Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Well, I guess at your house, it's probably super quiet and, like, chill.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Very. I mean, you hear maybe a refrigerator running in the background, maybe some kids playing on the street or something like that.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: Why don't you go catch it?
[00:00:21] Speaker B: I. I would if I could, but, you know, it's a little big for me.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fair.
My house is full of craziness. There's three dogs today.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Three dogs, three people.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Crazy times.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: A dog for every person.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: A dog for every person. A person. A maligator here. A maligator. Oh, watch out.
There's a husky mix here.
Oh, there's a Juliet here. It's crazy times.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: Crazy times. Welcome to Dogcast with Dan and Greg. We talk about.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Welcome to Dogcast.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: We're gonna talk about all the dogs and all the things that dogs do here on Dogcast.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: I bet dogs make appearances during this podcast.
High. High probability.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: At your house. Yes.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah. At your house. No, but my house, they might bark a little bit. They'll make an appearance. The flash shaker bottle will make an appearance.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: There's all sorts of things making appearances in this podcast.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: All things make an appearance.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: I just throw money at Greg.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: Hey, take it.
I can't get bills.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: You know, it's. That's the challenge of doing things virtually. You just can't take money from things. It's crazy.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: I'm trying. It's just not working.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: A whole bunch of things happening in the world right now.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: I know.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: It's too bad our podcast come out two weeks after we. I mean, the day after we do them.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: The day after we do them. I know. It's. It's like, boom. We do it, and then it's like, boom. Hey, there you go. Podcast.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: The.
Yeah, we've. We've eliminated Gnome Chomsky from humanity. Finally.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh, yeah, he was.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. He was in the Epstein files. Okay.
Hanging out with all the other people.
Yeah. You know, linguists. That was anti establishment and elites. Yeah.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: Well, there you go.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Fantastic. Yeah.
It's been a stellar week.
[00:02:22] Speaker B: All the things coming.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Through the interwebs.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: It'S amazing. I saw something that said that to date, and of course, we can't confirm this because there's like, 3 million pages, but to date, nobody that runs drag queen brunches has been found in the Epstein files.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: That's good.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Yes. And it could change.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: Could change, but you never know.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: It could change. Yeah. It could change.
Also, no trans rights advocates have been found in the Epstein files yet. Yet, yet, yet.
Yeah.
Amazing.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: More. More good news.
See, you gotta take the good news with the bad news.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I just emphasize yet. I mean, we don't know. There's like 3 million files.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: 3 million files. Pages of things.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: We could find all 300 million people eligible to be in the Epstein files. In the Epstein files by the end.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: Oh, you never know.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: You know, you don't know. Unless you go into the future and go to the library.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Into the future in the library. Oh, wow.
[00:03:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: And then you find out all sorts of stuff on the computron.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, we learned last issue that the best way to find out information in the Future in the 24. In the 25th century. Yeah, 2400. Yeah. Is to go to the library.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Yeah, of course. That's where all the.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: I mean, why wouldn't you go to the library?
[00:03:54] Speaker B: I mean, that's where all the knowledge is stored at the library.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: Correct. Yeah. You can't just get the knowledge on, like a little device that you hold in your hand. You have to go to the library.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Gotta go to the library. Because that's where the devices are at.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: They.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: They're from the past. They don't have the devices on them anymore. The devices they have don't do the thing that they want.
That's like if you were to take your. Your. Your phone into the future, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work. I mean, it might work. It might have some things that work on it, but it's not.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: It wouldn't know how to connect to the. It wouldn't know how to connect to the 43Gs.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah, the 43Gs that are out there. It's like. Yeah.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Oh, speaking of, be looking for the five GS.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: I'm not even gonna lie. So, like, I have one of those things that my light is plugged into.
And.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: So it turned the 5Gs.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: No, no, it was on the.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: It's on the 4G's.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: It was on the 2.4 MHz Internet.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Right.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: And it worked just fine. And then the 5Gs messed it up completely royally because it can't. It can't figure out how to connect to the Internet. I mean, it can if you. If you have it slowed down. Right. Or if you keep it. Keep it slowed down, but. Or if you have it set to whatever.
But. Because the house wants to be running fast all the time.
It killed my little. My little Internet light thing.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Well, I found out the worst thing ever. What's that? In addition to your light, I have great news.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: What's that?
[00:05:28] Speaker A: AT&T bought Quantum fiber.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: I'm thrilled.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: Are you thrilled?
[00:05:38] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Are you.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Are you super excited?
[00:05:42] Speaker A: I'm 100% thrilled that the company I quit doing business with years and years and years ago now owns the company in most capacities.
Now owns the company that gives me my super fast Internet.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: And you're like, oh, it's going to suck now.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul and I were reviewing the.
Your plan for life pricing. That exists.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Or it said your bill for life. Right. Ever. And now in the fine print, it says as long as that plan exists.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Oh, so it could change it anytime.
[00:06:14] Speaker A: So they can slightly modify the plan and then eliminate your for life pricing.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Your for life pricing does not exist anymore.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: I'm sure that's not gonna happen.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Never gonna happen this week.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: I mean, honestly, I could call out descript, because the same thing happened with us, with them, so. Oh, what?
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: Well, it wasn't. You didn't impact you. Paul paid for. Yeah, Paul paid for descript.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: But I mean, it happened on our other. How we used to do our podcast.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: It was like we were paying for the one. Like. Yeah. Cause it was like, hey, we're doing this thing. And it's like. I'm like. All of a sudden, I'm like, wait, why did the pricing change. Why did my.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: I was on Castos. Did that too.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, but why is everything. Now we only get this much. And I'm.
That's not how it's supposed to be.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Correct. Yes, there was that, too. Yes. Yeah, there was. Oh, yes. That was whatever we were using before I forgotten their name.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: How Saul, Will, and I did our podcast. I was like. Because that's why we're. Yeah. So, like, I was like, oh, yeah, Dan and I can use the same thing because I'm already paying for it.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: That's how we ended up on descript. Yeah. Yes.
And Descript. We. We are talking about it because we actually like it. Yeah, it has been useful.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Pricing changes just suck.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: So it's like, it's. Well, it's. They get you using the thing, and then they change a thing. And then I actually was talking. I was actually talking to Gemini.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah?
[00:07:44] Speaker A: Yes. And Gemini explained why Alphabet's whole pricing strategy for not being open source anymore. And they were basically. Basically, it literally told me now that we have 74% of the market share and we're going to be the powerful AI for Siri, which basically gives us 100% of phone market share.
We don't have to do things for customers or keep open source. Now literally their own AI was telling me their nefarious plans.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: Scary world.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I think it's kind of funny. Yeah, it's. Well, it's kind of like the future.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: It is the future.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: This is how we lead dog number one.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Dog number one.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: We had appearance already on dogcast.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: On Dogcast we have dog number one. Juliet.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: Juliet is here.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: Fine specimen right there. Taylor.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: Wayne. Specimen.
Taylor wagging. She's a. This is a Juliet. If you will pop your head up here. Not down yet. Yes, this is a fine runt lab shepherd mix. 9 year old still doing agility drills with Mr. Toa. The husky mix and the maligator.
I think she's gonna go straighten them out right now. The maligator and the husky mix are fighting each other in the other room.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:09:04] Speaker A: Well, basically this just consists of the maligator running around in circles and going crazy and the husky mix trying to keep up with the maligator and then getting very tired very quickly. Because husky mixes have, you know, big heavy fur.
