Episode 178 - The Curse of Shirlee Johnson 3 and Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger 12!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I'm so sick and tired of all you weirdos showing up, acting like you somehow know me. Like I'm supposed to, you know, understand a single goddamn word coming out of your mouth. Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I am your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:54] Speaker B: And I'm your co host, David Williams. And just so that way we're on equal footing. Johnny. God damn it. Okay, now we're both blasphemers. [00:01:02] Speaker A: Okay, let's see. Sacrilege. Heresy. You ever see Jekyll and Hyde, the musical? [00:01:08] Speaker B: I. I saw it when it was at the Pac once. Cuz I remember they had the little syringe. The syringe. [00:01:15] Speaker A: I had one of those. Yeah. [00:01:17] Speaker B: And then my dad, that was one of the CDs that was like. My dad had like four or five CDs in his car and that was one of them. I don't remember really anything about it though. [00:01:28] Speaker A: There's one song where he yells at the board of governors, the hospital, to fund his research. We can extract evil from people and they won't. But he like gives this big speech and they come in and they go, blasphemy, lunacy, sacrilege, heresy. And it's great. [00:01:42] Speaker B: Nice. [00:01:43] Speaker A: It's a good musical. [00:01:44] Speaker B: I do remember that the way that they distinguish between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll had a. Had a ponytail and hide. [00:01:51] Speaker A: Had his hair. [00:01:53] Speaker B: And I think the, the night the, that we saw, like the dude was having tr. His hair into a ponytail for the transformation at one point. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Yeah, he just pulls it back and lets it hang down. Pulls it back, lets it hang down. [00:02:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So there was, there was a tense moment of oh, is he gonna, is he, is he gonna get the ponytail? [00:02:10] Speaker A: That's a good transformation. It's a good musical. [00:02:14] Speaker B: I remember, I remember enjoying it. I just haven't listened to it in [00:02:16] Speaker A: a very long time. Unfortunately, the videotape version, like the. Is the one they, they filmed for like PBS or whatever, is starring David Hasselhoff, who's not the best. He did it on Broadway for many years. It sold out. People love, Germans, love David Hasselhoff. You know, six year old women, white women love David Hasselhoff. [00:02:38] Speaker B: Interesting. Yeah, because I know, I know that the, the Germans had a big thing for David. David Hasselhoff because he. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Not only is the version of Jekyll, like the definitive film version, the only film version of the stage version you can get, besides like bootlegs is David Hasselhoff and instead of doing the part, the transformation, you're talking about where he fights himself at the end. He's slinging his hair back and forth. They do hide on video screen above him, and he just does Jekyll to a video recorded of him is Hyde. He's the dumbest. I hate it. It's why the Royal Albert Phantom kind of sucks. They use the video screen a lot. They use the video screen a lot. [00:03:14] Speaker B: That's. That's Wanda's favorite version. So I'll let you. I'll let you two duke that one out over what? [00:03:21] Speaker A: Any live version is better than that. [00:03:24] Speaker B: What, a Phantom? Yeah, That's a conversation you two are gonna have to have. [00:03:29] Speaker A: I'll text her right now. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah, do it. Do it and see what she says. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Maybe she'll get on the show. [00:03:36] Speaker B: I'm sure she would come on the show to say something about Phantom of the Opera. We should probably do a Phantom of the Opera episode at some point. [00:03:42] Speaker A: All versions, David. [00:03:45] Speaker B: Okay, okay, Johnny, I will do this for you. Because every time I've seen the Phantom of the Opera has been because somebody else wanted to see it, and I've just been drugged to it. It's very much like that joke from 30 Rock where sounds like church. No way. It was from Parks and Rec where Anne is like, I don't even. I don't even like the Harry Potter movies, but she's made me watch all of them. And Leslie Knope is like, what are you talking about? You've seen all the movies. That's how I am with Phantom is. I don't like it, but I've seen. [00:04:15] Speaker A: Get out of here. So. [00:04:17] Speaker B: But no, I'm. I'm going to give. I'm going to give you. Throw you a bone. If you would like to have another [00:04:21] Speaker A: T shirt that says, I don't like fan of the opera, but mas. [00:04:25] Speaker B: But Masquerade is a banger, so don't at me. [00:04:28] Speaker A: And the Phantom song. You said the Phantom song is also a banger, like the title song. [00:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah, the title. The one that we almost used for the podcast but weren't sure about the legality. [00:04:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we were like, can we use. Didn't we both say at the same time? [00:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you would like to choose a day that we have a recurring bit where every year we watch a different version of the Phantom of the Opera and then talk about it. [00:04:50] Speaker A: I know, I know. When it's really close, though. So we have to get it. We have to get an action if we want to do it this year. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:57] Speaker A: The Phantom Spock is box five, and lot is 666. So six, five or five. [00:05:05] Speaker B: Six or five, six. [00:05:07] Speaker A: We already do five, four. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Okay. Johnny. Yes. Okay. I will let you compile the different [00:05:14] Speaker A: versions we're starting of this six, five, [00:05:17] Speaker B: if you want to. Why don't we wait till next year if you want to. [00:05:21] Speaker A: That's too long, though. Okay, let's do it. Box five day. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Box five day. Well, okay. Should we get a guest? We should get a guest. We could talk about that off mic, baby. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Maybe we'll do this, maybe we won't. [00:05:36] Speaker B: Maybe we won't. [00:05:36] Speaker A: But what are we gonna do, David? [00:05:39] Speaker B: Right now I'm gonna. I'm gonna sit here and stare at you because I've forgotten what we're doing here, Johnny. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Oh, we are doing respawn. Oh, yeah. [00:05:47] Speaker B: That's what we're doing. [00:05:48] Speaker A: Regarding Spawn. For each week, we're bringing you two nerds who talk about musicals and other things before we talk about Spawn and two issues from Spawn's universe. Except what? We don't. This is a do, not a don't. [00:06:04] Speaker B: No don't do. We do. [00:06:09] Speaker A: It's a doo doo. [00:06:11] Speaker B: I think. I think it's pronounced dodo. [00:06:15] Speaker A: Okay. What happened to the dodo? [00:06:21] Speaker B: Oh, it got. It got. [00:06:22] Speaker A: They weren't really stupid, were they? It was like. That's like a miss. They just didn't know what humans were. [00:06:27] Speaker B: Yeah, they didn't know what humans were, so they didn't know that they were supposed to be scared of them. [00:06:29] Speaker A: And they thought they were these guys. [00:06:31] Speaker B: Yeah. They just got hunted to extinction because they had no stupid. Well, somebody's stupid, and it's me. [00:06:40] Speaker A: It is me. Because you know why? Because each week we're doing it. We're bringing two issues to sponsor Universe. [00:06:45] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:06:46] Speaker A: And this week, we have two very special issues. Because they're special because they're series created within the last two. Less than two years. Less than a year almost for both. [00:06:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:56] Speaker A: One year for one of them. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Tech. I guess, technically both for a year. Because this is the one year issue of the one. [00:07:04] Speaker A: Yeah. We have the Curse of Shirley Johnson, number three. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:07:13] Speaker A: And Deadly Tales of Gunslinger, number 12. [00:07:17] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Well, yeah, because they were both announced at the same time. It's just one of them started way earlier. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Well, yeah, it was no Home Here, if we recall. [00:07:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's a good. It's a good name. No Home here it is. I'm gonna stick the curse. [00:07:31] Speaker A: It's not called no Home here. It seems like it's something that should be called that. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:37] Speaker A: I'm like on shutter and I'm like, what should I watch? It's like, oh, no home here. That sounds scary. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Yeah. It's automatically unsettling. No home here. [00:07:45] Speaker A: But I think maybe we'll get some insight into why they changed the title. Because in the end of this issue, they have the first spawning rounds and he talks about how was supposed to be limited and then became an ongoing. I think that's probably why they changed the title. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Probably so that way they could have the name of the character in the title. Yeah, probably. It's probably a good choice. [00:08:08] Speaker A: It is. [00:08:10] Speaker B: I mean. I mean, it works for Spider Man. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Put him in the name in the title, actually. [00:08:16] Speaker B: I guess. I guess technically the better analog would be Superman. Since Superman originally showed up in Action Comics and then they named it Superman, I guess they technically made a different series than Superman. Whatever. Pennants don't read comic books, Johnny. Who Penance? Who doesn't? People. People who like to argue about the facts. They don't listen. They don't read comic books. Never. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:08:40] Speaker B: The most chill, laid back people in the world read comic books like us. [00:08:47] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, David, I asked AI today about us. [00:08:51] Speaker B: Okay. Is that why you said that article? [00:08:54] Speaker A: No, that was after that. Okay. It's actually really nice. I said, what can you tell me about Respawn the Spawn podcast? I can't go into this. We should get this out. I should just send you some screen caps of this. [00:09:07] Speaker B: That long, huh? [00:09:09] Speaker A: Anyway, no, no, no. Okay. It goes into it. But it's a few things to stand out about it. And I. I appreciate this, AI. They're extremely earnest mega fans. The tone is less industry analysis and more two friends geeking out in a comic shop for 90 minutes. I agree. Hard to goofy Spawn fandom language, calling listeners spawn verse, referring to the podcast as the Malibu ending episodes made the scores. You with you. Etc. That's scary that it figured that out. [00:09:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Damn. [00:09:40] Speaker A: They're unusually positive for comics discourse. [00:09:42] Speaker B: Hey, I'll take it. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Even though they roast bad issues, it tends to come from affection rather than cyclical hate listening. That's true. That's the show. Johnny is generally embedded in the Spawn fan community. They shout out cosplayers, fan arts collectors and spawning grounds contributors constantly. [00:09:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:09:58] Speaker A: They've also built a small but loyal cult audience. [00:10:02] Speaker B: Oh. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Apple Podcast reviews. Apple Podcast reviews repeatedly describe it as the world's best Spawn podcast, which started as a joke slogan by the host and became Their kind of. Their brand identity. [00:10:13] Speaker B: Oh, dang. Oh, dang. [00:10:14] Speaker A: The podcast is pretty prolific, too. They're well over 150 episodes and still uploading weekly as of 2026. If you're into Spawn specifically, it's probably one of the deepest ongoing fan archives of the franchise online right now, especially for the newer Spawn universe era. The most common podcasts barely touch. Bam. [00:10:32] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:10:34] Speaker A: That's good. [00:10:34] Speaker B: That's actually pretty good. Hell, yeah. [00:10:37] Speaker A: I was shocked. I was like, that's what kind of we're going for. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Well, damn. [00:10:44] Speaker A: Well, nice. Now let AI take over the episode. Yeah, no, just more of that Johnson number three. God damn it. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Yes. [00:10:55] Speaker A: AI AR would be so much better at this. And the gunslinger, number 12. [00:11:02] Speaker B: Wait, did we. Did we really not mention the names? [00:11:04] Speaker A: No, I don't think so. Do you remember me mention the names? [00:11:09] Speaker B: No, no, no. Well, no, no, we did because. Because. Because we mentioned no home here being. [00:11:15] Speaker A: I never said the curse. I just. I. I didn't say we're doing issue. I never said. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we just said they put the name of the character. Oh, we're bad at these jobs. It's a good. It's a good. [00:11:27] Speaker A: This is what they come here for. [00:11:29] Speaker B: It's a good thing we're not getting paid for this. [00:11:30] Speaker A: We're earnest. We're not negative like other comic podcasts. We're not industry deep analysts. It's more two friends hanging out in a comic shop for 90 minutes, and that's what we are. [00:11:40] Speaker B: It's just vibes. [00:11:42] Speaker A: It's vibes. It's a good hang. [00:11:44] Speaker B: It's good. Yeah, I like being a good hang. [00:11:46] Speaker A: These issues are both good hangs. [00:11:49] Speaker B: You know what? You know what else is a good hang, Johnny? [00:11:51] Speaker A: What? [00:11:54] Speaker B: Well, actually, I don't. I don't know. I was trying to. [00:11:57] Speaker A: I was trying completely cut me off to say something. [00:12:00] Speaker B: I was trying to segue into something that you said to segue into at some point. [00:12:04] Speaker A: No, not yet. Not yet. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Okay, put on pause. Continue. Continue. Pretend I didn't say anything. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Cut this out. You're editing this. [00:12:15] Speaker B: What if I leave it in? [00:12:16] Speaker A: It's like I set you up to talk about. Anyway. We're doing Curses, Shirley Johnson, number three, and deadly tales, gunslinger number 12, as we've. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:12:26] Speaker A: And we always start and. David, it's a glorious day. [00:12:30] Speaker B: Oh, back. [00:12:32] Speaker A: I'm holding up both physical issues. I'm not reading digital because I didn't. They weren't my little gaps when I changed states in October. [00:12:41] Speaker B: Very nice. Well, if we're starting with the covers. Johnny, which cover do you have? I assume we're starting with Shirley Johnson. [00:12:48] Speaker A: You assume. That's when you texted me. You told me. You tell me no one's responsible for the reading order and what we read. [00:12:57] Speaker B: I don't technically. I don't technically refer to them in order. Those are just the two that we're reading. [00:13:03] Speaker A: But hey, we are reading the Curse of Shirley Johnson, and we have we as in me and all the AI entities in my brain. We have the A cover. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Do indeed. [00:13:17] Speaker A: By Jonathan Galapian. What do you have? [00:13:21] Speaker B: I have the C cover. The. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Frank. We got to talk about mine first. I just wanted to add. Oh, okay. Oh, nice. So I have, like. It's like a. Some kind of creature. [00:13:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the. The big. It's the. The angel that hangs out with Bootsy. Like, Bootsy goes to him in the previous issue or the first issue. [00:13:40] Speaker A: All right, we'll get into it. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:43] Speaker A: I like the series and I like it. It's a little. If someone who's, like, reads them and does a podcast about him. I feel like we need a little bit more at this point to, like, know what the. Going on. [00:13:57] Speaker B: That would be nice. [00:13:58] Speaker A: I feel a little bit. [00:14:00] Speaker B: I do feel like I've missed something already, but I think that. I think that might be intentional. So cool. [00:14:07] Speaker A: But anyway, this guy, Bootsy's big angel guy, [00:14:12] Speaker B: he's just on fire. [00:14:14] Speaker A: He's lightning. He's got fire. [00:14:16] Speaker B: He's got, like, fists of fury. [00:14:17] Speaker A: He's coming down. [00:14:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:19] Speaker A: To fuck shit up. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he is. It's good one. Does it. Does it actually have that blue title treatment there? [00:14:26] Speaker A: That's green. [00:14:27] Speaker B: It's green. Dang. It's blue online. Nice. Well, I. Johnny, have the C cover, the Frank Miller cover, just because I figured might as well get the crazy guy covered. And it's Shirley Johnson with a giant pair of scissors and a whole bunch of disembodied heads that looks like Sam. [00:14:47] Speaker A: Is that Sam? Al Simmons and Tom Wozn. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Either that or that's. That. It also kind of looks a little bit like Jack Kirby, but I don't know why. [00:14:59] Speaker A: Or it could be Kincaid. Billy Kincaid. [00:15:03] Speaker B: I guess it could be. But the. [00:15:07] Speaker A: I don't know who. The. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Who are the other. I don't. I don't know. There's just three heads on it. It's the Pet Boys. Who. What are you doing? [00:15:13] Speaker A: It's the Pet Shop Boys. [00:15:16] Speaker B: It's a sin. Yeah, it's. [00:15:18] Speaker A: And girls. [00:15:22] Speaker B: It's just very Frank Millery. So, I mean, you know, is it good? Is it bad? I don't know. It's Frank Miller. Is he a good dude? Maybe not. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Is he not. [00:15:33] Speaker B: I don't know what. I think he's. I think he is a small C conservative. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Okay? [00:15:42] Speaker B: So I don't think. I don't. I don't think I agree with him. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Okay. A lot of times. [00:15:47] Speaker B: Yeah. But I think. I think. I think the discourse, like, the common discourse makes him out to be a worse person than he actually is. I think he's just a grumpy old man being grumpy. It's really probably all it is. [00:15:59] Speaker A: David, you shouldn't dislike people. Okay, this is what we've gotten wrong post Covid and Internet. You shouldn't dislike people or disregard them as people or not talk to them or support them because they're conservative. [00:16:10] Speaker B: I think part of the discourse is that he's a very terrible far right type. [00:16:14] Speaker A: I don't think he's probably on Twitter and X or old Twitter or whenever that came out. [00:16:20] Speaker B: I don't think. [00:16:21] Speaker A: I don't. Pretty middle of the road. [00:16:24] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't. I don't think he's actually on Twitter. I don't know. But. I don't know. I didn't. I haven't looked into it. [00:16:30] Speaker A: I just think he's a real people. Zack Snyder was. Was a. And Randy and Guy. And that's not even fucking true. Yeah. [00:16:37] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe somebody. [00:16:39] Speaker A: Maybe we'll get to that. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Maybe we'll get some engagement. Okay, fine. If. If. If you know the story about Frank Miller. I mean, he's no Dave Mustaine, and Dave must stay. [00:16:49] Speaker A: Like, I heard he's maybe conservative. That means he's. He's bad. I'm like, why does that mean he's bad? [00:16:53] Speaker B: Well, I wasn't necessarily. Maybe I was. [00:16:58] Speaker A: You were. It's okay. Go vote for Joe Biden again. [00:17:06] Speaker B: Will he still be alive? [00:17:07] Speaker A: No, he's not. He hasn't been alive for 20 years. I'm kidding. Maybe. Who knows? [00:17:13] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Oh, man. The B cover we haven't talked about. [00:17:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:19] Speaker A: And it is hard to find online. There it is. [00:17:22] Speaker B: It's Daniel Enrique. [00:17:24] Speaker A: And it's like a. It's blue. I like the blue. The blue and orange. You know, it's like one of the most fabled color combinations. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Mm. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Like, a lot of video games use blue and orange together. And, like, movie posters and Oklahoma City thunder. [00:17:39] Speaker B: True. [00:17:39] Speaker A: Who lost last? [00:17:40] Speaker B: The Crips. [00:17:41] Speaker A: These blue and orange. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:44] Speaker A: I Didn't know that. Yeah, I thought it was most. [00:17:46] Speaker B: It's mostly blue. No, it's the blues. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Blue. It's blue. Yeah. [00:17:53] Speaker B: Come on, Johnny. I know you wish. [00:17:56] Speaker A: I'm not as hip as you, David. [00:17:58] Speaker B: I know you went to a public middle school or at least middle school. Oh, I was in a magnet middle school too, and that's where I learned. But I guess university. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Yeah, not in a bad way. It was great. But it was. When I. When I went to middle school at Carver and Booker T. Was the same way. It was like 50 black. Because they're traditionally black schools. They like reverse integrated and made like magnet schools, which is a good idea. And then the 50. Whatever. And it was all like, test based. And then like, they passed a law that was illegal because it's based on race, which is probably true. So they did it by neighborhoods and zones. And it basically worked out the same way. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Because I wonder how those neighborhoods were formed, Johnny. [00:18:43] Speaker A: How could they have been? [00:18:45] Speaker B: I don't know. All I remember is that in first grade we did a land rush recreation where we just ran in a field and put us a flag in a part of the field. And then we had to, like, explain [00:18:59] Speaker A: why we chose this. For me, [00:19:03] Speaker B: that just feels. It just feels icky to make kids do a recreation of the land run. [00:19:08] Speaker A: This is good. [00:19:09] Speaker B: This is good. Yeah. [00:19:11] Speaker A: Go steal that land. [00:19:13] Speaker B: And then the state's most popular college football team is named after the people who cheated. [00:19:20] Speaker A: All cowboys are good Fucking Sooners. It is stupid. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Oklahoma is a weird place. Yeah, it's so fucking bizarre. Like, having moved away from it, I've realized even more just how perplexing it is. [00:19:39] Speaker A: David, I'm back. And it's even weirder. [00:19:43] Speaker B: I believe it. I believe it. I don't know what to say. I don't just say, oh, there's a cover D. Yeah, it's apparently the Frank Miller cover. Just with Todd McFarlane doing the inks instead of Sinclair doing the Inks. Alex Sinclair, baby. [00:19:59] Speaker A: What does he want? [00:19:59] Speaker B: Academy Award, baby Sinclair. From the. From the dinosaurs to things on this [00:20:04] Speaker A: one, I'm the baby. Gotta love me, [00:20:07] Speaker B: not the mama. Been rewatching. I've been rewatching that show Johnny, and it's. Yeah, it's Johnny. All this talk about puppets and physical. Physicality and visual effects. The puppets in that show are incredible. [00:20:24] Speaker A: You know what else the puppets are good in, David? [00:20:27] Speaker B: The Muppets. [00:20:29] Speaker A: No, Short circuit. [00:20:31] Speaker B: I just haven't had 90 minutes to sit down and watch It. [00:20:36] Speaker A: No, it's an hour and 40. [00:20:38] Speaker B: Oh, jeez. Oh, geez. Oh, Johnny, it's gonna take me three weeks to watch this thing. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Is free streaming somewhere? [00:20:46] Speaker B: No, Johnny, I haven't had time to watch it yet because four dogs were deposited at my house this weekend. Do you know what that brings the. The census back up to 19. The one true number 19. [00:21:07] Speaker A: I figured. Yeah, [00:21:09] Speaker B: so. So that's what I did this weekend was new dogs. They needed. They needed. Actually, we had had 18, and somebody called me and was like, I need you to take this dog. And I was like, no, we're at capacity. And then I went. And I was like, hey, Wanda, I've got something to admit to you. And as soon as I admitted to not to saying no to this dog, she's like, you call them the back back right the now, and you tell them to bring this dog over. So I tried. I tried to only have 18, but. Oh, God, the universe says I need 19. Yeah. [00:21:44] Speaker A: Why? And you just have 19 dogs, right? [00:21:48] Speaker B: No, no. So these ones are all. One of them. One of them was attacked by another dog, so he needs a medical place. Yeah, one of them. One of them is awaiting a double enucleation because he's got glaucoma and it hurts him. That's the removing of his eyes. And the other two were found in an alley and just needs to learn how to be dogs. [00:22:08] Speaker A: So you're doing God's work. [00:22:11] Speaker B: I'm doing some kind of work. Doing some kind of Shirley Johnson work here. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Who's doing the work on this? Well, we have that nice little left side, little screen grab or page grab from spawn number five with the best. [00:22:30] Speaker B: The. The best Billy Kincaid has ever looked. [00:22:33] Speaker A: I'll stab. They made a toy out of that with him stabbed with all the popsicles. So if you don't know, in spot number five, Bill and Cade, who killed Shirley Johnson, they stab him. All these popsicles. Spawn hangs them up. Everyone knows this. [00:22:44] Speaker B: And he leaves them hanging in Sam and Twitch's office for them to find as a gift. And then it leads to them being investigated for. For having the torture and murder of a senator's son. Yeah. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Who came up with this? Here? Curse of Shirley Johnson. We have script plot by Daniel Henriques. [00:23:06] Speaker B: Mm. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Art by Jonathan Galapian. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:23:10] Speaker A: Color by FCO Placencia Lettering by AM World Design. [00:23:15] Speaker B: They did it. [00:23:15] Speaker A: We already covered the covers. [00:23:17] Speaker B: All four of them. [00:23:19] Speaker A: Creative director is Todd McFarlane. [00:23:21] Speaker B: Yes, he is. [00:23:22] Speaker A: Editor in chief is Thomas Healy. [00:23:24] Speaker B: Most definitely. [00:23:25] Speaker A: Previously in the Curse of Shirley Johnson. Shirley's newfound freedom almost comes to an end when the stranger loses control. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he almost killed her again. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Again. [00:23:39] Speaker B: She's no stranger to being dead, though. [00:23:41] Speaker A: She's not. We open on a castle. [00:23:46] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like a castle that makes no sense. Like the castle at the end of Labyrinth. Just a whole bunch of stairways to nowhere. [00:23:56] Speaker A: It's very MCS Stairways of Dave and Bowie. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Well, depending on which way you go, it's a stairway to David Bowie or a stairway to Baby Toby, because she's trying to get Baby Toby big. [00:24:08] Speaker A: Who do you think is more problematic, David Bowie or Frank Miller? [00:24:14] Speaker B: I don't know if Frank Miller ever had sex with an underage individual. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Exactly. Guess what? David bowie died in March 2016. We didn't start canceling people till it was, like, about October 2015, somewhere around there. 2016, something like that. He missed it. He would have died, like, six months later. He'd be remembered as a villain. [00:24:38] Speaker B: He would be. I mean, a lot of way I [00:24:41] Speaker A: can keep listening to Oinko, Boingo, David, because people are like, what about Danny Alfred? Like, what about David Bowie? [00:24:50] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. I don't know. It's just. [00:24:53] Speaker A: Pack it up and go home. [00:24:55] Speaker B: Yeah. We really should. No, no. They're all. They're all. They're all broken people, Johnny Good. [00:25:01] Speaker A: We have a broken castle. [00:25:03] Speaker B: Yes, we do. And a guy who. Well, I wouldn't say he's broken or has broken thoughts. He's very. He's very lucid. He very knows the. Knows the game. He's obviously. He's praying. [00:25:18] Speaker A: He's Belly Fawn, the dark necromancer, as this. [00:25:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:24] Speaker A: AI Sentinel calls him. [00:25:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Because. Because he goes. He goes through these big. These big beautiful gates and runs into, you know, the gatekeeper. [00:25:36] Speaker A: He's very computer like. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Soul path denied. Signal realigned. Hell Rut confirmed. [00:25:43] Speaker A: Initiating soul scan. It's just. That's just what the government's gonna do to us in a few years. Scan souls. [00:25:49] Speaker B: I do. Like the. The. Like the ivy has been growing on this. On this Sentinel. [00:25:55] Speaker A: He's also possibly a Mandalorian, maybe. [00:25:58] Speaker B: Do Mandalorians go to hell? [00:26:00] Speaker A: He's got. He's got the visor for it. The T. The T visor. [00:26:05] Speaker B: T visor. It's the T zone, Johnny. [00:26:08] Speaker A: The T zone. [00:26:10] Speaker B: It was an old. It was an old campaign for Camel cigarettes. It's. They're more. There's. They're softer on the T zone, which is your mouth and your throat. In the advertisements. They actually have doctors who say camels are better for your T zone. Yeah, yeah. Actual advertisements. [00:26:36] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:26:41] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:26:42] Speaker A: I thought you were talking about those tea. Those total tea commercials late at night on like Fox News or ESPN that are like old basketball players being like, I'd take testosterone pills now. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it helps. [00:26:54] Speaker A: And he always wins. There's like a little white guy there and they're like, it helps in the bedroom, little buddy. He's like, really? [00:27:00] Speaker B: I don't know, I just see the hymns commercials now and it's same thing. [00:27:04] Speaker A: Hims. You don't have the guts to go to your doctor, be like, yo, give me some dick pills, Doc. I'm addict. They instantly give them to you. [00:27:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's true. [00:27:14] Speaker A: But like, can you imagine being so embarrassed to talk to your doctor? And I'll be like, yo, my dick's whack, doc. It's probably because other medications you're taking. [00:27:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. Apparently one. One of the companies that makes the. The, like the gas station boner pills they found actually. Yeah. Actually has Minoxidil in it. Wait, is that what it is? Whatever. Whatever is. What's the. The original Viagraphil? Sidonophil. Yeah. So apparently. [00:27:55] Speaker A: How I know that? [00:27:58] Speaker B: Johnny, I'm going to. I'm going to assume you're a man in the year 2026 who is 40 years old. But yeah, like. But it's. It's like an unregulated amount, which is why they're so dangerous. [00:28:10] Speaker A: The horny goat weed. [00:28:12] Speaker B: Yeah, the rhino. The rhino power. [00:28:16] Speaker A: They sell pill next to those pills of Quick Shirt by the. By the register. They also sell a pill called Adderx and it's orange, like Adderall. It's like they're trying to. It's like some kind of like focus stimulant thing. I'm like, what's in that? [00:28:30] Speaker B: Dang, is that. But they also used to sell the salvia too. So what are you gonna do? [00:28:37] Speaker A: They sell those Adder X's or whatever are things called at all. X. And it's. They sell them at Quick Trip. [00:28:45] Speaker B: Dang. [00:28:46] Speaker A: That's a respected institution. They still smell the. They still sell the horny goat weed too. [00:28:52] Speaker B: Man. Gas station pills are a wild. Like, nobody. I don't think anybody would have sat down to be like capitalism and then come up with gas station pills. I just love you. [00:29:03] Speaker A: So drunk at the gas station, you're like, give me some of that horny goat weed pills. [00:29:10] Speaker B: I need one of those hot dogs that's been rolling for four hours. Yes. Some hornet goat pills and 40 ounces of beer. [00:29:19] Speaker A: Yeah, the vape. [00:29:20] Speaker B: That's a. That's a. That's a Thursday night, Johnny. [00:29:23] Speaker A: That's a Tuesday night, [00:29:26] Speaker B: Johnny. This is a Tuesday night. Are you a. [00:29:28] Speaker A: Yes. So I took a bunch of horny goat pills. [00:29:31] Speaker B: How long. How long do we have? Do we need to. Do we need to. To mark when four hours will be so we can send you to the [00:29:37] Speaker A: ER as long as I don't have a boner longer than four hours. And I don't have one yet. [00:29:44] Speaker B: Dear listener, we will let you know when the magic happens. [00:29:48] Speaker A: I don't think I get a boner with these two. [00:29:51] Speaker B: Well, but if you took the horny [00:29:52] Speaker A: goat weed, you have to be stimulated. You just get horny. You're just like, oh, my God, I'm horny. [00:29:59] Speaker B: Okay. [00:30:00] Speaker A: I mean, I don't know. I've never taken a horny. [00:30:03] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe that could be a bonus episode if people give us money, [00:30:09] Speaker A: pills, and talk to each other. What the. What is wrong with you? [00:30:16] Speaker B: Probably a very long list of things, Johnny. [00:30:18] Speaker A: So we're gonna take a bunch of horny goat weed pills and Adderxes from Quick Trip and then try to record an episode. [00:30:25] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know. I don't know if we should mix gas station pills. That sounds like a recipe for disaster. [00:30:30] Speaker A: We already mixed it with the hot dog. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Oh, we should do one at a time. Yeah, but the hot dog is delicious. [00:30:38] Speaker A: It is. [00:30:39] Speaker B: I don't care what anybody says. Gas station hot dogs fucking rule. [00:30:44] Speaker A: A hot dog just as good. It's a hot. Hot dog is hot all the way through. Not burnt and too much, you know, maybe a little char, but like, you don't have to have char, but it's just well done. It's good. [00:30:55] Speaker B: In Oklahoma, there was a. Or in Muskogee, there was a place. There was a gas station that like. There was a really shitty gas station, but they like deep fried food and it. So everybody would just go to the gas station for food. It was awesome. [00:31:08] Speaker A: There's a couple places around. It's like an Oklahoma thing. Like have, like good food at your gas station. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Yeah, well, yeah, especially. Especially across, like some of the older highways before the interstates were completed because they were big spots for truckers to stop. [00:31:24] Speaker A: They need a hot lunch. [00:31:26] Speaker B: They needed a hot lunch. That's tough work. I don't. Spending all day driving would just be so mentally exhausting for me, especially driving [00:31:37] Speaker A: a truck Yeah, I couldn't imagine machine like this sounds terrifying. I hate that. [00:31:42] Speaker B: I couldn't, I couldn't imagine. Like I used to wonder why when I would drive back to Oklahoma for visits, why I would always be so tired when I didn't do anything but drive. But like the concentration of driving is just mind bogglingly stressful. They don't pay those guys enough. They don't, they don't pay those people enough. Not at all. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Is that a devil wears Prada 2 joke, David? [00:32:05] Speaker B: I haven't seen the Devil Wears Prada 2 yet. So unintentionally. [00:32:10] Speaker A: BJ Novak plays this like executive son who inherits the magazine. His running joke is he always says, guys introduce you. And he goes, people. And then walks away. That's what you just did. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, I'm pretty sure that they have him do that to point out that he's probably a dickhole. [00:32:30] Speaker A: So you're a dickhole. [00:32:31] Speaker B: Because, because he doesn't. [00:32:33] Speaker A: No, he's trying. He's trying. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Oh, so, so, so it's. So he's actually trying. He's not just performatively saying people afterwards and not trying to change the way he speaks? [00:32:45] Speaker A: I don't know. You have to ask BJ Novak because [00:32:47] Speaker B: I could, I could see it being a character thing where like being like, [00:32:51] Speaker A: oh no, he's kind of a dick, but he's not, he's like a mid level dick. [00:32:54] Speaker B: Okay. He's. No. Are you saying he's more of the boyfriend from. [00:33:01] Speaker A: Don't say Drag me to Hell. [00:33:03] Speaker B: I was gonna say Drag me to hell. [00:33:04] Speaker A: He's worse than him. [00:33:05] Speaker B: He's worse than him. [00:33:06] Speaker A: The boy's name Drags Me to Hell is. Okay, well, no, he's, he's, he's a [00:33:11] Speaker B: little bit of a dick, but he's not the worst person in the movie, right? [00:33:15] Speaker A: That's Christine Brown. [00:33:17] Speaker B: She's. She's the biggest dick ever. Holy shit. She fucking. [00:33:21] Speaker A: It wasn't me, it was my boss. [00:33:24] Speaker B: She deserved this. [00:33:25] Speaker A: That's the funniest thing is there's like a demon screaming at her. She goes, it wasn't me, it was my boss. I love that part. [00:33:32] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean, there's the heightenedness of. They try to make him seem like he's more of a dick than he is. [00:33:38] Speaker A: He's not a dick. He's just, He's Justin Long. [00:33:44] Speaker B: I think they specifically chose Justin Long because everybody's like, oh, that guy's, that guy's just a dick. He's just a dick. But he's not. He's not a dick. I know, that's what I'm saying. He's not a dick in the movie. It's just that like the perception is, oh, this guy's gonna be an asshole. [00:33:59] Speaker A: He could be a little more supportive and like a little more realistic. What's been happened to his girlfriend? [00:34:05] Speaker B: Is he. Is he a bad boyfriend? Yeah, is he a bad guy? [00:34:08] Speaker A: Is he a bad boyfriend? Let's say he's a de. [00:34:11] Speaker B: I don't think his heart. I don't think his heart's in it. Is. I think the problem. Yeah, yeah, he's. Yeah, he's. He's uncommitted. There we go. [00:34:20] Speaker A: There you go. Maybe that's. [00:34:21] Speaker B: He's trying to figure out who he is. [00:34:23] Speaker A: It's a Sam Raimi movie. Everyone's a little bit of a bastard. [00:34:27] Speaker B: And this, this sentinel can't figure out who this guy is until he figures out who he is. And then he's like, oh shit, I gotta kill this guy. [00:34:36] Speaker A: Or back to the comic. [00:34:37] Speaker B: And then, and then there's a battle that doesn't take very long because the sentinel like engages the fail safe and it says no rot shall pass. And the necromancer just goes this again, pathetic. And then like force shoves him into a wall. Right. Why is that relic back online? [00:34:59] Speaker A: Beliaphon. [00:35:01] Speaker B: And then Belia. [00:35:01] Speaker A: Sorry, he's one of Queen Nix's agents. His rampant. So with Gwen, we had our big thing in spawn 367. Her little agent lit up the guard. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, yeah, like Belia Fawn just like, like he goes to the, like the. The corporation guys behind the. That the. The Sentinel is guarding. And there's like this weird like Spider Man. Like. [00:35:33] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like a spiderless loveless, but fat. [00:35:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:38] Speaker A: Or he's like the little chair in episode one. Sidious's hologram crawler. [00:35:46] Speaker B: Or Darth Maul in Solo. [00:35:50] Speaker A: He is. He has big mechanical legs. In Solo. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Not spider legs. That's right. [00:35:55] Speaker A: That's in the Clone Wars. [00:35:57] Speaker B: Who. [00:35:58] Speaker A: Who has spider legs? [00:36:02] Speaker B: I'm trying to think because there's like a. There's like an animated child's movie that the villain ends up being like a weird half, half spider crab guy. [00:36:13] Speaker A: Lost in space. [00:36:14] Speaker B: I don't know. Doesn't matter. [00:36:16] Speaker A: It's lost in space. [00:36:17] Speaker B: Okay, I believe you. [00:36:19] Speaker A: Gary oldman becomes Dr. Smith. Spider Smith. [00:36:23] Speaker B: Dr. Smith. Spider Smith. [00:36:25] Speaker A: You didn't see Lost in Space when it came out in 1999. [00:36:28] Speaker B: I saw it. I saw it in theaters. And I remember enjoying it when I saw it, but I was, what, 11 in 99? [00:36:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:35] Speaker B: So the Netflix series with Parker Posey in it was pretty good. At least the first season and a half. [00:36:42] Speaker A: I didn't know they made a Netflix series. That's the problem with modern content. [00:36:48] Speaker B: There's too much of it and it's all. It's all just repeats. [00:36:53] Speaker A: It's probably like a Speed Racer TV show I've never seen. [00:36:56] Speaker B: Probably. [00:36:57] Speaker A: They're probably making it right now. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Who knows? Yeah, so like, this. This conglomerate here talking about. So at the beginning, we have the. The necromancer, like, being like, we need to use the girl before the next ripple. If the girl dies before the next ripple, we're screwed. And then these. This, like, group of bad men is just like, we need the girl. And there's a. There's like a bizarro style Frankenstein guy who's just like, we smart. Big belly full. [00:37:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:31] Speaker B: And so they're trying to figure out how they can. How they can wield power after this next ripple that they're talking about without the girl. Because currently their plans involve using Shirley Johnson and this ripple, whatever it is, but they're having a little trouble getting a hold of old Shirley Johnson. And it specifically involves love. [00:37:58] Speaker A: That page turn to, like, that. That offset, like, page. Yeah, yeah, It's. [00:38:04] Speaker B: It's like just like looking into the. Looking out of the end of a hallway. There's this. There's this beast and it's. It's extracting because this is the extraction room. It's extracting from some sort of being that's connected to it. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Yes. Looks kind of like the predator. [00:38:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:38:31] Speaker A: This is a poisonous predator. [00:38:35] Speaker B: And Belafon, like, goes over and, like, puts his hand on the. On the bacta tank that this weird poisoned predator is in. They're looking for the real one, Johnny. This. This poisoned predator is obviously there against his will because it's like, screaming and [00:38:52] Speaker A: he's like Blanca in the Street Fighter movie. Never saw the Street Fighter movie. [00:38:57] Speaker B: Nope. [00:38:58] Speaker A: What the. Yeah, Jean Claude Van Damme. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Never seen it. [00:39:04] Speaker A: It was Raul Julia's last film. [00:39:06] Speaker B: I know that. I know that. [00:39:09] Speaker A: All right, we're moving on. [00:39:13] Speaker B: And then we turn from there to seeing the. The guy with the city on his back that they were trying to catch at the last issue. And then in the distance away, there's a little portal that opens and Shirley Johnson and the conjoined twins come out of it. And then the stranger comes out of it. He's carrying this, like, wizard Guy who [00:39:37] Speaker A: hate twins in the last issue. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Simon. [00:39:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:42] Speaker B: And Simon's like, don't worry. The boys will patch me up in no time. And surely it's just like, so what? Why. What the. Has happened? [00:39:53] Speaker A: Why did the stranger try to kill me? Our big old hero, he says, I [00:39:56] Speaker B: told you to run, but you didn't listen. And the. The twins. The. The conjoined twins are having a little bit of a. Like, one of them is just like, I don't like this. This is dumb. The other one's like, fix our friend. Please, Fred. Heal him. And so they start healing Simon. You know, Simon's talking about how, you know, he needs to protect Shirley Johnson, and part of that is sending the stranger away. And Shirley Johnson says, you saved me. You stay here. You're a good guy. And then, so he's like, but also, [00:40:29] Speaker A: I was trying to kill you. [00:40:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Came within a heartbeat of ending you, he says. And so then the stranger tells his strange tale of how he and his brother were lost, and they were found by this group, the people that he killed, his family that he found, and how that, you know, they were taken in and cared for and. And raised as, you know, children of this family in this. In this village. And then as they grew up, they started to fight. For some reason, these brothers started to fight. And it was in this fighting that he destroyed this entire village and destroyed everybody who loved and cared for him, potentially even his brother. Because the stranger says, and this is all I have left to my brother. And it's a. It's like a. Like a spawn skull emblem. Yeah, his body wasn't there when I buried the rest of them. So missing body. [00:41:37] Speaker A: Surely is like, you tried. Yeah. [00:41:40] Speaker B: And Simon's like, yeah, that doesn't change anything. He is evil. He is death. And surely. Surely Johnson's just like, no, no, no. He's my friend. He's my hero. He takes care of me. And then we get Johnny. We get a hellspawn, A hell spawn bubble. [00:41:53] Speaker A: Voice bubble. [00:41:54] Speaker B: Says, you're wrong. It didn't just happen. And this. [00:41:58] Speaker A: Turn the page. [00:42:00] Speaker B: Yeah, Vox. This, like, glowing spawn figure says that the battle that he mentioned. [00:42:07] Speaker A: I like how he said glowing figure. He reminds me of the glow in the dark figures they used to make. [00:42:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, they should make one of those. I'd buy. Says that the battle that the stranger is talking about happened millennia ago and that people still talk about it like it's like a foundational event in hell is this battle between the stranger and his brother that killed their. [00:42:30] Speaker A: It's the last time an ancient Nephilim awoke in hell, which. Some people believe that aliens are nephilim. [00:42:38] Speaker B: And some of those people are vice presidents of the United States. [00:42:41] Speaker A: Some of them are. Dude. A lot of people believe, like, nhi. Non human intelligence are an ephylem, which are like, the child of angels and humans. Right. [00:42:53] Speaker B: I don't know. I assume you're Catholic. Lapsed. We didn't get into the cool stuff. [00:43:00] Speaker A: You laughed at all the cool parts. You still have all the guilt and shame and. [00:43:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:05] Speaker A: Love structure. [00:43:07] Speaker B: The knowing when to stand, when to sit and when to kneel. That seems to baffle everyone. Yeah. [00:43:12] Speaker A: It's like. Yeah, you stand, Neil. [00:43:13] Speaker B: Yeah, but VOX is, like, surrounded by, like, these. These two, like. I'll call. I'll call Them church robots. [00:43:22] Speaker A: They ain't got awesome movie. [00:43:25] Speaker B: They're cool. They do. And like, a couple of zombies and just like. I mean, she kind of looks like a vampire lady. [00:43:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I like. I like the little robot guys. [00:43:38] Speaker B: They look real fun. [00:43:39] Speaker A: And he's like, you look like shit, Simon. [00:43:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, better get moving. Our escorts aren't the waiting type. And Shirley Johnson's like, nuh, nuh. Ain't no way. He ain't that ancient nephew thing. Nephew thing? [00:44:01] Speaker A: Nephewism. Nephilim are just nephews. [00:44:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And VOX is like, no, no, no, no, no. This guy, this stranger that you're with, Shirley, He a bad man. You're a bad man. The stranger's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. You spawn. [00:44:15] Speaker A: Never trusted a spawn. [00:44:17] Speaker B: Whatever kind. Whatever kind you are. [00:44:21] Speaker A: He's a glowing spawn. [00:44:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And then. And then Simon's like, we're all in this. We're all in this trouble because of the ripples from the explosion of Al Simmons necroplasm. So bringing it back into that. That. 350. [00:44:37] Speaker A: Yes. [00:44:38] Speaker B: Al Simmons hitting 0,000. [00:44:42] Speaker A: Opening quote. [00:44:44] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:44:45] Speaker A: All you weirdos showing up and act like you somehow know me. Parasocial relationships. [00:44:52] Speaker B: And then. And then one of the twins going, she used blasphemy. Little girls shouldn't say that. And Simon's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shut up. It's like, thanks for mending me, boys. Then he asks for the eye back. And then VOX is like, we're in danger. [00:45:12] Speaker A: And then he's yelling something at him. And then boom. A big thing appears. [00:45:17] Speaker B: Yeah. The big Eye angel shows up. [00:45:19] Speaker A: It's Bootsy and his Eye Angel. [00:45:21] Speaker B: And it says, show me your power. And then we get this spawn skull to end the issue. [00:45:27] Speaker A: Spawn Skull. [00:45:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. It's a real good little. [00:45:33] Speaker A: Nice. And then, Johnny, Spawning grounds. [00:45:36] Speaker B: We get the first spawning grounds of the series. [00:45:41] Speaker A: We get a letter from Wayne L. [00:45:44] Speaker B: Yeah. And he says that. [00:45:47] Speaker A: And that's it. I'm just gonna say who wrote it. [00:45:49] Speaker B: Yeah, he enjoyed the book. He liked the recent expansion of the universe, the Spawns universe line of comics. Was really looking forward to this book especially and was very happy with how it turned out. I'm going to assume that this is issue one that they're talking about. Left wanting more, which is exactly what he wants with a hot comic book. And that's hard to find lately. And you know, don't want to get too down on the comic book industry as a whole, but yeah, it is. It is really hard to find a book that grabs, you know, and doesn't make you go, eh, I know what's gonna happen. [00:46:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:25] Speaker B: And then so he got one of the, he got one of the David specials, one of the blank issue covers of the. The first issue and had his son do some art on it that he submitted. And it looks really good. So the front of it's got some chains and Shirley Johnson's face reflected in a big old meat cleaver and the back of it has a teddy T impaled on like a weird insect hand. It's very good. It's good little art. Send in some letters to the spawning grounds. Do it, do it. Then we get the Image Classics ad. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Yes. [00:47:04] Speaker B: New generation, new stories, new U ad for all the spin offs, the Call of Duty spawn action figure ads. The back of the COVID toyet. [00:47:14] Speaker A: Correct. [00:47:17] Speaker B: And then that is the curse of Shirley Johnson number three, Johnny. [00:47:21] Speaker A: It is, Yeah. I like it. [00:47:23] Speaker B: That's the book. It was good. It's fun. [00:47:26] Speaker A: You know, this is what I said earlier. Like I was a little down on it when I first read it, but actually going through it again, I liked it a lot more. [00:47:33] Speaker B: It's. I feel like it the way I feel about the first season of the Netflix Witcher series where, where like watching it through the first time, you're like, what the is going on? But then like as it develops and you figure out what's happening, you're like, oh, okay, okay. That's cool as hell. That's fun. That's some fun. It's, it's, I think, intentionally put together in a little weird way, but it's fun. It's fun as hell. [00:48:00] Speaker A: But the art takes you through. [00:48:02] Speaker B: Oh, it's so beautiful. It's a beautiful book. It really is beautiful. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Cole, remember the ending of Mr. Holland's opus where he calls his deaf son beautiful because he can't hear music? [00:48:22] Speaker B: I think so. That makes. That makes it. Because I remember. I remember that his son. His grown up son has a ponytail. Does that count? [00:48:32] Speaker A: You're canceled. [00:48:36] Speaker B: I do remember thinking that the fire truck made his son deaf and not the fire truck making Mr. Holland realize that his son was deaf. [00:48:44] Speaker A: You're double canceled. [00:48:47] Speaker B: I haven't seen that movie since I was, like, nine. Johnny. [00:48:50] Speaker A: At least you remember parts of it. [00:48:51] Speaker B: I remember that his son had a ponytail when he grew up. [00:48:54] Speaker A: Hey, you know, what else can you ask for? [00:49:00] Speaker B: What? A son with a ponytail. [00:49:01] Speaker A: Is that why you have a ponytail? [00:49:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Ask my mom. Be like, hey, hey, what did your son do that you're proud of? And she's like, well, I guess he's got a ponytail. [00:49:08] Speaker A: Well, he's deaf because he has a ponytail. Like the kid in Mr. Holland's opus. He never listens to a goddamn thing I say. [00:49:21] Speaker B: That's the curse of Jelly's Jolly Sir. Of Jelly, Roger, Jolly Shirley Number three. [00:49:30] Speaker A: I'm gonna take a P. I'll be right back. [00:49:35] Speaker B: Okay? I'll be right here. [00:49:58] Speaker A: Welcome back. [00:50:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And me and spawn mix three. [00:50:06] Speaker A: Next up, we have deadly tales. The gunslinger. Number 12. It's been a year. [00:50:11] Speaker B: It has been the year of gunslinger. You could say yes if you were so inclined. [00:50:18] Speaker A: Correct? [00:50:19] Speaker B: Yes. [00:50:20] Speaker A: Yes. Very good. It was great. [00:50:24] Speaker B: All right. Very fun. [00:50:26] Speaker A: That's what I gotta say. That's it. [00:50:28] Speaker B: Sad to see the year close. See you next time. No, don't forget to. [00:50:31] Speaker A: This is the year of the gunslinger. [00:50:33] Speaker B: I think every year is the year of the gunslinger. For those with the gunslinger in their hearts, Johnny and David. [00:50:39] Speaker A: I'm breaking tradition. [00:50:41] Speaker B: What's. Oh, did you. You got the B cover. You got the Miracle Colak cover? It's a nice, creepy cover. [00:50:50] Speaker A: Not on purpose. I got it because it was the one like the comic shop in Tulsa I went to had when I was picking up all my in betweeners. [00:50:59] Speaker B: I mean, what do you. What are you gonna do, Johnny? What are you gonna do? Let's. You gotta take what's available. What, are you gonna just not buy the book? Fuck that. No, you got it. You gotta buy the book. [00:51:14] Speaker A: You gotta. [00:51:16] Speaker B: Yeah. So this cover, Johnny, this cover that you've got, it's the gunslinger standing. There's a whole bunch of bones. That's what it does. [00:51:25] Speaker A: Bones. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Bones. It's a lot of bones. Like rib cages and stuff. [00:51:34] Speaker A: He's standing some rib cages. He's got some cool chains coming off his hat. [00:51:38] Speaker B: Mm. Nice and dark and spooky. True, Moody. Looks like the sky is on fire. Yeah, well, Johnny, I kept with tradition and I got the Bjorn Baron's cover, so. [00:51:51] Speaker A: You got the A cover? It worked out. [00:51:54] Speaker B: It's Bjorn's Bjorns. [00:51:55] Speaker A: Oh my God. It's a beautiful cover. [00:51:56] Speaker B: Hold it up again. It's. It's real good. It's. It's the gunslinger and he's just got like. He's like riddled with holes and he's smoking his cigarette and he's got a smoking gun like he just shot a whole bunch of people. Yeah, it's the. Just. The wonderful Bjorn barons of it all. [00:52:15] Speaker A: That's God damn America, David. [00:52:18] Speaker B: What? Cigarettes and guns? Yeah. [00:52:23] Speaker A: While shooting a gun at the same time. No, neither have I. I feel like I'm missing out. I shot a gun. [00:52:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:32] Speaker A: And I smoked cigarillos. I don't know if you never smoked a cigarette, like a little cigar. Blackamile. No. You smoke tobacco at all? [00:52:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I always did. Either cigarettes or actual cigar. The problem? [00:52:48] Speaker A: Cigarettes. [00:52:49] Speaker B: In college I did, yeah. [00:52:50] Speaker A: You did? [00:52:51] Speaker B: Yeah, occasionally. [00:52:53] Speaker A: Really? [00:52:54] Speaker B: Yeah. The last time I did is there was a party that I went to that I started. I started the party with a full pack of cigarettes and the next morning the pack of cigarettes was empty. I felt awful. [00:53:06] Speaker A: And you were addicted. [00:53:07] Speaker B: I don't. I don't remember if I smoked all of them or if I passed most of them out, but I was like, absolutely not ever again. Yeah, they were. They were sometimes food in college. What would you smoke at Dunhills? [00:53:23] Speaker A: Dunhills. [00:53:24] Speaker B: Dunhills. Yeah, that's what. That's what fucking Hunter S. Thompson smokes, Johnny. [00:53:30] Speaker A: Of course you would. [00:53:31] Speaker B: I was an annoying English major, so obviously I had to have special quirks that made me better than you. [00:53:39] Speaker A: You're an English major? [00:53:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm a double major. Biology and English. [00:53:43] Speaker A: Wow. A lot of fricking. So was I, bitch. English and theater. [00:53:49] Speaker B: Woo. [00:53:50] Speaker A: Actually, I got a theater BFA in English minor. [00:53:53] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Bfa Hell yeah. That's more work than I wanted to do. [00:54:00] Speaker A: He's a bad actor. [00:54:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. You're better than I am. Johnny. I cannot. I. I can honestly say I have always enjoyed watching you act. [00:54:12] Speaker A: I'm a great actor. [00:54:13] Speaker B: You're fucking good at it. [00:54:14] Speaker A: I know I'm good at it. Don't you just tell me. David, [00:54:19] Speaker B: you're the one over here being mean to my friend Johnny. Not allowed to do it. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, so we got the covers covered. [00:54:29] Speaker B: Mm. So we gotta pop them open and see what's on the inside. Johnny, what on the inside is here is we got script plot by John, Jimmy Palmiotti, John McPalmiotti, Paul McJimmy, we got art by Dudu Pansica, Julio Ferrara is doing the inks, Ulysses Areola doing the colors, Tom Wozikowski doing the lettering, which shouldn't surprise anybody, because if you remember our little story about meeting Tom [00:55:01] Speaker A: Warzikowski, if you do a cowboy book, I'll do it. [00:55:03] Speaker B: Yeah, well, but he said his wife likes the gun, like the cowboy books, and so that's. That's why he does the cowboy books, because his wife likes. We should get her on the podcast to see how she feels about the cowboy books. Still. You still liking these cowboy books? Who covered the covers? I'll. Johnny, this book is a banger. Covered the covers. Tom McFarland is the creative director, and the editor in chief is one Mr. Thomas Healy. He. He. Previously in Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger. Gunslinger and his companions finally find the source of the missing children, which is [00:55:44] Speaker A: never a good thing when you find the source of the missing children. [00:55:47] Speaker B: No, no. [00:55:48] Speaker A: It's to the Blair Witch or [00:55:53] Speaker B: this David Bowie, The Goblin King at the end. [00:56:00] Speaker A: The Goblin King, Jareth the First Order, which they didn't really explore very much, but they do take child slaves in the sequel trilogy. That's how they get their troopers. [00:56:14] Speaker B: Or I mean, there is also order 66. Those children. Those children are missing for a very terrible reason. [00:56:23] Speaker A: What children? All the clone children? [00:56:26] Speaker B: No, all the younglings. [00:56:28] Speaker A: Oh, yes. What happened to all the clone children? They explained that. Like the TV show. [00:56:34] Speaker B: Well, but the. [00:56:35] Speaker A: The whatever her name is, Kill them all. [00:56:38] Speaker B: The. The clones aren't children for very long, Right. They've got that. [00:56:42] Speaker A: Another batch behind them. Or they just didn't have another batch waiting. They had a bad batch waiting. [00:56:48] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure. Genosis gets like, oh, yeah, Geonosis. [00:56:52] Speaker A: And it gets destroyed. That's right. [00:56:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:54] Speaker A: Just blow the fuck out of it. [00:56:56] Speaker B: So, like, every. Every clone that wasn't already, you know, off the planet, just kind of. [00:57:02] Speaker A: We shall create a grand army of the Republic to combat the increasing threat of the Separatists. [00:57:09] Speaker B: The Geonosians are fucking. I mean, ethically. [00:57:14] Speaker A: I can't even do it. Noise. [00:57:17] Speaker B: Ethically questionable. But of course they are. [00:57:20] Speaker A: They're awful. [00:57:20] Speaker B: But, but, but a dope character design line. I like. I like how the Geonosians look. [00:57:25] Speaker A: You know, the. They Made them retroactively because they made the battle droids. Oh, battle droids got the snout. They kind of look like Geonosians. [00:57:34] Speaker B: Nice, interesting. [00:57:36] Speaker A: Get it. [00:57:37] Speaker B: Roger, Roger. [00:57:40] Speaker A: I'm gonna roger Roger this first page because Doo doo Pansika knocks out of the park. [00:57:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, it's not gonna lie. It's a totally unnecessary like bust of. Of gunslinger. But it is so badass that it doesn't matter. Gunslinger's here. All the actual action is happening below it. But we get a. We open on a monologue and it's [00:58:07] Speaker A: a story of our minor friend. [00:58:09] Speaker B: Yeah, the. The minor. [00:58:10] Speaker A: Not minor. Not David Bowie. Minor. Moses. The minor. [00:58:16] Speaker B: I've. I have a friend who used to try to pitch people to make a comic book called Miner. The minor Miner, who's just like a nine year old who is in the. Is in the coal mines and just always has the minor. The minor Miner. [00:58:31] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:58:34] Speaker B: very nice. [00:58:34] Speaker A: Minor. The minor minor, minor. [00:58:37] Speaker B: The minor minor. His name is Miner. [00:58:40] Speaker A: He's a minor. [00:58:41] Speaker B: He's a minor and he's a minor. A minor with an E and an O. Keep him away from David Bowie. For the love of God. [00:58:49] Speaker A: You can't make David Bowie jokes. Only I can. [00:58:54] Speaker B: Only you. Only Johnny. Well then. Then what's something I can joke about that you can't? [00:58:59] Speaker A: Boingo. Boingo. [00:59:03] Speaker B: I fucking like Ogo Boyo too. [00:59:06] Speaker A: Who do I like? [00:59:08] Speaker B: I could. I could make S. Craig Zaylor. Zaylor jokes. Johnny Zoller. Zaylor. Zahler. Zaylor Zahler. [00:59:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he's a racist. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:59:18] Speaker B: His ponytail is too tight. It's pulling us. Oh, my God, it's pulling his brain out. [00:59:22] Speaker A: Escrixler has made three films. One of them is a great western. Bone Tomahawk. [00:59:28] Speaker B: It's so. [00:59:28] Speaker A: Thomas Healy pitched the series as Bone [00:59:30] Speaker B: Tomahawk meets three Century Yuma. [00:59:33] Speaker A: And he has a movie that he's writing and directing coming out called the Booker and the Bruiser. Sorry, Vince Vaughn. And the hot guy from the Monkey. The main character from the Monkey. You remember the Monkey? [00:59:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I fucking loved the Monkey. [00:59:52] Speaker A: That guy. It's those two guys and they're like. It's like 1930s New York and they're like in crime. And then he also has a screenplay being made by Park Chan Wook. [01:00:04] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:00:05] Speaker A: Called the Brigands of Battle Creek. Or. No, the Brigands of. Oh, not Battle Creek, that's a Rattle Creek. Riddlebone. The Brigands of Riddlebone. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Riddlebone. Not Rattle. [01:00:17] Speaker A: The Brigands of Rattle Creek. The Brigands of Rattle Creek Park. [01:00:20] Speaker B: Chanwick's awesome. [01:00:22] Speaker A: Esc. Zoller's awesome. It's gonna be a good movie. [01:00:24] Speaker B: It's gonna. It's gonna be a good movie. Yeah. [01:00:27] Speaker A: And if you like this book, you haven't sought out Escollar, seek out his western books or Bone Tomahawk and you'll [01:00:35] Speaker B: west Bone Tomahawk is gonna be so much easier to find than his books. [01:00:41] Speaker A: They're like 20 bucks each. [01:00:43] Speaker B: They're very difficult to find because, I mean, he used. He used a small independent press and, I mean, there was like, the pressings that they have, and there's. [01:00:51] Speaker A: No one's gonna publish that shit. [01:00:54] Speaker B: It's. It's freaking wild. [01:00:55] Speaker A: Opens with a woman pulling a baby turtle out of her vagina. [01:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah. That is. That is very upsetting. [01:01:03] Speaker A: It's upsetting book. It's one of my favorite books. [01:01:05] Speaker B: It is. We've talked. We've talked about it before many times. And the happy ending comes halfway through the book and you're like, oh, [01:01:18] Speaker A: the happy ending, though, is glorious. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, it's great. It just makes the actual ending of the book that much more. More devastating. Oh, it's. [01:01:28] Speaker A: They get their victory for a couple hours. [01:01:33] Speaker B: There's. There is a victory. [01:01:34] Speaker A: The best part about that book is it's a western. It's right like the cusp of, like, it's like late. It's like a late period western and, like, you didn't even think about it. But at the end, when the bad guys, like, they're like. They've got a car and the bad guys are chasing him in a car, that's so badass. You even think about. They would have a car. Yeah, they had a car. [01:01:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:55] Speaker A: It's terrifying. [01:01:58] Speaker B: Could you imagine, Johnny, a horseless carriage? We only got these horses. Horseless carriage. [01:02:05] Speaker A: All this horse takes is dinosaur blood to run. That's what oil is, right? [01:02:10] Speaker B: Dinosaur blood or dinosaur. [01:02:13] Speaker A: Just in general ad Blackbar blood. [01:02:17] Speaker B: It's a trap, Johnny. But since I already invoked it, the dinosaur family and dinosaurs is named the Sinclair's because of Sinclair dinosaur, whose logo is a dinosaur. Tyrontosaurus. [01:02:31] Speaker A: It's cute. There's a couple Sinclairs on tall, so they have full brontosaurus is out front now. [01:02:35] Speaker B: That's awesome. So that. That would be where I bought gas. [01:02:39] Speaker A: And they sell Megan's brands of cigarettes. Cigarettes. [01:02:42] Speaker B: Nice. Are you willing to divulge that information on the Internet or is that. [01:02:47] Speaker A: My girlfriend smokes cigarettes. [01:02:48] Speaker B: No, no, no, no what her brand is or is that privileged Information. [01:02:53] Speaker A: It's a Camel. Like, froofy Camel. It's like Camel Camel bullet gold or something. [01:03:00] Speaker B: Okay, Bullet gold, not Turkish gold. [01:03:02] Speaker A: She's gonna. She's screaming right now. [01:03:05] Speaker B: She's gonna be so upset that you. You don't know what her brand is. [01:03:09] Speaker A: Camel Turkish Royale. That's not. That's not it at all. [01:03:19] Speaker B: Turkish Silvers were the first cigarettes I love. [01:03:22] Speaker A: That was my brand when I smoked. I tell you what, David, I know if I saw him, I mean, that's [01:03:28] Speaker B: really all that matters. That is really all that matters. [01:03:32] Speaker A: So we open with Moses's narration, and he's telling the story of how, you know, he knows the minds. [01:03:42] Speaker B: He's a minor. He's a minor man, [01:03:46] Speaker A: as Joshua Binks would say. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Judge. Your Binks would say that, wouldn't he? [01:03:50] Speaker A: You're just saying. Visa having one or two itty bitty accident days, eh? [01:03:57] Speaker B: Boom. [01:03:57] Speaker A: To gas her. Crashes the boss's hay bliver, then banished. [01:04:04] Speaker B: Do you. [01:04:05] Speaker A: I know in canon what he's talking about. I've read those stories. Boomed a gasser. He was a chef at the. At boss NASA's private kitchen. And he blew up the stove. He blew up the big stove in a dinner for boss NASA's dinner. And then crashes the boss's hey Bloover. Which is like his, like, limo. [01:04:25] Speaker B: He was like. [01:04:26] Speaker A: Then he got hired as the driver. Like, all right, we'll make it the driver. And he crashed it, and then he was banished. [01:04:32] Speaker B: I mean, if a guy blew up my kitchen and then crashed my car, I would probably be like, you're getting the out of here, and I don't ever want to see you again. [01:04:40] Speaker A: He's banished from the city of Oanga. [01:04:43] Speaker B: He. He blew up the kitchen of the [01:04:46] Speaker A: king of the city and crashed his [01:04:49] Speaker B: habler and crashed his limo. [01:04:50] Speaker A: Yeah, just hay blimber. Don't boom to gasser. Don't crash at the boss's hay lover. Or else for you to get banished. [01:05:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, boy. [01:05:04] Speaker A: Can you imagine the Naboo and the Gungan, they don't interact. That's the movie. That movie is a good message, I think. Episode one, The. [01:05:12] Speaker B: The. The ape together strong. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Ape together strong. [01:05:20] Speaker B: Basically, right? Because they. They team up. They team up. [01:05:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I mean. I mean, the. The planet is an ape, so it's the Planet of the apes together strong. I think I might have broken Johnny's brain, y'. All. [01:05:37] Speaker A: Too many nerds. [01:05:39] Speaker B: Too. Too many incorrectly applied nerd references. [01:05:42] Speaker A: All I want to do is ask if you. If you're gonna watch this. Andy Serk, Marcus's directorial debut of Animal Farm. [01:05:53] Speaker B: That's the one that. That's the one that's put up by Angel Studios. Right? Because I don't know if I want [01:05:58] Speaker A: to give Angels who's. Angel Studios, what they do. [01:06:00] Speaker B: That's the. They're the. They're the ones that do the Chosen. They're like an explicitly Christian distribution company. [01:06:09] Speaker A: They'll establish that. She just did an article in Vanity Fair about how she loves. Bernie Sanders is a leftist. [01:06:18] Speaker B: If I were ever to see Liz Tabish again and were able to say more than three syllables in a row that made sense, I would be impressed with myself. [01:06:30] Speaker A: We went to college with Mary Magdalene from the Chosen. [01:06:33] Speaker B: Yes. Liz Tabish is an amazing individual that I have never felt smart enough to talk to. [01:06:44] Speaker A: And that's why you fail not. [01:06:48] Speaker B: Not to say. Not to say that she's a snob or a person that makes like. Like. Makes it seem like she's smart. It's just like she's innately smart. Like, every word that comes out of her mouth is like, no, she's goofy. [01:07:01] Speaker A: In a good way. I love Liz. She was great. She's a great friend. And now she's Mary Magdalene. [01:07:07] Speaker B: She's. She's a very, very talented individual. And she always has been and always will be. [01:07:16] Speaker A: Amen. So we're in the point of view of Moses, the guy who's all deformed now in the mine and holding all the people captive. But it's. [01:07:26] Speaker B: And then. And then he dreamed that God told them to make a boat because he's deformed. He's deformed in the mic. Oh, Moses. [01:07:32] Speaker A: Jesus Christ. [01:07:33] Speaker B: David, I can't even give my. [01:07:35] Speaker A: How much of a lapsed Catholic are you? Moses. Moses. [01:07:41] Speaker B: Moses, Moses. The Red Sea. He parted it. What? No, that's what he did. He parted the Red Sea, leading his people out of Egypt. And then once they got past the sea, he allowed it to fold in on the. The Egyptian soldiers that were coming to get them. [01:08:00] Speaker A: I know. [01:08:02] Speaker B: That's the only part of it. Actually, most of what I remember about Moses, I remember from Prince of Egypt. Good movie. [01:08:11] Speaker A: Did you get at the library? [01:08:14] Speaker B: No, Johnny, I went to Catholic elementary school. We fucking watched that shit for every day. Not every day, but at least twice a year. At least twice a year. [01:08:28] Speaker A: Why was a public school, David. Where they weren't allowed to show that. But I saw it in theaters. It was. [01:08:35] Speaker B: It's a good movie. [01:08:36] Speaker A: One of the first movies I saw at the AMC 20 when it was brand new. [01:08:39] Speaker B: Nice. [01:08:40] Speaker A: It was that Rush Hour, I think, was the other one. What, was that funny? No, that's. [01:08:46] Speaker B: That's. That's. [01:08:46] Speaker A: They're both very religious movies. [01:08:49] Speaker B: That's a laugh of joy because I fucking loved Rush Hour. [01:08:52] Speaker A: Yeah, Rush Hour's good. [01:08:53] Speaker B: Me and my friend Nick Archibald, like, that was our movie, was Rush Hour. [01:08:57] Speaker A: Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? Unfortunately, we can't quote that movie because neither of us should do impressions of [01:09:05] Speaker B: either of the stars. Also, unfortunately, the director. Kind of a bad guy. [01:09:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Brett Ratner is a sucker. He sucks. Brett Ratner. He's canceled. [01:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:17] Speaker A: Difference between kind of. Right. Like Frank Miller and being a piece of like Brett Rad. [01:09:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:09:23] Speaker A: At least agree on that. [01:09:24] Speaker B: If we're canceling everybody, we can absolutely agree on that. [01:09:28] Speaker A: Brat Radner. [01:09:29] Speaker B: Yeah, but Rush Hour's good. [01:09:30] Speaker A: His X Men sucks, too. [01:09:33] Speaker B: He did three. [01:09:34] Speaker A: Yeah. You probably liked that one, didn't you? [01:09:38] Speaker B: That's the one. That's the one that I've only seen once, so I don't really remember anything about it. [01:09:43] Speaker A: It was just a disappointment after X2, which. Hey, Bryan Singer. Oh, no, we love Bryan Singer. Right? Don't Google Bryan Singer. [01:09:54] Speaker B: Don't do it. [01:09:55] Speaker A: X2, though, was on cable at my mom's. Good movie. [01:09:59] Speaker B: I think I've only seen X2 once as well. The first X Men movie is the one that I saw most. [01:10:05] Speaker A: It was great. It's like 90 minutes. Gets in, gets out, tells the story. [01:10:12] Speaker B: Also, Hugh Jackman is tiny. Tiny. He's not even a huge Ackman. He's just like a. He's like a. He's like a small. He's a small Ackman. [01:10:21] Speaker A: It's funny to think about how that was considered, like, pushing the boundary of superhero genre because they kind of had costumes. [01:10:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:28] Speaker A: And they even make a joke like, would you prefer yellow spandex? [01:10:33] Speaker B: And then he does the. The claw, middle finger. [01:10:35] Speaker A: That's great. [01:10:36] Speaker B: That was. That was. That was a good one. That was a good one. X Men. Good X Men. It's a good comic book, Johnny. Speaking of good comic books, I've never [01:10:44] Speaker A: read a lot of X Men. [01:10:47] Speaker B: It's good. It's real good sometimes. So the problem with X Men, I always get excited to read an X Men. And then I start reading some X Men and it's just too much. And half of it doesn't make any sense. And at least a quarter of it is complete garbage. And then at the end of it, I'm Exhausted. And I'm like, I'm never gonna read An X Men again. And then a couple of months later, I'm like, you know, you know what would be good? An X Men. [01:11:11] Speaker A: Okay. [01:11:12] Speaker B: And that's, that's just the cycle you go through. So it's, it's, it encompasses both high highs, very low lows, and questionable choices throughout. But it's good shit. [01:11:26] Speaker A: Just like David Bowie, [01:11:30] Speaker B: I guess. I guess I'm gonna. I'm gonna. [01:11:33] Speaker A: Highs, low lows, questionable choices. [01:11:35] Speaker B: That's true. [01:11:36] Speaker A: That's actually most people. That's just life. [01:11:39] Speaker B: That's what all the people say. [01:11:41] Speaker A: So speaking of life, we're going through Moses life. Yes, Moses. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Moses. Not Noah. [01:11:47] Speaker A: Not Noah. And he has gotten his wife pregnant because he's using them horny goat pills for the old general store. [01:11:56] Speaker B: Do you think a general store in the old west still had cornered? I mean, probably. [01:12:00] Speaker A: It was probably a goat. It was probably a goat. [01:12:03] Speaker B: It was, it was secret under the counter. You had to know about it. It was probably just like a ground up deer antler or some shit. [01:12:10] Speaker A: Ground up goat horn, actually. [01:12:13] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. [01:12:14] Speaker A: And a little bit of goat spunk, Maybe. [01:12:23] Speaker B: People used to do some weird shit. People still do some weird shit. [01:12:27] Speaker A: I'm sure someone out there drinks goat semen every night, and hopefully he's listening to this podcast. [01:12:35] Speaker B: If you're the. If you're the world's foremost goat semen drinker, please email us at Regarding Spot Potty. [01:12:41] Speaker A: Well, out of us, you're suspect number one. [01:12:44] Speaker B: Me? Yeah. [01:12:45] Speaker A: Because you want to drink blood, so you might as well drink goats even. [01:12:49] Speaker B: But that's just because it's on a hot day and it looks like a nice cold beer. But goat semen. Goat semen doesn't look like a cold beer is the problem. [01:12:59] Speaker A: I don't want to talk about this anymore. Moses has gotten his wife pregnant. [01:13:08] Speaker B: Yes. [01:13:09] Speaker A: By making sweet, sweet Hillary love to her. [01:13:13] Speaker B: Please go. Please go into detail until how this man is having sex. [01:13:16] Speaker A: I'm happy for them. I hope they had a good sex life. I hope he wasn't just like, pumping it into her. [01:13:20] Speaker B: Hopefully he's like making like a Tinder lover. Yeah, yeah. But well, well, anyways. [01:13:26] Speaker A: You kind of look like Moses, by the way. [01:13:29] Speaker B: Oh, thank. Thank you, thank you. I'm about to have some glasses. I just need the. I just need the floppy, like, like. [01:13:38] Speaker A: Oh, you don't have a floppy hat somewhere? Give me a break. I know you do. [01:13:42] Speaker B: I do have. I do have a Stetson that I wear when I garden. So it's not floppy yet. [01:13:47] Speaker A: It'll get there. Stop rubbing goats. See you. [01:13:54] Speaker B: Where am I getting this goat semen in the middle of Chicago, Johnny? [01:13:59] Speaker A: Humboldt Park. [01:14:00] Speaker B: Oh, what am I. Am I. I'm going to the goats that they, they release in the parks to. To mow the grass. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:14:08] Speaker A: They probably paint a jerk off of the goat. [01:14:12] Speaker B: I don't want to talk about. [01:14:15] Speaker A: You're stuck on it. We're stuck on it. [01:14:19] Speaker B: I'm stuck on it. You're the one that keeps breaking it up. [01:14:23] Speaker A: They would probably. If you take in 19 dogs, they probably some organizations like, these goats are too horny. You gotta jerk them off. [01:14:35] Speaker B: I'll have you know, Johnny, my cousin lived with us for a year. And to keep. And to keep her happy, my parents agreed to let her get whatever animal she wanted. And she wanted a couple of goats. So we had goats. [01:14:55] Speaker A: Where? [01:14:56] Speaker B: At my parents house. [01:14:57] Speaker A: I was thinking in Chicago. [01:14:58] Speaker B: Oh, no. So we had goats and then my. My cousin only lived with us for a year and the goats stayed with us. And then my dad realized, hey, actually these goats are really good for clearing parts of the brush. So they just. They just always kept goats after that to help clear the brush. And then they ate them now because in order for them to be good eating, you have to kill them relatively soon before they get. [01:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:26] Speaker B: And so then by the time that they died of natural causes, that's. You don't want to. You don't want to eat that goat meat. That's. [01:15:33] Speaker A: No, it's bad. [01:15:34] Speaker B: Yeah. That's why my grandmother never ate chicken because she grew up on a farm. And when you live on a farm, you only eat chicken when it's an old chicken that can't lay eggs anymore. And by that point the meat is really bad. So the more you know, that's up. [01:15:51] Speaker A: Anyway, Moses got his wife pregnant having a baby. The doctor comes. Mm. [01:15:57] Speaker B: Speaking of up, Johnny. [01:15:59] Speaker A: And then he opens the door. Here's his wife. Screams. Then it's mingled with the doctor scream. So he opens the door, it's the wife screaming. [01:16:07] Speaker B: The doctor's dead. [01:16:08] Speaker A: Doctor's dead. And she's got a bloody crotch. [01:16:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And we see. We. And the wife is. The wife was screaming that like she wants this thing gone for good. Out. Get rid of it. So. So Moses takes the baby and the dead doctor buries the doctor and is digging a grave for the baby. And he looks into its terrible demon [01:16:32] Speaker A: face and he's like, it looks like basket case. Yeah, it looks basket case. Have I It's a guy who's just like. It's like a 1980s, like, New York grindhouse movie. [01:16:45] Speaker B: No, I don't. I don't think. [01:16:46] Speaker A: I think his, like, conjoined twin gets cut off him. He's in a basket. You looks like that. [01:16:50] Speaker B: I think I've. I think I've seen, like, the poster or, like, the dvd, but I don't think I've seen the movie. I own it. [01:16:58] Speaker A: On 4K, Arrow edition, maybe. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Nice. This. This child looks like a demonic maggot. And it's. And it's little. Little bundle. Little bundle. Blanket. It's very disturbing. [01:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:12] Speaker B: And so Moses is like, I can't get rid of it. It's my child. Even though it does look like a demon. And so he takes it to the safest place he knows. [01:17:20] Speaker A: The mines. [01:17:21] Speaker B: The mines. There's a. There's a whole sort of undercurrent of the mines being like a magical place and kind of a welcome home to those who know them. But, like, so Moses goes deep into the caves and he finds one offshoot of the mines that. That's just like, filled with these horrific creatures that, while frightening, don't attack. Because they know that he comes in peace and just wants to help this child live. And so then spends years just like, hanging out at the mine, being like, oh, I'm just checking on something in the mine. Until his wife one night is like, you're cheating on me. You're trying to make babies with some other lady? And he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't kill our child. And so then he lives in the mines. He lives in the mines, takes his child, his wife, to see their child. [01:18:17] Speaker A: He looks like a resident evil boss. [01:18:20] Speaker B: He's deformed and, like, half melted. And then Moses's wife is just like, I'm living here now. And Moses reveals their child's particular diet, [01:18:39] Speaker A: similar to David Bowie's [01:18:43] Speaker B: young children. [01:18:44] Speaker A: He likes to take their souls. [01:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And so that was going. That was apparently going just fine for them until the sheriff's wife got really pissed and pulled the gun on Moses, which the story we see in that one issue that I got the broken version of. [01:19:01] Speaker A: Yes. [01:19:01] Speaker B: And kind of had to piece the story together. [01:19:06] Speaker A: It's a special edition. [01:19:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And so. So then we cut back to real Moses, or, like, current day Moses telling the story and just, like, being, like, monstrous and then being like, oh, yeah, the water down here does something weird to you. Look at this goddamn hand I got. It's Like a hand made out of hands. It's real weird. And so. And he's. He's like, this is. This is the family. Look at all of us. And then we got some other people that we've just been holding down here because we ate their children. But what are we supposed to do with them? And then. Well, Johnny, at this point, as Willem Dafoe says in Boondock Saints, there was a firefight. [01:19:55] Speaker A: There was a firefight. [01:19:58] Speaker B: And Gunslinger shoots Moses, like, right through the eye. And then Ziannia is like, attacking, like, these eldritch creatures. And Moses's wife and. And son crawl over to. To his body and then start eating it. And then after they're done. After they're done eating it, they turn and try to attack the gunslinger. And so he just. Blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blams. Them. But not before she cries out and some of those creatures that guarded her son for so many years start coming out. And the sheriff is able to free his wife and child from these hanging cages that they have. They had them in Gunslinger, you know, unties. Unties. Dynamite. And unfortunately, the effects of the water have already taken hold of the sheriff's wife and child. [01:20:56] Speaker A: Yes. And so I love his finger. Hand. His hand is like a thousand fingers. [01:21:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:04] Speaker A: They remind me kind of a Davy Jones's crew from Pirates Caribbean. [01:21:07] Speaker B: Yeah. They do a little man's chest. Yeah. And so the sheriff's. The sheriff's wife and son make an ungodly noise and it brings these. These creatures out of the woodwork. And the group. The group was like, oh, shit, we got to go. And gunslinger's like, well, I'm going to stay and I'm going to fight him. And then the sheriff's like, no, no, no, you fuckers got to go out of here. And the gunslinger looks at him and it's like, correct, sir. Dynamite. Give him your dynamite. So Dynamite gives his dynamite to the sheriff, and the sheriff gives his sheriff badge to Dynamite and then tells them to go and is, you know, so gunslinger and Dynamite and Ziannia just go. But not before Ziannia gives a little blessing to the sheriff and his family for their sacrifices as demon spiders are [01:22:01] Speaker A: closely closing in on them. [01:22:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And then, you know, so the group of survivors is running away from these. These spiders while the sheriff is just there being like, man, Susan, man child, whose name I don't remember, I sure love the hell out of you guys. Let's hope that the next life treats us a Little better. And then explodes themselves. [01:22:28] Speaker A: I love it. [01:22:29] Speaker B: Oh, boy. It's a noble. It's a noble sacrifice. It's wonderful. And then, just as Xiania and gunslinger and dynamite and a couple of children make it out of the mine entrance, it just collapsed because of the explosion. And then we cut to a few hours later in the. The saloon of Danzig. [01:22:48] Speaker A: I know. Goddamn son of a. [01:22:53] Speaker B: You better think about that. [01:22:56] Speaker A: It's got to be why it's called Danzig, right? [01:22:59] Speaker B: It's got to be. [01:22:59] Speaker A: That's a good name. That's a good name. Good point. [01:23:01] Speaker B: Good name. It's very good one. They're just. They're just drinking and dynamites like, I can't be a sheriff. My family's a crime family. What the. And then gunslinger's like, zanio, we got to go along our way. And then the. The captain. The Colonel. The Captain. The Colonel. Whatever writer is, he's like, we need to set her all bar tab. And the barmaid's like, ah. The Wheeler family says thank you for bringing their child back. So they toast to the sheriff, good man, gone too soon. And then the next morning, gunslinger and Ziannia go down early in the morning to saddle up their horses and ride off. And Ryder is out there. And gunslinger's like, ryder, didn't expect to see you this morning. And Ryder's like, what the fuck else am I gonna do? You saved me from the bottle. [01:23:54] Speaker A: Let's go get this Captain Lang, baby. [01:23:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Let's get this son of a bitch. Let me get out. Next, the Deadly Silence. [01:24:02] Speaker A: Enjoy the silence. [01:24:07] Speaker B: Then we get the super cool gunslinger skull to end the issue. [01:24:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:12] Speaker B: Then another new generation, new stories. New uad. Yes. Another Image Classics ad. [01:24:18] Speaker A: We get a new Fallout Toy ad. [01:24:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:22] Speaker A: These are all from the video. These are all from New Vegas, the game. [01:24:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:26] Speaker A: Which is a great game. I revisited it after watching the first season of the show. [01:24:31] Speaker B: That's. I mean, that was a very popular thing to do. [01:24:35] Speaker A: No, it's really good. Fallout New Vegas is awesome. I played it. Yeah. Right after the first season of the show, and, man, it's probably one of the best Fallout games. So check out New Vegas. What's great about it is it gives you the chance you don't have to do everything to do combat Fallout 4. If you basically reach a point where you have to be good at combat or it doesn't matter, follow New Vegas. You could talk. If you had enough talking skills and, like, science skills, you could do anything. [01:25:01] Speaker B: Nice. [01:25:01] Speaker A: And that was cool. It felt like an rpg. It's the one that most feels like an rpg. Rpg. [01:25:06] Speaker B: Nice. [01:25:07] Speaker A: It's probably the best Fallout game. Nice. [01:25:10] Speaker B: It's good to know. You hear Johnny approved Fallout New Vegas. And then the back of the the issue ad is the Doom the Dark Ages Elite edition Toy of the year finalist action figure. It looks really cool. Like, really cool. [01:25:28] Speaker A: Got a fur coat. Those games rock. I got my Lilith figure waiting in storage. [01:25:35] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah, that's the other tales of the Gunslinger 12, Johnny. [01:25:42] Speaker A: That was awesome. [01:25:43] Speaker B: That was. That was a good. That was good. That's really good. That's really good. You know how good it was, Johnny? [01:25:50] Speaker A: How