 Fine. Nice. There we are. Hi, everyone. This is Gicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to Nala Stream. Today, today is June 25th, 2023. And we're doing a comic book reading or multiple comic book readings. Plutonic Plurus. First. Over here. First. That's where our chat is right now. Fantastic. Nice to have you here, Plutonic Plurus. Hope you're having a fantastic Sunday. Nice. Nice. Sunday comic book reading. Season is back, I guess. Probably doing this in season format. And now on Saturdays. How are you doing? Hey, Gicho and Chad. Hope you're having a great Sunday. Indeed, indeed. I've just been in chill mode going through the comics that I highlighted. I have a big snack that I've read. So I pulled out the ones that I put markers in for us to read. And there's no way we're going to go through all of these. Definitely going to read a couple from here. There's a couple of stacks. Three stacks, actually. But we'll see where we go. We'll see where we go. Looking forward to this. Me too. Me too. Me too. It's very chill. I've been doing a lot of reading. Oh, Lord God. How are you doing? Comic book reading time. Fun. I've been doing a lot of comic book readings in the last few months. And I'm still going through. Aside from buying like this, I'll show you guys the Trouble with Girls. We got it from a comic book haul because I came across it randomly and it really intrigued me and it's bloody hilarious. But most of these comics are the 25 cent comics that I bought like a year and a half ago, two years ago. And I'm still going through them. I bought a few hundred 25 cent comic books that a comic book shop local was dumping. So I'm loving going through them. I've done so much reading. It's fantastic. I have like three different reading spots in the house that, you know, you know, grab comic, read it, grab comic, read it, grab comic, read it if I want to chill. And I've come across a lot of nice little fine segments. Some really long comic books I would like to read like full issues and stuff. But I think sort of just enjoying reading little segments, giving everyone a taste of, you know, different types of stories that you can read in comics, right? It's just fantastic. Super fun. Super fun. And there's so much to them. So much to them. So I highlighted a few. We're going to give people a few minutes to roll in about 10 minutes, but we're going to get into the readings pretty fast. No longer than 10 minutes. Hopefully notifications will go out. Until then, I'm going to do my little intro. If you need drinks, get your drinks, get your snacks ready. I'm only drinking tea. I'm not no snacks when I'm reading comic books and stuff, even though these are pretty roughed up, some of them. I still don't eat when I'm in general reading comics. Nick's boy, first time chat. How are you doing? Hi from Ireland, Ireland. Right on. Chico, I hope you're having a great Sunday. Indeed. You as well, brother, you as well, or sister, of course, right? Love the Irish. Love the Irish. I spent five days in Ireland back in 1998. That was a good time. Very interesting time. Very interesting. Few weeks after Good Friday Agreements. So it was very cool. On Saturdays, I need to get back to reading comic books. Boy, how are you doing? Yes. Yeah, on Saturdays. What happened with me, by the way? I stepped away. Sunday, happy Sunday, Cheryl. Hope you're doing well. No eating near comics. Yeah, no eating near comics. Right. Just to let you know, there was a period there where I wasn't reading comic books. And I don't know. I just stopped reading comic books. It just slowly just stopped reading comic books. And there was a few years there where I wasn't reading any comic books. And then I went into an eyeglass store for glasses, because my partner wears glasses. If you want to check out some of the glasses, we're going to go to a movie, right? And she says, oh, let's just go in here. We've got some time. I just want to check out some glasses frames and stuff. Oh, sure. Let's go. Okay. Mixy boy, what bit of Ireland? I'm from Derry, up the North, or Ireland. It's an amazing place. Yeah, I went to Cork. I went to Dublin. I've been to Belfast. Those are the three places I went to. It was super cool. Very fun. Very fun. Cork was crazy busy. Lots of youth back then, 1998. Right? And back then, condoms were illegal in Ireland. Population boom, maybe? Chichu in Northern Ireland in April, May 1998. Yeah. Yeah. Around, was it around then? I can't remember now. But 1998. Yeah. Yeah. It was super cool. Jay Powell, how are you doing? And we went into the eyeglasses store. My partner was looking at my glasses and I think she mentioned, hey, you're not reading too much stuff. Do you want to check out some reading glasses? And I put on the first pair of reading glasses and I got some text. They gave me some printed. And I went, oh, what? Right? It was clear. The reason I stopped reading comics because the pages were starting to get blurry. So I it was getting harder and I didn't notice. Subconsciously, I just stopped reading comic books. And I stopped reading a lot of books in general. And then when I got the glasses, just the world opened up again. I started reading comic books, started reading books again. I was just doing most of my reading online. So, gang, if you find that you're not reading either comic books or books and stuff like this, go get your eyes checked. You might need reading glasses. And then when you get reading glasses, you do this. Right? I'm very grateful for us that we had time to go inside the eyeglasses store. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone. Right? Plutonic Plurus. Great streams via modem back then. Finished, dude. Yeah, create no streams. ASCII. ASCII files. Finished, dude. How are you doing? Hope you're doing well. Good Friday Agreement signed. April 10th, 1998. April 10th, 1998. Cool. Cool. That's when it was signed. I think it was in Ireland in September. Either September or October, 1998, I think. Your arms got too short. My arms got too short. Yeah, yeah. My arms got too short for reading. Is that what you mean, Cheryl? Had those smicks. Let's check this out. I actually need to take my glasses off for reading. Ah, okay, okay. I got a good farsight vision, so that's really good. Plutonic, so they knew that she was coming to Ireland and prepared a peace deal. Funny. On Trader Days, I read more books these days than comics now, but have an urge to get back into it. Cool. I'm reading way more comics now. I'm reading most of my, doing most of my text reading online, but physical reading, comic books almost exclusively right now. I need to get it back into the books as well. Gang, quick intro. I'm a Patreon, sub-stack, subscribe star. You can follow the work there. We are live streaming on Twitch. Okay, so thank you for being here on these live streams. For those of you who are supporting this work on these platforms, as well as the handful of people that are still supporting this work on SensorTube and those of you who are supporting this work through other means, crypto, PayPal, whatever it is, sharing, liking, coming to our live streams. Again, thank you very much for the support. It is in large part because of your support that we're able to do this, finish to it. I'm doing good, just a little burnt part. Just got home. An hour ago, we were camping with family for mid-summer, or as we know it, is that what you call it? Mid-summer? Cool. Yeah, coming home from camping is exhausting, like you get tired. You need to sleep a lot. Hopefully you fall asleep when we're doing the readings. Comic book dreams are fantastic. Oh my god, I'm a lazy reader these days. I use a text