Hi everyone, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel, and welcome to the live stream. Today, today, today is Monday, June 6th, 2022, and we're doing comic book readings, excerpts from a handful of comic books that I sort of highlighted over the last few months. I've read a whole bunch of comics, I got the stacks here, and these ones just popped out. I thought it was, they're sort of random, fun things to have a read through. And we did some readings on a last, or last week, where we read through, let's take a look, let's take a look, we read through a little bit of zero tolerance, super fun, great car chase.  We read the comic strip, sort of cartoonish style of this. This was hilarious. Okay, Ibeam, Sam, heard. Very fun, very fun. We read a little bit of the question, issue number 11, and that was fun. Give a nice little feel for what the question is like, the 1986, 87 series when it started. And I sort of mentioned one story in Girl Talk number two. I still have to take the pictures. I try to look online to see if I could find this issue and post the pictures of the story that I was mentioning on our Gilded page, but I couldn't find it online. So I have to actually bring on my camera and take pictures. Cheryl and Elder God, how are you guys doing? Happy D-Day, everybody, 77 years ago. D-D-D. Oh, happy D-Day. Was it D-Day, 77 years ago? Landing on Normandy? Elder God? And Cheryl, I got to take pictures of this and put it up. I couldn't find it online. I went to one of the sources that I have and I looked at a couple other places as well where you can sample comic books, but this was not available. I couldn't find it. So I'll have to bring out the camera and take pictures. Okay, so that's what we took a look at last week. So D-Day was 77 years ago today, June 6th. Wow, wow, wow. I didn't know. Xavier, how are you doing? Elder God, he says. Jamie, Lasagna, Hey, Chico, how are you doing, brother? Doing good, man. Reading comic books. And I try to, like, I have a few different comic books on the go right now in different locations of the house, near the bed, in the bathroom, in another reading area that I have. So I'm like, we could do comic book readings for all of summer. And it would suit me just fine. But there are other things we need to do and we've got enough comic books to actually do readings, just comic book livestreams all summer and more. But we have to mix it up. We have to mix it up. But loving going through the comics, loving going through the comics, sort of gets me motivated to read more comic books, knowing that we're going to do comic book streams, right? Cheryl, I will definitely appreciate it. I'll do it, Cheryl. I just got to remember, if you haven't seen the next couple of days, send me a message and I'll get on it ASAP. Xavier, West Bracken, Felix, Chico. Hey, Chico, what's up? Comic books, comic books. This is mod privilege, my friend. I can't count 78 years ago. 77, so we're into the 78th year now of D-day. Wow, wow, wow. And again, while we wait for people to roll in, because we definitely want to give it one opportunity to have the read through the comics. If you want to know what this work is about, I am on Patreon, patreon.com, platform slash chico, ch-y-ch-o. You can follow the work there, which is basically layered on mathematics, and comic books has a lot of mathematics in it. And I think we have approached it from the investment aspect of it, but we still have to finish off that series. We have to take a look at that return on investment on some of the other things that we've done which should be a lot of fun. But we will get to it in due time. Enjoy the process, enjoy the process, right? Xavier, wait, no, you'll remember this one. It's Cosmic Visions. Cosmic Visions. Cosmic Visions. Ha-ha, yeah. Cosmic Visions. Oh, Cosmic Visions! Xavier, you're Cosmic Visions? Welcome back! Who is this thing? Xavier. ASMR. What is that? Niti. Something niti. Twitch notification set up. Awesome, awesome. Cosmic Visions. Now you're Xavier. I'm 21 now. Hey, congrats, congrats, congrats. Welcome to the adult world in the United States anyway, most of the states. Gang, for those of you that are supporting this work on Patreon, thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the content and as well as the support we're getting on Twitch, right? So it's mainly or a huge part of the reason we're able to do what it is that we are doing is because of the support we're getting on Patreon and Twitch. We do have other platforms where you can follow the work and support the work. Subscribe, star, sub-stack, being two of them. And of course, we got our video sharing platforms and what not, social networks. And we do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on some of the social networks that we are on. Mine's VK Gap, Harley Gettner and BitCloud. And we'll see what other platforms we go on. Okay, nine minutes. Jesus. This is Xavier, Felix, Chicho. Do you have any big plans for summer? I'm going to Bristol with about 25 friends for a three-night trip, aka mushrooms and herb bender. Nice. We're seeing Jungle Live nice on the first night, which will be epic. Summer, we'll see what brings. Hopefully, because things are open now here to a certain degree and mandates, passports are not required to go to certain events. There are certain events that we do plan on going to. We'll see if everything comes to light or not. And I will personally definitely be Felix participating in the same type of activity and you and your friends are going to be participating in at the Jungle Show. Right, Cheryl. I like the new name. Xavier got to sleep, which if I'm correct, you must have heard a ton growing up. I know my son here is a similar version frequently. Xavier got to go to sleep. Is that a band? Cheryl? I don't know. I don't know this thing. Xavier. Yeah, it's good though. You can never not stop learning. Indeed, indeed. You can never not stop learning. Yeah, once you stop learning, you're dead. ASMR tingles. That's what Xavier posted. Nice. I learn so much every day. Indeed, indeed, indeed. For live streams, we don't have any visuals. We do upload the audios to soundcloud.com forward slash chico chico chico and those podcasts should be available in your favorite podcast and platform, including Spotify iTunes and Google Play. We will be uploading this live stream to censor to to to rumble and to Odyssey the video sharing platforms that we are active on. But if you want to follow all of our content, you want to be on bitchu rumble, not to say we do not upload everything to censor to. Elego need to focus on rumble. I think chico need a good replacement for censor to indeed in the rumble and bitchu. I really like them. I like odyssey as well. I do watch certain creators on odyssey, but rumble and bitchu. I think have the huge potential bitchu the solid. It's got a nice support. And it will always I think bitchu will be there for a long, long time to come. And I think rumble has the potential to grow continue to grow exponentially. We'll see. I think in the next few months to a few years, a couple of years, we're going to see some major shake ups in the tech industry. Huge. We're seeing it right now as well. Censor tube is dead.  Like you should just see the just bought comments. I keep on deleting on censor to it's it's sad to see really it's sad to see. And gang, we do have a gilded page. If you want to join us for discussion, share information, participate in dialogue, open dialogue on censor, share your opinion, share your opinions, ask questions, talk to real people. You're definitely welcome to join us in our gilded server. Felix, you show it's a good way to spend time. Although we don't plan on being under the influence at the show, we want to be able to properly appreciate the tunes. But when you go back to the 16 bedroom, 16 bedroom house, we're renting. We're going to be in a different universe indeed. Cool. Cheryl Chico in our house is the universe usually very late. I'm more like kiddo, go to sleep, perhaps followed by now. Zavier, look at all the mushrooms. It's hilarious. Yeah, they delete everything. I don't even comment anymore. Yeah, it's a clown show. Sensor two is a clown show. It really it's like an old friend that you've enjoyed visiting and talking to becoming totally mentally deranged. The management on censor two. Wow, wow, wow. I cannot believe the management of a public company that is first business is to return shareholder value is absolutely annihilating the platform. Wow. Lark Park, how are you doing? Hey man, how are you doing? You have the best comic book collection out of any comic book collection. I don't know about that Lark Park. I've seen some comic book collections which make me drool, drool I tell you. So my collection is a lot of things that I love that I appreciate that I've gone off on, that I love the covers about multiple copies. I love the stories about multiple copies. There's a lot of love in my collection. I can honestly tell you that I've seen some amazing collections out there. I know people that have some amazing collections, especially in my town. From what I understand in Victoria, British Columbia, there are four action comic number ones just in this city. There's huge comic book collectors in this city. So they probably put my comic book collection to shame. But I can honestly tell you there's a lot of love in my collection which I've seen in a handful of other really comic book aficionados in my life that they collect, they invest in comic books because they love the medium, they love the art, they read their comic books. It's not about getting all 9.8 graded comics and stuff like this. It's not about the market, it's about the product. And that's what my collection is about. And those collections, man, those people, they know their comic books inside out. Not necessarily all the history and stuff, but they know a good storytelling. Jamie Lasagna, this is off topic, but a close friend of mine and me are planning to have our first psychedelic experience later this week. And I guess it'd be good to ask you for any advice, tips, and mind have for us. Eat light. You can definitely take it to the Discord page, Jamie, because this is a comic book thing. I don't want to go too far into that realm. But I would recommend, first of all, dosage matters, mind, your intentions, your mind, intentions not as much as a dosage, as well as food.  