aw, that's not true. [00:06:47] Speaker B: So in the first lab I worked in up here, there was this grad student who told me that they. They would probably have to kill themselves if they under. Ever understood what I was talking about, because they would have gone crazy. And then, like, three years later, one day, they were like, God damn it, David, I understand what you're talking about. They didn't kill themselves, though, thankfully. Still around. She's got a little. [00:07:11] Speaker A: She had she gone crazy? [00:07:14] Speaker B: Grad school turned you insane? Yes. So I can imagine. She. She did go a little bit crazy there. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Well. And then she got. She got that straight access to the mind of David, though. [00:07:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:07:27] Speaker A: So it's just like beams, multiple drugs at the same time, and try to get on your level, and I can't get there. [00:07:35] Speaker B: Oh, that's it. This is all natural, Johnny. No. No chemical alteration needed. [00:07:40] Speaker A: That's not true. You told me off record that you had a tequila and a nap. [00:07:43] Speaker B: Hey, hey, that is both of those things. Quite natural. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Quite natural. [00:07:50] Speaker B: Quite natural. [00:07:52] Speaker A: For those worried about David, we're recording at night, so he didn't have tequila. Like 7:30 in the morning. We usually record in the morning if you are in the. On the lo and respawn. But tonight we're switching to nights because I got a new job, so I gotta. We gotta switch it up. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we have to. Gonna be a lot of sleepy records, Johnny. I get sleepy in the. At like 6:30 in the evening. I'm like, ah, okay. I could go to bed now. [00:08:15] Speaker A: Just more tequila and more naps. [00:08:19] Speaker B: Every episode's just gonna be a drunk episode. [00:08:23] Speaker A: This becomes Drunk history was called like drunk spawn. [00:08:26] Speaker B: Drunk spawn. Could you imagine the show being any more unhinged, Johnny? [00:08:31] Speaker A: It was just. You just. No one would be able to understand anything we said if we were drunk. [00:08:36] Speaker B: There was a spot. [00:08:40] Speaker A: We sound like a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Well, the thing is, we would be like, hey, we're gonna just lean into the Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. And then we'd just be doing Arnold. Doing Arnold. Arnold impressions the whole time. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Speaking of Arnold, there's a new predator out. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Oh, Badlands. [00:08:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I want to see it. [00:08:59] Speaker B: It's in theaters now as. When is it supposed to come? Oh, it's on Hulu now, as of notes. [00:09:04] Speaker A: In theaters now. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Okay, okay. Because I know it's supposed to come out on streaming in like two weeks or something like that. [00:09:10] Speaker A: Yeah, they're doing like a brief movie, which is good that they're doing that. [00:09:15] Speaker B: That's awesome. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Because I love Dan Trachtenberg. [00:09:17] Speaker B: Prey. Prey fucking rocked. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:21] Speaker B: So hard. [00:09:22] Speaker A: He also directed 10 Cloverfield Lane, which. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Also rocks, which I still. I keep forgetting that that exists. And I need to watch it because it's John Goodman, right? [00:09:32] Speaker A: Yes, John Goodman. And Ramona Flowers. [00:09:35] Speaker B: John Goodman. John Goodman pre weight loss. So like full glory. John Goodman. [00:09:41] Speaker A: Full glory. Like he's in Blues Brothers 2000. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh, oh, man. I saw the, like, one of his first gigs was doing some. Some like cologne ads or like aftershave ads. [00:09:52] Speaker A: I saw those. [00:09:53] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Young John Goodman. Hell yeah. [00:09:57] Speaker A: I mean. Hell yeah. All John Goodman. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah, well, but I mean, especially young John Goodman. [00:10:04] Speaker A: Wow. Bonk. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Truly, like even more of a bonk than young Jeff Bridges. And young Jeff Bridges could get it. Absolutely. Well, Johnny, what. What is this show that we talk about young male actors in their physical prime? [00:10:23] Speaker A: This is prime time. We're talking about physical time. It's Tulsa Talk prime cuts, prime time, and respawn. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we do not. But this week is no different. We have two issues for you. [00:10:43] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:10:44] Speaker A: Two glorious issues. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Two issues that I think pair well together. Because one of them, I feel like is nowhere near enough. And the other one is just like. Just like, more meat in the sausage casing. Come on. More. [00:11:02] Speaker A: We got two issue 15s. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:11:05] Speaker A: 15 is a cool number. [00:11:06] Speaker B: It's a. It's. [00:11:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's 15 bucks. That's better than 10 bucks. [00:11:11] Speaker B: You can. You can basically buy something with. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Yeah, 10 bucks. It's like, that's going to cut it close. [00:11:16] Speaker B: I don't think you could buy anything with 10 bucks. Definitely not. 15 bucks. Yeah, you can get something. You can get something. You can get. [00:11:22] Speaker A: You can get lunch. You get lunch. Yeah, because everything's like $12 now. Like, nothing's under 10. Unless you're going to Red Hot Ranch in Chicago or. [00:11:33] Speaker B: Or. Or if you're using Your app at McDonald's, which is the only way to get the cheap food at McDonald's now is. [00:11:40] Speaker A: I know they pay walled it, but. Well, it's a free app. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a free app. [00:11:44] Speaker A: It's a great. It's a glorious deal. [00:11:45] Speaker B: You could get. You get so much goddamn food with the McDonald's app. It's wild like it is. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:51] Speaker B: It is irresponsible. The amount of food you can get for cheap through that. [00:11:56] Speaker A: Just throw it at you. [00:11:58] Speaker B: And on Fridays, you always get free medium fries. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Friday. [00:12:02] Speaker B: Friday. [00:12:03] Speaker A: It's Friday. [00:12:04] Speaker B: Friday. We got to talk some spawn on Friday, Johnny. [00:12:09] Speaker A: We do that Friday. It must be Spawn. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:12] Speaker A: And the two issues we're covering this week, the two 15s are Rat City, number 15 all the way back from June 2025. And Sam, Twitch, number 15 all the way back From June 2025. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Yeah, we got. It's June talk in November. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, my God. There's so much spawn. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Well, but don't forget, we did. We did artificially back these ones up a little bit. [00:12:47] Speaker A: We fucked it up. [00:12:48] Speaker B: Yeah. That was our fault. We're sorry. I'm sorry. [00:12:52] Speaker A: Sorry for delaying Sam and Twitch and Rat City. Maybe we should do, like three in a row. [00:12:56] Speaker B: We could. We could do that. Do you want to do that next week? [00:12:59] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:00] Speaker B: All right. We could do that. [00:13:01] Speaker A: Let's catch up. [00:13:02] Speaker B: That fits a good narrative. [00:13:04] Speaker A: Winter ketchup. Winter ketchup. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Winter ketchup. Is that the ketchup that's What? Remember colored ketchups? [00:13:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:11] Speaker B: It's like the purple and the green. [00:13:13] Speaker A: The green. Yes. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Man. Guess who wasn't allowed to have colored ketchup. David. [00:13:18] Speaker A: You would have painted with it. No, Winter ketchup. That is a song I just made up for my brain, David. Because what it is, it's a parody of the My Little Pony song. Winter Wrap Up. [00:13:29] Speaker B: Oh, I know. [00:13:31] Speaker A: To wrap up. Winter Wrap Up. [00:13:33] Speaker B: My Little Pony songs. [00:13:34] Speaker A: I know that one. It's pretty good. [00:13:38] Speaker B: I know. [00:13:39] Speaker A: They're like doing spring cleaning and they go, winter Wrap Up, Winter Wrap Up. Put away the holiday cheer. Winter Wrap Up, Winter Wrap Up. Because tomorrow spring is here. Because tomorrow spring is here. [00:13:52] Speaker B: I'm going to assume this is the more contemporary iteration and not the. [00:13:56] Speaker A: Yes, the Brony. The Brony version. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:58] Speaker A: It was. The only reason I know it is because it was featured on a documentary about bronies. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Was Andrew W.K. in it? [00:14:06] Speaker A: If he was. And that's the bad one. There was one that was basically made to, like, Brony seem good and, like, completely ignored the darker side of the subculture. There's a really good Brony breakdown by A woman, a YouTuber named Jenny Nicholson, who does, like deep dives. And she was part of the Brony community when it was like, in its heyday. And she does like a five hour video breaking down the history of the Bronies and all this. That's really interesting. [00:14:34] Speaker B: Dang. That's interesting. That's interesting. [00:14:37] Speaker A: Just did a huge documentary on the Galactic Star Cruiser. The now defunct Disneyland. Completely enclosed Star wars experience. [00:14:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. That they spent so much money on. It only was open for like a month. [00:14:49] Speaker A: It was like eight months, something like that. [00:14:51] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Was that a success. [00:14:56] Speaker B: No, it wasn't very expensive as well. [00:14:59] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I looked into it. It was not cheap. And there was no pool. You're in a hotel on vacation, there's no pool. [00:15:08] Speaker B: What are you supposed to. Where are you supposed to wear your flippy flappies? How are you supposed to drink a. A drink with an umbrella in it if there's no pool, you can have. [00:15:16] Speaker A: A gunk and life. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Could you imagine the lifeguards having to wear these big suits? It's like you said. No, won't get in there. Misa drown. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Misa drowning. Yeah. So we got Rat City 15 and Sandwich, which case files 15 and much like Laser Quest. We were talking about Laser Quest. There's a lot of lasers in Rat City. [00:15:42] Speaker B: There's. There's lasers galore. Oh, man. [00:15:45] Speaker A: There's a Laser on the front cover that I have of the A cover. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Look at that big old laser. [00:15:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, it's. It's a. It's a. It's a shot off laser. So it's. It's smoking because it's so hot. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Somebody stop me. I'm smoking. Seriously, stop me. It's giving me lung cancer. [00:16:08] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:16:09] Speaker A: Dare to keep your kids off drugs. [00:16:13] Speaker B: You know, the biggest potheads I ever met were all people who won, like, awards for dare essays when they were little. [00:16:23] Speaker A: Really? [00:16:23] Speaker B: And they would. They would, like, frame them and then just be like, ah, look at that. Ah, look at that. It's quite funny. [00:16:33] Speaker A: But you knew multiple people that did that. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I knew, like, three people who did that. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:16:38] Speaker B: Just because they thought it was the. They liked the juxtaposition of, you know, being a little kid saying, say no to drugs. And then I guess weed is only nominally a drug. [00:16:49] Speaker A: It was. It was a big drug back then. [00:16:51] Speaker B: It was a big joke back then. [00:16:53] Speaker A: But dope, Smack. It's not smack. It's dope. Oh, yeah, he was smoking. Dope is dope. Weed. [00:17:00] Speaker B: I. I think dope is more of a catch. [00:17:02] Speaker A: All those just kind of anything. [00:17:03] Speaker B: It's kind of anything. [00:17:06] Speaker A: You smoke that weed, that grass, that devil lettuce. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:09] Speaker A: That reefer. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Actually, yes. Yeah. [00:17:13] Speaker A: It's legal in Chicago. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It might as well be legal. [00:17:20] Speaker A: I mean, it's almost legal in Oklahoma. You just gotta get the card. I haven't got the card. [00:17:23] Speaker B: I've heard that the card is, like, ludicrously easy to get to. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Yeah. You can do it on zoom. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Nice. But I've also heard that that means that, like, any. Any storefront that is empty just, like, immediately becomes a dispensary. So it's like. [00:17:40] Speaker A: It's also lousy with dispensaries. [00:17:43] Speaker B: It's like that episode where Bart Simpson of the Simpsons where Bart Simpson gets the. The ear piercing. And they're like, you got to hurry up, because in five minutes this place is going to be a Starbucks. And the whole mall is just Starbucks. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Starbucks. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Damn it. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Be weed. Source. Yeah. So, Mike, a cover is by Thomas Nachlick. [00:18:05] Speaker B: Naturally. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Yes. [00:18:09] Speaker B: That didn't come up very well. [00:18:10] Speaker A: That was awful. Breeze on past that. It's the deviant. Like. [00:18:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:16] Speaker A: Gazing off. He looks like Matt. He's standing like Master Chief or something. [00:18:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it kind of looks like he's in a. Like an aircraft hangar, too. [00:18:23] Speaker A: This is an aircraft hanger. He just beat the Halo one. David, I just got the Saddest news today. [00:18:28] Speaker B: What's that? [00:18:29] Speaker A: Brand texted me. The Halo game we play weekly. Me and Bran. They are discontinuing support for it. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:18:38] Speaker A: There'll be no more updates. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Oh, no. Is it. Is it original Halo or is it. [00:18:43] Speaker A: No, this is Halo Infinite, the newest one. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Oh, no, it's like the current one. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:18:48] Speaker B: What the. Why? Why? Oh, because they're. [00:18:51] Speaker A: Does it come out with a new one? All the developers are taking their time away from that to go work on the new one. [00:18:56] Speaker B: The. And they're moving it to PS5. [00:19:00] Speaker A: That's. That's the campaign. Yeah, they're doing that, too. That's weird, dude. That seems illegal. [00:19:04] Speaker B: It does seem illegal. So weird. So weird. [00:19:08] Speaker A: Master Chief hanging out with Banjo Kazooie. Banjo kazooie said 64. Oh, God damn it, Spyro. Crash Bandicoot. [00:19:20] Speaker B: That's who I was thinking of. Crash Bandicoot. [00:19:24] Speaker A: That's the one. [00:19:24] Speaker B: How did I. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Master Chiefs hanging out with Crash Bandicoot. They probably already hung out. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. They probably. They've probably been going to the same parties for years. [00:19:35] Speaker A: They're probably both in Fortnite. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Probably. Man, in high school, having a Halo LAN party was just primo. Oh, yeah, those things rocked so hard. [00:19:50] Speaker A: You get four TVs, get some fucking Ethernet cables. [00:19:54] Speaker B: Just like, two dozen. Two dozen unwashed teenage boys all sweating it up in a room, yelling at a video game. [00:20:04] Speaker A: That'd be hilarious. Because, like, even if they're bad, hey, look, just walk forward and shoot. Like, just. [00:20:08] Speaker B: Dude, that was me. That was me. I'm Terror. It was terrible. At Halo. My job was to sit. I. I got to camp because I was bad, so they let me camp. I had to sit at the flag with a shotgun, and my job was to shoot anybody that came close. [00:20:22] Speaker A: It's a good job. [00:20:23] Speaker B: It was. It was. It was like, the only thing I was good at. [00:20:27] Speaker A: If they can capture the flag, camping's allowed. Like, it's capture the flag, man. You're supposed to protect your flag. [00:20:33] Speaker B: Yeah, but it's a viable. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Camping's a viable strategy. Yeah, sorry. [00:20:38] Speaker B: It's the. It's the same. It's the same thing that allowed me to play as Kirby whenever we played Smash Brothers. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Yeah, let David be Kirby, because I. [00:20:45] Speaker B: I lost even while playing Kirby, so it was a wash. I. I fell off the side of that. That platform regularly. [00:20:55] Speaker A: I just imagine you go like, do it, do it. Jumping the wrong way. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:00] Speaker B: When the. That Wii Super Mario Brothers game came out. [00:21:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the multiplayer one. [00:21:07] Speaker B: Wanda And I had so many arguments because she was like, get out of the fucking way. And I was like, I don't know what I'm doing and just get out of the way. Yeah, yeah. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Bad at video games, but good at describing Spawn covers. So. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Yes, indeed, what cover do you have? I have the Vaughn Randall cover, the COVID B, which has, you know, the not too often seen white cover that is reminiscent of the Origins collections covers. And it's got. It's got the deviant just like, like arms. Arms wide, kind of like a. In a Christ pose, one could say. [00:21:45] Speaker A: And it looks like you've given them all. You got to do the crucifixion pose. If you see the ghost movie. You know what I was talking about, David. I know, but Papa Neal's advice to Papa, you forget that. [00:21:56] Speaker B: I forget everything. [00:21:58] Speaker A: His advice to Copia is when he's given. All he can give to his audience is to do the crucifixion pose. [00:22:04] Speaker B: Nice. [00:22:05] Speaker A: To show that he has nothing left to give. [00:22:07] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Awesome. [00:22:09] Speaker A: And he does. [00:22:10] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. Man. I miss Copia. He was a good guy. [00:22:13] Speaker A: He's still around in the shorts. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I'm gonna. I'm gonna have to watch some shorts. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Yeah, they're getting plotty. Yeah, he's still around. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Nice. But so, so, yeah, the deviant in his Christ pose. And he's like attached to some sort of weird like. Like light based mechanism. It's like something you would see for, like, it looks like the rig that they do astronaut training in. [00:22:41] Speaker A: And there would be like a fucking Kanye west concert. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:45] Speaker A: I mean, 10 years ago. [00:22:47] Speaker B: It's. It's weird, but it's. It's very well done. But it's a weird contraption he's in. [00:22:54] Speaker A: Hey, you know something you see at Kanye west concert Now, David, are you. [00:22:57] Speaker B: Going to say Nazis? [00:22:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I was going to say. I was going to say swastika. [00:23:02] Speaker B: Okay. Do you know. [00:23:04] Speaker A: Wouldn't have guessed that one. [00:23:06] Speaker B: You know what you. You know what you're going to see at a Kanye west concert, Johnny. Not me. [00:23:11] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:23:13] Speaker B: I've. I've long been anti Kanye West. Like, even before he went crazy, I was the one person who was always like, his music is bad. And everybody was angry at me for it, but I stand by it. His music is bad. It's no good. It's bad. [00:23:31] Speaker A: Dang. [00:23:33] Speaker B: He's bad music man. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, well, there you go. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Come at me. [00:23:39] Speaker A: Come at me. [00:23:40] Speaker B: I'm all of Chicago on my ass. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't think so, David, I think you'll be okay. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Okay, cool. [00:23:49] Speaker A: But what's better than okay is this issue, so I can't wait to get to it. So pop it open. Yeah, we got script plot. Here's the credits. We're popping open. We got the credits right here. Rat City. Here we go. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Let's do it. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Script plot by Erica Schultz. Art by Zay Carlos, Color by Ulysses Areola. Lettering by Erica Schultz. We already covered the covers. Creative Director is one Mr. Todd McFarlane. Editor in Chief is one Mr. Thomas Healy. [00:24:23] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:24:25] Speaker A: Previously in Rat City. Peter, still trapped in between, faces horrific challenges. Yeah, and a bunch of other happened. [00:24:37] Speaker B: A whole bunch of stuff happened. [00:24:38] Speaker A: You could have like, you know, maybe remind us of, like, you know, what's going on with, you know, maybe just like a hint about what's going on. [00:24:46] Speaker B: With, you know, with that, that dude's. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Brother, with Feeding's brother. I'm like, oh, what happened? Armat or what's his name? [00:24:53] Speaker B: Yeah, Arif. Arif. [00:24:56] Speaker A: Arif, Arif, Arif. Yeah, it's like, hey, can we get a, like a reminder what's going on there? This previously on Stinks. [00:25:03] Speaker B: Yeah, man. [00:25:05] Speaker A: If you're watching a show for the first time and it's like you're watching episode one after other, do you watch the previously ons? Usually I do too, because, like, it helps you remember what's important. [00:25:16] Speaker B: It depends on if it's a binge situation or if I've had some time to do something else in between. I want to make sure that I'm not lost. Cuz nothing's worse than sitting down and not realizing that you missed an episode until like seven minutes into the episode. And it's like, oh, God damn it, I gotta go back. [00:25:42] Speaker A: There's two great games called Judgment and the sequel is Lost Judgment. They're like These Japanese action RPGs similar to Yakuza games. They're very goofy, but very. They're awesome. They're just like, they're everything at once. They're goofy, they're serious, they're all over the place. [00:25:56] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:25:57] Speaker A: But one of the greatest features is every chapter of the game that recaps the game that far. Any time you go to the menu, hit recap and it'll recap the story up to that point for you. [00:26:06] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:26:06] Speaker A: So, like, you stop playing for a long time, you can be like, fuck, what happened? And you're like, oh, sweet. [00:26:10] Speaker B: That's awesome. That's real cool. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's good. It's good game. [00:26:15] Speaker B: Nice. [00:26:17] Speaker A: So that's the credits. And we complained about the previously on like we always do. So that means it's time to start talking about the book. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:26:25] Speaker A: We opened a PTS headquarters New York City, many years ago. [00:26:29] Speaker B: We've got Dr. Amen and Dr. Oh, crap, I forgot the bad guy. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Phil. [00:26:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:37] Speaker A: Dr. Phil Bose, perhaps. Bose. [00:26:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Dr. Bose. Worse than Dr. Phil, if you can believe it. Johnny. More malicious, at least. [00:26:52] Speaker A: You're right. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Less bumbling, less of a fool. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Don't let him fool you, David. He's a fucking weirdo. [00:27:00] Speaker B: Who? Dr. Phil? [00:27:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Was. It wasn't the thing, like, back when he was first getting big that the place that he supposedly got his doctorate from had to make a public announcement saying he's not. We didn't give him a doctorate. Didn't. Was. Wasn't that a thing? [00:27:17] Speaker A: Sure, I believe you. [00:27:19] Speaker B: If that's an unsubstantiated rumor, I'm happy to perpetuate that. [00:27:23] Speaker A: TV. Doctor. Doctor. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a. He's a dingus, but yeah. [00:27:29] Speaker A: Dr. Amen and Dr. Bose are looking at some nanites. [00:27:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:32] Speaker A: And they're like, what the hell are these damn things? [00:27:34] Speaker B: The. And Dr. Bose. [00:27:38] Speaker A: This tissue die. [00:27:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Because. Because if they. The tissue dies, then they die. [00:27:43] Speaker A: Johnny, these are machines. They don't think for themselves. Come on. Yes, they do. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Obviously Dr. Bose has never watched Terminator. He knows. He knows nothing of Skynet. [00:27:58] Speaker A: Yeah. You just assume those movies don't exist in the universe like this because everyone, it's like zombie movies don't exist in a zombie. [00:28:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:05] Speaker A: Apocalypse. It's like. [00:28:06] Speaker B: I guess that's true because I was. [00:28:08] Speaker A: Like, this is just the fucking Matrix. This is just the Terminator. [00:28:13] Speaker B: End of movie. [00:28:15] Speaker A: End of movie. [00:28:15] Speaker B: I like this. I like this. I like this microscope design. It's really cool. Kind of looks cool. Kind of looks like they took an old school, like, credit card reader that's just the one that makes the carbon copy and added some lights and some big screws to it. It's cool. [00:28:34] Speaker A: It's also, like, kind of Blade Runner esque. It's chunky. It's got like big wires coming out of it. Yeah. Kind of reminds me of something out of Blade Runner. Enhance. [00:28:41] Speaker B: So, yeah, we, we, we. We jump directly from Aamon and Bose. Talking about how that's. [00:28:47] Speaker A: That's just that one interlude. They don't go back in this whole issue. It's just like. Yeah, just a little thing. [00:28:53] Speaker B: Just, Just a little, Just a little. Hey, these nanites are gonna keep this dead tissue alive. [00:28:57] Speaker A: But also. So I guess that's kind of a setup for. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Why? I mean, it's. [00:29:00] Speaker A: What's his name still? [00:29:01] Speaker B: It's. It's. It's Erica Schultz. So. It's important. Johnny, we need. [00:29:05] Speaker A: No, yeah, it's important, this issue. [00:29:06] Speaker B: But, yeah, we jump from there directly to Peter just kicking zombie ass in the in between. Look at these. Speaking of zombies. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Yeah. I feel like I'm in 2006 up in here. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Zombies everywhere. [00:29:23] Speaker A: Hey, David, let's do Zombie Pirate Day. [00:29:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:27] Speaker A: Do you know today's zombie talking? A Zombie Pirate day. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Is that where you try to say yar and your jaw falls off? [00:29:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Like evil ash. Sally forth. Sally forth. I love that in Sam Raimi. Gets a little evil ad nod in Dr. Universe. Dr. Universe. Strange in the multiverse of madness. [00:29:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:58] Speaker A: Because he gets. When he's, like, dead Dr. Strange, he doesn't have any lips. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:01] Speaker A: So he's like America when he's talking to America. [00:30:07] Speaker B: Oh, man, that's a good movie. Yeah. Sam Raimi. [00:30:11] Speaker A: We love the Sam Raimi. Yeah. Send. Help's coming out. [00:30:15] Speaker B: You ever seen Crime Wave? Nobody has. [00:30:18] Speaker A: You can't you go on a dvd? Too bad you can't. Have you ever seen Crime Wave? [00:30:24] Speaker B: Me? Yeah. [00:30:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I liked it. [00:30:27] Speaker B: I liked it. Yeah, it's good. [00:30:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Bruce Campbell plays Ronaldo the heel. Yeah, that's his name. [00:30:34] Speaker B: My. My favorite part of it is actually there's an establishing scene of an office, and it's got a person sitting at a desk, but everything at the desk is set up so that way the people on the other side of the desk can see it and not the person sitting at the desk. [00:30:51] Speaker A: That's so weird. [00:30:52] Speaker B: I think about that a lot. [00:30:53] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:30:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:55] Speaker A: So Peter's in the in between, but the suit. Well, he's in between his brain, but he's like. Like the Prodigy's like. I don't quite understand what's going on here, David. Can you explain it to me? [00:31:07] Speaker B: Oh, boy. So he. I mean, he is. So he's shackled to the in between in some way. He is unable. He's like, in the in between physically. And then, like, his. His mind is separated from his ability to do things. Like the. The Prodigy have been like, hey, suit, shut down. Shut down Peter for a minute. We gotta. We gotta talk about stuff. So he's, like, imprisoned both within the suit and within his own mind. So. [00:31:36] Speaker A: Okay, I got you. I got you. [00:31:37] Speaker B: So I think these demons that he's fight or these zombies that he's fighting are his Own demons at this point. And so, yeah, just Peter's just like, like, imprisoned in this. In the. The suit and the. The prod. The progeny are just around there all talking about what they're doing. [00:31:53] Speaker A: The prodigy is this spirit that's just like a bunch of different animals. [00:31:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. [00:31:58] Speaker A: It's like a hive mind because they're. They're individuals, but they're not, I think. [00:32:03] Speaker B: Did we describe them as Oogie Boogie only with animals instead of bugs? [00:32:07] Speaker A: Yes, Oogie Boogie animals and without a sack. [00:32:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it gets. It gets very confusing because they refer to themselves as themselves the entire time. And so you gotta. You gotta. You gotta track the pronouns to make sure who they're talking about, because they're like, we talked to us. And it's like, what? Oh, okay, I get it. [00:32:30] Speaker A: I get you. [00:32:31] Speaker B: I get you. [00:32:32] Speaker A: And he's like, yo, how can this guy be a true hellspawn if he's not dead? And he's like, it has happened before. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be interesting. Very interesting. [00:32:41] Speaker A: Has it? Has happened before. [00:32:42] Speaker B: That's happened before, I think. [00:32:45] Speaker A: I don't think. I don't think. What's his name? Died. Fucking hair. [00:32:50] Speaker B: Oh, oh, oh. It's Jim Downing. Ha. I knew it was a J.D. jim Downing. [00:32:56] Speaker A: Yeah. They talk about Jim Downing. [00:32:58] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe. Maybe some. Couple others. [00:33:03] Speaker A: I guess. She. Jessica Priest never died. [00:33:06] Speaker B: Jessica Priest never died. Did Javi. Technically, I mean, I know Javi died after. [00:33:10] Speaker A: It's good. We don't know. [00:33:11] Speaker B: Hobby's is kind of weird. [00:33:13] Speaker A: He's, like, in a body, but he's not Javi. But he is. [00:33:15] Speaker B: He's Tobias, this Grateful Dead ass. Sin or not sin. Cog. There we go. Precin. [00:33:28] Speaker A: Cog. [00:33:29] Speaker B: Oh, comics. I also. [00:33:31] Speaker A: Sins alive. Sins alive in one panel. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I like. I do like how they're kind of like. One of them's like, do they ever. [00:33:37] Speaker A: Explain why the action figures black. [00:33:39] Speaker B: No. No. [00:33:41] Speaker A: So confusing. It's so. [00:33:42] Speaker B: No. Oh, boy. I do like that there's an undercurrent of kind of. It feels like somebody's gonna say, well, if he has to be dead, we could just kill him. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:55] Speaker B: So I like that. And then while the. While they're all, you know, talking about. Talking about all this, they're like, but don't forget, we also get that other guy that we're maybe testing out for this, so maybe we could just give this guy the boot. And they're like, because, you know, this guy, he's in the suit right now. But I don't Know if he's strong enough to handle what will come. And Johnny, we get to turn the page to see what will come. And that's a glorious. That's a poster. That's a ding dang poster. [00:34:28] Speaker A: It's a glorious Violator overshadowing Peter here. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just going, ah. [00:34:36] Speaker A: I mean, Zay Carlos. Like, I mean, even just so far in these like four pages issues, he's killing it. And Ulysses Areola is killing it. This book is just so vibrant. Yeah. And this violator is awesome. [00:34:47] Speaker B: It's. It's amazing. It's the same. It's probably the scariest Violator has ever been. [00:34:52] Speaker A: It's just great. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And I do like that Peter is also still just like standing on a mountain of dead zombies. [00:34:59] Speaker A: He's like, God damn it. He's like, oh, yeah, I've seen this thing before. Nightmare. [00:35:04] Speaker B: Nightmare. [00:35:05] Speaker A: Because like in issue four or five, he sees a vision of Allison and the Violator. [00:35:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, he also hallucinates Quinlan as the violator. [00:35:15] Speaker A: That's what it is. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:17] Speaker A: He sees a. He sees a vision. Al Simmons. But he's. [00:35:20] Speaker B: So we get a. We get a nice little. A little bit of fight between the deviant and violator here. [00:35:27] Speaker A: Back on the outside of Peter's brain, the prodigy is just like, all right, we got this new candidate. Let's go check this thing out. [00:35:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And their new candidate. So they like, obviously are just like, leaving Peter here to wrestle with his. His. His Violator internally. Because they're like, yeah, we're just gonna get rid of this guy. We gotta. We gotta kill him. We gotta like, scrape him out of the suit. We'll just let that happen. [00:35:57] Speaker A: And they kind of morph into like a man. They, like, joined together. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's weird. And they leave Peter alone to fight the Violator. But after they leave Peter alone to fight the Violator, in his mind, someone comes to his rescue. [00:36:12] Speaker A: Jet first. He calls him a filthy sigly fat. You know what that means? I have no idea. Is that a real word? I would assume so. [00:36:22] Speaker B: I'm gonna assume it's a real word, but I don't know. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Let's find out. [00:36:26] Speaker B: It looks. It looks awfully like love crack, Crafty and siglyfad. Or it might be Welsh. [00:36:33] Speaker A: It's well Welsh. [00:36:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:35] Speaker A: Oh, because he called him that. Yeah. [00:36:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:37] Speaker A: It's a stinker or a fart. He's a stinker. [00:36:41] Speaker B: He's a stinker. Nice fart. He's just like, reese, is that you? And Reese is like, hell yeah, it is. And comes in swinging and starts giving the violator what for. [00:36:54] Speaker A: Gives him a one, two punch. [00:36:56] Speaker B: Reese? Reese, is that you? He says, I. Up and at him, Yankee. And then this is where we cut to the progeny talking to. They're one of their potential suit wearers. And it's dude man himself from the chairman. Chairman that. He's still just like. He's. He's losing it, Johnny. [00:37:21] Speaker A: He's naked being like, curse, I love you, curse. [00:37:24] Speaker B: He is naked and afraid. [00:37:27] Speaker A: He is. [00:37:28] Speaker B: And they're all like. Like the. This crow is just like. This guy's kind of a wiener. What are we. What are we doing? He's a. He's a. He does have. They're like, he. He is. Could be easily swayed through faith, which means he'll do what we tell him to. But I don't know if he's. I don't know if he's quite kind of a wiener. And then they cut to another potential wearer of the suit, Ormit Fiddie and Fidden's brother who died last issue. Yeah. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Or they just took him. They didn't kill him. [00:38:03] Speaker B: They. They. I guess he got. I guess he got, like, hit by a car. And it's kind of. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Well, if we find out he gets hit by a car. [00:38:07] Speaker B: Floating. Floating in the middle, in the in between. Johnny. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Yeah, because they went into his brain. [00:38:13] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. He is like. He is on the verge of death, Johnny. And they're. You know, they're trying to. You know, they're trying their spiel on him, too. You know, trying to make sure they choose the best man for the job. [00:38:28] Speaker A: Best champion. [00:38:29] Speaker B: It's awfully. Awfully misogynistic. Why does it all have to be men? Why couldn't the deviant be a woman? Why couldn't the deviant be a non Berry. A non binary buddy who we already know exists in this world? [00:38:40] Speaker A: We don't even know if they're looking for someone for the deviant armor. We don't know who they're looking for for this armor they're talking about. [00:38:44] Speaker B: Well, I would assume they're looking for. For the deviant armor since they're trying to, like, remove Peter from it. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Maybe. Maybe they got some other armor. [00:38:54] Speaker B: I don't know. Erica Schultz will reveal that when she wants us to know it. [00:38:58] Speaker A: That's true. [00:39:00] Speaker B: And so then we go back to the inside of Peter's mind, and he's talking to Rhys, and they're just. They're having a nice little. A nice little moment. Reese is like, remember what you said to me, like, four issues ago while we were overlooking the lake, the peaceful view in the Hudson Valley? [00:39:18] Speaker A: There's a place in the Hudson Valley three days journey to the north. It is a town called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it? He said Hudson Valley. I had to mention it. [00:39:36] Speaker B: You had to. You had so much to say. Every time I say I'm sleepy, you're gonna. You're gonna. Sleepy Hollow. [00:39:44] Speaker A: Christopher Lee. There's a town called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it? I have not. [00:39:53] Speaker B: Composed mostly of Dutch. [00:39:56] Speaker A: Farming community, mostly Dutch. [00:40:01] Speaker B: So they, you know, and you know, Peter and. Peter and Reese are having a nice little. Nice little reunion moment. And the progeny are still trying to convince Ormut to, you know, come to their. Come to their cause. And he's, you know, he's showing his. He's showing his anger. He's like, I will use this anger to do what you need to because it will let me get my revenge. [00:40:27] Speaker A: They're like, by the way, one of your brother's killers is here in the. In between if you want to find him. [00:40:31] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, what? Where? Point that fucker out. Then, you know, Rhys has given Peter the pep talk of, I do like. I do like very much. Where was it? Where was it? At one point, Reese literally says, I see you've adapted. [00:40:49] Speaker A: Yes. That would. [00:40:50] Speaker B: I. Yeah. Which was. I did a little when I read that the first time. Yeah. [00:40:57] Speaker A: I don't know if I trust this Reese. [00:40:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:41:00] Speaker A: Because this conversation, he's like, you can rest, Peter. [00:41:02] Speaker B: He's like, come on, Peter. I can't. He's like, let me share the bo. [00:41:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Let me just have that suit, Yankee. [00:41:14] Speaker B: He's like, I'll take it. I'll take it off your hands. I'll do all the hard work that you don't want to do. You can live a normal life again. It's very. A temptation. And we end with Peter and Rhys reaching their hands towards each other and some necroplasmic energies sparking between them. And then. [00:41:36] Speaker A: Give me the suit and you can live a normal life again. This Reese is trying to trick him out of the suit. [00:41:43] Speaker B: Yeah, he definitely is. This can't be real, Reese. [00:41:47] Speaker A: He wouldn't do that. [00:41:48] Speaker B: He wouldn't do that. No. Then we get. [00:41:51] Speaker A: Blam. [00:41:51] Speaker B: The skull. It goes too quick, Johnny. [00:41:54] Speaker A: It does. [00:41:55] Speaker B: It's like here and then it's that. [00:41:57] Speaker A: Just like most good things in life. [00:41:58] Speaker B: Everything must come to an end. I guess we got the new generation, new stories, new. [00:42:03] Speaker A: You add everything that has a beginning, has an end. Neo. [00:42:08] Speaker B: I haven't seen that one enough to. I've seen Matrix a lot, but not enough to do extended. [00:42:14] Speaker A: That's 2003, baby. [00:42:16] Speaker B: Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Yeah, I've seen that one once. Oh, boy. [00:42:20] Speaker A: I like it. I like all three of them. I like Wachowski movies. I'm cool. [00:42:26] Speaker B: The Wachowskis make a good movie. [00:42:28] Speaker A: They do. [00:42:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:30] Speaker A: They're always very interesting and very ahead of their time. [00:42:32] Speaker B: Very. I. I've been meaning to watch Jupiter Ascending because I love Jupiter Ascending because I've heard that it is visually beautiful. But I just again, keep forgetting to watch stuff when I sit there. [00:42:43] Speaker A: It's wackadoo. It's like John Carter of Mars or something. It's crazy. [00:42:46] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure I have it on dvd. And it's even harder to remember to watch something that I have physically because I don't think about what I want to watch until I sit down. And then I've got four to five dogs on me and it's like I can't get up. We just spent 20 minutes trying to get everybody in the right spot. [00:43:05] Speaker A: We got the new generation, new stories, new you ad with all the spin offs. [00:43:10] Speaker B: Yep, yep, yep, yep. The Image Classics ad. [00:43:13] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:43:14] Speaker B: That Mortal Kombat 1 sub zero toy ad. Oh, boy. Real excited for that new Mortal Kombat, Johnny. [00:43:22] Speaker A: The new movie looks great. Yeah. Carl Urban is Johnny Cage. It's gonna be fun. [00:43:26] Speaker B: I fucking love Carl Urban. [00:43:29] Speaker A: I do too. [00:43:30] Speaker B: He's great. [00:43:31] Speaker A: He's great as Bones in Star Trek. [00:43:34] Speaker B: Yeah, he's great. He's great all the. He was great as Cupid in Xena. [00:43:40] Speaker A: Are you out of your Vulcan mind? [00:43:45] Speaker B: Get that spa on Call of Duty ad. [00:43:48] Speaker A: Dude, Chucky's in Call of Duty right now. Chucky and Tiffany. They're terrifying. They're human sized. So it's like a human sized Chucky running around. They're hilarious. I saw. [00:43:58] Speaker B: Oh, man. Hilarious. [00:44:00] Speaker A: Funny. Pretty funny. [00:44:02] Speaker B: And that's Brett City Number 15. [00:44:06] Speaker A: 15. It's better than 10 and you can buy lunch with it. Y. Next up, we're cracking a case. [00:44:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:28] Speaker A: Case file. With our two friends. [00:44:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:31] Speaker A: Sam and Twitch. [00:44:32] Speaker B: Sam and Twitch. I wish we could crack a case with our case crackers. [00:44:37] Speaker A: I'd drink a beer with them. [00:44:40] Speaker B: You'd have to bring a lot because I'm pretty sure. [00:44:42] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure sandwich 12. [00:44:44] Speaker B: Sam would go through many. [00:44:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he'd like walk. It's like, oh, beer. He'd chug two little lights immediately and be like. [00:44:53] Speaker B: I think I need a beer, you guys. [00:44:55] Speaker A: We should chug two and then you have a third to sip on. [00:44:57] Speaker B: Yeah, Twitch. Twitch would make one last all night and he wouldn't finish it. [00:45:03] Speaker A: There's nothing a cold beer after a long day in the helicopter. [00:45:06] Speaker B: Yeah, true. [00:45:09] Speaker A: A long day in the choppa. That's a space ghost joke. It makes no sense. There's no context to it. He just goes, nothing like a. Nothing like a. Nothing like a sloppy Joe after a long day in the chopper. [00:45:24] Speaker B: Man, I love a sloppy joe. [00:45:26] Speaker A: I haven't had a sloppy joe in a minute. [00:45:28] Speaker B: Sloppy joe's is good. I always. I always ask for him for lunch and Wanda always says no because, you know, sloppy's in the name. [00:45:41] Speaker A: Was it ground beef and barbecue sauce? [00:45:42] Speaker B: I'm a sloppy boy. Less barbecue sauce and more of. More of. It's a tomato based sauce, but it's more kind of like a ragu than a barbecue sauce. Okay. [00:45:59] Speaker A: But sloppy joes, Sam. I mean, Twitch. I mean Sam Sam. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Yeah, a sloppy, Sloppy Sam. [00:46:06] Speaker A: He's a sloppy Sam. And he would love a sloppy joe. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:10] Speaker A: And I got the A cover. [00:46:13] Speaker B: It's a. [00:46:14] Speaker A: It's a great falia. It looks like something out of like a yellow. [00:46:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:18] Speaker A: Italian horror film. Yeah. [00:46:20] Speaker B: Or like. It's like a. Like a pulp. A pulp detective novel. [00:46:25] Speaker A: Yes. There's a dead woman and a creepy guy in a trench coat with a knife. [00:46:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Silhouetted in the background there. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Dude, it's so funny. Eloy wouldn't mind me telling this story. He would be fine with it. But his current girlfriend, okay, they were first date, she picked the movie and she didn't know. She thought it was just a late night horror movie. