Episode 76

Episode Transcript

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Sir, I'm detecting a subspace message. I'll put it on speakers subspace dare
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this episode seventy six. If you'relistening to st iHeartRadio, welcome to the
show today. We've got a lotof amazing segments later in the broadcast for
the event we just came up towe were at last past week and called
Level Up, Lvl Up and BeautifulLas Vegas, Nevada. We've got several
good interview segments about over half adozen good totally awesome things we're gonna be

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bringing you later in the broadcast.Before we sit tight, we want to
go over a few items here,including some news items we will be at.
Of course, Sandygokama Con in JulyAugust, will probably be at STLV
fifty eight year mission and beautiful LasVegas so back in Las Vegas for then
in between that time we're gonna bedoing some filming, trying to get some

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more guests with the radio show,and then building out some more awesome,
amazing content for you the fans.Today, we've got some news items we're
gonna go over real quick. Wehave Warhammer forty thousand, Space Marine holds
up thirteen years later. It's anamazing article by our gaming writer Dia.
She put together. It goes overa little bit about the game and it's

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still a good play even till thisday. And then of course Deadpull and
Wolverine have an official trailer reaction.They drop the trailer a few days ago.
We've got the reaction on our siteat scifiction dot com. If you
go to our site as well,you can see that there's a brand new
Moon Lunar Horizons expansion which lets yougo on the Moon. It's like a
simulator or a simulation mother using Fortnite, and it's an amazing game and you

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can walk around the Moon on themoon base and there's robots and lunar rovers
and all kind of other goodies thatyou can get involved within them. It's
put on by Issa the European SpaceAgency and conjunction with that and the Fortnite
developers, it's a really really coolsimulator. I'll read a little hear piece
here about it. Fortnite has launchedthe new expansion line, players the fly

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themselves to the Moon and a simulationexperience that's backed with real life details.
The Epic Games, publisher of Fortnite, has formed a partnership with the European
Space Agency and the architecture and designcompany Hassle to create a simulation where players
can land the Moon South region,whether it be task gathering water and helium
three to construct a permanent Issa lunarhabitat. That's super cool in my opinion.

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I think that's a really cool game. I'm looking forward maybe trying that
out myself. And then one ofour new news items here is Rebel Moon
Part two. The Scar Scargiver endingexplained our brilliant writer kier and Bert went
and wrote an amazing article doing overhis without spoiling it. If you might

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need to Rebel Moon part one thenpart two before you read this article,
but it does give in such aspoilers. But I goes into his thoughts
on the ending of the the endingof the the second part of Zack Snyder's
amazing Rebel Moon, Part two,The Scargiver. To check that out.
If you haven't seen any of theRebel Moon, go check them out.

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They're really good. I mean they'regood, kind of like a popcorn movie.
They're nothing like you know, superin depth in my opinion, and
storytelling is pretty good. But it'sjust a fun film. And both of
them actually one in two, Socheck them out. And we've got some
other news. Transformers one trailer reaction. They just dropped a trailer for Transformers

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one. Transformers One's interesting. It'stakes place before the fall of Cybertron,
where Optimists and Megatron kind of arestill friends and get their powers with transforming.
They go into the details of howthey got those powers and how they
can transform into various obviously cars andplanes and so forth. To check that

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out. We also have a reviewof episode three and four I believe as
well yes and four for Fallout,and we'll be coming up with our last
four episode reviews episode five, six, seven, and eight this week as
well. Over the next week we'llhave those out out and then, of
course, as we know, there'ssome breaking news that just was announced the

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other day. Fallout officially renewed forseason two on Prime Video. So that's
an amazing news. Well, rightquick, We're going to take a little
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Federation Promenade and make your donation atTrek Federation dot com. Today Here at
last twa of level up read aPhi Las Vegas the mont to join here
with Derek of seven sketches. Derek, how's your day going good? Thank
you for asking. How your daygoing? Doing amazing? We're having an
amazing last year here at Level Up. Got to check it out. If
you're not here this year, comenext year. What kind of art and
stuff you do? You have alot of cool pins and things and all

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kind of stuff. Thank you somuch. I mean, my so my
merchant. You know, I havemainly stickers, but I also do prints,
enamo pins and apparel, and Ijust got into the designer toys not
too long ago, which which I'msuper excited about. We have some of
your pins. We got your Day, the Iron Panda and the Captain Panda.
I love the mashup of things likethat. How long have you been

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doing the pins and everything and beyondthe pins? So I've been doing this
about eight years now, eight years. Yeah. So I started out just
doing stickers in prints, and thenI started doing the enamel pins, and
then clothing and then yeah, finallythe designer toys. What is the like
overall message of what you do liketo deliver to the fans? They what

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you like them to take from yourwork? Oh? I mean so my
with my work, Like I'm alwaystrying to make it like vibrant, colorful,
fun, playful. I like tomake people laugh with my work.
I like them to. I likefor it to be eye catching and you
know, like kind of give themlike a you know, feeling of happiness
or whatever. And that's what I'vebeen told, like people like, I
love your artword to get It's justso colorful and eye catching and it just

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makes me happy. And so inthe beginning, I was just focused on
just making cool stuff and like,you know, attractive looking. But then
people started saying like, oh,I like your stuff. It just you
know, makes me feel happy orwhatever, and so you know, I
I'm glad that's the case with myartwork. Super cool stuff too. I
mean I love the amazing stickers anddesigns of the pins. Where do people
go to find out? Is yourwebsite? Twitter, a Facebook or anything

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like that? Yeah, so socialmedia I have. I'm at seven sketches
on Instagram, so at seven sketchesand number seven so seven sketches and then
oh and then my website is alsoeasy www dot seven sketches dot com.
Nice awesome jerk. Well, asyou're talking to you, sir, oh
miss I fiction coming to you fromLevel up Day three, last day signing
on here at Lvl up, Levelup last day, Las Vegas Nevana and