He has to lie down with his tongue sticking halfway out. Yeah. And the maligator is still like if you all don't know what a maligator is, that's a Belgian Malinois on dot cast today.
Well, and that's related to this issue because they have some sort of animal here that's. They do have an Easter gold.
[00:09:37] Speaker B: It must be an alligator.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: And he doesn't play drums.
The biggest disappointment I know Comic.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: Is that I expected animal to be playing some mean ass drums and did not deliver.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: Did not deliver you bait. And switched us with a name.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: And.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: Didn'T give us what we wanted.
[00:10:01] Speaker A: We get a very Legion of Superheroes cover once again.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, it's poor Booster.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: It's either a Legion of Superheroes cover or it's a cover from one of the Power Pack books Travis and I were reading.
I mean this is. Yeah, Booster is. They've got him in foot booties. He's quartered arm booties. And yeah, it's. It's not looking good for Booster. And we've got the police guy. That was the federal police guy, right? Yeah. Not the local guy. And he's like, for crimes against the state, Booster Gold must die. And then, then in the background, all these people wearing police uniforms with masks on, covering their face or holding gold star.
I. I mean, being a police Police.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: If you're not on the video stream, I'm doing air quotes. Police that wear Masks and just do whatever they want.
Never happens.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: Never happens.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: Not real. Well, it says the history of the DC Universe is must reading. Fact on the COVID Yeah. And the new history of the DC universe that just came out with Mark Waid writing it also must, must reading. Must reading. So I agree with the original and I agree with the current.
It is. It takes a bit to digest, though. So I can't wait until 10:20 at night to start reading those or I fall asleep with the book left resting on my face because I'm old book on face.
Well, anyway, Booster Gold. It says, for crimes against the state, Booster must die. Booster Gold must die.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Is.
He's looking. He's looking pretty. Pretty sad. Pitiful. Pretty pathetic.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Yeah. We're about to have a dog fight here on Dogcast.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
They're upset about Booster Gold.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: Oh, they're upset that he's gonna die. Well, good news is we get a Christmas scene here in 2462. Yeah.
And we've gone back to. Remember how we mentioned this a few episodes ago to you, how it was interesting how it used to be that Superboy would always sit a few years behind the current. So this came out in 87. I always don't remember how far Superboy sat. But they went back 25 years here and to 2462. Right. It's weird. So if you. If Booster Gold had gone back the 500 years. Right. It would have been to 1962. But he didn't. He knew to go back to 1987.
Just weird. It's just weird that they didn't go to 2487. Maybe they were trying to be different than the Legion, which was always. Exactly a thousand years in the future.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Didn't go right there. I mean, he's got all this Legion gear. They're gonna call him out, like, hey, man, what do you got our stuff for?
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Well, we get a combination first week. Yeah. We get a TV screen here with a new.
It's always the news reporters are going after Booster Gold.
And now they don't have to be live on the scene. They can just have a TV up here.
This looks like a Jack Kirby dystopia where nothing in technology has advanced except the media just a smidge.
And we've got somebody selling weird balloon things. Little kids are like, we've got somebody. What I can only say is, if Greg went to the future, he would dress in that.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: The poncho or.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Is that what you're talking about?
[00:13:42] Speaker A: We got vertical and horizontal stripes going on at the same time. That speaks to Greg, right? Yeah. That is completely great right there. I was thinking a Greg outfit. You would. Yeah, yeah. You would go horizontal and vertical stripes at the same time, which would drive me insane. It honestly is driving me insane just looking at that. I hate that art right there.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Well, you got Marty McFly over there with his mist.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: Yeah. You do. You have a Christmas tree. Yeah.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Christmas tree in the background. Yeah.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: And we've got the title called Run Back. We have writer, pencil, or creator Dan Jurgens. Oh, my God. We have. We have changed inkers again.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: Bruce Patterson on inks.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: Do they keep putting amazing people on this book all of a sudden? It is interesting. Austin Moss on letters, colorist Gene d' Angelo, and editor Barbara Randall Slash Kiesel. All right, so we know it's going to be a good book because Barbara is on it, and we know that book will be tight, so.
Mr. Toa, come here.
Hi. Welcome to Dogcast. Mr. Toa. This is Mr. Toa.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: Mr. Toa.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: Hello. Yeah, she's Toa. He is the husky mix, this guy. Is he.
Is he adorable?
[00:14:56] Speaker B: He's adorable.
[00:14:57] Speaker A: If you're not on video today, you're missing out. This was the wrong day to do audio only.
You're getting dog cast all over the place. We have. All the dogs have descended down into the podcast room now.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: It's wild. It's crazy.
[00:15:11] Speaker A: The maligator is trying to get all the other dogs to play with a torn up Frisbee. And the other dogs are like, no.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: No, we don't want.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Just going to take it away from me. Okay, well, we go back to.
I guess I said they were in the library, but Jack and Rip have made it out of the library and they are happily working in their house when the federal police show up wearing matching uniforms and masks, and they demand to go inside, let us come in.
And friends, you know what to say when that happens, right?
[00:15:52] Speaker B: No, thank you.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: You say absolutely nothing. You say absolutely nothing. And you lock your door.
If you want to say.
If you want to say, please show me your warrant.
And if they say, no, they don't have one, then you say, I do not permit entry. And you say nothing else.
If you want to say anything.
However, these guys seem to really want in. And Jack makes the big mistake of opening the door.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: He does.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: So. Mistake number one. We. We know not to open the door for the federal police that all look the same and wear masks.
And then it's like, why are these books paralleling time? It's kind of creeping me out. It is.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: It is kind of weird, but.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: And then the police just bust into the house with no warrant or anything.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: They're like, you guys were accessing files. We need to talk to you and take you away now.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: It could. Since the great disaster and societal changes, we may have lost some of our rights here. So this could be a reflection of the current government. I mean, they. The federal police did come in and take the jurisdiction away from the local police in last issue, and they've been tracking people down. And apparently we're in a situation where. Yes, like you said, if you access certain information, all of a sudden, the police will descend on you and take you out.
And that's why you use our sponsor, Surfshark.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: VPNs for everyone.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: Yes. We love VPNs. That way they can never find you. In fact, I just want to let Everybody know that VPNs are good for a lot of things, but if you think you can use VPNs to commit crimes, I would recommend not doing that because it doesn't work. They'll still find you.
[00:17:53] Speaker B: But if you want to watch TV in other places because they have better shows, go for it.
[00:17:58] Speaker A: If you. If you want to watch the Royal Rumble on Netflix and not pay for it, you can always set your search. Allegedly Canada or Australia.
Allegedly. Stephanie McMahon said this on her own podcast.
[00:18:14] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: Yes. In an advertisement for one of them, either Surfshark or NordVPN. Yes. This was hilarious. Like, literally, their own executive told the viewers how to get around the piece.
Yes.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: So I will just say. And honestly, too, like, I. I don't know, we're about to have a Royal Rumble right here with the police.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: By the way, Greg and I do not endorse what happens next. We do not endorse having the police come in and then beating them up. Even if they are federal ICE agents. We don't endorse that.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: Jack's just like, oh, man.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: This is where. This is where the comic diverges from our. Our recommendations here. Well, Jack already messed up. Right. He let them in. I was. That was step failure number one. And, yeah, it's been a lot of stuff. The Royal Rumble happened. It was quite possibly the worst Royal Rumble I've ever seen.
It lasted like 55 minutes or something like that.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: I can't believe you watched it.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't. Well, I only watched it because it was free.
