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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of The Source
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Material Comics podcast. That's right, we are live and in
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effect right now we are going to be talking three books.
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That over there is Mark Ratlich, Mark Radlice. Did you
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purposely like theme these together?
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Yeah? All right, so we've done all the other Crow stuff.
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So I don't do this as much anymore. I have
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a different job. I don't have time to sit in
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my office and wonder what podcast I should be doing
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like I used to. I actually work now, so I'm busy.
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I left my office job to work from home and
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have never been busier.
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Not what you expected, not at all.
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But I'm okay with that. I don't mind being busy.
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But the point is I don't have a lot of
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time anymore to like be thinking about, like what else
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can I torture Jesse with? Would past time of mine?
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A few months ago, I was trying to come up
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with different ideas for us to do for comic podcasts,
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and you know me, I don't want to do the
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standard Marvel and DC superhero bullshit as if we can
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help it. Like, I don't mind the occasional All Star Superman,
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but for the most part, I'm really trying to stay
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away from that kind of stuff, just trying to find
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different authors, different ideas. And we'd already done two Long
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Road to Ruins and a Damn You Hollywood on all
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five pro movies, but we'd never talked about the comic
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and I was like, well, that seems like an obvious
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one that we should have done at some point.
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Yeah.
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So because we do three books or we do about
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twenty to twenty one issues, speaking of someone's going to
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get their head kicked in tonight. I was chastised a
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few months ago for her. Was it five books I
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made you do? And you were like, not again.
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It was the amount of the issues that was the thing.
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It was just five five issues per book, and it's
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five books. It's almost thirty issues.
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Yeah, Vader, the Darth Vader stuff, as good as it was, Yeah,
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that was a lot of stuff to cover. And then
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I think we kind of took another stab at something
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else that was pretty long. We realized that maybe it's
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best if we just the amount of issues we have
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to cover.
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I think it was when we initially started doing three
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in a row. It was enough to give you a
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three months worth of material. In my head, it's always
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three books, but I never look at how many issues
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for book this is. The initial source material was The Crow,
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and I was like, two other books, please from jat GPT.
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That kind of matches the tone, and it pitched me
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Layla Star. I was like, all right, this is cool,
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this is this was an Eisner A nominee. This was
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not a lot of people's best.
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Of the year comic for a while, okay.
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And then the other one it pitched was Day Tripper's
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twelve issues. I ran that past you and you will like,
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knock it the fuck off. So I pulled Day Tripper.
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But now I'm four or five issues short, and I
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happened to have The Butcher of Paris sitting on my shelf,
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and I'm just like, well, it doesn't quite have that
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gothic fable, earthy fantasy feel the Crow or Layla Star,
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but boy isn't about death. So it counts, right, Jess.
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Yeah, I say it counts. I say it counts.
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So as far as where we're going to start tonight,
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let's jump into Butcher of Paris five issue series. This
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dropped right at the end of twenty nineteen. Stephanie Phillips
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is the author, Dean Cotts is the illustrator and Jason
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Wordy was the illustrator here as well. Published by Dark
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Horse Comics. And so what we find out at the
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end of the first issues that says based on a
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true story. So we have five issues that of a
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true story. Essentially, I'm going to read you what I
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came up with here. It's a paragraph call the gist.
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I'm not going to do a large summary here on
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the podcast proper. I'll probably put something in posts, but
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here's the gist of Butcher of Paris. The Butcher of
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Paris is a gripping true crime comics set against the
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backdrop of Nazi occupied France, telling the chilling story of
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doctor Marcel Petois, a man who posed as a savior
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to desperate Jews seeking escape, only to murder them and
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profit from their deaths across five tightly woven issues.
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Not true story, Yeah, that seems like the pitch of
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a horror movie. It's totally a thing that happened, yep.
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Across five issues.
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Catch a Break says, the Jew and the Dacide share.
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We follow a detective, George Victor Massoux his dog pursuit
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of Petois through a city suffocating under occupation and chaos.
