Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: This is Travis being Greg. Welcome to Funny Book Forensics.
As you can see, Travis is taking on his role of being Greg for a couple weeks, literally by doing some sort of weird eye thing and not speaking at the start of the podcast.
I guess we're going to see how long this happens. It's just like doing a podcast with Craig. You. You have no idea what's going to happen at the beginning of the podcast. And then things just go. And this time, Travis just said, start the podcast. So I.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: My eyeballs need air.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Is it because you're in space?
What would Jack say about your behavior.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Is just stupid?
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
Jack rapidly. Jack rapidly becoming my favorite member of Power Pack. I think you predicted this in, like, episode. The second episode we did.
I don't think you actually came out and directly said he would become my favorite character.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: No, Jack's easy to relate to growing up. That's who I really.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Jack is the best character. Because Jack is just like, I'm done with all of this.
Jack. Jack would never survive in a corporate environment.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Or you just be the boss somehow.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Or he would just. Yeah. Either Jack is either not in a corporate environment, or he created a multi billion dollar corporation and owns a Hawaiian island. Like those. Those are the options. There's no in between there.
Who is that guy that owns one of the Hawaiian islands? Like, it's totally up.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: I invested with you in Hawaii, and I knew that one of them is, like, set up with a trust somehow with. With the tribe that's living on it, but that's all I know about it.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: Well, that is the founder of Oracle.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Oh, you bought Atlas.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Yeah, he owns an entire. Well, maybe that's the one that set up with the trust, but yeah, there's my. That's what happens when you don't turn your phone on silent. It makes a big Star Trek noise right in the middle of the podcast.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Oh, Star Trek.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: What?
No, you can. Yeah, I put it on silent, so texting me will not make it happen. Yeah, you can.
Messages.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: On your podcast. Oh, look at this. Oh, yeah, Right. Yeah. Okay.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: I mean, you always call when Greg and I are recording, so.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: Because I was wondering why I never get through.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's why you never get answered. Because Greg will just be like, oh, Travis is calling. That's the. That's how people on the podcast already knew you who you were besides starlight and all that. Like, you. You. You were a guest on the podcast long before you were a guest on the podcast without even knowing it.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Getting like the seven listeners were like. Travis.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Seven listeners, seven kids?
[00:03:00] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: Palmer's kids do not listen to my podcast. Are you just kidding? Like, this would be like torture to them. Number one, you know, anything over three minutes is absolute torture to anyone their age. And. And two, like, they don't want to listen to me talk for an hour. Right. Unless I'm, like, making pancakes for them or something. Like, I mean, you know, or.
But, you know, we have lots of kids here, all younger than. And here. Here's gonna make you feel old. All younger.
All younger than all of Palmer's kids.
I need to think about that in your head for a second.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: Your podcast. Would you have a name for your podcast?
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Sometimes My Pod. No, I. I don't like the podcast. I don't have enough. I've never had enough for them to have a name.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Listen up, parties.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: No, it'd have to be something like, you know, the funny book for. It'd have to be. If we're going to do this, it has to be like one of the old school letter columns from the Silver Age.
I'll let you ponder that as we jump into the pod and jump into the book here.
We're going to talk about it, but eventually, it has been a very interesting day. See this glass right here?
[00:04:19] Speaker A: It's more.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: I went to grab another one of these glasses out of the cupboard, touched it right here like this to grab it, and it exploded like shadows everywhere.
Yeah, I have. I have the marks on my arm to prove it. You can. Yeah, it's. It was a very interesting day.
And I feel like somebody's powers in here can do that to me.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: But anyway, we have into Storm Number five with a super cool cover.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Which cover are we looking at here?
[00:04:59] Speaker B: We're looking at the one with the giant head in the background. Yeah. Yep.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: I do like this cover a lot, but, man, this variant cover back here is still one of the coolest covers I've brought up Every. Every episode.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: You like the variant? Wow.
Well, and on the COVID we have Dejina.
I'm gonna get them all coffee.
I'm not gonna get them all.
Alex.
Jack, Katie, Julie.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: You have one more.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Oh, no, he doesn't count.
Okay.
Yeah.
And Mr. Universe.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: Mr. Universe.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: And we're jumping right in here. So we've got Storm's End and we get an entire Marvel page here.
Alex. That looks like how Murad stole our.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: Powers way back in pirate platform.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: So we've seen this technology before and.
Yeah, Katie, not what I thought we'd find when we blasted our way in here.
We get another reference in here.
Frank's mom and dad will kill us. We shouldn't have brought him.
Read into Richards of the Fantastic Four.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Yeah, they're definitely doing the catch up.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: My concern here with the Fantastic Four. So now read into right. Number one, they treat Franklin like he's their dog, not their kid.
So.
Well, yeah, I mean, you think like number one, a dog maybe has some discipline problems or a little rambunctious. So, you know, they. They just stick it and stick it in a crate, right? And, and try to train the dog.
And I have never do that with my dog. But they just stick Franklin. They tamper down his powers and just make him go to bed. And then when they want to go on vacation, they just ship him off to have somebody else watch him, even though he's the most powerful being on the planet.
I mean, Reed. Reed Richards is kind of an.
Let's just be honest.
I mean, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being Guy Gardner and 1 being like, I don't know, who's the nicest character in the Marvel universe?
I went dc.
I went DC for the biggest asshole.
Let's just say number one is like.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Nicest person of marble.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: One is Ileana Rasputin.
And not the movie version, but the comic version, of course.
Who. Where does Reed Richards fall on that scale of 1 to 10 of assholishness?