So you are aware, I believe, that the Royal Rumble is my favorite thing every year. Like, it's literally My favorite thing. And I usually will watch it, even though it was in Saudi Arabia, which I'm against. Even though that's why. That's.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: This is all the reasons why. I'm like, I can't believe you watched it.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: But I did not pay for it.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: And so I. I am.
[00:19:39] Speaker B: I'm against you watching it.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: In 2026. In 2026, not 2016, Roman Reigns won the Royal Rumble in the biggest who gives a shit ever moment. They've got all this young talent, and then they pick.
They continue to put old talent up. Well, after all, I mean, CM Punk is the champion right now.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Like, I mean, hey, the guy can. The guy can wrestle. He can drive a monster truck.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: What.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: What can't he do?
[00:20:12] Speaker A: I mean, I like CM Punk, but he's old as fuck. They have all this young talent that he would. He would be putting over. Right.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: Like, maybe he needs to do a TV show or something like that.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: Well, speaking of young talent we're putting over, he probably does.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: He could.
[00:20:27] Speaker A: Speaking of young talent we're putting over. Yeah. Oh, I have another visitor. Mercy.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: Oh, hey.
[00:20:33] Speaker A: Hi. This is the Maligator. Yeah, the maligator. Maligator. As you see, they call her a maligator because you'll see my hand going straight into her mouth.
That's why they're called maligators.
All right, we've seen all the dogs now, so. All right, dogs, you can all go play.
So Juliet just, like, walked away sad so they could all go play.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: Go away. Go play.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: All right, so when we're getting into this year, we've got a big fight going on.
Rip and Jack dispose of the federal police, and they try to take care of some ski to their rebuilding.
Yeah. And then we flip the page and. Because Legends is finished. Oh, remember we mentioned that a couple episodes ago, Legends is finished. The kids came and convinced people not to vote for the emperor wearing no clothes. Right.
He hit a kid and everything. It was about the world because everybody came to their senses and was like, impeach Donald Trump. I mean, get rid of Glorious Godfrey.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: And everything was fine. And now after that, we have an advertisement for the Justice League.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: And I was felt very old a few days ago because I saw there's a thing I run into on Instagram sometime of a company that restores old posters.
And they had one of the Justice League store posters, you know, like the ones they fold in half and with the advertising posters, and they were restoring it and the person said, I bet most comic fans don't know who half of the people on this cover are because they're not part of the Justice League most of the time.
I was like, no.
Oberon, Mr. Miracle, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter, Batman, Blue Beetle, Dr. Light. The second Dr. Light, that's Hoshi. We have Dr. Fate, we have Guy Gardner, and we have Captain Marvel.
[00:22:34] Speaker B: Shazam.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: Who at that time was going by another name.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: Shazam.
[00:22:39] Speaker A: Billy Batson.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Billy Batson.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: All coming out of Legends. And it's tough. We're the tough, we're the proud. We're the all new Justice League. All new adventures, all new team by Keith Giffen, J.M. deMattis, Kevin McGuire Art. And Terry Austin Inks.
Boy, that is some amazing Kevin McGuire art there in that promo poster.
And yeah, here's what we go on to be known as the bwahaha Justice League. Blue Beetle will be there in what, issue three or issue four. Right around there. Blue Beetle. Booster will be back. He'll be back. So he just letting you know Booster's not gonna die.
Sorry I spoiled the whole comic.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it's okay.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: I can pull it out right here.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: Here's a question for you, though.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: In reality, if this is like you're talking to the. You're talking to the characters in this poster, right? And you got. You got Batman and Ted and, you know, Blue Beetle, you got. So you got Bruce and Ted there.
Do you think that they're upset that Guy Gardner took front and center?
[00:23:46] Speaker A: I think they all hate Guy Gardner.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, of course.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: I don't just think that. I know that Martian Manhunters back there.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: Thinking, that guy just ate my Jockeys. That. That ass hat.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: Chocos.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: Chocos, yeah, it's like that ass hat.
Yeah, yeah, I see.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: That was issue four I got.
Which will start the relationship. The canceled books.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:16] Speaker A: But Booster Gold's book had not been canceled yet. I don't think Blue Beetles had been canceled either, but they were on their way.
Spoiler.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: Sorry, everybody.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: But anyway, yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, Guy Gardner is an. And so of course he goes down in the front, though.
And yeah, I think Oberon is the one that's pissed off.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: You think so? Yeah, he's like, man, I gotta. I gotta stand in the back, back here.
Do you know who I am?
[00:24:45] Speaker A: Well, I will say within a few issues, this lineup will quick, very rapidly change. Yeah. Black canary will leave. Mr. Miracle will stick around for a little bit longer.
Dr. Fate will leave. Dr. Light leaves almost right away.
And they are All. And Batman leaves right away.
Shazam Leaves right away.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: They're just there to sell an idea.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So this lineup will rapidly change to a lineup of Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Guy Gardner, Martian Manhunter, Fire and Ice, formerly Ice Maiden, and Green Flame of the Global Guardians.
And. Yeah, and you're off to the races there with a big long run of books.
And then Mr. Miracle does stick around for a while. I take that back. Because Big Barda is a big part of the story, too. So they do stick around for a while. But, yeah, we have a long run. And then it splits off and they are so popular, they get another book. We get a Justice League Europe book written by an. And drawn by awesome people. So.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: Yeah. But all written in the style that Giffen and Dematis used.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: So the JLE book really was a clone book of the JLA book with a different. With different characters. I mean, it really was.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: Here. Here's your stories. They're already.
[00:26:11] Speaker A: Yeah, here's the tone we want you to use. Like, I don't want to take away from the author, but I mean, it was basically like, here's the tone you're going to use.
You're going to write in this tone. You're going to get these characters, you're going to have the same stereotypes that we have in the other book and.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: Go make it happen.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: Because we need two of these. Because if you have one book that's selling, we need more. Well, we get back, and for once, the Federal police have brought Bistro Gold to a medical facility to heal him.
Well, and the federal. But kind of. But the federal officer says, ah, you're lucky the judge ordered you patched up, Carter. If it were up to me, I'd have let you die on the floor. So I guess.
Same.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: Yeah, same.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Except they actually follow judicial orders here, so that'd be the fundamental difference. Yeah.
And.
Yeah, today's just, you know, it's just sad.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: It is.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: I'm trying to, like, bring some levity in. It just sucks.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: Well, I mean, Booster makes a good point in his next panel over here.
Yeah, so. So go ahead, read that one. That's a.
[00:27:28] Speaker A: That's.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: That's pretty.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: We've got a maligator eruption here.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: Oh, maligator eruption.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm not sure what the maligator is doing, but we're having him out. Well, why don't you read the next panel and I'll yell at an alligator.
All right.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Government spook doesn't know a thing about morals. It's just, he just knows law.
Seems the two are unrelated around here.
[00:28:00] Speaker A: Yeah, it's fair. I mean, I would. Yeah. In the future. In the future, I would say the law here is moral, but it's the people not following the law that are moral at this point in time. Yeah, well, some laws are moral. Immigration is totally up.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I, I bringing it to the booster. But yeah, I get it. I get it that.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: So it is different.
But what we do have are federal agents masks. So that is the same.
And they are walking around. It is interesting because it's almost like it's. It is interesting because I think that what they're. They're feeding you here.
They mentioned the great disaster, right. So something happened in society. They mentioned the slow progress of technology.
And then there's the last couple issues. Or is it last issue?