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As the war draws to a close, the hunt collides
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with the liberation of Paris, political backstabbing and a public
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more eager for sensational gospel than justice. Blending wartime espionage,
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noir style investigation and the unsettling psychology of a serial
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killer who hides behind patriotism, the series feels back the
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layers of one of history's most horrifying and stranger than
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fiction criminal cases. Is a tense, atmospheric ride for fans
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of true crime, historical thrillers, and stories where the darkness
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of war hides monsters far worse than the enemy at
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the gates. This was a pretty breezy read, I honestly
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think when we compared to the other two books.
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The Crow doesn't have a lot.
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Of text amongst its pages, but still Butcher of Paris
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had quite a bit, and it was still pretty easy
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to get through. We find out at the end of
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the issue it talks more about this actual event that happened.
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There's a two page afterward that Stephanie Phillips writes, and
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it's on the historical events and personal connections behind the series.
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Phillips explains how she first discovered Marcel Petoi's crimes murders
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of an estima estimated sixty to two hundred people, most
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of them Jews, seeking escape from Nazi occupied France, and
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became compelled to tell the story. She describes Petois as
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posing as a resistance fighter to lure victims to his
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Paris townhouse, praying on the desperate during a time when
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over thirteen thousand French Jews were being sent to Auschwitz.
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Writing the series has been emotionally heavy, especially given her
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own families, World War II history, and the continued presence
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of anti Semitism today. Phillips recounts the unsettling atmosphere of
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Pittoa's nineteen forty six trial, which took place after the
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liberation of Paris. The audience treated it like it was entertainment,
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laughing even when the prosecutor implored them to value human life.
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She draws parallels between Petoa's actions and the modern dangers
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of fascist rhetoric, stressing the importance of empathy and remembering
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individual lives amid a massive wartime death tolls. The essay
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frames Patois as more monster than man and situates the
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comic's larger purpose not just to recount crimes, but to
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confront complicity and the perils of silence, echoing l Visal's
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warning that neutrality aids the oppressor, never the victim. What
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do you think of that, Martin?
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Just think about the implications of what you just read.
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Germany is very a lot of parallels what's happening now
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in the sense of grooming by your government to accept
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things you wouldn't accept if it was coming at you
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head on, or if you weren't conditioned to accept certain things.
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I've been talking a lot about that now on TikTok,
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about becoming corporatocracy, the AI robot revolution such a radical
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see change, and how human beings operate on this planet,
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many of which WI want go well for most humans,
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and how it's like my dad says about people voting
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against their best interests or being conditioned to accept things
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that we think are good that are really going to
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end up being bad. Think about what's happening with the
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Butcher of Paris. That's the parallel. Thinks you're so bad
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for these Jews that they're so desperate they're willing to
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take a chance. To the right is concentration camps and genocide.
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To the left, mass murder, serial killing. I sometimes wonder
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why there's a lot of personality disorder in the boomer
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Jewish population, and then I remember, oh, that's right. Everywhere
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they turned, people were trying to kill them for a while.
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Yeah, that's going to have an effect on the human side.
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A little Trauma's generational what stays in your body and
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you pass on to your kids. Unfortunately, there's a biological
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thing going on with generational trauma. And when you asked
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me what I think, my first thought was, why has
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anyone made a movie out of it? This is courtroom drama,
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detective story, Who done it? Serial killing? Social commentary, a
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historical piece, Shindler's list s commentary on the treatment of Jews,
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or band of brothers, which is like, look, this is
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a very horrible thing, and every once in a while
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we need a reminder of we shouldn't be this horrible
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to each other. So our friend here running commentary. My
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grandparents always kept their basement pantry fully stock. Yeah, mine too.
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I mentioned that earlier I don't know if you were
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on the show at that point, but I have a
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silent generation greatest generation. Grandparents died about twenty years ago,
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and they were in their seventies or eighties at the time.
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They lived through the Great Depression and World War Two,
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and their basement always was like stock full of like nonperishables,
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cann goods. I don't know why they kept the egg cartons.
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I asked my grandmother, my Nana. I talked very fondly
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about my Italian grandmother, who might refer to as Nana.
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We did this when we reviewed the movie Nana's for
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being a Farmer and the She's sicily and she was
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very attached to the land. Even though they lived in
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suburban Long Island. She kept a very Italian style garden
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to stay rooted to her traditional gardening farmer roots. But
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those are my lasting memories of her. They weren't Jews,
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that's my mother's side of the family, but they were
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definitely like, you don't know when the bottom has fallen
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out in this world anymore, so let's just be prepared.