Assuming Scott Summers is a 9.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: Wait, what?
Wait, 10's the bad side, right?
[00:08:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Why would you do that? Why. Why was it. What was that about?
Was that jab? You would.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: You would know that Scott Summers is not a friend of the pod.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Do I have to do I have to do the. I have to do the.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: Gail, Scott Summers is a jerk.
Okay, fine. We won't use Scott Summers. We'll put Iron Man.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: Got the door hat little torque. K is that.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: We'll put. We'll put the. We'll put Iron man at number nine.
Yeah, well, I put. I put. I put guy Gardner at 10.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: Anyways, man, I don't know. Reed's like.
It's kind of a douche. More of a douche and a d.
He has some really horrible.
Yeah, he's done a lot of horrible stuff.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: I think he's 7 or 8.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Oh, he's 11.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, he's. He's pretty terrible, dude.
[00:09:35] Speaker A: Just. Just remember, it's okay if they treat Franklin like that because they always have. Valeria.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: No.
[00:09:48] Speaker A: God.
There she the Fantastic Six, baby. Fantastic Seven. If he counts she Hulk.
Fantastic.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, she Hulk can count.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: I guess they just need to rename the comic book the Fantastic Seven, I guess.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: Fantastic Eight, if the she Hulk and the Juggernaut come as a package.
But yeah, I mean, I think we're getting too far into Fantastic Four.
I mean, are. Are we settling on seven or eight for Reed? Are you going nine? Are you going Tony Stark level of asshole Ishness.
And Scott Summers, he's like a six.
You're putting him at a six.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Yeah, six or seven.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: Definitely over the. The middle midline, though.
Yeah, I. I just. I.
Well, no wonder Franklin's mind broke and he destroyed the universe. I mean, his parents are jerks.
Were they going to send him to a private school next?
[00:10:55] Speaker A: He should always go stay with Dr. Doom.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: He could stay with Dr. Doom. Well, anyway, we should turn the page here, and we just. Should just acknowledge that we've got Mayhem and Franklin.
And those are two different things.
In a power transfer chamber that we saw for the. For. You saw for the first time in power pack number 25.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:32] Speaker B: Anyway, Jack is going to take care of everything immediately by smashing the chamber.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: That's what he does.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: As he should. Right.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: And he gets a point.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
And a harangue.
A warang.
Boom.
We get all sorts of things going. As Katie drops a bomb on everything, too.
Franklin, what would you say? He ascends from the chamber? Or is he still in there? He's still in there.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: I'm still worth. Fight chamber.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not working.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: Who is about to be in a chamber?
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not working.
They can't break it.
It's not going well.
Alex looks very stressed, as usual.
Why does Alex always look so stressed?
[00:12:28] Speaker A: Because he's the oldest, and that's what the oldest does.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess I can't. I guess I can identify with that.
Well, we flipped the page, by the way. Beautiful spread.
You've been talking about the panels a lot as we've read this. Yeah.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: It starts right side, moves over the left side, but we take advantage of the left side panel bleed.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And I actually have it up on the computer today, so I'm reading it two pages at a time instead of one page.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: You can do that on the computer?
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I can't.
I'm magical.
I think the thing here is too. You've been talking about the paneling, right? All throughout these stories.
Why doesn't everybody just do cool panels like this? Like.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: The way Scott McClan.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Scott McCloud did this.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: Well, so Scott McLeod wrote the book.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: On this kind of how to write comics.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Well, more so he wrote how to panel comics correctly.
Guy just knows a lot about panel work. And so like, I feel like they all. June comes from that same era of Scott when he was kind of the lead guy and all this stuff.
And um, a lot of the time.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: I said understanding comics is the book.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: I said it wrong writing I have.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: It somewhere back here.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: So yeah, so no. And then you see when you realize that it was Tory, cancel and hang out for a few minutes. Okay, cool. He was a really nice guy.
I talked to him on Twitter once. Once.
But yeah, like here's the thing though, their understanding of panel work. They've got 30, 40 years at this point into doing panels.
You know, I mean, I don't know if you've caught them, but June has a very distinct style with the size of strokes she wants. When characters over.
Go over the. Over the gutter, how she always has at least one of the major panels bleed.
I mean she's a very. She has a signature panel style.
But you know, panel work is just something like how to put it. It's so important to the narrative structure that when an artist is not good at paneling, they're not good at sequentials, period.
And it can be very frustrating when you work with an artist who's a very good artist who cannot put panels together or have anything creative with their panels for the life of them, you know, probably.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
I was say. It's very interesting too, like how every. Because we're going to turn the page here to another cool set of panels. But she can easily just go from these sort of panels around a spread. And then, you know, she can go horizontal, she can go vertical. It's very easy to always tell the direction you should read the panels in.
Andy. That's the point you're making too, on the sequentials.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: Well, look at this. I mean, we got.
Technically we have three on top.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: We have these bleed outs in the bottom and we have these superimposed pieces on each.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: And then you. And then the coloring again is still on point because you. It's easy to transition the story from one scene to the other, from the.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: A part to the B plot.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And so in this case, Coffey teleports in to grab Franklin. That's not successful either.
And we have in comics what is always awesome when the villain and the hero and transfer power chambers and their eyes start glowing. So we're always a big fan of 4 year old eye glowing that's usually a bad thing.
Light hundreds of light years away. Hundred hundreds of light years away. Meanwhile. Hundreds of meanwhile hundreds of light years away.
They should have put a meanwhile there.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Is that the three dots?
