Full Transcript for Funny Book Forensics 454 Batman Has Friends

another interesting. I know I don't hit all the comic desks because I miss them and I don't. Can't pay attention to everything. But in this case, there's a historically historical figure for feminism. And yeah, it was interesting. So I heard another interesting comment on feminism this week that I'm not going to repeat. 58 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:50.000 God, 59 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.000 I want to, but I will get sidetracked. Maybe I'll talk about it in the course of reading this book. 60 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:00.000 There you go. Not this book, but your, Your contracts book, right? 61 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.000 Oh, contracts. Are you talking about contracts? I've got all sorts of contracts. 62 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:09.000 No, no, no, I, I Didn't mean to get you derailed again, Dan. Oh, my goodness. I'm sorry, folks. 63 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.000 Dan is learning all about contracts just for Greg, so he can't trick me anymore. 64 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:24.000 I try to trick Dan into doing things, so I write up elaborate contracts and get him bound like the Chainsman. 65 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.000 You meant like Wonder Woman? 66 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.000 No. Oh, well, yeah. She binds people with her. Her. 67 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:35.000 No. Remember when she's bound by her own, she has to be released by a man. 68 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:40.000 That was in that. Yeah, that was in the one that we read. Yeah, that was kind of a bunk. Yeah. 69 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.000 Now, Grimbor. Everybody wants to be bounded by Grimbor. 70 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.000 Who wants to be bound by Grimbor. 71 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:59.000 Yeah, that sounds. You show up at the Eagle, and then, you know, you get bound by Grimbor, and you end up at Steamworks. 72 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.000 A fun time is had by all. 73 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.000 That's exactly how that works. 74 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:08.000 And then. And then you have to find your own way home. 75 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:18.000 Yeah. And you have to. And in that case, too, Only a man can unbind you. So that's it. You know, it's kind of the same thing, I guess. 76 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:19.000 I see. 77 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.000 Sort of. 78 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:25.000 Okay. That's a lot to unwrap. 79 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:32.000 I mean. Yeah, it is a lot to unwrap. That's. That's true. There is a lot to unwrap in that scenario. 80 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:34.000 Oh, wow. 81 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:37.000 But we were. We were talking about Batman. 82 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:43.000 Yeah, he is. Because he's so beefy and this absolute 83 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:53.000 Batman, this big Batman. I almost called the last podcast Big Batman instead of Batman of the people. I was trying to figure out which of the comments on the podcast I should go with. 84 00:07:53.000 --> 00:08:04.000 Batman of the people. He's Batman of the people because he's for the people and with the people and he

needs the people because he's of the people. 85 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:09.000 He is. I mean, it is a Batman for a new generation. He is not a millionaire playboy. 86 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:13.000 No, he's. He's an every. Every person. 87 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.000 I was concerned about my contracts book, though. Just side note, can I tell you why? 88 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.000 Yeah, why? Because it talks about Batman. 89 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:30.000 I mean, I hold. They're very heavy. It's like nine 1000 pages. But the first offer author is David G. Epstein. 90 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:37.000 Huh. Okay. 91 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:49.000 I don't want to read anything by David Epstein. Oh, yeah, that seems like a poor name choice. This. This person should have chose a different name. 92 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:54.000 Well, I mean, they probably had that name and then wrote the book and then all this other stuff. 93 00:08:54.000 --> 00:09:00.000 Maybe they should go by the G in their name. Just the G. Well, this David Epstein person is probably dead. 94 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.000 Maybe so. 95 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.000 Just like the other one is probably dead. 96 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.000 Maybe so. 97 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.000 So it's, you know, a lot of probability there. 98 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:11.000 A lot. 99 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:17.000 And what do you think? Like they learn contract. What if they learn contracts from each other? 100 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.000 I don't know. 101 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:20.000 Not a man of the people. 102 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.000 No. No. 103 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.000 Batman, Very opposite Bruce Wayne. 104 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:25.000 Yeah. 105 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:30.000 Original Bruce Wayne. David Epstein, 106 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:32.000 the one who wrote the contracts book. 107 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:38.000 No, I'm just saying how people think of a millionaire playboy now. 108 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:39.000 I see. 109 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:46.000 You would think that they were either Epstein or ending up on Epstein Island. That's why we have a new Batman for a new generation. 110 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:56.000 I don't think. I don't think that Bruce Wayne would be that kind of billionaire playboy, really. I don't think. 111 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:03.000 So you don't think that. So you think Bill Gates would. 112 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:10.000 Well, no, I'm saying that you thought Bill Gates would. No, I'm saying Bruce Wayne. 113 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:11.000 Yeah. 114 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:19.000 That the, the Bruce Wayne that we've, that you have in your books that you've read about. 115 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:20.000 Yeah. 116 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:25.000 Yes. No, 117 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.000 Well, I mean, that's fair. 118 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:30.000 And I'm not, I'm not, I'm. 119 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.000 To your point is. 120 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.000 To your point? 121 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:42.000 I think my point is that that Bruce Wayne in the comics created by Bill Finger with an assist from Bob Kane. 122 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:43.000 Yeah. 123 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:53.000 Would have. Isn't it so nice that Bill Finger got Bob Kane not to draw Batman with that original weird red costume. 124 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:54.000 Very true. 125 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:45.000 Yeah. That he drew him like the first time. I'm certainly. Some people may not find this bit funny. I don't think it's meant to be. What I am trying to say, though, is I think the reason why they have a new Batman here is because people associate billionaires with things like Epstein island and randomly cutting budget items and murdering, you know, people across the globe because you don't understand the U.S. aid programs you're cutting. Yeah. Having 17 children with six, seven different people and then condemning others for, you know, needing food stamps to support their kids. I think that people associate billionaires with those qualities. 126 00:11:45.000 --> 00:12:39.000 I, and I'm not contesting that. I don't. I, I, I understand your point and I understand what you're saying. I think that the, I think what you're trying, the conclusion you're trying to draw based off of the, the image that you're seeing versus what you are using are two different things. But to that point, you're not wrong that there was a need for a different story, a different type of Bruce Wayne. Somebody that came from a different place and had not all those things, all those trappings, if you will. 127 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:57.000 And they can't do that with. They can only do that with Oliver Queen in the main book. Right. Like, how many times has Oliver Queen been rich and then been torn? Like in the main? Oliver Queen they can mess with because it's just a Green Arrow, but Bruce Wayne, they tend to. 128 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:58.000 Oh, yeah. 129 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.000 Not mess around with. 130 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.000 And. 131 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.000 Until now. 132 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:08.000 Until now. And it. And it leaves for a very interesting story to unfold. 133 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:26.000 Yeah. And on the COVID we've got a really cool cover. We've got Batman. Big Batman fighting. Big Batman fighting. It looks like Puck from Alpha Flight, 134 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.000 kind of sort of, but. 135 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.000 Pouch Wolverine. 136 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:36.000 Pouch Wolverine. Alfred. 137 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:44.000 Alfred Wein. Maybe it's. Oh, actually, it's a cross between. It's a Chimera. I know this word. 138 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:45.000 Oh, it's all right. 139 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:46.000 Chimera. 140 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.000 Okay. It's a. It's a. 141 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:54.000 Of Reed Richards, Wolverine, and Puck. 142 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.000 And all three put together to make. 143

