Episode Transcript
[00:00:08] Speaker A: Well, we are here.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:10] Speaker A: Juliet was so excited that we were starting a podcast that she appeared right now.
Really the only reason to watch the.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Video version, Just to get dog photos Occasionally.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Especially when I realized the last video version isn't even up yet and we're recording the next one.
[00:00:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's how it goes sometimes.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: Well, it takes so long for it to render, and then I get bored and I get distracted, and then you. But the audio version's up.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: Start watching wrestling from the, the, the nickel arcade or whatever we were at. You're like, oh, hey, that's Tiny Tim, the Tater Tot.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: I, I, that would be you.
Yeah, I, I think that.
Oh, wow.
Well, we're back.
Nickel Arcade wrestling, making Facebook posts.
Yeah. I mean, it's a living. I guess.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: It is.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: It's a living.
And we're here.
I'm not really sure why the dog came down.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: I know why we're here. I can tell everyone why we're here.
Oh, we're here to talk about some amazing stuff.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: Oh, good. Since you found this show amazing, why don't you lead?
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Oh, I'm not gonna lead. I will follow you.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: You could lead the whole podcast.
[00:01:37] Speaker B: No, it's your turn.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: No, this is after 390 something episodes. I've led.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: That's not how the recipe works. People tune in to hear you talk about the, the comic that we're, that we're reading and to hear about your.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: They do not.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: They do too, I hear. I, I get people, like, all the time telling me how much fours and.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: Fives of people to say that they tuned in.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: They. They love listening to you dissect these things and go into depth and detail.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: Oh, really?
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Sometimes dissect.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: I don't think that's true at all.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: I 100% know it's for sure.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: You're making stuff up.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: No, it's not.
I actually listener Lance messaged me, and he was like, oh, my gosh, you guys were so right about some stuff last week.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: About what stuff?
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Just, you know, some, Some of the stuff we covered on just a little summer con business.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Oh, the summer con stuff. Oh, but, oh, why are you bringing that up? Are we, like, are you trying to elevate, like, get me. Escalated. Escalated. Elevated.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: Elevated, escalated.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: And confragulated.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: Intubated.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: Intubated, Yes.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: I mean, all of a sudden, Dan will be.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: Intubated.
Okay, well, I mean, that, that could. That. I mean, that's a way, I guess, to get me. Shut up.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: No, I don't want you to.
Well, for where's it rhymed?
That was a bad word.
Terrible.
Okay, now he agreed. He was like, yeah, you're right.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: He agreed that Summercon sucked.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: No, he was just. I mean, he was just saying. Yep. No, it's just. It just.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Celebicon.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Yes.
So.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: But should just rename itself Celebicon.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: Celebicon.
Just caring about the celebs and the out of towners, not caring about the local people.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: Well, Listener Jason sent us a con the same weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, that looks like it's taking care of the comic fans at Heroes Con in Charlotte.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Go there.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: That's one that I wish to go.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: To listen to podcast host Jason.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: That's true. He is. And amazing.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Monday morning cartoons, comics, and cereal.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: Got it in the right order, right?
[00:04:07] Speaker B: I. I believe you got it in the right order.
[00:04:09] Speaker A: Did I say Monday morning instead of Sunday morning?
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Sunday morning. Monday morning, Wednesday afternoon.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: No, it's easy to remember.
[00:04:16] Speaker B: Easy.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: Because it's like Sunday morning.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: Yes, very much so, yeah.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Listener Lance's favorite song. I'm sure Lionel Richie lines up right. With his musical taste.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: You know, his musical taste surprised me all the time. Because what you. What you see with Listener Lance is. Is metal dude, you know, like. And then the stuff that he listens to is, like, all over the place, just everywhere. It's. It's. It's amazing. It's great. It's just a testament that you have to have your.
[00:04:51] Speaker A: It's a testament. That is a Listener Lance band right there.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: It's. It is still 100.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: You nailed it. I knew what you were looking for.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: You. You.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: You nailed it. It's.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: It is. It. It is.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: It is.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: What?
[00:05:07] Speaker A: I can't do that, can I work it? We won't be able to video.
It's after Easter. It's okay.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
So anyways. But it's a testament that you have to be listening to. To different stuff to get good perspective. It's same with reading, writing, other stuff like that. Anything that you do if you're in the creative field, he's a. He's a musician, so, you know, he likes to. Likes to see what everything else is out there.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: Did you just say he was a fan of Bryan Adams?
[00:05:40] Speaker B: You know, I'm pretty sure his musical taste definitely cut like a knife, so.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: Oh, I thought you said it was anything he'd do.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: Anything that he would do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's true.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: Maybe we should play some Testament on here.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: I think I tested it. I tested a tape and I want to Say that he came to the store and bought it. I. 100%, I'm pretty sure.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: Well, it's. Well. Well, we've gone through the whole beginning of the podcast talking about listeners and cons.
Maybe we should talk about Superman's pal, Jimmy Olsen. Number 139.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: One of my favorite yellow background covers. Love those yellow background covers.
Shine like the sun.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: They do. It's beautiful. If you can't see it, which you can't because we're not showing it.
It's much like the background behind me. A nice, sunshiny yellow.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: This cover is.
[00:06:44] Speaker B: It's great.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: It.
It's.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: It's not a cover you would get today.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: It's not a cover you would get anytime.
I mean, there are so many things perspectively and artistically wrong with this cover that only Jack Kirby could get this.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: Cover published and do it with his style and panache.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: First of all, there are way too many words on this cover.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, it reads like a book.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: Yeah, you might as well. Why read the comic? You could just spend time reading the COVID You don't even have to open it.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: It's fantastic.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: There's two Rickles. We're promised two Rickles in this story.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: We are promised two Rickles.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: That's where the lies begin.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: We met a liar today.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: His name is Jack Kirby.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Oh, Jack Kirby. You lied to us.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: So there's that.
Yeah, I mean, well, it is. It's important. I mean, you know, we have to remember who we're dealing with. I mean, I did Con Rickles the last.
Oh, no, Jack Kirby. I mean, I did call the last issue Rise into the pit.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: And so we've gotta. Now that we've established hell on earth in the fiery pit of despair, then.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: You get Don Rickles.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, Don Rickles was a character.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: You know, what's funny is I'm sure we have listeners who are around our age listening, and they're like, oh, yeah, Don Rickles. And they can. They can kind of like hear a voice in the back of their head that there's a little memory triggered, and there's younger listeners that are. That are finding us.
I really hope.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: And they're like, younger listeners.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: I would imagine there might be a younger listener or two out there, and they're like. And they're like, who's Don Rickles?
And then they're. They're on their device googling Don Rickles.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: And they still can't figure it out.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: And they still can't.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: Don Rickles. Is a mystery.
[00:08:58] Speaker B: He's a mystery. How was this guy. How is this guy so popular?
[00:09:04] Speaker A: Well, apparently he has a long lost alter ego. That's why he's so popular.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: His name is Goody.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Goody?
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Goody Rickles.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: Goody Rickles.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: And Superman says that Goody causes more trouble than the villains.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: Oh, he said.
Is he a baddie then?
[00:09:27] Speaker A: I don't know. Well, anyway, okay, on this cover we get two Rickles, Superman, Guardian, Jimmy Olsen, the Guardian, and the Newsboy Legion.
Another lie.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Is it really, though? I mean, they're there.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: They're there for like a page.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: They're there. You're. You're. I mean, you're. You're given. You're giving away the.
The. The story without even selling the paper like the newsboys.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: Well, that's cool. Well, in Action Comics, in the advertisement, Superman is being crucified in honor of Easter by hippies.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a blockbuster issue, everyone.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: Well, that is a July cover date, so.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: So they drew it in Easter.
