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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Are you ready?
[00:00:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Are you with it?
[00:00:02] Speaker A: 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, the Adventures of Jerry Lewis. 99. Cover date March 1967 cover price $0.12. Cover artist Bob Oxner. Edited by Murray Boltanoff. Featuring the School that Had no Class. Written by Arnold Drake. Art by Bob oxner and Sea Devils 34. Cover date March 1967 cover price, $0.12. Cover artists Howard Purcell and Jack Adler. Edited by George Cashdan. Featuring the Sea Devils versus the Sea Angels. Written by Bob Haney. Art by Chick Stone and Sheldon Moldoff. Are you ready? Are you with it? Then away we go. Go.
[00:01:19] Speaker C: If you're walking in the shadows?
And then it's time that you get wise?
I just forget about your troubles and open up your eyes.
When you wear a smile?
The world will shout Hooray.
You gotta turn on the sunshine? You're gonna flush the blues away.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: The Sea Devils meet a gang of mischievous teenagers called the Sea Sea Angels. The Sea Angels cause a scare on a cargo ship by faking an attack by sea monsters. The Sea Devils warn the teens against further pranks. But then the kids discover a real monster. Plus, Jerry Lewis goes back to school confused. Don't worry. I'll be right back with doctor Husband to explain everything.
We meet and the angels sing.
The angels sing. The sweetest song I have ever heard.
You speak and the angels sing.
Or am I breathing music into every word?
How do you like school, Billy? Closed.
The week's not even half over yet. My gosh, I'm exhausted.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: I have to say I'm very grateful to be working.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Oh, I am too.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: I truly am. I truly am. However, after being on sabbatical and summer break and no longer having access to my midday naps.
Re acclimating.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Girl.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Tell me is rough the longer days and just, you know, just not having.
Just rather having quite. Quite a bit of demands placed upon me is quite different. Yeah.
Yes. But I'm grateful for the work and it's nice to be back in school.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: How do you like a classroom full of dullards that don't Respond or react in any way to what you're saying.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: Oh, I don't want to say that.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: Why? It's true.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Well, I've decided that I'm going to harass my. I teach a class for the first time in my life to non music majors.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: And it's quite an adjustment for me. I literally had moments where I stared at them and go, hey. And I ask these questions, and just no one answers. And then there are three students who are really engaged in the class, and the rest aren't.
And so I've got to figure out ways to get them all engaged. So I decided that. Okay, well, I'm going to do research, and I'm going to start every class with some sort of engaged activity and then structure it in a different way than I would for. For music majors. So really, it's a challenge for me as a teacher.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: You got to learn their names and call them out.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Learn their names and call them out. How do I learn the name so quickly?
[00:04:22] Speaker A: Well, you got. You have a list of the role, don't you? Just pick a name.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: Okay. Right. Say, hey.
Okay.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: Amberlynn.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: What do you think?
Brexit.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Brexit.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Well, as you know, I have two jobs, but.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: Yes, you do.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: One of them's not so taxing, so I can devote all my energy to the little darlings. I have a new student.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: Do you?
[00:04:51] Speaker A: We spent one hour talking about comic books, so I enjoyed that.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Well, of course you do.
You do. I mean, I'm so glad to be having a full studio again of students. I like that.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: We teach voice. If you're new here, listener.
Among other things. Life lessons.
[00:05:11] Speaker B: Life lessons.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: How to navigate the world.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: How to deal with stress. And Navigate stress and how to practice better, certainly. Yeah.
[00:05:24] Speaker A: I wish there was a class on how to deal with Jerry Lewis comics.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, there's.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: I really struggle with how to best present this information to our listener.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Really?
Yeah, you really do.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Because it's not. It's just gag after gag after gag.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: Let me amend that. Unfunny gag after unfunny gag after unfunny gag.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Indeed.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: And it's. You can't just make a narrative out of it, and you can't, you know, poke fun at it because it's already so stupid.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: Does it know how stupid it is?
[00:06:07] Speaker A: No.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: How many of these issues. So we're on issue number 99.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: Issue 99.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: It says America's Funniest Comic Mag.
[00:06:14] Speaker A: That's what it says.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: I would love to go into a time Machine and ask people if they really think this is America's funniest comic.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: I think Bob Hope says the same thing.
There are going to be 124. Four issues of the Adventures of Jerry Lewis.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: So it'll go on for two more years?
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Yeah, more than that, because I think it's published bimonthly.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: OMG.
[00:06:38] Speaker A: The last issue is published in May of 1971.
[00:06:44] Speaker B: Wow.
We're in 1966 and 1967. So it's going to go on for four. Four to five. Well, four more years.
[00:06:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
Wow.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: The last 10 issues are all just the telethon.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Oh, my God. You're kidding.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: I am kidding.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
They just go on forever. No, the last 10 issues are all just one telethon.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Yes, that's what I meant. Of course.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Duh.
Right. So Jerry Lewis issue. April. Right, April. Number 99.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: March. April. Yes. 1967. I mean, it's timely because it's actually the adventure.
Yes.
Because Jerry's going back to school, too.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: To teach. So that's how it kind of ties in.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: Look out to our own lives.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Look out. The mad maids of Camp Carefree become teachers. Pests.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: Nice gag.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: And who are they throwing in the book at? Poor Jerry, the teacher of the school.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: That had no class.
Do you think Uncle Hal the gym teacher is strangely attractive?
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Strangely attractive. If you like hyper, masculine men who are very, very. Yeah. So. Yeah. I mean, to me. Yeah. I like.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: I mean, he's wearing those gym teacher shorts and also knee high boots.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Yeah. The knee high boots are like, gross.
It's weird. He's got epaulettes on his T shirt.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: And he's clearly a Nazi. So that's a strike against him.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: Yeah, but it. Yeah. So, I mean, is it. Is he a Trevor?
[00:08:26] Speaker A: It's the shorts.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: It's the shorts.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: It's the art by Bob Oxner, who draws a shapely leg.
Unless he's drawing Jerry Lewis.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:38] Speaker A: Hey, Rob.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Yeah?
[00:08:39] Speaker A: Remember those adorable little girls of Camp Carefree?
[00:08:43] Speaker B: I do.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: Each of whom had a counselor scalp hanging from her belt.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: I remember that.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Remember good old Uncle Hal, the executioner of Camp Whack a boy.
Too bad those glorious summer days can't last forever, you say. Well, we've got news for you. They can.
It's poor Jerry who can't last. Watch him get trapped in the halls of ivy.
Poison ivy at the school that had no class.
Yeah.
All right. Jerry receives a special delivery letter for Master Lewis.
And Jerry launches into a long diatribe about how there are no Masters. In this country, slavery was outlawed more than a century ago.
Wait, 1967. Barely a century ago.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: Every man is his own master. Master of his own fate. Master of his own destiny. Well, it turns out it's been quite a mix up. The letter's not for Jerry at all. It's for Master Renfrew Lewis, his nephew.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: Do you remember getting letters addressed to Master Robert Robinson?
[00:10:01] Speaker A: Like birthday cards, maybe?
[00:10:03] Speaker B: Yes, Master. Master Robert.
Yeah. And then, of course, we once received a letter from your uncle and it was addressed to Messeurs.
[00:10:13] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Which I thought was so interesting.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Well, it was lovely. It's when we were unaware that the rest of the family knew the details of our bachelor friendship.
Turns out it's a letter from Hogwarts.
Not really. That would be something.
It's from a ritzy private school offering him a scholarship. Renfrew. A scholarship for you?
Maybe. They've started giving scholarships to rotten students to make it more democratic.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: That would be fair.
So Renfrew wants to. Is saying he wants a fine education and that he really wants to go to this school.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: He doesn't know what school it is, but he wants to go to the.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: School because as we come to find out, he's been expelled.
[00:11:07] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: From PS 179 Public School 1. Yes.
Because he was holding a boy upside down in the pool trying to drown him. Yeah.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't know Renfrew was a serial killer. Or as a sociopath or psychopath.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: Well, he's got the look of one.