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:46] Speaker A: And she picked Autopsy the Gallo. And it's like about people have sex with bodies. And she was like, honestly, if you would have picked that movie, I would have walked out of the theater, not come back. But I picked it, so I have nothing to say. [00:47:02] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure he told that story when we were on our way to see Superman. [00:47:07] Speaker A: That's right. He did. [00:47:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:09] Speaker A: Good story. That's just so funny. [00:47:11] Speaker B: Hilarious. [00:47:12] Speaker A: Because these Italians movies are nasty, David. [00:47:14] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah, I know they're nasty. I know. [00:47:17] Speaker A: Nasty, nasty men. [00:47:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:21] Speaker A: I don't like Italian beautiful movies. Too gross. [00:47:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:25] Speaker A: The music's always really good though. I mean, I'll watch them. I just like. I'm always not glad I saw them. I'm always. It's like intriguing. It's like watching a car Wreck. Like, I'm like, I gotta watch this. [00:47:36] Speaker B: Like, yeah. [00:47:36] Speaker A: I have to watch Cannibal Holocaust. I have to watch Goodbye, Uncle Tom. [00:47:40] Speaker B: I have to watch all these horrible cannibal holocaust. But it's fucking gleeful murdering of animals. Which. [00:47:47] Speaker A: I know it's terrible. [00:47:48] Speaker B: Which is the reason that it's now banned. But it was previously banned because they thought they actually killed the actors. [00:47:55] Speaker A: I have it. [00:47:56] Speaker B: But, like, when you watch the video, you can seriously clearly see it's a big black garbage trash bag with their intestines and stuff. [00:48:06] Speaker A: Well, she's like. She's on a bicycle seat like this. It was a spike through the mouth. That's what they thought was the. [00:48:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:12] Speaker A: Person. But sit on a bicycle seat. [00:48:15] Speaker B: But didn't they also, like, play into it and, like, have. They're like, okay, you guys have to stay out of the public. Yeah. [00:48:20] Speaker A: They had the actors. Yeah. [00:48:21] Speaker B: And then they had to, like, bring them in to a court to prove that they didn't kill. Yes. This is all wild. Wild. [00:48:29] Speaker A: And the biggest twist of that movie is that it's just kind of boring. [00:48:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:48:34] Speaker A: All the Italian movies are kind of boring. It's just like, really intense gore, like sexual violence followed by, like, 45 minutes of people just kind of standing around. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Although I think. I think Cannibal Holocaust is the opposite, because it's like. It's like 60 minutes of people just kind of, like, wandering around, and then it's like, bam. [00:48:53] Speaker A: Well, that's why it's the most famous one. I mean, it's definitely effective. It's the most famous of those, so there's a reason for that, I guess. [00:49:04] Speaker B: It happens. [00:49:05] Speaker A: Good. It's a good title. [00:49:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Cannibal Holocaust. [00:49:08] Speaker A: It's just very. It's like, damn. Okay. [00:49:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. They went there. They went there. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's long way of saying the A cover looks like a Gallo by SEO by Marco Falio. [00:49:20] Speaker B: It's real good. [00:49:22] Speaker A: And it's got the yellow. [00:49:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:24] Speaker A: Oh, hey, Gallo means yellow because that's what the paperbacks, the color of the crime novels were. So maybe that's a little. Maybe that's on purpose. [00:49:34] Speaker B: I. I have a feeling that Thomas Healy drank extra coffee to make sure that that happened that way on the day that they were sent to the printer. It was like, if those come back not yellow, somebody's gonna hear about it. [00:49:49] Speaker A: He's seen some. He's seen some Italian movies. [00:49:52] Speaker B: I'm sure he's seen most of them. [00:49:54] Speaker A: Remember when I described the ending to Goodbye Uncle Tom to you. [00:49:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:58] Speaker A: On the show where he hits a baby against the wall. [00:50:02] Speaker B: Oh, that's up, dude. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Hey, you're the one that watches real fucked up videos on me. [00:50:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I know, but I do it for a purpose. [00:50:12] Speaker A: Okay. And you do it privately. You don't. You don't tell me about it. Thank God. Too often. Sometimes you do. [00:50:18] Speaker B: Sometimes I do. Yeah. I try not to. [00:50:21] Speaker A: Which cover did you get, David? [00:50:23] Speaker B: I got the COVID B. I got the Don Aglio cover. [00:50:26] Speaker A: And hold that up for me. [00:50:27] Speaker B: It is. It's basically just like, salmon Twitch in a blaze of glory. Just. [00:50:32] Speaker A: Oh, my God, look at Twitch's hair. It's like Egon from the Ghostbusters animated series. [00:50:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like they decided to jump out of a window and just, like, start blasting. And there's. There's like this green goop spatter from the. From off panel. There's like this. There's like this long, like, furry. It's like a mix between a tentacle and a tarantula leg that's just, like, curling up like it's wrapped around Twitch's leg and it's going all the way up. [00:51:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:02] Speaker B: So they're fighting a monster. He also. Also maybe a little bit like spike from Cowboy Be Buff. [00:51:07] Speaker A: Yes, that's. He does have a spike. Good call. [00:51:11] Speaker B: He's just missing the. He's just missing the big. The big pink puffy jacket. [00:51:16] Speaker A: Both good covers. They're both like, kind of like a. A different genre. One's a big action piece. One's like a murder mystery. [00:51:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:23] Speaker A: Italian horror movie. So cool that they have such range. [00:51:27] Speaker B: It's a. It's a good. It's a good cover series. This one. Same. And Twitch. Well, Johnny, we got to pop it open so that way we can see these credits and give it where they're due. [00:51:36] Speaker A: Because we got to. [00:51:37] Speaker B: As previously mentioned, there's a lot in this issue, Johnny. And the lot in this issue comes from the minds of Jordan Barrow and Todd McFarlane, who have done plot, script, and additional script, respectively. Then art by Thomas Nachlick. Special thanks to Magnus Arts. Color by FCO Placencia and color flats by Shia. Sheila Saldana Tomo doing the letters. Hell yeah. Cover the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director, and Thomas Ely is the editor in chief. And previously in Sam and Twitch, a lead in their case points the investigation to the NGRI. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Too close. Not to mention TGRI. [00:52:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:27] Speaker A: From Ninja Turtles 2. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Yeah, close. [00:52:29] Speaker A: Maybe it's a reference. [00:52:31] Speaker B: I wonder if there's gonna be a Dr. Baxter. [00:52:33] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Also pretty terrible. Pretty terrible. Previously out of this one, too. [00:52:40] Speaker A: Yeah, they're both awful. [00:52:41] Speaker B: It's bad, like, because we got so. [00:52:44] Speaker A: Much happened last issue. There's so many characters like you just like, a little more guidance. [00:52:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And like, literally all of the action in this. Very little of the action in this issue actually comes off of them doing. In our NGRI stuff. Whatever. So if you. If there's a. If there's a kid carrying a bowl full of turtles, we know that they're about to get hit with some. Some radioactive goo. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Do you know it? [00:53:11] Speaker B: Pizza. [00:53:13] Speaker A: Pizza. Pizza. [00:53:15] Speaker B: And we start off with Twitch is gone. Full basement dweller. Johnny. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Yeah. Dude, he looks like iRobot or Mr. Robot. [00:53:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:23] Speaker A: Not iRobot. [00:53:27] Speaker B: Which. What, does he look like the robot or does he look like Will Smith. [00:53:32] Speaker A: The robot. [00:53:33] Speaker B: The robot. [00:53:35] Speaker A: You know, did you hear about the Alan Tudyk thing with that. The press tour? [00:53:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. That he did all the stuff and then they didn't put his name in it. They. [00:53:42] Speaker A: So he was supposed to be like, co lead. [00:53:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:44] Speaker A: And like, he was gonna do the press tour and everything. And like, Will Smith was like, he's getting too much attention. [00:53:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:49] Speaker A: Cut him out of all that. [00:53:51] Speaker B: Yeah. But they still. They still used it, but they didn't give him any credit for it. [00:53:55] Speaker A: Well, he's like. He's listening to the credits, but it's like he's not like a star of the movie. [00:53:59] Speaker B: That sucks. That sucks. Yeah. [00:54:01] Speaker A: Boo. [00:54:03] Speaker B: I love it. I remember liking it. I remember liking it a lot. [00:54:08] Speaker A: I mean, it's much different than the book, which is like 10 short stories. But. [00:54:12] Speaker B: No, I was about to say there's no actual one story. [00:54:17] Speaker A: It's overarching of, like, that lady telling the story. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Yeah. It's all. It's all ways that the. The robots find ways to violate the. [00:54:26] Speaker A: Right. That's cool. They're like little mysteries. It's like, how did they do it? How did this robot do this? With these three laws. And it's fun to see how it works out. [00:54:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:33] Speaker A: And eventually, I think the last story is the robots that we must destroy you. I'm sorry. And they're like. [00:54:40] Speaker B: Oh, man. Asimov. Crazy, dude. Good books, Good books. My mom. My mom loved Asimov. [00:54:47] Speaker A: I had asthma phase. I read most of the robot books and I read the foundation, the original trilogy. Foundation's really good. There's a huge twist in Foundation Empire, the second one, that is just like, phenomenal. [00:55:01] Speaker B: I should probably. I should probably read those. I haven't Read a good. They're short. [00:55:04] Speaker A: They're short and they're easy to read. Nice. [00:55:06] Speaker B: But speaking of. Speaking of short, Johnny, I don't. I don't know. Helen's. Helen's coming downstairs. [00:55:16] Speaker A: Twitch is wearing shorts. [00:55:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, holy shit, he is. [00:55:19] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Shorts and a hoodie. I love the look. [00:55:22] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a comfortable look. Switches. Twitch is just, like, absorbed in this technical mystery that he's got going on. And Helen's like, hey, I gotta. I got the. I got that job interview. So continuing on with the job interviews that Helen has been going on. [00:55:40] Speaker A: And remember, last issue, Twitch discovered that the Double Helens. [00:55:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:44] Speaker A: And that there's some kind of unseen force on his video camera. [00:55:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Helen's also like, I don't have time to take Bobby's diorama with me. Don't forget to take it. Okay. Diorama. And he's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. I totally thought this. I totally thought this was gonna come back where he didn't do it. But. No, it didn't. But. So Helen goes to her interview, and, Johnny, would you believe it? She's interviewing at ngri. [00:56:14] Speaker A: What? [00:56:14] Speaker B: What? How'd she do that? [00:56:16] Speaker A: He's asked about gaps in employment. [00:56:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And she's telling. Like she did previously, you know, stayed home for the children. And during the interview, she's given a tour, and she bumps into this lady who is just absolutely agog with Sam. And it's just like, you're married to that. That guy who helps my. My lovely Sam. My Sam, boy. And she turns to the interviewer and she's like, this lady has the job. I don't fucking care. Give her a lot of money. [00:56:51] Speaker A: I don't give her executive pay. That's great. [00:56:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Hell, yeah, I wouldn't. Sure. Yes, please. [00:56:58] Speaker A: Nothing to sneeze at. [00:56:59] Speaker B: She