1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,760 Got to talk fast. Got to talk fast. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,440 Got to talk faster, faster, faster. 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:10,560 Got to talk fast. Welcome to an oral review of 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,160 Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog reminding you that even an era 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,520 of rampant, unabashed fascism, local judgment calls still can 6 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:20,800 be prudent. Just because the dominant 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,440 religion, America is Christianity, doesn't mean all 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,400 Christians are beyond hope. They might even be on your side. 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,920 Your neighbors and community are still your neighbors and 10 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,320 community. There's a limit, but it's not 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,000 0%. I'm Nick and except for this 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,160 intro I didn't write the script actually. 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,960 Oh, OK. And I'm Dominic. 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,560 And except for this intro, I haven't read any of today's 15 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,800 mystery script. That's lovely. 16 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,400 OK. So I, I didn't tell you this 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,720 ahead of time, but do you, do you know what today is? 18 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,160 Do you know, do you remember what today is? 19 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,280 Today is D-Day plus one, June 7th. 20 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,360 Yes, that. That's how I normally remember 21 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:07,360 June 7th, but it's also our one year anniversary of doing Gotta 22 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,920 Talk Fast. Holy shit we did. 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,400 We started GTF on D-Day plus one. 24 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,080 That's awesome. No, we actually didn't. 25 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,440 The first day we uploaded was June 2nd so. 26 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,760 Got it. Yeah, honestly, funnily enough, 27 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,000 the episode we did last week, which was supposed to go up 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,720 before June 2nd, ended up going on on up on June 2nd. 29 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,720 So we actually to the day uploaded Gotta Talk Fast 30 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,080 episodes one year apart. Awesome. 31 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,840 Do do a mistake. But to celebrate our one year 32 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,600 anniversary, we thought we'd do something a little bit special. 33 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,640 And we thought we'd get a guest writer to do today's script. 34 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:57,960 So I've reached out to our dear friend Mike F and we're going to 35 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,200 I'm going to sit back. Honestly, it's been very nice 36 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,400 not having to stress about writing a script. 37 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:08,199 So I'm going to sit back, relax, and listen to Dominic's smooth 38 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:13,800 voice. OK, here we go, we are reading 39 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,840 Archie Comics. Sonic the Hedgehog #33 Release 40 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,680 date January of 1996. Publication date April of 1996. 41 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,240 Let's get small. Part 1. 42 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,920 Written by Mike Gallagher, Penciled by Dave Monach, inks by 43 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:36,440 Harvo. We open on our We open on our 44 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,920 hasty hero sprinting into the village of Knothole, bouncing 45 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:44,680 around and narrating his actions in what must be given the 46 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,960 premise of this comic, an homage to the 1993 McDonald Super Bowl 47 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,800 ad featuring Michael Jordan and Larry Bird playing an 48 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,880 incredulous game of horse. In the ad, Byrd sees Jordan with 49 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,040 a Big Mac and challenges him for it. 50 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:06,360 Jordan, a slave to Gambler, the gambling monster living inside 51 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:17,320 him, has no choice. Sorry I I forgot about gambler. 52 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,720 Gambler. Has no choice but to accept the 53 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,120 game quickly reaches absurd heights, literally, with Jordan 54 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,520 narrating his next shot atop the Sears Tower. 55 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,360 We do have a link for reference. Should we? 56 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,560 I don't know if we should play that or should we skip that. 57 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:42,200 I I let's insert the clip now. Over the second rafter, off the 58 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:48,680 floor, nothing but net. Through the window, off the 59 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:54,040 wall, nothing but net. What you want is that you get 60 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:59,800 and it got off the dead. Off the Expressway, over the 61 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,480 river, off the Billboard, through the window, off the 62 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:08,920 wall, nothing but net that that's actually really cool. 63 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:10,920 I I don't know if I have seen that before. 64 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,120 I don't think so. That probably that aired well 65 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,320 before I was born, but. It's just a classic commercial. 66 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,959 Like, I, yeah, I mean, obviously I, I've never, I didn't see it 67 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:23,960 live, but I mean, I just know it because it's a famous one. 68 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,960 I mean honestly, like that New Jack, new Jack swing soundtrack 69 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,280 is is iconic and you've got 2 greats right there. 70 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:32,880 I don't know why Larry Bird wasn't in. 71 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,280 Why wasn't he wasn't in Space Jam? 72 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:39,440 But anyway, back to Knothole, we see Sonic, who, not receiving 73 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,520 the attention he desperately craves, is yelling for his 74 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,360 comrades to no response. Behind him creeps the silhouette 75 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,920 of Rotor. He was in Space Jam. 76 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,080 Sorry. I was like 90% sure he was, but 77 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,520 I was like, I don't know enough about basketball to like, say 78 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,640 that definitively. So I quickly went on MDB. 79 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,200 Yeah, he's, he's in Space Jam. He's the tall white guy. 80 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,720 He was one of the six. Yeah. 81 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,160 So it was, was it? It was Bugsy Malone. 82 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:17,720 Patrick Ewing. Or I wonder if it was just like 83 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,440 a cameo. I don't know if he was actually 84 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,440 on the team itself, but he's he has IMDb credit for. 85 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,080 You're right. Behind him creeps the silhouette 86 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,080 of Rotor, his next. His next action is an homage as 87 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,200 well, this time to Nick's pickup technique at bars, when he 88 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,720 quickly covers Sonic's mouth and a piece of cloth from behind. 89 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:45,680 Holy shit dude. I didn't know Mike F knew about 90 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,000 that, but. Rather than an ether soaked rag, 91 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,480 Rotor supplies Sonic with a surgical mask and with his 92 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,600 strength fading, guides him into the lab where the entirety of 93 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,080 the Freedom Fighters are lying bedridden. 94 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,120 Should know that was a bit the the, the, the, the ether soak 95 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:11,760 drag thing is a bit OK Rotor. Snap out of it pal. 96 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,240 Tell me what happened while I was out of patrol. 97 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:22,040 So this is sick Rotor, right? It all started when we ordered 98 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,200 take out from the new fast food restaurant. 