00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.000 To make one white. The white side hair. 144 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:00.000 Okay. 145 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:13.000 And I see the Wolverine knife. No, it's. It's Alfred from the last issue, but he looks really small compared to Batman. Oh, yeah, It's. It's quite the. It's quite the difference. 146 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.000 Quite a change. 147 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:30.000 Yeah. So, anyway, this one is rated 13 plus, teens only. No children. No children with the knives and a gun on a cover. This would not have made it past the Comics Code Authority. 148 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.000 No, no, no, it would not have. 149 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.000 At least the COVID anyway. 150 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:36.000 Oh, yeah, Definitely not. 151 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:42.000 It won't be until issue six when it really won't make it past the Comics Code Authority. Do you agree with that statement? 152 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.000 I agree. 153 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:45.000 Hard agree. 154 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:46.000 Yes. 155 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:52.000 Those ears. Anyway, so a little preview of the future. Hey, Greg and I have been reading through. 156 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:53.000 Yeah. 157 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:53.000 All right. 158 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:54.000 Well, been reading. 159 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:06.000 We flip a page and we get an advertisement for Action Comics written by Mark Waid and Greg. Where's the Legion connection in the ad? 160 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:13.000 Where is it? Is it up there in the top? 161 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:23.000 Sure is. There's a Mon L up there. I don't know which version, but he's there. Guess what? I got to read this. 162 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:29.000 What did you get to read? Did you get to read your book finally? Yeah. Oh, are you happy? Yeah. 163 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:42.000 Yeah. You need to read it. I had. I had Palmer read it. Former guest of the podcast, Palmer Belham. Yeah, he liked it. He thought it was very good. Yeah, you need to read it. You need to stay up on that series because we're gonna have to cover it. 164 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:49.000 Okay. I suppose I can. I guess I. I can. I can do it just like we do. 165 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.000 You could go to your local comic shop. 166 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:51.000 Yeah, yeah. 167 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:52.000 And get an issue. 168 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.000 Oh, my goodness. It is current. It is now it is happening. 169 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:18.000 Yeah. Anyway, yeah, Monel was in. In the Phantom Zone because Superboy just leaves him there for a thousand years. But I don't know if that's Monel from the future or the past or the previous past or the previous future or the future yet to come. We don't really know because there's a whole new future. 170 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:23.000 A whole new future. A future waiting for you to enjoy. 171 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:32.000 And in the new feature, we have to figure out who killed RJ Brand. But right now we're not worried about that. We are worried about. 172 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.000 Wait, R.J. brand is dead again? 173 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:52.000 Yeah, again. Dead again. But right now we're worried about Bruce. We're worried about Bruce Wayne's dad. Yes, that'd be Dr. Wayne. I mean, is he a doctor or does he just have a master's degree? 174 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.000 He's a. He's a teacher. 175 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.000 Well, that doesn't mean you can't be a doctor. That's true. 176 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.000 That's true. 177 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.000 He. 178 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:05.000 I think he did have. I mean, I think it's a little ahead in the reading, but I believe. 179 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.000 I am a doctor and I was a teacher. 180 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:17.000 Yes, Dan, Yes, I do believe it's a little head in the reading. It doesn't say it in this book, I don't think, but it might be in book three, but. 181 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:18.000 Oh, sorry. 182 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:30.000 He had. He had gone through all his courses and was working his way to be a doctor, and they found out that baby Bruce was on the way, so he needed to. 183 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.000 Man of the people. 184 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:48.000 Yes, he needed to. He couldn't quite finish. He hadn't finished his schooling yet, so spoiling the future. I'm sorry. But you started to talk about it, so I figured I'd correct you because you were to just continue to go on and hammer the point. 185 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.000 Well, that's probably true. 186 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.000 So, yes. 187 00:17:51.000 --> 00:18:02.000 I don't know why you'd make that assumption that I would hammer something out I'm paying attention to. Like, I pulled up a list of powerful men named in the Epstein files. 188 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.000 Oh, yeah. 189 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:07.000 We could go through it. But I decided to not do that because. 190 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:08.000 Well, because it's. 191 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.000 I didn't want to hammer that point home. 192 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.000 Because you're. 193 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:12.000 You're. 194 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:27.000 Like I said, I. I'm not contesting your point. Your point is valid. There's many people that are. That are on that list. There's many people that you wouldn't expect to be there. And I just. I don't. 195 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.000 It's perception, my friend. Perception is reality. 196 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.000 So you believe that Bruce Wayne would have gone. 197 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:41.000 I don't know that if I believe Bruce Wayne would have gone, but I believe this generation would have believed that Bruce Wayne would have gone. 198 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:47.000 I see Oliver Queen for sure, really. 199 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:53.000 But he has to take down the whole island by himself with his arrows. 200 00:18:53.000

--> 00:19:00.000 He just would have shown up and then changed middle mid meal and then shooting people. 201 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:05.000 Oh, yeah. That's very much him with no plan at all. 202 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:12.000 He just. He just would have just. People would have just been trying to run to get away, and he's like, nope, sorry, you're here, you're dead, you're dead. 203 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.000 Or he'd hit him with that old boxing glove arrow. 204 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.000 Oh. 205 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.000 You know, really work well in this book. 206 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:19.000 Yeah. 207 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.000 This page is scary. I don't like is. 208 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.000 It is a very scary page. 209 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.000 It's page one if there's a page number on here. 210 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.000 Yeah. 211 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:56.000 Or it's page null because there are no page numbers, but it's. Yeah. So we. We last left off, sadly, with all those murdering people coming in to kill everybody at the zoo. And Thomas Wayne pushes his whole class inside of a. The bat room. The bat room. Is that what we call the bat exhibit? 212 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:57.000 The bat. 213 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:00.000 Yeah, the bat house. Bat house. 214 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:22.000 Yes, it's the bat house where you want to go. It's where the bats live. Because bats are crazy in the bat house. Ah, I'm channeling my inner prince. If Prince was singing a song about this book, 215 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000 I thought you were doing Brick House. 216 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.000 Well, yeah. 217 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.000 No, I mean changing it to Bat House. 218 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:40.000 Well, kind of, sort of, but, I mean, I could imagine Prince and Rick James doing a duet for young Bruce Wayne 219 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.000 on Epstein Island. 220 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.000 What? 221 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.000 On Epstein Island? 222 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:48.000 Oh, my God. No, not that Bruce Wayne. This Bruce Wayne. 223 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:53.000 Do you know who's saying brick house? 224 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:54.000 Rick James. 225 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:18.000 No, no, no. Evil. You'll never guess who. Well, in the future, when he wasn't in this group, he was dancing on the ceiling. Because he had a feeling. 226 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.000 Huh. 227 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:24.000 He also thinks Sunday mornings are really easy. 228 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.000 Really? 229 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:26.000 Yeah. 230 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:32.000 I'm just. I'm. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not putting these two things together. 231 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.000 And they celebrate good times. 232 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:43.000 I. I know, but I don't. I don't. I don't think this is. I. This can't be true. Huh? I don't think this is true. 233 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:44.000 Really? 234 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.000 I don't think this is true. 235 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.000 You don't think it's true? You're just gonna stay in denial? 236 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:52.000 No, I. I am also looking it up because I don't. 237 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:56.000 Well, Bruce Wayne is very sad right now because his dad is. 238 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.000 Oh, my God. Murder. Outside if I'm wrong. 239 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:05.000 And okay. And so 240 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:07.000 well. 241 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:14.000 Dan pop culture. Wait, hang on. Greg on pop culture in 99, Dan won. 242 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:16.000 Dan went out of a hundred times. 243 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:19.000 I'm gonna get it right when you don't. 244 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:21.000 Wow. Okay. 245 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:26.000 Where I was wrong, though, is easy was still with the Commodores, I believe not with Probably. 246 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:50.000 Yeah, I think that was. I think Lionel Rushie was with the Commodores when they sang Using Us in the Morning. But we both could be wrong on that. I. I am. I'm feeling wow for some reason. I don't know why. In my mind it was. I swear, the. The. The collider has changed a lot of things. 247 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.000 Well, here's the thing, too. Like, I'm avoiding this page because it's terrifying. 248 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.000 Well, then we'll flip the page so 249 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:59.000 you don't have to talk about it, basically. 250 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.000 And then we'll turn on the next page and look at that one. 251 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:07.000 D. All these bats start attacking. Bruce. Bruce Wayne. I don't like it. 252 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:14.000 They're all over him, and. And he's crying, and there's bats all over his face and all over his body, and they're climbing up on him, trying to crawl into his mouth. 253 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.000 Like that lady that woke up with a bat in her mouth. 254 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:27.000 I was trying to burrow and get into her, just, like, trying to push between her lips and into her teeth, and she woke up and grabbed the bat and threw it, and then she had to get a bunch of rabies shots, because that's what happens when you 255 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.000 have bats all over you. 256 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:31.000 True story. 257 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:32.000 Yeah. 258 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:33.000 So. 259 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:41.000 Wow. Well, we flipped a page. That's great, Greg. Thanks. Thanks for those images. I appreciate that. 260 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:45.000 Lock your windows. Make sure they don't get in, because bats. You know, bats. 261 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:47.000 The rest of the podcast, you know, 262 00:23:47.000 --> 00:24:00.000 bats can get into very small places, Dan. So if you have any. Any spots in your house that may seem like they're friendly for bats, and this is the time of year in which they do they look for places that are warm. 263

