RE:Spawn Episode 39 - Scorched 6 and Spawn 338

[00:00:00] Speaker A: I have to admit, I still didn't believe what I'd been told about Al. There had to be some other explanation. That began to change as I spied on him over those next few months. I barely recognized the man in front of me. Good evening, and welcome to the Malbolge. This is regarding spawn, the world's best spawn podcast. I'm your co host, John Fisher. [00:00:55] Speaker B: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, it is peep season right now, and let me tell you, those things. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Peep, peep, motherfucker. What? [00:01:09] Speaker B: I hate peeps. Peeps are so gross. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Who likes? No one likes peeps. [00:01:12] Speaker B: Well, no, my mother likes peeps. [00:01:16] Speaker A: I think my mom likes peeps. [00:01:18] Speaker B: She likes to try to do that thing where you age them for a year, because apparently that's a thing where you let them get hard and crispy, but she can't leave them there for long enough to let them age. And she's just like. [00:01:36] Speaker A: You say, that's a thing. That's crazy. You age. [00:01:39] Speaker B: No, that's a thing people do. You buy peeps one year, and then you age them for a year. And so one Easter, you buy peeps. Then the next Easter, you eat those peeps that you bought last year, and then you buy new peeps and put them in the closet until next Easter. [00:01:53] Speaker A: Like an honor of Jesus going into the tomb. [00:01:57] Speaker B: Something like that. I don't know. I don't know. People do it. I have heard that it makes them infinitely better. But I don't like marshmallows. As marshmallows, you need to melt those shits or make marshmallow cream out of them. And that's marshmallows for me. [00:02:14] Speaker A: I kind of agree. I like lucky charms, but David's right. [00:02:19] Speaker B: Oh, man, marbits are great. [00:02:20] Speaker A: It is peep season. That means it's green season. That means it's spring. Spring is springing. Spring is sprung. [00:02:28] Speaker B: Sprang is springing. [00:02:30] Speaker A: So it's a perfect issue to be covering right now because we've got a green heavy spawn coming at you this week. [00:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:37] Speaker A: In a rule of, we ain't talking necro cigarettes. [00:02:42] Speaker B: There's not very many necro cigarettes in there. [00:02:44] Speaker A: I mean, they should be all. Hopefully everyone in the green is just high all the time. They should be just weed all over the place. Mother Nature. Like, come on. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah, come on, man. It's from the earth, man. Yeah. [00:02:55] Speaker A: They call the Emerald parliament. Okay. We know what they're doing. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Subtle. [00:03:03] Speaker A: Yeah, it's real subtle, guys. [00:03:05] Speaker B: Subtle. That's like people who ask if you smoke and they go, smoke what? We know what you smoke, motherfucker. If you answer that question with that. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Question now, it's just becoming so accepted now. I just assume everyone I know smokes weed and is high most of the time. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:25] Speaker A: At least I hope. [00:03:26] Speaker B: Yeah. It seems nowadays people have to specify if they smoke cigarettes. [00:03:33] Speaker A: No, definitely. Or like, they just have to specify they don't smoke weed or don't do weed in Chicago anyway. We love our substances up here. [00:03:41] Speaker B: We sure do. [00:03:42] Speaker A: We also love our spawn. [00:03:44] Speaker B: We do love our spawn. [00:03:45] Speaker A: So welcome, everyone. Yeah, welcome, welcome. Happy spring. Happy Easter. It's the dawn of Easter weekend. It's good Friday when we're recording. I hope everyone had a great Easter. Hope you had a great time. [00:03:56] Speaker B: It is a very good Friday indeed. We're talking some spun. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Hope you ate some of David's mom's old ass peeps. [00:04:04] Speaker B: She can have my portion. I will gladly be quiet. [00:04:08] Speaker A: That's like a real christian kind of maneuver, like saving those peas. It requires a lot of self control. [00:04:15] Speaker B: It's got to be like a big catholic family. Where you've got the matriarch. Who makes sure that everybody does what they're supposed to. And that's the only way it can work. Is if there's a very clear delineation of power among the family members. Because, you know, somebody will be like, don't touch my peeps. And somebody's going to sneak in there and steal a peep or two. [00:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah, see there? Eat the peeps. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:40] Speaker A: So we have two issues of spawn coming at you, as always, except when we don't. [00:04:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:48] Speaker A: This week, our classic. All the way back from the far off land of June, 2022. The summer, baby. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Also a green time. [00:05:00] Speaker A: Also a green time is scorch number six. And our second issue of the day, our more modern, is the one we've been referencing. Because it's kind of a more significant. Not to say in quality. Well, it's just a more significant issue in the overall spawn lore. And it's one of those issues that focuses on a single character. Kind of like that Cogliostro issue. And kind of catches us up on some things we didn't know. And that is Spawn 338 from this year in February. So just a couple months ago with that beautiful man, David Mack cover. [00:05:35] Speaker B: Spawn 338 is so good. I'm excited to get there. Yeah, excited to get there. But what do we have to go through to get there? [00:05:41] Speaker A: Johnny Scorch number six. [00:05:43] Speaker B: I thought you were going to say. [00:05:44] Speaker A: The but and the Malbols of scorch number six. [00:05:49] Speaker B: No, that makes it seem like it's a is. This book is definitely not a chore, Johnny. This is a. [00:05:55] Speaker A: No, not at all. [00:05:55] Speaker B: This is a delight. [00:05:56] Speaker A: We're on the morning of a bunch of Star wars news. A new Ray Skywalker movie coming out, the new Jedi order. I don't know if that's the official name, but that's, like, what it's about, so that's cool. [00:06:06] Speaker B: Very nice. [00:06:08] Speaker A: I think a Dave Filoni movie is going to direct a movie. And James Mangold, who just made the new Indiana Jones for Lucasfilm. So they must have gotten along nice. [00:06:21] Speaker B: Dave Filoni definitely exhibits the Todd McFarlane school of story creation. Where he sits around with all of his toys, and he smashes them together and he goes, oh, hey, that's awesome. I'm going to write that down. [00:06:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely. He's got that kind of infectious creator. And he has a lot of characters he's created that he's very protective. Not protective of, but obviously really enjoys those characters. [00:06:49] Speaker B: He also has his own signature hat. [00:06:52] Speaker A: He does have a signature hat. Not a spawn hat. [00:06:56] Speaker B: Not a spawn hat. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Now, sadly, I just came back from Comic Con. And I could not find a spawn hat. I was like, for sure they'll have a spawn hat. There was not a single one. [00:07:06] Speaker B: You'd think that Tod McFarland would always keep some sort of baseball fashion with spawn on it in circulation. Like, I will buy a spawn baseball jersey. Hell, yeah. Pinstripes that are chains instead of little lines. Fuck, yeah. Makes me want to be on that baseball team that he co created. [00:07:27] Speaker A: The Spawns. [00:07:28] Speaker B: Spawns? Yeah, the little kids. The Little League team. Man. I am never more sad that I didn't play baseball as a kid. Than when I learned about that team. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Could have been on the spawns. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Could have been on the spawns. I lived in the wrong state, but whatever. [00:07:44] Speaker A: I did find two, literally, of the same shirt. This giant booth. They had two spawn shirts, a small and a medium. So it wasn't my size. And it was just like a printed image of issue 200. [00:08:01] Speaker B: So very random with the ASM 300 homage on it. [00:08:07] Speaker A: No, 200. [00:08:08] Speaker B: Not even three. I thought 200 had. Because I know they've done the homage a couple of times on Spawn. [00:08:14] Speaker A: I don't know. It was just him. I don't know what cover it was. It was just a cover of 200. If that's what the main cover was. I think it's just the main cover of 200. Real strange and random and the guy was like, I was like, do you have any in the other sizes? I'll totally get one. He's like, no, we just got these two spawn shirts. And I said, like, well, you need to get some more because Spawn's getting more popular. He was like, really? I was like, oh, yeah. [00:08:37] Speaker B: My problem with Spawn and trying to get people to read Spawn is that you're like, hey, you should read Spawn. It's fun. And people are like, I don't want to be caught reading that. It's goofy. It's silly. Just read the goddamn thing. It's fun. That's all you need. That's all you need. Don't be embarrassed to read something. If you don't like it, just say, hey, I don't like. It's fine. But don't dismiss it out of hand immediately just because you think it's goofy. [00:09:07] Speaker A: I like goofy stuff, so it's not a problem for me. [00:09:10] Speaker B: It's fine. [00:09:11] Speaker A: I mean, I guess if you just want to be real serious all the time. [00:09:15] Speaker B: Yeah. And this is also coming from those people that get very upset when their Batman or their X Men get too serious. They're like, why is it not fun anymore? And it's like, you know what never stopped being fun? Spawn. [00:09:28] Speaker A: Wow. [00:09:29] Speaker B: Spawn is always fun. You're getting those guys getting the rant early, aren't we? [00:09:35] Speaker A: Who's been saying bad things about Spawn? Is the Reddit going off again? [00:09:39] Speaker B: Oh, man, I can't do Reddit anymore. I tried to spread the positivity, but it's so much work. [00:09:46] Speaker A: No, it is. [00:09:47] Speaker B: It's just, like, my experience with trying to get people to read spawn over the years. Like, when I tried to read it the first time, there were the group of people who were like, yeah, that sounds cool. I'm never going to read it, though. And the people who are like, yeah, I'm never going to read that. That sounds dumb. And there doesn't seem to be any movement from that. You've brought more people into the folds of the cape than I ever have. [00:10:12] Speaker A: Well, it's because people accept me as, like, a crazy person who likes really goofy, crazy shit, and they've, like, over the years, I've stuffed enough stuff down people's throats that they're like, okay, well, I guess I'll go along with him on this journey. [00:10:26] Speaker B: Maybe I haven't gotten that far. Everybody knows that I like weird things, and then they're always surprised when they like something that I tell them that they should try to experience, because it's good. And they're like, holy shit, this is actually really good. And I was like, I fucking told you. I told you it was good. Why did you not believe me? And it's like. Because you're weird. And it's like. And what does that have to do with anything? You listen to one manned band where they play drums and hammered dolcemer and they sing about plants and nobody wants to ever listen to your recommendations ever again. [00:10:57] Speaker A: Maybe that's why they're having trouble getting spawned. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Side note, the botanist is fucking awesome. And also the marching snare has made its return to the botanists lineup in their drum set. So get on it. [00:11:10] Speaker A: Oh, my God. That sounded like a foreign language to me. [00:11:16] Speaker B: There's definitely a difference between the snare drum you have on a drum set and the snare drum that you march with and the botanist drum set has a marching snare instead of a regular snare. And so it's much more aggressive and sharp and high pitched than a regular snare. So it's very distinctive. [00:11:35] Speaker A: Okay. [00:11:36] Speaker B: And nobody uses it on the drum set because it doesn't have the warmth that you need from most music. But I mean, this is a black metal band that screams about the end of humanity and the rise of the green on the humanless earth. So they could be as incredible. [00:11:52] Speaker A: What's the name of this band again? I think you just breeze past that so fast. [00:11:55] Speaker B: Botanist. [00:11:57] Speaker A: Oh, cool. I like it. [00:11:58] Speaker B: It's perfect for this episode. I will talk about botanist all day. They're fucking great. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Maybe introduce the spawn before you introduce the people. Maybe this is the order of things. [00:12:13] Speaker B: You've met live. I don't live linearly in my own mind, Johnny. I talk about things I shouldn't at the beginning of a relationship and then get to introductions like halfway through and it's like, oh, hey, yeah. Hey, I'm David. Who are you? [00:12:28] Speaker A: Oh, you mean like when you're trying to record introductions to like a. Yeah, it's kind of the same. [00:12:38] Speaker B: Uh. I get off topic. [00:12:40] Speaker A: Every episode is like a new relationship. [00:12:42] Speaker B: It is. Welcome to our relationship. Guys. Please don't fight over being the third wheel. We're going to be a polycuel here. Everyone gets equal share a polycue. No. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Trying to. There's some spawn news that just happened. Not spawn, but I guess McFarland, they just announced there's going to be some kind of new collectors line. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw that. I saw that. That's going to be. [00:13:10] Speaker A: And it says like, I don't know. No one knows what it is. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Is that bat wing the first part of it? [00:13:16] Speaker A: I don't think so. [00:13:17] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Because. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Oh, man. Did you see Todd playing with that bat wing, though? [00:13:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it was hilarious. [00:13:23] Speaker B: It's enormous. Holy shit. [00:13:25] Speaker A: I know. It's giant. They really went all out with, like, the Batman 89 stuff. For this flash movie, you got to push something hard if you can't really push the star of the movie that hard. [00:13:40] Speaker B: I do like how all of the stuff has just been. Oh, yeah. Batman shows up in this movie that's not about Batman. [00:13:46] Speaker A: So you remember the Flash? Well, Batman's in it. [00:13:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Man, that sucks, because I really do like the flash as a character. The Flash comics are, they're fun. They're so much fun, especially when you get to Wally west as Flash, because they dig into the idea that the flash uses up a lot of calories, a lot more with Wally west. So Wally is just, like, always shoving a hot dog in his mouth. [00:14:16] Speaker A: Oh, because he's moving so fast. He uses all the calories. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Yeah, he's using all the calories. So Wally west is the flash for the, and he's, because Barry was a scientist and very serious, and Wally was just like a football player or some shit, and he's just goofy. [00:14:36] Speaker A: Which one is Ezra Miller? [00:14:38] Speaker B: He's supposed to be Barry. [00:14:40] Speaker A: Okay. And he's like the son of a guy. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah, the son of a preacher. [00:14:47] Speaker A: Think his dad invented the suit or he invented it? [00:14:51] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. Like, all comics continuity. Flash continuity is very weird. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Oh, probably the weirdest, because he can jump all around. He's like the first one to jump all through. [00:15:01] Speaker B: He can vibrate through the fabric of existence. So, man, Grant Morrison needs to do a run on the flash because they write some seriously bizarre shit, and it's all wonderful. And I can only imagine what kind of nonsense Grant Morrison could, could send the flash into if that's the character that they're focusing on. They did a big run on animal man. That was just bizarre. Doom patrol, which, man, doom patrol is wacky to begin with, but you put Grant Morrison on that shit, and it is insane. Then they've been doing a lot of crisis and multiverse stuff. Grant Morrison stories are always sort of, like, questioning the existence of. So that's cool. It's always a head trip every time. A lot of people don't like Grant Morrison, and they're not for everybody, that's for sure. But they're definitely for me. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Cool. Well, so for me is the scorch, and that's our first issue up is scorch number six. [00:16:09] Speaker B: Scorch number six. [00:16:11] Speaker A: And it's got a glorious cover here. [00:16:15] Speaker B: Yeah. So what's on that cover, Johnny? [00:16:19] Speaker A: It's a cover by Bjorn barons. You can tell because it's, like, super detailed and you can just tell his really distinct 3d style. Medieval jumping in. You got Jessica shooting. You got Javi shooting with, like, necro bullets. [00:16:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:35] Speaker A: And you got redeemer flying in at the top. [00:16:37] Speaker B: And it's got these little bitty. They look like the creatures that the Keymaster and the gatekeeper turn into. And Ghostbusters. [00:16:49] Speaker A: Yes. Him terror dogs. [00:16:54] Speaker B: I knew you knew what they were called. [00:16:56] Speaker A: And their names are Vince Clorthoe and. Oh, and Zool. Zool's the other one. [00:17:02] Speaker B: Hey, I hope Johnny remember a thing. [00:17:05] Speaker A: Well, I was thinking Zool was like, oh, no, ghozer. Yeah. Zool and Vince Clotho. So weird. [00:17:12] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Ghostbusters is just like Dan Aykroyd. Like, just like, fucking on cocaine. Like, blew his mind out. And just like, they had to rein him in, too. That script was originally even, like, crazier. [00:17:22] Speaker B: The cocaine wasn't the only thing that blew his mind out. Whoa. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Yeah, a ghost. I mean, that was the cocaine. He was like, what if a ghost gave you a blowjob? Let's put that in the movie. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:17:35] Speaker A: And then we'll make a cartoon show about it. No, he does look like Vince Clorhoe or Zool. This little demon. [00:17:43] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Other demons. [00:17:45] Speaker B: This medieval is probably the best medieval. It's so badass. He's looking so good. I love how crumply the gunslinger head is when Bjorn Barons does it, too, because it definitely looks like it's been kicked around the old west. Oh, yeah. [00:18:04] Speaker A: Dusty and musty. There's always so much good veins on, like, gunslinger's face. Yeah, there's always so much texture to it. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like he's got some skin flaps hanging down off his chin there. [00:18:16] Speaker A: I like that. The bullets, you can see him glowing in the chamber. [00:18:20] Speaker B: That's awesome. That's so cool. And then Jessica's just over there, like, railing on, like, shooting that thing right in the face. Look at how exploding its face is right there. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah, point blank, six inches away with, like, the most impossible. Awesome gun. [00:18:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, it's so good. So, Bjorn Barons, thank you for your service, sir. [00:18:45] Speaker A: Bjorn Barons has been killing it doing Ghost Rider. That I like, doing alien series. [00:18:51] Speaker B: It's just been all over my little notes pad. Johnny, my little notes pad here says that there are two covers? [00:18:58] Speaker A: Yes, I have one cover. Not a lot to talk about with it. [00:19:02] Speaker B: Yeah, not at all. [00:19:04] Speaker A: It's a blank cover. [00:19:06] Speaker B: Oh, dang it. [00:19:07] Speaker A: But it's black. Like, it's, like, black paper. So you'd have to draw it with one of those white or, like, silver pens, right? [00:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah, those always look cool. I like the silver on black aesthetic. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's one you want to send to, like, monk illustrations or something like that. I took some with me to comic Con, and I was going to try to get some people to do it, but then I was just like, you know what? I need to. [00:19:29] Speaker B: So is there not a third cover for not. I'm looking at it on the Internet right now. What do I remember talking about it? I remember being like, who's going to be the person in the magneto position? Oh, that's number six. [00:19:46] Speaker A: Okay. Unless they're in the other room. God damn it. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Oh, no. Well, it's the last of the connecting covers for the homage to the 92 x men. And completely it's got sin in his full glory in the magneto position. And he's in a big ball of energy, and he's angry and his eyes are whited out, and, oh, man, it's real good. And it's done by our good friend the Tod father. [00:20:16] Speaker A: All right, I'm going to crawl out of the closet just so I can look at it. I'll be back in 10 minutes. [00:20:22] Speaker B: He's strapped in there with the cables like it's like a seatbelt. That's the only way he can. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Looks like the nebuchadnezzar on the matrix in here. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:20:31] Speaker A: No, I'm kidding. Yeah. I can't believe I did. I saw that and I was like, oh, yeah, that was last week. See, this is the numbers and the covers, but it's all running. [00:20:39] Speaker B: So it says, image comics. A spawn milestone, 6th issue. A team is born, and it's got the little 30 years of spawn in the corner. 1992 to 2022. [00:20:49] Speaker A: And this was before, well, sin had debuted in the comics, but they hadn't fought yet. Yeah, because he popped out in Spawn's universe. He comes out as sin. [00:21:00] Speaker B: He's coming out Essin. He wants the world to know he'll still necroplasm. [00:21:07] Speaker A: He's gonna steal it. [00:21:08] Speaker B: He's gonna get sweat it all out in one fight with his brother, man. [00:21:16] Speaker A: He didn't count on his brother. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Those fights with your brother are always brutal. Family knows how to hurt you the most, don't they, Johnny? [00:21:23] Speaker A: They sure do. [00:21:24] Speaker B: Especially if they've been doing it since you were three years old. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Two brothers in scorch that we love are Sean Lewis and Steven Segovia. [00:21:35] Speaker B: In honor of Good Friday. They are brothers in Christ, if not in real life. [00:21:41] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Yes, they're brothers in scorch. [00:21:44] Speaker B: That's better. I should have gone with that one. They got a third brother. It's the brother who moved away and was in college when the middle brother was born. Johnny. But he still comes by every once in a while to make sure that they're treating mom and dad okay. [00:22:03] Speaker A: It's the Holy Trinity. The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. [00:22:05] Speaker B: And that's Tod McFarlane coming in with those additional scripts. The color on top of Steven Segovia's art is Ulysses Areola and world design. Doing the lettering again, we done talked about the COVID artists, Bjorn Barron's, Todd McFarlane. And insert name here for whoever you get to sketch on yours. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Yes. You could be. Whoever you want. Could be the third cover artist. Anyone that you could. [00:22:30] Speaker B: You could be. Or, like, if you're going to an Easter celebration and you want to be edgy for your. Be the edgy cousin, you can bring the blank cover and have your little nephews or cousins or whatever draw on it and freak their parents out and be like, you got to get that filth out of here. And it's like. But they're drawing and having fun. That's what you should do. Definitely. [00:22:54] Speaker A: I should attempt to draw spawn on a cover. [00:22:57] Speaker B: I mean, we got enough of them. [00:23:00] Speaker A: I do have enough. Yeah. And then, of course, Thomas healy coming in editing. Yeah, editing it. [00:23:08] Speaker B: Yeah. He's. He's taking that little pin and he's. Nope, nope. Yes. [00:23:13] Speaker A: Nope. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Yes. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Nope. So this might be the first one where they dropped the. The. On the COVID Yeah, because there's no the on the COVID but there's the on the inside. [00:23:25] Speaker B: Must be scorched. Five does say the on it. [00:23:29] Speaker A: So this is historic issue. This is the first one. The first one where it doesn't say the. On the COVID Yeah. She says, just drop the. [00:23:38] Speaker B: The. [00:23:38] Speaker A: It's cleaner. [00:23:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Just like we'll drop spawn off a Gunslinger. [00:23:42] Speaker A: But it does say it in the. Previously on yes, it does. So here we go. Previously in the Scorched. A surprise attack by a cybernetic creature called a sin devourer sends the team scrambling. Soulcrusher joins the fray to help, but Spawn still has his doubts about him. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Sin devourer. [00:24:05] Speaker A: But we don't start with that. We start back where we left off haunt was in the chair by the lamp. [00:24:11] Speaker B: Yep. [00:24:13] Speaker A: Basically smoking a cigarette. He wasn't, but he should have. [00:24:15] Speaker B: Yeah, just. Just chilling. [00:24:17] Speaker A: And he got blood kidnapped because he wants to figure out why he get poisoned. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And, man, blood is just lunging toward haunt. Look. Oh, man. [00:24:25] Speaker A: He's all like. He turns, like, vampire blue or green, kind of. [00:24:30] Speaker B: He's not happy with haunt being there at all. Daniel's brothers in his head saying, hey, Daniel, jump. [00:24:35] Speaker A: And I mean, he throws him right in that lamp. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Way to go, Kurt. He doesn't know to get out of the way of lunging. Vampire. Yeah. Good job. [00:24:46] Speaker A: He's a lot ghost. Dude, you don't have to worry about that shit. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Oh, man. I do. Like how, as he basically. Spider Man's out of the chair, you get another look at how big his feet are. Christ, his feet are so big. [00:24:58] Speaker A: The old hot feet, man. [00:25:01] Speaker B: That man's got to be stable as fuck when he's in a fighting stance. No? Tipping him over. Blood goes for a crash. He knocks over not only the lamp, but a landline telephone. [00:25:17] Speaker A: Yeah, they're in a hotel. I bet. I bet the only places you have. [00:25:21] Speaker B: Things like that and an empty glass of water. Or an empty water glass, I guess, because if it's empty, it's not a glass of water. [00:25:27] Speaker A: It's just a glass. [00:25:28] Speaker B: Just a glass. [00:25:29] Speaker A: It could be an empty glass of something else. [00:25:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it could be. [00:25:33] Speaker A: And I love that haunt pulls out a gun. [00:25:39] Speaker B: Because it's a good thing he brought a gun to a vampire fight. Yeah. [00:25:44] Speaker A: Anytime you fight a vampire, it's like, just pull out a gun, blood. I got a gun, motherfucker. [00:25:49] Speaker B: I remember that part in Bram Stoker's Dracula where everyone's like, oh, yeah, we've got these things called guns. We just shoot them. [00:25:56] Speaker A: That would have made a little more exciting. [00:25:58] Speaker B: It would have made that scene from the Coppola movie very disappointing. If they just opened the coffin and shot, who? Elizabeth? Was it Elizabeth? Instead of stabbing her with a stake and then getting fucking gushered. [00:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I haven't seen that movie in a long time. They just showed her the giraffe's house, man. [00:26:21] Speaker B: It's a good movie. It's a real good movie. I just heard something about apparently the priest that marries Keanu Reeves and Winoda Ryder in the movie is an actual priest. So there's people who are know. Winoda Ryder and Keanu Reeves are actually married. [00:26:42] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:26:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, actual ordained priests married them in the. So in the eyes of God on. [00:26:49] Speaker A: This Easter weekend, yes. Hallelujah. That's a good couple. [00:26:53] Speaker B: That's very good couple. [00:26:54] Speaker A: I imagine that's a smart match. [00:26:56] Speaker B: They would have very good looking children. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Be very wise children. [00:26:59] Speaker B: I feel like they would also be very kind. [00:27:03] Speaker A: Kind and wise man. [00:27:05] Speaker B: Kind, wise. I don't think the world is ready for that. [00:27:08] Speaker A: I love that he just, like, starts shooting at blood, and then, like, his brother just dives to the wall. Fuck this. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Yeah. It's so good. And then we get a little flashback to Daniel, just, if I may say, crucified to the wall by a knife. [00:27:27] Speaker A: Yes. I mean, happy Easter. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Happy Good Friday. [00:27:31] Speaker A: Happy Good Friday. That's the day, right? [00:27:33] Speaker B: Yeah. That's literally the thing that was back. [00:27:35] Speaker A: In king spawn number one. There were, like, four little vignettes at the end, and that was one of them. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Yes. It was the worst date in the world. [00:27:45] Speaker A: Yeah. And also we realized, like, man, haunt. [00:27:49] Speaker B: He has a lot of knives, that man. He must heal them every time he goes to a restaurant. Like, I want to take this knife. [00:27:58] Speaker A: He just puts them in his pocket. [00:28:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, so many kitchen knives. Kurt through the wall is like, daniel, jump here. Get him. And so haunt just jumps through the wall like his brother did and smashes. [00:28:13] Speaker A: Into, like, he's like, I'm not a ghost. I'm going to do the same thing. He says they poisoned him because he knows Simmons. [00:28:21] Speaker B: He says, I know more than that. [00:28:24] Speaker A: A pistol whips him. [00:28:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Oh, I like how he's using this pistol all creatively. [00:28:28] Speaker B: I like how every time he moves, like, one of his limbs really fast, there's just, like, a streamer of costume behind it. It's real cool. [00:28:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like, costume goo. [00:28:38] Speaker B: Yeah, because we get the costume goo when he's jumping out of the chair, when blood's trying to tackle him. [00:28:43] Speaker A: I've got haunt number one. I need to read it. I got the first trade paperback. I mean, I should have had all four, but I didn't buy them. [00:28:50] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you gave away your secret as to where to buy stuff. [00:28:52] Speaker A: I gave away my secret on the podcast. I'm going to go buy all those haunts. [00:28:56] Speaker B: So it's both a point of pride and an embarrassing oversight on our end. [00:29:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I did find another spawn tray paperback at myopic the other day. [00:29:06] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Nice. Which one was it? [00:29:09] Speaker A: It's new beginnings number two. So I think it's like when Jim downing is formed. [00:29:15] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:16] Speaker A: I had the first one already. I think I also found out my. So. [00:29:19] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:29:20] Speaker A: So someone must be selling off their. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Collection must be making room. Blood just doesn't answer any questions to haunt. And so haunt's like, I'm just going to go through your suitcase. [00:29:31] Speaker A: I like how he kidnapped him and. [00:29:33] Speaker B: Took his suitcase, and then while he's going through the suitcase, the wall explodes. [00:29:39] Speaker A: He's like, stop going through the wall, brother. [00:29:43] Speaker B: We got a type Q reporting, johnny. It's Q. [00:29:48] Speaker A: Type Q is the smaller version. [00:29:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the human size. I do believe they refer to it later. And Kurt's in Daniel's head saying, we got to go. And Hans just like, nah, nah, nah. We're going to fight this dude. So that's very exciting. And then we jump to the aftermath of the rest of the scorch, having just brought down a full size cinder vauer. [00:30:14] Speaker A: You see, like, half of its head over there? [00:30:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man. There's just, like, blue goop everywhere, and medieval turns into Mark. And just Mark's like, what's so. So Mark's looking at the wreckage while Javi's over there just, like, shitting on everybody else who's there. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Yeah. I was just like, what about everybody? Fuck everybody. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Little stinker. Little stinker. I like how reapers in the background also just, like, shrugging. He's like, I don't know what's going on with me either, dude. [00:30:52] Speaker A: No, I think I thought that, too. It's a flashback to when he does that, like, vision. Like, Javi's thinking about reapers. Reaper's not there. [00:31:01] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Okay. [00:31:03] Speaker A: That'd be hilarious if Reaper's like, I don't know what's up with me. [00:31:08] Speaker B: That's what it looks like. [00:31:10] Speaker A: I was really confused, too, because I was like, I don't think Reaper's there. And then I realized, yeah. It's just he's. He's remembering him. [00:31:17] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Because there's a lot of that in this issue. There's a lot of people thinking. There's, like, three or four instances of someone thinking about something over their shoulder. [00:31:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Javi doesn't trust Sergey, and Sergey doesn't trust you either, cowboy. And Mark's trying to be the mediator to keep everybody from fighting, like always. [00:31:38] Speaker A: While he's pulling out the hippocampus on this. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:41] Speaker A: He's Cindevour, which is the functions he deduces will function like the black box. [00:31:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And Javi doesn't know what he's talking about. He's scaring up some truth over there. [00:31:52] Speaker A: Johnny scared of some truth. [00:31:54] Speaker B: That's a good line. It's a great man. Like, I mentioned it before, but it bears repeating again. I love Sean Lewis, Javi. He's so good. [00:32:04] Speaker A: Yeah, he's really good. I got to read above snakes. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Yeah, got it. [00:32:08] Speaker A: I got that. If he's good at westerns, then if he's good at hobby, then he's got to be good at. [00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Real good. I like how Mark finds it and it's booby trapped. I don't know quite what it is. That's tamper proof. I don't know if there's some animation to the Cindivower body that physically looks. [00:32:33] Speaker A: Like sucks him in and spits him out. [00:32:38] Speaker B: He's just like, oh, well, can't do that no more. Oops. [00:32:41] Speaker A: And there is spawn, like, again. He's thinking over his shoulder about psalms one three seven and king spawn stuff. [00:32:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:48] Speaker A: He's like, I'm thinking about King Spawn. I ain't got time for these people. I don't even know if they have any value to me. [00:32:52] Speaker B: Yeah, he's like, I got a kitty killer to fucking cut. [00:32:57] Speaker A: I got two other books going on, guys. I got Spawn and king Spawn, okay? [00:33:02] Speaker B: Oh, man. He tolerates she spawn barely. [00:33:07] Speaker A: That's mean. [00:33:08] Speaker B: It seems almost like the other way around in reality, where she spawn barely tolerates him. [00:33:16] Speaker A: Because I also love that Javi called the Cindevour a contraption that's pretty. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Um, Spawn says to leave Natasha. And, you know, they're not their problem. They'll figure it's not. Jessica's not about that. So she fires at Spawn. Yeah. [00:33:37] Speaker A: She gives an old Zach. [00:33:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Who the hell do you think you are? And then we get a nice little callback to the layout of Spawn 301 with faces, faces, faces, faces. I like it. Yes. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Nice callback to that. Spawn is being pretty elitist. [00:33:59] Speaker B: Called them all. Yeah, he's being a jerk. Although we now know that at least at this point in the scorched, it should be inferred that Spawn does know that Mark Rosen is hosting the medieval. Since we've got the parallelism here, so we got that going for us. [00:34:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:27] Speaker B: Because it's not explicitly told to us yet. But when we jump back in time to where he knows, I do believe, before this issue happens. Right. Because it goes back, it would be. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Because he'd be talking to a little. I don't know. It's a little ambiguous, because I was actually thinking about that and looked through the issue. Mark just shows up. He could just show up and spawn. Spawn would have to be really stupid and be like, medieval's gone. But I think he just knows and doesn't tell him that he knows. [00:34:59] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's like, I see you, Clark Kent. I know who you are when you wipe your glasses off. I can see it. [00:35:06] Speaker A: And he's like, I'm not ignoring you. Not on your life. And she's like, what the fuck are you talking about? [00:35:11] Speaker B: You figure it out. Oh, man. Simmons is a clear communicator. Simmons. [00:35:19] Speaker A: Is Simmons in here? He's definitely not a team player. That's what's. [00:35:23] Speaker B: Yeah. He's like, it's a know. It's a war we gotta fight. It's a war. [00:35:29] Speaker A: Soldier. Soldier. Soldier. War. [00:35:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And Sergey's like, you're being a butt. We don't want to be you. And Al's like, do you think I wanted to be me? No, he doesn't. And then he throws Sergey through a portal. Oh, no. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Just like him. He doesn't trust him. [00:35:46] Speaker B: Just like, magic. [00:35:46] Speaker A: Damn. [00:35:47] Speaker B: Magics him up by his feet and chucks him through the. Just right into the green portal. And how. [00:35:54] Speaker A: He's just like, I was spawn. I didn't trust that guy. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Oh, man. Jessica's like, what do you think you're just going to do that to everybody that you don't like? And he's like, yeah, I don't have a choice. You can leave whenever you want. And Spawn says, sure, right. I'm going to do it. [00:36:12] Speaker A: He does it. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Oh, man. Just the classic Al Simmons at the head of the scorch saying some bullshit, and then leaving. [00:36:22] Speaker A: He just comes in, yells, everybody blusters around, and then leaves. [00:36:28] Speaker B: It's like the one day a month that the boss actually comes to the off site location, and it's just like, oh, jeez. We can't get anything done because we know they're just going to yell at us to do stuff. And as soon as they leave, we can just ignore what they said and actually get back to work. But we have to deal with it today. Yeah. Now, gunslinger is like, hey, no leader. I'll be the leader. [00:36:52] Speaker A: But then Mark notices that these guys have been scanning them like it's fucking Metroid prime over here, guys. [00:36:59] Speaker B: Just a heads. He's making it seem like it's nothing real important. He just wants to let them know that stuff's happening in the background. Whereas if I had found that, I would have been like, fuck, guys. Fuck. Shit. Fuck. What is this? [00:37:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, this. God's creatures are, like, arguing. [00:37:20] Speaker B: Just a heads up. They've got, like, a couple of million data points on you both already. [00:37:25] Speaker A: Yeah, this company called Meta and Google. Hey, I don't care. Hey, I got my $30 in Zuckbook. [00:37:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I did too. It went immediately to, like, an electricity bill or something. Yes, it did not hang around very long. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Thanks, Zuck. Great. [00:37:45] Speaker B: Woo. Thanks. It's good to know that my personal autonomy is worth $32. [00:37:53] Speaker A: $32. [00:37:55] Speaker B: We get another. Remember in the past over there with. [00:38:00] Speaker A: Gunslinger, thinking over the shoulder? See, everyone's thinking, you got him when he's, like, dead. And you got Amy. We got the tree, the mysterious Amy. [00:38:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And then Jessica and Mark are yelling back and forth about the machine. [00:38:21] Speaker A: She's just like, you know what? Fuck it. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And smashes it. Just like, puts the foot on it. Smash. [00:38:28] Speaker A: She's got a daughter to protect. [00:38:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Mark was like, hey, I was trying to be an it guy. What did you do that for? [00:38:35] Speaker A: They have 3.5 million data points. I wonder how many data points they got on me. [00:38:41] Speaker B: Are you important enough, though? I mean, it's not like you have necroplasmic powers or big ass guns. [00:38:52] Speaker A: No, I don't have Facebook anymore either. [00:38:54] Speaker B: I don't think you're enough of a threat, Johnny. I'm sorry. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Darn not. My crazy opinions on movies that might. [00:39:03] Speaker B: Get you in Guantanamo once I play Star wars. [00:39:05] Speaker A: Episode one is like the fourth best Star wars movie. I think that puts me on a. [00:39:08] Speaker B: List somewhere as Fred Armison's dead in Parks and rec. Straight to jail. [00:39:15] Speaker A: Straight to jail immediately. [00:39:17] Speaker B: Jail. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Haunt on the next phase goes straight out the window. [00:39:22] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:39:24] Speaker A: Like this Cindy bower just like, sneeze. Sneezes him out of the room. [00:39:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:28] Speaker A: This Airbnb he's rented, they're not getting. [00:39:32] Speaker B: Their security deposit back. Nope. [00:39:36] Speaker A: Hidden cleaning fees. [00:39:38] Speaker B: The owner of the condo is going to get in big trouble because they weren't actually supposed to list on Airbnb. And then they're going to get kicked out of their own house because the hoa. [00:39:50] Speaker A: Look, I said on the sheet, no Cinde devourers or vampires. And you did. [00:39:57] Speaker B: Oh. Have you ever been to an Airbnb where part of the instructions are, don't mention Airbnb? I can't do it in this building. Just say, I'm a friend of. [00:40:09] Speaker A: I never have. That's funny. [00:40:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I did. When Wanda and I went to New York, that's what happened. And then the Airbnb situation ended up being terrible and we got 100% refunded. But, yeah, it started with, yeah, we're legally not supposed to do this, so you just got to say you're my friend, and I left the key for you. [00:40:29] Speaker A: That's New York, baby. [00:40:32] Speaker B: New York's pretty great. New York's great. If you haven't been to New York, go. [00:40:36] Speaker A: It's fun. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Be a tourist. Nobody gives a shit. Just don't be in the way. It's real fun. We went to mood fabric, and I got to meet Swatch, the dog who lives at mood fabric. We apparently missed seeing Tim Gunn at the register by, like, 7 hours. [00:40:56] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Yeah, because he was there the day we arrived in New York. But we were like, oh, geez. So tired. And then the next day, we went. We were like, oh, he was here yesterday. Fuck. [00:41:07] Speaker A: Make it work, Tim Gunn. [00:41:09] Speaker B: Tim Gunn. Make it work, man. [00:41:13] Speaker A: That's my philosophy. I say that a lot at work. And, hey, it was a good philosophy as we work on this podcast. Make it work. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Yeah, make it work. He also has the best facial expressions for gifts to send to people when they say something stupid. Just give them the Tim Gunn over the glasses stare. Oh, Tim Gunn's a national treasure. He's so much a national treasure that they're going to make a movie about Nick Cage having to find out what's secretly printed under his my. Make it secretly. [00:41:54] Speaker A: They want to secretly get Haunt's skin. Secretly? [00:41:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:59] Speaker A: They basically want to gather the data on what this poison is doing to his body because it'll help them in the war with heaven and hell. [00:42:06] Speaker B: Yeah. They want to just stick a cable in his brain and suck out all the information. [00:42:10] Speaker A: And he just wants to get his adrenaline pumping for the best reading. So he's getting them all amped up before he sucks out his brain. [00:42:17] Speaker B: Haunt is pinned and pissed, and the cinderbauer is like, yes. [00:42:23] Speaker A: You'Ll eventually come fight with us. I don't know. Haunt's a man between two worlds. [00:42:30] Speaker B: He's also a man between a rock and a hard place. Literally. Look at that. [00:42:34] Speaker A: A rock and a cinder. I always like how haunt has, like, unshaven when it's like mass. [00:42:43] Speaker B: A. He's got a bad history with blades, Johnny. I don't think he's ever going to try to shave again. [00:42:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I have to pinned to that wall with all those knives. I wouldn't want a razor near me, either. [00:42:53] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I don't blame him at all. And then we cut from there to Sergey, who, like Loki in that one thor movie, has been falling for 30 minutes, falling for a straight 30 minutes, and somehow spawn gets there before him. I guess he sends them the long way through. Yeah. [00:43:15] Speaker A: He just sends him a long time. He's got to shake him up a bit. [00:43:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:22] Speaker A: And then Spawn has sent him to limbo. His new prison scorched skull. [00:43:26] Speaker B: The end of the episode or the issue in the episode. Yeah. Thanks. Goodbye. Have a good one. [00:43:32] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's, I don't know, like, fun little. [00:43:37] Speaker B: And the sucky part about this little cliffhanger is you don't get a follow up on it for two issues. Because issue seven is all about Jessica. And then you don't come back here until, like, issue eight for a while. [00:43:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that's like. And I love soul crusher. And he's in limbo, but we know how that turns out. He gets busted out, that awesome dragon. [00:43:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And he ends up. [00:43:59] Speaker A: They go and fuck everybody up. [00:44:00] Speaker B: Then Sergey and medieval start their own buddy cop movie franchise. [00:44:08] Speaker A: The spawning ground. I love how they have this little art up here with, like, it says, whatever you are, you have my attention. Whoever you are, you have my attention. [00:44:17] Speaker B: They put that in there for, like, a month and then took it out. It was very weird when it happened. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Yeah, we got a whole bunch of arts. A whole bunch of arts. They're real good arts. I still love the one of Javi and the coffin shaped tub full of blood blowing bubbles. [00:44:37] Speaker A: Did we talk about that on the podcast or in real life? Because I swear to God, I had, like, deja vu. [00:44:43] Speaker B: We've definitely talked about it. I think it might have also appeared in the back of another one. [00:44:48] Speaker A: I think it did, too, because I. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Think it actually appeared in the back of a gunslinger issue. I'm not sure. [00:44:56] Speaker A: You got kind of a sexy spawn in the middle. Sexy spawn Sunday. [00:44:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I was looking at it last night, and I was like, they totally used, like, a toms of Finland for that reference photo, didn't. [00:45:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The Tod father should post that on his sexy spawn. [00:45:12] Speaker B: Should. He should. Very nice. We got that one in the middle on the right. Totally. Just looks like Shadow man. Does look like spawn as shadow man. [00:45:23] Speaker A: I like the kind of, like, the bottom left. Like the kind of, like, cheeky spawn. He's like, yeah, I'm vomiting up chains. What are you going to do about it? [00:45:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that's terrifying, though, man. They should definitely use the chains coming out of the mouth more often. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd definitely be a good king spawn cover idea. [00:45:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:43] Speaker A: And, David, this is monumental. It is for the pod, for us. It is kind of bittersweet. [00:45:51] Speaker B: I guess it is, as that one cover says. Where'd it go. A spawn milestone. It's a respawn milestone, Johnny. [00:46:00] Speaker A: Back in the early episodes, probably like episode four or five, I believe we covered. Started with scorch number seven, just as we were starting with what was coming out and we were doing the old ones. I don't know how listenable that episode is in the episode hierarchy, but this is closing the loop on scorched. So now with scorched, we'll just be moving forward with it. We don't have classic quote unquote scorched anymore. It'll just be the newer issues. So that's kind of fun and interesting and the passage of time. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Yeah. It's almost as if we read a lot of comic books on this podcast, Johnny. [00:46:45] Speaker A: Almost. [00:46:45] Speaker B: Almost. But, yeah. So we closed the loop. We've sent the scorched to limbo, and then the scorched have brought themselves back to us. That doesn't make any think how far it's come. [00:46:58] Speaker A: You get all that fun stuff, get all the reveals of the curse in the next arc, and then we're going into the Mandarin spawn stuff and the island, and it's just been a hoot. [00:47:06] Speaker B: Hoot and a half. [00:47:07] Speaker A: Love the scorch. [00:47:08] Speaker B: It's a good book. It's a real good book. [00:47:24] Speaker A: So next up, we have the big one of the issue, the one we've been teasing with the green. With botanist. With spring. [00:47:36] Speaker B: With the green. With the little necro cigarettes. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Yeah. If you're listening at home, if you're not at work, you're not on the bus, especially if you're not on the bus or public transportation. But if you're in a place where you can, why don't you light up a little green while we go to the green? [00:47:53] Speaker B: I mean, if you're on the green line, people are just turning into an actual green line, if you know what I mean. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And I partake, and it's not on the Bus. I smoke weed, and I'm pro weed being legal. But like, come on, man, don't be fucking smoking on the train. It's really annoying. [00:48:09] Speaker B: Although it's definitely more annoying when they're just smoking a cigarette on the train because then it's like, oh, that's worse. God. Because they always smoke the cheapest packs, which I think the cheap packs now are like $15 apiece. And they just immediately smell sour. And it's like, oh, how can you stand to have that in your mouth? I got on the elevator yesterday and was immediately hit with the smell from, like, somebody had just come back inside from smoking a cigarette and fumigated the fucking elevator with their stale cigarette smell and fresh cigarette smell. And almost vomited it. Vomited. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Yeah. I used to smoke and I can't stand it either. [00:48:51] Speaker B: It's bad, but it's bad. [00:48:55] Speaker A: The green probably wouldn't approve of you smoking tobacco. Maybe they would. They're cool with you smoking weed, though, because they're the green. [00:49:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:03] Speaker A: That means if we're talking green, you know what that mean? That mean we're talking spawn 338. [00:49:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:09] Speaker A: We are the Nick's issue. [00:49:11] Speaker B: Nick's issue. Don't get nixed. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Carrie Andrews, aka Nick's, goes and visits the emerald parliament in the green. [00:49:20] Speaker B: One shot. [00:49:21] Speaker A: We get a lot of backstory, a lot of callbacks. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Parliament. Fuck. There goes my wicked joke. God damn. [00:49:31] Speaker A: Sorry. Adele Dazim. [00:49:34] Speaker B: Adel Dazim. [00:49:36] Speaker A: And this is the final, I believe, of those four David Mack covers. [00:49:41] Speaker B: Usually the back has a good indicator of how many are left. No, I think, yeah, this was the last of the David Mack's because then it went to the bianchi. Is that who it was? [00:49:53] Speaker A: Yeah, Simon Bianchi. Bianchi. But, yeah, this is the last of David Mack covers. It's spawn. He's just sitting there. It says, like, shadow. Shadow. I remember I am the spawn. Lying. Shadow living. [00:50:08] Speaker B: Shadow living. [00:50:09] Speaker A: I said lying. [00:50:11] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he does lie a little bit. It's got a skull in the background there. [00:50:15] Speaker A: He's a skinny spawn. He's a little skinny. [00:50:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a spelt dude. [00:50:19] Speaker A: It's kind of like how Brett Booth draws him a little bit. [00:50:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Only minus about 14 abs. Right. [00:50:28] Speaker A: But he's just a little skinnier when Bret Booth does him. [00:50:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he's more human sized instead of ultra human. [00:50:36] Speaker A: Hulking mad. Yeah, right. Because King Spawn is so grand and floaty and big, and then regular spawn is, like, all superheroey and blocky and big. Yeah, you get the spindly spawn. A spindly spawn occasionally. A spindly spawn occasionally to you on this, my Easter Eve. So we've got writing this. Pretty cool. Awesome. We also breeze past the COVID Yeah. [00:51:04] Speaker B: We have another cover. So that was the A cover. The B cover is a Francesco tomicelli cover. [00:51:11] Speaker A: I believe it's the one you got. Right. [00:51:12] Speaker B: That's the one I have, yes. It's a circus tent. It's a big Tim Burton style circus tent where the sign says circus inferno, but the eye is out in circus. So it says, see archas Inferno. There's some blood on the sign, too. Creepy. And then in the tent's door or the entrance to the tent is backlit with a little bitty clown standing there. And then we got clown's face hovering in the background. It's real spooky. It's fun. [00:51:46] Speaker A: It's the ultimate epitome of how the covers have nothing to do with the. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Clown doesn't show up in this once. [00:51:52] Speaker A: I do kind of wish for this issue. There was a nick's cover. [00:51:55] Speaker B: Yeah, that would have been nice. [00:51:57] Speaker A: But we get some nicks on some covers. Let's get nicks on some covers, guys. [00:52:01] Speaker B: Because I would like to equate this to scorch number seven, where scorch number seven is all about Jessica. And we had that gorgeous Jessica priest cover. We could have gotten my phone background. Could have gotten a Nick's cover of her and her new regalia that she gets halfway through the issue. [00:52:19] Speaker A: So we got Rory McConville writing this awesome issue. Carlo Barberry on the awesome art. [00:52:24] Speaker B: The Tod father gives. [00:52:25] Speaker A: Tom Orzachowski doing. Oh, yes. Todd McFarland. Additional script. I skipped over the Tod father this time. Yeah, you must not skip over the toad father, or he'll give you three rivets. We got two folks doing colors. J. David Ramos and Ulysses Cereola. Cover the covers. We already covered the covers. [00:52:45] Speaker B: We covered the covers. [00:52:47] Speaker A: And we got Todd and Thomas. [00:52:49] Speaker B: Todd and Tom. [00:52:51] Speaker A: Tod and Tom. Previously in Spawn. Jim Downing and Nix's attack against Spawn was only partially successful. Nyx has gained control of half the dead zones, while Spawn retains the other half. [00:53:08] Speaker B: Indeed, indeed. That is what happened. [00:53:10] Speaker A: And then we just open with green world. [00:53:12] Speaker B: With a little bush baby there with. [00:53:15] Speaker A: The big ass eyes, like a lemur or something. [00:53:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Just hanging onto that branch for dear life. And it's just like, what is that? I like that little guy. He's real good. [00:53:28] Speaker A: Nyx has been entranced by the green world. Since her earliest days of studying magic. [00:53:32] Speaker B: Yeah. And then she's just walking through the green world, and she gets a halt, basically. You are trespassing. We get a Nyx, what you doing? She's there. [00:53:45] Speaker A: Gaia's like, what are you doing in your cool goth outfit? [00:53:48] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Tree Gaia is spooky. Look at that shit. Yep. It's like mother Willow from Mulan. Only instead of just a face in the middle of the tree, her torso is made out of a branch. It's crazy. [00:54:08] Speaker A: Isn't Mother Willow from Pocahontas? [00:54:10] Speaker B: What did I say? Mulan. Shit. Yeah, Pocahontas. Oh, man. [00:54:14] Speaker A: You're getting your possibly problematic Disney movies mixed up. [00:54:17] Speaker B: Well, Johnny, there's only one thing left to say, and it's, let's get down to business. So Nick's is know prostrating herself before Mother Gaia. Her name was Carrie Andrews. Her name was Carrie Andrews. Your real name, not the one you were given, the one you have chosen. Nix. My name is Nix. I serve the green world. [00:54:41] Speaker A: It's like on x two. What's your real name? [00:54:43] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what. [00:54:46] Speaker A: Ian McKellen. He goes, what's your real name? [00:54:50] Speaker B: So you're saying mother guy is going to be played by. Shit, I totally forgot his name. And you just said it. [00:54:59] Speaker A: Ian McKellen. [00:55:00] Speaker B: Ian McKellen. Ian McKellen's going to play? [00:55:01] Speaker A: No, I don't think so. Because there's, like, an interview with him talking about working on the hobbits. And I feel like this required a lot of CG. And he was, like, working the Hobbit movies. There's this one thing where I had no idea what's going on. I just started crying and asking Peter, like, what's happening? I don't know what's going on. I'm so confused. So he probably would be like, no more cg. [00:55:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it happens. [00:55:23] Speaker A: But, yeah, Nick's dream, walking into the green world, and she's like, all right, you intrigued me. You're now training in the maidens. This is like a little backstory. We didn't really know about that she was doing this. [00:55:34] Speaker B: Yeah. So this is her dabbling in the green before she becomes the original she spawn. [00:55:43] Speaker A: And we get a whole bunch of background that I haven't gotten to yet, but I think I'm coming up on soon. [00:55:48] Speaker B: So she's doing the craft, only instead of being a jerk high school student about it, she's being real serious. She meets Al Simmons. She brings him some takeout. [00:56:01] Speaker A: Some takeout. Some soup. [00:56:02] Speaker B: Some soup. [00:56:07] Speaker A: They fight together for a bit, it appears. [00:56:09] Speaker B: Yeah. We get her and her original she's bond regalia with a gigantic scythe. Look at that thing. Oh, man. [00:56:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it's huge. [00:56:17] Speaker B: It's so big. Oh, man. And then we get a reference to Al dying back in issue 185. And Nick took it pretty hard. Nick's took it in, but she wasn't going to just sit around and mourn. No. She's got shit to do. So she meets Jessica Priest. [00:56:39] Speaker A: Perfect. Bonk Jessica. [00:56:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And they start doing some stuff. They're walking through an empty warehouse with blood everywhere. So spooky. Spooky shit. Spooky. Spooky. [00:56:50] Speaker A: She's watching Alan tv from what we've been covering in the 300s, where he's talking to everybody. [00:56:56] Speaker B: And apparently Nix is a lefty. Yeah, she mousing with her left hand. [00:57:03] Speaker A: There you go. Yeah, I like how they use the Jason Sean Alexander art. [00:57:08] Speaker B: Yeah. On the tvs. That's real cool. And then she said she was murdered. Because we know she was murdered. She was moitered. Yeah. [00:57:16] Speaker A: By a big fucking jerk. [00:57:19] Speaker B: And then what was it in? Was it a couple of issues ago where Spawn was like, but you're dead. Yeah. [00:57:29] Speaker A: And she was like, yeah. Does that really shock you? [00:57:31] Speaker B: And so now we know how she came back from the dead. So she made herself a little neopod that instead of being a whole bunch of wires and pink Goo, is what looks like amber fluid and tree bits. [00:57:46] Speaker A: Well, it's similar to the pod that Billy Kincaid gets sent to. Yeah, except that grows from a tree. But, yeah, she's basically, like, made a resurrection spell. Like a preemptive, like in case I die. [00:57:58] Speaker B: Yeah, in case of death. Break pod. [00:58:04] Speaker A: And usually you come out looking weird or different. But she did such an intricate spell that she came out pretty close to her normal form. She's got green eyes and some cool hair. [00:58:14] Speaker B: Yeah, she's got, like, 90s rogue hair gone wild. [00:58:21] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty cool. [00:58:22] Speaker B: It's great. It's great. And she's just drying all this goop off. I don't know where she gets the robe, but I guess she resurrected herself. A robe, too, just in case. [00:58:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, that's an intricate spell. [00:58:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what makes it intricate, I guess. [00:58:39] Speaker A: It looks like a comfy ass robe. [00:58:41] Speaker B: It does, man. That's a nice color too. Purple. She's like, hello? Is anybody out there? That's a Star Trek reference. In the next generation, the commander Riker is stranded on a strange planet, and he just walks to the edge of a canyon and goes, anybody? It's great. It's great. [00:59:10] Speaker A: And so this guy comes up. He's the steward. [00:59:12] Speaker B: The steward. Not the steward. But the steward. [00:59:17] Speaker A: Steward. Not the steward. [00:59:19] Speaker B: He doesn't go, look what I can do. [00:59:23] Speaker A: I don't even know who Stewart is. [00:59:24] Speaker B: Stuart from Mad TV. The gigantic God. [00:59:28] Speaker A: I don't want to think about that. That creeps me out. I don't like that guy. So I guess she thought cogniosa was someone named Arthur. [00:59:43] Speaker B: Arthur? Arthur Duvall. [00:59:44] Speaker A: Get there. [00:59:45] Speaker B: Arthur Darval. [00:59:46] Speaker A: But it ain't Arthur, let me tell you. No, we saw Nyx get killed, but we just didn't know the background, we hadn't seen, like, we saw her death, but we didn't see anything before. [00:59:58] Speaker B: We didn't. [00:59:59] Speaker A: What we've covered so far, we didn't. [01:00:00] Speaker B: Know that cog was being a sneaky, sneaky snake man. [01:00:05] Speaker A: With a sneaky liar. Calling himself Arthur. [01:00:07] Speaker B: Yeah, man. [01:00:09] Speaker A: In many names, man. [01:00:12] Speaker B: None of them good. It turns out that they think that he was literally just trying to. As most creepy old men with beautiful young women, he was just trying to get something out of her. He was trying to get her latent necroplasm. Men only want one thing, Johnny, and that's more. [01:00:37] Speaker A: Well, I want more spawn, but Kaguyosha wants more necropower. [01:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah, look at him. [01:00:45] Speaker A: She's like, we should tell Spawn about this. This guy's fucked up, and he's. No, no. Spawn is also a big threat to the green world. [01:00:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Forgive me. Stewart's like, oh, yeah, you done been sleeping for a long time. Let me tell you a tale of a king, a king's pawn, clones, all. [01:01:08] Speaker A: The dead zones, and basically just fills her in. I'm like, look, there's three titles now. I know when you died, it was just spawn, okay? We got three other ones. There's four titles. [01:01:18] Speaker B: Yeah, and they're not miniseries. They're all ongoing. [01:01:22] Speaker A: And look, gunslinger one through six take place. Before scorch number one, you just got. [01:01:26] Speaker B: To know that he takes her to the secret, the actual secret bank vault that the tod father keeps all of the prototype toy designs in. And he's like, these are the next two years worth of toys, so be prepared to see any one of these people at any time. [01:01:45] Speaker A: And just herself. It better be yourself. I want a nick's toy. [01:01:48] Speaker B: That would be awesome. And then she gets brought to the emerald parliament. The emerald parliament Funkadelic is the band they would make. [01:01:59] Speaker A: They're the governing body of the green world. [01:02:02] Speaker B: Yeah, they're much like the parliament of