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beautiful Las Vegas, Savana join herewith John Pilon of Alienware Computers and Awesome
Technology. How are you doing tothe John? Not too bad? Are
you doing? Doing that? Amazing? Your company being one of the the
leading company in alienware technology basically roswelland reversing it for gaming. A lot
of gamers use it. What isthe history of the company a little bit
condensed and like how do you whatdo y'all create like for the make gaming

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experience specifically? Yeah, so thecompany has been around for ages. Started
in Miami actually uh back then,and it was acquired by Dell later on.
From that, we've had a longhistory of just building gaming PCs and
really just supporting gamers however they canplay awesome What are some of the you
get the newer computers which are absolutelyamazing that you all have. Now,
what are some of the specs?What are we looking under the hood,

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like graphics card wise, we're wisethat the gamers can enjoy to play their
awesome games. Yeah, so wegot lots. So one of our most
powerful laptops we've got is the Meighteen R two forty ninety GPUs in there.
You've got the I seven fourteen generationlike. They're fantastic. Also,
our desktops, the Aurora are sixteenthat you can just max out with the
I seven nineteen or fourteen nine hundredkf RTX forty ninety graphics cards like you

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can spect those things out. Theycan play anything you put at it pretty
much play anything you can with thisreverse engineered was Wellian technology anything more Awesomeess
what are you any intercoming products youhave coming up on the pipline or any
things you can kind of sneak peakthat you're going to be doing with some
new technology like this coming year.I would love to be able to tell
you about this, but unfortunately Ican't comment on our future roadmap right now.

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Wrapping up, I have two questions. One, what is the overall
message you'll like to describe to driveor rather deliver to the viewers and also
the people that buy your product expecively, If I had to say, one
thing is that we just really wantto be here for gamers. We are
part of the community. We're hereto support the community and that's what we're
here for. So we want tobuild things so you can play games awesome.

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For people that want to get intothis technology, is there like a
particular entry level product or something youlike to like maybe like with if they
just want to get in or justgetting into gaming, would there's something you
may be like an entry level product? Or is it did you buy the
big one or what? It reallydepends on what you want to do,
But we make products kind of forall the breakreads. The M sixteen R
two, one of our new laptops, is perfect for that though. It's

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got stealth mode built in, soyou press a button and it can kind
of disappear. So if you're astudent, it's perfect. You can kind
of use it for class and youcan use it for gaming. Well,
that's totally awesome. Is there what'sto alienware dot com? I believe it
it is alienware dot com? John, But you're talking with you? Oh
on a Level up expo last day. Let's face Spana signing off here at
Level up Day one, Las Vegas, Nevada. Join here with Josh and

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Jordy of Alpha Class. How y'allguys doing We're doing well. Thanks for
stopping by. I'm doing very well. I'm glad to be here. Yes,
indeed, level up. This isan amazing event featuring card games,
matures, video games, solid foreverything. What is your game about?
It's a card game, of course, what is that about? So it
is a super powered card game.And from the beginning we've been all about
the lore, so it's not justa card game. So we have a

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comic, we have a full graphicnovel and a full five hundred page chapter
book. So we've really been supportingour trading card game with all the lord
behind it as well. So supercool. What what is your opposition on
what do you kind of go creativelyonnest So I'm the director of organized play.
I like to try to create acompetitive game for folks to play.
What we've done here with Alpha Clashestake a lot of familiar components from other

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card games, but repackage it ina way that's familiar but refreshing to players
of all trading card games. Verycool And Josh, how long have this
game been around? On what's likethe kind of the future? When do
you go next to more like expandingpacks or anything like that. Yeah,
so we launched on Kickstarter November twentytwo and this event we are doing our
pre release event for Set three.Set four comes out in November. We

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have plans coming up for the WorldChampionships and all sorts of We have our
we have our whole roadmap for thenext couple of years. So we're we're
moving ahead at full speed. They'recool. I'm excited too all of this
game. What does it mean toyou? This is the game and just
just amazing genre in general. Forstarting with E Jordan. I like it
man, because there's not a lotof people that are exploring the superhero theme
for trading card games, so it'sa chance for us to kind of tell

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a new story with trading card games. And I think the players have really
enjoyed it too, seeing the superherothemes and elements that we have with the
card game. So awesome. Whatabout you, Josh. We wanted the
game to feel like a superhero battle, so it's really back and forth really
quickly. There's not a lot oflike waiting for turns or waiting you know,
passing turn and the game itself onceyou know it, it goes really

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quickly. You're not committing to atwo hour game. It's you know,
if you're if you're quick, youcan be done in thirty five forty five
minutes per per round. So wewanted to be back and forth battle like
superheroes, you know, like yousee superheroes going back and forth. Soy
awesome. Where do people go outthe fin as their website or a link
or some of that. Alpha ClashTCG duck OFFCASTTCG dot Com, Josh Pleasure
talking with you, sir, Jordywas on you, omoscide fiction dot Com.

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Coming to you from Level up,exbo day one, signing on here
Level up last day and beautiful LasVegas Nevana join here at Chris of CV.
How are you doing to that,Chris, I'm doing well. How
are you me as well? You'vegot a lot of cool stuff for your
stickers, a lot of stuff influencedby Power Rangers, Saban. What are
the things you do and how longhave you been doing it? Uh?
So? I grew up with PowerRangers and it led me to the overall

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Japanese genre of tokusatsu, So that'swhat I do. Primarily. I became
a huge fan after being introduced toit through Power Rangers. And what was
the other question, The question ishow long you been doing this and what
what what? What brought you intothis first time? Okay, so I've
been I grew up drying, Ilove our grew up with Power Rangers,

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and after I graduated from college,I started going to conventions and saw that,
you know, the people in artitalli selling their own work, and
I thought, hey, that thatwould be great to do myself. So
I started doing artwork and joint stuffI like, just Power Rangers, and
then it would get a lot ofattention and online by the actual Ranger actors.

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And when when interest was building up, then I decided, like,
how would I go and sell theartwork? And yeah, from twenty sixteen,
I've been traveling to conventions across country, selling primarily Power Rangers artwork.
Everybody loves Power Rangers. Coming up, I'm almost thirty years here soon.