00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:05.000 Look, I don't want to gross everybody out, but I already had a tick on my ear this week. What? I. 264 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.000 How did you get a tick? We. 265 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.000 That's a good question. 266 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:14.000 What were you doing? Were you laying in the grass? Did Grimboar leave you behind? 267 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:22.000 I don't know. I was doing a lot of studying. I don't know how it's hit God in me, but anyway. 268 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:28.000 Wow, that's gross. That's like a. That's like a. A grass spider just keeps sucking the 269 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:33.000 blood out of you. Yeah, it Is gross. I did not like. No, I did not. I had to like, kind of edge 270 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:41.000 it out of the, Edge it out of your ear? Was it in your ear? Oh, oh, that would have been. 271 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:46.000 That's better than being. My ears are rather prominent, so it's probably an easy target. 272 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:47.000 Better than getting inside your ear. 273 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:49.000 Yeah, it was not inside my ear. 274 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.000 Did you check to make sure there's no other ones that have gotten inside? 275 00:24:52.000 --> 00:25:01.000 Oh, yes, I've checked. Once I had a tick on me, I checked every part of my body. 276 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:04.000 Like the time the leeches. 277 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:18.000 Yes, yes. Well, I don't Stand by me. Wil Wheaton should have won an Oscar. I still stand by the fact that Wil Whedon should have won an Oscar for that movie. 278 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.000 Oh, yeah, no joke. Totally. 279 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.000 How much he outshined the other three, too is just insane. 280 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:28.000 This is the best time of year to watch Stand By Me, like end of the summer. 281 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.000 It's a great film. 282 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:55.000 It's a, it's a, it's a really good one. I, I, I was supposed to go when they, they did their Seattle tour and then I got super sick and, and, and I, she was like, no, you're not going. You're running a fever and you can't even move. I'm just like, no, you're not going. You're not leaving the house. 283 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.000 You're fine. Like the Mariners. 284 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:00.000 Yeah, exactly. Losing. 285 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:05.000 Yeah, the, well, Batman is still fighting the folks here. 286 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:07.000 The, the animal party. The party animals. 287 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:24.000 Yeah, the party animals. You know, it's, it's really offensive that they would use the party animals here. I mean, I think most people think the party animals are a very entertaining part of banana ball. And, you know, here they just don't seem so friendly, you know? 288 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:28.000 They don't. Yeah, no, they're not, they're not the friendliest bunch. 289 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:36.000 I think they're just, just for an update for you, top of the fourth, Rangers, two Mariners. Nothing. 290 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:37.000 No. 291 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:47.000 Yeah, we are painful. We are after losing three of four to the second to worst team in baseball. The only worst team is also in our division. 292 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:48.000 Yeah. 293 00:26:48.000 --> 00:27:02.000 We are now down to the first place team in the division, the Mariners. By the way, at this date, basically have to win, I believe 17 out of 17 to make the playoffs. Is that 294 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:06.000 the big dumper is taking a dump on us. I know. 295 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.000 The big dumper's doing great right now. Oh, he's doing great right now. 296 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:10.000 He's, he was doing terrible before. 297 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:17.000 He's clear the. No, he's, he was, he's, he's doing Fantastic. You haven't kept up. He was player of the week. He. Oh, he's. He's now over 20 home runs. 298 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.000 He's out of his. 299 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:21.000 Actually. He. He actually has a chance to get to 30 home runs. 300 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:29.000 Well, because he was. He. He was. He was doing so bad the previous week. I just. I was. I. I. I wrote him off. 301 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:46.000 Well, what happened is, I think somebody alerted to. Alerted him to the fact that, you know, Dave Valley's career worst, you know, Mariners catcher season, and he has been on a tear to try to get that batting average over Dave Valley, because nobody wants to be below Dave Valley. 302 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.000 They don't want to be in the Valley of Valley. 303 00:27:48.000 --> 00:28:22.000 No, sorry. I've just lost most of the audience. We're going to go back to this podcast, and nobody knows who Dave Valli is. I will let people know that Dave Valley was so bad that a bar in Seattle was selling beer for the price of his batting average. And just to make fun of him and say, you can come here. You can get a discount, and let's say you could get a. You. You get a beer for under two bucks. So it was. 304 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:23.000 That's a. That's a deal. 305 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:42.000 Good times. Batman, however, is beating up the party animals in the aquarium. Yeah, they throw a bunch of knives at him. He's swinging around his cape thing again. His cowl thing. Cape. Cow. You said cape, right? 306 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.000 It's a. It's this. It's his cape. It's his cape. The cow. 307 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:50.000 I mean, this cape, by the way. I mean, this is Spawn's cape, right? 308 00:28:50.000 --> 00:29:03.000 Kind of. Yeah. It's a very Spawn like cape. It's. Yeah, it moves to what he needs it to be. It. It changes direction or shape as he needs it. Much like a bat's wings. 309 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:09.000 Daniel, I actually have to get out the actual book because the app is airing out. 310 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.000 Oh, no. 311

00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.000 Yeah. I have to see if it's missing a page or not. I can't tell. 312 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.000 Oh, no, it is. 313 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:34.000 Yeah. I'm missing this whole page here. It just has a picture of Alfred on it, but from the cartoon, which is weird. Oh, it says, oh, dear. Went wrong. Something went wrong with Paige. Retry below or contact customer support. But I downloaded this comic off the app, so I should have all of the pages, right? 314 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:35.000 You should. 315 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:45.000 That would. That would make sense. If dc, if DC Infinite was running a proper app, I would have all the pages. So we got to keep going because Greg's gonna get tired. 316 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:47.000 Because I am gonna get tired. 317 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:51.000 So I started early. I started my day early. 318 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.000 As I do always. 319 00:29:53.000 --> 00:30:02.000 Well, we've got, we've got some mean old party animals. They're yelling dead now. Awkward. Car view. 320 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:05.000 Car view. 321 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:15.000 And we've still got Alfred narrating all this, right? Yeah. So Alfred's still watching all this and not doing anything. 322 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:17.000 He's the watcher. 323 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:23.000 He is the watcher. He changes shape just like the watcher does in every episode, too. 324 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:28.000 The watcher. The watcher watches the Batman. He watches the Batman. 325 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:39.000 Okay, well, I should probably put this comic book back away, but here we go. Y' all can see I have the actual version of this. 326 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:42.000 He has the actual version, folks. 327 00:30:42.000 --> 00:31:00.000 Look at that. All right, so, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of party animal fighting. Batman ends up above everybody. Everybody's in the water. He throws some acid in the water. 328 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.000 Oh, no. He throws a thing into the water and it turns it into acid. 329 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.000 Oh, he throws concentrated vinegar. 330 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.000 Yes. 331 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:16.000 To turn salt water into hydrochloric acid. This 332 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:22.000 mister could tell you how it works, but I'm not Mr. Wizard, so I'm not even going to try. 333 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:29.000 I, I, I am aware that this Batman doesn't murder people. Correct. But he hurts them. 334 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:31.000 Oh, he hurts them real good. 335 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:44.000 Yeah. They're all running out, yelling, it's burns. It burns. Trying to strip off their clothes. Alfred gets a. Alfred's liking that. He goes, just goes, 336 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.000 jackass. 337 00:31:46.000 --> 00:32:29.000 Got him. And Alfred's research on him. Over the week, he finds out he has stash houses all over the city, he says, but from his movements, I've plotted on a line on