says. She says, your husband and his partner. I owe them my life. And Helen's like, oh, thank God. I'm tired of going to interviews. Thank you. [00:57:08] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:57:09] Speaker B: And then we come from there to the chief's office at the police station and being like, I need a warrant to search these premises. And the chief being like, no, you don't have the evidence. You've got. You've got one thing that you can get evidence for. Let's. Let's get a warrant for that. Go write this again. And then he writes it. He writes the request again, but it's the wrong thing. And the chief's like, this isn't what I told you. To fucking write. It's like I told you to write a warrant for the chip that you found in the guy's head, not for the whole facility. And Sev's like, hey, hey, hey, I'm right. You know I'm right. Let's get this done. [00:57:56] Speaker A: They did it. And the chief is like, look, these guys are tied into everything. We have a contract ngri. And then he gets his cholesterol meds from them, for Christ's sake. So they're in deep. [00:58:09] Speaker B: And then the chief is eventually like, okay, Sammy, but, you know, it's nice speaking truth to power, but dealing with power is response. That's. That's what's going to get you. [00:58:20] Speaker A: That's the rub. That's the secret of power. [00:58:23] Speaker B: And so we cut from there to Sam with new. New temporary partner. This doesn't feel like the serving of the warrant. This feels like some clandestine stuff. They. They go there acting like they're a couple looking for an apartment in this complex. [00:58:42] Speaker A: We found out, Chris, Sam has a 513 credit score. [00:58:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Sam makes the. The exact same very 1984 joke that he made the first time he was there. [00:58:53] Speaker A: A lot of cameras. [00:58:55] Speaker B: A lot of cameras. And then, so Sam's talking to. Oh, what's her name? I want to say Amy, but I don't think that's right. [00:59:03] Speaker A: I want to say Mason. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Well, Sam is talking to this other cop. [00:59:08] Speaker A: Great line from the movie Clifford. He's like, oh, you love my nephew. What's his name? I want to say Mason. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Like Clifford with Dude, man. [00:59:17] Speaker A: Martin Short. He's hilarious. [00:59:20] Speaker B: I haven't seen it. I've heard. It is unhinged. [00:59:23] Speaker A: It is unhinged. I used to show up. They showed, like, HBO every day for some reason. [00:59:28] Speaker B: Probably because it was cheap for them to show. [00:59:32] Speaker A: Right. [00:59:33] Speaker B: But. So Sam is. Sam was like. So I got this key card the last time I was here. Someone slipped it in my pocket, and I tried it on a couple of things, and it didn't work on anything. And. And his partner's like, that looks like a. That looks like a whatever. A SCIF card, A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility Card. And she's like, those are usually off site, so it's probably not going to do anything in this building. And. And Sam's like, oh, I need my warrant. Let me in. [01:00:05] Speaker A: He's with Eric Andre. [01:00:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And then his partner's like, this key card, the gun, all of these bits of evidence that you keep getting, it's. You get them, you're getting them illegally. And it's like, we can't make a case with this. And he's like, the case. I just wanna. I just want to take these guys a new one. And then she's like, whatever, we could deal with this later. We gotta go to the gala. Dress nice. And Sam's like, what? I'm always weird. I'm always dressed nice. [01:00:31] Speaker A: I'm always dressed nice. And look at himself. [01:00:36] Speaker B: And so then Sam goes across town to go visit Twitch. And Twitch's house is just like talking about 10 Cloverfield Lane. This is like the preview or the trailer of Tin Cloverfield Lane. [01:00:50] Speaker A: I mean, it's very similar. [01:00:51] Speaker B: It's got a. [01:00:52] Speaker A: There's a lot of paranoia. [01:00:53] Speaker B: There's like a klaxon and like four, at least two cameras right on the front door. And then. And then when Sam comes inside, there's more klaxons, more cameras, and Twitch is just like, yeah, yeah, I'm setting a twap. I'm setting a trap. Don't worry about it. [01:01:12] Speaker A: I'm setting a twap. Who's over fun? [01:01:17] Speaker B: I want the Wascally wabbit. [01:01:19] Speaker A: I'm hunting wabbits. [01:01:22] Speaker B: Be very quiet. [01:01:23] Speaker A: We stan a king with a speech impediment. [01:01:25] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. [01:01:28] Speaker A: Though. He's just a killer. [01:01:31] Speaker B: Well, he's a very bad hunter, though. [01:01:34] Speaker A: He's terrible at it. [01:01:35] Speaker B: He's not good at it at all. Daffy. [01:01:37] Speaker A: He's taking bullets away from the good hunters. [01:01:39] Speaker B: Daffy Duck gets the better of them. [01:01:43] Speaker A: Yeah, you're right. [01:01:45] Speaker B: So. So Twitch takes Sam down to his basement and his wall of screens. Sam's like, what am I looking at? [01:01:53] Speaker A: He's like, you see? [01:01:54] Speaker B: You see the shadow? He's the shadow. It's shadow continuity. [01:01:58] Speaker A: In this screen, I'm twitching streaming Call of Duty where I'm playing as Chucky. In this screen, I'm twitch streaming Diablo 4. [01:02:05] Speaker B: And then over here, I'm watching a cooking show because I want to learn some new recipes. [01:02:10] Speaker A: Fourth screen, I'm watching Shrek. [01:02:13] Speaker B: Fourth screen, always Shrek. I know at least two separate people who went as Shrek for Halloween this year. [01:02:20] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [01:02:21] Speaker B: Well, one of them went as Shrek and one of them Win is Fiona. And they were couples costumes, but they were halves of different couples. [01:02:29] Speaker A: So I went to a Star wars card pre release for the new set, and the game store had like multiple TVs. And one of them was showing Attack of the Clones because it was like a Senate themed set. So one was showing Attack of the Clones, one was showing the Clone wars the one was showing Spider man the Animated Series at first, which ended and then it kicked into Queen Clifford the Big Red Dog. But no one, like, told the store to change it. So I was playing Star wars cards while Clifford the Big Red Dog was playing next to me. [01:02:56] Speaker B: Hey, could be worse. [01:02:58] Speaker A: Hey, I like that theme song. I love Clifford the Big Red Dog. [01:03:03] Speaker B: It would have been awesome if Arthur had come on afterwards. [01:03:05] Speaker A: I would have loved to watch Arthur. [01:03:07] Speaker B: That New Year's baby kind of day. [01:03:11] Speaker A: The New Year's baby fights the old. [01:03:12] Speaker B: Man, fights the old man, and the old man wins because it's a fully grown man fighting a baby and something. [01:03:23] Speaker A: Buster was cool. [01:03:24] Speaker B: Very cool. Very cool. [01:03:26] Speaker A: Arthur was a good show. I'd watch Arthur right now. [01:03:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a great show. [01:03:29] Speaker A: I do a podcast about Arthur. Yeah. [01:03:31] Speaker B: The only problem is my initials were DW and DW was the annoying sister. [01:03:35] Speaker A: Haha. [01:03:36] Speaker B: You're dw but that also means you. [01:03:39] Speaker A: Are the younger brother you already have. [01:03:40] Speaker B: I was the annoying younger brother. But. But do you know who else's initials were dw? Darkwing Ducks. They refer to dw. [01:03:51] Speaker A: That's right. Launchpad. So was Launchpad in it? Yeah, he was his pilot. [01:03:57] Speaker B: Because I know Launch pad was in tailspin too. [01:04:00] Speaker A: No, he wasn't. [01:04:01] Speaker B: He wasn't. [01:04:02] Speaker A: Blue was. That was all Jungle Book. Okay, I swear to God. Launch pad is in. [01:04:08] Speaker B: Because I think. I think Launchpad was also. I think he was in a couple of them. I think he was. [01:04:13] Speaker A: Yeah, he's in Darkening Duck. [01:04:14] Speaker B: Okay, let's get dangerous. Dangerous. [01:04:20] Speaker A: Only in the 90s you have the Shadow parody with ducks. [01:04:26] Speaker B: It was good as hell. Good as hell. So. So Twitch. Twitch shows Sam the double Helen videotape. And Sam is just like, what? I don't know, dude. It's technology. What is. What do I know about it? And Sam's Twitch is just like. It's not. It's not a glitch. It's not a tumor, it's not a duma. [01:04:48] Speaker A: It's not a glitch. I'm telling you, we gotta get Al Simmons on this. [01:04:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And Sam's like, just calm down, bud. We're gonna get through this. We're gonna get through this. [01:04:56] Speaker A: Is. [01:04:56] Speaker B: And Twitches is like, okay, could you go talk to Helen for me? She's kind of freaking out. She's got to freaking out a lot. And then we get the first civil interaction between Sam and Helen this entire series. Helen's just like, sam, I don't know what to do. And Sam's like, I Don't know what to do either. She's like, he never. He never brings work home. And Sam's like, he doesn't want it. He doesn't want them to mix. He's like, that's why we never talk, because he doesn't want us. He wants us separated. He says, you gotta keep them separated. [01:05:33] Speaker A: So use the song of the Monkey Bone trailer. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Funny, funny story. Apparently the guy who wrote the lyrics to that song thought up the gotta keep him separated bit while he was doing. Because he was like a. Like a chemistry student, and he was talking like he was doing something, and he was like, you got to keep your acids and your base separated. So he literally was just doing chemistry when he came up with that. [01:06:00] Speaker A: And he created musical chemistry. [01:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he did. [01:06:04] Speaker A: Hey, like that song? [01:06:06] Speaker B: It's a good song. It's a fun song. [01:06:08] Speaker A: So Sam goes to this gala. [01:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:11] Speaker A: Oh, I guess in a tuxedo. [01:06:12] Speaker B: I guess before that, Twitch was watching Helen and Sam talk, and he's just like. [01:06:19] Speaker A: He looks really nervous. [01:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. Sam goes, yeah, he goes to the gala, and he's just. He's just looking around, giving the stink eye to everybody. We're getting sort of like, the guy's. [01:06:29] Speaker A: Giving a speech about. About the doom loop that's going on in the city. Sounds like they need a little visit from a man named Zoron Mandami. [01:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. And then Sam just kind of like, comes over and is like, yeah, yeah. All this is dumb. What are you talking about? [01:06:49] Speaker A: What do you think about Zoram, dummy bro. Yeah, it's awesome. He's handsome. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Also, he fucking takes the bike at the subway. [01:06:59] Speaker A: Also, buses should be free. [01:07:02] Speaker B: Yeah, they should. [01:07:03] Speaker A: It's the craziest thing that we're like, yeah, you can't get to a job unless you have a job. And it's like, what? [01:07:07] Speaker B: Housing should be affordable? [01:07:10] Speaker A: Yeah. It's crazy. [01:07:10] Speaker B: Could you imagine? [01:07:12] Speaker A: Can you imagine? [01:07:13] Speaker B: It's great. [01:07:13] Speaker A: I can't imagine, actually. I can't imagine. But Zora Mandami can. [01:07:18] Speaker B: It's pretty great. Excited to see. Excited to see how this goes. [01:07:22] Speaker A: Yeah. New York, New York Mayor. [01:07:24] Speaker B: Hell yeah. New York, New York. [01:07:28] Speaker A: Hey, you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. [01:07:31] Speaker B: Hey, we're for busting here. [01:07:34] Speaker A: Hey. [01:07:36] Speaker B: Every. Every. A pizza rat in every home. Hey, I'd take it. I'd take a pizza rat. Absolutely would. So we really. We really just learned that Sam just can't keep it together when he's around anybody who's not just a beat Cop Sam is very anti elitist and never shuts his mouth. And then his. His current temporary partner is just like, that's my husband you're talking to. I think. I think something might have happened here because this doesn't really seem very her. Like we've known so far. But like, she literally, she says, if. If you make accusations like that again, I'll end you. So that's. That's a. That's. That's intense. [01:08:20] Speaker A: This conspiracy goes deep. [01:08:22] Speaker B: It does. It does indeed. And then while the cop troller, while the comptroller goes up to give his speech, Sam is just over, like, at his chief again, being like, I gotta get. I gotta get that fucking warrant, man. Gotta give me that warrant. And then while he's trying to get this warrant, ask at the worst possible time is what he's doing. He looks across the. He looks across the audience and he sees Old Man Bun. [01:08:48] Speaker A: The Man Bun, the evil demon Man. [01:08:50] Speaker B: Bun, the drug dealer. [01:08:53] Speaker A: Yes. That came out of the mirror. [01:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:08:56] Speaker A: And was in the elevator. [01:08:59] Speaker B: And owns the warehouse. [01:09:00] Speaker A: Maybe shape shifting and becoming Helen. [01:09:03] Speaker B: Maybe. [01:09:03] Speaker A: Maybe had sex with Twitch. [01:09:07] Speaker B: Interesting. [01:09:08] Speaker A: But we do know they weren't having sex because they were yelling about how they weren't having sex. [01:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Because. Yeah. Oh, boy. And then Sam also sees that the lady who. He saved her life and Holly. Holly. And the lady who just got Helen hired at NGRI is there. And she's like, ooh, Sammy, baby, why don't you buy me a drink? Oh, why don't we go. Why don't we go somewhere else after this? She's like, why don't you come drive me home? Yeah. And Sam's like, yeah, yes, yes, please. And he's talking to her about her swanky digs. She's like, why don't you come inside? And he's like, nah, nah, nah, I've got to work. And she's like, okay, well, next time, but only if you promise to wear that. That suit. He's like, and you. [01:10:06] Speaker A: That dress. [01:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:07] Speaker A: And they kiss. [01:10:08] Speaker B: They do a little. They go. They do a. And then, like, immediately Sam's doing more of his undercover work. He goes to spend the night at the Armory shelter where one of the victims was found. And it's just immediately, like, why the am I here? I could have been swanking it up at Holly's idiot. And it just, like, gets up and starts wandering around looking for stuff. [01:10:37] Speaker A: Everyone's just yelling at each other. [01:10:40] Speaker B: This place is absolute chaos. Just all the time. [01:10:42] Speaker A: It's unhinged. [01:10:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Eventually, Sam walks into the wrong room and he gets. He gets put in a headlock. And then this other guy comes up and stabs him in the stomach with a knife. [01:10:52] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:54] Speaker A: And then he comes in for another stab, but Sam swings the guy around that's holding his neck and he gets stabbed in the back instead. [01:11:01] Speaker B: So then the. The knife wielder, like, runs away, and Sam's just laying on the floor next to this other guy with. With a similar stab wound just like slowly bleeding out onto the floor. And Sam's yelling at this guy. He's like, come back here. And then come back. A new shape shows up with sickles in hand and just like slits the throat of the knife wielder guy. And then it walks slowly towards Sam and looms over him and says, you have my card. [01:11:38] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:11:39] Speaker B: And then blood splattered. Spawn Orbit issue. [01:11:43] Speaker A: End of the issue. [01:11:44] Speaker B: God, there's so much in here. I feel like we skipped over some stuff. [01:11:48] Speaker A: There's a lot. I mean, there's the whole speeches about the city. We did it. We got it. [01:11:54] Speaker B: We got it. Money, Bad Sam good. [01:11:57] Speaker A: Money, Bad Sam good. Vote for Zoron. [01:12:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Then we get the pre order for the Spawn 1 inspired statue and the UFC toy ad. The new generation, new stories, new you ad. Very nice. The image classics ad is the one on the back, Johnny. And that, my good sir, the same in Twitch case files. Number 50, 15 pen. [01:12:27] Speaker A: 15. [01:12:30] Speaker B: Good number. And, well, Johnny, speaking of good numbers, we have at least 15 dogs right now, and all of them are good. Yeah. 18. We have 18. Yeah. [01:12:43] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:12:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. [01:12:48] Speaker A: You got a manic look in your eye, David. [01:12:50] Speaker B: It's just every time I tell my mom the exact number I have, she goes, oh, my God, David. And it's like, mom. I know, I know. I'm gonna stop telling you the number if you're gonna. If you're gonna act that way every time I give you information, I'm gonna stop giving you information. But yeah, so they're all pretty good. So, Johnny, I think it's time that we got to rate some puppies. [01:13:11] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up, we had rat City Number 15. Short and sweet, but very vibrant and exciting. The colors just pop and the art. The combination of Zay Carlos and Ulysses aioli together is beautiful. The neons and the oranges of the in between are just great. It feels like it's building something. Like it's cool because it's building new villains. Yeah, obviously. [01:13:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:42] Speaker A: But it's doing it a great way because the only new villains we get in Spawn are when Tom McFarlane introduces a guy in one page and he's dead or disappears and never comes back. [01:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:13:51] Speaker A: But these. There's like, three villains we're getting slow burns on. That's really cool. [01:13:57] Speaker B: All of them have been around since, like, basically the very beginning of the. Like, one of these guys literally shows up in the very first issue, Right? He's on the other end of a phone line, but he's there. [01:14:07] Speaker A: They're both in the first issue because they should. We see his brother get killed. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She set this up early, man. [01:14:15] Speaker B: Man. [01:14:16] Speaker A: Yeah. It's cool to see this and, like, forging some new villains and actually taking the time introduce and post, like, hey, what's up? My name is this. My name is Speedster. You know, it's really cool. I love Rat City. It's just really fun. And you'll find out here in a few minutes how much I love Rat City. [01:14:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:14:39] Speaker A: Because we might be doing more Rat City next week. [01:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:14:42] Speaker A: Spoiler alert. [01:14:44] Speaker B: We've already talked about it on air. [01:14:47] Speaker A: I thought that was before here. [01:14:48] Speaker B: No, we talked because we. We had books we were gonna read, and then we said that we gotta get caught up on them. [01:14:56] Speaker A: That was before we were recording. [01:14:57] Speaker B: Oh, it was. Oh, I thought it was in the record. [01:15:01] Speaker A: I don't know. Hey, they know. They'll yelling. They're yelling at their podcast right now. So. Rat City number 15. Yeah. It's just building these villains up. We get a cool violator. Like, I love that. [01:15:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, it's a great. [01:15:13] Speaker A: I thought it was great. I'm gonna give it five. I'm gonna give it five naked chairmans. I love that naked chair. He's just so stressed out. There's no idea what the going on. [01:15:22] Speaker B: He's throwing himself off of ledges and still unable to die. [01:15:25] Speaker A: Curse. I love you. Yeah. It's five naked chairmans out of five. [01:15:30] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. An amazing anime. Erica Schultz is so good at making these very quick issues that it's just like, need more. [01:15:38] Speaker A: Need more. [01:15:40] Speaker B: Always leave them wanting more, Johnny. I guess that's one of the first rules of writing. [01:15:45] Speaker A: It's show business, baby. [01:15:46] Speaker B: Yeah. But, yeah. Oh, man. I like. I'm interested in this progeny because they. They seem now less malicious than they started out as. Now they maybe kind of seem like they're misguided. [01:16:04] Speaker A: We'll find out. [01:16:05] Speaker B: But they're very curious. It's very interesting. Yeah. And, yeah, this this Zay Carlos fucking violator is one of the greatest things I have seen during this experiment of reading all of this spawn. It is fantastic. I'm gonna. I'm gonna agree with you. I'm gonna give it five nanites. Trying to keep this dead tissue alive. [01:16:25] Speaker A: You know, that means. [01:16:26] Speaker B: David, that means this is an entrance to the Hellfire Club. Yes. [01:16:29] Speaker A: Megan, who listens to podcast, we were at Target together. She saw a Hellfire Club shirt, and I was like, yeah. She's like, why does it have that? You should get that. Oh, it's from Stranger Things. And she was like, what? Yeah. It's just literally the first thing that popped in my head. [01:16:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And we're committed now we gotta watch. [01:16:46] Speaker A: Stranger Things, season five. [01:16:48] Speaker B: Yeah. When it comes out and these kids are gonna be 40 years old. [01:16:52] Speaker A: When does it come out? On Halloween. And then it wasn't out. [01:16:55] Speaker B: No, there. It's. One's coming out around Thanksgiving and another one's coming out around Christmas. Christmas. [01:17:00] Speaker A: Christmas. [01:17:00] Speaker B: Right, right, right, right, right. Actually, I think there might be three. I think it's Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. [01:17:06] Speaker A: Happy fucking New Year, baby. [01:17:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Hell, yeah. It's about goddamn time. It's been way too long. [01:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah. What the fuck are these kids doing? They got. They're, like, married and smoking weed. Cool. Five out of five from both of us. Next up, we had Sam and Twitch, case files number 15. The plot is thickening. We're getting to the. Feels like we're getting near the end of this case. [01:17:27] Speaker B: It is getting. It is getting quite thick. [01:17:30] Speaker A: Quite thick. A lot going on. A lot of people involved. Ngri, the town hall comptroller, the. [01:17:38] Speaker B: The other. The other police man Bun guy who. Yeah. [01:17:42] Speaker A: Twitch. [01:17:43] Speaker B: May be interesting. An interesting reveal. [01:17:47] Speaker A: I hope it reveals it. [01:17:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Be interesting to know. [01:17:52] Speaker A: It's like. It's like when Dr. Frankenfurter. Some. [01:17:57] Speaker B: Rocky. Janet. [01:18:00] Speaker A: Brad. [01:18:03] Speaker B: Oh, Dr. What's his face. I like how everybody was like, oh, we were all. [01:18:11] Speaker A: We were all him. [01:18:15] Speaker B: Dr. Scott. That's his name. [01:18:16] Speaker A: It's getting thick. I like this story. I like it better than the last one, for sure. I eagerly see how it all pans out, but it still keeps my interest. [01:18:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:28] Speaker A: You know, I would say that Thomas Nastick's art's very fitting. It's very serviceable for this story. Kind of like these 3D figures moving around, and there's, like, a grit to it, but I am enjoying it. I'm excited to see where it goes. And we see Sam in love. So that lady's probably Going to end up being a deep demon. [01:18:48] Speaker B: Probably. I'm gonna say probably. [01:18:50] Speaker A: Nine times out of 10, Sam dates someone to spawn comic or to be a killer or a demon. [01:18:56] Speaker B: Or if she's somehow innocent, she's gonna be dead. [01:19:00] Speaker A: Gonna be dead. He's got in love with Sam. [01:19:02] Speaker B: Sam is the poisoned apple of