You're not going to have a good time. The lighter the tummy, the more powerful the experience. That's all I got. My comments were deleted five times in a row today on a certain channel, my father. Very annoying. Very annoying. Void, how are you doing? Let's go. Caught a full stream. Awesome, Void. Welcome back. Welcome back. Sensitive as a relative who has betrayed the family. Yeah, that's a good description of it. I'm going to take these guys down again. Let's go fishing. Xavier, like now you mentioned it.  Maybe one swear word and a shout but it had almost 1,000 likes. Then when I looked at it, it was deleted. Not going to lie, made me save, laugh out loud. First time I got that many likes and it was gone. Yeah, like right now I'm deleting.  Censorship doesn't zap that. They're bot prevention machine or whatever. They all get approved. They all get posted on the videos. Right? So it's crazy. It's crazy. I'm not kidding. That was Via. Xavier, have you ever seen Freddie Godfinger? Oh, Freddie Godfinger does. I know that name. Well, he sells comics or like drawings for a TV show and you sound like him for a sec there. Freddie Godfinger. I know that name but I don't know where from. It doesn't ring about what you wrote. He sells comics or like drawings for a TV show. Oh wow, Elder God. I had a 7,000 comment removed. It was very unsettling. Suddenly the video was gone after 2 years. Like just imagine, censor tube removed the video. This is sort of politics but censor tube removed the video of Kristina, whatever, Newland in 2014. The UN ambassador to the United States where she was caught the audio leak saying to F the EU and they'll put whoever they want to rule over Ukraine. That video just got deleted 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago. That's like part of history. One of the most important parts of contemporary history is censor tube deletes it, removing history. Their library of Alexandria is being deleted. Very lucky for us that we got the Chew Rumble on Odyssey going on. Very lucky for us. Let them burn their own house down. There's backups. Thanks for the reply, Chicho. Now let's eat these comics. Let's eat them up, Jamie. Gang, let's do this. Now it's a sampling of comics. There's funny, there's law, there's great artwork storytelling. Nice storytelling, concrete, cool, crazy. The only mainstream thing here would be we've got a Dark Horse comic. Dark Horse presents. That's a concrete story I highlighted. This is independent. We've got an IDW. This was a great detective story. Eclipse comics from 1980s, 1990s. Fantastic. Eclipse, one of the great independent publishing companies from that period. Mainly a lot of independence here. Mostly independence. I looked at the stuff this morning. I was like, oh man, I should put some of the big two in here, but I didn't have. I think this will take us a couple of hours to go through. If we go short, we have a lot of comic books here stacked up that we can look through as well. Xavier, have a great day. I got to finish my beer and enjoy it before work. It's awesome, Xavier. Thanks for popping in. I hope you enjoy your beer and have a good day at work, brother. Have a great day at work. So gang, let's get into the readings. Nice and chill, nice and relaxed, okay? I'm going to take the chat down. The chat is popping up, I think. Let's do this. Let's do our little message first. And gang, as always, do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capital as power to humanity. Something that we desperately need in our societies. For more information, see wikilees.org, defend.wikilees.org, or Julian Assange and Wikilees playlist on Sensor 2. Oh, my God, if you stream on Rumble, you can do longer streams. Yeah. Yeah, indeed. Well, we will be streaming on Rumble. I think I'm going to stretch streaming on Rumble this summer, okay, with the new computer. Slow mo, you go. Slow mo, we go. Okay. Slow mo, we go. Gang, I'm taking the chat down. I'm taking the notifications down. I'm going to take this video down. And we're just going to do some readings. Okay. I hope you enjoy. I'll keep an eye on the chat just to make sure I'm on the ball. I'm not missing anything from the comic that I should have mentioned. Okay. And for our first reading, I thought we do a little humor reading from an independent publishing company called Rocket Comics, The Moth, number one. It's Dark Horse Comics, actually. So Rocket Comics, I guess, in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics, The Moth. Okay. Steve Roods the Moth. And this is the Moth dude here. Welcome to the circus. And I don't, I think this is almost, this is probably the only issue I've read of The Moth. And all of these comics that we're doing a reading from, I picked up all of these comics plus a few hundred more from a local comic shop that was selling them for 25 cents each. So the comic books we did last week and the comic books we're doing, the readings we're doing this week and other comic books we've done actually, they're basically readings that we did from comic books that we bought like, what do you call it? Abouts. We bought them for like 25 cents a pop. I'm just moving this little light thing out of there so we've got a clear showing. All right. We should probably turn on the lights on it too. Let's check it out. Let's see if we can get the light going on here. Can we, can we, can we. It gives us a little bit more light here. Not much, not much. Okay. Let's do our first reading. Okay. And this is a sort of a vigilante dude and he's running a circus, right? This is the guy. He's got like a Punisher Dude scoffing going on. And this issue came out, when did it come on? The mid-2000s I believe. Yeah, 2004 The Moth. April 2004 published by Dark Horse Comics. So I'm not sure what the rocket comics logo here is. It's probably a collaboration with another independent publishing company. Okay. Steve Roode's The Moth, Sweet Land of Liberty, written by writer Inker by Gary Martin, artist Steve Roode, colorist Glenn Whitmore, letter Patrick Osley. Okay.  Okay. And, you know, she ties, she ties them up and what not.  I love you and stuff like this. And she sells, she does product placement, right? She's like videos, right? This cereal was a sort of brand, a lot of athletes for a time that were doing a lot of cereal promotions back in the day. And then it kicks into a circus with, this is The Moth right here. Okay. So let's read about five pages from this. And we're going to start reading it. Let's read it actually from here, because that sort of ties into this. And I didn't know any of these characters really. Okay. So this lady, superhero, just saved the day. Okay. So before I put on my costume to go to work, I start each day with a heaping bowl of frosted videos, she says. Oh, look at that. Everybody's, wow, videos, selling the cereal. What does that say on the box? Can we even read that? Is it gonna focus? No, it's just gibberish on the description, right? And the videos, happy faces. I've heard people say one of the greatest artistic creations of the 20th century has been the happy face, right? Like really, the origin of the happy face. I wonder where, when it came to be, because it's taken over our societies, right? That's right, folks. The vitamins and minerals packed in each bowl, along with a complete breakfast, gives me the energy I need to keep America safe. So before I dole out my patented two-fisted justice, I eat a bowl, big bowl of frosted videos, right? And if you hear these advertisements, the kicker is this. Watch this. Okay. That's right, folks. The vitamins and minerals packed in each bowl, along with a complete breakfast. So this is, the videos is not a complete breakfast, right? This cereal, along with a complete breakfast, give me the energy, energy I need to keep America safe. So this is just something that's got a lot of chemicals putting in your body, right? And product placement continues. And remember, with 10 box tops, you get a free America Liberty comic book. Yippee. And she does like loop-to-loops, going across the stage, right? So I guess her name was Liberty. Yeah, Liberty America or something like this. And then we got, and this is a circus. They're in a circus right now, and he's managing it. Okay. And this is the strong man in the circus. Every circus needs a strong man. That America Liberty will endorse anything. Does Tad really like that sugar-coated junk? And Tad is, this guy here, I think. Are you kidding? Do you see the Jethro Bodin-sized cereal bowl he's eating from? Right. And there's the videos down there. This is my little marker for it. This is the dude. Happy. How Tad packs so much food in that little body is a marvel of modern science. I don't know which costs more. Feeding Tad or Clara Bell. Speaking of