Yeah.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: I mean, by hippies. More hippies. The hippies are bad everywhere. Well, no, they created clones. These seem like really bad hippies.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: And they made Superman a hostage. How did they get Superman tied up and.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: Well, he's powerless.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Powerless. Superman.
Goodness.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: The Guardian is here. Oh, Guardian. Jim Harper. He's back from Suicide Slum.
Now, where does Suicide Slum rank against Hell's Kitchen?
[00:10:56] Speaker B: You know, I'm. I'm imagining it's like you got Hell's Kitchen up here and Suicide Slum is just below it.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: Yeah, and if Suicide Slum is just below an altered state, where is the Trump Tower.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: Mental map of New.
Let's see, in.
It's nowhere near it.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: It's nowhere near it.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Okay, well, I mean, and in reality, I mean, like, if you're. If you're going off a map.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: Well, everything's close in New York.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Everything's close in New York is a freaking little island. But the.
The. I would say, like, it's not.
It's. It's burrowed off, you know, it's sectioned off.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: It's burrowed off.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, they're all burrows, right?
[00:12:10] Speaker A: Yeah. So where is then the project in relation to all those things?
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Well, I mean, depends on which one you're talking about, Dan.
No, there are many in New York.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: Comic. In the comic book.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: Oh, the pri. Oh.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Oh, about it. We just read about it for like, six issues.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Oh, oh, okay. I thought you were talking about in New York. Like, where are the projects?
[00:12:35] Speaker A: No, not the projects.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: There are Many projects.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: No. Well, you got it across 110th Street.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: Yes. Yes. You got. Okay, so where's the project?
[00:12:46] Speaker A: You want me to sing more?
[00:12:47] Speaker B: No, I don't.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Are you sure?
[00:12:50] Speaker B: I'm trying.
[00:12:50] Speaker A: I'm trying to answer Bobby Womack.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: I know. I'm trying to answer your question.
So where are they located? Well, they'd have to get on the speedway and go through their tunnel and then pop back out and they went into the wild place. They are.
I'm gonna say somewhere maybe Long Island.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: They're where the wild things are.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: They're out in that, like, Long Island.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: They're in Long Island.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, why not?
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Okay. I mean, that's fine.
All right.
[00:13:25] Speaker B: What do you think?
[00:13:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, well, sure, I'll agree with all that. I have no arguments.
I think that in Long island that if you look at the history of cloning and then you meet the people on Long Island.
I mean, aren't those the folks that elected George Santos?
[00:13:49] Speaker B: Probably.
I mean, I'm gonna say you're not probably wrong.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Okay. I mean, then there. There we go. Okay. Well, anyway, the doctors have cleared angry, morose guardian.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Yes.
He's not himself, but I think that.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Jack Kirby should have given the guardian a suit upgrade for the 70s.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Oh, because he's in his. In his old regalia. And giving him something a little more stylish.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Yeah, probably.
Especially since he basically has a Superman suit.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: Except it's yellow instead of red.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: And he's got a Peacemaker helmet.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: The Peacemaker was done at this point, but anyway.
That the Charlton action heroes were.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
So he's like, hey, why not just put a helmet on him?
[00:14:57] Speaker A: All right. Well, anyway, we get the newsboy Legion for a couple of panels, and they're all excited.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: They're smarting off to Superman y in the nicest of ways.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: And we flip. There's a lot of words, a lot of big words. Page, Superman's giving scrapper a noogie.
Yeah.
[00:15:24] Speaker B: Is that a super noogie? If it's from Superman?
[00:15:27] Speaker A: I mean, I don't want him to crack his head open, so. Let's hope not. Oh, just drill down into your brain.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: He's like. Doesn't know his own strength. And he's trying to be the cool uncle for a minute. And he's like, oh, gosh, I killed another one.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that would be freaky.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Do you got another scrapper around here?
Got a clone?
[00:15:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
Oh, they do. They have little scrappers.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: It's like, do you know how long it takes to Grow one.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: A little scrapper.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: No. I mean, no. A big scrapper.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: I don't know. We could find out.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: It's not like that thing's a 3D printer. Not like 24 hours later, you got a scrapper.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: Well, happily, we turn the page, and Jimmy Olsen is driving the Wiz Wagon by himself. Superman is flying. It tells us that it's got a.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: For sale sign on it. Dan, the Wiz Wagon. You could buy it.
[00:16:20] Speaker A: Run away. We run away from this entire storyline as quickly as possible.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: They are gone.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: They are gone. The storyline over.
We get some residuals. We keep the Wiz Wagon for now.
The Wiz. Fantastic. Wizakar.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: Wizakar.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: We now have the Guardian, the Newsboy Legion gone. The Harry's Domain gone. The Outsiders gone. The Tree Town, gone.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Yeah, the.
[00:16:51] Speaker A: The projects are gone.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: The. The newsboys are all sick.
[00:16:55] Speaker A: Back at the project with their dads.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah, the gal caught a cold.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: And then they all started.
That's where that musical was written.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
That's. They got. They got a cold. They were just sitting there and they had nothing better to do. They started singing and tapping and doing their thing, and they had all the clones for the background dancers.
That's a good.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: That's.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: That's a good origin story.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: It is a good origin story. I like it for newsies. Well, anyway, Superman flies ahead really fast and becomes Clark Kent.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:17:39] Speaker A: You get some Aurora racer models, and then we flip, and Clark Kent is there in his old man suit. That's quite the suit there.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: It is. I want one.
I mean, who doesn't want a nice brown podcast?
The what? The train.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah, well, Juliet's joining the podcast because Juliet. Lawyer Paul just arrived.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: Oh, I see.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: And so, yeah, Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul just arrived, and Juliet was very excited. Ah, so it is. It happens.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: It does.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: Yeah. It's sad.
Yeah. I don't know. Podcast update in the middle of the story. Yeah, there's some. There's some shitty problems at the.
Oh, old certified martial arts.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: What happened?
[00:18:38] Speaker A: Well, they're very shitty. Until the repairs take place.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: Is it the toilet again?
[00:18:44] Speaker A: The gym will remain closed.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: It's the toilet.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Oh, the downstairs. It might be more. It might be like the whole sewer line.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
Bad news. So do not go to 27th of Jackson for the immediate future.
Yeah, but you. You could see Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul at.
At the Brian Johnson Academy in Olympia.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: Oh, is he going to be down.
[00:19:18] Speaker A: There Wednesday and Friday night? So, yeah, he teaches down there Monday, Wednesday, and Friday night, so.
Or you could also just reach out for Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul's legal services, which he has a little bit of extra time to do this week.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Late Knight Legal.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you can find him. But besides that, I don't know why we're advertising for Jiu Jitsu, Larry. Paul, well, he needs some extra legal work right now. It's plumbing problems. They're expensive.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: They are. They are expensive.
[00:19:48] Speaker A: So if you're having plumbing problems and you had a plumbing problem. Company plumbing problem. You.
[00:19:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Call Jiu Jitsu Paul.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: He'll plumb them back.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: He'll plumb them right down.
Yeah, he'll flush those problems away.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: He'll plunge them right out.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: You know, he needs one of the plungers with the, like, the. The suction plungers that, you know, jam in.
Yeah, no, regular. He's. He's like the suction plumber for problems. There's no, like, little plumber.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: Did they use a snake?
[00:20:22] Speaker A: Plunger?
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Did they use a snake?
[00:20:24] Speaker A: I don't. Don't ask him about them using the snake. That was a.
That was a apparently disastrous decision by the plumbing company.
[00:20:33] Speaker B: Oh, no.
