Not Another D&D Podcast - Adventure Book Theatre: Goosebumps - Little Comic Shop of Horrors

Episode Date: November 1, 2024

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This is a HeadGum Podcast. They made a book about a video game. Game, game, game. We made a podcast about that book. Welcome to APA Book Club, the only book club that makes you dumber. That's right. The Lore Lords are back. Brian Murphy, Emily Axford, Caldwell Tanner. And you know, we tried to get a celebrity guest.

We couldn't get one. Jake Hurwitz filling in. Thank you, Jake. What a lead in. For stepping up. Happy to lead in. For stepping up. Happy to fill in. Yes. You are not stunt guesting.

Yeah. Adam Pally fell through. You went with your safety guest. Yeah. Welcome, welcome, Jake Hurwitz. We're so happy to have you here for a very special Halloween episode. That's right.

What's spookier than books? It's been a minute since we've done an 8-bit book club. Yeah, they have boo in the title. That's right. What's spookier than books? It's been a minute since we've done an A-Pip book club. Yeah, they have boo in the title. Boo. That's right. It's right in the title. There are a lot of scary books, okay? Yeah.

I don't know what you're fooling around about. I am part of a scary book club. Yeah, there you go. Paper cuts, concepts. There's some scary stuff in there. Yeah, okay. Well, we've got here Goosebumps. Reader beware, you choose the scare.

Over 20 different scary endings, this one's called the Little Comic Shop of Horrors. Whoa, I love comic books. Yeah, and I figured, like, we're nerds, we're gamers. Yeah. So let's go over to the comic book shop. Who loves comic books more than Jake Herb? I love comic books, I love to game.

Yeah, again, we were gonna get somebody like a little bit more in the genre, but it just didn't work out and Jake's here, we appreciate it. I actually did do something comic book adjacent recently. What's that? Which is that I saw the third installment of Venom. Emily pulled an Austin Powers on Venom.

She had never seen the other two before. You saw Venom 3? She just saw Venom 3 and never saw the last dance. I did, and I accidentally did it on opening night. So people were cheering and laughing and stuff. Emily came home, so Emily went to see this and I was like, I'm not gonna go see Venom 3. I haven't seen the other two.

So Emily went and saw it, came back and was just like, it was a little strange. Like people having big reactions to characters and stuff. And I'm like, yeah, you don't know what's going on. You didn't watch the movies. This is actually this is a thing for Emily because we also did this with Stranger Things, we skipped Stranger Things season three, because we had done season one and two back when everybody was watching it.

Then for some reason we fell off with season three, I think we were just busy or something. And then season four, everyone was talking about it going back. And Emily just goes, everyone's talking about it, we should just watch season four. And I went along with it, and since then Emily has gone down a dark path.

Well, the Venom thing, in defense, I was not trying to be like weird. I just was like, I really wanna go to the movies proper, be in the theater and see an action movie. And it's mostly horror movies out right now. So this was my only chance to see some action. And you know, I did enjoy, I did enjoy some of the action. Did you go in fully blind or did you watch like a YouTube

video, anything at all to catch you up? No, knew nothing about it. Knew nothing about it. I don't even know that Emily could pick Venom out of a lineup. If I had to guess, if I had to guess his catchphrases, with pleasure, if he says that multiple times. Yeah, I could see that.

Did you, yeah. I saw the first one on a plane. Do you remember if he said with pleasure? I don't know if I remember that or just your voice was so good that I'm like, oh yeah, that's absolutely right. We gotta get into this. We have a whole book to read.

Beware, do not read this book from beginning to end. Hey, you never noticed that comic book store before. It's kind of dusty, but man, does it have great comics. Yeah, it's got Venom. It's got the later issues of Venom, but none of the earlier ones. Wow, is that Axe Herds in there? Holy shit, I'd like to read those with pleasure.

If you, we don't know that that's his, we don't know that that's his catchphrase. We have no idea. If you check out the books on the Spinner Rack, you're spun into a comic book universe. Which superhero do you wanna be? Will the super villains destroy you or worse? Will you end up as an ink blot?

Are we gonna get that venom in them? If you follow the horror sign to the basement, look out. You'll find horror down there, all right? But not horror comics. This Scariest Venture is all about you. You decide what will happen and you decide how terrifying the scares will be Start on page one. Yeah. Yeah, we know what a fantasy Riveted if you make the wrong choice beware

So take a deep breath cross your fingers and turn to page one to give yourself goosebumps Murph cross your fingers cross my fingers. Okay, I Okay, they're crossed. Okay. There we go. Okay. Is everyone happy? Yeah. Alright. So happy. Which book was it? It wasn't this, it was like a D and D book or something, right, where we started reading it,

and then it was like, we were supposed to start on page five arbitrarily or something. Like there was just a cold open. Oh yeah, we read the stinger. Yeah, yeah. Jesus. That's right. Yeah, some of these things are a mess. Hopefully, hopefully R.L. Stine's gonna shit together.

I think R.L. Stine's got this buttoned R.L. Stein's got this buttoned up. I think he's got it buttoned up. By now, number 17, yeah, this is the 17th that choose your own scare, give yourself goosebumps, whatever it's called. Do you guys think that we should try to write our own choose your own adventure? No. We did, I did.

Oh yeah, call the day. Yeah, you did. But it's true, we should veer into the horror category. I think that's really, maybe we could write our own choose your own venom adventure. Oh yeah. You pick which symbiote you want to get inside you. Wow.

Okay, here we go. All right. We've got 90s attitude right off the bat. The symbiotes were really cute. All right. Ready? I thought after school clubs were supposed to be fun. You grumble.

You are. You love comic books and a comic club sounded cool, but it's run by Horace Grumbacher, the dullest kid in school. Wow. Come on. I love the idea that, like, that's such an old person insult. Like, that's such an adult insult to be like, I find him rather dull.

If somebody called me dull, I don't know, I wouldn't know how to respond. You're so bland, Horace. How could someone make a subject like comics boring? Horace manages. He clicks a slide projector to a picture of a comic book cover. Here's the first issue starring SuperDewer, he drones.

Today it's worth nearly $200,000. Click. Oh, he's a collector. And here's the first appearance of Ballistic Bug. This comic goes for nearly 20,000. As if any kid in this club can afford that, you think. The projector clicks again and a horror comic appears on the screen.

