Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Are you ready?
[00:00:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Are you with it? Yeah. Okay, let's go. You know what to do. The whole world's watching and counting on you. And all you people listening out there.
Everybody everywhere. Hang on, hang on, hang on.
Welcome to Checkered Past, a loving postmodern examination of the. Go. Go. Check. Branded comic magazines published by DC Comics between February 1966 and August 1967.
I'm Dr. Bob and each week I'll be your guide on this trippy tour through 535 mid century masterpieces of graphic noveldom. This week, our army at War 180Cover Date May 1967Cover Price $0.12.Cover Artist Joe Kubert. Edited by Robert kanigher and Strange Adventures 199 cover date April 1967 cover price $0.12. Cover artists Carmine Infantineau and George Russos Edited by Jack Schiff Featuring you can't Kill a General written by Robert Kanigher, art by Russ Heath and Robots of the Round Table, writer unknown art by Lee Elias. Are you ready? Are you with it? Then away we go. Go.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Take a look at the world around you.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: Don't you want to lend a helping hand?
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Try it on for sighs.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Sergeant Rock takes three brothers on patrol in the desert. None of the brothers has seen action and one of them is killed very quickly. Rock feels guilty about the loss of the man, a feeling which is soon compounded when spoiler alert. Both the other brothers are killed too. Then a time traveling scientist encounters robots in the time of King Arthur. Whaaat? Confused? Don't worry, I'll be right back with doctor Husband to explain everything.
Hey there Georgie girl Swinging down the
[00:02:18] Speaker B: street so fancy free Nobody you meet could ever see the lone there inside you.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Hey there Georgie girl why do all the boys just pass you by?
[00:02:34] Speaker B: Could it be you just don't try? Or is it the clothes you wear?
[00:02:41] Speaker A: You're always window shopping but never stopping to buy.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: So shed those downy feathers and fly a little bit.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Well, I hate to tell you what's going on with me.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: What?
[00:02:57] Speaker A: I can't get the song Georgie Girl out of my head.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: Is that why I've got it in my head? Have you been whistling it?
[00:03:07] Speaker A: I don't think I have been whistling it out loud.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: I've been thinking in my head do
[00:03:12] Speaker A: do do do do. Maybe we're psychic.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Sometimes it happens where neither one of us has been singing a song out loud, but both of us are thinking it.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know what happens.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: No.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: We all become our mothers.
You know what else is happening?
[00:03:32] Speaker B: No.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: It's terrible. I can't.
My birth time does not appear on my birth certificate.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: And I can't find any record of my birth except for what my mother told me, which was 5:30pm which seems unusual for it to be on the birth certificate.
Half hour like that.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Ah.
That's all you can go by, I guess.
Yeah.
I don't know what to tell you. Me?
[00:03:57] Speaker A: Well, I don't either.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: Yeah. How you doing?
[00:03:59] Speaker A: Otherwise I'll have to do a chart rectification.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: Oh, okay. All right.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Well, no, that's. I can't afford that. It's very expensive. Otherwise, fine. Except for my stupid job getting in the way of my napping.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Well, let's see. Since we last met, I went away.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Yes, you did.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: I went away to the Appalachian String Camp. String Band Music Festival.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: Sleep Away Camp. We used to call it.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Sleep Away Camp. And it was a lot of fun. I had a great time.
Yeah.
[00:04:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I wound up my successful Broadway run, the Little Mermaid.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Very off Broadway.
That was fun. I enjoyed seeing the show. I really did.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: Well, the whole town loved it.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it was good.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Especially our friend Jen George as Ursula.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Ursula. She was fantastic.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: You can hear all about Jen George from episode seven of this very podcast where she guest starred.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. A good time.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: What else?
[00:05:01] Speaker B: Well, I went away.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: For five days.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:04] Speaker B: Or four. Five days. Five days.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: I don't know. Time flies when you're having fun.
[00:05:08] Speaker B: Friday, Saturday.
So I had a good time. Yeah.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: And, oh, my gosh, it's beautiful down there. So I went down to. Close to where the national. The River. National Park. New River Gorge National Park.
But I didn't get a chance to see it because I had to get on the road, so.
But I had a great time. It's beautiful down there.
Mountains are absolutely gorgeous. We have not been down there together.
So you go down.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: Actually, we were there before they built the bridge, remember? Because we went on a cable car thing down into the gorge.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: Years and years and years ago.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Yes. So it's a beautiful part of the country. And I drove on 81 south and then 64.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Just beautiful.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Had a great time at the camp and, of course, spending time with your family.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: Made lots of music. It was wonderful.
So we're back and school is very much on my mind.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: I should imagine so.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: Yes. Things are ramping up.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: Remind me I have to ask a question about school later. Okay.
Yeah. I haven't been doing much outside of the show.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Late performances every night. It's an exacting business as you well know.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: And you were this business we call show.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: You were very much appreciated as what I've heard.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Well, I had lot of fun. Yeah.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Poor Captain Butler.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: What?
[00:06:37] Speaker B: Well, I mean, poor Captain Butler, you know, he's getting old. He'll be 10 this year.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:06:41] Speaker B: And he's now on thyroid medicine.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Yes, yes.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: Which is very common for older dogs, so.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: Well, my sister's on thyroid medicine, and she ain't that old.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. So, anyway, I just. I. You know, I've been dealing with.