reading app with real voice I do as well. Mine is more computer voice. It's not a real voice. It's a computer voice that's reading it. But I like it. I like it. Cheryl, oh yes, I got my eyes checked this week because I couldn't quite hold things far enough away to focus. Double sad when playing trombone. Can't see the music through my progressives, so I turn them upside down. So now I'm old enough to have everyday glasses and then special readers for practicing. I haven't got to everyday glasses yet. I hope I don't get there until the true show. I like not wearing glasses. It was a lot easier reading comic books or books when you're laying down without glasses because when you roll over and stuff, you got to adjust this and whatnot. Plutonic flowers. Happy belated, mid-summer, summer-tall, indeed, indeed. And finished it. Is that the name? There's a movie that's out where they go on, is it called, no, something else, where they go to this sort of cult community for solstice, I guess. It's mid-summer or something? And I believe the whole story is they eat mushrooms and trip out. Is that the... it's upside down. Boy, you turned me inside out all around. That's a boy George, I think, isn't it? You turned me in. How did it go? Oh my god, I tried contact lenses, but they were so annoying. Oh god, contact lenses. Finished it. For two days, we grilled and went to Sana, then to a lake and repeat 10 times. Oof. Good for the body, great for the soul. Exhausting. Exhausting. Wicker, man. Gang, I do announce these live streams 30 minutes an hour before we go live and tour the minds of the VK Gap, Gettr, and Substack Notes. We do have a SoundCloud page where we upload some of the live streams as podcasts, and we have a Gilded Server. You're definitely welcome to join us on Gilded. Gang, I'm going to take these down. Two minutes past the intro that I wanted to do, and Gang, as always, salute to the mods. Salute to the mods. Salute to the mods. Salute to the mods. Gicho, you mean Sisu? Is that what it is? I can't remember. I was so bad with names. Oh wait, no. I was thinking of You Spin Me Right Round, Baby Right Round. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That was that. That's what I was saying. You Spin Me Right Round, Baby Right Round, Spin Me. Who is that? Who is that? Nice song. Nice song. Hello, I'm a snake. How are you doing? Salutations. Hello, Misfake. Do you think indie comics will surpass the fame of DC and Marvel? For some, yeah, for some they have. But Marvel, what do you call it, Disney owns them. So they're marketing up the yin yang, and then DC has a time-warnered owns them, so they have the money to promote it. But some of the best or really good TV and movies have been made based on independent comic books. And people knowingly or unknowingly, I guess, some of their favorite TV series and movies are based on independent comic books, like Umbrella Academy, independent from Dark Horse, I believe it came out. Look at the Mark Miller stuff. Look at history of violence. So many, so many, right? But it's a bigger risk to create, you know, it's not the formula that they use. Gang, should we get into reading? Let me show you what we've got. Let me show you what we've got. And what happens in general? I haven't been loading these full live streams onto Sensor2, but I think we will this time around. I've usually been taking segments of the readings, but I'll make a little note of when we... I didn't bring my pen and paper, oh well. We'll make a little note when the reading started and we'll just mention it. What the fuck? 007? Sadutation shicho. It's been a while. Just stopped by a comic shop and picked up Bloodshot issue number two. Nice. Is it a new series that's come up? Are they putting out a whole new Bloodshot series? Mini series? Kill Chat. Oh, Kill Chat on screen. Good. Thank you for the reminder, Elder God. Thank you for the reminder. Indie comics had such an underrated... Yeah, for sure, like Men in Black, right? Like, huge. Alien... There's a... What's that called? Alien Nation? Anyway, there's a lot of them. There's so much. Not a new series. Okay, the older one. Okay, thanks for the... I haven't gone to a comic book store for a few months now. It is what it is, right? Gang, I'm going to kill this video, this camera. Okay. I'm just going to give you a rundown of what we're going to read, really speedy Gonzalez, and then we're going to get into the readings. Okay, because more reading, the better. Less G-Tro, more comic books. Okay, I'm going to kill this. I'm going to kill the notifications as well. And I'm killing the Chat gang. Okay, so take a look at this. Elder God, I like the views. You're amazing, Elder God. So check this out. As I promised, we're going to read Shade the Changing Man. I got two things I want to read with Shade the Changing Man. I actually have three things. I actually had more things, but we can't just... We could focus it all on Shade, but we won't. Okay, so for example, this one is an amazing, fantastic read. Shade the Changing Man, Peter Milligan, okay, was the writer. And this is Origin of Shade. Super good read. And fantastic, fantastic. Like, look at the covers on this thing. And very deep, very to a certain degree dark. Okay, the American scream, right? The madness kicking in. Like, look at it. Like, so cool, so cool, so cool, so cool. No snacks with comic books. And then this one, we did... Check out this one. I'm missing number three. By the way, I picked all these up for 25 cents, right? Shade number one, number two. Number three wasn't there. So, I've read number three before. I can't remember it. But this was super cool regarding the assassination of JFK. And I read this pretty shortly after reading the JFK trading cards, the assassination of JFK trading cards, right? Fantastic. The initial covers. And then at some point, it changed to the vertical. And very trippy. Lots of symbolism. You got the pyramid, the eye, at a sight. Pretty cool. This one was funny. Fantastic, fantastic reads. But we're just going to read the segment for Vertigo Jam that came out in 1993 regarding Shade. And this has got a lot of characters. We're going to read a few pages from Shade number 49. We're going to read a couple of pages. And we looked at this comic book, the Trouble with Girls. Cheryl, you don't want to miss this. Oh, my God, you don't want to miss this. We're going to read just two or three pages from number one and two or three pages from number two. And if we have time, I have a whole bunch of stuff highlighted here. There's no way we're going to look at all these just things that we can read. Okay, we'll see. Hopefully we'll have time. But I don't know. Okay, maybe we'll get to this one at least. Nice. You know, when did this come out? 70s. It came out in the 70s. Pretty sure in the 70s. Yeah, 76. Okay. Nice alien story, sort of. Anyway, it's cool. Okay. So I'm going to put these guys on one side. I'm going to put Trouble with Girls on one side. For sure we're going to read Trouble with Girls. Yeah, Plutonic Plurals. Shade number 41 is one before shade number 50. And this is shade number 50. Fan, F Fantastic, Read. I'm not going to give me any spoilers. Very powerful. Very powerful. I haven't read 51 yet. I got to find it in my collection. I didn't have 51, the 25 cents, so I got to be able to drag it out somewhere. I don't know when I'll get to it. I might actually end up buying shade online again instead of going through my comic books to read it. Okay. But what we're going to do first, we're going to read Vertigo Jam. And this is what they put out with this, was basically the DC comics was spinning off some of their titles, mature