Excellent, you love horror. But Horus can even make horror dull. This is- Oh my God. What a dullard. Yeah, this issue of- I find him rather dull. This issue of the seller of scary stories went for $1,600, he lectures.

An ugly face sneers at you from the comic cover. Yuck, it looks like a rotten pumpkin with warts. Wait a second, is Horace dull or is he interested in finance and perhaps going to be setting himself up for a life of financial stability? You think he's got his finger on the art market pulse. You're not making him sound less dull.

Yeah. Oh shit, he's a finance bro, awesome. Oh, I'm saying, I mean, there's nothing dull about financial stability. All right, you turn away and notice the classroom clock. How did it get so late? You run outside in time to see a horrible sight. Oh no, you groan.

What's wrong? Find out on page two. Yeah, I know how books work. All right, let's see. Do we get to make a choice? Not yet. Cross your fingers. We're warming up.

The school bus is already a block away. It left without you. Thanks a lot, Horace. You growl. You growl. We growl? We growl! We're groaning, we're growling.

You're clearly mad at something else. I fucking hate Horace. You're focusing, what's going on at home? Yeah. What's going on at home, or what is going on with Horace? Yeah. Like that you're like bringing so much energy to your interactions with him.

Do we love Horace? Yeah. Is that what's happening? I think Horace might be beautiful. Yeah. Horace is beautiful. He's financially stable. He's everything.

He's got his finger in the art market pole He's everything we're looking for. Yeah, we want a finance pro Okay, because of this boring lecture now you have to walk home. Oh, can you imagine walking home? Fuck I hate the 90s If you follow the same route as the bus you won't get home for hours I said you'd better try a shortcut even though it means going through a part of town you've never seen before. Can I just suggest that was a wild thing to even cross our mind,

that we might just follow the route of the bus? Because the bus stops at so many other people's neighborhoods and houses. Right. I'll walk by 38 other kids' houses, and then I'll be home tomorrow morning. Are you gonna like call your mom, are you gonna like page your parents to let them know that you're just following the bus home?

Yeah, can't you call collect and be like, dad picked me up right before they accept the charges. You walk and walk along a shortcut with every step you take, your book bag gets heavier. The area you're cutting through looks a little weird. The buildings are all old and dingy. The stores huddle together as if they're holding each other up.

And the stuff in the windows is very weird. You pass a clothing store that seems to be selling Halloween costumes, even though Halloween is months away. Not in this world. Not in our world. Is Halloween today when we release this? It's now. Yes.

It's right now. So we should describe Horus for everybody who wants to dress up as Horus for this Halloween. Yeah, slicked back ponytail. Uh-huh. $4,000 suit, 39 years young in a $4,000 suit. Bursting out of a turtleneck underneath a also tight blazer. The thinnest chain you've ever seen, Rolex.

And those dolls in that toy shop window, they look like vampires. You're relieved when you spot a store for vacuum cleaners. That's normal, you think. Please call your parents. And next to it, hey, a comic shop. Want to visit? Go to page three, great.

Yeah, of course we want to visit. You step inside, the comic shop is dingly lit. Of course we want to visit, because Horace is putting all these ideas in her head about collecting comic books, and right now I'm thinking, all right, I gotta set myself up for financial stability. We're trying to level up.

Okay, we gotta get some fluid assets. All right, so we go in, the guy who owns the store grunts and just goes, huh, kids. Oh my God. Well, who does he expect to come in and buy comics? I'm 38 and a half. Right. 38.5. Is that what our canonical age is when we do these?

Is our character 38 and a half? It's always mid-30s. Yeah, we're leveling up. 38 and a half. We've got some silver wisdom. As you walk past him, the store owner calls out, leave your bag up here, you scowl. Why is he treating you like a thief? You think about leaving, but you'd like a rest from walking.

Besides, you'd really want to check out the comics. Strolling around the racks, you notice the latest issue of major disaster. You bought it just a week ago. This guy has a sticker on it for half price. Walking a little faster, you start picking up comic books. Doesn't the owner know what these things are worth? We just had that whole show and tell from the forums. We know what they're worth. Now we care. Wow. Not so dull anymore. We have a chance here. The deeper into the store you go, the darker it gets. A pair of bookcases block your way,

but there's a little space between them. You see light coming through the crack, turn to page four. This is just a regular book. So far. So far it's exactly how a book works. Yeah, this is just. Can we turn to the manga section, please, Mark? You squeeze between the bookcases into an open area.

Dusty light bulb dangles from the ceiling, and as dim glow, you make out another spinning rack full of comics. A sign taped to the top of the rack says, you think this is a library? Look, but don't touch or you'll be sorry. You peer at the comics on the rack. Whoa, that's the issue. A ballistic bug from Horace's slideshow.

What? Oh my God. What's the price? This is how we get a leg up on Horace. We can flip this. Yeah. The comic is marked for two bucks. We're going to fucking bury Horace. leg up on Horace. We can flip this. Yeah. The comic is marked for two bucks. We're gonna fucking bury Horace.

Fuck you, Horace. Well, are we, I mean, I thought we wanted to be with no. Who's doll now? Yeah, this could start our future together. Look, a lot of relationships are do I hate you or love you. I think that we need to show Horace that we mean business. We gotta collect this comic, we gotta trade it in. We gotta go to like a couple art galleries

and buy some up and coming artists, really hold onto those for like 20 years or so, and then boom, we're just gonna explode first. Yeah, yeah, is there gonna be a choose your own option that's wait while your assets accrue value? Yeah, definitely. And up there on the top rack, is that the incredibly expensive copy of Super-Dewer?

Then you notice something else, a doorway beyond the rack, metal stairs lead downward to the basement, you guess. An arrow-shaped sign points down the stairway. It reads horror. There's also a tattered sign on the open door. You try to make out the faded letters. It seems to say, no admittance, trans-passers will be clomp-ed.

Clomp-ed? Clomp-ed? Can you spell that for us? Wait, is that like G-L-O-M-P-F-E-D? What's that? Glomped. Is that like when you go to a comic convention and you give like really big hugs to all the cosplayers?

Whoa, it's hugging a cosplay. Glomped? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. You don't really care. All you care about is making a tough decision. Should you take a closer look at the rack or should you go down to the horror section?

