Indian Givers (Brave and Bold 71)

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Are you ready? Yeah. Are you with it? [00:00:02] Speaker B: 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 Brave and the Bold 71. Cover date April May 1967. Cover price $0.12. Cover artists Carmine Infantano and Charles Cuidera. Edited by George Cashdan. Featuring the Wrath of the Thunderbird Written by Bob Haney. Art by George Papp. Are you ready? Are you with it? Then away we go. Go. Open up your eyes Take a look [00:01:12] Speaker A: at the world around you don't you [00:01:14] Speaker B: want to lend a helping hand [00:01:18] Speaker A: Try it on your side. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Befriends John Whitebird, a candidate for leadership in the Cajowas tribe. John's rival is Tom Tallwolf, a ruthless businessman. Tall Wolf conspires with JJJ also known as the promoter, to fix the contest that will determine leadership. Confused? Don't worry. I'll be right back with Dr. Husband to explain. Brings you a romance from any defeat no matter what you do It's Indian pool do. Hi. Hey. How's it going? [00:02:09] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:09] Speaker B: I haven't seen you all day long. [00:02:11] Speaker A: I've been busy today, haven't I? [00:02:14] Speaker B: You sure have. You got up early to make scones. [00:02:18] Speaker A: I did. [00:02:19] Speaker B: And I don't know what else you made. Mmm, little finger sandwiches. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Finger sandwiches. And then last night I did deviled eggs. Yeah, I had an extra class meeting because I missed like I got three class meetings for one of my classes that were canceled due to weather events. And the third one's, half my class was out sick. That's a small class. So half my class was out sick. There was a terrible bug going around. They were really. They were genuinely sick. And so I missed three class meetings. So I asked them to meet with me this afternoon to catch up on some things just to get caught up. And by doing that, I also made them a high tea. So we had little smoked ham and cheese finger sandwiches on the little Hawaiian rolls with butter bread, homemade buttermilk scones. Oh, deviled eggs, some cocktail peanuts, like little mixture cocktail peanuts. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Sure, sure. [00:03:20] Speaker A: Fresh blackberries and raspberries. And then chocolate cupcakes. [00:03:25] Speaker B: Oh, yes. [00:03:27] Speaker A: And I brought things home for you. No finger sandwiches left. [00:03:30] Speaker B: But did you use your new little trivet that you got? [00:03:34] Speaker A: Trivet? [00:03:34] Speaker B: Didn't you get a little tea serving thing? [00:03:37] Speaker A: I got that three tiered platter. Yeah, like a cake platter thing. Right when I knew I was having this tea. I've always wanted one. [00:03:48] Speaker B: When did you use it? [00:03:49] Speaker A: Well, it's not going to be delivered till Thursday. [00:03:51] Speaker B: Oh, for f sake. I know. [00:03:53] Speaker A: And I told my students, I said, I'm very disappointed because I ordered this, this three tiered platter. And they said, well, you're just going to have to bring it in for a final exams with some cookies. [00:04:01] Speaker B: And I said, okay, I guess you are. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Yes, I can do that. [00:04:05] Speaker B: Boy. [00:04:06] Speaker A: What? [00:04:07] Speaker B: You think you know somebody? [00:04:08] Speaker A: What? You heard? What? [00:04:10] Speaker B: Listener. The other evening, I received a phone call from my little sister. She was watching the Love Boat channel on Pluto tv. And it was a Charro episode. And her boyfriend, who's very young, had some questions about Charo. So naturally they called me to clear it up. Because I know all about Charo. [00:04:33] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Well, then Dr. Husband, out of the blue, after 34 years together, starts dropping encyclopedic knowledge about the Love Boat. It's never been mentioned before. We've even talked about Charo and the Love Boat. Yeah, but I never heard some of the facts and figures he was spitting out. [00:05:05] Speaker A: That's just in my head. [00:05:07] Speaker B: What? How? [00:05:08] Speaker A: Why I love the Love Boat. What? It's like. It's not something that anybody likes to ever admit, okay? It's not like you. You don't, you don't just. You're not at a party, you know, with people, let's say, where we do a recital or we're at a concert or whatever, and afterwards we're sitting there having cocktails or coffee or whatever. Like, hey, did you ever watch Love Boat? Oh, yeah, I watched Love Boat. It was funny. Whatever. I loved it. [00:05:32] Speaker B: Do you know how many opportunities I've had to buy a complete DVD box set of the Love Boat? In my head? Yes. [00:05:39] Speaker A: Why would you do that? [00:05:41] Speaker B: In my head, I've said, no, Dr. Husband wouldn't want anything like that in the house. [00:05:45] Speaker A: I could watch it anytime on telly. [00:05:47] Speaker B: What if they take it away? That's how they get you. They put things on TV that you love to watch and then they take it away. [00:05:53] Speaker A: I'm 55 years old. [00:05:54] Speaker B: The only way to ensure that you can watch whatever you want is to buy physical media. [00:05:58] Speaker A: I'm 55 years old and I've gotten along Pretty well without having re. Without owning episodes of the Love Book. Okay, well. What? [00:06:07] Speaker B: Christmas is coming. [00:06:08] Speaker A: So Teri Hatcher was a mermaid in the last season. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Yes, yes, we all know that. [00:06:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:13] Speaker B: And who was the most frequent guest star? [00:06:16] Speaker A: Tom Bosley and Mary. And what was her name? [00:06:19] Speaker B: Marian Ross. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Marion Ross. Yes. Sometimes they were together, sometimes they weren't. [00:06:24] Speaker B: And how many times did Charo appear? [00:06:28] Speaker A: 5. [00:06:29] Speaker B: And what was the name of her recurring maid character? [00:06:32] Speaker A: Oh, my God, I don't know. What? [00:06:35] Speaker B: I don't remember either, but I know she was like a recurring character and she played someone's maid and she had to come on with the family or she was the nanny or something. [00:06:43] Speaker A: So the actor, Ted, who played Ted Lang. Ted what? [00:06:48] Speaker B: Ted Lang. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Ted Lang. When he realized that he was going to be like, that was his gig. He went to bartender school and got a bartending license so that he could really look like he knew what he was doing. And when he finished bartending school, they gave him a diploma and another diploma for Isaac the bartender. And it was on the bar, on the boat, on the set. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Fantastic. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Oh, and the finger pointing thing was something he just made up in like the first forced or second episode or whatever. And it stayed so. [00:07:20] Speaker B: Well, let's give him his thing. Start watching from the beginning so we can see which episode it was. [00:07:24] Speaker A: Girl, I would watch that. I swear to God. If you were like, at the end of the night, you're like. Instead of watching Family Guy, you're like, can we watch a Love Boat? Sure. Yes. [00:07:31] Speaker B: All right. [00:07:32] Speaker A: We got to be able to pull them up in sequence. I don't want to just jump in. [00:07:35] Speaker B: Oh, well, see, that's. You can't do that on Pluto tv. That's why you have to have the physical media. [00:07:41] Speaker A: Well, how do you know that we can't just pull it up on any other platform? [00:07:44] Speaker B: Well, because I don't. [00:07:46] Speaker A: Yeah, well, there you go. [00:07:47] Speaker B: But I'll investigate. [00:07:51] Speaker A: It had the most number of Oscar winning actors as guests. Appearances. [00:07:56] Speaker B: Sure. [00:07:56] Speaker A: Any other show in history. [00:07:58] Speaker B: I'm sure it was a vital source of income for many of our golden age Hollywood greats. [00:08:02] Speaker A: You know it. [00:08:04] Speaker B: It's too bad Joan Crawford didn't live long enough to appear. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Oh, what would they do? She did film her at the bar, right? [00:08:11] Speaker B: Yes. Well, she could have been friends with Isaac. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Yes. [00:08:16] Speaker B: They had that one episode with like Ann Miller and Della Reese and I don't know who all Carol Channing. They're all playing old, washed up, old cabaret stars. [00:08:28] Speaker A: You know, I didn't know Carol Channing's name. When I was a child, I used to call her Puppet Eyes. [00:08:33] Speaker B: Well, I'm very sorry for your loss. Speaking of loss. [00:08:36] Speaker A: Yes? [00:08:36] Speaker B: Sid Croft passed away this week. [00:08:40] Speaker A: I'm more excited about Moira Brennan. Moya Brennan. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Moya Brennan, lead singer of Clannad. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Clannad. [00:08:46] Speaker B: Enya's sister. If you're not familiar with Clannad. Yeah, it's very famous Irish group. [00:08:52] Speaker A: One of the very early strands that pulled me closer to you was our mutual love of Clan. [00:08:57] Speaker B: I know. [00:08:58] Speaker A: Yes. [00:08:59] Speaker B: You thought no one else had ever heard of them. [00:09:00] Speaker A: Yes. And you were like. I was like, have you ever heard of this group called Clannad? And you go, it's called Clanid. I was like, what? [00:09:06] Speaker B: And I see them in concert and [00:09:07] Speaker A: I've seen them in concert and blah, blah, blah, blah. I was like, oh, my God. No one else I know knows this group. Oh, my God. Who is this person? [00:09:14] Speaker B: Oh, my God. And 34 years later, we learn about your Love Boat obsession. [00:09:22] Speaker A: We're gonna have some surprises, I guess. [00:09:25] Speaker B: Speaking of surprises. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:28] Speaker B: It's the Brave and The Bold, number 71, featuring Batman and the Green Arrow. [00:09:35] Speaker A: Yeah, what's up with that? [00:09:39] Speaker B: Green Arrow. Oh, and it's a story featuring Native Americans written by Bob Haney. What could go wrong? [00:09:48] Speaker A: Big wampum. I'll tell you, that's what could go wrong. [00:09:51] Speaker B: He's back. The swashbuckling bowman who sets the comics world a quiver with the excitement you all aim to enjoy. The original ace Archer of them all. Green Arrow. I don't know why they say he's back. He appears semi regularly in Justice League of America. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Does he have his own comic yet? [00:10:12] Speaker B: I think at this time he does not have his own feature. No. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Because you know why? All his stories are stupid. Oh, just ask Chuck, our co host on our sister podcast, Nord Orchestra. He's been reading the 1950s Adventures of Green Arrow and their. They're not great. [00:10:34] Speaker A: What's Green Arrow's real name? [00:10:36] Speaker B: Oliver Queen. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Oh, it's not alliterative. [00:10:40] Speaker B: No. Oliver Oakley and his ward Speedy is Roy Harper. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Also not alliterative. [00:10:47] Speaker B: No. Wow. I know. Well? Nothing. Bruce Wayne's not alliterative. [00:10:52] Speaker A: No. [00:10:52] Speaker B: But like Dick Grayson. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Oh, okay. All right. Clark Kent. Okay. Clark Kent is alliterative. Wally West. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Yes. Well done. You found two. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Oh, don't get me started. Fine, let's just. Yes, I'm wrong. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Okay, I didn't say you were wrong. [00:11:12] Speaker A: I won't freaking prove you're right next by next episode, will you? [00:11:15] Speaker B: You're gonna name all the Love Boat. Guest stars that are alliterative. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Bonnie. Well, what's her name, But Bartlett. Barbie. [00:11:28] Speaker B: Benton. [00:11:29] Speaker A: Benton. Barbie Benton. [00:11:30] Speaker B: She was a guest more than once. [00:11:33] Speaker A: I bet she was on Fantasy Island. [00:11:37] Speaker B: Now, I'm sorry to tell you, there is no Pluto Channel for Fantasy Island. But I do have two seasons of that on tv. [00:11:45] Speaker A: Saturday night. That was the best. [00:11:47] Speaker B: And then what else was there? Incredible Hulk Full. [00:11:50] Speaker A: I mean, where I lived. I see. I could have my nights mixed up, but I could swear the lineup was this. Different Strokes. Facts of Life. Something I wouldn't watch. Love Boat. Fantasy Island. Love American Style. [00:12:07] Speaker B: That's a long primetime slot. [00:12:11] Speaker A: Well, that's not prime time. Love American Style is like after the. After the news. Fantasy island was 10 to 11. [00:12:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:18] Speaker A: Love Boat was 9 to 10. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Ooh, I want to say Charlie's Angels was in there. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Eight to nine would have been. I mean, I thought Different Strokes and Facts of Life, but does that seem right? [00:12:28] Speaker B: Or Thursday night, NBC and Love Boat. Fantasy. Or abc, I believe. Let's just look up television. [00:12:39] Speaker A: Okay, so let's put this in 1980. 80. [00:12:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:12:46] Speaker A: One. 81. 81. 81. [00:12:50] Speaker B: Saturday night. Saturday. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Saturday. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Saturday. Yes. Charlie's Angels. [00:12:59] Speaker A: What time? [00:13:00] Speaker B: Or in the winter was Charlie's Angels? Eight to nine. Okay. In the spring was Eight is Enough. [00:13:07] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:08] Speaker B: I would watch both those shows, and then Love Boat and then Fantasy Island. [00:13:12] Speaker A: When did Facts of Life and Different Strokes come on? They were back to back. [00:13:15] Speaker B: You take them all. You take the back. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. [00:13:19] Speaker A: The Facts of Life. [00:13:21] Speaker B: The Facts. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Thursday Night. Wednesday night. [00:13:24] Speaker B: Thursday was Mork and Mindy and Bosom Buddies and Buck Rogers. God, I know. [00:13:32] Speaker A: What a great lineup. [00:13:34] Speaker B: Tuesdays, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Heart to Heart. Ooh, Three's Company and Too Close for Comfort. Oh, it's getting better. I don't even. What year are you in 1980? [00:13:51] Speaker A: I don't think facts of life started until 82. [00:13:54] Speaker B: You don't? Well, I don't even see different strokes. Yeah, you must be right. [00:14:02] Speaker A: God, how did I pull that? Wait, wait. If I am right, I will. That is bizarre. Okay. Facts of Life. Life. [00:14:10] Speaker B: Friday night in 1980. The Brady Brides. Right after Harper Valley, PTA freebie and the Bean. [00:14:21] Speaker A: No, no, no, no, no, no. Nine seasons, 1979 to 1988. It was a spin off of Different Strokes. 79. When did it come on? [00:14:32] Speaker B: Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. Different Strokes, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. 78 to 1985. What night well, hang on. It's not telling me. [00:14:46] Speaker A: Um. Different strokes. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Oh, the first season. Friday nights. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Friday nights. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, we didn't. If we didn't go to the racetrack to watch some racing circles around a fucking dirt track on Friday nights, that's what I would do. We watch television. Fun. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:11] Speaker A: I mean, we were a NASCAR family, so. Although we would go to the local racetrack, which was Samsula Racetrack. God, I. Oh, I wish I could go back in time and kidnap my child, my childhood self, and remove him from that. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Friday nights on cbs. Incredible Hulk. Death of Hazzard in Dallas. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Dallas. I was too young to appreciate Dallas. [00:15:36] Speaker B: Well, I wasn't. Anyway, where were we? [00:15:41] Speaker A: Okay, back to Green Arrow. So here without further ado, written by the Bowstring, written with Bowstring taut, tension drawn with dead eye accuracy, is the adventure that hits the brave and the bold. Bullseye again. As GA Joins forces with Batman to combat the wrath of the Thunderbird. It's a long story. [00:16:05] Speaker B: Huh? [00:16:06] Speaker A: This is a long story. It's a three parter. [00:16:09] Speaker B: Yeah. It seems longer than it actually is. [00:16:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:12] Speaker B: On an elevated highway along the riverfront in Gotham City, two truck drivers are having a dispute over the right of way. And like all truck drivers, they settle their dispute by crashing into each other on an overpass over a river. [00:16:29] Speaker A: Yes. One pushes the other one off the bridge. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Yes. The truck, that is the driver, leaps out in the nick of time and is snagged on a pylon. Piling. [00:16:42] Speaker A: Piling on a pier. Piling. Now look how he snagged on a piling. Just a couple inches more and he would have had that piling straight through his chest. Or his killed him. Or is. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. Yeah. Luckily, Batman arrives because that fella can't swim. And the emergency truck won't be here for a few minutes. [00:17:04] Speaker A: So Batman uses his lasso, the famed [00:17:07] Speaker B: bat rope, and lifts him right up. Batman says, officers arrest the other driver. He caused the whole thing. He's one of Tom Tall Wolf's thunder thugs. Speak of the devil. Here comes Tom Tall Wolf out of his nice. Out of a limousine stretch limousine walking with a cane. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Have you ever been in a limousine? [00:17:36] Speaker B: I don't believe I have. [00:17:37] Speaker A: I was once with work. How? It wasn't like a celebratory thing where we, like. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Oh, it wasn't like, filled with a bucket full of champagne and I don't [00:17:46] Speaker A: even know why I was there. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Were you driving? No. All right, Tom Tallulf, do you wanna press charges against Me or one of my drivers, Batman, you better make it stick or I'll sue Gotham City and you for false arrest. Besides, the accident, quote unquote, was part of the game. The tough game of the trucking business. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Really? [00:18:16] Speaker B: I know someone who's a professional long haul trucker. [00:18:20] Speaker A: I am. [00:18:21] Speaker B: And I've never heard of him being pushed off the road, nor pushing anyone else. No, that would seem to be illegal. [00:18:28] Speaker A: That would be a career ender. [00:18:29] Speaker B: Any state in the union. [00:18:31] Speaker A: Oh, sure. [00:18:33] Speaker B: Well, Batman knows that Tom Tall Wolf's drivers are mostly thugs who shove all the competition off the road to make Tom Tall Wolf rich. Does that. That would seem to not make someone rich if you're damaging vehicles and possibly murdering other drivers. [00:18:51] Speaker A: I'm sorry, why do you sound like me today? [00:18:54] Speaker B: I don't know why are you questioning this? [00:18:57] Speaker A: Yes, you do sound like me. Why are you questioning this? [00:19:01] Speaker B: Because Even in the 1960s, vehicular manslaughter was a crime which would not make the trucking company owner rich. In fact, it would drain his coffers defending his drivers in court. [00:19:16] Speaker A: How many times have you told me just to accept the pretense of the story? [00:19:21] Speaker B: I ask you to accept things like Superman can push the moon out of orbit. [00:19:27] Speaker A: You ask me to accept things like multiple Earths. [00:19:30] Speaker B: Yes, but things that are clearly like. Even an 8 year old knows that you can't drive another truck off a road over a river. [00:19:40] Speaker A: You can if it's good for your business. [00:19:43] Speaker B: You can if it's like if there's a child in the road and you have to save the child and knock the other truck out of the way to save the life of the child. But that's not the case here. This is malicious. [00:19:52] Speaker A: The trucking business is a very, very difficult and highly competitive business where only the fastest and fiercest truckers win. I watched more than one season of BJ and the Bear. Oh, is that still working? [00:20:06] Speaker B: BJ and the Bear. [00:20:07] Speaker A: He's. Yeah, I gotta leave my cord alone. I watched more than one season of BJ and the Bear. I know how difficult the trucking business can be. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Okay, well, I saw a convoy in the theater and my father had a CB radio in the car which he would talk on when we were on long trips. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Well, I used to be taken to the Samsula racetrack and we had a CB radio. And I've seen Smokey and the Bandit more than once. [00:20:35] Speaker B: What was your handle? [00:20:37] Speaker A: Brown Eyes? [00:20:39] Speaker B: Gross. [00:20:41] Speaker A: I don't know. I just made it up. I didn't have a handle. I was A child. What am I gonna do on a CB radio? [00:20:48] Speaker B: My father's handle was Cutty Sark. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Of course. My stepfather's handle was Scallywag. Oh, God. And he was a scallywag. He was a horrible person. Yeah. [00:21:00] Speaker B: All right. Tom Toll. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Cutty Sark. [00:21:03] Speaker B: God. What? [00:21:07] Speaker A: Oh, I just loved. Oh my God. Oh my God. Do you remember that girl that we went to school with who was a classical singer, an opera singer, and she used to hang out underneath the bridge on Friday nights and with a CB radio and like, I mean like literally in a truck underneath the bridge. Because something about the reception on the water. Maybe she was doing something else. I don't know. Who the hell hangs out underneath a bridge on Friday nights? [00:21:31] Speaker B: Trolls. And Tom Tall Wolf. [00:21:33] Speaker A: Oh my God, I had forgotten about her. And she'd talk about the CB radio. [00:21:39] Speaker B: Uh huh. [00:21:39] Speaker A: Right. [00:21:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Well, she wasn't an intimate friend or anything. [00:21:44] Speaker B: She wasn't. And we didn't have Internet. You had no cell phones. You had to make friends somehow. [00:21:48] Speaker A: Oh my God. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Sure. Tom Tolvo plays it rough because it's a rough world. Now if you think my boys are doing anything illegal, make your charges and I'll send my lawyers. All 50, 15 of them. Well, now we come to the gist of the story written by Bob Haney, featuring Native American. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Yes. Okay, so goodbye, pale faces listener. You're going to hear lots of racial stereotype language in this. Neither of us endorses it at all. [00:22:24] Speaker B: Correct. [00:22:25] Speaker A: But we can't avoid it because this is sewn in with it like, I don't know, I have no, no, no imagination today. What I'm trying. It's just. It's woven throughout the entire thing. Yeah, yeah. [00:22:44] Speaker B: All right. Batman says he has to let Tom Tall Wolf go. But one of these days he's going to make a mistake and do something illegal. He just. His driver just did something off the road. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:22:59] Speaker B: too bad, because you've got to admire his brains and courage. [00:23:03] Speaker A: You do. [00:23:04] Speaker B: No, you don't. [00:23:05] Speaker A: Not long after, as the caped crusader keeps an appointment. Oh, I almost forgot. Almost forgot. This call. Wonder what my old friend wants? [00:23:13] Speaker B: His old friend at White Bird Enterprises. Yes, and soon. In the penthouse office, it's John Whitebird. [00:23:24] Speaker A: Here we go. [00:23:24] Speaker B: He's just shot an arrow at an expensive painting in his penthouse office. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Batman says, holy peace pipes. John White Bird, are you going to on the warpath again? Oh, God, it's. I mean, no, we can't. We'd have to say oh God, or roll our eyes because Every single panel has this stupid, stupid dialogue written into it. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Ha ha ha. No bad man. And I'm afraid with that kind of shooting, I'd be a dead engine pretty quickly. I'm just practicing. [00:23:56] Speaker A: What's he practicing for? [00:23:57] Speaker B: Archery? [00:23:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Pretty expensive practice, he says. What did that masterpiece cost you? [00:24:01] Speaker B: 20,000, 30,000? [00:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Oh, Jesus. But remember, I'm a heap big tycoon. Money I have plenty of. But money's a white man's achievement. That's the old Indian skills I need now. [00:24:16] Speaker A: And then Batman says, I don't dig. John. Wow. Hey, John, what you're saying doesn't jive. It ain't jive. [00:24:29] Speaker B: All right. It seems old Standing Bear, chief of his people, the Kijoas, has just died out on the reservation. A new chief must be chosen soon. Therefore, two contenders for chief. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Myself and Tom Tallwolf, who we were just introduced, is. The header has that trucking business. [00:24:47] Speaker B: He's a thug. [00:24:48] Speaker A: He's a thug. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Whichever of us wins the contest becomes chief. And the events in this contest are all the old Indian skills. Riding, wrestling, javelin tossing, bowmanship. All events that I'm no good at. [00:25:05] Speaker A: You see, Batman, I left the reservation early to get an education. I never did learn the old ways. But Tom Tall Wolf is like a real warrior. Despite his city ways, he's good at all the events. [00:25:16] Speaker B: You bet I am. White bird gasp. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Tom Tolwolf walks in. [00:25:22] Speaker B: Yeah, brother, I am tougher than you. Much tougher. You haven't a chance to win and become chief. So why not concede now and save yourself the strain? Never. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Perhaps you will win. But I'll be trying with everything I've got. Once our people have you for a chief, there's no telling what you could do. The reservation is a happy place now. Prosperous. The. What are we saying? Are becoming more and more adjusted to [00:25:47] Speaker B: the new ways, which, by the way, is not a real tribe. There is a Kiowa tribe in Oklahoma, which, as you know, is immediately adjacent to the east coast city of Gotham City, as we learned in last week's Lois Lane all about geography of Earth one. All right. White Bird is going to stay in the contest till the end. And Tom Tall Wolf takes. Picks up a statue and then drops [00:26:18] Speaker A: the floor and walks out the floor. He picks up a statue, drops it on the floor and walks out. Is that the equivalent. Is that the 1967 equivalent of a mic drop? [00:26:27] Speaker B: Or maybe it's like a duel. We slap in the glove for a duel or something. [00:26:31] Speaker A: I challenge you, d'. Artagnan. Slap Slap, slap. [00:26:36] Speaker B: Now we come to it. This is why John White Bird called Batman. He's got to turn him as tough as Tall Wolf and train him for the contest. With you guiding me, Batman, maybe I have a chance. Maybe my people still have a chance. [00:26:52] Speaker A: You know, this is important because Tom Tall Wolf, which is Tall Wolf. Oh, yeah. Tom Tall Wolf, the bad guy. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Could become the chief and he's a bad guy. He's a criminal. And he would be leading the entire tribe. Yes, and that could be very bad for those people. [00:27:07] Speaker B: But you know what? Viktor Orban just lost election. So anything can happen. Yeah, I can believe it. I can't believe he conceded so easily without a fight. [00:27:19] Speaker A: Well, I guess. I guess we both believe the same thing. But we both can't believe the same thing. I can't. When I say I can't believe it, I can't believe that the result is what it is. I assumed we would be hearing that he lost the election but is contesting it and blah, blah, blah. [00:27:38] Speaker B: Right, right, right. [00:27:38] Speaker A: Not that he conceded. [00:27:42] Speaker B: Train you for the chieftain contest, eh, John? Well, everything else. And I've done everything else in this Batman job, so why not? You're on. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Great. Batman. [00:27:53] Speaker B: So soon? At John Whitebird's country estate, where he's shirtlessly riding a horse alongside Batman, who's [00:27:59] Speaker A: in full cape and cowl. [00:28:00] Speaker B: Full cape and cowl. Batman's training him to ride a horse, to pick up a javelin from the ground. And Whitebird falls right off that horse. Did he bring John Whitebird an extra pair of Robin's shoes? [00:28:18] Speaker A: No, it's just, you know, they're little [00:28:21] Speaker B: green slip on elfin shoes, the moccasins. By the way, he's wearing black stretch pants and no shirt. All right, well, the horse riding was not successful. [00:28:39] Speaker A: No, but, but, but encourages them to keep at it. [00:28:41] Speaker B: And we need a training montage. Into the danger zone. Right into the danger zone. So he's getting better at riding, he's getting better at javelin throwing, getting better at wrestling. He even beats Batman. But one morning as class resumes, I'm afraid, John, archery is not my style. [00:29:08] Speaker A: But bowmanship's the most important part of the contest. The silver plated bow of the Kijawa chiefs is the symbol of their power. And Tom Tolwolf is a terrific archer. The best in the tribe. [00:29:19] Speaker B: Hmm. Only one thing to do, get you another teacher, a specialist in archery. And I think I know just the guy, if he's available. [00:29:28] Speaker A: This is the part where the laugh track comes up. Ah, they all Clap because they know what's coming next. [00:29:35] Speaker B: Keep training, John. I'll be back as soon as I can. I wish we had a laugh track two days later. I mean, it could be arranged, probably. [00:29:42] Speaker A: No, I mean, like in our house. [00:29:45] Speaker B: Oh, Just around all the time. [00:29:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Like speakers on all the time and where you just quickly push a button and always get a laugh track again. God. Oh, my God. That'd be great. [00:29:54] Speaker B: It'd probably get old pretty fast, but [00:29:56] Speaker A: I was for a day. Wouldn't it be fun? [00:29:58] Speaker B: I prefer the mockumentary style with no laugh track. You just silently stare at the camera when something's funny. [00:30:06] Speaker A: Where's our camera? Right over here. Oh, okay. The walkers haven't come by tonight. [00:30:12] Speaker B: Oh, they were probably by earlier. Ah. [00:30:15] Speaker A: Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck. [00:30:19] Speaker B: All right. Two days later, Batman returns with Green Arrow. [00:30:23] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Batman's told me your problem, John. Perhaps I can help. The world's greatest bowman teaching me why I'm one lucky Indian. Ha ha ha, ha. It's already old. Okay, now, as the famed emerald archer of justice starts instructing his pupil. There's a gentleman lurking in the bushes. He's got a very ugly face. [00:30:56] Speaker A: He looks like a character. What is his name? Oh, Master, what's his name? [00:31:05] Speaker B: Igor. Right. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Yes. [00:31:08] Speaker B: In. Oh, what was the actor's name? Charles Lawton. I don't know. [00:31:14] Speaker A: No, but you know who I'm talking about. Yeah, he. What was he, Hispanic? [00:31:20] Speaker B: No. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Chinese? No, he wasn't Chinese. But he would talk like this, Master, you know. [00:31:28] Speaker B: Yes. You're not thinking of Billy Barty. On, God. [00:31:32] Speaker A: But no, younger than that. I mean, 1950s. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Anyway, he's got checkered jacket and a straw hat. Did I ever tell you that when I was, like, 4 years old and I would imagine myself as an adult, I was always wearing, like, a barbershop quartet, red and white striped jacket, and a straw hat in my vision. [00:31:53] Speaker A: No. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Yes. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:31:58] Speaker B: See, we all have our secrets. [00:31:59] Speaker A: I would never imagine myself as an adult. [00:32:03] Speaker B: Oh, I did. All the time. And I would walk in my head. I would be walking around, like, all my activities, even, like, swimming. [00:32:08] Speaker A: I didn't tell you what pissed me off the other night. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:32:11] Speaker A: Well, I saw that play. Right? [00:32:13] Speaker B: Yes. [00:32:14] Speaker A: At the college. [00:32:15] Speaker B: Yes. [00:32:16] Speaker A: And this character is 60 years old. Like, he ages. So he was, like, 56. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:23] Speaker A: And then he's later. He's 60 years old, and when he turns 60, he comes out in a cane and he's all, like, stumbling around and, you know, just, like, really really, like, struggling, right? And I'm like. And I'm sitting there going, I'm 55, for God's sake. In four years, the guy goes from bouncing around and being healthy to. To. To. To walk in with a cane. That's because the. You know, the. The kid playing him, right? Well, the director thought, well, you know, you need to be older and infirmed. So now he's, you know, walking with a cane. I was just like, Well, I. I'm [00:32:56] Speaker B: 59 and eight months, so I'll let you know how it goes. [00:33:01] Speaker A: Okay, well, we got some crutches down in the garage if you need them. [00:33:04] Speaker B: Oh, good. [00:33:04] Speaker A: Laugh track. [00:33:07] Speaker B: So this gentleman's name is Chex, and he's radioing someone called a promoter. Called a promoter to report that Batman has recruited Green Arrow. Not long after, in the offices of jjj, known to the world as the Big Promoter, he's getting the full scoop. And, oh, he's a Southern gentleman. It