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Hello, and welcome to First Issues Now the Weekly Show post,
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a daily ish only about the newest Verst issues released
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00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.759
by insert comic company. Here this week, I'll be looking
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00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:11.039
at the comics release for the week of October twenty ninth,
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00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:15.320
twenty twenty five. Do we really need an Avengers book
6
00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.480
in all of this? It's already scattershot now. Don't get
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00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:20.440
me wrong. I love me some Danny. She is my
8
00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:23.800
favorite new mutant. She has always been. But Danny deserved
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00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:26.960
better than this. Cannibal deserved better than this. Hell, I
10
00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.679
think everyone in this deserves better than this sort of
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How can we shove some Avengers into this not an
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event event? And honestly I don't think they can. But
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maybe I'm wrong. I'm hoping I'm wrong. Let's pray that
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I'm wrong. With ex Avengers Number one written by Jason Leu,
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Pencils by Sergio da Villa, inks by Are Jimenez, colors
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by Rain Burretto, with letters by Joe Sabino. Solicit first
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Earth's mightiest, hated and feared X years later or still
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needs the Avengers. But what happens when those who are
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left have transformed into mutants? Danny Moonstar leads a new
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team of Avengers Hawkeye, Vision, water Widow, Shang Chi, Variable
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Man and Cannonball to protect the world. But can these
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ex Avengers protect all of Earth including the Revelation territories
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Man This comic would have actually been really good if
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we knew anything about what was actually fucking going on,
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So the plot begins with them at the inauguration of
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a Steve Rogers Captain America memorial thing. Everyone in the
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Avengers is a mutant now, with Black Widow having water power,
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Chang Chi being Stone. It's supposed to be Great Gargoyle.
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Scott lang Now is Variable Man who just seems to
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be able to do his growing thing, but he also
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has a hunchback now. Hawkeye has six arms, well five
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arms and a robot arm. Vision now has a Technarchy
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techno organic virus because somehow that was affected by the
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ex virus too, although almost as if it was just
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something to link the X Men lore with the world
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so it needed to be prolific through everything else, and
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Sam Guthrie and Danny are just mutants, although Danny has
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Captain America's shield now and can also psionically charge it
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for some reason anyway, they're all at this unveiling of
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the Steve Rogers memorial, and we get Marvel's civilians being
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Marvel civilians, saying how much they all suck because of
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their muties. Now when people keep dying because of the
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X virus, it's a thing. Then we get a random
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Cree invasion for a little bit, so we get an
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action beat, and then it ends with the ex Avengers
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chatting it up with Revelations Seraphim before it Scott laying
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mutates again or something not entirely sure what happens here,
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and even the characters in it have no idea what's
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going on. This comic is okay, or rather it would
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be okay if there was actually a scope to the universe,
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and also if the Avengers were a team built on
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a dream. Now, there was something that was repeated a
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few times in this which was weird, where Danny was like,
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I promised Cap to carry on the dream, but it's like,
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what what dream? Avengers is not a team like the
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X Men. It wasn't built on a dream, unless this,
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of course, is more Cap winning the dream of America
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to continue. But like right now, there's nothing solid about
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what is even going on. On a geopolitical level, here
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there is an infrastructure enough to make a Cabin America memorial,
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so there is some form of existence, even with a
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new sovereign nation popping up. Again, all of this could
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have worked if we actually have some semblance of what
64
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the actual structure of the setting is. Since there is
65
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a lot of vagueness coming from well basically everywhere, this
66
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is not a universe that has the scope that they want.