99 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,000 We see a festering bag of food on the table, flies swarming and 100 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,640 green liquid seeping out. Pictured on the bag is a 101 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,760 familiar red R Mcrobos that sounds like a set up by 102 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,120 Robotnik. Why didn't you eat the stuff I 103 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,400 left in the fridge? Rotor explains that the crew is 104 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,560 so tired of eating chili dogs, they would rather risk it all on 105 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,360 a trap so obvious even Sonic immediately clocked it. 106 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,600 Gosh, Robotnik must have mastered microbionics. 107 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,720 Tiny little robot germs. He sprinkled them onto our deep 108 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,480 fried potatoes so they'd get inside of us, which they did. 109 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:16,120 We've all got the French Fryrus. Sonic, pretending to know what 110 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,800 French Fryrus is, gasps. In his last moments of lucidity, 111 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,920 Roeder begs Sonic to save the Freedom Fighters, flopping 112 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,520 forward with his tusks driven into the ground like stakes. 113 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,480 Knowing this problem must be solved at the microscopic level, 114 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,480 Sonic runs to the storage closet and pulls out a shrink ray the 115 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,360 Freedom Fighter salvage from 1 of Robotnik's machines. 116 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,840 He powers up the machine and shrinks himself. 117 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:49,280 End of Part 1. OK, because we're still on Larry 118 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,600 Bird. In my mind, I went, and while 119 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,120 you're doing that, I wasn't listening. 120 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,520 I went and just looked up his scenes in Space Jam. 121 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,760 He's playing golf with Bill Murray and Michael Jordan. 122 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,160 OK, OK. He OK. 123 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,120 Thank you. You're right. 124 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,240 You're right. I remember it now. 125 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,920 He was not one of the one of the six or so that got their powers 126 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,800 that their skills stolen. OK, good. 127 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,720 And then on top of it, he's he, he watches a game with Bill 128 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,960 Murray on the sideline. Those are his two scenes. 129 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:24,040 OK, now to the actual comic. I'm going to open with. 130 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,800 My favorite part of this, and maybe even most annoying part of 131 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,919 this, is I like the implication that Sonic is for some reason 132 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:37,240 the chef of the group. Yeah, that's I did not, I did 133 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,320 not think that. Yeah, it makes makes no sense. 134 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,000 I would. I feel like I clocked either 135 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,480 Antoine or Roeder as being the person who cooks. 136 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,640 Or Uncle Chuck at this point. I mean, Uncle Chuck doesn't 137 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:56,000 exist until he's in frame. I think it's like a point. 138 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,240 Of situation, yeah. Yeah, definitely a like. 139 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,320 Unless observed, Uncle Chuck does not exist. 140 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:04,680 This comic has object permanence, yeah. 141 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:10,320 Exactly what do you think the Part 1 here? 142 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:14,000 I mean, sure, it's it's a silly setup, but it's so silly where I 143 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,920 can buy into it, surprisingly enough. 144 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,600 Yeah, sure. And I appreciate the the 145 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,560 continuance of like, OK, well we have a shrink ray, so let's use 146 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:25,560 the shrink ray. This might be a little nitpicky, 147 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:30,720 but I don't think Sonic got small enough 'cause when you 148 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,960 look at the size of his shrink like when he's small like, he's 149 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,920 still the size of a tiny pencil. Yeah, they they did not clock 150 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,760 microscopic properly. Like microscopic means like you 151 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,600 cannot see it with your eyes. You need to make microscope 152 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:47,920 bacterial level. Yeah, he's not. 153 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,320 He's not small enough at all. Yeah, but that's just me. 154 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,040 Well, and then he gets inside and then he is small enough. 155 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,080 But that's just me being nitpicky. 156 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,400 Yeah, yeah, same. We can buy into it. 157 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,120 But for the record, the the the the sizes are completely wrong. 158 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,480 Yeah, like I guess that's technically the the beginning of 159 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,080 the next issue, but. I I think he's like 2/3 of the 160 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,440 way to microscopic, if that like microscopic is truly 161 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,080 microscopic. I'm surprised the the writer 162 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,600 didn't go down some sort of like COVID route with all the masks 163 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,840 and whatnot. Yeah, COVID in in 1996. 164 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,240 Making a reference you. Know. 165 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:31,840 No, I don't know what are you talking. 166 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:32,920 Wow. I was. 167 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:39,880 I would have made a reference that Sonic is wearing a diaper 168 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:45,520 on his face. Oh, you're talking about Mike? 169 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,200 You're talking about Mike F You're talking about Mike F? 170 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,000 Yeah. I'm sorry. 171 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,480 I thought you were talking about being the comic writer. 172 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,680 No. No, no, no, no, no. 173 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,880 Yeah, no, Sonic. He he at this? 174 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:01,600 Either he is it's a COVID reference or an ICE officer 175 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,480 reference. Oh who? 176 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,600 Who are the? Same the same mother fuckers who 177 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,080 were complaining about masks on their face are not wearing masks 178 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,640 on their face to commit horrible war crimes against humanity. 179 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:14,840 But. Hell yeah. 180 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,000 Yeah, some good concentration camp shit. 181 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,880 There's two random animals on the sick bed that we we don't 182 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:23,440 really know. OK, OK. 183 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:24,720 Thank you. Thank you for mentioning that 184 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,840 because we've got the the core group of freedom fighters, 185 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,960 including Bunny, thank goodness. But you've also got others that 186 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,160 I have just genuinely never seen in my life. 187 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,680 I'm assuming that they are representative of other freedom 188 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:38,360 fighters. I I just assumed they were 189 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,640 representative of other people in that hole. 190 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,640 Sure, sure, yes. Who may be freedom fighters or 191 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,720 not or just regular citizenry. You're right. 192 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,240 All right. But do you think you mentioned 193 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,560 that if they wanted to? No. 194 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,000 OK, so something interesting here. 195 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,880 DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency was 196 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:06,320 founded in 1958, so it's very possible that the folks at 197 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:13,240 Archie Comics may have been clued in to microscopic to to 198 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,920 nanites. Now they call it microbionics 199 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,080 here. This is 2 years before Metal 200 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,000 Gear Solid is unleashed into the world. 201 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,080 Do they mention do they mention nanites in Metal Gear? 202 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,600 Nanites. No nanites. 