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So yeah, so you've got theimpact of Power Rangers, which is positivity
of course, you know, givingthe gift of superpowers to the young adults,
that they would be able to helppaper and save the lives of the
planet Earth. Of the course whenthey bust sword on too, but I
mean spread as good and across theuniverse. What is the overall message of
your work? What is it you'dlike to deliver to the fans that take
from your work? Well, Ias far as message, and I I

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like the I like masks well justbecause it's something you can put on and
you become a hero and and likeit's it's it's it's kind of weird in
a way. I mean for me, like uh like like as a creator,
you know, you can you createthese personas. Uh, it's it's

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like a shoot, what am Itrying to say? Kind of gives you
a confidence. But of course whenyou wear in the mask as well,
douse you get any powers of thatof course, but if you have super
like a power yeah yeah, yeah, Like I was gonna say, it
was kind of like Iron Man.He was kind of a self made.
But like like these these these teenagers, they were they're chosen. They didn't

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have you know, like a backgroundand whatever, and uh, you know,
they became heroes and uh and I'dlike to say, uh, like,
uh they did have Marshall, aren'tstill a lot of man acrobats and
stuff. They're all were kind ofin that arena as well. True,
Yeah, I lost myself, Uh, in closing, it was a very

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inspirational. Your work does reflect withthe shows and everything else that were tried
to impact or does impact brother tothe general pompulous power Rangers being so popular
in itself of course, Beetleborgs andall the other goodies. Where do people
go out to find is their websiteto find out about your work? Yeah,
yeah so CV illustrations dot com.CV illustrations dot com, Chris,

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thank you so much. Check itout. So when coming to you from
Level Up Last Day sauce Vegas,Nevada. Signing off here at Level Up
lvl Up Expo, Las Vegas,Last Day, joined here with Adrianna Gallery
Panda. How's your day going,Adrian good? Uh, a little bit
tired from the after party last night, but otherwise good. Was one of
chaos. Yeah, yeah, itwas good. It was good, very

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cool VERCCU that that's that the PalmsCasino and Resort hotel and we Las Vegas,
Nanda. You've got some amazing art, kind of Neon retro themed.
What goes into all this? What'ssome of the topics you cover in your
art world? Yeah, so there'sa lot of styles all the way around
our booth here so we've got thisamazing like sort of like cyberpunky looking style,
and we got a lot of differentoptions. We work with a bunch
of artists from all over the world, and every time somebody purchases, they're

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supporting that artist directly. So wehave like different artists. So this artist,
for example, works with photorealism,so he takes original photography. By
the time he's done with it,you don't even recognize it. It's so
different, so out of this world, right, And then we've got other
artists that handraw illustrations, we gotphotography, we got illustrations, We've got
maybe people that do traditional art,and then we printed out in the real
world that way. I mean,there's all sorts of varieties. You've got

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some lart here like shifts colors too, Like you have a frame here and
these ones here. What goes intodesign of this to kind of give that
aesthetic kind of cyberpunk goodness. Yeah, so I mean we try the tailor
of that design. It's my favoriteone, by the way, so like
perfect I know, I read yourmind. So basically we try the pig
focus on these lines and have alot of different colors because as the colors

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change, you've got to get atotally different vibe, right, And the
cool thing about these is you justslide it open, slide it in pretty
easy. Yep. How long haveyou been doing this? What inspired you
to create a company where you hadshowcased a lot of these amazing artists.
What kind of got into the gatewayinto that? Yeah, so we've been
in business now for about two anda half years, so we're fairly recent.
We're out of Austin, Texas.No, we're in Texas well,

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perfect, Yeah, we go toTexas. So but yeah, we've been
in the business for a little whilenow. We we were mostly an e
commerce business before and then we sawan opportunity to kind of tried this thing
out at conventions. We love conventions, so, I mean, the culture
here is so cool, so amazing, so we wanted to try it out
and we just kind of took offand expanded all over the world. And
now it's been a crazy last twoand a half years. I got a

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lot of great hairs, so Igot usually time mine, but I saw
good. I go like, O, G, today's should I here's the
match of mine? That's right,that's right, you got me too.
I gotta get this off. Yougot all this amazing, arn't Where are
they able to find it as awebsite and then their upcoming ventu You're going
to be a coming up as well. Oh geez, all the time.
We do so many events, soyou can find us at the pretty much

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if it's one of the biggest comiccons, anime or gaming cons in the
country, you'll probably see us thereand then you could also find us online
at Gallery Panta dot com or GalleryPanda Official on Instagram. Awesome ajoring pleasure
to talking with you. It's onside Fixtion company from Level Up lbl UP
Expo, Last Figs foul last daysigning off here at Level Up Day two
beautiful Las Vegas and about to joinhere with Charles of Shrunk three D in

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Las Vegas. How's your day going, Charles? It's going well, how's
your your day going? Doing awesome? You've got people that have been shrunk
into three D? Awesome is howdoes this does the process go about?
With that? So you would hopinside the booth and then we take two
sets of images. It's one hundredand ninety images on half a second.
From there, we render out yourmodel online and then we three D print

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it based off of the images wetake. Super cool, How does the
likenesses? How do you go intojust shrinks down the image into like a
digital file or yep, in adigital file. We actually have a projection
that maps out your whole your wholeface and all the different d tails.
That way we can truly get getit looking like you What is the is
there different sizes or different he lookslike there's different levels. But what's like

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the various size and format you canget? Yeah, so we go all
the way down to three inches andthen we go all the way up to
a foot. Yeah, what isthere? Just a curious question. We're
here in a big comic com withfeature on gaming, pop culture and all
the goodies. Have you all everdone any like a celebrities or actors?
If so, what are some ofthe cool ones you've done? Or cosplayers
whatever as well? We've done afew cosplayers running around here celebrity wise,