[00:28:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:47] Speaker A: And now we get this kind of very looking like, you know, the Legion future. Right. Is this very bright future transitioning soon to a very dark future, but not yet in 87. Still bright future for the most part. I mean, things are starting to change in the Legion book, but still mostly a bright future. And right here we get these, you know, basically kind of stormtrooper looking, except in green, militarized cops walking around. Militarized cops? Yeah, walking the streets. And it's a, it is a different thing. I would love honestly to spend a little bit more time than we actually get in this time period to see.
[00:29:31] Speaker B: What is actually happening, how people work and you know, how they, how they actually are in the society. Well, I think one of the things we glazed over was like the two people talking about the newscast. And one of them was like, oh, you know, yeah, he, he's a terrorist. And the other guy's like, did he do anything wrong? You know, so they're having an actual discussion about the, the situation. Like one of them was like, well, they're saying this on the tv, so it must be true. And the other one's like, but did he really do anything wrong?
[00:30:05] Speaker A: Yeah, and I think we could really be cutting some of those issues too here. There are some parallels to what's going on in real life right now, but it'd be interesting to kind of play around in this time period to see like, you know, is there even a.
Could we give Booster? Because they rewrite Booster's origin already. Right. But they've started to. And they rewrite it later as like they start to saying like he was, he did it because his mom was sick or whatever. Right. Like he needed money. That's Done in the sec. In the, the next version, the volume in the 2000s. Yeah, but it's, it's interesting because I do think with some more experience in this time period, we may get a little bit more sympathy for Booster doing that thing.
Right? Maybe the argument that, like, he couldn't function in the time because maybe it was so oppressive or it was set up in a way where there was.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: No hope because, like, from what it, what it plays out, like. And I think kind of like the conversations that we're, we're seeing in some of these ways are like, well, he, he might have done the thing that he shouldn't have done, but then he went back to do all this good stuff. So is that if he was doing good stuff, if he, if he did one thing that was against the law, but then he did, or, you know, he bent the rules here to, to do this, but in order to do all these other good things, where, where's the, what's the weighing mechanism?
Right?
So.
[00:31:37] Speaker A: And I think, I think we're. Oh, go ahead.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: I was going to say, and in the, in, in the, in the 2000 run, I think, like, and I could be wrong and maybe you can correct me, but I want to say, like, he, it's like, yeah, he tries to save his mom. His dad's the one that does the bets against him, and then he throws the game with spoiler. Sorry, everybody.
And he, and he throws the game in order to try to say, like, you know, to, to make the money for that situation. So it's like he's, he's doing something bad to do the right thing, but it's also bad not to, not to justify it.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: And I also. Yeah, and one, I will say I don't like that change either.
I didn't like it when it happened just because I think it, like, takes away too much from the core of the character. Right?
You're. And again, I know why they did it. Yeah, it makes sense. You don't want people to hate the character.
I get that. They were also trying to rebuild Booster into like a legitimate hero. Again, they try to do this multiple times. I mean, Dan Jurgens tries to re. Establish him. I mentioned this before when Superman is fighting Doomsday, right? They put Booster. I mean, he gets his ass kicked, but they put Booster up against Doomsday. And people are like, with Booster's equipment, he's one of the most powerful people in the, in the, in the world. Right. Like, and, you know, they, they do try to legitimize him in the 90s and the 2000s.
Even now, to an extent, they. They kind of do. Right. They send Booster into the future to try to stop Darkseid. He fails. Miserable. I mean, miserably fails.
Spoiler were to alert to a comic that's now, like 18 months old. But, yeah, I mean, it's ongoing in the stories right now.
And it's interesting, though, they're not playing into much of Booster's past now. It's just kind of like he's this goofy superhero. And of course, even the episode on Justice League, on the cartoon, I forget, is it the Unknown Hero, the title of that episode, but the one where everybody's fighting war, Drew, and Booster Gold actually saves the universe all by himself. But nobody knows. Nobody knows because everybody's off doing this other thing, and they don't.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: They're not attentive to what he's been doing.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: Yeah, right. And so, you know, we do have these. And DeMattis may have written that one.
If not, I'm sure he had influence because he. He wrote some of those episodes. So I'm sure there was some influence there.
Yeah, I. It's just they do with Booster a lot. But I think, you know, sticking to this, I think we could have done a little bit more here. Well, let's get it. Keep going. We're only on page six. You're. You're.
[00:34:20] Speaker B: You're. Your question about, like, you know, why. Why did he feel like he had to go back in time to do what he wanted to do? I think it's because they, like, didn't they outlaw superheroes in his timeline? So that's why everything or not outlawed, but, like, they didn't see a need for them a necessity anymore. So superheroes were put to the side. Right. So nobody was taking up the mantle as a superhero anymore during his time frame. And if he wanted to do something like that, he would be breaking the law. So he figured he'd go back into a time where he could do that.
Yeah, he might make some money.
[00:34:55] Speaker A: There seems to be a lot of things happening where you just break the law for no reason. Like accessing information, for example. Right. I mean, you go to library, so there's some censorship. There's some very clear rules. We've got federal agents walking around with the guns on their shoulders. Yeah, it's.
It's a. Interesting time. And I think, you know, you read this in the 80s and now you read it and you're like, oh, yeah, it's just how the federal government works. I Guess you read it then, and this is kind of a scary sort of reality.
[00:35:27] Speaker B: Wow, that's. The future sucks.
[00:35:31] Speaker A: So.
Well, we get back and we get to the bottom of the page, and Booster is being paraded through this facility, still all hurt, and is taken to Trixie slash Goldstar, and she's like, you're all right. But he looks very upset that he's being put back in jail.
We get to the bottom of the page and it says, with the coming of the. Of winter's grip on the city seems to tighten. Giant snowflakes float gently to the ground in a silent ballet. And inside, a turbulent emoting emotion. Sorry, emotions. I said emoting. Interesting. Can I read?
[00:36:05] Speaker B: Oh, she's emoting.
[00:36:06] Speaker A: Night of Fire.
News of Booster's impending death burns in her.
But the feeling of helplessness it leaves is far colder than any winter night ever could be. So another parallel to now, finding out your loved one is captured by the federal police and put in jail on television or through the media or through a website, and then you cannot do anything about it. Access them, find them, etc.
[00:36:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: And this should be jarring now, but now it's even scarier, right? It's. It's. It's almost like it should have been jarring when you read it as a kid, but now it's.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: Now it's like parallels, like, realist.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: Well, and we get even more parallel because Jack and Rip steal the outfits of the police and are able just to intimidate their way into STAR Labs. Walk in where the police were going in. So that's where their society's at.
[00:37:05] Speaker B: That. That bottom panel is such a Judge Dread panel.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it is.
I'm Judge Green Guy. Yeah. We did mention last time that they all look like judges, right?
[00:37:15] Speaker B: Yeah, they all look like judges. I mean, that's. That. I mean, the reality is, like, they. They look. They have that judge Dread look so.
[00:37:23] Speaker A: That they're green, except they're blue. Yeah, you just mixed a little yellow in there.
Bob Ross taught Dan Jurgens. Now it's the colors. Yeah. Taught d' Angelo to put a little green in there on the palette, and.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: Then you turn him into a happy.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: Little treats Happy tree instead of happy green outfits that are happy blue outfits.
[00:37:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:46] Speaker A: Well, Booster and Booster and Jack break into STAR Labs now. They talk a lot.
I will say, since Barbara took over the editing, the word count has increased in this book.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: It has. But I mean, at least, like, there's. There. There's a lot of stuff that's like knowledge drop, like you know, you're getting the back story as to like, why things are the way they are a little bit here and there.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: I also think we needed a little bit of that. Yeah, we talked about that lacking in the first 12 issues. Right. And so here we are in 15 and we're getting some of that information.