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Age of Revelation was obviously pitched as an X Men
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storyline that was just meant to follow psych and Beast
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in this new world. But then somehow someone turned around
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one you know how we can make more money off
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of this though, we call an Age of Revelation and
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hinted that it's going to be like Age of Apocalypse,
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and then we completely do unrelated everything that won't be
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readable unless it's a trade. Okay, Okay, I'm sorry that
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that is not about this book. This book is just
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h by that issue with all of that, though I
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don't actually hate this. Jason Leu writes a decent enough
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team book that honestly, it feels like it could have
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worked if it wasn't part of Age of Revelation. Granted,
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I've yet to really ever be blown away by any
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of the DEI mutant Avenger teams that they keep trying
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to integrate and shove down our throats. Yes, that's partially
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a joke because I actually liked several Avengers team that
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had mutants on them, but we just didn't have to
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say that they were mutants on the team back and notch. Anyways,
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my verdict for this is read it. Maybe read it
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means that you should read it for yourselves to decide,
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because again, I'm actually quite split on this. If we
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had an understanding of the world, then maybe this would
90
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work better. But otherwise, if you're not interested in Age
91
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of Revelation or well honestly a throwaway book that feels
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like it will be better in trade. Possibly I don't
93
00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:55.360
even see how this is going to work in trade,
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because the issues are not in the writing or in
95
00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.759
the story proper. It is in the setting. But take
96
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that for what it is. I actually think that is
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the last Age of Revelation book I will ever have
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to cover. Hallllojah. But maybe I'm wrong. Let me know
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what your thoughts of this issue is over on Facebook
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at the Comic Archivist on Twitter at First Issues Now
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or Blue Sky at AJAC does it all, don't forget
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to like, share, follow, and do all of the stuff
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that I'm being told is important to continue doing these
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and while you're at it, check out the other podcast
105
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from carry On productions like Killing fifteen minutes, Mything fifteen minutes,
106
00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.839
and Blanking fifteen minutes. They're all pretty sweet in their
107
00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.519
own way. More than anything, though, Stay Golden Inklings.
1
00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.000
Hello, and welcome to First Issues Now the Weekly Show post,
2
00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.559
a daily ish only about the newest Verst issues released
3
00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.759
by insert comic company. Here this week, I'll be looking
4
00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:11.039
at the comics release for the week of October twenty ninth,
5
00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:15.320
twenty twenty five. Do we really need an Avengers book
6
00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.480
in all of this? It's already scattershot now. Don't get
7
00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:20.440
me wrong. I love me some Danny. She is my
8
00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:23.800
favorite new mutant. She has always been. But Danny deserved
9
00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:26.960
better than this. Cannibal deserved better than this. Hell, I
10
00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.679
think everyone in this deserves better than this sort of
11
00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.000
How can we shove some Avengers into this not an
12
00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.439
event event? And honestly I don't think they can. But
13
00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.079
maybe I'm wrong. I'm hoping I'm wrong. Let's pray that
14
00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:45.159
I'm wrong. With ex Avengers Number one written by Jason Leu,
15
00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:49.159
Pencils by Sergio da Villa, inks by Are Jimenez, colors
16
00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:53.759
by Rain Burretto, with letters by Joe Sabino. Solicit first
17
00:00:54.520 --> 00:01:00.479
Earth's mightiest, hated and feared X years later or still
18
00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.359
needs the Avengers. But what happens when those who are
19
00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.959
left have transformed into mutants? Danny Moonstar leads a new
20
00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:12.159
team of Avengers Hawkeye, Vision, water Widow, Shang Chi, Variable
21
00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.480
Man and Cannonball to protect the world. But can these
22
00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:20.200
ex Avengers protect all of Earth including the Revelation territories
23
00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.319
Man This comic would have actually been really good if
24
00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.040
we knew anything about what was actually fucking going on,
25
00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.879
So the plot begins with them at the inauguration of
26
00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:32.959
a Steve Rogers Captain America memorial thing. Everyone in the
27
00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:35.799
Avengers is a mutant now, with Black Widow having water power,
28
00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.519
Chang Chi being Stone. It's supposed to be Great Gargoyle.