It's like when the. The Retro Emporium's toilet had a problem, and they used a snake, and then they broke the toilet and had to get this new toilet.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: Well, the toilet was gone before they started the snake, so that was good.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Yeah, they thought they could do it through the toilet, and they broke the toilet.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, it's good. And this. This summarization of the last six issues of Jimmy Olsen was brought to you.
[00:20:59] Speaker B: By Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul and his toilet problems.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
As they flush away the old storyline.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Oh, lush.
If I only had a flushing button on here.
[00:21:13] Speaker A: And you don't, so it's like you don't have a soundboard. And anyway, so Superman and Jimmy Olsen are talking in the Guardian, and they're. Clark Ken's like, hi, guys. I'm meeting you all. Oh, look, I'm here. I'm not Superman.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: I don't know you guys. You don't know me.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: Who are you guys? And then they. Oh, Morgan Edge, too. We get a Morgan Edge reference. New boss, you know, he's back. I guess he flew back to the city after running away.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: He did.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: Well, then we flipped the page, and we find out that the Newsboy Legion is on quarantine.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Man.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: They could have stayed in quarantine back in, like, 1945.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: Dan.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: You liked the Newsboy Legion in the stories.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: I liked them. I Thought they were fun. They added candor and humor.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: Did they?
[00:22:13] Speaker B: They did. They were.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: I'm just not a funny guy, I guess. Well, now we get more candor and humor because the one in quarantine is hanging out with all the ones that aren't in quarantine.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: Buy diamonds if you're a soldier. And now we're back and they all leave. But then they go back and we get a scrapper trooper.
I believe we're gonna get some more Newsboy Legion hijinks.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Oh, we are, because now they got a little scrapper trooper with them.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Oh, that's awesome. This is what I wanted with some.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Scrapper trooper clones and some legion, like, Newsboy Legion hijinks for everyone to enjoy.
[00:22:57] Speaker A: Not to make this more disturbing or anything, but this means, like, the scrapper parent cloned the scrapper kid and made little mini scrappers.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Why wouldn't you want that?
[00:23:09] Speaker A: It's up. That's so up.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: No, man.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: He's cloning his kid into little soldier kids.
Like, the psychology of that is up in so many ways.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: It's the military complex, man. It's very complex. It's this.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: It's the military complex.
It's that. The project where they make the clones.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Yeah, very complex.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: Well, Morgan Edge is back on the next page. Morgan Edge, his secretary that he likes so much. He flew back after he thought the nuclear.
Atomic. He says atomic explosion. Excuse me, would have happened nuclear.
And he's like.
And his secretary is like, hey, Clark Kent called and Jimmy Olsen, they're back. They want to see you. And he's like, I'd rather I've been favored an atomic explosion. Just seeing that.
And then he asks out of the blue, how are we progressing on those contracts for Don Rickles?
[00:24:14] Speaker B: Uh huh.
[00:24:16] Speaker A: That plot point that was explored several issues ago.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Oh, yes, because they did. They did bring up Don Rickles several issues ago.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: They did. They wanted to bring him in several issues ago. Like Jimmy Olsen, number one.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that Don Rickles here.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Well, bring me the head of.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Basically, what he said, if you remember correctly, is, bring me the head of Don Rickles.
And what they did was they brought Don Rickles to the head.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: Ah.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: More.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: And that's why Paul has so much problems at his gym.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: Rickles was in his toilet.
Number one.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: No, it was a number two.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: You just took it dark.
I think that was like a number three.
Yeah. And then it's. Well, anyway, just like the scenic clerks.
How long. You know, if you've been to jujitsu, Lawyer Paul's studio.
I could believe that the downstairs. That somebody would have been in that bathroom since Clerk was made. Clerks was made.
That's why nobody goes to the downstairs. That's why it's upstairs. Well, anyway, there's Don Rickles. And we find out there's another one. There's Goody Rickles, who happens to work for the paper.
And Morgan Edge is concerned about this Demons of Darkseid. He says, if the real Don Rickles and this yo yo ever bump into each other, it'll be utter chaos.
Foreshadowing.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, I love it.
[00:26:08] Speaker A: We love foreshadowing. On this podcast, 100, you have a button that goes.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Hold on a second.
Close enough.
[00:26:24] Speaker A: Well, Goody Rickles comes in looking like Don Rickles wearing a superhero suit.
And he starts saying words.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: He's got a lot of words to say.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: Now, do you think Don Rickles wrote this or Jack Kirby wrote.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: I can imagine. The conversation is Jack Kirby calling up Don Rickles and saying, don, I want to put you in a comic book.
And Don Rickles is like, what?
And Jack's like, okay, I got this idea. Put you in, and you're kind of like.
You dress like a hero, but you're not a hero.
And you got all these crazy, zany ideas.
And he's like, yeah, sounds like normal.
Because I'm in my PJs right now, and you'll never believe what they look like. And Kirby's like, what are they? And he goes, they're those new Superman PJs that all the kids are wearing.
But I got them in my size.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: Well.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Well, it's a true conversation, I'm sure.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Well, well, maybe it is, but Vulture article, you know, number one source, the Vulture. Vulture, you know, cites Mark Evanier and Steve Sherman, who were referenced in our good old book over here. Remember?
[00:27:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: They were the assistants to Jack Kirby.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: Right.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: They said Steve and I at the time were enormous fans of Don Rickles. Like many people at that time who were our age, we all went around doing Don Rickles insulting each other. Rickles used to say, I never picked on a little guy. I only pick on a big guy. Somehow this gave us the idea that we should have Don Rickles make a cameo appearance in Jimmy Olsen to insult Superman.
It was going to be like a three panel thing.
So he wrote out a couple of pages of Don Rickles insults. One of them was, hey, big boy, where are you from?
Superman says, I'm from the planet Krypton. And Rickle says, I got jokes for 8 million nationalists nationalities and I've got to run into a hockey puck from Krypton. Ha ha.
But up, up. But up.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: So we took these out to Jack and Jack was a big fan of Rickles and he says, that's great. That's terrific. And of course, he used none of it. He said, we've got to get permission from Don Rickles for this. So Steve contacted Rickles publicist and they gave us permission to have Don Rickles do a cameo. Then Jack tells DC Comics publisher Carmen Infantino about it and Infantino thinks that is great.
This is something promotable. It's gotta be a two issue story arc. So instead of writing two pages, it's now Jack writing two issues.
Oh.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:22] Speaker A: So. And Don Rickles publicist is who we have to thank for this.
You know, originally we were going to stop before this issue and you insisted. Oh, because the Don Rickles issues.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: Because I could. I honestly couldn't believe that there was such a thing to be seen.
And when you told me that there was, I had to see it.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: I can't unsee it now.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: I'm so glad that. I mean, just. Okay, listeners, if you haven't read this book, you need to go read it.
[00:29:57] Speaker A: You do need to read it.
[00:29:59] Speaker B: You need to see Don Rickles in a Superman like suit in all of his glory.
It is glorious.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: You know, you think the Guardian would get a better suit than Don Rickles.
[00:30:10] Speaker B: And then if you. If you really. If you really want. I mean.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Goody Rickles.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: Yeah, Goody Rickles. If you really want to up the ante, go listen to Don rickles on some YouTube clips and, and have that voice in your head as you're reading this book. It's the only way to do it because I guarantee it'll. It'll add this just amazing third.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: Well, you get jokes like this.
Morgan Edge says you're truly symbolic of your name, Goody. You have a big heart.
And he says, a big heart? Yes, sir. Nature gave me a small liver, but a big, big heart.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: Anyway, well, through all of this banter and gesturing, he assigns Goody Rickles to a story and he sends him out to go get it.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: I really want to see the TV show that he pitched.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: The Goody Rickles show, where.