He had two surgeries this year for a couple of different reasons. And so I've been kind of like, just, I don't know, been a little sad thinking about him getting older lately. And then I decided recently, I said, stop being sad about him getting older. Make every single day with these dogs delightful and wonderful and just don't worry about it, you know. Enjoy them as much as you possibly can for the time you have them. So there you go.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: He still has the power to knock me down the stairs and murder me, so I don't know how worried you need to be about it.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Well, he doesn't. When I take him for walks.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: He does not want to go as long as he used to. He just can't quite keep it up.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Well, maybe I should walk him, because he would drag me down the street like a cowboy on the end of a horse.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: Indeed he would. Yeah.
[00:07:46] Speaker A: Well, is that all that's new?
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Oh, we've had some very, very pleasant weather in this part of the country. You know, it's been very lovely. Our friends in other parts of the country are not so. Not so lucky.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: No, we don't have any heat waves, fires and whatnot. Tornadoes and whatnot.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: We've been blessed with really good weather.
[00:08:05] Speaker A: Well, yeah.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: So we're gonna dive into our army at war, are we not?
[00:08:12] Speaker A: We certainly are. Number 180. What's that say?
180.
Did you know you can't kill a general?
[00:08:20] Speaker B: That's what I've read.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: That's what it says right here on the COVID Apparently it's an unwritten law, though, because I would think you very much could kill a general. I think generals probably die in war all the time.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I don't know anything about that.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: What, war? Or killing generals.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: I mean, I imagine, as I gathered from this story, that having an officer is a very valuable piece of information. So you don't want to kill the officer, I suppose. Yes.
[00:08:47] Speaker A: And we do know something about war. Owing to the wonderful Tom hanks, World War II documentary which we've been watching which is available purchase on prime or you can watch it on the History Channel if you have that. But of course we're modern men so we don't have cable. Yeah, we have to buy everything. A luck hurt.
This is Sergeant Rock speaking.
Okay, go ahead. I've always prided myself on looking out after my green replacements on their first time out. And I was keeping a special eye on the kindergarten kids.
But combat exploded and it cost three dog tags before I learned you can't kill a general.
Also, I'm not sure it's a great idea to take kindergarten children to war.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Well, you know, that's how these roughneck soldiers describe these newbies.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: So this is going to be a flashback story to the North African campaign which we learned from Tom Hanks.
Took place from 11 June 1940 to 13 May 1943.
I'm presuming that Sergeant Rock and Easy Company weren't there for that entire time because they also had to go to North Italy and the Western Front. They were all over the place. I believe they even had to go to the Pacific for a while.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Really?
[00:10:16] Speaker A: I think so.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: That would have been after. If they'd done that, they would have gone after the fall of Germany.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Sure, that VE Day as we learned from.
I actually knew that already before Tom Hanks told me.
Now Rock is taking out three young fresh recruits, three brothers to train in the desert.
This is a flashback from years ago. Two years ago, Steve, Al and Billy woods had come up to join the ranks of Easy Company. They look like they marched straight out of the nursery right into Easy. And it's Sergeant Rock's job to make sure they don't get clobbered before they know what war is all about.
He thinks it's going to be Easy Patrol.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: So what they're trying to do, what he wants to do is take him out in a flip, get them all thirsty and footsore and bring him back just to sort of break them in, you know.
So they reach the end of their dog leg and he gave him a break before starting back. And that's when he saw the letter. And one of the boys is reading a letter. This letter says from our. This letter's from our mom. It says, I'm sure happy that nice Sergeant Rock is taking care of my three boys.
Now. I think it's unusual to have all three brothers in the same unit.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I was gonna say that. I don't think that's such a good idea.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: No, because you could lose all your boys all at once. Which.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Spoiler alert.
I think I already said that in the introduction of the episode.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Oh, Steve. Steve is the first to read it. He's reading the letter, and the letter is pierced by a bullet, which also pierces Steve and kills him.
[00:12:07] Speaker A: Yeah, right through the heart.
So his two brothers, of course, are gobsmacked.
And just then.
Easy. Well, not easy, Company Sergeant Rock and the two boys are getting strafed by a German plane.
So he gets them down on the ground.
Sergeant Rock. The planes fly too fast for him to counter fire.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah,
[00:12:38] Speaker A: they bury Steve, classic army method. With a rifle on his helmet stuck in the ground.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Well, yeah, they gotta mark the spot where he'd fallen.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: Just then, there's a sandstorm.
[00:12:51] Speaker B: It's in the desert?
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Well, yes, it is, but I guess. Do sandstorms ever just pop out of nowhere?
[00:12:59] Speaker B: I don't know. I've never lived in the desert. But usually you can see them coming from a wild. From a distance, however, they were just attacked by enemy aircraft.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: Yes, I saw a sandstorm in the distance once.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: You did?
[00:13:13] Speaker A: Yes. Where in Israel?
You did? Yes. We'd been in Jerusalem and we went. Took a little jaunt out to.
I don't know where. Up north.
North of Jerusalem somewhere where we had to stay the night. And then we could see the sandstorm happening on the horizon back in Jerusalem. But we missed the whole. Missed all the excitement.
By the time we got back, it was over.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: Hmm.
Go figure.
Well, that's the most riveting tale I've ever heard from you, ever.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: Really?
[00:13:46] Speaker B: No.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: Wait till you hear about the scar I have on my big toe from the Sea of Galilee.