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Me didn't put a meanwhile there? That is. Well, I mean, it depends on where those three dots show up, but, yeah.
So in comics, I think so, yeah.
Where you get your three dots at?
So.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: But here, I think Walmart, they're romantic prices on the three dots I'm picking them up on. Like, really?
[00:17:10] Speaker B: You get your three dots at Walmart?
[00:17:12] Speaker A: I'm an ellipses fanatic. And Walmart has them on sale usually in the spring. It's terrific. I just stocked up for the whole year.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: Okay, well, I make a habit of not going to Walmart at all for anything ever. Especially not ellipses or any messages with them.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: Ellipses and budding lumps and meats.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: By the way, I. As long as we're talking about.
As long as we're talking about. I'm going to transition back really quickly here. As long as we're talking about grammatical devices and punctuation.
The semicolon is hot garbage.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Why don't you go to semicolon? Oh, you're an M Dasher.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: You're an M. Dash every. I have everything against the semicolon. Everything.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: That's why you're all M Dash. M Dash. M Dash.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: The semicolon is not needed. You could just use a comma or a period like you. You do not need it.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: No, no, stop.
You don't understand what a semicolon is. If you think, you know, replace it with a comma.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: I do understand my semicolon. You could also use a colon, period or comma.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: But it's not quite a colon need.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. Absolutely.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: You're splitting two.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: You should just write a sentence then.
[00:18:34] Speaker A: No, no, because you want to have two now.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: You should write two separate sentences.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. No, no, no.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: This is so easy.
[00:18:42] Speaker A: Look, even Caesar disagrees with you, right now. You know how to compound a sentence if you want.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: I think Caesar also hates semicolons. That's why he showed up. He's like, I'm a no.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: He understands that dad loves semicolons because he loves compound sentences.
I love compound.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Compound sentences are terrible.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Oh, my God. How do you.
Oh, my goodness.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: Sir, it's.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: Well, anyway, I'm too tired to remember all the terminologies.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: Well, Storm is lighting up the brood like I do to semicolons.
And you can see here that as she lights up the brood.
Wait, what's happening? We've.
She was hundreds of light years away.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: Oh, you mean the comic. I was talking about biscuits. I'm getting biscuits.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Oh, well, yeah, you're good there. I was talking about the com. Oh, this is not coffee.
The parents show up.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah. So both the parents arguing back in the home world.
Well, not arguing. They're trying to figure out what happens with the kids. And Storm's explaining. Hi.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: Well, Storm's not explaining anything yet, but it's. I can just imagine Storm, this version of Storm especially, being really excited to talk to parents.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: Then I go, what. What's the approach here? Yeah.
Hi. I love the Morlocks tell you to stop talking.
Well, we get back to the page of the glowing eye. Franklin.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Hold on real quick Again. Panel work again. I want to point out verticals and horizontal builds as a page layout is the same. So more likely.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Right.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: The script probably called for three sequentials and then on a four on four panel build. Right. And then Jude probably chose vertical on one side horizontal, because you knew they were facing pages.
I'm going to guess that because that's what I would get. We're row. And I would have went like, oh, cool. Yeah. Some horizontals and some verticals.
I see there.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: And we're in trouble now on this panel. On this page, too, because Jack is giving up.
Not a big fan of that, but we've still got glowing eyes.
And then mayhem gives up. Is like, this is too much.
As in Tattletale has too much power all of a sudden.
And then he starts to ascend into the background. Like, what is going on here?
[00:21:24] Speaker A: Well, he's starting to do exactly what you've been complaining about since we started this comic.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: He starts becoming Franklin.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: Great.
The worst character in Marvel comics.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: No, it's not the worst character in Marvel Comics.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: The worst major character in Marvel comics.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: It's Wolverine.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: I'm. Yeah.
[00:21:49] Speaker A: The guy is short, wears at the door, and keeps trying to hit on everyone else's girls or teenagers. You can't tell me here's something wrong. I think he's cool when he smokes.
Real life. I hate that guy in comics.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: In one of the.
In one of the Facebook rare comics groups, somebody was trying to sell a first appearance of the Taskmaster as a rare key.
If you want to get laughed out of a Facebook group, that is a great way to start.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: You remember the tarantula?
[00:22:27] Speaker B: I know the tarantula is. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think, you know, what was the.
The demolition crew? What Was the. Is that the one in Marvel or the construction gear.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Crew?
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Is it the demolition crew?
[00:22:50] Speaker A: I can't remember.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: I always think of them. They're like, to me, the equivalent of the Royal Flesh Gang. Like, they just both show up when you just need one. A one off comic for the heroes to beat the out of somebody. Yeah, yeah. Like DC and Marvel both have their version. Well, anyway, I guess I'm trying to distract myself from Franklin, like, ascending into whatever this is happening and.
And de. Jenna finally chimes in for the first time in the entire story.
And like, while you were trying to break the crystals, I noticed something. We can't get through the force field, but maybe we can destroy the machine that's powering it.
Thank you for chiming in. The expert of machinery and mechanics who's going to school and talked about her scientific background.
We appreciate you holding off on this for several pages. If the solution was to simply science this out, you could have chimed in a while ago.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: I do want to say I don't think she knows what page number she's on.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: Well, that's fair. I don't know what page number she's on either, because there are no page numbers.
[00:24:01] Speaker A: This could be all of one minute.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: Oh, that's fair. Are we doing this in dnd time?
And then Jack's like, what machine? There isn't any machine here.
Wherever here is. Or gravity either. Not anymore.
I like Jack.