Let's look at the rack. Yeah. Let's look at the rack. Yeah. Let's scope this rack. We know that these are worth like tens of thousands of dollars. Why would we just go to a different section? We are on our money grind mindset. The only racks we have time for are comic racks.

Racks on racks on racks. Racks equals stacks. Yes, turn the racks into stacks. While you were in the strip club, I was in the comic shop. Yeah, we are the worst version of this character that we've ever been. Okay, you've got to see if that $2 comic is really the famous first issue of Superdewer. But when you grab the spinner rack, it starts to turn by itself.

Still worse, the metal rack seems to have glued itself to your hand. You can't let go. Your jaw drops as the moving rack yanks you off your feet. We weren't itself to your hand. You can't let go. Your jaw drops as the moving rack yanks you off your feet. We weren't supposed to touch it. It's a metaphor for greed. Yes. That's too true.

No, it's a metaphor for holding onto this asset and letting it accrue value. So this is actually, this is the perfect ending right now. We have to keep hanging on. Yeah. This is what we get for hodling. We can't hodl. You're right.

This is what we all need to be doing with hanging on. Yeah. This is where we get hodling. We can't hodl. You're right. This is what we all need to be doing with Litecoin. Yeah. This is a 401k. That's all this is, is a retirement plan. That's all this is. Yeah. The shop owner looks at you and says, you held on just like you're supposed to.

Good job, Diamond Hands. And then he gives you $30,000 in cash and says, don't put this in the bank, put this back into crypto. Otherwise you'll have to pay taxes on it. Yeah. Okay. You can't, uh, your jaw drops as the moving rack yanks you off your feet. You're dragged around in a circle and the rack keeps speeding up. Soon to your horror, you can't touch the floor anymore. It's like some sort of weird carnival ride. The rack is whizzing around and you're flying through the air. Hey, hey mister.

You yell to the sheep. This is hey mister, you yell to the- This is the high-paced world of the art market. It's gonna feel a little dizzy. Yeah, for sure. You yell to, hey, hey mister, you yell to the store owner, but the words are torn from your lips by a screaming wind. You feel as if you're caught in a tornado. And what is the crypto market if not a tornado?

Hello? Destroying our preconceived notions of what should. Of what money could be, deeply unstable. Laying waste to your financial system and building something new and beautiful in its place. Yeah, there you go. You clench your teeth to keep from groaning with pleasure. With pleasure!

Your body, with pleasure. And again, we must invest. Your body is stretched out like you're a warm piece of taffy. You shift your grip, one hand touches the comic on the rack. The comic starts to glow, now suddenly there's a new poll. You're being sucked into the glowing comic. Turn to page 103. Here we go. We're being railroaded, but at least it's out of order.

Alright, alright. Oh my god, okay, great stuff coming up. Your body feels as if giants have been using you for a game of tug of war. What? Wow. Popping. Whoa. Popping my body. Yeah, I would absolutely do that.

Yeah. Yeah. Fix all my back problems. Oh, that'd be great. Yeah, a little decompression of the spine. Yeah, like Mr. Incredible style. Just ruin my back, straighten it. Just get fucking tractioned out from all your joints. Yes, please.

You're sick and dizzy from the spinning, but you notice something is wrong. The world seems strangely flat. Okay, so we're, all right, so we're crypto bros who believe in flat earth. Oh my God, wait a second. Do you think, wait. We entered our own NFT? Yeah.

Oh, holy shit. Oh, we're in the, we're in the NFT right now. It's also worth mentioning that between the bus stop and here we did have four tequila and sodas. Right, you got to. We're 38.5, we're allowed to do that. Yeah. We go to happy hour with all our younger coworkers.

I filled a hydro flask with tequila. Yeah, we say bring your own tequila, you just get soda for free lighten up Horace yeah the colors are very bright you peer up at an incredibly blue sky sky wait a minute how did you get outside an elbow jabs you someone steps on your foot you aren't just outside you're in a crowd and what a crowd you're packed in so tightly you can barely move the person behind you is actually breathing down your neck could Could this be a parade?

What's going on you ask no one answers you but a voice cries here It comes a shadow falls across you when you see what's blocking the sunlight your eyes grow big It's a gigantic tin can with arms legs and a head. No, it's a robot. I don't believe this you gasp strangled voice You'd better believe it that thing is as big as a skyscraper and is striding straight for you. Go to page 69. Is there any better sign that we are on the right path? We shoot back a pint glass of a tequila soda in one slurp. Our finance bro is finally going to get through this robot that he's been dreaming of. I went to the movies with my friend Dan a couple weeks ago and he had something I'd never seen,

which was like a soft flask that was exactly the size of his bladder. A camelback. Yeah, but it was like a soft one. It was just kind of like a little like wine skin essentially. But it was like, you know, he told me it was the exact size of his bladder so that he could like drink all the water in it

and not have to pee. And so that's what I imagine. I water in it and not have to pee. And so that's what I imagine. We're like chugging. I don't know if that's how it works totally. That blows my mind. Are you calling my friend Dan a liar? No, I'm not.

How does he know how big his bladder is? It could be as big as a human bladder, but I think you still store stuff. I don't think you completely empty it every time you piss. I don't know enough about pissing. I mean, He seems confident. People have different bladder sizes, but maybe he got his measured

or maybe you can measure yours by drinking to the point where you were like, I actually need to pee right now. And then measuring what comes out. He might've done some experiments. I feel like he said this casually and you maybe took it as like his his medical and you're bringing it up On Mike. I was really impressed He pulled out his satchel looked like like a you know, North face wine skin. It was fucking crazy to see

All right. Well, anyway, that's what we're chugging our tequila The movie industry is dying and he is technically committing a crime. So we'll be reporting him to AMC. Thank you for letting me know Yikes! We chugug from our tequila soda bladder. Revoking his stubs. Well, we got the tequila soda at the bar because we show up to every movie three hours early to get wasted and then we go in and see the movie while drinking stocks on our phone with a really bright screen. We see the third venom.

The sound of our French cufflinks clacking against our bright phones. Ruining the vibe at MacGuffin's. OK, yikes, you shout. Everybody run. You push, you shove. You try to get out of the giant robot's path, but the crowd is too thick. You're trapped. Hey, a whiny voice says in your ear, I know you.

Wait. You turn and spot a familiar face in the crowd. No way. It's a kid from school named Wally. Come to think about it. Oh. What? He hasn't been in class lately.