I jumped in the water and cut my toe to shreds.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: You did?
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Yes. Oh, should have had stitches. But, you know, I was in a foreign country. I was afraid what might happen.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Right. Well, did he just wrap it up in band aids?
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: I didn't even go to a doctor. Just put a sock around it or something. Now I've got this scar.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Oh, wow, your foot. Modeling career was over at such an early age.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Get.
Thank you. You appreciate the sacrifice I had to make.
Now the sandstorm dies down, the blasting sun beating down upon them. They stop for a water break, and what do you think's happened?
That plane shot all their canteens, all the ribbons. They're out of water.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: Right.
So he gives his water canteen to the boys and tells them, don't drink at all. You're gonna need that for later on. Right, Right.
[00:14:48] Speaker A: They could do what Aquaman did when he was trapped in the desert.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Spit on himself?
[00:14:53] Speaker A: No, he cut a lizard open, drank the blood out of the lizard.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Oh, that makes sense.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, and he makes a sacrifice. He says, here, take my canteen. I'm not thirsty. Sergeant Rock does, right.
And the boys drink water and. But then they hear gunfire. And that's the Nazi command car with the general's flag. Spotted them and opened up their guns.
[00:15:20] Speaker A: Yep.
Rat a tata. Tata. That's the sound that guns make.
Well, one of these other boys gets it. Al.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: Drops dead.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Steve. Al.
Steve first, then Al.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Who's the other one, Toby?
[00:15:39] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: John.
Billy.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Billy.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: So Billy's left.
Sergeant Rock shoves Billy to the ground, takes his gun, starts firing at the
[00:15:51] Speaker B: jeep, which keeps on riding, driving straight for him. Then Sergeant Rock pulls out a grenade, launches it into the air. It lands right under the German general's car and blows up and kills everyone in the car but the general. Oh, and the fender catches Sergeant Rock and knocks him out.
[00:16:16] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Right.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: Correct.
Now, Billy.
Sergeant Rock is on the ground. Billy takes up his gun, points it at the general, who doesn't bat an eyelash. He fires his pistol and kills Billy.
So all three of these boys are dead.
They've got a gold star mother now.
So Sergeant Rock is dazed, but he gets up, pulls his own gun. But his gun is empty because he's emptied it at the car that was driving toward them.
There's only one thing left to do, and that's start punching.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Right.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: Unfortunately, the general still has his gun out.
Fires at Rock, grazes the side of his head.
Nonetheless, Rock is able to get his mighty hands around the general's neck and choke him down to the ground.
[00:17:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Now he's ready to kill this fellow.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: Sure is.
[00:17:22] Speaker A: But he realizes after touching the boy's mother letter, which is in his breast pocket that he's got to bring the general in for questioning because he's the enemy's top desert brass hat.
[00:17:38] Speaker B: Right.
So, of course, he marked a spot. Sergeant Rock marked a spot where both boys had fallen.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: And they have to move on.
Collected what was left of the water in the canteen and said, move out, General. Let's go.
So they go through the heat of the sun.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Fantastic depiction of the desert heat in pen and ink.
The general asks for some water, and Rock gives it to him. And then this asshole general takes a drink and then drops it to the ground. And all the rest of the water splashes out onto the ground because what rok now realizes is that the general's just gonna wait him out.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Rock shouldn't have given General water.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: No.
He should have cut open a lizard, made him drink the blood.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Right.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: So Rok is still dazed and injured. He realizes that this general's gonna wait him out. And then when Rock can't take no more, those other Nazis will come up upon him.
They keep going. They're up on a.
What would you call this? A bluff?
[00:18:50] Speaker B: An overlook? Yeah, bluff. Yeah.
[00:18:54] Speaker A: They see another Nazi truck coming. Rock tells the general to get down so they won't see him. But this general takes his cap off and throws it down on the road in front of this Nazi jeep.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Which will signal to the troops that someone's up there.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Right.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: And they spotted the cap and they stopped the vehicle.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Well, Sergeant Rock has his wits about him and he just starts firing down.
I guess he hits the engine because smoke billows up the desert wind starts blowing the smoke, which allows Rock to get down, throw another grenade and destroy this other Nazi jeep.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: And he gentlemanly returns the general's cap to him.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:48] Speaker A: Now the general knows that there are other troops looking for him.
And in fact, just then, here comes a plane full of paratroopers, which.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: Boy, this story's going fast.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: I'll say.
The paratroopers land, surround Rok and the general.
Sergeant Rock keeps the general at gunpoint
[00:20:09] Speaker B: and says, yeah, if you even so much as come close to me, I'll kill the general.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: Pepper him full of hopes.
So they let him pass, but of course, they're gonna follow him across the desert.
Rock is just about to pass over dead.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: He's dealing with heat exhaustion.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: Yes.
To the point where he sees the mocking Nazi general's giant face floating in front of his eyes.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: That's always fun.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: And behind him, the Nazis are closing in. Rock says, I told those boys that if they got closer, I'd shoot you.
And the general says, I know how you Americans are. You'll never kill me in cold blood.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: Right.
[00:20:59] Speaker A: I'm not even gonna try to do a German accident. Yeah.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Rock says, well, maybe I can hold them off with rapid fire.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: Yes. Which he does.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: But the Nazis keep coming. Keep coming. Keep coming. And then from behind Sergeant Rock, what do you think happens? The rest of Easy Company, the combat happy Joes of Easy Fists. A flying.