But Skeets is back together, and that is the most important thing.
Skeets is back, wakes up, and he says, before we leave, gentlemen, there is one other problem that requires our attention.
As long as we're here at STAR Labs, why don't we use it to our greatest advantage?
And we flip the page and again, we've got a hero coming out of Legends. We get the world's greatest escape artist back from his last series done in the 70s with Jack Kirby. Yeah. One Mr. Miracle is back.
[00:39:01] Speaker B: Mr. Miracle, he's going to escape.
[00:39:04] Speaker A: Interesting that We've got a Mr. Miracle Series starting at the same time he's hanging out with the Justice League.
[00:39:10] Speaker B: Now if, if you had Mr. Miracle and the Human Flag, I mean, similar, similar things that he could do.
[00:39:24] Speaker A: You'D have a cross company promotion.
[00:39:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:39:29] Speaker A: Didn't they eventually buy them?
[00:39:31] Speaker B: I. I don't know.
[00:39:32] Speaker A: Didn't. In the 90s, didn't they have those characters or was that a just a relaunch by Archie Comics?
[00:39:39] Speaker B: Might have been, I'm not sure.
[00:39:41] Speaker A: It's just, I know they tried to launch all those characters.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very. Yeah, very similar.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: Well, we get a full on full panel Judge Dread panel. Yeah, this judges panel.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: This, this one is very, I mean, realistic for the time. He got one jackass in the middle of a bunch of other jackasses just to get two people, but hey. Yeah.
[00:40:09] Speaker A: Well, we were mentioning pro wrestling earlier. This does look very much like when the heel is trying to hide behind all of the security guards.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: And then like the good guy wrestler, like pounds through all the security guards and takes the bad guy out.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:40:26] Speaker A: It's fair. It does look like this.
This guy very much likes being in charge too.
[00:40:32] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Well, they're getting a shuttle to board the prisoners is. They're putting the prisoners into the shuttle. But lo and behold, two of those judges aren't who they seem to be and they're not.
And, and they do make Broderick the bad guy. He makes sure that everybody knows these guys got to be alive.
So at least we are establishing that there's at least some due process here that still exists.
And then the weird judges shoot the bonds off of or shoot the bounds bonds. Bonds things.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: The ties that bind the Grim bores.
[00:41:22] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. They shoot the Grimboard devices off of Booster and Trixie. Are they a booster? At least Booster is out now with his broken arm. He just starts beating up jobbers all over the place.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: He's landed punches like the airport.
This one takes off, the next one's landing. It's just pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
You know, it's. It's. It's just like being a C Tech or Las Vegas. And is it international? I don't know.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: McCarran, McCarron.
[00:41:55] Speaker B: Whatever.
[00:41:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just.
[00:41:56] Speaker B: Just taking it.
[00:41:57] Speaker A: Just there. Yeah. I. I don't know what it is.
You didn't know what the airport's name. I don't know what showed up. It just showed up.
[00:42:05] Speaker B: Is enjoying the.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Well, Trixie.
Well, Trixie is out and.
And Broderick is like, enough. And he's in it. We have another Cobra Commander pose.
[00:42:16] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:42:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:18] Speaker B: No, he's.
[00:42:18] Speaker A: Well, he's doing that panel.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: He's. He's doing the.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: He.
[00:42:23] Speaker B: He's about to go full on, like.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: Just.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: Like.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: He's got his arms raised up and his crotch out, and he's like.
[00:42:35] Speaker A: Well, his foot is in one panel and his other foot's another panel. His hands in another panel and his fingers in another panel, and his body's in another panel.
[00:42:42] Speaker B: We're in two, three, four. Four panels. He's. He's across four panels.
[00:42:47] Speaker A: The seven on the page. So he's. He's. He's all over it, literally.
[00:42:51] Speaker B: He is, man, for a little guy.
[00:42:53] Speaker A: He's putting his John Hancock on these panels.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:57] Speaker A: He's really not even that big. His face is big, and then he's big.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: Well, basically, he's like, look, get it together, guys. You could take these guys easy. And. Yeah. Then they surround them, and then there's a zap from the sky and it says, back off, mister. Oh, no.
And somebody is going to get hurt real bad. And somebody has commandeered a school bus.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: Oh, man, it's.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: It's a flying school bus.
[00:43:30] Speaker B: They're going to go. You know, it's just like that cartoon from the 90s. They're. They're going on one of those adventures with the school bus drive.
[00:43:38] Speaker A: Like a magic school bus.
[00:43:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Magic school.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: Wow.
That's exactly what's going to happen next.
And it's very clear that Mercy St. Clair. Yep.
The Trekker by Ron Randall.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:57] Speaker A: Walks out of the school bus. Because if that's Not Trekker.
[00:44:01] Speaker B: No joke. It, it really does have a feel to it. It's.
[00:44:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's interesting that Ron was drawing for D.C. at this time.
Does have a very Trekker feel to it. Well, anyway, jumps out, blaster in hand.
Well, Bistro looks up the school bus. He's like, unbelievable. That, that, that's my sister Michelle and I. I do love the absurdity of being rescued by a school bus. It is. Roderick, however, does not. Not a fan.
And the school bus has lasers. That must be the gun she's shooting everybody with. Bill Bapow.
Well, they take off in the school bus and the, they're chasing them on the speeders again and everything's looking really bad. And Michelle's telling the whole story of why she went to go get Booster.
She's like, the school bus isn't actually outfitted for aerial combat. And since we're nothing but a big slow moving target, we probably should going and.
Yeah, she's basically telling them all of a sudden in charge here.
[00:45:17] Speaker B: Yeah, she just gta. She's got five stars on her right now. She stole a school bus. I mean she, she just took a high value target from the cops. I mean she's, she's, she just moved herself up.
She's now six stars.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: While they send Booster outside and he starts tussling with the judges and knocking them off their sky cycles. Is he giving him like a second ago?
[00:45:44] Speaker B: He's giving him the axe. He's like got his hands up in the formation. He's.
[00:45:48] Speaker A: He's the axe handle.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Yeah, he's actually double axe handle. Yeah, yeah.
[00:45:55] Speaker A: And off the. Yeah, Michelle is. Or not Michelle. Sorry. We have Trixie in the gold star outfit. Oh, God. I just tried to spoil things.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: Dan.
[00:46:07] Speaker A: I'm bad at spoiling. Wow. Anyway, it's bad at spoiling comic books from 40 years ago.
It's terrible.
Anyway, basically Trixie and Booster take everybody out.
They get, they get back to Metropolis is where they want to be.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:30] Speaker A: And they find the Borsten time platform.
Oh, it's now there's time platform, you see. And Rip, of course, knows exactly how to take care of it because he's Rip Hunter. It's amazing that somebody living in 1987. 86 has all this knowledge about time travel.
[00:46:49] Speaker B: Well, I mean, you know, he had a lot of time on his hands.
[00:46:54] Speaker A: Almost like, how could he figure that stuff out? Did he live somewhere else? Was he somebody's son? Maybe? Maybe.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: Could be.
I mean, it's a possibility, Dan. It's a possibility.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: I wonder if D.C. holds on to that. I don't know.
I mean, they definitely never mentioned it on tv.
No.
Though Booster Gold showing up in Legends of Tomorrow would have been Best kiss or amazing.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: You did just build it.