When I was at band camp, our teacher, Mr. Southern, told a story about when he was in band camp and he was bullied something awful.
So some boys got him and tied him to a chair and put him in the shallow end of the pool. At night?
Well, of course you start shivering.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:52] Speaker A: If he were to shiver and tip over in that chair, he'd drowned.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: I know.
Well, he lived through the night. And then he grew up to be my band teacher. And he bought my grandmother, Mrs. White's house when she moved out.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: I can't believe he was tied and left in the pool all night.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: I know.
I don't know why they didn't have people patrolling the grounds at night.
Can't leave teenagers unattended like that.
Anyway, Renfrew's getting a spanking for being a serial killer, but nonetheless is allowed to go to the new school.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Yes.
It's a fine school, Stoe says. And Renfrew's excited to go and just ahead before. Before they see. Before they come down the road they're seen by an old gardener. Care gold caretaker, I guess.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: And he says here they come. Let me get that sign out of here quick.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: Sign?
Sign.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Yes. You know the someone's commanding him.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: I mean it's hard to read this because there are really really bad jokes on.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: That's what I mean. Every after gag after gag.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Awful. Like I'm sorry listener. I'm trying to figure out how to tell this story.
[00:13:10] Speaker A: Well, let's just say that Jerry and Renfrew get into the school and there's a pretty, pretty receptionist there.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: And the director wants to see Jerry at once.
Jerry walks into the director's office. It's a big gal. Is the director.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Uh huh.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: She's wearing a mask.
This is pre Covid, so she must really be sick.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: She knows Renfrew's gonna love the school because they have plenty of sports and movies and nature trips and easy courses.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: He says he hates sports, hates movies, hates nature. But he likes the idea of easy courses.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: Well Renfrew, all those things hate you as well. As do we.
Alright.
They don't understand. Jerry is trying to find out why Renfrew was selected for a scholarship. The director has no clue until she remembers he won the scholarship. They award to a relative of a faculty member.
But nobody in our family teaches here. Jerry Lewis says, well this is exactly how I got my job. They just called me and offered me a job. I didn't have to interview or anything or present any credentials.
Mr. Lewis is tricked into signing a contract.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: I'm really appreciating that. You're just sort of blistering.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: I'm doing my best because it's a.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: Lot of bullshit dialogue to go through.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: Jerry realizes that the whole scholarship to Renfrew was a trick to trap him into teaching here.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:14:52] Speaker A: And look who the headmistress really is.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: Ms. Bovine. The head of camp Carefree. That terrible girls camp that he worked at last summer.
Does Jerry Lewis not have a real job?
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Well, he's America's favorite comedian.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: How does he have the time to get roped into these part time jobs?
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Well, I don't know. Same thing with Bob Hope. He's not doing any work over in Bob Hope comics except fooling around with super hip.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: And then Jerry finds out that he's actually just signed a contract to be on the faculty at little Bo Peep. School for girls.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. A girls school.
I can't teach at a girls school. Get somebody else.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: In. Come the girls.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Well these are terrible girls. Who remember him from the summer camp.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: Yes, they're horrible. They're all terrible, murderous.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: But guess what? They love all girls love horses and Jerry Lewis.
And they love Renfrew too, because he's a man.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: A real life boy.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: Well, now Jerry's finally happy because these girls have taken Renfrew off his hands.
What's gonna happen next? I don't know either.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: I don't know either.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Jerry is installed as the shop teacher.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: Did you ever take shop?
No. Really?
[00:16:18] Speaker B: No.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: We had to.
You did? Yes. They called it industrial arts.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: No, it wasn't mandatory for us.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: Oh, we had to.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: It wasn't compulsory.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: In seventh grade, I had to take it with J. Ho Rath.
And he was the most popular teacher in school, Although I did not do well in industrial arts.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: Did he have all his fingers?
[00:16:42] Speaker A: He did okay. He had a mustache. But one day for April fool's day, he just shaved half his mustache off. And that gave us all a big chuckle.
Our final project was we had to build a 3D model of a house out of foam core or something. And you had to have different stories and you had to decorate it and landscape it and all whatnot. It's very dangerous because we had to use exacto knives. Okay, well, I built a lovely little mid century number.
Then I got bored.
So instead of finishing the roof, I just painted a giant head of snoopy on the roof.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: You did not.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: I did.
I did not get a good grade for that project.
My house was lovely. I'd live there still.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: The giant head of snoopy on the roof.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: Well, what if there's a helicopter or something? If you need a life flight.
How are they going to identify your.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: Just look for the house with a snoopy.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Mid century rancher neighborhood. Just look for the roof with snoopy on it. Life flight.
So Jerry's gonna be the shop teacher.
He is informed by a student that the gym teacher would like to see him. And who do you think the gym teacher is?
[00:18:00] Speaker B: It is uncle Hal from camp whack a boy.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: So these characters were so beloved over the summer camp issues, they were brought back. They were brought back for the fall semester.
[00:18:14] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: Uncle Hal needs a volunteer for some gym instruction. Jerry Lewis will do just fine.
So he goes off to find a spare gym costume which can be found in the locker.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: It turns out to be a little. A girl's?
[00:18:31] Speaker A: Well, yes, because it's a girl's school.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: A man sized. I mean, an adult sized girl's costume.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Well, they probably have older students.
It's a private institution. They have all ages.
I heard the most fascinating thing.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: What did you hear?
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Well, I was listening to a podcast about our favorite program, Little House in the prairie, and Ms. Beatle was the guest.
Charlotte Stewart, the actress. You know, she was in Eraserhead.
No. Yes.
Anyway, she. You know, you go in the school room and there'd be all kinds of things written all over the board. Well, that was all her own writing because when she walked in there the first day, the props department had just written like, one plus one equals two.
And she said, excuse me, There are students of all ages in this classroom from first to sixth grade.
The older children will need something to do. So she hand wrote Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner on the chalkboard.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Really?
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Yes.
And all kinds of other hard mathematical problems, whatnot. How clever. She is dedicated to her craft.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: Absolutely.
It's amazing, considering that they didn't actually get much learning done in that classroom. We got to see the classroom a lot. Mostly it was focused on relationships between the children, adults.
[00:19:52] Speaker A: Well, they learned how to sing Bringing in the Sheaves. Bringing in the sheaves we shall come rejoicing Bringing in the sheaves. And, you know, I heard another episode with Melissa Sue Anderson, who played Mary.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: The blind girl with the husky eyes.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: Yes.
She doesn't seem happy about her life.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: Really?
[00:20:19] Speaker A: Yes. Why?
[00:20:20] Speaker B: She was terrible. She tried to act after that and she was not very good.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: Oh, no. She quit voluntarily.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: Mythless. ISU Anderson. She's a very good actress. She's nominated for an Emmy Award.
[00:20:30] Speaker B: Didn't she play some awful television made for television movie about some.
You're talking about? Yeah. You're talking about Mary Ingalls? Yeah.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Are you talking about Midnight Offerings, the very best television movie ever made where she played an evil teen witch and she stripped the skin off of her mother and killed her?
[00:20:52] Speaker B: That's exactly what I'm talking about.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: That's the best movie ever made.
And she was in Happy Birthday to Me, the horror film where she played twins.
[00:21:02] Speaker B: Yes.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Horror movies.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: And she had one horror movie.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Yeah, she. Well, you just said, Happy birthday to me.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: Happy birthday to Me. That was a theatrical film.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: Midnight Offerings was the television movie. It's fantastic. I have it on dvd.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: We'll have to watch it soon.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: We certainly will.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: Anyway. Anyway, she doesn't seem happy about her life.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: Yes. Like Jan Brady. Also like you asked her about being on the Brady Bunch. She's not.
She's just not warm and open about it. Yes.
It's weird. I Can't describe it.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: But she doesn't look back at it with nostalgia.
[00:21:43] Speaker A: No, no, she's absolutely like. She doesn't. She's like, I just want to live in the present and move on. Which is fine, but.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Are you kidding?
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Honestly, People know you, for one thing.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: And how old is she now?