Let's see, there's Wildman, Bulldozer, Jackie and I suppose, Ice Cream Soldier. Oh, no, that's Little Sure Shot.
You can tell because he's got his Indian feathers on his helmet.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: Oh, I Didn't see that before.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: Well, I have a keen eye for
[00:21:43] Speaker B: these sort of details. Yes.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: All right, the fight is over. They defeat the Nazis and the general who's got his shirt open to his navel by this point.
I neffer believed you would bring me in, Sergeant. Congratulations. What kept you on your feet?
[00:22:05] Speaker B: A promise I made to a couple of kids, General.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Yes, it's that bullet ridden letter from the boy's mother.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: I don't need this letter to remind me that nothing comes easy and easy. And that it cost the kindergarten kids to capture a general.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: The end.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: The end.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: That was a very quick story.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: Wasn't it though?
[00:22:28] Speaker A: Yes, yeah.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: Much faster in your retelling of it.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Well, I just didn't know where to go with it.
[00:22:36] Speaker B: Right.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: Once the boys die.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it's sad.
[00:22:39] Speaker A: What are you gonna do?
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Right.
Where are you gonna go now, mister?
[00:22:44] Speaker A: Well, don't despair because we've got another story to read.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: We sure do. And isn't it weird?
[00:22:51] Speaker A: Yes, it's from strange adventures number 199, which I forgot to do last month, so it's actually from April. Also, I forgot to mark the passage of time. We're now in May 1967.
[00:23:04] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:05] Speaker A: We've only got until August to go.
We've got less than 100 episodes of this very podcast left to go.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: Actually probably less than 50.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: 150.
My God.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: I know.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: My car will be paid off before we're done.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: No, how we probably this. If we do it once a week, it's only like another year.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: Oh, you're right. Yeah, yeah. My goodness. What are we gonna do after that?
[00:23:32] Speaker A: Well, we've got, you know, our Love Boat podcast. We keep teasing.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do that.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Then I, you know, I have a few things in my back pocket. We can.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: You're never gonna let me out of this contractual agreement, are you?
[00:23:45] Speaker A: No, I. Indeed I am not.
Not until I die. Maybe that'll free up your time.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: Then I can listen to all the old episodes and cry.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, Strange adventures number 199. What?
[00:24:02] Speaker B: Here's a little something. What? We're kind of planning a vacation.
Do you want to talk about that?
[00:24:08] Speaker A: We can talk about that.
[00:24:09] Speaker B: We don't have a lot of detail.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: Maybe someone from a foreign land can give us some suggestions.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: So we're thinking about going the week of the American Thanksgiving holiday. Yes, basically Friday to Friday. The Friday before to the Friday after Thanksgiving. With family. With the sisters.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: And boyfriend in tow.
[00:24:29] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: One of the sisters. Boyfriends in tower. Where Are we thinking of starting. We're going to think we're going to go two places. Right.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: Well, we're thinking of going to Strasbourg, France.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: And then ending in Zurich.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: Zurich.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: And of course, we know we're going to go to the.
We're going to. We have a day trip planned for Freiburg.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: To go to the Christmas market.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: But anything else anybody wants to tell us about either one of those places, we'll be happy to hear.
[00:24:57] Speaker B: Yes. If you've been there before and there's something you absolutely think we should go see, please, please send us a. Drop us a note. Drop Dr. Bob a note. Yeah.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: GoGoCheckPod. And in fact, if you live there, want to have coffee, let us know.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: Oh, we'd love that. We always.
Yeah, right.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: We'll do anything for the fans.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Absolutely. But, yeah, we'll go in November. And so far we've planned. We're planning it. Starting to really firm up.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: The itinerary and potential day trips and lodging. And then the next thing to do
[00:25:31] Speaker A: is to get another job to pay for the tickets.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: Tickets, exactly.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: I hope there'll be jet fuel by November. Good Lord in the world.
And after reading this next story, I kind of wish we were planning to go to jolly old England.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: Yes. That's for another time.
Right.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: So this is the first.
So we're on Strange adventures.
April number 199.
[00:25:59] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: Right.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: But we're. And we're not going to talk about the COVID art because it's not the story we're actually going to talk about.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: So we're going to do the first story.
And in this story, King Arthur and the famous Knights of the Round Table. Fact or fiction? Controversy has always raged over whether their gallant adventures were sheer legend or real history. But now a young scientist who turns time traveler finds out for himself and uncovers an astounding revelation that neither legend nor history has recorded in the robots
[00:26:33] Speaker A: of the Round Table.
Hats off for the Queen's pronunciation of controversy.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Thank you.
Now, I have so many issues with this story.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: The one of which is the very first page.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: Every member of the roundtable that we see. Yes. Has their name.
[00:26:55] Speaker A: Yes. They have a place card.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: Place card. And Sir Lancelot has it embroidered on his tunic.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Yes. Like a baseball player.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Like. Yeah. I'm surprised there's not a number like 02 or something like that.
[00:27:11] Speaker A: Well, there should be 02, as we'll learn later on in the story.
Now I have to wonder. His coloring of his uniform is Identical to that of Ser Justin the Shining Knight, who was an Arthurian knight who traveled forward in time.
[00:27:35] Speaker B: Good Lord.
