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Not everybody's credits, but not knowing that you and your father were of the same family tree.

I knew Arnie Kogan's name from Mad Magazine.

And I told you before from the credits of Empty Nest with Richard Mulligan.

I'd never seen Soap.

My brother was the one who pointed it out.

He said, written by Arnie Kogan in the credits of Empty Nest.

He goes, hey, Mad Magazine.

I went, oh, same guy.

I don't know if it was the Schofield Bible.

It was probably Mad Magazine inside a Bible.

It probably had Mad Magazine inside, right.

But this is how the lobbying group is actually working in our country.

And this is basically why it's so important.

I like about that.

And someone posted a very well rendered Alfred E. Newman character, like the Mad Magazine guy.

I don't know.

I have not seen him.

Meanwhile, 4.9 miles away from the Powell estate, in their beds for a night, the sleeping village drifts off to the dream cave.

Mad Jack dreams of the coming of the Plasmatons, Teagan the Queen sees the Cybermen's plot to create a disaster in space, and Mr. Fibuli gets his wish.

Through the night and silence in the realm of chaos, the monsters create their plan of action.

They will attack by night, attack in force, attack in the medical unit, attack from the Union.

Now, he also became involved in comics publishing.

He was the business manager at EC Comics, rather famous, again, rather kind of scurrilous and controversial company.

And he worked on this with his school friend Bill Gaines, who was the publisher of Mad Magazine.

This was a big and difficult moment for him.

They transformed.

They became Mad Magazine.

Yep.

Yep.

Below the crypt lies the vault of horror.

A treasure chest of the macabre.

Madness.

Voodoo.

remember we're from the 80s.

Yeah, only from like probably the parody, you know, or like cartoonish, like a Mad Magazine thing or something.

Well, that's the thing is that like in the 80s, everyone had a workout video.

Jackie Stallone had a fucking workout video, you know, like Lou Ferrigno had a workout.

Yep.

You know what I mean? The Oscars are just weird about not rewarding things that are a little too out there for mainstream tastes.

I mean, Amy Madigan did win for a horror film the next year.

Yeah, that's maybe changed a little bit.

Like, just last night my 12 year old was sitting in bed reading mad magazine from you know laughing at jokes about bob dole or something like totally like culturally like not even relevant anymore but kind of hilarious that he still has this archive of out-of-date jokes about society but yeah

That's cool.

I remember Mad Magazine.

They'd be available in my neighborhood sometimes at Walgreens, and I would always go to the back page to do the A, B thing.

The fold-in.

Yeah.

Yeah, I love that.

I mean, it's a longer story, and it's not my story to tell, but I had a studio mate at a studio I was at over 10 years ago, and he now does the fold-in for Mad, which it's a long, amazing story where he reached out to Al Jaffe, the original guy who was doing it well into his 90s, I think almost 100.

What magazine hired Hunter S. Thompson to run for sheriff at Vaspin, Colorado, on the Freak Power ticket back in 1970? And then write about it.

Was it Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Mad Magazine, or Time? Mull that one over.

We're going to have that answer for you in a few minutes.

For right now, we have some news to catch up on.