RE:Spawn Christmas 2023 - With Guest Bran Moorhead

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Footsteps. Lots of them. Oh, maybe. Yes, it's them. The little helpers. That means Santa's here. Good evening and ho ho, and welcome to the malbols. This is regarding Spawn, the world's most Christmassy spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:01:05] Speaker B: And I'm your co host David Williams. [00:01:08] Speaker C: And I am returning guest, Bran Moorhead. [00:01:12] Speaker B: Woohoo. [00:01:13] Speaker A: We got Bran back. Welcome. Welcome, everybody. It's Christmas. It's a time of togetherness. And for eating snowballs, whatever the fuck those are kids eating in this comic book. I don't know. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Oh, come on. They're like the. I don't know what's on the inside, but it's like chocolate. And then you roll it in powdered sugar. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I've never had those. [00:01:33] Speaker C: It's like fudgy, nutty chocolate that are in a ball form. [00:01:36] Speaker B: We had buckeyes when I was little. [00:01:38] Speaker C: I think it's close. I think it's like the same thing. Or maybe there's peanut butter involved too. Yeah, because buckeyes have peanut butter. [00:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:01:46] Speaker C: Could have said the merriest Spawn porn cast podcast. [00:01:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we did a lot of tiger butter when I was little, which was. Everybody lost their shit with Tiger butter. [00:01:55] Speaker C: I have no idea what. [00:01:57] Speaker B: It's white chocolate, milk chocolate, and peanut butter just like melted and swirled together. And then you freeze it in a pan so that way you can cut it into bars. And it's got tiger. [00:02:07] Speaker C: Tiger butter. [00:02:08] Speaker B: Tiger butter. [00:02:09] Speaker A: Tiger butter. Interesting. [00:02:10] Speaker B: It's good. [00:02:12] Speaker A: Welcome, everyone. This is regarding Spawn, where each week we bring you two issues from Spawn universe. Except when we don't. And this is one of those occasions where we don't. We're just bringing you one issue because there's only one Christmas issue of Spawn, and this is our Christmas episode. [00:02:27] Speaker B: Yeah, they need to get on that. Make another Christmas issue. [00:02:30] Speaker A: I know. They need one for each one. They need one for gunslinger score. [00:02:34] Speaker C: Yeah, they need one for each holiday. They need an Easter episode. They should do Passover. Just like everything. [00:02:43] Speaker B: Just like DC always puts out a holiday, like an 80 page holiday comic every holiday. They should do one for each of the comics. [00:02:51] Speaker C: Do they really? [00:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. And it usually involves Batmite. He's. What is he? [00:02:59] Speaker A: He's like a fanboy, right? [00:03:01] Speaker B: Yeah, he's from Dimension Z, and he's from the same universe that Mr. Migsius Picklick is from. And so he's just got like all these magical powers and he just fucks everything up all the time. Everybody hates him, but I love him. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Isn't he like, a big. [00:03:19] Speaker B: He always. He wants to be Batman so bad that he bamps into Gotham City and then messes everything up for Batman. And then Batman's like, you got to get out of here. Hijinks. [00:03:31] Speaker A: Interesting. I didn't know they did that. Well, that's cool. Yeah. I mean, Christmas editions is a classic tradition of television and comic books, and this is no different. Yes, in a long way of saying. We were covering Spawn issue 39, aka Noel. When I was reading it, I turned on some Christmas radio on iTunes, and the first song was Williams Noel. [00:03:55] Speaker C: It's like they knew. [00:03:56] Speaker B: I know that tracker that Jeff Bezos put on you, and then it was from Tim Apple. Tim Apple. [00:04:05] Speaker C: No, it was Bill Gates. [00:04:09] Speaker B: I got my billionaire questionable people mixed up. [00:04:13] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure we talked about Bill Gates and the vaccine last time I was on here comes up a lot. [00:04:18] Speaker B: Yeah, we talk about it, like, almost every other episode. [00:04:20] Speaker A: And 911 a lot. [00:04:22] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, 911 and Spawn go together like peanut butter and Tiger butter. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah, tiger butter. [00:04:28] Speaker B: Let's talk about the beautiful Christmas of 911 and how Spawn was involved. Spawn was supposed to be on that plane that day. [00:04:37] Speaker C: He was. He got a phone call that morning and didn't go into know who called him. [00:04:43] Speaker A: No one knows. [00:04:45] Speaker C: Hey, what are your other. Some other favorite Christmas or holiday themed comic issues? I was just thinking of? I remember the. I don't think I've ever read actually the arc of this in the comics, but in Batman, no man's land, which is when Gotham gets, like, cut off from the rest of the world. [00:05:01] Speaker B: It's dope. [00:05:02] Speaker C: It's really good. I've read the novelization of the whole comics. I've never read the comics, and I love that world building anyway, but I just remember that it's towards the end, and I think they're finally going to reopen Gotham to the rest of the United States of America and the world. And Joker kidnaps all the kids on Christmas Eve and has them all, and it's, like, the climax of the book. That's the first one that came to mind for me. As far as Christmas themed episodes or Gundam Wing, endless waltz, I know that's not a comic book, but I mean, animated. They're like, the final movie of that whole show takes place on Christmas. [00:05:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember there's, like, a Christmas segment on long Halloween because he does all the. All the holidays, but being. [00:05:43] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:05:44] Speaker A: Not super well versed in comics, I would say, like, some of my favorite Christmas things. I always like the constant on lost that takes place on Christmas Eve. [00:05:55] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. That is technically a Christmas episode. I'm going to watch that this year now. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Yeah, we watch it usually around Christmas. That's a really good one. There's a Christmas episode of mystery science. Cedar 3000. I watch a lot where they watch a movie called Santa Claus. It's from Mexico. And it's like a movie about Santa Claus fighting the devil. It's really good. And that's a really good episode of mystery science theater. I watch almost every year. I like Muppet, Christmas carol. That's a movie. [00:06:24] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:06:24] Speaker B: That's a classic. [00:06:27] Speaker C: It's the best telling of that story, in my estimation. [00:06:31] Speaker B: No cheeses for the mises. [00:06:34] Speaker C: No cheeses for us. [00:06:35] Speaker B: Mises. [00:06:36] Speaker A: I like all the Shane black movies are good. Like Iron man, three kissies, bang bang, lethal weapon. All take place at Christmas. Which he said in an interview. Someone asked him why, and he said, because everything's more magical at Christmas. [00:06:51] Speaker C: It's true. [00:06:52] Speaker A: So even a movie might as well set it at Christmas. Batman returns, like, all. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Great Christmas movie. Edward scissorhands. That's one of my favorite Christmas movies. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:07:04] Speaker B: The origin of snow in Florida. [00:07:08] Speaker A: I would even consider, like, the force awakens a Christmas movie. Because it came out at Christmas. And that's a fun one to watch. [00:07:14] Speaker C: I always think of Lord of the Rings because of the same thing. [00:07:16] Speaker A: Lord of the Rings. And now spawn. Spawn is the main one I think of. [00:07:21] Speaker C: And now I will think of Spawn. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Now you will. Yeah. So this is Noel. It's 39. So we're back at the kind of classic spawn here. This is from December 1995, all the way back. [00:07:32] Speaker C: Does it break y'all's brains to jump around so much in, like, timeline of Spawn, or just kind of like, eh. [00:07:39] Speaker B: It doesn't take very much to break our brain. [00:07:41] Speaker A: There's just so many of them. It's just such a daunting task to cover them all that. Yeah, it kind of does a little bit. And we forget things. But we're getting to the point now where we're kind of just on a track. Where we're going to be doing stuff in more sequentially. Because basically we were trying to catch up on all these various miniseries that existed. And we have. And so now it's going to be a little more structured. We'll be able to do some mini series of different ones. Like that violator one that Bran found a number one of when they were on vacation. [00:08:11] Speaker B: Nice. [00:08:12] Speaker A: And brought me back. So I have a copy of that. We're going to be doing that one. And, yeah, it does a little bit. But luckily, in the spawn world, even though it's been going for 25, 30 years. Almost. [00:08:23] Speaker B: No, 30 years. 31 years. [00:08:25] Speaker A: Oh, God. It's been going for 31 years. But what's great about it is in Spawn's world, it's probably only been about five or six years. A lot of vamping in there, where there's only a few big changes in those 31 years. Like, only, like, one character has died permanently since the beginning of the comic. [00:08:45] Speaker C: Wow. [00:08:46] Speaker B: A couple. Malbolsha. [00:08:47] Speaker A: A couple, Wanda. I know. It's okay. Two. Well, they need to bring back one of them. [00:08:52] Speaker B: Got excommunicated and will never be referred to by name again. [00:08:56] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Angela. That's right. Yeah. There's angel character Angela. That is a hell Spawn hunter that Neil Gaiman created as a guest spot, but then took back, and now at Marvel because he sold the rights to Marvel. Yeah, but the original Spawn hunter, there. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Was a big lawsuit about who had creative rights over the characters because they were jointly created. Her and coliostra were jointly created between Todd McFarlane and Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman, like, creating the idea of the characters, but Tod McFarlane making their visual aspects. The lawsuit ultimately ended with Todd got to keep Cole Ostro, but Neil Gaiman got to keep Angela. And Neil Gaiman was like, fuck you, Tod. You're never using this angel again. So now she is Thor and Loki's sister. She's officially an asgardian in the Marvel comics. [00:09:51] Speaker C: Yeah. So wait, why do Tod McFarlane and Neil Gaiman have beef? What happened there? [00:09:55] Speaker B: I think it was not representing characters like those characters as being created jointly. I think Tod McFarlane all the credit for. [00:10:06] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Ultimately, I think it comes down to money. [00:10:09] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. Always. [00:10:11] Speaker A: But there's a run early in spawn where people were dissing on Tod McFarland saying he couldn't write. So he said, fuck it, I'm going to hire Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and the guy who does Grant Morrison, Grant Morrison, Cerberus, the Ardvark, whoever that guy is. [00:10:28] Speaker B: Dave Sims. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Dave Sims. I knew it was a name that was funny for some reason. [00:10:32] Speaker B: Or Dave Sim. [00:10:35] Speaker A: Which one's the Dave Sims? And David Sims is on blank check. [00:10:38] Speaker B: Okay. Because I know it's close to the movie, but, yeah. [00:10:44] Speaker A: So he hired, like, four or five well respected comic book writers to write some issues. And in those issues, Neil Gaiman created these two characters, and then Tod just started using them and act like he created them. And I guess it started some beef. Tod's evidently a pretty bull headed person because he's had some beef with a few people over the years. [00:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. [00:11:04] Speaker C: Because he's straight edge. He never takes the edge off with cocktail or anything. [00:11:09] Speaker B: You're saying beef is his drug? Beef jacks his beef right into his veins. [00:11:15] Speaker C: There you go. [00:11:16] Speaker A: But the artists on this issue, on Noel, they had a very good working relationship. This is Greg Capullo, who was his main budy for many years on this comic. And Greg Capoulo went on to do Batman, did the court of owls. Batman. That was really popular, like, ten years ago. But Greg Capoulo is great. He's really buff. He plays guitar. He draws a lot. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah. He is a mountain of a man. A literal mountain. It's great. [00:11:46] Speaker A: And he's got this style that's similar to Tod McFarland's was, but just different enough. And just like crazy energy busting off of it, as you saw in this issue. But we should get into it while we're talking about the beginning of the issue here. [00:12:03] Speaker B: Why don't we cover the credits here, Johnny? We should cover the COVID first since that's. [00:12:09] Speaker A: There's one cover. [00:12:10] Speaker B: One cover. [00:12:10] Speaker A: It's spawn dressed as Santa. [00:12:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:13] Speaker A: You don't have the COVID in yours? Sorry. [00:12:15] Speaker C: No, I don't. Can you show me a picture? Do you have it handy either? [00:12:18] Speaker B: Let me see. [00:12:18] Speaker C: I can google it also. [00:12:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Googling it will be faster because that's. [00:12:22] Speaker C: Googling it faster. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Google Spawn 39. It'll pop up. It's literally spawn as Santa or Santa Spawn. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Whichever one's easier to type. [00:12:29] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. This is awesome. [00:12:31] Speaker A: Yeah. So Santa Spawn is the COVID Pretty iconic. [00:12:35] Speaker B: There's a little hand down in the bottom of the bag. So it's like a krampus sec that he has. He's dragging away the bad men. [00:12:42] Speaker C: It's those guys. Yeah. Which, spoiler alert, I guess. [00:12:45] Speaker A: But, yeah, he kills them. [00:12:47] Speaker C: These crooks. [00:12:48] Speaker A: I wonder what he thinks he's doing when he ties them all up like reindeers. He just like, yeah, fuck it. And then throws them off the roof. [00:12:55] Speaker B: He's making it up as it goes. It's jazz, Johnny. It's all about the bad guys you don't tie. Yeah, true. [00:13:04] Speaker C: The bad guys you don't kill. [00:13:05] Speaker B: I do like how this cover is firmly in the shoelace tying the face together phase. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You can see the shoelace. [00:13:13] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. What's up with that? [00:13:15] Speaker A: He got his face cleaved. Some people think it was because of Batman. Because Batman and one of the Batman v spawns throws a batarang at him. But also Houdini, who was one of his villains for a little bit, or a guy, a demon who claims to be Houdini also did it. So there's, like, two ways he could have got his face cleaved. And fans argue about it, but there was about probably a 40 or 50 issue run in the 90s where he had a cleaved face and a shoelace that tied it together, and then some. [00:13:44] Speaker B: Of his magic rubbed off on the shoelace. And his wife's daughter gets a hold of the shoelace, and it protects her, and weird stuff becomes, like, her binky. [00:13:54] Speaker A: It's kind of weird. [00:13:55] Speaker B: It's wild. Like, she loses it out the window while they're driving down the freeway, and she makes them stop the car and find a shoelace on the side of the freeway. [00:14:04] Speaker C: Hey, it's a magic shoelace. I get it. [00:14:06] Speaker B: It's wild. [00:14:07] Speaker A: But, yeah, it's cleave spawn. There's blood coming out of the sack. It's pretty cool. [00:14:11] Speaker B: It's awesome. [00:14:11] Speaker A: So if you have the credits, David, can you read the credits? [00:14:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I will read the credits. It says, image comics presents. Noel story by Todd McFarlane. Pencils by Greg Capullo. Inks by Todd McFarlane. Letters by Tom Orzachowski. Orzakowski tomo. Colors by Steve Olif and Quinn Suplei and Ollie optics. I guess they hired out a crew to do that. A special thanks to Kevin Conrad. Julia Simmons, Jeremy Johnson. I wonder if that's Kevin Conrad. Batman. Kevin Conrad. [00:14:45] Speaker A: That's Kevin Conroy. [00:14:46] Speaker B: Conroy. Okay, so it's not that guy. Rip. Kevin Conroy. Best Batman. [00:14:51] Speaker C: Yeah, true. [00:14:52] Speaker B: It also says this probably was the best Batman. Yeah, he was. He was the Batman who joined a soup kitchen to hand out food after 911. [00:15:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:03] Speaker B: The only one of them, him and Steve Bushimi, were up there taking care of the people. [00:15:08] Speaker C: Well, I would imagine that Keaton, Kilmer, Clooney, and who else was still alive? Adam west were probably all in LA, and it's not like you could get a flight to New York at that. [00:15:19] Speaker B: Clooney. Clooney needed somewhere to put his pig because he probably couldn't take his pig to ground zero with him. [00:15:24] Speaker C: Does he famously have a pig? [00:15:25] Speaker B: He famously had a pig and would refuse to take jobs if he couldn't take his pig with him. Slept in the same bed with his pig. [00:15:32] Speaker A: It seems like George Clooney. He smells like leather and whiskey, and he's like, yeah, I got this pig. And I love him. He's like, slapping it really hard. [00:15:40] Speaker C: Amigos, not whiskey. He's got his own tequila. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he's drinking tequila. I forgot. That shit is good. It's too. [00:15:45] Speaker C: Damn, it is good. It's a very good whiskey. Or tequila. He basically sold just the name recognition for $2 billion after it had only been a company for like a year and a half or something. Maybe it's a little longer than that, but that's still crazy. [00:15:58] Speaker A: I mean, they successfully infiltrated the market and surpassed patron in, like, five years, which is pretty big deal. [00:16:05] Speaker C: Yeah, that's crazy. [00:16:07] Speaker A: There's another nice tequila that people know. It's usually. There was just the one. [00:16:11] Speaker C: It was patron silver for so long. And now. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Right. [00:16:14] Speaker C: I'm seeing pictures here too. I know. John, you're such a toy. A. That does look like there's a statue of Santa. [00:16:22] Speaker A: Swan. [00:16:23] Speaker C: Sweet. I wish it was posable. It's like one of those Mackette things. It looks like. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:27] Speaker C: What is that called? Is there a term for that statue? [00:16:30] Speaker A: People call it statues, but it's also the time probably when they made. It was probably part of that art of the COVID series, I imagine, which was like a three series line where they did, like, exact recreations of covers. And I'm pretty sure it was that they were considered action figures and sold with action figures, but they basically didn't move. Like, they're basically just standstill. [00:16:51] Speaker B: But the quality. Excellent. [00:16:53] Speaker A: People used to bitch about it, and now people bitch about them because they're more. [00:16:58] Speaker B: They're too articulatable. [00:16:59] Speaker C: Again, bitch about everything you need. [00:17:02] Speaker B: That sweet spot between doesn't move enough and moves too much. [00:17:06] Speaker A: The Diablo four figures they just made are statues. [00:17:09] Speaker C: Oh, really? [00:17:10] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:17:11] Speaker C: What do they got? They got. What's her name? What's the villain of the first? [00:17:15] Speaker A: Oh, they haven't made Lilith yet, unfortunately. [00:17:17] Speaker C: Oh, Lilith. Yeah. [00:17:18] Speaker A: They've got three of each type of class by colors. So you can have, like, a fire sorceress, a lightning source. They have, like, three of each kind of class. And then a blood baron, which is a big enemy, but they're making more. But I can't go down that road. No, David, just. God. David had the year in review on Xbox. I played a thousand hours of Xbox. [00:17:39] Speaker B: 1000 hours of Xbox. Holy crap. I don't think I've played 1000 hours of video games in my life. [00:17:45] Speaker A: 600 hours. [00:17:46] Speaker C: I was going to ask. You don't really play games much anymore, right? [00:17:50] Speaker B: I never played games. My mom said that they would rot our brains so we never really got to play them. [00:17:55] Speaker C: Well, it's not inaccurate. [00:17:58] Speaker B: But now there are so many studies that people who played video games are better suited for the world as it exists now. Well, sure, kids who are really good at video games tends to grow up to be better at surgery because surgery is all semi robotic now. [00:18:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Or flying drones and blowing up a Yamini wedding. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Yeah. That's a good way to make us military. I'm ruining families. [00:18:28] Speaker A: I did feel like I was a better driver because I was good at video games. [00:18:32] Speaker C: I believe that. [00:18:33] Speaker A: I felt like it was easier to learn. [00:18:35] Speaker B: That's a bigger controller, Johnny, because I've known a lot of people who claim that they're better drivers when they're drunk. [00:18:44] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:18:45] Speaker C: Oh, boy. Yeah. Not good. I know. I'm a worse halo player when I'm really drunk. [00:18:51] Speaker A: Yes. [00:18:51] Speaker B: I used to work with this guy from Russia who said you had to be drunk to be able to accurately avoid all the potholes. Because if you have all your faculties, then you're just, like, all the time. But if you're drunk, you're naturally meandering. [00:19:07] Speaker C: And you're, like, looser. So if you get in a car, wreck your body. It seems like a very russian thing, russian attitude to take. [00:19:14] Speaker B: He also had, like, a microwave and a toaster set up in his van so he would cook himself breakfast while he was driving to work from the suburbs so he could spend less time with his children in the. [00:19:28] Speaker C: Job. Was this your current job? [00:19:31] Speaker B: No, this was several jobs. [00:19:34] Speaker C: Okay. Oh, boy. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Fun times. Fun times. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Yeah. I watch a lot of random dash cam videos on YouTube. There's a lot from Russia. [00:19:43] Speaker C: There sure are meteors crashing and, like, some vehicle that shouldn't work that's flying down the road at 90 miles an hour. [00:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah, apparently there's a lot of russian specific dash cams because it's very hard to file an auto insurance claim without. [00:20:01] Speaker C: Yeah, so, like, everybody has. [00:20:02] Speaker B: Everybody's just always recording just so they can get reimbursed for whatever they need. Very exciting. [00:20:09] Speaker C: Should put one on my bicycle. [00:20:11] Speaker A: That's good call. [00:20:12] Speaker B: That would be good. [00:20:14] Speaker A: I just wear Google Glass all the time. [00:20:16] Speaker C: Oh, there you go. That was supposed to be. Everybody was supposed to have those by now. And it just, like. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Yeah, with, like, three months. Six months. [00:20:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:25] Speaker A: No one wanted to be a glass hole. [00:20:27] Speaker C: Nobody wanted to be a glass hole. [00:20:30] Speaker B: So we've got a. Previously on in the front matter of this hoopla issue. Johnny. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Okay, what does it say? [00:20:37] Speaker B: So first off, this issue is dedicated to Phyllis Capullo who is Greg Capullo's mom. Previously on it's spawn number 39 prelude. For the first time in his existence, spawn feels he has no purpose. He is spinning aimlessly, not knowing where to stop. The once clear target has disappeared. The mysterious hobo coliostro made spawn see that Jason Wyn was just a small pawn in a very large game. Until the true enemy is revealed, unknown random victims will fill the emptiness. [00:21:08] Speaker A: So here he goes. We got some unknown random victims. That's pretty accurate. [00:21:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, Johnny. Larry Martyr used to be the executive director for Image comics. So bringing, there he is bringing Larry Martyr back. Very exciting. Director of creative development is Terry Fitzgerald, and graphics coordinator is Julia Simmons. Man, there are, like, the credits go below the little. The fine print with the copyright information on it. So many credits on this page, Jimmy. [00:21:36] Speaker A: So many credits. But after the credits, we open on Harlem, New York, on Christmas Eve. A snowstorm, a snowy scene, and this kid, Gregory. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Gregory. I do like the faint sounds of Christmas music, sirens, and the OD gunshot. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Yeah. It is a 90s view of New York told by a canadian man. [00:22:03] Speaker B: True. Gregory's just housing snowballs left and right because they're his favorite. I love how childlike is he. Promises he won't get. Promise. I promise I'll get my faculties under control. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Great hair on the mom and daughter. [00:22:22] Speaker B: Like, the daughter's haircut is back. That kind of Undercut. And swoop diddy. Swoop diddy. Spikiness. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's good. She's, like, pretty cool. [00:22:33] Speaker C: She's, like an extra on Ed and Eddie or something. [00:22:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:37] Speaker B: Little Gregory's hair looks like he stole it from a ventriloquist dummy. [00:22:41] Speaker C: He kind of just looks like a ventriloquist dummy, period. Those, like, perfect little cheeks. Eyeball. And his eyes, especially the bottom of the next page. He's just like, where he's getting his cheek pinched. [00:22:52] Speaker A: I'm going to say it. Gregory's kind of a little shit. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:56] Speaker C: He's, like, five year old. [00:22:58] Speaker A: He's just like. He's just a little stinker. He's not a stinker. He's just like. He needs to get a dose of the real world. He's living in a fantasy land. [00:23:07] Speaker C: Too innocent. Hey, at least he doesn't. I was just waiting for. And I know we'll get to it, but I was waiting for him to fuck up in some way and get Nadine in trouble. And I was thrilled that Nadine got away with going to the party. I'm just saying. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I know that was a good trick. That was a good twist. [00:23:27] Speaker B: If this were about my family and I were. Gregory and my sister were Nadine. Nadine totally would have gotten in trouble. I was a little narc. [00:23:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I was the Nadine in the dynamic here. So I was the one being like, you're fine. You're to my younger sibling. [00:23:45] Speaker A: Yeah, my brother didn't really do much bad stuff. I was probably worse than my. So. But I also didn't really do any bad stuff after he had left for so. [00:23:54] Speaker B: So you're saying you're the Gregory in this, huh, Johnny? [00:23:58] Speaker A: Oh, I'm the little. [00:23:59] Speaker B: You're a little shit. You just keep your mouth shut but get into trouble. [00:24:03] Speaker A: Yep. With my big, old, wet, glossy brown eyes. [00:24:09] Speaker B: So glossy. [00:24:10] Speaker A: Basically, mom's got to go to another job. She can't afford a babysitter, so Nadine, of course, got to watch the kid. [00:24:18] Speaker B: But she's got two jobs, and she's doing the dishes before she leaves for a second job, and Nadine does nothing but pout. Come on, Nadine, do some fucking dishes. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Do the dishes. [00:24:27] Speaker C: I mean, she's, like, 13. She's not going to do dishes. [00:24:29] Speaker B: Or if she does dishes, you got to do them again. [00:24:32] Speaker C: Because also, this job is cleaning someone's house on Christmas Eve while they have a party. Who the fuck are these rich assholes? Hiring somebody to do this can't wait till the next day? [00:24:45] Speaker B: No, they can't. Do you see this toilet, Bram? This toilet can't wait a day. [00:24:50] Speaker C: It's like marble and gold. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Looks painful. It looks painful to shit on. [00:24:54] Speaker C: It does look really uncomfortable. [00:24:57] Speaker B: My ass cheeks are, like, freezing just looking at this and thinking about having to sit on it. [00:25:03] Speaker A: Also, she's using, like, dish soap in it. [00:25:05] Speaker B: Well, it does say four. [00:25:06] Speaker C: Giddy up, 409. [00:25:07] Speaker A: Okay. It just looks kind of like a dish soap bottle. [00:25:09] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just a weird bottle. [00:25:10] Speaker A: I do like when she shows up at the rich people's house, like, her haircut is just covered in snow. [00:25:15] Speaker B: It's like, oh, yeah, I love that. [00:25:19] Speaker C: She's completely snow covered. It's great. [00:25:22] Speaker B: She's like an abominable snowman, man. [00:25:24] Speaker A: She's just working hard. She's like a. Working hard. [00:25:26] Speaker B: She works hard 90s single mom. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Shout out to my mom. My mom was a hard working 90s single mom. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Shout out to mama Fisher. [00:25:35] Speaker A: She didn't scrub toilets, but she worked in the kindergarten, so she just as bad. She probably did scrub toilets, actually. [00:25:41] Speaker C: Probably did. [00:25:43] Speaker B: She would probably have strangled somebody for the shits to be in. The toilet. [00:25:48] Speaker A: I remember a good stories once they put in those. Most of the kids were afraid of the automatic flushing thing they put in. The year they put it in, none of her kids would use the fucking bathroom because they were terrified of the automatic flushing. They were like new and they had never seen it before. They're in kindergarten and it was like. It yells at me. [00:26:08] Speaker C: Yeah. And I think that this is totally just like white people bullshit. But it's like the old wives tale of, like, oh, they thought photos would steal your soul. Indigenous people thought that. And I don't think that that's true, like I said, but that's similarly, the kids just thought the automatic flusher would steal their soul if it flushed without. [00:26:29] Speaker B: Them knowing or would suck them into it. Because I have a feeling that if you were Gregory and you've got a sister like Nadine, she would be like, you know those things, they'll just suck you in it and you'll be thrown into the sewer. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Nadine's like totally 90s. Like, crush is named Brad and it reminds her someone in a jeans commercial. That's like the most 90s crush. [00:26:49] Speaker B: Do you know what the reference is there, Johnny? [00:26:52] Speaker A: Brad Pitt. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Pitt? No, for the guy in the Lee Jeans ad. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Is that Mark Wahlberg? No. [00:27:00] Speaker B: Rob Liefeld was in a Lee Jeans commercial where he shoves a big sock down it to make it like you see him shove the sock down so he has a big package. But that's a reference to Rob Liefeld in the Lee jeans commercial. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Why is Rob Liefeld in a Lee jeans? [00:27:15] Speaker B: He was a fucking rock star in. [00:27:17] Speaker A: The early ninety s. I guess so. He made cable Bishop. [00:27:22] Speaker C: It was Levi's. I just found it was Levi's. [00:27:25] Speaker B: Dang it. [00:27:26] Speaker C: I'm going to put it in the chat. It's only 30 seconds. We should watch it. Spike Lee directed this commercial, by the way. [00:27:31] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:27:33] Speaker C: What? So I say it and then look down? Or just open it and say fly button. I guess there are more than one. He doesn't shove the socks in this. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Okay, maybe I was conflating it with something because I think he only did the one. [00:27:53] Speaker C: He's playing himself, to be fair. Yeah, he is still bizarre. [00:27:56] Speaker B: Spike man. I'd read the Spike man and you. [00:27:59] Speaker C: Created X Force X verse. [00:28:03] Speaker B: Very exciting. I like that. It was the Regis and Kathy Lee advertisement before it rip. Regis. [00:28:10] Speaker C: Totally. [00:28:11] Speaker A: He does look at his fly. Maybe that's what I'm thinking. [00:28:14] Speaker B: I think. I think that's what I was remembering. [00:28:17] Speaker A: That's funny. [00:28:17] Speaker B: There's a lot of shit just, like, mashed together into my brain. I don't remember what's what anymore. [00:28:22] Speaker C: That's crazy that you knew that reference, David. [00:28:24] Speaker A: Yeah. How did you know that? [00:28:25] Speaker C: How did you know that? You just remember? [00:28:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:28] Speaker C: Damn. [00:28:29] Speaker B: It's a thing. It's a thing that doesn't leave. I wish I could know useful things, but no, it's bullshit. [00:28:37] Speaker C: Get your mother's face. But you'll remember Rob Liefeld in a commercial with Spike Lee. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. [00:28:43] Speaker A: The Spike man. [00:28:45] Speaker C: The Spike Man. I love this detail on her when she's pushing in the videotape of just her, like, her nails being fucked up, her chipped nails. I love that as a person whose nails are frequently chipped like that. [00:28:56] Speaker A: And she puts in a Rudolph video and is basically like, I'm going this party. I'm going to go meet up with Rob Liefeld's jeans. [00:29:03] Speaker B: I love that they've got the automatic rewind VCR. That's pretty. [00:29:06] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:29:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:08] Speaker C: I think we. Ours did that. But then it would just stop. It wouldn't just keep playing. [00:29:12] Speaker B: She does say that he has to press play. [00:29:14] Speaker C: Oh, he has to push play. Okay. [00:29:16] Speaker B: Ours never had the automatic rewind function. [00:29:18] Speaker C: And we can Bibsie. [00:29:19] Speaker A: He's called Bibsy because he needs a bib. [00:29:23] Speaker B: That sounds like me. I still am a horrible mess, always. I ate kind of like cookie monster, where most of it went around me. [00:29:32] Speaker C: Instead of not in your mouth. Yeah. [00:29:34] Speaker A: I always liked someone that had the confidence of wearing, like, a nice suit, a nice restaurant, just putting the fucking bib in and being like, I'm wearing the bib. [00:29:40] Speaker B: I love to go into red lobster because red lobster always had the bibs. [00:29:46] Speaker C: I think, depending on the food, it's appropriate. If you're, like, eating at a crab boil place, get a bib. [00:29:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:29:53] Speaker B: At the crab boil, you just, like, tuck the tablecloth in so that way. [00:29:57] Speaker C: Perfect. Exactly. [00:29:59] Speaker A: All right. [00:30:00] Speaker C: Is that the messiest food you can eat? I mean, wings are pretty messy, but I feel like crawfish. [00:30:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that oil kind of. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Thing, because you really got to get in there. [00:30:09] Speaker C: You got to get in there. You got to suck on the head. [00:30:12] Speaker A: I remember the first time I loved lobster, but I'd always have, like, lobster tail. One time went to a restaurant, I ordered a lobster. [00:30:17] Speaker C: Full fucking work. Oh, yeah, I love it. [00:30:20] Speaker A: Just ordering a lobster, that's like, goddamn. [00:30:23] Speaker B: Same thing with crab legs. [00:30:24] Speaker C: Got to get in there and then. [00:30:26] Speaker A: Watch out for the poop. [00:30:27] Speaker C: Yeah. Or just go for it. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Eat the poop. [00:30:31] Speaker B: Just eat it. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Eat the poopoo. [00:30:32] Speaker B: Eat it. [00:30:33] Speaker C: So what? He watches the movie. I love this panel of behind. It's like the most wholesome spawn panel ever drawn. [00:30:40] Speaker A: Yes. [00:30:40] Speaker C: Of him watching the tv with the Christmas tree and, like, leaning back. [00:30:44] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like it's the Rankin and Bass one. [00:30:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:30:48] Speaker A: I never had any affinity for any of those. I really like them. They always seem slow to. [00:30:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:30:53] Speaker C: I think they're slow too. [00:30:54] Speaker B: I fucking love Yukon Cornelius. If you can't tell. I'm modeling myself after Yukon Cornelius these days. [00:31:01] Speaker C: Okay. [00:31:01] Speaker A: I will say that the ice Miser song is a banger. [00:31:04] Speaker C: That's what I was about to say too. Speaking of Batman movies, also, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as the Mr. Freeze has his whole group of minions sing that in. What is that? Batman and Robin? [00:31:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that comes up. David loves Batman. [00:31:19] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:31:19] Speaker C: I do. I'm a fan. Let's release the Schumacher cut. [00:31:24] Speaker A: Yeah, let's go do it. [00:31:26] Speaker B: So Icemeister and Heat Miser are the sons of Mother Earth. So technically they could appear in Spawn. [00:31:36] Speaker A: Oh, like. [00:31:41] Speaker C: Spawn kill. Maybe that'll happen because last time I was on here we talked about Spawn kills every spawn that's coming out. Has that come out yet? [00:31:48] Speaker A: No. [00:31:50] Speaker C: And you were talking about, Spawn kills everyone where he kills everybody. He kills George Clooney. Maybe they could show up in one of those. He kills the heat miser and the ice miser. [00:32:04] Speaker A: Let's do it. Yeah. Did Rankin and Bass, did they do the animated hobit as well? [00:32:09] Speaker B: Yeah, they did. [00:32:10] Speaker A: That's Rankin and bass and the animated. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Lord of the Rings condensed film thing. Very creepy. Creepiest golem ever. Holy shit. [00:32:20] Speaker C: He is creepy. [00:32:22] Speaker A: I never seen that one. I've seen their hobbit. [00:32:24] Speaker C: It's only like 90 minutes long, isn't it? It's really short for the whole. And it's all three. [00:32:29] Speaker B: So I do like the detail that the tv is on channel three. I miss the ox in or channel three options. [00:32:37] Speaker A: Yep. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Very. [00:32:38] Speaker A: Gotta be on it. [00:32:39] Speaker B: Gotta be on. [00:32:39] Speaker C: Uh huh. [00:32:40] Speaker A: And then you've got bibs. He's here. [00:32:41] Speaker B: Just like, he's talking to the tv. [00:32:44] Speaker A: Talking to the tv. He says, rudolph's the coolest, which is funny. Yeah. [00:32:48] Speaker C: I never associate Rudolph with being, like, a cool guy. He's kind of a loser, right? That's his whole. [00:32:52] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. They wouldn't let join any reindeer games. [00:32:57] Speaker C: He's an outcast like Spawn and that special. [00:32:59] Speaker B: His dad's basically like, this boy's got a red nose. He's a sissy. I need to man him up, and it's like, oh, hold on there, Rudolph's dad. Oh, hold on a second. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Might as well be wearing heels and a skirt, essentially. Yeah. [00:33:12] Speaker A: They should have been checking their liquor cabinet with that red nose. He's probably taking a little sip. [00:33:17] Speaker B: Feeling the special nog. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:19] Speaker B: I like the little snowman with the red nose on top of the VCR. [00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah, that's real good. I think it is peaceful, like, falling asleep Christmas Eve. There's something. As a kid, what I would always watch, which is weird, is I would watch the midnight mass from the Vatican because they always showed it on. I was, like, on NBC, they would show that at midnight, so I'd usually fall asleep to that. [00:33:42] Speaker B: On Christmas, I was usually at midnight mass, like, proper. [00:33:47] Speaker A: Really? [00:33:47] Speaker B: Yeah, because we were Catholic, and it was either we stay awake and do it Christmas Eve, or we wake up early and go Christmas day. [00:33:55] Speaker A: No, you don't want to go Christmas day. [00:33:58] Speaker B: I got cinnamon. [00:34:00] Speaker C: And anything that stands on Christmas Day between you and opening presents is a non starter. Get it out of here. Yeah, exactly. [00:34:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:11] Speaker C: We went, as in southern baptist home. We went Christmas Eve, but it was at, like, 05:00 or six. [00:34:16] Speaker A: Right? That's what we always did. [00:34:17] Speaker C: But it was still somehow longer than a normal service. My God. [00:34:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:34:22] Speaker C: Because the preacher would start talking and just not stop talking. Like, dude, we're all trying to get. [00:34:27] Speaker A: Out of here when everything took longer, because there's, like six times as many people that are usually there. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:32] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Ceos, Christmas, Easter. [00:34:36] Speaker B: Only instead of having, like, a special Christmas service, they have a regular service with just like, a Christmas service in the middle of it. So it's full service, plus that extra bit in the middle. It's like going to a David. [00:34:51] Speaker C: Were you catholic then? Yeah, full on catholic. Not catholic light like Johnny. [00:34:55] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I was catholic light, baby. [00:34:56] Speaker B: Episcopal. [00:34:57] Speaker C: Yeah, full on anglican church everywhere. But America is what that's called, basically. [00:35:04] Speaker A: I always felt bad for my poor mom because we'd wake up at, like, 530 and be like, can we open presents? She's like, no, she's probably been asleep for 4 hours. [00:35:11] Speaker C: Back to sleep. I know. [00:35:13] Speaker A: And then eventually, the rule is we could open our stockings whenever we got up, but we had to wait for. [00:35:18] Speaker B: Everybody for the presents. [00:35:19] Speaker A: For the present was eventually the rules. [00:35:22] Speaker C: Yeah, that's fair. [00:35:23] Speaker B: That was a rule we had, too. [00:35:25] Speaker A: And then ominously, the little snowman on top of the VCR, like, the bulb pops out. This is. Pops out. [00:35:32] Speaker B: This is the most anxious snowman I've ever seen. He looks like he's hiding. He looks like he's witnessing a murder and has to pretend he knows what's coming. He's inanimate, so they don't kill him too. But then there's a big crunch on the ceiling. What is that? We get the opening reading, but we see there's a little bit of dramatic. [00:35:56] Speaker A: He looks like a cupid. He looks like some kind of, like, mascot. Like, in that. [00:36:01] Speaker C: This page is terrifying. [00:36:03] Speaker A: I know. [00:36:04] Speaker C: It's just disembodied head. And he does. [00:36:07] Speaker A: He very much lines. [00:36:11] Speaker B: It looks like a door paneling of. [00:36:12] Speaker C: His apartment or the door jam. Yeah, there's no paneling in his. [00:36:16] Speaker A: Sticking his head out, going. [00:36:20] Speaker C: Yeah, it's very scary. It looks like a mascot head. [00:36:23] Speaker B: That's totally what it looks like. It does. But he thinks it's the little helpers. But it's some criminals with bags, some money signs on them. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. Some classic, like, bandits just on Christmas. [00:36:35] Speaker A: Eve, causes some trouble. Probably went and robbed the register at Macy's. Is that the plot of home alone too? [00:36:41] Speaker C: I think it is. I think that's what they tried to. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Do, is they tried to rob. [00:36:44] Speaker C: Rob or it's not Macy's. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Better. [00:36:46] Speaker B: It was the toy store. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:47] Speaker C: It's like Fao Schwartz, right? Or maybe it's, like, a fake. That's the real one. [00:36:54] Speaker B: It's also right next to a giant abandoned factory. [00:36:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:00] Speaker A: He turns into a fucking sodge factory hostel. [00:37:03] Speaker C: Yeah. An Eli Roth. [00:37:05] Speaker B: Oh, man. But those sticky bandits, this can't. Leave that kid alone. [00:37:09] Speaker C: Yeah. Make you feel old too. They're supposed to be, like, 32. The sticky bandits are. [00:37:16] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:37:17] Speaker C: This is. Speaking of sticky bandits. This is funny to me. And maybe, like, I haven't read a bunch of much spawn, especially that's this early on. Like, this is what, episode 39 or issue 39? [00:37:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:28] Speaker C: I don't associate spawn with just, like, snagging common criminals off a rooftop very often. [00:37:34] Speaker A: He was. [00:37:35] Speaker C: Oh, does he? Okay. But then later on, he just gets more cosmic and isn't as concerned about it. [00:37:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:42] Speaker C: Yes. Okay, cool. Got it. [00:37:43] Speaker A: In the early days, he did a lot of street level crime stuff, and there was, like, crime significance. But in the last, I'd say, after issue, like, 100, 150, it kind of went away a little bit. [00:37:54] Speaker B: Got it. It's kind of, like, in between large story arcs. They'll just have him beating up some punks on the street, just lost in his own thoughts, and then some new gigantic baddie will come at him. [00:38:07] Speaker A: The new difference now is that now, even if he's beating up random criminals, you find out that they were demons or angels. [00:38:14] Speaker C: Seriously. [00:38:15] Speaker A: Because sometimes Tod McFarland's weirdly obsessed with the logic of it, and he's like, we'll beat up a bunch of guys and be like, luckily, they're demons. So their bodies will disappear. [00:38:24] Speaker B: And it's like, okay, good job. [00:38:27] Speaker C: These guys stole a Humvee from the impound lot, but they turned out to be a fallen angel or something. That's hilarious. What were those angels doing? You're stealing a Humvee? You don't have something better to do? [00:38:42] Speaker B: Almost exactly. Like that one king spawn issue where it's the dude driving a car real fast because he has a brain. They stole. [00:38:48] Speaker C: They stole a brain. That's pretty. Now, that is a demon crime, stealing a brain. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:38:53] Speaker C: Robin FAo Schwartz. I don't know. [00:38:56] Speaker A: Yeah, these aren't. These are just regular ninety s. The. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Reason that piano is so large is because it was God's piano, and they got to steal the holy piano. [00:39:06] Speaker C: Nine foot concert grand Steinway. [00:39:09] Speaker B: This is a badass spawn, though. [00:39:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's cool. He's got his chin sticking out. He looks pissed. Yeah, that big old right foot, the big gauntlet. [00:39:19] Speaker B: These guys don't know what to do. That one guy's just like, I love that guy. [00:39:24] Speaker C: He's like, oh, fuck. [00:39:27] Speaker A: We are fucked. [00:39:28] Speaker C: We've only got, like, $1,000 in these bags. We're so fucked. Have that much money in those cash bags? [00:39:35] Speaker B: Not much at all. It's probably mostly quarters and nickels, too. [00:39:39] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just a bag of change, but with inflation from the 90s, it was worth a lot more then. [00:39:47] Speaker B: I like how they're getting beat up, so Gregy's just, like, got to get these snowballs over to the Santa table. [00:39:55] Speaker C: You said this came out 96? 95, this issue. I just want to see what the biggest Christmas toy of 1995 was. [00:40:04] Speaker A: Let me guess. [00:40:06] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:40:07] Speaker B: That was pretickle Mielmo. I know that. [00:40:08] Speaker A: It was pre tickled me Elmo by two years. By at least one or two years. 97. I was in fifth grade. I feel like. I don't know. [00:40:17] Speaker C: 96 was tickle me Elmo. [00:40:19] Speaker A: Okay, 96. [00:40:20] Speaker B: Damn. [00:40:21] Speaker C: 97 is the Nintendo 64. Oh, damn. [00:40:24] Speaker A: All right, what was 95? I don't know. [00:40:27] Speaker C: Well, we've got sky dancers and baby all gone, which. No clue. [00:40:30] Speaker A: What? Oh, sky dancers. You like Skydancers? [00:40:33] Speaker C: Is like the flying Barbie. Kind of. Not Barbie, but, yeah, baby all gone. [00:40:37] Speaker A: Probably ate food. [00:40:38] Speaker C: And then the big three are a lot more familiar. We've got Beanie babies. That was the first year of Beanie babies. Pogs. [00:40:47] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. [00:40:48] Speaker C: Hell yeah. [00:40:48] Speaker B: Fucking pog. [00:40:49] Speaker C: And then the PlayStation one came out in 1995. Playstation. [00:40:53] Speaker A: Think about that. [00:40:54] Speaker C: Sony PlayStation, man. [00:40:56] Speaker A: Wow. Playing twisted metal. [00:40:58] Speaker C: Spawn should have been a character on twisted metal. Like, a bonus. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Oh, he fits very well. [00:41:03] Speaker C: I mean, I guess that, like, sweet tooth. That's the name of the ice cream guy, right? Ice cream clown. Sweet tooth and the clown are a little too similar. [00:41:12] Speaker A: Yeah. So in the early 90s spawn line, they did have a spawn mobile that they made for the early toy line. So he totally could have been in that. What is it where there's, like, a ramp on the front? [00:41:24] Speaker C: It's, like, for ramming, like a cattle guard. [00:41:28] Speaker B: And then they had, like, the skeletal version that was the violator mobile. [00:41:33] Speaker C: Fuck, yeah, dude. Of course they had a spawn car. [00:41:36] Speaker B: They need to do spawn pod racing is what they need to do. [00:41:40] Speaker A: Yeah. We said on one episode we kind of, like, made up a spawn Mario kart game. That would be fun. Spawn. Cart everything. Needs a cart racer. Everything. [00:41:48] Speaker C: I agree. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Succession Killers of the flower moon. Anything with more than, like, eight characters needs a cart racer. [00:41:58] Speaker C: I'm here for that. The lost cart racer. [00:42:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Or you can just do, like, HBO all stars. You have, like, Tony Soprano throw. [00:42:05] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, there you go. He drives his red suburban. [00:42:09] Speaker B: Instead of throwing bananas, he throws slices of gabagool. [00:42:12] Speaker C: No, I think he just shoots people. Yeah, that's pretty sick. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Yeah. There's a little fun juxtaposition, because he's like, oh, I wondered in the. [00:42:29] Speaker C: Yeah, uh huh. [00:42:30] Speaker A: I like how there's just, like, that single line thing down the. It's fun. Yeah, it's interesting, the background. [00:42:37] Speaker C: Yeah, it's interesting. It just adds one more element of depth to the page. It's good. [00:42:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:43] Speaker C: Because if not, it would just feel a little flat. Yeah, totally. I also like how this issue is so unconcerned with not only any sort of context of where these guys are coming from and what happened prior to this with spawn and these ordinary crooks, but also not even really concerned with any of the geography of the battle. It's just about the gag of, like, oh, it sounds like a reindeer and it's chains, and it sounds like they're bumping. Hope his nose is red because it's foggy out there and broke his face. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Or, oh, it's one of the helpers. I better run to bed real quick. I used to do that. Better. [00:43:23] Speaker C: Pretend I'm asleep. [00:43:23] Speaker B: I used to do that, like, sneak down the hallway and be like, oh, I see somebody. I got to run before they see me. As if I were actually being sneaky. [00:43:32] Speaker A: They need to teach some kid about some stranger danger, though, because you see someone on your back, fire escape. You're not supposed to think it's Santa's helper. [00:43:38] Speaker C: Yeah, it's kid. I think old Bibsy here, Greg, is supposed to be, like four or five. He's pretty little, but still, I don't know. It's not supposed to be alone, I suppose, is really what it is. So we can put firmly at the feet of Nadine. [00:43:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Thanks a lot, Nadine. Hanging out with Brad. [00:43:57] Speaker C: Gotta go make out with Liefeld. [00:43:59] Speaker A: Yeah, with Rob Liefeld. [00:44:02] Speaker B: I do like how when the guy falls on the fire escape, he's got the little twinkle stars. [00:44:08] Speaker C: Yeah, it's good. [00:44:09] Speaker A: Like how his nose just fits through the grate, too. It's just funny. And then he ends up hanging upside down, dropping a little bit of cash out of the bag. [00:44:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that's Chekhov's wad of bills there. [00:44:23] Speaker C: Totally. [00:44:24] Speaker A: One time I found a $20 bill, like, blowing against the fence. Like, slapped straight against it. [00:44:30] Speaker C: Is that in Chicago? [00:44:31] Speaker A: Yeah, in my backyard. It was just there. And every time I go to that spot now, I look to see if there's a $20 bill. [00:44:40] Speaker B: So you're like, when a dog finds half a pizza in a bush, has to always check that bush. [00:44:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it might be the pizza bush. It might be the $20 bill fence. [00:44:50] Speaker B: I get that. There was once, like, a whole 24 pack of. What was it? Coors light next to a street light near work once. And I always am like, is there going to beer there again? Great. [00:45:05] Speaker A: I love this because I'm just trying to figure out how this goes. He shoots the gun, and the casings are flying out, and then he gets smacked so hard, the gun spins around. [00:45:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And turns backward. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Turns backward. [00:45:19] Speaker B: He smashes him into the chimney. Now, as a full ass adult who has to pay a mortgage, I cringe a little bit at the sight of a chimney being knocked over, because you know how much a chimney costs? [00:45:32] Speaker C: Well, these folks definitely do not own this building they are renting. So it's a landlord. [00:45:38] Speaker B: That landlord's not going to fucking do anything. [00:45:41] Speaker C: No. Also, how's the real Santa going to get down the chimney now? [00:45:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:45:46] Speaker B: Magic. He's got nose magic. [00:45:50] Speaker C: Don't you know cocaine nose magic? [00:45:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, because he wrinkles his nose. [00:45:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Didn't you see the Santa Claus with. [00:45:58] Speaker C: Everyone puts his finger next to his nose. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:02] Speaker A: The last man standing. [00:46:03] Speaker B: If there's not a chimney, you make a chimney. [00:46:05] Speaker A: He's the last man standing. You know what? Say anything real anymore. [00:46:10] Speaker C: He is the last man standing. [00:46:13] Speaker A: There's a new season of, like, the Santa Claus's and Tracy Jordan or Tracy Morgan. Sorry. [00:46:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:20] Speaker A: Plays like the Easter bunny, and he's fucking terrifying looking. [00:46:24] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sure. [00:46:25] Speaker B: I love Tracy Morgan, though. [00:46:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I do too. [00:46:27] Speaker C: But, like, that show has another season. Of course it does. [00:46:30] Speaker A: Yeah. And Elizabeth Mitchell. Juliet is in it. [00:46:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:33] Speaker C: She's been in it since the second lady. [00:46:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:36] Speaker C: She's the Mrs. Claus. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Yeah. She's in the second movie. [00:46:38] Speaker C: She's in the second movie. She's been in every bit of it since then. [00:46:42] Speaker A: That's so weird. And the kid, for her, the kid is the same kid from the first movie. [00:46:46] Speaker B: What about Bernard? [00:46:47] Speaker C: Right, Bernard, the same. [00:46:48] Speaker B: The elf. [00:46:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Is David Crumholt still there? [00:46:51] Speaker A: David crumble took a break. He looks a little different these days. [00:46:54] Speaker C: Yes, he does. He was great in Oppenheimer, though. [00:46:56] Speaker A: Oh, he was amazing. He was really good in Oppenheimer. I need to watch. [00:46:59] Speaker C: He's Tim Allen's understudy these days, though. [00:47:01] Speaker A: Yeah, he would be. We love him. We love him that he still has work. And he was a great guy in the. [00:47:08] Speaker C: Even with his weird dreadlocks as the elf. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He has, like, 90s dreadlocks. [00:47:14] Speaker C: Dreads. Yeah. [00:47:15] Speaker A: He's trying to be super cool. [00:47:16] Speaker C: It's like surfer kid or skater kid. [00:47:19] Speaker A: Right. Skater kid elf. Bibsy is like, oh, shit, I left the milk in the kitchen. He's got to go get it. [00:47:25] Speaker B: He's got to go get the milk. [00:47:26] Speaker C: Also, it's snowing so hard. They are covered in snow in, like, the second they hit the ground, because then he tightened chains them all up and flies away. But this panel at the top here, they're so covered in snow. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Yeah, all over his head. Like, his nose is covered in snow. Although I guess that guy, maybe, since that's the guy that got thrown against the chimney, maybe the chimney snow. [00:47:49] Speaker C: Maybe it all fell on him. Oh, yeah. [00:47:51] Speaker B: The other guys don't look anywhere near as covered. This is a good little action panel of Gregory running down the hall. His little lumpy socks. [00:48:02] Speaker C: I also love his reflection down at the bottom. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:48:07] Speaker C: His little, like, half reflection. [00:48:09] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome. Well, Spawn's like, he's taking some tv antennas and some other shit, and we don't necessarily see what he's doing, but he's making like some kind of street art or something. [00:48:20] Speaker C: Yeah, he's tying them up with this metal. [00:48:23] Speaker B: He's in his sculpture era. [00:48:25] Speaker A: Yeah, he ties them up. We get some great. Zoom in on these guys faces. Just like freaking out. [00:48:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:31] Speaker C: This two page. This page turn here is pretty great. [00:48:34] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You see the full spawn? The guy in the front looks like fucking doctor who. [00:48:47] Speaker B: Got that little bitty tongue. [00:48:48] Speaker A: And then I love how when it pulls back, it looks like the sleigh and the reindeer, but it's actually spawn just chucking these guys to their death. [00:48:59] Speaker C: Or flying them to the moon. I'm a little unclear. [00:49:02] Speaker A: I think he just tied him up and just threw him off the fucking roof. [00:49:07] Speaker B: That seems pretty. [00:49:08] Speaker C: We don't see them land. [00:49:09] Speaker A: No, we don't see the rest of them. [00:49:11] Speaker C: We just see him again in a. Yeah, yeah, that's little. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Little Gregory runs to the tree to see what Santa left for his mom. We did skip over. The dream he was having before he was woken up was that he was dreaming that his mom got the one gift that she wanted so much it made her cry. But then he notices that there's no more presents and he's sad because he says Santa forgot them. I got really sad at this part. [00:49:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, that would be sad. I'm very lucky and always had a good Christmas. I would imagine it would not be fun to be a kid that didn't get any presents. Now I'm just really sad. [00:49:53] Speaker B: The tomo little tiny letters just like brings it home so hard. [00:49:58] Speaker C: Yeah, the tiny, tiny. Don't go up on the top of the page. [00:50:04] Speaker B: He runs to the window something and opens the sash. [00:50:07] Speaker C: Don't worry, Santa Spawna Claus left you a fat stack. [00:50:11] Speaker B: Santa Claus. Rudolph, come back. Please don't go. Don't go. You forgot my mommy's present. Oh, God, it's so sad. It's so sad. But then Chekhov's. What if Bill shows back up? [00:50:26] Speaker A: Yeah. I wonder how much is in a stack of 20s. [00:50:30] Speaker C: Stack of 20s. Let's google it. It should be a uniform thing, right? [00:50:34] Speaker B: I thought it was like 1000. [00:50:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's $1,000. That was going to be my guess. [00:50:41] Speaker A: 20 00. [00:50:42] Speaker B: 20 00. [00:50:43] Speaker C: 20 00. Hell yeah. [00:50:44] Speaker B: Nice. [00:50:45] Speaker A: $2,000. That's like $10 million in 1995. Money now. [00:50:50] Speaker C: Yeah, totally. So it's like 120s in there. That's cool. [00:50:54] Speaker A: That's good. [00:50:55] Speaker C: Yeah. You go to college in 1995 for $2,000 you could down payment rate at Yale. [00:51:04] Speaker A: What's funny though, is like, video games and vcrs were way more expensive, comparatively. [00:51:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Because the price basically hasn't changed. [00:51:11] Speaker A: Yeah, they've been $60 since, like, the 90s. [00:51:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Speaking of the Sony PlayStation, I think that that came out and was, like, $300 retail. [00:51:20] Speaker B: I think you could still buy a PS one for $300. [00:51:23] Speaker C: Oh, you for sure can. [00:51:28] Speaker B: He wraps the money up, which is great. He wraps a better present than I ever have. And he's only five years old. [00:51:37] Speaker A: I'm a bad rapper. [00:51:38] Speaker B: I'm a terrible rapper. Wanda's always like, no, don't. No, let me do. [00:51:45] Speaker C: Presents for her. Oh, no, not even for her. [00:51:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:51:48] Speaker C: No, I do love this top thing. I want this just isolated where he's, like, backlit and holding the water cash with snow dripping off it and says, I knew it. Oh, thank you, Santa. Thank you. Just that image is so out of context is awesome. [00:52:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that is funny. Santa's just giving out fat wads. [00:52:06] Speaker C: Just caption that with any meme format you want. Pretty much. [00:52:10] Speaker B: And then he just, like, sits under the tree staring at it with these big old fucking eyes. This is so cool. Look at that little guy. Look at him. [00:52:22] Speaker A: His hair is all, like, nice and neat now. He looks like an angel. [00:52:26] Speaker C: Little cherubic, little Cheshire cat. Yeah, he's got a good part, good. [00:52:31] Speaker B: Side part going here, which is incredible for having been asleep. [00:52:35] Speaker C: And then the next two pages have more words than any other part of this comic. [00:52:39] Speaker A: Yes. This is where the Todd father unleashes it. So basically, they spend all the money on everyone in the building to have a big party, all $2,000. [00:52:49] Speaker B: That way they get a good reminder of what the reason of the season is, and it's to be nice to each other. [00:52:54] Speaker A: Point settas. Right. Those are poinsettas. [00:52:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:57] Speaker C: Point setias. [00:52:57] Speaker A: Poinsettia. [00:52:59] Speaker C: Very. And you got a bugle down there. [00:53:02] Speaker B: They're talking about how it's a time to be with family and ones you love. And we've got Wanda and Terry and Cyan, and we've got Sam and twitch. That's the happiest I've ever seen Sam. Holy shit. [00:53:12] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:53:14] Speaker B: He's got a donut with a bow on it. [00:53:17] Speaker C: I saw Terry and Wanda and Cyan, but I didn't notice the other two until just now. When I'm looking at it. [00:53:22] Speaker A: Well, the third one is Bobby and Bootsy, who are two unhoused folks. [00:53:27] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:53:28] Speaker C: For two friendly local drunks that show up all the time. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Yes. No, exactly. It's exactly what they are. One of them turns out to be an angel. And one of them gets, like, banished from the alley for being an alcoholic. And you never see him again because. [00:53:41] Speaker B: Bootsy goes back to heaven, and then he's like, but my only friend in the world is gone. That's a sad ending for Bobby. Oh, boy. [00:53:50] Speaker A: Yeah, they're, like, Spawn's buddies at this time, but I think in about probably the next ten issues or so, they kind of disappear. But in the early days, when Spawn was very street level and lived in the alley, he'd hang out with all the homeless folks. [00:54:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And then they built him the throne that he's actually sitting on here. The throne made of dead bodies. [00:54:09] Speaker A: Dead bodies are trash. This one is just trash. The dead bodies don't really come until later. [00:54:15] Speaker B: It's a wild commentary on what these guys have lived through when they just see body parts and they're like, we'll put them in this chair for a guy who wears a Halloween costume all year. And then after all the joy of that, we get sad again with Spawn being morose and all sad by himself, looking at pictures. Got the picture of Wanda and Cyan, and he's, like, covering up his face. [00:54:40] Speaker A: Poor spawn. [00:54:41] Speaker C: Yeah, poor spawn. [00:54:43] Speaker A: He's all alone. [00:54:44] Speaker C: Good old Al. [00:54:46] Speaker A: Good old Al. But, yeah, that's Noel. [00:54:48] Speaker B: That's Noel. That's Spawn. Number 39. [00:54:50] Speaker A: People are jacking up the price on eBay trying to get $45 for this issue. [00:54:54] Speaker C: Oh, it's just the holiday markup. [00:54:56] Speaker A: No, exactly. That's what I was saying. [00:54:58] Speaker B: So we're going to have to look in, like, the middle of June or something. [00:55:01] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:55:02] Speaker B: So, Johnny, this issue is missing a very, very wonderful holiday trope that I feel is very close to my heart. It is missing the present. That is a dog with a bow on it. Despite that, I think we need to rate this puppy. [00:55:16] Speaker A: It's time to rate the puppy. So, yeah, this is a classic spawn Christmas issue. I really enjoyed it. I think the grey capoulo art's great. Just, like, the details on the faces and everything. And it's just, like a fun, one off, wholesome Christmas story. And it's like Bran said, it's fun how you don't really get much context with spawn or what he's up to, or he doesn't have any dialogue. It's just the kid's point of view. But I can imagine this would be a fun issue to get at 1995. So I'm going to give it five. I'm going to give it five snowballs. [00:55:49] Speaker B: Nice. [00:55:50] Speaker A: The candy kind or the cookie kind? [00:55:53] Speaker B: The cookie kind. The edible kind. Although I guess you can eat snowball. [00:55:58] Speaker A: You can eat snowball. Just watch out where the Huskies go and don't eat that yellow snow. [00:56:03] Speaker B: But in a pinch, you can use that yellow snow as a weapon. Grind it into your attacker's eyes. [00:56:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I never thought about that. [00:56:12] Speaker B: Well, it's in the follow up song to the song. You're referring to the next track on the album. [00:56:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, right up. Yeah. He goes and he bent down and he scooped down. Yeah, that's right. [00:56:22] Speaker B: Because he's beating up a guy who. He's beating up the guy who clubbed his baby seal in the head. [00:56:26] Speaker A: What is it on that Frank Zappa song? Watch out where the Huskies go don't you eat that yellow snow. [00:56:32] Speaker C: Oh, man. Yeah, I forgot about that. [00:56:37] Speaker A: He fights a fur trapper with snow. That's right. [00:56:39] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. [00:56:40] Speaker A: He was beating on a baby seal. [00:56:44] Speaker B: And then they go to a pancake breakfast afterward. Is that. [00:56:47] Speaker A: Yeah, they go to Alfonso's pancake house. Yeah. That album, kind of every song leads to the next one. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Is that the one that's got Montana on it? Where at the end of it, he's like, I'm moving to Montana. I'm going to go sell dental supplies. [00:57:00] Speaker A: He's going to grow himself some dental floss. [00:57:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:02] Speaker C: I love that song. [00:57:04] Speaker A: I think it might be that same album. [00:57:08] Speaker B: Very exciting. [00:57:09] Speaker C: Well, zirconium encrusted tweezers in my hand. [00:57:14] Speaker B: So, brand, what do you think of this one? [00:57:17] Speaker C: I thought it was fun. I think it's goofy. Like I was saying earlier, I love, especially in the feel like every piece of media had to have a Christmas issue or episode that was sort of a one off and tangential. Tangent. However you say that word. Tangential. [00:57:33] Speaker B: Tangential. [00:57:33] Speaker C: Tangential. [00:57:34] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. [00:57:35] Speaker C: To whatever was the. A plot of the time and just sort of a forgettable or not forgettable, but just unrelated to everything else. And, yeah, the art is really good. Especially, I think that, like, you were saying that the faces and everything, they nail the cuteness, the mascot quality that's needed for, like, a little kid in a Christmas issue of anything. And Nadine's got great hair. And I would rate it as $2,000. [00:58:03] Speaker A: Nice. [00:58:05] Speaker C: $2,000. [00:58:06] Speaker B: Excellent. Excellent. I think it's a fun. [00:58:09] Speaker C: Don't spend that much on a copy of it, though, please. [00:58:14] Speaker B: I would take $2,000 for the copy of it I have, especially since I've got a digital copy and it would be like an NFT. And so I would just be able to print money. [00:58:22] Speaker C: Oh, there you go. [00:58:23] Speaker B: I think it was a fun rom. It was so good. I remember the first time I read it, I laughed. And then when Johnny started to get into this, I was like, oh, johnny, wait till you get to the Christmas episode. It's just fun. It's just fun. It's a good time. I'm going to rate it five donuts with a bow on them, because that's the only thing that makes Sam happy. Yeah, that's what twitch gave Sam in the. [00:58:46] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't even notice that. [00:58:47] Speaker C: The bobble. Oh, I didn't notice that either. That's awesome. [00:58:52] Speaker A: He loves a donut. [00:58:55] Speaker B: I love a happy Sam, too, because he's never happy. He's always put upon by spawn or bad guys. [00:59:03] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's great. It means a lot, I think, to them. To Greg Capoulo, too, or to them. Because if you didn't notice, Gregory is the name of the kid. And Phyllis. [00:59:13] Speaker B: Phyllis is the mom who's his mom. [00:59:15] Speaker A: Is the name of the mom. [00:59:17] Speaker B: And the issue is dedicated to Phyllis. And unfortunately, as happens in life, sometimes, Phyllis is no longer with us, which is rip Phyllis. But she did request in her final arrangements that in her memory, donations be made to the synecticy city mission, which is a institution in connectic New York, that's dealing with the issue of homelessness and people experiencing that. And so instead of reaching out and having you guys follow friends this year, why don't you make a donation in honor of Greg Capullo's mom to a shelter that is doing some good work up in upstate New York. I'll put the link in the show notes. [01:00:04] Speaker C: Or anyone that's near you. [01:00:06] Speaker A: Yeah, anyone that's near you. Don't spend $45 on a spawn issue. Spend $45 donating. [01:00:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And put it under Phyllis Capullo's name. So that way we can get that good charity stuff going on. It's for a good cause. That's the reason of the season, is being nice to each other. There's no reason to be a dick to each other. [01:00:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. That's what we learned from Graham. [01:00:28] Speaker C: Unless you're spawn beating up some petty criminals, don't be a dick. [01:00:33] Speaker B: So don't be wandering around in the snow with a bag that's got a money sign on it, or else you might get the Santa Claus treatment, which isn't very nice. [01:00:41] Speaker C: Everybody's waiting for the man with a bag. [01:00:46] Speaker A: There's so many of those, like, 50s Christmas songs that are ridiculous. I forgot about that one. [01:00:50] Speaker C: That's a good one. Have you ever heard. Oh, my gosh. I had forgotten about this one, too. But I was just visiting my sibling. It's the one that's got like. It'll be an old fashioned Christmas. But then the news, the radio comes on. We regret to inform you that the bus from. The number 14 bus from New Jersey. Has hit a patch of ice and flown off a cliff. And there were no survivors. [01:01:13] Speaker B: What? Their dad takes this one bus every day from work, home. And he never misses the bus. He's always on it. And then his bus. Everybody dies. They literally come on and they say, no survivors. But then afterwards, he's at the door with a whole bunch of presents. And he's like, I was late to the bus. [01:01:36] Speaker C: I missed the old fashioned Christmas maybe by Linda Bennett. [01:01:45] Speaker A: Wow. [01:01:45] Speaker C: Yeah. In parentheses. Daddy's home. [01:01:50] Speaker A: Daddy's home. [01:01:52] Speaker C: Yeah, you should put. You should close out on that one. [01:01:55] Speaker A: I always like Christmas dinner country style by Andy Williams. [01:01:58] Speaker C: I even know that one. [01:01:59] Speaker A: Mother, Mother, did you get the biscuits? Mother? [01:02:02] Speaker B: Mother. [01:02:03] Speaker A: It's ridiculous. It was one my dad liked. There's so many. [01:02:07] Speaker C: Especially so many. [01:02:08] Speaker A: Fifty s and sixty s. Yeah. [01:02:10] Speaker C: There's so many. Novelty. It was like the height of novelty songs in american culture. [01:02:15] Speaker A: I remember one we heard one year on the radio called not the same old lang sign. [01:02:21] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's a good one. [01:02:22] Speaker A: It's about a guy seeing his ex wife. It's