22 Panels Comic Book Podcast Episode 162 Expecting to Fly

Episode 162 - Dec 15th, 2024
Expecting to Fly
1. News of Note
2. New Comic Series
3. 3 Amazing New Book
4. Great Responsibility - Expecting to Fly
5. 3 Books We Hope Will Be Spectacular

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Tyler Johnson: Hey, everybody, welcome back to 22 panels. This is the podcast that aims to examine, explore, and elevate the medium of comic books. I am Tyler, and I don't want to brag, but I'm going to go see Santa Claus today with my daughter. Tad. How are you.

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Tad Eggleston: Bye.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep, yep, I don't want to brag, but I'm going to see Santa.

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Tad Eggleston: Air quote is just Santa.

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Tyler Johnson: You know in.

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Tad Eggleston: Should be busy right now.

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Tyler Johnson: I know in Hardwick, Minnesota, the smallest small. That's where I was born. I was born in Laverne.

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Tad Eggleston: He's got time to go to Hardwick. Should he be making toys.

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Tyler Johnson: You did.

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Tad Eggleston: Checking his list right now.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, it's.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean. Why don't we see Santa in like July? That's his slow time.

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Tyler Johnson: That would be funny if like. That's when the Santa pictures were taken

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Tyler Johnson: to. As to, you know, perpetrate the myth that he's too busy at Christmas time.

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Tad Eggleston: Why?

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Tyler Johnson: That would be great.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean he should either be busy or he's a a horrible, horrible CEO, because, like

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Tad Eggleston: he's going off to play with kids while while he makes the elves do all the work.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, I guess as a teacher I I do know that the whole playing with kids things is kinda

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Tad Eggleston: kind of work, too.

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Tad Eggleston: So hold on.

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Tad Eggleston: Maybe he's on the Pr. Side these days.

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Tyler Johnson: Maybe

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Tyler Johnson: so I have been. I noticed your number. One news thing is what I've been experiencing.

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Tad Eggleston: Have most stores, have.

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Tyler Johnson: I'm going to bring it up. Diamond has been having some distribution issues last week. I didn't get my comics till this week this week. I don't have my comics yet, and I was told next week I won't have those on time, either.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: So and essentially it.

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Tad Eggleston: Kind of 2 things happened at once.

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Tad Eggleston: One is being well publicized, the other not as well.

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Tyler Johnson: Are they moving warehouses.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, no! They closed their Plattsburgh warehouse.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: According to them, they had to do faster than they expected, because they couldn't get month to month lease blah blah! But I'm sitting there going, but you knew your lease was coming up, and you hadn't secured the ability to get a month to month lease. So like

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Tad Eggleston: is that still just bad planning on your part.

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Tyler Johnson: This didn't come out of nowhere. Diamond.

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Tad Eggleston: But the other thing that has happened

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Tad Eggleston: is, they used to have drop locations.

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Tyler Johnson: Where? Okay?

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Tad Eggleston: And I don't know if this is true, for everywhere, but I imagine if they close the Chicago one

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Tad Eggleston: that that, like the chances of them having other ones aren't high

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Tad Eggleston: but, like my comic shop, didn't have their book shipped to the shop. They they had them shipped to the drop location, you know, a couple a number of the comic shops like Go to, and they would go in Wednesday morning to pick up their stuff and the advantage of the drop location is A, you can ship a lot more together.

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Tad Eggleston: B, you can set it up in a way where, like, if stuff is missing or

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Tad Eggleston: severely damaged, or whatnot there, there's more ability to offer recourse on the spot.

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Tyler Johnson: Sure, sure.

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Tad Eggleston: That's gone now.

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Tyler Johnson: So everything's being shipped.

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Tad Eggleston: And and they they didn't organize a clear transition from

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Tad Eggleston: getting rid of a warehouse. And I'm also going to remind people, and I haven't gone back to to like completely look through it. They laid off a lot of people during the pandemic, and I remember there being

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Tad Eggleston: they're being

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Tad Eggleston: stories and certainly stuff that I heard anecdotally from shops and whatnot that they were having trouble rehiring.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh!

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Tad Eggleston: So like there's a lot of self-inflicted

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Tad Eggleston: problems that diamonds going through right now.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: Certainly not helped by the fact that that they've lost exclusive contracts with a number of companies, and they now have competition and whatnot. But

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, if Diamond goes away, it's not good, because right now they're the only one of the distributors that really really gets comics.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: Though Lunar gives them a real run for their money.

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Tyler Johnson: Lunar's close. Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: But is Pr. H.

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Tad Eggleston: Starts to understand the the monthly comic industry better, and and if anybody else steps in, Diamond is going to be in trouble because they're

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Tad Eggleston: they don't have the market monopoly, and they're showing us that

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Tad Eggleston: Maybe they weren't as nimble and good at this as

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Tad Eggleston: some people gave them credit for.

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Tyler Johnson: Right? To begin with, yeah, exactly.

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Tad Eggleston: So and and unfortunately, you know, I mean, the biggest problem is that like we're, we're at a time where

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Tad Eggleston: monthly issues actually represent pretty small portion of the overall comics pie.

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Tyler Johnson: Right

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Tad Eggleston: And comic stores, but but a disproportionate amount of of the comic store pie.

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Tad Eggleston: So so Diamond, having trouble, winds up, hurting not the industry, but the small business, comic stores.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: So hopefully they get things sorted out, or if they don't, other people start

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Tad Eggleston: stepping up. And and I mean, I know that

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Tad Eggleston: like my shop. Guy has been incredibly loyal to Diamond.

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Tad Eggleston: But when they got rid of the drop shot

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Tad Eggleston: the the drop spots. He started ordering

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Tad Eggleston: most things that he could order elsewhere. He started ordering elsewhere.

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Tyler Johnson: It makes sense. I mean, I know it sucks because Diamond being the one stop shop that made it super easy.

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Tyler Johnson: Hold on! You gotta.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, because, among other things, one of the places that that lunar's done a little bit better. But but prh

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Tad Eggleston: isn't completely there, and they don't have

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Tad Eggleston: great integration with the point of sale systems that are already out there.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: So comic shops have to like. Figure out. Do I want to switch my point of sale system entirely? Do I want to strip it down because I don't have the data. Do I want to hand input a lot of data? You know.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, no, it?

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Tad Eggleston: So.

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Tyler Johnson: To take in.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, there's a lot of logistical stuff that happens. And and to a certain extent, that's that's how, having only one distributor

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Tad Eggleston: wasn't necessarily good for the industry. To begin with.

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Tyler Johnson: Right exactly, I mean, when Covid hit and Diamond was forced to shut down for the period of time, it crippled the industry. I mean.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: They they well, but it also.

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Tad Eggleston: Saved shop, I mean. See, it was a weird thing, though it was really bad for shops that were allowed to stay open. It was really good for shops that also had to shut down

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Tad Eggleston: because they didn't have to worry about losing customers because there wasn't another place for them to go.

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Tyler Johnson: True.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: You know.

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Tyler Johnson: So that way when the industry bounced back. Then the stores, some stores that were able to reopen were able to get.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, particularly in the comic business, where you know so much of your product. If you don't sell it in a week, there's a good chance that you're not selling it.

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Tad Eggleston: If stuff had.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Coming out.

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Tad Eggleston: they practically would have had to cancel their orders on it if they were allowed to. If it wasn't too late to cancel orders on. You know what I mean.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes, yes.

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Tad Eggleston: And and even if it wasn't

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Tad Eggleston: too late, they'd have to figure out, Okay, what do I cancel? What do I not cancel, you know, because I am a comic shop. I can't just not have 3 months worth of comics, but.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, I get it. Yeah, you can't.

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Tad Eggleston: You know it was. It was

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Tad Eggleston: right. There was. There were a lot of moving parts there, and and you know, I mean, there are ways in which the comics industry is very nimble, and there are other ways in which it's not

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: And that's like a whole other episode for another time.

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Tyler Johnson: Sure.

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Tyler Johnson: Let's get to our second piece of news, because this was huge.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah. And I, you know, we can actually segue from, you know, one of the other problematic things about

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Tad Eggleston: individual companies having outsized sway over an entire industry is is sometimes

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Tad Eggleston: People feel like the only avenue left is to work outside of the law.