[00:31:23] Speaker B: Where he puts a bunch of people in a room and takes the oxygen out of it, but doesn't fire them.
Just watches their. Their dreams slip away.
What the hell are you talking about? Getty wrinkles.
[00:31:36] Speaker A: Well, anyway, we're gonna flip the page. And we.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: I don't want to see that, people. I really don't want to see that. That is messy.
[00:31:41] Speaker A: We flipped the page. We're turning. We're flushing that idea right down. If we can flush, it might bubble back up.
[00:31:48] Speaker B: It will.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: Like oxygen.
[00:31:51] Speaker B: Yes, like oxygen.
[00:31:54] Speaker A: Anyway, so the boys are back in town. And they're speaking to this. To Miss. What was her name? Miss Conway.
[00:32:01] Speaker B: Miss.
Yeah.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: And they get an Excite assignment, too. And they end up. And they go off to a UFO.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: So at page 13, I just want to make an announcement. A UFO is now just sitting in Central Park. I mean, whatever park they're in in Metropolis.
And they go there in the Wiz car.
[00:32:23] Speaker B: They fly in their own UFO.
[00:32:27] Speaker A: And the Fantasta Wiz car. And then we can get. We can join the Lucky Clover Club.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:32:37] Speaker A: And we can start making our own magical circus animals right at home.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Holy cats.
That's amazing.
For a dollar.
[00:32:49] Speaker A: Twin whistling Astrotops.
Can't you. Couldn't you get those in the quarter machine at the time? Oh, they didn't come with that. Cool. No, that's tuning fork thing.
[00:32:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that's okay, people, if. I mean, if you're not reading this like we're reading this, this is like bail blades before baoblades. And you could get them for a dollar. Or you get five. Three pairs for three. For 250. That means you and three friends could battle whistling tops six of them.
And entertain your whole family. Or just annoy the crap out of your parents.
Oh, man.
[00:33:33] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: What is this, 10 in one scope?
[00:33:36] Speaker A: Would you. Would you hurry up? I'm ready to go to Jimmy Olsen's pen pal.
[00:33:39] Speaker B: Oh, gosh, I'm sorry. You want to go to Jimmy Olsen's pen palace? Who doesn't?
[00:33:44] Speaker A: All right.
[00:33:45] Speaker B: Oh, his pen pal.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: Dear editor. Yes, you revitalized. Jimmy Olsen was three issues old before you revitalized Jimmy Olsen was three issues four before I began to follow the general drift of your writing.
I'm finally getting over my initial sense of astonishment.
That's really too mild a word.
But I'm unable to come up with anything that accurately describes my feelings.
This guy sounds like he needs a counselor.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Sounds like you.
[00:34:13] Speaker A: And having caught my breath, I must write down.
Did you write this letter, Dan, for a job? Well, no, because then it says, for a job well done.
Somehow, in the time it takes to produce eight closely spaced issues of four different comic books, you have transformed Jimmy Olsen to a rather likable young adventurer.
A distinct Improvement over the obnoxiously muddlesome clod of old. Well, I mean, I do kind of agree with that. I introduced the second generation of Newsboy Legion and a subtly sinister Morgan Edge.
Subtly sinister. Okay, yeah, so he does have some gripes. However, he doesn't like Flippa Dippa because he doesn't think his costume is very practical, which beyond.
[00:34:57] Speaker B: I mean, it's true. I mean, it's skin suit for scuba diving and he's got flippers on. How can he walk?
[00:35:08] Speaker A: My second gripe is over a technicality. Presumably you are aware of the parallel world set up first described in the classic Flash of Two Worlds.
Uh oh. Uh oh. Now, on Earth one dwell various members of the Justice League of America, while on Earth two is inhabited by the Justice System Society America. Now dig this. Superman and Jimmy, although not without their Golden Age counterparts, live on Earth One. What does this have to do with the Darkseid Chronicles? Well, in his History of Comics, Jim Steranko mentions a boy Commandos yarn published in Detective Comics 79, in which the Commandos.
Can I get that book for my birthday? Thanks.
First printing History of Comics. I'll let you.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: Oh, I thought you wanted the comics.
[00:35:56] Speaker A: Next time you do a con next to him.
[00:35:58] Speaker B: I thought you wanted the Commando book.
[00:36:00] Speaker A: I was like, no, I want my Jim Sterenko History of Comics. I mean, if you want to give me direct detective comics 79 or something like that too.
Anyway. Oh, well, all this would lead to crisis later. So this is, you know, clearly screwed up. All right, so, you know, it's really frustrating. Just as a side note, I updated the UI on my tablet and now it keeps dimming the screen every 10 seconds. You know, it's refreshed all of my settings, even though I didn't ask it to, which is super annoying and frustrating.
[00:36:32] Speaker B: So helpful.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: All right, next. Dear Editor, I know that to disagree with Gary Skinner, a fan who's highly respected by me anyway, is futile, especially when he's part of a large majority.
However, I think I do have Gregory Kent in my corner, so I. He's just citing all the other letters, so I risk disagreeing with an iota of confidence. I feel like Jack Kirby is no good for Jimmy Olsen.
No good. No good. He says. He says he is no good.
He's no good.
Kirby's art is mind staggering and innovative.
Agree.
The storyline is extremely imaginative and the Newsboy Legion is fabulous. All of this may sound paradoxical in relation to my previous paragraph by what I meant was that Mr. Kirby does no justice. No justice. I say to Jimmy Olsen himself, I'm crazy about forever people, new gods. Did I write. This is the one I wrote right here.
Because I'm like, I like all this other shit. It's great.
But yeah, this is.
Well, anyway, okay, third letter.
Dear editor, I'm speechless. What can I say after reading the first eight of Jack Kirby's new effort at D.C. jimmy Olsen is fantastic.
Oh, by the way, the last one is Gerard Triano and I'm speechless. I have a beautiful story.
It's great. I love it.
Jim Zimmerman from Canton, Ohio. Isn't that where the Football hall of Fame is? Canton, Ohio?
[00:38:14] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: How do you not know these things?
[00:38:17] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:38:18] Speaker A: I rely on you for your facts and knowledge and figures. And when I ask you, you can never deliver. Like this is I. I have.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: Okay, so I have a lot of facts, figures and other things stored in my head. Where the Football hall of Fame is. Is not something I have in the name.
[00:38:37] Speaker A: Three important facts you have stored in your head.
[00:38:39] Speaker B: Three important facts that I have stored in my head.
Let's see, man. I had some good ones the other day. They were so good.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:49] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, they've escaped me. They were so good. You would. You would never. You would. You would be beside yourself if you knew them. And I would tell them to you if I could remember them.
They've escaped me. I had to. You know, when you like, you shake an Etch A Sketch to get rid of.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: I honestly have no idea what you're saying right now.
[00:39:12] Speaker B: You shake an Etch A Sketch to get rid of the.
[00:39:14] Speaker A: I'm drinking my Sprite. Zero.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: Well, I had to do that with my brain today and lose.
[00:39:21] Speaker A: Funny book Forensics brought to you by Sprite zero.
New sponsor.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Oh, are they going to give us some Sprite?
[00:39:29] Speaker A: Oh, continue.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: Or they're going to give us 0. 0 Sprite.
[00:39:36] Speaker A: There, you got it. A 0 for the story and a 0 for the drink.
All right. So sea Monkeys.
[00:39:45] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:39:48] Speaker A: House of Forbidden Love.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Oh, what is that?
[00:39:52] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: Are we covering it?