And then Jack's just like, pointed at the machine down at the bottom, just he. Jack has the same feeling I do about Jenna. Just get to the point. Let me destroy the machine. Let's do it.
Yeah, but Julie's gonna take care of it because she's faster.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: Well, she's actually spoken twice in this issue.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: Mana or Julie?
[00:24:51] Speaker A: Julie.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: Yeah, Deanna. Got two pages of talking here.
All that Franklin's dream power back to.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: Explain to the parents.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Yeah, we're back to explaining to the parents while light years away.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: Light while. Like, meanwhile, the ellipses move to the end.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Why not write meanwhile instead of just saying while? I think. I think I'm being trolled by Louise Hymanson here.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: Like, thing I was just saying, though, the other one had a pre. Ellipses.
This has ellipses.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Well, I'm going to go back to this script I wrote for you and just add a bunch of ellipses everywhere.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: Look, look, everyone knows if you're over 50, you have to use ellipses for everything.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: I don't use ellipses for everything.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: And lol and lol.
Lol.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: That did not happen either.
I believe in the script I wrote for you. I did not use an F words. I think that was the consensus.
But anyway, we're not going to talk about that right now.
That's a future, future version of the podcast.
So we're just predicting the future of the podcast right now.
Some. Some meanwhile in the future of the past, which is where this comic book exists.
We're back after Storm explains everything to the parents, and then some guy comes in and we find out Friday has actually done something.
Where has Friday been for like four issues they've had?
[00:26:48] Speaker A: It was in the last one too. Or they were in the last one too.
[00:26:53] Speaker B: Well, anyway, Friday has sent notice to Storm and to the ambassador and to the ambassador and whoever these folks are to go get their kids.
Like, because they're. The kids are not all right.
You're not even going to pick up on that. You're just going to announce it? I see the song.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: The song.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: I see, I see how it goes.
Well, what we do find out is in the future, the kids aren't all right because one of the kids that melts things is on a lot of drugs.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: What?
Sorry, I gotta space down for a second.
Yeah, I'm getting tired. Thanks. A little. My eyes are red.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: I know. You spaced out. You totally spaced out. Like, I made another Sarah reference.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: You made a Sarah reference.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: You said let's, and you just brought.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: Me back to the other side.
[00:27:51] Speaker B: You just looked at me like I'm insane.
I. I think this whole book is wearing you down. Well, anyway, dejenna gets more action here and she projects a giant three eyed monster thing.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: She set that up way back in issue one.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it was. Yeah, with her. Her holographic projector thing.
[00:28:11] Speaker A: This is the greatest callback in the history of this comic.
[00:28:16] Speaker B: Would you call it a MacGuff?
Don't call it a callback.
Isn't this just Kryptonite?
No, it let us know in the first issue we had in Kryptonite and now they're using it again.
The.
You're so offended by this right now. It's entertaining.
You're so offended by this.
[00:28:46] Speaker A: I was going to find McGuffin for you, but I realize I'm getting really tired, so it's probably making the podcast boring. So I'm going to try to be more exciting.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: I think you're fine. I just. You zoned out on us, on everybody, listeners. I don't know. Travis is like. Is. He's. He's. He's zoning Out. But it's okay because the best thing's going to happen again.
So we're going to throw Katie at it.
And she bwams it.
Jack's coming back after it and he bounces off it again.
[00:29:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it's normal. I just.
I just gotta show everybody. Bunk.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And I'm gonna say like too. I. I feel like the moon boots get better with every issue.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Were the first thing that I never seen. The COVID of a comic in the library when I bought my first power pack. Or rather first power pack.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: But de. Jenna is running the show here.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:58] Speaker B: So she's found a backup generator.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: Yeah. The only thing I don't understand. Hang on, let me read this again real quick.
Nope, dumb idea, Jenna. Anyways.
[00:30:10] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's because Jack is. You know, is Jack. Like, he's literally my favorite. He's just like. I just say it like it is.
Well, coffee.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: Marble coffee.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Transports the most useless member of Power pack. Alex.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Useless are responsible.
[00:30:36] Speaker B: And he throws a giant ball of green stuff at the backup generator.
[00:30:39] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure it's a marble because look how it breaks.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: That's true. Which crashes everything into a thud. We get a crash and a bois and a thud. This is definitely a marble sound on the ground.
[00:30:56] Speaker A: Boom.
Oh, my God. It's the Netflix sound. Is it?
[00:31:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Maybe that's. Maybe they were going for a power packed television show.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: Not gonna bring up with that. We should watch that later.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: I. I don't know. You told me. You said we should watch it and then you said it would be terrible.
And anyway, they used. They use Mayhem's own little rope things to tie her up.
[00:31:27] Speaker A: Yes. Fibers.
[00:31:28] Speaker B: And she gets one final monologue here.
I spit on your pity. I am my mother's daughter. I will best you and have my revenge.
If only her hand was free to wave a fist at them.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's not. Katie's comeback is the best.
[00:31:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, good luck with that. As Katie walks away and they head over to Franklin, slash, Tattletail slash Frank. And he's like, I knew you'd come, but it's all my fault. Getting captured and everything because I was too scared to jump. And maybe I should.
Shouldn't be, shouldn't oughta. Wow. Maybe I shouldn't ought to be a power pack.
Geez, Frank, come on. Talk like you're growing up so I can read your dialogue.
Then Alex gets to be the big bro and tell Frank how valuable he is and how important and that friends help each other.
Isn't this nice? Like, isn't it nice to end a comic book with, like, happiness?