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you know, we've done Elvis aroundtown. We've also I'm not sure if
I'm allowed to say this yet,but we've done tape Face. That's a
good one. He's pretty He waspretty funny to hang out with super Awesome.
Where do people go? Is therean internet site that are you have
to be in physical in the boothto be able to do this or how
do they go about doing it?Yes, so if you want to get
shrunk, you would have to hopin the booth right behind us. You

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can check us out online at Shrunkthree d dot com, slash lvy Awesome,
Charles, thank you so much,man. Check out Chunk three D
Las Vegas LV and Beautiful Las Vegas. Deboutis Oeicide Fiction. Signing off l
Level up Day two Here at lv l up Level Up two Day two
Beautiful Las Vegas Devana Joint. Therewere Josh of Sin City Comics. How
is your day going, Josh,that's going great. We're having a great

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time here today. You've got someawesome issues in comics. Of course.
What kind of things y'all do inthe world of comics. Well, there's
three of us, the Sin CityComics. We are the writers and creators
of Tampo and Erratick. A littlebit about a Tampo is his NaN's Matthew
Martinez controls manipulates time, but nottime travel, fast forward, pause,
rewind, but only in seconds.So we can bring out break an Arm
and break legage shot backs up,tries it again and Erratic she's based off

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in the future, daughter of twosuperheroes. She doesn't have any powers,
so they hook her up with astronger hero to get trained and she joins
them in their journey and it's moreof a coming a a story. So
you're gonna really enjoy that one too. That's super awesome. How many issues
of the comic is there so far? We have six issues of Tampo,
five issues of Erratic. We willhave another issue of Erratic, issue six

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coming out very shortly. It's onthe product line right now. Who does
the art on the comic? Isthat you or who does that? No?
Actually, we have artists. Wecommissioned them throughout the country and the
world. We have artists in Italy, Spain, Cuba, North Carolina,
Michigan, and we have a greatteam in Sin City Comics and we're really
happy to work with them. Superawesome. And how long have you been
a part of the company and whatkind of things are you looking to do

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to any other characters or anything likethat or Yeah, So our company started
in twenty sixteen. We were inthe middle of the desert throwing rocks at
each other, and we just hadthe idea to start, you know,
writing comics. So from twenty sixteento twenty nineteen we developed Tempo and we
came out with Issue one. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit so it kind of
slowed us down, but as soonas everything opened up, we hit Level

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Up, our conventional Level Up.In twenty twenty one, I was our
first convention and we just expanded tothe comics you see here today. That's
super awesome. Is there a websitewrapping up where people can find out about
the comics or Sin City Games?Yes, Sincitycomics dot com. You'll see
Teampo and Erratick and we do havea total of nineteen characters that we have
developed. Just the stories are beingwritten as we speak right now. That

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is awesome, Josh, thank youso much, sir, Thank you ol
miss Ie Fiction Company from Level UpXpo Day two, signing off here Level
Up last day, Las Vegas.About it doing here a reflex of the
US Army. They got some amazingesports type things going on here. What
do you all guys got going onhere? So we came out here to
Las Vegas level up. We haveguys in these jerseys with the US Army

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Esports team pretty much we have avariety of members service members that come out.
We compete in different titles such asRocket League, Apex here. We
got you know, very common,very well known game Hell Divers too out
here, So we got some guysthat hop on get engaged with the community
out here. We got some fightergames on the side. It's pretty much
our mission out here is just hadthat engagement with people, kind of show

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down like what the Army offers,and just kind of have fun with it.
You know, that's super cool,very very cool. You said they
log in, is that like multiplayeraccess or like are they kind of playing
virtually on the internet or so hereFor hell Divers, we got these guys
kind of LinkedIn. So we havethis little land set up. But for
the Army itself, for our esportsteam members and everything like that, we

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have guys that are online at large. We compete in tournament stuff like that.
We do have a Rocket League andan Apex team in Kentucky station,
the Kentucky Station there and we competefull time for the Army, get into
competitions, engage with a lot ofindividuals come to events and kind of be
ambassadors for what we do. Butfor the most part, most of our
tournaments are online and that's a lotof our engagement. Super cool. How

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long have you been with the company? Is there any kind of new things
are in the games? You're kindof looking at developing next on the level,
So I'll be playing and doing theesports, I gotcha. So I've
been doing US Army esports. Wecall it at large when you're at a
different unit. I did that startingbeginning of twenty twenty, right before COVID,
So I've been doing that for awhile. I've been here doing this

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professionally for the Army for the lastyear. When it comes down to games,
we try to obviously have the bestcompetitors in the Army for those games.
So for when it comes to Kentucky, we had our Apex team in
our Rocke League team because those guyswere the most engaged, they were the
best. We were hanging with thetop players and those were more of the
hot games. But we have peoplefrom like Super Smash, we have Wow

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Guys, Street Fighter, everything likethat. So for us, our idea
not really any games in particular thatwe're trying to like focus in on or
hone in on other than that.But yeah, we just try to compete
where we can on every tournament.What's your favorite do you like to play?
Even if it's not any sports,just on the free time and there's
a particular won or two you liketo play. So the difficulty about taking

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your hobby and making it work whenyou're competing and playing a part of you
will get some form of like exhaustionfrom it. So you want to have
those free games. So we havea buddy that does MLB. He'll be
playing and as soon as he dies, we're like, hey, what are
you doing, And he's playing MLBon the side and he was like,
oh, I'm just resetting for meas an individual. Hell Divers Too was

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going to be that game for me, and then I looked at it and
I was like, you know,if I play this, I don't think
I'm going to be able to stop, and then it's going to affect my
competitive game. So pretty much whatI do now is I actually just stop
playing video games. Yeah. Surprisingly, I hang out with my wife and
we do things like that and gooutside and like actually explore everything. Instead

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of just being in the office andcompeting the real life instead of the digital
grid. Yeah, no, absolutely, that's that's also a big thing for
us, is like we try tolike preach that work life balance because at
the end of the day, whenyou look at competitors that aren't even in
the military, it's exhausting and youknow it caused physical injuries and stuff like
that. So just being able totake that step outside and start doing other

