Hello and welcome to Web Crawlers, a podcast where we do a deep dive into some of our favorite

mysteries. Each week we will introduce our topic, lay out our research and findings, reveal some conspiracy theories and conclude with our own hypothesis. I'm Ali Siegel. And today we have special guest host who has been like immensely patient with me as I rescheduled the first time and then had a crazy morning today, special guest host Sally Madden. Hello, Sally, Sally, sorry, I just interrupted you again.

No, it's okay. I just it's okay. It's okay. Don't worry. If it makes you feel any better, I had to call somebody who lives in Nottingham, a real place. Oh my God, over the weekend. And I was off on the time zone change by a full hour. She's really great. So don't worry, everyone. It's funny. Like you and me. It's me comforting the guest host, but Sally was like, are you okay today? Like how are you doing? Oh, no, this is oh no. Sally, tell us a little bit about

yourself. I am a waitress by trade. Awesome. And I also host a comics podcast. Oh, Katie Skelly. Um, I'm sure that some of your true crime fan listeners will know Katie Skelly because she did a terrific graphic novel about the pan sisters. Oh, but anyway, our show is called thick lines. And we only talk about comics that we like. And we don't really talk about a lot of big two comics.

So if you're, it's not a lot of Marvel and DC. It's like, if you like Dan Clouds, you like Julie, do say, you want to talk about some nasty manga. Then that's a great place to go amazing. We had another, we had a comic historian on. I know. Yeah, you had, um, uh, Jackie no Dell. Yeah, she, she's awesome. She's like romance comics are so incredibly fun. Like, cause no one romance comics.

It's also great because you don't have to worry that there's some scholar who's going to tell you, like, you don't get them, like, we all, we're all here for the same, like, Cosmo quiz that they are, yeah, she's wonderful.

I should connect you guys. In case you ever want to have her on, um, I love, I love the comic book circle. That's so cool. I was really into X X man comics, which I know is different than what you're, uh, what both of you guys do. But, um, yeah, I need to get back into comic books.

Really into Archie comics and I had a Archie comics website when I was little, oh, that's so great. There's something. Oh my God. We're big Archie fans. Like all, like American Gen X comic creators. You can kind of trace it back to Archie. Like, they're all just like copying Archie totally. Yeah.

If you have a, are you familiar with the series Love and Rockets?

No, it's great. They're LA based, but like, they, the, they're great illustrators, but they also like, man, those dudes were reading a lot of Archie. It's like saturated with Archie, like, all the, like, the poses, the hairdos, like, it's just very Archie, which is great because we like it. Yeah. Oh, amazing. I love that you could, like, track the genesis of where these people all get their inspiration. That's really cool.

I know we need to get into it. And I would like to, I just have a question. Yes, here's the thing. So recently, um, you ran a re-release of your episode on the All You Can Eat Crab disaster that lobster had a terrific episode that we all were so happy was brought back to our attention. Like, it's something for everyone.

Though, I have to ask, like, yes, you shared your

appreciation for their biscuits. What is your order at Red Lobster?

Oh, my God. That's such a good question. I actually switch it every time.

I got your wild. I know. I'm an outlaw. And I haven't been for like

seven years, maybe. I bet the menu is the same, though, right? Yeah, there's no way they switch that menu. There's no, maybe, maybe they have like one new thing every three years or like one seasonal thing. I haven't been forever.

Maybe that question just inspired me to go again. It's hard to find someone who wants to go to Red Lobster with you.

They have to have a sense of whimsy in order to want to go to Red Lobster.

So if you ever come to LA, let's go to Red Lobster. I've never been. So

Red Lobster or LA? No. At both of them. Well,

this is a reason to come. Yeah. My recording partner, Katie, does live in LA. So I don't know. I don't know if she's going to the Red Lobster, though. I'll call her later.

Okay. Call her an ask her and then ask her. She wants to go with me to Red Lobster. I absolutely will. She's hungry.

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