[00:21:56] Speaker A: She's gotta be 60, early 60s.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: She doesn't know how many years left on this earth, you know, I don't know.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: She's in pretty good shape.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: I'm just saying, like, once you get to be in your 60s and you've got millions and millions of people who have a very strong nostalgic, positive attachment to a show and what you played a major character, I think by the time you're in your 60s, you probably just go, okay, I get it. I'm going to go ahead and let this last part of my life be. Just enjoy. Enjoy all the. All the joy that comes from having been a part of something so substantially positive. Right?
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: You don't just sort of spend the last years of your life and I say sort of the last chapter of your life, and Maybe she's got 30, 35 more years of her life. Right. Who knows? But you don't spend the last of it going, yeah, whatever. I just sort of. Yeah, it's Little House of the Prairie. Whatever. Just glad it's over, you know.
Come on.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: Well, she's awfully cosmopolitan. She lives in Quebec.
[00:22:54] Speaker B: Does she.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: She must speak French poorly.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Yes. By her own admission, her children are fluent. Of course.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: Of course.
[00:23:03] Speaker A: You know, Quebec soie is different than classical French.
[00:23:08] Speaker B: When she was in that made for television horror movie.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Not Die, Mommy, Die. What was it called?
[00:23:13] Speaker A: Midnight Offerings.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: Did she have short, curly hair?
[00:23:18] Speaker A: It might have been curly. I don't think it was that short.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Okay. But it was curly.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: We'll have to watch it and find out. She also was in the ABC After School special, Francesca, baby, you don't know her career.
She was on the roller disco episode of Chips.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: I remember that. Melissa Sue Anderson.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: Nancy Culp is on the ice.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: I was on the rink.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: And she was in some Lifetime disaster movie because her husband's a director. He directed her in that movie.
[00:23:50] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: And Jan Brady, of course. Eve Plum was in Dawn Portrait of a Teenage Runaway after her Brady years. And she was on an episode of Wonder Woman where she played a space alien princess.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: I remember that.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: See, people have wide and varied careers.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: We're not debating about the quality of their career. We're talking about the fact that both of these women who Were in pop culture.
Dynasty shows sort of look back on those years with sort of like a. Huh. Meh.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: Well, what if people want to talk about little house and you want to talk about Francesca?
[00:24:29] Speaker B: Baby, I think someone who loves me should pull me aside and say, hey, let's really talk about what's important here.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Don't you think?
Well, yes.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Well, Jerry's gonna be the assistant gym coach, and he's handed a giant bat.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: And he ordered to attack uncle.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: Uncle hal.
So here Jerry comes. He's gonna hit uncle Hal. Uncle Hal ducks.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: He's playing all kinds of gags and tricks on Jerry, Tripping him and making him go into the pool.
And he fishes him out of the pool. Fishes him out of the pool with.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: A giant hook, Then puts him into a wrestling hold.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: Yes. Uncle Hal's got some secrets, I think.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
And Jerry thinks for a second he can maybe bite uncle hal's toe because they're wrestling, and he turns out that he's biting his own toe.
[00:25:33] Speaker A: Classic Jerry.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: A silly sight gag.
[00:25:36] Speaker A: Now renfrew's got his own problems because he's got to take a cooking class.
[00:25:42] Speaker B: And who does he see as his.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Cooking teacher but witchcraft, Jerry's housemaid.
She was actually just trailing them. She didn't want them to have to go to school alone. I also had to take home ec. We had to take both. We had to cross discipline train. In junior high school, I think I took home ec. I made a cute little stuffed baby seal as my stuffed animal project.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: My sister took homec once in elementary school, I think, and she made. She brought home a plate of. Do you remember those butterscotch squares that they used to make? They were not chocolate chip cookies.
They were not chocolate chip squares. They were butterscotch squares, blondies. Yes. Except they had a wonderful buttery buttery. I would never forget that as long as I live.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: Why don't we make some?
[00:26:40] Speaker B: I wish I could make them like.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: Now that I've unlocked the achievement of getting a warning message from my fitness pal calorie tracker that I was not eating enough.
We cannot complete your diary because you are not eating enough.
Winning.
All right.
Witchcraft is getting renfrew into an apron. And here come the other girls to cooking class Just in time to make fun of renfrew for wearing an apron.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: Junior high is terrible.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: Is that what this is? Junior high?
[00:27:20] Speaker A: Well, they're bullying like it is.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: All right. Witchcraft is going to teach them how to make toad soup. Toad soup.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: Oh, this poor toad.
[00:27:32] Speaker A: Is this like when ma Ingalls taught the children how to make stone soup when there was a drought and famine.
You put the stone in, boil the water, and then you say, gee, this soup would be better if I had an onion. And one child said, I've got an onion, I've got an onion. And I dug out of the ground. Here it is in my pocket.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: Well, that would be good. But wouldn't it be good if we added a potato?
[00:27:58] Speaker A: I got this old rotten potato I brought from home from my lunchbox.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: Oh, that would be good. Let's have that. You know, wouldn't it be good if we had an old cat?
[00:28:07] Speaker A: I got this old cat I killed this morning on the way to school.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Well, let's put that in there. Let's skin that cat and put that in.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: This is the best soup I ever tasted, Mrs. Ingalls. Best stone soup I ever had.
Well, that's fine. Witchcraft's got the classroom all outfitted in cauldrons, and Jerry's about to begin his industrial arts class.
Of course, he's no better than me. He doesn't even know how to hold a saw right.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: No, he gets confused between what's a hammer and a saw. And then I don't know what happens. One of the girls brings blueprints.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: Yes, she's from the general's office. Stolen plants from her general father's office. They're blueprints to a top secret death ray.
The latest model.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Jerry decides he wants to make this.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: Yes, why not?
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Why not?
So what does he do?
[00:29:10] Speaker A: I don't understand.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: This gag has them turn the other way while he hits it with a hammer.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: Well, because there are three pieces left over. He doesn't know where they go.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Oh, so he just breaks up the pieces?
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Yeah, he doesn't want to admit to the girls that he doesn't know what's going on. Okay, so he breaks the machine and then stands on the desk on his head to entertain the children.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: That's what I should have done in my class today.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: And somehow the machine gets rebuilt.
Yeah, I don't understand that part.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: And it tests. He tests the machine.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: Oh, he's smashing the leftover pieces.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: Right.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: That's what happened.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: So then the next couple pages over, he tests the machine and it explodes in his face.
[00:29:53] Speaker A: Ha ha. Nice gag.
Class dismissed.
The next day, he returns in time to witness some good natured.
What are we calling this?
Ethnic, Politically incorrect? Ethnic Profiling.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: Profiling? Yes.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: Some visiting dignitaries, educators from other countries are visiting. There's a German, French, a French and a Chinaman. And a Chinaman.
[00:30:25] Speaker B: Now, we don't call them Chinamen now.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: No, we don't. Nor do we draw people of Asian descent with round glasses and buck teeth, but there you are.
And in fact, you know what? We didn't do that in 1966 either. Bob Oxner.
Look at Chop Chop and the Blackhawks.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I. I guess they're just trying to go for comic tropes and heavily racist.
Yeah, heavily, heavily racist profiling.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: We won't repeat the Asian gentleman's dialogue because it's inappropriate for our day.
Meanwhile, inside the gym, we'll investigate some yoga exercises.
They're a little dangerous.
That's what I always say when I try to do yoga.
[00:31:16] Speaker B: Which is a cue for the children to grab Jerry, because Jerry is posing to be one of those. I don't know why. Because they don't explain.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Because he's trying to sneak around and not have to teach class.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: And they volunteer him to do the yoga portion of Uncle.
What's this? Uncle Vanya.
[00:31:38] Speaker A: Uncle Hal.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: Uncle Hal's class. Uncle Vanya.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: He holds Jerry up by the ankle so that he's standing on his head.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: Hypnotizes him.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: You know, that's how Aunt sue saved my life when I was a toddler.
I was choking on an ice cube, and she just picked me up by my ankles and shook me till it popped out.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Yes. And she was no bigger than a popcorn fart.
Of course, I wasn't very big then either. I was just a tight and tiny child, only £6 at birth.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: Really.