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And it's funny. It made a joke about it earlier,
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but I've kept that since then. I made way too
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much food tonight for dinner because my God forbid either
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of my kids starve. They don't finish the meal I
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made them. But I'm always praying to you have two
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pork chops, one won't cut it. You might starve in
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the nuclear winter that is Tampa. But that's what I'm
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thinking about when I read this book. It's very cinematic,
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very layered, very dense. Is a lot going on with
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this book that I think a variety of people could
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take something away from. I think this is begging to
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be made into them movie and I'm really shocked that
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hasn't they had a dark horse like you option this ship?
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Why haven't you?
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I mean it was interesting, really who done it? Because
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we kind of know who done it at the beginning,
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but it's a matter of trying to find them. Plus
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you have a detective who is not just trying to
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catch the serial killer, but he's also fighting against the Gestapo,
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who is a hard.
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Time pronounce did you pronounce it? Gestopod?
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That just stop?
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What I used to get Canola's in Brooklyn from the
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the you know, I would get a slice slice for
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a dollar stop.
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I wonder how well that shop did.
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He just stop shut the funk up and making bezo me.
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I'm all madana, little provolone.
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You look at it, he's looking a little scarny. Gotta sliceas.
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What was the name of the pizza shop that Spike Lee.
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Went and visited?
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What was the name of that one?
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I don't know, I don't know. But he needed to
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put some black bats on the wall right quick.
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Why isn't there any on there? I wondered.
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So yeah, I mean he's got to fight against number one,
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the Germans who are there, and then there's a lot
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of like it goes really quick.
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I mean, we only got five issues here, but at
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one point, you know, another German official shows up and
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it's like, okay, I'm here to destroy the town. The
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next issue destroy Paris, and the next issue, I mean,
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we get some fighting, but that's about it. Then Paris
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is liberated.
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Could you imagine if you're a gentile Frenchman and you're
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just like, just take the Jews already, Paris?
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What's going on?
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a foul of that one. I wish I could remember
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his name. It's like jod com or Yodam officer. They
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get Massu and Yodam get into it in the beginning,
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and then.
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I tell you how that annoyed me in this book? Oh,
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they would speak like broken French, and you know that
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because they're in France. They're just speaking French. So it
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its French. But don't be like moa me. I would
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like to read you a comic book. No, no, but.
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this guy all the stuff that he had to run
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into in regards to and then he had the German
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officer falsely accuse him of being one who gave the
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Nazis information which he wasn't, and that cost him his job,
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He ends up getting killed.
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All right, Can I do where they're questioning the murderer?
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Could you not see that being played by Jack Nicholson
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This wasn't something that of the three books that we're
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going to be talking about tonight, this wasn't something that
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made me go, holy crap, there's a lot to talk
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This is a true story. It's horrible.
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that people want to get away from the horrific things
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that the Germans are doing, and this guy is just
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killing people left and right.
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Do you think this is an odd choice to do
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as a comic book.
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I feel like Stephanie had something that she wanted to
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say clearly that she saw this and was like, you know,
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this is a story that needs to be told.
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saying I want to do this.
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What had you got to lose? This again, is one
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of my favorite.
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Whatever the name of the book was Misletopia, where you
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couldn't get a script me, so he made a comic
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book and hoping someone would option it, and.
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That would make way more sense to me as to
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what they're doing here. I bet you there's got to
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be some kind of show that did a forty five
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minute documentary or whatever. You now, the wife watches all
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the crime shows where its specializes on some killer.
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This thing has to be somewhere.
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Ask the way, ever done a documentary or show or movie.
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Marcel, Yeah, I'm going to look here to Marcel Petois.
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GPT five point zero is starching the web.
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Oh look out, here's what is.
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Out there on filming documentaries. On the Butcher of Paris
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mysell a chilling documentary narrated through historical reenactment. It's on YouTube.
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There's a real story documentary on YouTube spotlighting how doctor
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Massel exploited the chaos of Nazi occupied Paris to prey
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on the desperate. The Murder Network.
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Oh oh yeah, yeah, I'm subscribing.