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things and interactions. So that's whywe really enjoyed these events because you're taking
us out of our competitive zone comingout here talking about it, engaging with
people, and start meeting and networkingwith others that like do what we do.
So I researched some stuff that's beenarticles written in some scientific studies how
video games can help people with therapywise with like PTSD and other things.
How does that kind of play intowhat y'all do with the gaming and the

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esports and all that I got you. For me as an individual, I
can't speak on others, behalfs,but for me, video games have always
been an outlet and I feel likemost of the community when it comes to
video games in general, can probablysay the same thing. When it comes
to PTSD again, for myself intherapy, being able to hop on the
game and kind of like remove yourselffrom the outer world, talk with other

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service members like myself about those experiences, even talking to civilian members and just
having fun like being away from thatspace. I would say it's definitely for
myself included, and I guess Ican speak for some of my friends.
Is exactly what we need, Likeit helps tremendously in I wish there was
a better perspective on video games,at a more worldly perspective on it.

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Just the fact that it's more thanjust a game, and it's like a
recovery thing. Very much is,and it gives people an opportunity to kind
of step back from all the stressof real life and enjoy something fun.
Reflects pleasure talking with you own withthe US Army. Here level up the
sports side Fiction signing up. Thisis Owen Potter, thanking you for listening
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fiction dot com. Just ti brain, it's gone subspace, brain and brain.

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What is brain dead? To onethe green Hornet, He hunts the
biggest of all games. Of theAcademy that even the g men cannot reach

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the green Hornet. The Adventurer notone cent for tribute. The events and

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characters depicted in this drama are fictitious. Any similarity to wacktfual persons living or
dead is killed a coincidental that thecat taken on the neck. Connor croget
that that one, Kelly, can'tyou see how much he can guess?
That was? Okay? What wewant around the next corner? Which way

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where you were? What there's notright here? It go? No,

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boys, I guess we won't haveno more trouble with that guy, not
now, Slego. Drinking boys,You sure the bomb did a good job.
I was walking through the Red Hillmirror, Slego. Kroger tossed that
pineapple right into the middle of thegas pump, so worry for you could
pick up what's left the place wherethe knight drop. And that's fine.
From now on, he'll pay protectionto go along with the rest. You've
got a sweet wreckage, Lego.Sure every gas station in the city is

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kicking in paying for protection, Sally, huh. I make sure enoughing happens
to'em. And if they don'tpay they run into trouble, like the
night you were careful enough to letanyone see you. We went by too
fast? Ways, yeah we hewas a stolen car. This is a
couple of blocks. Further on.The only guy that had an idea,
does us? Is that guy webom catch him talking? Besides, he
don't know, but sure at leastgot a suspicion, right, a guy

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who was scared. Don't make agood witness. You need more than suspicions
for proof. You said it gouse. As for the police, they can't
prove a thing when they ain't gotwitnesses. Miss Case gets the district attorney

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on the phone for me. Ihave a lowery here when I'm through chalking.
Yes, well it looks like athree alarmed fire the way he's burning
up. Now, I get thedistrict attorney on the wire and tell Lowry
to stop cutting out paper dolls andcome in here on the double. It's
the region A hurry, and Ido mean hurry. I don't remember what
it is. At time last weekhe was turning out scorching editorials on dangerous

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drivers and how they were a minuteon the pedition. Yes, mister Reed,
get me on the information we haveon the recent gas station accident.
Bring it? Tell me or notthe district attorney mister Ridd's office just a
moment, Yes, mister Reid,it's the district attorney. I'll switch him
on your wire. I haven't heget busy on that list, you know?
Now, let me have the Morgue. Don't tell me, Casey,

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the boss is going to make methe love moren editor. You'd do better
at a racetrack, Larry well markmore if somebody die, not staff morg
silly place where we keep all theback copies of the sentinel. Oh no,
Casey, you're kidding me. Ifthere's any information he wants, I
have it at my fingertips. Listenis case mister Reid wants all the information
you have about recent gas station accidentthat sas. I don't care how you

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get them. Well, check withthe police, go through your back copies.
Case that last gay station that wasblown up with the shambles right pumps
gasoline. I never saw such amessage. It doesn't take a reporter to
see that. The way the detecta note of sarcasm in that last craft,
you do, honestly, Lawry,it's an open secret. Who's back
of all these bombings and fires?Really? Play the lass? Who tell
me something I don't know? Casey? And why don't your stories say so?

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Blessen Casey. Sure Slagans controls thegas stations in this town. He's
got a protection racket that brings ina scent on every gallon. Then why
don't the cent? No, can'tprint that, there's no proof, would
be sued from here to Christmas.My idea of heaven would be someplace where
a newspaper can print what everybody knowsis true, even though it can't be
proof. Yeah, but this placedoesn't Heaven is here? Well, maybe
the district attorney can do something.I've been talking to him, law.

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That's funnis. Did he have anything, mister Read? Not a thingous case?
How about that last bombing boys,that's the same story all over again.
Laura's suspicions but no proof. Eventhe owner of that gas station refuses
to talk. And meanwhile, let'smake Slago keeps raking in all the cash
you can get his grabbing hands done. There's one consolation, mister Read.
Yeah, Casey, and that Iknow of this case. What I mean
is sliego's only taking money from gasstations. Well, one cent different than

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the price of gasoline isn't going toaffect people so much. In this case,
you're making the same mistake that othersdo. The price of gasoline is
as important as any other. Thesupposed lago's rackets of meat and vegetable markets,
people wouldn't be able to get theright kind or amount of foods.
Now you can't contact read the samething. Keep your ears open, casey,
here's where you get a lesson insimple economics. Meat and vegetable markets
use trucks in their business. Yes, they have to pay the same high