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Tyler Johnson: We're talking about the united healthcare, CEO being assassinated.

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Tad Eggleston: Does he deserve to be called assassinated rather than murdered?

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Tyler Johnson: You're right, you're right.

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Tyler Johnson: He was murdered.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I mean, I guess it depends on your definition of assassinated if assassinated, is like

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Tad Eggleston: highly planned out and not heat of the moment. Crime, then, baby.

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Tad Eggleston: but if assassinated, is is something that's reserved for like presidents and whatnot. I don't know if I.

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Tyler Johnson: Didn't know.

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Tad Eggleston: Leak.

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Tyler Johnson: No, I was comfortable giving.

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Tyler Johnson: I was more like your 1st definition, because it yeah be.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, yeah, and that. And that's why I decided to. You know, I'm very. I'm very pedantic when it comes to.

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Tyler Johnson: Sure Terminology.

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Tad Eggleston: And whatnot. So so that that was what was going through my head. I went. Oh, you know, depending on how we're defining assassination. It's fair.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it wasn't a bar fight.

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Tyler Johnson: No, it was. It was very thought out. It had a purpose other than just kill him.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes, oh.

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Tad Eggleston: Media is not comfortable reporting on that purpose.

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Tyler Johnson: No, not at all. You haven't been able to, you know.

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Tyler Johnson: Unfortunately.

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Tyler Johnson: the best information that I'm getting as to that side of it is social media right? And finding.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean thankfully. I have a pretty well curated set of independent journalists, so I feel like I'm getting

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Tad Eggleston: you know. Fact checked blah blah information. But it you're right. It's not coming from the New York Times or the Washington Post, or Cnn. Or

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Tad Eggleston: I go back and forth on how I feel with how the Democratic party party is is treating it, where, where they're going.

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Tad Eggleston: You know

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Tad Eggleston: it's crime. It can't be the start of anything. You know, I'm sitting there going like that's the argument that

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Tad Eggleston: that Republicans use for. For why, we can't talk about gun control after mass shootings.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: I guess the only difference is that that there's a good chance that most mass shooting perpetrators didn't want us to talk about gun control.

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Tad Eggleston: But we're not talking about gun control here, either, and like he used a ghost gun.

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Tad Eggleston: a 3D printed gun.

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Tad Eggleston: yeah, no.

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Tad Eggleston: Also, you know, we we live in a world where we're talking about pardoning. January 6th rioters.

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Tyler Johnson: I know.

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Tad Eggleston: We live in a world where, in the same week that this happened

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Tad Eggleston: a 26 year old, ex-marine was acquitted of manslaughter for killing a schizophrenic man on a subway car.

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Tyler Johnson: Put him in a choke. Hold!

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: And yeah.

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Tyler Johnson: I haven't. I haven't heard the fine details on that like, how? How? Okay? Sorry to go off on a tangent here. How did that start? Did he just attack the man, or is the man being belligerent.

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Tad Eggleston: He says the man was being belligerent. There's there's. There's huge question as to whether the man was being belligerent, or whether he was being black and schizophrenic on a New York City subway train.

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Tyler Johnson: That's what I'm asking. Yeah, I'm like, I don't. I don't know what the motivation here was for the choke hold.

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Tyler Johnson: You know what I mean.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, he claims he felt he claims he felt threatened.

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Tad Eggleston: and the right has made him out to be a good Samaritan, proving that they have never read the Bible, because that's not what the Good Samaritan did.

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Tyler Johnson: No.

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Tad Eggleston: The the Good Samaritan was a parable about how non-christians, or in this case, non-jews people that we we look down upon because they have different beliefs than us sometimes are the ones that step up and and give us aid and comfort, not through violence, through offering us their homes and and feeding us, and and tending our wounds.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: It's like the.

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Tad Eggleston: Opposite of the Good Samaritan story. But.

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Tyler Johnson: I he was following me.

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Tad Eggleston: We live in.

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Tyler Johnson: Involuntary manslaughter.

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Tad Eggleston: The the right.

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Tad Eggleston: Even we live in a world where the right is like

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Tad Eggleston: supposed to exercise violence. And yeah, we condemn it on the left, but but we're not very good at it, and they won't condemn it at all. It's always well. No, they had a right to to.

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Tyler Johnson: Defend themselves.

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Tad Eggleston: You know we we have stand your ground laws, we have castle laws, and we have open carry laws, and we.

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Tyler Johnson: I just, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: And then.

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Tyler Johnson: Even.

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Tad Eggleston: Shocked. We're shocked when the person that gets killed isn't isn't somebody they don't like.

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Tyler Johnson: You know.

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Tyler Johnson: I'm just even in this case, like I know he was found not guilty, but like even the charge itself, was a joke. It was involuntary.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: I believe.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it was like a ridiculously low charge.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, we live in a world where? Where and don't get me wrong. I

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Tad Eggleston: cannot emphasize enough that I don't think prison is the right place for Kyle Rittenhouse, but the idea that he would get off

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Tad Eggleston: because it will get you the the Hellboy bundle, the Bprbd bundle, and the newest bundle which has the Bprd. And hellboy stuff that's been published since the Hellboy and Bprd. Bundles came out along with lobster Johnson and Abe Sapien.

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Tad Eggleston: From distillery. Last flight out of Wichita, from B. Claymore and Mack

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Tad Eggleston: I'm doing more distillery through red windows from RAM V. And Joelle Jones, one of the hottest writers in comics, RAM V. Teams up with artist extraordinaire, Joelle Jones, to tell a modern horror story that will leave you guessing until the bitter end, when ailing plutocrat, Harlan Roderick invites his young protege, Athel Lal, to live at Roderick Place in downtown Manhattan.

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Tad Eggleston: Harlan and his illness are inextricably connected to the high rise where secrets and monsters from both Harland and Othel's own lives lie behind each door.

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Tyler Johnson: Thunderbolts doom strike from Colin Kelly and Jackson, Lansing revolution.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, and the Loo.

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Tad Eggleston: But but neither Colin or Jackson are artists, so so.

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Tyler Johnson: Revolution or rebellion. Like lightning Doom took over the world, and Becky Barnes or and Bucky Barnes helped him do it

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Tyler Johnson: to atone for his unwitting role in Doom's triumph. Bucky assembles a team with one goal, burn it all down, and when Bucky's saboteurs, including black widow and songbird launch a no holds barred campaign to tear Doom's empire apart, doom decides to prove that revolution ends in blood. This will be in shops. February 19.th

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Tad Eggleston: it's a simple conceit. Time travel is only possible between the invention of the necessary functioning machinery. And the day those machines are shut off

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Tad Eggleston: in that finite sliver of space-time humanity schisms into those who defiantly refuse to look into the future, and and those who reap the benefits of doing so in shops. March 26.th

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Tyler Johnson: Let's see, what's next. 3 thieves is this mine?

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Tyler Johnson: as an acrobat in a traveling circus 14 year old orphan Dessa. Red flies through the air with ease. Dick Grayson. Anyone. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her Ragtag circus troop pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will find she will finally find her twin brother, or the mysterious man who snatched him away when they were just children.

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Tyler Johnson: Meanwhile, Topper, the circus juggler, recruits, Dessa and the circus Strongman Fisk for the job of robbing the royal treasury, hungry and desperate. Both agree, setting off a series of adventures that will take the 3 thieves from one end of the world to the other in search of Dessa's long lost brother.

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Tad Eggleston: the Gruverse's hapless, wandering minstrel, and his smart daughter Kaylee, roam the land, traveling from town to town. They sing tales of gru wherever they go, bringing laughter, joy, and lessons to the townsfolk, and hopefully some Coppins in their pockets, says your Aragones and Mark Avenir begin another epic, hilarious Gru series with colors by

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Tad Eggleston: Carrie stroken and letters by Stan Sakai collects groom, minstrel melodies, one to 4 in stores. April 23rd from dark horse comics.

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Tyler Johnson: Lou is a nurse at the most bizarre care center around the staff are not only human, and the staff are not entirely human, and the case is downright unearthly. Aliens, ghosts, superheroes, and more creatures plague its hallways as both doctors and patients, and the hospital itself seems to be somewhat self-aware.

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Tyler Johnson: powerful theme park cults and her own personal demons and trauma to meet this challenge and discover what secrets the gardens hold.