[00:32:38] Speaker A: Yes, it should be.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: And belonging, but everyone knows it.
[00:32:42] Speaker A: But you know what?
No.
[00:32:50] Speaker B: Like, no. I'm too tired to end a podcast with happiness.
It must be sad. The comic must make Dan unhappy, otherwise all the listeners will revolt.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: I love this orange also. They're very teenage. Coffee and Jenna are very teenage. We gotta try ourselves back.
Yeah, get in the car.
I got my license. Let's go. My long suit of followers testifying.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: Yeah, and we get the time tesseract, too. It makes a reappearance, but we get the reunion pages. I love this. We get the reunion page. It's great.
Everybody gets back together. Storm is just annoyed but happy.
Everybody else is good to go, and we're all going to fly back to Earth together.
Storm's going to take the kids and they head back.
We get back to Earth now. Here's a callback I'm not sure I recognized, but we do need to highlight what Storm says, because Jack says really, literally bonkers. But Julie thinks we should tell anyhow.
Well, no way. Frank's parents put a blocker on his powers. We don't want mom and dad getting them to do that to us. That's why. So now Jack is like, don't tell them. I do remember Jack earlier was like, do tell them.
[00:34:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I noticed that too. I feel like going back in one of the bookings.
[00:34:20] Speaker B: However, Storm has to get her monologue in.
You're lucky to have parents. I was an orphan. I would have given anything for parents who love me like yours love you. But, Jack, could your mom be reacting like that because she knows something, something's off, but urik spell is blocking her.
And then they're like, oh, you mean like Frank? Oh, you mean when you fuck with people's brains, it messes them up and they become omnipotent beings that destroy the universe.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: This feels like the conversation we had with issue zero.
The one. It was issue one.
[00:35:07] Speaker B: All the things.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: Am I right?
[00:35:09] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:35:10] Speaker A: Did you not see those exact words?
Bring up the last Bring back the episode. And right here. Put the editor. Put the episode right. Right here. Put a little block. Play it back.
Wait here. Waiters does that your paid editor.
[00:35:24] Speaker B: I don't. I don't think we're doing this. This is. This is. This is what I. You can go verify this from issue one for me.
Was Alex wearing an X Men shirt in issue one?
[00:35:39] Speaker A: Was Jeff? Wasn't Jack the one who was against.
Who's for telling the Parents.
[00:35:45] Speaker B: Well, now Jack is against it because he doesn't want to turn out like Frank. And I don't blame him. Like, three.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: Three.
[00:35:58] Speaker B: And while everybody's on the beach in the middle of the night and Tattletale pulls off the best lie of the story, but not his best lie in the Marvel Universe.
He tells dad.
Not his dad, though, the dad that's taking care of him, that he was scared and he had a bad dream and everybody came out to take care of him, and they're like, should we tell Frank what happened about his power? And they're like, nah, let him stand. An innocent little kid. Good decision, Alex.
Good decision.
Oh, boy.
Well, it's interesting because if this story, like, sat back when it was placed in Marvel Universe time, we literally have a story where Power Pack may be responsible for Franklin destroying the universe.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: Let me get something real quick.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: What are you going to get in the middle of the pod? We're almost done.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: Travis is gone. He's tired of me picking on Tattletail.
He's. He's leaving.
Yeah, it's good.
Pac is back. I'm just going to keep talking randomly.
Travis is disappearing.
Greg never does this to me, but that's okay. I. You know, the really interesting thing about these books is that we're going to go back to issue one and see if Alex is wearing a shirt, but we're wrapping this one up. This was a fun story.
I like it. Travis has something here to add, but I was enjoying the story. And, you know, it wraps up real nice.
But again, Power Pack responsible by not telling anybody for Franklin Richards destroying the universe.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: Okay, I got the Hickman run, but completely unrelated to what you were talking about.
So I got. I got it here.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: Is Jonathan Hickman a good writer?
Answer. Yes, by the way, that was. That was the answer. Simply, I felt.
[00:38:10] Speaker A: I felt a hinge of sarcasm, because I think it's one of the. The best runs.
[00:38:16] Speaker B: I mean, to say you're having a best run of Fantastic Four is kind of like.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, that's the image I was looking for.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: Universal Franklin.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:38:31] Speaker B: But I was trying to go back to the beach here to see what Alex was wearing.
I mean, he's got to be right. It's got to be tied together because that's how good they are.
It's not. They don't show his shirt. He changes in power too quickly.
I'm back to the first issue. He's laying fast, face down in the bed, so we will never know.
[00:38:59] Speaker A: Watching Read.
[00:39:00] Speaker B: We will never know.
Well, Travis, before we get too distracted and start reading Fantastic Four, it's Power Pack. We're done. We've read six issues of Power Pack.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: The future of the future must be avoided at all costs. Okay. Crap, man. This is just.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Aha. You're back. Yes, I. I agree. The future of Franklin should be avoided at all costs. Jonathan Hickman and I agree.
Louis Simonston and I agree.
Only you want Franklin to ascend, to be the universal tattletale, but basically, you made a combination character of Franklin and Katie for your story.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: Yeah, you should buy my book. Buy my book.
[00:39:55] Speaker B: Buy your book. Starlight.
[00:39:56] Speaker A: Oh, it's impossible to buy now. Darn it. Damn.
[00:40:00] Speaker B: So I. You know what the best part of this podcast with Travis is? It's like making a. It's like making a little kid pay attention for, like, 40 minutes and then talk about things.