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price for gasoline the slagel forces fromeveryone else, but spend a gallon that
adds up. They spend more forgasol, then they have to make it
up somewhere else. In other words, if their expenses go up, they
have to charge the public more forthe food they're selling. You'll hit it
force and the same goals for everyfamily that uses the car. Exactly every
cent they have to spend for gasmeans one cent less to buy milk and
eggs and fresh vegetables for the familytable. Have course, I didn't stop

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the thing more people did take miscase. Racketeers like Slagel would never get
started. Too late for that.Now Slagel's got the gas stations tied up
tighter, Gudini, That's why itcalls you. We're going after every one
of those gasoline delays. Why Bass, If we can find one man who
lect his witness against Slagel, that'sall the district attorney will need. The
sending the names up from the Markmystery, go after the Lorry take quicker

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of Anny where there? Okay,we ought to be able to convince somebody
that he's smart at his witness.Larry and Clicker Benny made the rounds of
the gas stations which had recently hadaccidents. For Their search was fruitless.
They could find no one would consentto appear against bat Slago. They approached
the gas station run by a mannamed Jennings. Larry said, we're not

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having much luck. Clicker. Everybodygives us the same story. I can't
blame him exactly, Larry, howwould you like her if something happened to
your family. I haven't got afamily, Yeah, but most of these
gas station operators have. Besides,they can't help much, they say,
they can't, but I know itmay be true. Apparently bat Sleagel is
pretty careful about making sure there's noactual evidence against him. Then he all
these accidents can't have just happened.Slagel's responsible, all right, there's no

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doubt about that. Only all thevictims claim they saw nobody, heard nothing,
and know nothing. I still saythey're scared. How about this guy
here with his name Jennings. Okay, watch me work. It'd be about
time. Nothing's worked so far.He is't not here, must be inside
the station. Yes, sir,you want some gas, mister Jennings.
It's right. If I didn't hearyou was busy check him over the business

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I've been doing? Oh is businesscould be better? Who wants to know?
Being one cent tribute and every gallonof slago cut into the province,
doesn't it listen to mister? Youhit a by gaslin or what? Oh
one? Mister Jennings. We don'tmean to be rude. If you want
guess, I'll sell it. Ifyou don't clear up, I don't understand.
We're from the daily setting. Huh. He does the reporting and I
take the pictures. I would youlike your picture on the papers, mister
Jennings my picture. Yeah, theSentinels running a series on gas station operators.

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We want to tell our read Don'tkid me. I'm on some of
our leaping. Huh. You heardwhat I said. You informed me with
that series stuck. You're here aboutBett Swagel. Ain't you nice work?
Lowry? Okay, Jennings, Iwon't stall. How about it? You
know punny about the way Slago worksMe not a thing. I suppose Slago
didn't write your place last month?W'd you get that idea? There was

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an accident? Guess bank exploded?Oh, mister Jennings, don't hold out
on that. Come on, Jennings, you know not what with Slagel?
N an anam and you'll be ahero. Yeah. I'd rather be alive,
but I had it wouldn't do anygood anyway. I didn't see nothing.
You were here when it happened,weren't You'll sure? But I didn't
see anybody. I said. Itwas an accident, see you an accident
just like the rest of them.Afraid to talk. Listen, you take
a tip and get out of herebefore I get mad. Looks to me

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as if all of you are yellowand wanted you to get out letting slago
make monkey of you yellow at thechrysanthemum. Hey you, oh, I
get out and stay out. Don'tcome on again looking first to you'll get
another poke in the jaw. Don'ttell me, Laura, the only result
of something you and miss been outis that bruise on your chin. The

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big jellyfish smacked me when I wasn'tlooking. Doesn't sound much like a jellyfish
to me. Not this fellow misterReed. He was mad, I mean
about slag on, mister Reid.They were all jellyfish. And then the
guy who socked me wouldn't open hismouth about slage Compared to them. The
plan could talk your ear off,Lorry. I don't quite approve of your
tactics in questioning this man Jennings.I couldn't help it. Boss. By
the time I got around to him, I was fit to be tied.

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Me. Porters are supposed to goout for facts. Not quite sound the
level, Boss. I tried beingpolite, you know, lowry mister Reid.
If he can't get facts one way, he uses another. Were there
any of them have something on Slagelor not? I don't know. All
I know is they won't talk.Then you've been trying to conceal a grin
ever since Lorry. You came inhere me, did you snap a picture
of Jennings hitting Lowry? Huh?Well, I uh my camera was handy

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and I just took it liqu her. You doubled give me that camera?
Hey, can it? Girl?Take if your shot for a private collection,
let go you bast shot, holdon bother. It'll rule me for
tick. I'll show that print allaround the city room you said it,
I'll have it in large too.Click. I'll buy that picture from me?
How much? I never mind thatrush the film of the dark room,
Miss Binny, that shot is goingon page one as well as she

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doesn't what you're gonna publish it?Why? Boss, Why the captain under
is reading this? Man is notafraid of hitting a reporter. Why is
he afraid to talk about Slagel?Wow, I've been waiting for a chance
like this all my life. Whydon't that newspaper mind its own business putting

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my picture on the front page.But I want to say, though,
very well, why I won't talk? Perhaps you should tell what you know
about Cleagel and have his mom doanother job on my gas station. I'll
come over here after you and Timmynot a chance. Wouldn't do that,
Sure he would. Besides, Ican't prove it with Slagel had my place
bombed. He's too slick for that. So we go on pain. Yeah,

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and then the Slagel's collectors do herepretty soon the money ready, yes'mbo
if them seeing this picture in thesentinel, I better have it for him
on the line. The door bellis that him? It's a little early,
but you stay here around lets I'llsee him in the hallway. Be
careful, Jim, don't worry,honey. Godh wish it was something I
could do without making things bad forAlice and the kid inside. Jenny,

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say what mass got back? AndGun? I know you you're the green
Horn. That's exactly right. Whateveryou come for, hont you're not getting
it. See you forgot the nuneybring it here? Why you dirt?
I couldn't give you a shot ofcass and take it anyway, Jenny,
Jim here here it is, Yes, better it goes for Slago Horn.
It was for Slago, but notanymore. I thought we had big a
collector. Do what you that's toobad. The green hornets out here?
First, your kids? What dowe tell'em? Tell them anything?