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Tyler Johnson: This is in shops. April 23rd from Dark Horse.

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Tad Eggleston: Peter Milligan and Raul Fernandez. It's the most important case of Detective

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Tad Eggleston: Will Profane's life solve the murder of Spud Coltrane. But this just isn't just any murder case. Coltrane is an author. The author famous for creating the fictional character, will profane. Will the death of his author being all too real.

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Tad Eggleston: Where does that leave his unwritten destiny discover the reality? Shattering mystery thriller from legendary writer.

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Tad Eggleston: Peter Milligan and veteran artist, Raul Fernandez, Walk the thin line between reality and fiction

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Tyler Johnson: I realized I forgot to pick a second graphic.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh!

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Tyler Johnson: Here.

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Tyler Johnson: I was gonna pick X factor, real quick.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, you know, we can pull up X factor really fast.

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Tad Eggleston: Watch me!

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Tyler Johnson: Alright. Let's see how fast Ted can do this. In the meantime everybody.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. In the meantime, be sure to check out our Patreon. We have a few different tiers there, something for everybody. If you want to help out the show, if you like. What you hear.

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Tad Eggleston: Give us money one of these days we'll get a Ko-fi going.

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Tad Eggleston: Comics aren't cheap. Man.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: We we freedom. So you don't have to. Oh, wait! No, no, we.

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Tyler Johnson: We read them.

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Tad Eggleston: So that you know which ones to read.

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Tyler Johnson: We read them, so you will also read them.

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Tyler Johnson: Tickets, maybe.

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Tad Eggleston: That's bad, though, because I grabbed X factor number 5. I didn't want X factor number 5.

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Tyler Johnson: No, we wanted the trade.

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Tad Eggleston: I want the trade. Oh.

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Tyler Johnson: That's weird.

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Tyler Johnson: Nope, no? Well.

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Tad Eggleston: Well just describe it, dude, you know I've been reading it.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes, X factor is one of those books that is just hilarious. Mark Wade is kicking it

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Tyler Johnson: kick it. Ass. I meant on X-men stuff in X factor. And the team is

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Tyler Johnson: a government ran agency of mutants, you know. That's.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, and and reality show.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, in reality. Show. Yup, it's good. It's funny.

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Tad Eggleston: There you go! There you go!

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Tyler Johnson: All right. Here we go from the ashes of Cohen Era. The mutant crack team of X factor as a new mutant arms race sweeps the globe. International governments are building their own armies of Homo superior soldiers, but only America's X factor has the most powerful.

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Tyler Johnson: most patriotic, most marketable mutant heroes to stem the tide and make the world safe for democracy. Joint angel, havoc, frenzy, feral pyro, and more as they go from one death defying mission to another who will die, who will fall in love, and who will be 1st to sell out

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Tyler Johnson: like comment and describe. To find out. This will be collecting X factor number one through 5.

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Tyler Johnson: You're also.

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Tad Eggleston: To like comment and subscribe to 22 panels. We won't complain.

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Tad Eggleston: We're we're okay with that.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: We're told that it helps us with something.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, oh, really.

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Tad Eggleston: That, like more listeners, means more money.

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Tad Eggleston: and I laugh like we make money. Thanks, mom, thanks, Andy.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yes, our our 2 patrons. We are so grateful, you guys

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Tyler Johnson: so those that are listening, please consider becoming a patron

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Tad Eggleston: Mean only because I mean, if you like it, if you think we're worth a comic month.

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Tad Eggleston: 5 bucks is a comic.

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Tyler Johnson: Here's what I want to point out.

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Tyler Johnson: Ted, you put out more content on this podcast than any other podcast that I have ever subscribed to, and people would be getting their money's worth a hundred times over. Subscribing to this podcast.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, yeah, but but we give it away for free and and like.

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Tyler Johnson: I know.

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Tad Eggleston: Get that too. But but when?

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Tyler Johnson: Saying is.

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Tad Eggleston: Is.

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Tyler Johnson: There's there.

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Tad Eggleston: Our hosting costs. You know, I mean, just the podcast itself costs us what.

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Tad Eggleston: Anywhere between 25, and 50 bucks a month.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: Actually, since I maintain a a professional zoom account for it.

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Tad Eggleston: probably between 25 and well, no, between 40 and and 75 bucks a month.

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Tyler Johnson: That's how much it.

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Tad Eggleston: Awesome.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, no, because it's it's minimum 25 for hosting. Right?

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Tyler Johnson: Okay, yes. Oh, you're sometimes go as high as 50 or 60 for hosting. If I record too much.

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Tad Eggleston: And it's, I think, 15 for the zoom.

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Tad Eggleston: So.

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Tyler Johnson: 15%.

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Tad Eggleston: 25 and 15 minimum of 40.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: But it's it's then like 2 extra dollars for every hour over

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Tad Eggleston: over 12 we do in a month, and

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Tad Eggleston: when was the last time we only did 12 h in a month. Has there ever been a time? We only did 12 h in a month.

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Tyler Johnson: No, and that's my point. You get so much content already for free like. Consider helping out because Tad does a ton of work.

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Tad Eggleston: Well. And and also I spend way.

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Tyler Johnson: Too much.

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Tad Eggleston: On Comics.

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Tyler Johnson: Excuse.

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Tad Eggleston: And and my wife will let me continue to do so even more if I could say, but, honey, I get paid for it.

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Tyler Johnson: Yup.

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Tyler Johnson: Well.

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Tyler Johnson: one of our patrons just caught up on his payment. So we have that money sitting sitting there.

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Tad Eggleston: Cool.

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Tyler Johnson: Anyway.

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Tad Eggleston: All right.

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Tyler Johnson: Get in. Let's get into some new books.

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Tad Eggleston: There are.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, no. And this probably because it's Christmas week, there really are no

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Tad Eggleston: significant final order. Cutoff books, certainly. No new.

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Tad Eggleston: you know. I mean, you're you're many good ongoing series have final order cutoffs this week. But

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Tad Eggleston: no, no, no! New books on on final order, cutoff this this coming week

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Tad Eggleston: of interest, but we still have some crowdfunding stuff, including a new one that started this week. So there's still little Nemo in

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Tad Eggleston: slumberland from Windsor, Mckay at studio Comics press through 1221. There's still the bone deluxe edition, part one, the valley from Jeff Smith and Cartoon books through 1228.

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Tad Eggleston: Heavy metal is on Kickstarter through 1229, and the awakened

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Tad Eggleston: From Alex. Zucker Matt, Michael Maurici, and Dean Cotz is on Zoop until

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Tad Eggleston: January 10.th That's the that's the new project that we haven't talked about before.

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Tad Eggleston: But looks really quite cool.

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Tad Eggleston: it's a noir superhero murder mystery. And and Segura is the one that brought us

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Tad Eggleston: alter ego and secret identity, and.

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Tyler Johnson: Yep.

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Tad Eggleston: And the legendary lynx, and Dick Tracy

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Tad Eggleston: and Michael Maurisi brings us the wonderful wonderful barbaric among many other things. So

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Tad Eggleston: this has, I think, real potential.

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Tad Eggleston: So,

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Tad Eggleston: yeah, it looks like it was published at some other point. And it's it's collected in trade paperback format for the 1st time. But yeah, I recommend it because I managed to miss it when it came out. But it's a powerhouse team.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, for sure.

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Tad Eggleston: Doing stuff that feels like exactly up their alley.

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Tad Eggleston: So check that out. Now.

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Tyler Johnson: And they're talking about.

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Tad Eggleston: Your 3 amazing books.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, well, it just so happened that these 3 amazing new books are the exact same ones that I thought would be spectacular last week.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Did you actually read them all? Or is this because your didn't get books? And you just copied and pasted.

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Tyler Johnson: Nope, this was a good week. This was a good week. I bought my all my books online this week, except for Batman. My store got lunar.

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Tad Eggleston: Well, Lunar's been shipping on time.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Yup.

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Tad Eggleston: That makes sense.

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Tyler Johnson: Don't work.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean DC. Is coming out on time.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tyler Johnson: yeah, that was great. So anyway, dull parts a lovesick tale number one from Luanna Bitchio was really cool. I like her artwork, Vecchio. It reminds me of Peach Momoco a little bit, but a little more poppy. It's a little less watercolory, a little more. Poppy colored. I like the pinks in it a lot.

