Funny Book Forensics 416 Booster and Thorn

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Now we're on Streamyard. So get powered by Streamyard in the corner. We're getting free advertising. How exciting is that? [00:00:12] Speaker B: It is exciting. It's like we're sponsored, but we're not. [00:00:16] Speaker A: We're sponsoring them. We're sponsoring them by giving them advertisements. They're sponsored like all the listeners. Now all eight of our listeners are going to use streamyard. I guess we'll let them know how it is. [00:00:28] Speaker B: I mean, how. How else are they going to find out about what we do, Dan? How else? [00:00:35] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, I could give them Streamyard. [00:00:41] Speaker B: I mean, carrier pigeon. [00:00:45] Speaker A: Well, I have something good to talk about. [00:00:47] Speaker B: What is that? [00:00:49] Speaker A: Well, I got some cool prints this week. Month being made. Yeah. Made for them. [00:00:57] Speaker B: What. What kind of prints? [00:00:59] Speaker A: They're Fatal 5 prints, but I'm only getting three of the Fatal 5. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Only three of the Fatal 5. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Well, it's a lot. I mean, they. They weren't so. Every. Every November. [00:01:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:12] Speaker A: Mark Steg Bower from Madison, Wisconsin area. Yeah, I assume he went to Madison. It says he's from Black Earth, Wisconsin. I don't know what that is. [00:01:24] Speaker B: Is it a village near. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Well, he went to Madison College. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Okay, so the University of Madison, Wisconsin. [00:01:31] Speaker A: No, no, that's the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This is Madison College. This is different. [00:01:36] Speaker B: Oh, then it might not be in Madison, Wisconsin. [00:01:39] Speaker A: He used to work at Marvel Comics. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:01:42] Speaker A: He's done stuff for Upper Deck. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Ah. [00:01:46] Speaker A: And he's the Legion of Superheroes. [00:01:48] Speaker B: And they're like every and every accent and every. [00:01:52] Speaker A: And I've. I've never done it. Every November, he does 30 days in the 30th century, and he draws a different Legion character each day. [00:01:59] Speaker B: What? [00:02:01] Speaker A: And he donates the proceeds every year. How cool is that? [00:02:04] Speaker B: That is pretty cool. [00:02:07] Speaker A: This year, I passed up on this. Every year. I keep forgetting. I would forget in, like, something happened them in time or something happens. And so then I was like, oh, well, this is really annoying. Like, I want to get this. So this time I jumped on it. Three prints a man O. You know, because. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yes. I'm getting an Emerald Empress. Oh, yeah. And I'm getting a persuader. [00:02:40] Speaker B: Persuader. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Oh, you remember because we read the Fatal. [00:02:44] Speaker B: Yes, yes, we did. I know. I know. These characters. These characters. I know. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Is awesome. [00:02:51] Speaker B: That is pretty awesome. [00:02:54] Speaker A: So I'm really excited about this. And anyway, he has a Patreon if you ever want to go check out his stuff. [00:03:02] Speaker B: Oh, that's cool. [00:03:04] Speaker A: It's patreon.com. mark Stegbauer S T E G B A U E R. Ah. And so I'm getting out of my sunky mood and getting into positives. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Yes, you are. I like that, Dan. This is a. Putting on a new look. [00:03:22] Speaker A: I'm in a hell of a mood today. I can't even get my hat to work right. [00:03:26] Speaker B: He can't get his hat to work. Can't find the glasses, but he's here. [00:03:29] Speaker A: I can't log into the recording software. There's, like, literally nothing I could do correctly today. But you know what? [00:03:35] Speaker B: What? [00:03:37] Speaker A: That just makes me just like the lead character of our comics. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Skeets. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Yes. Skeets. No, Sk does things correctly. We're talking about Booster Gold. [00:03:48] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:03:49] Speaker A: It's definitely a Booster Gold podcast. We have. Yes. Screw things up. Things work. Things have blown up. Nothing's working except mark Stegbauer's art. 100%. This is. This is. If. [00:04:04] Speaker B: If. If any podcast was to be personified by a superhero, Booster Gold would be. [00:04:13] Speaker A: This Booster Gold podcast if I've ever seen one. [00:04:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, no, definitely. We. [00:04:19] Speaker A: We. [00:04:19] Speaker B: We came from the future. I mean. [00:04:22] Speaker A: Oh, no. What? I know. We got told that last issue, remember? Yeah, we need. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, we. [00:04:32] Speaker A: We peaked at it. [00:04:33] Speaker B: We peaked at it. [00:04:34] Speaker A: Well, now we saw the flight ring. [00:04:37] Speaker B: We saw the flight ring. We know that it's. We know. We know. But everyone else in every timeline does. [00:04:45] Speaker A: Line. Booster Timeline. But all the readers know. [00:04:47] Speaker B: All the readers know. [00:04:48] Speaker A: All the readers know. [00:04:49] Speaker B: Hopefully they know. I mean. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Well, we got number four here. Number two, more things. Are you ready? We'll have to find out the name of Diamond Face. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Diamond Face. [00:04:59] Speaker A: We're gonna find out who that lady wandering around in the background was. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:06] Speaker A: We're gonna find out if Booster Gold can beat people up. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Oh, I think you can. [00:05:12] Speaker A: We get more Teal Guard. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Best character ever. [00:05:18] Speaker A: The best character of 1986. Right there. [00:05:21] Speaker B: You know it. Coming on. Bringing the heat. [00:05:25] Speaker A: Wow. We've got Bush, your gold number four from May of 1986, but that's really three months before. But it is actually 86 this time. We don't have the DC 50th year in the corner anymore. We have Howard Shaking. Cast the shadow. Oh, that's Howard Shaking. Probably writing and drawing the shadow, I'm guessing. Perhaps. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:47] Speaker A: We get guest starring Rose and Thorn. We get don't miss it or Skeets will never forgive you. We get a journey into Carla cover. Honestly, there's a lot going on on this cover. [00:05:59] Speaker B: It is so good. There's I mean, like I said about a lot of covers, but this is, like, there's a lot of action going on. If I saw this on a spinner rack, I. I would be very, very drawn to. [00:06:13] Speaker A: Well, we mentioned this. I think last time there was a lot of 30th century in the art at the end of the issue, and there's a lot of 30th century on this cover. Yeah. I am going to disagree with you. I think this is my least favorite of the COVID so far. [00:06:27] Speaker B: Are you serious? Oh, my gosh. [00:06:29] Speaker A: Really? I don't know if it's. I don't. I. I actually saw Mike DeCarlo online. I think he lives in Portland. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Oh, interesting. [00:06:39] Speaker A: And it came up in my friends list, which I could be friends with Mike DeCarlo. Oh. So. But I'm not sure if it's DeCarlo's inks on this or if it's just the line art, but I. I thought that. I thought the figures were a little weak. [00:06:58] Speaker B: I just see all, like, the fighting going on and everything happening, and I'm like, man, I gotta see what's in what's going on inside this book. [00:07:08] Speaker A: That's true. There is a lot going on. You got Mind Dancer. Mind Dancer fighting with. With Thorne. Well, you don't know her name yet. What we do. Yeah, on the car, of course. [00:07:21] Speaker B: I mean, special guest. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Well, anyway, let's. Let's. Let's turn the page, because the art's going to get way better on the first page. Honestly. Anyway, that's true. So if I had complaints about the. The small figures and the figure art on the COVID I have no complaints. Once we turn the page, we have a giant laser aimed at Booster Gold and Teal Guard. Yeah. And who are they going to kill? We've got the title of this called the Crash. We got Dan Jurgens, writer and artist. Mike DeCarlo. Inker, letterer. A mass in piece of white. Or is that Amos? [00:07:59] Speaker B: Amos. I think it's Amos. [00:08:05] Speaker A: Which Houlihan? [00:08:07] Speaker B: Huh? [00:08:08] Speaker A: Nanji Houlihan. Sound like they could be, like, a character in, like, Tommy Boy. [00:08:16] Speaker B: Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. [00:08:18] Speaker A: Yeah. And editor Jan Rice. Janice Rice. Janice Rice. Race. Not Janice Rice either. It's Janice Race. Yeah. Like Race Bannon. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Yes. Oh, Race Ban. [00:08:30] Speaker A: Who's the strangest character ever to be in a cartoon? What? You didn't know? [00:08:37] Speaker B: I didn't know. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Race is very straight. Oh, yeah. Very straight. Extremely. Yeah. Super straight. Okay. To 100% straight. There's no gayness there at all on Race. [00:08:51] Speaker B: Nothing Nothing whatsoever. Nothing. No. [00:08:54] Speaker A: Okay. Just another man. For years, it was fine. [00:09:01] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:03] Speaker A: Just like Abraham Lincoln slept in a bed with his best friend. Because that's just what she did back then. [00:09:08] Speaker B: That's what she did every night. Every night for years. Years. [00:09:15] Speaker A: It just. That's what you did. There wasn't a lot of beds. You had limited space. [00:09:21] Speaker B: Like, it's just. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Just what she did. [00:09:24] Speaker B: The bunk bed. Right. [00:09:26] Speaker A: Now, unfortunately, this is probably going to come out a little bit after current events, but I had no idea that Donald Trump was going to be our first LGBTQ + president. [00:09:37] Speaker B: The video, the. [00:09:38] Speaker A: And I. I don't know what to think about that. He blew Bubba. [00:09:42] Speaker B: I mean, well, I mean, there's that, but then also, I mean, he. He did the. [00:09:47] Speaker A: He. He. [00:09:48] Speaker B: He had the whole entire, like, you know, the cross dress video back in the end. [00:09:55] Speaker A: He. Remember when he was talking about Arnold Palmer's dick? [00:09:58] Speaker B: Huh? I mean, there's a lot of. [00:10:01] Speaker A: It's going to be demonetized. He's listening. I apologize. I'm sorry. Don Drop is the one that said it. I knew it. Not me. It's. [00:10:11] Speaker B: It came out of his mouth, maybe into his mouth. I don't know. [00:10:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I have. I mean, it's. But I mean. And they're claiming Bubba wasn't Bill Clinton, but other prominent Bubbas. [00:10:27] Speaker B: Well, there's also the horse named Bubba. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Really? [00:10:31] Speaker B: I mean, that's what the Internet says. [00:10:32] Speaker A: I'm just. I just follow Dr. Google like a donkey show. What? [00:10:37] Speaker B: I. I don't know, man. I don't know. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Well, anyway, enough of this. We've got a giant plany thing aiming at Booster Gold. Yeah, it zaps him, but we find out. Come on. Dan Jurgens, my dancer, says it's a solar drill, and we use it to forge and ship metals and microscopically exact measurements. And you see, it hasn't warmed up enough to kill people yet. Just zapping them and hurting them. [00:11:11] Speaker B: It's just. It's like when your taser is only on, like, one and not on six. [00:11:16] Speaker A: This is literally the lamest trap ever. It's. [00:11:20] Speaker B: It's a bad laser. [00:11:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not sure what's worse, Streamyard logo or this laser. [00:11:28] Speaker B: Come on, now. [00:11:29] Speaker A: You don't. [00:11:30] Speaker B: You don't like the duck? [00:11:32] Speaker A: What does a duck have to do with audio streaming? [00:11:34] Speaker B: I don't know. It quacks me up, man. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not even entering Knock thought today. Zero ducks, everybody. Zero ducks. We'll have a dox, but gives no ducks. For this, we go to the Next page. And well, hopefully, you know, I talked about somebody drawing for me. I hope they're not politically inclined to vote for Donald Trump. I would hate to promote their art in the same podcast that I was blasting the President. [00:12:04] Speaker B: I mean, it happens. It happens. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Oh, wait, I didn't blast the President. The president got blasted. [00:12:13] Speaker B: I mean, that happened too. Allegedly. Allegedly. All this is allegedly. We can't see. That's, that's, that's how. [00:12:22] Speaker A: That's the workaround. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Allegedly. [00:12:24] Speaker A: So we flipped the base and Thorin is standing there in her knee brace, hearing tortured screams, wandering down corridors, saying, oh my God. Her goal apparently has always been the destruction of the 100, but now the thousand. No, the one. Or is it the ten? [00:12:49] Speaker B: It's the one, the ten, the hundred. [00:12:51] Speaker A: The thousand, the thousand. Well, she's wanting to take them out since they were the hundred. Since they were in Black Lightning. We actually get a note somewhere that mentions Black Lightning on one of these issues. Anyway, Thar was correct. It was fighting and we were right. Dan knows things. Dan does it while he read. I read some Black Lightning comics, you know. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:15] Speaker A: Nothing like a Black Lightning comic. Yeah, crazy crazy crossover imploded. They were imploded. Remember? [00:13:26] Speaker B: Crazy crossover. There was a time where. Where Saul and I on nurse in the crypt during the the run of the Black Lightning show got to interview one of the actors from Black Lightning. [00:13:39] Speaker A: What? [00:13:39] Speaker B: I know, right? So. [00:13:43] Speaker A: Well, tell, tell me master of mid-80s DC Comics which you are interested. [00:13:50] Speaker B: I know. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. [00:13:53] Speaker A: Why couldn't Black Lightning be in this series? Why couldn't what series? What prominent series? The black lighting in at this. [00:14:02] Speaker B: That's. [00:14:02] Speaker A: We mentioned it last episode happens. [00:14:05] Speaker B: It's a great question. I do not know. [00:14:12] Speaker A: We mentioned Looker making her first appearance in Batman and the Outsiders. Ah. Then Batman leaving and becoming the Outsiders and then Black Lightning. [00:14:23] Speaker B: Blue black light. Okay, so Black Lightning with the Outsiders. [00:14:29] Speaker A: In the Outsiders. [00:14:30] Speaker B: In the Outsiders. Gotcha. [00:14:33] Speaker A: And some other folks. Halo Wicker and other people. [00:14:39] Speaker B: I see. I could check it out. [00:14:42] Speaker A: See nothing like a Geo force. I. [00:14:47] Speaker B: It sounds awesome. I mean I like myself a Metro. They're a nice little car. Feels cool to drive around in a go kart, you know, full size or Geostorm. It's kind of a cool car too. I. I had a relative that had both makes and models and I enjoyed driving both of them at. [00:15:05] Speaker A: How about the G? [00:15:08] Speaker B: You know, they also had one of those. They had done the. The Metro to Prism to Storm jump through. [00:15:17] Speaker A: Did not owned A Geoprism. Did you. [00:15:20] Speaker B: And did you like the prism? [00:15:23] Speaker A: That was the sedan, right? [00:15:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you didn't. [00:15:28] Speaker A: No. So I bought this car. Do you remember when I owned the Mercedes convertible hard top for like. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Yes, yes. [00:15:39] Speaker A: And then I sold it because I didn't have any money because I shouldn't have ever bought that. [00:15:44] Speaker B: Yes. [00:15:45] Speaker A: But I did buy it for when? Well, I bought it for $12,000, $11,000 and sold it for $15,000. [00:15:51] Speaker B: You. You made money. [00:15:53] Speaker A: You were money on a car for. [00:15:55] Speaker B: He flipped that. Flipped that Mercedes. Money, money, money. [00:16:00] Speaker A: And then I took like $1,000 and bought like a Geoprism. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Oh, dang. [00:16:05] Speaker A: And money in the bank. Oh, that's. Something happened. Like something happened with it where I would turn on the lights. Yeah. And the engine would turn off. [00:16:21] Speaker B: Oh, no, it had a bad electrical or something like that. [00:16:25] Speaker A: I took it to the. I took it to the mechanic who'd been working on it for me. And this was in Oklahoma. Lawton, Oklahoma. And had a really good mechanic there who was very great. And he had worked on it and done some things for me and investigated it. Kept the car for a week. Yeah. The same week he had the car, it was over 100 degrees every day and I was riding my bike around town. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Oh, no. Yeah. [00:16:55] Speaker A: And. And he had the car and he gave it back to me for free and said somebody had stalled an aftermarket alarm system, somehow disabled it and it somehow messed up the entire electrical system. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Probably because it cut the wrong wires. [00:17:20] Speaker A: And then I ended up getting a Chevy Aveo. [00:17:23] Speaker B: Oh. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Which was also a terrible car. [00:17:26] Speaker B: I. I'm not. [00:17:29] Speaker A: I sold that before I moved back here. I have nothing to say about this. When I bought. Moved back here, I bought the Pontiac Vibe from Palmer and taking the Aveo with me. I just sold it before I left. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:43] Speaker A: Yeah. It was not a good car. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Ah, not a good car. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Anyway, welcome to car talk. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Welcome to car talk with Dan and Greg as we talk about the life of Geos. [00:17:57] Speaker A: Or the lack of life. [00:17:59] Speaker B: The what about Geotracker. We haven't talked about them yet. How do you feel about the Tracker, Dan? [00:18:05] Speaker A: The same way I feel about the Suzuki Sam Roll. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Ah, yes. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Delicious Suki Suzuki, delicious Suzuki Sam Roll. Make sure the tracker is a good car to flip over if you want him to flip. [00:18:22] Speaker B: But it looks so cool. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Trig at that roll bar. Yeah. If you buy a salmon roll, make sure you get a roll bargain. Well, anyway, Thorne is running around. She's found the evil lair and she's running around being Thorn and we get a whole bunch of yellow dialogue talking about what Thorin is going to do. It's interesting because this is the time before you had the characters just thinking in these boxes all the time. This is a narrator talking in the box describing everything she's doing. If I was careful, the comic, I. I get having some of the narration here. [00:18:58] Speaker B: Right. [00:18:59] Speaker A: But I don't think we need. If you have good art, which this is. Yeah. You don't need a narration describing everything she's doing. I like the narration, like mentioning. Oh, her goal and. And how she's linked to the organization. Like this one. Her fingers find us a smoke thorn from her belt arsenal. Like, I don't know that we need that. Right. Like, just. Yeah, show us. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Show. Don't tell. We just need to. We need to see the. The story unfold and maybe have a little bit of that. Oh, all this stuff has happened, you know, like, as she's seeing it and her being upset. [00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And since there are no page numbers in these comics. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. I think that's. That is exactly why we do what we do over at Overcast, because of books like this that guided us through our journey growing up reading comics. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sure if I asked one, Mr. Travis Webb, he would say that Booster Gold was. In fact, I can tell you right now, he called Travis up right now. Yeah, maybe I will call Travis UPRI now. Ask him. Booster Gold was the guiding force for his comics. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Okay. He's gonna call Travis right now. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, actually, we're gonna call Travis right now. Okay, go ahead and we'll flip the page here. Rose beats up a lot of people, but I think the problem with the comic is that with the page, I would have liked to see the dialogue on page one. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. He's actually doing it. [00:20:44] Speaker A: I would have liked. On the first page. Yeah, he tries. That's good. That's not what I was going to ask you. Greg and I are live on the podcast right now, and Greg said I mentioned that this Booster Gold number four has no page numbers. And Greg said that Booster Gold comics like Booster Gold and the great storytelling here are the reason that you choose not to put page numbers in your comic books. Now, I just wanted to confirm that with you on how much you loved Booster Gold. Did you want to confirm for the entire podcast in the world your love and affection for Booster Gold right now? [00:21:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Message being bred. Tell him that it doesn't put page numbers on stuff from now on Go stab him. That is Travis's love for Bre. Okay, so just know, Travis, thank you for joining us for the podcast and confirming your. Your love of Booster Gold. I'm very excited. [00:21:49] Speaker B: And we got messages. [00:21:50] Speaker A: Right. I love this. There's typing going on. I love that there is now going to be page numbers in comics forever. This is the best day ever. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:22:03] Speaker A: All right. This is the best. Yes. Well, Travis, thank you for joining us. We will let you go on about your evening. I'm not sling. [00:22:15] Speaker B: You can't use the audio, Dan. Allegedly, it was Travis. [00:22:19] Speaker A: If we. [00:22:21] Speaker B: It's okay. [00:22:23] Speaker A: It's fine. We'll. We'll be good. But we're talking about some Rosenthorne here. I know you appreciate that character. [00:22:32] Speaker B: Well, no, I don't need more Rosenthorne. [00:22:34] Speaker A: See? All right, well, Travis, we will contact you soon. And thank you for joining us on the podcast. And yay to page numbers forever. And I'll confirm. Look, it is Travis. I'm not. [00:22:47] Speaker B: You can't be giving out his number on the Internet. Oh, I'm on. I'm not hanging. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Just. Thank you, Travis. Have a wonderful evening. Bye, Travis. Okay. Oh, man. Page numbers forever. Nice. [00:23:09] Speaker B: All right, so highly doubt it. [00:23:13] Speaker A: The SETI was messaging Brett right now to have page numbers and things times. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:23:19] Speaker A: Well, good news. Thorin lets Booster Gold go. And. And unfortunately, she also lets Teal Guard go. Go. And they are now in a true force Teen Titans furs as a Teen Titans cover if I've ever seen one. [00:23:35] Speaker B: It is actually I. When. [00:23:37] Speaker A: When. [00:23:37] Speaker B: When the smoke cleared and they all came out of the smoke, I was like hero action. I mean, with. And Black Guard, too. [00:23:50] Speaker A: That's not Black Guard. That's Teal Guard. [00:23:52] Speaker B: Teal Guard. [00:23:53] Speaker A: You know where Blackguard is in a different comic. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Okay, he's in a different comic. [00:23:58] Speaker A: No, there is a reality somewhere where Black Guard actually has a black costume. [00:24:01] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:24:03] Speaker A: I don't know what reality that is. It might be Earth214. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Okay. He's a SM space marine fighting the Tyranids. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure I could consult. That's possible. And I'm sure I could consult Grant Morrison's Unreadable Multiversity. I do. [00:24:21] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:22] Speaker A: And find out. Go find out which Earth Black Heart is. How's a black. Yeah, that. I bet it's there. Well, we turn the page and Trixie is at home watching a beautiful television with her mom. [00:24:38] Speaker B: And it looks like the TV at the Retro Emporium. [00:24:41] Speaker A: It does. Look at the TV at the Retro Emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington, where you can relive your childhood. And things smell like Fruit Loops. You go see. And you could buy all sorts of things at the Retro Emporium, including vintage video cassettes. [00:24:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:24:59] Speaker A: And DVDs. Oh, yeah. And records. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Things that we go on that television. Yeah, that's true. I wouldn't be surprised if a record player doesn't pop out of the top of that television. [00:25:08] Speaker B: It might. Or off the side a little bit. [00:25:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, anyway, they're chatting. Oh, it's Aunt Jean. Aunt Jean. Not her mom. Aunt Jean. There's always an aunt. Why can't it be her mom? Is her mom dead? That makes me feel sad. Like, what. What's happening right now? Did I, like, put her in a position where things are terrible? [00:25:29] Speaker B: She's like Peter Parker. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Well, the cool thing is there's a shopping list and it contains tuna, eggs, sugar, Raisin Bran and aspirin. [00:25:40] Speaker B: All important. [00:25:41] Speaker A: Which is what you would need after you ate those things together. [00:25:45] Speaker B: To aspirin after you ate all the. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. What are you making with tuna, egg, sugar and Raisin Bran? [00:25:54] Speaker B: Oh, it's a really good casserole, Dan. You mix the tuna and the eggs together with the Raisin Bran and you bake it at, like, about 350 for 40 minutes or so to get a nice crisp on it, and it just pops. [00:26:18] Speaker A: I think that's what's going into the fish tank on the next page. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. She's feeding the fish fish. Because that's what you do. Hey, fish, you want some fish? [00:26:28] Speaker A: And she is just going off about not turning trader on Booster. [00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah, she's. She's keeping Booster secrets close to the vest. [00:26:39] Speaker A: I mean, and is that. That's. Is that the B plot or the C plot was Storm, right? Yeah. Thorn was the C plot. Right. But now Thorn is in the main. [00:26:52] Speaker B: This might be the D plot. I don't know. She doesn't. It's like she doesn't really know any secrets about Booster, so she can't really tell them. But she's thinking about Booster in the background and wondering about who Booster is. There was that moment where they almost touched fingers and it was electrical. They're almost touched. [00:27:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Hello. [00:27:22] Speaker A: How many more times are you gonna. [00:27:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:27:24] Speaker A: Like, that's terrifying. Are you gonna talk about coffee creamer or something? No. Okay, sure. Fish. [00:27:36] Speaker B: Goldfish. Fish food. Tuna fish. [00:27:39] Speaker A: Okay, then we'll. Next. Next page. Raisin Bran. Next page. Mind Dancer. Mind Dancer attacks the weakest link Ah, yeah. And he yells, mind denture. Get out of my head. Healcard has the best dialogue of all the characters he does. [00:28:02] Speaker B: It's, it's pretty solid. It's, it's like realistic. It's the kind of thing that I would say if somebody was in my head. [00:28:10] Speaker A: Get out of my head. [00:28:11] Speaker B: Greg. [00:28:17] Speaker A: Following. Yeah. Everybody's fighting. They're talking about the Android. There's a lot of action scene. We do get to see what's going on in DC Comics. [00:28:26] Speaker B: Oh, damn. You ready? [00:28:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Swamp Thing, number 48 West. Close behind American Gothic appears Batman and the outsiders. The Outsiders versus Baron Bedlam and the Masters of Disaster. Green Lantern 200. A double size shocker that leaves this book changed forever. How much do you think. Who do you think might change the Green Lantern universe forever? Can't be my guy. Not. It's your Christmas present that you already got. About my guy. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Guy Gardner. My guy. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely your guy. Warlord105, presumably drawn by one Ron Randall. As we learned, a sinister secret reveals itself when Warlord gets involved. Blue Devil, number 24. Lethal. Blue Devil. Toys are Lewis and Metropolis. I think that might have. Think the Toy Man. Right. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Year older, maybe it's like who's who. [00:29:32] Speaker A: Number 15, Metamorpho, Amazing Man, Metal Man, Mr. Miracle, and many more. [00:29:40] Speaker B: And metal men climb me some robots, Some robo boys. [00:29:46] Speaker A: Is there Booster Gold Number four? We know it's not Infinity Inc. Number 26, Helix appears. [00:29:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:55] Speaker A: And the origin of the new Wildcat and new teen Titans. Number 20, Cheshire is back. Oh, and fights the original Titans. A big fan of Speedy, you know. [00:30:15] Speaker B: Big fan. [00:30:16] Speaker A: She has poison in his, her hands. And he likes to, you know, just poison. You put them together. [00:30:24] Speaker B: Bad news. [00:30:27] Speaker A: Poor good news. [00:30:32] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:30:34] Speaker A: Well, anyway, turn the page as Bob Seeger said. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Yes. [00:30:40] Speaker A: And everybody is still kung fu fighting. They are fighting the robot. Thorn is fighting Mind Dancer. Skeets is fighting Blackguard. [00:30:51] Speaker B: I, I, I, I, I, I think Blackguard is, is outmatched. [00:31:01] Speaker A: I mean, intellectually and physically. And I find him because it doesn't take much intellectually to outmatch Blackguard. But we've got it. Yeah. [00:31:14] Speaker B: So. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Well, anyway, they take out the solar drill on accident and exactly everything with. [00:31:22] Speaker B: A wham and a slam. [00:31:24] Speaker A: And a scash. [00:31:25] Speaker B: Oh, dang. [00:31:27] Speaker A: What is a scash? Scash? It's it. [00:31:30] Speaker B: And it's cash. [00:31:32] Speaker A: I do love, I do love this art. It was so, it looks so 30th century. [00:31:37] Speaker B: So neat. [00:31:39] Speaker A: Like, how did the 30th century end up in underground Metropolis. [00:31:42] Speaker B: I don't know, but I like it. [00:31:45] Speaker A: Well, Rose kicks the out of mind answer. [00:31:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:51] Speaker A: And then Diamond Chase comes on the screen ODing and says, Mind Dancer, what's wrong? Use your psychic brain bolt. I'm too weak. And Diamond Face says, curse you, woman. You cost 1,000 dearly. But we will still have our rev. All right, so that is definitely Cobra Commander. [00:32:13] Speaker B: I know, totally. Right? [00:32:17] Speaker A: Definitely Cobra Commander. They have to look out. The sword drill daps them. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Like I said, he's. He's building up. He's building up his forces. [00:32:26] Speaker A: He's. [00:32:27] Speaker B: He's getting everybody for his mlm. He's asking them if they want to be, you know, their own boss and stuff like that. He's. He's getting all the candles and the oils together. And then he's. He's getting all the prepackaged food and he's getting them all these things so that they can go out and get 10 more people underneath them. So they get 10 more people underneath them and 10 more people underneath them. And. And then they can have 10,000. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:02] Speaker B: And I mean, you know, just continue. [00:33:04] Speaker A: No, they. Yeah. And then 100,000. [00:33:07] Speaker B: A hundred thousand. Yeah. [00:33:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, he is Diamond Face, I guess we learned. He's the director on the COVID right? [00:33:14] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's directing it. [00:33:17] Speaker A: Well, anyway, now Booster Gold is all gold. [00:33:21] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. He is power people. [00:33:24] Speaker A: He's zapping things. And they're still fighting Black Guard, still fighting with them, even though. Keit's line is the best. They're fighting Blackguard. And Keit is like, I believe you mean pushing up daisies, because says selling Daisy about selling daisies almost dying. Yeah, yeah. And then Pete says, booster, I'm occupied at the moment dispatching Blackguard. Fortunately, he is slow and unthinking. And Booster, not to mention ugly. And to keep. Please, Booster. And as a result, a tactic similar to the one we used before should suffice again. And he knocks Blackguard back in to get zapped by the thing. And Ste basically saves the day as usual. He's the first one has taken down Blackguard. When Blackguard gets hit, that distracts Mind Dancer. She gets kicked in the face by a thorn. And they're able to all gang up on the robot together, lowly Booster and Skeets. And they take out the robot, but Booster still gets punched in the face. [00:34:46] Speaker B: Punched in the face. [00:34:48] Speaker A: So moral of the story is, Thorn is awesome, skates is awesome, and Booster Gold fucks up as much as I do when I can't log into my own software. [00:34:59] Speaker B: You know, it's. Booster is. He's doing the best that he can and he. And he makes mistakes. Boost, but he does it wholeheartedly. Dan, that is much like you. [00:35:11] Speaker A: You. [00:35:12] Speaker B: You do the best that you can and you do it wholeheartedly. [00:35:17] Speaker A: Well, the important thing we have going on here is Thorn. Booster asks Es if Thorne is important to history, and he says no. [00:35:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:35] Speaker A: And the interesting about it is DC would pull this back. [00:35:39] Speaker B: Ah. [00:35:40] Speaker A: In like 2015. [00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Brian Michael Bendis would use Thorn as a bridge from the 20th century to the 30th century to relaunch the Legion of Superheroes. And it was interesting. I didn't. Hadn't read these in a long time, so I'd forgotten that. And then, of course, we don't want to talk about that Legion of Superheroes series because it was a steaming pile of Michael, Brian, Michael Bendis getting a good idea in the series. Literally going nowhere and then had no ending. Sea sentry. But. And I really wanted. I really wanted it to be good. [00:36:30] Speaker B: You wanted it to be good, but it's not. [00:36:36] Speaker A: It's not good. Anyway, we do get a note here from the editor that you could look up Thorin's adventures in Lois Lane number 105 and Braden Gold number 188. Well, Lucia Gold is now mad at the robot. Like, that tears it. I know I don't have to do. I know what I have to do. It's