which the others might be located and if anything. And then Batman goes into the sewer, it looks like. And Alfred's like, you've got to be kidding me. Because he flips a page and his outline of all the safe places that Batman goes is in the shape of a bat across the city. Which is concerning because I don't know what you do with the middle of the city there. I guess you just leave the middle of the city unprotected. Yeah, you just say, forget that. 338 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:50.000 Well, you can go. You can get to the middle of the city from everywhere outside of the city. Or get to one of the places that you're trying to get to from the middle outside, it's easier. You know, traffic times. It's on a sewer grid. Dan. You see, if he's climbing through the sewers like a good Batman does. 339 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:51.000 Like a good Batman. 340 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:54.000 It's really easy. It's real easy. 341 00:32:54.000 --> 00:33:11.000 Well, we have some important things. Alfred points out that when he's not Batman his routine is monastically tight. As in, like. Like in. In sister act. 342 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:12.000 Okay. 343 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:24.000 Right, Monastically. Right, Monastically. Like in sister act. Like, that's. They get up. Remember she was really unhappy about getting up in the morning and having to eat. Their goal. And it was so. 344 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:30.000 Yes. And not liking how everything. But she liked to sing. 345 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:52.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was a big fan of singing. And then she got to lead the choir later. And, you know, it was all good. But then, you know, it really made. It just. It made the. You know, it just made Maggie Smith really unhappy. She thought she was losing control of the nuns and. 346 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.000 Yeah. 347 00:33:52.000 --> 00:34:40.000 Well, in this case, Batman feels like he's gonna lose control. He hides in the shadows. Apparently he works as construction crews and stuff. He goes to see his dad's killer, Joe Chill. So I guess Joe Chill is the killer now. Again. Again. So that hasn't changed or has changed or hasn't changed or has changed or hasn't changed throughout Bat history. He considers pushing back. Telling him that Batman has helped with my mission. He wants to. This is. This is Alfred narrating. He says that, in fact, his provocative provocation. Provocative. Provocative. I'm adding letters to this word. Provocations have helped me so. 348 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:41.000 Provocative. 349 00:34:41.000 --> 00:35:17.000 Form a new theory. Who sinus is what he's part of. And I think about making my case. So he's still doing this research. And while this is all happening, all of the. The mean party animals get a retreat and regroup message. So they are leaving, and Batman lights a building on fire to form a 350 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:24.000 big bat fire Bat face in the sky. It's a Batman in the sky. 351 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:37.000 And Alfred says, batman af. So that's. I didn't know you could be. I didn't know you could be Batman as. Even though nobody knows who Batman is. 352 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:43.000 But that's true. Do you think the party animals are still in the building? Batman just blew them up. 353 00:35:43.000 --> 00:36:06.000 I kind of hope so. But no, he. He doesn't kill people. Remember, he's made a. They've made a point. In this book, he hurts him real bad. Yeah, but they're. Yeah, they're very careful not to kill people. I mean, you can just kind of think of this Batman. Just think of him as, you know, Adam West. 354 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:07.000 Okay. 355 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.000 On a lot of steroids. 356 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:14.000 Okay. He's just out having a good time. 357 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.000 Yeah. During the day, of course. Yeah. He's having a good time. 358 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:18.000 Yeah. 359 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:24.000 He's pumping up. He's working construction jobs. He's salt of the earth, man of the people. 360 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:25.000 Yeah. 361 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:33.000 Adam West. And then now. Do you think this Batman will ever have a Robin? 362 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:49.000 Huh? Good question. I, you know, I mean, from what I'm seeing right now, I, I don't know if that's. If that's a possibility, but I can't rule it out. 363 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:55.000 Yeah, you can't rule it out because he could have a Robin. We just don't know. 364 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:57.000 Yeah, he could have a Robin. 365 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:01.000 We just don't know it's ever possible. A lot of Robins, a lot of. 366 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:03.000 There's always a lot of Robins down. 367 00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:07.000 Well, there's a lot of party animals. Maybe one of the party animals will be a Robin. 368 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.000 You don't know. 369 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:28.000 Well, we flip the page and we find out that Commissioner Gordon is in the hospital. The news is reporting. The Fox News in the Fox and Friends apparently is reporting that Batman is rising in the polls. 370 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:29.000 Man for mayor. 371 00:37:29.000 --> 00:38:08.000 We get Bullock and Commissioner Gordon's daughter. That would be Barbara visiting him in the hospital. And they are discussing their next. Not strategy, I guess. And Martha Wayne comes to see them, gives Barbara a big hug, says she's going to help out and. Yeah, that about it there. Yeah, good analysis. I think she gives him some pot. Or a cigarette. One of the two. 372 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:19.000 One of the two. I mean, they're hanging out in the hospital. One of the, you know, shouldn't. They shouldn't be smoking in the hospital one way or another. 373 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:36.000 And then we get back to a technique that you use that you actually use a lot. And I haven't been pointing out. There's these bat signs that were at the, at the display in the zoo, and they use the bat