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Tyler Johnson: This was fun! This was.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I meant to to read this one and didn't get to it. I I

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Tad Eggleston: I read a lovesick one shot. I haven't actually read the the lovesick, and I need to.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, me, too.

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Tad Eggleston: Interesting stuff.

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Tyler Johnson: I'm just diving into the lovesick world here. I'm gonna have to go back. But

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Tyler Johnson: second pick was batman. Dark patterns Dan Waters kind of, and Hayden Sherman killed it on this. I think this was a really fun fun batman story. I really love

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Tad Eggleston: Like mystery and horror thrown together. And like, yeah, this is really good.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. I don't read Batman ongoing, but I do pick up all of the batman.

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Tyler Johnson: Kind of what I would consider out of continuity books.

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Tyler Johnson: you know. And Batman and Robin Year one is next week. I'm really looking forward. I'll talk about that later. And then minor arcana number 4 from Jeff Lemire

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Tad Eggleston: Was amazing.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: I think I even called him good at comics on.

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Tyler Johnson: You did.

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Tad Eggleston: And he has, you know, for a book that's technically just him. He has an impressively sized team helping him out.

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Tyler Johnson: I know.

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Tad Eggleston: There's a letter, 2 designers, 3 editors.

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Tyler Johnson: You know I I can't fault him for that. He's so.

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Tad Eggleston: No, no, he should. But but I always like to see that sort of thing, and I like to try to give credit to to as many people as possible.

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Tad Eggleston: and they sometimes like debate. Do I, you know, should I be adding in the the digital

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Tad Eggleston: whatever specialist, because it feels like. That's just the person who gets it ready for digital publication. So it's like the person who

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Tad Eggleston: I assume, and and maybe at some point I need to ask to find out, because maybe they're doing. I assume the like. Their job is just to make certain that that it goes panel to panel properly.

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Tad Eggleston: and that the colors look right on a screen which isn't nothing

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Tad Eggleston: but that still feels more tech than comics.

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Tad Eggleston: You know what I mean.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Sometime we'll we'll have.

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Tyler Johnson: Ask.

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Tad Eggleston: One of our editors about that, and and maybe I'll wind up putting even longer lists, because on one side I'm also like if they get credited, I feel like I should credit them. But then the lists get really long. Yeah, it's hard.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, our our notes get huge.

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Tyler Johnson: anyway. What about you? What are 3 amazing new books.

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Tad Eggleston: Fml. Number 2 from Kelly Sudeconic, and David Lopez. Oh, my God!

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Tyler Johnson: Read it. But I'm I'm looking forward to it.

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Tad Eggleston: You know, it's essentially about like a

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, even even 2 issues in this may wind up qualifying for for the category. We just came up with the all too real

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Tyler Johnson: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: Or too real for comfort, I forget which we said, but.

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Tyler Johnson: Too close to her comfort. I don't know. But yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Something like that.

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Tyler Johnson: Basically yep.

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Tad Eggleston: Cause. It's like about a mom of a teenager and a middle schooler in like

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Tad Eggleston: a a a post pandemic, slash pandemic world.

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Tad Eggleston: You know, there's lots of masking going on. But there's also wildfires. So that could because of the smoke and and like.

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Tad Eggleston: Kids, punk, rocker moms juggling everything. Yeah, just.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: So real.

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Tyler Johnson: So good.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I just finished number one. I'm I'm behind. I just. I just bought them both together. Yeah, well.

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Tad Eggleston: One.

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Tyler Johnson: One's really fun.

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Tad Eggleston: Good. I mean, I this is. This is how my comics reading worked this week.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

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Tad Eggleston: Fml was the 1st book I read.

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Tad Eggleston: and then, before I read any other books, I read Fml. Number one, and then I read Fml. 2 again, and then I moved on to other reading.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, you had to read it, put it together with the old one, and then read it again.

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Tad Eggleston: Right right? Cause. That's how much I like. Enjoyed it.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it was all on Wednesday morning, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: And then I finally got to the city beneath her feet, from James Tynion and Elsa Chartier at distillery. And my God! Does Elsa kill it? I mean, it's a great story, too. I don't want to take anything away from from James, because I'm loving the premise. I'm loving, you know. It's it's like

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Tad Eggleston: like a high end hit girl that that their friends are more bookish type. And

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Tad Eggleston: yeah, I don't know more than that yet, because because it's issue one, and it sets it up really well. And.

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Tyler Johnson: I think her artwork with tiny and writing is works really well together.

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Tad Eggleston: It. It really does. But I mean her artwork works great with everybody. And she just keeps leveling up her game.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean. It's ridiculous to me how how good she was out of the gate, particularly given her history of not really having comics experience before. She made an incredible one.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: Right? Yeah, I'm just yeah. I was blown away.

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Tad Eggleston: And then there were a bunch of good books this week. So so this last spot was hard I liked through the boughs I liked shiver, suspense stories. I could have gone with minor arcana or batman dark patterns.

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Tad Eggleston: but I wound up, giving it to in bloom number one from Michael W. Conrad and John J. Pearson from Boom.

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Tad Eggleston: about a world where, like the plants, have have fully bloomed. So like.

535
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Tad Eggleston: you know, we have more bacteria and whatnot inside us than we have our own cells. So you know, some people have like plants that are now growing out of them.

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Tad Eggleston: And I don't know how much we'll find out about that. I'm certain that we will, because it also turns out that it's a murder mystery.

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Tad Eggleston: so like, I was interested particularly because I like both Michael Conrad and John J. Pearson just on the premise of like this world and whatnot. I hadn't really picked up that it was going to be a murder mystery, and when when it turned out that it was also like this police procedural murder mystery. I'm like, Oh, I'm so in. So in.

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Tyler Johnson: Nice.

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Tad Eggleston: And you know Pearson's art is just also ridiculous.

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Tad Eggleston: Yes, I'm gonna have to pick it up like I said, when when my comics come in right.

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Tyler Johnson: I'll go, because and here's the thing.

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Tyler Johnson: the ones that I buy, all these ones that I bought digitally, doll parts and minor arcana. I want those physically. So I'm gonna end up buying those next week in physical format as well.

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Tad Eggleston: I totally get it because I also buy.

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Tad Eggleston: I'm like I'm worse than you. I buy them digitally.

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Tyler Johnson: You are. Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Because I want to start reading before I can get to the comic shop.

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Tad Eggleston: Oh, but I often want to read them physically as well.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, normally, I can't do both. I can't afford both.

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Tad Eggleston: I probably shouldn't afford both, and I'm trying to cut back. But this is why we also need more patrons. More patrons means that I don't have to cut back, and I can continue giving you quality content.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: And or I'm just going to toss it out there. Any of the publishers want to just start sending me Pdfs.

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Tad Eggleston: I won't distribute. I will read more.

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Tyler Johnson: You will also.

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Tad Eggleston: And I'll never bad mouth your book. That's not what I do. I'll talk good about it if I like it, and if I don't like it. I just won't talk about it.

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Tyler Johnson: that's absolutely true. And the other thing is, if you send Ted Pdfs he will still buy the book when it comes out.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, for.

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Tad Eggleston: particularly if I wind up liking it. If I if I don't wind up buying the the floppies, I'll I'll wind up buying the hardcover, or off.

558
00:52:47.340 --> 00:52:47.680
Tyler Johnson: Yup!

559
00:52:47.680 --> 00:52:55.380
Tad Eggleston: Both. And yeah, yeah, no, you will. You will never lose money because you sent me a Pdf.

560
00:52:56.270 --> 00:53:08.729
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, so I'm I tried to do an inventory recently of all of my comic related material that's both floppies and trade paperbacks and graphic novels and manga.

561
00:53:08.950 --> 00:53:12.570
Tyler Johnson: And I'm in the 5,000 individual

562
00:53:12.990 --> 00:53:16.370
Tyler Johnson: Pieces range. How big is your collection? Do you know.

563
00:53:17.690 --> 00:53:24.539
Tad Eggleston: My, my just floppies is about that size, or big.

564
00:53:24.540 --> 00:53:25.660
Tyler Johnson: Is it? Okay?

565
00:53:25.850 --> 00:53:41.170
Tad Eggleston: And I don't have a good count of my physical trade paperbacks.

566
00:53:41.170 --> 00:53:42.280
Tyler Johnson: In your books. Yep.