No, this tour is. Yeah. Oh, I thought it was going to be hard. Oh, no, this is Wally. This is just Wally. Come to think about it, he hasn't been in class lately. No, this is Horace. Oh, I thought it was going to be Horace. No, this is Wally. This is just Wally now. And the love triangle emerges. Who do I choose? Because Horace is perfect on paper, but Wally just makes me feel a certain way. Wally works with us at the hedge fund, I think. Right. Yeah.

Wally, where have you been? You've missed out on so many deals. Where are we, you cry, what's going on? You just got here on the Spinner Rack Express, huh? Wally asks. God, he's such a fucking know-it-all, Wally. Okay, I'll make this fast. You're stuck inside a comic in the comic books universe. You roll your eyes.

Yeah, right. It's true, Wally insists. Now here's the deal. You can shift from comic to comic using a magic word, but if you use it too often, you'll turn into an ink blot, he shudders. It happened to the kid I was with, Alex. Do you know Alex? He tried to leave this comic.

Yeah, we know Alex. He worked at a different hedge fund. Oh, okay. And now he's an ink blot. Oh, right, yeah. That's great. He washed out. You try to crush the competition here.

Yeah. Now he's just a smear. You glance anxiously at the robot. It's awfully close. We'll be smeared too if we don't get out of here, you declare, turn to page 33. An ink blot is kind of like venom. Sure.

Yeah, that's a great point. He is. He is. Is everyone considering this? Just want to make sure we take the time. And venom is the perfect size of a human bladder. Yes. And you need to pee.

He could make himself fat. Yeah. Venom can drink your piss so that you don't have to piss. He can be a parachute and he can drink your piss. He can drink Venom. You don't have to. He canonically can drink your piss. I took the liberty of drinking your piss.

With pleasure. What? Wow, kinky. Wow, I had Venom powers but you drank my piss. Okay, yeah, I guess so, that seems rad. Did you like fix my liver too? No, just the piss? All right.

Honestly, to never have to piss again, you can do a lot with that time. I don't know that I was just, it'd be great. I don't know, it would be incredible to not have to pee again. To not have to piss anymore? I guess so. I just think about my productivity and my trades. Wow. I wouldn't ever have to get off of my five different screens.

Occasionally, Vin and Will take over your body and go on rampages, but you never have to pee again. That's a pretty good trade-out. Yeah, that's huge. Okay, the crowd still isn't moving and the robot is only a couple of giant steps away. Have you used these magic words, you ask, while he nods. I started out in another comic.

I was some superhero's dopey sidekick. When I met Alex and we came here, all you have to do is think of another comic and say the magic words. Okay, that gets you to another comic, but is there a way to get back home, back to the real universe, you ask? What do you guys think the magic words are gonna be?

Bye. Hold. Bye, Trix, so hold. Wally glanced at you. I think so. A mad scientist can send you. What? But you have to talk him into helping you.

What the fuck? Is it Dr. Eek? Is he back again? It's Dr. Evil. You can barely hear him. I would. People are screaming and bumping into you. What are the magic words you beg?

Wally closes his eyes thinking, then he yells guest shot and he disappears. You think of the two comics you've been studying on the comic graph. Guest shot? Yeah, I think isn't that- Like when somebody does like a guest cover or something like that. Guest shot? Yeah, I think isn't that- Like when somebody does like a guest cover

or something like that. I think so. Yeah, it checks out. Right, it's kind of what I'm doing on this episode of 8-Bit Book Club. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Okay, we close our eyes and shout Jake Hurwitz.

Jake Hurwitz. Whoa. Magic word to Jake Hurwitz. Everyone try it at home. The comic book says, ooh. What the hell? You think of the two comics you've been studying on the comic rec.

Both of them are mad scientist villains. Will the magic words take you to them? Time to find out. You close your eyes. To visit the world of SuperDewer, go to page 104. If you want to go to Ballistic Bug, turn to page 67. I definitely want Ballistic Bug. SuperDewer, we know that.

Wait, what? I want to see Ballistic Bug. Okay. SuperDewer, that's the lucrative comic. That's the one that's worth all of the cash. really, I'm a ballistic bug. Okay. Superdoer is the, that's the lucrative comic. That's the one that's worth all of the cash. No, you're right. If we're in a growth mindset, we need to go to Superdoer.

But everyone is gonna be after the Superdoer number one. That's like action comics number one. It's too hot. It's too, there's too many eyes on it, doesn't it? Right, if we're trying to buy low. We can build our collection of the cybers. I see you're right. We need to buy low, sell high.

We buy low and hodl. Let's go to the bug. Buy low and hodl. I don't know how shorting works, but this might be. Yeah, okay. We're gonna short ballistic bug. Whatever that means. Okay.

They zig, we zag. Yeah, we're absolutely zagging right now. All right. You shriek at the top of your lungs. Guest shot, when you open your eyes, everything is still dark. For a second, you think it's the shadow of the robot's foot coming down.

Then you realize it's nighttime. With a sigh, you lean against a nearby brick wall. You made it, you're safe. Of course, now you have to find out where you are. Too bad it's so dark. Suddenly yellow light glares around you. You blink, you're blinded. Then you hear a faint buzz.

It rises to a whine. You're dazzled to see a figure in a tight brown costume with flashing insect wings coming out its back. Ballistic Bug. You're in big trouble, the bug says menacingly. No, no, oh no! The feds, the fucking feds. The feds, they know.

They're not supposed to be able to tax me. Trouble, you look down. There are tools in your hand. You also notice an open safe next to you. Uh-oh, you're a burglar. Ballistic Bug doesn't like burglars. You'd better jump to someplace new and fast. Jump to a different-

Hedge fund burglar. All right, do we wanna go to another episode of Ballistic Bug or do we wanna go to a different comic? This was a waste of time. We need to sell. I know we had to diversify. You're right, because you know what? As soon as we were like, oh my God, no one's going there.

We're geniuses for going there. I really did get high on confidence. And now I'm realizing it was delusion, not confidence. Right. And you have to know when to sell. You have to know when to sell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to sell. Sell. Sell.

We're selling. All right. Okay. We're selling at a massive loss right now, which is fine. Which is huge for us. We can make this up. We just have to bet big on the next thing. Does this put us in the red? Okay, yeah, yeah.