signs as transitions in the story. You actually do this a lot in your storytelling. 374 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.000 Yeah. 375 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:43.000 We'll pick out a location and then use, like, signs or something from that location to continually, like, push the story forward. 376 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:44.000 Yeah. 377 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:50.000 And I like this technique. It's a. I don't like transitioning here in the middle of the page. 378 00:38:50.000 --> 00:39:00.000 It is kind of jarring. But I think to. In order to do what they're trying to do for the next page, it wouldn't needed to be this way, but. Yeah. 379 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:29.000 Yeah. Well, also too, I think they do a good job with it, the way they do it. Right. So it says bats can be social or solitary. All these bats pile on Bruce until he screams. And we get flipped back to the hospital scene of them smoking a cigarette or pot. We don't really know. I really want it to be a joint. If they're smoking in the middle of 380 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:35.000 the hospital, I'm thinking it's a cigarette because she Just throws it out the window. So, I mean, well, if it's legal, 381 00:39:35.000 --> 00:40:37.000 you know, it's legal. Neither of them are legal in the hospital, so there. Is that true. And, well, anyway, They. Commissioner Gordon asks how Bruce is, because I believe he was the one that found Bruce after the tragedy. Tragedy and tragedy. Martha, he asked how he is. And Martha says, you know, honestly, I don't know. Before that day, he was my little boy. He told me everything. Every dumb detail. His day, his whole inner life was mine to know. And he's like, now. Now I barely know him at all. And he gets his science fair medal. And she's like, his friends are here. Are here. And she's like, tell them to go away. He's like, you're sure? They're all outside. He's like, yeah. He's like, just leave me alone. He throws his science medal out the window. And then we get a bigger Bruce. Bigger, older Bruce in the back of him. 382 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:38.000 Bruce. 383 00:40:38.000 --> 00:41:00.000 And as I told you last week, because I foreshadowed things. Sorry. We get to a card game, his head bashed in, but they're all like, look at the cat dragged in. And we get a group of people from Crime Alley all playing together. And we get Whan back, Right? 384 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.000 Yeah. 385 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:07.000 I believe we get some Edward Nigma guy. 386 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.000 Yeah. 387 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:19.000 And we get an Oswald Cobblepot, if that's his name. We've just heard him as Aussie so far. Yeah. 388 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:22.000 Just call him Ozzy. 389 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:29.000 And we get a guy who they call a two face. I. 390 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:30.000 Yeah. 391 00:41:30.000 --> 00:42:27.000 And they're all bragging about how much they're putting in. And they're talking. Talking the. Talking the gossip there at the table. And they're teasing Bruce for not having enough money to play cards. Oswald's like, if you don't have 20, I've got a layaway program you can sign up for. Oh, and he gets hit with a chip and goes whack. All right, keep laughing. I'll shove my cubic foot up your. They're all kind of jiving with each other. And Bruce is bluffing into the game, I believe. Kind of. He has a 7 5. It looks like he's. He's doing okay. He's two pairs, but they're low pairs with two aces up on the table. I don't know if that's the best play. 392 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.000 That's what he's got. It's what he's got. 393 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:40.000 But more importantly, we find out that somebody got a hold of one of those. That'd be Bruce got a hold of one of those masks, the gorilla masks. 394 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:42.000 Oh, yes. 395 00:42:42.000 --> 00:44:10.000 And they're all like, what? And, boy, is the not Riddler really happy about getting this mask. Oh, yeah. He wants to go take it apart and. And play with it. And apparently has all the geographic information. And Eddie says, but these other chips, wow, this is actual premiere. And he says, more premiere than what you do. Bruce tells him, and he's like, whoa, they're a big guy. Them's fighting words, so I'll be borrowing this. And he notes. Bruce notes, high tech, heavily armed party animals must be moving in on everybody's territory. Ozzy. Ozzy's like, why the would I know Bruce? Just because my business is atypical, you think? He's like, relax, I was just asking if you're still in. And Ozzy's like, for what it's worth, the party animals aren't moving in on anything. Far as I can tell, these guys are just out to wr. Word is their man Roman, he kills everyone who meets and tries to make a deal. And yeah, I'm out. Oh, so Ozzy's out of the criminal game. That's cool. I see Eddie is in on the card game. Waylon's still running his business. And of course we've got Mr. Two Face who happens to be an attorney. 396 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:15.000 Huh. Ah, you know, they say about the. 397 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:28.000 Yeah. And this is actually. Actually a really good sequence here. I'm not doing it enough justice. There's a lot of text through these pages, but it's covering. It's. It's a lot of vamping, but it's doing a lot of background setup for the book. 398 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:52.000 And it. I mean, it really gives you a snapshot of who his friends became. You know, they all. They all grew up together, and then they all became these. These young men. And it's. It. It's interesting because it gives you an idea of who Bruce hangs around and. And he's not. He's not your typical Bruce Wayne. 399 00:44:52.000 --> 00:45:29.000 Well, it also goes on another theory that I will toss out here. But, you know, there's been. By the way, I. I need to cover this before I get into my theory here, but. Okay, Bruce shows three aces. He says four if we're playing with jokers. And he says, jokers are never welcome here, Bruce. Or that's

what somebody else says. Yeah, I don't know who. I think it's everybody. So apparently they had another friend. Let's go back and count their friends here. Oh, I think four of them out there, though I don't see a joker out There, so. 400 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:32.000 Oh, I think Selena's not there. 401 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:34.000 Selena is. We don't know Selena yet. 402 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:36.000 I. 403 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.000 We don't know Selena yet, do we? 404 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:44.000 I thought any. They said. Anyone hear from her lately? 405 00:45:44.000 --> 00:46:57.000 Oh, I missed that. Sorry. I was going back to the picture, though, of the four boys waiting outside. Sorry. Yeah, my bad. You are correct. We do hear about Selena. So we get a hint on Selena. We get a hint on the Joker and. Yeah. So all of that is happening. So it's good times. So that's. Yeah. And even better times as the Mariners go down four to zero. I did not want to play the Mariners. Just wanted to give you an update since we're broadcasting late. Bryce Miller out in the fourth. Ferrer in and gives up the run with the bases loaded. Or gives it two runs with the bases loaded that Bryce Miller loaded up for him. So there you go. That's where at. Just so everybody can be up to date on that, Mariners need to win 17 out of 17. They're down 4 to 0. So we won't be talking much baseball here in the future. Oh, I am going to the Rainiers tomorrow night. 406 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:58.000 Hey. All right. 407 00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:59.000 Yeah. 408 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:01.000 A team that can win. 409 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:02.000 Not that well. 410 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:05.000 Oh, okay. I was trying to be optimistic. 411 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.000 Dan Rainier's games are fun. It's AAA baseball. You gotta have a good time. 412 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:11.000 You. You should go to Aqua. 413 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:17.000 You gotta have a beer and talk to your friends. Why would I go all the way to Everett? 414 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:19.000 Because I hear they're great, too. 415 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:23.000 I mean, I'm sure it's a fun experience, but why would I go all the way to Everett? 416 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000 You should go see the Bananas. 417 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:28.000 I couldn't get Bananas tickets. They were. 418 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.000 That's why you got to go to Savannah. 419 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:37.000 I. I couldn't get Bananas tickets. The Ticketmaster sucks, and we haven't solved that problem. So I could not get tickets. 420 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:41.000 Yeah, it's true. They do. 421 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:44.000 Anyway. Well, 422 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.000 you're going to tell me your theory. You had a theory. 423 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.000 Oh, my theory. I apologize. I got lost on the Mariners. 424 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:51.000 One minute. Well, just joking. 425 00:47:51.000 --> 00:48:02.000 There's a fear, you know, there's