203 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,360 Nanomachines. Nanomachines. 204 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:30,600 OK, OK, got it. Got it. 205 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,080 Yeah, not nothing about. They don't use the term nanite 206 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,280 specifically. OK, it's nano machines. 207 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:39,400 Got it. OK, you're right. 208 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:46,200 But they do use in Metal Gear Solid 5 microbiology kind of 209 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:51,120 warfare in that sense, like controlled micro where it it 210 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,520 attacks like certain parts of the body specifically. 211 00:12:54,360 --> 00:13:00,000 'Cause that game is, is based on, that game is based on in, in 212 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,640 the 60s. It takes place in the 60s. 213 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,280 I mean, yeah. Yeah. 214 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,120 Yeah, I honestly, I was the whole time I was reading, I was 215 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,600 trying to sneak in a fox dye reference, but I also, but I I 216 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,720 didn't want to mess with Mike's pretty damn good script. 217 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,440 I I'm enjoying this so far. Mike, good job. 218 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,040 I don't, I don't know if Nick can say the same thing 219 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,720 considering you called him a a very questionable individual 220 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,880 with the ether rag, but you know, that's a bit and a funny 221 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:30,640 one. What was I gonna say? 222 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,680 I, I, I was like, I didn't pre read this. 223 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:35,080 I was like, maybe I should have pre read this and punch it down 224 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,320 a little bit just so that it's not as funny so people don't get 225 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:44,680 used to funny scripts. Let's get small Part 2. 226 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,600 We return to a scene Nick is all too familiar with, A small hog. 227 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:04,320 A small hog, A shrunken Sonic finds himself standing between 228 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:08,520 two ivory columns, staring down the gaping maw of Rotor's mouth. 229 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,280 Wasting no time, he sprints down Rotor's throat with record 230 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,000 speed. In fact, it's safe to say that 231 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,760 surely no one could outrun Sonic down a throat. 232 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,640 He's simply the greatest to ever do it. 233 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:31,120 He is the throat goat. Move over Nancy Reagan. 234 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,240 Sonic continues on but becomes lost. 235 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:45,280 Just then a walrus looking like rotor in a white wig, blue dress 236 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,320 and a cane appears. OK so this is old lady walrus 237 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,280 voice. I'm I'm channeling golden girls. 238 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,040 I'm I'm doing Bea Arthur here. Nah, not really, Bea Arthur. 239 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,640 What should I be Arthur or should I do? 240 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:02,760 Should I do the Iron Lady? Let's let's let's do the Iron 241 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,800 Lady. I have No Fear. 242 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,120 I'm not here to fight just to tell you to give up. 243 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:18,720 I Rotor's antibodies and it's antibodies spelled AUNT i.e. 244 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:19,960 like an Ant. So. 245 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,200 Antibody. That's a really good bet. 246 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,920 Yeah, yeah, I actually, I actually didn't find that 247 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:26,560 genuinely funny. Yeah, I did too. 248 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,640 I actually laughed out loud. But you're the body's natural 249 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,960 defense system against disease and infection. 250 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:40,640 You can't. So that that is that is quoted 251 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,600 straight from the comic itself. That is such an unnaturally 252 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,240 intelligent line from Sonic. But you're the body's natural 253 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,800 defense system against disease and infection. 254 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,480 You can't give in to this machimality. 255 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:02,360 Sorry, sorry, this French virus. Sorry, this French virus is too 256 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,000 much for me for Putnik's won this time. 257 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,080 And all my fellow antibodies inside the other freedom 258 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,560 fighters agree. Sonic, refusing to listen to the 259 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,920 antibodies help hopelessness, sprints down Rotor's digestive 260 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:23,360 tract before succumbing to a barrage of green French accessed 261 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,080 and pustules. They explained they are French 262 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:33,000 foreign legions LESIONS. Another good joke. 263 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,680 And threaten another round of blasts before Sonic goes Naruto 264 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:43,440 mode and spin dashes to victory. Standing atop a pile of popped 265 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,640 pus pockets, Sonic believes he has taken care of the French 266 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,720 Fryrus. Just then, the fastest thing 267 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:54,400 alive is knocked backwards by the swing of a crowbar. 268 00:16:55,480 --> 00:17:01,360 The attacker speaks so so the name of this creature is called 269 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,640 Paris Site. So it's another French themed 270 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:14,839 thing. You was a bigger fool than Jerry 271 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:18,119 Lewis. The foreign legions were million 272 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:24,200 my body guards. Now you face me into the end of 273 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:25,800 Part 2. So. 274 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:27,599 So we're getting some. French things. 275 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,800 Yeah, I thought the same thing because it, because it's like, 276 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,440 OK, you've got some, some fun old auntie and then you've got 277 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,120 oh OK, some French thing and then you've got another French 278 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:39,680 thing. Also the name of this thing is 279 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,560 called the French Fryrus. OK, sure. 280 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,480 It it it tilted heavily towards towards the the French. 281 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,800 What what, what do you think sparked it? 282 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,440 What was it they came up with the idea of the concept like 283 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,280 like big level and they're like, well, what we got to like make 284 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,120 these antibodies something. Do you think they were just like 285 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,640 what, what? What was the pun that really 286 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,280 drove it? Was it the French fries that 287 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:13,480 they ate or was a did he come up with that French Legion like 288 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,120 pun? And it was like we got we got to 289 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:17,320 work on that. What do you think was the like 290 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,200 start of these jokes of the French? 291 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,720 First of all, I want to underpin how hilarious it is, and we've 292 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,840 seen it a number of times here where they do one pun and they 293 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,080 just run away with it. For the rest of the story, I 294 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,560 just want to. Point that out. 295 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,240 That's how you should always. Do puns, but but the most likely 296 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,880 1 is probably French Fryrus because there's a good chance 297 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:47,920 one of the writers or you know, Gallagher himself was just like, 298 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,560 hey, I got some French fries from McDonald's because, you 299 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,600 know, this is the 90s. So McDonald's or Burger King or 300 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,000 whatever is huge at this point. Do you think? 301 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,040 Do you think he had some bad fries? 