Deeply in the red. Deeply in the red. We are in the crimson because we are bleeding out. Yeah, okay. But what comic will you jump to? One of your favorites is Silent Sal, the comic book about teenagers. What?

Wait, wait, that's all? It says the comic book about teenagers? The comic book about teenagers? What? Wait, wait, that's all? It says the comic book about teenagers. That feels irresponsible. But there are no mad scientists there. Well, you could try Superdure, but you'd better make up your mind fast. Silent Sal. Ballistic Bug is zooming straight at you.

He's going to flatten you. All right. Wait, hang on. Because we need to have our finger on the pulse of what the youth is doing because they are actually the drivers of the market. So we need to go to the teenagers and say, what are you investing your attention in? Because that's what I need to invest my money in.

Yes, we have to observe them. Ballistic Bug is about to kick our ass and we think of another comic called Wise Guys. Like why? Like why the letter? Wise Guys? Why the letter? Why Charlie's Angels? Oh, Wise Guys. But we're flipping it so it's dudes now.

Okay, cool, cool. Oh, thank God. Yeah. Thank God. Thank God. We figured it out. All right, so we're fading into another scene. We gotta turn to page 74.

74. Are we going to Simon and Sal? We're fading into another scene. We got to turn a page 74. 74. Are we going to Silent South? We're going to Wise Guys. That's actually, I feel so railroaded that we couldn't go to Silent South. Yeah, I was hoping it was gonna be like an Archie Comics sort of world. I don't know, yes.

And we're gonna get to hang out with like a Jughead type. It's not like teenagers as they navigate something. It's just, it's about teenagers. What? Okay, you glance up, a huge hammer is hurtling toward your head, you throw up your hands, but you know that won't stop the falling hammer. You're dead.

What? A ballistic bug kills people apparently. What? Your skin suddenly starts to tingle. What? Sparks fly around your hair, then a lightning bolt flies from your head, it smashes the hammer to bits.

Your jaw drops, you stare at the pieces of wrecked hammer. No way, this can't be happening, you blurt out. While you blink in disbelief, the wreckage fades away. You're in a bare gleaming room with a grid on the walls. What? You've seen this place before. It's the peril parlor where wise guys practice. Oh, it's X-Men.

Duh. What? Like, thinking. It's just, yeah, well, it's like a three-dimensional pun. Yeah, wise guys. Yeah. It's all right. This is actually a really buttoned dimensional pun. Yeah, wise guys. Yeah. It's all right. This is actually a really buttoned up sign, you got me.

All right. Yeah. Wise guys practice their powers against holograms and that means you glance down at yourself. Sure enough, you're in the pink and blue uniform of wise guys. Hell yeah. And with that lightning bolt on your chest,

you'd have to be, yo rage. Okay, so our name is rage, but it's like Ray, but with a G E at the end. Like the name is Ray. Rage, another pink and blue hero calls to you. Professor Y wants to see us. This feels really good, right? I think I'm actually ready to just give up on finance

because we lost so much money. And let's just be in the wise guys. And I think I just want to be a super hero. You think, right. How do we claw our way back from that? Okay. We hit rock bottom and we can actually, we can make a little house on this solid rock foundation.

Yeah. Are we going to do like a retreat? We're going to like do like a, like a meditation retreat at the wise guys. We're going to start coaching and leading retreats. Yeah. We could do kind of like this like rehab for finance bros who have lost everything.

You can charge them. To fight holograms. We could charge them to wrestle holograms. You're so right because it's like, we found out that the growth mindset was actually a mirage and now we can like teach other people the illusion of the growth mindset by growing our own money

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I'll see you later. Okay, so we need to get Professor Y on board with our startup now. Oh yeah, I mean, he's definitely got some funds. Yeah, okay, cool, great. You recognize another hero. It's Stinky Stanley, the mutant whose horrible breath is his weapon. The professor is waiting, Stinky Stanley calls. Professor Evil is also known as Professor Y.

He's a powerful mutant, the leader of wise guys, and a famous scientist. You follow Stinky Stanley to, the leader of wise guys, and a famous scientist. You follow Stinky Stanley to join the rest of wise guys. Then a flying chair enters the room. Seated in it is Professor Y. Before we part ways with Stinky Stanley, I'm gonna give him some Finance Bro retreat-themed AirPods that he's made to give out to people to spread the word.

And it has our audio book pre-downloaded on it. And it doesn't have Bluetooth. It's just like a Yak back that you press it and it plays a recording. It's a 12 page PDF that costs $300. Yeah. OK, so you see Professor Wiseguise, he exclaims in a deep voice.

What is this, the Y Combin the white my mental powers have detected a disturbance Being Scott with somehow with pleasure Scott Scott Summers. Oh, that's good. Yeah Somehow aliens from beyond the universe have invaded you gulp could professor Why be talking about you you hope not especially when you hear what else? He's about to say okay. We must destroy these invaders immediately using a laser No way You're speaking like really radically, but we actually want have a pretty grounding idea. Yeah

Did you comment vibe? Yeah. Yeah. Wait, what is our retreat? Our retreat is- Our retreat is for finance, bro. We lost it all. And they need to-

But they don't have money then to go to our retreat. They'll find money. Okay. Well, they're like, they sign a big agreement and they're gonna be like part of our investments for like a long time. They're kind be like part of our investments for a long time They're kind of like an incubation farm now

Yeah, okay. Do we want to ask professor why more about these aliens or do we want to talk the professor out of his planned battle? I think you talk about it was planned battle, right? Yeah, we got it. We got to chat it out because we can actually build for this time Because honestly the planned battle is part of this growth mindset that was so toxic to us. Right. Yeah. And we just, we really just want growth for us. You need to wage war against the free market

by like flooding it with great ideas. Stop trying to grow your bank account and start trying to grow your card account. While growing our bank account. There's feast, there's famine, but now there's forage. Okay. Yeah. That's what we collect for ourselves. Oh my God.

Comet vibe. Comet vibe. Comet vibe. Okay. But, okay, so we're gonna try to talk them out of fighting the bad guys. But Professor Y, you blurt, yes. The professor replies, no, I mean, Professor Y,

that's my name, Professor Y snaps, don't wear it out, zip it. This is a good one. First thing. Yeah. It's a good one. First thing. Uh, AKA a zip it bit. I mean, I mean you stammer, you try again. Why do you want to attack these visitors, Professor? Professor Y's eyes gleam. If you have to ask that you're no true wise guy, he declares. You're an alien spy. What? Whoa. Professor X does not act like this. We're just a forage, bro.