[00:27:35] Speaker A: What?
[00:27:36] Speaker B: The person just drove by at such a fast speed.
Was it 30 miles?
No, I mean for our neighborhood.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Well, there ought to be a law.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: There ought to be a law.
They ought to be put down.
[00:27:49] Speaker A: Sir Justin the Shining Knight, who was a Golden Age comics character who fought crime atop his winged horse, Winged Victory, was a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory and the All Star Squadron.
And he wore gold.
Gold chainmail and a red jerkin.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: And I just have to wonder if that's intentional. He was not being published at this time in history.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: But he would come back in a few years, having been trapped in the.
I believe he was trapped in ancient Mongolia.
All the seven Soldiers of Victory were trapped at various times and had to be rescued by the Justice League and the justice society in their 100th adventure.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: My goodness.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a fantastic story. Maybe I'll make you read that after we get done with all of these.
So, in the workshop adjoining a museum, where the age of ancient relics is determined scientifically.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: Are we in America or in England?
[00:29:00] Speaker A: I would imagine.
I don't know.
Doesn't say.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: Well, since he's in a time machine.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: Let's assume he's in England.
[00:29:11] Speaker A: He's probably got to be in England.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: Okay, so in the workshop.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: So, the carbon dating lab of Dr. L. Orton.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: Lance, see if you can date this old knight's helmet we recently received.
[00:29:23] Speaker A: Hmm. Looks like something from the Knights of the Round Table.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: As Lance Orton uses the latest radioactive tracer technique.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Gamma rays at 1000th power. About 500 A.D. when King Arthur reigned. If he ever existed. Hmm. Now would be the time to try my time switch idea.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: Time switch idea. Wow.
That's my second issue.
Who works in a laboratory? Who has the ability to travel through time?
I mean, if I. I mean, why would you work.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: Well, because he does. It's just an idea. At this point, he doesn't know if it's gonna work. All right, so let's find out later that day.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: The helmet is mounted firmly. I'm sorry? The helmet is mounted firmly on my jeep. Now to load it with tools and gadgets so I won't be stranded in the past in case repairs are needed.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: So he welds this ancient helmet to the hood of his jeep.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: Yeah, like a hood ornament. It is a hood ornament.
[00:30:23] Speaker A: And he's got a simple idea.
If he pumps the original amount of gamma rays into the Helmet matching its radioactivity in 500 AD it should reflect a back spray of time warping rays, allowing the Jeep to travel through time. And indeed it does work. I don't know why someone hasn't thought of it before. It's so simple.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Clearly they haven't read the comic. It's genius.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:50] Speaker B: With a wrench, the young scientist is weirdly catapulted backwards along times highway.
[00:30:54] Speaker A: And you know what?
[00:30:55] Speaker B: What?
[00:30:56] Speaker A: There is no writer credited for this story. Because I bet the writer had this idea and sent himself backwards through time.
[00:31:03] Speaker B: No, Lee Elias.
[00:31:05] Speaker A: That's the artist. Lee Elias.
[00:31:07] Speaker B: Elias.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: Sorry. Yeah. We don't know who wrote it because I bet he's trapped in the past.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: Must be trapped in the past.
[00:31:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Or maybe not trapped. Maybe happily living in the past.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: Abruptly. So he travels back in time to.
And he's in his Jeep. Yeah, because I'm in the past. One thousand years ago, as that sign proves. The sign says very conveniently a sign on a wooden post that says to the court of King Arthur. To ye court of King Arthur.
That was my third problem with this story and the obvious sign placement, which is not at all.
You know, they might have said King's Court or perhaps King's Crossing or King something. But.
[00:31:52] Speaker A: Well, the first issue no one could read back then. No one could read.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: And also no one just, just the richest people could read.
[00:32:01] Speaker A: Well, they would have been reading it at this in 500 AD they would have been reading the signs. And I don't think Latin really actually. Or maybe French.
No, not in 500.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: No.
[00:32:17] Speaker A: Certainly it would not have been written in gothic book plate font. No, in modern English we would not
[00:32:24] Speaker B: be able to read it as to ye court of King Arthur.
[00:32:28] Speaker A: Also, that's an incorrect use of pronouns.
It would be to the.
Or maybe ye old court of King Arthur.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:44] Speaker A: And it also probably would have been art.
What's Latin for Arthur?
Arcturus.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:32:53] Speaker A: I don't either.
I didn't do research for this, you silly.
[00:32:58] Speaker B: You're winging it. Okay, so. And he's. So he says I'm in the past 1,000 years ago, as that sign proves. And therefore the so called legendary knights of the Round Table apparently do exist.
[00:33:09] Speaker A: But suddenly a knight on horseback approaches
[00:33:14] Speaker B: and we know who he is because this jerkin says Sir Lancelot.
[00:33:16] Speaker A: Sir Lancelot. Right at the back of his. The back and front of his jerkin.
[00:33:21] Speaker B: Just in case you forget or in
[00:33:23] Speaker A: case he passes you and you didn't catch his name first time.
[00:33:26] Speaker B: Who Is that striking young man on the horseback? Oh, it's Sir Lancelot. He's riding past me, I think. Oh, there it is. Sir Lancelot. Yes, that's what it says on his jersey.