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This cash goes with me, nestlet me called keetup, green horn give
up, thank you, it's toolate. There he goes. But Jennings
was wrong. The green Hornet hadno intention of leaving. The car pulled
away that we spoke to. Catowas the only living man to know him

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as the green Hornet. Cato doublesback around the block. Wanna be there
when Schlegel's collector arrives. Yes,it's then. I don't be there when
he does. You'll wait for mein the car. A short time later,
Sligo's collector arrived at jennings home torefuse to believe jennings story. Start

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stolen, Jennings, where's that go? I'll tell you the green hornet took
it. I don't make me laugh. The hoy wouldn't bother a twenty bunts
of shoes. My husband met themoney in the other room. When he
came to the door of the store, I thought it was you calling,
so I brought the money out tothe hornet drabbed. I expect me.
Don't believe that you got that gohit someplace, the hall, a room
out there. Go ahead search ifyou want to, you won't, I

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won't. Eh. Oh you callthis your dumbheads. Write the table and
see what my name on it.All that flocks so easy. I would
even look in here. I swearit wasn't getting to wait for your hack
getting since that picture got in thepapers. And I tell Slagel about this,
He'll whittle you down plenty. Outsidethe window, a tall, masked

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figure listened to Kruger's outburst and thenmoved away silently. Step number one in
my plan to one cover Slage's racket. Now, if only everything moves along
as smoothly as it's been going sofar, the Green Hornet is going to
have a busy knight, and thatmeans a busy knife for Bat Slagel as
well Slagel and his whole crooked outfit. As Ritrive found that Bat Slagel,

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a racketeer, had every gas stationin the city paying him a center gallon
on gasoline. This tribute. Byintimidation, violence, and every force at
his command, Slgo is making hisvictims keep silent, assuming the role of
the Green Hornet in an attempt tomatch Slego's racket. That reed made it
appear that the most courageous of Slago'svictims had attempted to withhold his weekly payment

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the protection money from Slago's henchmen.Following Breed's instructions, Kato had the Black
Beauty waiting in an alley near Jennings'shouse. Slide over, Kato, I'll
take the wheel there left from it. Did the plan work over there?
So far the plant is going fine. You know. I double back and
tost the collection and wope into theopen window. Slagel's collector thinks Jennings was

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trying to pull a bluff, soon his way to Slagge. Now we'll
go there. Black Beauty will getus to Slage's place twice as fast as
he can make it, Kato.A green hornet is going to be in
that office when Slagel's collector arrives.It's about time you showed up. Trugger

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after doll from Jennings. Yeah thereis he imagine that Gui pad try to
stall Jennings. Yeah, Jennings,what do you mean? Here's the dough?
He said he didn't have it.Try to tell me the green hornet
it wipe this door a green hunter. That's a lot, and all that
time he's right in the next room, wasn't even hit. Try to bluff
you, huh didn't work. Youought to take him down to pay anyhow
back if any one of them guysgives us trouble, little bit him alright

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now, if you sure Love's boss, it won't Yeah, yeah, crew
grew. From now on, Jenningsis gonna have to pay two cents on
every gown instead of one twice asmuch after teach him to try and act
up with me. I must countthis dough just to make sure. Okay,
bet it's getting late. Feels likemore than twenty Hey, Schlager,
look at this uh genning strictest insteadof a real dog's had a little a

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chuck full of plain paper. Whywhy that? Let me see even yours
heavy paper? So does it soundlike a real pain? I felt the
envelope, well, the envelope sealbath. I didn't think of retired stuff
like this. He won't no moreanything. Thinks they can pool around with
me. And now he had alittle back, Nick, you might come
back like he did this time.Besides, this job's more down. Zelly's
alley, Zelly, And that's right, slag on this end. You're gonna

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do a job tonight, Delli.I got it all figured and here's what
you're gonna do. Hidden in theshadows, where he had been since before
Kruger's arrival, the Green Hornet listenedto Lego's conversation. Then Miss Lego finished
talking. That's the idea of Dellyand make sure nothing goes wrong. I
want Jennings to know he can't playaround with my outfit. Well, that's
your scheme. I with devils.Laugh at what works by going to you're

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a masked it's it's the green holewaver next to each other. Got a
rod. I I heard about thatgun boss and he got bullets. Holy
cat? Oh guess huh? Andonly one gun. I can ever knock
a table over? Apple help gettingfrom behind Krueger. You can't shoot both
ways? Okay, back there,take it gas getting Kruger right, all
right? Cut you out more?Who will gas people behind? I was

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waiting. He didn't see me.Good work, one from each side at
the same time. It's a littlehard to handle it. He almost had
me, but we did now firstto make sure these two rats are unconscious
and I completely uh, can youfix them up? So they'll stay that
way until four in the morning.Four in the morning, that's the time
when Slago told was a way todo that job. If we're going to
get trap day's rats, we'll eatevery minute in between the kid when you

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ought to be going to dad atthat to twelve. Will you go ahead,
honey, I ain't sleep peace,Uh huh, don't be long.
Good night, then night, honey. It's taking plenty out of me to
be paying off the Sligo. He'sgonna make it any turf for one,
and I might as well quit andthen report why they suck him in the
first place. And he certainly wentto look jell at to him cash.