[00:39:54] Speaker A: Mind tingling suspense novel.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: They're putting novels in here now for 25 cents. House of Forbidden Love.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: It sounds sea monkeys are like the perennial biggest disappointment. Okay, so.
[00:40:08] Speaker B: So is the House of Forbidden Love.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: Maybe it was.
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: So is Don Rickles. I mean, Goody Rickles coming out of the spaceship.
[00:40:23] Speaker B: Hey, everybody, it's me.
[00:40:25] Speaker A: Hey, guys.
And we get Clark Kent, the Guardian and Jimmy Olsen. And appearing from the spaceship is Goody Rickles. And the Guardian says perhaps It's a DN alien.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Oh, my God. It's a DNA.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: Was the Guardian. I know he was punching some DNA aliens. Was he there for the.
[00:40:47] Speaker B: He was there. He got.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: Well, he did not have four arms and two brains. He got four fists and two brains.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: He got punched by one so hard he doesn't even remember anymore what a dnalien looks like anymore.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: Maybe they should have kept him out of action too.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: Ah, the dnaliens. After me.
[00:41:03] Speaker A: You know, isn't it interesting that he, the Guardian, carries a shield and wears a half face helmet?
[00:41:12] Speaker B: Well, it's to guard him. He needs guarding.
[00:41:16] Speaker A: Yeah, but no other character that Jack Kirby drew a half face helmet and a shield.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: That's true.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: America, America.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: America.
[00:41:34] Speaker A: Fuck yeah. What? Yeah, that's who. He was copying puppets.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: He was copying puppets.
Now I gotta go watch that again.
It's been a minute.
[00:41:45] Speaker A: You can watch it soon.
You know what you should do, even though you won't be able to? What's that? I know you won't be able to, but instead of watching fireworks, you and Anne are officially invited. If you're here on July 4th. If you're not and you're traveling and you have family, that's totally fine like most normal people. Yeah, but if you were here on July 4th and you wanted to join us in lieu of watching fireworks in generally. Generally we stay right here and we watch Team America on the fourth of July.
[00:42:14] Speaker B: I see.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: We could even make brisket and beers.
[00:42:19] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe we could do like a. Like a live stream thing where we set up a zoom and just do it that way.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: Ooh, they could see Jiu Jitsu Lawyer Paul for the first time. Unless they watch my other podcast, which we haven't made an episode of in two months.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: Well, you couldn't really do it because you were injured.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: I'm still. Hey, look, I'm still sticking right around at like 188. I weighed myself in at, so I haven't gained or lost. So. Yes, we'll get back on the winning track here soon. You are injured then. I was injured again and I got in a car wreck. But, you know, things are trying to stop me from losing weight. But they're not going to win.
[00:42:55] Speaker B: They're not going to win. You're nothing but queen. You are the win.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: Or the win.
[00:43:03] Speaker B: You're the win.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: Well, anyway, Goody Rickles and Clark Kent switch spots, and then Goody Rickles hits a button and Clark Kent goes away in the spaceship and it disappears.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness.
[00:43:18] Speaker A: And in its place are a Bunch of inner gang thugs.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: Inner gang thugs?
[00:43:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Now, inner gang thugs are kind of like back in hero cliques. You know, those the worst.
Like, you had the police officers and the. And the generic criminals. Yeah, yeah. You know, you can always play those for just a few points in your hero clicks group.
[00:43:42] Speaker B: Mm.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: Remember, hero clicks?
[00:43:44] Speaker B: I have a hero click starter box set hanging around.
[00:43:50] Speaker A: I have the anti monitor.
[00:43:52] Speaker B: I, I, I have not played.
[00:43:58] Speaker A: Well, maybe we should live stream hero clicks.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Oh, God, no.
[00:44:03] Speaker A: You know that my.
I'm still waiting on my giant Kickstarter of all the DC comics role playing game guides.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: It hasn't come yet.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: No, they're still finishing it up. Something about fake tariffs. And that's publishing.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: And you know what I have, I have the sad hot dog man rpg. We could play that.
You could be a sad hot dog man.
I know what you're thinking. That, well, you are. You could be. And it's amazing.
Based off a really cool comic that was created by people watching a sad hot dog man.
[00:44:44] Speaker A: Well, we get a fight with inner gang thugs and we get some more goody goodness.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: Goody goodness. Now he.
[00:44:52] Speaker A: Why did you create a character? We just in, in, in Mr. Miracle, we have Granny Goodness.
[00:44:58] Speaker B: Granny Goodness. And then in here you have.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: Here we have Goody Rickles. Yeah, it's a little bit confusing.
[00:45:06] Speaker B: I think we just like Goody goody, Goody.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: Sam Goody. Or did you prefer Tower?
[00:45:16] Speaker B: What? Sam Goody or what?
What was the second choice?
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Tower.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: Oh, I mean, so that's a tough call. I only was able to go to Sam Goody because it was closer. Tower was always the, like, oh, hey, can I get a car and drive to Tower Records?
Because it was further away.
[00:45:41] Speaker A: I think Tower records always had those humorous lampoon magazines, though.
[00:45:45] Speaker B: They did. And they always had like, the big signings and other stuff with that same goodie was just like, you could, like, you could always depend on, like, stumbling upon a Sam Goody at a mall or strip mall or wherever.
[00:46:00] Speaker A: Well, Intergang tries to beat up Goody Rickles, but he happens to bend, fall, turn at the right time every single time to allow everybody to defend him or to beat up.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: He's like a drunken master, people.
[00:46:15] Speaker A: You can get an action comics number one t shirt for $2.
[00:46:19] Speaker B: And we did the math on this.
He is like the drunken master. We did the math on this last, last episode, People.
$2 in today, money is like $20.
So it's like $17.
[00:46:30] Speaker A: It's a good deal.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: Oh, close. I mean, you know, but point being better Deal.
[00:46:36] Speaker A: So I can't discount.
[00:46:37] Speaker B: It's a good deal.
We should do it.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: Or are we just getting a bad deal?
[00:46:43] Speaker B: Or above it is a coin grab bag for free, Dan.
Money for nothing.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: And you're.
Well, you have to pay shipping and handle well.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: That's how they get you. How much is the shipping and handling, Dan?
[00:47:02] Speaker A: It says each guarantees at least a guaranteed minimum of 450.
But you pay 298 in shipping, so that seems like a bad business model.
[00:47:13] Speaker B: So you're paying them $2.98. They're giving you $4.
But they're getting. But here's the question, all right?
So are they taking your money and then holding on to it before they ship that product? And how long do they have to ship that product? Now, if they're holding that money in a bank account before they ship that product to you, if they're holding it for a month or more, they're making money on your money before they send you your money.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: And that's a.
Playing the long game with kids money. That's interesting.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: Well, how much money you think they're gonna make on the money they're gonna send before they send it?
[00:47:57] Speaker A: I don't know. But we flip the page and Don Rickles bends over to pick up a stick and all of the inter gang people die.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: It is so funny. It's like. I mean, he drunken masters these guys, like, boom, boom, boom. He. He takes them all out. It's. It's bonkers because he is like, he's not trying to, but he defeats all these big baddies just by doing just dumb stuff. I love it. I love this kind of stuff. This is the kind of stuff that I'm like.
When I see this in a movie, like in a Jackie Chan movie or something like that, I'm just like, I love it.
[00:48:42] Speaker A: This is hilarious.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: It makes me die.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Well, it is making me die a little bit inside too. So we flip the page and Bruno Mannheim Steamroller shows up.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: Oh, man, I love his music. So good. You put it on at Christmas, you could listen to it any time of the year. Honestly.
[00:49:00] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the best.
And yeah, I knew it.
And you know who else was a big fan of Mannheim Steamroller?
[00:49:09] Speaker B: Who's that?