always that theory that, you know, it was in Killing Joke and has been around for a long time that Batman actually created all of the villains. Right? By being Batman. 426 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:08.000 So he made them. By. By becoming Batman. He. He made the villains. 427 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:26.000 Right. They don't evolve into the villains they are unless there's a Batman in the city to be their foil. Right, Right. Like Batman is there. So when Two Face goes. When he gets the acid thrown on him in the city and Goes crazy. If you're going to be evil, who do you fight? 428 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:28.000 Batman. 429 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:33.000 If you are the Joker, who are you trying. Who is your target? 430 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:34.000 Batman. 431 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:46.000 If you are the Riddler, who's had many different origin stories, but. And who's always trying to foil you? Batman. The Joker. Yeah. 432 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.000 So why don't they fight each other? 433 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:52.000 Dan, you have to see you as the best jokes. 434 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.000 I mean, they could. That would be interesting. 435 00:48:55.000 --> 00:49:37.000 Would it be? Anyway, but you know, there's. There's always that fan theory. And in this case. So if Batman, if they all know him. Right. If they all know Bruce instead of not know Bruce, and they all grew up with Bruce and he influenced them in that way, what would their outcomes be? And it apparently is a very different outcome. So I. At least for now, I mean, we don't know what's going to happen as they evolved, but maybe there's gonna be a turn. Maybe if he becomes Batman, they change and they become more evil to fight with him. I don't know. I mean, maybe. 436 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.000 Why would they want to fight with him? 437 00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:40.000 I don't know. 438 00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:44.000 They're his friends, Dan. Why would. Why would friends want to fight? That sounds like a terrible idea. 439 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:48.000 Well, where's Selena? 440 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:49.000 She's. She's on business. 441 00:49:49.000 --> 00:50:07.000 Yeah. Well, anyway, Batman infiltrates the Hill for mayor office. And is there any Alfred commentary you want to cover on this page? 442 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:10.000 It's all pretty much like outside of this Hill. 443 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:12.000 Guy is corrupt. 444 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:15.000 Yeah, that's pretty much it. 445 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:26.000 Okay. And he breaks in, hacks his computer and finds a file called arcm, 446 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:27.000 Ark 447 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:37.000 M. Which if you're reading through the books in there, there's a Batman, Absolute Batman, Arkham One shot that you could go and read. 448 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:38.000 Oh, yeah. 449 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:50.000 Later on. Yeah. Talk about it eventually, but not yet. And he opens it and he gets a big hello there. And it looks like this is King. Party animal. 450 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:51.000 Oh, yeah. 451 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:52.000 Roman. 452 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:57.000 Is that Roman or Cenosus or whatever his name is? I don't know. 453 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:04.000 Well, Roman is the head of the guys in Gotham, right? Okay, I don't know who Cenosus is. 454 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:08.000 I thought they were the same guy. And me, I don't know. 455 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.000 Well, he said I'm Roman. 456 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.000 Oh, okay. 457 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:32.000 Well, I could be confused. I probably am confused, let's be honest. But another guy knows he's there and shoots a rocket propelled grenade at Batman and he opens an elevator shaft and drops down and slides down on his boots. Which is kind of awesome if you think about it. 458 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:35.000 It is pretty cool. 459 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:42.000 And it's like he gets down to the bottom and there's Alfred. 460 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:43.000 Hey. 461 00:51:43.000 --> 00:52:31.000 He says, you're a good detective, kid, but I've learned some things about them. The party animals. They're not what they seem. And he's like, I've come to believe that we can help each other here. Just give me a chance to explain, please. He says, 30 seconds. He says, all right, thank you, but we need to get out of here. They're all over the place, and we have to get somewhere safe. Have a car hidden out back, unless you have one. And Bruce, Batman says, you're standing in it. And he grabs the steering wheel, and out comes half the building. What do you feel. How do you feel about the Batmobile, the Bat Dozer that thing is 462 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:32.000 after? 463 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:34.000 I don't know how that's getting through the city. I. 464 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:49.000 You know, I don't know either, but after reading the. The last Batman book, you know, It's. Batman likes big vehicles, 465 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:51.000 and this is a bigger, better Batman. 466 00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:56.000 It's a bigger, better Batman with a bigger, better batter vehicle. 467 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:57.000 It. 468 00:52:56.000 --> 00:53:04.000 You know, he. It's. It's a. I swear, this is the kind of thing that's on the other side of my house right now. Tearing up the ground. 469 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:06.000 Tearing up the. Yeah, yeah. 470 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.000 I mean, literally, there's two of them over there. 471 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:55.000 Well, a police car goes flying. Police are running. And we flip the page, and it goes completely away from the fight. And we see Bruce looking all sad, like my dog when she can't go outside and play. And we hear you lose something. And it says Selena. And she says, a little girl with a cat hoodie, whatever that comes from, comes up and says, get up. You're coming with me. And she has his. Has his medal. 472 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.000 Yeah. 473 00:53:57.000 -->

00:54:12.000 And. Yeah, that's. That's it. That's it. So, Greg, you are at issue eight. I'm at issue six. So we're getting a pretty good feel for the series. What are you thinking so far? 474 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:17.000 I would say I am as. DC wants me to be all in, Dan. I am all in. 475 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:18.000 You're all in? 476 00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:19.000 I am all in. 477 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:22.000 Well, now they want you to be next level, so. 478 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:31.000 Damn it, I'm all in. Next level. I'm. I'm. I'm leveling up with my all in this. I. 479 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:32.000 You are? 480 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:40.000 I. I honestly, I'm really enjoying the. The story so far. Obviously, as I've been reading. 481 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:41.000 I just. 482 00:54:40.000 --> 00:55:25.000 It's really. It's. It's one of those hard to put down stories, and I will probably blast through the whole entire. The run and, you know, be happy that I'm I've done it because it's a really, it's a good read. I like the way it changes in art. I like in some, in as the books go on. I like the way that, I mean, but as far as this book and the last book, it definitely is a good buildup. It's really getting you an idea of this Bruce and what he has gone through to become the Batman that he is. 483 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:34.000 Yeah. I really like how they're introducing the characters slowly, but it seems like slowly, but it's not. It's only two. It's two issues. 484 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:35.000 Yeah. 485 00:55:34.000 --> 00:57:19.000 I could almost argue against myself. Maybe they're introducing too many characters too quickly. But at least for sustainability, I'm trying to in my brain say, how many issues of this are we getting? Right? Are we getting 100? Are we getting 24? We don't know at this point. I don't think they know at this point because they don't know. They don't know it's going to be. I mean, when the second issue was written, that was probably, probably the first six. Right. Because that's the first full storyline. They didn't know it was going to be as successful as it was. I think they had an idea it was going to be successful. But you know, originally when this split off, right, with the, the two universes start or the second universe starts, I don't know that they knew, right. How long this would last. Right. Like how much time there was for this. I don't, you know, I've heard rumors that there was a two year run on it and we're past that now. Different rumors about, like, what the plans were. They were reintegrating. I know that after a couple years, right. In the dcko, you actually meet the, these characters in the mainline universe, but then they go back. So they're expanding books off of this now. So it's, it's, it's interesting because almost as a writer, I'm wondering like if originally Snyder was told or even. Well, Snyder probably came up with the idea, right. Like, you know, he's creating this universe. Hey, I'm

gonna go this long, right? And then we're reintegrating or we're holding it in, but then it became successful and then it's like, oh, oh, I 486 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:24.000 guess we're just going to keep this going because you have to. 487 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:41.000 And I, you know, I feel like he's creating enough interesting characters where it can keep doing that. But at the same time, I was kind of, it does seem kind of quick to introduce, but I guess There is friends, but. Yeah, they just introduced a lot. But they're world. World building, right? 488 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:42.000 Yeah, they're world building. 489 00:57:42.000 --> 00:58:12.000 Job. World building and bringing back, you know, doing the thing where you have the familiar. You know, Alfred's the familiar. But it's different, right? You know, killer Crocs there, but it's different, right? Yeah. Penguin's there, but it's different. And Selena's there. And. And it. But it's different. And, you know, there's. There's definitely mythos where they met as kids, so, you know, it's back again depending on which mythos you're in. 490 00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:13.000 Right? 491 00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:23.000 And, you know, it's interesting. And so, I mean, it's interesting to put a new spin on an old concept. Yeah, no, like you said, you can't put it down. 492 00:58:23.000 --> 00:59:14.000 Yeah, no, the way that they've done makes. Makes it interesting in a sense that it's. It's. You're saying, like you said, it's familiar. It's your same characters just in a different. In a different spin. And you're. You've now taken. Taken the Bruce Wayne that you've. You've known and you've underdogged him, and you've given him this. You know, he's had to before. He had everything, but then he. He traded that to. To work for it. And at this point in. In this story, he didn't have anything, but he. And he's had to work for everything. 493 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:15.000 Yeah. 494 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:27.000 So. And. And I. Yeah, I. Not trying to. I'm not gonna, like, jump. Jump too far, but, like, it. It is interesting, the choices that he makes. 495 00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:42.000 Well, and how far do we want to go back? Right, because, you know, original Batman was a concept character, right. And is a complete, you know, almost a complete ripoff of the shadow. Right? Is that a fair. 496 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:45.000 It's a fair. That's fair. 497 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:51.000 Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Batman knows, you know, like. Yeah, it's. 498 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:52.000 And. 499 00:59:52.000 --> 01:01:18.000 But later on. And in the very original Batman, he, you know, the original Batman shoots people and runs away. Right. Laughing. Yeah. But then they, you know, made it a kid's comic, and it evolves, and you evolve the different mythos, right? And, you know, I think there's room for all of these different Batman in dc, right? I think there's room for fun Batman. I think there's room for angry Batman. I think there's room for Grant Morrison Batman. I think there's room for Jeff loves Batman. Hush. Right? Like, I think there's room for this Batman, right? I Think there's room for the Batman you were just talking about, where he sort of gives it back. I think there's room for 1970s penthouse, Bruce Wayne, Batman. I, I think there's room for all of these different versions of Batman out there and to, you know, give people what they want or do what Mark Waid does with World's Finest with Superman and Batman and just write them from whatever era he wants to. Right. Depending on how he wants to use the story. I think there's room for all this. I like this, though, because it's giving you. It's not taking one of those old things. It's actually saying, here's this new thing. We're going to grab some elements of what we like from here, here, and here, but we're going to make a completely different character. 500 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:45.000 Yeah. And we're going to put it in a setting that you, that, that you inherently understand being Gotham and, you know, some of these landmarks that they're going to talk about. But we're changing it just enough to make it where you don't know what is going to come from this story, because we don't know how we're going to utilize. We know how we're going to utilize it, but you don't know how it's going to unfold. 501 01:01:45.000 --> 01:02:03.000 Yeah. Well. And the first three books they launch are Batman, Absolute Batman, Absolute Superman, and absolute Wonder Woman. Can you do this with Superman and Wonder Woman? 502 01:02:03.000 --> 01:04:00.000 I, I think you can probably do it with Wonder Woman. I think it's really hard with Superman. Yeah. And I, I, I, I. And my reasoning behind that is I think you can take Wonder Woman and do something different with her and put her situationally in a different situation and have her go through different struggles, if you will, and, and grow. But, and, and it can be told in a really interesting and captivating way. I haven't read the book yet, but it's definitely on my, my list to read because it's. If I'm liking this, I, I think I will like that with Superman and I want to be. I, I would love to be mistaken by my assumption, but I have a feeling that it's really hard to do that because, and I, and I say this because they have tried so many different ways of introducing Superman in so many different, like, we've gotten so many different Batman stories, but Batman has continually been similar with, with, with Superman. They have given you so many different types of Superman super men and super boys and super people that I don't, I think that the, the well overrunneth of, of super. And I don't know if a story out there that is new, fresh and vibrant is, is there. 503 01:04:00.000 --> 01:05:12.000 Well, you also, well, you also. Yeah, I, I mean you also have to consider not just the DC versions, but Omni Man, Homelander Supreme, My, my blanking