titles to a secondary, insignia or whatever you call it, calling it DC Vertigo, which was more mature readers dealt with horror, science fiction, not too much fantasy, but science fiction and horror and mature readers. And this thing came out in 1993. Okay. And on the cover, it's got, you see Kid Eternity. You got Sandman here. You got Swamp Thing in the window there. Okay. You got John Constantine, Hal Blazer. You got Animal Man. That's shade right there. That's the jacket. I want to get one of those jackets. Okay. Shade. And this is Dune Patrol. Right? So it's got short stories from each one. And I highlighted three of them, but we're going to read the shade one. And then we're going to read shade number 49. Okay. So let me move these guys to one side and have a read through this. Now the odds are, we're not going to look at all the details of what all these comics are. Shhh. Yeah, holy God. I'm still not going to the comic book store. And it's just, just don't feel it right now. And I have a few hundred more comics to go through. Maybe when I run out of comics, these 25 cent comics, I'll go back. But not right now. Not right now. Just not intuitive. Okay. J-PAL Shisho. Have you read the comic series regarding the matter of Oswald's body? No, no, I haven't. It's from Boom. I believe it was five books. Really cool. Link it up in our Gilded Server. And I'll maybe try to track it down. Look at the cameras going crazy with this. Trying to focus. Gang. Let's have a read through this. Okay. So this is Vertigo Jam. And it was sort of promoting the Vertigo titles for DC Comics. Right? Latter than noise. And I believe they put out something before this as well. This is Vertigo Jam number one. But I think there was another one they put out. Sort of a Vertigo mishmash of things. Okay. We're going to skip. And this is the Sandman. The Sandman story was really good as well. Okay. So Sandman. And it goes through Milligan, McKeever, Extremus. And it's a very good story. Very good story. Okay. And then we've got John Constantine Hellblazer. Black Orchid's Fantastic Read. Okay. You go through. And it's got Animal Man in here too. Animal Man. This one was really good. It was a toss-up between reading this one. Animal Man. Okay. I really like that. And then there's Doom Patrol. And Doom Patrol TV series is super good. And then Swamp Thing was a great read as well. I really like this one. But then I decided to go with Kid Attorney was really cool too. This is Kid Attorney. I like Kid Attorney. Very trippy. But we're going to read Shade. A little promo that they were pushing. Okay. So this is 1993 written by Peter Milligan and art by Mike Alfred. Right? Okay. Huge. Huge. Huge. Madman comic books. Right? So let's have a little look at the panel. Division. There's a guy lying at the tree. Bike. And these are the two main, three main characters in the Shade story arc. The series. The that's Shade right there. And then his two sidekicks to a certain degree. You'll find out who they are. You'll find out who they are. Okay. So the story starts off. Let's see if we can get this thing focused. The ambulance should be here in five minutes. There was a gas station half a mile down the road. And they let me use their phone. How is he? Not good, in fact. Not good at all. In fact, he died about three minutes ago, she says. And that's Jenny. And the other one is Oh man, names Kathy. I believe we'll confirm that as the story goes. And this is the dead person laid down on the foot of the tree. Big smile on his face. And just so you know, it's good to know, Shade is actually pretty much insane. Right? In a weird way. In a cool way. Oh, he looks happy. He's smiling, she says. Of course, he's smiling. Shade. Shade the illusionist. Make sure of that. She says, I don't understand. I don't understand. Is this going to disgust me? She says. And then Shade replies. All I did was give him what he wished for. A little massaging of reality. So it conformed to what he wanted. I gave him a vision. That's the, what's the harm in that? The harm in that? Father Williams died believing a lie. She says, Father Williams, he regained consciousness, Shade replies, just before he lost it for good. He said he had a history of heart problems. That's not the only thing he had a history of, she says. She's not very happy. Well, I think Lenny is wrong. And it was, it was a very nice thing you did, Shade. You gave him some comfort. No matter how, how strong his faith was, he must have had some fear as his death approached, she says. So what if it was an ex-Nazi we found dying here? Do we get Shade to give him a vision of the Nuremberg rally just to make his passing a little more pleasant? How about if I hummed some Wagner, Lenny says. That's not the same Lenny. My grandmother died when I was 14, 14, and on her deathbed she asked everyone whether they thought there was a god and a heaven. Even though most of them didn't believe it, everyone said yes, Lenny says. Except you, of course, he replies. No, I was a coward too. I said of course grandma, there's a god and a heaven and grandpa will be waiting for you there. I felt sick afterwards. When I die, I don't want lies, Lenny says. But Lenny, but Lenny, you're getting this out of proportion. He was an old man, she says. He was a priest and he spent his entire life feeding people pie in the sky. He didn't deserve to have it confirmed, particularly after what he told us. Hold on, what did he tell you? She asks. I think he was, what's the term confessing his sins, Shade says. And one thing you should know about Shade, his origin is from another planet, another realm, and the realm is called meta. So he's not familiar with all the traditions of earth, okay? But he only had a few minutes, so he probably just scraped the barrel when he says. Look at the guy's face. Great artwork, Shade says. When his eyes opened, he looked up at us. He held Lenny's hand and started to talk about his life. He'd been a priest for most of it. We go to the past a few minutes, the priest is talking. It's been a terrible and wicked life I've led, the priest said. Keep quiet and save your strength, Lenny replies. Our friend has gone to get help. No, the priest replies. I have to say this while I had the chance. I was on my way to confession, finally to say the truth. I won't make it now. You're all I have. We're not really qualified, Lenny replies. That doesn't matter, the priest says. Listen, I've been weak. I've been a disgrace to the church, the cloth, to our Lord himself. I mean, hey, you can't have been that bad, Lenny replies. The priest, don't you believe it, girl? Guess how many women I've had. No, don't guess. I'll tell you, 32, 32, 15 of those were married. One was only 16, he says. Oh, oh my God, I've been so, so wicked. I stole money from the collection box and gambled it all on horses. I drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney, but it was the women. I was the, it was the women who were my weakness, the priest says. Oh God, the women and the worst is I use my position of trust, of authority to seduce them. Not that some of them weren't past seducing me, of course. God, no, but I was the one who was ultimately responsible, the priest says. Lenny, calm and cool, lights up a cigarette. She's a chain smoker. The priest continues and then I'd stand up and rant about chastity and the sanctity of marriage. Shit, none of us are perfect, Lenny says. You're, you're being ironic, good. Be as hard as you like. I don't deserve kindness, the priest says. But why have I been so bad? Have I been testing him? Oh, is that it? Have I been saying, hey, God, if you're up there, you should be striking me down with