29
00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.799
Scott lang Now is Variable Man who just seems to
30
00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.599
be able to do his growing thing, but he also
31
00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.879
has a hunchback now. Hawkeye has six arms, well five
32
00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.920
arms and a robot arm. Vision now has a Technarchy
33
00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.560
techno organic virus because somehow that was affected by the
34
00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.799
ex virus too, although almost as if it was just
35
00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.079
something to link the X Men lore with the world
36
00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.439
so it needed to be prolific through everything else, and
37
00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:06.879
Sam Guthrie and Danny are just mutants, although Danny has
38
00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.680
Captain America's shield now and can also psionically charge it
39
00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:14.319
for some reason anyway, they're all at this unveiling of
40
00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.759
the Steve Rogers memorial, and we get Marvel's civilians being
41
00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.840
Marvel civilians, saying how much they all suck because of
42
00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.360
their muties. Now when people keep dying because of the
43
00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:26.120
X virus, it's a thing. Then we get a random
44
00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:28.439
Cree invasion for a little bit, so we get an
45
00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.840
action beat, and then it ends with the ex Avengers
46
00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:33.840
chatting it up with Revelations Seraphim before it Scott laying
47
00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.360
mutates again or something not entirely sure what happens here,
48
00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.120
and even the characters in it have no idea what's
49
00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:43.960
going on. This comic is okay, or rather it would
50
00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.080
be okay if there was actually a scope to the universe,
51
00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:49.560
and also if the Avengers were a team built on
52
00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.319
a dream. Now, there was something that was repeated a
53
00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:54.639
few times in this which was weird, where Danny was like,
54
00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.800
I promised Cap to carry on the dream, but it's like,
55
00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.000
what what dream? Avengers is not a team like the
56
00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.879
X Men. It wasn't built on a dream, unless this,
57
00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.199
of course, is more Cap winning the dream of America
58
00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.520
to continue. But like right now, there's nothing solid about
59
00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.639
what is even going on. On a geopolitical level, here
60
00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.919
there is an infrastructure enough to make a Cabin America memorial,
61
00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.800
so there is some form of existence, even with a
62
00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.599
new sovereign nation popping up. Again, all of this could
63
00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:24.439
have worked if we actually have some semblance of what
64
00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.960
the actual structure of the setting is. Since there is
65
00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.280
a lot of vagueness coming from well basically everywhere, this
66
00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.120
is not a universe that has the scope that they want.
67
00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.120
Age of Revelation was obviously pitched as an X Men
68
00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.520
storyline that was just meant to follow psych and Beast
69
00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:43.360
in this new world. But then somehow someone turned around
70
00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:45.000
one you know how we can make more money off
71
00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.639
of this though, we call an Age of Revelation and
72
00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.759
hinted that it's going to be like Age of Apocalypse,
73
00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:53.680
and then we completely do unrelated everything that won't be
74
00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.240
readable unless it's a trade. Okay, Okay, I'm sorry that
75
00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.719
that is not about this book. This book is just
76
00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.840
h by that issue with all of that, though I
77
00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:07.319
don't actually hate this. Jason Leu writes a decent enough
78
00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.599
team book that honestly, it feels like it could have
79
00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.879
worked if it wasn't part of Age of Revelation. Granted,
80
00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:15.039
I've yet to really ever be blown away by any
81
00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.360
of the DEI mutant Avenger teams that they keep trying
82
00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.519
to integrate and shove down our throats. Yes, that's partially
83
00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.040
a joke because I actually liked several Avengers team that
84
00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.720
had mutants on them, but we just didn't have to
85
00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.279
say that they were mutants on the team back and notch. Anyways,
86
00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.920
my verdict for this is read it. Maybe read it
87
00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.199
means that you should read it for yourselves to decide,
88
00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.000
because again, I'm actually quite split on this. If we
89
00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:42.000
had an understanding of the world, then maybe this would
90
00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.600
work better. But otherwise, if you're not interested in Age
91
00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.519
of Revelation or well honestly a throwaway book that feels
92
00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.279
like it will be better in trade. Possibly I don't
93
00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:55.360
even see how this is going to work in trade,
94
00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.199
because the issues are not in the writing or in
95
00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.759
the story proper. It is in the setting. But take
96
00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.000
that for what it is. I actually think that is
97
00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.399
the last Age of Revelation book I will ever have
98
00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:10.639
to cover. Hallllojah. But maybe I'm wrong. Let me know
99
00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.199
what your thoughts of this issue is over on Facebook
100
00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.360
at the Comic Archivist on Twitter at First Issues Now
101
00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.439
or Blue Sky at AJAC does it all, don't forget
102
00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.399
to like, share, follow, and do all of the stuff
103
00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:23.920
that I'm being told is important to continue doing these
104
00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:26.639
and while you're at it, check out the other podcast
105
00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:30.879
from carry On productions like Killing fifteen minutes, Mything fifteen minutes,
106
00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.839
and Blanking fifteen minutes. They're all pretty sweet in their
107
00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.519
own way. More than anything, though, Stay Golden Inklings.