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The Murder Network A serial Killer Nazi Paris twenty twenty two,
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a focused documentary seventy minutes, scoring Petiot's perceptive scheme under
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the guise of resistance, available on platforms like Apple TV,
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Pluto Prime, and TB. Doctor Petiot a dramatized French feature film.
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Jesse really is a French film out there. We know
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how much I love my French film. He'll throw a
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little u sexual assault in there and I'm sold. Doctor
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Doctor Petiot from nineteen ninety eight dramatized French feature film
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directed by Christian de Charoon Starry Michael Michelle Charot. It
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dramatizes his crime during World War Two. I wonder if
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French people hear me try to do a French accent
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and are just like nails on the chalkboard.
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They have clicked the light button and they have subscribed.
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This podcast episode and a radio podcast feature, so they again.
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Yeah, so what's the name of the movie? The French movie?
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Doctor d o c teo te You are okay? All right?
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Does I have a year when it was great?
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Ninety? I'm totally throwing that into a triple feature and
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making you talk about it. Oh geez, where the hell
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are we going to find that nineteen ninety French films?
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Oh? Yeah, yes, is like I quit. Doctor Satan is
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an Apple podcast.
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and they did an episode called Doctor Satan Marcel p'toir.
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So our friend here from the Netherlands. The art looks fine,
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but I think it could have gone a bit darker,
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a bit more noir. Yeah. I was thinking more of
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like an Ed Burns book than what we got here.
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This feels a lot like the art from the Boys.
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It's very clean, I will give you that for sure.
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It is not dark at all.
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I don't think it's reflective of the material. It wasn't
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something guy who was going to comment on Necessarily. Eventually
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you would have asked me what I thought of the art,
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and I would have said, it's clean, it's pretty, it's bright,
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it's very comic, Bookie. It doesn't match the tone of
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the book at all.
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Right, when they go down into the dungeon and they
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find the chains and stuff, like, it's not dark, it's
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not dingy, it's well lit. You know, it doesn't have
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that eerie, creepy feel like you think it should.
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But it's like they got a porn director to shoot
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the movie. There's no esthetic here at all. They shoot porn.
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I just need to make sure it's well lit.
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Butcher of Paris. Did you have anything else?
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to porn.
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effect right now we are going to be talking three books.
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That over there is Mark Ratlich, Mark Radlice. Did you
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purposely like theme these together?
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Yeah? All right, so we've done all the other Crow stuff.
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So I don't do this as much anymore. I have
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a different job. I don't have time to sit in
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my office and wonder what podcast I should be doing
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like I used to. I actually work now, so I'm busy.
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I left my office job to work from home and
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have never been busier.
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Not what you expected, not at all.
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But I'm okay with that. I don't mind being busy.
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time anymore to like be thinking about, like what else
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can I torture Jesse with? Would past time of mine?
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A few months ago, I was trying to come up
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with different ideas for us to do for comic podcasts,
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and you know me, I don't want to do the
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standard Marvel and DC superhero bullshit as if we can
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help it. Like, I don't mind the occasional All Star Superman,
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but for the most part, I'm really trying to stay
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away from that kind of stuff, just trying to find
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different authors, different ideas. And we'd already done two Long
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Road to Ruins and a Damn You Hollywood on all
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five pro movies, but we'd never talked about the comic
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one that we should have done at some point.
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So because we do three books or we do about
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twenty to twenty one issues, speaking of someone's going to
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get their head kicked in tonight. I was chastised a
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few months ago for her. Was it five books I
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made you do? And you were like, not again.
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It was the amount of the issues that was the thing.
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It was just five five issues per book, and it's
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five books. It's almost thirty issues.
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Yeah, Vader, the Darth Vader stuff, as good as it was, Yeah,
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that was a lot of stuff to cover. And then
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I think we kind of took another stab at something
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else that was pretty long. We realized that maybe it's
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best if we just the amount of issues we have
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to cover.
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I think it was when we initially started doing three
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in a row. It was enough to give you a
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three months worth of material. In my head, it's always
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three books, but I never look at how many issues
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for book this is. The initial source material was The Crow,
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and I was like, two other books, please from jat GPT.
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That kind of matches the tone, and it pitched me
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Layla Star. I was like, all right, this is cool,
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this is this was an Eisner A nominee. This was
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not a lot of people's best.
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Of the year comic for a while, okay.