I now know how Greg feels every time he podcasts with me, and I start getting distracted and just looking up everything else. I don't know how you all have survived with us, but we may have gone from two listeners to one listener, but that's okay. I think that I. Travis, to a degree, that you would enjoy this book. Pick it up. It's a fun read, and I want.
[00:40:39] Speaker A: To ask some important questions. Right quick, before you go, because I feel like you're. You're on the downtrend.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: I. I am. I'm winding up.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: I have brought you Power Pack, a comic you were not all that familiar with before.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: I was not. Except I knew it existed because everybody saw those Power Pack ads in the comics in the 80s.
[00:40:59] Speaker A: Yes.
So let me ask you this.
Now that you've read Power Pack.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: Power Pack, Yes.
[00:41:09] Speaker A: How do you feel about it? Like, big.
Is it. Is it in the top tier of Marvel? Like a 10, which is good in my scale. Unlike your scale.
If a 10 is like, say.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: Well, a 10 was good. If you believe. If you're a Guy Gardner fan and a Scott Summers fan, a 10 was really good.
[00:41:31] Speaker A: Stop picking on Scott.
[00:41:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
So are we time and placing this book? Are we putting it in the 80s or where are we putting it?
[00:41:40] Speaker A: Well, first. First, I want your opinion.
If a 10 is like, the quality of, say, first word of ElfQuest.
Right.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: From the epic stamp after they brought it over to Marvel and one is like, I don't know, Uncanny X Men.
Right. Where would you put this?
[00:42:06] Speaker B: You ranked Uncanny X Men at the bottom.
[00:42:09] Speaker A: I'm not X Men fan.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: Because.
[00:42:10] Speaker A: Because as Wolverine.
[00:42:13] Speaker B: What about Uncanny X Men?
[00:42:18] Speaker A: Like, blue team no.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: What about. What about Gail?
[00:42:23] Speaker A: I can't do Gail. I don't do. I don't do Gails. That's.
I read all her DC stuff, but I will not attach. I don't read. I tried to read recently.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: You didn't read it.
[00:42:34] Speaker A: I did read. I did read something that she did with it, so I was excited for it, and so were a bunch of my fans, and actually, I don't want to talk about it. I will go back to reading her DC stuff. I just don't like.
Like, sometimes writers write stuff you don't like. You know what I'm saying? And I think he has amazing writing, and I think the book is great.
I just didn't like it.
[00:42:55] Speaker B: Well, okay, so we're ranking Uncanny X.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: Men at the bottom. All right, all right. I'm gonna be fair to four.
One would be Wolverine and Gambit that I hated. Right? So.
[00:43:07] Speaker B: Oh, God. I think I have two issues that I ran into them the other day, turning them away.
No.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: No offense to anyone who works on the project. I don't mean you're. You did a bad job or anything. I understand this is.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: Or how come you don't like you. You realize, like, people can have terrible books. Like, I mentioned David McElini and Karate Kid series of DC.
[00:43:26] Speaker A: I'm definitely not willing to talk, man. I wrote something called Robo Girls that nobody likes.
[00:43:30] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm just saying it's okay to acknowledge people have a bad book, but Wolverine.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: Wolverine, and. And.
[00:43:38] Speaker B: Yeah, if I was putting Marvel Books at the bottom, I can give you New X Men at the bottom instead of Uncanny X Men, I think.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: With Wolverine and Gambit being the. The. The. The one.
[00:43:54] Speaker B: No, like, look, I'm actually supporting you here. No, I'm putting. I'm putting Emma Frost and Scott Summers have brain sex at number one at the bottom.
[00:44:04] Speaker A: Okay?
[00:44:05] Speaker B: Like, I'm actually supporting you. I'm. I'm giving you. I'm giving you some credence to support your favorite X Men.
[00:44:12] Speaker A: So where would you put Power Pack? Now that you've read it, you get.
[00:44:16] Speaker B: Power Pack a six or a seven. Right? Like, I think these are fun books. I don't think they're the best books ever written in life. Right. Like, it's not like, you know, I'm. I'm not picking this up and going, man, you know, like, if I ever, you know, if I never read a comic again, I'd want it to be, you know, this. So it's not that. But what it is for me at that six or seven level is a fun book that I can pick up and read and enjoy. Right.
[00:44:46] Speaker A: You're wrong. It's a nine.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: It's a nine.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: You're wrong to stop talking.
[00:44:49] Speaker B: Well, that's Travis's opinion.
It's a book. I think anybody that's in the dictionary, I think anybody should pick up a book like this and here. And I think I've said this. Stress, Stress this enough at this book.
When I read comics, sometimes I just want to read them to enjoy them.
For example, I know you're not reading it, but, like, Joshua Williamson's run on Green arrow since the D.C. they're about 20 issues in, has been great because it's focused on similar themes to this. Travis actually think you'd really like it. It's focused on family. It's focused on, like, the core tenants, but it's not a ripoff of, like, a Mike Grail Green Arrow story. Right. It's not all dark like that. It's been kind of fun. And he did have a dark thing, but his family saved him.
And I enjoy reading the book in the same way I enjoy reading this. Like, I sometimes like relieving a book and it just being enjoyable.
And so sometimes those are books I gravitate for. And you know what? I've had a lot of recent struggles just in life, just with really shitty things going on. And so you picked a perfect book for me right now to read, and it's been great and super chill. I can't. Again, I'm not going to say this is the best book I've ever read in my life, but here's what's great about it. The writing's solid, the art is amazing.
It's well put together, and it's easy to read. I sat down and I read the first issue. Right. For the first for the podcast. And then I read the rest of it all in one sitting.
