#540 - Best Fantastic Four Member Part II with John Byrne, Scott Adsit, and Ken Plume

We Got This with Mark and Hal

Hal Lublin and Mark Gagliardi

Thrillingadventurehour, Markgagliardi, Arts, Society & Culture, Hallublin, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Drunkhistory, Welcometonightvale

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

JOHN BYRNE HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, I'm Hal Lublin.
0:01.2	And I'm Mark Gagliardi.
0:03.6	Since the dawn of humanity, one issue has gone unsettled.
0:07.7	With the fate of the world and the balance, we're here to settle once and for all.
0:12.3	Best Fantastic Four member, for real.
0:15.3	With a shocking surprise guest.
0:17.9	That's right.
0:18.6	Don't worry, everyone.
0:20.2	We got this.
0:21.2	Podcasts should have a theme song. Podcasts should not have a theme song.
0:24.9	Yes, they should. No, they shouldn't. They sound good. Yeah, but people are just going to
0:29.1	skip past it. Hmm. You know what? You're right. We got this.
0:37.1	Well, Hal, we tried last week.
0:39.6	The four of us, there were four of us trying.
0:41.6	You, me, Ken Plume, and our dear friend Scott Adset, who came on the show.
0:46.6	He's come on to talk about comic book stuff before.
0:49.2	We were going to try to determine who the best member of the Fantastic Four was, but we couldn't do it.
0:53.5	Yeah, but this is not a failure.
0:55.4	It's just another opportunity to succeed. Yeah, a fail opportunity.
1:01.5	Coffee right. Put on a shirt, put it on a mug. We're going to be millionaires. Look, this is how
1:05.7	comic books work. There's a setback. And then the next issue, Deus X Machina appears, and it's some superhero comes in that you didn't even expect, and they save the day, and they get you to your goal. Whatever the finish line was, they get you there. And guess what? We have that right now. That's right. We couldn't get Dave X. Machina, like Mark said, but we did get a fantastic guest. We're very excited to welcome him in.
1:29.0	The last episode, we were deadlocked on different members of the Fantastic Four. We each had a favorite, so we could not come to a consensus.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hal Lublin and Mark Gagliardi, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hal Lublin and Mark Gagliardi and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.