lightning for what I've, what I'm getting up to, is that what I was doing? The priest says, maybe you just liked having sex with women as simple as that, Shayne replies. You're right. I'm trying to explain away my less, less, less viciousness. But, but if only he'd struck me down, if only he'd punished me in some way, the priest says. But no, I've lived a charmed life, all that fornication and drunkenness and gambling, and I never once got caught, I've prospered, I'm 89 and have never had a day's illness in my life, apart from the odd heart murmur. He sunk, he sunk into a kind of a sleep then. We thought he died, but then his eyes were open again. Oh, he's crying. He was weeping. He was really crying. His eyes out, hypocritical old letcher, Lenny says. Boy, talk about carrying a heavy load, she comes, she comes in. Anyway, now you see why he didn't deserve any illusions. I wouldn't have minded him being reprobate, so long as he hadn't chastised others for being reprobates all his life. I don't know, she says. I think in some way it was an even nicer gesture, knowing what he must have been going through. Yeah, that's what I thought, Shayne said. By now he was getting weaker. He was rambling on and on about his sins, but it was hard to follow. I just caught an occasional reference to naked flesh and the Ten Commandments. He was slipping away fast, but he could still see, so I thought, why not? Why not help the poor old bastard bastard on his way out? His eyes started to light up as I went to work with my madness. There was a brightness in them, and all the worry and all the guilt seemed to fade away as he gazed at the vision I was making for him. I mean, I know it was wrong, but why not give a dying man what he wants? Satan. He's being punished. Look at him. He's so happy. Yes, well, he didn't he didn't deserve us. That's what I'm saying. That's what I say. Look at that smile. He looks so smug and self-satisfied. I think he just looks very peaceful, and she says at the end. That ambulance has taken his time, isn't it? That's one of the shade stories on a... The humor in shade is fantastic, by the way. It's dark. There's very heavy topics in shade. The changing man, which we're about to look at for issue number... What's this one? Barbecue Toad. We're going to take a look at just a few pages from DC's Vertigo, Shade The Changing Man, number 49. And this was part five. I believe that this was a season in hell. This is part five, so we're not going to give too much spoilers in this. Okay, I believe this is a six-issue story arc that ends part six with number 50. This is Shade The Changing Man number 50, and this is a very important issue. Very important issue. Much happens in this to many of the main characters. Okay, that's the only spoiler I'm going to give you. And the titles of these things, of number fiftieth, Love Labor's Lost. Love's Labor. But let's have a read-through. Issue number 49, just a few pages. And just to let you know, in this issue, the conversation we're going to read is the conversation between Shade and in issue 49, his partner, the blonde girl that you see here. Okay, so these are the two characters that are the main characters in the few pages that we're about to read. Okay, and this character, let me show you, that's her right there. And they meet up basically in either the first or second issue of Shade The Changing Man when the series first began. So Shade and, here's Kathy, it's gotta be Kathy. The name's skipping me right now. But they're both right from the get-go. They're there. Okay. Oh, Elder Gods coming in. Love's Labor Lost is Shakespeare missing manuscript. Really? I have no idea. Very cool, very cool. So let's put this one away. And we're picking up in sort of mid-story here. And the only background you need to know for this, the only background you need to know for this, is that they're together. Okay. And this $20 bill that is going to be the central focus of the story has been appearing in the last few issues at random points where she has been looking at it and thinking and talking to herself. And all we know so far, we don't know anything about this $20 bill other than it was important to her and it is important to her. Okay, that's it. And all we're going to do is read like, I think it's like five pages. Okay. And I titled this thing, the bookmark is life. And this is the hotel they've been staying at. And they own the hotel, by the way. It's not, it's not an open hotel, it's just they own the hotel and they live there. It's strange how the hotel has been so hot recently. Yet now the air around it is so cold, the steam hangs from their mouths like comic book word balloons. The West wings untouched. We could move back, move back in right away, Shade says. No, I don't want to stay here tonight. I just want to pick up a few things from my room. And just so you know, there's, there was a fire in the hotel in the previous issue. And she's going into the hotel to pick something up or some stuff up and Shade is waiting outside. The bill seems oddly crisper than usual, but all Hickory's face is still intact, unlike poor shimmies. And shimmy is another character in the story arc. And then they go back to the hotel they're staying at right now. Later in adjoining, but separate rooms, Motel faced, she stares at the bill. The first time I saw it, I was just 17 years old, she says. So what's so important about it? Shade asks. I could find out, you know, I could eat it or something and intuitively know its relevance to you. And keep in mind, they're partners right now. She's actually pregnant with Shade's child. I know, she says, but it's going to sound really stupid. Good, I need something really stupid right now, Shade says. Well, I was at a party I didn't want to be at with my parents, whom I didn't particularly want to be with. It's hard to admit when your parents are dead that there was times when you couldn't stand them, she says, looking at the $20 bill. The party was at one of their friend's houses and the average age was about 90. We were fighting. I forgot what we were fighting about. But at the time, I was the most important thing in the world. It was the most important thing in the world. The point of it was that they were treating me like a child, a little girl. I'd said something about chains or straight jackets or fascism, which as they were good liberals always managed to piss them off. I left them and went to cool off in the garden, which was the size of a small farm. It was a beautiful night, but I didn't see it. This guy was smoking a joint down by a really cutesy ornamental pond. He was about my age. I didn't say a word to him, not a single word. When I sat down beside him, he handed me the joint as though I'd been there all along. He blew smoke out of one nostril, then the other. I was impressed, though I tried not to show it. Five minutes later, we were doing it. We still hadn't said a word. We didn't even bother taking our clothes off. I was smiling partly because I was a little high, but mostly because I was thinking about my parents in the house and what they'd think if they could see me now. This is me, I thought. I'm liberated. I do what I want, she says. We still hadn't said a word as the boy hitched up his pants. He pushed the hand into a pocket. He pulled something out. It was a $20 bill and he threw it at me. He threw it at me and turned and walked away. And I just sat there holding the bill, staring at it, not believing it. The bastard had changed everything. It was no longer an act of liberation, a sign of my own self-determination. He turned it into something grubby. I'd had sex for money. There I was, thinking I made some kind of brilliant gesture. And he turns around and pisses on it. So it's the past. Forget it, Shade says. But it's not just the past, she replies. All we seem to be are empty gestures. Look at Shimi today. He tries to save Lily, who finds her own way out and ends up getting torched for his efforts. An empty gesture. That's all, she says. You're blowing things out of proportion, Kathy. That's my job, Shade replies. No, and look at me and this baby. Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and hitch up its pants and throw me a $20 bill, she says. What are you doing, Shade replies? Another empty gesture. What else? I could bring myself to do this before, she says. She can feel herself crying as she throws the bill away. It's always a melancholy occasion when you let go of the past, however unsavory that past might be. Another piece of old skin, the dead, a little more dead. She really has no idea quite what or whom she's crying for. Take your pick, she thinks. Take your pick. I thought that was very powerful. I thought that was very powerful and I thought that was a good mix of the humor side of Shade, the changing man with the priest and the devil, right, and the human aspect of it. Great series if you're into reading something mature, something fantastical really. On Charity Day says, great artwork, great artwork, great artwork and very trippy. The artist's change slightly from certain story arcs, but amazing artwork, amazing artwork. So moving from that, from Shade the changing man to a comic book reading or a comic book haul we did, Cheryl, yes, definitely reflects ethics under our exploration in the 1990s. Indeed, like Shade the changing man, brilliant. Shade the changing man, a vertical comics gang, just to follow up, vertical comics from DC were probably, aside from some independent comic books and some superhero stuff that was coming out, which was whatever, vertical and dark horse as well, but vertical for the big two DC and Marvel was probably putting out the best comic books out there in the 1990s. And all of these issues, titles were worth reading, all of them. So from Shade, let's go to The Trouble With Girls. And this is a comic book haul we did a couple of months ago, I guess, two or three months ago, and there's more issues to this. I read these, and these two were from the first series of Trouble With Girls, and Girls is actually this guy's last name. So The Trouble With Him and his family. That's what it really is. And so these two were from the first two series. This was a standalone, sort of gives a little background, linked up some some of the past and the present together. And then this was sort of a standalone four issue series. Okay. And it came out on Epic Comics, and this was Eternity Comics. And these ones were from Malibu. Malibu Eternity was sort of the handoff I believe was from Malibu to Eternity. Okay. And then Epic Comics, I believe that was the order that things went. Right. And those three issues were not bad, they were good. But these four issues, this four issue mini series really got me appreciating this character a lot. And the story arc and the writing a lot. Okay. So what we're going to do, we're going to read like around three pages from issue number one and around three pages from issue number two. I think that's a good, and believe it or not, it doesn't even, it's not even reading anything based on the main character. Okay. It's not even based, it's not, he's not even in the pages that we're going to read. Because the story even though it is about him, okay, revolving around girls, it's all the other characters as well, which really add that extra that comic books need to become fantastic. Okay. Now this came out, we hear that this come out. This came out in 1993 again. Okay. And all you need to know about girls is he's a James Bond type of character. Fantastic. Like a Conan, the barbarian and James Bond put together. And he's unbeatable. And with all the amazing stuff that happens to him, he actually doesn't want this. This character wants to live in a little shack with a partner and read his book. That's all he wants. He doesn't want all this glamour, all this fantasy, all these women, all this money. He doesn't want it. Okay. And I'll leave it at that. Now what we're going to do, we're going to read these pages. We're going to read this, this and just three pages from here. Should we start off with four pages? Yeah, let's start it off from the break. Let's start it off from here. This is girls and that's his dad by the way. Okay. And him and him are very much alike. And neither of them wanted the life that was handed to them. Right. So for example, in here, he goes, that's all I want that, but look what I'm stuck with. So he's got all these expensive cars living in a mansion. But in the previous issue, he says all he wants to do is sit in a hammock and read his book. Okay. Read his book. So let's read just four pages from issue number one. This would not go over well in today's woke society coincidentally in Caracas. So we break away from the main story revolving around girls. Well, there it is, but I still don't see what the big deal is about a convent. Don't forget who's running that convent. Agent Flanders. As long as she was in retreat on her island, mom wasn't worried about her. But now that she's building this, this growing cult, you've made your point. Selas. It's Selas in the bedroom, baby. It's Agent Marner in the field. And mom is sort of like a shield type of agent. Okay. Sort of organization for Marvel comics. Let's go check it out. He says they scoot into the convent. Agent sent my mom to check out a super villain. Wait a minute. These are nuns. Why not? The most decadent twisted and perverse super villainous in the world can corrupt anything. I for one can't wait to go head to head with her. He says, before you get all hot and bothered, don't forget that we're here to track that kidnapped botanist, she says. Yeah, yeah. So let's see what we can learn from a little eavesdropping. Damn, these nails are so long. It takes all morning just to paint them. And Christ, they make it so hard to use your hands. They always get tangled in these peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo undies we have to wear, the nun says. Hush. You know it's for our spiritual well being, the other nun replies. You know that religious ascetics have always mortified their bodies to liberate their souls. And Mother Superior says we have to be morally strong for the new world order that she's creating. Okay, okay, the nun says. I understand how we'll be brought closer to God by suffering six inch stilettos, stiletto heels and endless applications of makeup and these incredibly tight body suits that work their way up here. You know what? But this business of sleeping with every man who looks at us, there I draw the line. She says. But sister, I thought you used to be the Hellcat of Twin Oaks. I was, but you know Mother Superior says we can only do the things that make the man feel good. This, this is grotesque. She's turning these poor women into the ultimate boy toys. Yeah, so where does the grotesque part come in? He says. Of course, the botanists. She's forcing them to develop some kind of mind control drug. No woman would do this to herself voluntarily. No, he says. Didn't I ever tell you about that little car hop in Texas? You go back to the nun. Let me tell you the next time a man makes me use mashed potatoes, I'm out of hold. Voice comes in. That's the Mother Superior coming in with her whip. How dare you doubt the celestial wisdom of your Mother Superior. You must do penance, she says. No, Mother Superior, not, not that. For a