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And then the other one it pitched was Day Tripper's
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twelve issues. I ran that past you and you will like,
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knock it the fuck off. So I pulled Day Tripper.
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happened to have The Butcher of Paris sitting on my shelf,
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and I'm just like, well, it doesn't quite have that
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gothic fable, earthy fantasy feel the Crow or Layla Star,
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but boy isn't about death. So it counts, right, Jess.
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Yeah, I say it counts. I say it counts.
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So as far as where we're going to start tonight,
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let's jump into Butcher of Paris five issue series. This
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dropped right at the end of twenty nineteen. Stephanie Phillips
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is the author, Dean Cotts is the illustrator and Jason
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Wordy was the illustrator here as well. Published by Dark
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Horse Comics. And so what we find out at the
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end of the first issues that says based on a
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true story. So we have five issues that of a
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true story. Essentially, I'm going to read you what I
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came up with here. It's a paragraph call the gist.
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the podcast proper. I'll probably put something in posts, but
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here's the gist of Butcher of Paris. The Butcher of
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Paris is a gripping true crime comics set against the
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backdrop of Nazi occupied France, telling the chilling story of
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doctor Marcel Petois, a man who posed as a savior
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to desperate Jews seeking escape, only to murder them and
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profit from their deaths across five tightly woven issues.
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a horror movie. It's totally a thing that happened, yep.
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Across five issues.
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Catch a Break says, the Jew and the Dacide share.
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We follow a detective, George Victor Massoux his dog pursuit
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of Petois through a city suffocating under occupation and chaos.
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As the war draws to a close, the hunt collides
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with the liberation of Paris, political backstabbing and a public
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more eager for sensational gospel than justice. Blending wartime espionage,
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noir style investigation and the unsettling psychology of a serial
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killer who hides behind patriotism, the series feels back the
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layers of one of history's most horrifying and stranger than
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fiction criminal cases. Is a tense, atmospheric ride for fans
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of true crime, historical thrillers, and stories where the darkness
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of war hides monsters far worse than the enemy at
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the gates. This was a pretty breezy read, I honestly
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think when we compared to the other two books.
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The Crow doesn't have a lot.
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Of text amongst its pages, but still Butcher of Paris
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had quite a bit, and it was still pretty easy
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to get through. We find out at the end of
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the issue it talks more about this actual event that happened.
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There's a two page afterward that Stephanie Phillips writes, and
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it's on the historical events and personal connections behind the series.
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Phillips explains how she first discovered Marcel Petoi's crimes murders
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of an estima estimated sixty to two hundred people, most
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of them Jews, seeking escape from Nazi occupied France, and
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became compelled to tell the story. She describes Petois as
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posing as a resistance fighter to lure victims to his
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Paris townhouse, praying on the desperate during a time when
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over thirteen thousand French Jews were being sent to Auschwitz.
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Writing the series has been emotionally heavy, especially given her
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own families, World War II history, and the continued presence
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of anti Semitism today. Phillips recounts the unsettling atmosphere of
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Pittoa's nineteen forty six trial, which took place after the
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liberation of Paris. The audience treated it like it was entertainment,
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laughing even when the prosecutor implored them to value human life.
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She draws parallels between Petoa's actions and the modern dangers
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of fascist rhetoric, stressing the importance of empathy and remembering
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individual lives amid a massive wartime death tolls. The essay
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frames Patois as more monster than man and situates the
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comic's larger purpose not just to recount crimes, but to
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confront complicity and the perils of silence, echoing l Visal's
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warning that neutrality aids the oppressor, never the victim. What
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Just think about the implications of what you just read.
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in the sense of grooming by your government to accept
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things you wouldn't accept if it was coming at you
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head on, or if you weren't conditioned to accept certain things.
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I've been talking a lot about that now on TikTok,
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about becoming corporatocracy, the AI robot revolution such a radical
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see change, and how human beings operate on this planet,
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many of which WI want go well for most humans,
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and how it's like my dad says about people voting
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against their best interests or being conditioned to accept things
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that we think are good that are really going to
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end up being bad. Think about what's happening with the
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Butcher of Paris. That's the parallel. Thinks you're so bad
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for these Jews that they're so desperate they're willing to
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take a chance. To the right is concentration camps and genocide.