So, you know, when I say a six or a seven, that's not a slight right? Like, that is a compliment.
And not all books have to be a fucking 10.
[00:46:43] Speaker A: All books should be 10, according to my friends. According to the Internet.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: The Internet's stupid.
Yeah. And this is a high recommend. You know, I recommend this book to anybody to pick it up and just enjoy it.
There are some things I don't like about the book.
I haven't dwelled on them a lot during this conversation because.
Or during our conversation about the book because I don't want to focus on the negative with this because it's so much fun.
What I would say are my drawbacks on the book from like ranking it higher.
[00:47:21] Speaker A: It's about kids just kind of little me.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I think like, I mean, if I was, it'd be a higher rank for me probably. Like, you know, if there's a little bit more surprise in the storytelling or a couple more hooks.
But at that, like I don't want to get too into it. Right. Like the story is fairly straightforward, it's extremely predictable. Also, you know, it's not written for a 50 year old, right?
Well, it kind of is.
[00:47:48] Speaker A: We talked about that before.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: It is kind of.
But it's written for both. Right. And I think that Luis does a good job of one, writing it for the audience that is that we talked about before. But two, I could hand this to a 10 year old and they could read the story and get excited about the book.
And if we're rating it on that scale, it is a 10 out of 10 because Louise knows her audience, writes to the audience and does a successful job getting that audience involved in the story.
So if we're ranking it that way, yeah, 10 out of 10.
But you asked me to rank it in the scale of all comics forever and ever.
[00:48:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
Because I wanted to see if you were right. And like you said in the dictionary, you're wrong.
[00:48:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And you know, I figured you would tell me I was wrong.
Um, yeah. You know, and, and you know, and that's the great thing about this. Luis's writing here really does hook in the two target audiences. And that's the other thing too. Right. Like a lot of comic right now, a lot of comics right now, and media for that matter. Right. Are trying to cash in or capture a very specific audience. I mean, you look through social media has segmented the fuck out of everybody.
And so, you know, when you're doing something like this, you are writing a book and you're trying to get 50,000 people to buy it. Right.
And the 50,000 people buy the first run, then you're going for the follow up graphic novel and hoping it like takes off. Right.
And honestly, if you got 25,000 people to buy the book on your first run, especially for a miniseries of a group you're pulling back in like this, you know, probably consider it a success at this point, right?
[00:49:37] Speaker A: I would consider a success at 5,000 or even 3,000.
[00:49:41] Speaker B: Yeah, well, with an imprint like Marvel or DC, I'm going to put that up 25, 30,000.
But yeah, I mean you're.
It's a different world these days, right? You're not throwing a million books out there. So, you know, in the. In this case, like, I think it hits its audience. It does a great job with the audiences there, and it's a fun book.
You're still gonna be mad about my ranking, but that's. Okay.
[00:50:07] Speaker A: Nicely mad about your ranking. I was pretty happy with it, to be honest.
[00:50:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm super happy with the book, so.
[00:50:16] Speaker A: And I will say, this has been an amazing adventure with you. As we battled through space, we took on the snarks, we saw the world. All those getting blown up. No way you didn't do this. Wrong book.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: Wrong book.
Travis's exhaustion.
[00:50:33] Speaker A: Yeah. This is the most exhausted I've been on your podcast. I don't know why I was wondering, but I do want to say, if you have me on the show again, we're going to go gay.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: I don't. I don't need to go gay on the show. I mean, I. Oh.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: I'm just saying it's time for you to come out on.
[00:50:52] Speaker B: Already come out on the show.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: Are you taking this from me? You taking my moment when I get you to come out?
[00:50:59] Speaker B: Are we getting. Are we getting bad characters that Marvel decides to have come out?
[00:51:05] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
[00:51:07] Speaker B: So perhaps wants to do some Alpha Flight?
[00:51:10] Speaker A: Alpha Flight. Yeah. I was holding up Alpha Flight, so, yeah, if you ever let me on the podcast again, I'm gonna. I'm gonna make you read Alpha Flight.
[00:51:18] Speaker B: With instructions to read some Alpha Flight from Travis.
[00:51:22] Speaker A: You were talking about divided. You were talking about the world's divided and stuff. So we're gonna do the Divided We Stand book. That the. The trade that came out was it two years ago.
[00:51:36] Speaker B: So you can catch up. Read that. Greg may be back soon. I did a thing.
And do you know what I did for Greg, Rob Copy?
Nope. I went and got all the Booster Gold floppies.
The original Dan Jurgens run.
[00:51:56] Speaker A: It's like eight bucks.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that first one costs a little bit of money now because for some reason, people think his first appearance is worth something because he's going to be in movies and shit.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: Are they gonna put Booster Gold in a movie?
[00:52:10] Speaker B: Yeah, they are.
Are you sad? Look. Okay. Unequivocally, the Booster Gold Justice League Unlimited episode, quite possibly the best episode.
[00:52:24] Speaker A: I don't remember it. I don't.
[00:52:26] Speaker B: It was the one. I will send it to you so you can go back and watch it.
The whole Justice League is fighting Mordrew the Sorcerer, and they send Booster Gold to basically be on traffic duty.
And then the fighting Mordor ends up being the Beast. B plot.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: And.
[00:52:45] Speaker B: And Booster Gold goes on his own. A plot where he saves the entire universe, but nobody believes him at the end.
[00:52:53] Speaker A: To be fair, that's pretty funny. It's also really funny because he has one of the best moments in that Batman movie. He came out in 2017, I think. Batman, Hurley, where he's on the phone with Robin. He's like, well, I could get.