trees, only they're not all trees. So they're sitting on tree stumps, though. [01:02:10] Speaker A: Yeah, that's awesome. Those big ass tree stumps. [01:02:12] Speaker B: We got the oracle, who we know, the keeper, who we don't know, the builder, who we don't know, and the navigator, who we don't know. But they're all looking. The builder's big, beefy boy. The navigator looks kind of like Zorak. [01:02:29] Speaker A: He does a little bit. He's the lone mantis of the apocalypse. [01:02:33] Speaker B: He looks like he's going to make some sort of snide remark about brack and then play on his round keyboard. [01:02:40] Speaker A: He does look like he's on the round keyboard with that stump. [01:02:43] Speaker B: And the keeper looks like some sort of Pacific Northwest based, spook them up show villain character. [01:02:52] Speaker A: So you can call me the keeper, because I'm the keeper of the lore. Oh, if you notice the bottom of the page. Oh, my God. [01:03:02] Speaker B: Johnny got so excited that he opened the toy portal and it crashed on him. [01:03:06] Speaker A: No, it was me picking up the compendium, and it knocked over all my other issues, and it knocked over my can. Picking up compendium number two here. Because if you notice the bottom of this page, he's talking about how they tried to recruit spawn. There's a reference to issue 75, and that is a huge green world issue. And it's kind of the culmination of a plot that was building because the green world sends this green goop to the alley, which goops onto a guy, and he becomes heap and then transports Al into the green. And also issue 75 is the issue where bootsy sacrifices himself to bring spawn back from the green and gets banished from heaven. [01:03:47] Speaker B: Oh, man. Oh, man. What a heavy issue to have to revert to. Oh, man. [01:03:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I read it last night. [01:03:52] Speaker B: And rip bootsy. [01:03:55] Speaker A: Rip bootsy. But he gets basically the green called spawn there, tries to recruit him. And here we go. Little shocker for you, David. I remember you were like, oh, yeah, these guys got to be new. All these guys are new. [01:04:08] Speaker B: Yeah, these fuckers are all new. Johnny, there's nothing you could tell me that would lead me to believe that these aren't new characters. [01:04:14] Speaker A: So in issue 75. Hi. I'm called the Keeper. A child of the green world. I speak for the emerald parliament. [01:04:22] Speaker B: I think you're reading the Lorax, where he speaks for the trees. And you're just trying to trick me. You're trying to trick me. You're Danny DeVito in that movie. [01:04:32] Speaker A: No, it happened. [01:04:34] Speaker B: Dang. [01:04:34] Speaker A: That's all you get. You don't get all the other characters. You just get them. You also get some pundits. [01:04:42] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Nice. Does Brock the shock yell about hippies and tree huggers at some point? He's just talking about a bunch of. [01:04:52] Speaker A: Crazy stuff going on in the world. But he's on the wino wangler hour, so I don't know. [01:05:01] Speaker B: Oh, man. That was when people. Yeah. [01:05:02] Speaker A: So big callback to issue 75, which is a big issue, man. Decided to get to that, man. That'll be, like, years from now probably, man. [01:05:12] Speaker B: Mr. Rory McConville's taken that Sean Lewis tip and is like, let's go back and let's pull some deep cuts and do some good. [01:05:20] Speaker A: Do some deep diving into the spawn. I love that. It's fun to go back and look, and I like to have the compendiums to be able to do that. So pretty cool. If you're reading this issue, seek out 75. It's a nice little sister piece to it. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Well, that's awesome. Thanks for doing that. Because I saw that, too, and just was like, I'll get to it. I'll get to it. Whatever. [01:05:43] Speaker A: No, I read it. I was like, I should read it, because I remember that was around that time. There's a lot of shit going on that issue. Cyan's having, like, seizures because Spawn's in the green world, and when she comes back, she stops having seizures. It's like the height of the salmon twitch cogliostro stuff. It's pretty cool. [01:06:00] Speaker B: Damn issue. Damn. I really should have reread it. I feel like a bum. Now. You all know who the more consummate host is for your Spawn podcast guys. [01:06:10] Speaker A: But without you, how would we get derailed? [01:06:15] Speaker B: You're not helping my position at all, Johnny. [01:06:17] Speaker A: I'm just. [01:06:20] Speaker B: I guess. I guess I'm here to keep you from just talking Star wars the whole time. That's literally my only job. [01:06:27] Speaker A: Yes. Thank you. Thank you. And you do it well. [01:06:30] Speaker B: Sometimes I just let you go because I also like to stock talk. [01:06:35] Speaker A: Stock the tar wars. [01:06:38] Speaker B: So nix is talking to the keeper. Won't that bring the war to green world? Only if the other sides learn more responsible. I mean, that's a big ass if. Why don't we do some shit that we're not supposed to do and just hope nobody finds out? [01:06:58] Speaker A: To me, old America just don't come attack us. [01:07:02] Speaker B: That firmly separates them from the parliament of trees. Because the parliament of trees and the swamp thing, they're non interventionists. They're like, what? There's some shit out there that could hurt us. Fuck. Don't let it kill everybody else until it absolutely 100% affects us directly. And these guys are like, let's get ahead of us. Let's be preemptive. [01:07:29] Speaker A: And then they're basically like, okay, you've been dedicated. You've done a good job. Nick's we're going to turn you into a scion. [01:07:37] Speaker B: She gets the rank of scion. So apparently there is a army for the green world, much like heaven and hell have. So hopefully one of these days we'll see a whole bunch of little tree guys in uniforms and learning spells. Yeah. [01:07:55] Speaker A: I'm assuming Scion's like, the green world's level of, like, hell spawn kind. [01:07:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Be real. This is. Maybe this is where the ant wives are. Do you know the lore of the ant wives where. No. They literally just forgot where they put the ant wives, which is why there are no female ants. Just long ago, they were like, hey, wives, you stay here. We'll be back. And then they just forgot where they were. [01:08:26] Speaker A: Oh, those ants. He's going to introduce him to the rest of the team, which just is Jim Downing, basically. [01:08:34] Speaker B: Jim Downing. Yeah. Well, it's Jim Downing in his hair. [01:08:38] Speaker A: Jim downing. And his hair. [01:08:39] Speaker B: The hair gets his own introduction. He's wearing, like a David Byrne 1983 style suit jacket. [01:08:48] Speaker A: This is like my mom going to a business meeting in the. We find that a little bit of background that we missed, probably in mainline spawn, but spawn woke him up. [01:08:59] Speaker B: He's got a little bit of Jim Downing's woke, Johnny. [01:09:04] Speaker A: Is he? [01:09:06] Speaker B: Well, it's in scare quotes, so he's woke. [01:09:10] Speaker A: Hey, just because he's woke doesn't mean I got to make him breakfast, okay? [01:09:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Apparently he was in a coma and then Al broke him out of his coma. And then apparently immediately after getting out of a coma, he gets attacked by these dark angels, zaps him. It looks like he. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Greenworld comes and saves him. [01:09:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, the Greenworld comes to his rescue because that looks like the keeper. Shit. What was his name? The Stewart. [01:09:40] Speaker A: Stewart. Not the Stewart. [01:09:44] Speaker B: I just want to call him the Stewart. No, like, he's the only steward that's allowed. The Steward, the Stewart. And then basically brings him to the green and indoctrinates him and gives him spawn like powers. [01:09:58] Speaker A: Or they mask his powers so they look like his old powers. [01:10:02] Speaker B: Yeah, but they're not his old powers. [01:10:05] Speaker A: So this is a big revelation for Nick's and for Jim Downing that they're working for the green. There's trouble in paradise here because you got the oracle and the navigator. They want to be like, even meaner. Those Zorak over there is like, yeah, destroy. No wonder. [01:10:22] Speaker B: Who would be breck in this situation. Who's Breck? Is the steward breck the one that does or is Nick's Breck? [01:10:28] Speaker A: It's the builder. Builder's more. [01:10:32] Speaker B: And Nixon. Jim Downing join forces and they see that Al's building a team of people together and they try to figure out who's the weakest link among them. [01:10:44] Speaker A: They go for haunt. [01:10:46] Speaker B: Yeah, they go for haunt. Then they also co opt Cygor and overt kill. [01:10:54] Speaker A: Because we saw them. They resurrected in the freak, and they came and saved him. We saw that in, what? 300. 301. 300. [01:11:04] Speaker B: Yeah. They used them as, basically, they installed that FBI software on Cygor that allows them to use your webcam and turn it on without having the light come on to indicate that the camera is on. [01:11:20] Speaker A: Just like now they're filming my. [01:11:23] Speaker B: And so. So Nick's just sits and watches Al, and we get our opening. She's just, she's just staring at spawn butt. [01:11:33] Speaker A: He's got a flat Hank hill butt in this one. [01:11:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he does. Dang it, Bobby. [01:11:38] Speaker A: But it's just kind of melancholy. She just, like, sees that Al's lot of lost his. [01:11:44] Speaker B: Also, this is also original suit spawn. So this is very shortly after he's trying to rebuild his power, and he's very low. And then she gets, oh, man, her face is so sad. She is so sad here. And then she has a turning point where she's like, well, fuck it. I got to learn the shits to make sure that we can do the right thing. [01:12:09] Speaker A: And she starts doing, like, badass magical power shit. [01:12:13] Speaker B: She got, like, the magic shield and then the magic. [01:12:17] Speaker A: But there's something odd. She hasn't seen Gaius since she's been. And we cut to the attack. So this is the big spawn battle. We had the last few issues where Jim Downing's team's attacking. Just have a little more context on it now. [01:12:33] Speaker B: Then the little follow up conversation between. [01:12:36] Speaker A: Al and Nick's where he mentions Batman. [01:12:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And then she comes back before the parliament, and they're like, well, we did this thing. We did this thing. And they're not allowed to make another attempt because they're going to have to start moving to more extreme actions. [01:13:01] Speaker A: Because Al's giant explosion that he did, necroplasmic detonation that he did back in 300 albania. [01:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:11] Speaker A: It evidently kind of shattered the multiverses. Uhoh. Spawns multiverse. [01:13:18] Speaker B: Not only did it suck spawns in from all over the timeline, not only did it separate clown from his violator parts, but it shattered the multiverses. [01:13:28] Speaker A: Things might be breaking through the walls. That was a big event there, Al. [01:13:31] Speaker B: I mean, they warned us when he got down to zero power, they warned. [01:13:36] Speaker A: Us the possibility of some really crazy cosmic stuff. [01:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah, they're trying to give her some bullshit about where Gaia is. They're like, oh, yeah, she's busy doing stuff elsewhere. Yeah, she's busy. She's busy. She's been busy. Don't worry about it. [01:13:48] Speaker A: And everything else. The oracle says, we know the oracle and the Zorak are bad, or they're more extreme, and they're like, we'll do everything to preserve our existence. Everything else is extendable. [01:14:01] Speaker B: Yeah. To be continued. It looks kind of like the skull on her chest is saying, to be continued. [01:14:10] Speaker A: We got a power meter 1393 going up. But so low. [01:14:14] Speaker B: Very low. We got a spawning ground. Presents. Mailbag. It's another fan art. Fan art. Heavy spawning ground. [01:14:25] Speaker A: This is awesome, Jet. This young kid did this awesome spawn picture. [01:14:31] Speaker B: Yeah, baby spawn. Baby spawn holding a blue death toy. And I like in the. So this parent, Jan, is encouraging their child to be creative. And every month that they continue to draw art, they will buy their child another McFarlane toy. And that is an awesome situation to be in. [01:14:59] Speaker A: I love that he used the Todd's art tutorial on a baby black panther to make the spawn. [01:15:05] Speaker B: That's the one that I told you about where as the Todd father is drawing it, he just keeps being like, look at this belly. Look at this big belly. Look at this big belly. [01:15:13] Speaker A: Chibi spawn. Yeah. Thomas met Jan and Jet at San Diego comic Con. That's awesome. That's really cool. What a lucky kid. [01:15:26] Speaker B: Somebody else does some fan art of the original planned cover for spawn number one. [01:15:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that. I like that original title treatment. [01:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real cool. It looks a lot like Oatu, the watcher. [01:15:43] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got