Funny Book Forensics 417 Twisted Meaning

[00:00:06] Speaker A: It's happening. He said record. [00:00:08] Speaker B: You're happening. [00:00:08] Speaker A: I'm happening. You're happening. We're back the right way again. No ducks. No, no. Wrong sides. [00:00:16] Speaker B: I have a random dice I stole from somebody. [00:00:18] Speaker A: Oh, no. Dan's a thief. [00:00:20] Speaker B: Has an eye in it. I gotta ever tell you about the. The eye dice I got. I. I backed on Kickstarter. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Get him. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Oh, no, no, no. I will never. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Oh, no. That's not good. [00:00:34] Speaker B: No. Oh, no. Spider Mine games. [00:00:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:38] Speaker B: Thieves. [00:00:38] Speaker A: Thieves. [00:00:39] Speaker B: If you ever see them. If you ever see them at Gen Con, if you ever see them anywhere, they. [00:00:43] Speaker A: They don't send. [00:00:43] Speaker B: Go up and tell them there are a bunch of that don't fulfill their promises. [00:00:47] Speaker A: Wow, that's unfortunate and terrible. [00:00:52] Speaker B: It's been years. [00:00:53] Speaker A: Been years. You. You. [00:00:54] Speaker B: Would you like me to open the Facebook group and read the responses? [00:00:58] Speaker A: Lots of people did not get their things. [00:01:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Lots of unfulfilled wishes. [00:01:04] Speaker B: They're Dragonite dice. [00:01:05] Speaker A: Oh, man, those dice. I've heard. I've heard stories of this in many, many circles. Oh. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah, I've actually heard of people making their own, and they're better. [00:01:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I bought these ones for like, $3. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Cool. [00:01:33] Speaker B: Well, anyway, we're not here to roll the dice. [00:01:35] Speaker A: We're not here to roll the dice. [00:01:36] Speaker B: It's not what we're here to do. But I have dice. [00:01:37] Speaker A: You have dice? [00:01:38] Speaker B: No, and I have some somewhere out here. I'm quite distracted here. I was reading the Sad Hot Dog. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Oh, the Sad Hot Dog Man. That's a very good book. [00:01:49] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a sad hot dog. [00:01:51] Speaker A: You know, it's. It's apropos that you have dice with said Hot Dog man, because said Hot Dog man has an RPG that coincides and that goes together with said Hot Dog man that you can play. [00:02:02] Speaker B: Well, maybe. Maybe someday on a future podcast, I'll interview, oh, one of the. Or one. One or more of the creators of the sad. [00:02:11] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. What if. What? [00:02:13] Speaker B: It. [00:02:14] Speaker A: Oh, what? You know, it would be cool. Okay, you do an interview, and then maybe we could get a couple of lucky listeners together and maybe do an actual play of said Hot Dog man with said hot Dog. [00:02:28] Speaker B: This. This all could happen. I mean, and we just have to get. [00:02:31] Speaker A: We just have to get listeners that want to play. Maybe listeners. [00:02:35] Speaker B: Well, we'd also have to. We'd also have to get in touch with the creator of Sad Hot Dog. That's true. [00:02:40] Speaker A: I. You know, though, I have a feeling that I. I have a feeling Woody would Be very willing to do such a thing. [00:02:51] Speaker B: And to be clear, it would not be an interview. [00:02:54] Speaker A: Oh, it wouldn't be an interview. [00:02:55] Speaker B: It would be like a review of their favorite. [00:02:58] Speaker A: Oh, oh, oh, oh. [00:03:00] Speaker B: A review. [00:03:00] Speaker A: A review. Not an interview. [00:03:02] Speaker B: Well, it'd be like that. I don't. You're just talking. You're just chatting. [00:03:06] Speaker A: You're just. [00:03:07] Speaker B: You're just having a. I'm incapable of interviewing people. [00:03:10] Speaker A: And if it turns into a Q A of stuff that coincides their whatever, then it happens. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I am too self absorbed to interview anyone, to be honest. [00:03:22] Speaker A: I mean, it happens. It happens. [00:03:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it. It, it absolutely happens. Well, I think I'm ready to talk about Booster Gold number five. I'm prepared with a very cold drink. He's prepared with a very cold inside. Inside my drink. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:03:39] Speaker B: There is. You can't see it there. Yeah, but that is a Death Star. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. What? What? Yeah, that. That's. That is cool. Where did you. You made this Death Star in your. In your freezer, I'm assuming. [00:03:52] Speaker B: Well, a Jiu Jitsu lawyer, Paul has Death Star ice cube molds. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Oh, that's pretty cool. [00:04:02] Speaker B: So instead of getting a giant round ice cube that's just plain. You get one. A Death Star that has one fatal flaw. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Ventilation. [00:04:12] Speaker B: Spoiler. Spoiler. [00:04:16] Speaker A: Spoiler. Oh, man. [00:04:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:18] Speaker A: 40 plus years spoiler. Now you don't. [00:04:23] Speaker B: And I can't wait till next issue of Booster Gold. Oh, yeah, but, yeah, but we have this one first. [00:04:31] Speaker A: This one first. This one is actually. [00:04:33] Speaker B: I can't wait. I can't wait for the, like, next four issues. But we have this one first. [00:04:38] Speaker A: I mean, this is a fantastic issue. It's got a lot of action. There's a lot of suspense. There's a lot of holding on to your seats. It. It feels like a 90s action flick. [00:04:50] Speaker B: It does feel made in the 80s. It. [00:04:52] Speaker A: It, it does. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Made in the 80s. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Made in the 80s. A 90s action flick made in the 80s. It feels like a movie, a comic book rendition made for, I want to say Bruce Willis, but acted out by Jean Claude Van Damme, but wearing a Booster Gold outfit. [00:05:15] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Oh. [00:05:17] Speaker B: In this case, however, at this time, Bruce Willis would have been on Moonlight. That's true. [00:05:23] Speaker A: He would have been on Moonlighting. And Jean Claude Van Damme wouldn't have been even a. A thought to anybody. [00:05:29] Speaker B: No. But it would be Chuck Norris. [00:05:31] Speaker A: Oh, Chuck Norris. Yeah. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Chuck Norris in the Booster Gold op. [00:05:34] Speaker A: Chuck Norris in the Booster. [00:05:35] Speaker B: That would have been epic. [00:05:37] Speaker A: That would have been epic. But Those of you following what Greg is saying probably knows the story of the story. [00:05:48] Speaker B: Just think about if Chuck Norris was Booster gold in the 80s in a movie. And then he wouldn't have been on Walker Texas Ranger, but instead the Booster Gold character would be super famous. [00:05:59] Speaker A: You know, I could see Chuck Norris as Booster gold in the 80s if they did an 80s booster gold movie or show where Chuck Norris is Booster Cold. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And in speaking. Speaking of stories. Yes. That developed in the 80s and 90s. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:18] Speaker B: Did you know Travis Webb who was on the podcast last time? Maybe. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:06:23] Speaker B: We don't know if the audio worked out. So I may be over promising. I may be future promising something I haven't edited yet in the past. Promising. [00:06:30] Speaker A: Yeah, promising. Making promises for the future that you're, you can't quite. [00:06:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that was. Well, I'm making promises for the past that is the future now future's past. But yeah, days of present. Future, future, past, present and participles and. [00:06:48] Speaker A: I love that album. It is so good. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I loved. Yeah, Dazzler really hit Dazzler. Hit it out of the park with that one. It was a Dazzler Moodie Blues team up. [00:06:59] Speaker A: I know, right? [00:07:00] Speaker B: Well, anyway. Well anyway, as you will recall on the last episode of the podcast, assuming you can hear the clip through the microphone that actually picked up the phone call that Travis was on, number one important thing, there will be no more page numbers in any books put out by over. Or there will be page numbers. Sorry I messed that up. In every book put out by Overcast. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Now, I like what you said the first time. There will be no pages whatsoever in. [00:07:26] Speaker B: That's not what Travis said. Travis said he was calling Brett and there would be page numbers in every book. And did you know Travis has a Kickstarter coming out based on like an 80s slash 90s movie series? [00:07:38] Speaker A: Oh, really? He does. Tell me more. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's called, it's called Reign of the Cyborgs by Alex Rain. Pune. [00:07:51] Speaker A: My goodness. Dan, right? No, Albert Plune. Alex Rain. I, I, I honestly, I, I, I. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Are you sure? Alex Rain. What? [00:08:06] Speaker A: I honestly, I don't know what you've got me messed up on the title so much because you keep. Oh, really messing it up. [00:08:15] Speaker B: But I, Oh, I can say it. It's Alex Pune. [00:08:19] Speaker A: It's Albert. No, that's not right. [00:08:21] Speaker B: It's Albert. Pun's. Wait, hang on. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Oh my goodness. [00:08:26] Speaker B: The Return of Alex Ring. [00:08:27] Speaker A: The Return. Yes. [00:08:28] Speaker B: A sequel to Nemesis. [00:08:31] Speaker A: Yes. [00:08:33] Speaker B: In honor of the late and great director continuing his story saga, Albert Pune. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Man that is a title. I think that's just the. [00:08:47] Speaker B: I got it. [00:08:47] Speaker A: I think that's the Kickstarter tagline. [00:08:52] Speaker B: I got it. You got it. [00:08:53] Speaker A: You did it. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Got it. I, I did it. And in that book. [00:08:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:58] Speaker B: There will be page numbers. [00:09:00] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. I, if Brett puts page numbers in it. I, I will, I will sign a copy of an MXP CD for MXP XCD for Dan to give to the listener of his liking. [00:09:13] Speaker B: I, you know what? I will. And I have, I have actually the exact listener in mind right now. [00:09:18] Speaker A: Okay, but. [00:09:21] Speaker B: And, and I actually have two listeners in mind, which means I would have to split it in half, like solemnly. [00:09:26] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Just, just take it and just put it on a, on a, on a, on a band saw or a buzz saw and just cut it in half. [00:09:34] Speaker B: Listeners, how many of you would pay to watch me either put it on a band saw or literally axe? You have an axe, don't you? I don't think I have one. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I have an axe. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Okay. I will go to Greg's house in the backyard and I will ax it in half and I will give half to one listener and half to another. We got to be fair here. [00:09:56] Speaker A: You have to be fair. Why not? [00:09:58] Speaker B: I mean, I mean, an MXPX CD is so valuable. I think the listeners will be horrified as I'm asking it. [00:10:04] Speaker A: I will be. I, I, I'm, I'm horrified thinking about it. I mean, it is terrifying. Terrifying. [00:10:12] Speaker B: Well, I mean, with that in mind. Oh, have we talked about this book yet? [00:10:15] Speaker A: No, I mean, we've talked. We, we, we have. We have talked minorly about some of the contents of the book. [00:10:24] Speaker B: I see. [00:10:26] Speaker A: For the. [00:10:27] Speaker B: Well, there's an explosion. And that's why I got myself a drink before we started, because there was an explosion on the COVID Yeah, I know. [00:10:33] Speaker A: You gotta. For every explosion, you have to have a drink in hand. Is that the game? [00:10:38] Speaker B: And I'm just drinking water. [00:10:40] Speaker A: So I, Yeah. Because I have things to do. [00:10:42] Speaker B: I'm gonna be in responsible adult this evening. [00:10:46] Speaker A: I got. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Well, I'm not. And I've already walked the dog. And that is not. [00:10:51] Speaker A: You already did all your responsibilities. [00:10:53] Speaker B: That is not, that is not a play on words. Juliet and I went for a nice walk when I got home after my two hour bus ride. [00:10:59] Speaker A: Two hour bus ride? Yeah. [00:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah. If anybody wants to interview me, I'm available sometimes on the, the 595 bus coming all the way to just the narrow stop there at 6th and Jackson. You could come and join me on the bus all the way back from Seattle. It's very exciting. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Go hang out with Dan on the bus. [00:11:21] Speaker B: I've seen some things. [00:11:23] Speaker A: I bet you have. [00:11:26] Speaker B: It's maybe scarred me forever this short few weeks where I've ridden the bus. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:34] Speaker B: I will not be riding the bus tomorrow. [00:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:38] Speaker B: No. But anyway, people don't need to care where I'm working tomorrow. I think they do care. Who are the Lords of the Ultra Realm? [00:11:45] Speaker A: Who are the Lords of the Ultra Realm? [00:11:48] Speaker B: I have no idea. I don't know either, so I'm sure we'll find out. So. [00:11:53] Speaker A: Sounds pretty awesome. [00:11:54] Speaker B: We get. We. We. We do get a hit. Does sound awesome. I don't think it was, though. So meet Mr. Twister. He's exploding with evil ideas. [00:12:04] Speaker A: Oh, that sounds so cool. It sounds so awesome. It's like. It's a cool name. Yeah. Plus. [00:12:12] Speaker B: Plus. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:13] Speaker B: What do you think Mr. Twister's powers will be? [00:12:16] Speaker A: I don't know. I'm. I'm pretty sure it's like. I mean, I'm imagining Mr. Twister. He's got to be like, maybe he's a tornado. Or he's like, maybe he's a balloon guy that, like, makes balloons, and he's. [00:12:29] Speaker B: Like, but doesn't DC already have a tornado? [00:12:32] Speaker A: Okay, so maybe he's a balloon guy and he makes balloon animals or balloon things. Right. And he uses those. That's a pretty. That would be. What if you were a bad guy that used balloons as your gimmick and you had balloon swords that were actually, like, you know, that. That could cause damage. You know, they. They could give you damage. Give somebody damage. Or make a balloon gun that shot, like, balloon bullets and, like. Like, you know, and people looked at you like, oh, you can't do anything, but, like, you're, like, actually causing damage or whatever. You made a balloon bicycle to get away with. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:13:09] Speaker A: Or it's possible you made a balloon. A bunch of balloon dogs and sic them on people or like, balloon. Balloon tank or something like that. Or like, you know, I'm really. Balloon bear to. [00:13:20] Speaker B: Really didn't. I really didn't think this is where that conversation was gonna go. [00:13:24] Speaker A: Oh, did you think I was gonna be like, oh, he's Mr. Twister. He's gonna come up and grab you and go. And, like, you know, grab your. Grab your nipple. Oh, because that's like. I mean. [00:13:36] Speaker B: No. [00:13:37] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:39] Speaker B: Well, I was just thinking, like, the very first. Well, I guess the very first spinny superhero I ever saw was probably. [00:13:50] Speaker A: What. [00:13:50] Speaker B: On the Super Friends, right? [00:13:52] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah, the Samurai, which he didn't look very samurai, like. Yeah, but they were trying. Right. They were trying to have representation. [00:14:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:14:08] Speaker B: I will tell you that, however, in a Hulk comic as a child, the first twister superhero I ever saw was Marvel Comics the Texas Twister. [00:14:23] Speaker A: The what? [00:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah, the Texas Twister. Have you never seen the text? [00:14:28] Speaker A: I've never seen the Texas Twister. I've seen the Twister in Texas, though. Yeah. [00:14:34] Speaker B: Well, so when I saw Mr. Twister, I thought, are we gonna get sued by Marvel Comics? And of course, then Red Tornado, right? [00:14:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:14:47] Speaker B: So I'm just wondering what Mr. Twister's powers will be. And you had ideas. [00:14:51] Speaker A: Well, like I said. Like I said last week, too. Like, I mean, he could be. He could be like the. The beloved rapper from the 90s that raps backwards and, you know, he. He gives you. Comes at you with vicious, mad rhymes with a sickness and a viciousness that are backwards, sideways, and. And always on point. [00:15:13] Speaker B: That's true. [00:15:14] Speaker A: And that would be cool as hell, too. I would. I would be like. That would be awesome. [00:15:20] Speaker B: What if he carries around a white mat with polka Mat with polka dots on it? Oh, my gosh. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Oh, Dan. Oh. And he makes you play, and it's. [00:15:32] Speaker B: Like, right leg broken and. Yeah. He demands. He demands Twister games. [00:15:37] Speaker A: He demands Twister games. He's like, we're playing now. But the. But the mat is like. It's all. He's already, like, he's greased it up, so it's like. It's totally dangerous. [00:15:50] Speaker B: Well, you know what? We're going to find out because we're going to flip the page. [00:15:52] Speaker A: But what we missed, we missed. Plus the Booster Mobile. It's unveiled. [00:15:57] Speaker B: Oh, sorry. [00:15:57] Speaker A: It's unalived. Always unveiled. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Booster gets a car. [00:16:04] Speaker B: That's very exciting. [00:16:05] Speaker A: It's exciting, Dan. [00:16:09] Speaker B: I will give you. I will give you. Hang on. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Oh, he's going to give me something. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Everybody, before I go, before we turn the page, I will give you $5 per character. Okay. Without looking them up, if you can name any of the other Marvel Texas Rangers besides the Texas Twister. [00:16:37] Speaker A: I. I got nothing. [00:16:40] Speaker B: You've got nothing? [00:16:41] Speaker A: I got nothing. [00:16:43] Speaker B: Okay, well, they were just called the Rangers, I believe. I don't think they could call them the Texas Rangers. [00:16:47] Speaker A: They're just called the Rangers. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Oh, there's Lone. [00:16:54] Speaker B: There was. There was Firebird. [00:16:56] Speaker A: Oh, Firebird. Okay. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Bonita Juarez. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:16:58] Speaker B: The Phantom Rider, who's exactly what you would think he looks like. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Phantom Rider. It's Ghost Rider. [00:17:07] Speaker B: And. Yeah. Or Actually, he looks more like Gentleman Ghost. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Okay. [00:17:13] Speaker B: On a horse. [00:17:14] Speaker A: Well, that comes out of that. I mean, literally. That comes out of, like, Mexican folks. Were. So. [00:17:22] Speaker B: So that's. Okay. [00:17:23] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's like. [00:17:24] Speaker B: Anyway, Red Wolf. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Okay. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Who is your typical stereotypical Native American? Yes. Okay. Shooting Star. Who is the female blonde with the giant white star on her chest and the Texas Twister. Okay. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Gotcha. [00:17:48] Speaker B: So there you go. And. [00:17:52] Speaker A: Yeah, very cool. [00:17:54] Speaker B: So there you go. [00:17:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:17:55] Speaker B: They were. They were very exciting. Do you want to know how long it last. When they first appeared? [00:18:00] Speaker A: When did they first appear? [00:18:01] Speaker B: Do you want. Do you want to know why I know this? Because I was. I was five years old. No, six years old. Sorry. And I got this comic. [00:18:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:14] Speaker B: And I wonder. I don't think I still have it because I think it's one I actually looked at over again because it had a bunch of characters in it. [00:18:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:19] Speaker B: But I got this Incredible Hulk comic number 265. [00:18:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:24] Speaker B: Where the Incredible Hulk fought the Rangers. [00:18:27] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:18:27] Speaker B: And it was one of those comics that had the win. The Columbia 10 speed racer on the top. Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:18:34] Speaker A: Nice. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Well, anyway, this comic here. [00:18:38] Speaker A: This one right here that we're gonna review. [00:18:40] Speaker B: This one here. Talk about this one. All right. We've turned the page. And is that Tomax or Axmod? [00:18:48] Speaker A: You know, that's a good question. I was going through. Honestly, legit. I was going through my GI Joes yesterday, and because we're having. Where I'm. I'm parting ways with my childhood at the Retro Emporium and. Totally looks like. Looks like either one of them or Major Blood without his helmet. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. I was also thinking Major Blood. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:20] Speaker B: This is very G.I. joe. Yeah. [00:19:21] Speaker A: I was like, oh, man. [00:19:22] Speaker B: This is like. [00:19:23] Speaker A: He looks like pretty. Pretty awesome. Or like, you know, like Punisher without a Punisher thing on his chest. I don't know. He's got a. [00:19:32] Speaker B: He looks lame as hell. [00:19:33] Speaker A: What? No, man. I mean, like, I would be. [00:19:36] Speaker B: He's got pouches everywhere. A red guy. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Like, not too many pouches. But I mean, he looks. He looks tactical. [00:19:45] Speaker B: He does look tactical. [00:19:46] Speaker A: He looks. [00:19:47] Speaker B: He. [00:19:47] Speaker A: He's standing on a. On a thing and he looks like. I mean, he's. [00:19:52] Speaker B: He's. [00:19:52] Speaker A: He's. As the kids would say today, he's standing on business, Dan. I don't know what the business is. [00:19:58] Speaker B: Alive. If he was alive in the 2000s, he'd be wandering around trying to film the police. [00:20:04] Speaker A: Well, he'd either be trying to film the police. Or he'd be like. He'd have a patch on that says, I am the police. It's either one of those two. Because he looks like. He looks like. He looks like one or the other. I don't know. I am the law. [00:20:20] Speaker B: Oh, wait. [00:20:22] Speaker A: If he was. If he was filming the police, he would have. He would. He would also be carrying around some sort of, like, crazy hat that, like. [00:20:30] Speaker B: Well, I still haven't figured out why he's Mr. Twister. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Have you? [00:20:33] Speaker B: I. [00:20:34] Speaker A: That's a great question. I don't know. He does kind of have. He embodies that. That of like, somebody who. Maybe he would carry around the Twister mat to play Twisted. [00:20:50] Speaker B: He kind of does. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Or he could make. Maybe in those pouches. Maybe in those pouches. He does have balloons. And he's going to make balloon animals. [00:21:00] Speaker B: Did you know what this comic book is? The first appearance of the Epstein Files. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Really? [00:21:08] Speaker B: Yeah. With Mr. Twister. [00:21:12] Speaker A: I can't tell if you're serious or if you're just putting it out there. [00:21:18] Speaker B: I mean, it could be. [00:21:20] Speaker A: So you're saying it was released in 19. [00:21:23] Speaker B: Well, anyway, we flip the page and we find out this. Not a big building he's in or. Or the future or anything like that, but Mr. Twister is standing on a weird contraption. [00:21:36] Speaker A: Is he on a zamponi? [00:21:39] Speaker B: Yeah, he's. He's. He's a game show host, basically. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Oh. He's like. [00:21:43] Speaker B: Live from Metropolis in beautiful downtown Metropolis. Oh, sorry. Live from the Metroplex in beautiful downtown Metropolis, it's Blackmail Night with your host for this evening, the one and only Mr. Twister. [00:21:53] Speaker A: Oh, yay. Oh. Oh. It's so. It's Sudden Death with Jean Claude Van Damme. [00:22:00] Speaker B: Only a minute to go, John Claude Van Damme. Second appearance on the podcast would have been good with zero appearances ever. Oh, come on. [00:22:11] Speaker A: So it should have been Bruce Willis. The movie was written for him. [00:22:17] Speaker B: I. Can we just watch Bloodsport now? [00:22:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Let's do it. No, we gotta finish the book. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Well. Oh, God. Okay. I mean, we'll make it. We got this. We'll get through it. We got this. [00:22:28] Speaker A: We got this. [00:22:29] Speaker B: We got this. We can do it. All right, so speed through it. Mr. Twister. Speedrun. He's like. On tonight's show, viewers, you will see at least 18,327 people in this arena go boom. Unless you give me Mr. Twister. Three million in cash. Three million? [00:22:44] Speaker A: Well, I mean, 1980 something. [00:22:47] Speaker B: He's aiming low. What is three million in now dollars? [00:22:50] Speaker A: Well, in then dollars. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Well, what is 3 million in now dollars? [00:22:54] Speaker A: 3 million? Yeah. If it was in bitcoin though. [00:23:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Are you sure? 3 million. Hang on. 3 million. $1986. The conversions worth today, that would be worth 8.87 million. I think for this elaborate of a setup. He probably spent all his money just on the setup. I think he's just cutting even if he gets 3 million. Oh, he's. [00:23:20] Speaker A: Yeah, he's. Maybe he's being paid by somebody else to be there. What do you think? [00:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, anyway, he said, Remember that 3 million by 1152, or was it 1157? And one of the hockey players is like, I had it. And Mr. Twister just murders him. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Just lights him up on the ice. [00:23:47] Speaker B: Yeah, all the other hockey players are making fun of him too, and he just murders him. It's the danger of a two page spread on a tablet, you know. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:57] Speaker B: And then we get the police outside. It's very exciting. So, so far we know Mr. Twister's name is Mr. Twister because is he. [00:24:10] Speaker A: That's what he calls himself. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Oh, he. Well, I'm gonna start calling myself. I'm trying to think of some name that cannot be construed as inappropriate. [00:24:29] Speaker A: See, that's why he went with Mr. [00:24:35] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I keep grabbing stuff on my desk and none of it, none of it is okay. Somebody gave me. [00:24:39] Speaker A: Oh, you're diced. [00:24:40] Speaker B: Somebody gave me this thing. [00:24:41] Speaker A: You're diced in. [00:24:42] Speaker B: Somebody gave. Somebody gave me this thing. Diced in. Somebody gave me this thing. You drink when you go before you drink. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:24:51] Speaker B: And then you go out. So I didn't want to say that I was Mr. Morning Recovery. I didn't think that would. But that was appropriate. [00:25:02] Speaker A: Dice Bag Dan. [00:25:02] Speaker B: I didn't want to say I was Mr. Mr. Gripper. [00:25:05] Speaker A: Mr. Gripper. I think Dice Bag Dan is pretty good though. [00:25:11] Speaker B: Dice bag. Dance. Dime bag. [00:25:14] Speaker A: No, not dime bag. Dice bag. Yet a dice bag. [00:25:19] Speaker B: What is this thing you, you sold me at the Retro Emporium? [00:25:21] Speaker A: Oh, it's a, it's, it's a neato. [00:25:25] Speaker B: It's an, it's an ice cube, right? It's. Yeah. Mr. Ice Cube. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Mr. Ice Cube. [00:25:31] Speaker B: Because I play with these. Yeah, I, I. Anyway, well, I, I'm really. Can you tell? I'm really hung up on Mr. Twister's name. [00:25:37] Speaker A: You are hung up on Mr. Twister's Name? I'm sure we're going to get there. [00:25:42] Speaker B: Okay, well, anyway, we get, we flip the page and Booster Gold in his cape and skates are flying. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Cape is back again, everybody. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah. The cape is back. We have not gotten rid of the cape. Now, that makes me very upset, because my Multiverse Booster Gold Beetle set does not come with a cape, Capeless. Neither does my other multiverse, Booster Gold. [00:26:06] Speaker A: Would you say he's Capeless in Metropolis? [00:26:10] Speaker B: However, next time I see you. Oh, you're going to be receiving. Yeah. One Guy Gardner with one part of the robot. [00:26:21] Speaker A: I'm just calling him Nathan Fillion. I don't want to call him Guy. He's my. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Okay, well, see, I'm checking up here. No. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Do you have a Mr. Twister doll? [00:26:35] Speaker B: No. There's still no. Now, do you think I have a problem? Do you think I have too many Booster Golds? [00:26:40] Speaker A: How come you don't have any Skeets, Dan? [00:26:44] Speaker B: They don't come with Skeets, either. Well, that's downright. [00:26:47] Speaker A: That is. That's a crime. [00:26:49] Speaker B: Skeets is. [00:26:49] Speaker A: That's a crime. [00:26:50] Speaker B: Skeets is right there. It's a crime. There's the Skeets. [00:26:52] Speaker A: It's right there. Okay, I see him. I was about to say it's a crime to have Booster and no Skeets, but there he is. I stand corrected. [00:27:01] Speaker B: I mean, I've got a whole omnibus of books that had Booster with no Skeets for the most part. Well, anyway, Booster talking to police officers. He's going to help. [00:27:15] Speaker A: He's going to help. He's got. [00:27:16] Speaker B: He. [00:27:16] Speaker A: He wants. [00:27:16] Speaker B: They insult him. They tell him he's not Superman. [00:27:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Get out of here. [00:27:20] Speaker B: He's now Sad Hot now. He's now Sad Hot Dog Man. [00:27:23] Speaker A: He is Sad Hot Dog Man. He's a man with the sad hot dog. [00:27:30] Speaker B: If you're not watching, I'm making sad faces and showing the COVID of Sad Hot Dog Man. Okay, so we flip the page and Booster goes into action with his cape, and he's awesome. [00:27:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:46] Speaker B: And he's like. After I take out the whole thousand. [00:27:49] Speaker A: A thousand. [00:27:52] Speaker B: Those boys in blue should put me in charge. Yeah. Hey, he's starting to pick up the vernacular. Well, he is. [00:27:57] Speaker A: He's. [00:27:57] Speaker B: Skeet should be very happy. [00:27:58] Speaker A: He's been. He's been watching some tv, probably. [00:28:03] Speaker B: Well, anyway, he talks to Skeets, and Skeets is like, oh, I'll take care of everything. Booster, he's like a. There appears to be a little used rooftop entrance. Oh, this arena is the Death Star. [00:28:15] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. He sneaks in through a ventilation shaft. [00:28:19] Speaker B: Now, you didn't think I was going to be bringing it back you had no idea. I built this whole thing. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. [00:28:26] Speaker B: And read the story. You had no idea. [00:28:29] Speaker A: Dan. That is amazing. [00:28:31] Speaker B: I'm kind of amazing, I'm not going to lie. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Wow, that's, that is that, that's pretty cool. I, I commit. [00:28:38] Speaker B: I'm embracing the whole booster gold mantra tonight. I'm just gonna let everybody know that I'm amazing. I deserve glory, fame, money. I, I will set up my Patreon for next week. [00:28:49] Speaker A: It's, it's kind of like, you know, when you got Keanu Reeves and John Q Second Face Off. It's like I, it was, I, you know, just like the title of this book. I, I just couldn't believe it. It was such a good movie. [00:29:03] Speaker B: Well, now Mr. Twister is talking to himself in the third person. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. Mr. Twister twisting it up. [00:29:09] Speaker B: Mr. Twister is tired of waiting. Oh, it's 1102, Mr. Twister. And then we should start talking to. [00:29:17] Speaker A: The third person, Greg. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Dan is tired of this book. [00:29:23] Speaker A: Dan is tired of this book. Greg thinks Dan should just suck it up. [00:29:30] Speaker B: Dan sees Trixie doing exercises with 1980s leg warmers. [00:29:38] Speaker A: Trixie's making sure she's got good strong leg muscles and that also helps with your thighs and your buttocks. Greg knows this and that'll also help with your acl and. [00:29:56] Speaker B: If you have trouble with the buttocks muscles. [00:29:57] Speaker A: Yes, because you need to have a strong buttocks to make sure that your ACLs are, are good and good and sturdy and stable. Well, anyway, I do these exercises too with my leg. [00:30:15] Speaker B: We're gonna do a whole podcast of that. Dirk, Dirk. Dirk the jerk is back. [00:30:21] Speaker A: Ah, Dirk the Jerk. [00:30:22] Speaker B: What's up everybody? How you doing? He's, he's apparently now showing up at his employees homes unannounced. Tricks want to watch the tube and, and aunt whatever her name was, Glenn to the Goodwill calls out Teresa. So apparently we have a Teresa, not a Trixie Teresa. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Who's that? [00:30:48] Speaker B: That's Trick. It's, it's Trixie. [00:30:50] Speaker A: He, she lied on her resume. [00:30:51] Speaker B: I feel like, I kind of feel like it's a better name. It is a better name. [00:30:56] Speaker A: She Trick seed him. [00:31:00] Speaker B: And the ants like it's not a very pleasant nickname. And she tells her to go cover up for her gentleman caller. Who is this lady? I, I, I don't like the aunt. I mean she go away. [00:31:12] Speaker A: She's, It's a different time, Dan. She's from a different time in a different place. [00:31:17] Speaker B: Yeah, we just got a whole page of but up but up. [00:31:20] Speaker A: It's a sitcom. [00:31:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And we're back. And mean. Mean. Mr. Twister has a surprise for you, camper. Somebody has done something very naughty, even when told not to. Can you say naughty? You sure can. [00:31:38] Speaker A: Oh, man. Mr. Twister would be great on TikTok. [00:31:42] Speaker B: When a comic book has low sales. [00:31:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:46] Speaker B: In. In Marvel. When the comic book has low sales in the. In 1985. [00:31:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:53] Speaker B: So we're not using Wolverine yet. Okay, so who shows up? [00:32:00] Speaker A: Spider Man. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Probably Spider Man. Yeah. Unless it's Power Pack. And then all the X Men show up, Right. Yeah, but that didn't have low sales. It was just because they showed up. [00:32:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:11] Speaker B: There. Or the Fantastic Four. But Spidey, right? [00:32:14] Speaker A: Yeah, Spidey. [00:32:14] Speaker B: And in DC Comics, who shows up if your comic has low sales? [00:32:20] Speaker A: Maybe Superman. [00:32:21] Speaker B: Remember, Dark Knight Returns hasn't come out yet. [00:32:23] Speaker A: I see. Superman. Yeah. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Well, no, I bet Superman shows up in this comic very soon. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Oh, Aquaman. Aquaman shows up. [00:32:33] Speaker B: And that'll do it. [00:32:34] Speaker A: That'll do. [00:32:34] Speaker B: That'll bring in the sale. I've got my orange Atlantean power suit. Yeah, yeah. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Control these fish. They talk to these dolphins. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Well, Anyway, ski. Well, Mr. Twister. Mr. Twister and his dialogue are back, And he's going to, like, blow up some families. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Oh, man, the hockey players are not happy with that because that's their family. [00:33:02] Speaker B: They're all sad. Well, it's like a hockey player. And then Jason. [00:33:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Jason Voorhees is like. He's just like. [00:33:12] Speaker B: Because. Yeah. So the hockey players start beating up. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Booster Gold because that's what Mr. Twister wants. And what Mr. Twister wants. Mr. Twister gets. Unless it's $3 million. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Oh, he's Mr. Plot Twist. [00:33:26] Speaker A: Oh, Mr. Plot Twist. [00:33:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:30] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Okay, well, he's, like, marvelous. I get the highest rating. So is this, like. Okay. Did we decide it was Major Blood? [00:33:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Major blood. [00:33:45] Speaker B: Mr. Who now wants to be a game show host. Okay. [00:33:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It makes sense. [00:33:50] Speaker B: It's a cross between Major Blood and Mojo. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Okay, well, I mean, it makes sense that you have major blood in this book if you've got Cobra commander fronting the 100 or the thousand. So. Y. [00:34:04] Speaker B: Old Diamond Face. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Yeah, Old Diamond Face is. Is Cobra Commander. [00:34:06] Speaker B: You mean D. Diamond. Diamond Director. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Diamond Director. You got Diamond Director. You got Mr. Twister. Major blood. [00:34:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:14] Speaker A: It all makes sense. [00:34:16] Speaker B: Sure. This all makes sense. This makes sense. [00:34:18] Speaker A: Just waiting for Destro to show up. [00:34:21] Speaker B: I mean, I. The good news is, as much as I'm mocking Mr. Twister here. I will say this for. For this comic. He is clearly an insane guy that just started doing something. [00:34:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:34:32] Speaker B: So there's no pretense here. This is just a crazy person. [00:34:36] Speaker A: He's like, hey, I'm gonna hold all these people hostage in this. In this ice arena, and I'm gonna. I'm gonna get some money while I'm doing it. [00:34:47] Speaker B: Well, they turn out the lights. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:34:50] Speaker B: And he uses the infrared glasses. And then Mr. Twister's like, I warned you guys. I've got, like, a little bomb thing. I'm gonna get you. And Skeet's like, the bomb will explode in 29.5 seconds. Like, oh. But instead, Booster lifts up Mr. Twister's little. His. What would we call that? The Copper Mobile. Like, I'm not sure. [00:35:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a. It's such a. [00:35:17] Speaker B: It's. [00:35:17] Speaker A: It's not. I don't. It's a Copper Zamboni. I don't know. [00:35:22] Speaker B: What is, like. What is, like, a good vehicle name that relates to plot twists? The McGuffin Mobile. [00:35:29] Speaker A: Yeah, the McGuffin Mobile. It's the McGuffin Mobile. [00:35:32] Speaker B: It'S a Guffin Mobile. I like it. Yeah, I like it. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:37] Speaker B: I like this. Okay, well, anyway, he shoots Booster. He can't do that because Booster has a force shield, of course. [00:35:43] Speaker A: And then. And, well, yeah, and then it kind of hits Booster. And then, you know, Booster just, like, sucks the. The bullets in and then pees them right out in the last panel. [00:35:56] Speaker B: Booster takes. Because that's what it looks. He looks like. Yeah. And it does. And then Booster takes the McGuffin mobile and runs it through the roof. I feel bad, too, because, like, when you lose the whole roof on your stadium, like in Tampa. [00:36:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:36:12] Speaker B: And you have to play in, like, the Yankees spring training park all year, and that's. That's not cool. I mean, it is snowing outside, so I guess the snow might help the ice rink. Yeah. [00:36:22] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it gives. Makes it more natural. It makes it feel like you're skating on a pond in the Midwest, just out there in nature, snow falling on you and ducks flying overhead while you look up and you see their majestic ness. And then all of a sudden, as their wings flap and you hear a quack, quack, and you look up again and see their little feet move. And as their little feet move and they're quacking away, something falls from the sky and you realize you looked up at the wrong time. It's not snow falling from the sky. Anyways. Booster Gold is flying up with the MacGuffin mobile. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Right? Mr. Twister is still talking to himself. He's like, haha. Twister the Great will easily escape. Ah, he's not, he's not even good at rhyming. Yeah, he's not, he's not a backwards clutches. He sucks your evil clutches, you flying wonder. And then Skeet zaps him with his stun Ray and Mr. Twister is done. Booster takes the bomb and explodes over the top of Metropolis. Boom. Thousands of people. Thank God for Booster. They're all excited. Hooray. Booster. The police are all worried about him. They think he's dead. Skeets looks sad. And then Booster shows up. No cape. [00:37:58] Speaker A: Capless. [00:37:58] Speaker B: No. [00:37:59] Speaker A: No cape. [00:38:00] Speaker B: No, his cape is on. Oh man, it is torn up. Oh, shredded cape. Oh, hey, maybe this is how we get rid of the cape. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Maybe he escaped the cape. [00:38:10] Speaker B: Yeah, it's possible. And it's the great Cape escape. Trixie and Dirk are watching too. They hug each other in excitement and then they immediately go away from each other. [00:38:22] Speaker A: She's like, sky. [00:38:26] Speaker B: Yeah, well, and then Dirk's like, that kid really hasn't made money. Fame, women. Yeah. [00:38:35] Speaker A: And then he's sitting there calculating in his head, how much is he going to make from this dirty Dirk. [00:38:42] Speaker B: And then they keep having a conversation. Do you if, how do you feel about men just randomly showing up at their female employees houses unannounced? [00:38:53] Speaker A: It's pretty whack. Like, not cool. Like, I don't, I, I, I don't think if co workers shouldn't just randomly show up at coworkers houses unless it's like predetermined or whatever. But yeah, just a random like, hey, how's it going? Is kind of weird. Especially if it's like, you know, uninvited and seems intrusive such as this. Especially if it's like opposite genders or even the same genders, because, you know, people, man, people. [00:39:27] Speaker B: Well, there's a long conversation and there's a very long conversation all about how much money they can make. And then, but then Trixie's like, oh, we should try to help him. He's a very complicated guy. Yeah, and we got that on one side and we got Booster. I actually think that panel's really cool. [00:39:44] Speaker A: It's cool. [00:39:45] Speaker B: Her talking in the window and then Booster flying through the city. [00:39:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:51] Speaker B: Booster and Skeets are celebrating good night's work. Booster's like, things are starting to look up. We're making money, being accepted, and I'm even starting to like, things here. And sk. Like, what do you mean, Booster? He's like, well, the buildings and stuff. When we first arrived, I felt like we were walking through a history vid. The architecture, general atmosphere all seems so old. I'm just getting to feel a little more comfortable. Oh, and Ski's like, I agree, so how nice. Skeets and Booster have a moment. Booster and the Tattered Cape show back up at his apartment or his penthouse. Skeets lights a fire. [00:40:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:33] Speaker B: Booster gets naked. [00:40:37] Speaker A: And eats a sandwich. [00:40:41] Speaker B: Kind of like this scene. [00:40:42] Speaker A: You're like, hey, nice boost. [00:40:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, the more I drink, the more I like the scene even more. And there was another explosion, the fire, so I'll have to have a drink. [00:40:58] Speaker A: Explosion. [00:41:01] Speaker B: Well, anyway, we were having a whole discussion about taxes. Remember? What happened to the taxes? Didn't. Wasn't that the whole end of the last issue? [00:41:09] Speaker A: Was the last issue all about the taxes Booster was getting. We've heard nothing yet. [00:41:16] Speaker B: We've heard nothing about taxes. [00:41:17] Speaker A: Yeah, they've relaxed on the tax. [00:41:19] Speaker B: Like, I was like, I can't give them a. I can't give them a birth certificate for some reason. He's like, my intentions were good once, but I still lost anything, Everything. And we see. It looks like a maybe a mom and a sister. [00:41:37] Speaker A: I think so. [00:41:38] Speaker B: And a little globe. [00:41:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:41] Speaker B: And Booster goes to sleep in his penthouse on top of the building. And we get a wake up Booster. And he's like, ma. And no, now more co workers have come into houses. [00:41:52] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:41:54] Speaker B: He has Dirk and Trixie just show up with a shirtless Booster. [00:42:00] Speaker A: And his Booster underway and. [00:42:03] Speaker B: Yeah, well, no, he never takes his bottoms. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Okay? [00:42:06] Speaker B: He, he, he came home and went to sleep in his costume. Most of it. [00:42:09] Speaker A: Yeah, most of it. [00:42:11] Speaker B: But Dirk, Dirk announces his tax case was thrown out because Booster is such a good superhero that the government forgot about taxes. [00:42:19] Speaker A: Said, hey, you're a good dude, dude. We're gonna, we're gonna just wash it away. [00:42:25] Speaker B: That's what happens, you know, you're just a good dude. Or you're just like, you know, you start a bitcoin holding company called Binance and you just do good things and then all of a sudden they just forget about your taxes and stuff and your SEC violations and your fraud and stuff. It's magical. [00:42:51] Speaker A: Magical. [00:42:53] Speaker B: All you have to do is go save the city just once and you don't have to pay taxes ever again. We should work on that. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Just save the city. Just. [00:43:03] Speaker B: And we also find out from Dirk that he needs to get dressed Booster does, because he's got to go see his Booster Mobile. [00:43:10] Speaker A: What? A Booster mobile? A Bubba. Booster mob. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Yeah. But Trixie, by the way, is the only observant one. She picks up the globe and she's like, I've never seen this before. And Booster gets nervous and then he's like a Booster mobile. And then we get back to the Ballard guy. [00:43:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he's. He's very not happy. [00:43:33] Speaker B: Yeah, he's curses and his henchmen. Yeah, it's. It's no good. He's like, booster Gold ruined my life, destroyed my future. Yeah. The very least I can do is repay him in kind. [00:43:48] Speaker A: How did you destroy his life in Rs future? [00:43:52] Speaker B: No, maybe he did it in the future. Future? Oh, oh, oh, wait, we don't know about the future. [00:43:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:44:00] Speaker B: Well, anyway, Booster gets the most ridiculous looking car ever to be the Booster. [00:44:05] Speaker A: What are you talking about? It looks so cool. Looks like an Esprit. It looks like a Lotus Esprit. So sick. Man, if I, like, if I, if I had a Boostermobile, I'd be so excited, man. [00:44:23] Speaker B: He just needs Carmen Electra laying across the hood. [00:44:28] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:44:30] Speaker B: Well, look her up, folks. Look her up. Okay, so, well, anyway, we have the Booster Mobile. The car maker is very proud of what they did. It's the Breisler booster. Marks 4. [00:44:49] Speaker A: 4. Yeah, I think so. [00:44:52] Speaker B: Why would you be the Mark 4 if you're the first? There's a lot of confusions with names in this book. [00:44:57] Speaker A: They. They had to make it sound. [00:44:59] Speaker B: I still don't know why he's called Mr. Twister. [00:45:01] Speaker A: I. I don't know, man. Plot twist. We don't know. We don't know. Okay, but they have to make the car sound enticing. If it's the first one, you have to think like, it's like when you start your checkbook. And I know this sounds. This sounds like a dated reference for all those young listeners because they're like, what's a check? But for all you older listeners that understand this reference, when you start your checkbook, you want to get checks that are like in the 500s or something like that. Not in the hundreds because you know when you go to cash a check at a store, they're going to look at you and be like, hey, man, did you steal these? [00:45:45] Speaker B: Yeah. It's kind of like if you start a podcast, you should start an episode like 247 instead of 1. Who would do that? Make it look like you have a whole bunch of episodes. [00:45:55] Speaker A: Nobody would do that. [00:45:57] Speaker B: That's such a stupid idea. [00:45:59] Speaker A: That's ridiculous, man. That is. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Who came up with that idea? [00:46:02] Speaker A: That's so ridiculous. We've been. We were recording all along and we just lost all the episodes. [00:46:09] Speaker B: Well, that probably did happen. It did happen. Well, anyway, we find out the top speed of the car is 133mph, which seems pretty weak for the Booster Mobile. I'm. [00:46:18] Speaker A: I. I'd say that's fast at the time. [00:46:23] Speaker B: Well, Booster doesn't know how to drive cars, which is hilarious because I don't. [00:46:26] Speaker A: Think he has a license then. [00:46:29] Speaker B: He's from the future, and they don't have cars in the future. They have, like, flying cars and stuff. [00:46:33] Speaker A: He's just, like, whipping. He's. He's busting that whip. He's just, like, going around corners. He's gta. And everywhere he's got five. [00:46:43] Speaker B: You want to find out what's happening? [00:46:44] Speaker A: He's got five stars on him. Cops are everywhere. He's like, I'm boosting gold. [00:46:49] Speaker B: Do you want to find out what's happening in the DC universe? [00:46:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:51] Speaker B: What's happening this week anyway? It's not the whole DC universe. Swamp Thing. 49. Swamp Thing gathers his forces for the showdown. [00:47:00] Speaker A: Ooh, the showdown. [00:47:03] Speaker B: Adventures of the Outsiders. Because now the Outsiders is a prestige format book. And Adventure of the Outsiders is going to go for. Yeah, they're going against the Masters of Disaster. Batman has left the Outsiders. [00:47:14] Speaker A: He's gone. Now it's just Black Lightning. [00:47:17] Speaker B: Green lantern corps 201. Remember we had that groundbreaking issue where we get Guy Gardner involved? A new title, a new direction, and all new excitement. That's all we get there. They're not giving anything away. Warlord 106. Enter Damon as Morgan is drawn deeper into the mystery of Shakira's past. Blue Devil, once known as a great book. Mary Frances Cassidy is running for her life. Blue Devil is to the rescue. Who's who. Number 16. Are you ready? [00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:49] Speaker B: Monitors. Mongol. New Gods. Night Force. Mordrew the Merciless. [00:47:55] Speaker A: O. Well, that's a Night Force. [00:48:01] Speaker B: And probably Micro Lad. [00:48:03] Speaker A: Oh. [00:48:04] Speaker B: From the Legion of Super Villains. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Okay. [00:48:07] Speaker B: Actually, I don't think Microlad had his own entry until the who's who in the Legion of Superheroes. Do you know what? Microlad's power is getting small. Yeah, good. Good guess. [00:48:17] Speaker A: Good call. Very good. [00:48:21] Speaker B: I get smile. S. Sergeant Rock. Number 410. Sergeant Rock. 410. I want you to think about that. A lot of books did they start at 247? Easy company is on the offensive. But the Nazis are prepared. Wasn't that issue 409? 408. 404. [00:48:43] Speaker A: Hey, hey, now. [00:48:48] Speaker B: Booster Gold, number five. We know what happens there. [00:48:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:50] Speaker B: Infinity Inc. 27. The end of Kacharo. Uhoh. And more of the new wildcat EU Teen Titans. 21. The pressure mounts for Wonder Girl. She's about to crack. Are you ready? There's a. Actually a reason I went through all this. Are you ready? The comic that ruined comics. Dark Knight returns. Number one, a four issue 48 page each series by Frank Miller. As Batman turns 50. [00:49:26] Speaker A: You know, you say runes comics. I say like. And I had this conversation with a. With another creator, and it's one of those books that it. Either you either feel like it ruined it or it redefined the. The genre and the storytelling in a way for readers and writers to be able to look at it through a different lens because of the way that it turned the story. [00:49:57] Speaker B: Everything is dark. Oh. [00:49:59] Speaker A: I mean, I am the dirt. True. True. You are the dirt. And. And you couldn't be the dirt. Couldn't be the dirt if there wasn't this Dark Knight. But I mean, honestly, Dan, as much as. As much as we've had the conversation in the past, too, you and I, about the book not being your fave, it's. [00:50:22] Speaker B: It's. I have my legion of superheroes five years later back there. I've got dark shit in here. It's just way. [00:50:33] Speaker A: Oh, I. I. Believe me. [00:50:36] Speaker B: I. [00:50:36] Speaker A: And I've had this conversation with. With Tanner a bunch where he's just like, Batman is boring. Even this book. This book, I. He just like, He. He despises. [00:50:47] Speaker B: I don't know if the book's. I don't know that this book's. [00:50:50] Speaker A: It. [00:50:51] Speaker B: It. It's fine. [00:50:57] Speaker A: I. [00:50:57] Speaker B: It's no Booster Gold. [00:50:58] Speaker A: It's not Booster Gold. It's not. It's not fun. It's not. It's not. It's not. I want to say, like, uplifting in. [00:51:07] Speaker B: In the. [00:51:08] Speaker A: The sense of, like, you know, hey, what if this could happen? Or whatever. It's very. I don't know. There's. There's some grounded darkness to it. That is. That's probably why people don't like it because. [00:51:25] Speaker B: And it revitalizes Batman. [00:51:27] Speaker A: It revitals Batman and. But I mean, when I say grounded darkness, it's like there's. There's a sense of. There's a sense of reality and humanness, too. [00:51:37] Speaker B: I mean, you don't have Batman 89 if you don't have Dark Knight Returns. [00:51:40] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:51:42] Speaker B: You don't have. I mean, there's a lot you don't have. Like, nobody was interested in making a Batman movie until Dark Knight Returns happens. Batman was not in the top selling books. Batman was off in Batman and the Outsiders. Right. I mean, Batman had his own book too, but Batman revitalizes Batman and the Outsiders a little bit. I. It is a little bit disappointing how the Mike Bar stuff gets overlooked because of Batman Return or because of Dark Knight Returns. Right. Like, because I thought Mike W. Bar did a good job revitalizing Batman with Batman and the Outsiders too. [00:52:13] Speaker A: Get an interesting take on Robin in this book. You get a. A very. [00:52:19] Speaker B: Yes, you do. You do get female. You get some. I don't want to call it female empowerment. What would you call it? You have a female lead. [00:52:26] Speaker A: You have a female lead in a comic. And, and I think. [00:52:29] Speaker B: I don't want to call it female because that would be a gross overstatement. [00:52:32] Speaker A: It is a gross overstatement. But you have, I want to say, a character that's real. Yeah. And that you can. As a. I, I'd say when I read this as a teenager, it's relatable. I mean, not relatable, but like, you. [00:52:53] Speaker B: Know, you're like, I have to read it again. No, I'm gonna have to read it again. [00:52:57] Speaker A: No, but you. [00:52:58] Speaker B: It's. Well, for me, as a teenager, it definitely was. [00:53:00] Speaker A: I'm not saying personally relatable in the sense, like, oh, that's me. But you know, people that are that person. [00:53:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:12] Speaker A: So I'm not. I'm just saying, like, from the, from the standpoint of like, you. Everybody knows somebody that, that fits that character and it's. You're like, oh, wow, okay. That's. There's, there's a groundedness to it to. [00:53:31] Speaker B: Me, and that's why in. It's not. [00:53:34] Speaker A: I'm not gonna say it's my, like, go. To. Have to, like, you have to. You gotta read this book. You gotta own this book. But it's. It's worth a read. It's a. It's a good book. It's definitely something that. [00:53:47] Speaker B: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Let me, let me just ask a question and let's, let's, let's. We'll get back into Booster here in a second. But let me ask a question. Dark Knight Returns or Killing Joke. [00:54:03] Speaker A: I. [00:54:03] Speaker B: Would go, like, if you were gonna hand somebody a Batman book to read from this era. Yeah. That redefined the character. Which one do you hand them? [00:54:14] Speaker A: I. I would, I would Say Dark Knight Returns over Killing Joe. And it's. I threw my adult through. Through what we do here on the show. Looking at, looking at Killing Joke as what it is and who I am now, I, I don't like the story. I find it problematic. I find things that happen in the, in the story that make me not like it on multitudes of levels. So on that. I wouldn't hand that to people do. [00:54:59] Speaker B: Well, the, the, the, the. The TV version, the movie version was even worse. [00:55:03] Speaker A: Oh yeah. So. And it's. But the, the problem, the problem about that is that that without that story, you don't have birds of prey. You don't have other things that. That come out of it. And that's what sucks. [00:55:27] Speaker B: It's weird too, because I almost think like, it's weird how like Dark Knight Returns is. Is future. Right? So they don't have to, they don't have. They didn't have to hold. They didn't have to keep anything from that story. Right. You. You don't have to maintain anything. [00:55:44] Speaker A: Right. [00:55:45] Speaker B: You can just do more Dark Knight Returns, but you don't have to tie it back to the current Batman universe. I always thought it was strange how Killing Joke should have been almost like an Elseworld story, but it just. They made it mainstream and then they try for years to get Barbara Gordon. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Back, but you've got Barbara Gordon turns into Oracle and becomes this bigger character, a bigger entity than just what she was. [00:56:14] Speaker B: But, you know, and not spoilers. Right. Obviously, in Dark Knight Returns, we find out that Bruce Wayne is insane. And in the Killing Joke, we find out that Batman is insane. [00:56:30] Speaker A: Oh, two sides of the same coin, but on two different levels. And that's why I think, like you said, with an Elseworld story, it. It plays out better and. [00:56:41] Speaker B: Plays out much better, but, you know, and less problematic. [00:56:44] Speaker A: Less problematic. [00:56:46] Speaker B: But yes, I mean, it, it is problematic in the Women in refrigerators way. [00:56:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:55] Speaker B: But I mean, Gail, Gail, Gail could have written the same article for this using Killing Joke as. [00:57:06] Speaker A: It. And it's. Like I said, it's one of those things where it's like I. There's. There's certain aspects of both books that are. They're not great, but if I'm, If I'm given a choice between one or the other. [00:57:25] Speaker B: It'S. [00:57:26] Speaker A: It's going to be Dark Knight Returns over one. [00:57:29] Speaker B: You had something way worse happen to Dinah, written by our. Somebody we admire. Mike Grow, too, in Green Arrow, too. [00:57:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Way worse. Yeah. I, I mean, if you can get way worse than Being shot. I, I would say what they did to Dinah in that book was worse. Especially a character that was already established and very powerful. Right. So yeah, I mean, okay, so 80s, some problematic times. But we're going to loop back here to some bright, bright shiny times. [00:58:02] Speaker A: Bright shiny Times of the 80s and. [00:58:03] Speaker B: Booster Gold, welcome to our historical 1980s review of Dark Comics. Yeah, it was, it was interesting. It's what it did do. And I want to tie back to what Greg said because I just don't want to on all of this either. What it did do, Greg is absolutely right. It opened up a different world for comics. So. And one of the other things those comics did too, that, that can't be understated is they help break the code. [00:58:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:37] Speaker B: We needed those comics to help break comics code authority. We needed to show that dark stories, that alternative, different stories could be successful. And also we don't have, I mean we have, we have no GEO GLBTQ plus representation in comics if those stories don't exist. [00:58:52] Speaker A: Right. [00:58:53] Speaker B: In mainstream comics. I want to emphasize, in mainstream comics in. I want to emphasize that. I mean, I've got John Sable right back here. There were gay characters in comics, but they weren't. But not in the big two. [00:59:04] Speaker A: Yeah, they weren't the ones that you're, you're picking up on the weekly on, on your spinners and stuff like that. And then you get, you have no. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Midnighter without Dark Knight Returns probably. [00:59:16] Speaker A: You get books like this, that, that come out. And then within the next 10 years you're starting to see characters that are redefined and come to the forefront. And then more people can actually. [00:59:35] Speaker B: See. [00:59:37] Speaker A: Representation and feel like there's something for them to read without. [00:59:44] Speaker B: And now back to a character who did not do that. [00:59:46] Speaker A: Oh, I don't know. I mean Booster's like, you know, he's. [00:59:50] Speaker B: He'S Booster, Booster did now, Booster, Booster did not push any envelopes in comics. [00:59:55] Speaker A: He pushed. No, I, he, Yeah, I, he, he's, I don't know. He's Booster. You gotta love him. [01:00:01] Speaker B: I mean, what they did with, with Blue Beetle and Booster Gold later. Yeah, yeah, but like not here, not here. I mean, it's not here. [01:00:09] Speaker A: He's just campy. He's, he's a goof. [01:00:12] Speaker B: This is a comic book. No, I mean, look, I mean again, I like these books. They're fine. I'm kind of shitting on them a little bit because there are some problems with the story. I mean the names. Look, it's a third tier book. They were trying Something new. There should. They should. Before we go through these last couple of pages, there should have been. This is a. These are fun pages. Right. The car scene. [01:00:36] Speaker A: The car scene. [01:00:36] Speaker B: I love this. Yeah. Here, let's go back to the book. Like Boosters, because we're almost the end of the story. Booster Gold is driving the car through the city. You get another moment. But this one's kind of fun. He's scaring the piss out of the. The owner of the car or the creator of the car. He jumps over a drawbridge. It's everybody's fantasy. [01:00:55] Speaker A: Maxing it out. He's putting it to the test. [01:00:58] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean. And this. [01:00:59] Speaker A: This. [01:00:59] Speaker B: It's fun. But, you know, just like the. The early issues of Doom Patrol around the same time before Grant Morrison took over. I mean, this is. DC's trying to launch new characters. We appreciate it. [01:01:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:16] Speaker B: But the Doom Patrol ends up just being X Men Number five. Right. Because they already have Teen Titans and Legion. And you get this. And it. You know, Doom Patrol, really. And, you know, when Morrison took over tied it back to those crazy 60s books. Right. And that's why it hit. And this is Booster Gold series so far. [01:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:40] Speaker B: It's a really basic paint by the numbers superhero story. [01:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:47] Speaker B: We don't know the superhero's origin yet. You've got some. I like it. It's a twist. Right. Like, you've got some different motivations for the character. He's trying to make money. We don't know why he's trying to make all the money. He seems really shallow at first. But you're starting to learn more about the character. I like how we're going through the character development. The character development is kind of slow as molasses. Yeah. But I feel like Jurgens are letting us learn the character as he does the battles. The thousand was a kind of a lame. [01:02:18] Speaker A: I feel we're. We're as. As he's fighting people. We're seeing where his different powers come from, what he relies on to get those powers. That's kind of like he. It's a show. Don't tell. He's not telling us verbally or through dialogue necessarily. Like, Booster's not telling us where he got this stuff. But we're seeing the Legion flight ring. [01:02:45] Speaker B: We're seeing the hint. [01:02:46] Speaker A: We're seeing that. [01:02:46] Speaker B: We're seeing that glow with the pictures. [01:02:48] Speaker A: Yeah. We're seeing all these little subtle things. [01:02:50] Speaker B: The force shield. [01:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah, we're seeing the force shield. We're seeing all this. We're like, oh, wait a Minute. Who has that? And then if you're, if you're in tune enough like Dan is, then, then you know where these things come from. If you're dumb. [01:03:03] Speaker B: Well. And I would have been in tune for the Legion of the Legion stuff at the time, but a lot of the other things would have been washed out. I mean, the Rosenthorn thing, I wouldn't have got it all. Yeah, but when every. If I was reading this as a nine year old, right? [01:03:17] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, but I mean, or ten. [01:03:19] Speaker B: Year old, I wouldn't. Ten year old, I wouldn't have gotten a lot of that. But you know, we flip to the next. And import. Of course. Listeners. I'm sorry, you're probably be like, well, what the fuck does Dan like then? Right? Like I'm bashing the dark and here's the fun stuff and I'm bashing it to you. Right. [01:03:38] Speaker A: Dan's a curmudgeon, everybody. He doesn't like anything. [01:03:42] Speaker B: It's not like. Okay, let's go to the. So we get a prologue for the next issue. Space, Earth side of Jupiter. A small scout ship tries desperately to outrun a destroyer. The result is inevitable. The pilot programs his destination, the computer, and he's headed toward Metropolis. Next issue, at long last origin. We're gonna find out Booster's origin and guest starring Superman. [01:04:07] Speaker A: Gotta bring that Superman in. Superman. [01:04:10] Speaker B: And yeah, like, I don't hate these. We critique these on the show. Right. That's part of what we do. I, I think there are some things in the book that caused it not to be a success. And it's a little bit disappointing because we both love the Booster Gold character. Spoiler. The series goes 25 issues. Oh, I think Blue Beetle went 25 as well. Right. Or 24. Right. So the two big characters, they try to launch out of crisis. Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, they get two year runs and they don't really become great until later it took them. Their original series aren't successful. And that's sad because I love the character. And one of the reasons they become successful characters later is because as we reviewed when we did the Justice League issues, Giffen and DeMattis got to play with all the misfit toys. [01:05:12] Speaker A: Yeah. All the different stuff. [01:05:14] Speaker B: I mean, you know, and, and editorial didn't care because nobody gave a shit about the two characters. And if they were successful with them, then awesome. [01:05:21] Speaker A: Right. [01:05:22] Speaker B: And then they were. So I do think like a little bit of a better editorial hand on this book could have done it a lot of good. [01:05:33] Speaker A: You don't you don't think Ms. Race was doing. Doing justice? [01:05:40] Speaker B: I don't, I don't. I mean, Mr. Twister. Come on. Like, that's a terrible villain. Names should have something to do with the villain. [01:05:52] Speaker A: It was a plot twister. The plot he gave you was twisted, Dan. Twisted. Twisted. [01:06:10] Speaker B: Well, here we go. [01:06:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:11] Speaker B: Are you right? [01:06:11] Speaker A: Okay. [01:06:12] Speaker B: Dear Booster boys. [01:06:13] Speaker A: Oh, Booster boys. [01:06:14] Speaker B: I guess we. I guess we didn't name the column yet. It's so called Booster. Oh, we got the winner, by the way. [01:06:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:06:21] Speaker B: Do you know what the winner was? [01:06:22] Speaker A: Well, it's the winner. [01:06:23] Speaker B: Yeah, this is it, gang. We've kept our submissions for our letter column title locked deep in the DC subterranean vaults now for two months and have at long last picked a winner. It was tough, but the selection committee finally decided on a drum roll, please. The Gold Exchange. [01:06:40] Speaker A: Oh. [01:06:42] Speaker B: It'S a good name for a Booster Gold letter column. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I like it. And so two people actually had the Gold Exchange. One won the big prize because their letter got a couple days faster. And then the other one won the second prize, which we thought was better than the first prize, which was all the sketches. So we would have taken that. All right. Dear Booster Boys. All right, this is my first time ever writing to a comic and I've never thought of doing it before, but I had. I just had to write you and let you know that BG has become a big sensation in my town. No joke either. I know about 65 people who love Booster Gold. [01:07:19] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:07:19] Speaker B: And I love your. And I hope your success continues. Now I wonder how big his talent is. Let's find out. Booster reminds me a little of Dan Cassidy, the world famous Blue Devil. They both act similar. Now Blue Devil. Now Blue Devil was interesting. I haven't read a lot of Blue Devil, only a couple issues. But Blue Devil made it. Remember, it was on that top 10 comics list. [01:07:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:07:41] Speaker B: But then it flamed out really big. It went and like all because this guy's like. Anyway. Yeah, so there was another. There was a critically acclaimed. Acclaimed book that went up. But anyway, this guy, Greg Crosby, he's from Islington, South Carolina. So this could be a big deal. I mean, 65 people in Isleton. Should we look up where is that Islandon Island? [01:08:08] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:08:09] Speaker B: I call it. It must be Island. [01:08:11] Speaker A: It's only. It's only the. The population is 100 people. [01:08:16] Speaker B: Well, let's find out. [01:08:17] Speaker A: Okay. [01:08:17] Speaker B: Is Linton. I didn't do my pre research on island in South Carolina. We're going to look it up in Wikipedia here. [01:08:25] Speaker A: Okay. [01:08:26] Speaker B: Its population is 58 people. Is it really at least in 2020? [01:08:36] Speaker A: Oh, yes. [01:08:39] Speaker B: So apparently the entire town. [01:08:43] Speaker A: So, wait. [01:08:44] Speaker B: Of Islington. [01:08:45] Speaker A: So there was more people. There was more people in 1980, I assume 86, then. Oh, man. [01:08:53] Speaker B: On Wikipedia, its premier site is the Rice Patch Christian Church. [01:08:58] Speaker A: Okay. [01:09:02] Speaker B: It is part of the Collington County School District. Okay. Oh. As of 2020 census, its population was 70. [01:09:13] Speaker A: Oh. [01:09:16] Speaker B: So it's entirely possible that it was bigger. [01:09:20] Speaker A: Had some fluctuations. Some years are good years, some years are slow years. Some years, though. [01:09:27] Speaker B: Mr. Jurgens, you did a fantastic job of make getting Booster Gold over in Islington, South Carolina. [01:09:43] Speaker A: That's a. I mean, that's a. That's an endearing story. So my imagination is that. That this guy got so excited by the book. [01:09:52] Speaker B: He. [01:09:52] Speaker A: He went to. [01:09:53] Speaker B: Heard it with all his friends. [01:09:54] Speaker A: He went out and like, all his friends are, like, they went. [01:09:57] Speaker B: He went to the Collington County School. [01:09:59] Speaker A: District high school and bought comic books for everybody. [01:10:04] Speaker B: Maybe just shared his one comic. [01:10:06] Speaker A: I wonder if it's like one of those, like, three story schools where the elementary schools on the bottom, middle schools in the middle, and the high schools on the top level. [01:10:14] Speaker B: I think it might be a one story. [01:10:16] Speaker A: A one story suck. Everybody goes to school in the same building, like, all on the same floor. Oh, wow. I mean, we have schools like that. We have schools like that here in. Here in Washington. So I. I can't. There's no judgment. [01:10:32] Speaker B: Yeah. In eastern Washington. [01:10:35] Speaker A: There's some schools like that over here somewhere. [01:10:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:39] Speaker A: Concrete. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Okay. [01:10:47] Speaker A: I've seen places. [01:10:50] Speaker B: Well, would you like to know? I just want to ask you a question. Would you like to know? Yeah. If I could find out how much. Now, if you would like. If you want to know who the Lords of the Ultra Realm are, Okay. I would happily go on ebay and buy you a copy. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I see that one was sold for $1.79. [01:11:23] Speaker A: Oh, boy. It feels like I'm getting a copy of Lords of the Ultra. [01:11:31] Speaker B: Maybe we'll review Lords of the Ultra Realm. I've never read Lords of the Ultra Realm. [01:11:35] Speaker A: You're gonna buy two copies, everybody, and we're gonna. Oh, oh, oh, oh. [01:11:38] Speaker B: We. We could get one through six, buy it now for 9.99, but $6 shipping, that seems like a ripoff. [01:11:45] Speaker A: That is a rip off. [01:11:47] Speaker B: Oh, oh, here we go. Oh. One through four, two copies each. Oh, that's for 11.95. [01:11:54] Speaker A: That sounds like the deal. The century right Free shipping. That sounds. [01:11:57] Speaker B: And if you use a coupon code, you can pay $10.76. [01:12:01] Speaker A: That sounds like the. That sounds like the winner, winner, chicken dinner. That sounds like the one for the podcast here today, Dan, where we just read the first. [01:12:08] Speaker B: You know what? I'm not. I'm not paying for Lords of the Ultra Realm. If somebody wants to buy Lords of the Ultra Realm. And we will review it where we. [01:12:14] Speaker A: Get the first four years. [01:12:15] Speaker B: You walk up to us if you find us. If you bring Lords of the Ultra Realm to the Retro Emporium. [01:12:20] Speaker A: Oh, my. [01:12:21] Speaker B: On Meeker street in Kent, Washington, where you can relive your childhood because it smells like Fruit Loops. And you bring an issue to Ann and you look at Ann and you say on the podcast, Dan told me to bring you an issue of this. And Anne is going to look at you befuddled and annoyed and be like, why would Dan say something like that on the podcast? But if you do that, we will indeed review Lords of the Ultra Realm. Right. And we'll do it right live. [01:12:51] Speaker A: Right. [01:12:51] Speaker B: Live in the Retro Emporium. [01:12:52] Speaker A: Or if somebody just, like, sends a. [01:12:54] Speaker B: Live to Tate, has a package sent to. It'll be live. It'll be live for Anne. [01:12:58] Speaker A: Live for Anne. And would just say, do not. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Do not. To be clear. To be very clear, do not send unmarked packages to the Retro Emporium. [01:13:08] Speaker A: Do not send unmarked packages. [01:13:10] Speaker B: Yes. That would not be okay. [01:13:14] Speaker A: We've gotten those before. [01:13:15] Speaker B: I'm very upset. [01:13:15] Speaker A: It's kind of weird to get that. [01:13:17] Speaker B: Kind of stuff because it's like, yeah, that's not okay. Yeah. [01:13:20] Speaker A: We've gotten a lot of weird stuff in the mail. [01:13:24] Speaker B: That is. Is really not okay. [01:13:28] Speaker A: Like, get a manila envelope and open it up. Or like, you're like, do I open this up? It doesn't. It's from. There's no return address. Open it up. And it's some weird book. I enjoy reading them, but. [01:13:47] Speaker B: Well, okay, on that note, Retro Emporium Camp Launch Pad. [01:13:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Absolute Zero's Camp Launchpad. Pick it up at your local comic shops. Find it online. You can go and pick it up at Albert Rains. [01:14:05] Speaker B: Albert Rains Nemesis, A Return of the Dark. [01:14:08] Speaker A: Making the Worst Face. If you people that can't see this, I'm just. Every time he butchers the name, we. [01:14:14] Speaker B: Will bookmark that for Travis and go visit Paul at the Jiu Jitsu gym. That would be at certified Jiu Jitsu on Jackson slash Bridgeport and 27th in Tacoma. [01:14:29] Speaker A: Yes. [01:14:30] Speaker B: And he will also tap out the other lawyer if you have an employment law case. Reach out to him. He'll help you. And. Yeah, that's it. [01:14:43] Speaker A: Next time, Number six. [01:14:47] Speaker B: Superman. [01:14:48] Speaker A: Super Skeets. I hear it's going to be Super Booster gold. Super Skeets. [01:14:51] Speaker B: Height 6 5. Height, 6 5. Weight 220. Booster, you gotta put on some mass. [01:14:58] Speaker A: He's. He's. He's trying to get down, man. He's trying to get down. [01:15:04] Speaker B: That's how he keeps his abs. Yeah. Geez. [01:15:07] Speaker A: Well, you know, six, five. [01:15:09] Speaker B: You gotta carry a little weight, buddy. [01:15:10] Speaker A: Maybe he likes it. He wants to stay hungry, Dan. He wants to stay hungry. [01:15:15] Speaker B: I like it. Well, anyway, on that note, we're done. Bye. [01:15:20] Speaker A: See y' all then. [01:15:22] Speaker B: Bye. See you next week.