Episoe 175 - Rat City 20 and Sam And Twitch Case files (2024) 20!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: No angels, only demons. Foreign. And welcome to the Malibu. This is regarding Spawn, the world's best Spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:46] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny. It is springtime and it is real nice. And when you get a real nice day and you get a real not nice day right after it, it makes you feel that much worse for having had a nice day. [00:01:03] Speaker A: There's been 80 here for like a month. I can't. I can't relate to that. [00:01:07] Speaker B: Well, sorry, Mr. 80 for a month. No, but I still can't. I still can't put. I still can't put my plants that I started growing like two months ago outside because there's the potential for frost again this weekend. [00:01:21] Speaker A: Did you get any. That nasty storm last night? [00:01:24] Speaker B: We did, and Mr. Dingus here fucking had a terrible night, so I didn't sleep at all. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Just to be clear, if this is your first episode. Dave is not talking about his penis. He's talking about the dog. [00:01:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, the dog. The dog. Dingus. Bill Dingus. Because he prances around like a pony. So like Bill the pony from Lord of the Rings. [00:01:41] Speaker A: I love Bill. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:44] Speaker A: So what's the difference? Okay, we talked about the difference between a mule and a donkey last week. What's the difference with a pony? [00:01:49] Speaker B: I think a pony is just a young horse. [00:01:52] Speaker A: No, I think a pony is its own species. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Is it? [00:01:56] Speaker A: I don't. [00:01:56] Speaker B: I honestly don't know. I haven't. I haven't looked into that one. They stumped me, Johnny. [00:02:02] Speaker A: I stumped you. [00:02:03] Speaker B: But I could. I could tell you that Bill is one. [00:02:07] Speaker A: No. Here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's been hot for a while. Well, we got a. I almost drove into Tornado. I was driving back from Megan's. [00:02:15] Speaker B: Oh, Jesus. [00:02:16] Speaker A: And I was like, man, this seems really bad. So I called my buddy James. I was like, I bet James is on top of this. And he was like, yo, dude, don't drive north. I told him where I was. He's like, tornado's like, right in front of you. Just don't drive north. Like, either head south or just stop moving. It's pulled over for like 10 minutes and then it's calmed down. But it was intense. [00:02:33] Speaker B: That is. That is. I don't miss that. I don't miss that. I miss sitting on the porch and watching it. But as a whole, no, not really. [00:02:42] Speaker A: The sirens were going off and it was just. Tornado happens when an alien pays, like 10 million space bucks to like, I want to make a tornado. Like, it's like bid for like the Hunger Games or like, like a video game. It's just really expensive. It's really hard to control. That's why it's like, wow. It's like a video game they play. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Tornado or, or if it's, if it's like an actual. Like it's like a. It's like a fair ride. Like they're only allowed to do it for certain times of the year. And so it's a thrill seek. Yeah, that'd be pretty fun. Seeking thrills. I sure hope that aliens who come here find some sort of thrill and interacting with our beautiful. Our beautiful. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Say they don't. [00:03:26] Speaker B: Well, that doesn't, that's not. [00:03:27] Speaker A: They kind of see us as like an inconvenience and they just, they really, they really just don't want us to blow each other up. They're really interested in nukes and like army stuff, but they, they don't really care about us and they abduct us and. But whatever. [00:03:41] Speaker B: Well, who knows? [00:03:43] Speaker A: Mulder knows. [00:03:46] Speaker B: Yeah, but he, he wants to believe the joke. [00:03:49] Speaker A: He does believe. [00:03:50] Speaker B: He does. He does. He wants. He wants and he needs and he does. [00:03:54] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm the molder. You're the skully. [00:03:57] Speaker B: I am quite skeptical, aren't I? I'm a very beautiful. I'm a voluptuous redhead. [00:04:01] Speaker A: Yeah, you're skeptical about some things. Some things you take at face value. [00:04:08] Speaker B: My, my credulity is inconsistent, to say the least. [00:04:14] Speaker A: You can say that. [00:04:17] Speaker B: That's exactly what I'd say. Yes. And I did. But why, why are we, why are we quadruling, Johnny? What is, what are we credulous about this week? [00:04:25] Speaker A: This makes you think of Spider Man 2 with all apparent credulity, which is an important being. Artist. Mj. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Speaking of voluptuous redheads. [00:04:35] Speaker A: What? Who? [00:04:37] Speaker B: Mj? Mary Jane. Canonically. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. [00:04:41] Speaker B: Even, even the radioactive spider powered men among us is not immune to the voluptuous redhead. It's a tale as old as time, Johnny. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I love Mary Jane. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Angela Lanesbury is about to come out of like peek around the corner and sing at Peter Parker about song as old as time. Tale as old as time. Song as old as rhyme. There we go. [00:05:08] Speaker A: Beauty and the Beast. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Beauty and the Beast. Yes. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Is that what you're saying? [00:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Peter Parker is a beast. [00:05:17] Speaker A: Is he? [00:05:17] Speaker B: He's. He's a spider man. [00:05:19] Speaker A: I know, but he's like slick. I don't know if he's a be. I don't describe him as a beast. Like the beast. [00:05:28] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I guess Beast is the. Is a beast. [00:05:31] Speaker A: Beast is a beast. He is a beast. [00:05:33] Speaker B: I feel like. I feel like Beast and Angela Lansbury would get along real well together. [00:05:37] Speaker A: Yeah, of course, he probably was Murder She Wrote. You know they're making A Murder She Wrote with Jamie Lee Curtis. A movie. [00:05:44] Speaker B: Really? [00:05:44] Speaker A: Yes. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Interesting. Interesting. That's. That's the. That's a Murder She Wrote. [00:05:49] Speaker A: This is like a rumor. This isn't like a thing that's not made up. It's not AI like it's going into production. [00:05:54] Speaker B: There's a Murder She Wrote channel on Pluto. That's usually what I leave for the dogs because they've been quietest when I leave. Murder she Wrote on. [00:06:02] Speaker A: Really? [00:06:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:04] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:06:06] Speaker B: The love of murder mystery, Johnny. [00:06:09] Speaker A: So why are we credulating with all apparent credulity, what are we. What are. [00:06:13] Speaker B: What are we. What are we credulous about this week? [00:06:17] Speaker A: Spawn's universe, baby. [00:06:18] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Because we are respawn regarding Spawn. For each week, we bring 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. Spawn does appear one of them. He's been name dropped in both. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Both? Yeah. [00:06:34] Speaker A: One of he appears one of his name dropped. But they are not starring the traditional swan. Swan's universe has grown beyond Swan. [00:06:44] Speaker B: It is. It is quite big. It's quite big. [00:06:46] Speaker A: He's the head of the Kraken. But there are many tentacles. Yes. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:06:51] Speaker A: And this week we are doing a pair of 20s in the 20s. 20s, a lesser go song. What do you think of 20s? [00:07:04] Speaker B: I think it's fine. [00:07:05] Speaker A: Reminds me of Oingo Boingo song. [00:07:07] Speaker B: Like a Broadway musical all the way to the 30s. [00:07:11] Speaker A: We're almost there. [00:07:12] Speaker B: Almost there. [00:07:13] Speaker A: We're on either side of it. [00:07:15] Speaker B: Downhill slope. Nowhere to go but down. But up. [00:07:19] Speaker A: Nowhere to go down and up. And so we were doing 20s. 20s. Rat City number 20. And Sam and Twitch case files. 20, 24, number 20. [00:07:29] Speaker B: We're talking on dubs today. [00:07:32] Speaker A: And if you guess why I said the full title, you can probably guess if you listen last week, what format I read it on. [00:07:42] Speaker B: Johnny, are you saying that you have another digital issue? [00:07:46] Speaker A: I do. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Nice. [00:07:48] Speaker A: This is my two gaffes. I don't have them, but there was that. There was a brief week and I thought I got them all, but I guess I missed a couple. [00:07:55] Speaker B: It happens. It happens, Johnny. Happens to the best of us. Case in point, it has happened to you the better of the 20. [00:08:02] Speaker A: I have 21 and beyond. And I was like, where's the 20? [00:08:05] Speaker B: I can see if. I can see if I. My shop still has those. Those two issues. And I can send them to you. I don't know if they do. [00:08:13] Speaker A: I mean, if you're looking for something [00:08:14] Speaker B: to do, since it was like six months ago. Johnny, I'm always looking for something to do. Do I need to look for something to do? No, I already got shit that I gotta do. But do I want to do something else? Oh, absolutely. Every single time. [00:08:28] Speaker A: So we're doing rat city number 20, and Sam, switch case files. 2024, number 20, the third story arc. Both from November 2025. So hopefully you did your taxes. Speaking of 2025, we're recording on Tax Day. [00:08:46] Speaker B: Yes. The day President Abraham Lincoln died. [00:08:49] Speaker A: I do believe that's why they made it Tax Day. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Oh, no, I don't. I don't know. It's just. I just. I just read recently. April 15th, he got shot on the 14th and he died on the 15th. [00:09:02] Speaker A: That's the only one that's not a conspiracy. I think that guy just went and shot him. [00:09:06] Speaker B: John Wilkes Booth. Yeah, he was just. [00:09:07] Speaker A: He just wouldn't shot him. [00:09:09] Speaker B: He was just. He was just upset. He was just an actor, man. I don't know. Was it. Was he a good actor? I don't. I don't. I don't know. I haven't read any criticisms from the time. [00:09:19] Speaker A: I don't think he was necessarily a good actor. Maybe he was a patsy. Who knows? [00:09:23] Speaker B: Who knows? [00:09:26] Speaker A: That's what's his name screamed when they arrested him. [00:09:29] Speaker B: What. What's a. Who's a. What's. [00:09:32] Speaker A: What's. Who shot Kennedy? [00:09:34] Speaker B: Oh, John Oswald. I was about to say John Wilkes Booth, but not [00:09:39] Speaker A: Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald, right? [00:09:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:09:42] Speaker A: When they arrested him, he was screaming at the cameras, I'm a patsy. I'm a patsy. [00:09:48] Speaker B: Either that or he was. He had just broken his egg and he was coming out. That was his new name. That was her new name? [00:09:57] Speaker A: No. [00:09:59] Speaker B: You sure? [00:10:00] Speaker A: Anyway, she. [00:10:01] Speaker B: She was obsessed with Ms. Klein. It was an homage. [00:10:06] Speaker A: Ms. Klein. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Patsy Cline. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:10:10] Speaker B: What? Name it. Name a more famous patsy than Patsy Clyde. I'll wait. [00:10:16] Speaker A: No, you're right. Lee Harvey Oswald. [00:10:24] Speaker B: Those are nice. Johnny. Oh, Johnny, you did a real good job introducing the show. Way better than I did when I accidentally stole it from you. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Yeah, because I did it 73 times. [00:10:38] Speaker B: I did it real bad. [00:10:41] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:10:42] Speaker B: It was like do you remember 106.9k hits had the phrase that pays. [00:10:48] Speaker A: And they always had give me my money. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And they always had the people who messed it up. The messed up version of that is kind of how it sounded when I tried to introduce the show. Like just. Just close enough to make you very infuriated. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Well, you've learned. [00:11:06] Speaker B: I still remember the phrase that pays. Johnny. They never Goddamn called me. [00:11:09] Speaker A: 106.9 plays. Today's best hits. Now give me my money. [00:11:13] Speaker B: I thought it was. I thought it was means today's best [00:11:15] Speaker A: hit means maybe it was means was. It means replays. [00:11:18] Speaker B: I don't know. Maybe this is our own little Mandela. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Give me my money. Give me my Rat City number 20. [00:11:24] Speaker B: Yes. Give me my Rat City number 20. Give me my. Ooh, I love a Rat City. We should probably get into it. Johnny. [00:11:32] Speaker A: Let's crack it open. Well, no, no, no, no, no. Don't crack it open. I'm getting ahead of myself. We gotta talk about these covers. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Johnny's being speedy tonight. [00:11:43] Speaker A: I'm not being speedy. [00:11:45] Speaker B: But you're getting ahead of yourself with cracking it open. [00:11:48] Speaker A: Yeah, a little bit. I'm just excited to get in there. It's a great issue. [00:11:52] Speaker B: Oh, it's so good. [00:11:53] Speaker A: It's so much fun. Love Red City. And I got the A cover. I have the Von Randall cover with FCO Placencia. [00:12:01] Speaker B: Oh, nice. It's good. [00:12:04] Speaker A: It's the deviant. Just, like, coming. He's, like, kicking downward or something. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's like a POV deviant about to smash your face. [00:12:12] Speaker A: About to kick you in the butt or in the chest. [00:12:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Probably hurt, I would imagine. Not only is it a machine, but it is fueled by necroplasm. Oh, boy. [00:12:26] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the A cover. [00:12:29] Speaker B: That's Johnny. I would call that an infernal machine. [00:12:32] Speaker A: That was the name of the Indiana Jones N64 game. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:12:36] Speaker A: Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. [00:12:38] Speaker B: What was. What was. What was the titular infernal machine? [00:12:42] Speaker A: I don't remember because I rented it and never beat it. [00:12:46] Speaker B: I wonder if it was like a perpetual motion machine or something. [00:12:49] Speaker A: It was some ancient technology or like [00:12:52] Speaker B: ancient cold fusion, like in the Saint. But yeah, it's a good cover. It's got a nice. It's got that nice. Nice sickly green pallor that it's like. Everything's smoggy. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Yeah, because, you know, smoggy and foggy. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Futuristic city. Yeah, smog. A portmanteau. [00:13:12] Speaker A: What does it mean? [00:13:13] Speaker B: Of smoke And Fog Smuggler. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I never knew that. [00:13:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Either. Either. It was. It was coined around. Around modernist poetry time. Or T.S. eliot himself coined the term smog wall B, which is important to note since it is National Poetry Month. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Yeah. You didn't even read a poem. [00:13:39] Speaker B: No, I didn't. I didn't read Elastic either. And it's too late because I haven't looked one up. That's. That's homework for everyone else listening. Just read some poetry. Just read it. [00:13:48] Speaker A: You've given up on your own bit. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I'm still. I'm still reading it personally. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:13:56] Speaker B: I'm currently reading a book that is just a collection of Mary Oliver's bird poems. And it's just like. It's lovely. It's about birds. It's springtime. The birds are starting to wake me up in the morning. [00:14:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:10] Speaker B: Love a bird poem, Johnny. I have the B cover. I have the Mirko Kolak cover. And it is. It is. It is like super, super cybery punky. [00:14:23] Speaker A: It's got like a Metroid game. [00:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah. It's got like the. The crazy. The crazy city in the background with like the most improbably shaped building. [00:14:32] Speaker A: It's like anime as. [00:14:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And then there's like a. I can't tell if it's. It's like a. Like a building, but it's like shaped like a being in the front. [00:14:42] Speaker A: It's just. It's designed by Joel Schumacher like in Batman Forever. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. [00:14:48] Speaker A: Building shape, like people. [00:14:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's got a. It's got the deviant just like Spider Manning on top of it. Maybe Batman, because Batman is more the flavor than Spider Man. [00:14:59] Speaker A: He's going to crouch like Spider man, though. I can see it. [00:15:02] Speaker B: I think it's the. I think it's the cape that's making me think Batman, because Spider man ain't got no cape. So it's kind of. It's kind of like Batman in the Animated Series. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, yeah. It's very cyberpunk. It's very like kind of Akira. [00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah. It's amazing. [00:15:18] Speaker A: I remember we showed my dad Akira and he was like, oh, my God. Like, this is like bloody and like there's like sex in it. Like. And he was like, like blew his mind. He's like, this is crazy. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Did he like it? [00:15:30] Speaker A: I don't think so. [00:15:32] Speaker B: Let's say I think my dad would watch like 30 seconds of it and be like, that is enough. Turn it off. [00:15:37] Speaker A: Have I told the story in the podcast my dad made me, he heard I seen and liked Reservoir Dogs. And he had seen in theater 1993. And he made me go rent it and watch it with him. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Yeah, you, you mentioned. I've forgotten, I've forgotten the end of the story, though. [00:15:52] Speaker A: He was, during the ear scene, he was like, so you like this? I'm like, I don't like, like it. Like it's fucked up. Like, I didn't say that, but I was like. I mean, it makes me feel emotions. I don't like. I'm not like, it doesn't like, make me excited. It makes me feel bad, but like, I like it. [00:16:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Isn't that the port of art? To make you feel something, to let [00:16:12] Speaker A: you know you're alive? Not to some people. [00:16:15] Speaker B: To some people it's to, to increase their net worth. That's what I say to that. [00:16:24] Speaker A: No, I just. Yeah, it was just funny. It was just. It was weird. He was appalled. She's like, I, I had no idea what that was. I just went to a movie theater and saw it because I was on like a business trip and it was most disgusting movie I've ever seen. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Remember? Remember when that's what you did? You were just like, well, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna go to the movie theater. What am I gonna see? Yeah, that's. That's a weird combination of words. Let's just go see that. No, now everything has to have all this baggage on it and it's, it's gotta be tied to some sort of [00:16:54] Speaker A: broader universe in a popcorn bucket. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Have you seen the Masters of the Universe? Popcorn bucket and no power sword. 44 ounce drink container. [00:17:04] Speaker A: You will not cast me in that theater. I'm sorry, I have no love for human. [00:17:08] Speaker B: It's a castle. Grayskull. Popcorn bucket. [00:17:12] Speaker A: No, not for me. Those theaters are gonna stink. Gen X stinks. They smell bad. Hear that? Gen X. I'm kidding. If you're listening to Gen X, you maybe don't smell bad then. [00:17:25] Speaker B: I don't know. I think that's a. Waiting for. Waiting for it to come out on video so I can watch it. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Actually, people can smell bad. Any generation has it. Smelly people smell. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Smelly people age agnostic. [00:17:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it's true. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Speaking of movies, did you see that, did you see that teaser trailer for Godzilla minus zero? [00:17:46] Speaker A: No, I'm not gonna watch it. So I like to watch them in the theater or just like not see the trailers. [00:17:51] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, somehow I am even more excited for Godzilla -0 now than I was before seeing it. [00:18:00] Speaker A: No, I'm not. It's not like some high horse thing. [00:18:02] Speaker B: Oh, no, no, no. [00:18:03] Speaker A: I don't watch trailers. I just don't. Yeah, because I go to movies. I usually see them in the theater. And also, like. Or I'll probably just see that movie anyway. And like, it's so cool not to see the trailer sometimes I don't. [00:18:14] Speaker B: I don't seek out trailers. I actually really hate that. Half of Instagram is now just ads for movie trailers. And it's like, I just fucking. I just want to see a dog do something stupid. Come on, come on. Let me see. Let me see some wildlife getting weird. What are you gonna do about it, huh? [00:18:30] Speaker A: Let's get weird with this. Let's crack it open like I wanted to do. [00:18:33] Speaker B: Yeah, now it's weird with this. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Rat City. But first, we've credit where credit is due. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Dis. And it is due, much like your taxes. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Today, as of recording, you're late. Yeah. If you haven't done it, you're not doing to. It's fine. It's like, pay them. It's fine. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, just pay your taxes. Just. Just do it. It's better that than living in fear. [00:18:57] Speaker A: You could declare yourself a sovereign citizen, David, and refuse to pay him [00:19:03] Speaker B: to the. The Wesley Snipes root. Yeah, that worked out real well for him. [00:19:16] Speaker A: Yeah, he was a channel. [00:19:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Anyway, all right, so script plot. Credits. Script plot by Erica Schultz. Art by Z. Carlos. Color by J. David Ramos. Lettering by Erica Schultz. We already covered the COVID Sure did. Crave director is the one, the only the COVID artist for Follow the Leader by Korn. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Yes, indeed, Tom McFarlane. The. The album. The album that has 13 tracks of. Or 12 tracks of silence. And the first track is track number 13. [00:19:51] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I know that. [00:19:57] Speaker B: Oh, boy, that's. [00:19:59] Speaker A: That's curse. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever. I listened to a lot of corn. Follow the Leader wasn't my favorite. [00:20:06] Speaker A: Well, Tom McFarlane did the art. He's the creative director here. And an editor in chief is Thomas Healy. Previously in Rat City. Hell sends its own champion to defeat the deviant. [00:20:18] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. Sure did. And Johnny, that is the story. This. This issue is the story of that champion. [00:20:28] Speaker A: Mostly. [00:20:30] Speaker B: Oh, wait, actually, no, I got that wrong. The other half champion that the deviant killed. [00:20:35] Speaker A: This is. [00:20:35] Speaker B: This is. This is the new day. The new champion that's taking over. The new champion. The new new champion. The all new, all new all champion. [00:20:44] Speaker A: The brand spanking new. [00:20:45] Speaker B: Mm. The real one. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Ever watch brands make a new Doug? [00:20:50] Speaker B: Mm. Unless it was part of one Saturday morning. [00:20:54] Speaker A: It was eventually, yes, okay. [00:20:56] Speaker B: But I think that was near the end of. Was. I was never much of a Doug. Doug person because, again, we only got. We only got to watch an hour of cartoons each on Saturday, and Doug wasn't important enough to me to watch. Spend 30 minutes on. So it started off being Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and then whatever came after Turtles. Then one Saturday morning, it was recess, and my sis. My sister and I both liked recess, and my sister liked Pepper Ran. So I would watch Pepper Ann with [00:21:30] Speaker A: her, [00:21:32] Speaker B: and then if Beakman was on or Bill Nye was on, we got to watch those in addition. So it would usually. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:21:40] Speaker B: Pepper and recess. And then we'd switch over to Beekman. Man, I loved Beacon. Beekman was my. I liked Beekman more than. Than Bill Nye because. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Oh, me too. I was a Beatman guy. [00:21:50] Speaker B: It was made. It was made for children with short [00:21:52] Speaker A: attention spans and, like, also, like, there's, like, a rat and they're. [00:21:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a guy in a [00:21:58] Speaker A: rat suit, and it started with penguins talking. Watching. On tv. [00:22:01] Speaker B: Yeah, they were watching it on tv. [00:22:04] Speaker A: It's absurd. [00:22:05] Speaker B: And they hated it. But it was the only show that they got. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that was like a primer for, like, Mystery Science Theater. Probably borrowed. It Seems like it borrowed a little bit from Mr. Science Theater. Kind of had those camera angles. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Probably. Probably. [00:22:21] Speaker A: I love. I love falling asleep to the Mr. Science Theater live stream. YouTube just has a constant channel, the official live channel. [00:22:27] Speaker B: I still haven't. I still haven't watched any because I keep forgetting that it exists. [00:22:31] Speaker A: You've never watched it? You never see any Mystery Science Theater? [00:22:36] Speaker B: I watched a tape way back in, like, middle school, but I don't even remember what movie. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Oh, it's fun. It's cute. [00:22:43] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I understand. I understand the conceit. [00:22:46] Speaker A: I like any show. There's a show that shows you a movie in between the show. I love Joe Bob Briggs. I love Mr. Science Theater. I love, like, horror hosts. [00:22:56] Speaker B: That's fun. Speaking of short attention span, Johnny, that kind of gets you there. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Oh, my God. It gets us here. [00:23:03] Speaker B: It gets us here. Where is here, Johnny? [00:23:05] Speaker A: Baden. Baden Baden, Germany. Is that a typo? Is that actually what it's called? [00:23:09] Speaker B: I do believe it's the. The double. I do believe it's doubled. I do believe it's actually. [00:23:14] Speaker A: No offense to Erica Schultz. I just. You gotta check with Spawn sometimes. [00:23:17] Speaker B: I think so. Either that or it's like a future one. New. A new. New Baden New Baden. Well, instead of using new, they just repeat it so that way, like new. New Baden would be. [00:23:28] Speaker A: Well, it's like how Steven Spielberg left the twin towers in AI, which came out in late, like 2002. And he was like, maybe they rebuilt them and then maybe Baby. He'll have a baby. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Yeah, a perfect baby, as we see. [00:23:44] Speaker A: Johnny, well, he's also a demon baby. He's like black eyes and he's like. He's like evil. [00:23:49] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a. He's got like the blackest eyes. And boy, he's just. He's just like staring over at the other babies that are trying to fight him. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Like, is he trying to kill him? [00:24:03] Speaker B: Like there's. There's malice in those eyes. Yeah, the. The parents name him dear. Our Lewis Becker. [00:24:12] Speaker A: They give him a teddy bear. [00:24:14] Speaker B: They gave him a teddy bear. Mr. Bear. Yeah, Mr. Bear. [00:24:19] Speaker A: Didn't you have a Mr. Bear? [00:24:21] Speaker B: I had a bear that I called Mr. Bear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't have a. He didn't have a tie, but yeah, I had a Mr. Bear and a Mr. Monkey and a Mr. Dog two episodes ago. Mr. Buffalo. [00:24:36] Speaker A: Mr. Buffalo. [00:24:37] Speaker B: Mr. Buffalo. I had a buffalo. [00:24:39] Speaker A: Mr. Buffalo. That's cute. [00:24:40] Speaker B: I do believe I got. I got the buffalo from Willow Rock. [00:24:45] Speaker A: One of my favorite plushies ever is. I got this toucan from the Tall zoo. And it's just well made and like, made this noise when you shook it. Fucking nice. [00:24:54] Speaker B: I love the Tulsa Zoo. I liked when you would. I like when you would go for a school field trip. Everybody would be like, we gotta stop this big rock world from spinning on this fountain. [00:25:04] Speaker A: I know they try to lean on it. [00:25:07] Speaker B: It's fun. I was always scared of the. The elephant exhibit. Had that. That stuffed woolly mammoth display. [00:25:15] Speaker A: They do like a storm, like, simulation. [00:25:17] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah. I couldn't. I couldn't walk past it. I literally had to press myself against the wall and scoop by as far away from it as possible because it scared the shit out of me. [00:25:27] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:25:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. No, I did not like. I mean, I liked it, but did not like it all at once if it was huge. [00:25:36] Speaker A: I remember when they premiered that. [00:25:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's gigantic. I remember them like they had a little section of the glass that's around the elephant enclosure and it's like a foot thick. [00:25:46] Speaker A: Tulsa Zoo is kind of scary because they're like cave part. We look at the tarantulas. Like, it's kind of scary. [00:25:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:51] Speaker A: It's a well designed zoo. It's a good zoo. [00:25:53] Speaker B: It Is good too. It's got a good. It's got a good polar bear exhibit. [00:25:56] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a good vibe. We stay in the Tulsa Zoo. [00:26:01] Speaker B: Yes, we do. [00:26:02] Speaker A: There should go. [00:26:03] Speaker B: Yeah, you should. [00:26:05] Speaker A: The dog agrees. [00:26:07] Speaker B: Puppy's getting angry at the other puppies. [00:26:09] Speaker A: So Becker's parents given this teddy bear with a scarf. So he's not. He's not David's Mr. Bear. It's just a Mr. Bear. [00:26:16] Speaker B: He's very happy, though. [00:26:18] Speaker A: And Becker rips its head off. Rips his head off. [00:26:22] Speaker B: And he says he was different. Exceptional. And then a decade later, he's 13. [00:26:27] Speaker A: He's 13? [00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah. He's out there in the woods. He's fascinated with anatomy, how the body worked. Anybody? [00:26:37] Speaker A: Oh, the dog doesn't like that. [00:26:39] Speaker B: Jeez. [00:26:40] Speaker A: Self harm is bad. [00:26:41] Speaker B: It is bad. Look at that. [00:26:42] Speaker A: He lifts his leg and he sees he's been cutting on himself. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And he whips out a. He whips out a box cutter and starts. [00:26:51] Speaker A: Five blades deep. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Starts walking through the woods trying to find creatures to cut open and explore their bodies with the insides. [00:27:02] Speaker A: And it comes a bird. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Dead bird. And he's like, ooh. He says he wonder. He wonders if this is how a system works. How do I tear it down? So he sees bodies, his little systems and machines that he can be the. He can be the grit and the gears that make the machines fail. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Something like that. Yeah. [00:27:22] Speaker B: He's a weird. He's a weird kid, Johnny. Then when he's 15, he's back in the forest and he's like. Every time I identify a weakness of my own, I have to remove it from me. And so he's like. He's playing with a lighter and he like burns the. Out of his hand and he's like, e, that's no good. Then he burns down the forest. [00:27:40] Speaker A: He stands in the flames. [00:27:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:44] Speaker A: Black forest. Good gummy bears. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Good clocks. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Good clocks. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Good cakes. Shit. Johnny, we should go to the black Forest. Eat nothing but gummy bears and cake. [00:27:57] Speaker A: I'd love to go to Germany. [00:27:58] Speaker B: I love gummy bears. Gummy bears are so fucking good. [00:28:02] Speaker A: I'm the gummy bear. Remember that song, that, like, ringtone? I'll be your gummy bear. I am a gummy bear. I don't really. [00:28:12] Speaker B: That's wild. [00:28:14] Speaker A: I'll be your gummy bear. I'll be your gummy bear. It's like a ringtone or something. It's like the crazy frog. [00:28:20] Speaker B: Crazy frog. Maybe it's the same person. [00:28:23] Speaker A: My Ecuadorian friend. There's a restaurant with Was obsessed with that song. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Very exciting. I mean, I love a gummy bear. [00:28:33] Speaker A: It was like weird Euro pop songs that, like. I don't. You know what I mean? [00:28:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Like the Crazy Frog or like RV World or. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:41] Speaker A: Swedish or something, I think. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Or the song. The song that Gandalf Sex came out of. Google it. It's hard. [00:28:52] Speaker A: Oh, my God. It's hard to explain. Oh, my God. [00:28:55] Speaker B: It's. It's a. It's a sex solo and a Eurovision song. And people have taken just the sex bit and looped it and synced it to a video of Gandalf bobbing his head. And so it's Gandalf Sex. Gandalf and sex. [00:29:12] Speaker A: See, that was easy to explain and riveting. [00:29:16] Speaker B: Okay, so he burned down the forest, [00:29:18] Speaker A: and we cut from him as a youth of [00:29:23] Speaker B: 15. 15. Yeah, because he was three. Then a decade later, and then two years after that. [00:29:27] Speaker A: 15 years old. [00:29:29] Speaker B: I could do better. [00:29:29] Speaker A: He was only 15 years old. That's what Michael King would say. He was only 15 years old, and [00:29:38] Speaker B: now we see him significantly older. And I like the. I like the dissolve from him standing in the burying forests to him being just in hell. He's getting. [00:29:50] Speaker A: He's hanging out. [00:29:52] Speaker B: He's getting the classic disembowelment and being crawled on by weird spider skull creatures who we learn are the children of one. Ms. Viscerator. [00:30:04] Speaker A: Ms. Queen Viscerator. [00:30:06] Speaker B: Mm. [00:30:07] Speaker A: And she saves him and he becomes her servant. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Yes. And she. She has a little monologue about her brother being a dummy. And now she is queen of hell and she has yet to. [00:30:21] Speaker A: I just love that she did that. This was a great. It just really ties it in with. [00:30:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:27] Speaker A: The greater universe and just creates intrigue and it's just. It's fun. [00:30:31] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like the. It seems like there's always a vacuum in hell and there's always somebody ready to take it. [00:30:37] Speaker A: Why not Viscerator? [00:30:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Why not let her have her day in the chair? [00:30:42] Speaker A: If Sin could come back. Because one artist forgot that they weren't supposed to put him in there. And if they can make his action figure black. [00:30:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:52] Speaker A: Then we can have Viscerator. [00:30:54] Speaker B: Most definitely. [00:30:55] Speaker A: I gotta ask. You gotta remember. I gotta ask Mark about that when we record with him, because I bet he knows the answer. [00:31:01] Speaker B: Probably. Well, I mean, if you pose the question. If you pose the question now, then maybe he'll remember for us instead of us having to remember to ask it, because we're bad at remembering. [00:31:11] Speaker A: Oh, I'll ask it. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, he would be the one to know most definitely. But so, so. So Becker is just like Viscerator's little. Little errand boy, and he's. He's trying to bring her worthy souls, and here he's brought her a trio of the damned. And she says, they seem so dull. Becker says, I will do better. I will not disappoint you again. What is she needing these souls for, Johnny? Do we know? [00:31:41] Speaker A: He kind of looks like Ivan Ooze in this panel. [00:31:44] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. Wow. [00:31:47] Speaker A: Were you allowed to watch Power Rangers? [00:31:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I was allowed to watch Power Rangers. I fucking loved Power Rangers. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Just cartoons. You were limited on specifically cartoons. [00:31:55] Speaker B: It was. It was the fact that we were only allowed to watch an hour of it at. At once. Okay. It was. It was to keep us from sitting in front of the television all morning. My mom wanted us to go outside and run around or read a book or do something other than just sit in front of the tv. [00:32:16] Speaker A: Well, joke's on you, Mom. Now you got a TV in your pocket that you sleep next to. [00:32:20] Speaker B: Yeah, and I'm bad at video games. Thanks, Mom. Yeah. Little puppy says that's bad. That's okay. [00:32:27] Speaker A: I don't think your mind needs video games, David. [00:32:31] Speaker B: It's probably best that I don't. Video game. [00:32:33] Speaker A: I think you would be really obsessed with certain games. And you wouldn't do anything else. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Absolutely, yes. It would be bad for productivity. [00:32:41] Speaker A: They would not be games you'd expect. It'd be like Napoleon war simulator or something. [00:32:45] Speaker B: It would be something very weird. Yes. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Ivan Ooze. I always liked him. [00:32:51] Speaker B: Yeah, you always liked. It was kind of. It was kind of a putz. [00:32:55] Speaker A: Yeah, he was funny. [00:33:00] Speaker B: Oh, Rita Repulsa. Rita Repulsa. Who was you? Who was you? [00:33:04] Speaker A: Ivan Ooze is the guy who plays Donovan in Last Crusade. The one. [00:33:08] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Melts the Nazi. [00:33:10] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. Nice. Who was your. Who was your Power Ranger? Johnny, when you and the boys played Power Rangers at recess, I was a little too, like. [00:33:20] Speaker A: It was uncool to admit. You liked Power Rangers. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Okay, sorry, Johnny Cheesy. [00:33:24] Speaker A: But I. I like to watch it. I would watch it. My favorite was Billy. [00:33:31] Speaker B: Oh, nice. We. I always. I started out with. Jason was my favorite because he was. He was the leader guy. I always had to play Billy, so Billy was. Billy was fine. But then when Tommy came in, the Green Ranger everyone loves. [00:33:44] Speaker A: I. I mean, if you want to know the real truth about it, dude, I was always a Pink Ranger. Man, I love a tough brunette. [00:33:52] Speaker B: Yeah, you do, do Indeed. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Was it Kim? What was the Pink Ranger's name? [00:33:58] Speaker B: I think it was Kim. [00:33:58] Speaker A: Kimberly actress's name, wasn't it? [00:34:01] Speaker B: Kimberly Hart is the character's name. Yeah. Is a. Kimberly Anhart is a fictional character in the Power Rangers. [00:34:07] Speaker A: Okay. I thought it was Kim. Okay. [00:34:08] Speaker B: She was played by Amy Jo Johnson. [00:34:10] Speaker A: Very nice. So we get Ivan, Ooze Rain, or these three souls. We say, I'll do better. Then we go, we go into like Deny the blackout. Yeah, this is a big deal. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Yes, it is. And we open on like a. Like a fucking Coruscant. Fucking a Coruscant apartment block. [00:34:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:34] Speaker B: It's a guy whistling, going up the stairs, carrying some groceries. Stops by, stops by to say hi to one of his neighbors. This is Mr. Mr. Kingman. Mr. John Kingman stops by to see Sophie, who. They've been neighbors for years. He waters her plants while she's gone. And then she's got a. She's got a little girl named Angel. And angel gives John Kingman a sticker and apparently, Johnny, I would say it's not the first time she's given him a sticker because he's got a couple of stickers on some of his PTS implants. Johnny. [00:35:12] Speaker A: Yes, sir. Oh. [00:35:15] Speaker B: Oh, no, that's no good. We all know what happens there. [00:35:18] Speaker A: And we learned she's very David esque because she has a very, very good edc. Everyday carry. And I know you're an everyday carry guy. Like, if I'm in a movie theater, you'll bust out a flashlight. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:33] Speaker A: If I'm like, I gotta change my tire. You're like, I gotta tie my energy. David is like a. He's a, you know, you're a boy scout. So, like, you always have everything on you. [00:35:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. Yeah, I feel, I feel naked if I don't have way more than I. Yeah. [00:35:46] Speaker A: This little girl, angel, has really good edc. [00:35:48] Speaker B: She's got a. She's got a phenomenal fanny pack too. [00:35:52] Speaker A: There's a fanny pack. It has stickers, Band Aids, gum, anything to help people. She wants to be a nurse. [00:35:57] Speaker B: She wants to be a nurse. And John says she sure helped him for today. But he's got some groceries that he's got to get to the fridge. So we cut to him in his apartment and then the power goes out and there's a weird green glow outside and we see it's the blackout. The blackout. And then much like Peter Cairn, he gets consumed by the necroplasmic energy and it like, affects his nanites and we cut from John being affected by this green necroplasmic energy to Sophie and Sophie and angel reading a bedtime story. And Sophie's like, don't pay attention to anything, darling. We'll just. We're just gonna read this book, and everything will be fine. But then they hear some screams coming from John's apartment. And so Sophie goes to check it out, and she forces open the door. And then she sees John there, just in pain. And then the image of one Mr. A.I. simmons. [00:37:03] Speaker A: No, but you notice they capitalize. Do you notice that? In the same Twitch. [00:37:07] Speaker B: What? [00:37:07] Speaker A: How they capitalized Al? Just like things. Because it would look like AI. I swear to God, I didn't. [00:37:12] Speaker B: I didn't notice that. Okay. Okay. Very nice. [00:37:16] Speaker A: I know. God rest. God rest the name, Al. [00:37:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it happens. [00:37:23] Speaker A: Topic far off. So much. Ow, looks like AI. Now you're like, ow, looks like AI. Everyone thinks you say AI trying to say, ow. [00:37:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, he'll. He'll find a way to. He'll find a way to market it. [00:37:35] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll see in Sam. Twitch. They capitalized it. [00:37:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So says, is that a. Is that a demon? And then we. We hear, like. It's like the. The recording on R2D2 of scene from stream, from afar. And it's just. Al Simmons says, the war is coming. And Sophie's screaming and John saying, help me. And angel comes in and she says, oh, no, Mr. Kingman. She says, he's hurt. I'll help him, Mama. And she goes over and she puts a band aid on him right next to where she put his. The sticker on him earlier. And then immediately he stops convulsing. And then Sophie's like, nuh, girl, we're getting out of here. She says, he's. There's nothing but demons behind these doors. Then Johnny, we get the opening reading [00:38:31] Speaker A: and the reveal of who he is. Yes, he's that creature that was on the bridge. [00:38:35] Speaker B: Yeah, right. Yes. Yes, indeed, what's left of the George Washington Bridge. Cause. Yeah, Kimmy. Not Kimmy. Kimmy. Kimmy. Is that who's hanging out with Q right now? Is it Kimmy? [00:38:47] Speaker A: Kizzy. [00:38:48] Speaker B: Kizzy. [00:38:49] Speaker A: You got Kim's on the brain. [00:38:50] Speaker B: I do. I do. Kimmy's on the brain. And then we cut back to hell, and it's the meeting again between Becker and Peter. And they're having a good little. Little friendly. It's like when Arnold Schwarzenegger meets fucking Dylan. Is his character name. And predator. Carlo. Carl Winslow. Winslow. Carl Weathers. It's Carl. [00:39:20] Speaker A: Carl Weathers canceled. Carl Winslow's the Commando when they grab hands. [00:39:27] Speaker B: Oh, is it Commando and not Predator? Yeah, come in. [00:39:29] Speaker A: The hand grabs from Commando, though. [00:39:31] Speaker B: Okay, I know he calls him because it's. What's the matter, Dylan? They got you pushing too many pencils? Winslow is the guy who does the voices or the sound effects. Right. [00:39:41] Speaker A: Carl's. Winslow is the name of the dad on Family Matters. [00:39:46] Speaker B: Oh, Jesus. God damn it. [00:39:49] Speaker A: You racist. [00:39:52] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, it was good having a podcast. I'll just see myself out because I can't keep my people straight. Work on that. And so, you know, they do the. They do the Commander hand grab. And Becker's just like, you fool. You trust. You trust too easy and takes a potshot at Peter. And Peter's like, ah, you're the same old Becker. But I'm not the Yankee you remember. And so they are locked in combat as we get the skull to end the issue. [00:40:23] Speaker A: And I'm very excited for this because I missed the premiere of this last week. Right. Or the week before. Didn't the Fallout 4 toy ad premiere? And I didn't have it. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:33] Speaker A: All right, well, we get to talk about it for real this time. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Well, there's different toys than the. Wait, we got. We got a couple of pages of ads to get through before that. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Hurry up. [00:40:44] Speaker B: We got the new generation of stories. New you ad. [00:40:46] Speaker A: Yes. [00:40:47] Speaker B: For the. The Spawns Universe Tales. We got the Image Classics ad. We got the Spawn Call of Duty ad. The new one with the little cape and the little hood. [00:40:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:40:57] Speaker B: And then we got Fallout. [00:40:59] Speaker A: Fallout. Fallout, the TV show. [00:41:01] Speaker B: Yeah. We got the Ghoul. We got the Ellie Personnel. We got what's his face from the Brotherhood in the. The suit. [00:41:12] Speaker A: Finn. [00:41:13] Speaker B: Finn. That's Star Wars. [00:41:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. I'm kidding. [00:41:17] Speaker B: Oh, and then a beast that I haven't seen yet, actually. [00:41:20] Speaker A: Deathclaw. He must be in season two. Two. [00:41:23] Speaker B: I've. Yeah. I've only seen one episode from season two. [00:41:26] Speaker A: Two episodes from the game. Oh, my God, this baby hates Fallout. [00:41:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, he does. Dinkus. Dinkus, come here. What's wrong? Why you hate fallout so much? Do you not like that the ghoul dog got no nose. He says that ghoul ain't got no nose. [00:41:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's up. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's up. Walton Goggins, you're good. [00:41:44] Speaker A: He's really good. I love it. Walter, go. He's really good at Hateful Eight. [00:41:49] Speaker B: Oh, he's really good in the Righteous Jim Zones. [00:41:53] Speaker A: He's really good in Walmart. Commercials. [00:41:57] Speaker B: He's really good at everything. That is. That is true. [00:42:01] Speaker A: All right, well. Yeah, that's it. We did it. [00:42:03] Speaker B: That's right. City 20. [00:42:12] Speaker A: Next up we got Sam and Twitch, case files 20. 24. Number 20. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [00:42:21] Speaker A: And I technically have both covers. [00:42:26] Speaker B: Which. Which covers? Which cover? You've got the Marco Falia and the Vaughn Randall. [00:42:31] Speaker A: Yeah, because I got it on my phone. David, like I said earlier in the episode. This is the episode. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Hold on a second. How many covers are there? Since there's two covers. Okay, well, the. The Image Comics.com website is saying that image cover B is Von Randall. But the inside is saying that it's Marco Falia and Jonathan Uribe. So I don't even know. [00:42:57] Speaker A: I'd probably go by the printed one. [00:42:58] Speaker B: I don't even know if this Von Randall cover actually exists. Well, let's start with the A cover. The Marco Falio cover. It's nice. It's classic. It's Sam in an alley with a whole bunch of dead bodies just lighting a cigarette, just getting ready to look at this bullshit. It's pretty good. And this cover B, this Jonathan Arriba cover is a very movie poster. [00:43:23] Speaker A: It's like a movie poster. Yeah. Awesome. [00:43:26] Speaker B: It's got that weird. That weird narc mark, knife wielding maniac from that old case. And then our boys in front. Twitch looking very studious. Sam looking very slovenly. [00:43:43] Speaker A: I'm pissed off. [00:43:44] Speaker B: I'm pissed off. Yes. [00:43:46] Speaker A: You'd rather be watching the game? [00:43:49] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a good cover. They're both good covers. They're all good covers. We crack this puppy open, Johnny. We got credits. Then we give them where they're due. [00:44:00] Speaker A: You will? [00:44:01] Speaker B: Yes, I will. I'm gonna do it right now. We got plot script by Thomas Healy. [00:44:06] Speaker A: What? What? Are you sure not reading it backwards? [00:44:09] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:44:10] Speaker A: He's usually the end. [00:44:12] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he's the beginning and the end in this one. Jani. He's the Thomas and the Healy. Plot script by Thomas Healy. Art by Von Randall. We got color by fco. Plasencia and Sheila Saldana doing the color flats. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Wow. [00:44:26] Speaker B: Lettering by Tom Orzikowski himself. Cover the covers. Todd McFarlane is the creative director. And Thomas Healy, as previously mentioned, is also at the end here, the editor in chief. Previously in Sam and Twitch, dark forces are moving against the detectives as more clues are revealed. [00:44:48] Speaker A: You can put that on any issue of this. [00:44:53] Speaker B: That is rather generic. I mean, it's true there were some dark forces. I saw some pixelated stormtroopers queuing up in the hallway. [00:45:03] Speaker A: A dianaga. No, those were. That was in Shadows. The Empire. Oh, did you ever play that? [00:45:09] Speaker B: No, I played Dark Forces, but not Shadows. [00:45:12] Speaker A: You would love Shadows of the Empire. [00:45:14] Speaker B: Probably. Probably like Star Wars. Real good. [00:45:19] Speaker A: There's a whomp. You never had access to N64? Really? [00:45:24] Speaker B: If I was sick, my mom would rent an N64. [00:45:29] Speaker A: We just licking toilets, just trying to get sick. [00:45:32] Speaker B: No, I wasn't sick very often, which is why we were able to get it. And then I'd usually play Just fucking Need for San Francisco Rush was the big one. [00:45:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:45:45] Speaker B: I played a lot of San Francisco Rush. I was real bad at it. But I loved the fact that your car would explode. Okay. And then we open basically on. [00:45:55] Speaker A: We crash into. [00:45:57] Speaker B: Yes. The last image from the previous issue. [00:46:01] Speaker A: That Zodiac looking motherfucker. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's sitting on Sam's chest with the knife raised in the air. And then Twitch shoots him in the hand. So he drops the knife and this. This Zodiac motherfucker says, you little shit. And then we cut Twitch there saying, get off my partner. And Johnny, Johnny, I don't want to be. I don't want to be too pedantic here, but bullet casings don't fly out of a revolver like that. That's not the way they're designed. [00:46:30] Speaker A: Oh, my God. You gotta. [00:46:34] Speaker B: You gotta crack it open and pull them out manual. That's why they got those speed reloaders. All right. But anyway, we're moving on. Twitch says. Twitch says, get off my partner. They're down. [00:46:45] Speaker A: Maybe someone's just throwing a bullet at the same time, randomly. [00:46:48] Speaker B: Maybe Sam is just down there like. [00:46:52] Speaker A: Yeah, just throwing bullets. [00:46:54] Speaker B: It's the last thing he could do. So Twitch makes him get on the. On the floor, hands behind your back. Right? Take out your kneecap. And this guy's just like, your partner will die. Your partner will die. Sure you want to do that? [00:47:08] Speaker A: Bye. [00:47:08] Speaker B: And then he runs off and he runs away. And Twitch is just like, I'm here for you, Sam. And Sam's just like, why'd you let him go? [00:47:19] Speaker A: Just yelling at him as he flexes. It's like Metal Gear Solid. [00:47:30] Speaker B: I get that because my sister had a. My sister had a boyfriend who bought her a PlayStation once. And so my sister had a PlayStation in high school, but she would always hide the controllers and the games, so I would never able to use it. [00:47:44] Speaker A: What? [00:47:45] Speaker B: And she would hide them in different places each time. So me a little. Me a little snoopy boy who she knew would find them if she kept them in the same spot would move them around. Yeah. [00:47:56] Speaker A: What games does she have? [00:47:58] Speaker B: She had Resident Evil. She had Metal Gear Solid. She had Final Fantasy 7. [00:48:02] Speaker A: Nice. That's a good games. [00:48:05] Speaker B: This was. This was all a dream, Johnny. And Sam was waking up with a cold sweat. Yeah, [00:48:11] Speaker A: instead of just dreams, there's people in media have dreams or exact recreation of old events all the time. I never have that. [00:48:19] Speaker B: Mine is usually some combination of things that actually happened. And me, for some reason being naked in public. [00:48:27] Speaker A: Really? Mine always like, architecture's weird and something's weird, but it's normal if you. The events, like, start out normal enough. But like, my dreams aren't that crazy. Occasionally they're weird. I don't know. [00:48:40] Speaker B: I don't like them. They make me feel gross. [00:48:43] Speaker A: They make you feel gross? [00:48:44] Speaker B: Yeah, they make me feel gross. They. They make me feel unrested. Like if I. [00:48:51] Speaker A: If I waking up to a scary. [00:48:52] Speaker B: If I. [00:48:53] Speaker A: Like a weird dream. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, not like even just regular dreams. If I sleep and I dream, I don't sleep as well as when I sleep with no dreams. Dreams. I don't think that's the way it's supposed to work, but for some reason I'm a weirdo. I get it. But so. So Sam is so freaked out by this. This dream he has that he goes into work early. So that way he has something to focus on. So he's just standing in his office staring at their board that they put together and Twitch comes in. He says, I brought you some of that good coffee you like. And man, that's. It's always nice when somebody brings you coffee. Johnny. [00:49:27] Speaker A: Where do you think he got it from? [00:49:29] Speaker B: I don't know. I won't. I won't dane to guess. He got it from the Good Place, Johnny. They obviously. They obviously have a good place that they prefer. And so then they start discussing the case again and say. Twitch is like, hey, I have an idea. And Twitch is er. And Twitch says, I have an idea. And Sam's like, oh, yeah. Before we do that, I got a hit on the database from a case in California. Twitch is like, california Doubt, it's our guy. And they're like, yeah, it's much too close. Much too close for a coincidence. So I'll have them send the information over. But Twitch's idea is that they go downtown to an occult shop. An occult shop called Nash Antiques and Rare Antiquities and Rare Books. And Johnny, I would not be surprised if they actually just rolled up into the. The apartment of one Mr. Thomas Healy himself. [00:50:24] Speaker A: May. [00:50:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Mr. Mr. Thomas Healy knows from antiquities and rare books and spooky occult shit. But. But. So they get there and they get out, and Sam was just like, let's hope that's none of this shit spawn deals. But Sam rings the doorbell. The door automatically opens, says, automatic door opener. Nice trick if you're seven. Burn. And so they go in. Twitch is like, hey, Mr. Nash. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm Alex Smith. Mr. Nash sold the place to me back in the 80s. So I like. [00:50:59] Speaker A: I like it. I like an occult bookshop. [00:51:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I like an occult bookshop too. They're fun as hell. [00:51:04] Speaker A: I like it. Reminds me of in Ghostbusters 2 when Ray, he runs an occult bookshop in his downtime. They're fun, you know Ghostbusters, man, [00:51:16] Speaker B: I've only seen Ghostbusters 2 a couple of times. [00:51:19] Speaker A: Oh, my God. What the wrong with you? [00:51:21] Speaker B: I'm much more acqu. With the first one. [00:51:25] Speaker A: Well, they all break up and they go work jobs, okay? [00:51:29] Speaker B: And I remember the thing. The. The thing I remember specifically about Ghostbusters 2, besides the pink goo and making the Statue of Liberty dance, is Dance. [00:51:39] Speaker A: It doesn't dance. It's not like walk around. [00:51:42] Speaker B: I'm. I'm confusing it. I'm confusing it with Sesame street now. Shit. Yeah. [00:51:45] Speaker A: No, it doesn't dance. [00:51:47] Speaker B: Is Slimer. Slimer coming through the hot dog vendor cart and just, like, mouth full of hot dogs. Or was that in the first. [00:51:58] Speaker A: That's the first one, baby. [00:51:59] Speaker B: That's the first one when. [00:52:00] Speaker A: When. [00:52:01] Speaker B: When the. Turns off the nuclear device. [00:52:04] Speaker A: Yeah. No, in the second one, Slimer drives a bus. He's tormenting Lewis Tully the whole time, right? He drives a bus and picks him up and drives him to go be the fifth Ghostbuster. [00:52:17] Speaker B: Silly man. Hot dogs. I could go for a hot dog right now. Yeah, I always. [00:52:23] Speaker A: I like the Scolari brothers in the second one, the ones in the courtroom, they're the two brothers that got the chair. And then they come out of, like, [00:52:29] Speaker B: electric chairs not ringing a bell. Sorry. I should watch Brothers. [00:52:33] Speaker A: I gave him the chair then there. [00:52:36] Speaker B: So. So, yeah, they're in the. The bookshop talking to Mr. Smith and Sam. Twitch is like, I got this. I got this. I got this thing. Can you. Can you decipher it for me? We don't understand what these symbols are. Mr. Smith is like, this is a hodgepodge of all sorts of different traditions here. And Sam's like, keep this. Keep this quiet. And Mr. Smith is like, yes, yes. [00:52:59] Speaker A: He Is very quiet. [00:53:02] Speaker B: So they thank him. They thank him for his help. And he is just like, yes, anything. Office is in a very creepy angle. This guy, Danny Elfman. Yeah, he does. This guy ain't up to no good, Johnny. The only difference between him. [00:53:15] Speaker A: Danny Elfman. [00:53:17] Speaker B: The only difference between this man and Danny Elfman, Johnny, is this man's wearing a shirt. Danny Elfman performs like Iggy Pop. [00:53:25] Speaker A: I know, I know. [00:53:27] Speaker B: Iggy Pop. Still. [00:53:28] Speaker A: Or in a tank top. He so usually starts in a tank top and he goes shirtless. At some point. [00:53:31] Speaker B: The. He pops. 78, 79. Still. Still rocking out shirtless. It's impressive. Pinky Box is a cool. He was. He played a Vorta in an episode of Deep Space Nine. So Sam and Twitch are driving back uptown. They pass a whole bunch of. They pass a kinky boot sign, Johnny. During a beautiful sunrise and a simple sponge. Is that the. Is that for the. The SpongeBob musical? [00:54:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the SpongeBob. [00:54:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:03] Speaker A: So he like, rotoscoped, like a real picture. Yeah, or whatever. [00:54:07] Speaker B: Oh, nice. And so they're. They're having a conversation, and Sam's just like, man, did you see all that fake, ridiculous magic stuff he had? And Twitch is like, sam, do you not remember that we work with a literal fucking dead man fueled by hell. [00:54:26] Speaker A: Can we please get tickets to the spongebob musical? [00:54:29] Speaker B: As evening settles into the city, the conversation in the car goes quiet. Johnny. While across town, another is just beginning. Oh, and then we get a series of shadowy individuals all having their. Their. Their late night whiskeys, talking to each other. [00:54:45] Speaker A: Basically everything's mostly early morning whiskeys almost, but. [00:54:48] Speaker B: But it's. It does say as evening settles, Johnny. So this is sunset, not sunrise. [00:54:53] Speaker A: Whatever. [00:54:54] Speaker B: This is not, as Norah Jones would say, sunrise. Sunrise. This is sunset. Sunset. [00:54:59] Speaker A: Sunrise. Sunset. Fiddler on the Roof, anybody? [00:55:03] Speaker B: Nope. Sorry. I should probably watch Fiddler on the Roof. [00:55:06] Speaker A: Why? [00:55:07] Speaker B: Because about. It's about a story narrated by a drunkard. [00:55:11] Speaker A: Right. [00:55:11] Speaker B: That's funny. That's good stuff. [00:55:13] Speaker A: Drunk. [00:55:14] Speaker B: Isn't. Doesn't he enter the show drunk, Tevya? [00:55:18] Speaker A: No, I don't think so. [00:55:19] Speaker B: Oh, I thought he did. I thought that was the thing. [00:55:21] Speaker A: Like he stumbles in funny halfway. The Forum or something. [00:55:25] Speaker B: I might be thinking you're getting your zero. [00:55:26] Speaker A: Myself. I mean, zero myself was probably drunk when he made the movie. I probably guarantee it. [00:55:31] Speaker B: A funny thing did happen on the way to the Forum, though. Johnny. Let me tell you about it. Some funny stuff. You just had to beat them, though, I guess. [00:55:40] Speaker A: I was in that show. I was in that show, bitch. [00:55:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Don't you wish you had been in a production of Frogs? [00:55:46] Speaker A: No. [00:55:47] Speaker B: No, but you don't want to. You don't want to perform a musical in a pool. [00:55:52] Speaker A: No, I don't want to be in Twilight. I don't want to be in Frogs. I don't want to be in Twilight Express. I don't want to be in Cats. Actually, I'd like to be just Buster for Jones. That would be fun. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Twilight. Are you sure it wasn't Starlight Express? [00:56:10] Speaker A: That's what I fucking meant. Okay. What are you, Angelo Webber? Police? [00:56:15] Speaker B: Maybe. Hands up, dude. [00:56:17] Speaker A: I struck out twice. I showed Megan two movies on Sunday. We watched Evita. [00:56:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:56:24] Speaker A: Which I love. One of my favorite movies. Hated it. Then we watched Evil Dead Rise. She hates horror movies. And I forgot how intense that movie gets because I just really wanted to watch it because that director's new movie he's making, the Mummy, is coming out. [00:56:40] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:56:41] Speaker A: But not like an adventure mummy, like a horror mummy. And I just. I really want to watch it again. I got the 4K Blu Ray. [00:56:49] Speaker B: I never. I never had the attention span to pay attention to Evita. I'd watch, like, the first five minutes and then be like, okay, I'm gonna go wander. My parents liked it, though. [00:57:00] Speaker A: Okay. I'll talk to your mom about it next time I see her. [00:57:03] Speaker B: Absolutely do that. [00:57:05] Speaker A: What do you think of Vita? No, but Evil Dead Rise is really good. But it's. It's. It's. It goes all the way. [00:57:12] Speaker B: It is gross. It is gross. It's also where we learned that there are no bad Freddy movies. [00:57:21] Speaker A: And I love that. And they kill those kids. [00:57:24] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not safe. Nothing's safe. And these guys in this book, Johnny, are making sure nothing is safe. They're talking about how. How our boys, Sam and Twitch, are. They're on the case, and they're. They're. They're messing stuff up, and, you know, they're too close to it, and they're not going to let it go. And so they're like, well, we have to move forward the timeline. Like, we'll have to. We'll have to do it this weekend. They're like, so soon. But there's nothing. There's nothing for it, Johnny, Sam and Twitch, they're too tenacious. And then we cut from that conversation of the shadowy individuals to Sam and Twitch calling each other from the. I like the idea of them just sitting at home on their couch, calling each other on the phone, just with his, his musket on the wall and Twitch just tie in one on with Helen, Johnny. Look at that. Yeah, but like Twitch is drinking a whiskey. There's five beers on the table between the two. [00:58:25] Speaker A: Oh my God, [00:58:29] Speaker B: they've had a big night. I have no idea how Helen is in any, in any condition to be paying attention to that book at all. [00:58:36] Speaker A: Yeah, she's trying to read. She's like moving the book back and forth, forth. I didn't even notice that. It's so funny. He's getting up. They got five Coronas. They got four Coronas. Like a seltzer or like a bottle of liquor. Yeah, they got five Coronas and a bottle of liquor on the table. What the hell's going on at their house? [00:58:56] Speaker B: Just a ordinary Thursday at the, at the Williams household. But. So they're talking about the case and that dingus, dingus is freaking out. Hold on. Sam and Twitch are talking about the case and Twitch is like, sam, Sam, you should, you should get some rest. You'll be, you'll be better on the case if you get some rest. And he's like, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, I'll, I'll get right on that, bud. And so Sam goes to bed. He tosses and turns. Oh, Johnny. Nothing is worse than that 2:13 in the morning when you, when you haven't been able to get any sleep and done. I know for a lot of people they're already, they're still doing stuff at 2:13 in the morning. But when you've been trying to sleep since before like 11 o'. Clock. Oh. Oh. It's just. You feel like this is your life now forever. It sucks. [00:59:44] Speaker A: David. I work a very physical job. If I sit down, I fall asleep. I haven't had trouble falling asleep since November. [00:59:53] Speaker B: That's wonderful. That's wonderful. [00:59:54] Speaker A: If I sit down, I'm falling. I'm asleep right now. This is a dream. [00:59:59] Speaker B: I mean, it's like a dream, Johnny, because you're, you're dreamy and for some reason I'm naked. How'd that happen? [01:00:07] Speaker A: What? Oh my God, you are. [01:00:10] Speaker B: But so, so to alleviate his, his restlessness, Sam's just like, fuck it. I'm going to the scene of the last murder. And so he, he goes to the, he goes to the scene. It's, it's been a month. So he's not really going to get, you know, anything, anything fresh, but maybe he'll see something with new eyes. [01:00:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:30] Speaker B: He walks past some of the most obscene graffiti I've ever seen in my life. Johnny, this McFarlane, the McFarlane. [01:00:39] Speaker A: Oh my God. [01:00:41] Speaker B: And he gets to the. The crime scene portion of the building. [01:00:43] Speaker A: That corn cover. [01:00:45] Speaker B: Yeah. What a degenerate. Goddamn Canadians. Go back to playing baseball, you bum. And Sam's like, somebody's been here. Something is off. So he turns on his flashlight, looks around. He enters the hallways, his senses buzzing. He knows. He knows what he heard. He heard a thunk. [01:01:06] Speaker A: Heard a thunk. [01:01:07] Speaker B: So carefully and methodically he makes his way room to room, clearing as he goes. And it's Johnny. Sorry to be that guy again, but he is not firing this gun right now. And there are just. Case is just like falling out of his coat. [01:01:23] Speaker A: See, I got confused. I thought he was firing it because of that. But you're right. [01:01:28] Speaker B: No, but this is his careful, methodic. And you don't just shoot your gun willy nilly when you're being careful. Methodic. [01:01:36] Speaker A: He's just constantly pulling, just coming down. [01:01:41] Speaker B: And then, you know, he gets the end of the hallway and he hears another thunk. And he hears breathing heavy and labored. And he turns the corner and he's. He's got his gun pointed and he says, please don't move. Show me your hands. And it's the Zodiac esque man. He says, remember, he's a new ver. [01:02:01] Speaker A: He's like the new version because he's shirtless. Yeah, more goblin size. He's like a little goblin. [01:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah. He says, I'm just here to finish what I'm started. Sam says, I already killed you. And he blam, blam, blam, blam. He just empties his whole. [01:02:14] Speaker A: And he actually does shoot his gun. [01:02:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Empties the whole magazine into him. And then Sam realizes like his vision clears and he's like, oh, I just shot the fuck out of a wall. I've been alone here the entire time. Blood splatter spawn orbed in the issue. [01:02:35] Speaker A: You do the spot. [01:02:38] Speaker B: Sam's going crazy. [01:02:39] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:02:40] Speaker B: Either that or there's like some scarecrow esque action that's making him hallucinate. [01:02:44] Speaker A: Maybe. [01:02:44] Speaker B: I bet you one person knows when [01:02:47] Speaker A: Mr. Thomas Healy Dingus is trying to ding us up. [01:02:50] Speaker B: Yeah, sorry about the dingus in this episode, you guys, but he does not like the weather. Then we get the new generation, new stories. Do you add again? And the Image Classics ad is the back of the issue ad. And that is Sam and switch case files. 2024, number 20 Johnny. So Johnny, this Mr. Dingus, he's a good boy, even though he's not doing too Good. And he's making all this ruckus, which means it's time to rate these puppies. [01:03:18] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppies. First up, we had rat City Number 20. Backstory of Becker. A little backstory on this beast that attacked the George Washington Bridge. One Mr. Johnson Balancing many stories, and it's just exciting, and I'm always thrilled to see where it goes and what it's going to highlight. And, yeah, art is amazing, vibrant. It's just such a thrilling story. I love Rat City. [01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah. It's good as hell. The Eviscerator is back in all her for glory. [01:03:55] Speaker A: And that's just such a cool plot point. Just like using the Spawn lore, even the new Spawn lore, because so much Tom Farland is like, here's this guy from an issue in 1997 again. [01:04:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:05] Speaker A: And, like, getting and using this new canon that we have. It's really refreshing. You can tell that she's, like, appreciating and reading the other work and keeping up with it. And, like, you know, that's fun. It's fun to, like, see the cross because it is a. It's a. It's a fledgling. What word am I looking for? A burgeoning user. [01:04:23] Speaker B: A burgeoning universe, I think. [01:04:25] Speaker A: A burgeoning universe. What was king spawn 2023? Yeah. [01:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. [01:04:32] Speaker A: Yeah. That's. That's kind of the experiment that has led us to where we are now. [01:04:37] Speaker B: It's not 2022. [01:04:39] Speaker A: Maybe it was in 2022. [01:04:41] Speaker B: Okay. [01:04:42] Speaker A: It wasn't. Okay, when do we start the. Wait, when did we start the podcast? [01:04:48] Speaker B: Jesus. [01:04:49] Speaker A: 2023. You're right. It was 2022. [01:04:52] Speaker B: No, it was 20. We. We started recording in 2022. [01:04:56] Speaker A: We did? [01:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Our first episode. Our first episode. Our first episode was August 4th, 2022. [01:05:01] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:05:03] Speaker B: Kingspawn 1. August 25th, 2021. [01:05:06] Speaker A: Yep. [01:05:08] Speaker B: Nice. [01:05:09] Speaker A: We're almost five years into this little experiment. Not the podcast experiment is the Spawn's universe universal experiment. It was a very exciting time. And we're still here. [01:05:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:24] Speaker A: Anyway, I'm gonna give rat City number 20. You know, I'll give it. [01:05:29] Speaker B: What are you gonna give it? [01:05:30] Speaker A: I'm gonna. Five stickers. [01:05:34] Speaker B: Five stickers out of five. [01:05:37] Speaker A: Some Angel. [01:05:38] Speaker B: Oh, Angels. I was. I was fearing for Angel's life. As soon as she was introduced. I was like, don't you dare. Don't you dare do it. Erica Schultz. Don't