on Milestone Icon. You know, like you've had, you've had even, even, even Shazam for that or Captain Marvel for that matter in 40s. I mean, Superman's been replicated so many times. Batman's been replicated too. But I mean Superman's been. Derivatives of Superman exist all over the place. Right. It could be played out. Wonder Woman ends up in the absolute universe. She ends up being raised on the wild aisle of hell and put there by C. And it become is Diana Princess of Hell, as opposed to the mascara. So it's exactly you. You called you without knowing. You called exactly what they were going to do as opposed to this one where they have the same setting but a different circumstance. You called what they would do with Wonder Woman. They just took her and put her in a different setting, different setting and 504 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:45.000 make her do different stuff. And, and I'm sure that the story is going to play out interesting enough to, to make you want to read it. I, I imagine like, and with Superman, the only thing like, and I, I will say the, the story that I wanted to see more of and I, and I know this sounds, this sound I'm probably gonna get from, from the Internet, but I really enjoyed the movie Brightburn, which is like the inverse of a Superman where you, have you seen the movie, Dan? 505 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:47.000 No, I have no idea. 506 01:05:47.000 --> 01:06:54.000 The concept. Okay. So it essentially is the Superman story, but he's bad and he basically, he's a kid that he gets found by some people. They want to raise him. They think he's, you know, they want to take care of him and stuff like that. And his, he basically has this power set that like is, is very much like Superman's. And he, he's not necessarily bad. He just, he doesn't know how to use his powers in, in a good way necessarily because he's a, he is a preteen and he's going through all those emotions and stuff like that and he's acting out and he just starts killing people because that makes sense to him. And you know, what do you know? How do you fix that? You can't because got an overpowered preteen kid doing bad things and they, you know, they just do what they do and it's. I, I, they made one movie And I thought, like, oh man, it'd be interesting to see what continues to happen, but you already know what's going to happen. He's just going to continue to wreck havoc on, on things. 507 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:59.000 Or they could do what they did with Superboy prime in dc, give him a redemption arc. 508 01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:18.000 I don't think it's going to happen with this kid. He basically straight up murders this whole firebase. Not to spoil a movie that's been out for 10 years, but it was a, it was one of those things where it's like, man, this is, this is, I mean, super, super good. 509 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:41.000 Yeah, I mean, well, you know, there was that whole time that, you know, Superboy prime ripped Argent's arm off too. So. Yeah, well, I mean, basically they took all the crappy Titans characters from the mid to late 90s and he murdered all of them. So, you know, you had to get rid of those characters anyway. 510 01:07:41.000 --> 01:08:12.000 What if you. I mean, like, the only way I think like a, an interesting Superman story would be is where it's not really like Superman as you know him. It's a, it's a, it's, it's an earthling who goes. Who's like a space explorer who ends up on another planet accidentally and now is superpowered. That's an interesting Superman story. Now that's going to get taken. Trademark. Trademark. Trademark. 511 01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:13.000 Marrying. 512 01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:56.000 But, but I mean, that, that kind of story, that'd be interesting. That's a, that's, that's, that's a flip like where, you know, now you've got somebody that had no powers, but now, but they've grown up as a quote unquote good person. They've, you know, they've got all these, these things that have, you know, they've had to do all these like, mental and, and types of things to make, you know, like they've had to endure all these things to make them strong, you know, physically, mentally and everything. Now, now they become op'd and they're, they're put in a position where. What do you do given. Given this, this new power? 513 01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:59.000 That's a good question. I don't know. 514 01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:07.000 I. Yeah, right. I mean, now you. Now that's a story I'd write. Dc, come find me. Greg Smith, that amazing tweet. 515 01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:36.000 I can tell you though, the only thing I have to add to this is not much, but I can tell you if you look up Superboy prime In the top 15 search results, you will get a listicle from CBR rating the top 10 most evil moments of Superboy Prime. So as predicted. CBR comic book resources. Complete fucking waste of space on the Internet. 516 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:39.000 Just wait till they get that Junior Braves lineup for you. 517 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:45.000 We make. We make 10,000 listicles 518 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:46.000 their favorite. 519 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:51.000 Their favorite Junior Braves and Chastise you for running an ad blocker when you go to one of their rages. 520 01:09:51.000 --> 01:10:01.000 Their favorite Junior Braves character. Just shakes his head. 521 01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:17.000 I. Yeah. Cbr. Anyway, Dylan. Well, on that note. I don't care, Greg. I don't care. I will make enemies with the powerful that suck. God, they were once a great resource. 522 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:34.000 I know. Hey, hey, I am not contesting that either. I'm not contesting that. You know, I was going to say I was. I wanted to tell you something, and I think that you'll appreciate this. Dan. You know what I did when I wasn't feeling good the other day? You know what I watched? 523 01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:37.000 Read some listicles on cbr. 524 01:10:37.000 --> 01:10:40.000 No, I watched Lanterns. 525 01:10:40.000