567
00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:56.299
Tad Eggleston: Right? And, like my digital collection of floppies and trades, is also about that size.

568
00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:58.140
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's

569
00:53:58.610 --> 00:54:07.144
Tyler Johnson: the management. Just the management alone takes too much time, like like I am so far behind on filing my comic books away.

570
00:54:07.500 --> 00:54:08.220
Tad Eggleston: Aha!

571
00:54:08.220 --> 00:54:14.179
Tyler Johnson: It's it's my wife is so angry at me. No, she's not not not not outwardly, but, like, you know, plays.

572
00:54:14.180 --> 00:54:18.130
Tad Eggleston: We're not spending on booze or drugs.

573
00:54:18.620 --> 00:54:20.650
Tad Eggleston: Exactly gambling.

574
00:54:20.850 --> 00:54:23.920
Tad Eggleston: No, I come home at night.

575
00:54:24.110 --> 00:54:27.390
Tyler Johnson: Come home, come home at night, come home in the middle of the afternoon.

576
00:54:27.830 --> 00:54:30.710
Tad Eggleston: Right, right, so.

577
00:54:30.710 --> 00:54:41.559
Tyler Johnson: You're right, you're right. My! My upbringing was the opposite. My dad was just a spender. He! He blew it all kind like those things that you just described. That was my dad.

578
00:54:44.670 --> 00:54:45.580
Tyler Johnson: anyway.

579
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Tad Eggleston: Well

580
00:54:46.690 --> 00:54:53.230
Tad Eggleston: downside of that is is that not only are you spending it on on things that like don't have any

581
00:54:53.340 --> 00:54:59.570
Tad Eggleston: tangible value afterwards, and I'm not even talking about comics gaining.

582
00:55:00.510 --> 00:55:02.100
Tyler Johnson: Money, monetary value, but.

583
00:55:02.100 --> 00:55:10.629
Tad Eggleston: I'm talking about. I read it, and my son can read it, and my grandson could read it, and his son could read it. You know

584
00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:18.830
Tad Eggleston: there is, there is a long term non-monetary value.

585
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:22.370
Tad Eggleston: But like.

586
00:55:23.010 --> 00:55:34.549
Tad Eggleston: if you're spending it on booze and drugs there, there's often a short term negative value as well as you can be belligerent, or miss Work, or.

587
00:55:36.890 --> 00:55:43.780
Tyler Johnson: Let me ask you this, would you leave your collection to your son, or is that too much

588
00:55:43.910 --> 00:55:46.480
Tyler Johnson: of a hassle for him like? Is he not into it?

589
00:55:47.836 --> 00:55:57.600
Tad Eggleston: My son is into comics. But I when it, when the time comes to start, considering that it's gonna be a lot more of.

590
00:55:58.190 --> 00:56:02.429
Tad Eggleston: I figure out who is most interested in it.

591
00:56:03.050 --> 00:56:10.190
Tyler Johnson: Same. My! I asked my son, I said, would you want this stuff when I'm when I'm ready? When I'm gone? He's like, not really. And I'm like.

592
00:56:10.190 --> 00:56:11.670
Tyler Johnson: right right.

593
00:56:12.220 --> 00:56:22.739
Tad Eggleston: No, it'll you know, because I'm not a I don't really want it sold unless I decide that it's like the only thing of value. I have to give them

594
00:56:22.980 --> 00:56:24.060
Tad Eggleston: theme.

595
00:56:25.250 --> 00:56:44.939
Tad Eggleston: so you know, I would be more likely to be looking, you know, if if the kids or grandkids, or since I'm young enough now with grandkids, it's it's legit possible that there will be great grandkids starting to reach the age that they could say, No, I want those.

596
00:56:45.300 --> 00:56:54.909
Tad Eggleston: Sure, you know, if there's not interest among my family members, I'd probably start looking at libraries or

597
00:56:55.390 --> 00:57:01.399
Tad Eggleston: favorite comic shops or whatnot, and saying, Hey, do. Do you want this?

598
00:57:01.940 --> 00:57:07.000
Tad Eggleston: Yeah. Well, my grandma just did the exact same thing with me, she said. My grandfather is.

599
00:57:07.230 --> 00:57:23.579
Tyler Johnson: 80. Some. He's in the high eighties, and he is a collector of coins and stamps and things like that. So she asked me, you know. Would you want his collections? And I would. So I'm like, absolutely so. I may be inheriting a coin collection. That's pretty.

600
00:57:24.130 --> 00:57:24.500
Tad Eggleston: Cool.

601
00:57:24.500 --> 00:57:25.800
Tyler Johnson: Potential yeah.

602
00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:26.590
Tad Eggleston: Cool.

603
00:57:26.750 --> 00:57:30.189
Tyler Johnson: Can't wait to go through that. I I would think that would be really cool.

604
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:31.520
Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

605
00:57:31.710 --> 00:57:34.880
Tad Eggleston: So we should probably check in on one piece.

606
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:37.110
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I suppose we could check in.

607
00:57:37.110 --> 00:57:38.460
Tad Eggleston: I'm still ahead of you.

608
00:57:38.460 --> 00:57:41.250
Tyler Johnson: You are. Yeah, cause I I just can't seem to get

609
00:57:41.510 --> 00:57:43.920
Tyler Johnson: get going. I am moving forward.

610
00:57:44.170 --> 00:57:46.710
Tad Eggleston: I got through a whole volume this month.

611
00:57:46.710 --> 00:57:47.050
Tyler Johnson: This.

612
00:57:47.050 --> 00:57:47.580
Tad Eggleston: Week.

613
00:57:47.580 --> 00:57:48.250
Tyler Johnson: Yep, you did.

614
00:57:49.720 --> 00:57:50.230
Tyler Johnson: I read it.

615
00:57:50.230 --> 00:57:56.329
Tad Eggleston: And reached water. Did you reach water? 7. Yet when did? When? What chapter did they reach? Water? 7.

616
00:57:56.490 --> 00:57:58.479
Tyler Johnson: I'm gonna look. I got my ipad right here.

617
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:00.399
Tad Eggleston: Big shipbuilding island.

618
00:58:00.600 --> 00:58:01.830
Tyler Johnson: It's cool.

619
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Tyler Johnson: Okay.

620
00:58:03.780 --> 00:58:05.970
Tad Eggleston: Get around on, on like

621
00:58:12.240 --> 00:58:12.740
Tad Eggleston: big.

622
00:58:12.740 --> 00:58:13.750
Tad Eggleston: Go ahead! Go ahead!

623
00:58:13.910 --> 00:58:19.680
Tad Eggleston: Swimming aquatic lizards that have like seats on their back.

624
00:58:20.390 --> 00:58:22.129
Tyler Johnson: That's awesome. But

625
00:58:23.470 --> 00:58:30.056
Tyler Johnson: What I am doing, and I wish I wish I would read in volumes like you are. I'm reading in chapters

626
00:58:30.370 --> 00:58:36.150
Tad Eggleston: Reading in chapters, too, but if you pay attention to the chapters, it tells you, when you end a volume.

627
00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:42.650
Tyler Johnson: Yes, I understand that. But I'm not I I get the feeling like you are reading a bunch of chapters for.

628
00:58:42.650 --> 00:58:43.120
Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah.

629
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Tyler Johnson: Want to finish this volume, I will sit down and try very hard to yeah.

630
00:58:48.130 --> 00:58:52.530
Tyler Johnson: And I will sit down and read a chapter and then go do something else, and then read a chapter and.

631
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Tad Eggleston: I mean, I sometimes wind up doing that. But but what I try really hard is

632
00:58:59.730 --> 00:59:02.790
Tad Eggleston: starting essentially when we're done recording.

633
00:59:04.500 --> 00:59:07.640
Tad Eggleston: Or no later than sometime on Sunday.

634
00:59:08.330 --> 00:59:08.990
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

635
00:59:08.990 --> 00:59:10.560
Tad Eggleston: Read one piece

636
00:59:11.250 --> 00:59:16.630
Tad Eggleston: and have it be the only thing I read until I get to the end of a volume.

637
00:59:17.430 --> 00:59:23.379
Tyler Johnson: Okay, you. You put the. I should make it a priority right now. It's an afterthought.