Clara Bell, do you realize that elephant produces over 400 pounds of waste every day? What are we supposed to do with all that poop the moth is asking? And this guy here is on the cover. He's like right there. Check him out. He's the little man. You got the strong man and the little guy. There's a little guy. There's a strong guy. You know, I'm starting to really appreciate what Victor actually did around here. I took it for granted when he was with us, but there's more to running the Vanscent family circus than just putting on a top hat. Flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, clack, clack, clack, clack. And ol' Vic could sure crunch the numbers. You should see these spreadsheets, right? The strong man says. Flip, flip, flip, flip, clack, clack, clack, clack, going through bills and charts and data. You realize we're going to have trouble meeting this month's payroll because our two main sponsors pulled their support. The strong man says. I know no confidence in the new management, but I have a temporary solution. My girl Jackie gave me a juicy tip on a bail jumper. So tonight the moth goes on the prowl. Well, stay away from those bright porch lights. Har, har, the guy says. Har, har. Oh, my head is spinning with all these numbers. Let's go hit the weights, he says. Pardon me, Jack. Am I intruding? What's up, hey man? The moth asks. And the tall guy is outside the carriage. I have someone here who wants to audition. Great. I was hoping someone would answer my ad for a new lying tamer. Not a lying tamer, boss. It's an animal act. The tall guy says. It's an 11-year-old girl and her cutie monkey. Can't someone else do this? I'm kind of busy, the moth man says. You know Victor interviewed every applicant personally? The tall guy says. With everything else he did around here?  Thank you. What's the size? The fight, bros. Oh, he took his responsibility very seriously, the tall man says. He thought when someone auditioned for the Vanscent family circus, they were expressing their hopes and dreams. And that's something you don't take lightly. After all, aren't hopes and dreams what the circus is all about? Hey, what's that doggy doing through the pole? What's going on here? I'm talking in action. It's not focusing. Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Hi there. My name is Jack Mahoney. I understand you want a job. Oh, we do, Mr. Mahoney. More than anything she says. My name is Caitlin and this is Moe. We're running away from home so we can join your circus. The monkey says. Hey, man, she's running away from home. What do I tell? Just go with it, Jack. Let her do her act, the tall man says. Tell me, Caitlin, why do your parents think of this career move? They don't know I'm here. My parents don't like Moe very much. Moe has a bad habit, she says. Well, he can be a bit messy, but if I get a job at your circus, I'll be able to keep him. Otherwise, I'll have to give him back to Uncle Chris, she says. So we've been working on something really, some... There she is. We've been working on some really cool tricks, she says. Want to do a trick? Well, the monkey says. Okay, Moe, show him trick. Oh, Moe, not that one. The monkey says. It's his hand in his pants and Moe, splat. That's the monkey's bad habit. Picks up poop from his bum and throws it at people. That's why the parents don't like, want to get rid of the monkey.  Going, oh my god, everyone's like in shock. What the... Then then everyone just cracks up laughing. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Poop on his face.  Tau, would someone please get near Tau? The mouth moth man says and the girl in the back is running, but running towards him with the Tau.  All right. I thought that was funny. Funny little read. Nice intro to a first issue comic. And then it gets into the moth man tracking this guy down. And this is what it looks like in his costume. And this whole thing was really, really nicely told as well. Good characters, actually. Really fun characters. And sort of violentish to a certain degree. And then the American liberty or liberty freedom. This girl pops in again. Liberty. Liberty and justice for all. That's her name. Liberty. So not bad. Fun read. And this is the cool thing. Check this out. There's ad for a beer for paranormal research and defense from Mike Mignola, right? Some of the advertisements in this are super cool, actually. Looking back at some of this stuff. Fun little read. Fun little read. Here's my little tag here. This is this I found super cool. A little price tag back. Backorder issue for this. This one is Scout Comics. And then you can get Scout Comics on the cheap, cheap, cheap. Super cheap. So Scouts Comics. Sorry, Scouts Comics. Eclipse Comics. Most Eclipse comics from the 1980s. You can pick up really cheap. Okay. Fairly cheap. Scout was one of the titles they put out and they put a fair bit of issues, right? It's sort of post-apocalyptic or futuristic, dystopian to a certain degree. I don't know if it's a class of the United States. I've read a few issues of this. It's sort of a, yeah, it is class and rebuilding of the United States and whatnot, right? And sort of a struggle between Mexico, United States and who's going to control what and what not, right? Different factions fighting each other. This comic was put out in 1997, right? And it's beautiful artwork. Okay. Beautiful artwork. And here's some of the comics you could have bought from Eclipse Comics, right? Scout number 21, Tales of Terror number 13, Fusion, Camu, Airboy, California Girl, The Liberty Project, Area 88, Mild, A Psychic Girl, Hotspur, Lost Planet, Real War Stories. We did the reading for Real War Stories. Where is it? Real War Stories number two, where we read an adaptation of Smith the Butler's War as a Racket, right? Monsters, Weird, Prowler, Valkyrie, The Masked Man, Detective, Crossfire, Zot. Zot is a fantastic read. I've read the whole series. Really nice read. Okay. Fantastic. Dave Stevens, Posters, number eight. Oh my, oh my. Presenting the Maryland cover from Crossfire number 12. I got to look that one up. Johnny Hazard, The Sisterhood of Steel. This is good as well. We did a little bit of reading of this, Sisterhood of Steel, and Dave Stevens covers or Sought After Covers. Okay. Sought After Covers. But beautiful artwork. Okay. This is Timothy Truman, Scout Comics, Timothy Truman, creator, storyteller, Tim Harkin's letter, Sam Parsons' paintings or painting, right? But let me flip through just a couple pages of this so you see the layout. Okay. Beautifully done. And this is at a time where a nuclear explosion has happened in the United States. A beautiful panel work, right? Shows cockroaches on a skull. There's a cockroach there, right? So zooms in really close, right? Pulls out a little bit. There's a cockroach right there, right? Cockroaches, maybe. And then zooms out further and further and further, right? Nice work of panel work, right?  And then focuses on the cockroach telling the story again with the bubbles. And then you get into the whole story of what's going on, the characters talking to each other, right? This, I thought, was a beautiful panel. These two pages were really nice. Let's read through these two pages and then we're going to read one page in the back. It's sort of a message, which is something that Eclipse Comics did a lot, right? So basically sort of a civil war in the United States, right? And we're just going to look at these two pages because then the character gets in contact with the rest of the characters, right? I have brought the gun back home. It knows this place. My grandfather hunted deer with it and used it to protect his own camp. It is a good weapon. There is a spirit in the wood and iron of it. Grandfather said that he'd taken it off a yaki wolf witch that he'd run into in old Mexico. But then grandpa was a drifter and a yarn spinner. No one knew whether to believe him or not. Everyone thought it was a wonderful story. Nonetheless, the story sort of continues. It's dialogue. I feel his spirit in the rocks.  I can feel the places on the rocks where he walked. He must have loved his life here very much to have to have left so much of himself behind. Will I leave my spirit here too? He thinks, right? Contemplates. And just a beautiful, I love this panel or the splash page, right? I think these two pages are beautiful. Very beautiful, very, very calm, quiet before the storm really, right? Nicely done. Nicely done. Really like it. And the story continues. It's sort of other characters get into the game. Okay, this was interesting. This was fun. But we're not going to read this one. I cross my heart, click. This sort of reminds me of Cowboy Beep Ups, the show for the Cowboys for the bounty hunters, right? Atomic explosion. Sort of a dystopian world, right? But this is what I want to read. Just a one page about the U.S. Constitution. Okay. As a public service announcement. Okay. So let's have a read through this. And this is again from Eclipse Comics. Okay. Scout number 21. Published in 1987, I believe. Yeah. Scout comics, July 1987. Okay. And it's a public service announcement. And Eclipse Comics did a fair bit of this. Sharing history, sharing law, sharing sort of what it means to be free American, free human being in the United States. 18, 1787, constitutional bicentennial, 1987. So 300 years, 200 years, right? Bicentennial. So 200 years from 1787. So there's a couple of kids in school, right? Removed those armbands or you'll be suspended. The teacher principle says, we're wearing them to protest the war. The girl says, they're wearing black armbands. Schools are for learning, not demonstrating. The principal, I guess kicks them out.  