Chapter 1: What personal updates do the hosts share at the beginning?
Is this thing on? It is now. Literally, as you said that, I pressed record.
There you go.
Stephen's had such a day, he had to go and get a coffee.
Yeah, mate, I hit the wall. After that lunch, I felt like I needed a nap. Anyway. This isn't about talking about my problems. We can talk about your problems. Well, anyway, I'll be... I'm fine. I'm good. Are you sure?
Yeah.
No, fine, mate. I'm all good. Is everything all right?
Grandpa Steve, any news?
No, no, no, no news yet. Still early days. Still waiting. Still hasn't had the baby yet. I get asked a lot, a few people who know that Hayley, my youngest, is having a little bubba. She's, yeah, I get a lot of people ask me, I think, trust me, you'll find out when the baby's born, you'll know about it. There's a chance Stephen will break the embargo. No, it may be Joe.
You're my wife, Joe, before doing that. Anyway.
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Chapter 2: How are the hosts preparing for a new family member?
We're still waiting patiently.
Has it been discussed, the process of communication?
No. Has it been? Let's just let the little fella be born first and then we'll worry about that.
Now, one thing I'm going to do. But you need to make sure that you don't say it before they do.
Of course I don't.
It's like posting photos of the bride and groom before they post photos of the bride and groom.
There's rules, man. You know me, mate. I'll leave it. I'll let them do what they've got to do. But one thing that I did for all of my kids when they were born, and I don't know whether many people do this.
A little bit of cash.
The day they're born, do you wish them a happy birthday?
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Chapter 3: What are the hosts' thoughts on first birthday parties?
Hand it back.
Yeah. I think that's the benefit. I spoke to, I think it was Chloe from HP. She's expecting. And I told her about Hayley and she goes, you know what? There's one thing I never figured she said. She goes, I really loved watching my parents become grandparents. She thought it was really special seeing that my dad and my mum and dad were now a great grandmother and father. Right, right, right.
Yeah, which is really nice. So it's a funny one because I have watched ā I've enjoyed watching my mum become a great grandma because ā Yeah.
Ah.
She's pretty grumpy as a grandma. Really?
She was busy.
She was at the pub. She never really had time.
She's still like that though? Or now that without the pub, she's really carefree? She's still. Yeah? Now, where do you get it from?
No, she's still. That's definitely a family trait. We've talked about it. Right.
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts feel about the value of comic collections?
They just redo it. Like they do a new cover. They may have ā So this is still happening.
There's still artists drawing this stuff.
Yes, yes. How are they making money? For more around the world. Who's buying this? It's King Features Syndicate is the company that owns the Phantom. You see it in the paper and they have the Sunday strip as well. And some issues are just a combination of all the Sunday strips and daily strips. So that's one edition. So rather than them writing ā creating one full issue ā
Some comics that I've got of The Phantom are those daily strips all combined to make a whole story. Yeah. That's what brings you back the next day to reading the paper. Did you not read the comics when you were a kid in the paper? Yeah, I used to read Snake. Yep. I think Garfield. Garfield, that was popular. But The Phantom was in there. I remember reading Peanuts too. I got all the Peanuts too.
I got all the books of Peanuts. You know, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. I'm aware of Peanuts, yeah. I've got all those, and I've got every Mad magazine too. That's another. Did you realize I had the US Mad magazine? The one that folds out the back cover?
Yeah, they had the fold-in, and I've got issue one all the way through to issue 520, and what they did, they changed the font, the Mad font, which has been the same for 60 years. They changed it and went back to number one. This is when, I think, issue number 520, I think, or 540-something was the last one. Then they reset it to number one with a different logo. That went on for a little bit.
Now they've gone back to the old logo but still the new numbers. So I've got a finite collection of Mad Magazine, American Mad Magazine, that, again, were worth money. And the good thing with ā are you aware of Mad Magazine? And it's a real ā it's satire and it's a lot of politically ā political satire as well. So it's like a history book.
Like over the years, you know, when Richard Nixon was the president and when Ronald Reagan was president up to Donald Trump being president, there's all these ā parodies and satires that sort of reflect the times. It's remarkable. It's a real time capsule for those different eras. Yeah, it's really, really, really interesting. But yeah, that's worth a bit of money too. How do you keep them?
They're in boxes. Yeah, like in good condition. Yeah, so I keep them. They're all boxes. And each issue has a, we call it backed and boarded. So it's got a cardboard back and it's in an acid-free bag. So that's called bagging and boarding. And each issue has its own little bag and board, even of the Phantoms, the Phantoms especially.
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