638
00:59:24.040 --> 00:59:29.189
Tad Eggleston: I try really hard to have a volume read before Wednesday.

639
00:59:29.190 --> 00:59:29.900
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

640
00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:34.390
Tad Eggleston: You know some.

641
00:59:34.390 --> 00:59:34.770
Tyler Johnson: I'm still.

642
00:59:34.770 --> 00:59:43.300
Tad Eggleston: Start until Monday morning. Just because I need Sundays are often the day that I like read the stuff that I don't have to read for the podcast.

643
00:59:45.130 --> 00:59:45.710
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

644
00:59:45.710 --> 00:59:46.540
Tad Eggleston: Does that make sense?

645
00:59:46.540 --> 00:59:47.609
Tad Eggleston: It's like

646
00:59:47.610 --> 00:59:54.560
Tad Eggleston: like like comics that have been sitting around that I've been meaning to get to. But I haven't had an excuse to read for the podcast

647
00:59:54.770 --> 00:59:59.400
Tad Eggleston: I'll often read Saturday afternoons and Sunday.

648
00:59:59.690 --> 01:00:06.020
Tad Eggleston: and then starting Monday morning. It's generally okay. I got to read one piece, and then I got to try to read

649
01:00:07.029 --> 01:00:10.459
Tad Eggleston: whatever I'm reading for for great responsibility.

650
01:00:11.870 --> 01:00:14.959
Tyler Johnson: Yeah. Wednesday, Wednesdays. From Wednesday.

651
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:18.399
Tad Eggleston: Starting Wednesday. It's like new books through Friday.

652
01:00:18.520 --> 01:00:20.100
Tyler Johnson: Go go. Yep.

653
01:00:20.210 --> 01:00:27.629
Tyler Johnson: Wednesday through Saturday morning. Because I usually don't get to our great responsibility till later in the week.

654
01:00:28.020 --> 01:00:28.570
Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

655
01:00:28.850 --> 01:00:29.600
Tyler Johnson: I I just.

656
01:00:29.600 --> 01:00:31.539
Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I mean, sometimes they do it Friday night.

657
01:00:32.240 --> 01:00:39.240
Tad Eggleston: It depends. It depends on how much I mean, because again, I try to prioritize one piece at the beginning of the week.

658
01:00:41.330 --> 01:00:48.199
Tad Eggleston: I don't always succeed, because sometimes the reading from Saturday and Sunday carries over, and I'm really interested in whatever

659
01:00:48.420 --> 01:00:55.340
Tad Eggleston: whatever thing that I'm reading that doesn't have to go, or I play too much baseball on the playstation, or

660
01:00:55.540 --> 01:00:56.560
Tad Eggleston: whatever

661
01:00:58.390 --> 01:00:59.659
Tyler Johnson: What game are you playing?

662
01:01:01.980 --> 01:01:06.749
Tad Eggleston: I said, I play too much baseball on the Playstation.

663
01:01:06.930 --> 01:01:08.409
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, which baseball game.

664
01:01:08.410 --> 01:01:09.559
Tad Eggleston: Oh, the show!

665
01:01:10.230 --> 01:01:12.410
Tyler Johnson: Oh, the show. Okay, yeah. No. I hear.

666
01:01:12.410 --> 01:01:15.059
Tad Eggleston: Realized there were really multiple games at this point.

667
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:15.930
Tad Eggleston: I thought they.

668
01:01:15.930 --> 01:01:16.290
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

669
01:01:16.290 --> 01:01:16.990
Tad Eggleston: On it.

670
01:01:17.650 --> 01:01:19.459
Tyler Johnson: Oh, do they? I didn't know. I don't know.

671
01:01:20.190 --> 01:01:27.329
Tad Eggleston: I mean, I guess I guess there, there's at least one other one out there that just doesn't use any license stuff.

672
01:01:27.750 --> 01:01:34.109
Tad Eggleston: because Darren Bennett mentioned it on the baseball Podcast.

673
01:01:34.560 --> 01:01:34.950
Tyler Johnson: Yes.

674
01:01:34.950 --> 01:01:36.310
Tad Eggleston: Wow, so yeah.

675
01:01:36.310 --> 01:01:42.430
Tyler Johnson: Well, the kid, the kid that I tutor is graduating here next week.

676
01:01:43.040 --> 01:01:47.779
Tyler Johnson: Well, he's he'll graduate in May, but he's done with school. After after this semester.

677
01:01:47.780 --> 01:01:48.120
Tad Eggleston: Right.

678
01:01:48.912 --> 01:02:03.179
Tyler Johnson: so my tutoring time has opened up my time for more reading. I wanted to get into some gaming I bought in a few games recently on my PC. That I have not yet tried

679
01:02:03.470 --> 01:02:04.050
Tyler Johnson: so.

680
01:02:04.050 --> 01:02:06.920
Tad Eggleston: Oh, that totally reminds me.

681
01:02:09.560 --> 01:02:10.240
Tyler Johnson: What's that?

682
01:02:10.240 --> 01:02:19.789
Tad Eggleston: I. I was looking at my calendar and thinking that I'm free tomorrow. And I'm not because because we're playing die tomorrow but we haven't actually.

683
01:02:19.790 --> 01:02:20.490
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

684
01:02:21.690 --> 01:02:23.349
Tad Eggleston: Figure it out a time.

685
01:02:24.200 --> 01:02:27.110
Tyler Johnson: I have my daughter's Christmas program tomorrow.

686
01:02:27.740 --> 01:02:28.550
Tad Eggleston: Cool.

687
01:02:29.100 --> 01:02:31.129
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I don't know about cool, but

688
01:02:31.662 --> 01:02:33.900
Tyler Johnson: I'm excited to see her sing.

689
01:02:34.690 --> 01:02:39.189
Tyler Johnson: I just don't like sitting through the service. It's a the church Christmas program.

690
01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:45.519
Tyler Johnson: Anywho. Let's get on to our great responsibility.

691
01:02:45.930 --> 01:02:54.949
Tad Eggleston: Yeah, thank you. Shelly bond for for recommending expecting to fly by John Allison.

692
01:02:55.419 --> 01:02:58.560
Tad Eggleston: I haven't read enough, John Allison. I've read like.

693
01:02:58.560 --> 01:03:01.140
Tyler Johnson: I haven't written none. None for me, except this.

694
01:03:01.140 --> 01:03:16.520
Tad Eggleston: I've read like half of giant days, and I enjoy it, and and it's 1 of those where it's like I should just binge this, but I haven't managed to, and then, like I won't get back to it, and.

695
01:03:16.940 --> 01:03:18.730
Tyler Johnson: Looking at Giant D's right now on.

696
01:03:18.730 --> 01:03:27.470
Tad Eggleston: Yeah, it's it's cool. It's like, it's like a, it's like a. It's just like college life is fun.

697
01:03:28.514 --> 01:03:34.160
Tad Eggleston: I read the the great British bump off. That was fun.

698
01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:45.380
Tad Eggleston: The a lot of bad machinery! Well, no bad machinery is now on. Go comics.

699
01:03:46.025 --> 01:03:53.969
Tad Eggleston: So when I'm actually managing to read my my daily strips, which I haven't. In a couple of weeks. I get a daily

700
01:03:55.340 --> 01:04:03.350
Tad Eggleston: bad machinery strip but I haven't like read it straight through mystery by mystery.

701
01:04:03.460 --> 01:04:13.559
Tad Eggleston: like it's available and I haven't. I haven't done steeple. And I didn't know that some of this other stuff even existed so like it was really cool when

702
01:04:14.180 --> 01:04:20.270
Tad Eggleston: when shelly like, emphatically recommended something that I'd

703
01:04:20.790 --> 01:04:24.490
Tad Eggleston: knew the Creator, but didn't know the work.

704
01:04:25.270 --> 01:04:27.709
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, you hadn't heard of expecting to fly.

705
01:04:27.710 --> 01:04:28.550
Tad Eggleston: Right.

706
01:04:28.890 --> 01:04:29.310
Tyler Johnson: No.

707
01:04:30.310 --> 01:04:36.370
Tad Eggleston: So I mean it gives me this, this, this comfort level with the stuff already, but

708
01:04:37.380 --> 01:04:40.589
Tad Eggleston: but still this new avenue to explore.

709
01:04:41.690 --> 01:04:42.080
Tyler Johnson: Well.