[00:33:35] Speaker A: But he doesn't seem friendly. Ho, varlet. What kind of knight and steed is that? No one passes here. Stand still, cowardly knave. Now, luckily, Lance from the future, he's
[00:33:48] Speaker B: a wizard with his jeep.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: He's a wizard with his driving skills. He just drives round and around in circles and knocks Lancelot off his steed, scares the horse away.
But he meets a shocking surprise when Lancelot hits the ground. And it turns out he's a robot.
A robot that got smashed apart.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: Yes. Nuts and bolts and things are going flying akimbo.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Is this why Sir Lancelot, in the legends, was the greatest knight of all?
A real ironman, stronger than human beings.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Unable to solve the baffling mystery, the man from 1967 dons the fallen robot's armor. So he takes. He strips the robot naked and wears his clothing hot.
[00:34:37] Speaker A: Well, I may as well live up to my full first name, Lancelot, because he's called Lance. He's. Because he's called Lance.
Besides, I'll need this tin suit for protection if I meet any more hotheads or robots or humans.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: Of course. I thought of this when I was reading this comic. I think, I hope he has enough fuel to do what he needs to do.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Right.
Because fuel is more expensive in the United Kingdom than it is in America.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Right? Well, we established that he's not actually going from America to the United Kingdom. He's not traveling geographically, he's traveling chronologically.
[00:35:13] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:35:13] Speaker B: Yes. Ahead is a more amazing phenomenon. He's being rushed at by some sort
[00:35:18] Speaker A: of mechanical dragon with an amplified loudspeaker screech and all.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: Quickly wheeling his jeep with the front wheel brakes on and the back wheel spinning, he sends sand into the gears of the dragon creature, which takes it down.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Is this meant to imply that jeeps have separate braking systems for the front and rear wheels?
I've never driven a jeep.
[00:35:49] Speaker B: Yes,
[00:35:52] Speaker A: that could get awfully confusing.
If you're in a fight like this against a mechanical dragon, how do you know which is which? Are they labeled?
[00:36:02] Speaker B: No. It is possible to put the brakes on a car and then press the gas and release the clutch and send some wheels spinning. You know that. That's how you get that. That's. Yes, you can do that. That's how you get fishtailing.
[00:36:18] Speaker A: Well, I've never done that because I was a good Teenager.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: I didn't either. I just know this.
[00:36:24] Speaker A: Well, that he does that, and it sprays up sand into this mechanical dragon
[00:36:28] Speaker B: and makes it explode.
[00:36:29] Speaker A: Makes it explode and crash to the ground.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: Wow, that sounded like the Empire State Building crashing. Well, maybe he is from America.
If he's referencing the Empire State Building. That's an American building, famously.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: Well, you're right. We must be so wrong.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: If he was British, he might have said that looks like. That sounds like Big Ben crashing.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: Or the Houses of Parliament.
[00:36:51] Speaker B: Parliament, yes. So a riddle rides with Dr. Lancelot Gordon, but I don't get it. They couldn't make machines in medieval times. Then where do these robot creatures come from? Why aren't they recorded in history?
And then as he drives on, he says, that's odd. Two steel pillars out in the middle of nowhere like this. So he sees two steel pillars and the clouds.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: They could make machines. What about. What do they call the thing?
[00:37:16] Speaker B: Trebuchets.
[00:37:17] Speaker A: The siege. Yeah, Trebuchet. Yeah, I was going to say siege perilous, but I don't know what that is.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: They don't have, like.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: They don't have motor cars or steam trains.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: Yes.
Well, what he finally sees is that these giant steel pillars are actually the legs of a giant robot.
[00:37:37] Speaker A: A giant robot colossus. Gasp.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: Yes, a Cyclops.
[00:37:41] Speaker A: Humans not allowed here. We'll crush you, little flea. Ho ho.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: So he steps on the gas, trying to outrun the giant robot that then chases him. But then he goes into a swampy bog, followed by the robot that due to its weight, sinks down into the bog to its demise.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: Well, yes, and we learn an important. Some more important jeep knowledge that he shifts to four wheel, low, low drive so that he can grind through the swampy bog. But the robot's going to get subsumed.
I guess it's quicksand.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: They never say so, but yeah, we assume it is.
So we get to Camelot, which. How do I know that? Because there's a banner over, like, just like.
Oh, what's that called? Chick Fil A. You know, just like Chick Fil? A. There's a banner out front that says, hey, you've arrived at Camelot. Right?
[00:38:36] Speaker A: Well, somebody had a label maker here. They just went crazy with it.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: King Arthur's Court. I must get this answer to those kooky robots at this place. I must get the answer. But will those knights and the guard let him pass? Well, they do.
[00:38:50] Speaker A: They do, because he's got his name on his jerkin and his helmet on, so they can't Tell that he's not aerobic.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: Nevermind the fact that he's riding inside a horse which we've never seen before.
[00:38:59] Speaker A: Right. Strange sort of conveyance.
Shortly inside the castle.
Greetings, Sir Lancelot. Be seated at the place where your name is displayed and our meeting will begin.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: The famous knights at the Round Table. I'll tell them about these crazy robots in case they haven't heard yet. But then, just.
But before the 20th century. Lancelot can speak. All of the members of the Round Table remove their helmets except for Sir Lancelot and reveal that they are indeed robots.