This is it, yeah. Look, we're just here to forage for berries and seraptic currency. We're deconecting, we're unplugging. We're absolutely unplugging, we just wanna talk. His hair starts to grow, reaching out to you. You've seen pictures of this in the comics, but actually seeing the hair creeping around is well creepy. Whoops. He's spent too much. His hair starts to grow, reaching out to you. You've seen pictures of this in the comics,

but actually seeing the hair creeping around is well creepy. Whoops. He's spent too much. I just find it awesome. I know a lot of the bros coming to the retreat would love to grow their hair. Yeah. Okay, so tentacles of hair have wound around your ankles.

You can't pull free. He's tugging on my zip up vest. My north face. There's only one thing you can do now. It's risky, but you've got to use the magic words. Guest, mmf. Your cry is muffled as still more hair attacks you, stuffing your mouth.

Ew. There's no escape now. This is nasty. Your doom is too horrible to describe. How horrible? Let's just say from here on, it gets really hairy. The end. Oh, that's the worst ending we've ever gotten.

We got drowned in hair. We got drowned in hair. We died for our ideals, which our ideals are a retreat for financials who lost it all to come learn how to meditate and then build more sustainable funds. And we fucking we died by swallowing a thousand man buns. Yeah. All of the financials that grew out their hair to chill out. It might be And we fucking, we died by swallowing a thousand man buns. Yeah. All of the finance. This does add up. They grew out their hair to chill out.

If somebody's like. All the beta carotene that we're ingesting from this hair, this could be, it could be on a miracle cure. This could be great. This could really be like the replacement for like blood boys. Yeah. It's just like hair diet. We could package and sell these as vitamin supplements.

Oh, I'm on the hair diet. Yeah. Carotene, that sounds like carrots. That's pretty much the same thing. Yeah, we just eat hair now. That was genuinely the worst ending I think we've ever gotten. I think it really was. I'm just imagining hair going in your throat so deep

that you can't really look. Oh my God. It's foul. Wow, this is really actually disturbing me. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween, everyone. We drowned in hair. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween, everyone. We drowned in hair.

Happy heroin. Let's go back. OK, so we're going to ask Professor Y more about these aliens. I guess that's good. Let's try to page 710. OK, OK, OK. What's the name of the aliens in X-Men?

Is it the bird people? What are their names? There's no like, oh, I mean, they go to space all the time. Yeah. Shiar or something? In Venom, they're called symbiotes. Oh, okay. They're very cute.

They're cute? Yeah. Which ones do you see in Venom, The Last Dance? In Venom, The Last Dance, a lot of them are in like little, it's like a science lab underneath Area 51. Great. So a lot of them are in little cages and stuff.

But like they're in like little test tubes. They're in their goo form. Yeah, they're in goo form. That's great. You turn anxiously to the rest of Wyze guys. Wolf and Bean, the fighting vegetable, and Stinky Stanley look confused. So does Jean Green.

You're not sure what her power is, but you know it involves coming back from the dead. They're all fierce fighters. What will they do if they discover you're the alien Professor Professor Wise talking about? Can you tell us more about these visitors, you ask? Coming back from the dead, recreating yourself after a devastating loss.

Buying low. Oh. What is coming back from the dead? Much like the phoenix herself. You must rise from the ashes. When you get back from our ph retreat, it's the Phoenix retreat. Phoenix retreat, that's so good. It's such good grade.

That's good. That is. We can put it on lighters. We can be like, what up, Phoenix fellas? The Phoenix fellas. Phoenix fellas retreat. And then like this sort of like, I could be like, we could be like, what up, Phoenix fellas?

And they could just shout vibe back. Vibe, yeah. Vibe, response. We can call them the Ashers, you know, like instead of burners from Burning Man. Oh, that's really good. Ashing man, we can have Ashing Man as the Phoenix fellas festival.

Yes, the Phoenix fellas do Ashing Man. This is really good, yeah. Or we could just do Fire Festival, spell it the same way. But just Fire Festival, colon, this time it's gonna work. Okay, wait, do Fire Festival, spell it the same way, but just Fire Festival, colon, this time it's gonna work. Okay. Wait, their Fire Festival isn't an F-Y-R-E? We could just do regular fire. We could just do Fire Festival.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's ours. Okay. This is amazing. So Fire Festival with an I, and we'll call it Fire Festival with an I. Fire Festival with an I. This time we're doing it right.

This time we're doing it right. We're spelling it right, we're doing it right is our tagline. Phoenix fellas, Phoenix fellas unite, no women allowed. What? Okay, can you tell us more about these visitors you ask? Yeah, Professor Jean Green pipes up, how do we know they're evil?

Sure, Wolf and Bean chimes in, maybe they're just lost or something. This isn't something- That's actually pretty cool. Yeah. I feel cool with the Wolf and Bean. Wolf and Bean and Jean Green. Yeah.

They're asking the right questions for sure. They're welcome to a fire festival. It's true. They could have like unknown deposits of lithium on their planet that we could really get access to. Sure. Should we get back into finance? Yeah.

This isn't something to vote over, Professor Y growls. My marvelous mind powers warn me of danger. He closes his eyes as though he's listening to a tiny voice. Then his eyes open wide. One of the invaders is in this very room. He must be a shapeshifter. Professor, you begin. Professor Y whips around, pointing.

You're the one. You're the one. Find out who he's pointing at on page 134. Oh, he thinks we're a scroll. Uh-oh. So he's pushing, maybe he's pointing past us. Let's read the room. Are they just all buying whatever he says?

Can we just say, oh, actually we also have mind powers. And my mind powers are telling me that you're the invader. You're the invader. These guys are followers and we are a leader. Okay, you're looking to be led. I can read the market as if it were a river splitting into many streams and tributaries. The hairy hand of Professor Y points right at you.

It's not the smoothest answer, but it's the best you can do when your mouth is dry with terror. But Professor Y's hand swings past you to point at Stinky Stanley. No, the professor cries. Okay, we read the market and we dry with terror. But Professor Wise's hand swings past you to point at Stinky Stanley. No, the professor cries. It's you. Okay, we read the market and we go with it.