[00:47:26] Speaker A: No, it would have been amazing. I would have been. That would have been excellent.
I also think putting any mainstream DC heroes in Legends of Tomorrow, though, after a couple of seasons, would have been a death knell to it potentially, too. So, anyway, we have a lot of talking happening.
Yeah. Booster's like, yes. Now, there's something you have to know. Hard as it is to believe, I've been living in the past. So he's telling Michelle the whole story, and Michelle's like, I know all about it. I know you're a superhero.
That's where you belong. And she's like, how do you know?
And she's like, I saw you save the President. It was great. Oh, cool.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: Wait a minute. How'd you get all these emails?
[00:48:18] Speaker A: And then. And then Booster calls Skeets.
Mean names are so abusive to Skeets.
[00:48:28] Speaker B: Because that's how you are sometimes to those you love.
[00:48:32] Speaker A: I guess.
[00:48:33] Speaker B: It's not true.
[00:48:34] Speaker A: Skeet Extra says.
[00:48:36] Speaker B: He's so mad at Skeets, though. He's like, why would you do this to me? You outed. You, like, told my sister, like, I was a superhero. I'm doing all this good stuff. That's my story.
[00:48:46] Speaker A: Well, he calls Skeets out and he says, what's the deal, Mr. Historian? You knew all along that I was going to steal the time machine and travel to the past, didn't you? He's like, affirmative. Though information about your exploits.
Much were lost due to the nuclear conflict, so they didn't even call it the Great Disaster this time. They just called it the Nuclear Conflict. What's going on in Hex, which we didn't get referenced, so the Hex series may be canceled already.
[00:49:09] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:49:12] Speaker A: He said, if you hadn't seen. Been f. Seen or been fulfilling your history. Seen fulfilling history, I could have never let you leave, Booster.
[00:49:22] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:49:24] Speaker A: And then the animal shows back up. Great. This guy.
[00:49:27] Speaker B: This guy.
[00:49:29] Speaker A: He's kind of lame.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: I mean, he's. What's he. He looks. He looks oddly familiar, but not at the same point.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: You know, he does sort of look like George Steele. You weren't wrong before.
[00:49:47] Speaker B: We got a different kind of.
[00:49:48] Speaker A: Well, yeah. Anyway, it's.
Did you know that George Steele was a school teacher? Are you serious?
[00:49:57] Speaker B: Do you have a school bus?
[00:49:59] Speaker A: Maybe.
[00:50:00] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:50:02] Speaker A: I.
[00:50:02] Speaker B: You know, I would never cut his class.
[00:50:06] Speaker A: I Mean, so I.
[00:50:08] Speaker B: There'd be fear, and also I'd be intrigued by what I had learned.
[00:50:12] Speaker A: He was a school teacher, and then he would go on TV with a green tongue.
[00:50:16] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:50:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's. Things were different. Things were different in the 80s, I guess.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: Go back and teach class the next week.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: Yeah. The animal is kicking the shit out of Booster. Yeah. In with Pro Wrestling News. Just basically punching him and lifting him up and throwing in places and tricks is like, please, Mr. Broderick, don't do this. We have to go back to 1987. See, Booster has to go or history will be changed. You'll be ruining everything.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:44] Speaker A: You're violating your core principles.
[00:50:46] Speaker B: No.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: And then she shows him a newspaper and said, if I were and. But he says, if I were to believe you read, you'd have a point. But I don't. And then he sees a newspaper with. Baseball is back. Metro is to open here. Booster Gold throws out the first pitch, and Broadworks like you could have left long after that tape was made. 1988, maybe even 1989.
And just because Carter dresses like some hero type, it doesn't make them the same person. And this guy is a blockhead.
[00:51:18] Speaker B: He is.
[00:51:21] Speaker A: He's just not very reasonable.
[00:51:23] Speaker B: Not at all.
[00:51:24] Speaker A: Well, Broderick tries to shoot at her, and that makes the animal very mad. Just like George Steele.
[00:51:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:51:31] Speaker A: And not having Ms. Elizabeth, he's got to protect. Yeah. It's this basic. This may be coming right out of that. Honestly, the way this is written out.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: It feels like it. She kind of has a Miss Elizabeth look to her.
[00:51:44] Speaker A: Well, anyway, we find out Trixie saved his life last issue. Remember, she rescued him from the water, and now he's trying to return the favorite.
And that was in last issue.
Barbara reminds us, should also say, you should have read that last issue, because the issues are good.
[00:52:01] Speaker B: Should have read it.
[00:52:03] Speaker A: Ah, but Broderick's shot severed the main power cable. And what we know about time, especially after Superboy just dying in the Legion of Superheroes, is that to travel through time, you need a lot of power.
[00:52:15] Speaker B: You need power, McFly.
[00:52:18] Speaker A: So everybody gets on the time thing, and Booster's like, I'll put the cables back together, just like Superboy did to sacrifice his life in Legion of Superheroes just a few months ago.
I'm going to do this right here. I'm going to sacrifice myself with my force field. That will protect me, and I'm going to solve the problem.
But very similarly, when they were trying to do that there. The animal sees that that's going to happen. He grabs Booster, he throws him on the time panel, he grabs the cable, he shocks him, sacrifices himself before Broader can shoot them. And they go back in time.
And they land on a farm in Smallville.
[00:53:04] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:53:08] Speaker A: But not quite. But they do have a moment for an animal as they go back to.
[00:53:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:13] Speaker A: March of 1987. So they are in Boone County, Iowa.
[00:53:18] Speaker B: Boone County.
They're on Boone's farm.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
In fact, they found the destination for every drink you liked in high school.
[00:53:28] Speaker B: No, no.
[00:53:31] Speaker A: Yeah. You like the strawberry? No.
No.
So anyway, they get back, they've come back, conveniently went from Christmas time to March. So they missed the entire Legends storyline.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: Just poo poo.
[00:53:48] Speaker A: They avoided it completely.
And they go back and Booster does this really nice thing.
He brings a whole bunch of supplies and food to the nurse that he was fighting with before.
[00:54:05] Speaker B: We don't know that's Booster. He's in a disguise. Dan.
[00:54:08] Speaker A: Yeah, he. They say it's Booster. He's also wearing a Legion flight ring.
[00:54:12] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:54:13] Speaker A: And then he's one of those.
[00:54:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:15] Speaker A: Only two people theoretically have a Legion flight ring. And since John Burns, an. Only one person has a Legion flight ring.
[00:54:21] Speaker B: See, it's Booster.
[00:54:24] Speaker A: John Byrne. You're not an.
Just.
You ruined the Legion of Superheroes, which makes me hate you forever.
But I love you, too. You're. You're. You're probably like an extremely nice man. Yeah, I don't. I don't know.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: Or not.
[00:54:37] Speaker A: Have you met John Byrne?
[00:54:38] Speaker B: No.
[00:54:39] Speaker A: Okay, so he may not be.
We.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: Oh, no. We don't know. Maybe we'll get an opportunity.
[00:54:45] Speaker A: But everybody's back where they're supposed to be. Except they're a few months in the future. We're going to find out the implications of this next issue, but for now. Yeah, it's the end.
[00:54:54] Speaker B: It's the end.
Yeah.
Booster did a nice thing. The nurse is happy. He. He bonk bonked. So he punk punked. And then he honk honked.
Because you gotta honk before you honk.
[00:55:09] Speaker A: That's fair. Well, we flip to the gold exchange, and there is no TM Maple, ever. There is a Shades Maple letter, though.
[00:55:17] Speaker B: Do you think it's the same person?