[00:39:33] Speaker A: Great stars above. This can't be for real. Gasp. They're all robots, not men. I'll pretend my helmet is stuck.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: So the first robot speaks. Oh, he must be King Arthur. Yes, he says. Let us review our progress, fellow robotans. Our world of robot civilization sent us as scouts to find out if Earth could easily be conquered. But unfortunately we found that our super science weapons failed to operate in this oxygen laden atmosphere.
[00:40:04] Speaker A: My blast gun failed against that armored earthling.
[00:40:08] Speaker B: But this rock will surrender him helpless.
[00:40:12] Speaker A: So whoever this is attacking them in flashback, they knock him senseless with a rock. Right? But then a clever idea came to the robots.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: I just hit the microphone. I hope that isn't bad.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: It will be. But I will.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: But then a clever idea came to them. Right. The robots.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: Look. Wearing this metallic armor will hide our own metal bodies. Thus disguised as humans and adopting their language and customs, we can win control in this area.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Taking over King Arthur's court, the seat of rule, where we then constructed metal monsters that we knew from their legends would frighten away other earthlings.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: A dragon?
[00:40:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:53] Speaker A: We created panic.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: As soon as we build enough robot monsters, we'll drive all earthlings mad and take over their world.
[00:41:02] Speaker A: Now I would think even without their super scientific weapons, they're still robots.
I would think that they could conquer a Dolbyn wattle village full of serfs.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: You would think so.
I would.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: I just declared it. I do believe that's true.
[00:41:23] Speaker B: So let me just say I agree.
[00:41:25] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:41:26] Speaker B: Yes. As the robot leader finishes his review.
[00:41:29] Speaker A: Wait.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: Why have you not taken off your helmet, Sir Lancelot? Aha. A human spy. Cast him in the dungeon with the other earthly prisoners.
[00:41:37] Speaker A: And soon he's thrown into the Hskow with the real King Arthur and his knights.
[00:41:43] Speaker B: I bet they smell great.
Art thou with King Arthur says to him. Art thou with us, stranger? But we cannot escape this prison. All is lost if yon creatures of steel remain on earth.
[00:41:56] Speaker A: Have courage, King Arthur. I am from A far land of magicians.
Abracadabra. Doubled spades.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: They don't know that. As the robot guard closed the door, Lance slipped a quarter against the jam hole, preventing it from locking.
[00:42:14] Speaker A: Yes. So a quarter. He must be American, because if he was British, he would have a farthing or a twopence.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: You're like Trixie Belden on the other side of the table.
Piece in these little pieces of the. Well, I like it.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: Aren't you? I like to add value for our listeners.
[00:42:31] Speaker B: Thanks, Nancy.
[00:42:34] Speaker A: Surely I would be Ned Nickerson.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: Who's Ned Nickerson?
[00:42:38] Speaker A: Nancy Drew's boyfriend.
[00:42:39] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
King Arthur exclaims when the door comes open. Witchcraft. The door is unlocked. Thou must be Merlin himself in disguise.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: Also. I would think a gang of 12 knights could just open the door. Could just. Or bust it down. They're all wearing chainmail.
Just take. Who's the dumbest one? Galahad.
Just use him as battering ram or something.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: Right.
[00:43:08] Speaker A: Chuck him up against the door.
[00:43:09] Speaker B: Oh, I like where this goes.
[00:43:10] Speaker A: Next, two horsemen.
Remember what was that opera we did? And they had to translate it to table. Someone wrote their own translation. And so instead of saying it's time to eat, they said to table two horsemen. We're going to joust with the robots. They also parked my horse here.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: My jeep.
But first, bring the lances and I'll use more of my magic.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Electronics magic, that is.
[00:43:44] Speaker B: The robots are in for a shocking jolt when the alarm is out and the robots attempt to stop the mounted knights. An old jousting scene is reenacted with modern variations.
[00:43:54] Speaker A: Charge the steel varlets. Ho. Our strange friend has given us flashing magic which unseats our enemy at a touch.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: So he's battery charged. I don't know how he did this because.
[00:44:04] Speaker A: Well, because he brought. Remember, he loaded up his jeep with all kinds of batteries and whatnot.
[00:44:09] Speaker B: So when the lances touch the robots,
[00:44:13] Speaker A: they give them quite a shock.
[00:44:14] Speaker B: Quite a shock.
[00:44:15] Speaker A: They believe I'm a magician. Actually, it's a bit of souped up voltage phased to short circuit any automated machine, which is all that. Robots are run for.
[00:44:26] Speaker B: Our spaceship. Who said this was a backward world?
[00:44:30] Speaker A: You did. Literally. You said that several times during this story.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: So when they throw advanced electronic. Sorry. When they throw advanced electronics technology at us.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: It's time to leave now, Lance.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: Robots take off. Yes, in the rocket ship.
[00:44:49] Speaker A: Lance doesn't see any need to inform the alien robots that he's the only electronics engineer in existence in King Arthur's time. Right now.
Well, I'll bid the Knights, Goodbye. But first I'm going to put back on my suit jacket and tie.
[00:45:05] Speaker B: King Arthur says to him, before you leave, I dub thee Sir Lancelot the Second.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: Ah, cool. King Arthur. Can I get one of those jerkins with my name on it that says Sir Lancelot ii? Sure, like all the rest of you have.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: Take a flea ridden, disgusting, smelly jerkin back with you back to 1967.
[00:45:24] Speaker A: I guess King Arthur is known by his face because he does not have his name emblazoned on his jerky.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: Well, of course he's wearing a crown.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: Oh yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
But Sir Gawain and Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram, they all have their names.