[00:32:09] Speaker A: And just look how I've rebounded.
[00:32:11] Speaker B: I forget that you were just six pounds at birth.
[00:32:13] Speaker A: Six pounds, four ounces. So, you know, wasn't a complete loss.
All right, Jerry is hypnotized, and Uncle Hal's gonna test the depth of hypnosis. He makes Jerry believe he's a dog.
Next, he makes Jerry believe he's a monkey.
And finally, a chicken.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: And when Jerry becomes a chicken, he suddenly gains the ability to fly and flies out of the room, crashing through a window.
[00:32:44] Speaker A: Like, even chickens can't fly that well, can they?
[00:32:46] Speaker B: No, they can fly. They can fly short distances, but they can't fly well, just because we bred them to be.
To not have to gain muscle mass in areas that aren't efficient to them flying.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: I don't know why he had to be hypnotized, because these are all things that Jerry Lewis does on film for pay.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: The girls get upset because Jerry has just flown out the window, and they accuse Uncle.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: How.
[00:33:13] Speaker B: How. Why? I should just Write this down. I want to call him Uncle Vanya. Uncle Hal of killing Jerry. Killing him?
[00:33:21] Speaker A: Yes. So, I mean, that tracks with his character.
[00:33:24] Speaker B: Then they turn him upside down and.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: Hypnotize him and make him do the old stiff as a board trick.
[00:33:32] Speaker B: And then make him pretend to be a giraffe. And apparently, when you're hypnotized, you can literally alter your physiology.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: You can dramatically alter your physiology. Yes.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: So he grows a giraffe neck, and then they tell him he's a parrot, and he also flies out the window to his death.
[00:33:48] Speaker A: Well, luckily, both Jerry and Uncle Howl have landed on an awning.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: But the children don't know that. They think that Uncle Hal killed Jerry and they believe they have just killed him.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: Yes.
All right. The visiting dignitaries are outside in the sculpture garden, and they believe Jerry and Uncle Hal to be sculptures.
Meanwhile, Uncle Hal has had it. He survived three wars, two revolutions, and a college fraternity hazing. But these girls are dangerous.
Later, Renfrew's been dolled up in makeup and curlers.
All right.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: He's had it with the school.
[00:34:34] Speaker A: Yes. He's gonna kill himself if he has to stay there at school.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: Unbelievable.
[00:34:39] Speaker A: The headmistress suggests transferring to the local boys school.
[00:34:45] Speaker B: So the next day, we see Renfrew and Jerry. Jerry's carrying all of Renfrew's things to go to another school. It's called the Genghis Khan School for Boys. Quote, we break boys.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: Neat, neat.
And guess who's the dean. Dean Merciless, who's wearing an executioner's hood.
And all the children are in the stocks divided by grade.
And they've.
Yes, the dean has hired a new.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: Look at the dean. There's a guy on the right hand side. He's got an iron cross. A Nazi iron cross.
[00:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: On his lapels. And he's got a gun at his side.
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Yes.
And the new headmaster is Uncle Hal.
[00:35:34] Speaker B: Look, the one on the left has a Hitler mustache. I didn't even notice that the last time.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: Did you?
Just now I did.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: Good God.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: Well, you know, it's the 60s. Nazis are funny, funny, funny.
[00:35:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Hogan's Heroes.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: Hogan's Heroes.
All right. Unfortunately for Renfrew, he's going to be left at school. And this is just the beginning.
But for us, it's thankfully the end.
As I say, I'm really struggling to find a hook to bring this to the world.
I love the artwork throughout.
I've always loved Bob Oxner.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It's bright and cheerful and funny and full of. I mean, it's, it's. It's not static, even though, you know, we're looking at still pictures. It's got great movement to it.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: It's got dimensionality.
I do understand, listener, that this is very much of its time. And if I was 8 years old, I would have been guffawing right along with the best of them.
I'm strictly speaking of finding a hook to narrate this tale to you.
Love you.
It's not quite as easy a task as it is with our old friends the Sea Devils.
Oh, wait a minute. This is not gonna be easy either.
[00:37:07] Speaker B: I was a little. Are we going on with that now?
[00:37:11] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: I right away was pissed off.
[00:37:15] Speaker A: I think I know what's going to piss you off.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:37:20] Speaker A: Look what happens in sea devils number 34, when the sea Devils meet the Sea Angels.
Sea Angels.
Sea Angel. You're wha.
Riding a motorcycle with wheels underwater, man. You'll never want to split the scene when you dig this genchy groovy group of underwater hip cats making life miserable for the famed and fearless Sea Devils. So tighten your seatbelts, gang, as we go rocketing into the battle of the century.
The Sea Devils versus the Sea Angels.
Now, Rob.
[00:38:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:10] Speaker A: You're a motorcycle enthusiast?
[00:38:11] Speaker B: I have one.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: Are you aware of any model which can drive wheeled underwater?
[00:38:21] Speaker B: Absolutely not.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: Would there be any purpose in having wheels versus, say, propeller, ski, jet kind of situation?
[00:38:30] Speaker B: I can't imagine that you'd be able to actually move unless. The only way would be if the tread on the tires somehow the bike were. So there's so much missing on these bicycles, on these motorcycles. First of all, there's no. There are no fins. Like, you just can't steer them. There's no propellant.
There's no way for them to move forward. It's not like they're.
And also they don't.
They have to be electric. They can't burn fossil fuel because fossil fuel requires oxygen to ignite. And so these.
I just. You just have to accept that in this world.
Earth, whatever.
Motorcycles.
[00:39:11] Speaker A: Earth1.earth1.
[00:39:13] Speaker B: Motorcycles can be ridden on land, can ride on top of water, and then be submersible.
I've never seen one, except in this particular issue.
[00:39:26] Speaker A: Maybe it's like the Duckmobile in Daytona Beach.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: Okay. Even that had propellers coming out of the back of it.
[00:39:33] Speaker A: Did it? I'd never been on it. Were you?
[00:39:36] Speaker B: No. Why would I want to go on a giant boat car?
[00:39:42] Speaker A: You didn't even take, like, class field trips to do all the fun things in Daytona beach, like buy Drugs and play the Konami X Men arcade game.
[00:39:54] Speaker B: Nope.
I did play the Konami X Men video game with you.
[00:40:00] Speaker A: I know. Remember at the quarters we wasted, we.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: Would take a roll of quarters and play until. We play for five minutes until we went through the ball.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: When one man says he sees them. You could put it down to hallucinations, but aboard the cargo ship SS Ryan, the captain and his help meet are seeing giant creatures climbing out of the oceanic sea beasts.
Luckily they send out an SOS which quickly reaches the sea devils in their famed craft, the flying fish.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: It's one of those hydrofoil.
[00:40:37] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:40:38] Speaker B: Boats.
[00:40:39] Speaker A: The sea devils arrive to the scene of the terror.
These sea creatures have surrounded the SS Ryan and they're closing in. But a cry of relief is heard next moment when Dane Dorrance and the Sea devils arrive on the scene.
Dane shoots his famous grenade harpoon close to the ship, which is in danger. That seems like a great idea.
I'm just gonna fire this grenade over here.
Me.
Well.
[00:41:13] Speaker B: Well, it works. It destroys the creature, but in so doing it also throws up a whole lot of shrapnel. Metal shrapnel.
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Well, Dane's got to investigate. So down he goes into the briny.
[00:41:28] Speaker B: Depths where he sees a strange and fantastic sight. Motorcyclists underwater in scuba suits.
[00:41:38] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Towing behind them gigantic creature shaped buoys.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: Yes.
I didn't actually read very carefully the first time. I didn't realize they were buoys. I thought they were like those blow up things that you could. Like a Bozo the Clown. And it was a blow up.
[00:41:56] Speaker B: I had one of those. You punch it and it came back.
[00:41:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: Although they didn't always come back at the right. At a right angle to the floor. Perpendicular to the floor side, you know.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Well, that means you gotta alter your jab pattern.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Get behind.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: Good exercise.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:42:14] Speaker A: I wish we had one.