[00:49:10] Speaker A: Your favorite and the person you've endorsed in life far more than me in my early life, for sure.
The famous. Your favorite radio host, Rush Limbaugh loved the Mannheim Steamroller.
[00:49:25] Speaker B: Not my favorite.
[00:49:26] Speaker A: And I'm sure you're endorsing his philosophies as we Speak.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, very much so. 100%.
[00:49:35] Speaker A: Yeah. The irony, folks, is Greg was not the one brainwashed by his parents to love Rush Limbaugh when he was a kid, but I was the one right now. You know my secret.
[00:49:47] Speaker B: Ah, Dan. Secret. I. I think my parents listened to Rush to get that balance of the. Oh, that's. That's. That's what's going on. That's. That's what people think.
That's. That's what some people think.
Really?
[00:50:02] Speaker A: And then you're. Then you come hang out with me, and I would tell you exactly what to think. Yeah.
[00:50:07] Speaker B: And I'm like, have you.
[00:50:10] Speaker A: Dan, can we talk about comics?
[00:50:11] Speaker B: Can we. Can we talk about something different for a minute? And let's expand our minds.
[00:50:19] Speaker A: Well, I did, and now I think that guy was a jerk, and I think I was brainwashed as a child, so. See? There we go.
[00:50:25] Speaker B: Hey, but you know what's really cool?
You're a better person.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: Well, I don't know if I'm a better person, but I certainly have better beliefs.
[00:50:33] Speaker B: You have.
[00:50:34] Speaker A: So the.
While we flip the page, you could get a Zeppelin.
[00:50:41] Speaker B: Holy crap.
No, it's a. Is it a book or a movie? It's a movie called Zeppelin.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: Have you watched this?
[00:50:49] Speaker B: No, I haven't.
I might have to.
[00:50:51] Speaker A: England's last hope for survival. Germany's greatest chance for victory. The Great War's most explosive moment.
[00:50:58] Speaker B: Michael Elkie, Summer.
Who else is in this?
[00:51:04] Speaker A: Also Peter Carsten. It's got a lot of Anton Differing screen pipes. Marius Goring, Andrew Kerr. Where are movie people? We need. We should watch this. This is.
[00:51:18] Speaker B: I.
[00:51:18] Speaker A: Probably horrible.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: I might have to check it out and then send it to the grind bin and tell them to watch it.
[00:51:26] Speaker A: This. This sounds like a movie concept that would have appeared in BoJack Horseman.
[00:51:33] Speaker B: It. It looks like it from the. The poster. Now I'm gonna. Okay, I apologize. I'm gonna do a Dan, and I'm gonna look it up really quick and just see what.
[00:51:43] Speaker A: Oh, now you're doing my job. I told you to lead the podcast today, and you ignored me, and now you're doing it so well. I'm going to flip the page. And Clark Kent is flying away in.
[00:51:52] Speaker B: The TARDIS 1971 and, ooh, 48% of rotten tomatoes. Wow.
[00:52:02] Speaker A: Damn. Better than I thought.
[00:52:04] Speaker B: This is. This is my kind of movie.
[00:52:09] Speaker A: Well, while you're looking up that Manheim Steamroller is checking in with Morgan Edge, and he's like, you need to dispose of them.
And then Ms. Conway comes in to talk to Mr. Edge, and they find out that there's been no calls from Goody Rickles.
[00:52:31] Speaker B: No calls.
[00:52:31] Speaker A: He's been captured.
And Manheim. And not Manheim, Morgan Edge is very happy. He's like, I'm extremely confident Cootie Rickles will fare no better or worse than the others. So they've all been captured.
Then little scrapper is getting the newsboy legion and the parents, too, leading them out into a conveniently stationed boat in the irradiated river with Kirby Crackle all over it.
And they leave. So they're on their way. All right, tell us about this movie before we talk about the Mannheim Steamroller dinner.
[00:53:10] Speaker B: Okay, so it is exactly kind of like what.
It's kind of like what the poster says, but it's a little bit of a German spy. Is it?
It's a kind of like a German spy meets a lady, and he is like, oh, hey, I gotta make some changes to what's going on. They.
They use this zeppelin to be part of the military operations to destroy Britain. But then.
[00:53:47] Speaker A: Now, is it a lead zeppelin? Ah.
[00:53:52] Speaker B: They. They use some, like, transmissions to it to misdirect it and stuff like that. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna spoil it. But it.
[00:54:01] Speaker A: So. So this is a movie where the Germans are the good guys.
[00:54:05] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. A German might be a good guy.
One German, he. He falls in love.
[00:54:13] Speaker A: It's one of those understanding movies. Like.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: I might have misread it.
[00:54:20] Speaker A: It's like Russkies, right?
[00:54:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
Okay.
He's a German British spy.
[00:54:32] Speaker A: A German British. So he's a double spy.
[00:54:36] Speaker B: He's a double spy.
[00:54:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:54:38] Speaker B: And then he.
So he's trying to basically get the zeppelin to crash.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: Well, in the comic.
Back to the comic. Jimmy Olsen, the Guardian, and Goody Rickles are having dinner with Bruno Mannheim.
I think his name is Bruno.
He said he was ugly, man.
[00:55:06] Speaker B: Ugly Manheim.
[00:55:07] Speaker A: That's what he said his own name was.
[00:55:09] Speaker B: I'm ugly.
[00:55:11] Speaker A: And Goody tells him to dump the cigar. It's rotten and it's killing my meal and pisses him off. And he's like, well, you all have signed your death warrant. You see, you all have eaten pyro granulate. What? And you see, by eating pyro granulate, within the next 24 hours, you're going to ignite.
So they're going to appear in a book that Brett drew.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Spontaneous combustion.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: That's what we're waiting for. They have 24 hours to live at the most. And they're all gonna light on fire.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: I have to say, this guy ugly.
Looks like 10 years later they make this movie called Johnny Dangerously and the Bad Guy and Johnny Dangerously who can't farking say any farking bad words.
Yeah, he. He looks like that guy, you farking ice hole.
[00:56:09] Speaker A: Well, spine chilling, blood freezing, heart stopping. Only those adjectives, adjectives, adjectives, adjectives, Objectives.
Can describe the incredible roaring climax. Roaring, get it?
[00:56:30] Speaker B: Like a fire, like a fire, like an inferno.
[00:56:35] Speaker A: Many lives hang in the balance when a strange question is answered. Will the real Don Rickles panic?
Do we get the real Don Rickles? Because we were promised Don Rickles this issue, but Don Rickles, pale imitation of Don Rickles. Give me Don Rickles who ate dinner and made fun of people.
[00:56:56] Speaker B: I mean, if. If we got a real Don Rickles and a fake Don and a goody Don Rickles together in the same place. Here's this. Here's the question. Would the space time continuum cease to exist? Would all of a sudden everything blink out and then would everybody be transported to another place or would they just disappear? Dan, go.
[00:57:19] Speaker A: Well, I was. Sorry, I was distracted and I was reading this advertisement for this Jack Kirby book called in the Days of the Mob.
[00:57:30] Speaker B: Oh, it does look pretty sick, man. I want to. Can we read that next?
[00:57:36] Speaker A: No.
[00:57:37] Speaker B: Oh, come on. That looks so good.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: Sorry. I got Stark by the advertisements.
[00:57:44] Speaker B: It's actually in my big DC book that I got down here.
Talks about all, like the 20 different things that Jack Kirby was doing while he was doing this.
And that was one of the books that he is like superheroes Mob.
[00:58:01] Speaker A: Well, he's doing the Mob in the superhero book too, so.