good? [01:25:51] Speaker B: It's so good that. Well, even though there are 19 dogs in this house, somehow they didn't. This recording. [01:25:57] Speaker A: Well, there's a little bit. There's a little bit of chatter. [01:25:59] Speaker B: Yeah. But not for. Not. Not as much as there could be. So we're surrounded by good dogs, Johnny. Or I'm surrounded by good dogs. Oh, you're surrounded by good dogs too. You got a. Got a couple around you. But today that I saw. [01:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah, well, they're fucking out of the room. I don't want those asses. [01:26:17] Speaker B: So that means there's good puppies everywhere, Johnny. So we gotta. We gotta rate these puppies. [01:26:22] Speaker A: I think it's time to rate the puppies. [01:26:28] Speaker B: Too many. [01:26:28] Speaker A: First up. Too many puppies. [01:26:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a. [01:26:32] Speaker A: That's the story of your life. [01:26:34] Speaker B: It's a Primus song. It's some sort of Less Claypool. [01:26:38] Speaker A: I thought you're doing it Too Many Cooks reference. Too Many Cooks. [01:26:47] Speaker B: Too Many Cooks. [01:26:49] Speaker A: Well, as Too Many Cooks says, it takes a lot to make the stew. And Curse of Shirley Johnson is a stew, and it's a good stew. I thought I was gonna have a lower score than after we revisited it because I was like, what the hell? It's been a couple weeks. Near the last one, I'm like, I don't know what's going on. I'm like a Spawn fan. But, like, I think it's kind of the point. [01:27:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:27:12] Speaker A: It's creating this whole thing. And I was there for it. We went through it again. The art's amazing in Curses. Shirley Johnson. Jonathan Glapion. [01:27:21] Speaker B: Yes. [01:27:21] Speaker A: His mission was. He said on Interview or at Spawn. I don't even know if this is documented. He said at spawncon he wanted, like, he was tired of drawing city streets. And he has accomplished that goal with this book because it is wild terraces and locations and wild characters, and it's just. It's a hoot. It's a hoot. [01:27:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good. [01:27:45] Speaker A: And the art's amazing. It's surreal. It's better than a lot of comic book art out there because it's just different. [01:27:53] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:27:53] Speaker A: It feels almost like a little something you get. Like. It's like a book. It borders like a. Like something to be, like, released like a thin graphic novel. Each issue kind of feels like that in a way, like, esoteric. [01:28:05] Speaker B: It's also. It's. It also is very much in the same vein as, like, that early Todd McFarlane into the Greg Capullo. It's like, it, like connects to that sort of style that has been part of Spawn. [01:28:18] Speaker A: It's. It's pulling from old Spawn. It's pulling from new Spawns, from all Spawn. It's expanding the Spawns universe they always wanted to see because, like. And that's the thing that, like, I appreciate. There's this. What's his name? Nexo. Whatever that, like, glowing spawn is. [01:28:33] Speaker B: Vox. [01:28:34] Speaker A: Vox, Nexo, Vox. What's the difference? But we were promised hundreds and thousands of Spawns. He was the leader of an army of Spawns. And they showed it to us in, like, episode in issue eight. [01:28:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:28:47] Speaker A: With. With the Al Moore issue then that was just completely thrown away for, like, him, like, sulking around New York for 20 years. [01:28:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [01:28:59] Speaker A: But, like, it's gonna. It reminds me of that issue 8 weirdness of that hell. And like, just the weird and the fun and the characters and boots. He's there with a big eye Angel. And I loved it. I'm going to give it four and a half. Mandalorian Hell sentinels. [01:29:23] Speaker B: Nice. It's a good. [01:29:24] Speaker A: I loved it. I love this, like, computer speak and like. [01:29:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:29:29] Speaker A: Scaring the soul. It's great. [01:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's so. It's impossible to overstate how good this art is. Oh, yeah, it's just. It's just fucking incredible. And I mean, I. I love how there's just like, so many guys in this. In this comic book series right now. Like, just like, look at those guys. Those guys are weird. Look at those guys. Those guys are weird. I love, like, these weird, like, evil corporate guys that the. The Necromancer is dealing with. They're fucking crazy. I love Steven and his boys. I love Vox and his. His weird, like, entourage of. Of like. Of like church robots and the vampire lady. [01:30:19] Speaker A: Oh, I love the church robots. [01:30:21] Speaker B: It's like the. The world building is just. [01:30:25] Speaker A: It's a who. [01:30:26] Speaker B: It's. It's great and it's Just like it feels. It feels organic and just so. And like we're learning the bits of the story a little bit at a time. And each little bit we get informs a previous bit that we didn't realize we were missing. It's. It's just great. I am gonna give this four and a half blasphemies. Little girl. Yeah, it's good as hell. [01:30:56] Speaker A: Next up, we had Deadly Tales, the gunslinger number 12. [01:31:00] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [01:31:01] Speaker A: Which is delivering on exactly the promise of what I wanted a gunslinger spawn book to be. And as the 12th issue is a year year since it started, I think it's just, it's a great story. We have a dearth of characters. Is that, is that the right word? [01:31:23] Speaker B: Dearth means that there aren't. Aren't enough. [01:31:25] Speaker A: We have a deluge. I don't know what I mean. What's a D word that means a lot? [01:31:36] Speaker B: What's a D word that means a knot? Da lot. [01:31:41] Speaker A: We have a da lot of characters and a lot of fun and a lot of action. Dilata. Love it. [01:31:51] Speaker B: Gonna give it a lot of stars. [01:31:53] Speaker A: I am. I'm going to give this five out of five. Horny goat weed bought at the general store. [01:32:07] Speaker B: But. Ye old timey general. [01:32:10] Speaker A: Ye old timey horny goat weed. [01:32:16] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, this, this would be a good advertisement against horny goat weed because. [01:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah, they created a demon. [01:32:24] Speaker B: It'll make it little demon doggy doggy little demon child. [01:32:29] Speaker A: Woo. [01:32:33] Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. [01:32:34] Speaker A: Get a log, little doggy till the break of day. Hey, dude. [01:32:43] Speaker B: I agree with you, Johnny. This is a great like payoff both to this little arc and just like for the series as a whole. It just like it's, it's building and just like giving exactly what we want from a western. [01:32:57] Speaker A: Mutated freaks. You get. Yeah, you get action, violence. Hell have it. [01:33:02] Speaker B: No, no, you get a. You get sacrifice. You get like heartbreak. It's just, it's just great. I am also gonna give it five, Johnny. I'm gonna give it five wacky mutated hands. So I guess five. Five. A five. A five. A five. A five. A five. A five, a five hands. [01:33:22] Speaker A: A 25. You know what that means? [01:33:26] Speaker B: What's that, Johnny? [01:33:28] Speaker A: This is the first time in a long time I feel like it's been at least a couple months. Do we have an entrance into the Hellfire Club? [01:33:37] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Yeah, I haven't used the. I haven't used that drop in a while. I'm very excited to put it back in. [01:33:46] Speaker A: The sound effects of the screams when they Found that hole to hell in Africa in 1930 or whatever. This is a lie. But yeah, look it up. It's funny. [01:33:55] Speaker B: It literally just sounds like somebody accidentally butt dialed while they were in the train station. [01:34:02] Speaker A: They lowered a microphone down to hell in 1945 and this is what they [01:34:08] Speaker B: heard the sounds of Hell. I loved it. [01:34:13] Speaker A: It's amazing. [01:34:14] Speaker B: It's very good. Yeah. Do you know what else we love and is amazing, Johnny? [01:34:19] Speaker A: Our friends and fans and fellow Spawn birds. [01:34:22] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. And this week we would like to draw Your attention to AdamL6257. Adam. He's a spawn collector guy. [01:34:34] Speaker A: He's the first man. [01:34:36] Speaker B: He's got some. He's got some really fucking cool Spawn. Spawn. Spawn art that he's collected. He got to meet and talk to Todd Mc McFarlane, which is very cool. He's got one of those. Those Spawn hats from the movie. And he's got it hella autographed. So, yeah, give him a follow. That's AdamL6257 on Instagram. [01:35:01] Speaker A: We love it. While you're on Instagram, give us a follow. David is evidently posting again, so. [01:35:07] Speaker B: Yeah, trying to at least. [01:35:10] Speaker A: We'll post it when we want to. Yeah, it's social media. Give us a break. But if you want to not give us a break, you can reach us at. Regarding SpawnPod, gmail.com. [01:35:19] Speaker B: yes, indeed. [01:35:19] Speaker A: Where you'll read your comments and questions and inquiries and emails on air. [01:35:25] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:35:26] Speaker A: And if you email us, we will send you a copy of Violator miniseries. [01:35:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:33] Speaker A: Anyone's point? If you're hearing this, send us an email. We'll send 25 columns. Buck. [01:35:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be great. It'll be fun. Please do it. I'd love to send you some stuff. I like sending mail. Oh, boy, Johnny. Speaking of sending mail, you should send some mail to the lovely Lonnie Bones. Yes. Who does our music. [01:35:54] Speaker A: Send him a check for 75 cents. [01:35:58] Speaker B: A little royalty, a little whoop. A little. That's just Lonnie Bones music. Google it. It's good shit. You know what else is good, Johnny? [01:36:10] Speaker A: More spawn. [01:36:11] Speaker B: More Spawn. Yes, indeed. What would you say to doing some more good shit next week? Let's do it where we do this good shit while talking about other good shit. [01:36:21] Speaker A: Okay. [01:36:22] Speaker B: Sounds good. Well, why don't we read a couple more entrants into Spawn's universe? Why not just do a scorched 48 and a king spawn 51? Let's do it. So. [01:36:35] Speaker A: Sounds good. [01:36:36] Speaker B: Find yourself a copy of scorched 48 and kingspawn 51 and come back and listen to us in a week. [01:36:41] Speaker A: Or put them in a blender. Drink it. Put. Put those in a blender with a bunch of strawberry soda and a raw chicken breast. Blend it up and drink it and then come talk to us about it. [01:36:54] Speaker B: Don't drink a raw chicken breast drink, please. [01:36:56] Speaker A: People do that. [01:36:58] Speaker B: That's so fucking weird. [01:37:00] Speaker A: Megan was watching this reality show. He. They weren't raw, but I don't think you cook them. But he would like grind up chicken breasts into a smoothie and drink them. That's so gross. [01:37:09] Speaker B: That texture would be so unappealing. [01:37:14] Speaker A: Savory vanilla sounds terrible. My throat feels like it's coated. [01:37:22] Speaker B: Now that. Now that we've got that wonderful taste in your mouth, don't forget to like us, subscribe to us, follow us wherever. You know, give us some ratings. Tell your friends, family and neighbors about us. [01:37:32] Speaker A: And tell them about David Bowie. [01:37:34] Speaker B: Yeah, don't let that guy rest on his laurels. [01:37:37] Speaker A: Yeah, don't let him rest in peace. [01:37:41] Speaker B: Rest in pieces, maybe. I'm sure he's probably pieces by now. Was he buried or was he cremated? [01:37:47] Speaker A: Do we know he was launched into space with a copy of the Turner Diaries? [01:37:53] Speaker B: He's a star, man. [01:37:56] Speaker A: Oh, Jesus Christ. [01:38:01] Speaker B: Well, on that note, Johnny, I've got nothing else to sing, but may the scorch be with you. [01:38:04] Speaker A: Nothing else to sing. [01:38:06] Speaker B: Nothing else to sing. [01:38:07] Speaker A: May the scorch be with you. [01:38:15] Speaker B: And also with you. I turned it around on you, Johnny. And you didn't. Hell yeah, me. What the hell? You're leaving me hanging? [01:38:22] Speaker A: Maybe I finally have nothing else to say, David. Except for maybe spawns universe continue to flourish and grow. May we continue to be that 90 minute hanging out with a friend at the comic shop hang positive non industry insider world best spawn podcasts that we are. [01:38:44] Speaker B: Yeah, and that we don't take that AI. And that we don't need any horny goat weed to do it. [01:38:50] Speaker A: I gotta go because the gas station might be closes in 10 minutes. And let me tell you, I'm getting really horny for some goat weed. [01:39:00] Speaker B: Well, you're getting horny for the goat weed. [01:39:02] Speaker A: Yes. [01:39:03] Speaker B: Not for what the goat weed will help you do. Just the goat weed itself. [01:39:07] Speaker A: Yes, I'm horny for the goat weed. You figure out an ending from that, [01:39:23] Speaker B: Sam. Sa.