Right, he says. The students sue the school and win in the US Supreme Court. Okay. In our system, state operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students are persons. And a little asterisk there. And it's referring to Tinker versus Des Moines Independent School District 1969. And this is something that Eclipse Comics did. This is historical documents that they're portraying in comic book format, right? But armbands of school could cause disturbances, the principal says, where the school official says, right? And the Supreme Court, our Constitution says, we must take that risk. And our history says that it is this sort of freedom that is the basis of our national strength. Students rights are protected by the Constitution. We have the right to disagree, the banner says. Check that out. We have the right to disagree. But this protection is only effective when students know their rights and insist on them, right?  And if you know your rights then you can defend yourself, which is something that I think everyone needs to needs to really fully grasp, right? Published as a public service by Eclipse in cooperation with edo comics, educational comics, I believe, adapted from the first freedom by Nat Hentoff. The American Civil Liberties Union offers free legal assistance to protect constitutional rights. This is something I think that's sort of missing in present day United States and present day many countries. I thought that was a nice little just one pager to take a look at, right? Man of war. And these are from the comics, from Eclipse comics, right? And here is the back issues from Eclipse comics. I found it interesting, I went through this actually, taking a look at the stuff. And I find it interesting that some of the stuff was sold out, right? Like Crossfire number 6 sold out. Destroyer duck 1, 2, 3, 4 are available but 5, 6 and 7 were sold out. I don't know, I haven't looked at how much some of these things that were sold out were why they were sold out. Aztec Ace number 2 and 5 totally sold out. Number 15 sold out from Eclipse comics, right? Which is cool, which is cool. And there's some stuff here that is, here's Dave Stevens, color posters, seduction, rainbow, Mr. Munster, World of Wood 2, Crossfire and Rainbow, World of Wood 1, Character Buttons, Zot, Miracle Man, Scout Crossfire, Mask Man, Alien Encounters. Pretty cool. Nice independent comic to pick up. If you're interested in independent comics from the 1980s and 90s, 70s, 80s and 90s, Eclipse came about in the 1980s I believe. But great independent comics. The next comics is just very nice artwork and nice storytelling from, again, an independent publishing company. And I don't believe they put out too many of these things. This is from Penticton, British Columbia, these guys. And I believe from last week Crack mentioned that there's only two issues of this available. Icon Devil. They didn't last very long. But the artwork was very impressive. I was really impressed with the artwork and the world building in this, and the characters. It was great storytelling. Sad to see that it was only two issues of this were printed. I think only two issues anyway. Here's the back cover. What does that say? Next Norbert in action. Quietest hunt in Europe. Mouse kicks butt. Another intro. And a poster of Dominique Sexsmith. You won't soon forget. Icon Devil. And this is a, if you look at this here, I'll show you this. This is not like a poster. I'm gonna do this so we can sort of see it. So that's the world, the universe that's been created. Sort of a sci-fi world with aliens on earth. Lots of fast cars, tech ladies. And this is Icon Devil number one from 1987 published by Spyder Optics Comics. 1715 Ridgedale Avenue, Penticton, BC. And this is my part of the world. Right? This is from my part of the world. I've been to Penticton many times. Story and Art by Neil Henson, 1986. And I'll show you some of the artwork. It's like when I flip into the first page, I was like, wow, that's pretty sweet. Like, look at this. Right? Beautiful artwork. Intro. Right? Those are the little aliens. Ladies in the night. Right? And this is one of the gangsters in the background walking by, walking, walking in. And there's a story that picks up with continues from this moment where this guy has a hit on him. The little guy. But beautiful artwork. Really. Printed in Canada. Actually, many comics were printed in Canada. Copacore printing in Montreal was printing many of the comics from the big two as well. Right? The comic books like I printed were printed in Canada as well, Copacore. And they had a direct connection with diamond distributors and a lot of the other distributors. And this is the hitman that comes and deals with this little guy. Right? But we're gonna flip, flip, flip, flip, go to the story. And this is the same gangster that we're about to read. Okay? And I just mentioned that this was a great read. And just good storytelling. I'm just gonna read a few pages on this. I'm not sure how far it will go. Actually, we'll probably go read about five pages of this. It's a fun read. It's a fun read. So again, nice little panel. A lot going on. Lamborghini, flying Lamborghini, CapTac, OX3000. Right? Look at the world they're going into. Right? Intro, mouths. Eated mouths. Just to give you a feel. And then here's a dialogue that's going on with the little guy, the little gangster, and his squeeze. You'll love this place, darling. Note the owner. Since we was kids, he'll set us up in a nice quiet corner so as we can eat and all that, all that, all that in peace. That's wonderful, Mitch. I'll trust your judgment. But if the food isn't absolutely superb, I'll be forced to punish you later. You mean it? How about McDonald's instead? Creep, she says. So there's a little kink going on there. That's the gangster there. That's the squeeze right there. Flying in. Tomels with their flying Lamborghini. Very scar-facy, scar-facy feel to it. There's a 50-ball. Park the car and keep the paint in one piece. Excuse me, darling. Oh, he smacks into the lady. Reep. Good evening, sir and madam. Have you res- have you reservation? The little robot says, one side you tend to run. Get mad, mellon, the- the nuts and bolts vid of yours. Tell him, mouse is here. Squeak. Little robot sounds. I heard that sunny, he says. Top of the world, top of the world, top of the world. So here's sort of a feel of what's taking place and then we'll read the dialogue. Sorry about all- all that, darling, but that bucket of screws had it coming and I didn't mean to get oil on your dress, he says. Little mouse. That's okay, Mitch, honey. It only costs $7,000. You shouldn't have much trouble replacing it.  Or, how's your drink, peach? About time for a touch-up? Mm-hmm, she says. These guys are living it up and they're a little drunk in the background, right? Whoa, one of them falls over. Oh, this guy's spilling the wine and the lady's dress. She says, the conversation went, time for a- time for a touch-up? Mm-hmm, she said. Because I desire to become as enumerated as possible so you can take advantage of me the moment we arrive at your condo. She says, boom, splat. He chokes on his own drink. She's smiling. She's like, he-he-he-he-he. He's like, whoa. Nice. The drunken dude that fell down, he's on the ground. The guy who spilled the wine on the dress, lady's dress, as apologizing. He's like explaining, I'm sorry. He's sweating right there, right? So there's three different things going on at the same time. Get up, h-he-waiter. Where? Focus. Let's see. Where are your ball? Get over here with a drink for the lady, he says. He wants to get her drunk, right? So three separate things were happening and then all of a sudden the guy who fell down is getting up on the table there and the background, the lady, punches the dude for spilling the drink on her. Boom.  He burps. Uh, Mitch, she says. Meanwhile, Mitch is trying to get the waiter to bring more drinks. Forget it. The drink. Run a hose here from the bar. Waiter. He says, hurry it up. He wants to get her drunk. Fun story telling.  Geez, what do you want, stink weed?  Geez, what do you want, stink weed? He asks. The big guy is, hick, excuse me, shrimp. But me and my pals was wondering, well, you look a lot like that mouse guy we seen on the vid's martial arts channel. So Mitch asks. Well, hick, are ya? Yes. Now get going. This is private. No autographs today. Mitch says. I actually don't think the Mitch is the gangster from the beginning. I forget right now. Mitch, you shouldn't be so rude, his date says. Sorry, fluff. But the guy was tanked and breathing all over. Uh, here's your drink. Thanks, B-W-A-Baw. Keep him coming fast as we empty him, he orders. Famished. Drinking makes me hungry. She says, me too. For you, she says. Ha-ha. Cough-er. Can you hold on a moment plump? I got to urinate. Mitch, she says.  There's a little alien with alien bug, I guess, with multiple legs. Making his way to the bathroom. And comes across the big guy. Well, wow, the big guy says. And that's how big Mitch is compared to the big guy. Or how small Mitch is compared to the big guy. And there's big guy's buddies, all giants. That's the number 10, he must be the superstar. When it comes to sports, number 10 and number 7 are usually top performers. And number 9, for soccer anyway. Well, well, the big guy says. It's the Muppet again. Isn't this a coincidence? A small coincidence, one of the big guys says. Look, stink weed, Mitch says.  