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If I did have any doe putSlingo's reggon, I would call that reporter.
That's a good idea, Jenning.So so it's your again, what
do you want now? I'm yourfriend. You put me in a spot
with slago one purpose to take colorof Slageler. It don't make sense.
First, just wipe that dough.Then you bring in banks to Slago's collector
can fly exactly. It wasn't foryou. I wuldn't be worried about what
Slago's gonna do plenty. I don'tneed a guy in a mask to tell

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me that, Jennings. I'm goingto help you stop him. You you
don't believe me. I've heard plentyabout your Haunted, none of it good.
Perhaps this will convince you. Huh, it's money, dollar bills.
Look at them. Wait, themoney I give to Slagel's collect What he
took was nothing that strips of paper. I had this money with me from
the first. I can't figure you, Haunted. Don't try to. But

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the whole thing's screwy money, Slagel, Jennings, I wanna get slaggled as
much as you do. Yeah,I guess this proves it. How can
you get Slago when nobody's got thegoods on him? Be at your gas
station at four this morning, butit's closed. I close it up at
twelve and my help relieve. Nevermind that. Call the cops too,
Call this, uh a straight poryif you want to be there and watch

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what happened. So, I mean, he's probably the suggestion given him by
the green Hornet. He called theoffice of the Daily Sentinlan. That's for
Lowry. I want to talk toa reporter named lay. Yeah, this

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is Lowry speaking. Who wants me? Jenny's Yeah, that cat station?
Oh you well, listen, Jennings, you want to take another folk at
me forgetting that picture in the Sentinel. You're gonna forget it. I didn't
want that picture released either. Youdon't get it, Laurie. I'm about
something else. Here's the tip pointbed my gas station around four o'clock.

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What fo the Prince are gonna laugh? Slag? I got the dope from
the green Hornet. The green Hornet, you mean he's in on this?
That? Will I be there?Try and keep me away? Wow,
talk about a scoop. So theSlago morble up to something. Hello,
Hello, listen, get me kicker, Vinny, show her on the phone.
How else? I don't know whereshe is, tye every place,

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fire home, by the movie,around the corner, by any place,
but get her. No, itisn't personal, it's business. I got
inside information that the Green Hornet's goingto bust Slago's gang wide open. Here

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we are, Kido Jennings gas station. Yeah, it's deserted alright, and
the problem now is how to getin. I looked out in the bed
and see if the windows open.I'll try the door. Uh, doors
locked. It's not very strong,easy to force it open, but I'd
rather not. Don't need the damageproperty. I find the windows, bait,
it's it up, but they're thehole in the window pane. Good
kid out, there's a hole inthe window pane. We'll be able to

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unlock it and get inside without anytrouble. Yeah, it is, mum,
if I can reach the catch.Probably this window was broken the last
time slag had Jennings place bombed,and Jennings didn't have enough money to repair
it. Yeah. There we canfeel the window catching out. You can

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have Slagel and Krueger Cato. Yes, sir, I'll go in through this
window and open the door. Hewill bring the two of them and put
them right whereas Zelly will find'em. Yes, sir, yes. On
working carefully and parried le reopened thedoor. Together, he and Kato carried
the unconscious racketeers into Jimmy's gas station. They moved in almost total darkness.
You'd never think to look at Slageloany weighed so much. Kato, Hey,

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hey be tver on that chair,alright, put hing down here next
to Krueger ah JD the two ofthem side by side, where Zelly can
find them. Yes, sir,we'll either the door on lock so that
Zelly can get in without any delay. Yeah, time for us to leave
if they're not staying and we can'tafford to stay here. It's too risky,
but it will be near enough tocheck. If anything goes wrong,

(50:43):
we will Slagel and Kruger recover soon. How did him? He'll wake up
and THETT why now? Fine?I may be wrong, but Slagels have
to be over confident. He'll tryto play out his hand in spite of
everything, and that will mean hisfurnish call on Kato uh shor. A

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while after bit reading, Cato leftthe two racketeers to slag o'sadda. What
happened? Where? Oh? Startover horn it? Yeah? Who's that
Kruger? That you gas? Allthat did it? Couldn't get him?
Krooger Crooker wake up a uh Schlager? Well where a way? Kroger?

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It was that blast of green hornet? I remember now the gast us in
my office? Snap out of it? Yeah, yeah, your office.
That's when he must be an hourhe snapped off the lights. Leftist uh
left, says the care and tooka powder and I will find a light
switch and then play her. It'sain't your office. Oh no it ain't.
And when the devil Now I've gotthe window, look at him gas
pubs. This is Jennings place.I recognize a plane. Yeah. I

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just liked up to see things outside. So the green hornet brought us care.
I guess he figured we'd still beunconscious when Delly came around to do
a job on the place. Wethey've been done for h yeah, they
they get wrong. That gas heused wasn't as strong as he's up.
We'll just walk up when Delly showsup and nobody the wise. Hey,
hey, somebody coming out see himthrough the window. Huh not Jelly,
come on, we're going outside andmeet him. What uh? Where's that?

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Take it easy, Delli, It'sme and Kruger, all rightn't expect
you down there, boss? What'sthe matter checking out my lake? We
know you can handle it. Kellywith the green hornet, he brought us
more of it. He tried littlescheme to take care of me and Krueger
when he slipped up. See now, let's get busy. Got the bomb
right there, it was. Okay, we'll sit it down right here next
to the gas tank and give mea match for this fuse. We'll take

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care of the line the night.Get in the gravel. You gotta get
out of here. Hey, great, you don't get me. Don't slagel
to me, tarted way. Kenning'sdown on my gas station. Will your
slager take us? Snap this one? Then he's find up a flight.
Wait, just pay you tribute?Huh well, look has cut the goods
on you? Now? All right? You got me? What else?

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Honey? Did you get a clicker? And how Thanksgillings, you saved us
the trouble. Put the cuffs on. Okay, do I listen optection my
sake. I wasn't supposed to behere. Come up to the judge Krueger,
God lessen to him. He's inas tape as made. I tell
you, the green Hornet brought me. It's like up here you are.
It did, And a good jobtoo, the green hornet is. That's
why you got the tip jilling.Yet it works smooth as clockwork. That's
the green hornet for that. Sothe green Hornet's responsible for this a well,

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that's the first good thing he everdid. Listen, Sergeant the Green
Hornets. Okay, See, nomatter what people say, he's one guy
I'm gonna believe in from now on. No Hornet's Matts got the lean record.

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Are you going to a rest thatNo Pepper got the lead up for
it? Free for rocket roll,mean hearted. That's the way subspace,

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black black blo, no dead toone do