302 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,040 And he was like shitting his brains out. 303 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,440 And as he was shitting his brains out, I was like, man, 304 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:10,920 this is a bad French Friaris. And then he like wrote it down 305 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,280 and he's like calling, calling the other Sonic Riders like 306 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,280 guys, guys, I'm literally shitting out gold right now. 307 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,120 I'm imagining him literally on the toilet. 308 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,520 Yeah, yeah. And he has. 309 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:27,320 My phone and everyone had wall phones in the bathroom or he 310 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,320 carried his car phone into the back which is like a giant. 311 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,600 For those who don't know, is would be huge. 312 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:42,840 Yeah, that's the most likely or, or if this was Ken Pender's 313 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,000 writing this, which it isn't, but if it was Ken, I might, he 314 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,680 might have known about French foreign legions because he's 315 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,720 that kind of autist. I feel like. 316 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,920 Like me, like me and because I also knew what the French 317 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,080 Foreign Legion was, which is kind of a messed up system, but 318 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,960 regardless, yes. That did feel like a Ken joke. 319 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,120 It does make me think. There's like a little they like, 320 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,280 granted, there's a head writer, but they send the script around 321 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:08,880 to be like, hey, what do you guys think? 322 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,400 And Ken was just like, you got, you got to get a French Legion 323 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:13,880 joke here. Yeah. 324 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:20,160 It, it is it the thing about the French Foreign Legion that I 325 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,040 just, I just find really funny is that they are literally the 326 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,000 Starship Troopers thing where it's service guarantees 327 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,800 citizenship, where if you serve three years in the French 328 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,760 Foreign Legion, then you, you can be, you can apply for French 329 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,000 citizenship because it is, it is literally what it is. 330 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,280 It was, I believe it was started during the Napoleonic era where 331 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,200 Napoleon was like, Hey, if you join this, this thing, you can 332 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,520 be a, a citizen of France, our great empire in three years, 333 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,520 give or take. And they have maintained that. 334 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,600 They have maintained that to today. 335 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,880 It is a continued colonial project that France is is still 336 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,640 pulling off because it works for them. 337 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,600 But is that something I? Can join so I can get EU 338 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,480 citizenship I don't think. Well, first of all, no. 339 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,880 But second of all, I'm pretty sure I don't, I don't think you 340 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,360 want, I don't think you want French citizenship. 341 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,800 It's I, I, I will say this, the French definitely know how to 342 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,000 protest. I do appreciate them for that. 343 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,160 However, they are still Snooty racist sons of bitches. 344 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,920 A lot of them are not all of them. 345 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,280 Some of them are very, very based and we applaud them for 346 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,200 it. But God damn, they can be 347 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,800 really, really Snooty sons of bitches. 348 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,960 Like they, they still got that spirit from the revolution. 349 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,400 Man, where that, that was honestly one of their biggest 350 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,880 flaws. The the French is that they they 351 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,640 did a pretty base thing with the whole, you know what they did to 352 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:49,800 Louis, But at the same time they they really got in their own 353 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:55,560 heads and and being really racist and really colonial while 354 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,840 while claiming to be free. So I don't know. 355 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,920 I mean, very American is the bad guy. 356 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:03,880 So how, how, how bad could they be? 357 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,080 They they. Really hate Americans. 358 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,200 No, what you want to be, you want to be a Danish citizen? 359 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:13,560 The Danes love Americans. They they straight up do because 360 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,360 of because of the, the, the liberation of I mean, to be to 361 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,680 be frank, we also liberated France. 362 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,720 We, we did that too. But but we, we liberated. 363 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,120 Did I say Danes? I'm so sorry. 364 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:33,280 I meant to say Netherlands. The the oh goodness. 365 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,240 What's the name for the Netherlands? 366 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:43,480 Not another it is, are you? Talking about Holland, yes. 367 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,440 Dutch land. Dutch, sorry. 368 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,080 Thank you. Did I say Dutch? 369 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,680 Did I say Danes? I think I said Danes. 370 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,600 You said Danes. Or I have to say Danes. 371 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,960 Were you just asking? For the Dutch, that was the main 372 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:54,960 you were. Looking for. 373 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,080 Yes, I didn't realize that. No, that doesn't. 374 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,160 Mean no, you wouldn't because I I was Dutch, that's what. 375 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,800 Well, I mean, I'm American, I'm just born here, but you're 100% 376 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:05,360 you're. American. 377 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:06,840 You're American as apple pie, like me. 378 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,640 But you do come from Dutch ancestry. 379 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,720 OK, maybe that'll help you. Yeah, it won't. 380 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,000 I know that The Luxembourg, if you if you have ancestry there, 381 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,720 you can apply for citizenship. I know, so I'm 50% Dutch, I'm 382 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:27,320 50% Polish and I tried. Seeing if my. 383 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:32,840 Mom can get Polish citizenship and then I could sneak my way in 384 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:37,680 through there because technically her my great grandma 385 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,000 came over during the 1930 whenever everyone was coming 386 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,160 over. But from from my research that I 387 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,240 saw now, I I'm you, you, you, you. 388 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,680 Actually give off you give off a little more Dutch than you do 389 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,760 Polish, but you I do see both in you that that that that checks 390 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,200 out. But anyway, yes, the Dutch do 391 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,480 like Americans for the most part compared to at least the French 392 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:06,840 just because of, of the, of the, of the Normandy campaign or not 393 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,240 Normandy, but rather the, the, the liberation of of Europe. 394 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,680 They, they very much like, like us for that. 395 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,440 And I, I, it's, it's pretty cool. 396 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,160 All right. Are we good here? 397 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,680 I think so. OK, here we go. 398 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,080 Let's get First of all, let's get small. 399 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,000 What do you think about that title, about that, the name of 400 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,040 that? Of this story? 