Car Talk (Green Lantern 52)

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Are you ready? Yeah. [00:00:01] Speaker B: Are you with it? Yeah. [00:00:02] Speaker A: Okay, let's go. [00:00:04] Speaker B: You know what to do. [00:00:05] Speaker A: 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, Green Lantern 52. Cover date April 1967. Cover price $0.12. Cover artist Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson. Edited by Julia Schwartz. Featuring our mastermind, the Car. Written by John Broome. Art by Gil Kane. Are you ready? Are you with it? Then away we go. Go. Open up your eyes Take a look [00:01:11] Speaker B: at the world around you don't you [00:01:13] Speaker A: want to lend a helping hand? [00:01:17] Speaker B: Try it on for size. [00:01:19] Speaker A: You can find the feeling about you. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Come along and join in with the band. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Alan Scott travels to Earth One to visit Hal Jordan. Alan wants to send his old pal Doyby his old cab Goitrude as an anniversary present. Hal has kept the cab in his garage while Doybey has been off world. However, when Hal goes to retrieve the cab, it's missing. Confused? Don't worry. I'll be right back with doctor Husband to explain everything. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Everybody knows in a second life, we all come back sooner or later. As anything from a pussycat to a man eating alligator. Well, you all may think my story is more fiction than it's fact. But believe it or not, my mother dear decided she'd come back as a car. She's my very own guiding star. A 1928 Porter. That's my mother dear. She helps me through everything I do. And I'm so glad she's here. My mother car. My mother the car. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Well, as my mother used to say, is big storm coming this country. I learned all of my accents from her. [00:02:51] Speaker B: From your mother? [00:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:52] Speaker B: No wonder they're so bad. [00:02:54] Speaker A: No, but seriously, there is a giant storm happening right now. So we have all the animals in the room with us. You'll probably hear thunder and lightning. We don't have a basement. So we've taken shelter in the highest room in our house with the biggest window. We'll be fine. [00:03:09] Speaker B: The pets are with us. [00:03:11] Speaker A: So what a show that would be, wouldn't it? What if actually a tornado came through right as we're recording? Well, you have to. I'm the producer I have to think about these sorts of things. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Well, I went outside to watch it come in, didn't I? Yeah, because the trees were just waving back like crazy. But I thought, now, I have been through a tornado before inside a building. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Oh, right. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Remember? [00:03:36] Speaker A: I do remember. I was on the road when that was happening. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Two people died outside the building in that tornado. [00:03:42] Speaker A: I know, [00:03:44] Speaker B: it was awful. But anyway, I saw the trees whipping around, and I thought, oh, my gosh. I mean, it wasn't that bad, but I thought it was a tornado coming. So I went outside to look and, you know, see, there's something really beautiful about a storm that's coming in when you can smell the air, the change in the air, and you can just feel that kind of the wind blowing around, and you can feel the shift and the pressure. It's really quite beautiful. I mean, I obviously don't want to be in it right now because it's pouring down rain. [00:04:11] Speaker A: I'm hoping it'll relieve my Shazam Bago. [00:04:16] Speaker B: What's that? [00:04:17] Speaker A: Well, it's an ailment that Uncle Marvel had. [00:04:20] Speaker B: Oh. [00:04:20] Speaker A: It's why he couldn't fly like the other Marvels. [00:04:23] Speaker B: Oh, okay. You're not making that up? [00:04:27] Speaker A: No. [00:04:28] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:04:28] Speaker A: I'm not. It's in print. [00:04:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:30] Speaker A: It was true. [00:04:31] Speaker B: Well, how's your week been? [00:04:32] Speaker A: Oh, it's been all right. Yeah. Hey, remember when that tree fell in our yard and it was a windless day? [00:04:41] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:42] Speaker A: Not a cloud in the sky. Is that hail? [00:04:45] Speaker B: No. No, it's not. I'm looking at the pavement right now. No. [00:04:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I was just sitting. It was during COVID and I was working, and I was just sitting peacefully at my computer, and all of a sudden, tree just fell right down. No wind or anything. [00:05:00] Speaker B: I remember that now. I think that it had been raining a lot, and the ground was soaked, and the tree just gave up. [00:05:07] Speaker A: I prefer to think that it was an evil spell. [00:05:10] Speaker B: Okay. [00:05:10] Speaker A: Witch or genie? [00:05:11] Speaker B: Okay, I like your explanation better. [00:05:14] Speaker A: It was probably that neighbor. I think she was a witch. The old neighbor. [00:05:18] Speaker B: Okay. [00:05:19] Speaker A: She probably hexed it. [00:05:20] Speaker B: Hex. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Hex. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Heck, it's Fool. I had a nap today, didn't I, Lucky? I needed. Well, I've been studying and studying and studying, and it's a hard chapter, and I won't go into any more than that, except to say that, like, my brain has sort of gotten to the point where it just can't kind of process anything else. [00:05:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:39] Speaker B: And I took a nap, and I was. I know. I slept because my apple watch says that I Did, but in my brain. I mean, I was kind of aware. I know I slept, but I was literally working through all the things and the problems and the definitions and stuff throughout my entire dream. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Sure. [00:05:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So, anyway. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Well, that's what dreams are for. Working out problems. [00:06:04] Speaker B: Yes. And I'm very glad because I'm so close to the end of the first class and I am doing really well, so. [00:06:12] Speaker A: Yes. You've had steadily increasing grades. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. [00:06:16] Speaker A: You'll get a gold star at the end of the week. [00:06:18] Speaker B: I am hoping I will. Well, it's not in two more weeks, but, yeah, I'll be finished. Yes. And yes. And I have planned a little fun day for myself with a dear friend. [00:06:30] Speaker A: Yes. And. [00:06:32] Speaker B: What? [00:06:32] Speaker A: I'm not going. [00:06:33] Speaker B: You aren't going? I was so, like, couldn't believe you don't want to go. [00:06:37] Speaker A: Well, listen, I know, I know if it were King's Dominion, I would say yes, but hersheypark does not have rides that I fit in. You would now? No. Well, they're not fun rides. They're all those metal, twisted eternity things. At least King's Dominion has the Beast and the Log flume. [00:06:57] Speaker B: There are some intense roller coasters there. [00:06:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm fine. I'm going to sit silently and read comics. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. [00:07:05] Speaker A: Maybe I'll invite Chuck over to sit in silence. [00:07:07] Speaker B: So I'm off from my classes for a week, and I am planning to just, like, live it up. Live it up for a week. No responsibility except to practice and, you know, play, so. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:19] Speaker B: Well, I mean, you know, that's what I like to do anyway. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Sure. [00:07:22] Speaker B: I'm kind of a boring person, but, you know. [00:07:24] Speaker A: Right. [00:07:24] Speaker B: I like just what I do pretty much every night that I can practice. Practice. Yeah, play. [00:07:30] Speaker A: And we're going to a wedding this weekend. Family wedding. [00:07:34] Speaker B: I'm so excited. I love weddings. I love seeing your family. Our family. [00:07:39] Speaker A: Your. It's all of our family. [00:07:41] Speaker B: We've been together for over 33 years. [00:07:45] Speaker A: I just remembered that, Well, I don't know how long ago we actually got married, but. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Oh, my God. No. [00:07:53] Speaker A: I bought this shirt for that occasion, and I got a compliment on it in the liquor store today. Yes. Yes. [00:07:59] Speaker B: Because I have a matching shirt. We got matching shirts for. It was into D.C. city Hall. Yes, yes, yes, yes. [00:08:07] Speaker A: So I got a compliment from the young man at the liquor store, and I said, thank you. It's probably older than you are. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Mm. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Mm. Anything else exciting coming up? Um, gosh, Disclosure day is coming out. We can't see it. Cause we have to go to this wedding. [00:08:28] Speaker B: What's disclosure day? I'm sorry? [00:08:29] Speaker A: It's the new Spielberg movie. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:08:32] Speaker A: And then Supergirl comes out at the end of the month. Well, that's the week you'll be off class, so we'll have to. [00:08:37] Speaker B: What's the buzz? [00:08:39] Speaker A: Well, it depends where you listen. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Okay. [00:08:43] Speaker A: It's all the people that want to return the Snyderverse are already hating Supergirl, but Krypto's in it, so I'm on board. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Right. Okay. Okay. [00:08:56] Speaker A: I don't like the comic story that the movie is based on. Oh. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:03] Speaker A: But I'm going to give it a chance. [00:09:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:06] Speaker A: Solely for Krypto. And of course, Jason Momoa's in it, so gals will be. Well, he's playing. It's actually better casting than Aquaman ever was. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Who's he playing? Lobo. Oh, okay, cool. That's better. [00:09:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Do you even know who Lobo is? [00:09:21] Speaker B: Yeah, Lobo is a filthy war creature. Right? [00:09:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:25] Speaker B: That's great for Jason Momoa. Right? Yeah. Who, no matter how wet he looks, doesn't look like he has been cleaned. [00:09:31] Speaker A: Correct. And we could have had Alan Ritchson as Aquaman. [00:09:42] Speaker B: Ah, Alan Richardson. [00:09:44] Speaker A: You know, what's that show we watch? The big muscly guy? That. Is that his last name? Reacher? [00:09:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that's his last name. Richardson. [00:09:52] Speaker A: Reacher Richardson. Yes. Oh, but he was on Smallville. He played Aquaman on Smallville. Aqua Boy. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Aqua Boy. [00:10:00] Speaker A: He could have been perfect Aquaman now that he beefed up. [00:10:02] Speaker B: Yep, yep, yep, yep. [00:10:03] Speaker A: But, no, that's all right. Okay, so we are. It's your favorite superhero. [00:10:09] Speaker B: It is. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Green lantern. Yeah. Number 52, April 1967. We have on the COVID He's back again, for better and worse. The sinister Sinestro. Hal Jordan is giving his oath of office. [00:10:29] Speaker B: In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Let those who worship justice's might, Beware my power, Sinestro's light. [00:10:40] Speaker B: Sinestro does talk like this. [00:10:42] Speaker A: As you know, Rob Sinestro has a Yellow Lantern, which he got from the Weaponers of Qward in the Antimatter Universe. What you may not know is that it's later revealed that Sinestro. Well, we do know that Sinestro was a Green Lantern. [00:10:58] Speaker B: We do know that. Yeah. [00:10:59] Speaker A: But he also trained Hal Jordan. He was a trainer. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Okay, now. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Yeah, now they what? [00:11:09] Speaker B: I'm gonna need some guidance through this. A little bit of guidance. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Okay. [00:11:15] Speaker B: Because of the two Green Lanterns. And the Earth One. And the Earth Two. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Yes. Well, that's What I was about to say they buried the lead because right here in the splash page we have Alan Scott, Green lantern of Earth 2. Yes, along with his friend, Doy B. Dickels. They are being attacked by a taxi cab. A living, breathing taxi cab. [00:11:36] Speaker B: My mother the car. [00:11:39] Speaker A: This must 1967. This must be when my mother the car was on. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Oh, it has to be, because they mentioned it in the comic. [00:11:46] Speaker A: What? [00:11:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:47] Speaker A: Fantastic secret. [00:11:49] Speaker B: No, I was like, what? Didn't you read it? Yeah, go ahead. [00:11:52] Speaker A: What fantastic secret lay behind the mysterious transformation of Goitrude from a peaceable antique taxicab into the directing chieftain on wheels of a ruthless gang of desperados? This was the gnawing problem that absorbed the energies of two Green Lanterns. [00:12:09] Speaker B: Not just one, but two. [00:12:11] Speaker A: The one of yesterday and today's Emerald Gladiator. And embarked them side by side on one of the most astonishing adventures ever recorded. Our mastermind, the Car Rob. What have you heard about our Alan Scott? [00:12:30] Speaker B: He's a gay man. [00:12:31] Speaker A: He's a gay man now? [00:12:32] Speaker B: Yes, he's a gay man now. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Well, of course he wasn't in the 60s. No, he didn't talk about those things then. [00:12:38] Speaker B: No. [00:12:40] Speaker A: All right, are you ready for guidance yet? [00:12:45] Speaker B: Not yet. [00:12:45] Speaker A: Okay. As airplane mechanic Thomas Kalmaku, we are not going to mention his racist nickname. [00:12:54] Speaker B: No. [00:12:55] Speaker A: Relays warm regards to his wife from a letter he has just received. [00:12:59] Speaker B: And tell Terga, I sure miss her home cooked meals. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Hmm, that's sweet. Hal, as you recall, has left Coast [00:13:06] Speaker B: City because he's wandering. [00:13:09] Speaker A: He's trying to find himself wandering, just like Jack Kerouac because Carol Ferris married another. Yes, but he's written a letter to Tom because Tom knows that he is secretly Green Greenland. Trin. [00:13:23] Speaker B: Trin. [00:13:24] Speaker A: Trin. So he can't read all of the letters. So Turga has taken the baby out for a walk. We then learn that Hal has not only sent regards to Turga, but also to Doyby Dickles, old taxi cab deutrum. Is this where you need the guidance? [00:13:44] Speaker B: So here's my question. [00:13:45] Speaker A: Yes. [00:13:46] Speaker B: So Doy B. Dickels is the sort of sidekick of Alan Scott. Yes, but Alan Scott and Doybie Dickles reside in. Well, came from the parallel Earth or Earth 2. Yes. Okay, but what is the taxicab Goitrude doing in our Earth Prime? Yes, right. And then of course, I see the Doyvi Dickels has married some sort of intergalactic princess and lives on another planet. But then, is that planet in our dimension or another dimension? Because he has to use A special device. So I'm thinking he's in. In Earth two world. [00:14:29] Speaker A: He is in Dimension two. [00:14:30] Speaker B: Why is the taxicab in here in our dimension? [00:14:34] Speaker A: Because. So we did cover the previous adventure of Doy B. Dickels, in which he met and married Princess Reina in Universe two. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Okay. [00:14:50] Speaker A: But it also involved Hal Jordan. So part of it happened on Earth 1. And then I guess that's where Goitrude ended up. Because Hal kept Goitrud in his garage. [00:15:02] Speaker B: Yes. [00:15:02] Speaker A: Okay, I know you don't remember because it was a long time ago. [00:15:06] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Why? Well, because they had to somehow bring Goitrude to Earth one to help Hal with whatever he was doing. And then Doy B just took off to get married. [00:15:18] Speaker B: I guess it would require us to go back. Which we're not doing. [00:15:20] Speaker A: No, we're not. But you know, if you're interested listener, I will find out the episode number and put it in the show notes or something. [00:15:30] Speaker B: Good for you. [00:15:31] Speaker A: I'm just kidding. I don't do show notes. It's episode number 95. May 18, 2020. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Oh, that was during the pandemic in [00:15:41] Speaker A: the midst of COVID Yeah, right after the. [00:15:46] Speaker B: No wonder I don't remember it. [00:15:47] Speaker A: I know, right? [00:15:49] Speaker B: Probably if I had a bag of Doritos next to me, I could prompt my memory. Do you remember how we marked the passing of days by the number of [00:15:54] Speaker A: family sized bags of Doritos? Yes. [00:15:58] Speaker B: It was like two and a half days for us to eat a bag of family sized bag of Doritos. [00:16:02] Speaker A: That long? [00:16:03] Speaker B: Maybe it was two days, but I know we would just. It was like always going and getting [00:16:08] Speaker A: Doritos in my memory. It was paradise. [00:16:11] Speaker B: It was. [00:16:12] Speaker A: We need another pandemic. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Oh my God. What's wrong with you today? [00:16:16] Speaker A: What do you mean? [00:16:17] Speaker B: Tornadoes, Pandemics. Cut it out. [00:16:20] Speaker A: God. 2026 still has the word 2020 in it. We're not safe until 2033, according to the astrologers. Okay, but then it's a whole new world, so. All right, all right. So this story is going to be a flashback read from Tom's Green Lantern diary. A casebook. Sorry. Which he's going to read aloud to us, which is strange to break the [00:16:46] Speaker B: fourth wall and just talk to us, the readers. Well, I mean, it happens. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, but I. I mean, I don't know. Metamorpho can do it, why can't Tom? [00:16:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess you're right. [00:17:00] Speaker A: This is a story, a flashback from before Hal left Coast City. And we find Hal Inside a coffee shop near the apartment. Near his apartment. [00:17:14] Speaker B: Now, these dashed lines around their word balloons. Yeah. Is it. They're whispering. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Okay, I thought. They can't be talking telekinetically to each other. [00:17:27] Speaker A: He's joined by Alan Scott, the Green lantern of Earth 2, who's a gay man now. He's come to Earth 1 to visit hall because it's coming up on the first anniversary of Doy B. Dickels marriage. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Right. [00:17:50] Speaker A: So Alan thought it. [00:17:51] Speaker B: Girl, I could totally hit some eggs and fried potatoes right now. Let's. Fried potatoes. Oh, does that look good right now? [00:17:59] Speaker A: You know what they call that internationally? [00:18:01] Speaker B: Chip and egg. [00:18:02] Speaker A: Chips and egg. [00:18:02] Speaker B: Yep. [00:18:05] Speaker A: I am going to make you an egg for dinner, but it's going to be in Asian noodles. [00:18:09] Speaker B: Oh, I love that. I love when you make that listener. [00:18:12] Speaker A: I've got the easiest, quickest dinner. You take a half a bag of coleslaw mix, you saute it in sesame oil, you dump in a packet of cooked ramen noodles, mix that all up together, then you make a little sauce, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 2 tablespoons tamari, and another tablespoon of sesame oil. Mix that up, pour it in, put it in your bowl. You can put some chopped scallions and some sesame seeds on there if you want to. Then you fry an egg, slop that [00:18:50] Speaker B: on the top, you're done. [00:18:51] Speaker A: You're done. We usually have an egg roll with it to make a full meal. [00:18:56] Speaker B: It's delicious. [00:18:56] Speaker A: It's delicious. Easy. If you don't want to cook, which I never do. [00:19:01] Speaker B: But you do all the time. [00:19:02] Speaker A: You're so. I do all the time, and I actually. I do enjoy it, but. [00:19:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:06] Speaker A: At the end of the work day, you know. [00:19:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:08] Speaker A: I'm so tired from my working from home. [00:19:11] Speaker B: I do make dinner once in a while, but when I do, you know what you're gonna get? [00:19:15] Speaker A: Mexican. [00:19:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Or some sort of, like, really easy salad dish. Yeah. Like. Like, what did I make last year? [00:19:22] Speaker A: Chicken tender salad. [00:19:23] Speaker B: Chicken tender salad. I mean, I'll make the Test the salad from scratch. I don't do bag salads like you do. [00:19:28] Speaker A: No, I'll do a bag salad. [00:19:30] Speaker B: No, I make mine from scratch. But then why. I also like to make. Oh, what's that? Taco salad. You know, just like, basically make taco meat and do all the vegetables in there and stuff like that on top. So I love that. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Well, that's too much work for me. [00:19:43] Speaker B: So you do a little ring of tortilla chips for Bob's, your Uncle Doritos. Oh, shut up, girl. [00:19:50] Speaker A: All right, so Alan has the idea that they can use their combined power rings to send Goitrude to Doybe. [00:19:58] Speaker B: Yeah. What are they gonna do? Like, wrap it up in a. Like wrap it up in a power beam and just. Cause it's in another dimension? [00:20:06] Speaker A: Yes. They have to take it to Universe two. [00:20:08] Speaker B: He says they're gonna project the car to doibi, Right? Yeah. [00:20:11] Speaker A: I don't know why they can't just take it and surprise him. They are also. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Well, he's not only in another dimension, he's on another planet. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Correct. [00:20:20] Speaker B: Yes. [00:20:21] Speaker A: In another dimension. [00:20:22] Speaker B: In another dimension. [00:20:24] Speaker A: So they have. [00:20:27] Speaker B: I have another question. [00:20:28] Speaker A: Yes. [00:20:29] Speaker B: I'm sorry for all these interruptions, but you know, I love Green Lantern. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Yes. [00:20:33] Speaker B: Gertrude's yellow. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Yes. Oh, well, Alan's there. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Okay. And Alan isn't powerless to yellow. [00:20:44] Speaker A: No, he is powerless to wood. [00:20:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:20:48] Speaker A: I mean, obviously not counting that he's a gay man. [00:20:52] Speaker B: He's a gay, but. So Hal Jordan would have no problem wrapping up Goitrude and transporting her with Alan Scott's help to another dimension, even though she's yellow? [00:21:06] Speaker A: Well, yes. And also Hal says they will, or Alan says they will use their combined power beams to gift wrap it. So I guess if the gift wrap is red or blue or something. [00:21:15] Speaker B: But like, if it's a yellow thing, right? And he's not fighting it, it's, you know, he's gonna be okay, right? Like, it's not like he can't eat bananas or anything stupid like that, right? He can't avoid all things y. Yeah, he can. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Because. [00:21:29] Speaker B: What? [00:21:29] Speaker A: Like one time in Super Friends, even Aquaman's hair blocked a power beam because it was yellow. [00:21:36] Speaker B: You've got to be kidding me. I'm not kidding you. That is taking things a little bit far. [00:21:40] Speaker A: It is. [00:21:41] Speaker B: Does he not. Is he not able to digest bananas? [00:21:45] Speaker A: Well, he can digest bananas. He just can't use his power ring on a banana. [00:21:49] Speaker B: Why would he want to use a power ring on a banana anyway? [00:21:53] Speaker A: If someone say there's a supervillain with firing bananas out of a gun, what's the Gorilla Grog? Gorilla Grog? [00:22:01] Speaker B: Gorilla Grog is attacking with a. With a giant banana. [00:22:05] Speaker A: Like, throwing bananas at super. [00:22:07] Speaker B: How Jordan would be powerless. [00:22:10] Speaker A: He'd be dead. [00:22:14] Speaker B: I'm surprised you didn't yell at me and say, this is your stupid scenario. Why are you telling me this? [00:22:19] Speaker A: We learned that Hal has kept Gotrude's battery charged. [00:22:24] Speaker B: By the way, I would take. I was paying attention to this. I have something to Ask about pretty much every freaking game. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Good. [00:22:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:22:30] Speaker A: I like that. They are committed to spelling out Goitrude in Brooklyn East. Thank you. [00:22:35] Speaker B: Now, one thing that I can't go on this page until we talk about this. [00:22:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:40] Speaker B: Goitrud, as it was revealed in the end of the story, was invisible. [00:22:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:46] Speaker B: How did howl open the garage and not know that Goitrude was, I mean, and say, oh my gosh, she's been stolen? Does he reveal her when. When he opens up the garage? I mean, do you know what I'm saying? Like, did you think about that when you read it? [00:23:03] Speaker A: No, I didn't even notice that detail. [00:23:08] Speaker B: It's. It must be the side effect of managerial accounting also that's driving me insane. [00:23:16] Speaker A: I see here that Goitrude is actually orange, so I think Hal's okay. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Are you sure? [00:23:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyway, Goitrude's been stolen and Alan says that's curious that they would steal that old Cab from the 1940s and leave your deluxe sports car lying alongside untouched. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Yellow. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Yellow. [00:23:36] Speaker B: Maybe he can't drive it. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Well, remember now when Hal left town, or maybe it was before he left town. He decided he was only going to use his power ring as a last resort. He was gonna use his fists much more. [00:23:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:52] Speaker A: So maybe having a yellow sports car is part of that scheme to place himself in danger at every moment. [00:23:58] Speaker B: I don't. Oh, look at that. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Is it a rainbow? [00:24:01] Speaker B: No. Well, no, but the sun's coming through and there's a dark, dark, dark gray sky in the background. So it's. [00:24:06] Speaker A: That's my favorite look for the sky. [00:24:08] Speaker B: I love this. Oh, it's beautiful. Yeah. [00:24:12] Speaker A: So also, I don't know why Alan Scott has to rip his clothes off to reveal his costume candy. He just uses ring to change clothes like Hal does. Did he rip his clothes off? Yes. Look, he's ripping his shirt off. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Oh, I thought that was just a bunch of newspaper from Halloween jetting away. [00:24:30] Speaker A: So Hal collects newspapers in his garage along with his sports car, [00:24:36] Speaker B: and it's a visible taxi cab. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Yeah, he's a hoarder. So the boys take off to investigate. [00:24:43] Speaker B: That's an expensive investment. What, just rip your clothes off like that? I mean, look how it looks like he's torn. It looks like. Well, he is a gay man. [00:24:51] Speaker A: He's a gay man now he's torn [00:24:53] Speaker B: his clothes off in the presence of Hal Jordan. [00:24:55] Speaker A: I know. [00:24:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Meanwhile, in another part of the night enshrouded city, an old fashioned taxi rolls along. But even a casual observer might discern an incredible sight that there is no one at the wheel. [00:25:10] Speaker B: What? What? [00:25:11] Speaker A: What? We. It's Goitru. She's got telepathic powers informing her that a crime is going on around the corner. [00:25:18] Speaker B: My goodness. [00:25:19] Speaker A: She wheels around, she hears gunfire. She comes upon a gang in a gun battle with police emerging from a bank, which they must have robbed. So Goitrude wheels up, tells the gang to get in, and off she goes, evading the police. [00:25:39] Speaker B: She does. And she pulls up to the hideout of the bank robbers. [00:25:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:46] Speaker B: They're like, how do you know we're going to be here? And. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Because she can read your mind. Yeah. And she starts fish wiping right away. Thank you. This is your hideout. It's a slum. Later on, we'll move to more suitable headquarters. [00:25:59] Speaker B: So the crooks, of course, are trying to look everywhere to see where the voice is coming from. [00:26:03] Speaker A: And their first suspicion is that there must be a midget under the hood. [00:26:08] Speaker B: They said midget. [00:26:10] Speaker A: I know. [00:26:11] Speaker B: Well, 60s. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Well, it's not. It's just a regular old car. The voice is coming. They don't know where the voice is coming from. G, G, G. This must be like that TV show, Our Mother, the Car. Well, it's My Mother, the Car. You're aware of that show? [00:26:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:29] Speaker A: Do you suppose all our listeners are, too? [00:26:31] Speaker B: It was a television show about a woman who dies and becomes a car and inhabits a car, right? [00:26:35] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:36] Speaker B: How'd she die? In a car wreck. [00:26:38] Speaker A: Hang on, I'm looking it up. It's an American fantasy sitcom that aired for a single season on NBC between September 14, 19 and April 5, 1966. Thirty episodes were produced. The series is about a man whose deceased mother is reincarnated as an antique car who communicates with him through the car radio. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Wow. [00:26:59] Speaker A: It was, you know, all the rage [00:27:01] Speaker B: to have talking animals. [00:27:03] Speaker A: Talking animals? Mr. Ed and my Favorite Martian and Bewitched and I Dream of Genie, the Flying Nun. [00:27:09] Speaker B: All sorts of fantasies. [00:27:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It starred Jerry Van Dyke, which pretty much ruined his early career, I'm sure. And the voice of the car was Golden Age great actress Anne Southern. Oh. [00:27:27] Speaker B: So they should use Hermione Granger as the mother. Hermione Gringold. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Hermione Gingold. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Gingold. [00:27:35] Speaker A: Well, that wouldn't make sense to have Jerry Van Dyke have a cockney mother. [00:27:40] Speaker B: Oh, she's not the person I'm thinking. Yes, she is. [00:27:46] Speaker A: Glynis Johns you're thinking of. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Thank you very much. Glynis Johns. Who's Hermione Gingold? [00:27:52] Speaker A: Hermione Gingold was the maid Ellen in Mary Poppins. And she was the old homeless woman on Little House on the Prairie. [00:27:59] Speaker B: Oh, no. I was thinking of Glynis Jones. Yes, the daughters. Daughters will adore us as we sing in grateful chorus. Well done, sister. [00:28:12] Speaker A: Suffragettes again. It wouldn't fit with Jerry Van Dyke. [00:28:19] Speaker B: But wouldn't her voice sound great coming out of her car radio? [00:28:22] Speaker A: Sure, I'd love to have a car like that. [00:28:24] Speaker B: Wouldn't you love to have a ghost car? [00:28:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:28:27] Speaker B: Hell, yes. Oh, my God. [00:28:28] Speaker A: Well, it depends who the ghost is. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Like I would. I wouldn't want Whitney Houston as my ghost. [00:28:35] Speaker A: No. [00:28:35] Speaker B: Or. [00:28:36] Speaker A: Or my father. [00:28:38] Speaker B: Pull over to this neighborhood and get me. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Get me some crack runner. Slow. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Or your mom. Honk, honk. Meet me at church on Sunday. [00:28:47] Speaker A: Watch out. There's children 500 yards ahead. You better put the brake on. All right, the car's giving them orders. They have to get back in and go places because Goitrud's gonna show them how to commit a real crime. Meanwhile, the Green Lanterns have met up with the police. They don't believe their story. You mean to say there was no one at the wheel of the old taxi that zoomed in, carried off the thieves? Officer? [00:29:15] Speaker B: Mm. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Well, they figure out that taxi cab, based on the description could have been Goitrude. And Alan says if Joy B. Ever hears about this, he'll absolutely die of shame. Here's Goitrude helping criminals. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Why don't they say Gertrude? [00:29:34] Speaker A: Because it's Goitrude. [00:29:36] Speaker B: I know, but that's all. [00:29:37] Speaker A: Did you ever read? As you know, Harvey comics were my gateway drug. Did you ever read Spooky, the tough little ghost? [00:29:43] Speaker B: No. [00:29:44] Speaker A: He also spoke with a Brooklyn accent. His girlfriend's name was Pearl, but they always spelled it Poil. My Goyle Poil. All right, so I never knew why Spooky had a dog nose. He wasn't a ghost dog. Not like Nightmare, the ghost horse. He was Casper's cousin. Casper didn't have a dog nose. Casper wasn't a dog. [00:30:06] Speaker B: Casper was a child. [00:30:07] Speaker A: The ghostly trio didn't have dog noses, only Spooky. [00:30:10] Speaker B: How did Casper die? [00:30:12] Speaker A: In the comics, Casper was created ghost from scratch. He was not. He was a supernatural creature that was not a dead child. That's made up for the Christina Ricci movie. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:30:27] Speaker A: No, he was not the ghost of Richie Rich. [00:30:30] Speaker B: Oh, okay. All right. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Boy, whatever happened to Richie Rich? That wouldn't go over so good these days, would it? [00:30:38] Speaker B: No. No. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Richest boy in the World. [00:30:40] Speaker B: Poor little rich boy. Trumpy Trump. [00:30:44] Speaker A: But I've got a good idea for a parody comic. [00:30:49] Speaker B: You do? [00:30:50] Speaker A: And instead of Casper, it could be the ghost of Ivana. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Rising up out of a golf course. [00:30:57] Speaker A: Yes. All right. Goitrud has ordered the crooks to block. What do they call those cars that carry money? Armored cars. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Armored cars. [00:31:14] Speaker A: The armored car is blocked. The ghosts or the guards? The ghosts. The guards get out and approach Goitude. And they're shocked when they touch. Like literally. [00:31:23] Speaker B: They're literally electrocuted. [00:31:27] Speaker A: Because apparently all cars apparently have the ability to send an electric shock through their battery. Well, ghost cars do well, right? So the guys bust out of the car, they trap the guards, they start loading money into Goitrude. Just then, the Green Lanterns show up. [00:31:44] Speaker B: We haven't had one good shot of Hal Jordan's ass. No, he is famously the best drawn ass in all of comics. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Well, maybe he's just being careful since he's in the presence of a gay man. [00:31:58] Speaker B: Stop. He's not gay in this timeline. Well, in this. In this period. [00:32:03] Speaker A: I mean, that's not a bad. Top of page nine. Alan Scott's kind of. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Wait, let me see. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Giving Luke's. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Where? Oh, yeah. Okay. [00:32:13] Speaker A: All right. They arrive, but Goitrud blinds the Green Lanterns with her headlights and then chokes them up with exhaust. And shortly, on the far off world of Mirg in the Galaxy 882, where Doybie Dickles lives with his bride, Princess Ramia. [00:32:33] Speaker B: She's knitting something. [00:32:34] Speaker A: She's knitting. I wonder if she's. [00:32:36] Speaker B: She's pregnant. [00:32:36] Speaker A: That's what I first thought. Yes. All right. Doibby has just received a message over super galactic ring receiver from Alan Scott. What? [00:32:51] Speaker B: Look what he calls him. Alan Scott Green Lantern. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Yeah, of course that's what his name is. [00:33:04] Speaker B: Lantern. [00:33:04] Speaker A: He calls him Lantern Lantern because he's from Brooklyn. [00:33:08] Speaker B: I've always called Green Lantern Green Lantern, but not because of doybie Dickles. [00:33:12] Speaker A: Are you from Brooklyn? No. [00:33:14] Speaker B: Of course, yes, I'm from Brooklyn. Listen to my accent. My very strong Brooklyn accent. [00:33:20] Speaker A: So Alan did not give Doybie any details. Just told him to meet him on Earth one because he needs his help. And Princess Ramia says you'd better leave at once. You can take the royal space scooter. And don't forget your dimension changer. You'll need it to get to Earth One. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Right, so he gets a signal on his ring from another dimension. [00:33:40] Speaker A: Yes. [00:33:41] Speaker B: He needs to leave the planet. [00:33:42] Speaker A: Correct. [00:33:42] Speaker B: And travel to another dimension to help [00:33:44] Speaker A: Hal Jordan and another Planet? Yes. It turns out Alan gave doibby a ring in case. [00:33:50] Speaker B: Oh, Alan. Scott. He needs to help Alan. [00:33:52] Speaker A: Scott. Alan gave him a ring in case he ever needed to contact him. He didn't realize it would be used because he needed my help. And that makes me wonder what could be wrong. How can I help? Green Lantern? How do you like my Brooklyn accent? Sure seems strange for me to be going to his assistant, but I'll find out soon. What's up? This royal scooter really hightails along. Meanwhile, on Earth one, here comes doibi. [00:34:17] Speaker B: What American accent do you think is harder to listen to? The Boston accent or the Brooklyn accent? [00:34:25] Speaker A: Oh, Boston for sure. Right. Me too. [00:34:28] Speaker B: I agree. Yeah. [00:34:31] Speaker A: They greet each other warmly. And they give Doybbie the sad news that Goitrude has taken up a life of crime. [00:34:38] Speaker B: My Goitrude. [00:34:39] Speaker A: And we can't explain it. All we know is the car is leading a gang of crooks in a spectacular crime wave. And they might have stopped it by now, but they're afraid of damaging Goitrude. Only Doybie can talk her off the ledge. So they fly Doy b out to find Goitrud. And elsewhere they come upon Goitrude. They land on the road in front of her. And she finds those flashlights at them. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Yeah, headlights. And there's a strange power coming off of them. And they are paralyzed. All of them. Both the Green Lanterns and Doybi paralyzed. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Motionless. [00:35:19] Speaker B: Motionless. [00:35:21] Speaker A: Uh, Goitrud explains that she has simply paralyzed them by an intense mental onslaught of their nervous systems. Operating through the super activated photons of the headlights and synchronized with the laser like light beam. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Boy, that's awfully sophisticated. Speak from a car. [00:35:37] Speaker A: The effects will last at least 24 hours. Long enough for me to carry out my overall plan. But I must start now. Stand back, all of you. [00:35:46] Speaker B: I hope they don't need to have any some important biological elimination functions in the next 24 hours. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Further. Get back. I'm about to tap the energy in the power rings of the two paralyzed Green Lanterns with this noise. Bo Groub. What kind of a noise is that? [00:36:08] Speaker B: I was wondering about that. Bo Graub. Well. [00:36:12] Speaker A: Oh, what's this? Out of the wrecked vehicle, an astonishing figure has materialized. Is it by magic? [00:36:20] Speaker B: Now remember something? [00:36:21] Speaker A: Yes. [00:36:22] Speaker B: This little first word, bubble. What does it say above Sinestro's head? The first one on the left. [00:36:27] Speaker A: The car is demolished. [00:36:29] Speaker B: But look, remember that the car is demolished. [00:36:31] Speaker A: Okay? [00:36:32] Speaker B: Okay. He says. What? You don't recognize me? It's true. I Gained weight on my energy diet in the amber in which Green Lantern had imprisoned me. And so I'm somewhat bigger than I was before. I still think you'd know me at once. I'm Sinestro, Green Lantern's mortal enemy. This bitch comes out of swole amber and she's like, uh, it's true. I'm bigger than I was. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Like, yeah. What? Why? [00:37:00] Speaker B: What? Why? [00:37:01] Speaker A: What an interesting detail. [00:37:02] Speaker B: What an interesting thing to say. It's like, hi, everyone, it's me, Sinestro. I know I've put on a little bit of weight, but, you know, I've been stuck in amber. [00:37:11] Speaker A: It's all muscle. I've had literally nothing to eat but amber energy. [00:37:15] Speaker B: I'm swole. It's hilarious. [00:37:20] Speaker A: I was trapped in amber. I had nothing to do but work out. Yes. Hal had trapped Sinestro in a block of amber, which Hal. Because amber is yellow. [00:37:33] Speaker B: I have no idea. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Is it not? [00:37:34] Speaker B: Yes, it's in the yellow family. [00:37:37] Speaker A: And he was keeping Sinestro in amber in his garage alongside his sports car. And Goitrude. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:44] Speaker A: We learn in a minute. All right. With his mind imprisoned in the car. [00:37:50] Speaker B: Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm doing this. [00:37:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:52] Speaker B: I'm not gonna do all of this, but I have to do this. With my mind imprisoned in that car, I saw only one way to free myself. By using the combined ring force to my foes. A typically ironic, sinister maneuver, if I may say so. [00:38:05] Speaker A: Is that really irony? [00:38:07] Speaker B: No, it's not. [00:38:08] Speaker A: It's Alanis Morissette irony. [00:38:10] Speaker B: Yeah, he's been. He's been. All he's had to do is work out in the amber. Yeah, he's had. He's had far too long without face to face contact. [00:38:20] Speaker A: So the crooks are like, er. Cool story, bro. I guess you don't need us anymore. [00:38:26] Speaker B: You have red skin. You're weird. [00:38:30] Speaker A: Nonsense. I'm recruiting you as the nucleus of my criminal army to carry out a gigantically evil skill. You wouldn't think of refusing to join me, would you? No, no, no, no, no. Would you? [00:38:43] Speaker B: Good. [00:38:43] Speaker A: Before I go, I see doy. B. Dickels is carrying a device on him I can put to good use. It's the dimension change bro changer. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Oh. How's he gonna get home? [00:38:53] Speaker A: Well, I don't know, but what's Sinestro gonna do with it? [00:38:56] Speaker B: And as for you two justice loving crusaders, by the time your paralysis wears off, it will be too late for you to interfere with my plans. So far. Too late. [00:39:04] Speaker A: Ha, ha, ha. So Sinestro takes off with his yellow Power ring with these crooks in toes. And not long afterward, on the planet of Oa, the far off home of that all but mythical race, the mighty Guardians of the Universe. [00:39:18] Speaker B: Reporting to Control. We have just completed our daily inspection of the Master Power Battery. All is well. It is functioning perfectly as usual. [00:39:28] Speaker A: Nothing must ever go wrong with this Master Battery. It supplies the energy to the smaller batteries. Our brave Green Lanterns. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Just as the inspection ends. Look, the Master Battery. [00:39:41] Speaker A: It is fading away. [00:39:42] Speaker B: And in the next instant, incredibly, the battery has vanished. [00:39:46] Speaker A: Ah. And suddenly, before the shot Guardians, the giant head of Sinestro appears. [00:39:51] Speaker B: I see you recognize me, my former superiors and self righteous judges. Yes, it is I, Sinestro. I have taken your Master Battery and transported it to another dimension. Another universe over which you Guardians have no power. You will never get it back. This is the end of your anti evil reign. But it is just the beginning of mine. I will use my Great Battery. I will use your Great Battery in my own way to restore the power of evil in the cosmos. That is my mission. My destiny. [00:40:19] Speaker A: Farewell. Quickly, contact Control at once. [00:40:23] Speaker B: He is mad. [00:40:25] Speaker A: So out from Oa flashes an urgent message to Green Lanterns across the universe. This is a cosmic emergency. Sinestro is at large once again. He has stolen the Master Power Battery. It must be recovered within the next 24 hours or your rings will be powerless. Evil will overrun the universe. [00:40:48] Speaker B: And on Earth, Sinestro must be found, says Hal Jordan. [00:40:51] Speaker A: So Hal's gotten the message from his ring. [00:40:53] Speaker B: Yes, because he's standing there looking his hands up in front of him, and [00:40:57] Speaker A: Hal says, it's my responsibility to stop this because I put him in the Amber Cube from which he managed to escape. Somehow I must recapture him. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Way to take responsibility, Hal. Good for you. And as the full weight of that [00:41:08] Speaker A: has happened and he can't wait until his paralysis wears off, because then his ring will be dead. [00:41:11] Speaker B: Yes, and as we know, Hal Jordan has incredible willpower. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Well, he was a test pilot. Yes, of course. Calling a pencil strength. Yes. Calling upon the deepest reserves of his invincible willpower, Hal strains to regain control over his nerves and muscles. Alan senses what Hal is doing, and he's going to try to aid him. Concentrating mentally to project his willpower to back up Hal's own. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Let me help you, buddy. [00:41:41] Speaker A: Then, as the combined force of will of the Crusaders burst, the invisible box gripping Hal. In seconds after surging Emerald Energy has liberated the other two. [00:41:58] Speaker B: Ah. [00:42:00] Speaker A: Release. All right. It turns out Sinestro has gone into Earth too. [00:42:06] Speaker B: Hey, folks, I'm sorry. This has really gotten really, really way, like way over on the scale of gay O meter. [00:42:15] Speaker A: Right. There's a warning on itunes. Okay, they'll be fine. Yeah, unless it's they're a first time listener. And Republic first time. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Good luck. [00:42:24] Speaker A: Sorry, folks. [00:42:25] Speaker B: They're all like this. If you're a first time listener. [00:42:28] Speaker A: All right. Also, what is this? That says the Master Power battery must be recovered within the next 48 hours. I thought it was 24. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Thank you. There's lots of inconsistencies here. What did I tell you to remember [00:42:38] Speaker A: from a few pages back that Goitrude was destroyed? [00:42:41] Speaker B: Keep that in mind. [00:42:43] Speaker A: All right. Hal and Alan take off. They tell Doye wants to come, and they say no. Taking on Sinestro and his criminal army is a job for me and Al, and we don't want you to get hurt. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Doyuby. [00:42:54] Speaker A: Yes. [00:42:55] Speaker B: A good shot of Hal Jordan's butt. [00:42:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:57] Speaker B: Yep. [00:42:58] Speaker A: But before the doughty. Oh, I thought that's a doughy. Which also fits. [00:43:03] Speaker B: Doybbi. [00:43:04] Speaker A: Before the doughty ex cabbie can protest, they fly off to breach the barrier between Earth 1 and 2. Yes, but Doibby's not just going to stand around. He's still got his little spaceship there. And what they don't realize is that his wife, Princess Raimia, send him to school on Murg to learn some simple futuristic science. And he can use his space scooter toolkit to make a new dimension changer in place of the one Sinestro stole so that he can also get to Earth too. And what do you know? Yoinks it works. He does. He finds the Master Power Battery on Earth 2 where Sinestro is waiting. [00:43:50] Speaker B: He's just standing there by the battery. [00:43:56] Speaker A: So he has actually beaten Hal and Alan there. So Doibby takes off, Sinestro chases him, then Hal and Allen appear and what do you think they find? A whole bunch of little Sinestro Corps members. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Yeah. So I guess he recruits them or something. [00:44:15] Speaker A: He recruited them? I guess he went to his home planet. But they all have reds. [00:44:19] Speaker B: Yeah, sorry, they're not experienced fighters. No, we'll find out here in a second. They all have red skin. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. [00:44:26] Speaker A: And they are using their new rings to charge at the Master Power Battery with their evil oath. In brightest day and blackest night, no justice shall escape my sight. Let those who worship justice as might, beware my power. Evil Green Lanterns light. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Well, let's go forward a few pages. Wow. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 pages. Well, we got a bunch of people of. Where's Sinestro from? Do you know? I don't know. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Sinestro is from the planet Korugar. [00:44:57] Speaker B: Oh, so these must be Some Korugarians of Earth 2. Of Earth 2. [00:45:00] Speaker A: Korugar 2. [00:45:01] Speaker B: Korugar 2. Okay. In the battle of Power Rings that promptly breaks out, a certain experience born of countless combats on the side of justice pays off. [00:45:10] Speaker A: Yes, the evil Green Lanterns haven't learned to attack to back their rings with their willpower. That's a trick you don't learn overnight. Except Hal literally learned it overnight. So I also did Alan. But I guess it helps if you're on the side of good, not evil, right? [00:45:28] Speaker B: And moments later, as the hard pressed space shooter, using evasive space scooter. Oh, space scooter, Sorry. Using evasive tactics, flashes over the scene once more, just a tick ahead of its awesome pursuer. [00:45:43] Speaker A: So they've beaten Sinestro's henchmen. But Great Guardians, here comes Doiby. Followed by Sinestro. All right. Sinestro realizes he's got to take care of these two gentlemen. And now Sinestro has two power rings. One green and one yellow. How he's gonna use his. [00:46:03] Speaker B: What? Where did he get them? Did he make them? [00:46:08] Speaker A: He probably made them from a power battery. All right, all right. He's shooting his yellow beam at Hal because he knows Hal's ring has no defense against anything yellow. And Alan has to act fast to block the beam with his own ring because he is not powerless against yellow. So, Halloween. Oh, I think this is a misprint. Alan says I've used my ring to turn Sinestro's yellow beam back. But based on the art, I think he means to say I've turned the yellow beam black. It must be because now Hal can fight against it. [00:46:48] Speaker B: Right? Right. Oh, it must be black. Yeah, it's clearly black. [00:46:52] Speaker A: Bah. I'm still more than a match for you two simpering justice lovers. And I'll prove it. [00:46:58] Speaker B: I just have to say, if I were listening to this. Yeah, I much prefer your gay voice over mine for Sinistro. [00:47:04] Speaker A: Cause I'm twice as gay as you. [00:47:08] Speaker B: I didn't realize it was a scale. [00:47:10] Speaker A: Well, sure, it's a sliding scale. Also, I've had years more practice being gay than you have. [00:47:18] Speaker B: Because I'm older by a few more years. [00:47:20] Speaker A: Well, okay, cradle robber. All right. [00:47:25] Speaker B: And to be specific, just over four years. [00:47:27] Speaker A: Yes, but Hal and Alan are momentarily stunned. But then Hal suggests that they combine their Two beams into one for double power. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Mm. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Which they do. And the two Lanterns hit Sinestro so hard they knocked the power rings clear off his fingers. And now they could use good old fistycuffs. [00:47:52] Speaker B: It's time for fistfights. [00:47:54] Speaker A: Later, after Green Beam power has returned the Master power battery to OA1 and Sinestro along with it, the Guardians themselves will deal with Sinestro. Now, Alan, after this latest escapade, they have decided that. Oh, wait, I forgot to do my Green Lantern voice. The Guardians are now, Alan, after this latest escapade, they have decided that he merits their personal attention to make sure he never troubles them or anyone else again. [00:48:31] Speaker B: In the aftermath of victory, certain facts emerge. [00:48:35] Speaker A: And what happened in the beginning involving your taxi doy b was this. Blah, blah, blah. He'd imprisoned Sinestro in an amber cube and he kept the Cuban visibly in his garage along with Goitrude. He thought Sinestro was helpless. [00:48:49] Speaker B: Oh, I misunderstood. His cube was invisible. Perhaps Goitrud wasn't. [00:48:54] Speaker A: But it was only his body that was helpless. His mind, vigorous and restless as ever, managed to tap the power in Goitrude's recharged battery and send out a shockwave that cracked the amber, enabling his mind to escape and enter the car. And you know the rest. [00:49:11] Speaker B: As the time for parting nears for the three friends. How Alan Scott says. [00:49:18] Speaker A: Yes. [00:49:18] Speaker B: How? Doybey says he'd rather not have Goitrud on merg. He says she'd look too old fashioned there. So, as our present to Doiby on his first wedding anniversary, I've used my ring to make a substitute gift. The scale model of Goitrude, exact in every detail. Now, what was the fact that I [00:49:36] Speaker A: asked you to remember that Goitrude was destroyed? [00:49:39] Speaker B: He says that Doybi would rather not have Goitrud on Murg. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:46] Speaker B: In order to give him the gift of Geitrud, they'd have to remake Geitrude, [00:49:51] Speaker A: which they can easily do with their parents. Can they? Yes. Have you read a Green Lantern comic ever? Yes. Yes, he can. They could remake Gertrude. [00:50:01] Speaker B: She was astroid. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Yes. If they can make a scale model perfect in every detail, they could certainly make a full size Goitrud. [00:50:09] Speaker B: Okay, well, Doybey's overwhelmed. [00:50:13] Speaker A: They could do anything with willpower. Doiby's so touched. He's about to ball. [00:50:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:21] Speaker A: All right. Doibby takes off with his gift. Alan explains that Sinestro intended to use his sinister Green Lanterns to flood the universe with evil and destroy justice wherever it exists. Just as it's the Green Lantern's mission to destroy evil. Evil wherever it exists. [00:50:37] Speaker B: He failed. As those who worship evil must always fail. But now I must get back to my own Earth. Alan, we'll meet again soon, I trust. [00:50:46] Speaker A: We sure will, Hal. [00:50:49] Speaker B: And after Hal returned home, he used his ring to restore Goitrud. [00:50:52] Speaker A: There, you see? He used his ring to restore Goitrude. [00:50:55] Speaker B: Oh, I guess I was so angry over the whole idea of Goitrude being destroyed and then offered to do. Okay, well, well, shame on me. Bad Brob. And he put the car back in storage for safekeeping. Then he told me that would be Tom all about the adventure. Just as I've recounted it to you, reader from my casebook of Green Lantern the. [00:51:16] Speaker A: The end. Well, I like the story, as you know. I like anytime they have the Earth Two and Earth ones team up. I know you famously hate Earth 2, but former me. Okay, all right, all right, all right. [00:51:32] Speaker B: A perfect way to get me comfortable with Earth 2 and Earth 1 is to introduce Green Lantern. It's always a gateway drug for me for new things. [00:51:40] Speaker A: Sure. What you may not know is that it's later revealed that the Guardians of the Universe attempted to strip all magic and send it to another dimension [00:51:56] Speaker B: from [00:51:56] Speaker A: the Earth one dimension. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Okay. [00:51:57] Speaker A: And they sent the magic to the Earth 2 dimension. And that's where Alan's ring comes from. Because it was implanted in a meteor that fell to Earth in ancient China. And then various people used the power of the meteor until it was finally shaped into a lantern and was on the train where Alan Scott was the caboose manager. Right. Or something. And train wrecked. And he found the lantern and it gave him powers. Something like that. I don't remember. [00:52:32] Speaker B: But doesn't he. Doesn't Allen Scott also report to oa? [00:52:37] Speaker A: No. [00:52:38] Speaker B: Oh, he doesn't? [00:52:38] Speaker A: No. [00:52:39] Speaker B: Okay. [00:52:40] Speaker A: Because they're not in Earth too. [00:52:41] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:52:42] Speaker A: That's fine. [00:52:43] Speaker B: Okay. [00:52:47] Speaker A: No. He sheds his light over the dark things. For the dark things cannot stand the light of the Green Lantern. [00:52:52] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:52:57] Speaker A: And his ring is more magic based. [00:53:00] Speaker B: Okay. [00:53:01] Speaker A: Versus Hal's super scientific ring. [00:53:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:53:07] Speaker A: That's all I. That's the only information I have for you. [00:53:10] Speaker B: Well, don't. I just feel like I've been on a wonderful road of fun and silliness. [00:53:15] Speaker A: Sure. Welcome to our life. [00:53:18] Speaker B: That the storm is way long gone but the sky is still dark. Oh, and there's a rainbow. [00:53:23] Speaker A: Can you see it? No. [00:53:25] Speaker B: Of course. [00:53:26] Speaker A: Lean forward. Hang on. [00:53:29] Speaker B: Look. [00:53:30] Speaker A: Look. I'm sure. [00:53:32] Speaker B: Isn't that beautiful? Oh, Isn't that nice? [00:53:36] Speaker A: You can find us on social media at GoGoCheckPod. You can rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts from. You can find us on our sister podcast, Nerd Orchestra. And you can find us right back here next week with Action Comics. [00:53:51] Speaker B: Action Comics. [00:53:52] Speaker A: Featuring Crypto. [00:53:55] Speaker B: Really? [00:53:56] Speaker A: Well, he does appear the story. [00:53:57] Speaker B: All right. [00:54:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, bye. [00:54:06] Speaker B: We've been living in the dark can't help wondering why Wondering why? So we're kicking out the hedge Looking for. Me Thrown up in misery L the way it used to be Looking at your life Thinking it all behind. [00:54:36] Speaker A: It. [00:54:47] Speaker B: Looking for the world.