Episode 160 - Rat City 16 and Sam And Twitch Case Files 16

[00:00:00] Speaker A: If you want someone back from the dead, you work with the undead. When you find it, I'd hide it from your caped friend. [00:00:08] Speaker B: Hide what? [00:00:10] Speaker A: Necroplasm. [00:00:43] Speaker A: Good evening and welcome to the Malibols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. I just dropped my pen. [00:00:53] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David. [00:00:55] Speaker A: Williams, and I'm writing pen David. [00:00:57] Speaker B: And I'm probably about to drop a dog. Actual dog. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Actual dog. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Gotta shove this guy like he's a lumbar pillow. There we go. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Oh, my God, look at that dog. David's got a dog wrapped in a blanket. [00:01:10] Speaker B: Yeah, she's a little vicious. She's got three legs and she looks like a dirty snowball that somebody left in the freezer because they thought they could have a snowball fight in July. [00:01:21] Speaker A: David's a very sweet soul who runs a very needed service out of his house. [00:01:29] Speaker B: I just. I just take care of dogs. It's the dog's house. I just live here. [00:01:33] Speaker A: That's good. [00:01:33] Speaker B: I guess that means I'm always in the doghouse. [00:01:37] Speaker A: You're always in the doghouse. We're always dropping things. We dropped. Dropped my pen. You dropped. Drop hard truths about dogs. [00:01:43] Speaker B: We're dropping the ball. We're dropping the podcast once a week at 4:20 in the morning on Fridays. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Yes, we are. 4:20 every morning on Fridays. You're gonna drop in Anakin, saying, what have I done? Right here. [00:01:55] Speaker B: What have I done? Perfect. Oh, man, Johnny. Speaking of, I was talking to somebody today about the current political climate, and. [00:02:07] Speaker A: They went, what have I done? [00:02:10] Speaker B: Yes. I was talking to Senator Dick Durbin. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, nice. [00:02:15] Speaker B: But we were. They were trying to pinpoint when exactly everything went wrong. And I was like, well, it's like when Jar Jar gave the deciding vote to give. [00:02:25] Speaker B: Since Chancellor Palpatine supreme powers that he promised he'd give them back after the Clone War was finished. [00:02:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:33] Speaker B: And they were like, yeah, it's exactly like that. [00:02:35] Speaker A: So you mean the Patriot Act? [00:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, basically. [00:02:39] Speaker A: That's basically where it started. [00:02:40] Speaker B: That's exactly. That's exactly what I was getting at. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Yeah, the. The Patriot Act. It's the beginning of the end. There were people that were mad at George Lucas at the time because they thought it was like an anti Bush movie episode two. And it's like, it kind of is. [00:02:50] Speaker B: It kind of is. [00:02:51] Speaker A: It's anti Patriot act, that's for sure. [00:02:54] Speaker B: The American voters are the Jar Jar. [00:02:55] Speaker A: We're the empire. And that's the thing. It's like it was after 9. 11. No one wants to hear that. We're the Empire. [00:03:00] Speaker B: It's like, well, we are hard truths, Johnny. Hard truths. [00:03:03] Speaker A: They're the Rebel Alliance. They're most terrorists. [00:03:05] Speaker B: We're laying down the spawn. We're laying down the hard truths. And the hard truth is there's no spawn. In this episode. [00:03:12] Speaker A: I got a hard truth, and I don't think the Internet can handle. I was just thinking about rebellions and terrorists, and it's on my mind because I watched with my friend James Doty the other day while we were playing Star wars cards. The Last Jedi. The movie so fucking good. It rips so hard. People don't like the Last Jedi. What is going on? [00:03:30] Speaker B: That the Last Jedi is awesome. Was that the one where R2D2 wakes up after decades of quiet? [00:03:36] Speaker A: That's Force Awakens. Okay, Last Jedi is the one with, like, Kylo Ren and, like, they're all together and they're, like, kind of in love. [00:03:43] Speaker B: Weird. And the. The red planet. [00:03:47] Speaker A: The porgs, David. The porgs. Porgs? You mean crate. You mean crate. It's salt, David. It's not snow. [00:03:53] Speaker B: I said red. Did I say red snow? I meant to just. [00:03:55] Speaker A: You said red planet. [00:03:56] Speaker B: No, you said. [00:03:56] Speaker A: I was just. That's a line in the movie. He goes, it's salt. [00:04:00] Speaker B: It's a good movie. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Yeah, the movie rips. [00:04:02] Speaker B: That's the one with Maz Cantina, right? Or Maskatana. [00:04:05] Speaker A: No, she's in the Force Awakens. She's barely in the Last Jedi. [00:04:08] Speaker B: Damn it. I. I smush them all together. I think of them as one. [00:04:13] Speaker A: Can'T see, you know? That came from. J.J. was saying Ms. Cantina really drunk. [00:04:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. All I know. [00:04:20] Speaker B: All I know is she likes that Wookiee and. Same. [00:04:24] Speaker A: I like that Wookiee. Where's my boyfriend? She's awesome. The Force Awakens. Awesome lies Skywalker. [00:04:30] Speaker B: I don't love one quarter portion. [00:04:33] Speaker A: Yeah, Rey's cool. Finn's cool. I like Poe. I like Maz Kanata. [00:04:37] Speaker B: I love Gwendolyn Christie. If Gwendolyn Christie came to my house and picked me up like a baby and carried me away, I wouldn't say a goddamn. [00:04:44] Speaker A: See, that's what they screwed up. She, like, dies in the first one. They throw her down the Shaft and she's back in the second. Was like, I'm back. [00:04:49] Speaker B: She should. [00:04:49] Speaker A: Then she dies. She should have been back in the third one. Just like, I'm back. It should have been her bit. Like, they should have made her. [00:04:55] Speaker B: They should have Made her a cenobite a la Palpatine. [00:04:59] Speaker A: No, she just comes back. She just survives. Like, she's just that badass that you think she's dead and she survives. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Did you ever. Did you ever read the Captain Phasma book? [00:05:07] Speaker A: She escapes Starkiller base in it. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Yeah. You find out how a badass book. [00:05:12] Speaker A: Okay, I'll check it out. I read some Star wars books. [00:05:14] Speaker B: It's good. It's good. That's. Those are the. The around that time ones are the only Star wars books I've read. So I read. I read that one. I read the. The one about Finn going to the Academy. Academy. Actually, that might be the same book. Actually, I think I probably just read that. [00:05:30] Speaker A: No, the Fast was its own book. And there's a book that has a little story about Ray Finn and Poe, and it's, like, about before the Force Awakens. [00:05:36] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. [00:05:37] Speaker A: That's where you get Finn's. [00:05:38] Speaker B: I definitely read that one though, then. Yeah. Because it also gives you, like, the backstory between Finn and the. The guy who's like, Traitor. [00:05:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Whose name I forget. [00:05:47] Speaker A: It's fn. Something, something, something. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Man, that was so cool with his little. [00:05:54] Speaker B: Johnny. I like Star Wars. Star wars is good. [00:05:57] Speaker A: Stars is good. I've been playing that card game. I love it, man. [00:05:59] Speaker B: You found the. You found the. You found the E.T. [00:06:03] Speaker A: There'S an easy card. There's easy card. David was very happy. There's a Jar Jar card. He's like doing the. He's getting ran. The emergency powers. [00:06:11] Speaker B: It's the most. It's the most op. Is there. Is there a Padme. [00:06:17] Speaker A: In the starter deck? Yeah, it's really good. What about Amadala? [00:06:21] Speaker B: What about a. Oh, what's his. What, a Jimmy Smith's? Yeah, there's a Bail Bale or Bail Organa. [00:06:29] Speaker A: Just a B card. He's yellow. He's yellow. Heroic. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Nice. Excellent. [00:06:35] Speaker A: Who else is heroic? They ain't yella. [00:06:38] Speaker B: They ain't. Yeah, well, they definitely ain't yellow. [00:06:41] Speaker A: I can think of three gentlemen. [00:06:44] Speaker B: Three gentlemen. [00:06:46] Speaker A: Peter, Paul and Mary. [00:06:48] Speaker B: Yes, definitely. [00:06:49] Speaker A: No, their names are Peter. [00:06:53] Speaker A: Sam and Max. Peter, Sam and Max. Sam, Peter and Max. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Alex and the Ottomist. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Dude. I saw a movie. I went sick and, like, my mom was, like, working, couldn't pick me up or something when I was really young. And, like, somehow she couldn't come get me. And I was sick. So, like, a friend's mom can get me. And the only video they had was that. That stick for, like, four hours. We watched that like, four Times that's, like, all they had. So I just associate that movie being really sick and like. [00:07:22] Speaker B: I'm sorry, Johnny. I didn't mean to give you flashbacks. I had the flu when I was, like, seven or so, and my sister's best friend's mom had to pick me up and take me to her house. And that's. That's where I learned that Fievel Goes west was a sequel and not just an original standalone film, because they had the original American tale. And I was like, what the is this? Why is there no cowboy? [00:07:47] Speaker A: It was the cowboys. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Why are they. Why are they in New York? Why does he get that little page boy hat? [00:07:51] Speaker A: What's going on? [00:07:53] Speaker B: There's. There are no cats in America, though. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Johnny Fifel's another hero, but I'm talking about three heroes. [00:07:58] Speaker B: We're talking about Peter. Peter. [00:07:59] Speaker A: And then we're talking about Sam and Max. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Sam and Max. Max and Maximilian. [00:08:06] Speaker A: That is his first name, right? [00:08:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Max Williams. [00:08:08] Speaker A: I was making sure I was right. [00:08:09] Speaker B: It's Max. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Twitch Williams. Yeah, they're Sam and Max. [00:08:12] Speaker B: They call him Twitch because he doesn't. [00:08:14] Speaker A: That's because we are talking about Peter Cairn, the star of Red City. We're talking about Detective Sam Burke and Detective Max Twitch. I'm doing the quotes thing. Twitch Williams. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Because he doesn't. [00:08:30] Speaker A: Because we are respawn. Each week we bring you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:08:37] Speaker A: And this week is no different. We had two fantastic fun issues from Spawn's universe. [00:08:43] Speaker B: So good. [00:08:46] Speaker B: I like that we've done two of these in a row, because these are always my favorite episodes to do. [00:08:50] Speaker A: I know. I like jazz. So we're doing a little trilogy here. Speaking of the Star wars trilogy or the sequel trilogy, we're doing the Rat City Save a Twitch trilogy because we got behind on them. [00:09:00] Speaker B: Yeah. The ketchup trilogy, we call it. [00:09:02] Speaker A: Yeah, Ketchup. [00:09:03] Speaker B: It's a twilogy. [00:09:05] Speaker A: The ketchup twilogy. And that's ketchup with a K. Ketchup. Ketchup. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Catsup. Ketchup. Ketchup. [00:09:16] Speaker A: We are doing rat city 16 and salmon twitch 16. We're doing three rat cities. This is our second of three. This is our Empire Strikes Back. This is our Last Jedi. This is our Attack of the Clones, which is so funny because I just talked about Attack of the Clones and the Last Jedi, how it works out. This is our middle of a trilogy of Sam and Twitch and Rat City episodes to get caught. It's all connected because we can do whatever the hell we want because it's our podcast, baby. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Spoilers for the contrived. Trying to act like we don't know what we're going to read for next week later on in the episode. [00:09:47] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll do it anyway. [00:09:50] Speaker B: You're going to forget this by the time you get there. [00:09:52] Speaker A: I always know you're the one that, like, you don't know. [00:09:55] Speaker B: Try to keep it mysterious. I should probably just be like, yeah, this is what we're doing. [00:10:00] Speaker A: I'm too lazy to pick up my phone. [00:10:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I do text it to you at the beginning of every episode. Yeah. [00:10:07] Speaker B: I just don't want to pick up. [00:10:08] Speaker A: Anytime I pick up my phone is a win. [00:10:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Being able to just leave your phone in your pocket and just be like. [00:10:16] Speaker B: Or even, like the charger. Not even leave. Taking it. Taking it out of your pocket, leaving another room. The problem is I have one of those. I have one of those wireless chargers at work. So I just leave my phone on there and invariably when I walk away without my phone, somebody calls and my ringtone is stupid loud because otherwise I can't hear it. And everybody's like. Everybody's just like, your phone went off, dude. And it's like, God damn it. Sorry about that. But, yeah, very exciting. I'm very excited about this, Johnny. You know what else I'm excited about? These covers we got. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Well, let's talk about one cover first. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:48] Speaker A: Rat City 16, all the way back from July 2025. Either a cover David by Daniel Henriques. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Oh, very nice. [00:10:57] Speaker B: Looks like that, like an image that. There's like an image of an ancient man pulling a whole ship by himself. That's what. That's what it looks like to me. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Okay. [00:11:07] Speaker B: Am I making. Am I making that image up or is that something that happens in real life? [00:11:10] Speaker A: It's from Arthur. [00:11:11] Speaker B: It's from Arthur. Or is it from one of the. One of the Pirates of the Caribbean does. [00:11:16] Speaker A: No, I think someone does that. I think someone drags a ship. [00:11:19] Speaker B: I feel like it's like. [00:11:20] Speaker A: It feels like iron. It's like an iron ship. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Yeah. It feels like it's ancient. Like it's from, like, the Iliad or something like that. Like, it's probably. [00:11:27] Speaker A: It's a triumph. I see the image. Yes. I see the image. [00:11:31] Speaker B: It's. It's. It's Peter Cairn dragging the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald up from the bottom of Lake Superior. [00:11:38] Speaker A: Absolutely. But that's what kind of what it looks like. It's Peter Karen. He's like. He's got like, wires and crazy shit behind him, possibly attached to him. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Also he's got his. His right hand is like necroplasmic, but it's like. It's necroplasm that's holding him back. Kind of like a shackle instead of. Instead of a weapon. Yeah, kind of. So it's like everything. He's just. He's just fighting forward through it all. It's a good one. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it's really good. [00:12:08] Speaker B: And from a half remembered. A half remembered image to the Tower of Babel. Johnny, I got. I've got the B cover, and it literally looks like the Tower of Babel. [00:12:19] Speaker A: It does. It's like you got Peter Karen, like, gazing. This giant tower. [00:12:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Just in the middle. In the middle of the city. It's just rising to the sky as an affront to God. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's awesome. [00:12:33] Speaker A: It's obvious. [00:12:34] Speaker B: It's obviously really tall because you can see, like from the angle of the white stuff, stuff on his head that he's looking up. So it's tall. It's a tall tower. [00:12:42] Speaker A: I wonder how many languages. [00:12:47] Speaker A: Who pray for Babylon? [00:12:48] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know. You tell me who plays who prays for Babylon? Maybe Babylon prays for themselves. [00:12:54] Speaker A: A Satan man. You remember that ghost song? It's a cover, but yeah, it's. [00:12:59] Speaker B: It's from the. The same. [00:13:01] Speaker A: The one that's all covers. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Is it? Well, it's all covers. But doesn't it also have Square Hammer on it, like, as a single? [00:13:09] Speaker A: No. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Wasn't there? [00:13:11] Speaker A: Maybe it does. Yeah. I'm just kidding. I don't know. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Because it's also the one that has. I was born an original sinner. I was born of original sin. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Because that's like. It was like the. It was like the companion piece of Maloria. [00:13:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Because, yeah, it was. It was the single. It was the single of something put out and. Yeah. Yeah, I listen to that one a lot. [00:13:35] Speaker A: We have. You have ghosts on that one. [00:13:37] Speaker B: You've got everything. [00:13:39] Speaker A: You ever heard the original song of that by Rocky Erickson? [00:13:42] Speaker B: It's so. It's chaotic. It's. [00:13:45] Speaker A: It's chaotic. Look, the left me. It's part of my thoughts on it. It's just amazing how they transformed into, like a ballad. Because it's like really intense and chaotic. [00:13:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very. It's very much just like a guy went up and was like, I'm a little drunk, but I'm gonna sing this song. And it's yeah, it's. It's herky jerky and a little spooky. [00:14:02] Speaker A: And they made it that tomorrow night. I just confirmed I'm doing karaoke with Tom. [00:14:06] Speaker B: Hell yeah. What's. What's on the set list? [00:14:10] Speaker A: I want to sing Joe's Garage. I found out it's on there. [00:14:16] Speaker A: I don't know if that'll be in there. Hopefully not. [00:14:17] Speaker B: Tom could be. Tom could be the old lady in the background being like, he used to be such a good boy. [00:14:22] Speaker A: He used to cut the lawn. He used to be such a nice boy. I've listened a lot of Frank Zappa lately. I don't know why. [00:14:29] Speaker B: I mean, it just happens every once in a while. It's just like, hey, this is good. Because it's good. [00:14:34] Speaker A: His Halloween one of his, like, his Halloween 1980 show, they just released, like, the entirety of it, and it came up on my. Around Halloween. So I listened to it. It's like four concerts, not just one. It's like. And I just had it on my car. So I listened to it over the course of, like, four days. [00:14:48] Speaker B: Damn. [00:14:49] Speaker A: But it's really good. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Nice. Very awesome. Frank Zappa, very hard to whistle to. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. Yeah. [00:14:57] Speaker B: I'll tell you that for nothing. Except for Peaches and Regalia. Peaches and Regalia is really easy to whistle, but no words. [00:15:04] Speaker A: No words. There's no words to describe it. But there's no words in the song, too. Yeah, there are words in this, though. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Yes, there are. [00:15:10] Speaker A: So we gotta pop them in this cover and see what words there are, because they are written in the credits as script plot by Erica Schultz. [00:15:17] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:15:17] Speaker A: Art by Zay Carlos. [00:15:19] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Color by Ulysses Areola. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Johnny, you're not gonna believe this. [00:15:24] Speaker A: What? [00:15:24] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:15:25] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Lettering also by Erica Schultz. [00:15:28] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:15:28] Speaker A: We already covered the covers. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Sure did. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Creative Director is Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Yes, ma'. Am. [00:15:35] Speaker A: Previously in Rat City, Peter, trapped in the in between fight for his survival. Meanwhile, Quinlan heads back to Rat City in search of answers. [00:15:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it's true. [00:15:48] Speaker A: It's catching us up. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think we saw. I don't think we saw cue ball heading back to the city in the last. [00:15:54] Speaker A: It doesn't say last issue necessarily, just as previous. [00:15:56] Speaker B: Oh, it just mean. It just says meanwhile. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Meanwhile. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Meanwhile. Oh, well, Johnny, this issue starts wherever good issue starts. Down to pub. Down to pub, mate. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Hey, you want to go around pub? I'm thinking pub. [00:16:14] Speaker A: I love that. In Hot Fuzz. When that comes back, because he's like. Because he's always like. Nick Frost is always like. I'm thinking pub. And they're trying to get him to go. And then they're gunning down all the old people. They're like, I'm thinking pub. And they go and like shoot the pub owners. [00:16:28] Speaker A: It's Edgar Wright week. We were recording the week of the release of Running man, the new Edgar Wright film, so you can pop fuzz. [00:16:34] Speaker B: Wait, that's Edgar Wright did that chip. [00:16:36] Speaker A: You didn't know that? [00:16:37] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:16:37] Speaker A: That's why you wanted to see it? [00:16:38] Speaker B: No, I just wanted to see it because I enjoyed the original Running Man. Shit. No. [00:16:42] Speaker A: It's Edgar Wright's new movie. [00:16:43] Speaker B: I'm extra for it now. Fuck. I hope Eloy doesn't listen to this. So he doesn't know how much of a neophyte I am. [00:16:49] Speaker A: He won't know till after you see it. [00:16:51] Speaker B: I'll tell him. I'll tell him because he's probably. He's probably been rereading the original short story. So that way he's. [00:16:58] Speaker A: It's a novella. It's a novel. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Oh, he probably did. [00:17:02] Speaker A: My friend Rachel read it. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Good for Rachel. Tell me what they do in it. Do they run? [00:17:07] Speaker A: They run. Is there a Bachmann Books? [00:17:10] Speaker B: Ah. [00:17:12] Speaker A: So Bachmann. Same with the Long Walk. That was a Bachmann book. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Bach. Bachman sounds like a musical based superhero. I am Bachman does. [00:17:26] Speaker B: Wait, that's fucking Beethoven, isn't it? [00:17:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:29] Speaker B: God damn. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Sing some Bach or you're a failure. [00:17:33] Speaker B: Fur Elise was Bach, right? [00:17:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Sing it. [00:17:37] Speaker A: He did it. Okay. The Johnny dude. So imagine playing in this bar because we're in five. Five Rats Pub in Rat City. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that spoilers for a couple of pages from now has one of the coolest, the coolest bar sides I've ever seen. [00:17:54] Speaker B: And it starts off with somebody just knocking back all knock. Knocking back a shot and ask him for another. And then immediately getting cut off by the bartender. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Yep. [00:18:04] Speaker B: And then as you do when you get cut off by the bartender, they flip him off. And we see the cybernetic eyes and the purple hair. [00:18:13] Speaker A: It's Victoria, baby. [00:18:14] Speaker B: Yeah. The. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Eyes of the eyes, the eyes of the chair. [00:18:19] Speaker A: We called her his Darth Maul. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I do believe we did. Yes. [00:18:25] Speaker A: She pops in, she popped in. The hall goes, this is my apprentice, Victoria. She will find your loss, Peter. [00:18:32] Speaker B: And then she almost. She almost runs over Peter as a small child. And the whole saga almost ended immediately. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Yes. [00:18:40] Speaker B: How oblivious. Darth Maul was like, he's trying to run down Anakin. Well, then you think he would have, like. Like, pulled. Popped the ue and come back and been like, finish the job. [00:18:50] Speaker A: You give a. I think he was gonna avoid a kid. He killed a kid. He didn't care. He's Darth Maul. [00:18:54] Speaker B: I. I learned in seventh. Not. Not seventh grade. I learned in high school, in a class that was nominally trying to teach us how the court system worked, that if you ever accidentally hit a child with your car, just fucking kill the child. Because you're gonna pay less for having murdered a kid than you will for having maimed them and then having to pay for damages. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Yikes. [00:19:18] Speaker B: Yeah. That was the. That was the advice that the Hildale High School softball coach gave us for. [00:19:25] Speaker A: That's hilarious. That was the invite for what? For, like, Veterans Day. When did he give you that advice? [00:19:30] Speaker B: No, that was. It was. We were. We were talking about it, and he was just like, let me tell you. I know from people who have done it. Kill the child. Don't. Oh, my God. It's like, Jesus Christ. Coach Shanks. I'm pretty sure he's dead, so I could say his name. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Coach Shanks would always tell. I'm telling some tales here. He would always just date the moms of the girls on his softball team. [00:19:53] Speaker B: And you could always tell when they broke up because he started giving them bad grades. [00:19:57] Speaker A: Seems like a really cool good dude. This sounds awful. [00:20:02] Speaker B: He was an asshole. Unless you were a senior. And then he was like, you guys are gonna be the fuck out of here and I don't have to bother with you. And so then he'd be real nice, but he was mean to everybody. [00:20:10] Speaker A: That's weird. [00:20:11] Speaker B: He was born on Valentine's Day, so you know what they say about people who were born on Valentine's Day. [00:20:17] Speaker A: They suck. [00:20:18] Speaker B: They're bitter. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. They'll never find that. True love. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking of bitter. And speaking of. [00:20:27] Speaker B: Speaking of a meat cute gone sour. Johnny. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Yes. Victoria's at the bar and she's saying, like, oh, she's pissed off. [00:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:35] Speaker A: She's set up by pts. She's seeing lucky to get it alive. [00:20:39] Speaker B: She's seeing the news on the telly about the chairman, ironically says, I hope. [00:20:44] Speaker A: You'Re in hell, you bastard. Which he kind of is. He's in the netherworld. [00:20:48] Speaker B: He's in the. He's in the nether regions. [00:20:51] Speaker A: He's. Yeah. He's running around naked. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:55] Speaker B: And then. Well, you're in a bar and this. You're a lady in a bar, and you're going to have some nasty men come up to you. Johnny, this guy comes up and he's just like, hey, where you going, lady? Let me see. Let me see that smile. [00:21:10] Speaker B: And she just, like, starts. He starts going in for a grab. Johnny. He's trying to be handsy in the bar. [00:21:17] Speaker A: Yep. [00:21:17] Speaker B: She grabs his wrist and cracks it and punches him in the face. And punches him in the face again. And then leaves him in a pool of his own blood. As she exits the 5 rat pump. [00:21:27] Speaker A: Good for her sign, as we see outside, is five Rats. [00:21:30] Speaker B: Five rats. Yeah. It's like a. It's like one of those neon signs that's got the motion where it goes beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. So it looks like a little rat is running. [00:21:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. [00:21:42] Speaker B: So fucking cool. I would. I would put that sign in my house if Wanda would let me. She wouldn't let me. [00:21:48] Speaker A: She won't even let you hang up with Fox and the Hound. [00:21:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:51] Speaker A: As we know. [00:21:52] Speaker B: As we know. I love that. I love that movie so much. [00:21:56] Speaker A: I know you do. I think you should hang it up. Hang it up. [00:22:02] Speaker B: I'll do it. I'd say I'll do it quietly, but hammering a nail into the. [00:22:06] Speaker A: Put it in the closet and get a little light. Come and turn on the little light. [00:22:12] Speaker B: I should get, like, a set of shutters so that way I can open it like it's a shrine. [00:22:19] Speaker B: And then close it. It's the tabernacle of the Fox. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:22:27] Speaker A: I agree. [00:22:27] Speaker B: Oh. And so Victoria exits the pub and she runs into Dr. Nomics. And Victoria's like, you're late, Nomics. And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was trying to escape from a building that exploded. What the fuck you want? Yeah. She's like, I almost didn't make it out alive. And Victoria is like, yeah, but you made it out, so fucking quit being a pussy about it. [00:22:54] Speaker A: And they're basically like, look, I have a buyer lined up for us and we can go against PTS. You want to help me? [00:23:02] Speaker B: And Dr. Nomik says, great. I go from one deal with the devil to another. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Wonder who this mysterious buyer is. [00:23:09] Speaker B: I don't know. We'll see. And then we cut to New Jersey. Who will save New Jersey? [00:23:17] Speaker A: The Toxic Avenger. [00:23:19] Speaker B: Word. It's a very great soundtrack. [00:23:23] Speaker A: And Quinlan is hitchhiking with. [00:23:28] Speaker B: Yeah. With Kizzy. And Kizzy is like, God fucking. You piece of shit, you. Why are you fucking. Why did I Do this. Why did you do that? You stole my credits. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Because I think Quinlan called Kizzy a few issues ago. [00:23:42] Speaker B: Okay. I had her wallet. I've forgotten that. [00:23:45] Speaker A: Yeah, me, too, David. [00:23:48] Speaker B: And Johnny does his homework, so I don't. I'm bad. I'm the bad host, Johnny's the good host. And, yeah, Kizzy's. Kizzy's like, I shouldn't have come to pick you up, but I just wanted to fucking yell at you for being such a piece of shit. Quinlan. Quinlan's like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I need. We needed. We needed it. We were fucking on the run at this point. So. So Kiz is like. So you are Quinlan from the news reports. [00:24:14] Speaker A: Yes. Because Kizzy recognizes. And remember, we know Kizzy knows Peter and used to date him in high school. [00:24:20] Speaker B: Mm. And then. And then Peter had that fantasy fever dream where they were at the dance, and then the fucking violator comes, and could you imagine your dance being destroyed by the violator? That's intense. [00:24:34] Speaker A: That is intense. Many people's dances are ruined by violators, though. [00:24:38] Speaker B: That's true. [00:24:39] Speaker A: Think about it. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Unfortunately, yeah, you gotta leave room for Jesus, Johnny. And they don't leave room for Jesus. [00:24:44] Speaker A: That's. Do you know that's the word that's like the MK Ultra word that got Al Roker to freeze on tv. Did I tell you about this? [00:24:51] Speaker B: You said holy. You said Holy Ghost. [00:24:52] Speaker A: Holy Ghost. I know, but it was that concept because, like, you got to have the Holy Ghost between you, and he just goes and freezes. [00:25:02] Speaker A: You. Leave room for the Holy Ghost, David. [00:25:04] Speaker B: You gotta. You gotta. And so then Kizzy's like, so what? What kind of. What kind of. What kind of nonsense you got my Peter messed up with? I like how she calls him my Peter. Yeah. [00:25:14] Speaker A: What's up with that? It's like some weird catfish shit, man. She's, like, a little too invested. If they only did it in high school. I feel like, yeah, maybe there's more to it, but, like, it feels a little. [00:25:22] Speaker B: He's the one that got away, then Johnny. [00:25:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know anything about that. [00:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely not. And Quinlan's just like, oh, man, I wish. I wish I hadn't gotten him involved. And then, you know, Quinlan's thinking about it, and they're like, oh, geez. But if I hadn't gotten him involved, we would both be dead, like, four times over. [00:25:41] Speaker A: So I am glad I got him involved. [00:25:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And so. So Quinlan's just, like, lost in their own thoughts. And then Kizzy's like earth to Quinlan. Come on. I fucking asked you a question about Peter. [00:25:54] Speaker A: Quinlan's like, it's a long story. And Kizzy's like, well, traffic on the George Washington is a bitch, so we got plenty of time. [00:26:02] Speaker B: So why don't you start at the beginning? I like Kizzy. She's sassy. And then we cut to New York Hospital, the earthly plane, and it's, Ah, shit, I forget this guy's name. It's Fidan's brother Arif. Arif. Arif. Fidan's brother. And he's in. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Arif. Arif. [00:26:23] Speaker B: Arif. [00:26:23] Speaker A: Arif. [00:26:24] Speaker B: We'll see. It wouldn't be the first thing we've mispronounced. And he is basically on life support. And I like this, like this, like, you know, they. They've got like a real time hologram X ray of like his venous system and his heart. And we learned that it has been a month and his heart is still going strong. Johnny. And the doctors are like, this is awesome. How is he surviving? I don't know, but this is really fucking cool. And then, and then the doctors, you know, leave the room and they're like. [00:26:55] Speaker A: Yeah, nothing makes sense in Rat City. Let's go play golf. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the progeny come in and they're like, he's almost dead. He should be dying anytime, anytime now. Anytime. He should be dying. [00:27:07] Speaker A: He said we could just kill him. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. [00:27:11] Speaker B: They're like, we did that once. Can't do that. It didn't work for us. And they're like, the others, the others are suspicious. So we should probably return to the in between. And so Johnny, we got a little metatextual. They say we should refer to the. To the in between. And here we go. We return to the in between. And we are at the sequence that the last issue stopped on of Peter reaching out to Owen's hand and the deviant suits transferring from Peter's hand to. To Reese's. And. And then Rhys has like this big shitting grin on his face and he's like, ha, ha, ha. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for this, Peter. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Ha, ha, ha ha. We know cosmic power starts talking like a. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Is so much power. [00:28:01] Speaker A: Peter, wait a minute. Is this guy a snake? [00:28:03] Speaker B: Yeah. How do you handle this mortal? We must. [00:28:08] Speaker A: And then he's no more than a snake. He's the prodigy. [00:28:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Rhys just like explodes into all of these different animals. [00:28:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:17] Speaker B: And goes, argh. And Peter's just like, Reese. Reese. What the hell? Come on, man. You can't die on me again. Reese. Did the suit just kill Rhys? Did I kill him? [00:28:29] Speaker A: He doesn't have his spawn speech bubble. [00:28:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But then as the progeny disperse, the deviant suit just like returns back to Peter. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Yeah, she's like, nah. [00:28:41] Speaker B: The progeny. Johnny, do a drop. [00:28:45] Speaker A: What? [00:28:46] Speaker B: What have we done? [00:28:48] Speaker A: What have we done? Did they say it? [00:28:50] Speaker B: They say it. [00:28:52] Speaker A: That's why I said it. [00:28:54] Speaker B: And the progeny are just like, we. We this up big time, dude. We. We shouldn't have done that. We shouldn't have tried to pretend we were a human and steal this suit. [00:29:05] Speaker A: Let me mention something interesting. They say her hold on the throne is deemed more legitimate with each passing day. [00:29:15] Speaker A: What are they talking about? [00:29:16] Speaker B: They're probably talking about Jessica Pretty Priest, maybe. [00:29:19] Speaker A: That'd be awesome. [00:29:20] Speaker B: That would be. [00:29:20] Speaker A: She was on the throne of hell. [00:29:22] Speaker B: She would be like 400 years old. [00:29:25] Speaker B: I bet. I bet the only thing that's. That's wrong with the 400 year old Jessica Priest is it's a little harder to lift those big ass guns. She's got a little bit, though, gotta. She's gotta like use a walker as a crutch. Yeah. And then we see that some of the other progeny that weren't involved in this subterfuge with Peter or escorting Arif back, Arif is just like, this is. This is really weird, dude. Yeah. And they're like, no, this is an opportunity. [00:29:56] Speaker B: This distraction will work in our favor. And so Peter's outside of Peter's head. We see that he is still just like basically chained to the ground in the deviant suit. And Arif recognizes Peter and he calls him a murderer. And he gives him a punch and he says, face me for what you did to my brother. Punches him again, punches again, double punch. To. To quote Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at you, Johnny, you dirty rat. You killed my brother. I bet Master Splinter loves that one. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Gold ninja. Gold ninja. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Go. Hey, that actually came up on shuffle on my Spotify recently. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Recently the ninja rap. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Yeah, but actually he refers to it correctly as the new Jack sound, Johnny. So it is not hip hop. It is new Jack swing. [00:30:50] Speaker A: Okay. [00:30:53] Speaker B: You know he's a real estate agent in LA now, Little Eyes. Yeah, he was on. He was on the Real World our freshman year. My freshman year of college. He was on the same. The same season that historically renowned Nasty Men Ron Jeremy was on. And every episode was Ron Jeremy being like, promising one of the guys that he would help vote for him. And Then being like, oh, no, sorry, man. The girls wanted it another way, so I voted against you. [00:31:27] Speaker B: Oh, man. But yeah, and so Arif is just beating the shit out of Peter and, you know, the deviant suit strikes back and hits Arif in the shoulder and he's like, ah. And the. The progeny are like, tis but a flesh wound. I've had worse. What, your arm's off? [00:31:49] Speaker A: It's like, but how do I get him? [00:31:51] Speaker B: Yeah. They're like, he must enter the revenant's mind and fight him in that realm. It is the only way. They're like, but what if I fucking die? And they're like, well, if you die, you die. If you don't do it, you're probably going to die. You're going to end up somewhere. Either way, it doesn't really matter. You can die and go to hell or maybe heaven, or come back here or just stay here. It's up to you. And he's like, okay, cool. I like the Zods. And he turns, like, he transforms into like, this hell centurion with, like, this really nice Mohawk helmets. And. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Yeah, they say to take his warrior. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Form and this big fucking glowing sword. He says, this is my chance. [00:32:39] Speaker B: They say, see, behind your opponent wallows in his mindscape. And Peter's just sitting there like, Rhys, Reese. Reese. [00:32:50] Speaker A: Attack him as he is engrossed in nostalgia. That's how you attack a millennial. [00:32:56] Speaker B: It makes it. We make it very easy. [00:32:58] Speaker A: Make it very easy. [00:32:59] Speaker B: And Fidan's like, says, you think, you know, thus this is for Fadan. And just comes at him with his sword and he's just like, sing, sing, sing. And Peter's just like, what the the is this? I have absolutely no who idea who you are, buddy. He just, like, turns the deviant suit. [00:33:17] Speaker A: I don't know who the hell you are, but you won't forget me. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I like how the. He's turned, like, the cape part of the. The deviant suit into, like, these long arm spikes that kind of look like the hands from the max. [00:33:32] Speaker A: Yeah, they kind of do. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's just like, charging at it and it's like. It's like we're a first person shooter. View from. From Arif's vantage. And that's the final image of the issue, Johnny. Yeah, yeah. Let me get Skull. Skull to end the issue. [00:33:52] Speaker A: Gotta get that skull. [00:33:53] Speaker B: Gotta get it. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Gotta Glenn Danzig that shit. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Gotta have it. Absolutely. Then we got the new generation, new stories, new you ad Absolutely. Look at that. Look at that. It's A whole bunch of books that we haven't covered on this podcast yet, Johnny. [00:34:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just future opportunities. [00:34:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Look at that. Very exciting. [00:34:14] Speaker A: We got the Image Classics ad. [00:34:16] Speaker B: Mm. Then we have the Warhammer 40K Space Marine and Nazi General action figures. [00:34:27] Speaker A: We love those. [00:34:30] Speaker B: I like that. I like the space marine. The space Marine. Space Marine is an excellent design. And then the ad on the back is for Diablo 4 toys. [00:34:38] Speaker A: Diablo 4. I haven't been playing. I've been playing a new game. [00:34:41] Speaker B: Oh, what you been playing? [00:34:42] Speaker A: It's called Arc Raiders. Do you rate an Archie game? [00:34:46] Speaker B: You? [00:34:47] Speaker A: I've been playing with Bran and Aaron and you go up to the surf. It's like a. You work together in like a squad and you're going to loot this poke. Post apocalyptic landscape. But there's other people looting. There's like groups of other people that are real people and there's groups of. There's AI controlled robots that are also trying to kill you. It's very fun. A lot of looting, a lot of tense situations, A lot of funny situations. [00:35:15] Speaker B: Oh, you said tents. I thought you said tent situations. And I was like, so you do virtual camping. Okay. [00:35:21] Speaker A: No tents. [00:35:24] Speaker A: It's fun. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Nice. [00:35:27] Speaker A: That's a nice way to connect with some friends. [00:35:29] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Very nice. [00:35:32] Speaker A: Arc Raiders. Check it out. Yeah, and check out rat City number 16. Yeah, just read it. [00:35:38] Speaker B: Yeah, we just read it. It's really good. It's real fucking good. [00:35:41] Speaker A: You should go read it. [00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah, we don't do it. We don't do it justice with our quick recap. [00:35:47] Speaker A: Yeah, That's Rat City 16, baby. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [00:35:51] Speaker A: And you know that means. [00:35:52] Speaker B: What's that time for? [00:35:54] Speaker A: Hit the music. [00:36:12] Speaker A: Next up. [00:36:14] Speaker A: We got we're on the case. [00:36:16] Speaker B: We're on the case because we got. [00:36:18] Speaker A: A case file from Mr. Sam and Mr. Twitch. Because we got Sam Quich taste. Sam and Quitch. Sam and Quidditch. [00:36:30] Speaker A: Sam and Quidditch case files. Sam and Twitch. Not sandwich. Sam and Twitch case files number 16. [00:36:39] Speaker B: Yes, very nice. [00:36:41] Speaker A: And I have. [00:36:44] Speaker A: This awesome A cover. I can only imagine what the B cover is, David. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Oh, well. [00:36:50] Speaker A: But let's talk about the A first. [00:36:51] Speaker B: Yes, let's talk about this A cover. So, so, so. Spoiler alert. Both of the covers are done by Raymond Kay. [00:36:57] Speaker A: Yes. And the A cover is Sam Burke in a rainstorm. [00:37:02] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Looking over a grave with a rocket. And he's holding the teddy bear. [00:37:07] Speaker B: It's obviously a child's grave because it's got a little toy rocket on it. [00:37:13] Speaker A: It's a child Some. Someone from a case. I imagine he couldn't help. [00:37:16] Speaker B: I. I would assume, I would assume because I. I think we would know if. If Sam Burke had had a child. [00:37:23] Speaker A: Yeah, we would know. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:26] Speaker B: Very. [00:37:26] Speaker A: It's a case he couldn't solve. [00:37:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:30] Speaker A: And it's really cool. It's very detailed, like super. [00:37:33] Speaker B: It's beautiful. [00:37:35] Speaker A: It's beautiful. And he's just in this really like dense, classic cemetery with New York in the background. [00:37:42] Speaker B: And just like Sam is so fucking sad. [00:37:47] Speaker A: Yeah. It's heartbreaking smoking a cigarette. [00:37:52] Speaker B: Man. It's got to be very difficult to smoke a cigarette in the Raid. Well, the B cover, Johnny, if you got Sam and Twitch case files and cover A is Sam, then Summer B, cover B must be Twitch. And guess what, Johnny, It's Twitch. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Whoa. He's got a long gun. [00:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he's in a. He's in the. An alley that's got like. [00:38:13] Speaker A: I like the pink cyberpunk. [00:38:14] Speaker B: Cyberpunk lighting and it very much, Johnny. The size of the gun in his hand and the walkie talkie. This is literally the twitch from that original. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Salmon Twitch action figure set basically. And yeah, he's just. He's stalking somebody down the alley. He's on the case. Yeah, yeah. It's real cool. [00:38:35] Speaker A: These are awesome. They're just so detailed and like they're just great. [00:38:38] Speaker B: Yeah, they're very good. Very good little character pieces. [00:38:41] Speaker A: They tell little stories. Tells at least Sam one tells the full. It's like. What is it? The baby shoes for sale, never worn. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:38:51] Speaker A: Tells the whole story. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Sure does. You know, that's tells the story, Johnny. This comic book, the creators of this comic book which we find out who they are if we open these very, very wonderfully detailed covers. Let's find these credits and give them where they're due. And we start off with the plot script by Jordan Barrel with the additional script by Tom McFarlane. The art by Thomas Natchley with special thanks to Magnus Arts. The color as always by FCO Placencia and Sheila Saldana. And Johnny is this. They don't typically have the tilde over the inn for Sheila Saldana, do they? [00:39:32] Speaker A: I guess they added it. [00:39:33] Speaker B: I guess they added it. Yeah. But she was doing the color flats. Very nice. I love, I love a tilde on an end. On an end. Not an end. A tilde on a tilde on an end is just a post credits scene with Ms. Swinton herself, right? [00:39:50] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a post credit scene from Doctor Strange 3. [00:39:55] Speaker B: I really don't like those advertisements. That she's in. [00:39:58] Speaker A: That's two advertisements. [00:40:01] Speaker B: It's like a. It's like a eyeglasses. [00:40:05] Speaker A: Okay. [00:40:05] Speaker B: Company. It's very. It's like very late 90s. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Aesthetic kind. I just don't like it. It fits if it's. It fits her perfectly. But I'm just like, nah, they don't. [00:40:18] Speaker A: Show those woke ass commercials in Oklahoma, dude. [00:40:21] Speaker B: I'm sorry, Johnny. I'll find some sleepy ones for you. How about that? [00:40:25] Speaker A: All my commercials are local commercials for Christian RV places. [00:40:29] Speaker B: Does the. Does the guy does the egg shaped man who always does this and would like, do the Snow's furniture commercials? Is he still around? [00:40:37] Speaker A: I haven't seen him. To be clear, since this is a audio medium. While David says does this, he's spinning his arms around. [00:40:44] Speaker B: He spins one arm. He like. He like tucks his elbow in and spins it around in a perfect circle and then gesticulates with the other one. He's always talking about. [00:40:53] Speaker A: Come on now. Come on now. Snow's furniture. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:56] Speaker A: I haven't seen him, man. [00:40:58] Speaker B: Right on the corner and right on the price. [00:41:02] Speaker A: Snow's fur Furniture. Snow Furniture. [00:41:08] Speaker B: The Tulsa. The Tulsa local ads had some big banger jingles. [00:41:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:14] Speaker B: I talked about Priscilla's Priscilla for fun and fantasy meet. [00:41:25] Speaker B: It's like a whole ass song too. [00:41:29] Speaker B: Then we got lettering by Tom Wozikowski. We uncovered the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director and editor in chief. Thomas Healing, indeed. Previously in Sam and Twitch. As things become clear, Sam realizes the extent that NGRI will go to to cover up their misdeeds. They'll go to the ends of the earth. The ends of the earth they will. Yeah. [00:41:56] Speaker A: At the end of last issue, Sam had gotten stabbed in the gut. [00:41:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:59] Speaker A: And he was a mysterious figure. Came up and slitted the throat of the man who stabbed Sam in the gut. [00:42:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And it was like, do you have my key card? It's like, bam. Blackout, Blackout. So we start on the face of a man, and it is not a very good face, Johnny. [00:42:19] Speaker A: It's beaten and bloody. [00:42:20] Speaker B: It's not a very good face because it's basically half a face now. And this. This half a face on this man is outside of just like a collapsed building. And there's somebody in a black suit that says, get him back to the lab. And there's other guys in black suits just looking at this, this raised building. There's like a car in the middle of it. So maybe it was a parking garage. [00:42:46] Speaker A: And then this guy's voiceover takes over. [00:42:49] Speaker B: And it's The. [00:42:51] Speaker A: As we learn later, the guy without a face. [00:42:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the. The guy who. The guy who saved. Saved Sam by killing that other guy and then said, you have my key card. He's telling us that when they took him back to the lab, they wouldn't let him retain the peace of death. [00:43:09] Speaker A: They wouldn't let him stay dead. [00:43:11] Speaker B: They had to keep fucking with him. Said