401 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:29,960 Is there a joke I'm not getting that's? 402 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,840 Exactly what I'm trying to to get and I can't. 403 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,880 The closest I can get is Let's Get Lost, which is a Chet 404 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:41,000 Baker's song from the 50s, but that's that doesn't feel like it 405 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,800 at all. Let's get small it it. 406 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:55,160 Is a Steven Steve Martin album that came out in 95. 407 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,720 So that oh wait, no, no, no, maybe that. 408 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,200 Maybe that was a remaster because this came out in 90770. 409 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,960 OK, so I mean it. Still, could be a reference to 410 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,840 that could be. And they could they pull from 411 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,000 literally anything. So it's very possible they 412 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,080 pulled from that. It could also just be because 413 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,360 this is the 90s, they're like, let's get small. 414 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,600 I don't know. But that's, you know, let's get. 415 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,880 Is that a thing people said? No, just like this. 416 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,320 Just in general, like, hey, let's get crazy or let's get 417 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:31,520 nuts, let's get stupid. Yeah, it's very 90s coded well. 418 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,040 According to archiesonic.fandom.com, when 419 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,320 again we don't support fandom, they don't. 420 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,400 They don't make reference to the title, so I assume no one knows 421 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,480 it's so vague. That you no one can know. 422 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,000 Yeah, let's get small Part 3. Sonic, regaining his senses 423 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,680 after being knocked backwards, glares at his acoster. 424 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:58,120 A yellow nugget with a pencil thin moustache and a green beret 425 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,120 stares back in a somehow less lecherous fashion than your 426 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:07,920 typical Parisian. Nice the hedgehog. 427 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,920 That was your first lesson. The next, the next one will be 428 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,000 fatal. So says parasite. 429 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,240 Sonic, noting the heavy French accent, immediately reaches for 430 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:27,160 the classic insult, the F slur. It'll take more than one cheap 431 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:32,080 shot to put me down, froggy boy. Come on, you invasive imbecile. 432 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,920 Put up your Dukes. Yes, that is the Efsler. 433 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,000 Yeah. Monday, me petite Boo boy. 434 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,240 Sorry. Monday me. 435 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:48,440 No, not even Monday, me madman Petit Boo boy Boo. 436 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,560 It it OK? It's actually boy blue. 437 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,600 So I'm actually I I'm getting some. 438 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,240 I'm flipping the words here. You're on top of the accent. 439 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:03,600 OK, men, not petty boy blue. I will not sell in my arms with 440 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,920 you. I will absent job to my hench 441 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,720 men. I will leave that job to my 442 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,440 hench men at that moment, French men. 443 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:13,680 That's. True. 444 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:14,520 That's true. That's true. 445 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,680 At that moment, a burst of flame passes through Sonic's legs, 446 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:25,000 burning his little blue tush. Sonic leaps into the air. 447 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,240 Yeah, I wasn't. So if I wasn't so fast, I would 448 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,760 have been French toast. Parasite introduces Sonic to 449 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,560 fever and anthropomorphic wisp of Fire, who is hot to trot and 450 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,760 lashes out at Sonic, leaping into the air. 451 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,200 Sonic responds by throwing a punch immediately, reacting the 452 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,280 same way one does when grabbing a baking tray in the oven while 453 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,720 forgetting to put on oven mitts with a burn hand and feeling 454 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,880 stupid as hell. That felt a little 455 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,840 autobiographical, yeah. While Sonic stands there nursing 456 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,800 his blackened hand, Parasite winds up for the final blow. 457 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:14,480 Observe as I finish him off with a blow from my micro bar. 458 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,600 Observe as I finish him off with a blow from my microbe bar. 459 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,520 What is a microbe bar? Or, oh, is it like micro bar? 460 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,600 Is it a joke on micro bar? Yeah. 461 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,440 Yeah, Micro bar, yeah. My. 462 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,040 Crowbar, OH. I'm so I thought it was making 463 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,880 like a mini bar reference or something like that. 464 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:37,320 OK, like literally OK, OK, but it's spelled micro bar. 465 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,720 That's a. It's something. 466 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,720 Where you don't really hear it until it's said out loud. 467 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:41,840 Yeah, you're right. You're right, you're right. 468 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,480 I don't know about that Sonny boy soccer. 469 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,240 Blah. Make that soccer black and blue, 470 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,960 you ruffian. Antibody Yanks away Parasites 471 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,320 crowbar and defeats him in one blow, explaining all the way how 472 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,960 Sonic's bravery inspired her to continue to fight as well. 473 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,840 Sonic then runs circles around Fever, drawing out the oxygen 474 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,600 and suffocating the fire out of existence. 475 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,480 Sonic and Antibody stand victorious over the corpse of 476 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,840 Parasite and the smoldering embers of Fever. 477 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,240 Nice job kiddo, you broke the fever. 478 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,400 Thanks for showing up ma'am. Now about the other infected 479 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,640 freedom fighters. Don't worry Sonic, I'm going to 480 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,240 call each one of their antibodies on my 1 celled 481 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,600 cellular phone. We return to the freedom 482 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,880 fighters with X-rays showing their respective antibodies. 483 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,960 Their respective antibodies defeating the invading forces. 484 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,920 Historians will surely document this decisive French loss as the 485 00:29:53,920 --> 00:30:00,040 Battle of Water Blue with his famous recovering Sonic. 486 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,600 Is that is that a comic joke or is that a mic joke that I feel 487 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,080 like that it it could go either way. 488 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,080 That's really good. Mike that's really good with his 489 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,720 friends recover. With his friends recovering, 490 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:16,600 Sonic bids adieu to Antibody and gallops up the gullet of his 491 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,840 walrus friend. As he reaches daylight, he 492 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,920 realizes that he is still tiny and won't be seen or heard by 493 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,360 his comrades, and he can't reach the enlarger switch on the 494 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,880 machine. Thinking fast, Sonic bounces 495 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,520 into Rotor's nose, gives him a little tickle, and then rockets 496 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,480 out on a jet propelled sneeze right into the enlarger switch. 497 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,600 Sonic stands before his friends, now normal size and somehow not 498 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:48,920 dripping in walrus snot. You did it, you cured us. 499 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,720 No big thing, Rotor. In fact, it was a very small 500 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,240 thing. With his friends groggily waking 501 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,080 up, Sonic speeds away to grab some food. 502 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,960 Chicken soup. The secret ingredient revealed 503 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,040 to us by Rotor is chili dogs. Thus the reader is clued in on 504 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,960 the grim dynamics of this relationship, as the freedom 505 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,960 fighters cannot escape the childish color culinary demands 506 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,960 of their spiky saviour and of Part 3, so he is like. 507 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,320 Force feeding them chili dogs, like, even if they don't want 508 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,080 it, it's definitely like they're prisoners to Sonic the Hedgehog. 