Well, I could come out.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: No, no, no. You. Yep. No.
Also, if you listen to the Human Target episode, you will know that the Booster Gold's pre toasted bagels have become a staple on this podcast. And Greg and I discussing whether pre toasting is a real thing or not.
And honestly, too, I think. I know you're not a huge Booster Gold fan, so I know you never read it, but like, the relaunch book on Booster Gold where he becomes, like, this hero that has to keep his being a hero a secret was really good. And he's bouncing through time all the time. And, you know, it's. It's. They've done a lot. I mean, Booster Gold's come a long way. And obviously Booster Gold in the JLI was. Was great.
Booster Golden Blue Beetle was fantastic.
[00:53:58] Speaker A: I was just.
[00:54:00] Speaker B: I mean, they're right here.
They're right here. See, they're your favorite two characters.
You got to admit, Gif and Damatis knew what to do with the characters.
[00:54:16] Speaker A: Just. Just some toast. Some Toasted Lays chips.
[00:54:20] Speaker B: Pre toasted. Pre toasting. There's no pre toasting. You're on the side that pre toasting doesn't exist. Right. And the other chips, retoasting's impossible. Right. You're on the side of my side. Right.
[00:54:33] Speaker A: Why do rigid chips taste better than sfunet chips?
[00:54:37] Speaker B: Why are you off on this? Like, what is happening?
[00:54:40] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm sorry. All right.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: It's what happens when you see Booster Golden Blue Beetle. You, like, immediately brain melts. Disengaged.
[00:54:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:54:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:47] Speaker A: Well, maybe someone put a brain block in me.
[00:54:50] Speaker B: Well, you know what? I actually believe that you do need a brain block in you. Otherwise the world would bend.
Well, it's been an absolute pleasure doing the episodes with you. You, of course, will come back on the show or.
Or you may come back on a different podcast. That's a version of the show.
[00:55:09] Speaker A: We'll see what happens.
[00:55:10] Speaker B: See what happens.
[00:55:11] Speaker A: Or maybe we'll do the next show live from what's the studio.
[00:55:15] Speaker B: Oh, we could do a show live from Las Vegas at the end of the Month.
[00:55:20] Speaker A: I'll get some footage of us walking around doing.
[00:55:25] Speaker B: I mean, it might happen. I mean, by the time this podcast comes out, I will be near Vegas, and Travis and I may be attending aging bloated rock star concert, baby.
[00:55:40] Speaker A: Bloated rock stars. The delicious.
[00:55:44] Speaker B: And Caesar was. Caesar is about to end the podcast right here.
[00:55:47] Speaker A: Caesar's coming up first. Say goodbye.
No, he doesn't.
[00:55:52] Speaker B: Juliet has abandoned me, so.
All right, well, before I lose my headphone again, Before I lose my headphone again, we should wrap this up, Travis. We'll have a Kickstarter online when this podcast comes out.
It is Albert Pun's nemesis, the return of Alex Rain.
[00:56:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Actually, I'll have bad future coming up.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: And you will have over.
A bad future is arising.
[00:56:19] Speaker A: Well, bad future just got hit. Even though it hasn't gone up on Kickstarter as of the time of this podcast, it was already set as a project we love ahead of time.
[00:56:30] Speaker B: Oh, there you go.
[00:56:31] Speaker A: Because of who's all involved, not because of me, but there's some other really great creators on there that I get to share. Share that with. And so the. We got that cool little projects we love, Stan.
[00:56:43] Speaker B: Well, there you go. And it's right here. I can see it right now.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: Yeah, just bad feature on Kickstarter Internet.
[00:56:50] Speaker B: And I even made a link to Travis's Kickstarter too, so we can do that. And then on top of that, Greg has a book out. You might have heard of it, Absolute Zeros Camp Launchpad, if you order the hard copy hardcover.
[00:57:07] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:57:07] Speaker B: Greg will personally send you a signed MXPX cd, so there's that. You should pick it up. I know summer's over, but it's now a reader for kids in school. So pick it up. You'll read it, they'll read it. Everybody will be happy. It'll be super fun.
And on top of that, I am living in the basement. Except I will be appearing in Vegas, so it's kind of weird. I guess I'm going to have to leave the basement to go to Vegas.
It'll happen. And then you also.
Are you struggling here? I want to do this. Like one of those Instagram reels.
Are you a male in your 30s, struggling with your job and your fitness?
Why do they start ads with rhetorical questions, Travis?
[00:57:59] Speaker A: Oh, because it's called action.
[00:58:02] Speaker B: But it's not. It's literally the opposite. And you're excluding large chunks of your audience by asking the question, does your dog have. Anyway, if some of those things are true, you might want to employ engage acquire the services of one jiu jitsu lawyer Paul at certified martial arts where you can be trained to tap people out or you could get his services to be your employment lawyer and he could tap out the competition make sure that your rights are protected. See where I went there.
[00:58:39] Speaker A: You see where you went and it was it was awesome.
[00:58:43] Speaker B: And if you go to Kent Washington you might even be able to find the retro emporium where you can relive your childhood.
You might find Ann there, you might find Greg there and you might find Travis if you ever came back here. Squatcho man.
[00:59:03] Speaker A: Thing.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: Oh yeah, the employee of the month.
So that's it. That's all the plugs. We will see you next time very likely with the Booster Gold number one from 1986. 85. 86.
And if not it'll be alpha flight. So that's where we're at right now. It's going to be one of those two things. That's it and we will see you next time we're Travis passes out. Goodbye.