full month, you must pretend to hold no opinions of your, your own when in the company of men. No, she says. The secret agent can't take it anymore. You fiend, now you've gone too far. No, Molly, keep your head. You crazy, full kid. Takes on the Mother Superior. Dolt, you think I carried this whip merely as an instrument of sexual titillation? Whips the gun out of her hand. Do you think I need a gun to defeat your kind? I'll show you what we women who respect our bodies and ourselves can do. She jumps in. Do what? Die ignorably at my hands? But first you will tell me who sent you. You think I tell you I'm no bum? I keep mum. Fine. What better way to keep mum than to die? Crap. So that's just three pages from issue number one. This conversation is hilarious. Fantastic read. Okay. If you're into humor, humor, good art, intelligent conversation, slapstick to a certain degree, and sort of critiques society in a big way. Okay. And then we go to issue number two. And we're going to continue on with the Mother Superior. And what we see in this issue, let me find the pages. There's like mud rustling girls. What we see is sort of an infiltration of a reporter into the mum, I'm not mum, the mother superior sort of hydrotype of organization. Right? And we're going to pick up just another segment here. Okay. Actually, is this one where he's infiltrated? I'm not sure. We'll read it. We gather here tonight's sisters to welcome and novice to our swelling ranks, to usher her into our mighty army. And she's planning on conquering the world, by the way, just so you know. This would make a great movie. We who are destined to rule the world and who grow strong through rigorous self-humiliation. Now, welcome Sister Pandora. Sister Pandora. There comes Sister Pandora. Come to your mother superior, dear, that she may send you off on your first mission. Which movie studio has the cojones to make this movie? Hey, be silent, smack child. For humiliation is the true path to righteousness and sexual humiliation will be the weapon you wield. Oh, and why should I want to distribute all this tobacco your boss is selling? Because I'll be your utterly, utterly pliable, shameless sex slave if you do. That's why, she says, I'll help you live out your most disgusting, depraved fantasies and enjoy every minute of it or suffer through it if such is your preference, she says. Cheryl, like Bucker Buns, I meet strippers. Cheryl says, I'll be your toy, your ornament, your garbage pail. I'll never speak out of turn, and if I speak at all, it will only be to echo your opinions or to moan in pleasure or pain as per your instructions, she says. Oh, yeah? Well, I say you can never trust the broad how deep, she says. You're all brainless emotional bitches. Why, I never thought of that, she replies. They all think between their gams. My, you're really quite the philosopher, she says. Hot dev, you are every man's dream girl. Now, you want to know what I want to do with you, little girl? What? That's the most revolting thing I've ever heard, she replies. So, shall we do it on the floor or on your desk? She asks, and then this just continues, gang. This just continues. It's just, this part is hilarious as well. Should we read this too? Let's read these three pages as well. We gotta read this. This, gang, these next three pages, okay. This is 1993, 1993, 1993, right? Fast forward to 2023, okay. We're 30 years from when this was written. 30 years from when this was written. Okay, gang, we gotta read this. Ready? Two nuns from the Mother Superior's organization. Geez, that sister Pandora's doing such a great job that Mother Superior's giving her all the juiciest assignments. One of the nuns says, yeah, I hear she gets humiliated twice a day. So, we better make sure we don't flop this, flop this job. Don't, don't I know it, but where are we going to find a nonsmoker in Caracas? We could snatch a child, one of them asks, or says, no, no, no, Mother Superior says it has to be an adult. One of those bellicosa politically correct liberal fascist anti-smokers. But where, but where in sensual, life-loving, vice-ridden South America are we going to wait a minute? Look over there, she says. Earth's first t-shirt. I can't believe how the men treat their women here, the guy thinks. And the women always concerned about looking pretty. It's so depressing. He says, look at this litter, no environmental consciousness at all, and no speed bumps in the streets. He's wearing socks with sandals. Perfect. But what do they, what do they care? They don't care about their children here. They let them play with toy guns. Don't these people know about pro-social instructional toys? He's coughing louder and louder. What insensitive reactionaries? They don't even respect my polite hints to put out their despicable carcinogens. Oh, why did I ever leave Berkeley? The nuns are like bingo. They kidnap the guy. They kidnap him. They tie him up in a chair. They've brought him to Mother Superior. No, no, kill me first. Kill me first. Just don't make me smoke, he says. There we go. Now, observe what happens to the subject when we inject him with the serum LSMFP 100. Hot nuns. Oh, thank you, thank you. Will it, will it be a swift, painless death, he says? Beautiful artwork, beautiful artwork. Give me, give me, give me, give me that. He says, yelling. He wants to smoke. Let's see if we can get this thing focused. There we go. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, snap. He's free going for the cigarettes. Snatches the smoke. Ah, nicotine, sweet nicotine. I've come a long way, baby. Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff. You see, my sisters, you see, nothing can stop us now, not the CIA, not the KGB, not even mom, nothing. Just so long as that accursed Lester Girls doesn't somehow get involved. This is Lester Girls. No, you're not losing your mind, but maybe the Lizard Lady, and this is the Lizard Lady, by the way. This is the Lizard Lady. The Lizard Lady, how does she hope to conquer the world with fast-growing tobacco leaves? This is a great, great four-issue comic book series. It was a fantastic read. Oh yeah, who were the creators? Well, not the creators, the writer. Here we go. I mean, look at the inks on this, right? Where's the writer? Trouble the minister, Edwin Chief, editor. Letter, colorist, inker, pencil, there we go. Will Jacobs, Will Jacobs, Chobdor, Chobdor, Chobdora, Brute, Blue, Bluance, with Russ Williams as the penciler, Al Williamson is the inker, Steve Matheson, the colorist for this, and the letter is John Constanza. We've got to get the name of the creators in this, right? We've got to get the name of the creators in this. So fantastic read. Highly recommend if you're into this type of humor. Heavy hitters, epic comics, okay, from 1993, The Trouble with Girls, four-issue miniseries, and we looked at this, the covers in the comic book haul that we did for this. Surgeon generals, warning, warning, reading this material may cause severe laughter in politically correct-minded individuals in spite of themselves, right? In spite of themselves. I think every woke person should be forced to read this in 2023 to read this four-issue miniseries. Hilarious, hilarious, super fun, super fun. How we doing for time? How we doing for time? Yeah, let's read an old school book. Let's read an old school book. We're going to get time to read one book, right? We're going to read a book from 1970s. Are we good with that? Are we good with that? Let's read a book from 1970s. Let's see, what else we got here? Which story is this? Let me check to see what I highlighted here. Oh, this is, I highlighted this because of this. Cheryl, if you're