Not too short-winded tonight, ha-ha-ha. They're cracking short jokes. The other guy's got a stogie in his mouth or something. So the big guys are talking to each other. Maybe I should buy your day to drink. You likely only have small change anyways. Ha-ha, must be nice to have him as an employee.  I think he's mad at something. Looks hungry. Let's order him some short ribs. Yeah, a bit short on cash. Ha-ha, somebody check his ID. How's the weather down there? Yuck yuck. The guy says. Maybe he wants to be a short order cook. Ha-ha, they're all laughing. Guess he doesn't like small talk. Guff, guff. All the short jokes in one panel, right? All the short jokes in one panel. Look at Mitch, he's losing it. Look, bah. He tells the big guy. He's like pissed. Right? Look at him. He's pissed. The little guy reaches up, puts his fingers in the guy's nose, hit the deck. One of the big guys says he's gonna hit Mike. They're laughing. It's okay. Mike's got shin pads. Ha-ha, shin pads, shin pads on. Puts his fingers in his nose. Right? Never tried that personally.  Oh, look at this. Mitch's girl is not police. Mitch's girl's not police. She's gotten up. She told them. No fighting. No fighting, right? Sorry, muffin. No fighting, Mitch says. Right? Look at that. Look at that. Gotta do what the lady says. Muffin. Ha-ha, the big guy's laughing. There goes Mitch. Stinkweed to the bathroom, man. Is that what they call them? Stinkweed? Who was the Mitch that called on the big guy's stinkweed? So what happens? Oh, the big guys are going, following him to the men's room. They're looking for trouble. Right? Yoo-hoo, muffin. They call in, opening the door through the men's room. Right? There's a lobby. What's going on? Everyone's looking inside at the bathroom. And in the bathroom, you're hearing smuck, smickity, smick, clip, thud, slam, smickin, smickin, prank, thud, poke, pickety, pecker, meckety, mecker, meckety, poke, thud, mouse. The door opens up and let's check it out. Hey, your peach. Uh-oh. The date is not impressed.  Right? He's like pulling, pulling that big guy by the hair dragon on the ground. Right? Funny, funny. Great panel work, by the way. I really like this little short story. The way it played out. Right? The way it played out. And nice artwork. Beautiful line work. Right? Lots of facial expressions on people. Different types of people. So a nice little feel of this comic. And there's more. There's a lot more. A lot of characters are introduced in this. A superhero type of girl with powers and her lover, which is nicely displayed. Very unfortunate that a lot of independent comics do not have the funding to be able to produce more, more comics. Right? Continue some of the stories. But I really like this. I'd like to get the second issue as well. And this is the assassin we saw at the beginning. And fantastic world building, by the way. Fantastic world building by Colin Devel, number one from 1987 by Spider Optics Comics from Penticton, British Columbia. Let's see, let's see. What else should be reading? How's our time factor going on? Oh, not bad. Not bad. Should we look at... Here, let me show you this. Now I don't have any specific page really picked out for this. I guess maybe I do. Do I have a specific page picked out for this? Excellent detective story. This is mainly my note regarding this whole comic, really. It just had a beautiful feel. This is from IDW. Okay. Read only memories by Grace, Kenny, Simon, and Neo, Foto, Testo. Okay. The cover doesn't do it justice. Cover doesn't do it justice. IDW, number one, cover B. And this came out in 2020 maybe? Did it come out in 2020? Let's take a look. When did it come out? Let's see if we can figure this out. December 2019. Read only memories. Okay. First printing. The main story, I guess, is Valentine's Day story, seen of Grace, part by Stefano Simon. Okay. Mermaid's Don't Cry, story by Marv Kenny, Christina Antonia Nuff, Foto, I can't pronounce that. Okay. But I really like the feel of this comic. The coloring, the dialogue, beautiful colors. I personally don't like the glare of the paper of the new comics. You get a lot of reflection going on. So it's not the best for reading these types of reading, because you get a lot of natural light here. So we get a lot of reflections and stuff like this. And this is a girl that's got her own detective company. Okay. Like this panel. Beautiful. I think it portrays the feel of the world. If we can get it focused. This feels much better, she says. It takes off her high heel shoes and wears her walking shoes. This is her own place she walks into. Should we read some of the dialogue from here? I had it highlighted here, so maybe we'll read it from here. She's basically been hired on to track somebody down. Okay. We'll just read a couple of pages. Focusing on this is very difficult. I'm still not sure. But as your investigator, I can be impartial. Consider me officially on the case. I can walk over to his apartment tonight. And what's happened here? The lady in the beginning is hiring her to do something. But what she encounters is this robot that is missing her lover, her partner. Okay. It's a robot that wants, that saw her, that hires her to track down is her love interest, right? And she doesn't usually track down robots. But because there's a certain amount of autonomy in this universe, but she takes on the case, right? I can walk over to his apartment tonight. I'll also run some background checks and dig around for any behavior that's out of the ordinary. Thank you again for taking this on, with taking this on such short notice. You're lucky you have a manageable client load. Besides, she says, and this is her talking to the robot. Besides, I'm still betting he's off to bring some AI third for your table. Nice place you got here, John. Ah, these locks are child's play. With working class guys like John, I feel like the stuff I got from the NSFPD is like bringing a hacking bazooka to his security's knife fight. So she's breaking into the robot's apartments, right?  You have mine too. You have to read these in sort of a with the camera, it's difficult. This one's not bad. We'll read this page as well and then we'll leave it alone. Let's check it out. See if we can get a focus. Nothing. So she's looking around the robot's apartment. No fingerprints beyond his own, which makes sense when you're dating a robot. His car's still parked in the back. I don't think, let's check this out, I don't think I need to scan the stains on this bed. He didn't seem to take any clothes with him. Fridge looks like someone who was living a normal life, not suicidal, not planning to peace out for a long time. No force entry, no motives, no enemies. I can scour this place some more, but I know what I'll find. Nothing. I've datamined every entrance, exit, purchase, email, text. This man's rhythm is so predictable. It's like dating a washing machine. I guess, I guess, I guess Hedi loves consistency. Hedi loves consistency. Oh, these two may actually be legit sweethearts, she thinks. That's cute. And it just continues from there. The action is very sparse and very calculated. And it's a lot of just panel work and sort of background world building. I just enjoy the sort of calm feel to the to the comic. If I get the opportunity, I'll try to get my hands on this full story. And there's just a little bit of action here, right? She's sort of poked in the wrong places. She gets knocked a little bit. And the last page for this, this is a beautiful splash page by the way. I really like this. Pages just doesn't want to focus.  Not a bad deal, especially when I was just looking to get my mind off what I thought was a hopeless case. Now I've got to find what a harvest is. Last thing you want to do with someone who loves what they do is to tell them not to do what it is that they love to do. They were trying to push her off of investigating any further this case. And then it's got a backup story, sort of pixelated artwork. Quickie. Next issue. Some poster pages. Cover by Stefano Simone. Cover A by Stefano Simone, this one. This is the cover that we have. Cover B. Retailer and incentive. This R.I. here. R.I. cover by Kyle Smart is a retailer incentive cover. It could be one in 10 or one in 15. Noruto. And just solid additional stuff. V-Wars. Vampire Wars. Read Only Memories. It was a fun read. I enjoyed it. Asylum. Asylum. This one is not shiny pages. Good. Good. This is sort of an anthology series. Asylum. Number one. I'm not sure how many issues there are in this series. A Borderland book. A millennium publication. Independent comic book publishers. John Bolton. Nick Vence. P. Craig Russell. Al Williams. Sort of a horror series. Neil Gaiman was going to be, has a story in Asylum number two. I don't have the second issue. I don't think I do anyway. I might. Okay. I picked up a whole bunch of these comics, reader copies for 25 cents a prof. So there might be number two in there as well. We're going to read. There's one, two, three, four, five stories in this. Five stories in this. We're just going to read the first one. The Wishing Hour. John Bolton. Illustrator. Nick Vence. Writer. Vicki Williams. Letter. Asylum. Number one. A place of safety refuge. Two. A name for an institution for the mentally ill. So Asylum. The first definition is a place of safety of refuge. The second definition is a name for an institution for the mentally ill. Right. Now this is the first story by John Bolton and Vick. Nick Vence. Vince. The Wishing Hour. And it's a horror story. I think it's about five pages or so. The artwork is absolutely beautiful. The Wishing Hour. I want to be a witch, he says.  