I guess it would be some kind of fine needlework in King Arthur's day.
It wouldn't be an iron on patch because they didn't have iron.
Iron? No, they didn't care about wrinkles back then. They just wore any old thing that they picked up off the ground.
[00:45:58] Speaker B: Horsehair, whatever.
[00:46:01] Speaker A: And I guess that his time machine works in reverse because I guess he'd have to suck out gamma ray energy of the helmet to get himself back into the present.
[00:46:15] Speaker B: We as the reader, do not get to see how he goes back to his time.
[00:46:19] Speaker A: Well, no, we don't. But I think that they're respecting the reader's intelligence by just assuming the reader would guess that you're just going to suck the gamma energy back out of the helmet, that which is still welded to the hood of his jeep.
[00:46:34] Speaker B: And after the timeless plunge back into the future.
[00:46:37] Speaker A: Those robots were recorded in history for the. I don't know if he's American or British, so I'm just gonna use the 1930s American film accent.
[00:46:47] Speaker B: You can try the accent.
[00:46:48] Speaker A: Those robots were recorded in history for their evil visitation, but as sky demons by defeating them. My trip to the past influenced history. Was I a pawn of destiny? Who knows?
The end?
[00:47:01] Speaker B: The end.
Well, it's quite a little adventure we had there, going back to King Arthur's court.
[00:47:09] Speaker A: Now I wonder if his trip to the past influenced the robot uprising, which we know is coming in the DC universe in a few short years.
[00:47:20] Speaker B: Yes, yes, I'm sure they went back to their planet and reported back and they turned their ships around and came back.
The robot uprising. That's not a real thing, right?
[00:47:32] Speaker A: It is in my Right. Well, in DC Comics, you know, we have the Metalman and we have Automan, who exists at an indetermined point in the near future.
And then we have some kind of great disaster which Happens between the present and the 30th century.
We don't know the nature of the great disaster, but I'm just assuming that it's some kind of robot uprising because of all the robots running around.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: Fair enough.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: I suppose I should write that down somewhere.
[00:48:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:11] Speaker A: Make it official canon in my own head.
And then I could give you complete details. Yeah.
Anything to add?
[00:48:21] Speaker B: Well, I'm glad we ended with this story.
[00:48:24] Speaker A: Yes.
That person was a dud.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: I know.
[00:48:27] Speaker A: Well, yawn city.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: Yeah. But other than that. Let's see. Got a pretty quiet week ahead of us.
[00:48:34] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. Well, apparently you have a lot of schoolwork to do.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: Well, no, no, no. I just need to, you know, sort of prep and stuff like that. We're gonna have a little fun on Friday.
[00:48:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:43] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:48:43] Speaker A: I have a work event at the Adventure Funtime Park. Yes. Where I'll meet people I work with in person for and for the very first time. I've been working there a year and a half.
[00:48:51] Speaker B: Yes. We have a roller coaster there, too. They have a roller coaster?
[00:48:53] Speaker A: Is that the one with the roller coaster?
[00:48:55] Speaker B: Uh huh.
[00:48:55] Speaker A: Or is it?
[00:48:56] Speaker B: I thought it's a small roller coaster.
[00:48:57] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:48:58] Speaker B: And a mini golf course.
I know. We like mini golf, don't we?
[00:49:01] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:49:02] Speaker B: Yes. And go karts.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: Yes. Bumper cars and things.
And speaking of Jen George, she'll be there with her husband. Oh, Joy Wizard.
[00:49:11] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: You can find us on social media. Ogocheckpod. You can rate and review us wherever you get podcasts from. You can find us on our sister podcast, Nerd Orchestra.
And you can find us right back here next week.
Just a few weeks short of celebrating the semi sesquicentennial of America. Tomahawk.
[00:49:38] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:49:39] Speaker A: With Ms. Liberty guest starring.
[00:49:43] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:49:43] Speaker A: You've seen her before.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I have.
[00:49:45] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, yeah.
Sorry we missed the big July 4th celebration, but I'm sorry, you got me
[00:49:52] Speaker B: a little stumped on the semi sesquice.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: That's the 250.
[00:49:54] Speaker B: I know, but I was like, we passed that.
[00:49:57] Speaker A: Oh, that's what I said. So we're a few weeks short. Late. Late is what I meant to say.
[00:50:01] Speaker B: Late. Okay. You said. You said short and I was like, what?
[00:50:04] Speaker A: I know, I know. As you said, I'm not trying to be super critical. I just like you are, Blanche. You are.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not trying to. Fish, wife.
[00:50:11] Speaker A: Yuck. Okay.
[00:50:12] Speaker B: It's just that you said that and I. And I. I was pausing. I was like, what is he talking about? That's what. What? So I'm with you, though, as you
[00:50:20] Speaker A: say I'm ad libbing the whole thing.
[00:50:22] Speaker B: That's okay. It's quite fine.
[00:50:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:50:25] Speaker B: I like your glasses.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: Thank you. They're new. Yeah, like the best that Walgreens had to offer.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: There you go. All right.
[00:50:32] Speaker A: Bye.
Wondering why.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: So we're kicking out the looking for.
Giving you a chance to look inside your mind.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: You be thr up
[00:50:55] Speaker B: the way it used to be. Looking at your life, leaving it all behind.
