Episode 161 - Rat City 17 and Sam And Twtich Case Files 17

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Wait. You're not the only one who wants this deviant dead. Good evening and welcome to the Malibols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:46] Speaker B: And I'm your co host David Williams. And Johnny, I know this is a auditory medium, but you see this? You see the sweatshirt right here? You see the sweatshirt? [00:00:56] Speaker A: This is caution. It's got a biohazard sciences caution. [00:00:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. How, what? When do you think I got this sweatshirt? Based on how it looks. Based on how it looks. [00:01:07] Speaker A: On that like 2007. 8. [00:01:11] Speaker B: I got this for Christmas in seventh grade. So the twin towers were still standing, so. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Oh wow, 2000. I was just guessing. I was just guessing based off like that symbol came popular after 28 days later, which was 2003. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:28] Speaker A: I should have skewed earlier. [00:01:29] Speaker B: I should have skewed earlier, Johnny. [00:01:31] Speaker A: I should have skewed. So it's like an orange hoodie. It has biohazard sign. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's his caution. [00:01:38] Speaker A: This is caution. It has biohazard on the sleeve. You've had this in seventh grade. [00:01:42] Speaker B: Seventh grade, yeah. [00:01:43] Speaker A: Was it used if it just like consume you? [00:01:45] Speaker B: If it's. If it's better now that it did when I was actually seventh grade. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Because they used to make clothes of quality. [00:01:51] Speaker B: Yeah, they did. [00:01:51] Speaker A: Fast fashion things. Killing us. No, I'm serious. I have stuff. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:55] Speaker A: From like there's a period where clothes were like massively available but actually like high quality. [00:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, it's. It's kind of. Yeah, it's. It's weird. It's like Old Navy. Old Navy. Everything costs 20 bucks and it either lasts two weeks or like 16 years. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's weird. [00:02:14] Speaker B: It's wild. [00:02:15] Speaker A: Same with Target stuff. Sometimes you just get a magical target thing that lasts forever. [00:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah. But you don't know what it is and you don't realize how good it is until like you can't get any more of it. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's. That's a great way to. To derail the. I just proud of my 25 year old switch. [00:02:33] Speaker A: I got this. Okay, this, this brown T shirt I'm wearing I got for $8 at Target in March probably or before my camping trip. Might have been a year ago. Might have been like last October maybe. [00:02:45] Speaker B: Very interesting. And this has been the podcast. Good night everybody. [00:02:49] Speaker A: Shirt talk. This is the part where we take off our shirts. Woo. [00:02:54] Speaker B: I might have to do that if it gets too warm in here. I'm not wearing. I'm not wearing anything underneath this so it's just going to be me. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Topless temperature in Chicago tonight. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I don't know. Upper 40s, lower 50s. Okay, it hasn't been cold enough for me to bust out my winter jacket yet, but that's because I'm weird. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Are you fighting it? [00:03:15] Speaker B: No, it's. I just run warm, so I would much rather be a little cold than, like. Oh, God. Oh. Oh, God. I know. [00:03:24] Speaker A: It gets hot out there moving around the big city. [00:03:27] Speaker B: You got to walk, you got to move, gotta hustle. [00:03:31] Speaker A: That's. That's the name of the game. [00:03:33] Speaker B: It is indeed. They don't call it a rat race or nothing. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Hey, speaking of rat race, what's that? How about a rat? What if there was a city of rats? [00:03:42] Speaker B: A city of rats? [00:03:44] Speaker A: Can you perhaps. It was called Rat City. [00:03:46] Speaker B: That's the next Pixar movie. [00:03:48] Speaker A: City of Rats, the sequel to Ratatouille. [00:03:53] Speaker B: There's a human that, like, whispers into their ears. This is how you. This is how you cook? [00:03:59] Speaker A: What? No, the rats all do it. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Well, but, no, this is. This is the. In this. The rats are bad at cooking, and they have to rely on a human to teach them how. [00:04:10] Speaker A: Everyone would freak out to see rats in the kitchen. [00:04:13] Speaker B: Well, no, the rats would freak out to see a human in the kitchen because it's a rat world. [00:04:18] Speaker A: Oh, weird. [00:04:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's like a. So he's like a. No, no, it's like a regular human. So he's just like a giant. [00:04:26] Speaker A: I don't know if this is pitch is going over well. This elevator pitch is confusing me. [00:04:29] Speaker B: And we're gonna get Jamie Foxx as Al Simmons. [00:04:34] Speaker A: I mean, I'm on board for that. [00:04:35] Speaker B: The. The social media has been trying to convince me that there's been an update on the King Spawn movie in the last week. Like, nothing. Nothing since July. Oh, yeah. [00:04:48] Speaker A: The update is Jason Bloom took a shit. [00:04:50] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. Yeah. But no, there hasn't been any. He's got. [00:04:54] Speaker A: He's got to see. He got to see if. Five Nights at Freddy's 2. That's coming out. If that hits, which it probably will. [00:05:01] Speaker B: That. It did. It did. [00:05:02] Speaker A: He might have that King Spa money. [00:05:03] Speaker B: It did good. It did good numbers, that first one. [00:05:06] Speaker A: It was their biggest movie, I think. I think it was bigger than get out, you know? It couldn't be bigger than Get Out. There's no possible fucking way. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah. No, it couldn't be. Absolutely. [00:05:15] Speaker A: It was their biggest. Only Bloom house. I don't. Did they make it out? [00:05:20] Speaker B: Well, I know. I don't I didn't think Blumhouse did get out. [00:05:24] Speaker A: I think they did get out, but that was it with Jason Jordan Beale. I don't know. Jason Bloom. He's a character. He makes a bunch of movies. [00:05:30] Speaker B: I still. I still like the. The. Oh, what's his name? The Nick Cage spoof of Five Nights at Freddy more than the actual Five Nights at Freddy. [00:05:39] Speaker A: Freddy's like Wet Willies or something. [00:05:41] Speaker B: Yeah, where he just. He just. He just drinks soda and plays pinball. [00:05:48] Speaker A: My dream. [00:05:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fun. It's fun. I'd do that jab. [00:05:53] Speaker A: I love pinball. [00:05:54] Speaker B: Because you were the pinball wizard. There's. [00:05:57] Speaker A: Dude, you know, I wanted you to say it. [00:05:58] Speaker B: There has to be a trick twist. How. How are you? How's it. [00:06:02] Speaker A: How long has it been since you've watched Tommy? [00:06:04] Speaker B: How are. How are. How are your wrists, Johnny? Are they supple? Are they supple? I've never seen Tommy. [00:06:09] Speaker A: Okay. It's pretty fucked up movie. [00:06:13] Speaker B: All of those like 70s rock operas were absolutely, completely bonkers. [00:06:19] Speaker A: Yeah, they're fucked up. [00:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah, fucked up. [00:06:21] Speaker A: I found out the hard way. I showed it to my girlfriend, so I was like, yeah, it's fun. And then like the first, you know, hours about child abuse, I'm just sitting there in like a Tommy T shirt, like, sorry, I love this. When I was in fifth grade, it's. [00:06:39] Speaker B: Definitely worse than Eloy's watching the giallo film that his girlfriend chose. [00:06:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it is worse. [00:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah, because you chose it. [00:06:50] Speaker A: I chose it. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Shame on you, Johnny. Shame. [00:06:52] Speaker A: No, not shame on me, David. You know why? [00:06:55] Speaker B: Why is that? [00:06:56] Speaker A: Because we have entered the world as a cocktail because of me. Oh, I know I told you about it in the discord. Our personal discord. [00:07:07] Speaker B: Personal discord. [00:07:09] Speaker A: Man's a member too randomly, but that's it. Yeah, and they never have gotten on. [00:07:13] Speaker B: It, cuz how we tried to record the first time and it didn't work. [00:07:17] Speaker A: That's how. Yeah, it didn't work. I was texting with one of my friends. It worked back at my old restaurant, which now that I don't work there anymore, I don't give a shit about revealing because I don't work there. So you can't come get me, fuckers. I live in Tulsa. You have no idea what my job is. Guess. Guess. [00:07:38] Speaker B: Podcaster. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Don't guess. Yeah, Podcaster. Yeah, I'm living off that spawn box, baby. [00:07:43] Speaker B: Stay at home boyfriend. Maybe you're working at Tully's Tallies. Tallies. Tully's Tallies. [00:07:50] Speaker A: Tallies. God damn I'm gonna come to Tulsa so I can make you go there so you'll remember. I'm gonna take a picture from that sign. Um, no. I used to work at the illustrious Chicago restaurant Table Donkey and Stick. And it's a great restaurant. If you live in Chicago, you should go. I was the. It's fucking delicious Funhouse manager there for many years. And a server there for many years. Worked there for 11 years. [00:08:16] Speaker B: Ooh. Damn. [00:08:17] Speaker A: But they have now put a cocktail on called the Respawn. [00:08:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it sounds delicious. [00:08:26] Speaker A: It sounds delicious. Let me tell you about it from bartender Joel or our mixologist at tds. It's branded apple brandy, rye whiskey, cumin liqueur, cream sherry, lemon and cinnamon syrup with a centurbre rinse. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Sounds good. All the cocktails are good. [00:08:45] Speaker A: I'll mispronounce one word in there. But I'm not gonna go back because I don't have to because I don't work. [00:08:48] Speaker B: Yeah. And I probably couldn't have done any better. In fact, I know I couldn't have done any better. That last sounds good. [00:08:55] Speaker A: I wish I had one right now. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Yeah, they make good cocktails. That weird little guy was very good. [00:09:00] Speaker A: Weird little guy was very popular. Might still be on the menu. But anyway, probably while you're hearing this, it's still on the menu at tds so get there. Table Donkey and Steak in Chicago. If you live in Chicago, grab a cocktail. Tell them John and David sent you from Respawn. [00:09:15] Speaker B: Yeah, do it. [00:09:16] Speaker A: They'll probably give you a lock. Or like charcuterie or something. [00:09:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Either that or they'll ask you a question about Spawn. [00:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah, because they know about Spawn. Because of me. They know. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Yeah. We've infected. We've infected many people in our lives, but with the necroplasm, Johnny, Spawn awareness. [00:09:35] Speaker A: In my circle of family friends has definitely gone way up. [00:09:41] Speaker B: True, true. [00:09:43] Speaker A: But that's what we're doing here. We're raising spawn awareness. We got a cocktail named after us. But we were talking about. We were trying to get there. We were talking about a rat, a city of rats. And then David started talking about the sequel to Ratatouille. [00:09:56] Speaker B: Yeah, the sequel to the. [00:09:57] Speaker A: Doesn't make any goddamn sense. Sounds like the sequel is Secret, Secret of Nim or something, man. [00:10:01] Speaker B: Secret of Him. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Water Shit down. It sounds like Watershed Down. [00:10:04] Speaker B: Oh, Watership Down. Watership Down. The surviving rabbits go on a Rambler style hunt. [00:10:09] Speaker A: And then they start cooking. No, I don't know. I don't. I don't understand how the people get into the rat holes and they're cooking to whisper in their ear and tell them how to cook. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Well, like. Like they. [00:10:19] Speaker A: They use. [00:10:20] Speaker B: They use a walkie talkie or some shit. What? [00:10:23] Speaker A: That makes no sense. [00:10:24] Speaker B: They use. They use technology. The rats discover technology, and they use. I don't know, Johnny. I don't know. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Getting really high concepts. These are your elevator. You got to work in elevator. [00:10:33] Speaker B: I'm sure. I'm sure it makes perfect sense as a rock opera from the seventies, Johnny. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:10:39] Speaker B: We just got to make a. We just got to have a bitching soundtrack. Speaking of, we have some soap operas. Yes, we do. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Because, you know, basically comics are basically soap operas. You know, if you think about it. [00:10:50] Speaker B: Soap operas are comics for old people. Yeah. The unemployed. The underemployed. The underemployed. Wanda's grandmother used to watch her stories every day. And they are kind of addicting. They are absolute garbage. But it's just, like, so compelling. [00:11:12] Speaker A: What happened? I. I got into. Every summer, I get into Days of Our Lives when I was a kid. [00:11:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I like how each. Each episode has, you know, kind of does the comics thing where it bounces around between three or four storylines and you get, like, three seconds of actual forward motion in each storyline. [00:11:30] Speaker A: Yeah, they, like, cross the room. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. [00:11:34] Speaker A: But we have two soap operas. Two of our favorite soap operas, including this trilogy of Sam and Twitch issues. [00:11:42] Speaker B: We'Ve done, and Rat City issues we've done. [00:11:45] Speaker A: And Rat City, Sam Twitch and Rat City. Yeah, Rat City and Sam Twitch is the order we're doing them in. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Yes. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Because this is Respawn Cocktail in Sam City. Just a confusing one. This is Respawn, not the cocktail of the podcast. Each week we bring you two issues from Swan's universe. Except when we don't. This week is no different. We have two issues from Spawn's universe, and we have, in a long way of saying Rap City and salmon Twitch. [00:12:14] Speaker B: Number 17. [00:12:15] Speaker A: 17. [00:12:16] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:12:16] Speaker A: Which always reminds me of Halo 1 7, John Spartan. 117. [00:12:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it was 117, but, Johnny, it is. It is two less than the best number of all time. 1919. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Stephen King. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Oh, man, I fucking love. [00:12:32] Speaker A: Did they work any dark. Were there any Dark Tower references in the Running man you caught? [00:12:37] Speaker B: No, I think there might have been a 19 at one point, but I don't think it. There was the. The. The guy sitting behind us laughed at every sort of like, Derry, Maine. Yeah. Bachman's Bar. It was a fun movie. It's a fun movie. Running Man. [00:12:56] Speaker A: It was fun. I liked it a lot. I thought the first hour was almost a masterpiece and I was a little disappointed with the second half. [00:13:03] Speaker B: I. I loved it. [00:13:07] Speaker A: Okay, well, you win, David. You win the happy man award. [00:13:10] Speaker B: All right, so just being a happy. [00:13:12] Speaker A: Man, I just felt like, I don't know, it could write me my favorite movie of all time. Famously. The World's End. [00:13:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a good movie. [00:13:20] Speaker A: Which I say if someone asked me for a single favorite movie, I say the World's End or Master and Commander. It's tied. [00:13:27] Speaker B: Master and Commander is a good movie. [00:13:29] Speaker A: It is a good one. They're both my favorite movies. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they're your co favorite movies. You're gonna have to. You're gonna have to have them fight each other. Winner take all. Winner takes Johnny's heart. [00:13:40] Speaker A: Blair wishing evil dead too. Like come in and shoot him at the end. [00:13:43] Speaker B: Like, haha, suckers. [00:13:44] Speaker A: The classics will endure. Yeah, no, this is like. But I. I just hold like a writes really high standard. I need to see it again. I always need to process the movies like two or three times. So I don't want to like. I did not like it. Okay? [00:14:01] Speaker B: I didn't say you didn't like it. You just said. You said you. You weren't enthused about the. The second half and that's fine. I like the second half. It was dumb stupid fun. [00:14:10] Speaker A: All right, it was fine. It was dumb stupid fun. [00:14:12] Speaker B: It could. It could have been less dumb. Sure. But you know, I was eating my Reese's. [00:14:18] Speaker A: They went for faithful adaptation. Lest we forget, the Bachmann books are unpublished works of Stephen King that he couldn't get published when he wasn't Stephen King yet. Yeah, I like them. They're a little grittier. They're obviously angrier. I've read. I haven't read Running man in a long while. [00:14:35] Speaker B: Why is he such an angry young man? [00:14:39] Speaker A: Because he is. [00:14:41] Speaker B: That's just being a young man. [00:14:43] Speaker A: The long walk is good. [00:14:44] Speaker B: I didn't see the long walk. Did you do the. Did you do it? The long. The walk style on the treadmills? [00:14:52] Speaker A: That is a long. I did not read it on a treadmill. [00:14:54] Speaker B: Oh, no, no, the movie. Oh, sorry. Apparently they have some screenings of the movie where you walk on treadmills while they. During the movie. [00:15:02] Speaker A: Sounds good for you. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Sounds wild. [00:15:05] Speaker A: That's healthy. [00:15:07] Speaker B: That is healthy. You know what else is healthy, Johnny? The healthy stuff like drinking water. [00:15:12] Speaker A: That's true. [00:15:13] Speaker B: And eating vegetables. [00:15:14] Speaker A: I haven't drink water. It's been like 81 degrees here. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Dead gum. [00:15:20] Speaker A: No, it's like 71 today. But it was 81 last week. [00:15:23] Speaker B: That's wild. [00:15:25] Speaker A: Wild. [00:15:27] Speaker B: The wild Fall. [00:15:27] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:15:29] Speaker B: It's Oklahoma. Oklahoma doesn't know. It doesn't know from fall. [00:15:34] Speaker A: It's Mom Donnie. That's the Mom Donnie that I used to know. Mom Donnie. [00:15:44] Speaker B: You missed the part where you talk about why you do it that way, Johnny. [00:15:49] Speaker A: And he didn't have to cut me off. I would have voted for him if I lived in New York. But I don't live in Tofa, so I'll vote when the election comes up, I guess. Yeah. Is that good? [00:16:07] Speaker B: That's fine. [00:16:07] Speaker A: Enough parody for you? [00:16:08] Speaker B: Well, no, I thought you were gonna say that you figured out while you were just zoning out that Mom Donnie fits with the. With the Goatsy song. [00:16:17] Speaker A: I sang the song. I just sang it. [00:16:19] Speaker B: No, I need an explanation. [00:16:22] Speaker A: I just thought of it. [00:16:23] Speaker B: You also didn't. You also didn't cut me off when I said the Goatsy song. [00:16:28] Speaker A: Goatsy. No, it's goat. Goat Yay. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Right? [00:16:32] Speaker A: Goat Yay. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Yeah, Goatsy. [00:16:34] Speaker A: Goatsy's a weird sex thing on the Internet, right? [00:16:37] Speaker B: Yeah. It's the dude with the weep and the weep. [00:16:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I'm not gonna describe what he's doing with his hands. [00:16:44] Speaker B: He's not gonna describe what else I did. [00:16:48] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:16:49] Speaker B: I gave him a. I gave him. [00:16:53] Speaker A: We're moving on. We introduced the show. We're doing samfish. Rat City 17. They're both from August 25, I believe. Yes, they are. Okay, so let's start with the covers. [00:17:06] Speaker B: Yes, Indeed. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Rat City 17. I got the. A cover by Thomas Notchlick with Steve Cannon. Thomas Nashlik. What did I say? Nashlik. Oh, my God. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Oh, no, no, I. I wasn't correcting you. I was just repeating it. [00:17:20] Speaker A: No, you should correct me. I said his name wrong. [00:17:22] Speaker B: Oh, you did. I didn't. I didn't notice. [00:17:25] Speaker A: I noticed same. I'm Donnie, though. I practice so I can hold it over people's head. If you have trouble with it, think Eminem. And then N comes after M, because a lot of people say Mandami, but it's Mamdani. [00:17:41] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:46] Speaker A: Anyway, speaking of New York City and mayors. [00:17:50] Speaker B: New York City? [00:17:52] Speaker A: Yeah. That's where Pace Bacani's from. [00:17:55] Speaker B: No, that's. That's where Pace Baconi is not from. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, that's right. I got confused. Good job. Billion dollar advertising campaign. [00:18:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Pace is garbage, though, so I kind of like it. [00:18:08] Speaker A: I like the onion chunks. When I was A kid. [00:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:11] Speaker A: I feel like it's ever present in. [00:18:12] Speaker B: Oklahoma, which is weird because it's not a. There's so many more good salsas. [00:18:17] Speaker A: It's marketing. [00:18:18] Speaker B: So much good salsa in Oklahoma. [00:18:20] Speaker A: There's that good Marketing in the 90s, man. New York City. Everyone remembers that. [00:18:23] Speaker B: That's true. New York City. Well, we were. We were talking about New York City. New York City in Rat City. [00:18:33] Speaker A: Cover A. [00:18:34] Speaker B: The COVID A. [00:18:36] Speaker A: And it's the deviant powering up. It's like a low angle shot of him. He's got necroplasm energy shooting out of his hands. He's got, like, a halo of, like, technology. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:52] Speaker A: It's like he's in. [00:18:53] Speaker B: It's like the spawn point. [00:18:55] Speaker A: I want to see ngri, but that's the same twitch. Pts. [00:18:58] Speaker B: PTS is Rat City. Red City. Yes. [00:19:02] Speaker A: Ngr. [00:19:03] Speaker B: Okay. It's pts. [00:19:04] Speaker A: It's like he's in the PTS building or something. It was like, maybe there's, like a scanner or something. It's like doing research on him. But it looks pretty cool. [00:19:13] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. It looks. It looks like if there was a video game, this would be the spawning room. [00:19:18] Speaker A: Yes. Like in Metroid, when she goes in one of those tubes and, like, saves her game. What is that? [00:19:39] Speaker B: That's the lord of the rings. It's concerning hobbits. [00:19:44] Speaker A: No, that's. [00:19:45] Speaker B: That's. [00:19:45] Speaker A: That's. You'd have the da da das in there. [00:19:55] Speaker B: No. Da da da. Yes. So, Johnny, you have the A cover, I have the B cover, the Jonathan Rebay, Uribe Castro. And it is just like the deviant clawing his way up a wall. That's pretty dope. So good. It's got, like, the fingers, like, digging into the side of the. Look at it. It's real good. And it's got the cape bits going. [00:20:28] Speaker A: I like it in action. [00:20:30] Speaker B: We got both the covers covered, and. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Yours is like, a more brighter palette. The B cover. And this is. [00:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yours is much more in shadow. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Just the necroplasm green. [00:20:40] Speaker B: It's got that. That, like, you know, hallway quality that you put a lot of light in a hallway, but there's still a lot of shadow. [00:20:48] Speaker A: We pop it open and we get the credits. [00:20:50] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Script plot by Erica Schultz, art by Zay Carlos, color by Ulysses Ariola and J. David Ramos. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:20:59] Speaker A: Seriola do pages one through 10. J, Dave Ramos in pages 11 through 20, lettering by Erica Schultz, and cover artists are. We covered them? [00:21:09] Speaker B: Yes. [00:21:10] Speaker A: Creative director Todd McFarlane and editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Rat City. The final showdown before Arif and the deviant takes place within the confines of limbo. [00:21:25] Speaker B: It's the first time they've called it limbo, I think. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Yes. [00:21:30] Speaker B: Because they've just been referring to it as the in between. [00:21:33] Speaker A: The in between. [00:21:35] Speaker B: The in between. [00:21:37] Speaker A: That's where we last left them, was. I'm saying it. Right, Right. We looked it up. [00:21:42] Speaker B: It was Arif, Aerif. [00:21:45] Speaker A: It was Aerith. Right. [00:21:46] Speaker B: I think there was a little bit more of a. [00:21:49] Speaker A: It was like. Yeah, yeah, Erith. That's when we last left them. He was about to attack Peter, and they both were armored up. He was like this Spartan character. Pretty cool. [00:22:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And we start with them literally picking up from where they dropped the last issue with Arif attacking and Peter blocking with the big. [00:22:16] Speaker A: He has this cool arm. Like. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah, his neck. [00:22:20] Speaker A: Or like, his suit or his cape turned into, like, arm. [00:22:24] Speaker B: They're awesome. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Do you remember. Do you remember how much you remember about Shadows of the Empire? [00:22:28] Speaker B: David, prepare yourself for Star Wars. Shadows of the Empire. Shadows of the Empire. [00:22:34] Speaker A: It's a multimedia thing. [00:22:35] Speaker B: I remember there was the name of something called Shadows of the Empire. [00:22:40] Speaker A: Do you remember Prince Shizor Xizor? [00:22:42] Speaker B: No, I do not. [00:22:43] Speaker A: He's this green falleen alien. It was the leader of Black Sun, a criminal organization. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:22:48] Speaker A: But it was this Star wars project, the side project. It was basically a. Like, it was a testing grounds for the marketability of the prequels. So they just release everything but a movie. They release books, they release action figures, release a video game. And that's what it was. Nice just to test interest. And it went really well. But he was action figure. Prince Shizor. Shizor. I can't remember how to pronounce it. I think it's Chizor. [00:23:10] Speaker B: I'm sure you could look it up. [00:23:11] Speaker A: Had these two, like, electric blade things that look exactly like this, but they were blue. [00:23:15] Speaker B: Ooh. So what you're saying is Erica Schultz is probably a big fucking nerd. Maybe. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Maybe she likes Shadows in the Empire. [00:23:23] Speaker B: Maybe. Could always ask her. [00:23:25] Speaker A: Or maybe that's a. Maybe that's Zay Carlos decision. [00:23:28] Speaker B: So maybe Zay Carlos is a big fucking nerd. Hmm. Comics creators being big fucking nerds. I don't believe it. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Maybe we'll find out something about that at the end of this issue. [00:23:37] Speaker B: Maybe we will. I do like how they're fighting. Yeah. Also, they're also just like. It's. It's like the. The scenes of the Matrix where it goes between the fighting and the. Them in their plugged in seats being like. [00:23:53] Speaker A: Right. [00:23:53] Speaker B: Very Matrix goaded. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Like it or not, you piece of, you're still gonna fry. [00:24:00] Speaker B: And we start with Peter's voiceover saying, this guy says, I killed his brother. I'm no saint, but I wouldn't kill a kid. [00:24:08] Speaker A: And this just goes to a flashback where he did some bad as a soldier. [00:24:11] Speaker B: Yeah, well, he did some bad as a cult as a soldier, but only in self defense. He weren't. He weren't no Becker. And you know this Becker, he's. Oh, boy, oh boy. He just like flat out mercs, this guy in the face for no reason. [00:24:27] Speaker A: Yeah, but that guy has a cool beret. Yeah, no, this guy getting shot with a beret looks like old McCone. [00:24:38] Speaker B: There we go. [00:24:38] Speaker A: Yeah, he was cool. I liked him. [00:24:40] Speaker B: Yeah, Lee Pace. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah, he was cool. When he took his mask off, it was pretty cool. [00:24:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it was pretty awesome. He's looking, he's looking good. It's good looking, man. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Oklahoman, right? [00:24:51] Speaker B: That I don't know. [00:24:52] Speaker A: I always thought he's British because Lord of the Rings, but he's not. He was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, baby. Dang. Nice Oklahoma boy. Make good. [00:25:00] Speaker B: Nice. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Anyway, yeah, they're shooting. It's just a flashback. And Becker's just being a bastard. [00:25:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:08] Speaker A: And cut back to the fight. [00:25:10] Speaker B: Yeah, and then cut. [00:25:11] Speaker A: But we cut to Arif's. Arif's point of view. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah. He says, I am not a soldier. I've never killed anyone, but I will kill this man. Who, like, not very often. We get to have interiority of both sides of a fight, Johnny. That's what's happening here. [00:25:33] Speaker A: He cannot win. They're throwing down. And then we get this awesome little. Yeah, it's like dual flashback sequence. [00:25:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Side by side of Peter and his brother and Arif and his brother growing up. And Peter and his brother grew up in the suburbs and Arif and his brother's brother grew up in, you know, the bombed out city. And they're both, you know, doing some sword fights as young boys like to do. Yep. And while Peter and his brother are being, you know, lightly scolded by their dad at the Grill, being like, now, boss, boss, boss, boss, boss, don't play so rough. Arif and his brother are. Arif and Fidan, we'll be specific, are like literally being threatened by fucking solid snake. Yeah, dude, it's rough stuff. And then we cut back to the fight. [00:26:31] Speaker A: Dude, while you were gone, David stepped out for a moment. While you're away, a dog, a little brown dog. Came up, jumped in your chair, looked the mic and ran. [00:26:38] Speaker B: I was dying. Yeah, he does that. I'm surprised he didn't try to eat it. Stop eating the trash. Get over here, bud. He's eating a toilet paper roll and it's loud as. I don't. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:26:49] Speaker B: I don't want to have to edit that off this. I don't want to have to edit that off. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it was him. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah, this guy. This is Cusco. He's the worst dog in the world. [00:26:55] Speaker A: I thought so. Yeah, he came and licked it. It was so cute. [00:27:00] Speaker B: You're kind of funny, dude. You're kind of funny. Yeah, but. Yeah. So we cut back to the fight and we've got Petyr being like, he's strong, but he's untrained. [00:27:09] Speaker A: He's enraged. [00:27:11] Speaker B: He'll make a mistake. And Arif's like, I'm stronger and I've got justice on my side. And, you know, then they stop. They stop thinking and they start actually speaking at each other. And Arif says, I will not stop until you are dead. You have no idea the pain you've caused me. You're a murderer. And Peter's just like, I was a fucking soldier, dude. Reef says, you are an animal. And that. That pisses Peter off. Now he's. [00:27:37] Speaker A: Now you got it coming. I imagine there's like flute music playing, like, do, do do do do do do do. Do you have the naked Chairman still wandering around? [00:27:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Just like being like, what is blessed are those. [00:27:51] Speaker A: As we know, the Chairman as a boy was made the patron saint of the curse. [00:27:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:56] Speaker A: And who is this he sees but a zombie curse? [00:28:00] Speaker B: He's an old man. But. But it is the zombie curse. And when the zombie curse turns around, he says, victor, help me. [00:28:09] Speaker A: And we know it's. Course you know it's the curse. Of course. Of course it's the curse. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Yes. [00:28:14] Speaker A: Because he's wearing a green. His green outfit. [00:28:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:16] Speaker A: He has his eye blown off. [00:28:19] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. He said, it is your blessing, Victor. It is your curse. It's like he's introducing himself. Oh, it is your curse. [00:28:30] Speaker A: And Victor's like, Victor just freaks out the Chairman here. He's like, never. [00:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:34] Speaker A: And while it's like flashing back to him as a kid. [00:28:36] Speaker B: Yeah. All the he had to go through post ascension, like the, the threats that they, that they used to keep him in line. Like, you, you may never see your mother again, but if you keep up this bad attitude, you're never gonna see your mother again. [00:28:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:57] Speaker B: Oh boy. What a jerk. And just while this flashback is going on, Victor is just pummeling, pummeling this. This zombie curse. [00:29:06] Speaker A: He beats zombie curse with pulp. [00:29:08] Speaker B: He gets. I didn't. I didn't think the zombie curse had that much juice left in him, Johnny, but, boy, that's a lot of juice. It's a lot of juice. He's a juicy boy. [00:29:18] Speaker A: He's juicy. [00:29:19] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we turn the page to this nice splash page of just Victor standing over the body of the ruined curse, dripping blood. [00:29:30] Speaker A: Back of the fight. We're from a different perspective. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And the voiceover is now that of the progeny. [00:29:36] Speaker A: The progeny. You're watching all the little animals. [00:29:38] Speaker B: Yeah. This deviant is more robust than we anticipated. I like the. I like referring to things as robust. It's nice. And the, like, half of the progeny are fighting in the background and a couple of the progeny are, like, watching the television fight. They're like. They've got, like a portal into their minds so they can see the fight actually happening. [00:30:00] Speaker A: It's a stargate, David. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Oh, true. [00:30:02] Speaker A: The stargate made out of weird smoke tendrils. [00:30:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're like, arif would be so much stronger if we just had all of him here. But some of them still alive back in Red City, like. [00:30:14] Speaker A: Well, it really shouldn't matter who our champion is, as long as they can defeat her. There's that second mention of her. [00:30:21] Speaker B: Who is. Who is she? [00:30:23] Speaker A: Who is she? Who be. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Who be that lady? [00:30:27] Speaker A: What girl? Kylo Ren. [00:30:31] Speaker B: You don't have. You don't have the voice modulation of the what girl? That's a little better. But yeah, we're back in. We're back in Media fight Johnny. And Peter's just like, I don't fucking. I didn't kill your goddamn brother. [00:30:44] Speaker A: I don't care. [00:30:46] Speaker B: Reese says your squad did. I saw you. You were there and you did nothing to save it. And Peter's just like, ah, goddamn Beaker Becker. Goddamn Becker. Yeah, me, me, me, me. [00:30:58] Speaker A: Yeah, the Muppet killed him. [00:31:01] Speaker B: He just accidentally killed him with one of. [00:31:03] Speaker A: Beaker, honey. Dude. [00:31:05] Speaker B: With a. With a lab accident. Oh, boy, I love the Muppets. [00:31:11] Speaker A: He's like, you're right, he did. My guy did kill a kid. Yeah, he got me there. [00:31:17] Speaker B: This throws Peter into his own flashback of the night his brother died. [00:31:22] Speaker A: His brother was unfortunately gunned down by the police. [00:31:26] Speaker B: Police walking while black. [00:31:28] Speaker A: That's what he says. He says that's what got Brian killed. [00:31:30] Speaker B: Brian killed. The cops said he didn't comply with commands. They shot him four times in the chest. This is. This is probably the grimmest detail I've ever seen, Johnny. Mom was just happy she could show his face. [00:31:44] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, this is like. I mean, yeah. Police violence against black people is a huge issue in America. Will probably still be going on the time the Rat City takes place. Unfortunately. [00:31:55] Speaker B: Unfortunately. It's just heavy shit. Heavy shit. And then it's like this realization washes over Peter and he's like, you're fucking right. You're fucking right. And somebody has to be responsible for your brother's deaths. So I'm here. I take responsibility. [00:32:10] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. He's just like, do it. [00:32:12] Speaker B: And Arif's like, yeah, he's like four feet in. [00:32:15] Speaker A: He. [00:32:16] Speaker B: He raises his, like, fucking flaming sword above his head. And then wait, back. There's a. Wait. [00:32:22] Speaker A: You're not the only ones who want this deviant, dad. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:26] Speaker A: And it's Victor, the chairman. [00:32:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:28] Speaker A: Wearing the curse's clothes. Yeah. And he's walking towards them with purpose. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Yes. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Glorious purpose, one might say. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy. Look at these fucking. Look at that leg muscle. Oh, boy. I would not want to be kicked by that hammy. Oh, boy, he pissed. Zay Carlos has some good musculature work going on, man. [00:32:52] Speaker A: He's pissed. [00:32:52] Speaker B: He's. [00:32:53] Speaker A: He's so pissed we have a new villain formed. I love that he takes, like, the curse's old clothes and puts them on. [00:32:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:00] Speaker A: Pretty cool. [00:33:01] Speaker B: That's marginally less gooey than he was before, but only because it's all absorbed into the clock. But I bet it feels good to have a little bit of clothes on. And I imagine. I imagine the. The limbo has probably got like. Like. Like some spikes that you run into every once in a while that it would be nice to be. [00:33:22] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, it's a chafing under your arms. Yeah. No, you need some clothes in that hot place. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get a skull to end the issue. Johnny. [00:33:29] Speaker A: But there's more. [00:33:30] Speaker B: Wait, but wait, there's more. [00:33:32] Speaker A: There's usually not a spawning ground, but today there's a spawning ground in Rat City. [00:33:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's spawning ground. Presents. Congratulations. [00:33:42] Speaker A: Erica Schultz won the 2025 Ink Pot, one of the 2025 Ink Pot Awards at San Diego Comic Con. [00:33:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. It's pretty awesome. There's a wonderful picture of her hamming it up with her. With her little ink pot. The little ink pot is so fucking cute. Look at it. It's so whimsical. It looks like it's got Like a little wizard hat and it's got its little. [00:34:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cute. And she has this great interview that you just gotta read, but I mean just talks about how she like you. [00:34:13] Speaker B: Know, coming up in the comics industry. [00:34:15] Speaker A: You know, coming up in comics and she did everything. [00:34:17] Speaker B: Yeah, she's done everything. It's an instant insane. [00:34:20] Speaker A: Did everything. Done it. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Some, some. [00:34:22] Speaker A: She throws out some spawn knowledge. [00:34:25] Speaker B: Yeah, she's just throwing it down like she's, she's old school spawn fan and. [00:34:33] Speaker A: And just like her inspirations for rats. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Really cool. Yeah. With that, if you'll remember the conversation we had with her, she touched on a little bit talking about her, her dad and her grandfather. It's good. It's a good episode. These are the to it. But yeah, it's a fun little interview. [00:34:49] Speaker A: Congrats to Eric. She's awesome. [00:34:50] Speaker B: Yeah, well deserved. Well deserved, well deserved. [00:34:55] Speaker A: And then we get the old classic Image classics ad. We get every. [00:34:59] Speaker B: It's so classic. Johnny. This is, this, this is a net. [00:35:02] Speaker A: What if we had to read through and talk about each of these comic. [00:35:04] Speaker B: Books every time we could start. You wanna. [00:35:08] Speaker A: What we should do is we should make a copy of this and get a red. Or like get an extra cop. We don't care about. Get a red Sharp. [00:35:15] Speaker B: Mark it off. [00:35:16] Speaker A: Mark them off. [00:35:17] Speaker B: Yeah, true. We could do that. I mean it does change every once in a while though because Sweet Paprika literally was only like a year and a half ago that it ran. So. [00:35:27] Speaker A: Okay, isn't that paprika? [00:35:30] Speaker B: I like to say paprika, but I mean it is, it is about angels and demons and all of them have the names of spices. Like Sweet Paprika, Paprika. Paprika is in love with a demon called Zatar. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Okay, okay, let's not do that. The show doesn't need to get any longer. We don't need. We're not. We're not searching for time. [00:35:52] Speaker B: You sure, Johnny? Cuz we could definitely take this. We could do more tangents. [00:35:56] Speaker A: All right, just say one that you like. Just say one. [00:35:58] Speaker B: Oh, the wicked and the divine is great. [00:36:00] Speaker A: Okay, I'll pick one that I like. Oh, what's the furthest place from here? I kept that for a while. [00:36:06] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Excellent. Then the back of the issue toy ad is the spawn. Call of Duty ad. [00:36:12] Speaker A: Call. Duty. Call of Duty. Chucky's coming for your nightmares. He is Call of Duty to Peter Griffin's coming next. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Maybe that's exactly what you want to hear. In the middle of the night. And that is rat city. 17. Channing Lena. [00:36:29] Speaker A: Mean in 17. She was just 17, if you know what I mean. [00:36:36] Speaker B: I don't. Johnny. Please tell me. [00:36:39] Speaker A: I don't know the rest of the song. Play the music. [00:36:49] Speaker B: We're back. [00:36:51] Speaker A: We're back with Sam and Twitch. [00:36:54] Speaker B: We're back on the case. Back on the case and in the fight. [00:36:59] Speaker A: Back on the case. And we're in the case files. [00:37:02] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:37:03] Speaker A: It's been heating up. [00:37:04] Speaker B: They sure are. [00:37:06] Speaker A: Things have been heating up for Sammy and Twitch. [00:37:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, man, they're coming almost to the boiling point here. Almost, but not quite. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Yes. And before we get to this boiling point, we gotta cover the. [00:37:19] Speaker B: Yes, we sure do. [00:37:20] Speaker A: And my cover is the A cover. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is. [00:37:24] Speaker A: And it is Titaniel Henriques. [00:37:28] Speaker B: And it is. [00:37:29] Speaker A: And it looks like some cowboy. [00:37:30] Speaker B: It is excellent. Yeah, it is. It is. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Literally, it's like Twitch, Twitch a la Spine. [00:37:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Just in the rain. [00:37:39] Speaker A: He's all gangly and he's shooting. Yeah, he's leaning down. [00:37:43] Speaker B: It's awesome. There's a lot of motion everywhere. It's very good, Johnny. By all means. I should probably have that issue because it. Or that cover, because it is a Twitch cover, but I have cover B, the Marco Falia cover. And it is black with, like, the red outline of a knife. And in the red outline of the knife, our boys are both there, ready, guns drawn. Like, it's like they're going down the alley. They're gonna get the bad guy. They just gotta be real careful about it. Look at that. [00:38:17] Speaker A: That's Knife Alley. That's like a slasher film. Like another. [00:38:21] Speaker B: Yeah, for real. And they're both real serious. Look at. Look at the titles. Look at that serious face Sam is making. Oh, boy, he's pissed. [00:38:28] Speaker A: Oh, my God, he was pissed. One of my favorite Giallo Gallo titles, which is Italian, like stabby. Stabby Horror, for those who don't know is Don't Torture a Duckling. [00:38:43] Speaker B: I haven't seen it. [00:38:45] Speaker A: I haven't seen it either. [00:38:47] Speaker B: That is a great title. [00:38:50] Speaker A: You never just want to sit down and watch a giallo movie. It's never just, like, strikes the mood about that, Jo. The only ones I've seen are ones that were on Joe Bob Briggs. [00:38:58] Speaker B: So, yeah, I guess that's kind of. It's. It's you. You're usually made to see them. I feel it's like. It's like homework. Homework viewing. [00:39:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Like I said, like the Italian horrors, they're, like, really gory and, like, crazy. But that's also like, you know only 20 minutes of an hour and a half movie. The other hour, 10 minutes. A lot of dubbing of people sitting. [00:39:20] Speaker B: Around talking, but very well dressed. [00:39:22] Speaker A: The scripts written by Italians who were just high on cocaine. [00:39:27] Speaker B: Very well dressed. Very well dressed because they're Italian and good. [00:39:31] Speaker A: And great music. [00:39:32] Speaker B: Incredible music. [00:39:34] Speaker A: Rizarolani. [00:39:35] Speaker B: Very good. Yeah. Anyway, but. So those. Those are the covers. The. The non giallo covers. Let's pop these puppies open and read the inside so we can get the credits and give them where they're due. [00:39:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Don't torture this duckling by waiting. [00:39:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Johnny's the duckling. He wants to get into this. So we got script plot by Jordan Barrel with additional script by Tyler McFarlane. The art is Thomas Nachchlick with special thanks to Magnus Arts. The color is, as usual by FCO Plasencia and Sheila Saldana. Covering the color flats there. Very nice. I'm every day I am thankful to Sketchcraft for explaining to us just what the fuck color flats were illuminating. It makes. It makes so much more sense now. Can I explain it to people? No, not really. But it makes sense in the brain and that's all that matters. Lettering. [00:40:29] Speaker A: That's all that matters sometimes. [00:40:31] Speaker B: Lettering by Tom Rosikowski. Well, that's the first part of creating art, Johnny, is it makes sense in your brain. You just got to translate it out. Sure. We already covered the covers. We got. [00:40:42] Speaker A: We already covered art. Yeah. [00:40:44] Speaker B: That's art. That's all art. Go to go. You got your mfa. Now your. Your diploma will be signed by this here creative director. [00:40:52] Speaker A: I'm gonna get a job at a restaurant. [00:40:56] Speaker B: The editor in chief, Thomas Healey, will definitely officiate your wedding if you ask him nicely enough. [00:41:03] Speaker A: I didn't know that. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Well, that's. That's what being an editor in chief is, is being on call for weddings. [00:41:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Editor in Chiefs can marry people like ship captains, right? [00:41:11] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Because he is the captain of the ship that is the Spawns Universe series of books. It's metaphorical, but the transfer. The title still transfers. Previously in Sam and Twitch, Twitch realizes that his wife Helen is in danger and goes to NGRI to investigate. Pretty reductive of what happened, but yes, that is exactly what happened. [00:41:35] Speaker A: I mean, a lot happened, but that's the last thing. [00:41:37] Speaker B: That's the very last thing that happened. Yes. And we open Johnny on something that has nothing to do with the previously on. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Nope. It's Sam running down like a mine shaft. Kind of looking. Yeah, over by the docks. It's that tunnel that went under the. [00:41:53] Speaker B: Under the. Yeah, under the. [00:41:55] Speaker A: Under the dock. Warehouse. [00:41:56] Speaker B: Warehouse. That's what it's called. There's a. There's a red light. And he's just running and running and running. And then we see the people he's following after. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Like, this is a crazy setup you got here. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Like, so where you want. Where you want us to put this? And he's like, yeah, just over here. And he points down another, longer, darker mine. Mine shaft, hallway. [00:42:17] Speaker A: And Sam's at an impasse. And he goes, frodo Baggins. When you don't know which way to go. Follow your nose. Did he say, follow your nose or something? [00:42:26] Speaker B: Essentially. Essentially. It's not. It's not quite so Toucan Sam, but that's basically what he says. [00:42:34] Speaker A: He's like, I've remembered there. [00:42:36] Speaker B: I can't. Yeah, I don't. [00:42:38] Speaker A: But God damn it, I said this was fucking. [00:42:39] Speaker B: We need to watch him again. Is what. [00:42:41] Speaker A: It's Christmas time. [00:42:42] Speaker B: They're Christmas movies. [00:42:44] Speaker A: Christmas. Christmas. [00:42:49] Speaker B: Good job. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Force Awakens is a Christmas movie. [00:42:51] Speaker B: All Star wars is a Christmas movie. That's true. Anything is a Christmas movie if you watch it at Christmas. [00:42:57] Speaker A: That's true. They used to show it. Do you remember these? Shown in USA back in the day, all the Star wars shows? [00:43:01] Speaker B: Oh, no, I didn't, because I didn't have cable. [00:43:02] Speaker A: Yeah, interesting. Oh, well. Put a rose on your nose. [00:43:06] Speaker B: I'll pin the nose on my rose. How about that? [00:43:09] Speaker A: Guess we're jerking off to hbo. [00:43:10] Speaker B: No. Nope. Unfortunately. Would have made things a lot easier, let me tell you. [00:43:20] Speaker A: So Twitch is in this? No, Sam. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Yeah, Sam's in the tunnel. And he hears. He's like, which way do I go, left or right? And he hears a clang. And he says, left it is. And then obviously, he has to pull out his phone and be like, no signal. Guess I'm on my own. And so then we cut back to the NGRI building, and Twitch is just storming in, waving his badge around, being like, I'm fucking Twitch. I'm fucking Detective Williams. My wife is here, and I want to talk to her. And they're like, your wife hasn't checked in. And he's like, bullshit, I've tracked her phone. It's upstairs. She's here. Let me up. And then we cut to Helen in the parking garage being like metal detector batons as she's getting into a van. Being like, you don't have any cell phone or electronics on you, do you? She says, nope, let's put back upstairs. I'm clean. Then we cut back to Twitch being like. It says, she's right here. It says, she's right here. And so the desk clerk calls the head of security over, and Twitch grabs a pencil and then grabs the head of security and is like, you better fucking let me out, my wife, or I'm gonna stab this. The ear. The desk clerk, like, calls. Calls the lady. [00:44:34] Speaker A: Every time I see a sharp pencil sticking up, I think the joker, where he slams that guy's head on the pencil and makes it disappear. People lost their. When you did that on opening night. [00:44:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it was intense. And so we cut up to the lady who. Fancy Sam, the lady who Twitch saved from in the very first issue of this arc. And she's in a room. She's in, like, the security video room. And the tech is like, helen's husband is here. It's the detective. She's like, yeah, yeah, don't call the police. We don't. We don't need to. We don't need to bother with that. I'll go. I'll go take care of him. [00:45:10] Speaker A: She doesn't want them asking questions. [00:45:12] Speaker B: And so we cut to the panel of this guy that Twitch has held being like, someone call the police. Twitch, go, I am. Which is much more a Sam line, but I love it. [00:45:28] Speaker A: And finally, Twitch. Twitch has just had it. [00:45:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Twitch is. Twitch is fucking cracked. And then he's like, there's a dangerous. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Individual on your premises, and he's going after my wife. Where is he? [00:45:43] Speaker B: And then the lady comes down. She's like, oh. Oh, Helen's upstairs. Sorry. Sorry, everybody. It's okay. It's okay. Calm down. He's my hero. Oh, boy. The juxtaposition of crazed man holding a pencil to another man's ear and this lady being like, he's my hero. Oh, yeah. [00:46:00] Speaker A: It's funny. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Fucked up. And then we cut to, like, some scaffolding underground. [00:46:06] Speaker A: So you can see in the top left. That's where the tunnel ends. You go down this big sagapoli, right. [00:46:10] Speaker B: Past the porta potties. It's like a. It's like a weird warehouse. Like a warehouse under the warehouse, beyond the warehouse. And so. So we kind of cut back and forth a little bit between the guys carrying all the stuff down the scaffolding and down another hallway. And then Sam showing up later with everybody gone. And before Sam shows up, Man Bun's like, hold on. I hear a follower. I'm going to take care of him. You guys take the package and go. So Sam shows up and who is there to meet Sam, but his buddy Twitch. What is this? Johnny Twitch? Twitch comes out. [00:46:52] Speaker A: It was that guy. It's that guy. Dude. [00:46:54] Speaker B: That boy Twitch says, sam, thank God. Help me. [00:46:58] Speaker A: But it's. We know that Man Bun is a shape. Shape. [00:47:01] Speaker B: Yeah, he ship shapes. [00:47:03] Speaker A: He ship shapes. [00:47:04] Speaker B: Then we cut back to the van where Helen is being taken with the rest of the research participants. She's trying to. She's trying to calm down this custodial lady who. That she's been with, talking to. And it's like. She's trying to talk to the proctor guy who's driving. And he's like, no, you guys are already in the test. I can't tell you shit. Says specifically, plausible deniability. And that's. I feel this man has tipped his hand a little too much because anybody would be like, plausible deniability. That's not how research works. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm getting out of here. [00:47:41] Speaker B: That's. That's legal jargon. I can tell you one thing, Johnny. Researchers don't know shit about. About legal jargon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Having to send it through legal is the worst. Don't make. It doesn't make sense to us. We don't pay. We pay attention to other stuff. It's good. It's good to have legal oversight. I will say that. But I mean, doesn't make any. We just want to. We just want to fuck around with some stuff. That's all we want to do. Then we cut back to Twitch talking to this lady, being like, that's her purse. Where is she? And she's being like, oh, oh. Your wife is already involved in a research project that has already started. It's very important. But, but, but, but, but, but, you know, it's charming of you. It's quite charming, you coming to the rescue of all your gals, but there's no danger here. And then, you know, Twitch is like, somebody's been stalking my wife. Look at this. It's Man Bun. He was here. I know it. She's like, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe he's one of our shipping associates. And so Twitch just, like, calls Noreen. He's like, noreen, where's Sam? Why isn't he picking up? Noreen's like, I don't know. I'm at the docks where he said he was because he called for some information earlier, and this is where I sent him. And Twitch is like, do you know about NGRI people? Bon Vivant Shipping? And she's like, that's where I am. I'm at the Bon Vivant shipping dock, and Twitch is just like, hmm, okay, cool. Playing it off as if she didn't just give him a lot of information. Boy, Johnny, that's where a poker face would sure come in handy. You know who has no poker face? This guy. I would not have been able to pull that off at all. [00:49:29] Speaker A: I can do. I can do it. [00:49:30] Speaker B: And so lady's like, everything all right, Sam? Okay? And Twitch is like, yeah, he's just at some bar. And then we cut. [00:49:37] Speaker A: That reminds me of my. One of my favorite parts. It's not my favorite part. It's just a small part of the movie. But in the World's End, when he. Simon picture is pulled over and he doesn't have a license, he's like. He goes, oh, I don't have my license. I left it at the Bloody Jim. And, like, he almost cracks, but he, like, pulls it off. It's really good acting. [00:49:58] Speaker B: Good actor. [00:49:59] Speaker A: Good writer, too. He wrote the third. He wrote all the Shaun of the Dead stuff, but he wrote the third Star Trek with Chris Pine. It was good. [00:50:07] Speaker B: That's the one that had all the crazy makeup, but lost the costuming design to the Harley Quinn movie, right? [00:50:15] Speaker A: I think so. The Suicide Squad. Yeah. [00:50:17] Speaker B: A shame. Yeah. [00:50:18] Speaker A: Star Trek Beyond. Good movie. [00:50:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:21] Speaker A: Really? What? [00:50:22] Speaker B: I don't. I don't. It surprises me, too. [00:50:24] Speaker A: It's a lot better than Into Darkness. I mean, Into Darkness is pretty bad. I understand why you didn't watch the next one. [00:50:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy. The whole. He's not con. He's not. I promise you, he's not Khan. And then, like, three seconds of the movie, I'm gone. [00:50:36] Speaker A: Yeah. The whole time. That was. That was the thing that pissed me off, was the advertising of it. Because they're like, he's not con. And they were. And it's like, he's obviously. [00:50:43] Speaker B: He's obviously. He's obviously. He's not. He's not. He's not con. I promise you. [00:50:49] Speaker A: Oh, well, that movie's not very good. First one's good, though. [00:50:52] Speaker B: First one's great. The first one's a Rollick and Good Time Spock. [00:50:56] Speaker A: I love Eric Bana as, like, the Romulan who's so mad, he's like, I will kill Spock. [00:51:02] Speaker B: You're out of your fucking mind. Yeah. We cut to Noreen ending her phone conversation with Twitch. And the man who saved Sam, the informant, comes up. He's like, sam went underground. And she's like, wait, who are you? You're one of his Informants. And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:51:23] Speaker A: It's the guy, the guy that visited. [00:51:25] Speaker B: Sam who did a With the knife that's on the gunshot wound. And he's telling Noreen. He's like. He's like, the entrance is over there. But I'd say just wait for Sam to come up for some air. It's gonna be way easier. Like, that way. He's like, and you have my key card. [00:51:43] Speaker A: What's that? [00:51:43] Speaker B: Key card? He wants it real bad. [00:51:46] Speaker A: He must be playing our creators. [00:51:48] Speaker B: Hey, I do not get it. [00:51:50] Speaker A: The Internet love creators. And I love it, too. [00:51:52] Speaker B: But there's key cards, key cards, key cards. I've got a key card. It works at work sometimes. [00:51:57] Speaker A: I've got a badge. [00:51:58] Speaker B: I don't have a key card, though, I guess. I guess it is a badge. Eh? It's a proximity. It's a proximity reader. Yeah. Okay, so we cut back to Twitch, and the lady. And the lady is taking her own phone call where she is not being forthcoming to Twitch about what's happening. But she's setting up a trap, Johnny. She's like, just be there. I'll bring him to you. And she's like, hey, sorry, my mom's having some health issues, but why don't I take you to go see Helen and we'll get this cleared away? And so they pile into the car, Johnny. And Twitch is like, so where are we going? We're going to the place where you drill head holes into people's heads. And she's like, whoa. [00:52:41] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:52:41] Speaker B: Well, basically, yeah. But. Whoa. [00:52:44] Speaker A: And Twitch just boils it all. [00:52:46] Speaker B: Yeah. She's like, our main purpose is trying to acquire brain data so someday we can engineer better mental and physical health for everyone. Twitch says, and how's your record been so far? Savage, Johnny. He's a savage on Twitch. [00:53:02] Speaker A: And he grills her on, you know what is happening to these people. Why'd that guy come after you anyway? He wasn't even using. [00:53:11] Speaker B: Yeah, she thinks he was looking for some drugs. [00:53:15] Speaker A: And then she's like, how do you know? [00:53:16] Speaker B: You work there. [00:53:17] Speaker A: And she's like, you're the detective. [00:53:18] Speaker B: He's like, well, okay, how about I just say that the man I killed, Sam. Sam and I knew he was dealing some drugs. And we now know he was also a patient of yours. And we think he might have been having to get high on his own supply because you done fucked him up real bad, lady. And he was looking for you. He knew you didn't work at the place that you drilled Holes in his head. And he knew you ate at this cafe, and he was watching it. And she's like, yeah, I mean, I guess some of the patients are insane. Yeah, whatever. He says. The only idea I can think of is that you must have already been at the clinic. And he began to pay attention. And then they're stopped by a barricade. And the driver's like, ma', am, there's construction. We can't go any further. And she says, I'll go handle this. Hold on. Hold on. [00:54:13] Speaker A: Hold on a minute. [00:54:14] Speaker B: And she's just like. She goes out there, and she's like, okay, we're looking like I'm talking to you, and I'm convincing you to let us through and do it. [00:54:23] Speaker A: She probably needs it. And then a bulldozer comes. [00:54:26] Speaker B: Rams just runs the SUV into the bay. Baby, hopefully that isn't the Guanis. Can you imagine? Oh. Oh. And then Twitch is just, like, furiously digging through Helen's purse, being like, I know it's in here. I know it's in here. I know it's in here. And he pulls out a little emergency hammer and, like, bangs out the window. And this is obviously a bit of the additional script from the Todd father, but Helen, that car hammer for emergencies like this. So Twitches. Twitch is free and limping around, and then. [00:54:58] Speaker A: But he's on. [00:55:00] Speaker B: He's shot. He's down in the. He's down in the. The warehouse below the warehouse, beyond the warehouse with Sam. And he's like. Because it's the shapeshifter, Sam, look at this. Look at this. Look at this hole I got in my gut. And Sam's like, whoa, there's nothing there. There's no blood. Don't worry about it. Let's just. Let's just keep going. Like, Sam obviously knows what's happening here, and he's just not tipping his hand. He's like, come on. You know, you're fine. Come on. Let's. Let's just get you out of here. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go this way. I think. I think we could go this way. [00:55:30] Speaker A: And finally, he says something that Sam can't. [00:55:34] Speaker B: Yeah, ignore. [00:55:35] Speaker A: Because he asked him, give me your side piece. And Sam's like, how come your shoes aren't wet? And they. [00:55:39] Speaker B: Yeah, because there's water everywhere. Right? Because it's been raining. And then as soon after the shapeshifter, Man Bun kicks Sam in the face. He turns back to his man bunny self, and he said, you should have stayed away. From us, like I said. Oh, and Sam. Sam comes with it. Johnny, what does Sam say? [00:55:57] Speaker A: Go yourself. [00:55:59] Speaker B: Oh, boy. And then Man Bun picks up a pipe, and it's just like, I'm gonna pay you back for throwing me through that diner window. And Sam just, like. [00:56:10] Speaker A: Like. [00:56:10] Speaker B: Just, like, doesn't even aim. Just shoots behind him four times, unloads, hits him. [00:56:17] Speaker A: But he turns into a shadow. [00:56:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:21] Speaker A: And just, like, runs off. [00:56:22] Speaker B: Sam's just like, what the fuck is happening? And so Man Bun, you know, ends up being in full. Yeah, he's fine. He's. His suit is ruined, but he's talking to a lacking. He's like, fucking close the door. Blow the explosives. Nobody else coming through here. So they. They blow the. They blow the door, they blow the hallway. And Sam, like, fucking Indiana Jones. Is it out of there. And he ends it up in an alley. He's just walking around in the rain, you know, and he's like, I should have signal. God damn it. Stupid phone. I should have signal. [00:56:57] Speaker A: Which comes up on him. [00:56:58] Speaker B: Is it Twitch? Because he's. He's. Sam calls Noreen, and he's like, noreen, I found the location. Bring the card. And Noreen's like, they already know where you are. And he's like, what? [00:57:08] Speaker A: Huh? [00:57:08] Speaker B: How do you know? And Twitch comes out of the rain and says, I called her because of his recent. [00:57:14] Speaker A: He's like, how do I know it's you? Yeah, the classic Spider man meme. [00:57:17] Speaker B: Don't move. How do I know you're the real you? And Twitch is like, come on, Sam, sit. [00:57:23] Speaker A: It's like, tell me something that no one else would know about. [00:57:25] Speaker B: Says you eat too many potato dumplings in the office. Especially those smelly sauerkraut ones. Sounds like it is you, you motherfucker. [00:57:33] Speaker A: That's some classic swine. [00:57:34] Speaker B: That is some topic far. Because anyone else would have been like, you eat too many fucking pierogi. Especially the. The sauerkraut ones. [00:57:43] Speaker A: He said smelly sauerkraut ones. [00:57:45] Speaker B: They're so stinky, like, feet, Johnny. And so the boys are just standing out in the rain looking up at the Flatiron Building. And Sam's like, you know where we are? And Twitch is like, yeah, I killed that guy just, like, right over there. And Seb's like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Here you. Here you go. Don't miss. And he hands over a gun. And Sam says, my drugs are in there. [00:58:06] Speaker A: Twitch says, so is Helen. And it's the ominous shot of the. Of where they keep all the. [00:58:14] Speaker B: All the participants and it's raining, and they're obviously standing in the middle of the street. It's a beautiful. It's a beautiful final shot. It's real great. [00:58:21] Speaker A: It's beautiful. It's just like. That's awesome. [00:58:23] Speaker B: Oh, man, I loved it. [00:58:24] Speaker A: I was like, hell, yeah. Here we go. But then, blood splatter spawned in the issue. That's a cliffhanger, baby. We get the Spawn statue ad. Our favorite, the UFC 20 AD. [00:58:37] Speaker B: So good. [00:58:38] Speaker A: I got all four of them on my desk here. [00:58:40] Speaker B: Yep. He plays with them every day. Got the new generation, new stories, new youw Coming soon to a comic shop near you. [00:58:48] Speaker A: And Image Classics, which we're going to cover every single. [00:58:53] Speaker B: And Saga is probably the best comic ever made, so that's my contribution this time. It's good. [00:58:59] Speaker A: I like Spawn. [00:59:01] Speaker B: How dare you? Who likes Spawn so bad? That is Sam and Twitch, case files number 17. Oh, yeah. And, well, Johnny, as mentioned before, there's a puppy dog in here going around licking microphones. So I guess that means in order to keep him from showing up and licking the microphone again, we should rate some puppies. [00:59:25] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. So first up, we had rat city 17. I mean, it's just been so much fun sitting in these stories and going, three in a row. I'm glad we did this. And just the colors are so vibrant. You learn something about each character. Each character has their. Each character. Victor, you know, the chairman, Victor, Peter the Deviant, and then Arif, the, you know, Spartan man. They each have their own, like, touching flashback. And this is really cool. In a combat issue, like, a big fight issue, you get this story and you get so much told and just economy of storytelling. Just, like, the difference between their upbringing and. Yeah, I loved it. It's really cool. It's not. I don't know. Rat City just always surprises me in good ways. Yeah, I want to know who her is. [01:00:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:22] Speaker A: Prodigy is talking progeny. [01:00:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:25] Speaker A: Not Prodigy. [01:00:27] Speaker B: I definitely called it Prodigy earlier, didn't I? I did. No, you didn't. Progeny. [01:00:31] Speaker A: Progeny. [01:00:34] Speaker B: Prodigy. [01:00:36] Speaker A: I love it. I'm gonna give it. You want me to give it? [01:00:38] Speaker B: What are you gonna give it? [01:00:39] Speaker A: I'm gonna give it five. [01:00:40] Speaker B: Oh, smash. Hell, yeah. Just, like, completely pummeled. [01:00:48] Speaker A: Pulped. [01:00:49] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I agree, Johnny. This. Usually, when a fight takes four issues, we have a problem with. But this fight that has been spread over three, four issues has just been so taught and so well, like, choreographed. It is so fucking good. [01:01:13] Speaker A: Let's give you enough glimpses of Other stuff going on too, to keep you. [01:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And like there's interest. There's like. Cuz this, this issue, the part of the. It's much more like the. It's been like the. The past, the future, the present. This is the past part of it. You know, tying them all together, you know, shared traumas. It's fucking excellent. I agree with you, Johnny. I am gonna give it five roasting weenies in Bridgeport in Peter's childhood. [01:01:50] Speaker A: You know what that means, David? [01:01:51] Speaker B: I know very well what that means. [01:01:52] Speaker A: Crackle up those weenies because you hear that crackling sound. It's a member of the hellfire. [01:01:56] Speaker B: How else are you gonna cook your weenies? You gotta hellfire for them. [01:01:59] Speaker A: I see. You gotta hellfire it up. And next up we had Sam and Twitch 17. It's just the culmination. It's just this great climax. We're in like the. The penultimate issue and it's just so exciting. I think this is stories really coming together. I love Sam and Twitcher. Like it's like, oh man. That final panel with our teaming up together. Look at that building. I'm like, let's. [01:02:20] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [01:02:21] Speaker A: I just love the story. I think it's really fun. Definitely an improvement over the first round. Yeah, it's a much better case file. And they don't control the cases that come across. [01:02:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. They're just. They're at the whims of the whims of their superiors. [01:02:35] Speaker A: I guess the natural art just works so well with the story. [01:02:39] Speaker B: Just like this look of disgust on Twitch's face while he's talking to the lady in the car is just so great. [01:02:46] Speaker A: Just makes everything so intense. Every conversation feels immediate with the art. I'm glad that Supernatural. It's fun. I love it. [01:02:54] Speaker B: You know what? [01:02:55] Speaker A: I'm gonna give this one five out of five. And I'm give it five Stinky sauerkraut pro. [01:03:01] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I was hoping you weren't gonna choose that one because I wanted to do this. [01:03:06] Speaker A: I knew you were gonna pick that one. [01:03:10] Speaker B: Took it from me. How dare you, Johnny. I. I agree. It's just. It's just rocking and rolling. Like the. The. The penultimate issue reveal of everything before the final action is so much clearer than this case file than the previous one. Jesus Christ. [01:03:27] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [01:03:28] Speaker B: Oh, it's so good. But yeah, like, I just like where it's going to. I like Sam's just showing us that he's a good detective. I'm about ready for them to give Twitch a vacation. Though it's boy's been going through it, but. Yeah. And the art just makes it. Oh, it's just great. It's just great. I'm gonna give it five as well. I'm gonna give it five. Bulldozers knocking an SUV into the river. [01:03:54] Speaker A: That's another member of the Hellfire. [01:03:57] Speaker B: Yeah, Hellfire. [01:03:59] Speaker A: That's a double Hellfire. [01:04:01] Speaker B: Like what they double fire. Like what they try to burn. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Same up in Play a plan air horn for it. Okay, so now on. If we ever have a 2 5. [01:04:15] Speaker B: We need to come up with another one. [01:04:16] Speaker A: We have to have an air horn. No, it's just an air horn. [01:04:18] Speaker B: Okay, do we do that. Do we do the Hellfire sound for the second one? [01:04:22] Speaker A: Yes, we do. For both of them. Yes, both. [01:04:24] Speaker B: And then we do the. [01:04:24] Speaker A: And then an air horn. Come on, get with the program. [01:04:29] Speaker B: Sorry, Johnny. [01:04:30] Speaker A: We're adding, not taking away. [01:04:31] Speaker B: I am losing. I am losing the plot, Johnny. I am losing the plot. [01:04:36] Speaker A: Don't lose the plot. [01:04:37] Speaker B: Oh, those were good. [01:04:39] Speaker A: Speaking of plot, I. I forgot to mention. I wanted to mention this. The back of the same twitch. The next issue has the NGRI building on it. So it actually matches the plot. [01:04:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:04:49] Speaker A: It looks like the movie poster for, like this story. [01:04:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's great. [01:04:54] Speaker A: But don't lose the plot. [01:04:55] Speaker B: I won't. I will try not to lose the plot, Johnny, because you. [01:04:58] Speaker A: So what's the next thing you know? [01:04:59] Speaker B: What else is real good, Johnny? Spawn unity. And friends. Yeah, friends. Friends will be friends, Johnny. While running naked in the sand. Yeah, too bad those friends probably are not going to be friends anymore. So sad. We've made a lot of friends in the Spawn mutinity on Instagram. And this week we would like to shout out one of those. One of the first people we actually started following back when we created the account. And it is nomadicnerdcorner. And they got lots of cool nerdy shit, Johnny. One of these. One of their top. One of their top posts is they've got. They've got the action figure of Spawn with Malbolge's head. Look at that guy. Hell yeah. [01:05:48] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:05:49] Speaker B: They got. They got that. That Hulk. Hulk homage. Todd McFarlane cover with clown with three claws. And reflected in the three claws is Spawn's face. It's real good. Called the Incredulous Spawn. And he's got action figures. He's got. He's got a whole hell of a lot of Spawn. Oh, look at that. He's got the. He's got the real good Spawn action figure or the gunslinger spawn action figure. [01:06:15] Speaker A: Nice. [01:06:16] Speaker B: It's a good one. Still trying to find that one. [01:06:18] Speaker A: Yes, we know. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Ever since I got swindled. [01:06:20] Speaker A: David got swindled on Reddit for an open copy of that action figure. [01:06:25] Speaker B: Sarah sent it like never responded to my messages. Johnny, you will appreciate this snow globe they have. [01:06:31] Speaker A: It's a Luke being stalked by the wampa. [01:06:34] Speaker B: Yeah, Luke upside down. The wampa, man. I fucking love the wampa. He's so cool. [01:06:38] Speaker A: I love a wampa. [01:06:39] Speaker B: I got a, I got a. I got a koozie. That's a wampa. It's great, dude. [01:06:43] Speaker A: The wampas. Speaking of shadows. The Empire. The wampas were terrifying in the shadows. The Empire video game. [01:06:47] Speaker B: I believe it. They're terrified just as they are. [01:06:52] Speaker A: They'll freeze your feet, stick you upside down. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Johnny, you should really be friends with this guy because literally it's Spawn in Star wars and then Spawn and then some Star Wars. Oh, and some Calvin and Hobbes. [01:07:02] Speaker A: Oh, that's your, that's your arena. [01:07:04] Speaker B: But he's got Star Wars, Jedi, Fallen Order, old ass, Star wars comics. [01:07:12] Speaker A: I love all that Star wars comics. [01:07:14] Speaker B: It's real good. But yeah, that's nomadicnerdcorner. Give him a follow. [01:07:20] Speaker A: While you're giving him a follow, give us a follow. We are regarding SpawnPod on Instagram. We are also. You can reach us regarding SpawnPodmail.com every week I like to ask a question to spur the emails and questions and answers. [01:07:35] Speaker B: He sure does. [01:07:36] Speaker A: This week I would ask what is your favorite type of pierogi? Sometimes I like just the potato and cheese. [01:07:42] Speaker B: I think the potato and cheese and the sauerkraut are the two favorite of mine. Yeah, don't, don't. [01:07:48] Speaker A: The meat you don't need. [01:07:49] Speaker B: Don't get a meat. Pierogi suck. Because pierogi are poor ass. It's poor ass peasant food. And you know what? Poor ass peasants have meat. So they don't know what to do with it. I have this conversation every time I talk about pierogi and it just makes me want to eat more pierogi. They're good. They're good as hell. Especially the smelly ones with the sauerkraut on them. [01:08:11] Speaker A: Bring them. Give me some applesauce and give me some other sauce. Give me all kinds of sauce. [01:08:15] Speaker B: Some sour cream, some caramelized onions on that, please. [01:08:18] Speaker A: Anyway, what's your favorite type of pierogi? I also like the, the like sweet ones. [01:08:21] Speaker B: Oh yeah. The, the berry ones or the sweet cream. Ones. [01:08:24] Speaker A: Yeah, the berry. [01:08:24] Speaker B: Sweet berry. The berry ones are good. [01:08:26] Speaker A: Anyway, get some pierogies. Yeah, tell me about them. [01:08:30] Speaker B: Eat like 400 of them. [01:08:32] Speaker A: Make sure to rate, review. Subscribe wherever you can. [01:08:37] Speaker B: Do it as fast as you can. Talk to your friends, your families, your neighbors, your co workers. Tell your. Your. Your neighborhood weirdo about regarding Spawn. [01:08:48] Speaker A: He already knows. [01:08:50] Speaker B: Does he, though? [01:08:50] Speaker A: He already knows about it. [01:08:52] Speaker B: Listen to your. Listen to your neighborhood weirdo. If he tells you to listen to regarding Spawn. It's the only thing you should listen to him about, though. [01:09:00] Speaker A: Embrace it. [01:09:01] Speaker B: Embrace it. Yes. Just like you should also embrace Lonnie Bones, who does our music. Just give him a quick Google. It is wonderful. Thank you very much, Lonnie Bones. And you know what else is wonderful, Johnny? More Spawn. And talking about more Spawn. And would you like to have a wonderful time talking about some more Spawn in about a week or so? Yes. [01:09:21] Speaker A: I know it seems like these issues kind of coming to their conclusion, but we're gonna make you wait for it. Just like a classic comic. [01:09:26] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:09:27] Speaker A: So we're gonna do something else next week. We caught up on Rat City, Sam and Twitch to our liking. So we're gonna go back to some other stuff. [01:09:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:34] Speaker A: What do we got, David? [01:09:34] Speaker B: Well, we got Johnny. We're gonna have ourselves a little bit of the main title Spawn with main title spawn367. And a little bit more of that good, good Rory McConville that we love so much. And medieval spawn number three. So you love to see it spawn 367. Medieval spawn number three. [01:09:54] Speaker A: Six, seven. [01:09:55] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. [01:09:57] Speaker A: You said it. You said it. You said the word. [01:09:59] Speaker B: But you said it, too. We both said funny words, Johnny. That means we're hilarious. [01:10:03] Speaker A: Everyone dab. Everyone dab. [01:10:06] Speaker B: I don't know how to Dougie. Or I'd say it's Dougie. [01:10:09] Speaker A: Oh, God. Let's use a percolator. [01:10:11] Speaker B: I'm bad. I'm bad at dancing. [01:10:13] Speaker A: Percolator. Okay. [01:10:15] Speaker B: It's fucking fun as hell, though. [01:10:16] Speaker A: So we got what we're doing next week. We thanked everyone for this week. [01:10:19] Speaker B: Yes, we sure did. [01:10:20] Speaker A: We asked you to subscribe this week. [01:10:22] Speaker B: Yes, we did. I guess, Johnny, that means we don't have anything else to talk about except for me telling you, may the scorch be with you. Hell, yeah. [01:10:32] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [01:10:32] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:10:33] Speaker A: I think savory things should be served to be dipped in applesauce more often. [01:10:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so, too. Savory applesauce. [01:10:40] Speaker A: It's good with, like, pork chops. Yeah, pork chops. It's good with good potato pancakes. [01:10:44] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:10:44] Speaker A: So much stuff you just. Applesauce is underappreciated as like a. Yeah, it really is. [01:10:49] Speaker B: I think it's because we ate it too much as kids. [01:10:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like, eat your applesauce. And it's like, no, it's good. [01:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good as hell. [01:10:55] Speaker A: Now I want it. I want some applesauce. [01:10:56] Speaker B: I want some applesauce. I want some pierogi. [01:10:58] Speaker A: Fuck. [01:10:59] Speaker B: I want some luck. [01:11:00] Speaker A: Because I do want a pierogi. [01:11:01] Speaker B: Damn it. I'm just hungry. [01:11:02] Speaker A: Now everyone go to table Donkey and stick in Chicago. Get the respawn cocktail. [01:11:07] Speaker B: Do it, do it, do it. Tell us how it is. I'm gonna try to get over there. It's just difficult to get over there for me. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's only a bus and a little bit of walking. [01:11:17] Speaker A: It's a bus and a little bit of a walking. [01:11:18] Speaker B: That's. That's how it is for everything. It's just having the time to go over there. [01:11:23] Speaker A: David, who has the time? [01:11:25] Speaker B: The clock man has the time, and. [01:11:27] Speaker A: He'S saying it's time to go. [01:11:29] Speaker B: He sure does. What are you doing? Get out of there. It's time to go. Yeah, I hear him, Johnny. He's calling me. You gotta get out of there. [01:11:39] Speaker A: What the hell? David's gone insane. I'm leaving. I'm turning off my mic. Play it. Hurry. Sam. Ra.