the most, like, eighty s. Seventy s thing ever. Like divorced dad. A guy sees his ex wife in the frozen food aisle on New Year's Eve. And that's the plot of the song. It's very plotting. [01:02:36] Speaker C: Well, thinking about what could have been. [01:02:38] Speaker B: It's this final image of spawn with his thumb over Terry's face. [01:02:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Basically spawn saying, this ain't the same old. [01:02:45] Speaker C: He's listening to that. [01:02:47] Speaker B: I wish they would give those songs more airplay. Instead of the 40 million different versions of baby, it's cold outside I have to suffer through every day. [01:02:54] Speaker C: I know. I mean, I could just go with sleigh ride on loop, but just the instrumental version. I love that song. That's the only one I like. [01:03:02] Speaker A: I only like Mannheim Steamroller or whatever. [01:03:05] Speaker B: Oh, Manheim Steamroller. [01:03:06] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [01:03:07] Speaker B: This is great. [01:03:09] Speaker C: The progenitor, instead of. I mean, they were like the sort of the OG transiberian orchestra. It was like pop instrumental recordings of classics. Yeah, it was great, but way more synth and way less electric guitar. [01:03:24] Speaker B: Did chant. Put out a Christmas album in the 90s. [01:03:27] Speaker C: Chant. [01:03:28] Speaker B: Do you remember? Chant. Like, everybody was obsessed with gregorian chants for a couple of years, and so it was just like. [01:03:34] Speaker C: There was a pop group called Chant. [01:03:36] Speaker B: No, it was a group of a label from somewhere in Europe. They just regularly chant as part of their daily worship. And they recorded it and they put. [01:03:45] Speaker A: It out on tv. [01:03:46] Speaker C: Sick. [01:03:47] Speaker A: That was big. [01:03:48] Speaker C: And greggy chance. [01:03:50] Speaker A: I remember having. I had a crypt keeper Christmas album. [01:03:55] Speaker C: Oh, now we're talking. [01:03:56] Speaker A: A very scary Christmas. [01:03:59] Speaker B: Johnny, I need you to tell me what was the quality level of those puns? [01:04:04] Speaker A: Oh, it was good. [01:04:05] Speaker B: Or were they bad? [01:04:07] Speaker A: It was called a very scary Christmas. I'm trying to remember what the song he'd be like. Oh, it's a missile toe. And then he would blow up. [01:04:16] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. A toe missile. [01:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah, there are some good puns. But I had Raffy. Christmas album was big. [01:04:28] Speaker B: There's also a couple of weird al Christmas songs. There's the night Santa went crazy. There's Christmas at ground zero. Those are the only two I can remember off the top of my head. [01:04:38] Speaker C: Well, and then there's the Space Ghost Christmas album, too, right? Or is there just a couple of songs? I guess. [01:04:45] Speaker A: I think there was a Christmas episode. [01:04:47] Speaker C: There's a Christmas episode, space Ghost, coast to coast. [01:04:50] Speaker A: And it was like an hour long episode. Because the Christmas stuff is actually like three little bumpers that they would put other episodes in between. Yeah, I know that because I had it on. I taped it off the tv one year and we'd watch Christmas. That's another good Christmas special. Because I remember Zorak sings up on the rooftop, but he sings it with Gabba hey gabba hey gabba gabba. Click click. Because he loves the Ramones. He likes to click his eyes and go click click. [01:05:16] Speaker B: Nice. [01:05:17] Speaker A: And then brack sings something in the Christmas one. It's the twelve days of Christmas. Because he just goes, hi, my name. Hi, my name is Brack. [01:05:33] Speaker C: I think he's the partridge in a pear tree. [01:05:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he's the partridge. Oh, man, that was good. Cool. Well, that's spawn, number 39 for those of you who will be here with us through this year of 2024. The bit is, we're going to do this issue every year. [01:05:50] Speaker B: Every year. [01:05:51] Speaker A: Different guests. Yes. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Or the same guest. If we're being lazy, we can only add guests. Yeah, we'll just add. [01:05:59] Speaker C: We'll just keep. There'll just eventually be twelve people that. [01:06:04] Speaker A: Will be screaming about this issue of spawn. [01:06:07] Speaker B: Hey, it'll be like Thanksgiving. You're just 14 conversations going on all at the same time. [01:06:14] Speaker C: Perfect. We were talking about the software used to do video conferencing and recording. What were you saying the limit was? 80 individual audio tracks. [01:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:29] Speaker C: So we could have up to. So 80 years from now. You can be maxed out on there, I guess, like, 77 years. [01:06:35] Speaker B: That would be great. That's a goal. We'll be old ass men. [01:06:40] Speaker C: Damn, I hope I'm not alive in 77 years. [01:06:43] Speaker A: I'll be in a jar. [01:06:45] Speaker C: 15. I'll just be a Zoom recorder. [01:06:48] Speaker B: I will remember even less than I remember now. I'll be like, now, what's this guy? His name? Span. Is that his name? [01:06:56] Speaker C: Span? Spam. [01:06:59] Speaker A: Spam. [01:06:59] Speaker C: Well, thanks for having me. Always a fun. [01:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. [01:07:03] Speaker C: I'll be back sometime. [01:07:05] Speaker B: We should thank Brian for making our music. He's over on Instagram at Brian Underscore Voyals. Underscore 27 does good work. [01:07:13] Speaker A: While you're there, give us a follow. We are regarding Spawn pod on Instagram. We're posting posts for the episodes. We're posting our pickups. We're posting videos. You can see our faces and go, wow, I can't believe that's what they look like. [01:07:26] Speaker B: I know. I do that all the time. I'm like, that's the face that that voice comes out of. [01:07:32] Speaker A: Anytime I see myself, I go, wow, do you have an instagram or anywhere where people can find you online? [01:07:40] Speaker B: Nah. [01:07:41] Speaker A: Cool. That's cool. I have nothing but the show. [01:07:45] Speaker B: However, if you want to reach out to us and maybe you have us ask Bran a question that you want answered, you can reach us at regarding [email protected]. We love getting emails. We love answering questions, and we don't mind being a courier service. We'll get a message to Bran for you. [01:08:02] Speaker A: And the prompt this week is, if you want to write in, just tell us about your favorite Christmas episodes of things, whether it's a Christmas album, Christmas issue, Christmas movie. Just hit us up with some of your favorites that maybe we didn't talk about. Just curious to hear. [01:08:16] Speaker B: Yeah, but please don't try to manufacture a debate about whether diehard is a Christmas movie or not. It's a fucking Christmas movie. Get over it. [01:08:24] Speaker A: People just say that. It's just, like, a thing they say to be cute. Everyone knows it's a Christmas. [01:08:29] Speaker C: Yeah, get a job. [01:08:30] Speaker B: It's got fucking takes. [01:08:31] Speaker A: Waste of Christmas. [01:08:32] Speaker B: Like, the limo driver is jamming out to some fucking Christmas tunes when the body falls on the car. He's got that big ass bear that he's chilling in the back with, man. [01:08:44] Speaker A: I think Ghostbusters two is technically a Christmas movie. [01:08:47] Speaker C: Well, the new one's an ice movie. [01:08:50] Speaker B: It's an ice new. [01:08:51] Speaker A: Ghostbusters also has one of the worst titles, Frozen Empire. [01:08:57] Speaker B: What the. That sounds like an 80s Star wars novel. [01:09:02] Speaker A: It's almost as bad as titles sound like an 80s. It does. [01:09:04] Speaker C: Star wars novel. [01:09:05] Speaker A: Almost as bad as the title. The rise of Skywalker. [01:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah. What are you going to do? [01:09:14] Speaker A: I don't know. I saw that movie on Christmas, the last Christmas before the pandemic. That's why we fucking had a pandemic, was rise of Skywalker sucks so much. [01:09:22] Speaker B: Yeah, but don't you remember that cats happened between that and the start of the pandemic. [01:09:27] Speaker A: And so I saw them the same night I saw Rise of Skywalker. Wasn't going to go see cats, but was so confused by what I just saw, I went and saw cats with Aaron and had a much better time at cats. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Release the butthole. [01:09:41] Speaker C: I had already seen cats. [01:09:42] Speaker A: I do want the butthole cut. [01:09:45] Speaker C: Somehow palpatine survived. [01:09:48] Speaker A: Somehow the buttholes got deleted from the cats. [01:09:50] Speaker B: Nice. [01:09:50] Speaker C: Somehow magical Mr. Mustopheles survived. [01:09:54] Speaker B: Speaking of buttholes, if you want to listen to a couple more buttholes talk about some spawn again in a week, you might want to do a little homework first. And, Johnny, what kind of homework do we got for these people to do? [01:10:04] Speaker A: We're going to be reading two issues from Spawn's universe. We'll be reading Gunslinger 25 and spawn 327 327. And we'll be having a special guest next week as well. Returning guest Logan Branham is coming back to cover some gunslinger, our resident cowboys. That'll be good. [01:10:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be a real good time. I like the cowboys like the cowboys spawns. I guess the Oklahoma State cowboys are fine. They won the final bedlam. And so that means they won all the bedlams before. And I'm good with that. [01:10:35] Speaker A: They're the only ones that ever won. [01:10:36] Speaker B: They're the only ones that ever won. It's very difficult being, oh, I've mentioned this before to you, but not to Bran. Bran, how many times have you had the problem where people asked where you went to college and you're like, OSU, and then they start talking to you about Ohio and you're. [01:10:50] Speaker A: No, no. [01:10:51] Speaker C: Speaking of buckeyes. [01:10:53] Speaker B: Not the OSU. Just OSU. [01:10:55] Speaker C: Just Oklahoma State. Yeah, I usually just say Oklahoma state these days. [01:11:01] Speaker B: You can't tell by the amount of orange I wear all the time. [01:11:05] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [01:11:06] Speaker B: I don't look good in. [01:11:11] Speaker A: Right. [01:11:11] Speaker B: Well, I guess, you know, that's really all we have. Thank you very much for being with us for over a year. Thank you for celebrating your Christmas times with us or any other winter holiday times that you celebrate. And Johnny and Bran. I think that just leaves me to say nothing. But may the scorched be with y'all, everyone. [01:11:30] Speaker A: And also with you. Amen. And merry Christmas to all. And to you all. Many good nights. Ho, ho, ho. [01:12:19] Speaker C: Johnny's always running around.