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Pick of the Week #815 – The Scumbag #12

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4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Listen, we’re all getting older and we’re all going to die one day and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. This week’s show, as it is with every week’s show, is about the inexorable march of time and our helplessness in the face of it. And also comic books. Running Time: 01:02:36 Pick of the Week: 00:03:13 – The Scumbag #12 Comics: 00:10:58 – Love Everlasting #1 00:16:14 – Fantastic Four: Life Story #6 00:20:51 – Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha #1 00:29:00 – Monkey Prince #1 00:32:44 – New Masters #1 00:34:44 – Geiger 80-Page Giant #1 Patron Pick: 00:38:33 – The X-Cellent #1 Patron Thanks: 00:46:33 – Shaun Moats 00:47:35 – Tom Cornell Listener Mail: 00:48:41 – Jimi L. pines for the Marvel glory days of the early 2000s. Brought To You By: • iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount! • iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We’ve got twelve designs! Music: “A Hazy Shade of Winter” Simon & Garfunkel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This show is sponsored by Better Help.

0:03.0

Ah, there's a lot in the world to deal with.

0:07.1

If you can't figure out a way to shut your brain off sometimes from just mentally calculating

0:12.9

and working through all of the things that are going on in a given, just listen to a

0:16.4

five minute news report and then look at all the things that you have to do in a given

0:20.9

week and people you have to take care of and all that and it can be really difficult.

0:25.0

And sometimes, you know, it keeps you from going to sleep, it keeps you from relaxing.

0:29.1

It's hard to find, you know, a way to decompress, unplug yourself, things like that.

0:34.8

And you might be thinking, well, it's just the way it is.

0:36.9

And the fact is, you know, there are ways to make that better.

0:39.9

It's better help, see?

0:40.9

We're going there.

0:41.9

It turns out the therapy is one way that for some people, it might be helpful to, and

0:48.8

they wrote here, they wrote to get out of your negative thoughts, cycles, actually really

0:51.4

like that as a phrase because that's a thing that we do is that, you know, we dig a groove

0:56.0

in our heads and then we circle around that even though all sense says, hey, you know,

1:00.5

that you know better than this, but you keep coming back.

1:03.0

And so you can find mental and emotional peace.

1:05.4

And that right there is the thing that is the goal I have for sure is you want to find

1:10.9

some mental and emotional peace.

1:12.3

You want to be able to be calm, you want to be able to be content and you look around

1:15.6

and like, how can I be calm and content with a world like this or whatever?

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