Sally's going to be a witch. You'll be a jack-o'-lantern. There's this pumpkin head on the table. Don't want to be a jack-o'-lantern.  And eat totes, he says. If you said earlier you could have been a warlock or wizard, the mother says. The kids pout it. Don't want to be a warlock. Want to be a witch.  There's his jack-o'-lantern head.   Mommy's just going upstairs to take a bath, she says. Want to be a witch. Want to set demons on people, especially teachers and parents and sisters and bullies, he says. He walks out the door. What's this? Looks like Sally's been tied up or something. Kick stuff. Pumpkin head. Have the demons tear their eyes out. Have them hang people, hang people on meat hooks. Watch them make skipping ropes out of their gizzards. Gonna pray to the devil, he says. Should my ears be burning? The demon shows up. Who are you? He asks. Put it this way.   It only costs your mortal soul and no bullies, no one bullies a witch or tells them to tidy their room or keeps them after school, etc, etc. Okay, he says. What does this shirt say? Dead zone. Dead zone. What are you eating? Right. Want to be a witch? Right now. Your immortal soul. What are you eating? Your immortal soul, he says. All up. Easily done. Right. Want to be a witch right now.  He turns into a witch. I've got titties, he says. I've got titties.  Yahoo. Off he goes on his broomstick. Let's look at a smile on his face.  Goes on wreaks havoc. In the closet, on the stairs. Now be demons everywhere. Does a spell. Let's give you the full page view right now. There he is, flying on his broomstick in front of the moon. And he's done a spell and all the demons are coming out. Now the bully. Now the teacher. Woop. Suffer from this dread encounter. Demons are killing the bully and the teacher. Now you'll scream. Now your wing. Simon's taking his revenge. He says. Look at that. Dragon amounts. The demons are arms, mind, legs. Enjoying the blood. The carnage.  The spell is over. And Simon walks home. Mum. Dad. It wasn't me. I promise. That's his parents and his sister. Hung on meek meat hooks. Let's see if we can focus on it. Their eyes poked out. Their gizzards on the ground. A little note. Dear Simon, when the gods seek to destroy us most completely, they give us what we want. Your sincerely Lucifer. And when I read this, I had to go back to the beginning and the shock on his face. It wasn't me, he says. But, but, it was him. Right? Because in the beginning, he says, he says, what does he say? Right here in this panel, when he puts on the pumpkin head, he goes out, want to be a witch, want to set demons on people, especially teachers and parents and sisters and bullies. Right? So he was there for the teachers and bullies. But the parents and sisters, the demons also took care of when he wasn't looking. Be careful what you wish for. Be careful what you wish for. Yeah, Lucifer wrote a little message. Nice story. Short, beautiful artwork. Nice, nice breaks in it. And the artwork changes up between the different stories. This one was actually pretty cool too. Should we read this one as well? Let's read this one as well. This one was a fun, fun story. So this is the second story. One Evening on a Small Planet. Right? And this is One Evening on a Small Planet by Al Williams, illustrator, Ed Newsome, writer and the manual graphics colorist. Okay. And Al Williams. At a hard time figuring out when this came out, actually. I think this was, he saw it on this thing here. I can't remember when this was put out, what year. But I believe this is Al Williams from PC Comics. I could be wrong though. So this is the third story. Family, father sitting down, kids watching TV. Right? Bulletin, Bulletin, Bulletin. Bulletin, we interrupt your normally scheduled program for a special news bulletin. The mysterious UFO that was sighted earlier today over South Africa, the Syrian desert, and Stockholm, Sweden is reported to have landed in the Central United States. We switch you to our news cameras on the scene in downtown St. Louis. This is Gene Nelson reporting for NBS News St. Louis. There's a spaceship. Not more than 20 minutes ago, the mysterious object appeared in the skies over St. Louis. Since then, it has been slowly descending towards the street below. Welcome Martians. There's a guy holding up the banner. Welcome Martians. The object has been tracked at speeds in excess of 2,000 miles. And wait, something seems to be happening to the side of the UFO. Well, what do you think? The alien says, I don't know, it's nice, but there's sort of hovering on top of the people. They're going to look around. I don't know, it's sort of nice, but look, what do you expect for 18,000 goblins? It's a nice planet. While I was looking for something a bit smaller, a second summer home for vacations, alien says. It's perfect for vacations, part of its green, all year round, snow in the northern regions, if you care for that sort of thing. Yes, I like the landscaping very much, but if we decide to take it, the alien says. There's people throwing stuff at them. Look at that. Their holograms just going through them. But you do something about those nasty bipeds, of course. Of course, run a good extermination. We'd have them cleared out in a few hours, the alien says. Good, good. We'll have to talk about it. We'll have to talk about it over with the first wife. But I think you have a customer. I really do like the landscaping. I'm delighted, the guy says, or the alien says. I hope we'll be doing business soon, Mr. Ilangst. Get in their spaceship, and they fly away. And the humans are totally clues as to what's about to happen. Planet Earth was sold, and the aliens are coming back to get rid of the little pesty bipedals. Run a little extermination program. Fun little read. Edgar Allan Poe, just a short little poem by Edgar Allan Poe with some artwork. And then this one's also not bad. Interesting as well, but we won't take a look. Asylum number one. Not bad, not bad. What else we got? What else we got? Concrete. Let's read Doc or Dark Horse presents. Crucial fiction, phantographic books. Now, part of this is mature readers. I won't be able to read this. There's one part which is really cool artwork, really nice artwork. But let's read concrete first. Or let's read concrete and see where we're at. We might do this one as the last read for now. Oh, do we even have time to read concrete? We've got 15 minutes left. Let's see, let's see. You know what? We're not going to get a chance to read this. I want to sort of savor this one. It's the longer piece actually. So maybe we save this one for a future read and I'll keep on reading more comic books and pick a little segment south because I'm really enjoying reading these things. So let's just bring out, pop up our chat again and touch base with fun. Nice chill Monday morning, slow stream. Just for us, comic book aficionados, people that want to chill. Right. Fun reads, fun reads. What have we read in the last two weeks? I'll have to pick, for some of the other readings we do, I'll have to pick some comics from the big two as well. I'll try to, in my next batch of comics that I grab from my stack, I think I'll grab some more mainstream comic books, superhero comic books and whatnot and have a read through those because we've done a fair bit of independent reading for the last two streams. Right. Padre, padre, padre, how are you doing? The Allah God. Watch the first half of Darkman. So far so good. Awesome. I like the guy with the machine gun leg. Darkman is fantastic. It, it's a great B, sort of a superhero, you know, kind of a weird way movie. And we were talking about it just for those guys on the last stream don't know. We're talking about it in the film folder and our gilded page. People were recommending movies and stuff like this and I forget what the original movie that was recommended. I've seen it a few times but I forget which one it was. And then I mentioned Darkman and some people had seen Darkman, some people hadn't. And I guess Padre is having a look through it right now. I was engaged, engaged to a girl with a wooden leg, had to break it off. He's cracking a joke. Super wacky. I like the director. Yeah, the director is super fun. Darkman didn't do well in the theaters and there's a Darkman comic book series as well actually. And there's Darkman 2 and 3 as well. They weren't as good as Darkman 1 but the comic book series I have, the original mini series that came out, I might have Darkman number 2, the comic book series as well. And the comic book was not bad either. It was fun comic book. I think it was just telling the retelling of the movie. Okay, the gang movie recommendation. If you like B movies from the 1980s, 1980s, early 1990s. Oh, the other movie was Remo Williams. Remo Williams is a fantastic movie as well. And that's from 1980s as well. Fantastic movie. Super fun. And Darkman is on the same level. Aside from that gang, let's call it a stream. I'm gonna have a sip of tea. We read one, two, three, four, five books last week. Excerpts from five books last week and we read one, two, three, four, five excerpts from or short stories from five comics this week. Not bad. So we're averaging about five per reading. Altegar, Remo on arm and dangerous in UK. Fun movie. I wish it had done both Darkman and Remo Williams. Didn't do well in the theaters. If they had done well, we would have seen the franchise take off. But they didn't do well, unfortunately. Remo Williams was super fun. At the time, it was just a straight up fun movie, 80s fun movie. Lots of slapstick comedy. One of the funniest scenes