The Penguin

bit.

Especially after the Penguin.

Yeah,

yeah.

Well, the Penguin was

really

dark, though.

Oh, my God.

But wherever you are, sir, you have earned your place: Dick Doozy Hall of Famer indeed.

Next up, Dick Doozy number two, The Penguin.

Mm-hmm.

Let me light my shit up on this one, 'cause yeah, this, this is a actual factual mad story, okay? Mm-hmm.

Fucking educational system sucks in the United States.

It sucks when a motherfucker get bored.

Like, "Why the fuck am I here? I'm done." Anyhoo, one particular excursion introduced me to a man who, for the purposes of this story, shall forever be known as The Penguin.

Mm-hmm.

... to move on quickly.

Um, you said earlier that The Penguin may have been living outside the state in the Netherlands for the last 20-odd years, but he's never really left.

And indeed, there was evidence that he has still very much got tentacles in Ireland, uh, from a CAB case in this decade against his former bag man, Patrick Lawlor.

Lawlor.Yeah.

So, like, this, this is, like, as I said, like, the, the Penguin may feel he physically got off scot-free, but his money hasn't [laughs]

Mm.

In, in this case.

It was seized at his home in Whitehall in, in N- North, North City Dublin.

A lot of the, um, people she was writing about were, uh, she was exposing them under their, their sort of nicknames.

There was The Coach, The General, The Monk, and The Penguin, and they were all very active around that time.

There was this big emerging, uh, drug scene coming in.

In the '90s, we saw this explosion of recreational drug use between ecstasy and obviously cocaine coming in on its heels.

Yeah.

But, uh, it, it's, but, like, I mean, to, you shouldn't understate, I think, what, what Veronica Guerin's, uh, like, the work that she'd been doing with the Sunday Independent.

I mean, like, the, The Monk, The General, The Penguin, The Coach, all of these names were, became really well known, as did she.

She was extremely high profile.

All right.

She played Chickadee, which is the girlfriend of The Penguin on two episodes of Batman.

Okay.

She was a model at car shows and they asked her, "What's the most common thing you hear?" And she says P- "Men are always coming up saying, 'Do you come with the car?'" [laughs]

[laughs]

[laughs]

She's hot enough to be the girlfriend of the Penguin on Batman.

Yeah.

... yeah, so I mean, what, just what I was gonna say, like, Christopher Walken, absolutely brilliant in that film.

Um, The Penguin, and this is why I think it is a really well-made film as well.

Like, when I last watched it, The Penguin still made me feel uneasy.

Mm.

Yep.

Oh, did you?

... uh, Batman, the original Batman, and Batman Returns, uh, following onto each other.

Me and the missus were sat watching it at night, and when, um, The Penguin come, came on, my missus went to bed, 'cause it made her feel uneasy

It was somebody else.

You know who played the Penguin in, in the, the Adam West TV show?

Who then?

The guy from the, that played Mickey in, from Rocky.

The old man?

Yeah, he played the Penguin.

Oh, shit.

How did not know that?

Um, we see Batman meet up with Jim, who's like, "Oh, how's your boy?" And he's like, "If you fucking ask me, I will punch you in the dick." And Jim is like, "You know what? Heard.

Never mind." Uh, we see the assassination attempt on Alfred's life as Batman goes to meet with The Penguin, who reveals that, uh, the assassination attempt was a ruse, has the assassin kill both the helicopter pilot and then himself, and then tells Batman, "All right.

Sit down, we gotta talk." Issue 59.

What? [laughs]

So issue 59, that's what we do this for, of course.

Uh, same creative team-

The other thing is that I had the realization this week that James Spader should have been the Penguin.

[laughs]