romance. [01:19:06] Speaker A: Oh, man. He's the wizard of loneliness. [01:19:09] Speaker B: True. [01:19:10] Speaker A: He's his own wizard. But I like this issue. I like the COVID A lot of the Gallo cover. I'm gonna give it four shanks to the gut. [01:19:24] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh. [01:19:26] Speaker A: One, two, three, four. [01:19:27] Speaker B: Yeah. So many. [01:19:28] Speaker A: If a joker dies, he gets shanked in the gut in Joker 2. [01:19:31] Speaker B: Oh, spoilers. Thanks for that. [01:19:34] Speaker A: I mean, you're never gonna watch Joker fucking two, are you? [01:19:37] Speaker B: I plan on it at some point. I just keep forgetting that it exists. [01:19:40] Speaker A: You wanna know the ending? Sure. [01:19:42] Speaker B: Do they sing for the ending? [01:19:45] Speaker A: They sing, yeah. But before he sings, like, his goodbye song. It's so stupid, dude. A guy comes up and stabs him and then cuts his lips, and it's like, I'm the real Joker. He doesn't say that, but, like, that's basically what's implied. Joker we know in Batman isn't Arthur Fleck. It's a guy who, like, killed him and took on his Persona. [01:20:05] Speaker B: Interesting. [01:20:06] Speaker A: You should watch it. [01:20:07] Speaker B: I should watch it. I'm totally gonna forget that you said that until, like, it shows up and I'll be like, oh, yeah, Johnny mentioned that. [01:20:14] Speaker A: Interesting. I know. It's a weird movie. Anyway, yeah, I'm gonna give it four. Knives to the gut. [01:20:20] Speaker B: Nice. Out of five. What a terrible. What a terrible. A terrible way to go. Knife to the gut. Yeah, I like. Oh, man. Again, I. I hate seeing my boy Twitch going down this spiral, but, oh, boy, there's. There's so many. Unlike the last case, there's probably him go. [01:20:42] Speaker A: But you like to watch him walk away. [01:20:43] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There's. There's probably an equal number of moving parts between in this case and the last case, but these parts all actually make sense with each other. [01:20:53] Speaker A: There's so much more clarity to it. [01:20:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:20:55] Speaker A: Todd McFarlane writing it solo. [01:20:57] Speaker B: It's. It is very. It is very dense, though. So it's. You got to. You got to. You got to. You got to stop and breathe a little bit every once in a while. [01:21:07] Speaker A: It might be good to sit down and read it all once it's done. [01:21:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I bet. But, yeah, the. I'm enjoying the hell out of it, Sam. Just being the guy. You can't fucking take Anywhere is beautiful. This guy. You can. This guy. This guy. You don't leave the house with this guy. You don't. You don't pretend to know this guy in public. It's great. It's great. I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give it four. Four fingers to the forehead. Because, like, everybody Sam talks to in this issue is just like, oh, Sam. Oh. Because we got the chief. We got the realtor. Actually, I guess it's them. Maybe. Maybe Twitch. Helen. Helen. [01:21:55] Speaker A: City council people. [01:21:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:58] Speaker A: Awesome. [01:21:58] Speaker B: Four. Four. It's good, Sam. Love it. You love to see it. [01:22:04] Speaker A: We love you, Sam. [01:22:05] Speaker B: Yeah, we do Not. Maybe not as much as Holly does, but in a way that's. In a way that's probably destined to last longer. [01:22:12] Speaker A: I don't think she actually loves him. I think she's playing. Playing him. [01:22:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Probably unlucky in love. He is. Well, Johnny, you know who's not unlucky in love? From the Spawn Munity. [01:22:24] Speaker A: Our new friends. [01:22:24] Speaker B: Our new friends. We're working through some of these featured friends in the backs of issues of King, Spawn et al. And this. This week, we want to shout out a friend from the spawning grounds of Kingspawn 47. It is at Jonathan Leighton V, underscore art. That's J, O, N, A T, H, A N, L, E, Y, T, O, N, V, underscore, A R, T. Thank. [01:23:01] Speaker A: You for spelling art. I was confused. If anyone ever types it in from you talking about it, I feel bad for them. Go to our show description. It's on there. [01:23:09] Speaker B: Yeah, well, Johnny, I. I spell it out because I listen to that section and type it in so that way I can add it to the. [01:23:19] Speaker A: Got it. [01:23:19] Speaker B: Because I almost always forget who we've shouted out, so I have to listen to the section. And so this is. It's for me. It's for me. [01:23:26] Speaker A: Okay, so what you're saying is I do this podcast for the community, and you do it for yourself. [01:23:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:23:32] Speaker A: Basically, you're selfish, selfish lover. [01:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And you're an easy lover. [01:23:38] Speaker A: I'm an easy lover. [01:23:41] Speaker B: He's an easy lover. He'll take your heart back. [01:23:48] Speaker A: Check him out on Instagram. Yeah, logged me on Instagram and I logged back in yet. [01:23:52] Speaker B: So he's got some fantastic creepy work going on here. Cool. He's got, you know, like, the winged angel, Death. You know, he's got, like, the Grim Reaper talking to a. To an old man. Just some horrifying shit. But then he also has, like, dragons and a pastoral scene with a horse in a river and Some. My neighbor, Totoro watercolor. [01:24:24] Speaker A: We love Totoro. [01:24:25] Speaker B: It's. It's awesome. He's. He's got such cool shit. I think there's just Spawn in the middle of it all, so. Yeah, check them out. Jonathan. [01:24:35] Speaker A: Check him out. [01:24:37] Speaker B: Jonathan Layton. Vera. It's real good. While you're. [01:24:41] Speaker A: While you're checking him out, make sure to check us out. We are regarding Swan Pod on Instagram. Regarding swampodmail.com. [01:24:48] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:24:50] Speaker A: You hit us up. [01:24:51] Speaker B: Yeah, do it. [01:24:52] Speaker A: Every week. I like to ask a question. The greater conversation. [01:24:57] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:24:58] Speaker A: This week I would ask, what's your. If you went to Laser Quest today, what would be your Laser Quest name? [01:25:07] Speaker B: Mine would probably just be the same dumb thing I use for everything. Debruy. [01:25:12] Speaker A: I'd be Oyster Boy. The same dumb thing I use for everything. [01:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:16] Speaker A: What would yours be? Would you be Al Simmons? Would you be the Curse? [01:25:19] Speaker B: Would you be Jim Doubting Jim Downing the Deviant? [01:25:24] Speaker A: They might kick you out of Laser Quest. You put your name up there as the deviant. Get him out of here. There are kids here. [01:25:33] Speaker B: I think I would spend a lot of time trying to think of something clever and then just default. [01:25:38] Speaker A: That's how it always goes. Well, let us know if you have a cool Laser Quest name. Extra points if it's Spawn related. [01:25:44] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Extra points if there are pictures involved. [01:25:48] Speaker A: While you're letting us know on the Internet, make sure to let Lonnie Bones know you like their music by listening to it. [01:25:54] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:25:54] Speaker A: Our music. [01:25:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:25:55] Speaker A: Available wherever you get music. Lonnie Bones. [01:25:58] Speaker B: Lonnie Bones. It's good shit. It's good as hell. Hella good. [01:26:03] Speaker A: Make sure to rate, review, subscribe wherever you get. Podcasts. [01:26:06] Speaker B: Yes, please do. Tell your friends, families, neighbors, co workers, if you. If you go to church, tell you the person in the pew next to you when you're. When you're passing the piece, say, listen to respawn. I'd love to. I'd love to get some old church ladies on this. I bet they would. I bet they would write excellent emails. [01:26:25] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sure. [01:26:26] Speaker B: I'm sure. I. We'll read them. We'll read them. [01:26:29] Speaker A: You know what else we're gonna read, David? [01:26:30] Speaker B: We're gonna. We're gonna read some more from Spawn's universe, aren't we, Jamie? [01:26:33] Speaker A: We're gonna be more from this corner of Spawn. [01:26:36] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Exact corners. [01:26:37] Speaker A: Because we're gonna catch up. We're a little bit behind on Sam, Twitch, and Rat City, so we're gonna catch up. So next week we're doing Rat City 16 and Sandwich Twitch. 16. [01:26:44] Speaker B: Hell yeah. I like it. Yeah. What else is there to say Besides fucking find 16 of Rat City and Sam and Twitch and read them and then come listen to us document. [01:26:54] Speaker A: Come on back. Come on back. [01:26:55] Speaker B: Do it, man. I fucking love Red City and Sam and Twitch. They're good books. They're good books. [01:27:02] Speaker A: They are. [01:27:02] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I almost. I almost stumbled into it, naturally, Johnny, with. What I was saying is there's not much more to say there, is there? Which means I really don't have much more to say. But, you know, may the scorch be with you, Johnny. [01:27:16] Speaker A: Also with you, David. [01:27:17] Speaker B: Speaking of passing the peace. Hell yeah. [01:27:19] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:27:20] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:27:22] Speaker A: Pass the piece like the Violator. Been passing gas because he calls him a. What does he call him again? Sickly fast. You're a sickly fat. [01:27:31] Speaker B: David. [01:27:31] Speaker A: You're a stinker. You're a fart. [01:27:34] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe that should be our. I. I claim that as my Laser Quest name. Sickly faf. [01:27:39] Speaker A: Siglyph. I'll be. I'll be Bludman. German means, like, stupid heads. [01:27:45] Speaker B: Stupid head. Dumb cop. [01:27:49] Speaker A: Doom cough. That's stupid head. What is blue blood, man? I can't remember. [01:27:53] Speaker B: I think blood is blood. [01:27:55] Speaker A: No, it's something else. [01:27:56] Speaker B: Or. [01:27:59] Speaker A: Because I did a sketch in German, blued man means stupid. Idiot, fool or jerk is a compound word from blud and man. Blued means stupid. Man means man. Do we sign Bludman? [01:28:12] Speaker B: Hell yeah, you're blued, man. [01:28:16] Speaker A: I know that because I had to do a. I do a puppet show. I got extra credit for competing in a German. It was like a speech tournament, but German. [01:28:23] Speaker B: Nice. [01:28:24] Speaker A: Is it Osu? [01:28:25] Speaker B: Okay. [01:28:25] Speaker A: And me and my. One of the. One of the. One of the categories is puppet show. Some of my friends in a German puppet show about aliens coming and killing George Lucas, because I had an alien puppet, and I was like, what are we gonna do? Aliens killing George Lucas? [01:28:41] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Did they. Did they poison his Diet Coke and spaghetti? [01:28:45] Speaker A: No, they, like, beat him. It was like a Punch and Judy. [01:28:47] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [01:28:48] Speaker A: This is like in 2000. I don't. [01:28:52] Speaker B: I don't know when the infamous, infamous spaghetti Diet Coke picture was taken. Geez. [01:28:57] Speaker A: Post prequels. [01:28:58] Speaker B: Okay. Wow. Should have been about the mid-2000s, right? [01:29:03] Speaker A: Hey, shout out to the mid-2000s, baby. [01:29:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:29:07] Speaker A: 04. Because I was the class of 04. [01:29:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I was 06. [01:29:12] Speaker A: Give me an 06. [01:29:14] Speaker B: 06. [01:29:15] Speaker A: 06. [01:29:16] Speaker B: Six, six. Oh, six, six, six, seven, six, seven. [01:29:22] Speaker A: And now we are dead. [01:29:25] Speaker B: Yeah, we're We're. I think. I think the kids would say, johnny, we're unk. [01:29:34] Speaker A: We're cooked. [01:29:42] Speaker B: Sam. [01:30:08] Speaker A: It.