was when the master, when the girl is talking a lot. Yeah, rest in peace, Fred Ward, he passed away like a few days ago. No, last month he passed away, I believe. And he was in tremors as well. But one of the funniest scenes in Remo Williams was when the master and Fred Ward, Remo Williams, were about to go into an encampment of the bad guys. And the girl was there with them as well. And she's like talking a lot and making a lot of noise and stuff like this. And the master takes her wrist and grabs her wrist and goes, listens, listens. And she goes, what are you doing? And it goes. And the girl just goes, sits down on the ground and Remo Williams is like, what did you do? He goes, oh, to keep woman quiet or something like this, gave her a hundred orgasms. Summed up paraphrasing. I haven't watched it for a while. But he basically listened to her heartbeat and did some kind of offbeat type of hit. And she sits down, falls down on a piece of rock because she had a lot of orgasms. It was super funny. So Fred Ward died on, passed away on May 22nd. Wow, wow, wow. Oh, God, I watched Obi-Wan Kenobi the other night. The lightsaber fight was hilarious. Like two kids in the garden. It's not very good. It's better than Mandalorian and the other one, but it's not very good period. It's, it's Disney, Disney doing the service to the franchise that they own. Hong Hong, James Wargs. Thank you very much for the follow. I love her new emote. I'm seeing it more. Padre, yeah, the master is a totally unrated character. Totally unrated character. So good. So good. Oh, God, Darth Vader is brutal though. Oh, I haven't come to the Darth Vader scene. We've only watched one episode of Obi-Wan. So we haven't seen it anymore. We've got to watch more just to see what it's like. We'll probably watch a couple more, just to get a feel for it. Right. Gang, thank you for being here. I hope you enjoyed this chill, chill, chill stream. Snaps a child's neck with the force. Oh, see, that's the Darth Vader we know and love. Right. I was like, WTF. I gotta watch it. Which episode did that occur in? Out of God. I hope it occurs in episode two. I don't want to go too deep into it. I don't think. Gang, if you want to follow this work, I'm a Patreon. I am a Subscribestar. I am on Substack. You can follow the work there. For those of you that have supported this work on Patreon, as well as Twitch, thank you very much for the support. It is a large part because of your support that we're able to do what it is that we are doing. Oh, and the last one, three episodes, episode three. Okay. So the last one that came out. Okay, I'll check it out. 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And we will be uploading this live stream to censor 2, to bitchu, to rumble, and to odyssey. And again, we do have a gilded page, gilded server if you want to join the conversation, share information. Padre. Thanks for the stream chichou. Peace guys. Peace Padre. And gang, do not, do not forget. Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange. Julien Assange, publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capital's power to humanity. For more information, see wikileast.org, defend.wikileast.org, or our Julien Assange and WikiLeast playlist on censor 2. Growforce, thousands, and a group of crows have learned from watching me. So it's a race now. Oh, no way. Crazy, Cheryl. They're just starting to ripen in our area too.  We're behind where I am. It's been a cold spring so far, so hopefully we get a nice long summer that we can enjoy. The patio and the greens for longer. Wallah head here. There, wallah head there too. 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Guys, tonight we're here for one course. I believe we'll be able to raise funds for Masi. I'm standing next to Professor Amon. Mugunimuema. Mamba pepe. Kila wakaji mugunimuema? Landon ni kuwa pepe? Adam, I'm still in London, as we're speaking. Ya, my landlord knows I'm not here. Ni limusiki aja na kukupo. Gidebe atebe huko. So umona ni me post pijayote ate ni me vika. DKI, for whom? Hey, I'm still in London, until my design na tike ali. Ya, we are enjoying ourselves. We're here to raise funds for Masi. I don't know if you have a relationship with Masi. And then maybe why we're here to raise funds for Masi. Yes. Masi is one of our market outlet here on Chetin Show. Sanasa na the kids festival. Ediwa kona shi wulipia na jua lani na kujawa api. All the sponsors kazi ake niyo. And so Masi, we had to start with her. Ini kitu, ina toke aga. Anywhere. Ya, naikitu kia the best. There are moments where money is not the issue. It is your brothers and sisters. So it's all about the numbers coming together. Ya, so I know from what we are doing now, what's on up, come and try kitu on tiktok. And we raised almost 85,000 in two hours. So it means coming together like this works even better. Ya, so and it's a message out there that this should be a culture. Tishikana ake to if you. Ya, whatever comes to nanda, isikwa tu ni kansapiki ake, everything else. Ya, kido usi, usi teseke na irobi. Kido, kido, bris, usi teseke. We come together to nachagamuka. And we do it for our nation. For our nation, of course. No, a message to Masi kitu, hope to Masi. Oh Masi, Masi kichu uzuli ake ni kichu agumu. Kama mutua na mijua. Masi ni kichu agumu. So edelia na iyo kitu, usi na ganyu. Shetani azi kukua ake uvekiri ya tiyo. Muli me chuka, aya edelia na iyo kichu agumu. Unadiwa azi gini, idu ni aniku. Tisi ya na nae. Bakai kufuguli emu lago. So keep going. Because I know kansa. Kansa is also defeated. No, in the end, it comes back to your spirit. How do you feel about yourself? So if you are okay in the spirit, you know our prayers are with you. We are here for you. Nga pati reda kuchikesi wa wakanya. Baya zana. We are going to do it for you. Masi, keep going. Sidiwa. Ya. Alright, thank you so much. Asante kido. Muguli moewa. And God bless you man. This is awesome. Ah, asante. Haya.


Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakat Welcome to Morals and Minutes I am Muhammad Ali and today we will talk about moderation We as humans tend to always overuse our blessings Studies have shown that through moderation in one's economics affair is the number one result to success in life The nam does not say do not buy such and such do not spend money and buy such clothes or such perfume etc As a matter of fact the religion of Islam emphasizes on dressing well eating well and being clean But the problem lies in overspending and over purchasing Studies have shown that the key to a happy life and successful family is moderation Henceforth Islam has placed a high emphasis on moderation in every category Even though the current studies in the west in the last decades or so have emphasized moderation Islam has emphasized moderation 1400 years ago in their practices and traditions Let us hear some of these golden words of wisdom from the prince of eloquent Imam Ali peace be upon him he said I ensure that he who economize will never become indigent meaning poor This here is an insure from the Imam peace be upon him that the individual who spends in moderation will not face poverty In another tradition narrated by Imam Karim peace be upon him he says if people had a moderate habit in eating their bodies would become strengthens In this narration the Imam peace be upon him is speaking about moderation in one's consumption of food and that proper consumption of food would strengthen one's body In conclusion you can see the high importance of moderation and the emphasize that Islam has placed on moderation This is all from the golden words of our prophet peace be upon him and his family and his holy progeny peace be upon them peace be upon you and his mercy and blessings


I founded Magpie Goose with my partner Laura Egan in 2016. Magpie Goose is a social enterprise and our mission is two-fold. It's to provide Aboriginal people in remote Australia new opportunities to make money and to share culture and then on the other side to provide people around Australia and the world a chance to connect with and celebrate Aboriginal people and culture and stories. A lot of art centres were designing and printing textiles in community but you could only really get access to them if you visited the community as a doctor or a teacher or if you worked at the art centre. I think all of these designs that we are working with help so many different stories of Australia and that's what's so special about them all. We've been running for between two and three years and we've paid $250,000 of licensing fees to artists. I think we've worked with 75 artists that have got income that they wouldn't otherwise got. We started off working with Northern Territory artists but we've been working with artists all around Australia now. We've worked with artists up in Colomberu which is the most northwestern part of Australia and the Kimberley got collaborations come out with Gallowink who that's in Northern Territory. Our new collection is from Central Australia, Ikkunji and then we've got collaborations come out with more communities further down the coast of Western Australia. I think in Australia we're so lucky because we've got the oldest living continuing culture and history and that I think should be number one export of Australia. It's really become a unique Australian brand. Working with artists and being able to provide new opportunities for them to make money and to share culture that's what I love being that middle point of connection between people who maybe don't know this story and people who are telling this story.