[00:42:15] Speaker B: Do you?
[00:42:16] Speaker A: Yeah. You think they still make them? What are they called?
[00:42:20] Speaker B: Punch Inflatable Punching clowns.
[00:42:25] Speaker A: I remember they had one that was like a Fred Flintstone.
Be a shame if they didn't have one that was like the Shmoo. Because that's what the schmooze looked like all the time anyway.
Of course you remember when Fred and Barney met the Shmoo, don't you?
[00:42:44] Speaker B: If I say no, are you going to talk about it for a long time?
[00:42:47] Speaker A: I'm going to talk about it for a long time and I'm going to buy the DVD and make you watch it. Fred and Barney met the Shmoo. Fred and Barney were Like police officers.
And also Wilma and Betty were some kind of auxiliary police officer.
And Pebbles and Bam Bam, after having been grown teenagers all of a sudden were in middle school.
[00:43:10] Speaker B: And they met the Shmoo.
[00:43:11] Speaker A: And they all met the Shmoo. And then there was that weird the Frankenrock family that lived like the Munsters. Yes. Why'd they live next door?
[00:43:22] Speaker B: There goes the neighborhood.
Ghosts, Monsters.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: Pebbles and Bam Bam had that teen band with Schlep Rock and Penny.
Those were the days.
Well, I'll be.
Dane says the creatures are actually disguised buoys. But who are these Beetle looking characters and why are they pulling this stunt? The Beatles are hot, hot, hot. This month in DC Comics they are.
They call themselves the Sea Devils and they recognize Dane Dorrance as the Big daddy of the Sea Devils. Did I say Sea Devils? They call themselves the Sea Angels.
[00:44:06] Speaker B: Well, they recognize Dain as Dane as.
[00:44:09] Speaker A: The Big daddy of the Sea Devils. Big Daddy is slang meaning leader.
In case you didn't get that.
[00:44:16] Speaker B: Dane is the leader of the Sea Devils. They refer to him as Big Daddy.
[00:44:20] Speaker A: Yes.
Well, they're terrorizing him with their motorbikes. I hear that's what people with motorcycles do.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: No one I know Dane is not having any of it. He's still got his grenade harpoon which he fires and it shoots out. This is like a Green Arrow situation. He's got a weapon for any use you can imagine.
[00:44:45] Speaker B: Exactly. He. He uses an entanglement charm.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: Yes, he's got a. This gun fires multiple lassos and lasso's all these lads at one time and he drags them up to the surface so they can have a nice quiet talk.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: They tie up all their motorcycles to the side of the flying fish.
[00:45:08] Speaker A: They certainly. Are they tied up or are they just like hung like Christmas ornaments?
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Well, they're hung because apparently there's some sort of mode that they can go on where just by the wheels they can ride on the water.
Yeah, these bikes are magic. I wish I had one of these bikes now.
[00:45:27] Speaker A: These kids are full of sass.
You don't have a right to the sea, Big Daddy. O. We got as much right in it as you have. So flake off.
[00:45:38] Speaker B: You tell them, Dingo.
[00:45:41] Speaker A: No you don't. Tell him, Stan.
[00:45:43] Speaker B: Stan, Stan and Dingo.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: Those are zany names for teen beetle. Dingo. Eat my baby.
Now what do you lads think you're doing besides creating panic on the high seas?
I'll tell them. We call ourselves the Sea Angels and all we're after are some kicks. That's all. Nothing wrong in that, is there, huh?
[00:46:09] Speaker B: Well, who's in the background, Biff?
[00:46:11] Speaker A: Nicky.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: Nicky Crazy. Yeah. We're supposed to be the good guys, and we're called the Sea Devils. They're the bad guys, and they're called the Sea Angels.
[00:46:21] Speaker A: You're right, Nicky. That is crazy.
[00:46:24] Speaker B: Right. I'm going down below for a drink.
[00:46:28] Speaker A: All right? Biff's gonna tell him to get back on dry land or else.
But Dane says no. They're right about one thing. They have as much right in the seven seas as we have. And we have no right to banish them from the water. But hear this, tough buddies. We'll be keeping a sharp weather eye on you. And the next time you step out of line, we'll be stepping hard on you.
[00:46:54] Speaker B: Kids go, ooh, we're scared. Look, I'm shaking with fright.
[00:46:59] Speaker A: See ya, oldies. It's like in sixth grade when I was falsely accused of calling Kelly Curry a B word.
I didn't. Even though she stole my lunch money, Mr. Bongiorno, the new principal, got me in a corner, and he said, the next time you act up, I'm gonna come down on you like a ton of bricks.
[00:47:22] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:47:24] Speaker A: You poor, you, You. I was the best child in the whole school. Oh, an angel.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: You didn't do anything wrong.
[00:47:32] Speaker A: No, I didn't. It was Kelly Curry who stole my lunch money. And her mother worked with my mother at Highlights for Children, and I reported the behavior to my mother, and nothing ever came of it.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: Oh, did your mother march you back into the principal's office and get you.
[00:47:47] Speaker A: Come down on him like a ton of bricks right now, Mr. Bongiorno. And if he puts you in prison, there's nothing I can do about it.
Prison?
Well, they'd make you work in the lunchroom if you were bad.
[00:48:02] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:48:02] Speaker A: Mm.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: Clean the tables?
[00:48:04] Speaker A: I wish. No, you had to load the trays into the dishwasher, which was 1,000 degrees hot.
You had to wear a hairnet. Extry. Extry. Child disappears in 1000 degree dishwasher. I'm serious. Comes out parboiled. They didn't give you any gloves or anything. They're like, now, don't touch hot water. You touch hot water, you're gonna get burnt.
[00:48:24] Speaker B: You're gonna die.
[00:48:25] Speaker A: Wear your hairnet now. Wear your hairnet. Yes.
We didn't want hair flying all over everybody's food and your pizza like sandwiches and your apple crisp butterscotch squares.
Oh, God.
Now what? That's just so funny.
[00:48:49] Speaker B: Just, I think, in, like, Black and white striped prison garb with a hair net on loading loading plastic trays into a thousand degree dishwasher because you were accused of calling somebody a B word.
[00:49:06] Speaker A: All right. The sea angels take off, split the sea. And they can ride atop the water as well as underneath.
They've gotten themselves onto a deserted island where they have a hi fi phonograph and they're listening to some tunes.
I bet they're listening to the Beatles.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: Well, all right, could be they're listening to show tunes.
[00:49:31] Speaker A: Could be because they're snapping their fingers and dancing around.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh, something was that funny happened to me today.
I was in this class and we were talking about, you know, students, the music majors needing to attend concerts, you know, and log them on concerts. And one of the. I'm getting all these questions and all these questions. And it was almost like somebody had told the students beforehand, he hasn't been here for a while, so ask him really, really specific, stupid questions about what counts and what doesn't count. And at one point I said, is this premeditated? Like, to the students, like, I've never heard questions like this before. We were, of course, laughing and joking.
[00:50:13] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:50:14] Speaker B: But one of the students said, after we go through all of, like, what sort of counts as a recital that you can get credit for a concert or whatever, student raises his hand and he says, does a musical count as a concert? Like seeing a show a musical? And I said, no, a musical does not count as a concert.
And I said, of course it counts as a concert.
[00:50:37] Speaker A: Yes, it's a musical.
[00:50:38] Speaker B: Of course it does.
That's what I think. I said, now wait a second. Did you all. Were you all put up to this? Were you told to ask? I said, I've taught this class before. No one's asked this many very, very specific, hair splitting questions about what counts.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: And what doesn't count.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: They laughed. I laughed as I was saying, yes.
[00:50:57] Speaker A: Well, you know, Covid messed those kids up.
[00:51:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:51:02] Speaker A: I teach a online course and have a concert attendance requirement. And one young fellow emailed me the other day and said, I know that you said the concert has to be during the semester, but I just got back from New York City where I saw Lady Gaga at Madison Square Garden. Can I write about that?
[00:51:23] Speaker B: Would you say no?
[00:51:24] Speaker A: I said, gulp. Lucky. Of course.