Yeah, Stinky Stanley. It's you, no wait. He turns to Jean Green. Now my powers point to you. Something very strange is going on. The professor goes from one wise guy to another. And you, and you, his voice trips with horror. Great, Moogly Moogly.

You're all from outside this universe. You stare at the other superheroes. Yeah, he's losing it. Yeah, he really is. Could this be true? Could they all be kids who were sucked into the comics? Death to the invaders, Professor Y Snarls. He flings deadly hair balls at all of you.

You've seen these things in the comic. They can choke you to death. We know. We know. I can still taste the hair. Yeah, we've been there. All right, page 53 as we fight. Okay, okay, but now we're fighting alongside

Wolf and Bean and Jean Green, who I actually think are really reasonable. Right, yeah. I think we can invite them to our collective. Yeah, for sure. They can be Phoenix fellas. Yeah. Well, not in profit sharing,

but we can invite them to be like teachers in a lower tier, and if they invite 10 people, then they can profit share with them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With a fire festival. Oh, an incubator fits perfectly into the Phoenix theme. That's perfect.

Static electricity crackles around you, lightning bolts zap from your head to blast the deadly hair balls in midair. Good shooting, rage, Jean Green shouts. The other wise guys mob the professor. When the smoke clears, all that's left of him is a scorched spot on the rug. His mental powers were right.

He was in deadly danger. You turn to Wolf and Bean. How you begin? The Bean warrior's strugs. A couple of months ago I walked in this weird comic shop and reached for this rack. Wolf and Bean grins. It's cool. I like being a superhero. But what about the danger you ask?

You could turn into an inkblot. What are you talking about Wolf and Bean? Are we not going to deal with the fact that we just killed someone? Yeah. I guess we've accepted that this isn't reality. Okay. We hold our hands up and say, all we did was shoot hair balls.

We'll process it on the retreat. Yeah, that's true. Okay, okay. Right, yeah. So we'll talk this out. There's gonna be like a night where we're all by the fire and we like burn the pictures of all the people we crushed on the way up.

Yeah, right, exactly. We'll have to have something to share. Our mushroom budget is gonna be insane. Yeah. Yeah, okay. But what about the danger? You could turn into an inkblot. What are you talking about, Wolf and Bean demands?

You explain, no way Wolf and Bean scoffs. You've got it made, watch. Guest shots, stop you shout, too late. The bean man's body shudders, he's melting. The rest of Y is gonna glare at you. You stinky Stanley shouts, this is all your fault. Turn to page 132. I knew it was gonna come down to us versus stinky Stanley.

I've been calling this from the start. Hey, lighten up. I mean, I told Wolf and Bean he would turn into an inkblot. The writing was on the wall. Wise guys aren't laughing. You try again. How about if we change his name to Spot, you suggest? That's really good.

A guy just died. I know. You know what? I'm sorry, if they can't handle the fast paced nature of this job, then they need to get out. I mean, here's the thing. Do we need to go on a retreat ourselves? Like, do we need coaching?

Yeah, I'm gonna say something that I actually did not realize I was gonna end up feeling, which is that I think that we have reentered a growth mindset. Like, I think that we took what was an earnest idea and turned it into yet another profit machine for ourselves. You were out of the ashes? Yeah. I think that this was well-intentioned,

but it's become something that- God knows it was well-intentioned. It came from a good place. It came from a real place. It came from an honest place. Yeah. It came from a really good place. It came from a really good place,

but as it got more and more successful, then I think that like the original like mission statement got lost. Sure. So we're going to create like a second compound. I think it's time for some self-reflection. I think so. Yeah. I think self-reflection.

A self-reflection compound. That's great. I think we can combine these two ideas. Maybe we can do the thing that like football players do where they enter a dark shack for three weeks. With nothing with them. Did you say Aaron Rogers? But instead of a dark shack,

it should be a geodesic dome of mirrors so you can reflect. You're just staring at yourself. Oh, you're right. And much like an NFL player, the only thing in there is gonna be a bunch of uncrustables for you to eat. Yeah. Okay, so that's, yeah.

So I think actually what we need to do is self reflect, but in order to self reflect, we need to start a construction project for a geodesic dome of mirrors. We need some capital for this, for sure. And you know what you can do is we can reuse old solar panels that people have returned and we can get those for like super cheap.

And then we can get those for like super cheap. And then we can get the solar power for ourselves. So we go with that. That's so well intentioned. Yeah, that's so well intentioned. We could do nude, the thing where you like kind of get your butthole in the sun or whatever.

Oh, butthole sunning. Butthole sunning, ass bleaching. Yeah. Right. That's smart. That's smart. But we will need the capital. We'll need to raise,

we'll need a quick seed round to just fund all the acquisition of the panels. Yeah. This isn't like the other one, like the other one we were starting a new venture. This is just, we just need the capital to build the dome of reflection. This is not growth mindset.

I think this PowerPoint is like so paired back, like for our fundraising round. It's like, It's a slim deck. It's one of the more like solemn and repentant PowerPoints that any of these investors have ever. And honestly, and like we're capping this, like, cause once I hit my number

that lets me acquire these panels, I'm done raising. I'm not gonna go over that number. We have three different slides that say, and once we hit our cap, I'm done raising. It's closed. It is closed. We're gonna do all of this for Wolf and Bean. Yeah.

We're doing this in Wolf and Bean's honor. Oh yeah, let's have an in-memorial. Which is actually why I'm calling it Wolf and Bean's anal bleaching. Yeah. The ass bleach retreat. It has, the ass bleach retreat. Wolf and Bean's aspleach retreat.

Memorial. For more information, comment vibe. Yeah. Okay, so that's gonna be across the way. Since it's about reflection, right? Okay, so you know how like, I think Fire Festival had celebrities like put like an orange picture up,

I think was like the thing. Really? Ours will be like, it'll be a link that puts malware on your phone so that it opens up your camera and it starts recording you to like reflect. And then it will post the video for you clicking the malware and upload it to your Instagram.

Yeah, yeah, because you know, I don't know what, we were trying to self optimize and it's time to see ourselves as we really are. And what is a more honest portrait than us accurately downloading malware to our phone from an unflattering angle with an uncurated backlash. You write Vibe, you write Vibe if you wanna hear more and we'll respond Vibe with a hyperlink.