[00:58:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, he's doing the Mob in the superhero book, but he's also making a book about the mob. Oh, my gosh.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: Well, I think.
Well, that's this issue we're going to go on to. What was that? 139? We're going to go on to 140 next week.
I have a piece of rock.
[00:58:23] Speaker B: What is that? Where'd you get that from?
[00:58:25] Speaker A: I don't know.
Jiu Jitsu Lawyer. Paul's girlfriend got this for me.
[00:58:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah? From where?
[00:58:32] Speaker A: For luck, for my new car.
[00:58:34] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, well, you got a new car.
[00:58:37] Speaker A: From the Farmer's Market? Yeah.
[00:58:39] Speaker B: You got a car from the farmer's Market?
[00:58:41] Speaker A: They got cars at the farmer's Market? Yes, from the Farmer's Market? Yeah. Well, yeah, I needed one, you know, because somebody wrecked my old one.
[00:58:48] Speaker B: No, but I'm like, I didn't know you could just get. They have freshly grown, locally sourced cars.
[00:58:53] Speaker A: Freshly grown cars and rocks at the farmer's market.
Yep.
So that's it. But anything else? Let's see. We talked about Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul.
[00:59:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:06] Speaker A: Go to him for cases right now.
[00:59:09] Speaker B: This is the time.
[00:59:10] Speaker A: What, what else do you have? Anything?
[00:59:13] Speaker B: Let's see.
Well, as I, as I said, I wanted to send this over to the, to the guys, to the Grind Bin.
I did do a.
Another. I did another podcast. Dan. I'm sorry, what? I did another podcast. I appeared on the Grind Bin.
[00:59:31] Speaker A: You didn't invite me.
[00:59:32] Speaker B: Well, they only invited.
They're like, we only have one slot and you're our last minute. You're our fourth chair. Last minute person. Can you be. Can you be online tonight at 8 o' clock?
[00:59:44] Speaker A: It's kind of like when you do the debates.
[00:59:46] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, can you be here? And I was like, I get it, I get it. You want me to watch this movie and like in. You want me to watch this two hour movie in 30 minutes, so.
[01:00:01] Speaker A: Oh, that's on quadruple speed.
[01:00:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I made my grandma watch a horrible movie, as I've done before.
No, but we, we covered Ron Howard's directorial, producing, and writing debut of Grand Theft Auto.
And it was actually. It's actually a really good movie.
It was. It's a Roger Corman film.
Roger Corman produced, produced film. Ron Howard directed, written with his dad, the Funny Story. And we cover this on the, on the podcast. But his dad had actually written the script and tried to sell it, and people weren't interested in it, in the actual script itself. And then Ron. Roger Corman was like, hey, if you have a script you want to do, give it to me. And Ron went and took his dad's script and then just handed it in to Roger Corman and said, here, I have this.
And it was his dad's script.
So if you want to get places, people, here's what you need to know.
[01:01:09] Speaker A: Steal stuff from your dad.
[01:01:10] Speaker B: Steal stuff from your dad and know people, and you'll become Ron Howard. I mean, that's basically. And it was crazy.
It was. All the Howards that were around at the time were in there. So it had his brother, it had his dad, it had his wife.
It was. It was crazy. It was. It was. Other Howards were in there. I'm sure all the Howards. It was.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: What about Howard Finkel and Howard the.
[01:01:37] Speaker B: Duck was in there too. I was surprised.
[01:01:39] Speaker A: Really?
[01:01:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Howie, mandel, wow.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: Howard Stern.
[01:01:45] Speaker B: Howard Stern.
Yeah. No, it was. It was a. It was a wild cast. It was actually a really good cast. Really good. It was a solid movie, beginning to end.
It was a lot of cool car chases and wrecks. Yeah. All the Howards.
[01:02:00] Speaker A: Okay, well, that's good.
Well, that's good. So you're on another podcast that we're advertising on our podcast that no one listens to.
[01:02:07] Speaker B: That's right. So listeners for that podcast, you go check out the Grind bin.
Listen to my episode All About Grand Theft Auto. I even, I even shout out our podcast and tell people to go check it out.
[01:02:19] Speaker A: What?
[01:02:19] Speaker B: I tell the host. I tell the co host that he's uninvited to our podcast because he's a podcast killer and he's.
[01:02:29] Speaker A: Wow. Geez. Okay.
[01:02:30] Speaker B: I know. So I'll never be invited back to their show again.
[01:02:34] Speaker A: Way to go to really bring people to the podcast there. By insulting the hosts of the other podcasts that people already like.
[01:02:42] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no, no. See, it was. It was a bit. Dan. It's a bit.
It's a.
[01:02:48] Speaker A: Are you sure? Were they in on this bit or.
[01:02:50] Speaker B: He's the baby face and I'm the heel.
[01:02:54] Speaker A: What?
[01:02:54] Speaker B: He's the baby face and I'm the heel.
[01:02:57] Speaker A: Are you Dirty Dominic?
[01:02:59] Speaker B: Sure.
[01:03:01] Speaker A: Mysterio.
[01:03:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
So I go onto their podcast.
[01:03:05] Speaker A: You had no idea what I was talking about.
[01:03:07] Speaker B: And I, and I, And I talk. I talk trash about them. And then, and then I look. Then I make them look really.
[01:03:14] Speaker A: You're making this really appealing by explaining the whole get up. Maybe they should. Maybe the listeners should just go listen to it and find out.
[01:03:21] Speaker B: Yeah, you should go listen to it. But I wear. It's really cool. Cuz if you, if you, if, if you, if you get a chance to watch their video.
I'm wearing a mask and everything.
You're not going to let just like Mysterio?
[01:03:33] Speaker A: You're not going to let it go?
[01:03:34] Speaker B: No, I'm not.
[01:03:35] Speaker A: Just like Dominic Mysterio or Ray Mysterio.
[01:03:39] Speaker B: Both.
[01:03:40] Speaker A: Nope. Wrong.
[01:03:41] Speaker B: Cuz I have a mask on at first and then I take it off later.
[01:03:46] Speaker A: Well, that'd be Rey Mysterio too. And then you put it back on.
[01:03:49] Speaker B: And I put it back on.
Well, the funny thing is.
[01:03:52] Speaker A: Okay, so Greg was on another podcast and it was called Grindhouse.
[01:03:55] Speaker B: Grind Bin. Grind Bin.
[01:03:58] Speaker A: Oh, not Grindhouse. That's a movie.
[01:04:00] Speaker B: That's a movie. But they watch grindhouse movies. Everything from like the. Everything 90s and below.
[01:04:08] Speaker A: Okay. And all the schlocky clowns. There we go. So there was that. And then you also have a comic book called oh, yeah, Go Absolute Zeros Camp Launchpad that you can buy in greater, finer bookstores.
And not to find bookstores, like online bookstores, you can't. And then you also.
Okay, should we. Are we advertising for where Travis right now?
[01:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah, sure, let's.
[01:04:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
The graphic novel with no page numbers. So if you're reading it and you get lost, you have no way to get back to.
[01:04:44] Speaker B: And it's all seven issues. So it's the whole thing all in one book.
You're so lost. It's.
[01:04:49] Speaker A: It's. You might be on page, you know, 210.
And then you go. You set the book down because you get a phone call or a text message, and then you go back to it and you accidentally close the book. But since there are no page numbers, you have no idea where you were. So you have to, like, thumb through the whole book to find it.
[01:05:07] Speaker B: I don't remember cats with laser guns.
[01:05:11] Speaker A: You know, it would be really great if you had one of those, like, ribbons that, like, goes in the book.
[01:05:15] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Don't give Travis ideas because I know he listens. He's gonna, like, go find us a.
[01:05:22] Speaker A: He's gonna find you an example.