[00:51:26] Speaker B: Of course you can.
Yeah.
West is hard.
[00:51:31] Speaker A: I know.
All right. The sea angels are planning their revenge against big daddy Dane and the sea devils who are squares. And there's no greater sin in the.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: World than being a Square.
When you're 54 and you're teaching a classroom full of children that are age 18 to 19, and you're trying to get them engaged. That's worse than being a square.
[00:51:55] Speaker A: Find the student athletes and engage them because they have to keep their grades up.
[00:51:58] Speaker B: You know what?
[00:51:59] Speaker A: What?
[00:51:59] Speaker B: I will tell you. The student athletes are the ones responsive.
[00:52:04] Speaker A: That's because they have to keep their grades up. And you have a participation grade.
[00:52:07] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: Yep. That's it.
[00:52:09] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:52:09] Speaker A: Give all your energy to them. They're great. Ditch the rest.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: I swear to God. I've got the two. The two guys sitting in the front are football players. We have a great time talking, and they're like. They're like talking about the things that I'm asking.
I'm like, well, what's up with the Biff and Barf over here? These for sorority girls?
I would never ever say that in class, obviously. No.
[00:52:30] Speaker A: But you know what? I'll make you a bet.
[00:52:32] Speaker B: What?
[00:52:32] Speaker A: The nursing students.
[00:52:34] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:52:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:35] Speaker B: Yeah. I'll find a way. I think it's really a challenge because like I said, I've never taught a class to non majors before.
[00:52:42] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:52:42] Speaker B: So just having the majors in there, they're already, like, buying into the subject material.
[00:52:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:47] Speaker B: So non majors. I got to find a way to. I win. I. You know, I will.
[00:52:51] Speaker A: You've got to find the relevance to them.
[00:52:54] Speaker B: Yes. Well, I thought about talking about Taylor Swift's engagement today, but then I thought, I don't know anything about Taylor Swift at all.
[00:53:00] Speaker A: So I'll just keep, you know, she's engaged and God love her.
[00:53:02] Speaker B: Yes. To Travis. Taylor and Travis.
[00:53:05] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:53:06] Speaker B: From the Kansas City Chiefs, Travis Kelsey Kelsey.
[00:53:09] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:53:10] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:53:11] Speaker A: He's a tall drink of water.
[00:53:13] Speaker B: She's no.
[00:53:16] Speaker A: Slouch. Of course. Thank you.
[00:53:17] Speaker B: She's no slouch.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: Anyway, what do the sea angels find? A glowing.
[00:53:23] Speaker B: God love those kids.
Travis and Taylor.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: They'll do well.
[00:53:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:28] Speaker A: They'll be rich as creases.
[00:53:29] Speaker B: Oh, gosh, I hope, I hope. What if he gets injured? Or what if he gets that concussion syndrome when he's older? Is he going to. Poor Taylor Swift taking care of him when he gets older.
Hopefully he is. He. He's a. Is he a.
Is he defense.
[00:53:42] Speaker A: He's not a. I don't know. You're asking me?
[00:53:44] Speaker B: I have no idea.
All right, well, now we get into the really meat of the story.
[00:53:50] Speaker A: Yes. They find a glowing bottle in the water, and it's got a piece of paper inside and it gives a location where some medieval sorcerer sealed Two sea creatures in. All we have to do is remove the magic seaweed from the opening and.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: Huh. Sounds like a fake out to me. Buzz off.
Buzz off.
[00:54:08] Speaker A: Pete, this sounds j A O K. Genuine to me.
Look, here are the magic words you have to say to control the creature.
[00:54:15] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:54:16] Speaker C: Ha ha.
[00:54:17] Speaker A: What a blast we could have with a monster taking our commands.
[00:54:20] Speaker B: Look at this. Ha ha. Ho ho.
[00:54:24] Speaker A: We could even drive those square sea devils right out of the H2O.
[00:54:29] Speaker B: Let's go. What are we waiting for? So before long, in an uncharted area out of the deep.
[00:54:33] Speaker A: Yes, they there is in fact a curtain of seaweed.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: Yes. And they pull it away and gigantic eyes appear.
[00:54:40] Speaker A: Gigantic eyeball. Zipsville. It's real and it's alive and it's coming after us.
[00:54:45] Speaker B: Remember, it was just a curtain of seaweed that was keeping this thing captive.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: Yes.
Luckily Bingo or whatever his name is, remembers the magic word. Citifo SATA fo ralvo.
[00:54:57] Speaker B: Will the magic words work?
If they don't, you might as well say so long to the sea angels. Let's go over find out. Maybe we'll get lucky and this'll be over. Nope, I guess not.
[00:55:08] Speaker A: Suddenly, the giant monster stops dead in its tracks as the magic words seem to penetrate. And the fun loving sea angels keep their fingers crossed. In fact, it did work. Hey Dingo.
[00:55:19] Speaker B: Look. The monster cat's cooled off.
[00:55:21] Speaker A: The creature is obey their commands. So off they go to sic the monster on the sea devils and their amazing flying fish.
Now, the sea devils of course assume this is another one of these camouflage jobs.
[00:55:38] Speaker B: They fire at it and the bullets bounce off the hide. Oh my gosh. And then this creature has the ability to make whirlpools.
[00:55:46] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:55:47] Speaker B: Massive, massive whirlpools that will pull the flying fish. That's their. Their ship. No, boat. Boat.
[00:55:53] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: It will pull it under.
Yeah.
[00:55:56] Speaker A: And all right. Dane wants to get back into the action and teach these sea angels a lesson.
Ashley, is it a whirlpool or is it a.
[00:56:09] Speaker B: It's called a whirlpool.
[00:56:10] Speaker A: I know, but it's sending them up into the air.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: It's like a funnel.
[00:56:14] Speaker A: Funnel cloud.
Because Dane has to jump out of the ship and dive quite a far ways down into the water. Because the flying fish of course is going to crash at the ocean which would kill them all.
The hapless sea devils now are floundering about.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: Floundering.
[00:56:35] Speaker A: Nice gig.
Biff is having none of it. He's gonna launch himself out of the ocean and beat these kids up. And I wish he would've.
All right. The Sea angels get away. They take the monster back to their.
[00:56:48] Speaker B: Little island and hang out with it.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Meanwhile, the next day.
Oh, no, Sorry. That same day, at dusk, a cargo ship steams evenly toward its next port of call when it attacks the cargo ship. This giant monster attacks a cargo ship.
[00:57:05] Speaker B: And they're able to get out a quick SOS signal.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:57:09] Speaker B: It sinks the cargo ship and takes something.
[00:57:12] Speaker A: Takes the cargo?
[00:57:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Apparently it's gold bullion.
[00:57:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:57:16] Speaker B: Yeah, gold bullion.
[00:57:18] Speaker A: All right. The sea devils have received the sos.
[00:57:23] Speaker B: They arrive on the scene and Dane.
[00:57:26] Speaker A: Says, I confess it. I'm shocked. I didn't think those kids would go in for piracy.
Come on, we gotta try to get that cargo back.
Dane shoots another one of these amazing as you need it weapons. Knocks the cargo out of the creature's mouth, retrieves the cargo. But this monster is about to go after. Dane creates another whirlpool.
Dane orders the other sea devils to fight with everything you've got. Open fire with every weapon there is.
[00:58:02] Speaker B: And they too.
[00:58:04] Speaker A: Well. And Dane shoots his tongue pulled up into the creature's mouth and shoots whatever weapon he's got.
[00:58:12] Speaker B: Because their shots have been targeted on the hide.
[00:58:16] Speaker A: Right. That's impenetrable.
[00:58:17] Speaker B: But he does get. As he gets closer to the mouth, he shoots the tongue.
[00:58:21] Speaker A: But this is just like Legend of Zelda. There's these creatures that suck in and can pull things away from you, but if you drop a bomb, it sucks the bomb in and then you can blow it up.
[00:58:33] Speaker B: How vivid.
[00:58:34] Speaker A: This creature's whirlpool has drawn Dain's bullet right into its own mouth.