710
01:04:42.080 --> 01:04:46.350
Tad Eggleston: And I really like these characters. I'm really hoping that that like.

711
01:04:47.180 --> 01:04:51.329
Tad Eggleston: because we're we're gonna jump into the 1st volume of

712
01:04:53.290 --> 01:04:54.420
Tyler Johnson: Scary, go-round.

713
01:04:54.810 --> 01:05:08.930
Tad Eggleston: Scary go round next week which involves these characters. I'm really hoping that that teacher has more of a story, because, you know, it turns out that he set up both of them to to kind of take care of each other.

714
01:05:09.650 --> 01:05:16.889
Tad Eggleston: You know you've got 2 main characters here. You've got god! I suck at names. Shelley Winters.

715
01:05:17.220 --> 01:05:22.960
Tad Eggleston: who, you know. It's pretty clear that that, like her best friend, recently committed suicide.

716
01:05:23.070 --> 01:05:29.110
Tad Eggleston: Either that or a sister, you know, somebody close to her has has committed suicide.

717
01:05:29.240 --> 01:05:34.870
Tad Eggleston: and she's coping with that, and then you have. What was the boy's name?

718
01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:36.150
Tyler Johnson: Ryan.

719
01:05:36.780 --> 01:05:38.650
Tad Eggleston: Okay, Ryan.

720
01:05:40.450 --> 01:05:59.390
Tad Eggleston: just has, like the most deadbeat of deadbeat dads. He's he's not only an alcoholic that will take him out drinking, and mind you take him out drinking mostly because he has the drinking money, you know. I mean, that's where we meet. Dad is when he shows up to ask Ryan if

721
01:05:59.780 --> 01:06:04.789
Tad Eggleston: his grandmother has given him his pocket money this month yet.

722
01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:09.810
Tad Eggleston: and when Ryan says Yes, he says, Great, come, buy me a drink.

723
01:06:09.980 --> 01:06:10.886
Tyler Johnson: Let's go.

724
01:06:11.870 --> 01:06:15.410
Tad Eggleston: He's of the 16 year old high Schooler.

725
01:06:20.230 --> 01:06:21.360
Tad Eggleston: so yeah.

726
01:06:21.770 --> 01:06:26.749
Tyler Johnson: It's great. What do you think of the minimalist artwork? You know? I mean, I think it's effective.

727
01:06:27.150 --> 01:06:28.360
Tad Eggleston: I like it a lot.

728
01:06:29.150 --> 01:06:30.897
Tyler Johnson: It's my

729
01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:38.807
Tyler Johnson: Favorite type of artwork is graphic design, and these covers are very graphic in nature.

730
01:06:39.240 --> 01:06:39.780
Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

731
01:06:39.930 --> 01:06:46.260
Tyler Johnson: With the the title, expecting to fly, looking like I don't know. Like series.

732
01:06:46.260 --> 01:06:47.120
Tyler Johnson: Oh, yeah, yeah.

733
01:06:47.120 --> 01:06:58.050
Tad Eggleston: Oh, yeah, no. Got Tetris going on on the overall cover, but the expecting to fly is, I mean, it's very set up like an eighties. Marvel comic.

734
01:06:59.439 --> 01:07:00.200
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

735
01:07:00.490 --> 01:07:07.730
Tad Eggleston: One in a 2 issue Limited series, and and the the box up in the corner, with the character faces.

736
01:07:07.730 --> 01:07:19.070
Tyler Johnson: Love that. Yeah, I love the aesthetic of the whole thing. I just you know, I was really focused on on the artwork a lot, because you know, that's.

737
01:07:19.970 --> 01:07:23.480
Tad Eggleston: Well, I mean, it's it's more proof that

738
01:07:25.540 --> 01:07:28.900
Tad Eggleston: I mean. And I'm pretty certain this is early digital art.

739
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.440
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, this is 2,016.

740
01:07:34.738 --> 01:07:36.849
Tad Eggleston: Was it that way?

741
01:07:37.420 --> 01:07:40.160
Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I don't know. Actually.

742
01:07:40.770 --> 01:07:43.439
Tad Eggleston: It felt like it came out earlier than that.

743
01:07:46.060 --> 01:07:47.670
Tad Eggleston: 2,014.

744
01:07:47.670 --> 01:07:50.469
Tyler Johnson: Well, 14. Okay. Yeah.

745
01:07:54.750 --> 01:08:02.842
Tad Eggleston: But I mean, it reminds me some of. And this is another thing, that at some point we should we should actually look at

746
01:08:04.060 --> 01:08:11.499
Tad Eggleston: possibly doing something with, because I know we both both read it, but it reminds me of of questionable, questionable content.

747
01:08:12.190 --> 01:08:12.730
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

748
01:08:13.300 --> 01:08:15.700
Tad Eggleston: In terms of in terms of the style.

749
01:08:16.774 --> 01:08:19.120
Tad Eggleston: Yup, you know.

750
01:08:19.120 --> 01:08:19.460
Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

751
01:08:19.460 --> 01:08:20.350
Tad Eggleston: It's.

752
01:08:20.350 --> 01:08:20.930
Tyler Johnson: Earlier.

753
01:08:20.930 --> 01:08:27.110
Tad Eggleston: Between an old newspaper strip and and comics, you know.

754
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Tad Eggleston: Well, newer comics I meant.

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Tad Eggleston: you know. It keeps a simple style, but there's a lot of expression.

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Tyler Johnson: There's a lot of body language.

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Tad Eggleston: He uses his panels really? Well, I mean, I love this, this, this opening panel where both

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Tad Eggleston: Ryan and what's his best friend's name.

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Tad Eggleston: Jonesy, are are coming out of the house. But actually, if you, if you, if you look at it, you see them both getting up in the morning

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Tad Eggleston: getting ready.

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Tad Eggleston: you know Ryan's mom tying the tie on, and Ryan finding time to play guitar, Jonesy actually giving his mom a kiss. Goodbye, and then meeting outside to walk to school.

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Tad Eggleston: You know. I love little things like like the when when

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Tad Eggleston: shelly gets dropped off first.st You see that the the Suv like has mud spattered low.

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Tad Eggleston: and then then it's got the Winters Construction Company on the tire cover. So like, if you're paying attention. That's like your 1st 1st tip off that, like her, her family are.

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Tad Eggleston: you know, actual construction.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes.

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Tad Eggleston: I'm still just so curious to find out more about Mr. Not

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Tad Eggleston: because he doesn't feel like a teacher.

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Tad Eggleston: He it, but he acts like one, but he also acts like like he could be a spy. Master.

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Tad Eggleston: Right? You know, it's like, is just taking care of these kids, or is he preparing them for their higher calling?

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, he's got a Professor X type vibe to him.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: He's like bringing in these kids, you know.

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Tad Eggleston: I love the the top 10 lists.

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Tad Eggleston: You know. I wish we could read particularly her list better.

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Tad Eggleston: Cause it's got the. You can see most of the list of what the actual top 10 is, but you can only see a little bit of her list.

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Tad Eggleston: but enough to know. Hey, that's some good stuff.

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Tad Eggleston: I love the way

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Tad Eggleston: his sister makes fun of him.

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Tad Eggleston: I actually love both of their relationships with their sisters, but but, like

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Tad Eggleston: his sister, his sister with the is every song you write a metallica song with words about a girl.

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Tyler Johnson: This was just a good intervening fun comic with a lot of.

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Tad Eggleston: Layers. So so you know, it's it's not. It's a it's a breezy, easy read.

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Tad Eggleston: but not because nothing's there.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I will say that it was not a hard read, but yet it wasn't like a yes, it's an all ages book, but it wasn't like a kid book. It didn't feel.

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Tad Eggleston: Right.

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Tyler Johnson: Oh, there's.

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Tad Eggleston: There's a lot of layers, I mean, I'm looking right now at like the party where you know the girl that he's obsessed with is like hitting on him hard, but he's so worried about

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Tad Eggleston: shelly that you know

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Tad Eggleston: it ends with. You know I'm not nervous. It's just there's a situation I meant to stay on, or to be staying on top of, and she's like you're more than welcome to get on top of this.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, that's funny.

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Tad Eggleston: If only people talk.

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Tyler Johnson: Like that in real.