still here, check this out because we're trying to find, oh, and this was, oh yeah, this is a price guide too. I wanted to show you guys this. So check this out. This is a laser eraser and press, I couldn't read the, I can't read the titles here, laser eraser and press button. Okay. And this was a good read. It was a fun read. Okay. And this is issue number four. And I read, I think, two or three issues of this. And it was a fun read, but a couple of things I highlighted here just to show you guys. One of the things that we talked about before, Cheryl was asking as well, I came across this advertisement, right? And this is a book put out by Eclipse Comics, Women and the Comics by Trina. I haven't tracked this down yet. I highlighted it just to remind myself. Women and the Comics, okay, by Trina Robbins and Catherine Runwad, right? And here's a description for it. Women in the Comics, cartoonist Tina Robbins and comic book editor, Kathleen Youngwood have researched and written the first book about women's contributions to the uniquely American art form of comics, a chronological survey from the turn of the century to the present. Women and the Comics is a profusely illustrated, profusely illustrated, illustrated with examples from the cartoon, cartoon art of Rose O'Neill, the Cupsie, Grace Drayton, Campbell Soup Kids, Dale Misick, Brenda Starr, oh Brenda Starr, I have Brenda Starr, Marge Henderson, Belle, Little Lulu, cool, cool, I have some Little Lulu, Lisa McNeil and many, many more, right? So it looks like this book. And this book came out in, let's see, 1986, right? So this big book came out in 1986 from Eclipse Comics. Again, we've read Eclipse Comics books before, which are fantastic, right? So I thought I would just you know, highlight this. Cheryl, if you're into it or anyone else, if you track this book down, please, I keep on trying to remember to do this, but I keep on getting lost, please link it up in our Guild of Server on their comic books. I would like to get my hands on this book as well. I'm going to try to do it to do this, hopefully during the editing of this live stream when I take out these segments maybe. If I do, I might just load this up entirely. I've got to do the time stamps one, but I'll remember to do this, okay? So Women and the Comics by Trina Robbins and Katharine Yord would, something to track down, something to track down. And one other thing I highlighted here, which was super cool, and it's from Eclipse Comics, right? Check this out. Direct marketing comic books. And this is books that you could have bought in 1986, right? 1986. And it's got price guide of some of the books that they were selling, right? Amazing Spider-Man 137 to 200. For two dollars. 201 to all these for a dollar, dollar served by American flag. It's got a lot of prices here, right? Super cool. Super cool. We looked at price tags before, price guides before, but I thought I would sort of show this as well, right? Just in case anyone's interested. GI Joe number one for 975. Check out GI Joe number two for $35. So GI Joe number two in 1986 was selling for $35 while number one was selling for 975. And then GI Joe, one of the most expensive GI Joe comics is GI Joe number 21, which is the silent issue. And here they were selling it for $3, right? So some of these comics haven't gone up in price. If anything, you could pretty much get them in dollar bin store, dollar bins or whatnot, right? What's this? Marvel fanfare and stuff. But check this out. Oh, Elder God, you rock. Elder God just posted R here. You know what? I'm going to turn on the chat for a second just to capture that. Is it going to come up? There it is. Woman in comics is the first attempt to document the careers of the hundreds of women who have created and worked in the field of comic books, strips, comic books and cartoony. Okay. We'll take that down. Turn off the chat. Now check this out. Check this out. You got all these guys. Rocketeer appearances, new mutants, Teen Titans, next man. Next man, not next man. Next man is different. Super Curl, Web of Spider-Man, dollar 50, Thunder regions. But check out the prices for X-Men. X-Men number 95, good to find for $29 in very fine to near mint for $40. Check out these prices for X-Men. Wow. Would like to get my hands on some of those, right? You got the dark Phoenix saga going on here as well. X-Men number 100. Very cool. Very cool. Very cool. Let's read one more story in 1986. Yeah, Cheryl, that was a price in 1986. Let's confirm that. Let's see. This is the book. Yeah, 1986. Great investment. Nice investment. Not as good as buying Microsoft stock. Pretty good. Okay, who has a time machine? So let's take a look at this. This is Boris Karloff, right? Tales of Mystery. It came from below in a burst of fury. We're not going to read this story. I read this whole thing. It was really good. And this was a really good story as well. But I thought I'd read something that could be relevant to us as well, based on a lot of theories going around. And this book came out 1976. So this is Boris Karloff, Tales of Mystery, number 71, October 1976 that came out. And we're going to go to... This was a great... This was Boris Karloff. Fantastic series, by the way. Fantastic series, right? Great short stories, intelligent science fiction, fantasy, human stories. Very cool. Very cool. Okay. But we're going to read this one. Gathering. So I did this. Okay. I called it alien, but it's related to a lot of other things too. Okay. Out of God, you found it. You rock. So we're going to read this story. Boris Karloff, Tales of Mystery, Gathering of the Clan. It's about five pages or so, five or six pages. Deep underground, a strange meeting begins. Hear me, children. Children of Zrag. There is a spy among us, cult meeting. A spy, he must be exposed quickly. A, on what quicker way to expose him than by revealing they start taking off their masks, our true selves. So this is reminiscent of They Live. And They Live, the movie, came out in the 1980s, I believe. And this is 1976 that we say. And I wonder what They Live is based on the movie. So here's a little intro by this person. And he's the main character of what's going on. A rather eerie way to start proceedings, wouldn't you say? Or for one man, however, it is not only the beginning, but also perhaps the end. To learn how he came upon this madness, let us look in on a meeting that took place. Some days earlier in the publisher's office of a major metropolitan newspaper, Daily Chronicle. Imagine what a story it'll make, Mr. Crane, when I expose their deepest secrets. What's the big deal, Archer? Crackpot cults are a dime a dozen nowadays. Yes, but this is the most exclusive cult of all. Some of our most respected citizens are members. You could be stepping on a lot of wrong toes, Archer, the publisher says. Or the editor. I'll take my chances, Mr. Crane, Archer replies. If you don't like the story I come up with, you can always fire me. And I can sell it to another newspaper, he says. And so, on the night of the fateful meeting, all my leads were right on the button, he thinks. That cave is their secret meeting place. And their uniform makes a great cover for my face. It puts on his robe. But now, as the cultists remove their plastic skins, that's their secret. Their alien beings, every last one of them, he thinks. How did they know a stranger was here? Got to slip out before they see him, the aliens in the back, right? Going somewhere, brother, Zragian? Or is it that you are not from Zrag, after all? Who is he? one of them asks. A cheap scandal monger named Peter Archer. Ah, yes. A reporter from the Daily Chronicle, I believe. Shall we tell him who