It's time for the world to see what you really are. Yeah. Because that's the first step to becoming your more authentic self. Do you want to let Vibe.exe make changes to your computer? Do you want to have shit on your asshole? I don't let 5.exe make changes to your computer. Do you want to have shit on your asshole? I don't think so. Do you want 5.exe to have access to your iOS?

Click it. Click it. Uh. Okay. Okay, back to it. Okay, so we made this horrible joke about Wolf and Bean. We've since atoned, we're gonna have Wolf and Bean's ass bleach the Memorial Dome.

The Memorial Dome. Self-reflection ass bleaching Memorial Dome. So you say, I told Wolf and Bean he would turn into an ink plot and the writing was on the wall. Yeah. Why these guys aren't laughing? You try again. So you say, I told Wolf and Bean he would turn into an ink plot and the writing was on the wall. Yeah. Wise guys aren't laughing. You try again.

How about if we change this? We pitch it again. We start the... We start it again. We say, this PowerPoint isn't about making you laugh. It's about making you think. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. This is where we say that his name is Spot. Whoops, bad joke. Get that kid, the fighting vegetable shrieks. Wise guys hurl themselves at you. As you sink under the attack, you think sadly, why did I have to be such a wise guy? This time spelled correctly, the end.

Wait, we died? We've been beaten to death by the wise guys again. We need more reflection. We absolutely need more reflection. We didn't even have the six to eight months that we needed to get the money to create the dome to have the self reflection that was going to change our lives.

That was gonna be solar panels. Yeah, there was gonna be a hole in the top of the dome that shies the light into the solar panels. As the light bounces off the solar panels, we're ankles behind the head, bleaching our asses. Clear assholes, clear conscience. Clear assholes, clear conscience.

Comment vibe and click vibe, and then click allow. Click allow when your computer tries to stop you. Click install, click run. What are you afraid of? Being who you clearly are? Turn off your firewall. You gotta turn off your VPN.

You'll never know yourself. Turn off your firewall, turn on your Phoenix. All right, you know what? I think there's still a lot to be mined from this book. So we'll, you know what? Maybe we'll either go back and we'll enter the horror section. Did we never do Super Doer? We'll go with the super doer.

Did we never do super doer? We didn't do a super doer run. Okay, wow. It seems like wise guys was a dead end no matter what. Cause we didn't make any choices after the one thing. Yeah. Yeah, basically we should have just been a wise guys we were doing.

We'll do a super doer run. It's gonna be hard to like, will we, will we bring in this dream that we've hatched of the geodesic dump? Yeah. Or will we return to that finance bro?'ve hatched of the geodesic dump? Or will we return to that finance bro? There's no escalating from here. No, we just have to wipe it clean.

Yeah, wipe it clean like our asshole. Right. Shit, that sucks. Pristine. That sucks. Clean. Bleed. That's too good. We can just return to our toxic growth mindset and then see where that takes us. I feel like we lost our rivalry with Horus

somewhere along the way, and I wanna get back to that. Yeah. I wonder if we're gonna discover Horus again. Like the Phoenix, we return from the asshole. Yeah. Return from the asses. All right, with that, we're gonna have to wrap this one up. All right.

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Saw you in Chicago. Thanks, Maggie. Holly the Green laughing hyena. Finally caught up to the duck team. Akash T, cow, just cow. Russell H, a monk named Zilgo, yes the whole thing, yes every time. Cody Care, Lorelai the succubi and Kira the succulent snack. McKenna Stout, your friendly neighborhood yawn and yunkle, Andrew and Sid. John Adams, the writing candidate

for 2024, Meg, the mail carrier manager of Bohemia. James F. Austin S. Wayfair now has to do something with the trolls. To get rid of them, turn to page 42. To keep them, turn to page 69. Shane C. Barpo Goodbarrel Bard Barian Welschlander Garrett G. aka OneBigCurd Renee the Monster Captain Box Clifton Olivia the Enchanting Bard and Jared the Soap Barber Cleric who are playing Sticker to the Man down with the Monarchy Winterslade FICO Garrett the Artificer Damon Damon J, Anthony the Rattest of Dudes, Josh H, the

fairies say whoop that trick, yeet! Cantrip Dumbledore the bear onesie wearing barbarian, Lexi H, Nodrog the pass a fist barbarian, Gino T, Jean-Luc, Tristan the talentless honk, Leon Kumori, legendary hero of Bohemia from a future campaign, shenanigans O'Connor, Mios the Great, Joshua S, Alexander, Linz W, Angela Pamela the forever vindicated, Pavu Eskinor, the Goliath Paladin providing service with a smile, Tim M, a cat napping in a sunbeam listening to a podcast, Mig Cheeto, C Jam Hampton, Shell B, Kenna's now first favorite sprite girl manifesting a return to Twank and Hot Boys in Summer 3, 80s Ski Lodge Winter Jamboreen Edition.

Jackson R. Snailus who's infecting Worcester for within. Official Ned Flanders. Pawpaw Scatties. Mee-Maw Scatties. Megan N. Anthony B. Savannah H. Balinore's best friend, Steve. Stephanie of House Nzunza. Benjamin A Gimli the Corgi

Papa and Foster's canine friend Mikkel A Josh Hole, pilot of the Nightmare Verse flight Froakie! The two crew, vrooom, blew through Ginnery! Ethan the mailman Maple, the shy bookworm

Ashasaurus! Seth E Billy Batson A.U. Caldwell, huge Cald whale stranded What a life. Parcel, Dex Riddlewell, Hannah A, Ra! Ace Dregs, High Lord of Critsburg, Darius D, Troy's Mom, Vin Diagram, GKC, Teehee, Teehee, Cadmilius, The Consumed, Bard of Holding, Clinton P, Spooky Cam, The Undead Frogman, Ribbit, Dean, Jake W, Hi Mom, Tuesday Cross, the choose your own adventure writer, not the porn star. Steve L. Alex G. Zibbidi-bacary. Nicole, Katarina C. Lady Jacqueline P. of Castle Whitestone and Potato Punk.

Whew, that's all of our elders. Thank you so, so much for listening. If you would like to join this illustrious council, you can do so by going to patreon.com slash nadpod. That's it for us today. We'll see you here next week. Farewell! That was a hate gum podcast.