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Tad Eggleston: It's like that. Was your dream right there? That was your dream. That was what you were writing dumb songs about, and

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Tad Eggleston: you wanted.

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Tad Eggleston: You're walking away.

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Tyler Johnson: It's funny. Yeah, it was really good. I cannot wait to read.

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Tad Eggleston: It was great, great fun.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah, I'm looking forward to reading more. I

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Tad Eggleston: I can't even promise that. I'll only read the part that we're we're meant to.

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Tyler Johnson: Reading. Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: I am.

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Tad Eggleston: I'm feeling like I could wind up trying to read most of John Allison over Christmas.

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Tyler Johnson: I can see that.

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Tad Eggleston: Cause cause. It's

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Tad Eggleston: it's good and quirky stuff, and I mean I've read again. It's not that I have no experience with him, but I don't think I've given him his due before.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, among other things, you know, he clearly knew this was a 2 issue series off the bat, and I guess part of that is, it was a webcomic that, like had been written before it got put together into a series, but, like.

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Tad Eggleston: It's got interesting beginning and end points.

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Tyler Johnson: Yes, it does. Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Know.

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Tyler Johnson: It's.

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Tad Eggleston: And they actually work really well, it is actually a complete story. But it also feels like you're coming in in the middle and and

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Tad Eggleston: leaving at the beginning, even though you're moving forward in time.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay, I could. I could see that.

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Tad Eggleston: Makes sense feels like you're coming in. It feels like you're coming in in the middle of some other story that I have no idea whether it even exists, and then, leaving

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Tad Eggleston: at the beginning of the next story.

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Tyler Johnson: True. Yeah, I get that.

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Tad Eggleston: Know.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: yeah, it was. It was. Yeah, it was. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised at all. Shelly bond is like.

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Tad Eggleston: it's not that not just that she, like has great taste in comics like she's 1 of those people that you can like quantify that she has exceptional taste in comics.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, she has objectionable taste.

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Tad Eggleston: She? Well, she has objectifiable taste.

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Tyler Johnson: That's what I meant.

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Tyler Johnson: Not not strictly subject, not injectable. Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Right. Right? You look at the books that she has. She has like

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Tad Eggleston: shepherded into existence, and as they're very good, yes.

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Tad Eggleston: Agreed.

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Tad Eggleston: And I'm not just talking the ones that she created as like a writer, and but like the ones that she was the editor that that found them, and and said, Hey, we should publish this, and you know

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Tad Eggleston: I mean again. I don't think

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Tad Eggleston: one can overstate the influence that Karen Berger and Shelley Bond, and and a lot of the other

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Tad Eggleston: early vertigo editors have had on the industry as a whole.

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Tyler Johnson: Right.

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Tad Eggleston: Not just in terms of what they did at vertigo, but what they've done since.

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Tad Eggleston: I mean, Tom Pyre was at vertigo. He's 1 of the driving forces behind. Ahoy! Comics. You know what I mean. I mean, so much of.

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Tad Eggleston: if we've been doing this podcast 20 years ago, like, we would have been the ones finding

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Tad Eggleston: vertigo and and milestone, or I guess, 30 years ago. God, we're old. We would have been the ones finding vertigo and milestone, and being on top of Dan Klaus and and Chris Ware, and love and rockets and whatnot, but we wouldn't have felt like

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Tad Eggleston: there wasn't enough time to read everything that was good.

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Tyler Johnson: Correct.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Because it wasn't at that level yet.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, I agree, I agree, yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: So. So yeah, thank you. Shelly.

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Tad Eggleston: If you're listening.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, hopefully should be a problem.

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Tad Eggleston: Not because you're busy as fuck.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: I'll probably probably write you an email and thank you.

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Tad Eggleston: So anyway, let's

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Tad Eggleston: let's get into to next week and then then get into starting our days because we're running longer than our normal.

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Tyler Johnson: I know I got.

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Tad Eggleston: About a weekly episode.

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Tyler Johnson: I gotta be out of here in an hour.

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Tad Eggleston: You. You gotta go meet with Santa. I gotta have breakfast.

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Tyler Johnson: Rest. I know I gotta be dressed.

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Tad Eggleston: Finish up show notes. Blah blah, you know. Stuff.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, all right. What? What 3 books do you hope will be spectacular next week?

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Tad Eggleston: I'm cheating again, because Chris Chris Cantwell has one series ending and one series starting altogether at DC. And they're

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Tad Eggleston: both so fucking good looking, and and there's so many other things that are coming out next week that I'm excited for. Sorry Tom. Wonder Woman somehow didn't make the list. It will still be the 1st thing that I read. Sorry, Chris. Wonder woman does actually come first, st even though your books will come first.st Any other time they come out.

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Tad Eggleston: I think the only thing that ever comes before wonder woman is saga.

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Tad Eggleston: and the only things that ever come before Cantwell are

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Tad Eggleston: saga and wonder, woman that that's like, how.

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Tyler Johnson: That's your order.

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Tad Eggleston: Just like etched in stone in terms of reading.

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Tad Eggleston: That's funny.

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Tad Eggleston: but the ones that I'm most hoping will be spectacular. The most confident will be spectacular, are like I said. Chris's starting challenge is the unknown with Number one with Sean Isaacs and wrapping up plastic man no more. With Alex Linz.

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Tad Eggleston: We also have the next horizon experiment

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Tad Eggleston: from Jay Holton and Michael Lee Harris, motherfucking monsters, and

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Tad Eggleston: Phil Hound is wrapping up, sir, and I almost feel bad for putting that in the 3 spot rather than the one spot, because it's been amazing. And I'm really looking forward to seeing how it wraps.

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Tad Eggleston: there's a bunch of good graphic novels coming out this week, too, ever frost from Ryan, Lindsey and Sam Sammy Cavella. How could you? From Ren's

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Tad Eggleston: drap in the Garden of earthly Delights, from rich Tommaso, Monday from Andy Hartzell, and war on Gaza, from Joe Sacco.

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Tad Eggleston: Should be one of my early reads as well,

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Tad Eggleston: You're getting into, I think, a bunch of the books that I didn't get to, so I will quickly say that Tom has both Wonder Woman and Jenny Sparks next week. Joe Illidge has milestone Universe shadow Cabinet next week.

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Tad Eggleston: RAM V's got new gods number one next week. Alex Segura's got the question all along the watchtower next week. There's a Space Usagi next week. There's a daredevil. Next week. There's a Godzilla

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Tad Eggleston: monster piece theater next week a gru minstrel melodies next week.

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Tad Eggleston: You didn't even put absolute batman number 3 on your list next week. Yeah, no.

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Tyler Johnson: I was gonna talk about.

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Tad Eggleston: Stuff next week.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah. So black hammer number, black hammer. Spiral city number 2. I forgot what city? Number 2 comes out very excited about that from Jeff Lemire and Teddy Christiansen from Dark horse

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Tyler Johnson: Gerard ways continuing on with paranoid gardens, number 6, along with Sean Simon and Chris Weston from Dark horse, and this number 3 spot was tough

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Tyler Johnson: batman and Robin year one number 3 from Mark Wade. Or was it going to be absolute batman? Number 3 I went with Batman and Robin from Mark Wade

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Tyler Johnson: near are like a near perfect team.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: Their daredevil run. Their black widow run like

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Tad Eggleston: they get together. It's it's amazing.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: So.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, this is a good series. I'm really looking forward to it, and I can't wait to see

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Tyler Johnson: what I get shorted on.

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Tad Eggleston: Lots of great books to read just in time for Christmas break.

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Tyler Johnson: Yeah, yeah.

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Tad Eggleston: So.

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Tyler Johnson: Cool, cool. Cool again, guys. Thanks for listening if you like. What.

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Tad Eggleston: Cheers.

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Tyler Johnson: Consider. Consider supporting the show. Your money will go to a good cause, which will be our hosting and our comic books.

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Tad Eggleston: Probably our comic books, and then our hosting. Well, I mean, I guess we always have to pay the hosting fee. We won't let that go, but it still feels more like it's our comic books and our hosting, because.

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Tyler Johnson: Yup.

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Tad Eggleston: Yeah.

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Tyler Johnson: All right, all right, let's go. I got. I got Santa to see.

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Tyler Johnson: Okay. Alright, guys, thanks for listening.

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Tyler Johnson: We'll catch you after the next page.