[00:55:19] Speaker A: Well, it is from Ontario, Canada. There's also a TE Pouncey, who's another prolific letter writer. So we're not going to read either.
[00:55:28] Speaker B: Of those, do you think? Okay, here's the question, though. T. Pouncey, T.M. maple. Which one has more letters?
[00:55:35] Speaker A: Oh, I'm pretty sure TM Maple does. I don't know. It's hard to say. You know, what if somebody just wanted to take an effort and go through these books and collect all these historical artifacts? Talking about these, the letters, it seems like it'd be a cool project to.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: Do all the TM Maples and or TM Pounces.
[00:55:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure somebody wanted to take some time to go do that. It'd be well worth their time.
But we are going to read a letter from James s. Rich of 5613 West Avenue, Quartz Hill, California, 93536. So if you want to look up if you agree with Mr. Or Ms. I don't know, I messed that up. If you agree with them, Jamie could be.
Yeah, I'm. I. I'm gendering a Jamie. That's not cool.
[00:56:21] Speaker B: Yeah, don't gender a Jamie.
[00:56:23] Speaker A: We don't know. Well, they say. Hello. I know you've been sitting on your hands all month waiting to hear what I had to say about Booster Gold number 11. Well, Dan, by now I think I can tell you, Dan, I'm finally going to relieve your pickled red pinkies and flat out tell you absolutely, positively, no doubt about it. Explosive. Isn't that when they built. Blew up the building?
[00:56:46] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And guess what, you lucky Blue Devil. There's more? Yes, more.
How'd Blue Devil get involved in this?
[00:56:56] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:56:56] Speaker A: Oh. When Booster first fired Dirk, I jumped and screamed, literally, yay. I love Jamie. Jamie, we like you.
Well, I do. Greg likes Dirk, so.
[00:57:06] Speaker B: I don't like Dirk.
[00:57:07] Speaker A: I just.
You love Dirk? Yeah.
[00:57:09] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:57:10] Speaker A: Not so much.
You love corporate bosses. I was so happy that the dude was going to finally get what was so richly deserved.
He connived and cheated and lied and all sorts of nasty things. Now someone is finally going to stick it to him. But as I continued to read, I began to feel sorry for the old guy. Now that's how you felt. I didn't feel that way. You felt that way.
He knew he deserved to be fired and was sorry for what he did.
And then when Shockwave attacked, he began to redeem himself.
Maybe some goodwill will come out of him after all. Yeah, maybe. Boost your Gold is a waiver.
I love it. A new haircut. Oh, that's okay. I get it. He's a waiver, right? Because of his new haircut.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: Okay, got it.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: Now there is a super dude you'd want to be seen with.
Best of all, after flying for a couple of hours, it'll still look the same. Oh, Dan, your work continues to excel. Keep it up. I do agree with Jamie that the books we mentioned have been continually getting better. And we appreciate that. So. Yeah. Thank you. Jamie S. Rich, 5613 West Avenue, Quartz Hill, California. If you want to reach Jamie, just write a letter there. 989-3536. 93536.
Just write a letter there. I'm sure you'll connect with Jamie.
[00:58:38] Speaker B: I don't know if Jamie still lives there.
[00:58:40] Speaker A: Are you sure? I think people live in their same houses forever. Maybe. I mean, maybe that's why you publish your address in this thing. Okay.
[00:58:50] Speaker B: It'd be crazy to get a response back. I mean, that would be awesome. Like, you know, you write to them and they're like, you read my letter in the Gold Exchange.
[00:59:04] Speaker A: It's been forwarded, like, five times.
Yeah. Well, we do get an interesting thing here.
[00:59:10] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:59:12] Speaker A: There's a little booster down in the corner. It says yes. Now, there's something you have to know. Hard as it is to believe, I've been living in the past. 1986, to be exact. And the life I lead.
And we get a response from Michelle. We read this already, Mike. I know all about it. I know you're a superhero, and that's where you belong, you know? But that's impossible. I mentioned that before.
[00:59:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:59:33] Speaker A: And why does that lead us into the next book?
[00:59:36] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:59:37] Speaker A: Where is Michelle? Why was Michelle on the time platform?
I don't know.
[00:59:41] Speaker B: She couldn't stay.
[00:59:42] Speaker A: You can only find out.
We can only find out by going to the next issue.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. But she couldn't stay in her. In her. In her time because she's like. I mean, she's. She got six stars on her.
Stealing a school bus, blasting some cops, stealing Booster back from them. I mean, she. She. She did some stuff. I mean, she. She was up there. They're gonna probably put the.
Put her. Put her in the clean for sure, you know, so she was like, I.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: Gotta get good news. Yeah, Good news. Next issue, we get a new headquarters.
We get a topless Booster Gold for, like, several pages. Oh, wow.
[01:00:25] Speaker B: Dan's excited.
[01:00:26] Speaker A: We get Cheshire.
Oh, wow.
We get Hawk. Yeah. Not Dove. Yeah, well, Dove died in crisis, so.
Spoiler.
So interesting.
[01:00:47] Speaker B: Like a cloak with no dagger.
[01:00:51] Speaker A: Yeah, kind of.
So there we go. It's.
Yeah, it's. It is. It is what it is. And we're almost there.
[01:01:02] Speaker B: All right.
[01:01:03] Speaker A: And look forward to it.
Yeah. We have dogs and we have all sorts of things happening.
So we got a dog war happening down here.
[01:01:13] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, I know you. Dogcast is back again, everybody. Yeah, it's happening. Dog war in the basement.
[01:01:21] Speaker A: Well, and during a dog war, we can only mention. We have mentioned a couple things. We did mention Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul. If you, if you have people breaking into your house or have employment issues.
[01:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: Where people are violating your rights, you could reach out to Paul.
[01:01:37] Speaker B: There you go.
[01:01:38] Speaker A: In fact, you could call Paul.
[01:01:40] Speaker B: You could call Paul.
[01:01:41] Speaker A: It's amazing. You could call Paul.
And when you call Paul, you say, hey, Paul, I heard about you on Funny Book Forensics.
I'm having a problem that I need some help with.
[01:01:53] Speaker B: I need your expertise.
[01:01:54] Speaker A: You call Paul at 253-656-4475.
See, I have the number now you got the number 656-4475. And you talk to Paul or you talk to Kelly, his assistant, and you see if you can get a consultation. So if you are having employment law issues. He also works on estate stuff, contracts for Greg sometimes, but mostly employment law right now. And Paul is. Has a bar license in both California and Washington. So if you have an issue. And I understand, sadly, that there are a lot of people who experience layoffs and some terrible things at work over the last few. Few weeks.
[01:02:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:02:39] Speaker A: And if you think that layoff was due to a having a disability, if you think it was because you issued a complaint at work and then they use the layoff as an excuse to dismiss your complaint without due process, talk to Paul and he'll. He'll see what he can do for you. Not every case is a case that where the employer is at fault. Sometimes it's just because bad things happen and they're at fault, but they're not legally at fault, which sucks. It sucks when large companies lay off people and make billions of dollars and shift all those resources to bundling money into AI. Yeah. The world kind of sucks when you do that. And their product sucks because they put it in AI and then their whole system is crashing after that. I mean, it's great. But if something like that happened to you and you had a concern that you presented or somebody who's discriminating against you because you have a disability and they were refusing to accommodate you in a job that you've been doing for years. Talk to Paul and he'll see what he can do.
[01:03:43] Speaker B: Yep, talk to him.