dangerous. And he channels all the energy back into himself and zaps the robot. Oh. And Skeets is like, booster, that could be suicidal. Like, I don't care. I'm tearing apart the robot right now forever. Blow through the smithereen wholeheartedly. And Skeets is, like, risky but effective. And I congratulate you on your correct phrasing. So Skeets is says, and now all we have to do. And Skeets get zapped. [00:37:30] Speaker B: No. [00:37:32] Speaker A: And the solar drill is running loose. They take out the solar drill while Thorn takes out Mind Dancer. And then Thorn pulls Mind Dancer's mask off. And Mind Dancer is like, no, Copper Commander. And Thorn's like, oh, God, this wasn't Cobra Commander. This is Destro, right? [00:37:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's Destro. [00:37:53] Speaker A: It is like a Cobra Commander mask. But we've decided that she. The Destro character. She's the Destro character. Yeah. We're to find out why Destro never takes off that metal face. [00:38:01] Speaker B: Yes. [00:38:03] Speaker A: Well, anyway, meanwhile, at Blaze. Meanwhile, back at Blaze Comics. Blaze Comics, they're watching some Booster stuff. Getting inspired to do Booster got a artist down there looking at some things who draws it, right. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Presumably. [00:38:23] Speaker A: Is that Marv Wolfman? [00:38:25] Speaker B: I think so. [00:38:26] Speaker A: Astro Teens. Yeah, I think it is. And he loves doing Astro teams. But then finds out he's going to make a whole bunch of money drawing V, finds out he doesn't have to draw. Oh, he must draw the. That must be when Dan Jurgen's drawing superheroes. [00:38:43] Speaker B: Ah, okay. [00:38:44] Speaker A: That's the Astro teams. Come on. Yeah, that. Yeah, that makes more sense to draw all those Astro teams. That's right. I just get to draw one hero. I look at the analog from going from Legion of Superheroes to drawing Booster Gold. And then we flip the page and we get Mind Dancer, who is very skull faced. Skull face. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Skull faced. Just a skull. Just a skeleton of lady. [00:39:11] Speaker A: Now, one. One critique I do have here is that you saw it in the meanwhile where Infinity Inc. Was meeting Helix, and that's where they introduced the character Mr. Bones. Mr. Bones, who later goes on to be the director of the DEO and a bunch of different things. But Mr. Brown's whole gimmick was he was a skeleton, basically with an acid touch. And here we have another Skull Face character. I feel like Editorial should have done a little bit better job. [00:39:47] Speaker B: This character has the ability to. [00:39:52] Speaker A: Get. [00:39:52] Speaker B: Into your brain, Dan. It's totally different. Not an acid touch of a brain. [00:39:59] Speaker A: This character also has the ability to dress like the Charlotte Hornets combined. Yes, yes. And the shark. [00:40:05] Speaker B: Looking like a shark. [00:40:07] Speaker A: Spider Man. Spider. Shark. Yeah. So, well, anyway, and Rolf, Wow. [00:40:13] Speaker B: I have to say also, Skull with hair has hair growing out of little, little spotches. I'm. Yeah, yeah. [00:40:26] Speaker A: Okay. Hair school hair. [00:40:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:40:30] Speaker A: Well, anyway, we get to the bottom and they're like, oh, wow, that was a close one, guys. And like, where's Mind Dancer? And Rose? Like, she got away. She smacked me. I should say Thorn. She wears right now. Or she's. She's Thorn right now. Yeah, because she's in the Thorn outfit. Yeah, that would be. Not Rose. That I'm just keep using. [00:40:54] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, duality. [00:40:57] Speaker A: Anyway, she comes back and says, perhaps. I doubt it. But the unknown director is still alive. And I'm sure the 1,000 of other hideouts. Ah, the director. Yes, the director. Old diamond face. [00:41:11] Speaker B: Yes, old diamond face. [00:41:13] Speaker A: Cobra Commander and Booster's like, wait, the JLA is begging me to be a member and I'm sure I could get you in too. And she. Please, because she's like, you're full of. Like. Thorn just uses Booster Gold to find the lair and then. Yeah. Cleans out the lair and just leaves. [00:41:34] Speaker B: And she's like, deuces, I'm out. [00:41:38] Speaker A: Well, we get to the next page. The fights are done. We get to. Good morning, viewers. Welcome to Metro Today. And our guest this morning is none other than Metropolis's newest guardian angel, Boo. Booster Gold. Oh, he's talking to one Jack guy. Do you think that Jack guy is the same guy that happens to turn into a creeper at night? [00:41:59] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:42:00] Speaker A: Is that Jack Ryder? [00:42:02] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:42:06] Speaker A: Maybe it is. [00:42:07] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:42:08] Speaker A: Oh, we're doing a lot of Metropolis right now, so it could be. [00:42:11] Speaker B: Could be. [00:42:13] Speaker A: Well, anyway, we get back to the background and we hear. We haven't heard of Stored in a long time, but she came out, obviously, to take some people out, and they're like, you captured Black Guard. You recovered a stolen satellite. And since Superman's and Booster's, like, since this is Superman's territory, we were shocked that such an organization established itself right below Metropolis. What? And he's like, that means Metropolis needs more superheroes. Yeah. And then we get back to Gold Star, Inc. An old mustache face and jerk face. Jerk like the guy, the man Dirk. What was his last name again? Dirk the jerk. Jerk the jerk Dirk Dixon. Yeah, Dirk. Dirk. Fuzzy, hate face hair. [00:43:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Mustache. [00:43:17] Speaker A: He's like mustache man. He's like, you're the guy, the man, the stud. The hero of the hour. The star with the power. So sweet to be sour. Too sweet to be sour. [00:43:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. [00:43:30] Speaker A: Is he cutting? Is he first our Billy Graham promo like he is. So Booster Gold's like, gotta hand it to you. You don't know who superstar Billy Graham is. You need to look up superstar Burley Graham. He's the precursor to Hulk Hogan, pretty much. Superstar Billy Graham became the world heavyweight champion after Vince McMahon Senior decided to move the belt off of Bruno San Martino. And then he got to hold it. He got to hold the belt for like, what, a year and a half? Ish. And then he. They scheduled him to lose. So he lost to Bob Backlin, most boring character in the world until much later. Bob Backlin became very different later when he went. They made the crazy Bob Backlin and he just lost this guy. And then he got super. But he was super ripped. Everything and got super depressed and sad because he lost and then kind of faded into obscurity for a while and then kind of ruined his life. The drugs, because he had, like, kidney problems his whole life and everything. Later. But this guy was, like. He was huge. Look up Superstar Billy Graham. And my mom didn't like him because he came out to Jesus Christ Superstar. Dun, dun, dun. And my mom thought that was sacrilegious. I think Jesus Christ Superstar might be sacrilegious. So. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I. [00:45:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, anyway, anyway, we're back at the office. We've got the gang back together. We've wrapped. Wrapped up this storyline. Trixie's congratulating him, and these guys come in and they're like, we're with the Internal Revenue Service. And Booster, just like, irs, the Million Dollar Man's partner. He's. Yeah, you need to pay your taxes. [00:45:36] Speaker B: You need to pay your taxes. [00:45:39] Speaker A: And. And. And by the way, yeah, we are hoping that irs, the actual human that played rss, is feeling a little bit better. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, No, I heard on a. [00:45:53] Speaker A: Wrestling content podcast he wasn't doing so hot, so. [00:45:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw a picture of him the other day, and he was. Yeah, obviously. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Not time. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Time's. Time's catching up, But. [00:46:08] Speaker A: But we will. Anyway. Yeah, like, I only. I'm the only person that appreciated that character. I. I think he. Micro Tunder. Yeah. I mean, well, the Varsity Club Microtunder was cool. The Captain Boat Captain. Microtunder not. But the Barry Windham and Microtunder back in the original, like, WWF, like the tag team champions around, like, WrestleMania 1 or 2. That was. Yeah, that was some bomb. That was good stuff. Irs, Microunda, though. [00:46:48] Speaker B: Irs. [00:46:48] Speaker A: Pay your taxes. [00:46:50] Speaker B: Pay their tax. [00:46:50] Speaker A: Money Incorporated. If we don't have Money Incorporated, we never get Deer Money Incorporated, which is one of my favorite tag teams of all time as well. Shout out to Bobby Rudd, Gene Storm, Bobby Rude. That was. Anyway, okay. Yeah, I start living through my favorite wrestling gimmicks, but Booster's got to pay his taxes. We're in real trouble, and we're gonna. And we're gonna start. And next issue, it's Face off against the bizarre Mr. Twister. [00:47:26] Speaker B: Oh, Mr. Twister, the rapper from the 90s. Oh, that guy was awesome. Oh, Twister could wrap backwards and sideways and everything like that. Like, I mean, they put him in a straight jacket and, like. And he would like you to sit there and just, like, just go crazy. No. [00:47:45] Speaker A: Not. [00:47:46] Speaker B: Not that. Not that Mr. Twister. [00:47:49] Speaker A: Well, maybe. Well, would you like to go to the letter pages? Yes. Dear D. Or when the letters are written to me. [00:48:00] Speaker B: Ah, yes. [00:48:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I am not a comic book speculator. [00:48:05] Speaker B: Oh, it's not. [00:48:07] Speaker A: I don't buy multiple issues of a comic book so that I can Fit them in plastic and make a zillion dollars ten years from now when it becomes a classic. I did buy four issues of Booster Gold Number One. Why not? Because I wanted to make money. I did it because the first issue. The first issue needs support, and I wanted to see Booster succeed. The first issue isn't worth a dime in the next decade, which it won't be. Hey, is now. It is now. It is now. But it wasn't in the first decade worth a dime. It was worth 75 cents. It was in the dis. Yeah. Anyway, Booster Gold is terrific. He says he may be mercenary, he may be outrageous, he may be naive. He may be a legion of superheroes reject. He may be irresponsible and reckless and greedy. Who cares? He's a perfect yuppie superhero. And there you go. So thank you. That's from TE Poy in Witchita, Kansas. We appreciate your contributions to the book here. And TE Pouncy picking up all those. [00:49:27] Speaker B: All those issues early on to boost Booster. Booster, Booster. [00:49:35] Speaker A: Not to speculate on comics. TE I hope you did hold on to this for more than a decade, hopefully for multiple decades, because you had them now. They're worth about a hundred dollars a piece. But if you sold them 10 years after this, you. You're. You're must. If you had. If you. If you sold them 10 years after this book came out and you bought a copy of Justice Justice League Number One with Booster Gold and Blue Beetle in it, you would have made more money by having that book sold all the copies that. [00:50:08] Speaker B: That TE Had a Booster Gold to buy that one issue of Justice League Number One. [00:50:16] Speaker A: Did I mention, too, there was a letter from the very infamous letter writer, the Mighty Maple. TM Maple in this. [00:50:24] Speaker B: Oh, we're gonna get a little bit of that. [00:50:28] Speaker A: Because writes so many letters that I don't want to read all his stuff. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Oh, okay. No highlights. No highlights of the. No, no maple. Maple highlights. [00:50:41] Speaker A: He does say. Okay, here's. Here's the syrup. [00:50:44] Speaker B: All right. Sticky stuff. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Booster Gold might also look bad in comparison to other superheroes. Sure, lots of athletes commercialize themselves, but no other superheroes do so. Thus, no matter what the merits of BG's policies, he might look rather greedy in the public's eye. He's not playing by the rules. Interestingly enough, you indicate, number one, that he is not of our time period. It takes an outsider to break the convention. So far, Booster has not been to. Do you see why I didn't read his stuff? He's just recounting the book. [00:51:18] Speaker B: I mean, he's not wrong, though. I mean, it's almost like Booster is. Is like very much. I mean, he's very. Timing, very tm. Yeah, no, like, I mean, the doing. Doing what an athlete would do. Capitalizing on that marketability and getting those types of endorsements and other things like that. [00:51:48] Speaker A: You know, imagine if. If all the gambling websites existed when. Oh, oh, sports kings and draft books and will. [00:52:02] Speaker B: Will Booster be able to pull off this save or will he mess up? [00:52:07] Speaker A: I mean, what was the solitaire one that Stephen A. Smith was sponsoring? [00:52:12] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:52:14] Speaker A: Stephen A. Smith, you're a piece of. I'm on. But I just want to make sure I have. It's. It's clear that Stephen A. Smith is a piece of shit. I just. I don't want a pro. Relations. Yeah. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Me. [00:52:30] Speaker A: I mean, I brought him up, but I don't want people to think that I like him or I want to advertise him he's a human piece of garbage. But yeah, Stephen A. Smith, solitaire betting. Yeah, he did. You know this? [00:52:46] Speaker B: No. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Basically was at a sporting event playing solitaire on his phone, and it became like a meme. And then he got. He started advertising for some corrupted gambling company that's been accused of cheating and all sorts of stuff. Playing solitaire. Oh, weird. AI commercial. Stephen A. Smith, you are a piece of shit. Maybe we should introduce the piece of shit of the week. [00:53:12] Speaker B: Oh, what? [00:53:13] Speaker A: Yeah, we could do it retroactively. We honored a piece of shit of the weaved in one creator of the Walking Dead and Vince, remember? [00:53:27] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:53:28] Speaker A: And people who bet on sports. Unlike Booster Gold. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Unlike Booster Gold, Booster doesn't bet on sports. He bits on himself. [00:53:45] Speaker A: Huh. [00:53:48] Speaker B: Oops. [00:53:50] Speaker A: Maybe talking. I may be talking about the future on Internet. Oh, well, anyway, we gotta wrap this one up. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. It is time. [00:54:00] Speaker A: It's time. It's time. I think that if you. We had Travis on, we should have asked him about Alex Poons. [00:54:14] Speaker B: Alex Puyun beard. [00:54:17] Speaker A: Alan, like Albert. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Albert Puyin Albert. [00:54:23] Speaker A: I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. I got this. [00:54:26] Speaker B: Okay, you got me messed up because. [00:54:28] Speaker A: Alex. [00:54:29] Speaker B: No. [00:54:32] Speaker A: Albert. Albert Cyborg. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nemesis by Alex. [00:54:44] Speaker B: Albert the Cage. Albert. [00:54:50] Speaker A: It's. [00:54:51] Speaker B: Oh, Dan. Oh, my gosh. [00:54:54] Speaker A: Return of the rain. [00:54:57] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:55:01] Speaker A: I saw that outside this week. Return of the rain in the northwest. [00:55:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it did happen. We got the rain. [00:55:07] Speaker A: Well, if you follow the link that we provide on these podcasts and you go to Kickstarter, you can follow The Kickstarter event. And then when it launches, you can be the first to get a tree of cyborgs. The book. [00:55:29] Speaker B: A tree of cy. [00:55:32] Speaker A: Oh, Dan, I'm eating rice crackers. I'm all happy. [00:55:38] Speaker B: And. And when you do so, Travis will send you pictures of his cat. [00:55:45] Speaker A: A cyborg cat. [00:55:46] Speaker B: A cyborg cat with a cyborg weapon. [00:55:49] Speaker A: And Greg will send you signed copies of MXP Act. [00:55:53] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, I will not. Well, anyway, I was surprised nobody. I was surprised nobody came to the. To the show this weekend with. With copies of the CD for me, but they. They knew better. They knew better, Dan. [00:56:09] Speaker A: Did anybody ask you about it? [00:56:11] Speaker B: Nobody asked me about it, but I did give away a lot of stickers because I was super fans. John came and visited. Uh, so, yeah, so it was good to see him. Um, he wanted to say hi to everybody. And then he was. He was sad that the table wasn't there. No. Nobody like all the people he came to see. No, the only. Only person that was there was me. [00:56:34] Speaker A: Well, super Sean, I'm sorry. I was stuck on an airplane flying back from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I much rather would have been with Greg at the table, but he senses wishes power. Plane ride sucks. [00:56:47] Speaker B: And then. But we did. I did get to get to see some fantastic people, and I was really glad to be there at the Great City Comic show and talk to all the. All the awesome folks that were there. [00:57:02] Speaker A: And Greg and I may look to a different show, like maybe Bellingham or something like that to see if we can go up and table something. Perhaps Bellingham. I'm just calling out Bellingham right now. Perhaps it will be Bellingham Tiffan Bombs. [00:57:13] Speaker B: It could be. [00:57:13] Speaker A: Could be. Only if Mr. Mike can get us in there could be, but I don't know if he'd let me come. But he'll let you go. [00:57:23] Speaker B: I mean, we'll see. [00:57:25] Speaker A: And he doesn't make fun of me about milkshakes and stuff like be. [00:57:31] Speaker B: You know, there's a up there. [00:57:35] Speaker A: Anyway, we already mentioned the Retro Emporium. [00:57:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:57:41] Speaker A: See what our Paul did get back to us in the middle of the podcast with our code. [00:57:45] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Awesome. Finally. [00:57:48] Speaker A: But we weren't able. Well, anyway, Jiu Jitsu Willyer Paul. Not for podcast codes, but for legal advice or Jiu Jitsu. You can go to certified martial arts on 27th and Bridgeport, slash Jackson. Or you can reach out to Night Legal and get all your help for, well, any kind of legal advice, honestly. But employment law, fear if you. If your employer punched you in the face. You want to punch him back, don't you? Don't. Oh. But if you want to choke them out because they punch you in the face, defend yourself. Yeah, because my lawyer can tap out. Your lawyer. [00:58:35] Speaker B: Darn Tootin. [00:58:36] Speaker A: Fact. Paul made two highlight reels of the. [00:58:39] Speaker B: Oh, did he? [00:58:41] Speaker A: Yeah, the US Trials for adcc. [00:58:43] Speaker B: Wow. That's pretty awesome. [00:58:47] Speaker A: She didn't know that. [00:58:48] Speaker B: I didn't know that. [00:58:51] Speaker A: One was really good and one was not as good, but it was okay. Yeah, but if you're good in one, it means. [00:58:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:59:01] Speaker A: There was. And then. Yeah, I think that's what he was. [00:59:05] Speaker B: Doing is he was making the other person look good in one, and he was looking good. [00:59:11] Speaker A: I don't think I'd say that to him. I don't. I'll let you try that approach. [00:59:22] Speaker B: He's an equal opportunity Jiu jitsu. [00:59:25] Speaker A: That's all you. You can. [00:59:27] Speaker B: I. I will. I'll say, man, I heard you're making people look good out there on the mat. [00:59:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll let you. Anyway, that's. That's all you. Okay, I'll let you have that one. All right. Are we promoting anything else right now? [00:59:40] Speaker B: No, I think that's all. [00:59:41] Speaker A: Absolute zero. Camp Launchpad still available? [00:59:44] Speaker B: Yeah, still available. Come get it. Okay. [00:59:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:49] Speaker B: All right. [00:59:50] Speaker A: That's it. That's. That's all. Next time, Booster Gold in Face off starring John Travolta. [00:59:58] Speaker B: Oh, I can't wait. [01:00:03] Speaker A: You know, for a long time, I thought it was Christian Slater and John Geralt in that movie. Really? [01:00:08] Speaker B: Well, that's because you're from the other The. You're from the other universe after the. The collider popped, and that was the movie. It was Christian Slater and Nicolas Cage. Not John Travolta, Nicholas Cage. There's a lot of things that happen in the other universe, so. [01:00:28] Speaker A: I mean, except I thought Christian Slater was Nicholas Cage's character. [01:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I was saying. [01:00:39] Speaker A: I see where you did that. [01:00:40] Speaker B: All right, goodbye, everyone. [01:00:43] Speaker A: We'll talk to you soon. Next time, I am Greg, and Greg is me. And off to Funny Book Forensics. Electric Boogaloo. [01:00:53] Speaker B: Oh, my. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Goodbye, everyone. Have a wonderful day. [01:00:58] Speaker B: See you next time. [01:00:59] Speaker A: A little bit. Bye. Ending recording. [01:01:06] Speaker B: He's clicking the buttons. [01:01:08] Speaker A: I am clicking buttons. Help people. Listen to this.