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To the left, mass murder, serial killing. I sometimes wonder
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why there's a lot of personality disorder in the boomer
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Jewish population, and then I remember, oh, that's right. Everywhere
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they turned, people were trying to kill them for a while.
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Yeah, that's going to have an effect on the human side.
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A little Trauma's generational what stays in your body and
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you pass on to your kids. Unfortunately, there's a biological
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thing going on with generational trauma. And when you asked
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me what I think, my first thought was, why has
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anyone made a movie out of it? This is courtroom drama,
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detective story, Who done it? Serial killing? Social commentary, a
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historical piece, Shindler's list s commentary on the treatment of Jews,
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or band of brothers, which is like, look, this is
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a very horrible thing, and every once in a while
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we need a reminder of we shouldn't be this horrible
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to each other. So our friend here running commentary. My
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grandparents always kept their basement pantry fully stock. Yeah, mine too.
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I mentioned that earlier I don't know if you were
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on the show at that point, but I have a
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silent generation greatest generation. Grandparents died about twenty years ago,
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and they were in their seventies or eighties at the time.
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They lived through the Great Depression and World War Two,
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and their basement always was like stock full of like nonperishables,
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cann goods. I don't know why they kept the egg cartons.
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I asked my grandmother, my Nana. I talked very fondly
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about my Italian grandmother, who might refer to as Nana.
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We did this when we reviewed the movie Nana's for
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being a Farmer and the She's sicily and she was
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very attached to the land. Even though they lived in
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suburban Long Island. She kept a very Italian style garden
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to stay rooted to her traditional gardening farmer roots. But
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those are my lasting memories of her. They weren't Jews,
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that's my mother's side of the family, but they were
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definitely like, you don't know when the bottom has fallen
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out in this world anymore, so let's just be prepared.
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And it's funny. It made a joke about it earlier,
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but I've kept that since then. I made way too
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much food tonight for dinner because my God forbid either
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of my kids starve. They don't finish the meal I
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made them. But I'm always praying to you have two
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pork chops, one won't cut it. You might starve in
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the nuclear winter that is Tampa. But that's what I'm
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thinking about when I read this book. It's very cinematic,
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very layered, very dense. Is a lot going on with
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this book that I think a variety of people could
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take something away from. I think this is begging to
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be made into them movie and I'm really shocked that
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hasn't they had a dark horse like you option this ship?
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Why haven't you?
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I mean it was interesting, really who done it? Because
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we kind of know who done it at the beginning,
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but it's a matter of trying to find them. Plus
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you have a detective who is not just trying to
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catch the serial killer, but he's also fighting against the Gestapo,
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who is a hard.
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Time pronounce did you pronounce it? Gestopod?
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That just stop?
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What I used to get Canola's in Brooklyn from the
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the you know, I would get a slice slice for
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a dollar stop.
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I wonder how well that shop did.
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He just stop shut the funk up and making bezo me.
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I'm all madana, little provolone.
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You look at it, he's looking a little scarny. Gotta sliceas.
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What was the name of the pizza shop that Spike Lee.
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I don't know, I don't know. But he needed to
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put some black bats on the wall right quick.
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Why isn't there any on there? I wondered.
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So yeah, I mean he's got to fight against number one,
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the Germans who are there, and then there's a lot
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it's like, okay, I'm here to destroy the town. The
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next issue destroy Paris, and the next issue, I mean,
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we get some fighting, but that's about it. Then Paris
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his name. It's like jod com or Yodam officer. They
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get Massu and Yodam get into it in the beginning,
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I tell you how that annoyed me in this book? Oh,
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they would speak like broken French, and you know that
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because they're in France. They're just speaking French. So it
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was just like h jesse motame No, no, no, pick fucking one,
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but one of.
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Yeah, where you get it all French or none of
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its French. But don't be like moa me. I would
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like to read you a comic book. No, no, but.
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this guy all the stuff that he had to run
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into in regards to and then he had the German
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officer falsely accuse him of being one who gave the
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Nazis information which he wasn't, and that cost him his job,
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and of course Yocum wasn't going anywhere.
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He ends up getting killed.
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All right, Can I do where they're questioning the murderer?
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Could you not see that being played by Jack Nicholson
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A la his character from A few Good Men, Good Men?