he needed to be rebooted. And they like he's got the chip in his head and so they're. [00:43:18] Speaker B: Resetting the chip. He says, not just me, there were others. And then we cut back to now. [00:43:24] Speaker A: Whoa, by the way, you might say, did you listen to Zazi song Dose of my honey that I sent you? [00:43:29] Speaker B: I did, I did my. [00:43:31] Speaker A: Say he was gonna get died, but now he's alive. [00:43:37] Speaker A: He was gonna get died, but now he's alive. [00:43:41] Speaker B: I like how, I like how it just like goes. It's. [00:43:45] Speaker A: It just tells a story, man. She's got a rescue dog, her dad doesn't want it. [00:43:48] Speaker B: It's stream of conscious. It just ends up. You don't know where it's gonna end up and it just goes. [00:43:53] Speaker A: Ends up with an astronaut. She's just like, thank you. Astronauts. That's. It's so good. [00:43:59] Speaker A: Look up Zazi's dose of my honey. [00:44:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a great. [00:44:03] Speaker A: It's a song by like a 5 year old that kind of went viral. [00:44:07] Speaker B: It's very good. And then we're back in the now. [00:44:10] Speaker A: He was gonna get died and now he's alive. That's what happened to this guy. [00:44:16] Speaker B: He's helping Sam up into his apartment. And so Sam's just like laying on the kitchen table, you know, drinking a little bit of a painkiller, but not an actual painkiller, just Jack Daniels. You know, they didn't have time to. To open a can of cream of coconut and juice an orange and. [00:44:35] Speaker A: Yeah, this jerk says, that knife would have killed you if you're any thinner. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Hey, you know what? That's a way it works. I'll takes it. And so Sam, Sam takes a drink of Jack Daniels for him and then a. A glug of Jack Daniels on the wound. And the guy's like, here, put this belt in your mouth and bite it. This is going to hurt. And like heats up a spatula on the. On the. The range and just cauterizes the wound. Cauterize it. But there is. There is blistering, there is scorched flesh. So it's not the devil's fire, it's not Hellfire. [00:45:13] Speaker A: It's not hellfire. [00:45:13] Speaker B: It's not the devil's fire. [00:45:17] Speaker B: And the guy continues his story about how his body adapted their pers to their procedures. His skin regrafted itself. But others. Others didn't do so well in this program. [00:45:30] Speaker B: Their adaptations didn't take. So they began calling him patient Zero. [00:45:38] Speaker B: And they. They started doing a whole bunch of tests on him. And he says. He says after they got the data they needed out of him, they just discarded him. [00:45:48] Speaker A: Took me to the furnace room to dispose of my body. [00:45:52] Speaker B: But his handlers. His handlers helped him escape. [00:45:55] Speaker A: They dropped him down the sewer. [00:45:56] Speaker B: Yeah. And file Zero was scrubbed from their records. Oh, and look, Johnny. Master Splinter. [00:46:04] Speaker A: It's a rat in the sewer. [00:46:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he's looking for. He's looking for some pizza to feed his fast growing boys. [00:46:12] Speaker A: Disappointed. [00:46:14] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then we see shots of some of the files that Sam has been studying for Dorothy Cumming and Brad Stevens. And he says, the whistleblowers, they were your guardian angels. And. And this guy's like, yep, Ngir. I killed him for it too. And he's like. And then Sam's like, so that's why you stole the gun? Planted it on Twitch. [00:46:38] Speaker A: He wanted him to follow the breadcrumbs. [00:46:40] Speaker B: Yeah, so if you. You're not the shooter, who is? And the man says, we'll get to that. Just keep answering my questions, though. And then, you know, Sam. Sam's up after having been, you know, spatula burned. And he's. He's. He's tickling Nostradamus. That says that's his real medicine, Johnny. He doesn't need to go to the hospital. He's got kitty scritches to get. [00:47:05] Speaker A: He's got his cat. [00:47:06] Speaker B: And so Sam's like, do you have any. I guess who the shooter might be. And this guy says, could be a dozen people, maybe more. They were all involved. And Sam's like. [00:47:15] Speaker A: He shows him the files on all the junkies he's tracking down this guy. [00:47:20] Speaker B: Says some of those guys got upgraded too. [00:47:23] Speaker A: It's okay. But now 17 are missing where they go. And he's like, back there and back to the furnace, baby. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, so, okay, well, if they didn't get burnt, if they didn't get furnaced, like, we gotta save them. Says, we're gonna shut this whole thing down. The guy's like, yeah, yeah, I don't know about that, dude. [00:47:42] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, okay, where's my. By the way? Where's my card? [00:47:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Where's. Where's my card? And Sam's like, hold on. It's what? For my guys? It's one of my guys. It's with Nostradamus. [00:47:55] Speaker B: And Sam's like, okay, here's how this is gonna work. You're gonna testify. [00:47:59] Speaker B: So I can get a warrant and you can have your card back. The dude's like, you realize that that's not. That's not gonna fucking work, right? I'm like, I'm dead. [00:48:09] Speaker A: Too late for a warrant, baby. [00:48:11] Speaker B: Your warrant's gonna be bullshit. And Sam's like, why is the warrant gonna be bullshit? And this guy's like, you do know how good this company is at hiding secrets, right? Right? [00:48:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:23] Speaker B: They'Ll hide it. And Sam says, at some SCIF skiff. And the guy says, yes, correct. But that key card opens a specific secret room on a specific secret floor and a specific secret building. Sam's just like, okay, so where is it? Dude's like, you'll need to find it. It's your fucking key. You tell me. [00:48:47] Speaker B: Oh, it's a good little bit. It's a good little bit. And the guy's like, they're gonna deliver some stuff. You need to. You need to follow. You need to follow the delivery. And they'll take. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Follow the delivery trail. [00:48:58] Speaker B: It's the element they need to activate their chips. Sam's just like, element. What's it look like? And we get the opening reading. [00:49:07] Speaker A: If you want someone back in the day, you work with the undead. It's necroplasm. [00:49:12] Speaker B: And then we cut from there. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Trafficking necroplasm. [00:49:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:16] Speaker A: Pretty cool reveal. [00:49:17] Speaker B: This is very cool reveal. It is both supernatural and down to earth. [00:49:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cool. [00:49:23] Speaker B: It's very cool. [00:49:24] Speaker A: Surprise. I was like, oh. [00:49:26] Speaker B: And then we cut to a picture of Sam and Sam and Helen, or Twitch and Helen on their wedding day. Whoa. [00:49:34] Speaker A: That's controversial. [00:49:37] Speaker B: And it is. It is on Helen's. Helen's vanity table. And she's getting ready. She's putting on her earrings and her makeup. And Twitch is just sitting in the dark of the basement just, like, twiddling with his. With his wedding ring, just staring. And then Helen comes down from the top floor. Twitch comes up from the basement, and they meet in the living room. And Twitch is just like, oh, hey, you're looking pretty nice today. She says, thanks. [00:50:05] Speaker A: You gotta go back to work. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Yeah, gotta go back to work. And Twitch. Twitch is like, I wish you wouldn't go back to work. And he grabs her hand as she walks by. He's like, please, please. I know. I know I kept things. And I kept work things from you that I shouldn't have, but I wanted to keep everything separate. And I. But I. I up. I up. And she's just like, guess what? It's too fucking late, pal. She's like, you forgot you have another partner other than Sam. I was here first, so. But the grand jury hearing next week, so sadly, it's too late. And she walks out. And Twitch is just sat. Just left there, sad. Oh, boy. It's a rough. It's a rough one. Twitch is going through it. [00:50:49] Speaker A: And so Sam's calling Doreen. He's like, yo, give me the shipping manifest from MGRI suppliers. [00:50:56] Speaker B: And then we see ship. Yeah, shipping containers being offloaded from a ship. And man Bun is saying, take them inside carefully. And then we cut from there to Twitch fiddling around with some switches outside the precinct. And then he goes inside. He's like, oh, guys. Oh, there's rain. It's knocked out my Internet. Do you think I could look at some bullshit on your. Your computers over there real quick? And they're like, yeah, sure. [00:51:26] Speaker B: He's like, I'll just be a few. I'll just be a few minutes. Then he gets out a sneaky little USB drive. And Johnny, we can tell that this is fantasy because it goes in correctly the first time. He doesn't have to flip it over. It doesn't work. He flips it over again and it goes in. Right. But he's uploading. He's uploading something from this thumb drive. And while it's uploading, he's like, come on, come on, come on, come on. And then. Then just like a regular, regular old officer walks by and is like, detective Williams. And Twitch is like. He's like, you know, it's bullshit what they're fucking doing, man. I don't like it. Me and the boys, we don't like it. And Twitch is like, oh, yeah, thanks. Thank you for your. Thank you for the solidarity, man. He's like, yeah, keep your head up, man. So the. The thing that Twitch has uploaded is uploaded 100%. And she's like, I got to get out of here. He just runs back out into the rain. And what he's done is, he's up. He's stealing the surveillance, the city camera images. And he's like, okay, so Helen leaves to go into the city. What is she doing? And so he's. You know, it's a little creepy. He's following his wife through the city on the camera. [00:52:32] Speaker A: But she's like a demon person. Yeah, well, he knows that. But he saw him disappear and reappear. He's following the doppelganger. He's not following her. [00:52:41] Speaker B: But what if this. What if this is her? [00:52:44] Speaker A: Because then he's a big old. [00:52:46] Speaker B: Because he doesn't. He. Does he know which one is the doppelganger and which one isn't? [00:52:50] Speaker A: Okay. [00:52:50] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. [00:52:52] Speaker A: I think the second one's the doppelganger. [00:52:53] Speaker B: Yeah, but this is. This is, like. This is archived footage, and then this is live, because you would know the. [00:52:59] Speaker A: Second was the Gobble Gang because she was the one that had the fight with him. I don't know. We were splitting hairs. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm sure. I don't think. [00:53:05] Speaker A: To be clear, I'm just saying this. I don't think it's creepy. I don't think it's questionable what he's doing. [00:53:08] Speaker B: Well, no, no. [00:53:09] Speaker A: He's not following his wife. He's having an affair. He's not following his wife for, like, no reason. [00:53:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:13] Speaker A: His wife, because there might. She might be a demon doppelganger. [00:53:16] Speaker B: Yeah. So he doesn't. [00:53:17] Speaker A: He doesn't know he's a demon doppelganger. You have every right to, like, hack my. And, like, try to figure out where I am. If I have a demon doppelganger, I give you permission. [00:53:25] Speaker B: According. According to Lewis and Clark. Oh, the. The New Adventures of so. Of Superman. The way that you can tell if somebody is a clone is if they eat frogs. So have we seen her eat frogs? I don't think we've seen her eat frogs. [00:53:37] Speaker A: She's not a clone. I mean, she's a doppelganger. [00:53:40] Speaker B: Listen, isn't that basically a clone? [00:53:44] Speaker A: Don't split hairs with me. [00:53:46] Speaker B: We're splitting hairs, John. [00:53:47] Speaker A: We're split hairs. We're splitting hairs. That's the theme of this episode. Hair splitting. [00:53:50] Speaker B: A frog hair. A frog hair four ways. Here we go. But. So he. He tracks Helen, or maybe demon doppelganger Helen, and watches her go to Ngri, and he says, ngri. [00:54:03] Speaker A: No flex come out of his mouth. [00:54:05] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. It's a great, great reaction shot. And Sam's out there driving in the rain. He's like, ah, son of a. God damn it. And he shows up, and he's like, at least the ship's still here. [00:54:19] Speaker A: He calls Noreen. She tells him where they are. [00:54:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:22] Speaker A: And he's like, I need you. So she has the card. He's like, I need to be ready with that card. [00:54:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And so, so he goes, he goes onto the ship and he's doing some action poses. He's. He's got running. [00:54:34] Speaker A: It's like seven up in here too. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he's running. He's got his gun drawn. He's like fucking like winds jumping over, jumping over the. The railings. And he finds a guy carrying a box and he's like, freeze the containers, the guys, the direction, in that order. You got me now talk. Oh, man. Sam Burke and his element is wonderful. Yeah. [00:54:56] Speaker A: And he tells him he's got two small crates and four guys. The boss in a suit and a man bun. They took him to the warehouse and. [00:55:03] Speaker B: Sam just like books it for the warehouse. He finds a random crowbar. Do you really think there are crowbars hanging around? [00:55:10] Speaker A: Those are valuable, man. [00:55:13] Speaker A: How much do you think a crowbar is? 80 bucks. [00:55:16] Speaker B: I would say probably 80 bucks for a crowbar? [00:55:18] Speaker A: That's just a guess, I guess. 80 bucks. [00:55:20] Speaker B: It's a lot of steel. So just in material alone, look at the price of a crowbar. [00:55:28] Speaker A: Yeah, look at how much a crowbar is. [00:55:31] Speaker B: What's it worth to you, Johnny? [00:55:33] Speaker A: They sell crowbars on Amazon. That's crazy. It's gonna be a heavy ass package. [00:55:37] Speaker B: They sell everything on Amazon, basically. [00:55:39] Speaker A: That's true. Let me get a tiny one for 12.99. I'm talking about like a good crowbar. Just like a good one for like 21 bucks. [00:55:45] Speaker B: Oh, dang. That's way cheaper than I would have thought. [00:55:48] Speaker A: It might be shitty, though. It's on Amazon. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. Whatever. Whatever the ace. [00:55:53] Speaker A: See, they got on Lowe's. [00:55:54] Speaker B: I was about to say whatever the ace has it for, because it's easy to get to an ace. And then I. I feel better for supporting a local business. [00:56:01] Speaker A: Even though the classic crowbar. Yeah, there's not much like the best crowbar on the lot. It's like $40. [00:56:08] Speaker B: Well, damn. [00:56:08] Speaker A: The best one. [00:56:09] Speaker B: Why are we. Why are we not just swimming in crowbars, Johnny? [00:56:12] Speaker A: Oh, there's a 46 inch steel pry bar. That's $80. [00:56:16] Speaker B: Maybe the pry bar has to be hardened more or something. I don't. Tools. These hands, these hands, these hands. Too soft, Johnny. Yeah, I worked. I worked. I did ranch work as a child. I've done my dues, thank you very much. I drove. I drove T posts with that fucking ding, ding, ding, T post driver. So Sam busts open this warehouse door. [00:56:40] Speaker A: It's empty, water is coming in and pooling in the center spot of the warehouse. [00:56:47] Speaker B: He says, what's that? A drain? And a. Pulls this, this like steel sheeting up and it's a. It's a ladder down into the. Down. Down into the ground. And he says, you gotta be kidding me. And so we go to ngri and they've got the wonderful lightning in the background, very ominous. And Helen is in a, A conference room. And the, the lady who gave Sam the, the access card in the first place is like, you wanted to see me, Ms. Williams? And she's like, yeah, there's a research opportunity. You know, we'd pay you pretty well for it. And she's like, okay, cool, let's do it. Johnny, just so you know, this is very, very poor human subject research activity. I'd say so I'm sure, I'm sure it doesn't need to be said, but from the technical side of it, yes, there's bad form. Like Rufio. Rufio would be upset about this bad form. And so, so Helen walks this lady to, to where the other research participants are, and she's like, so what's the study? And Johnny, informed consent. You need to tell them what the study is about first. And Helen's like, I don't, I don't know. Your. Your research coordinator needs to know what the fuck the study is about, Jon. [00:58:11] Speaker B: And then the lady who hired Helen with the director's salary is like, oh, you'll all signed out soon enough. We're ready for you. And then she's like, oh, oh, Helen, where are you going? Don't. No. Why don't you also join the study? We would like to have a couple additional variables put in here. So Helen's like, sure, why not? I'll join the study that I don't know what it is and haven't signed an informed consent for. [00:58:36] Speaker A: And she says, okay, yeah, sure, why not? [00:58:38] Speaker B: And then the, the, the, the cleaning lady who gave Sam the key card is like, I wonder what this is about. I hope it doesn't hurt. [00:58:47] Speaker A: Helen says, I don't think that's how it works. I'm pretty sure they know exactly what they're doing. [00:58:51] Speaker B: Then bloody spawn orbs in the issue. [00:58:57] Speaker A: I don't think they know. Or if they do, it's gonna hurt. [00:59:00] Speaker B: It's gonna be, it's gonna be heart pounding action to save Helen in the next issue. [00:59:05] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:06] Speaker B: So then we have the. [00:59:09] Speaker B: The statue. Pre order. [00:59:12] Speaker B: Statue. Definitely not a pre order anymore. [00:59:14] Speaker A: Yeah, they just kept the same ad. It's okay. [00:59:16] Speaker B: The UFC toys. Yes. [00:59:18] Speaker A: There they are then. [00:59:19] Speaker B: The new generation. New stories, new U ad. Huh. Very nice. Very nice. Look at that. Daily Tales of the Gunslinger. Then the Image Classics ad is the back of the. That cover ad. And that, Johnny, is Sam and Twitch case files number 16. [00:59:34] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:59:37] Speaker B: Oh, boy. And well, Johnny. [00:59:39] Speaker A: Necroplasm. [00:59:40] Speaker B: Necroplasm. So she's been sitting with me right here. This three legged doggy right here. [00:59:49] Speaker B: What I didn't mention before is this dog fucking hates me. [00:59:52] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:59:53] Speaker B: Probably because she was found with brothers and sisters and she had a broken leg. Who knows how long her leg was broken before they found her. And so it was my job to take her back and forth to the vet. And she had to go back and forth to the vet like 12 times before they finally just amputated. She does. She does not like me. So I am gonna give her a rating of three legs out of four because, you know, she's a little vindictive. So now that that rating is out of the way, Johnny, I think it's time to rate some other puppies. [01:00:25] Speaker A: It's time to rate these puppies. [01:00:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:30] Speaker A: First up today we have Rat City 16. [01:00:35] Speaker B: I love you busy and just everything's. [01:00:37] Speaker A: Coming to a head with the Prodigy. And like, there's so much going on. But that's great. I love the story Rat City's telling. [01:00:42] Speaker B: The Prodigy. The Prodigy. [01:00:44] Speaker A: What did I say? [01:00:45] Speaker B: You said the Prodigy. No. Yeah. [01:00:48] Speaker A: Prodigy. Play some Prodigy. [01:00:49] Speaker B: I am a fire starter. Terrific firestarter. [01:00:53] Speaker A: Progeny. The Progeny. They're really cool. I love where this is going. It's unexpected directions. Love the art, the neon colors. I just love how we get a little bit from little. They're doing this, they're doing this, they're doing this. And like, it keeps the story juggling, but she keeping all these balls afloat. It's really exciting stuff. I'm going to give this issue of Rat City. I'm gonna give it him. [01:01:20] Speaker B: It's busy. [01:01:21] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it four bonks. Because I think Victoria's really. [01:01:25] Speaker B: I mean, she. [01:01:28] Speaker A: Sorry. She. [01:01:29] Speaker B: She lays that guy out quick and that is. That does it for me, Johnny. Four bugs, four bucks. I agree. It's fucking. This book just moves. I think, as much as I hate to say it, I think if we didn't do it issue