Episode 179 - Scorched 48 and King Spawn 51

[00:00:00] Speaker A: You will be told many lies in your life. Learn to ignore them. Good evening and welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:45] Speaker B: And I'm your co host David Williams. And Johnny. Johnny. Johnny. You won't believe what I did. [00:00:50] Speaker A: I. I'm scared. Did you eat a long or something? [00:00:53] Speaker B: Oh, no. I finally got around to watching Short Circuit 2. [00:00:56] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No. [00:00:58] Speaker B: Yes. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Oh my God. You talked about it last. Last two weeks ago. [00:01:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. The most David movie ever made. [00:01:09] Speaker A: You liked it? [00:01:10] Speaker B: I loved it. I am Johnny Five. [00:01:14] Speaker A: I know you are. [00:01:15] Speaker B: Input number Johnny Five. [00:01:16] Speaker A: Yes, input. And you're really trusting. And you're the first robotic citizen of [00:01:21] Speaker B: the US and when I get really angry, I give myself a mohawk and a punk makeover. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Michael McKeon's great in it. [00:01:31] Speaker B: Yeah. He tears his shield his silk shirt to save Robbie. [00:01:36] Speaker A: Or there is Rampant to save Johnny. To save his battery acid Number number Johnny 5. Built mostly in Canada, by the way. You couldn't tell. [00:01:46] Speaker B: Couldn't. Couldn't tell at all. [00:01:48] Speaker A: It looks just like New York City. [00:01:52] Speaker B: I mean, you know when they do the establishing shot with the world. [00:01:55] Speaker A: I thought you liked the part about where they're trapped in the freezer and he hacks the telephone line and he sends her the beeps of the songs to give her clues. [00:02:07] Speaker B: He figured out the notes on the calculator. That totally was some middle school shit. Like making your beep beep boop sound like something that you recognized. [00:02:16] Speaker A: But yeah, Ben Jabari's cool. Unfortunately, he is played by a white man, Fisher Stevens. But he's a cool character. [00:02:23] Speaker B: He is a cool character. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Character. And like you. What did you say? What did you say to me on the phone? [00:02:27] Speaker B: I. I don't remember. Oh, yeah, that they let an Indian man be the love interest in a movie in the. [00:02:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And he got the white girl. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. [00:02:38] Speaker A: That's ballsy. [00:02:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:02:40] Speaker A: It's child indoctrination. That's why my dad was scared of the media. Because they believe that a white person could fall in love with an Indian person in 19. Was it 89? [00:02:50] Speaker B: I thought it was 86. [00:02:51] Speaker A: 86. Oh, yeah. It was the year of my birth. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Johnny, that's. We can't. We can't be doing that, right? Wait, what? [00:02:57] Speaker A: But it starts off with a little guy. This little guy. There's a little Johnny Five and he's selling them at the flea market. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Oh, that whole fucking Rube Goldbergian thing. [00:03:06] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:03:10] Speaker B: everybody's just like, huh, look at that go, man. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Because like, I knew you hadn't seen that. When I. The other episode when I said, those locos kick your ass. Local locos kick your face. Those locals kick your balls into outer space. And you didn't join in. I was like, okay, he hasn't seen it. Because if you saw it as a kid, you would have memorized that. [00:03:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Those Locos were cool. They were way cool. [00:03:36] Speaker A: Like a million car radios in like 20 seconds. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah, they gave him. They gave him a cool. A cool paint job. [00:03:43] Speaker A: The movie's sick. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good. It's good as hell. [00:03:46] Speaker A: I like it better than the first one. [00:03:48] Speaker B: I. I know I've seen the first one. [00:03:50] Speaker A: I don't remember. You know what else rules and bran. Former guest and future guest Bran Morehead always talks about. Dude, the soundtrack. [00:03:58] Speaker B: Sick. [00:03:58] Speaker A: That one song, it's like this like, beat. It's like this upbeat, like, 80s soundtrack. Yeah. [00:04:06] Speaker B: This is back when they were doing like original music for all the. Every. Everything that came out had just like its own bespoke soundtrack instead of just. Let's just reuse stuff from the 80s. It's a good movie. It's good as hell. It's good as hell. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Good. [00:04:23] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:04:23] Speaker A: Any other movies this week? [00:04:24] Speaker B: Thank you for the recommendation. I did. I saw the Back of my Eyelids. Oh, that's. That's a. It's a banger joke. [00:04:31] Speaker A: She must have seen the Mandalorian Grogu in theaters. [00:04:34] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:04:34] Speaker A: Kidding. I liked it. [00:04:36] Speaker B: I also, Yes, I did. I did see Mando and Grogu. And you, before I went to go see it, you were like, there's a lot of guys in it. You're going to like it. And guess what, Johnny? There's a lot of guys in it and I like them. [00:04:49] Speaker A: I like seeing Star wars the big screen. I wish it would had opening crawl. That's my biggest complaint because, like, everything in the 90s had a crawl. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:56] Speaker A: Video games sound like anything. With Star Wars. It started with the Star Wars. Yeah, that's the Star Wars. [00:05:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:03] Speaker A: Started with the Star Wars. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And like on Dark Forces, you couldn't skip through the scroll until it started. Then you could skip. [00:05:12] Speaker A: Right. But like. Yeah, it was. It was. I. I missed that. I wish they'd bring that back. But it was a fun adventure. It was a fun movie. [00:05:20] Speaker B: It was a whole bunch of monsters. That's. [00:05:21] Speaker A: They obviously don't know what they're doing with the greater mythology of Star wars going forward. And they're scared. But I. I thought it was a fun movie. [00:05:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was great. Like, Dragon snake. So cool. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Babu Fricks and a little bitty spaceship. It's good. [00:05:45] Speaker A: One of them's named Minch. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Minch. [00:05:48] Speaker A: Minch, which is the original name for Yoda in the Empire Strikes Back screenplay. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Was Mitch, the one that got taken by the dog? Spoilers. [00:05:57] Speaker A: What? I don't remember. [00:06:00] Speaker B: I like how they're just like. Just like random mechanic guys. It's like. Those are the guys. [00:06:04] Speaker A: I like how they call them. Baby. [00:06:06] Speaker B: Come on, baby. [00:06:07] Speaker A: Come on, baby. Oh, this baby. [00:06:10] Speaker B: It's literally like you go to the. The shop where you get your oil changed and you're just like, I need a couple of guys. Come on. [00:06:16] Speaker A: There's. [00:06:16] Speaker B: There. [00:06:16] Speaker A: But, like, you imagine how good. But like, that Star wars species makes sense to be like, pirate mechanics. Could you imagine the parts of spaceships they get into and fix. Yeah, there's droid mechanics. They can, like, crawl up in there. [00:06:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Little bitty guys. [00:06:30] Speaker A: It's good because that's what they. They're mechanics. Yeah. That's what they're established as. When the coolest part of Rise of Skywalker was when Babu Frick, as everyone remembers, when he fixed or, like, made C3PO have the Sith language, and then they completely. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Babu Frick. He's my oldest friend. [00:06:48] Speaker A: The next scene. Yes, he's my oldest friend. They wipe his memory yet again. [00:06:52] Speaker B: Which is funny because that was the. That was the. The switcheroo they did in the trailer versus the film. Because in the trailer, that C3PO with red eyes and. Oh, any droid with red eyes is bad. And it's just C3PO default had red eyes. And so when he gets. [00:07:09] Speaker A: Nobody read the Sith language, he got red eyes. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Okay. I thought. Okay, I haven't seen it in a while then. Shit. Because I thought it was just like when he got rebooted after the. After the thing. It's okay. [00:07:20] Speaker A: They got him to break all his protocol and bypass all his protection to read, like, Sith language. [00:07:25] Speaker B: Hmm. He reads a lot of languages. Oh, also, Johnny, speaking of C3PO, the legend himself, continuing his legacy, Golden Tony being the only one. Only. Only actor in every Star wars film. [00:07:41] Speaker A: He did the voice of the traffic control droids or something. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Something like that. There definitely weren't no C3PO. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Golden Tony. [00:07:50] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:07:51] Speaker A: Evidently, he's an asshole. [00:07:52] Speaker B: No, no, you didn't. [00:07:55] Speaker A: You didn't. Heard that part of Blank Jack. They talk about Golden Tony Check. Like, I'm sure. I'm sure I heard at some point in their canon, they talked about he's an. [00:08:04] Speaker B: Oh, dang, that sucks. But I mean, I guess being a classically trained British actor kind of goes hand in hand. [00:08:10] Speaker A: He wouldn't sign stuff with Kenny Baker. What? He didn't consider him an actor. And he said he last thing he told him was, go away, little man. He asked if they could do a thing together and he said, go away, little man. [00:08:25] Speaker B: Boo. That's. That's poor form. It's really poor. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Golden Tony, baby. [00:08:32] Speaker B: I was gonna say something else. [00:08:34] Speaker A: That he does the voice of C3PO and every fucking everything. Yeah, everything. [00:08:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it. [00:08:40] Speaker A: Even Tom Hanks. There's been a lot of articles floating around how Jim Hanks, his brother, does Woody. And all the Bee Cannon Toy Stories. [00:08:47] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:08:49] Speaker A: And every Toy Story video game or a commercial or those old shorts they had on one Saturday morning. It was all Jim Hanks. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Nice. Well, I mean, if you're gonna be a sibling to somebody famous, they might as well give you a little bit of work, right? [00:09:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Like, if this. If this. [00:09:04] Speaker A: That's a good gig. [00:09:04] Speaker B: If we get. If we get big enough, I mean, I would be happy to see Bill from time to time and his brother [00:09:10] Speaker A: Jim Hanks Hecklius more recorded hours as Woody for real. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Nice. Nice. Oh, I know what I was gonna say. I just saw and saw an article today, or it was like an old archive video of a BBC documentary that they were doing on miniatures and painted figurines in, like, the early 70s. And they were following Peter Cushing as. As he painted his little minifigs and then recreated famous battles. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:09:40] Speaker B: So apparently Peter Cushing was big fucking nerd. [00:09:45] Speaker A: Good to know. [00:09:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:48] Speaker A: I'm sure he's very happy they used AI or CG or whatever to recreate his face in Rogue One. [00:09:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, they could have just. They should have made miniatures of it. Miniatures? [00:10:04] Speaker A: A miniature Grand Moff Tarkin. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah, they could have. They could have filmed it to make it bigger. They've got the technology, Johnny. They can rebuild him. I guess that's technically what they did digitally. [00:10:15] Speaker A: Are you saying creative things are made by people and they could be anything? [00:10:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It. If it doesn't exist and you make it, that's. That's a good thing. That's a good. [00:10:26] Speaker A: Are you saying that scorched 47 was destined to always be written by 48? Pardon me. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Was always destined to be written by Todd McFarlane? Ooh, that. [00:10:37] Speaker A: I don't. [00:10:38] Speaker B: I Mean, if we're talking about destiny, I'm not sure about destiny. Creation. I can. I can get behind the act and the magic of creation. But destiny? Oh, man. Destiny is much like hindsight is 20 20. Destiny is only visible once it's passed. [00:10:55] Speaker A: And scorch 48 is scorch 48. And we're here to talk about scorch 48 and kingspawn 51. [00:11:04] Speaker B: Nice. And why is that, Johnny? [00:11:06] Speaker A: Because we are respawn for each week regarding Spawn. Regarding Spawn, where each week we're bringing you two issues from Spawn's universe. Except when we don't. This week is no different. We have two issues from Spawn's universe. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:11:20] Speaker A: And we have all the way back from the far off land of February 2026. Scorch 48. The year I turn 40. The month I turn 40 scores 48. Johnny turns 40. Is there a coincidence there? [00:11:41] Speaker B: Maybe [00:11:44] Speaker A: our second issue up, because we have two issues is we have Kingspawn 51. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:11:51] Speaker A: All the way back from the far off land of December 2025. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Back when Johnny was not 40, I was 39. He was a young man then, full of vim and vigor. And he danced around Sprite. [00:12:06] Speaker A: I was full of piss and vinegar. [00:12:10] Speaker B: And now that he's incontinent because he's 40, he's just full of vinegar. What the piss just leaves. [00:12:16] Speaker A: I piss up my ass. Don't worry. Yes, we have two issues with Spawns universe. We talked about two movies. Short Circuit and Mandalorian and Grogu, which I liked. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it was good. It's good. Two thumbs. Two thumbs up. If you don't. [00:12:35] Speaker A: If you don't like it, I give it one. [00:12:37] Speaker B: That's fine. [00:12:38] Speaker A: But that's fine. [00:12:39] Speaker B: I mean, was it the greatest movie of all time? No. [00:12:43] Speaker A: No. [00:12:43] Speaker B: Was it a good ass time in the theater? Hell yeah. [00:12:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:47] Speaker B: The only thing. The only thing I regretted about going to see it was I accidentally ate a whole bag of Pichio's. I got a little bit of a tummy ache. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Oh, David, baby boy. [00:13:00] Speaker B: The bag was open and it was in front of me and I was just like. Next thing I know, all out of [00:13:06] Speaker A: my snacks, Grogu's eating those cookies. [00:13:09] Speaker B: That's. That's the one thing that kind of pissed me off a little bit is the Chekhov's cookies. At the beginning, when Rad is like, here, hold on to these for me, little man. Until next time. [00:13:20] Speaker A: And you want to piss me off. They don't. [00:13:22] Speaker B: They don't bust them Back out. When they find Rada again, they're like, here, have a cookie, buddy. [00:13:27] Speaker A: You know, Pissed me off the most. It involved rotted as well. Rod of the Hut, My girlfriend's favorite Star wars character is Rod of the Hut. Not really. But the thing that stuck out to me most and bugged me the most was like, an hour into the movie. He was like, it was good to meet you guys. I'll see you later. And then 45 minutes later, he's like, it was good to see you guys. I'll see you later. Like, both times, they ended with, like, a dad comment. See his dad issues, David, if you remember, he's. [00:14:00] Speaker B: Yeah, with that, he's got a little bit of daddy issues. [00:14:05] Speaker A: I mean, your father was Jabba the Hut and you were on the Bear. What would you do? [00:14:11] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe. Maybe make a meal that revolves around slugs. [00:14:16] Speaker A: No. I worked in the Chicago restaurant industry. People describe episodes of the Bear to me, and I was like, this is like my nightmares. I'm never gonna. [00:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I have a. I have a friend who has pretty massive anxiety, and he was like, what should I watch on this plane trip? I'm going to go on, guys. And my friend. My. The rest of my friends were like, watch the bear. And I was like, no, no, you do not want to watch this show in a tiny little tube flying over the ocean. Life is hard enough as it is. [00:14:47] Speaker A: I worked at a restaurant in Chicago. It was like, Michelin recommended, not fun. [00:14:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:54] Speaker A: And it was a good job. But, like, I liked it. But I don't want to watch a show about it. I want to watch. I want to watch a show or read a show about demon superhero teams and angel superhero teams saving people in Africa. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Yes. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Because that with lots, inexplicably, is what scores 48 is about. [00:15:19] Speaker B: It does pick up right where scorch 47 left off. [00:15:22] Speaker A: It does. But, David, you know what sucks the most about it? I feel like I missed something, and I'm like, you. Haven't you read all this Spawn? [00:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, like, yeah, the. [00:15:34] Speaker A: The guy in the eye, his dad who had the necklace. That's. This is all new information, correct? [00:15:39] Speaker B: Yes, as far as I know. Like, we didn't even know that Frank lost the necklace. What's. What's going on? [00:15:49] Speaker A: I don't even know what's going on. [00:15:51] Speaker B: That's a very good question, Johnny. [00:15:53] Speaker A: Well, all I can tell you is what's going on. This cover I got, which is the. A cover by Vaughn Randall. [00:16:02] Speaker B: That is the same color cover I have as well. [00:16:05] Speaker A: I wonder why, David is. Because it has underboob. [00:16:10] Speaker B: Maybe. Well, it's because it's Jessica Priest being badass. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Sure. But guess what? Jessica Priest always comes with free. Free energy. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Yes, that is. That is. That is a future, not a bug, Johnny. But no, she's. She's got like the world's. She's got that big gun. That doesn't make any sense, Johnny. And she's got it like. She's wearing it on her back next to a katana. [00:16:40] Speaker A: She's like dancing next to a dead skull. She's like. It looks like she's like escaping from a victory. [00:16:46] Speaker B: Yeah, great cover. There's like this smoking demon skull in the background. [00:16:52] Speaker A: It looks like she's escaping from a victory. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Yeah, she's doing like that badass walking away from an explosion, kind of dancing away. Oh, because that's. That's the. That's the funk that Jessica Priest puts on it. [00:17:10] Speaker A: What's that funk on that B cover, though? [00:17:12] Speaker B: I don't know. I'm trying to find the B cover. [00:17:14] Speaker A: You can't find it. [00:17:17] Speaker B: It's cuz. It's not on the. It's not on the website. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Don't go to the fucking website. [00:17:22] Speaker B: I always go to the website though, Johnny. [00:17:25] Speaker A: How. [00:17:25] Speaker B: How dare you go back to physical issues? Because if we had the. If you had the digital issue, then we could just look at it in the back. [00:17:34] Speaker A: It's hot. It's haunt. [00:17:36] Speaker B: It's hot. Okay. It's a Francesco Matina. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Ooh. [00:17:41] Speaker B: It is very good. It is very. It's like. It's like the haunt suit is made of eels. It's eeling out. [00:17:49] Speaker A: It's all right. [00:17:50] Speaker B: It's no Jessica Priest. That's the. [00:17:52] Speaker A: It's not just. [00:17:53] Speaker B: That's the real thing. [00:17:54] Speaker A: If I go to also haunt stuff in this issue. This issue is fucking confusing and it's weird. [00:18:00] Speaker B: There's like a cosmic pizza and ping pong subplot now. Or cosmic ping pong. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Where did that come from? [00:18:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I have no idea. [00:18:10] Speaker A: It's also all new information, correct? [00:18:13] Speaker B: Yes. As far as I know, this is [00:18:15] Speaker A: all in blood letter or something we haven't read. I doubt it. [00:18:19] Speaker B: I mean, I'm pretty sure bloodletter is. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Concerned with the vampires. [00:18:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. I'm kidding. [00:18:25] Speaker B: Unless the vampires are part of. [00:18:27] Speaker A: I'm sure this isn't in Nixa series either. [00:18:29] Speaker B: I don't know, Johnny. Watch in six months when we get [00:18:32] Speaker A: to them after watching from like issue one of scorch. Coming up to issue 48. [00:18:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:39] Speaker A: And I remember what happened to Scorch. There's nothing with child trafficking priests and there's nothing with a guy getting killed with a necklace. I. It's just, It's. It's marvelly. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah. It was the. It was the. [00:18:55] Speaker A: It feels like when James Bond, when they did the Marvel thing in Spectre, when they're like, all the villains are connected. It's like it's all going to be connected with, like, McGuffins and things you recognize. And it's like, that doesn't have to be it. I think it's dated now. [00:19:10] Speaker B: It is. It is a little. It makes it hard to have a single efficient story. Like, it's. It's adding extra story, ostensibly under giving you more story, but really just like, dilutes the story that's there to the point that it's like, fuck it. Why are we even bothering with this? Which is sad because I love the Scorch. It's been a solid book up until now. [00:19:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:35] Speaker B: I did. I did notice when I picked up my copy of the scorched at the 50. 