[01:03:45] Speaker A: He's also a big supporter of our podcast and he also runs certified Jiu jitsu.
[01:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:51] Speaker A: On 27th and Bridgeport Way, Jackson Avenue in Tacoma, Washington. Slash University Place, Washington. There's so many slashes in that address.
If you don't live here and most people don't, when you get off the highway, you're on a road called Jackson, and then when you go a few blocks, it turns into Bridgeport. I believe in 19th.
[01:04:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:04:14] Speaker A: So it doesn't make any sense. You get off on around 6th and by the time you get to 19th, the road has changed names. So that's why I always say Jackson and Bridgeport.
And. Yeah, and so, and, and the most important thing right now that we're advertising is the maligator just brought me a no arm gingerbread man to thrive.
[01:04:34] Speaker B: That is so gross looking here.
[01:04:36] Speaker A: Here you go, Maligator. Yeah.
[01:04:38] Speaker B: Oh, and that thing needs to get washed or something. I don't know. That's gross.
[01:04:42] Speaker A: That is as one of the maligator's favorite things to carry around. So.
[01:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah, looks like it.
[01:04:48] Speaker A: And also we have a great place to go if you want retro things or maybe you want them sent to you in the mail, because that could happen if you ask Anne very nicely.
[01:05:01] Speaker B: No, not so much.
[01:05:03] Speaker A: Or not.
[01:05:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I would, I wouldn't say that.
[01:05:06] Speaker A: On Maker Straight in Kent, Washington.
[01:05:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I would just say there was.
[01:05:11] Speaker A: A very special thing. It's not the normal part of the business, but if there's a very special thing, it's because with the, the way.
[01:05:19] Speaker B: That shipping and other things have gone drastically, ridiculously sideways in the last couple months, she is pulled back on that offer of things because it is ridiculous to ship stuff.
[01:05:33] Speaker A: Not as many things in the mail right now. But if there was a very special thing or you were in the Kent, Washington area, you could go visit the Retro Emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington. You will find it because it's the only Retro Emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington. So good news, you'll find it. Please don't go up the Giant Hill. As long, as long as you stay off the Giant Hill, you will find it.
[01:05:53] Speaker B: Stay downtown. You're, you're, you're fine.
[01:05:56] Speaker A: You can also walk around to some other thing like rocks and more and more rocks, So it'll be good. And, and, and, and last but not least, you brought them up before. Project Nerd has sponsored some of our podcasts and we always forget to mention them and it's rude. Iggy is awesome and so is Project Nerd. So follow Project Nerd for memes and podcasts and all sorts of cool things and, and Finally.
[01:06:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:29] Speaker A: The most important thing that we advertise on this podcast.
[01:06:32] Speaker B: Oh.
[01:06:35] Speaker A: Are you ready?
[01:06:36] Speaker B: I'm ready.
[01:06:37] Speaker A: There's a book on Kickstarter, but it's not on Kickstarter because somebody worked on another book and then worked on a different book and then worked on this book. And so we're waiting to get one book out. Starlight Graphic Novel Forever. We're waiting to get that book out, and then when that book is in our grubby little hands, another Kickstarter is going to launch. But we give you a link for that Kickstarter, and that Kickstarter is called Dog Days of Summer. It's raining.
[01:07:06] Speaker B: Alex's close enough.
[01:07:09] Speaker A: Okay. And so we'll go ahead and put the link in the podcast forever. Alex.
Dog Days of Summer. It's raining Alex.
[01:07:18] Speaker B: It's raining Alex.
[01:07:20] Speaker A: Yes. It's raining Alex everywhere.
[01:07:22] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:07:23] Speaker A: In fact, I believe Alex kind of looks like the gingerbread man that was just handed to me by the maligator at one point.
[01:07:29] Speaker B: He does. Yes, of course.
[01:07:32] Speaker A: So you can get that. It's by Travis Webb and Brett.
Say his name, Videl.
Say his name.
Say his name. I did.
[01:07:45] Speaker B: I just said it three times. He's going to appear in my house.
[01:07:47] Speaker A: It's going to appear in your house.
Well, that's good. We got him out of Portland, so. Fantastic.
And, yeah, unless you have something you're trying to promote, that's all I got.
[01:07:58] Speaker B: Trying to get this cough to go away.
[01:08:01] Speaker A: Okay. I'm trying to get my back to not hurt. So we are working on that together.
[01:08:05] Speaker B: We need to go to the future to get those. That. That medicine that. That Booster's on to get better, man.
[01:08:11] Speaker A: I just need a stim pack.
[01:08:13] Speaker B: We need a stim pack. I need.
[01:08:14] Speaker A: Yeah, everybody needs a stim pack or healing potion.
I think I need a greater healing potion, actually.
[01:08:21] Speaker B: A greater healing potion.
Just put some dirt on it.
[01:08:26] Speaker A: Rub some dirt on it.
[01:08:27] Speaker B: Yeah, rub some dirt on it, Dan.
[01:08:29] Speaker A: Well, rub yourself.
[01:08:30] Speaker B: Just put yourself in the dirt.
[01:08:31] Speaker A: Just.
[01:08:32] Speaker B: Just like go rub. Just roll around in the dirt.
You'll feel better.
[01:08:36] Speaker A: Well, as we. As we venture forth, you could put butter on it.
[01:08:40] Speaker B: Like my neighbor would say, wow.
[01:08:42] Speaker A: So as we venture forth. As we venture forth, we could keep talking about whatever you're talking about, or we could end the podcast and it would be fine. We did our plugs, we talked about the book. We're talking about issue 16 next time, and we have a super cool cover where Booster fades into the background of the COVID It's really cool.
[01:08:59] Speaker B: Oh, he teleports.
[01:09:02] Speaker A: No.
[01:09:03] Speaker B: No. Okay.
[01:09:05] Speaker A: All right, well, that's. That's it. We're done.
I can. I can say no more ever again.
[01:09:12] Speaker B: He's got nothing else to say.
[01:09:13] Speaker A: Except if. If it's still up backtrecker. It may be down by the time this podcast is out. But.
But support round Randall.
[01:09:21] Speaker B: Yeah, it's good.
[01:09:22] Speaker A: Check out his stuff, too.
[01:09:23] Speaker B: Yeah, go check out Ron, see what he's got going on. If this. If this tracker issues out, then just go buy some of the other ones.
[01:09:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure he'll help you out. Yeah. If you need it. Or just follow Ron Randall on, you know, social media.
[01:09:40] Speaker B: Yeah, because, like, he'll. He'll throw up. Cool records he's listening to some days, and it's. It's always nice to be like, oh, hey, I.
I wonder if I have that at the. At the shop, and I'll go grab it and bring it home and check it out, because he's got some good choices out there. Good choice. Cuts to check out.
[01:09:58] Speaker A: There you go. All right. That's all the plugs I'm doing today. All right, this podcast is over. We are leaving. That's it. Goodbye. It's over. That we can't do anymore.
[01:10:07] Speaker B: Thanks a lot, Earl. We're done.
[01:10:08] Speaker A: We have Dogcast going on.
Come on over here, buddy. We're ending it with Dogcast up here, buddy. Yeah.
[01:10:16] Speaker B: All right, buddy boy.
[01:10:17] Speaker A: Oh, thank you.
[01:10:19] Speaker B: And just got licked all over the face.
[01:10:22] Speaker A: I miss Mr. Toa. He doesn't live here anymore, but I get to see him when his daddy goes out of town, so. All right, bye, everybody.
[01:10:29] Speaker B: See you later.