by issue, I would trade rate for this. Because you sit down to a trade of five of these issues and you're going to be done in like seven minutes and it's going to be so good. It just. It Just moves so well. It's just very. It's very frustrating to have to wait for like a month for the next. [01:02:03] Speaker B: But yeah. And say, Carlos, art is amazing. I'm excited to Kizzy. Kizzy just rocks. I love Kizzy. We've seen her for, like, six panels total now. She's great. But I'm. I'm also gonna go with a Victoria rating. Johnny. But I'm gonna give her four middle finger. I'm gonna have it. Four middle fingers. [01:02:24] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:26] Speaker A: No, it's just great. It's like we're building to something. We've got all these new kind of characters in play. They're all getting powers or have ultimate motives. And it's just fun to see every kind of what it's going to clash into, because I feel like there's got. [01:02:38] Speaker B: To be a big. Yeah. [01:02:41] Speaker A: You know, everything's going to come together a culmination soon. So I'm excited to see where that comes. [01:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah. There's so many different elements that are. As James Baldwin would have. Would have had described a story like a holla bread with the elements all twisted and braided into each other. It's. It is the cyberpunk spawn holla story. And I'm excited to see what it tastes like when it's baked. Yum. Where else. Where else are you gonna get James Baldwin references in regards to. In regard to Spawn? Nowhere else. [01:03:15] Speaker A: Nowhere else, I would imagine. [01:03:17] Speaker B: Nowhere else. [01:03:20] Speaker A: And then we had SAM twitch case file 16, which is just. They do a good job, like, kind of bringing this case to a head, but keeping a lot of balls in the air, juggling a weld. Like, both of these stories are kind of reaching a kind of a frantic point where easy to lose control of them, but they feel in control and they know what they're doing. [01:03:40] Speaker A: I'm just. It's just become a great cop procedural now that things are really moving. And I'm really excited to see where it goes. And seeing Sam be a badass is great. And. Oh, yeah, I'm just excited to Sam switch team up together to crack this case. It's gonna be epic, mate. [01:03:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [01:03:56] Speaker A: You know, that's what's building towards boys. [01:03:58] Speaker B: The boys are going to be back. Yeah, the boys are back in town. [01:04:02] Speaker A: Considering they basically spent 17 issues apart. [01:04:05] Speaker B: Basically. [01:04:05] Speaker A: Great to see them together. [01:04:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, it'll be nice because they should. They should have been calling the Sam or Twitch case files. [01:04:12] Speaker A: Yeah. What the hell? No, I really even like in the second story and, like, I don't know. I really like living in this world. It's fun and it's just a fun hard boiled detective, kind of like seven esque. [01:04:27] Speaker A: I know I say that a lot, but just the rain. [01:04:29] Speaker B: I mean, it's bleak. [01:04:30] Speaker A: It's wearing a trench coat. Come on. [01:04:33] Speaker B: Yes, he is. This is a box and we don't know what's in it. [01:04:37] Speaker A: What is in the box? I'm gonna give this four and a half high fives to Raymond Gay because I love the covers so much. [01:04:46] Speaker B: Hell yeah. They're excellent covers. I. I agree. Johnny. This is. It's real. It's. It's moving. It doesn't. It doesn't move quite as well as Rat City, but it is moving and it is. All the pieces, everything's coming together, Johnny. The picture is becoming clear and like we know, we know now what needs to happen. And so it. I think I feel that raises the sort of anxiety stakes for the. The last couple of installments on this case. I am gonna give it four Nostradamus chin scritches because, you know, I love that Sam has a cat. It's great. [01:05:28] Speaker A: He's a cat guy. [01:05:29] Speaker B: He loves that kitty. [01:05:31] Speaker A: Sweet. [01:05:31] Speaker B: Yeah, Excellent. That's those puppies rated, Johnny. [01:05:35] Speaker A: Indeed. [01:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, do you know these books is pretty good, Johnny. You know what else is pretty good? [01:05:42] Speaker A: Our friends on the Internet? [01:05:43] Speaker B: The spawn munity. And this week we would like to shout out somebody who was featured in the respawning or the spawning grounds. Not the respawning re grounds. That's us. The spawning grounds of scorched 43. And it is Drew Elbe. That's D R E W E L B I. And Johnny, he's got a. He's got a shit ton of spawn up here. He's got. He's got some eviscerator action. He's got the whole scorched. He's got gunslinger. He's got Al Simmons. He's got fucking. He's got fucking Abel from the Bible. Yeah. [01:06:27] Speaker B: He'S biblical in this shit. He's. It's fun. It's very. It's very cartoony in the best way. It's got like those bright bold colors and you know, exaggerated, exaggerated posing. It's. It's good stuff. Drew Elbey. Give him a follow. He does some awesome stuff. [01:06:48] Speaker A: Sweet. [01:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, you're also over there on Instagram. You should follow us. [01:06:53] Speaker A: Regarding Spawn Pod. We also have a Gmail. It's regarding SpawnPod gmail.com. [01:06:57] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:06:59] Speaker A: Every week I like to ask a question. Yes, you do out into the void to see if anyone will send us a sweet message. [01:07:05] Speaker B: Please do. [01:07:06] Speaker A: This week. I would ask you one question, and that question is. Are you excited that we get the reveal that there's some supernatural stuff going on in Sam and Twitch? Are you disappointed? Did you want to remain completely realistic, quote unquote? Were you excited? I'm excited. [01:07:30] Speaker B: I'm excited. [01:07:31] Speaker A: I love the reveal of necroplasm. [01:07:33] Speaker B: I mean it. [01:07:34] Speaker A: If it turns out that's not what it is, this guy's lying. That's cool too. [01:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:37] Speaker A: We still don't know. We haven't seen it until we get eyes on this necropl. Necroplasm. [01:07:40] Speaker B: David, we don't know it's artificial necroplasm. No, I think like if you have just like a. A pure Law and order style Salmon Twitch, that's. I mean you get. There's. There's a reason that we come to Salmon Twitch and it's not just for Salmon Twitch. It's that they're doing this hard boiled police work in the crazy world of hell beasts coming up and shit up. So good. [01:08:06] Speaker A: Exactly. So let me know what you think while you're on the Internet. Make sure to hit up Lonnie Bones. He does our music. [01:08:14] Speaker B: Lonnie Bones music. With a Y. [01:08:17] Speaker A: With a Y. And make sure to tell people about us. [01:08:20] Speaker B: Yeah, please do like us. Subscribe to us. Give us a rating. Tell your friends and family. Tell your co workers. Leave a little note in your mailbox for your mail carrier that says please listen to. Regarding Spawn. [01:08:32] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:08:33] Speaker B: Yeah, you could raise the little flag, like put it in an envelope to letter carrier from your favorite co host. [01:08:42] Speaker A: They'd love it. They love getting messages. [01:08:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I bet they. I bet they do. [01:08:46] Speaker A: Also, we already spoiled it, but we're doing more Sam and Twitch in Rat City next week. [01:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah, we're doing another great episode regarding Spawn with the Rat City and Sam Twitch. This train is just going to. So we're gonna do Rat City and Sam and twitch case files number 17s. So get those 17s out. [01:09:05] Speaker A: Get your 17s out. [01:09:07] Speaker B: Sounds. Sounds lewd. What would a 17 be? [01:09:11] Speaker A: Sounds like some got a gun. [01:09:14] Speaker B: Who knows? [01:09:15] Speaker A: I always think it was John Spartan117. [01:09:18] Speaker A: From Halo. [01:09:21] Speaker A: No. [01:09:30] Speaker A: What else? What else? [01:09:34] Speaker A: Oh, I know what else. I want to play fucking arc raiders. David, let's go. [01:09:37] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Do you want to. Do you want to throw out a. You want to throw out a tag so they can find you? You just. Oyster Boy. [01:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, Oyster Boy on Xbox. Oyster Space Boy. If you want to find me on arc raiders? Specifically if you want to add me an arc or just oyster boy. [01:09:56] Speaker A: 7606 or oyster boy one word? 7606. Is it £ or hashtag? Who knows? [01:10:04] Speaker B: Octothorpe. [01:10:05] Speaker A: Okay, octothorpe. Anyway, whatever, yeah, find me on arc raiders. It's really fun. Get it? [01:10:11] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:10:12] Speaker A: Play it, live it, love it. [01:10:13] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Well, Johnny, I think so I can get you to. So you can go play some arc raiders. I think I should make this the last thing I say. Say. I've got nothing else to say, but may the scorch be with you. [01:10:27] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:10:29] Speaker B: I made this three legged doggy like me one day. [01:10:32] Speaker A: Oh, she's smiling. [01:10:34] Speaker B: Yeah, she's warm because she's in the. [01:10:37] Speaker A: Blanket, but she's a happy dog. She's nice. [01:10:40] Speaker B: She fucking loves Wanda. Jesus Christ. [01:10:43] Speaker A: Yeah, you're just a mean man. [01:10:45] Speaker B: She just does not like me. At least at all. She. She freaks out and tries to run away from me and ends up losing her balance because she's only got the three legs. And if she were just calm about it, she would be perfectly fine. But then she's like. [01:11:00] Speaker A: I hate this guy. Aww. Well, she doesn't know she's missing, David, because I run towards you. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Thank you, Johnny. Man, I fucking love doing this. Hanging out with a pal, talking about some spawn doing some goof them ups. [01:11:16] Speaker A: Sorry, I can't hear you, David. I'm already playing arc. What? [01:11:20] Speaker B: Nah, nothing. I was just waxing. Waxing poetic. [01:11:27] Speaker B: Oh. [01:11:41] Speaker B: Ram. [01:12:06] Speaker B: It.