seems. So, yes. Promoter, I know you'll promote something real big. Really sensational, [00:33:44] Speaker A: y'. [00:33:45] Speaker B: All. [00:33:47] Speaker A: Y' all bet I will. Boy, ever since I left that cheap 2 bit carnival in Texas as a kid, I promoted bigger and bigger. That's why today I'm the biggest there is. And tomorrow, Gotham City is going to be set on its ear by my latest dandiest promotion. [00:34:01] Speaker B: So you're in pr. We get it. Next day. All of Gotham is indeed set on its ear, including three very interested news readers. Extra, extra big promoter offer stadium for kichoa, tribal contestants. All proceeds to tribe relief fund. Tom Tallwolf fully approves. [00:34:20] Speaker A: I love the newsboy voice. [00:34:23] Speaker B: All right. Batman and Green Arrow know it's a scheme, of course. Although Batman says the money would help your people a great deal. Yes, John Whitebird says. [00:34:36] Speaker A: He says it would be good for the tribe to leave the reservation for a time. See, the big city, the different way of life. Okay, I'll give it my approval, too. [00:34:43] Speaker B: They never leave the reservation. [00:34:44] Speaker A: Yeah, they must. [00:34:47] Speaker B: All right, now back to your training, John. Good. But at that very moment, in the offices of jjj, Tom Tall Wolfe is ordering the promoter to fix the contest so he wins. [00:35:02] Speaker A: He said it would have been a cinch for him to win and put Batman and Green Lantern. Green Arrow. Sorry. Green Arrow stepped in. [00:35:08] Speaker B: Yeah, so promoter says. Of course, Tall Wolf holding the contest in the stadium means I can control the whole setup, gimmick the event. So John White Bird is a dead engine. But now Tall Wolf doesn't know why he's helping. [00:35:23] Speaker A: No, he doesn't know why he's helping him out, but JJJ says White Bird exposed. A little promotion stunt I pulled once. I lost a heap much a wampum, Damn it. Now's my chance to get even, so. [00:35:38] Speaker B: All right, but remember, no rough stuff. It's got to look like I win fair and square. See you at the contest, promoter. [00:35:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And he says to himself, JJJ Says, or the promoter says, yeah, see me even after that. You foolish, vain redskin. Yes, you serve the promoter well, though you don't even know it. You'll serve. You'll serve. I'm sorry, folks, for not reading that correctly. Maybe you won't edit that out later on. [00:36:07] Speaker B: What? [00:36:08] Speaker A: Maybe you won't edit that out later on. [00:36:09] Speaker B: I certainly won't. All right, here we are in the stadium as guest of the Kajoa tribe to witness the contest for chief of all the Kajoas. Price $0.12. Those people in the stands paid lots more. Get it? Cause we paid 12 cents for this comic. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Mm. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Let the contest which shall choose the most worthy to follow in the steps of the great ancestors now begin. [00:36:39] Speaker A: Could you imagine this would never even make it to television. [00:36:42] Speaker B: No. Now, how is Tom Tall Wolf all of a sudden running and leaping like a gazelle? What's happened? I thought he was using that cane to support himself as he walked, but I guess not. [00:36:56] Speaker A: Decorative. [00:36:58] Speaker B: All right, Tom Tall Wolf wins the long jump. [00:37:02] Speaker A: The broad jump. Yeah. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Tom Tall Wolf. Oh, no. John Whitebird wins the javelin throw. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Exactly. And then they get on the horses and. [00:37:15] Speaker B: And just like the trucking business, Tom Tall Wolf's trying to shove that horse off the track. [00:37:21] Speaker A: And Whitebird, which John White Bird is about to lean down to pick up the javelin. And checks. Checks. He uses a mirror and a sight to get the sunlight focused into his eyes. Master. [00:37:41] Speaker B: So White Bird falls off his horse. Tall Wolf wins the spear. Grabbing, shaken, but determined, White Bird now faces his opponent for wrestling. So they start wrestling. Tall Wolf apparently is so strong, they didn't even have to fix this event. However, White Bird's been trained by Batman, [00:38:05] Speaker A: who knows judo and other forms of judo. [00:38:08] Speaker B: Yes, he knows how to leverage an opponent's weight against him. And so that's tied two to two. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah. What's the wolves? [00:38:18] Speaker B: Tom. [00:38:18] Speaker A: Tom Tulwolf. Tom Taurus. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Archery is the last event. Tall Wolf releases the first arrow. It's a bullseye. They have to shoot through a lariat. But when John Whitebird notches and fires a shaft, we see Chex's hand pulling a lever. [00:38:40] Speaker A: And the arrow seems to be diverted. [00:38:42] Speaker B: The arrow is diverted around the lasso. Green Arrow says, huh? That was as truly aimed as a shaft as I've ever seen shot, Batman. Batman says, maybe it was a gust of wind. [00:38:57] Speaker A: It must have flew. [00:38:59] Speaker B: But they fire again and again. [00:39:01] Speaker A: And every single shot that John White Bird takes doesn't make it. And every shot that Tom Tall Wolf makes, shoots does go through. [00:39:12] Speaker B: So Tall Wolf is the new chief of the Kajoas. [00:39:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:17] Speaker B: John Whitebird's awfully sorry that he let Batman and Green Arrow and his people down. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Green Arrow is not buying it. [00:39:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:26] Speaker A: He says, no, no, no, no, no. I had John hitting that loop with his eyes closed. Something is fishy here. So they go and check out the. The goal posts, right? [00:39:35] Speaker B: Yes. [00:39:36] Speaker A: And that's where Batman discovers that there's a gimmick. It's been gimmicked with electromagnets concealed in the upright goals on either side. And it was remotely powered, so each time that John fired an arrow, the juice was turned on. There was just enough magnetic magnetite or in those stone arrowheads to deflect them. That's why you lost. It was fixed. [00:40:00] Speaker B: I know Tall Wolf is unscrupulous, but I never thought he'd stoop to this. Dishonoring the chieftainship of our people. [00:40:09] Speaker A: This is kind of cool. [00:40:10] Speaker B: So Batman says he must have had help. And wait. A light burning late in the office of JJJ the big promoter. Having the contest here was his idea. Green Arrow, can we eavesdrop on that cubicle? [00:40:23] Speaker A: Sure, Batman. So he fires a. An arrow that has a little plunger. His eavesdropper has a plunger on the end of it. And a little transmitter. A radio transmitter? Yes. [00:40:33] Speaker B: So they're picking up the conversation inside the cubicle. All right, Tall Wolf, so I made you chief. Now I want a favor in return. When we go to the Kajoa reservation tomorrow, I want you to give me the secret of the Thunderbird. What? [00:40:51] Speaker A: The Thunderbird? [00:40:52] Speaker B: Yes. As chief, you alone will have the power to call forth the Thunderbird. [00:40:58] Speaker A: Oh, you're crazy, Promoter. I'll never give you that. It's a sacred trust. No chief of the Kajoas would ever betray it. [00:41:04] Speaker B: You already violated that trust by cheating to become chief. You'll do it, or I'll expose the whole scheme to your people. To the world. [00:41:14] Speaker A: Well. And in Tom Tauff's. He realizes he's done something wrong. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Yes. So meanwhile, back on the ground, Batman wants to know what the Thunderbird is. John Whitebird says it's A lot of trouble. And we've got to be on the reservation when Tall Wolf is installed as chief. [00:41:34] Speaker A: So the following day in the far West. Let's see now, how far did they drive? The next day? It looks like they're driving out to the desert. So they're clearly driving to. [00:41:44] Speaker B: Well, the Keoah's come from Oklahoma, so. Is there desert in Oklahoma? [00:41:49] Speaker A: Well, there is in this world because, you know, the Rocky Mountains are right there, too. [00:41:53] Speaker B: Yes, right. So we don't know. We could have flown on the Batplane off panel and just rented a jeep. [00:42:00] Speaker A: Well, there. [00:42:01] Speaker B: Once we're. Once we're in Oklahoma. [00:42:03] Speaker A: Okay. [00:42:05] Speaker B: I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. Okay, this time. [00:42:09] Speaker A: All right. [00:42:10] Speaker B: All right. They've arrived at a spot where Tall Wolf is being ordered by someone to call forth the Thunderbird. So Tall Wolf is standing in front of a cave, blowing smoke into the mouth of the cave. And as the multicolored smoke from the strange clays burning in the pots send acrid gases into the cave, a sound like summer thunder is heard, followed by a giant condor flying out of the cave. [00:42:45] Speaker A: That's huge. [00:42:46] Speaker B: It's huge. Now, the promoter wants this bird to promote. [00:42:56] Speaker A: I mean, he. I guess he wants to do like an attraction. [00:42:58] Speaker B: Like a King Kong situation. [00:43:00] Speaker A: I guess. Yeah. [00:43:03] Speaker B: All right, so this giant Thunderbird is flying around trying to get the promoter and Tall Wolf. So they hop into a helicopter. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Well, yeah, because he can't be controlled, apparently. No, no. [00:43:19] Speaker B: You know who could control him? Hawkman. [00:43:21] Speaker A: Hawkman. [00:43:21] Speaker B: He could speak his language. Yeah, Screee. All right. The promoter even says, can't you control it all off? And he says, no, I can't. Besides, that wasn't part of the deal up on the cliff. So the helicopter's taking off. It's actually below where Batman and company are. White Bird explains that the Thunderbird helped our tribe centuries ago against rival tribes, but then turned savage. Gray Elk, our medicine man, White Bird's ancestor, overcame it and put it to sleep with his potions. But I'm afraid Tall Wolf is right. There's no way to control it. It's no doubt a condor mutated by some biological accident into giant size. Maybe it came from Dinosaur Island. [00:44:16] Speaker A: Oh, no. It's been there for a long time. [00:44:19] Speaker B: Well, so has Dinosaur Island. [00:44:21] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Maybe it somehow must have flew. [00:44:24] Speaker A: Maybe it got blown by storm or something. [00:44:25] Speaker B: Yes. So the Thunderbird goes after the helicopter, rips the tail off. Tall Wolf and the promoter are tossed out. Luckily, green arrows on the scene to fire a couple of handy dandy parachute arrows. [00:44:43] Speaker A: He's got no end to the kind of arrows he has. Huh? [00:44:45] Speaker B: Brother, you don't know the half of it. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Does he have an espresso arrow? One that he shoots and will create espresso? [00:44:50] Speaker B: Uh huh. And a foaming arrow that shoots milk and then foams it for your espresso. Tall Wolf and the promoter are okay. They are saved by the parachute arrows. But the Thunderbird is still after them. Maybe Batman can do something by throwing a Batarang and hitting it square on the head. [00:45:14] Speaker A: He does, and it just goes dink like. [00:45:17] Speaker B: Doesn't do anything. [00:45:18] Speaker A: No. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Now Thunderbird's coming after them. And snatches up Batman right out of the jeep. [00:45:23] Speaker A: Screee [00:45:26] Speaker B: great shafts. Green Arrow says it's got Batman all right. White Bird is ordered to continue driving the jeep and keep it in range of Thunderbird while Green Arrow tries to help Batman. [00:45:41] Speaker A: Well, they're chasing after him on land while he's flying in the air. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Yes, Green Arrow shoots a smoke arrow, [00:45:48] Speaker A: but it has no effect on the Thunderbird because it's a massive bird. It just disperses the smoke with its massive wings. [00:45:57] Speaker B: The Thunderbird keeps flying, zigzagging across the top of the mesa. Green Arrow shoots a bola arrow to tie up Thunderbird's legs. But the Thunderbird just snaps it. It's titanium, pure titanium. Broken like a yoyo. Then with a sudden swoop, it attacks [00:46:18] Speaker A: Green Arrow and breaks his bow. [00:46:20] Speaker B: Breaks his bow right in half. [00:46:21] Speaker A: An alloy. A special alloy. So this. Damn, this thing's pretty smart. Sorry. Pretty. Pretty strong. And then in the next instant, the jeep hits a boulder and throws out crashes. John Whitebeard. [00:46:35] Speaker B: White Bird. [00:46:36] Speaker A: White Bird. And of course, Green Arrow. Oliver. [00:46:39] Speaker B: So now Green Arrow's bow is gone. John white bird is KO'd. The jeep is wrecked, and Batman is still captured by the bird screee. Brother, can things get any rougher? [00:46:49] Speaker A: That's what we need. Laugh track. [00:46:50] Speaker B: Alright. Thunderbird is making another pass at Green Arrow. His only chance is to fashion a bow out of the jeep. Antenna. The world's fastest deftest fingers quickly string the improvised bow. And he shoots an arrow which is trailing a rope. The arrow loops around the Thunderbird's neck [00:47:18] Speaker A: and it turns electronic volt. [00:47:20] Speaker B: It's an electric shock arrow. [00:47:23] Speaker A: And the Thunderbird comes crashing to the ground. [00:47:27] Speaker B: But what about Batman? [00:47:29] Speaker A: Oh no. [00:47:30] Speaker B: Batman's not moving. [00:47:31] Speaker A: He's not moving. [00:47:33] Speaker B: But a moment later, Batman arouses. He was half conscious when something flashed. That was Green Arrow's hotline Arrow. He Banks on the bird's pouchy skin under its talon, acting as an insulator for your body. [00:47:49] Speaker A: Hmm. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I think even fleshy skin still conducts electricity. It's not rubberized. [00:47:58] Speaker A: No. It's got some moisture content in it. [00:48:01] Speaker B: Unless that's part of the Thunderbird's mutation. Rubberized feet. [00:48:07] Speaker A: Non conductive feet. Right. Yes. [00:48:10] Speaker B: I knew you were a hotshot bowman, Green Arrow, but I didn't know you were also an expert in ornithology. Cue the laugh track. All right. White Bird has woken up, but Tall Wolf and the promoter are escaping. And we're marooned here on top of this mesa, miles from the reservation. But just then, a ranger in a copter with Tall Wolf inside. The copter settles on the mesa and Tall Wolf says, relax, White bird. I turned my. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Sorry. I'm cueing that up for when I need it. [00:48:52] Speaker B: Okay, go ahead. Relax. I turned myself and the big promoter into the authorities. And they let me come out here to search for you. I was wrong about everything. I made a big mistake trusting the promoter. You can't trust pale faces. Now, I can agree with that. [00:49:12] Speaker A: I'll agree with that. [00:49:15] Speaker B: Correction, old buddy. [00:49:17] Speaker A: I like that Tom Tulwolf makes a character. A good character choice. [00:49:20] Speaker B: Yes. [00:49:21] Speaker A: A strong character choice. And says I was wrong. I'm sorry. Will you forgive me? [00:49:26] Speaker B: Correction, buddy. Here's two pale faces anybody could trust. Green Arrow and Batman. [00:49:33] Speaker A: I stand corrected, White Bird, but good. And so, after sealing the Thunderbird back into its prison cave. Hear me, Kajawas. This is our rightful chief, John Whitebird. I'm not worthy of this honor. Follow his wise counsel to a new and better life in the new world that awaits us. [00:50:01] Speaker B: You know, Batman, that Tom Tall Wolf is turning out to be quite a man. Yes. Great Arrow. And I've got a hunch John Whiteburn will be calling on him to help lead his people. Just like I couldn't have done this job by myself. No man, no matter how strong, can stand truly alone. [00:50:43] Speaker A: Oh, I love that. Oh. And then three times is enough. That's comedy. Three comedies. [00:50:48] Speaker B: It's the rule. Yeah, three. The rule of threes. [00:50:50] Speaker A: Yep. [00:50:52] Speaker B: Well, I didn't dislike this story. I mean, except for the problematic [00:51:02] Speaker A: racial slurs. [00:51:03] Speaker B: Racial slurs? [00:51:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, racial slurs, more like. I mean, it's not stereotypical. [00:51:09] Speaker B: Stereotypical dialect. [00:51:13] Speaker A: Dialect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did like it. [00:51:17] Speaker B: The Native Americans are shown to be good people in the end. [00:51:22] Speaker A: Yes. [00:51:23] Speaker B: All of them. [00:51:24] Speaker A: Yes. [00:51:25] Speaker B: I still worry about the traffic laws of Gotham City. I don't. Why would you ever Go there. If you could be run off the road at any moment. [00:51:33] Speaker A: Well, certainly if you're a truck driver, you could, sure. [00:51:36] Speaker B: But you know what? If you're just in your little coop or something and you get in the middle of a truck fight, you see [00:51:41] Speaker A: a truck, you better get out of the way. [00:51:43] Speaker B: You better. It's best just to not go to Gotham City. I wonder if they. [00:51:46] Speaker A: Why would anyone go to Gotham City anyway? [00:51:49] Speaker B: I know, it's crime ridden. [00:51:50] Speaker A: It's horrible. [00:51:53] Speaker B: I wonder if they have good public transit, though. [00:51:56] Speaker A: Well, in the movies it's always being threatened by the Joker or somebody. [00:52:00] Speaker B: I mean, I wouldn't mind taking like a hop on, hop off bus around the town for an afternoon. [00:52:06] Speaker A: As long as you don't get killed. [00:52:07] Speaker B: They probably have good theater. They have. Oh, no, that's where Batman's parents got killed. I was gonna say they have good art house theaters, but that's where Batman's parents were killed. Yeah, well, honestly, why would you take your child to a movie in Crime Alley? [00:52:24] Speaker A: Oh, I don't know. Is that where the guy were killed? Crime. Yes, it was called Crime Alley. [00:52:30] Speaker B: I think it was. Certainly later on it was okay, but you're the richest man in Gotham City. You could have your own movie studio set up right in your house. [00:52:39] Speaker A: Well, that's a bit excessive. [00:52:41] Speaker B: I don't think so. Lots of rich people do it in the days before home video. Now anybody can do it. [00:52:48] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. [00:52:49] Speaker B: Which I'm going to repeat my impassioned plea to support physical media. You never know when they're gonna take the Internet away. [00:52:58] Speaker A: It's true. [00:53:00] Speaker B: All right. Two superheroes. [00:53:03] Speaker A: By the way, I liked this. Yeah, Yeah, I enjoyed it. [00:53:07] Speaker B: I did want to know more about where the Thunderbird came from. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Right. [00:53:10] Speaker B: Or I wanted it to be like some exotic mythical creature, not just a giant condor. [00:53:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:17] Speaker B: As it is in mythology. [00:53:19] Speaker A: Well, of course it was. It was in his magic sleep in the cave. [00:53:25] Speaker B: Right. Okay, fair point. Anything else to add? [00:53:33] Speaker A: No. Gosh, no. This is good. I'm trying to think. It's. What? You know, it's still light outside, which is lovely. [00:53:42] Speaker B: Yes. [00:53:43] Speaker A: The weather's weird. We've gone from. We went from cold to just a little bit of. We had the windows open for about a week and now it's hot. [00:53:51] Speaker B: But it's gonna be cold again next week, so. [00:53:53] Speaker A: Oh, is it really? [00:53:54] Speaker B: If you don't like the weather in West Virginia, wait till tomorrow. [00:53:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I need to go upstairs into the attic, don't I? [00:54:02] Speaker B: Sure. [00:54:03] Speaker A: The air conditioner on check the ac. [00:54:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:54:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll do that next. [00:54:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:54:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:07] Speaker B: You can find us on social media, ogocheckpod. 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 everyone's favorite talk about no man acting alone, the metalman. What scream? [00:54:28] Speaker A: What scream? [00:54:30] Speaker B: Let me say it louder for the people in the back. The medalin. Ah. Bye. [00:54:40] Speaker A: We've been living in the dark? Can't help winner and wine wondering why? So we're kicking out the hedge? Looking for where you might have been? Giving you a chance to look inside your mind? You be thrown up in a misery? Might it not the way it used to be? Looking at you like leaving it all behind. It. Looking for the world.