Once again, the intrepid sea devils fire from their amazing arsenal of missiles. And fire smokescreen spears.
Smoke screens, as you know, are very effective in a watery environment.
[00:58:54] Speaker B: Right. A big, big, big area where wind.
[00:58:57] Speaker A: Can blow the smoke screen or just shoot it right under the water and make it smokey underwater. Like, you know, like a smoky old fashioned. That's how they do that.
[00:59:06] Speaker B: Oh, I like old fashioned.
[00:59:08] Speaker A: All right. They get the cargo, they need to get it out of the area before the creature comes back.
But first they're gonna head straight to angel island and grab that group.
[00:59:23] Speaker B: So they do get to Angel Island.
[00:59:25] Speaker A: Yes. And they attack the Sea Angels.
[00:59:30] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:59:31] Speaker A: And demand to know what's going on.
Well, Bingo says, you must be dreaming. We're not pirates. What are you talking about, man?
[00:59:43] Speaker B: And then whose is this? Judy. Is that her name? Judy? Uh huh. Really?
Yeah, I was just guessing.
[00:59:52] Speaker A: Judy Is Nikki's brother, she says.
[00:59:55] Speaker B: Wait. Biff, there's something odd about that monster. Summon it here, Dingo. But no tricks.
[01:00:00] Speaker A: All right. Dingo summons the monster.
And.
[01:00:06] Speaker B: That monster's not wet. No, it's not been in the water.
[01:00:09] Speaker A: They see. It has not been in the water for some time. Its hide is as dry as bo.
[01:00:14] Speaker B: We saw it with our own eyes only a short time ago. Plastering. That cargo ship attacking you sure, man, look at this.
[01:00:21] Speaker A: There's this glowing bottle washed up on our island. And inside this scrap of paper.
[01:00:26] Speaker B: Oh, Biff says. Biff? No, no, not Biff.
[01:00:30] Speaker A: Dane.
[01:00:30] Speaker B: Dane.
[01:00:31] Speaker A: Dane.
[01:00:31] Speaker B: Dane says. Just as I suspected. According to this, some medieval sorcerer sealed up two sea creatures in an underwater cave.
[01:00:38] Speaker A: Really, Dane? You suspected that a medieval sorcerer sealed up two sea creatures in an underwater cave? That was your first suspicion? I read that.
[01:00:51] Speaker B: It never even occurred to me that that was to be so preposterous.
I'm battling.
[01:00:56] Speaker A: Well, a medieval sorcerer sealed up two sea creatures in an underwater cave. I thought so.
[01:01:01] Speaker B: I thought so.
[01:01:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's exactly what I.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: Exactly what I was thinking.
[01:01:05] Speaker A: I.
I didn't tell anybody, but that's exactly. That's certainly what I was thinking.
Just as I suspected.
Well, that means the other monsters out there somewhere, attacking cargo ships and waiting for a second chance to kill any of us if we dare to challenge it.
[01:01:25] Speaker B: But just like you guys, someone's giving it orders. Who could that be?
[01:01:29] Speaker A: I guess that's what we have to find out, Biff.
[01:01:33] Speaker B: Let's find out.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: So I can't wait.
[01:01:35] Speaker B: Part three.
[01:01:37] Speaker A: All right. Dane's got a plan, but he has to take over Dingo's creature. And to do so, you'll have to tell me the magic words that control it. But first, I'm going to sing a love song to the monster.
I've grown accustomed to your smile Accustomed to your face because you make my day begin like breathing out and breathing.
[01:02:07] Speaker B: In.
[01:02:10] Speaker A: I've sewn a costume to her.
[01:02:13] Speaker B: Face so that is from My Fair Lady.
[01:02:16] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:02:16] Speaker B: And that is sung by Professor Henry Higgins.
[01:02:19] Speaker A: Henry Higgins.
[01:02:21] Speaker B: And it. It literally starts with. He realizes he's falling in love. And he goes. And he goes.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: Damn, damn, damn.
[01:02:29] Speaker B: I've grown accustomed to her face and then they start singing. I've grown accustomed to her face.
[01:02:35] Speaker A: Right.
[01:02:36] Speaker B: So that's why I said they were listening to show tunes because they were listening to My Fair Lady.
[01:02:40] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: And then we always would say when we were backstage, because I did My Fair Lady. Remember? When I trod the board.
[01:02:47] Speaker A: Summer stock.
[01:02:49] Speaker B: Yes. He would go, damn, damn, damn. And those of us standing in the wings would look at each other and go, I've sewn a costume to her face.
Actually, it was that summer when I played Freddie and My Fair lady that I learned how to play cribbage, because playing Freddie in My Fair lady means you get a lot of key time on stage singing your solo. You sing on the street where you live, you sing a reprise of on the street where you live, you get to go to the Ascot Races, and then you have a couple scenes with Liza, but that's it.
So you have a lot of time, like either soloing or on or duet on stage, and you're off for a lot of the. Of the.
[01:03:32] Speaker A: Sure.
[01:03:33] Speaker B: So I got to learn cribbage because I just go off stage with. With my friend who was the dance captain, and she. And I played. She taught me how to play cribbage. Oh, my God, I love that game.
[01:03:42] Speaker A: Wouldn't you marry it if you love it so much or teach me how to play it?
[01:03:47] Speaker B: We've played before.
[01:03:48] Speaker A: I've never played it.
[01:03:49] Speaker B: We've never played.
[01:03:50] Speaker A: No.
[01:03:52] Speaker B: You'D like it. Well, it's an adding game, and you keep track of your points by the pegs on the board.
[01:03:57] Speaker A: I love math.
[01:03:58] Speaker B: And if your opponent doesn't catch points that they have in their hand.
[01:04:04] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:04:04] Speaker B: You get to steal them. After they've totaled up all their points, you say, which you would love to do. You'd be like, is that. Are you ready? So, yeah, and you go, well, you missed this, and you missed this. And you just get to put all those points in your place.
[01:04:15] Speaker A: I do. I love math. And stealing.
All right, Dane orders the sea Angels to stay put, but they're not having it. They're gonna sneak away.
Meanwhile, on the high seas, two sinister figures, the notorious Professor Steed and his strong arm aide Marlow Mittler.
[01:04:35] Speaker B: Are they notorious? Cause I never heard of them before.
[01:04:38] Speaker A: They've never been seen before or since, but we don't spend a lot of time in the high seas.
[01:04:43] Speaker B: Admit it. I guess they know it in the manifesto of the ships because they just stole. They tried to stick steel.
[01:04:49] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:04:50] Speaker B: Gold. Now, they say that there's enough on.
The SS Travia has enough sparkling jewels in its hold to light up a city.
[01:05:00] Speaker A: Next instance, jewels.
[01:05:04] Speaker B: Transported on ships.
[01:05:07] Speaker A: Well, yeah, they didn't have.
[01:05:09] Speaker B: Well, we just read an episode recently where an entire plane was dedicated just to haul a trunk full of jewels.
[01:05:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:05:16] Speaker B: Remember the train? The plane that went down?
[01:05:18] Speaker A: Huh?
I don't know how they did things. I mean, they have to transport them somehow.
[01:05:25] Speaker B: Did you hear the latest from the European Union and Great Britain and everything? They're not going to.
They're no longer going to allow shipment of parcels valued under $800.
[01:05:37] Speaker A: Yes, I heard.
[01:05:38] Speaker B: Or is it over 800? So how you do.
[01:05:41] Speaker A: I think it's any value over $100?
[01:05:43] Speaker B: Small parcels over $100.
[01:05:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:05:47] Speaker B: Shipped to the United States.
[01:05:48] Speaker A: Goodbye international action figure trade for me.
[01:05:52] Speaker B: Lord, I heard that this morning on the news. I could not believe it.
[01:05:55] Speaker A: Believe it.
Next instant because of the tariffs. Yeah.
As the waters part with a turbulent roar.
What a masterstroke. It was on Professor Steed's part to remove only one of the creatures, then to send the bottle flo that island so those hooligans could claim the second identical creature and take blame for my piracy.
Ha ha ha ha.