[01:05:24] Speaker B: Yeah, he's gonna find us a new thing that has a. And if you wanna subscribe. If you wanna subscribe. If you wanna.
[01:05:30] Speaker A: I'm just gonna turn my back to the podcast right now.
[01:05:32] Speaker B: If you wanna be a backer at this level, you can get the ribbon in the book to mark your pages because we have no page numbers.
[01:05:41] Speaker A: Oh, it's a. I'm talking away from the microphone. That's a terrible idea. You don't. You do that as an incentive.
[01:05:47] Speaker B: Okay, so it's a add on. It's. It's. It's one of our stretch goals. If we hit this many. If we hit this mark, then now we're going to add the ribbon to the book. Yes.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: I believe fake friend of the podcast. Ron Randall did that.
[01:06:03] Speaker B: Big friend. He's a real friend. He's a real friend of mine.
[01:06:06] Speaker A: Well, he's a friend of you, but he's not a friend of the podcast.
[01:06:08] Speaker B: He's. He's. He's a friend of the podcast by extension.
[01:06:11] Speaker A: Dan by extension. But like, you know, Ron. I don't want to imply that we've asked Ron Randall to be on.
[01:06:17] Speaker B: We haven't asked. We haven't asked Ron.
[01:06:19] Speaker A: Different creator to be.
[01:06:21] Speaker B: We haven't asked Ron to Be a part of the show and we will reach out because it would be like, fantastic, fantastic.
[01:06:27] Speaker A: And we have to reach out to Randy Emberlin, though, first.
[01:06:30] Speaker B: Yes, yes, we will reach out to Randy first and then we'll reach out.
I know. And things have happened and we got to make life. Yes, we'll. We'll get Randy.
[01:06:39] Speaker A: We should invite him on during Summer Con when Summer Con isn't really happening.
[01:06:44] Speaker B: And then be like, hey, Randy, you want to do this podcast with us? I. You know what? Okay. I will find out what's going on. Talk to him. This.
[01:06:52] Speaker A: Well, we'll. We'll be at Summer con on, like the 20th of June.
[01:06:57] Speaker B: 20Th of June. And that's right when that's. It's. It's right in the hot hotness of the Starlight Kickstarter. So as the Starlight Kickstarter drops at the beginning of June, the end of the thing, we'll be giving updates about U.S. funding book forensics at SummerCon. And I'll be telling you to go also check out the Starlight Kickstarter.
[01:07:20] Speaker A: But we will not tell you to buy a ticket to Summer Con because.
[01:07:23] Speaker B: Don'T just, you know, I mean, mean you do you.
[01:07:27] Speaker A: If you already got one, if you already have one, come see us.
[01:07:29] Speaker B: Otherwise, if you have one, come see us. If you it. I can tell you there are a number of cool people that are going to be there. Captain Slinky is going to be there. Captain Slinky of the the Odd Mall.
[01:07:41] Speaker A: Stop advertising their con, please.
[01:07:43] Speaker B: I'm. No, I'm advertising other things like Oddball. And Captain Slinky, who runs Oddball, is going to be there, and Captain Slinky is amazing and awesome and he got in and he's gonna be there.
So go see him. I don't know where his booth is at, but you should go see him.
[01:08:00] Speaker A: Okay, well, there we go. All right. Well, enough Summer Con. I don't know why I brought it up.
[01:08:06] Speaker B: You brought it up the second time I tried to get it off the.
[01:08:09] Speaker A: Top of the show. So much hate. So much hate. All right, well, anyway, that. And then. Yeah, so that's it, I think, for now, but potentially, too, in the next couple months.
I may, I may. I'm not. I'm. I guess I'm going to commit to it live on the podcast.
We may get a website that's actually worth checking out.
[01:08:32] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness, Dan, are you building a website that's cool to go check out and people can get cool things from.
[01:08:39] Speaker A: Well, what's going to Happen is I may build a website that has our podcasts on it and also some of my comics for sale. Because you're making me sell my comics.
[01:08:48] Speaker B: I'm not making you sell your comics. You have to pay for things, and the only way you can pay for things is by selling your comics. Dan. People buy Dan's comics. He has to buy stuff. He's got to buy a new car. He's got to buy toilet paper.
[01:09:01] Speaker A: Well, I guess I have a loan on a car.
[01:09:03] Speaker B: He's got it. He's got to pay for that stuff, people. And he needs to sell his comics. He needs to sell them fast. So you want to buy good comics.
What?
[01:09:13] Speaker A: It could happen.
[01:09:14] Speaker B: I.
It's gonna happen because you know it's gonna happen. And then if you're looking for, like, you know, other things that are cool, you know, check out the website because it's gonna have cool stuff on it regardless. Sorts of cool stuff. You're Right. Now you're wondering what kind of cool stuff I need.
[01:09:30] Speaker A: I need to sell comics so I can buy more action.
[01:09:33] Speaker B: More action figures. Man, oh, man, let me tell you, action figures are cool.
And if you don't be so mad.
[01:09:41] Speaker A: That I haven't opened these yet.
[01:09:44] Speaker B: You know that in our house, we have some that are open, and we have some that are not. But we in our house, we play with them. We put them on our little arcade machines. We hang them from different stuff in the kitchen. We, you know, they got. We got them doing things. They're. They're living creatures.
[01:10:01] Speaker A: They're living plastic creatures.
[01:10:02] Speaker B: Yeah, living plastic creatures. It drives my grandma.
[01:10:05] Speaker A: That's what we're becoming with all the microplastics in our bodies.
[01:10:08] Speaker B: I got so many microplastics in my body from all the things that I. I don't know. I used to eat so many erasers as a child. I don't know.
[01:10:16] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but that. That's a whole different. Well, anyway, all right, we're wrapping this up. That's it.
[01:10:21] Speaker B: So that's a whole other podcast.
[01:10:23] Speaker A: That's a whole different podcast. So, yeah. So until Greg has a parasite in his brain, we will be back. Wait, that didn't even make sense.
[01:10:34] Speaker B: I mean, it's not confirmed.
[01:10:36] Speaker A: So Greg doesn't get a parasite. Okay, Keep Greg from getting a parasite in his brain by listening to the podcast and joining us next week where we cover another issue of Jimmy Olsen to find out in part two, what happens to Goody Rickles, Jimmy Olsen, and the Guardian.
[01:10:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:10:50] Speaker A: Do they survive the pyrite things Pyrite. That's like the glass dishes, right? Pyrite.
[01:10:55] Speaker B: Yeah, pyrite. The pyramite. I don't know it's a the explosive.
[01:11:00] Speaker A: Stuff that the pocket full of pyronite.
[01:11:04] Speaker B: They were giving got a pocket full of Got a pocket full of pyronate.
[01:11:09] Speaker A: Oh, a pocket full of I, I.
[01:11:13] Speaker B: I don't know the rest of this.
[01:11:16] Speaker A: Nobody knows the rest of nobody knows Nobody knows he got a pocket the spin Doctors I got a pocket full of you know you're singing that Call yourself the spin Doctors before records were out well or were they referring to CDs?
[01:11:34] Speaker B: I, I don't know they were speaking okay, that's it.
[01:11:37] Speaker A: That's it. No more. No more. That's it. That's it.
[01:11:38] Speaker B: You were. You were taking me down a rabbit hole.
[01:11:41] Speaker A: We're not doing that.
Hour and eleven minutes we're out. Done. Bye.
[01:11:44] Speaker B: You don't know what you get the ritual for him at the on Meeker.
[01:11:49] Speaker A: Street in Kent, Washington. Bye. Oh, hey.
[01:11:57] Speaker B: Sa.