509 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,880 The world's strongest being. Yeah. 510 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,600 The. Older and he truly is like a 511 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,480 teenage thing or like a young person thing, because for me, as 512 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,760 the older I get, the, the more I really need to space out the, 513 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,800 the really heavy greasy foods like that. 514 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,240 It's, it would, it would be bad. I, I that would feel gross 515 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,560 having that many chili talks all the time. 516 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,800 I mean, granted, he does we've, we have implied in the in the 517 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,240 past that he has a higher metabolism. 518 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,640 Sonic does because he because he runs so fast. 519 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:03,320 So it's like a flash situation. So maybe he can take it, but the 520 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:04,920 others can't. If that's the case, that's 521 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,720 actually pretty good. But yeah, how did how did we 522 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:12,280 feel about about this story? I'm gonna before we do that I'm 523 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,920 gonna do a quick auto correct, auto correct correction on 524 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,680 myself really quickly In 95 they had small cell phones. 525 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:25,560 OK yeah they, they like if it was five years earlier, my joke 526 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,160 would have made more sense. Yeah 'cause it cause. 95 they 527 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,160 definitely. Had like. 528 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,400 They're a. Smaller. 529 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,600 Phone. Yeah, no, no, like actual like. 530 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,240 This big? Oh, OK, OK. 531 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,720 Because in the 80s you were thinking like the brick phone 532 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,120 from the 80s. Yeah, OK. 533 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,240 Which, you know, maybe Gallagher didn't upgrade his phone yet, so 534 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,360 maybe he still had that. It's very possible. 535 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,120 I don't know his life. These are common. 536 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,680 Traders, they're not making that much money out. 537 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,600 Of all of the like, fun nonsensical issues we've had so 538 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,720 far, this is definitely a top tier one. 539 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,200 This is this is S rank. This is one of my favourites. 540 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,240 Fantastic puns all the way down. It's such a. 541 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:15,160 It's such a complete not non sequitur, but rather like random 542 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,360 ash genre switch that I'm I'm cool with it 'cause they're 543 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,680 they're copying. It's a classic story. 544 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,600 This has been done to death a million times. 545 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,720 The story of the characters osmosis. 546 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,200 Jones, yeah. Imagine school buses, but yeah. 547 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,360 Yeah, everyone does. This is very osmosis Jones coded 548 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,160 well before that movie came came out. 549 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:39,640 So yeah, no, I'm with it. There's a it is it is from AI. 550 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:44,600 Think 60s movie. Journey, not journey to the. 551 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,360 Center of the earth, they they. Go. 552 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,400 They shrink the spaceship into when they fly into the body. 553 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,480 Yeah, I remember watching. Part yeah, parts of it on like 554 00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:01,320 some random channel, but yeah it's it it's it it works it 555 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:06,320 works because it's so silly it's so not not random, but the the 556 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:11,159 the subject matter is so random. This plot, this classic TV plot 557 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,920 of going into someone's body and. 558 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:19,719 Yeah, and even the setup, like hey, we just had bad fast food 559 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,600 sabotage, but fast food but from Robotnik. 560 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:23,920 OK, sure. We're not in the. 561 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:28,040 This is not a Ken Pender's realm of semi seriousness or try hard 562 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,080 seriousness where it's. It's just I, I, I every 563 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,679 criticism I have of it just goes back to yeah, but it's a, it's a 564 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:37,400 silly Mike Gallagher's grip, you know? 565 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,960 Yeah, I. It's there's no real criticisms 566 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,840 on this one. It's just a fun, fun little romp 567 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,199 through Rotor's body, that's all. 568 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,120 Which, yeah, OK, you ready to you want to move on? 569 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:54,679 Yeah, I, I actually, I really don't have any notes, so this is 570 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:55,760 a fun one. I liked it. 571 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:56,040 Yeah. What? 572 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,480 Do you think about Mike's script? 573 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,120 I mean, technically it's not done yet. 574 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:02,160 It's true. You're. 575 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,360 Right, all right, all right, here we go. 576 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:04,720 But I was right. I should. 577 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:06,040 Have punched it down a little bit. 578 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,920 The Big Picture Script by Mike Kanturnovich and Ken Penders. 579 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:17,200 Penciled by Ken Penders, a cloaked figure looking like a 580 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,640 multar from Space Ghost Coast to coast. 581 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:24,600 Pretty good stands. Totally sorry, that's I didn't 582 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,960 get. Yeah, that's great Stands. 583 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,520 Before a control panel and multiple video screens across 584 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,880 the monitors are Knuckles and the Chaotics crew and a shadowy 585 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,440 figure wearing a Crocodile Dundee like hat whose name will 586 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,120 be revealed shortly. The hooded Observer monologues. 587 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,720 OK, so I actually have to look up Multar. 588 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,760 He's he's the grasshopper guy. No, no, no. 589 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,320 He's. He's not the grasshopper guy. 590 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:56,280 Oh, oh, oh, he's the. The hooded, the hooded guy who's 591 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,760 in like the center of the volcano. 592 00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,480 So so. Yes. 593 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,400 So I'm sorry, are you talking about the comic or are you 594 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,920 talking about Maltar? Maltar. 595 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,400 Yeah, yeah. So. 596 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,720 Maltar, yes. Yeah, he was the he's the guy 597 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:12,440 basically in like a a hazmat suit, but black and red. 598 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,160 Yeah. Space. 599 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,040 Ghost, let me ask you something. How come you never introduced 600 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,120 me? Do what now? 601 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,080 At the beginning of each show, you introduce yourself. 602 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,600 You introduce Zorak. I just thought it would be nice 603 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,880 one time if you introduced me to I. 604 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,520 Yeah, OK. I had to. 605 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,600 Look up Maltar from Space, specifically the Adult Swim 606 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,680 Space ghost. Yes, and also 'cause he also. 607 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,240 Hangs out in front of like a control panel. 