This is the first episode of the second season of this series called the new Untouchables And this is the first season was about the PCORO files and basically they Discussed this documentary called the colon and it's about the corruption of of Wall Street and in this season basically what they're doing is they're showing the results of corruption from Wall Street and the financial industry housing and It is it is criminal to be That this video has 706 views This is one of the most well like well researched Profound videos I've seen post the YouTube in a very long time and It hasn't gotten the attention that it needed. So please go to real progress in action and watch this series it's so good because I Watched this full episode yesterday, and I immediately started watching the first season It's really important that people see this because we're talking about this housing crisis, right? So the Moratorium on evictions was extended by 30 days and we talked about this last week on the stream So now July 31st. That's that's the new day that people will have protections and you know, we're kind of We're staring down the face of a barrel with another massive housing crisis But it's not like there never Hasn't been a crisis. It's just been like an ongoing crisis And so what this documentary starts out with is the story of This woman her name is Cynthia Brown. So this is an Olympic gold medalist and till this day she's living in her car because her house was seized and When you listen to the details that she gives it is absolutely infuriating and this is not like Some old story right this didn't happen in the 1990s or the 80s This is a current story where today as we watch her tell her story in this documentary She's sleeping in her car in front of her house to make sure that people don't like take anything out of her house and whatnot as she fights to get her house back and What's also part of this story is the fact that the process of trying to appeal this get the house back Get her house back is incredibly corrupt So the documentary is called the new Untouchables. So this is actually season two So if you got a real progress and action You can get the details here and it is it's shocking so we're gonna watch a little bit now I asked I want everyone to go and watch the full thing But I did ask Steve Grumbine who's the host here if I could play a little bit and he did say yes so I do want to watch some of this story listen to some of the details here and You will be amazed at what is happening But probably not surprised that took the loan out on the home. Let me back up a little bit here I'm still on this journey of finding the truth as to what happened in my case and It's pretty clear that the person that took the loan out on the home was not myself and fact what they've done is they've Portrayed the identity stuff in a lot of these cases so that they can get to the equities to the properties The whole scheme here is to use that straw buyers name Use your personal information So that they can access the equities to that property because they never intend to pay it back They're just gonna get to the equity and then get the property in default and Then they're out of there and then the burdens on that person who owned the home now I don't know how many cases are out there that are In have entered the the foreclosure form like mine, but I recognize that Identity theft is the biggest the biggest fraud that's going on right now and the courts are fully aware of it and They're they're signing and forging documents and then submitting it to the courts They're not Examining the documents the courts allowing these documents to come in by presumption You're not able to object or rebut the The documents It's basically like it's everything that you just said it's it's a so shocking You know today, I'm still homeless about six or seven months now and I'm trying to Recover and you know just participating in court and it's very difficult With out having all the tools I need to litigate to bring forward the fraud There's a substantial amount of fraud being used to take over properties the actual eviction Was unlawful they forged up paperwork and had these let me just pause from it. This is people Coming to take her out of her home. This is the ring doorbell footage Does this like this looks like these folks are going to war they're coming to take her out of her home That is what is happening right here in the United States of America. So when The host here says that this is financial terrorism. What else do you call it?  That's the crazy part, right as this happens as she tells a story. Remember, this is all legal It's just something you would never think as an Olympic athlete You're going to be stormed by 15 to 20 sheriff with military grade AR-15's Surrounding the whole house with other deputies in other person's yards They're breaking security cameras and spray painting the lenses so that they can't be seen so they did spray paint Sounds to me like what criminals do Then they use Batter Rams to enter the property and by the way, they couldn't get to the threshold so the panel of the door Caved in so they had to crawl through a hole. I mean, it's just When you go through the the first link in November 16, it's gonna explain everything they're actually talking about it how they're going to access and enter the home and Screaming through the whole entire house when they know it's only one African-American woman and a dog why in which they had the animal control out there, which made me to believe They were going to shoot her Luckily, I had her in my car Because they would have destroyed her It's just appalling How many people standing in that home? gloating laughing High-fiving and bumping a fist Like they had accomplished a goal because they've been trying to get that home for a year For years and I've reported crimes against that home for years and not one of them not one agency Took the initiative to investigate the way that I have To find that out serious crime had been committed. I even have the canceled checks front and back So it makes it easy as to find who the equity strippers But see that further gave me a clue Who is participating and working together This is this is shock. So let me just stop it right there. So I don't even know where to begin. This is This is chilling They celebrated so we saw all these people they know that it's just one person there with a dog and she said 15 to 20 15 to 20 showed up. There was at least like what was it like? 5 or 6 at first 6 on camera, you know, there's more all of them show up Armed with AR 15s when they know one person is in the house and as soon as they actually kick her out of her home They celebrate like they just conquered a country how Fucked up is this. I mean, I couldn't imagine going through this. This is terrorism now I don't want to play too much of this because I really hope that you watch the whole thing but I just want you to get like a little sense of How horrible this is how prevalent this is how the 2008 financial crisis is still affecting people today Bad loans are being given out and how people who have been Basically preyed upon by the financial industry They aren't able to even fight for themselves because of the criminal justice system being very racist and Biased and all throughout like so this this woman right here is so Brilliant, but they go through and they speak with lawyers they talk to people about the process itself and how they weren't following proper procedure and I like this is we're not even scratching the surface, but basically They wanted that property and they took it and it's kind of like what was referenced here, right?  Can you put that in a context? Well, sure a Little bit about me. I started out as a real estate agent out of college back in 2002 and then graduated law school in 2006 and so I throughout law school I conducted a lot of sales in Prince George's County and By 2008 by the time I had my law license the real estate clients were coming back with foreclosure issues and so You know, I signed up to volunteer with nonprofits in Maryland that were trying to stop the bleeding But no one really knew what was going on and I took on a few cases Pro bono to start what I found was initially is that the facts didn't matter and so no matter what fact pattern you had and no matter what challenges the homeowner had it the Narrative was was their loan was their default and Okay, you got to go and so I didn't quite understand what was going on at that time and I do want to mention the the the woman that That Miss Johnson spoke about that was evicted on December 16th. They had to sleep in her car mind you her father They foreclosed on her father's loan He supposedly took out a reverse mortgage When he was most likely incompetent with all signers and so she's yelling to the courts My dad couldn't have signed this. He had Alzheimer's for the last five years. How could he sign a reverse mortgage? Secondly with the commercial cell tower on his property that does not you're not eligible for reverse mortgage because that's commercial property Not residential and so even with the facts in hand The judges turn their eye and I love what Miss Mitchell said when she said who can own property? I'm going to tell you when I'm in Prince George's County Court Even though there are black judges even though in our County there are black legislators and black representatives I feel like three-fifths of an attorney and I feel like my client are three-fifths of the resident of our County and so to be the most Affluent black County in the the country We are still three-fifths of the most rural white County in America as far as I'm concerned Because our judges are programmed not to listen to turn the other cheek and they are actually robo stamping Denials no matter what your fact pattern on and so that's what I found You know in our County, I would say that what I what I see a lot of is the American dream lost and so There were a lot of people who sold their town homes their condo. They had a lot of equity the market was booming They put a 100,000 200,000 down payment down on their dream home a 800,000 dollar home built by a reputable home builder What these home builders said was use our lender and you'll get a 10,000 dollar credit And what we didn't know and I noticed I'll put the bank out there It was Wells Fargo on the majority of these new home communities shocker and what happened was what I found is Here are people making six figures. I mean, I'm talking households making 250 300,000 a year Why do they have such bad loans in the first place? That was the only loan that was offered to them And I had someone I had someone who moved into the same neighborhood She was adamant that she was going to go in her credit union and they almost wouldn't let her go to study when she said It's because she wouldn't use Wells Fargo. She said They didn't even all have a 30 year fixed option. She said, well, so but other homeowners when you're when you're given a teaser rate We can give you 3% 4% You know, don't worry about it or it'll adjust Well poor people's loans adjust from 4500 a month to 8,000 a month And most people are not prepared to deal with that and so What?  You guys are making, you know, six figures It's stole the equity there 100,000 200,000 down payment is gone All the houses that were worth appraised for 800,000 dollars are now 400,000 dollars on the short sale market They can't refinance. Oh and let's not forget because watching the con did job my memory about People who held on to those great credit scores because you know all you have that you've got to keep your credit score They call their lender. I need help. I can't pay 8,000 a month. You know, we're working people We we bring in 12,000 a month. We have two children. We have this we have that. What can you do? Oh, well just stop making payments. We can't help you until you stop making your payment All right, and after three months then we can work with you So what happened is people thought they were dealing with their bank and they're dealing with this servicer who represents god knows who and when they go into default after the 90 days then Next thing you know, send in your paperwork. So what I saw as an attorney and this is still around 2010 Only because I had so many people every single person said they keep losing my paperwork And I sent it in and they said they didn't get it and I sent it in again I said they didn't get it and they need this and so they're playing this right race of okay. I'm turning it in I'm turning it in. I mean, I'm employed. I had good credit, you know, just work with me Neighborhood bank, but it's not your neighborhood bank. So finally in court Uh, they have what in Maryland, it's quasi judicial and so Uh, it's a a lot of the process occurs outside of court. You just file the The plaintiff's trustees file and say there was a default And unless you reach out to the court, they'll just railroad you and you'll be out of your house So assuming you were served assuming that you challenge anything The next step is mediation. Now you go to this mediation 99 out of 100 times. There's no resolution reach out ever Turn in your paperwork one more time and I'm sure we can work with you and Within that next 30 day period your house is already on the auction block Next to you know, your house is sold. Everyone thinks they're alone. I thought they were working with me I don't understand what happened. You call the service or oh, it's out of our hands our attorneys So everyone thought their story was Was individual to themselves, but when I hear this story 50 60 70 100 time, it's the same story There's a like this is very very lengthy. It's about an hour long Um, and then steve does a really great job at explaining why there isn't an incentive Uh, because all of this predatory behavior essentially is a way that local governments are able to raise revenue Um, it's just It's a lot. So again, the name of this show is the new Untouchables um This is season two season two and I would highly encourage people to Watch this because like this is hbo level quality content And it's not getting seen by enough people. So if you watch it, please be sure to share it Because I don't think that people understand how widespread this issue is and it really speaks to how Embedded racism is in institutions