But the grimace on his face vanishes in an instant when the other creature appears along with the sea devils.
Dane is actually thinking of letting the creatures destroy each other.
[01:06:39] Speaker B: Right.
[01:06:40] Speaker A: Just then, Dingo arrives. You're not doing it, man. You're not sending my monster baby to its doom. You're just not.
[01:06:49] Speaker B: He sounds like a Green Lantern.
A little bit.
[01:06:53] Speaker A: Now, Dingo, listen to reason. Those creatures are deadly. In the wrong hands, they could terrorize every sea lane on Earth. This is the only way for them to destroy each other.
[01:07:07] Speaker B: I guess you're right. Okay, Daddy. Oh, let's go.
[01:07:10] Speaker A: So poor Dingo's in tears.
[01:07:12] Speaker B: He is in tears. He loves this creature.
[01:07:16] Speaker A: The commands are barked by each side. The creatures go after each other.
[01:07:23] Speaker B: One seems quite larger than the other.
[01:07:25] Speaker A: But maybe it's underdrawn.
They fight, fight, fight, kill, kill, kill.
Can two indestructible creatures even destroy each other?
That is the grim question on every mind.
[01:07:38] Speaker B: Well, Professor Vaughn Steed takes out a weapon.
[01:07:44] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:07:45] Speaker B: And fires it at a creature.
[01:07:47] Speaker A: Professor Stede's secret weapon finds its target. And the good creature has gone limp.
[01:07:55] Speaker B: And sinks into the ocean.
[01:07:57] Speaker A: Yes.
I hope you're satisfied now, Dane Dorrance.
Well, no, indeed, he is not satisfied. Into the drink he goes.
The evil creature is hot on Dain's tail.
Dane dives, dives underwater, reaches the deceased creature. And just as he suspected, he's the.
[01:08:27] Speaker B: Smartest man on earth.
[01:08:28] Speaker A: I should say so.
Dane begins scaring the other creature away. And then he kills it.
And up he goes to the top and gets Biff. And they have to beat up Professor Steed and Milo Mittler.
Was that his name? Marlo Mittler Marlow Mittler.
[01:08:49] Speaker B: Good job.
[01:08:49] Speaker A: Thank you.
I wonder if Dane's ever going to explain what he suspected.
Oh, yes.
You see, Dingo, it wasn't Professor Steed's creature that killed your monster. It was this small piece of the magic seaweed curtain that had originally kept them sealed up in their cave.
Apparently, it was able to repel them from breaking out because contact with it was fatal to them.
It's what I suspected the whole time.
I suspected that there was a piece of magic seaweed lodged in one of their teeth, which killed them both at the end of the day.
[01:09:33] Speaker B: Now, let's just think about this for a second.
[01:09:35] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:09:36] Speaker B: We read a story where teens can ride motorcycles underneath the water. Can ride them top the water with. No, like, we're not. There's no special.
It's not like they have sea dues, you know? I mean, they're just regular old motorcycles.
[01:09:50] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:09:52] Speaker B: And there is a secret. There are two sea creatures that were trapped in the same cave.
[01:09:56] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:09:57] Speaker B: Held tight since the midi. The Middle Ages.
[01:10:00] Speaker A: Medieval times. Yes.
[01:10:01] Speaker B: Right.
So that would have been the 1400s.
[01:10:04] Speaker A: Yes. Right. @ least.
[01:10:06] Speaker B: At least they've been there since the 1400s. Held in place alive.
[01:10:13] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:10:14] Speaker B: By a curtain of magic seaweed that kills them upon contact.
[01:10:19] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:10:21] Speaker B: How did they eat Stretch Do. I mean, how did they live in the cave?
[01:10:30] Speaker A: Well, I have my suspicions, but I'm going to share that another time.
[01:10:34] Speaker B: Just as I suspected you would.
[01:10:38] Speaker A: Now, Dingo and his buddies, they sure acted tough on the outside, but deep down, they're really nice kids.
I wonder if we'll ever see them again.
[01:10:48] Speaker B: Will we?
[01:10:49] Speaker A: No.
[01:10:49] Speaker B: No.
[01:10:50] Speaker A: Because this is the next to last issue of Sea Devils.
[01:10:53] Speaker B: Oh, is it really?
[01:10:54] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:10:56] Speaker B: So we'll actually read the last issue of Sea Devils.
[01:10:58] Speaker A: We certainly will.
[01:10:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:11:00] Speaker A: Are you sad?
I know how I love the Sea Devils.
[01:11:06] Speaker B: Oh, you know, I think they're jumping the shark.
[01:11:08] Speaker A: Oh, I think they already have.
[01:11:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
Long since I would read a Sea Devils comic before I'd read another Bob Hope or. I mean, Gladly or Jerry Lewis or. God, what's that? One of those kids, those babbling children.
Not High and Lois, Sugar and Spike. Oh, Sugar. Lois.
[01:11:30] Speaker A: Do you know Lois is Beetle Bailey's sister? No. Yep.
That's canonical.
[01:11:35] Speaker B: Well, do we have anything else to read in this?
[01:11:38] Speaker A: No, unless you want to read the Undersea Breezes, which is all fake people riding in with questions about scuba diving. Oh, seriously, there's not this many kids riding into the Sea Devils to ask questions about the best type of spear gun.
I.
[01:11:55] Speaker B: So I have A fear of heights.
[01:11:56] Speaker A: Yes. Right.
[01:11:58] Speaker B: And I remember when I was a kid, we didn't have money to speak of at all. We were always. Really. My parents always argued about money.
[01:12:07] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:12:08] Speaker B: But once in a while, we get to go vacation at my stepfather's mother's house.
And they lived in a.
It's gonna sound silly, but. In a trailer.
[01:12:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:21] Speaker B: In the Keys. And they were both realtors, and they were quite wealthy.
A lot of people live in mobile homes in the Keys.
[01:12:27] Speaker A: Sure.
[01:12:28] Speaker B: Because there's just, you know, it's all built up on shell down there stuff. So anyway, we would go and so we would get to. To vacation with them and. And they had a sailboat and they had a motorboat.
And I remember going out in a motorboat as a kid. I was not even, let's say, seven years old or whatever. And my stepfather would go snorkeling, and we went snorkeling. And I remember it was the first time that I'd ever been afraid of heights in the water because we'd go snorkeling on these reefs, and then you go off the edge of the reef and the. Just drops down substantially.
[01:13:05] Speaker A: Terrifying.
[01:13:05] Speaker B: And you could see things like sharks.
[01:13:08] Speaker A: Oh.
[01:13:08] Speaker B: I mean, it just. For a kid that hated the heights and sharks, it was awful. I just hated. I hated it so much. It was so scary.
[01:13:18] Speaker A: You should have carried a piece of magic seaweed with you, I guess. Kill the sharks.
[01:13:21] Speaker B: Kill the sharks. But my stepdad would go and get lobsters and we would eat lobsters because he would just pull them out from the rocks, huh? Yeah. We'd eat lobsters.
[01:13:33] Speaker A: We know. They used to pay kids in Nova Scotia a dime a piece for a lobster because they'd feed it to the prisoners because it was junk food.
[01:13:39] Speaker B: Junk food. Yeah.
[01:13:40] Speaker A: If only they knew then what we know now.
[01:13:44] Speaker B: Well, there you go.
[01:13:45] Speaker A: Well, you can find us in our cave trapped by magic seaweed.
Or 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 Teen Titans.
[01:14:05] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[01:14:07] Speaker A: Anything else to add?
[01:14:09] Speaker B: No. It's good to be here with you.
[01:14:11] Speaker A: Happy first week of school.
[01:14:13] Speaker B: Amen.
[01:14:14] Speaker A: Bye.
[01:14:16] Speaker C: You don't have to be a politician. You can change it all with a sin and disposition. So be heavy and spread it all around.
If you find yourself a frowning just turn it upside down when you wear a smile the world will shout hooray.
You gotta turn on the sunshine you gotta give in one time.
You gotta turn on the sunshine. Push those blues away.
Man, this dialectic's too much.