608 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:40,080 Yes, he does. I. 609 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,840 Think that's. Why, Yeah, I remember his. 610 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,840 Role I forgot his voice and I'm listen. 611 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,800 I was listening to it just now and it's pretty good. 612 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,800 I need to watch some space Ghost. 613 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,280 Man that shit was classic Space ghost is. 614 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:51,800 Perfect. Yes, it really. 615 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,720 Was he was also the one time host of Toonami? 616 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,200 He was, he was in 3D for a bit and he was a Toonami host I 617 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,760 think for one or two seasons, one or two years, so. 618 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,000 Are you gonna have this guy's voice be multar? 619 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,080 It is. I'm I'm going to try and do 620 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,360 multar space ghost voice right now. 621 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,640 Hell yeah. It's it's it's tough. 622 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:17,240 It's it's it it's it's pretty like a darker voice and graggly 623 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:21,360 too. Archimedes has captured Knuckles 624 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,600 allies the chaotics and sent the and and it. 625 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,440 I'm trying not to do Knuckles Brooklyn. 626 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,480 Archimedes has captured Knuckles as allies, the chaotics, and 627 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,960 sent the Guardian of off the floating island on a wild goose 628 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,320 chase. All of them beautifully ignorant 629 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,080 of the big picture. I could be helpful point 630 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,880 Knuckles in the right direction, but at what cost? 631 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,640 By imparting knowledge, I would deny him the opportunity to 632 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,800 acquire wisdom. No, whatever answers he seeks, 633 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,360 he must find from within. And though his path appears to 634 00:37:55,360 --> 00:38:00,480 lead away from Revelation, appearances can be deceiving. 635 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,440 I was trying to do that. The head flips that malter. 636 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,280 The hooded figure points to a screen that one must assume are 637 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,120 their plans. Though they are so simple, it 638 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,800 begs the question as to why write them down at all? 639 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,560 So I really have to. That was a yeah. 640 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,080 Really. You're the word throat coat. 641 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,880 Now that's. That's much more than robotic. 642 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,600 On the screen are the crudely drawn heads of Archimedes 643 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:39,200 Knuckles and an arrow directing Knuckles towards a Bond villain 644 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,680 esque destination featuring a skull on a mountain is the 645 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,040 hooded figure attempting to lead Knuckles to their favorite 646 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,120 roller coaster, Skull Mountain in at Six Flags Great Adventure 647 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:57,120 in Jackson Township, NJ. I just love that because he does 648 00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,080 what I do. He's like, yeah, let's let's 649 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,480 type in Mount Fate and see what comes up on Google. 650 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,680 So for the record, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a great America kid, so I'm 651 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,760 not familiar with Skull Mountain, but he did provide a 652 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,200 link. Actually, he did put a link in 653 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,040 the script. OK. 654 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,600 And it's straight to the Wikipedia picture. 655 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,560 Thank you. Mike Affleck. 656 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:24,680 Sure. Unfortunately not, as the ride 657 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,960 did not open until later that year in June 1996. 658 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,600 Perhaps the hooded figure was able to experience the ride in 659 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,120 some manner prior to its opening to the general public, you ask? 660 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,360 Yep, I totally was asking. Well, now you're grasping. 661 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,800 Well, now you're grasping at straws trying to justify 662 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,760 something that just isn't the case. 663 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,440 For if you had taken just a moment longer to read this 664 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:54,240 panel, you would see that the name of this destination is 665 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:58,120 Mount Fate, which is decidedly not Skull Mountain. 666 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,000 The story is left to be continued, leaving the reader to 667 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,880 ponder whether they themselves are about to embark on some sort 668 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,720 of narrative roller coaster, while simultaneously leaving the 669 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:14,280 narrator to ponder. Why the reader is seemingly so 670 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:20,640 obsessed with roller coasters and now that that actually. 671 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,600 Makes me think he knew of that roller coaster. 672 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:29,720 The I've come around on this, I'm full circle. 673 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:33,280 I think this is genius because this is so fucking dumb, this 674 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:34,960 story. Yeah, this story. 675 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,920 They're trying so hard to be like, there's something pretty 676 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,760 fucking crazy going on here. Conspiratorial. 677 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:42,800 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 678 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:49,120 Yeah, and then the fact that the Chaotics crew is being watched 679 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:54,600 by Archimedes, who's being watched by this guy is just so 680 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,760 fucking dumb. I'm in love with it. 681 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:02,360 It's it's and, and like he, he had, he clearly has the mind of 682 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:08,000 a child because the plans that he drew are like who has the 683 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,840 minds? Of a child, Ken Penders or this 684 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,320 character, I mean. Ken Penders wrote it so you, 685 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:16,280 you, you. Extrapolate from there. 686 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,520 Yeah. Well, MM Kanternovich helped, so 687 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,240 he probably, Mike probably punched it up a bit and. 688 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,280 Because the plan. Is literally just a picture of 689 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,680 Knuckles and a picture of Archimedes with an arrow going 690 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,040 to mount fate like that's the plan. 691 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,560 Like so. And he's got like inhibition 692 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,040 poor. And he's got like 1000 monitors 693 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,280 in front of him. Like watching. 694 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:51,480 It's just, it's so obnoxious and dumb in a way that I'm like, OK, 695 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:52,600 this is actually pretty good now. 696 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,120 So stupid. I saw that I'm like you are 697 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,840 fucking joking me That is so stupid. 698 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,600 It's so funny and and. The character is pointing at it 699 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,120 too. It's like, yes, yes, they're 700 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:15,040 doing the thing, you know? What oh do do do do dude, I'm 701 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:22,120 just noticing the layout of this dude that he's he the the 702 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:27,560 grandmaster whatever control column Moltar and Zorak by the 703 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,120 name is the grasshopper. I I forgot it like it just thank 704 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:31,480 you. I was. 705 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:32,800 Confused. Are you talking about the 706 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,720 Archimedes in the No, no, no, no, no? 707 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,880 So. Doesn't the? 708 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:42,360 Layout of the monitors kind of look like he's in an emerald. 