you make me care about this little child. Yeah, Erica. She'll. She's real bad about that she'll, she'll get the. She'll get those emotional hooks in you. It's fucking great. I love it. I like the story of Becker. I like the story of this new John Kingman guy being the, the big bad on the bridge. It's just everything, everything's going, everything's clipping, everything's hooking together. It does, it does feel a little interstitial issue for me. So I can't give it a five, Johnny. So it's not. We can't have every issue be an entrance to the Hellfire Club, Johnny. [01:06:24] Speaker A: But no, I'm gonna give it one in a while. I've got a five in a minute. Yeah, ask AI. [01:06:32] Speaker B: No, I'm good. I'm gonna give it four Pac man mugs because John Kingman's drinking out of a Pac man mug while he's cooking dinner before it gets kicked. It's by Al Simmons. [01:06:43] Speaker A: That's a good insult. You got a Pac man looking mug. You [01:06:48] Speaker B: got a mug like a. [01:06:51] Speaker A: One of the funniest things that bran friend of the show. Guess almost four or five times. I think four, maybe several fours. Right? They told me a great story that they're at a gas station in Bonita, Oklahoma. These two country ass guys were like getting it like arguing with each other. And he was walking away and he said, he goes, you better watch your. He goes, you better watch your alligator mouth. He's like, as long as you watch your hummingbird ass, [01:07:21] Speaker B: that's good as hell. That's good as hell. [01:07:23] Speaker A: You better watch your alligator mouth. Well, you better watch your hummingbird ass. [01:07:29] Speaker B: That's funny. That's colorful. That's real colorful. Sam and Twitch, number 20, Johnny. [01:07:38] Speaker A: I enjoyed it. [01:07:40] Speaker B: It's great. It's. It's clipping along Thomas Healey's Dragon. A good little. A good little mystery for us. It's very creepy. [01:07:48] Speaker A: It's very creepy. I think it's fun. I like Sam's. He kind of looks anime. It kind of looks anime. [01:07:55] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. [01:07:56] Speaker A: The whole thing's kind of anime. [01:07:58] Speaker B: It's very. It's very. It's very like. It's very small but heightened. Yeah, I like that. I like that. [01:08:05] Speaker A: It's a good flavor. It's a different flavor. Each one's got a different flavor. It feels different than the previous ones. I like it. I'm gonna give it three and a half. Three cans of Corona on the coffee table and half a bottle of liquor. So three and a half cans of Corona. Bottle liquor. [01:08:23] Speaker B: Damn jelly. That's A pretty good one. I'm. I like it. I enjoy it. It's very good. It's still. It's still building up everything, so we still don't really even know what's going on. But I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it four shadowy conversations [01:08:39] Speaker A: on the phone like you do late at night. Ms. Cleo. And various sex lines. [01:08:45] Speaker B: Ms. Cleo. [01:08:46] Speaker A: You're the last one, Kevin. Are you the last person keeping phone sex alive, David? [01:08:50] Speaker B: Yes. How'd you know? [01:08:53] Speaker A: I just figured you'd be into that. [01:08:55] Speaker B: I like to. I like to call Ms. Cleo and ask her things that she doesn't like to talk about. [01:09:00] Speaker A: Call me now. I would do it in the Voice, but it is, it is, it is, it is. [01:09:07] Speaker B: It's best that you don't do Miss Cleo impression, man. Fucking love the Miss Cleo commercials, dude. [01:09:15] Speaker A: Infomercials are great. I love. There's so many good infomercials. Shamwow was iconic. I like the. The romp appeal stuff. [01:09:24] Speaker B: Oh, the romp appeal. Said it and forget it. Yeah, you sleep. You sleep good when you eat garlic. You sleep alone, but you sleep good. [01:09:32] Speaker A: Oh, my God, that's so cheese dick. I like making. Making. Oh, God. Making Mindy. I think it was like they did the Red Devil portable outdoor kitchen. [01:09:43] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't see that one. [01:09:44] Speaker A: And they do the Magic Bullet one. Okay, the plot of the Magic Bullet infomercial is there was. They're having a beach party at their beach house. They buy like six people. One of them was like an old lady that smoked cigarettes. There's like a couple and like a middle aged woman. They solved all their food problems with this Magic Bullet. [01:10:01] Speaker B: Nice. [01:10:01] Speaker A: But I always remember the old lady in the cigarette goes, okay, you can make lunch. What about dinner? Dinner is always a production. And they, like, explain how the Magic [01:10:12] Speaker B: Bullet can make your dinner nice. Like Chef Tony just cutting those. Yeah. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Miracle blades. Fucking crazy shit with that. [01:10:22] Speaker B: Like, still, I still think of him cutting the drywall and then being like straight from cutting drywall to slice of the tomatoes. Look at those still shoved. [01:10:32] Speaker A: It's like, who's. Who's hitting drywall? They're like, who cut a tomato? [01:10:40] Speaker B: You got. You got bigger problems if that's. That's where your knife is doing. [01:10:45] Speaker A: Well, Johnny, Jason Voorhees making a sandwich. [01:10:48] Speaker B: But. But Jason's mom makes him a sandwich. You know? You know, Jason's mom is still making him his sandwiches. He doesn't. He doesn't know how to put the bread Together. [01:10:54] Speaker A: Even when she's the Skellington. [01:10:56] Speaker B: Even when she's. Especially when she's a Skellington. But speaking of wonderful infomercials and how they're all great. Johnny, you know what else is all great? [01:11:07] Speaker A: Our friends on Instagram. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Our friends on Instagram, the individuals of the Spawn munity. And today is freaking out. He. He is. I think the. Yeah, there's got to be some sort of pressure thing because he's. This is the guy for those who didn't pay attention or if I haven't mentioned in a while, he was born without eardrums and eyes. And so he seems to be very, very, very sensitive to atmospheric pressure things. So if the weather changes in any way, shape or form, he freaks out. This is him. [01:11:37] Speaker A: Just like my mother. [01:11:38] Speaker B: This is him on one and a half Benadryl and 300 milligrams of gabapentin. Johnny. So Gaba. [01:11:44] Speaker A: He got the Gaba. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Gaba. But, but good, good. People on Instagram are gonna shout out an individual who was featured in the spawning grounds of king spawn number 49. Chance Drew, that 18 year old self self taught artist, does a lot of Spider mans, does a lot of Al Simmons's. Does a Darth Maul. He's got a good Darth Maul there. He's got. He's got the Pip boy guy from Fallout. Yeah, he does good. Good as hell art, Johnny. Self taught. He's got the Ghoul there. He's got some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. [01:12:20] Speaker A: Oh my God. It's all your favorite shit. [01:12:22] Speaker B: Yeah, all our favorite shit. So good. Give him a follow. [01:12:26] Speaker A: Chance drew that while you're on Instagram. Check us out regarding Spawn Pod. Also email us regarding spawnpodmail.com. [01:12:34] Speaker B: yes, please do. [01:12:35] Speaker A: If you email us why you should get a violator, we'll give you a free violator. [01:12:39] Speaker B: 1993 trade paperback. Yes. Nobody has mentioned it yet. [01:12:43] Speaker A: We're gonna mention this. It's gonna be like six years. We're gonna keep mentioning this. I like it because it gets me out of the hotspot of making up a question. [01:12:50] Speaker B: Please, somebody just email us about this goddamn book. It's wonderful. You should read it and listen to. Listen to our conversation with Thomas Healing. [01:12:58] Speaker A: Mail. David loves sending mail. [01:12:59] Speaker B: I love sending mail. Send me your address and I'll send you a piece of mail. [01:13:04] Speaker A: It's physical, it's real. [01:13:06] Speaker B: Your loved ones touched it while you're on the Internet. Also follow Lonnie Bones. He does our music. It's fantastic. He's fantastic. Give him some love. [01:13:16] Speaker A: And while you're on the Internet, listen to our next episode. [01:13:19] Speaker B: Yes, do listen to our next episode. It will be on the Internet. [01:13:23] Speaker A: It's probably going to be. [01:13:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:26] Speaker A: Two 50s. [01:13:27] Speaker B: 250s, right? Yes. [01:13:29] Speaker A: Kingspawn 50. [01:13:31] Speaker B: Gunslinger 50. Yes. [01:13:33] Speaker A: With. With tiny spawny. [01:13:36] Speaker B: Yes. One Mr. Tiny Spawny. [01:13:38] Speaker A: But scheduling doesn't work out. It will be. [01:13:41] Speaker B: It will be spawn 370 and scorched 47. [01:13:44] Speaker A: So hopefully scheduling works out and that'll be our next episode, but we'll see Hedge. [01:13:49] Speaker B: Hedge. And just buy all four and read them all. [01:13:51] Speaker A: Buy them all. [01:13:52] Speaker B: I'm all, buy them up. [01:13:54] Speaker A: Buy them now. [01:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Order. Order now. I will last the price. [01:14:01] Speaker A: I remember when I was a kid, I was like, they don't. This commercial airs all the time. They don't know when it airs. This is like, order the next five minutes. You'll get this deal. Like, they don't know that. [01:14:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:14:10] Speaker A: It's a trick. [01:14:11] Speaker B: It is a trick, Johnny. Just 19.99 shipping and handling. [01:14:16] Speaker A: The other trick is to rate, review and subscribe. [01:14:20] Speaker B: Yes. [01:14:22] Speaker A: That's how you family your co workers. [01:14:24] Speaker B: Yes. [01:14:26] Speaker A: Everyone you know. [01:14:28] Speaker B: Even the ones you don't. Especially the ones you don't. [01:14:30] Speaker A: Every voluptuous redhead you see. [01:14:32] Speaker B: Yes. If somebody. If somebody says insult, your alligator face will say your hummingbird ass better. Read some spawn and listen to and rate and subscribe to. Regarding Spawn, the best Spawn podcast with co hosts Johnny and David. That's a. That's a very coherent argument to make in the midst of some verbal fisticuffs. [01:14:56] Speaker A: That's everything. [01:14:57] Speaker B: That's everything. We did. We did it, Johnny. We did it. That means I have nothing left to say except for may the Scorch be with you and may Dingus calm down. [01:15:11] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:15:18] Speaker B: He's real upset. Sorry about the quality of this episode from the. [01:15:26] Speaker A: Oh, God, it's dingus. Sam.