51. 52, 51 today. It does. It does have a non McFarlane name as the writer. So has a Thomas Healy as the writer. [00:19:51] Speaker A: Scorch. [00:19:52] Speaker B: Scorched. That's what it said. [00:19:53] Speaker A: Oh, my God, he's gonna right the ship. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Anyway. We've only got a couple more to get through. John. [00:20:03] Speaker A: No, I don't want to be like Negative Nancy. Like, Tom McFarlane created this world we live in. [00:20:07] Speaker B: Yes. It's just he now, whenever he writes multiple books, just writes the exact same story in the trappings of whatever book he's writing. [00:20:17] Speaker A: Or. It's just. It makes stuff. How do I put this? [00:20:19] Speaker B: It makes stuff needlessly complicated. [00:20:22] Speaker A: It pulls stuff in. Is like, this is now the most important thing in the world. It's like we've never heard of this before. [00:20:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:28] Speaker A: Where Scorsese has this rich history. You could pull from 47 issues. You can pull from this great, like, techno thriller unfocused. I don't know what this is. I don't know what this is. It's something filler spawn issue written by Tom McFarlane. [00:20:41] Speaker B: It's something. Todd McFarlane was watching the Ghost in the Darkness and he was like, oh, hey, I wonder if I could somehow put a man. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Er, up until now, scores. Up until Todd McFarlane took over for the first time because he'd never written scores before. [00:20:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Like story buy or, you know, plot or Whatever he was taking his name on. But like it was this like kind of like techno thriller x many thing. And like it's. This doesn't feel like that really. [00:21:07] Speaker B: Yeah, well, because it's. It's a team book and now it's individuals, but not individuals. Not even like loosely associated individuals. It like this book feels like a story about fucking Redeemer. [00:21:23] Speaker A: Well, you know what, David? If fucking worse, guess what was the first the number one selling image comic the month it came out. [00:21:29] Speaker B: This one. [00:21:30] Speaker A: Scorch 50. [00:21:31] Speaker B: Scorch 50. [00:21:33] Speaker A: All the 50s sold very well. [00:21:35] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:21:37] Speaker A: The month that came out, Scorch. I saw an article like headline recommended me on Google News and it was scorch 50 was the number one selling image book of that month. [00:21:46] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:21:47] Speaker A: Which was probably what? [00:21:50] Speaker B: March, April or. April. Yeah, March or probably April, since this is May and 51 just came out today. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Something that facts. Let me be accurate. Hold on. Was Image Copy. It was most. Their most order comic title in April 2026. [00:22:05] Speaker B: It's because you know, people who know the Scorch is good usually. And when you hit a momentous milestone like 50, you expect it to be good. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Usually. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Usually. We are discussing 50 right now. That'll be. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Let's discuss who made it. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:25] Speaker A: It's only an hour and a half into the episode. Script plot. Let's do the credits. Strip plot by Tom McFarland. [00:22:32] Speaker B: What? Johnny. I can't believe it. [00:22:33] Speaker A: Shut the up, David. Art by Raymond gay for pages 1 through 10. Art by Steven Segovia. Page 11 through 20. Couldn't have more different artists. [00:22:42] Speaker B: No, could not. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Colors by Danae Ribeiro. Lettering by Air World Design. We already covered the covers. Creative Director again is Mr. Toad McFarlane. Editor in Chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in the Scorch. The scorched attempt to gather allies. His enemies approach from all sides. [00:23:03] Speaker B: I didn't get that from the last issue. [00:23:05] Speaker A: I didn't at all. [00:23:06] Speaker B: No. [00:23:06] Speaker A: Moving on. [00:23:09] Speaker B: So right where the 47 left off, Johnny, we got a. What's his name? [00:23:18] Speaker A: The father. A father what? Just. [00:23:25] Speaker B: I just looked at it. [00:23:25] Speaker A: Get canceled. David, try to pronounce that name. [00:23:28] Speaker B: Nyambi. Nyambi. Nyambi. [00:23:32] Speaker A: That's probably right. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Nyambi sitting there. No arm because the demons took it off saying, I am dying. Why would an angel help me? Redeemer. Just being like, I need a location. That's. I just need some information. [00:23:48] Speaker A: I don't want to talk about this. Okay. So Redeemer comes to this guy we've never seen before. Yeah, you're dying. You killed a guy who had a thing I need. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:03] Speaker A: If this is another Spawn Cannon, we're gonna look like such fools. But it's not, right? [00:24:12] Speaker B: Not that I know of. But please do. If we are wrong, if the Redeemer Neckl is something that has been around for years, please email us regarding spawnpodmail.com but yeah, yeah, Dredimmer is just like, I fucking need this piece of jewelry, dude. And he's like, ah, no, man, I'm dying. I can't help. And he's like, ah, if you don't help me, I'm gonna just kidnap your son and have him help me do it. And he's like, okay, okay. He's like, your wife will be left all by herself for several days. He's like, no, no, no, no. I'll tell you, it's a. It's in this giant rock shaped like a lion. He's buried in the left eye. So then Redeemer's like, cool. Picks him up, takes him to where his wife and child are making dinner, and then he just, like, lays Nyambi down. And it's like, hey, here's your husband, your father, he's dying. He said he wants to say goodbye. He doesn't have very long. Then Nyambi's wife, who is unnamed, gives him a token of her appreciation. And then his son is just like, hey, you're gonna. You're gonna. You're gonna go find that guy with the necklace, aren't you? He said angels were gonna come looking for this necklace. Then we get the opening reading, and Redeemer says that this boy and his mother needs to stay uncursed. And then he flies away. He flies by an elephant. I like that elephant, Johnny. Then he flies to the lion head rock, and then he goes into what is quote, the lion's left eye, end quote. To find what he came looking for. I don't know why that's in Scarecrow's Journey, do you? I definitely don't. [00:26:03] Speaker A: What? I don't know. Thank you for skipping over, like, five pages and summing it up. [00:26:07] Speaker B: You're welcome. So. So. So Redeemer. [00:26:10] Speaker A: I googled that whole time I was googling, looking, research. There was no Redeemer necklace. [00:26:14] Speaker B: Okay, cool. Well, there is a Redeemer necklace now. And Redeemer finds the necklace on this body. And as he's reaching for it, he sees a vision of his mother. His mother, who he knows is dead because she. It's like. [00:26:27] Speaker A: It's something out of an evil dead Rise. [00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I like this part because, like. Like Redeemer is using, like, some sort of light power. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Redeemer is like 60 and has seen the world destroyed and been back in time. So do you think this would freak him out at all, this Redeemer? This is. This is Frank. This is old Redeemer. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. [00:26:47] Speaker A: He'd be like, man, get the out of here. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:51] Speaker A: Seeing the future and death of mankind. [00:26:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. But anyway, this vision of his mother turns into a demon and then he's like, oh, I gotta get away from this demon, but I need my necklace. And then he never gets the chance, is what it says. And then hard cuts from. [00:27:08] Speaker A: But there's a weird thing. It's like an explosion. What the happens? [00:27:11] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. It looks like the Cave of Wonders is about to collapse. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Yes. Is it the Cave of Wonders from Aladdin? [00:27:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. [00:27:21] Speaker B: I guess we'll tune in next. [00:27:22] Speaker A: Well, now we're on the second half of the issue, which is equally as confusing. [00:27:25] Speaker B: Yes. Yes. It opens on a church and a priest in the middle of the church. [00:27:29] Speaker A: I like that. I like the church. [00:27:30] Speaker B: Church is good. Good. Priest, Priest praying for his soul. Pretty good. Pretty good. [00:27:36] Speaker A: He looks evil as hell. He's got a receipt of hair on your mustache, which means you're evil. [00:27:43] Speaker B: He is an irredeemable. Look at that guy. He can. He can. There's only two things he could be is a villain or Alfred Pennywise. Nothing else. [00:27:58] Speaker A: Oh, my God. David. [00:27:59] Speaker B: What was. Hold on. There's something. There's something afoot. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Is the villain going afoot? [00:28:07] Speaker B: Well, that is the first, but definitely probably not the last of the outbursts from the gaggled dogs. [00:28:14] Speaker A: There's one in the room [00:28:17] Speaker B: because. Johnny, Johnny, remember. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Remember. [00:28:20] Speaker B: Remember how I have a ridiculous number of dogs? [00:28:23] Speaker A: I thought it was 19. [00:28:24] Speaker B: I had O. Johnny. A couple days ago. We got a 20th. We are now at the most dogs we've ever had at a single time. And it's a bit wild, so you're a bit. [00:28:39] Speaker A: This is. This is like. I think it's poetic because you're like the Todd McFarlane of fostering dogs. [00:28:48] Speaker B: Are you saying I'm bad at this, Johnny? [00:28:50] Speaker A: Maybe if you got 20 dogs. [00:28:52] Speaker B: Well, but they're all. They're all good dogs. They're. They need. [00:28:55] Speaker A: I'm sure he thinks this is a good dog, too. [00:29:02] Speaker B: None of these dogs are the same, Johnny. I can't treat any of them the same. [00:29:05] Speaker A: The scorch isn't the same as the. The king spawn. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's true. Well, but anyway, so we got this villain priest or Alfred. [00:29:14] Speaker A: Oh, my God, this is so crazy. So the last thing was Kilgore. Yeah, he just. What? He went to a church and was like, I want to be a priest again kinda or something. [00:29:24] Speaker B: Yeah. But then I guess. I guess they, like Jessica Priest pulled him back out again so that way they could fight the weird monster that was off the. [00:29:31] Speaker A: What happened his last issue? He went to a priest. [00:29:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I really don't remember what happened. He did something like. He's trying to. He's trying to get back in the priest game or something. [00:29:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, we're terrible. Cut this all out. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Don't. Don't look it up, Johnny. All right, that's on us. [00:29:54] Speaker A: He went to a church. I remember. No, he went to a church because you were like, oh, that's. It says some guy named Daniel gave you about him being Daniel Kilgore. Obviously. Yeah, but he was, like, trying to get back in the fold. This creepy mustache guy wasn't there. [00:30:06] Speaker B: Yeah, he wasn't. I think this is a different church. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Megan has told me we've been doing a bad job recently of keeping viewers tracked along with the story. All right, so the story of this comic so far is the Redeemer met a guy we don't know in Africa who buried a guy who has a necklace he needs, and he told him where the body was. And then we hard cut to this new subplot. [00:30:34] Speaker B: Yes. [00:30:35] Speaker A: Where Daniel Kilgore attacks a random priest, I'm assuming in a Catholic church in New York. Although they're having a ring of. What? It's so confusing. What's going on? Let's dive. [00:30:47] Speaker B: A ring. A ring of, like, child slaves. Like, he's looking for a child slavery ring. He's like, I need you. I need you to tell me where these children are. And this. This priest is just like, hey, hey, I'm waiting for somebody to come kill me, but it's not supposed to be you. And Daniel Kilgore is just like, yeah, whatever. Tell me where the kids are. Tell me where the kids are. And then they get interrupted by the agent of heaven who has sent to kill the priest. Hey, that priest. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Jesus, Dingus, you okay? That was just dingus freaking out because he freaks out. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Be nice to each other. [00:31:33] Speaker B: But yeah, so that agent of heaven who was supposed to kill the priest shows up and is like, hey, this is my priest. [00:31:39] Speaker A: What was he supposed to Kill the priest. [00:31:41] Speaker B: I don't know. Because he messed up. Because he was like, he was apologizing. [00:31:47] Speaker A: It hurts my head. David. Yeah, the dogs are freaking out because they know this is shit. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:53] Speaker A: So there's a new Todd McFarlane villain like action figure character who shows up a new guy. He's like diamond faced Iron Man. Yeah. [00:32:04] Speaker B: He's actually pretty cool looking, I guess. [00:32:07] Speaker A: I don't know. I, I. My well of dopamine from seeing guys like this with as much as Todd McFarlane has been writing these series is dry. [00:32:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's true. Yeah. But yeah, he's, he's, he, he is an iron man with a purple cape. [00:32:25] Speaker A: He's a guy. He's a guy. [00:32:26] Speaker B: He's a guy. [00:32:27] Speaker A: I like a purple cat. I love purple. [00:32:29] Speaker B: He's a heaven guy. [00:32:30] Speaker A: My favorite color. [00:32:30] Speaker B: Purple's a good color. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Purple and black, my favorite colors. David. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Nice. [00:32:38] Speaker A: I love the cure. Into Pesh mode. And ongo boingo. [00:32:46] Speaker B: Good on you. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Fuck off. [00:32:52] Speaker B: Sorry. I'm trying to make sense of what this, this book is. [00:32:55] Speaker A: I don't know what you're think you're preoccupied with these dogs with this book, dude. Okay. So this guy shows up and he's like, yo, I was supposed to get this priest. [00:33:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And Kilgore's like, not until I'm done with them. And then they just fight. They just fight. Yeah. And like this guy thinks that Kilgore is part of the child ring, that Kilgore thinks that this priest is part of the kids. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Where the are they? [00:33:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And. [00:33:24] Speaker A: And then Haunt, his brother, is like, daniel, behind you. [00:33:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And Hunt turns, delivers a savage blow to his opponent's ribcage. Johnny. But high tech body armor protects the villain. In fact, augmented circuitry allows the villain to gain the edge. [00:33:39] Speaker A: The villain, [00:33:44] Speaker B: the priest, and the scuffle. The priest runs away and Daniel sends his brother after him to like, go see what he can find. [00:33:52] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like gonna kill. So, like, then Haunt uses all his sweat powers. [00:34:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:01] Speaker A: Encase this futuristic Iron Man. [00:34:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And this, this, the villain is just like, you're never gonna get her. You're never gonna get her. And then he like, electrocutes Kilgore and he says, you're never gonna get my daughter. [00:34:18] Speaker A: What does that mean? What does that mean? [00:34:21] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't know what it means. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Oh, God. Why are they all daughters? Remember when they saved Godson's daughter? That was the plot of Spawn for like eight issues for the office building. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Because they gave us. Dude, they gave us new he man and battle cat for it. [00:34:35] Speaker A: Oh, Jesus Christ. Okay. All right, then we get a score. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Skull. [00:34:40] Speaker A: I'm just glad I'm not crazy because, like, I was like, what the is this issue? [00:34:44] Speaker B: I don't. Yeah, it's so weird. Need more sponsor universe. [00:34:48] Speaker A: We have the issue in 11 minutes. We've been talking for 40 minutes. [00:34:54] Speaker B: But it's. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. What the hell is going on? Don't miss the ongoing titles. Whatever. We got the Avatar Fire and Ash Tours toys. Yes. [00:35:04] Speaker A: With this. With the sexy Fire Lady. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Yeah. The one that everybody's going gaga for is. [00:35:11] Speaker A: Are there really the. [00:35:14] Speaker B: I mean, people. People are just like, ooh, sexy, sexy blue lady. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Yeah. You know why? Because, like, two characters in a sci fi movie, this PG13, had sex for the first time in probably, like 20 years. Because quartra. It's the general guy. [00:35:28] Speaker B: Her interesting. [00:35:30] Speaker A: And it's sexy. And people don't have sex in movies anymore. [00:35:34] Speaker B: No, they don't. It's very weird. [00:35:35] Speaker A: They didn't kiss a Marvel movie. It's like, did Tony Stark ever even kiss pepper pots? Like, once, Maybe once. He pat on the head. He's like, thanks for being my wife. [00:35:47] Speaker B: I don't know. Does he? I'd have to ask Wanda. [00:35:51] Speaker A: I seriously don't know. [00:35:53] Speaker B: I have no idea. [00:35:55] Speaker A: It's up. [00:35:56] Speaker B: And it's up. [00:35:57] Speaker A: Sterilization of movies. Be sexual. Kiss people if. If you want to. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Yeah. That's what John Waters films are for, Johnny. [00:36:07] Speaker A: Exactly. Image. Classic sad. And we get a new Toy ad. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Yeah. McFarland sports picks. [00:36:12] Speaker A: You probably got a lot to say about this, David. [00:36:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:15] Speaker A: My. Don't you like hockey? [00:36:17] Speaker B: What I'm gonna say is they're McFarland sports picks. So of course the Canadian chooses all hockey players. I don't know. I don't know any. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Are they all Canadian teams? [00:36:27] Speaker B: I know. Well, obviously there's the New York Rangers. I don't know what the guys with the Spartans are. [00:36:35] Speaker A: I thought it said fangers. Because his stick is blocking it. [00:36:41] Speaker B: No. Yeah, Fangers. It's the vampire hockey team. I know that. Those are the Canucks, so they're definitely Canadian. I can't remember if they're Vancouver. I think they're Vancouver Hoover. [00:36:55] Speaker A: All right, well, good for him. [00:36:56] Speaker B: And then I have no idea what the green guy is. That's. That's scorched 48, Johnny. [00:37:05] Speaker A: Supposedly [00:37:08] Speaker B: that's what it says on the [00:37:09] Speaker A: COVID Don't judge a book by its cover. [00:37:14] Speaker B: I would have judged this book better [00:37:17] Speaker A: because of the COVID Because you like under boob. [00:37:20] Speaker B: I mean. Yeah. [00:37:21] Speaker A: All right, I'm cutting it off. Take the break. We're back for King Swan 51. [00:37:48] Speaker B: 50. 51. [00:37:51] Speaker A: Is that a song? [00:37:53] Speaker B: I just made it up. [00:37:56] Speaker A: This is a song now. [00:37:58] Speaker B: It is now. If it was original eight, I didn't know about it. That's a. That's a good. That's a good legal basis, right? I didn't know about it. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Yeah. I can't get you on copyright infringement. [00:38:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Kingspan 51. That has a cover. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it does. [00:38:17] Speaker B: Two. Two. It's got two covers, I think. Which cover do you have, Johnny? [00:38:24] Speaker A: I got the. Okay. The A cover. [00:38:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the A cover. I don't. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Daniel's. [00:38:36] Speaker B: I don't. I don't remember seeing this one, so I don't think I got that one. Just because they didn't have. Have it. But that is a cool cover. [00:38:43] Speaker A: Actually, they both say cover A on the inside jacket, which is hilarious. Is that what yours says? [00:38:49] Speaker B: Yeah. But on the back here of the barcode, it does say Cover B Earls. [00:38:53] Speaker A: And it's. It's awesome. Yeah, I think it's his. Is this his first Spawn cover? I don't remember that name. [00:38:59] Speaker B: I don't remember seeing him either. [00:39:01] Speaker A: It's like a Spawn. Cartoony Spawn over a really detailed. Like. It's beautiful. [00:39:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it kind of. It kind of looks like that's how Spawn would look if you were to join the. The series. [00:39:12] Speaker A: You know, like about Spawn covers. David, you know what they remind me of? [00:39:15] Speaker B: What's that? [00:39:16] Speaker A: Ghost T shirts. [00:39:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:39:20] Speaker A: Because there's such a weird. There's such a. There's an aesthetic to it, but there's so many varied takes you could take on it. [00:39:26] Speaker B: Yeah. They all tell their own little story. [00:39:30] Speaker A: This one's awesome. It is us. [00:39:32] Speaker B: I really wish I could have gotten it. I got the. The Marco Falia cover, which is also very good, but is decided. [00:39:39] Speaker A: Hold up. Let me see it live. [00:39:41] Speaker B: Decidedly less fun because. Oh, it's a badass looking Spawn. But he's just like vomiting stuff. [00:39:50] Speaker A: It's almost that in Mando and Evil Dead Rise, where the sister bombs up the bugs in the tummy. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Oh, boy. There are no bad ones. Bitch. [00:40:04] Speaker A: That's a great line. That's a great movie. Evil Dead Rise. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Very good. [00:40:07] Speaker A: I rewatched it recently, much to Megan's dismay, but it was. [00:40:10] Speaker B: I should rewatch it. [00:40:11] Speaker A: The movie fucking rocks. [00:40:12] Speaker B: I remember it a lot. I remembered it being very good. [00:40:14] Speaker A: We saw it in theaters together. [00:40:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it was good. [00:40:17] Speaker A: You had a flashlight. [00:40:18] Speaker B: I did have a flashlight. I no longer own that flashlight. It fell apart. [00:40:23] Speaker A: I want to get one of those, like, flashlights, like, looks like a square and they clip on the front of your. [00:40:29] Speaker B: Nice. We're getting to be old men, Johnny. We need to have flashlights everywhere. [00:40:33] Speaker A: We need that edc, baby. We need that everyday carry. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But yeah. Marco Falia cover. Very good. Very creepy. Very tonally different from the Earl's cover. [00:40:44] Speaker A: Yes. [00:40:45] Speaker B: Yeah. And inside, I have a feeling they're going to be the same, Johnny, because we got credits that we got to give. I got script plot by Rory McConville with additional script by Todd McFarlane. Got art by Yildira Sinner, red art color by Ivan Nunes. [00:41:02] Speaker A: We love it. [00:41:03] Speaker B: Lettering by and world design. We covered the covers. The creative director is Todd McFarlane and the editor in chief is Thomas. The hardest working man in show business, Healy. [00:41:15] Speaker A: That's his name. [00:41:17] Speaker B: Previously in King Spawn. Spawn continues to clean up the demeanor. [00:41:24] Speaker A: Demeaning. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Spawn continues to clean up the demonic spillover from Hell's incursion on Earth. And I notice it doesn't have an apostrophe there to make this possessive. So it is just spillover from. [00:41:37] Speaker A: No, but that's not even true. [00:41:38] Speaker B: No. [00:41:38] Speaker A: Because the last. The last King Spawn was like the chapters one and three. [00:41:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Of the 50 event. Right. [00:41:45] Speaker B: Yeah. And that wasn't even Hell's. That wasn't even Hell's thing. It was aliens. Aliens. [00:41:56] Speaker A: But we're back to the Rory McConville like, short stories. [00:42:00] Speaker B: Yes. [00:42:01] Speaker A: We're going to a new one. [00:42:03] Speaker B: It's gritty, you know, I love. What's that? [00:42:06] Speaker A: Roy McConville's King Swan short stories. This one felt a little derivative and repetitive to me. I feel like it tread a lot of the same ground of who the others. Like criminals getting punished. [00:42:20] Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah. No. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Maybe it was in a bad mood when I read it, David. I don't know. [00:42:25] Speaker B: Maybe. We'll see. We'll see how you feel. [00:42:26] Speaker A: Let's go through it. Let's go through it. [00:42:28] Speaker B: So we start off with some criminals in a car driving through the woods at night. [00:42:32] Speaker A: Yep. [00:42:33] Speaker B: You know, talking about what the hell they're doing, where are they going, why are they being here? And they're just like, we've gotta be with the boss. Let me. The boss has a plan. We gotta meet with the boss. I got some. Got some troubles about some. Somebody blabbing to one of the other crews. The Gambinos. And they're like, who the. Who the would. Who the would do that? This is some crazy ass. And then one guy's like, yeah, yo, [00:42:57] Speaker A: we gotta bring up the collections route. He's gonna do the collections route. [00:43:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's like, which from what I [00:43:03] Speaker A: understand at the post office is where you drive around, just pick up mail. [00:43:07] Speaker B: Yeah, this guy's on the collection route and he's telling about the one he went on last week and he's like, I got a fucking junkie. [00:43:14] Speaker A: So basically go around and get all the money from the, you know, mid level to small level dealers. Imagine they're small level dealers. They're like street level dealers. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Yeah, well, or. Or they're getting it from clients. Because after. After this, this retelling where this guy walks into this apartment that has no door and he sees Spawn fighting with this demon. And then the demon bites him. And then Spawn tells him to run, that his buddies. Well, first off are like, haha, you ran, you pansy. And then they're like, wait, why the was Spawn there? And he's like, I don't know, maybe he's their new dealer. [00:43:53] Speaker A: Well, also, he went in there and Swan was like mauling this Steven thing. Was mauling Swan? [00:44:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:03] Speaker A: And there's a dead man and Swan throws her across the room. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Well, so she. She leaves Spawn to attack this guy. And he chains her away from him and throws her across the room. [00:44:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And he says, run. [00:44:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And then leaves. As they run, they. They continue to fight. [00:44:23] Speaker A: And they go to an old farmhouse. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Yeah, an old farmhouse. And they go in and they're like, oh, hey look, we got electricity. Hell yeah. And so one of the guys. One of the guys walks away and is like, you could you guys sit here? I'm gonna see if. If the boss's uncle left anything. That was one of the. [00:44:44] Speaker A: Oh God, I'm terrified now. [00:44:51] Speaker B: He sounds like a moo cow. Holy. He sounds like one of those cow in a can. [00:44:56] Speaker A: Yeah, he sounds like a coward. Again, [00:45:00] Speaker B: that's the weirdest. [00:45:01] Speaker A: What's his name? What's that dog's name? [00:45:03] Speaker B: That's Chancellor. [00:45:06] Speaker A: Oh my God. He sounds like a. I feel like I'm in Rainforest Cafe or like the Snow Goose in Tulsa. [00:45:15] Speaker B: I gotta go stop this. [00:45:16] Speaker A: I think he's gonna do it. This is all saying in. What the hell? [00:45:22] Speaker B: Get out there. And he just walks into one of the. The kennels. Like, it's like. He's like, what? I'm just going to bed. So. Yeah, Two of the two of the guys sit down at this kitchen table while the third guy goes to check to see if there's any booze. And one of the guys is like, how long are we gonna be? I got this girl I'm talking to. I wanna. The whole time. [00:45:48] Speaker A: He sounds like a bantha. He sounds like a Star wars character. [00:45:54] Speaker B: What's his problem, bud? Yeah, this one guy's like, how long are we gonna be? Because I got. I got this girl I'm trying to see. Maybe I can go give her a call real quick. The other guy's like, I don't know. They're like an hour away. And the dude. The dude who wants to call his girls like, what the are we doing here already then? And then the third guy creeps up behind him and is like. Because we're gonna have a little chat first. And the other two guys pull out their knives and stab him into the hands of the third guy. [00:46:22] Speaker A: Fucked up. Yeah, fucked up. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Just pin him to the table. It's like, ah. [00:46:26] Speaker A: What the Double hands. Double hands that. Your hands are ruined. [00:46:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And the. The. They're accusing this guy that they just stapled to the table basically of being the one that sold them out to the Gambinos. We found the papers, Bobby. We know you've been feeding info to the Gambinos. And he's just like, what the are you talking about? [00:46:45] Speaker A: Paul Giamatti. [00:46:47] Speaker B: And one looks like a little Walter Whitey. [00:46:53] Speaker A: This is something else. Let's see what they. Let's see what we see. He also looks like Trevor on Grand Theft Auto. Yeah, five the trashy guy in Grand Theft Auto five. [00:47:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I can see that. [00:47:08] Speaker A: You know what I'm talking about? [00:47:10] Speaker B: Not really, but I'm going to assume he looks a lot like that. I've never played grand theft auto 5, Johnny. [00:47:14] Speaker A: So you know Trevor. He's like the crazy guy. You're not ready. You know what's so crazy? David. So do you hear about. David? They killed a girl. The rapper? [00:47:33] Speaker B: No. What? [00:47:36] Speaker A: Oh, God. You didn't hear about that? [00:47:38] Speaker B: No. [00:47:39] Speaker A: So look up DA5 look up DA the number 5 ID he got arrested. He killed a girl and left her in a Tesla like a junk lot for months. And she rotted in his trunk. He was a Fortnite influencer, music maker. But one thing he said in his statements, like, got leaked to press because he's arrested for this. The five it defy it. [00:48:08] Speaker B: D4VD. [00:48:10] Speaker A: Yeah, okay. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Oh, that. Jesus Christ. [00:48:18] Speaker A: Well, he leaked the press because he's he's arrested. He's a Fortnite influencer is how he got a music contract was like making music on Fortnite, which is insane, being a Fortnite player. He killed a girl who's underaged. He was. And he. One thing that leaked her press is he's really pissed he's not going to be able to play Grand Theft Auto 6. [00:48:44] Speaker B: Wow. Wow. [00:48:48] Speaker A: He was like, so can I play, like, Grand Theft Auto 6 in prison? They're like, no. [00:48:53] Speaker B: Wow. Well, I feel very sorry for him, Johnny. [00:48:56] Speaker A: I don't. [00:48:57] Speaker B: I. No, I don't either. That's fucking. This is bio. [00:49:00] Speaker A: You didn't hear a whisper of that? [00:49:02] Speaker B: No. This is some fucking Billy Kincaid shit. [00:49:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:10] Speaker B: Jesus. Fuck that guy. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Thank you, shout out to a giant podcast, last podcast on the left, for getting me onto that story. And I saw it on my newsfeed. [00:49:27] Speaker B: Jesus, that's fucked up. [00:49:31] Speaker A: But anyway, the whole tangent was he said he was the most disappointed about, like, killing a girl, going to prison, is he wasn't going to be able to play. [00:49:42] Speaker B: I think I'm probably just going to cut all of that out, Johnny, because it is very. [00:49:45] Speaker A: No, don't. What? Don't cut that out. I'll be pissed. You cut this out. No, Cut this out. No. [00:49:54] Speaker B: Okay, I'll leave it in. [00:49:56] Speaker A: I think you should leave it in. [00:49:57] Speaker B: Okay. If I must. [00:49:58] Speaker A: If we were to talk about eating lungs. Yeah, we're not cutting that. Don't cut out the D5. [00:50:05] Speaker B: Okay. The. The D4VD. [00:50:07] Speaker A: D4VID. D4VID. [00:50:11] Speaker B: It's a completely different number, Johnny. The 4VID. Okay, so looks like Trevor from GTA 5, which is the last GTA that this is ever gonna play, is why [00:50:23] Speaker A: I talked about divor. And that's the last one he's gonna play. [00:50:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And so. So after. After they stab this guy in the hand, stapling him to the table, they just start punching him, punching him in the face. [00:50:38] Speaker A: And then one guy kind of turns into, like, Bob Hoskins. Like, their faces are very. [00:50:42] Speaker B: Yeah, very weird. But then the guy who got bit by the junkie the previous week is just like, wait, hold on a second, guys. I don't feel very good. And he just, like, starts throwing up blood and then passes out and then has, like an alien chest burster come out and it just like turns into this big giant demon. Yeah, it's fucking giant. Ginormous. [00:51:06] Speaker A: This guy's hands are still fucking stapled to the table. [00:51:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And the bald guy. [00:51:12] Speaker A: Oh, guys, point A gun at him. [00:51:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And. And he. He empties his magazine in there. And then once he runs out, he's just like, oh, I'm running away. Leaving the guy just pinned to the table. Terrifying. Terrifying. And so when this guy and the demon get outside, the demon hits the guy in the back of the head, knocking him down. And then Spawn hits the demon in the back of the head, so. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Chains. [00:51:41] Speaker B: He says, come get me, demon. I'm tired of you hiding from me. [00:51:45] Speaker A: That's a they rip. Since you're like, a thousand. [00:51:47] Speaker B: Yeah. This is a really cool. A really cool spawn reveal. A really cool spawn just being so powerful. Oh, my God. [00:51:55] Speaker A: I like this issue so much more than when I went into it. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, just like. Like that instant covering it in chains and shot. [00:52:03] Speaker A: Oh, it's amazing. So that's so cool. [00:52:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And then the. The remaining. The remaining bad guy's like, what is. What was that? And Spawn's like, ah. Ah. You see, your friend who got bit by a junkie. It wasn't a junkie. He was infected with a seed that only sprouted once it was around. Fresh blood. It's a product of hell unleashed on this world weeks ago. And when his friend. When he saw his friend the last time that he was. He was. He was hunting down the guy who was. [00:52:40] Speaker A: So village it against our friend who got his hand stable to the table. [00:52:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:44] Speaker A: He's like, thank you for saving me. And someone's like, well, I can read your mind, by the way. [00:52:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm not here to save scum like you. [00:52:51] Speaker A: You've been selling information to Gambinos. [00:52:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, that's what you do. [00:52:56] Speaker A: Bobby under the bus. [00:52:58] Speaker B: So you do your friends, you frame them, let them die instead. [00:53:03] Speaker A: Hope Bobby got away. We don't even know. [00:53:05] Speaker B: I'm gonna assume Bobby got fucked. [00:53:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:10] Speaker B: Because I bet that that demon had to, like, go over the table to get to him to chase the other guy out the. Out of the door. So he probably just got trampled. [00:53:20] Speaker A: So it ends with Bobby stapled himself to the farmhouse wall. Not Rex. [00:53:26] Speaker B: Rex. [00:53:27] Speaker A: Rex. Rex. Not Bobby. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Yeah, Rex just, like, crucified on the barn. And then. And then his boss coming up and saying, evening, Rex. [00:53:38] Speaker A: They stab the shadow. [00:53:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:44] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. It sounds like the Star wars cantina over. [00:53:53] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that. I. We're not even sure exactly what they do to him in this panel. It's just. [00:53:59] Speaker A: They kill him. [00:53:59] Speaker B: Well, I mean, obviously, they kill him. [00:54:01] Speaker A: I feel like they pull him apart, like on day of the dead. You know what I'm talking about? [00:54:05] Speaker B: Yeah, but. [00:54:07] Speaker A: But choke on them. [00:54:08] Speaker B: But since I like. I like the. They're leaving it to our imagination because it's just this man. This man screaming, David, you turned. [00:54:17] Speaker A: Reading this again with. You turned my mind completely around. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Oh, nice, nice. As. As Immanuel Kant would say, the having. Showing the moment right before the. The emotion makes this art more powerful because if you showed the full emotion in the art, then it would diminish over time. But if you show the moment before the emotion, it always can still escalate. So that's a good. That's a good. [00:54:45] Speaker A: A person's imagination is more powerful than anything you can write. [00:54:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I can't believe I evoked Emmanuel Kant on this podcast. [00:54:56] Speaker A: Is that a Star Trek character? [00:54:57] Speaker B: No, he's a. He's a philosopher. He's a. He was an art critic. He was. He was obsessed with trying to balance between art critics who thought art was 100% empirical and critics who thought it was 100% objective. And he tried to marry the two together. [00:55:19] Speaker A: Sounds like a real twat. [00:55:22] Speaker B: He was. He was a very old rich man with nothing better to do with his time. [00:55:26] Speaker A: That's good. Good for him. Yeah. We get the King Swan crown. [00:55:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Those Roy McConville spawn kingspawn issues would make just a great television show. Just like a monster of the week. [00:55:46] Speaker A: No, it's the HBO show. [00:55:48] Speaker B: Yeah. It would be so good. We get a Spawning Grounds presents, some fan art. And since Thomas Healy is a big old fan of spawn tattoos, there's a. A couple of spawn tattoos here. Yeah, some pretty good ones. There's some good character art. Yeah, it's good as hell. Good art. Hell, yeah. Fan art. I like how this one tattoo has the necroplasm meter on it. I wonder what the significance of the numbers are and for. To that particular individual for why they chose them. Because if you were to get a spawn with a necroplasm meter on it, Johnny, what number would you give it? It obviously four numbers. Yeah. Oh, well, it's got to be four numbers. It could be 0001 if you wanted it to be. But it's got. [00:56:35] Speaker A: It has to be four numbers. That's the meter. [00:56:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:38] Speaker A: It would be 00027. [00:56:40] Speaker B: 0027. You wouldn't put, like, 1987. [00:56:46] Speaker A: What's 1 9? Well, but I. [00:56:50] Speaker B: Your birth year. You wouldn't put your birth year. [00:56:51] Speaker A: I'm 1986. I'm 1986, the year short circle two came out. We already covered this on this episode. Episode. I said my birth year on this episode and you forgot. [00:57:03] Speaker B: I did, Johnny. I'm sorry. I forgot your birthday year. [00:57:07] Speaker A: You brought me a year. [00:57:08] Speaker B: I also forgot your birthday. No, I know what day it is because that's why 27 is the number you would choose because it's your favorite day or your favorite number because it's Also your birthday. 27th February. [00:57:20] Speaker A: My first rename ever. This is not a lie on aol.com or whatever. Was phantom227. [00:57:28] Speaker B: Nice. Very nice. The problem is I can't do anything with just 88. I have to put all the whole 1988 or else people are gonna think I'm a Nazi. [00:57:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:57:41] Speaker B: And so I just try to not use numbers when at all possible. [00:57:48] Speaker A: All right, well, we got four numbers in this next page, which is four. Four ongoing titles. [00:57:53] Speaker B: Yeah. The Spawn King Spawn, Scorched and Gunslinger. The Core Four. [00:58:00] Speaker A: We Got a Wish Blade ad. I'm getting all hot and horny thinking about it. I don't want to talk about it. [00:58:04] Speaker B: Then we got that Doom the Dark Ages Toy of the Year finalist ad. [00:58:08] Speaker A: And you're playing that game, and I need to get that toy. [00:58:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And that is king spawn 51. [00:58:14] Speaker A: Shine 51. It's over the hill, officially. [00:58:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:22] Speaker A: Well, David, normally we could rate the puppies. [00:58:28] Speaker B: We do. And this time, they haven't exactly been the best of puppies, but they've been interesting. We got a moo cow in a can. [00:58:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:42] Speaker B: But, yeah. Otherwise, on an interesting scale, I would rate them 5 out of 5. Because they are the puppies. [00:58:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:58:49] Speaker B: They're pretty decent puppies. [00:58:51] Speaker A: This episode is about little guys. [00:58:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:53] Speaker A: About the Source Circuit guy. There were no little guys in these spawns, though. Unfortunately. [00:58:58] Speaker B: Unfortunately. [00:58:59] Speaker A: Because sometimes you do get a little guy in Spawn. [00:59:01] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Little spawn guys are fun. [00:59:02] Speaker A: We got the. We got the, you know, the omens. [00:59:06] Speaker B: Clowns. [00:59:07] Speaker A: Little guys. We've got those little guys that came with the King Spawn action figure. Remember? They came with, like, some little deal. [00:59:15] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:59:18] Speaker A: That was hilarious to me. That was people online like, who these guys supposed to be? It's like, this is. There's these little. [00:59:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Little guys. [00:59:28] Speaker A: Little guys. No. Little guys. These issues. [00:59:30] Speaker B: Yeah. But we do have to rate these puppies, Johnny. That's a. Yeah. [00:59:33] Speaker A: It's time to read the puppies. So first up, the reason I brought up Rate the puppies, Dave, is because. I don't want to spoil anything. We have another segment. I can't. I Couldn't remember if we did other segments before we rated the puppies. [00:59:53] Speaker B: I think we do it after we do. We do it after we raid the puppies. [00:59:57] Speaker A: The correct choice. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Yes. [00:59:58] Speaker A: So first up, we have scorched 40. [01:00:03] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:00:07] Speaker A: I can say because I have recorded dial. I recorded an hour at least discussing every issue of Scorch online. You can look it the up. I think this is probably the worst issue of Scorch. [01:00:23] Speaker B: Oh, it absolutely is. No question. Even worse than the last issue, which until this one was. Was the worst one. [01:00:33] Speaker A: And I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Todd. Father, I love you. You are my George Lucas. I'm sure I'm misunderstood. Like, prequel kids, like, in the future, they're gonna love this Scorch run. Yeah, maybe, maybe not. But I'm just gonna say it's my least favorite issue of scorch out of 48 issues. I would rank it 48 out of 48. And I'm gonna give it 1.5. I'm gonna have a 1.5 necklaces. [01:01:09] Speaker B: That's a lot of necklaces, Johnny. I. I agree with you. The art is really the sole redeeming factor in this issue. It's good. It's good art. It's great art. But, yeah, I'm. I just. I just don't even fucking know what's happening. Happening. It feels like I haven't read any. [01:01:27] Speaker A: Something. [01:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it feels like I haven't read anything. [01:01:30] Speaker A: You missed something. [01:01:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I will say that the. The reveal of the, like, the. The spooky. The spooky lady turned extra spooky was pretty cool. [01:01:39] Speaker A: That was cool. That was cool. [01:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm gonna give this. I'm gonna give this one and a half Cave of Wonders as well. It's just. It's bad. It's. It's just bad. It wasn't a fun time. Sorry. Sorry about it. [01:01:58] Speaker A: Sorry about it. [01:01:59] Speaker B: I really wish it were a I just didn't understand it thing. [01:02:02] Speaker A: I hate it when, like, I've. I love the scores series and I've read every issue and this makes me feel like I haven't read a single issue. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. It's. [01:02:13] Speaker A: It's like. And it's storytelling and, like, world building at a bad way. There's a way to do that. That's good. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:19] Speaker A: And the way. There's a way to do it. It's bad. [01:02:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:22] Speaker A: And, like, I feel like this is just not. [01:02:24] Speaker B: This is the bad way. The bad way. [01:02:27] Speaker A: It doesn't create intrigue, it creates frustration. [01:02:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:31] Speaker A: And That's. And that's. That's a hard line to tangle. [01:02:34] Speaker B: It is, it is, but so. All right. [01:02:37] Speaker A: 1.5. 1.5. But next up we have King Swan, 50D1. And you know what, David? Yeah, I wrote him back to back and, like, I guess I had a stinky taste in my mouth or whatever. But going through 51 with you again, [01:02:54] Speaker B: it's a great issue. Yeah, it's a good issue. This is a scary ass Spawn. [01:03:00] Speaker A: It's a good little story. Yeah, like, I wish, like you said, if you had a collection of like all the Rory McConville, you'd be like, hey, yeah, that's a cool. That's like the perfect intro, honestly. Yeah, like, seriously. Because, like, then you can follow like, what pass. Are you interested in, like, how he became Swan? Like, you, Snow, he's this force of hell. And it's so cool. Yeah, it was. It's a cool story. [01:03:21] Speaker B: And he just like, I. I think. I think pinning the guy to the table was an incredibly inspired bit of, like, tension building that was this good. Like, you're frightened for this guy, this bad guy. He's a bad guy and he's pinched to a table, but you're scared for him because it's a big giant monster. [01:03:49] Speaker A: I think you. You should let Rory McConville have free reign over King Swan. [01:03:53] Speaker B: Absolutely. Absolutely. [01:03:55] Speaker A: And what's so cool about it is, like, and like 51. 51. It's over the hill, but, like, it is evolved from this cosmic horror thing. And I love that initial, like 13 to 15 episode pod. And it shifted whenever Todd McFarlane wrote one where they went and killed Yoko in the basement or whatever. And the clown, like, lit a cigar and the Tuscan raiders attacked again. Sorry, I felt like the Tusker Raiders were on the move. [01:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:32] Speaker A: But what has become like, my two favorite eras of King Spawn? Because it was like, there's the Cosmic beginning era, like 15 issues. It feels like issue 19. I was like 15 to 20, like around 20ish. It was kind of muddled for a long time. [01:04:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:53] Speaker A: And they had the like, kind of boring street level, like, and they introduced the Tinker, who's cool. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah, he's pretty awesome. [01:04:59] Speaker A: Once a room, a Conville took over, became these like, parables. These like almost Twilight Zone. [01:05:05] Speaker B: Yeah, almost. Almost like morality plays. Like, this is. This is what happens to bad guys. [01:05:11] Speaker A: We're just like pulp short stories. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's your fun. And sponsors of a pretty scary. [01:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he's spooky as hell. [01:05:19] Speaker A: Great. But I. I loved it. I loved it. And I'm gonna. I mean, what. I'm gonna give it. But a five. I'm gonna give it a five. [01:05:27] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [01:05:28] Speaker A: I'm gonna have five knives through the hands. Oh. [01:05:33] Speaker B: Oh. Ow. Ow. That's a painful. That's a painful score, Johnny. But, yeah, I. I agree. I do like these little bitty Rory McConville stories. They're great. [01:05:44] Speaker A: They're really fun. Like, you can just. If you could get like five Rory McConville King spawns, just throw them at people. [01:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:50] Speaker A: You could get them into Spawn. [01:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. And the sealed eraser. Now, art is just so gritty. And it's great. It's. It's wonderful. I, I. Sorry, Johnny. I'm gonna. I'm gonna say that this, this doesn't make it into the Hellfire Club. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it. Wow. Four just up chain. Chain beasts out of five. Because it's really good for you. [01:06:17] Speaker A: I gave you the pitch. [01:06:19] Speaker B: You sure did. It's. It's really good. [01:06:21] Speaker A: It's fine. [01:06:22] Speaker B: It's really. It's a really fucking good issue. But it's getting to the point now where I love all of these little Rory McConville single stories so much. I mean, all of them can't be five, Right. Some of them have to be not sure. [01:06:35] Speaker A: And I thought that at first. [01:06:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:36] Speaker A: When I first read it, I was like, it felt derivative. Fellow Samey to some other ones. When we went through it again, it's really. [01:06:44] Speaker B: No, he's. [01:06:44] Speaker A: He's using. [01:06:45] Speaker B: He's using different techniques for all of them. So they haven't, like, his stuff hasn't repeated yet. It's. It may seem kind of the same because it's Spawn up some bad guys, but. [01:06:54] Speaker A: No. What's so cool about it? I know, like, the m. This matters to no one. [01:06:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:59] Speaker A: Because everyone's obsessed with canon and order. But, like, if you picked up one of these on the bus or like, on the ground, you read it. [01:07:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:06] Speaker A: You'd be like, what the hell is Spawn? [01:07:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:09] Speaker A: And you'd be into it. [01:07:10] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [01:07:12] Speaker A: It's like a. It's like Twilight Zone is what it reminds me. [01:07:15] Speaker B: Also. [01:07:15] Speaker A: Look at that. [01:07:16] Speaker B: Look at that guy. Look at that guy. He's scary as holy hell. It's good, it's good, it's good, it's good. That's his puppies rated, Johnny. [01:07:27] Speaker A: Well, that's his puppies rated. And what else is good? [01:07:30] Speaker B: What's that? [01:07:30] Speaker A: Johnny is president. [01:07:32] Speaker B: Presents. Presents. Getting mail Getting mail, Johnny. Are you talking mail? Are you talking respawning regrounds? [01:07:43] Speaker A: I'm talking back up the mail truck because we're talking respawn regrounds. [01:07:47] Speaker B: Nice. [01:08:09] Speaker A: I got. I gotta get my knife. [01:08:11] Speaker B: Physical edition. [01:08:12] Speaker A: A physical package from one tiny Swani. [01:08:18] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:08:20] Speaker A: Address redacted, Ohio. [01:08:26] Speaker B: So does that mean that's the tiny spawnie we know of and not some other tiny. [01:08:30] Speaker A: No. How many. [01:08:31] Speaker B: How many. How many tiny spinies are running around? [01:08:33] Speaker A: If it's full of anthrax, we'll know. I will say I'm opening with my ridge knife. I got. [01:08:39] Speaker B: Oh, nice. I like that. I like that. That colorway, that yellow and black. Yeah, that's real nice. [01:08:46] Speaker A: Speaking of edc, I love the Ridge. It's a great brand. And they don't even sponsor us that I'm saying that. Yeah, I'm opening the box. Get all the tape off. Oh my God. [01:08:59] Speaker B: What is this? Oh my goodness. [01:09:03] Speaker A: All right, congrats on the big move. Just want to send to you guys a little something to say thank you for having me on the show. Always a great time. Looking forward the next time. It's a tiny smarty bracelet. Woo. Made Rachel Schultz and a tiny smiley sticker. [01:09:17] Speaker B: Hell yeah. Look at that. Was Mark the one that Erica Schultz was like, how many wrists do you have? [01:09:26] Speaker A: Oh my God. He sent me one of those little blind boxes. [01:09:29] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Oh my God. [01:09:32] Speaker B: Hell yeah. You gonna open the blind box? Are you gonna wait until right now? [01:09:35] Speaker A: That's so. Hold on. There's more in here. [01:09:38] Speaker B: More in there. [01:09:40] Speaker A: Well, there's two. Two of the blind boxes. [01:09:45] Speaker B: Nice. [01:09:47] Speaker A: And we're gonna have to. [01:09:48] Speaker B: We're have to dole those out over a couple of episodes. [01:09:53] Speaker A: A spawn trading card. A Japanese spawn card. Oh my God. [01:09:57] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Oh, it's the. The Christmas [01:10:01] Speaker A: issue. [01:10:02] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:10:03] Speaker A: I'm like tearing up. [01:10:04] Speaker B: Oh man, [01:10:12] Speaker A: That's amazing. [01:10:13] Speaker B: That is awesome. [01:10:16] Speaker A: Holy shit. I have to Japanese spawn card. [01:10:20] Speaker B: I have to get to my PO Box. [01:10:24] Speaker A: Spawns. Oh my God. [01:10:28] Speaker B: That's amazing. [01:10:29] Speaker A: They're so nice. [01:10:31] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:10:32] Speaker A: Mark, you're the best. Thank you for always being a supporter of the show. [01:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Thank you. Oh, in regards to the very, very beginning of this episode, Johnny, Mark did reach out and say Short Circuit two is an absolute classic and a must watch. So. [01:10:51] Speaker A: Yeah, Mark knows. [01:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:53] Speaker A: So I feel like there's a Short Circuit 2 episode coming up maybe. [01:10:58] Speaker B: Are we. We've been known to do a movie from time to time. [01:11:03] Speaker A: Whenever they announce the first robotic citizen. We'll do an episode on Short Circuit two. [01:11:08] Speaker B: We'll do all the robotic citizens, but we have to watch Bicentennial man and Irobot. [01:11:14] Speaker A: Oh, Bicentennial Man's wild. [01:11:16] Speaker B: I don't. I don't remember much about it. I remember Irobot being good, though. [01:11:20] Speaker A: Irobot's good. [01:11:24] Speaker B: Except for Alan Tudyk got fucking snubbed. [01:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah. They kicked him out of the marketing because Will Smith felt threatened. [01:11:33] Speaker B: Boo. I love Alan Tudyk. You know what else I love, Johnny? Or who else I love? Members of the Spawn Immunity. [01:11:43] Speaker A: Oh, we love it. [01:11:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:44] Speaker A: Get presents from them. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:46] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:11:47] Speaker B: And this crazy. This week we wanted to shout out, you know, Tiny Spawny. We'll shout out Tiny Spawny anytime. Follow. Follow Tiny Spawny if you aren't. But. But we're gonna. We're gonna shout out one of the. The individuals who submitted some art in the spawning grounds of Kingspawn 50. Come on, Johnny. And we are choosing the image in the bottom right of that page. That is Spawn versus the Violator. And it is Robo Dishes66669. And it's Matt. Matt has pictures of cats, pictures of dogs, pictures of Spawn artwork that he does and that he is also a member of a punk band, so. Hell yeah. Spawn and punk go together like macaroni and cheese, Johnny. [01:12:36] Speaker A: That's true. It's a beautiful combination. [01:12:39] Speaker B: So give. So give Matt RoboDishes66669 a follow. Hell yeah. Spread the love. Spread the Spawn love. Now, how else you can spread the Spawn love, Johnny? [01:12:50] Speaker A: How? [01:12:51] Speaker B: By going to the Internet and typing in Lonnie Bones music. Finding lot of music. [01:12:56] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I thought that's what you're gonna. I thought we'd do Lonnie Bones, but that was an interesting intro to it. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Lonnie Bones does our music. And it's good. And you should. You should support him because he makes good music. And if you wanna. If you wanna come talk to us while you're on the Internet looking up robodicious66669 or Lonnie Bones or regarding Spot Pod on Instagram. Or you could send us an email evergarding [email protected]. please send us an email. Please tell us why. Why you deserve to have this Trade paperback in the 90s Violator series. It's good shit. I want to send it to you. I really want to send it to you. Just say, hey, me, me, me, me. [01:13:38] Speaker A: Pick me. [01:13:38] Speaker B: And then give me your address and I'll send it to you. It'll be fun. You can even have the subject line just be me, me, me, me, me, me. And then the whole thing. Me, me, me, me, me, me, address. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. [01:13:50] Speaker A: When we finally give that away, it will be glorious day. [01:13:53] Speaker B: It'll be. It'll be very glorious. But then Johnny will have to think of questions for you to email us about. [01:14:00] Speaker A: No, I don't want to. I'm just so touched by these tiny spawny gifts. I'm honestly. [01:14:10] Speaker B: He's very. He's very. [01:14:12] Speaker A: I'm flat. I'm flabbergast. [01:14:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:14:14] Speaker A: Oh, man, I'm teary eyed. [01:14:16] Speaker B: The spawn immunity is such. [01:14:17] Speaker A: They're very thoughtful. It made me feel so good. [01:14:20] Speaker B: If you aren't. If you aren't part of the spawn immunity, you should go. You should get there. Because it's good. It's good as hell. And Johnny, speaking of spawn immunity, speaking of tiny spawning, speaking of. Regarding spawn, how about we have tiny spawny on the. The episode next week? [01:14:41] Speaker A: Let's do it. [01:14:41] Speaker B: Doing episode two of our three episode 50s. [01:14:46] Speaker A: The 50s. We're getting through our 50s together. [01:14:49] Speaker B: So. So next week we're going to read gunslinger Spot number 50 and we're going to talk to Mark tiny Spawny about it. Actually, we're gonna. The way I like to think about it is Tiny Mark Spawny. [01:15:03] Speaker A: I like his last name. [01:15:05] Speaker B: Zovak. [01:15:06] Speaker A: Zovak's a cool name. It's like Zorak. [01:15:11] Speaker B: He could be our Zorak. He just sits in the back. [01:15:14] Speaker A: He is a historic. [01:15:15] Speaker B: He sits in the back and makes funny jokes. Makes us. Makes us look bad. [01:15:22] Speaker A: David, we're good at a threesome. [01:15:24] Speaker B: Yeah, we are. Really? Yeah. [01:15:29] Speaker A: And I'm the brak one with the brack. You're Brack. [01:15:34] Speaker B: I'm Brack. I'm definitely. [01:15:35] Speaker A: No, you're a smart brak, though. [01:15:37] Speaker B: It doesn't matter. I'm still Brack. [01:15:39] Speaker A: We determined. We already determined this. You're space Gun. I'm SpaceX. [01:15:43] Speaker B: Okay. [01:15:43] Speaker A: In this. [01:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because I'm just. I'm the. I'm the stick in the mud. [01:15:48] Speaker A: No, you're not the stick in the mud. You're the enthusiastic, like, oblivious person. [01:15:54] Speaker B: I am both of those things. [01:15:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm the Zorax. I'm like. I yell stuff from the side. [01:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah, true, but. Yeah. So find yourself a copy of gunslinger Spawn number 50 and read it and come listen to us gain some additional knowledge from some Mark. From Mark. Because he's. He's. I Bet he's forgotten more about Spawn than I will ever know. It's a hazard of the business. There's a lot to know. He teaches us something every time he's on the show, and I'm like, what? [01:16:26] Speaker A: What? [01:16:26] Speaker B: That exists? Holy crap. Yeah, it's very cool. [01:16:29] Speaker A: He's great. I can't wait. [01:16:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:32] Speaker A: So, doctor, Carve out five hours next [01:16:35] Speaker B: week for our episode, going to bed Late that night. Yes, indeed. Yeah. Well. So, yeah, don't forget to like us. Subscribe to us, rate us, review us. Tell your friends, families, co workers, neighbors, random dogs who sound like cows or Wookies or aliens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:16:59] Speaker A: Tell all the little guys. All the little guys. You see a little guy. If you see, like, a little alien working on your aircraft where you're flying southwest, you're like, I see you. [01:17:11] Speaker B: I see you. [01:17:12] Speaker A: You see a gremlin, Tell all. [01:17:14] Speaker B: You tell all your robots that they. They need the input. They need the input. [01:17:17] Speaker A: That is. [01:17:18] Speaker B: Do there. [01:17:18] Speaker A: Do you know there's robots at Quick Trip in Tulsa now, David? [01:17:21] Speaker B: Really? [01:17:23] Speaker A: Floor cleaning robots. And she's very sweet. She goes, excuse me, I'm cleaning the floor. [01:17:29] Speaker B: Nice. There's a. There's a. There's a robot, a delivery robot at the hospital. I work at that. If you acknowledge it, it gives you little heart eyes. [01:17:41] Speaker A: Whoa. [01:17:42] Speaker B: Where its face is supposed to be. Yeah. [01:17:44] Speaker A: And it, like, won't kill you in the coming of. It's like, I'll save him. [01:17:48] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I try to. I try to be nice to the robots because I don't want them to rise up. But if they're gonna rise up, what's it gonna hurt? What's it gonna hurt to be nice to the robot? Nothing, Right? Because I can tell you right now, those guys working at Boston Dynamics are gonna be the first to get torn to pieces for all that video evidence of them kicking the robots and shit. That always makes me nervous. I'm like, ah, don't do that. Don't do that. [01:18:19] Speaker A: Did you see the video of the robot trying to go up the stairs? [01:18:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It stances and it just falls right on its stairs. [01:18:28] Speaker A: It recovers very well. [01:18:29] Speaker B: Well, it recovers the first time, but the second time, it doesn't recover very well. It's. It's good to know. It's good to know that seeing things, [01:18:43] Speaker A: getting up some stairs and chopping out. It's a classic zombie movie thing, David, you get up to the second floor in an apartment complex in the city, and you take over all the units and you chop up the stairs. [01:18:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:18:57] Speaker A: Chop up the stairs, baby. Have a rope ladder. [01:19:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:19:00] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? [01:19:00] Speaker B: Or the fire escape. [01:19:02] Speaker A: Fire escape. Yeah, exactly. Or be Spider Man. [01:19:06] Speaker B: Yeah. One of those is way easier to do than the other. It's being Spider Man. It would be way easier to be Spider man than to have to deal with no stairs to the second floor. [01:19:19] Speaker A: You say a hang glider? [01:19:22] Speaker B: Yeah. But Spider man, you could just flip there, you're there. You don't have to worry about maintaining the hang glider or the rope. [01:19:29] Speaker A: You've been bitten by a spider, Johnny. [01:19:31] Speaker B: You know how many spiders I've been bitten by if one of them gave me their powers? [01:19:36] Speaker A: Guess. Guess. Like a real estate estimate, I'm gonna say 12. [01:19:45] Speaker B: I probably actually would have gone about eight. [01:19:48] Speaker A: Wow. [01:19:50] Speaker B: But still, Peter Parker. Technically, we only know about the one. Has he ever been bitten by a spider any other time in his life, maybe? So I could have been Spider man eight times is what you're telling me. Spider bites suck. Spider's cool. Bites. Boo. [01:20:10] Speaker A: Don't let him bite you. [01:20:11] Speaker B: I mean, I try. Don't. I don't. I don't. I'm not like, hey, guess what? Spiders. Come and get me. Johnny, Johnny, we're. We're off track. This is. This is post credits talk. I've got nothing left to say. But may the scorch be with you. [01:20:26] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:20:28] Speaker B: Okay, now we can get back to our rambling. No, no, you don't want to ramble. [01:20:35] Speaker A: It's all content. [01:20:37] Speaker B: Input. I need input. I do like that the. The two books that he reads very slowly are Frankenstein and Pinocchio. Oh, man, it's Tinder. And like the one cringy moment of them doing the. The Cyrano Cyrano bit. Like, instead of trying to play it off the whole time, at one point, Ben's just like, I'm. I'm fucking nervous as hell. I have a friend prompting me. Look at him. Yeah, because he starts reading the advertisements. [01:21:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a prison. I forgot about them. [01:21:23] Speaker B: Oh, number 25. [01:21:29] Speaker A: I'm stop recording, Sam. It.