we are? Why not? He will never be able to reveal us to anyone. You see, Mr. Archer, we were a small band of criminals banished from the planet Zrag. Earth is the only other world whose food and climate can sustain us. So far, we are still in few in number, so we must operate undercover, posing as respectable citizens. But once our population has grown large enough, we shall make ourselves known. Your brains are like those of insects compared with ours. Come. Of course, with such knowledge, you cannot live here, live here alive. No, wait, Archer says. I won't breathe the word of this. I promise, I swear. Please, I don't want to die, he says. Hold, perhaps we should reconsider, one of them says. If you were suddenly to vanish, it might arouse suspicion. True, and there are other ways to maintain his silence, safer ways. Perhaps you are right, one of them says. Very well, you are free to go. But remember, we will be watching you. If you dare try to betray us. Oh, believe me, you can trust Pete Archer, smiles and waves. Do you think he will really remain silent? One of them asks. Phew, that was the tough, toughest con I ever had to pull now to get the story in, he says, or thinks. Next morning, I just got in, Archer. Give me a moment to relax. This can't wait, Mr. Crane. It's the hottest story of the century. Speaking of hot stories is rather warm in here this morning. Mind if I make myself more comfortable, Archer? Er, no. Ah, that's much better, he says. Now, what is this exciting story you uncovered? Nothing, sir. It was all a mistake, a mistake, gulp, that I'll never make again. Yes, Pete. Yes, Pete Archer is finally a believer, and you'd better be one too, for there's no telling whose alien eyes are watching you. I thought this was pretty relevant to some of the thoughts going around at present, the theme of certain stories as well as certain movies, TV shows, and theories, and theories. Do we have more? Do we have more? You know what, gang? Let's end it with that one. Let me turn on the chat, turn on the browser, turn on my camera. Okay, I thought that was fun to read. Ah, life, life. Where did I put this one? Let me put this guy back in here. Oh yeah, you know what, I'm just gonna leave it like this. I thought those were good reads. I thought they were fun reads. Definitely a good way to start our reading season. Ah, super fun. It reminds me a bit of Pepe's, The Aliens. Yeah, I didn't even think about it. Pepe, ooh, could be, could be, right? Ah, so super fun reads, super fun reads. I really liked The Trouble with Girls. I thought that was fantastic. I thought it was fantastic, right? Give me more, give me more. We're gonna do more comic book readings this year. We got, I'm reading a fair bit. I wouldn't mind going through some more of these, but they're longer reads, some of the ones that I have here. What's this one? This one's heavy. This one I like to read, but it's heavy. I'd rather end it on a lighter note on Charity Day's, Putana, where did it go? Hold on, I missed some chat. I like the comics, comic readings are fun, comic readings are fun, comic readings are fun, and informative, right? Putana Explorers. Back to Girls. I have to read really important parts on Charity Day's. Watching this has given me the itch to get back into comics, yeah, yeah. For me, that's one of the reasons, by the way, I have comic books framed and on my walls, and I have comic books in my space, because if I don't read, I see them all the time, so it gives me the itch to read more and more, to not stop reading. Luckily, I have a lot handy right now to read. When I run out of these, I might go back to the comic bookstore, or I might start going into my boxes, bring some here, I have some in different places, bring some here, start going through some of them, and maybe get back into reading some of the comic books we said we were going to read in comic book readings at number four. We still haven't gone through the whole list yet. We're just reading randoms, and we're going to continue to read randoms until I finish all these going through the rest of the comics that I bought for 25 cents, because they're in my space, I have to go through them, and either archive them or put them, I'm putting them all in a reading pile at the corner of the house, so that's what I would like to do. Fantastic reads, fantastic reads. Aside from that gang, let's call the stream. Most likely, we're going to do one stream next week. This is the last week of school with my students. I have some students that are going to be carrying on into the summer, most likely maybe. A lot of them do want to, but very few of them ever do, but we're definitely going to take a break from teaching, even if students want to continue. So I'll have more time. We're going to do more comic book readings. We'll go through more of these little segments, and we're going to read trading cards, we're going to do cooking streams, we're going to do more patio stuff, and other things, and liqueurs, and we'll see what else we'll get up to. Definitely look at the world map again. So this week after this week's over, we'll probably do one next weekend, maybe, but as of next week, we're going to start doing more live streams during the week as well. Okay, now that my time is going to be freed up. So if there's any times that you do want us to do live streams on, go to our gilded server, and just in general, just go chichou, can you do live stream on these days, on these times, and I'll try to accommodate school out, schools out for the summer. And aside from that gang, if you want to follow this work, I'm on Patreon, substack, subscribe star, you can definitely follow the work there. We're live streaming on Twitch, so if you want to participate in these live streams, Twitch is where you want to be at. Okay, participate in these conversations. Elder God, please no Saturdays. No Saturdays? Okay, no Saturdays. Yeah, we won't do next Saturday. Maybe do next Sunday. We'll probably do, if we're going to do next Sunday, most likely, it'll be a patio stream, patio garden, cigar smoking stream again, except later in the day. Okay, Elder God. Okay, Elder God. I'll try to remember for sure. Later my time. So we'll probably start doing some evenings as well now, and we'll see. We'll see. We should talk about it on Gildes, so I don't forget. But I don't think I'll forget. No Saturdays. Good. That's your busy time, Elder God, for sure. Gang, mods. Again, thank you very much for being here. Elder God, Cheryl, thank you. It is, in large part, because of the mods, because of the support we're getting on these platforms, as well as a handful of people still on the sensitivity that are supporting us, and everybody that's supporting us on Bittroop, Rumble, and Odyssey, and everywhere else that we're able to do what it is that we are doing. You can definitely find us on Twitter, Mines, VK, Gap, Geter, and Substack Notes. And for some of the podcasts we do upload to SoundCloud, the audio-ass podcast, and you should find them on your favorite podcasting platform, and I'll try to get on top of it and start uploading more. And at some point, hopefully this summer, we're going to start live streaming on Rumble and possibly start doing the recorded videos as well. Elder God, more pickups on evening streams on Saturdays. Okay, okay. Yeah, people dropping in. Yeah, maybe we do that. We do Saturday evenings. Pultonic Plurus, with the bricks returning on the scene, with the bricks returning on the scene. Aside from that, Gang, I hope you have a fantastic Sunday, and I'll see you guys on Gilded. I'll be around. And live stream next week. If not Sunday, then Monday. Okay, bye everyone.