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I put the book back on my shelf, But I
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would love to just read that in Jack Nicholson's fucking voice.
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I feel like this thing was only five issues, and
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I feel like it could have really fleshed this whole
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thing out a little bit more.
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This is absolutely a Netflix series in the making.
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Yeah, But aside from that, I don't have a whole
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This wasn't something that of the three books that we're
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going to be talking about tonight, this wasn't something that
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made me go, holy crap, there's a lot to talk
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This is a true story. It's horrible.
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I mean, it is really somebody praying on the fact
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that people want to get away from the horrific things
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that the Germans are doing, and this guy is just
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killing people left and right.
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Do you think this is an odd choice to do
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as a comic book.
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I feel like Stephanie had something that she wanted to
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say clearly that she saw this and was like, you know,
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this is a story that needs to be told.
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Like dark Horse, her taking it the dark Horse and
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saying I want to do this.
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What had you got to lose? This again, is one
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of my favorite.
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Whatever the name of the book was Misletopia, where you
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couldn't get a script me, so he made a comic
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book and hoping someone would option it, and.
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That would make way more sense to me as to
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what they're doing here. I bet you there's got to
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be some kind of show that did a forty five
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minute documentary or whatever. You now, the wife watches all
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the crime shows where its specializes on some killer.
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This thing has to be somewhere.
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Ask the way, ever done a documentary or show or movie.
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Marcel, Yeah, I'm going to look here to Marcel Petois.
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GPT five point zero is starching the web.
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Oh look out, here's what is.
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Out there on filming documentaries. On the Butcher of Paris
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mysell a chilling documentary narrated through historical reenactment. It's on YouTube.
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There's a real story documentary on YouTube spotlighting how doctor
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Massel exploited the chaos of Nazi occupied Paris to prey
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on the desperate. The Murder Network.
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Oh oh yeah, yeah, I'm subscribing.
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The Murder Network A serial Killer Nazi Paris twenty twenty two,
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a focused documentary seventy minutes, scoring Petiot's perceptive scheme under
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the guise of resistance, available on platforms like Apple TV,
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Pluto Prime, and TB. Doctor Petiot a dramatized French feature film.
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Jesse really is a French film out there. We know
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how much I love my French film. He'll throw a
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little u sexual assault in there and I'm sold. Doctor
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Doctor Petiot from nineteen ninety eight dramatized French feature film
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directed by Christian de Charoon Starry Michael Michelle Charot. It
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dramatizes his crime during World War Two. I wonder if
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French people hear me try to do a French accent
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and are just like nails on the chalkboard.
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They have clicked the light button and they have subscribed.
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This podcast episode and a radio podcast feature, so they again.
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Yeah, so what's the name of the movie? The French movie?
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Doctor d o c teo te You are okay? All right?
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Does I have a year when it was great?
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Ninety? I'm totally throwing that into a triple feature and
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making you talk about it. Oh geez, where the hell
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are we going to find that nineteen ninety French films?
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Oh? Yeah, yes, is like I quit. Doctor Satan is
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an Apple podcast.
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Apparently the name of the podcast I believe is Killer Minds,
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and they did an episode called Doctor Satan Marcel p'toir.
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So our friend here from the Netherlands. The art looks fine,
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but I think it could have gone a bit darker,
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a bit more noir. Yeah. I was thinking more of
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like an Ed Burns book than what we got here.
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This feels a lot like the art from the Boys.
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It's very clean, I will give you that for sure.
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It is not dark at all.
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I don't think it's reflective of the material. It wasn't
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something guy who was going to comment on Necessarily. Eventually
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you would have asked me what I thought of the art,
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and I would have said, it's clean, it's pretty, it's bright,
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it's very comic, Bookie. It doesn't match the tone of
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the book at all.
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Right, when they go down into the dungeon and they
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find the chains and stuff, like, it's not dark, it's
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not dingy, it's well lit. You know, it doesn't have
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that eerie, creepy feel like you think it should.
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But it's like they got a porn director to shoot
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the movie. There's no esthetic here at all. They shoot porn.
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I just need to make sure it's well lit.
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All right, well there it is. That's our discussion on
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Butcher of Paris. Did you have anything else?
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We know the conversation is over when I compare something
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to porn.
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