--> 01:10:43.000 Yeah. I'm sorry. You're sorry? 526 01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:45.000 It was good. I enjoyed it. 527 01:10:45.000 --> 01:10:47.000 Did you watch the fourth episode yet? 528 01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:53.000 I did. 529 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:54.000 He. 530 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:56.000 He huffs and he puffs and he. 531 01:10:56.000 --> 01:11:02.000 I'm not going to spoil it for people on the show. Catch up and talk to us on the side. 532 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:06.000 Catch up and talk to us on the side. I'm enjoying the show. 533 01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:09.000 I was enjoying the show in the 534 01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:12.000 first two episodes, and then things. 535 01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:16.000 The third episode happened, and then the fourth episode happened. 536 01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:18.000 Yeah. 537 01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:20.000 And things change for me. 538 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:21.000 Things change for you. 539 01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:23.000 I'm no longer enjoying the show. 540 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:26.000 I see. 541 01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:30.000 I thought mystery that's going on, I guess. 542 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:31.000 Yeah. 543 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:32.000 Trying to be intentionally vague. 544 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:39.000 I. I tried to explain to my wife. I tried to explain to Anne about the show, and, you know, I was like, hey, I think you might like this. 545 01:11:39.000 --> 01:11:40.000 It's. It's a. 546 01:11:40.000 --> 01:12:02.000 It's a dramatic take, if you will, on. On a comic book series. There's. There's a lot of. There is some drama in it I think you would enjoy. Has one of the. The main actors is from Friday Night Lights, one of your favorite TV shows. And she was like, oh. And then she. Then she fell asleep. 547 01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:03.000 Yeah. 548 01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:11.000 And I continued to watch the show, but I was like, it. And I told her, you know, it was. It's very, very interesting. 549 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:14.000 Yeah. Well, no man escapes the Manhunters. 550 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:17.000 That's true. No man escapes the Manhunters. 551 01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:30.000 And if you play that card in the D.C. card game when we're playing, you have to say, no man escapes the Manhunters. Just like if you play Etrigan, you have to rhyme for your entire turn. 552 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:31.000 Really. 553 01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:33.000 That's my rule. House rules. 554 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:36.000 Wow. 555 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:38.000 But anyway, we should wrap this thing up. 556 01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:39.000 Yes. 557 01:12:39.000 --> 01:13:00.000 But that was. No, it was a good point. I wanted to ask about the absolute stuff for you, and. Yeah, I don't. I'm. I will watch episode five of Lanterns, but I will say episode one and two. I was like, yeah, outside of that opening scene in episode one, which I thought was unnecessary, and they bring it back again later. 558 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:01.000 Yeah. 559 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:11.000 Well, I mean, at least they used it, so. Yeah, it wasn't unnecessary because they used it. I do think there are some better ways, but I. That aside. 560 01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:15.000 People do weird things, man. Yeah. 561 01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:20.000 That aside. Yeah. I was really liking the first two episodes. Was really excited about the third episode 562 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:22.000 soundtrack on the third was. 563 01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:33.000 The soundtrack was good. Great. Third episode's okay. Fourth episode is. It's. It's an episode. 564 01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:37.000 Yeah. Well, I mean, I. I was. 565 01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:39.000 No man escapes the Manhunters. 566 01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:45.000 No man escapes the Manhunters. And hope I didn't mess up that tofu for you. 567 01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:51.000 Yeah, there we go. Well, on that note, we do have a couple of things to plug. Of course. 568 01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:52.000 There we go. Plug away. 569 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:55.000 If you want to escape the Manhunters. 570 01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:56.000 Yeah. 571 01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:57.000 Only one person to call. 572 01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:02.000 Only one person to call. Who's that? Who can help you escape the Manhunters, Dan? 573 01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:03.000 Well, you should know that. 574 01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:05.000 Is it Grimmore? 575 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:11.000 No, no. Grimbor would tie you up with the Manhunters. Oh, no, the opposite. 576 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:12.000 The opposite. 577 01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:18.000 No, I think if you want to escape the Manhunters because they're harassing you or ruining your life at your work or. 578 01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:20.000 Oh, man, those Manhunters. Terrible. 579 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:43.000 They are. I mean, they're like the worst bosses ever. The Guardians. I can't tell, but, yeah, Actually, if you have bosses like the Guardians and a hostile working environment is coming down your way, there is somebody you can call. He can choke out the other lawyers. He can teach you Jiu Jitsu. That's Jiu Jitsu, Lawyer Paul, at 253-656-4475. 580 01:14:43.000 --> 01:14:47.000 Oh, man. Say that number again, Dan. I didn't get a chance to write it down. 581 01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:51.000 Oh, that's 253-656-4475. 582 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:53.000 Now say it backwards. 583 01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:56.000 No, 584 01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:57.000 on your head. 585 01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:07.000 And, of course, our good friend Travis Webb has a Kickstarter coming out in the net within the next two years. 586 01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:13.000 Oh, man. It's coming, people. It's coming. Save that Kickstarter. What's that Kickstarter's title, Dan? 587 01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:18.000 Yeah, it's. Well, I understand it's called. 588 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:19.000 I don't know. 589 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:21.000 I didn't think of a title today. 590 01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:23.000 Let's Go Cyborgs

Fighting Manhunters. 591 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:28.000 No, let's go with. 592 01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:32.000 Let's go with Don't Eat Off Another Man's Grill. 593 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:46.000 No, these are all better than the titles I have. I. I was gonna go with An Alpha Flight of Cyborgs. That story. 594 01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:50.000 Oh, my. 595 01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:54.000 Just for you, Travis, An Alpha Flight of Cyborgs. A nemesis story. 596 01:15:54.000 --> 01:16:05.000 Is that. Is that like a. Like an Alpha flight? If. If you were having a com. If you had a comic book theme bar, would you serve all your. Your beer flights as an Alpha flight? 597 01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:23.000 Yes, I think I would. I think I would. But there would be no violators. No, it would be Northstar and Aurora and Sasquatch and Puck. 598 01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:24.000 Okay. 599 01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:32.000 No violators or vindicators. Sorry, I said violators instead of Vindicators. I. I cross mojoed. The Spawn Universe. 600 01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:38.000 Yeah, I was gonna say the universe. The Vindicator. They're similar, but different. Yeah. 601 01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:47.000 Yeah. So there we go. Well, so there's that. And then of course, you know, if you want to see Greg sometimes. 602 01:16:47.000 --> 01:16:48.000 Yeah. 603 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:49.000 Or Anne. 604 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:50.000 Yeah. 605 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:53.000 Or new employee person. 606 01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:55.000 I met the tall guy. 607 01:16:55.000 --> 01:17:01.000 The tall guy. Yeah. And definitely not the Squattro man, because the Squattro man will not be there. He. 608 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:09.000 You know, I hear good things. I hear. I hear that. That he might be making an appearance, folks. Squatch a man. 609 01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:10.000 Is that true? 610 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.000 It's too. 611 01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:15.000 Okay, well, good news. 612 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:16.000 So that. 613 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:24.000 That's. That's all good news. So you could meet up with some people. And that's. That's on Meeker street in Kent, Washington. Is that correct? 614 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:26.000 Metro Emporium. That's correct. 615 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:34.000 You can also follow them on Insta and Facebook. Yeah, they put out all sorts of content all the time. Sometimes you get to see Greg. 616 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:50.000 You do crazy talk. It is crazy talk. Sometimes my co workers at my day job have seen and they're like, oh, you, You. You're. You. You're on my. My Instagram. 617 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:54.000 Wow. Did you know that people are on social media these days? 618 01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:55.000 I know, it's crazy. 619 01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:58.000 Hey, kids. Greg might be on social media. 620 01:17:58.000 --> 01:18:01.000 It's. It's true. It is funny. 621 01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:02.000 Damn true. 622 01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:11.000 Oh, they're. They're so used to seeing me all dressed up at work and then. Then when they see me at the shop and in photos at the shop, I'm like. 623 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:12.000 They're like, what is happening? 624 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:17.000 They're like, oh, wow. Are not dressed up. 625 01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:19.000 I don't dress up all the time. 626 01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:20.000 Only for you. 627 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:27.000 While the plugs are out of the way, presumably we are reading the Crow for next week. 628 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:28.000 Presumably. Yes. 629 01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:34.000 Having a special guest. If we don't have that special guest, then we will be reading absolute Batman number three. 630 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:36.000 Number three. 631 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:42.000 And there we go. So that's it. And we will see you next time. Read this book. They're good books. 632 01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:50.000 It is good. Highly recommend.