a big head. [01:15:44] Speaker B: Cannot interfere. Yeah. Nix is back and has been working with the green world. Marco says that's a cool twist. So we get another promise from Thomas. [01:15:56] Speaker A: That Thomas's promises, we'll be seeing those other spawns too. [01:16:00] Speaker B: Don't worry. Yeah, that. That there'll be lots of cool shit coming up this year. So that's. Yeah, and then, you know, the traditional advertisements for all the things and all. [01:16:12] Speaker A: The things the Simon Bianca covers are teased for the February and the lovely ending. Personally, for me, much better than the Avatar, the last Airbender toys. When we get a nice little shot of Sam and twitch at the end. [01:16:26] Speaker B: Yeah, real good. [01:16:29] Speaker A: Always a pleasure. That's spawn 338. [01:16:35] Speaker B: So, Tony, I think we got to rate these puppies. [01:16:39] Speaker A: It's time to rate these puppies. So we started out with scorch number six. Closing the loop on that classic scorch. Really fun issue. You get some haunt action. You get Spawn being a dick throwing Javy or not. Javi throwing soul crusher around. Javi being addict to soul crusher. Really just everyone's being addicted to Soul Crusher. So Jessica stands up for him. It's a really fun issue. It's got great character interplay, all the characters kind of butting heads. Yeah, I really, really enjoyed it. [01:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:17:16] Speaker A: What are you going to give it, David? [01:17:18] Speaker B: I'm going to give it four. If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. [01:17:23] Speaker A: That landline that was knocked around, dial your operator. [01:17:26] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, they didn't put it back on the hook. You know they didn't. So it's just like, it's just sitting there weeping. [01:17:38] Speaker A: I'm going to give it five pistol whips from Haunt WAbam. [01:17:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Right to the face. [01:17:45] Speaker A: I don't know why haunt with a gun tickled me so much. I just love that he just has a gun. I'm totally going to give my haunt figure a gun now after this. Yeah, because he didn't have one before because I didn't think haunt had a gun. [01:17:56] Speaker B: You got to give him a little semiauto if they got him in there. [01:17:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll give him a gun. Haunt with a gun. Yeah. I really like this. Just, I love scorch. This is a great scorch. Good art, good Jessica. Everyone gets a good moment to shine. I feel like it's a really great team piece. Even markets'moment. So really like it. [01:18:18] Speaker B: A as the Tod McFarlane variant for the COVID says, it says, a team is born. And, well, the team isn't, like, freshly minted in this issue. They're definitely becoming more of a team. [01:18:32] Speaker A: Right. [01:18:33] Speaker B: So more of the issues that will continue in the team are sort of solidified here. So the team works as a team. Except for Hobby's a stinker about it. It's good. [01:18:48] Speaker A: It's great stuff. [01:18:49] Speaker B: It's very good. [01:18:50] Speaker A: Next up, spawn 338. [01:18:54] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:18:55] Speaker A: The Knicks issue, the green. I love this issue. I love knicks. I'm a big Knicks fan now. [01:19:06] Speaker B: I love this issue. I love this issue so much. I still remember exactly where I was on the bus and what the weather was outside. When I read it for the first time, it was raining. I was on the 36 and we were. No, I was on the 22. I was on the 22, and we were riding right by the Newberry library. If my score for the Jessica priest specific issue of Scorched is any sort of past to go by, I fucking love these very, like, there's like a life in here, and it's explaining to us a life that it's just so good. It's so well done. I'm going to give it five floating planchets from that page where she's learning the green world magic. And there's just the little Ouija planchette floating around behind her. Oh, nice. [01:19:59] Speaker A: Good terminology. [01:20:00] Speaker B: Five planchettes. That's what I'm giving this. [01:20:03] Speaker A: I'm going to give it five perfect dark Jessica's because I always like to see the perfect dark Jessica pop up. Like seeing Goth Nick's Carrie Andrews. It's just a cool issue. I like the whole council of it's nice to have this third kind of force kind of coming out. It was great to go back and read 75 and get the callbacks to that. So that was kind of cool. It took me about a little spawn history journey. So a lot of revelations, a lot of deep dives and really cool. [01:20:35] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of green. A lot of green. [01:20:37] Speaker A: It's real good and it's crazy. You can have something that's comics, but like a character like the keeper from like 1997 or eight coming back. [01:20:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, it's such a good time. It's such a good time. [01:20:51] Speaker A: You know what else is a good time, David? Baseball. Well, with baseball, what's even better with a baseball? Well, what's also good, maybe not better? Spawn. [01:21:01] Speaker B: Spawn. [01:21:02] Speaker A: Let's put them together. What do you got? [01:21:05] Speaker B: You got spontaneity baseball, I do believe. [01:21:08] Speaker A: That's right. It's spontaneous baseball. [01:21:15] Speaker B: Satis ball because there's multiple bases. [01:21:42] Speaker A: It's true. It's true. [01:21:44] Speaker B: It's true. [01:21:45] Speaker A: Well, welcome, everyone, to our second installment of spawnnessy baseball, where this week we are going to be drafting a baseball team for the green, appropriately, the green. [01:21:55] Speaker B: Yeah, we were going to do heaven, but then the green's right there. [01:22:00] Speaker A: The green's right here. We got plenty of people. We can do it. [01:22:05] Speaker B: We love finding random connections between the two issues that we read a day. And why not tie in everything else to it? The green is right. Let's get. Let's get on with the green. So, Johnny, I am going to flip a coin here on the Google coin flip. I will need you to tell me what you choose. [01:22:28] Speaker A: I will choose heads. [01:22:32] Speaker B: Choose heads. Okay, here we go. Flip it is. Tails. [01:22:35] Speaker A: Tails. [01:22:37] Speaker B: Man, this happened last time, too. I guess this means I get to go first. [01:22:40] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:22:42] Speaker B: So that means I am drafting for pitcher. So we have just enough characters to fill out this roster for the grain. A lot of them we don't know very much about, but a few of them we do. And from the little bit I know about them, this person seems to be pretty incisive and can kind of see what they need to see. So for pitcher, I'm totally going the steward. [01:23:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I can see that. Because they see what they need to see. They see where things need to go. They're stewarding things along. They would steward the ball. [01:23:26] Speaker B: As one friend I had in college who was trying to teach me about baseball while with his hands down his pants watching a baseball game, I'll remember that for the rest of my life. [01:23:39] Speaker A: What? [01:23:39] Speaker B: I don't know why he was doing it, but he was in somebody else's dorm room laying on their bed with both of his hands in his pants. Telling me about the pitchers are the thing you have to watch for in baseball because they have to think about all of the things. And so the Stewart's thinking about all. [01:23:58] Speaker A: The things with his hands in his pants. [01:24:02] Speaker B: Weird memories in his pants. It's one of those memories that you can just immediately fall back into exactly where you were at that point in time. And I have no idea why it was so important to me, but I remember everything about it. I remember the other guy in the room on his computer, listening to music. Yeah. Crazy. It's crazy, the things you remember. [01:24:32] Speaker A: Well, next up, I got to do catcher, and for catcher, I want someone catch which pitch? Got to catch this pitch. Ball is not getting past you. We know we want for that. I'm picking heap. [01:24:48] Speaker B: Hey, guess what, Johnny? [01:24:50] Speaker A: Is that your catcher, too? [01:24:51] Speaker B: That was my catcher, too. [01:24:52] Speaker A: Yeah, you got heap, the guy, the gangster guy who's. Or the guy who was turned into heap by touching the green goo in issue, like 73 or 74, he shows up again in Kingspawn. He's part of the green world. [01:25:04] Speaker B: Heap. Yeah. All right, so that means I got first base. So for first base, I'm choosing somebody who maybe doesn't have all the skills that they need for first base but makes up for their deficit in chutzpah. And if you got somebody with chutzpah but not much skill, you definitely want to get them on first base because they'll be good for it. So I chose Simon. Simon Kingslayer. [01:25:34] Speaker A: Simon the Kingslayer. Okay, nice. That shakes mine up a little. [01:25:42] Speaker B: Just. I just realized another one that I could have used. We'll see if I need to bust it out. I'll see if I need to bust it out. [01:25:49] Speaker A: All right, so mine would be second baseman. [01:25:53] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:25:54] Speaker A: I got to think here on the fly, because just kind of ruined one of my things. So, second baseman, they got to be quick. Fast running speed, quick reflexes. Get a lot of ground balls. It's tough because I had Simon for. I'm going to pick the keeper because he seems nimble. He can keep that ball. He's near the ground. He's like a tree looking man. [01:26:27] Speaker B: Yeah. He's also close enough to the. You're more likely to have somebody on second base and when somebody's on second base, you want to psych them out because that's the beginning of scoring position. And the keeper with his Zorax like looks, seems like he would be good at taunting whoever's on base. And it's like being like, hey, matt, you suck. [01:26:58] Speaker A: Wait, no, that's not the keeper. [01:27:01] Speaker B: That's not the keeper. [01:27:02] Speaker A: I think that's the navigator. [01:27:04] Speaker B: Oh, that is the navigator. Shit. [01:27:06] Speaker A: Yeah, the keeper is. [01:27:07] Speaker B: The keeper is a big beefy dude. Okay? [01:27:10] Speaker A: No, he's not. No, he's a green guy. [01:27:14] Speaker B: Shit, shit, shit. [01:27:18] Speaker A: I thought keeper because he'd be closest to the ground because he looks like a pile of bushes and get a lot of ground balls in second base. [01:27:26] Speaker B: Shit. I am real bad at remembering my emerald parliament already. Okay. Yeah, I get that. That's a good one. [01:27:33] Speaker A: He's going to get a lot of ground balls and he looks like, like he's, he's thin. He looks like he could move around. He kind of moves around in that 75. He's like spinning around. So I do the keeper for second base. [01:27:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess it means I got third base. So much like my justification for Bobby in third base on the earth team, somebody who will at least take up room on the plate so that way nobody can get there but might be a little absent. Not always there and it's still fine to keep them there. I'm going to go for Gaia on third base because she ain't there. [01:28:16] Speaker A: Yeah, Gaia intimidating too. Yeah, you won't want Gaia getting your to. [01:28:24] Speaker B: You don't want to try to steal that third base with big old tree limb lady coming at you. [01:28:30] Speaker A: Absolutely not. So that means I've got shortstop, right? [01:28:35] Speaker B: Yes indeed. Sure. [01:28:37] Speaker A: Shortstop. You want to be a well rounded player. Defensive mainly. Strong arm, good speed and range. So I'm going to pick you up. [01:28:59] Speaker B: I just didn't think about it. [01:29:01] Speaker A: Yeah, he's Greenworld. He's got green world. [01:29:03] Speaker B: Cygor, you too. [01:29:05] Speaker A: Currently as of right now, he's Greenworld. [01:29:08] Speaker B: Man, that's a great choice. Fuck me. Shit, dude. [01:29:13] Speaker A: He'd be a good shortstop because he can move really fast, but he could throw the ball. He's very well rounded. I think cycle would be a great shortstop. [01:29:22] Speaker B: He's got that endless energy because he's running across the world for 15 issues before he shows up. [01:29:27] Speaker A: He'd be able to do tons. Yeah. [01:29:30] Speaker B: I wonder where I want to do my. Okay, I'm going to hope that you put this person that I had as my shortstop as center field, but my left field, I'm going to have left field is pretty important for those. Like I said, the Ken Griffey Jr. Spot. I'm going to put the oracle out there because that Oracle is not going to let anything happen. Not going to let anything happen if they can avoid it. Oh, yeah. [01:30:02] Speaker A: I mean, it's the Oracle. [01:30:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:30:04] Speaker A: They should be able to see what's happening. [01:30:07] Speaker B: Yeah, they'll know where to be. [01:30:12] Speaker A: So center field, you want someone fast, speed, range stealing, bases are qualities you want a center fielder to possess. So someone who's good at stealing and has speed and power is Andrews. [01:30:35] Speaker B: Hell yeah. That is who I had hoped that you were going to choose for that. [01:30:41] Speaker A: Really? [01:30:42] Speaker B: Yes. [01:30:43] Speaker A: Well, center field is Nick's right in the center green zone scion. That's where she needs to be. [01:30:53] Speaker B: So especially for Kaminsky park over in right field, they've got those ground level bars where the right fielders often joke with the drunk guys that are over there. So you want somebody who knows how to take a little bit of close heckling, somebody who can toss it back if they need to. So you need someone with a little bit of charm, whether or not that charm is a positive quality or not. And I think we need Jim downing over in right field. [01:31:28] Speaker A: Nice. That's what I was thinking too. [01:31:30] Speaker B: So I mean, can you imagine? The green world is down. Those drunk guys in the ground level bar are being like, Jim, you suck. He's going to throw it back in their faces. He's not going to stand for this. No. [01:31:47] Speaker A: So I got designated Hitter. [01:31:50] Speaker B: Yes, you do. [01:31:51] Speaker A: Which is someone that doesn't need to run the bases. Someone that's got to hit that. [01:31:57] Speaker B: They do have to run the bases. They just don't have a field position. [01:32:01] Speaker A: Oh, that's what I meant. That's what I meant. Sorry. Yes. Someone who doesn't have a field position, so they just need to be really good at hitting that ball, of hitting that target. And another one that's probably going to be another dark horse that you didn't expect. I'm going to pick for this overt kill. [01:32:22] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:32:24] Speaker A: Because overt kill is currently an agent of the green shit. [01:32:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't. [01:32:30] Speaker A: And he's pretty singular focused. You wouldn't want him in the field. Okay. [01:32:34] Speaker B: Oh, no, you want him to hit the ball. [01:32:37] Speaker A: Somebody, me run to base. Mark. Me run to base. And then he just goes. [01:32:44] Speaker B: He would just go on a straight line. He would be like running to the base, running into the outfield, or running into the stand. [01:32:52] Speaker A: And that's why overkill should be the designated hitter. [01:32:56] Speaker B: Oh, man. I had the builder for the designated hitter. But overt kill is a good one, too. Yeah. [01:33:02] Speaker A: I tried to be creative. I always try to really think about what I can stretches to qualify. So stuff you wouldn't have thought. Yeah, like Batman. [01:33:10] Speaker B: Yeah, like Batman. I also had a potential. Oh, Wanda's body. [01:33:16] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Wanda's body. [01:33:18] Speaker B: But not wanda. Just Wanda's body. But that was a little. Well, hell, yeah. So, yeah, to recap, we got the Stewart as a pitcher heap as our catcher heap. Simon at first keeper, keeper at second base, Gaia on third base, Saigor at shortstop, Oracle in left field, Nixon center field, Jim downing in right field. And overt kill coming up to just kill that fucking ball, man. Just going to ding it out whenever he can. [01:33:53] Speaker A: Yeah, just run straight. He just runs straight through and just busts through the stadium and keeps running. He's like Forrest Gump. He's like, they're like, no, stop running. [01:34:02] Speaker B: He's either going to strike out or absolutely crush a home run. So they'll just be like, okay, overkill. You don't have to run the bases. We'll make an exception for you this time. It'd be like, okay, well, nice. So that is our green world. That means the next one we're going to do is heaven. So that way we can have hell as our final team. [01:34:27] Speaker A: Hell is like the Yankees, man. The hell are huge. [01:34:30] Speaker B: Yeah, they got all the money. [01:34:33] Speaker A: They got all the fun ones. I mean, heaven's going to be good, too. [01:34:37] Speaker B: Heaven is going to be good. Heaven's. I think heaven is. I'm excited for some of the ones that I have for heaven. Let's just leave it at that. [01:34:46] Speaker A: Let's leave it at that. That'll be coming up. Probably be doing this every other episode so we can get some of these toys open. I got a backlog of toys here, guys. [01:34:53] Speaker B: Oh, man. Johnny's got 99 problems, and about all of them are toys. [01:35:00] Speaker A: Not quite 99. [01:35:01] Speaker B: We're getting there specifically unopened toys. [01:35:05] Speaker A: That's right. Three cheers for the green world team and three cheers for a friend of ours on Instagram. We always like to give a shout out every episode to this wonderful comic and spawn community we found on Instagram. Everyone's been very supportive. It's been a lot of fun. [01:35:22] Speaker B: We like to throw them up on that jumbotron every once in a while. [01:35:25] Speaker A: Throw them up on that jumbotron like kiss cam. [01:35:28] Speaker B: Give them a kiss. We got the clap, the clap meter going on, so let's get those bars of clapping. And by bars of clapping, I mean follows and loves. [01:35:39] Speaker A: Yes, please. This week, we're going to highlight chaos and comics, a really fun account. They buy modern comics and review them, talk about them. They're really into Star wars and spawn, so I really enjoy reading their takes. They're just talking about how much they love King Spawn 21, but I think they occasionally do some reels, too, so check them out. They're real fun and count. [01:36:04] Speaker B: Yeah, it's real good. And we love anyone who loves King Spawn 21 because it was. Can't wait to talk about that one on the podcast, Johnny. [01:36:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, my God. [01:36:14] Speaker B: Oh, man. [01:36:15] Speaker A: I was like, oh, wow. Yeah. This whole segment, twitch arc has been amazing, but that one particularly was great. [01:36:21] Speaker B: Oh, man. There's some good lines. There's some good. There's one thing I really want to talk about, but I got to save. [01:36:30] Speaker A: It for the episode. Yeah. So chaos and comics. Give them a follow. If you're into comics, they're into Spawn. They're pretty real cool, dude. Really supportive. So make sure to give them a follow while you're over there. Make sure to give us a follow if you aren't. We are regarding spawn pod at regarding Spawnpod, and we're posting reels, pictures, pickups, toys. I recently went to Comic Con. I found a spawn arcade machine. I got a picture next to a lot of fun stuff. [01:37:04] Speaker B: Absolutely awesome. [01:37:06] Speaker A: I'll save that for next. It'll come up eventually. That spawn arcade machine was a hoot. We'll talk about it on another episode, I'm sure. [01:37:13] Speaker B: Yeah. We're trying to spread our love of Spawn, not only through our yakity, yakity, yakity yak that we put out every week, but know, trying to keep it fun and lively over on Instagram, because it's surprisingly, like, the least toxic social media platform at the moment of the moment, and we want to keep it that way. So also, while you're over there, speaking of non toxic, we got Brian Voiler. T Brian voiler over there. He's making our music, that awesome spawn baseball theme. [01:37:44] Speaker A: You just. [01:37:48] Speaker B: Putting out those vibes for people needing. He's very big into fitness, and he's always putting some good motivational posts up. Like, watch this, watch this. This is awesome. He's pumping up people he knows. He's posting some crazy, weird, bizarre horror stuff. He finds some of the most bizarre images to share, and it's wonderful. It's wonderful. Give him some love. He gives us so much. The least you can do is follow him and tell him how awesome he is. [01:38:18] Speaker A: And while you're on the Internet, if you want to send us a line, you can always email us at regarding [email protected]. [01:38:26] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. [01:38:27] Speaker A: And every week, I like to pose a question. [01:38:32] Speaker B: And what is that question? [01:38:33] Speaker A: This week, Johnny, in honor of having, like, kind of a non main spawn character, I want to ask, who is your favorite non Al Simmons Spawn character? Could be any of them. I just want to know, who's your favorite? Could be Nick's. Could be Javi. Could be Jessica. Could be Terry Fitzgerald. There's so many great choices. [01:38:57] Speaker B: Could be Bobby. Could be bootsy. Could be the cat that cogliostru keeps his neck, replies on violin. [01:39:03] Speaker A: It could be. Yes. It could be any of those things. [01:39:07] Speaker B: Could be the cat that clown keeps telling his story to in the alley. [01:39:12] Speaker A: Could be the clown. [01:39:13] Speaker B: Could be that meatball looking dog. The dog that was Wanda and Al's. Could be Ross Perot with his hairy ears. [01:39:22] Speaker A: In the movie, that dog's called Spaz. He's like Spaz the whole time. [01:39:28] Speaker B: Oh, man. Super scruffy. [01:39:30] Speaker A: Logan watched the movie. He liked it. [01:39:32] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. Johnny, speaking of watching the movie, I hear you've got some people that you know who are trying to jump in on this spawn train, and how are they doing it? [01:39:45] Speaker A: By watching the movie. [01:39:47] Speaker B: Watching the movie. You told me that you got some people being like, I need to get some background on Spawn, so I'm going to watch. [01:39:54] Speaker A: I have a friend, a friend at work who was like, we just been talking about Spawn. And they actually knew a little bit about Spawn. Like, they had read the comics and knew a little bit of the movie, but they saw the animated series on HBO, and they've been watching it. So they said it's really good. Yeah, watch that. [01:40:11] Speaker B: Watch that animated series, you guys. If you haven't, we cannot stress enough. It is great. [01:40:17] Speaker A: It's worth it for the Todd McFarland introductions. Alone. I say alone. [01:40:21] Speaker B: Alone. Oh, man. And it's so much better to watch it on HBO. When I watched it for the first time, it wasn't streaming anywhere except for YouTube in, like, 240 p. Yeah. [01:40:33] Speaker A: Or my lovely brother Bill Fisher got me the steel book for my birthday, so I haven't watched it on dvd. [01:40:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, man, I bet it looks great. [01:40:43] Speaker A: It does. [01:40:44] Speaker B: Great show. You should watch it, you guys. [01:40:47] Speaker A: But, yeah. What's your favorite spawn character? Or if you want to talk about the animated show, or if you want to say anything, drop us a line regarding [email protected]. If we got any of this history wrong, because there's a lot of backstory in this, let us know because we might have missed up on what was some stuff, just because there's a lot of gaps we're filling in, and that's what we're doing. We're filling all those spawn gaps because. [01:41:09] Speaker B: Johnny is the only one who took the time to try to even figure out any of the history. And I'm just like, yeah, we always make time for Spawn, Johnny. [01:41:24] Speaker A: You got to make time for spawn. Always. And also, please, while you're on the Internet as well, make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. Does help us get our eyes out there while we're spreading the swan love. [01:41:37] Speaker B: It's always a good time. Speaking of good times, Johnny, I want to have a good time next week. [01:41:45] Speaker A: I do, too. [01:41:47] Speaker B: I want to have a real good time next week. Yeah, we should. I'm in a book rut. My to read pile is so tall, but I don't want to read anything that's in it. You got a couple of suggestions for something that I can read? [01:42:03] Speaker A: I do. How about a couple of issues of spawn? [01:42:07] Speaker B: I'm interested. [01:42:08] Speaker A: We could do, I would say King Spawn seven and Gunslinger 17. [01:42:13] Speaker B: Oh, King Spawn seven. Gunslinger 17. [01:42:16] Speaker A: Seven. [01:42:16] Speaker B: That sounds good to me. [01:42:17] Speaker A: It fits together good. [01:42:20] Speaker B: Fits together like peanut butter and jelly. [01:42:22] Speaker A: That's always a good episode. We do the King slunks, king Spawn, the Kingslayer, the king Spawn and the gun. [01:42:28] Speaker B: The King slayer episodes are good. [01:42:30] Speaker A: No, the Kingslayer episodes are Kingslinger. [01:42:32] Speaker B: Yeah, very good. Yeah. Next week, Kingspawn seven, Gunslinger 17. Very good grouping there. We love them. We hope you love them as much as we love talking about them, because, shit, guys, I do that thing where I sweat a lot when I get excited and I literally have to towel off when I leave after talking about Gunslinger episodes. I'm just much like Bret Booth's artwork. I am vibrating the entire week. Nice and sweaty. Oh, man. My takes aren't the only things that are. Oh, Johnny. I think that just leads me to say, may the scorched be with you. [01:43:20] Speaker A: And also with you, David. [01:43:22] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [01:43:23] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [01:43:24] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. [01:43:25] Speaker A: So hopefully anyone out there, if you were partake in some green for this green world episode. You're probably getting know. Go get some cookies, maybe pop on the spawn animated series and light up another joint. [01:43:41] Speaker B: Don't touch those peeps that your mom's saving for next year, though. She'll throw you into a green portal like spawn did to Sergey. [01:43:50] Speaker A: Yep. Don't touch those peeps. And don't touch that dial. We'll see you next week.