709 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:53,360 I do not trust Ken Penders enough for that to be true for 710 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,120 that dude, look at that. Look at that. 711 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,720 No, no. No, that is by. 712 00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:58,640 Design. I concur. 713 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,920 I concur, it does look like an emerald and you're good for 714 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,520 pointing that out. I don't trust Ken Penders. 715 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:13,560 There's that's no I, I'm saying. I'm saying that would be so 716 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,560 cool. I see to say like what would. 717 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,760 It what if he's like a tiny dude inside like the Master Emerald? 718 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,920 That would be so dumb. I am now wrapped around to this 719 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,360 being the thing. I'm now wrapped around to that 720 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,240 being the thing 'cause. They haven't introduced the 721 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:29,320 Master Emerald yet, right? You're right. 722 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:29,800 You're. Right. 723 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,520 What if the Master Emerald is literally a master? 724 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:34,640 Yeah, no. That's where I'm at. 725 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,680 That's where I'm fucking at because I'm thinking this dude 726 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:46,280 is like there is always an echidna who protects the Master 727 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,160 Emerald and there's always echidna inside the Master 728 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,440 Emeralds pulling the strings of fate, man. 729 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,680 This is that would I'm. I'm calling it. 730 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,880 I am. I am I am calling that that is 731 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:05,280 inside the Master Emerald that. There is a Master inside the 732 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,240 Master Emerald itself, and that's why it's called. 733 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,120 The Master Emerald watching. OK. 734 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,560 And. Oh man, I bet they could get 735 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,760 crazy with it. I bet the only reason why it's 736 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,760 called the Master Emerald is because it has someone inside it 737 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,440 and that means all the other chaos emeralds could become 738 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,760 Master emeralds if it had a master inside them. 739 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,120 What? Because it gets. 740 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,960 The lore here is isn't following Sonic lore. 741 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,720 It's doing its own thing. So you gotta you gotta think. 742 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,760 But still think. Outside the box. 743 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,320 Like why? Why? 744 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,520 How could the Master Emerald set up security cameras throughout 745 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,200 everywhere? That's your problem, like I 746 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:47,600 would think. It would be like some kind of 747 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:48,880 energy. It's a master. 748 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:54,240 Emerald dude can't can it do. That much can it like manipulate 749 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,160 items out of? Out of thin air. 750 00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:01,000 That's that's pretty. Low on my problems list of what? 751 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,800 The Master Emerald? Probably more. 752 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,760 Sense can't do. That theory would. 753 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,960 Make more sense if it was like energy readings like he can just 754 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,160 like telepathy, like telepathy or whatever. 755 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:15,640 But any it would any extremely. Real answer is I bet this is 756 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,240 just a lab and he's just obsessed with emeralds. 757 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:20,880 That's true. That's very that. 758 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,600 That is probably more likely the case. 759 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:24,480 I would. It would make more sense to me 760 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:29,080 that your theory, if it was the like a a Fortress of Solitude 761 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,640 looking thing and all the feeds that he's getting from like the 762 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,480 cameras. It was like, yeah, it's like a 763 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,320 hologram, like a a Marlon Brando situation. 764 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:38,440 Sure, sure. Sure. 765 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:44,080 There's also. OK, so he's got a live monitor 766 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:49,080 feed of the emerald that keeps the island afloat. 767 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,880 And I think the implication is that I and the emerald that 768 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,160 keeps the island afloat is the Master Emerald. 769 00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,560 Yeah, even though they haven't said it yet, But dude. 770 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,920 How awesome would that be? It'd be so fucking. 771 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,440 Dumb. I'd be pretty into it. 772 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,200 Like I said this. Is wrapped around to being 773 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,720 genius because of how dumb whatever whatever thing you're 774 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:15,960 trying to set up. I'm already like this is. 775 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,760 This is honestly like the, this is so indicative of the 776 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,400 espionage kind of stuff Ken Peters just tried to write, 777 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,520 which is the, which is like someone watching someone, 778 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,520 etcetera. Yeah, I, I will say if this is 779 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,480 the angle someone watching someone, I do think it's a, a 780 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,360 little bit of a better conspiracy than Ken Pender's 781 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:44,040 trying to do the, the, the double whatever with the Sally 782 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,320 miniseries. If you remember that with 783 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,160 Jeffrey, not the Jeffrey relationship, but just Jeffrey. 784 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:50,800 Being a double. Agent. 785 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,320 Yeah, You know how we could really make it next level if 786 00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:01,440 someone was watching this guy. I'm just saying that was. 787 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,800 That is, that is my hope, that that is what I'm hoping for. 788 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,960 And I I hope it's not something stupid like the freedom fighters 789 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,240 are watching this guy. No, no, no. 790 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:13,800 I want a third level of some new person. 791 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,200 Yeah, I mean. It would have to it would have 792 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:21,600 to be another echidna or Jeffrey Saint John or if it OK. 793 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,840 If it was Jeffrey Saint John. That would be cool. 794 00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,080 That's exactly. What I was going to say, bro, 795 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,520 OK, All right, let's just stop right there because we're 796 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,120 running away with it. All right? 797 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:41,800 Up next, Sonic shot script by Ken Penders and pencils. 798 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:51,440 Pencils by Ken Penders. And boy boy does it show the The 799 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:55,720 story begins on an open ice rink with Antoine Roeder and Sonic 800 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:59,600 playing hockey. Antoine accuses Sonic of being a 801 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:04,680 puck hog, while Roeder remains silent, likely agreeing but not 802 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,040 willing to lose St. cred for supporting the torpy fox. 803 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,480 Sonic tells him to chill out, reminding him it's all fun and 804 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,400 games, which is typical puck hog behavior. 805 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:22,760 Sonic Sonic winds up and takes a shot at goal slack. 806 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,960 That's that's like the onomatopoeia comic style. 807 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:32,080 So Slak Slack. The noise we all know and agree 808 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,680 is the universal sound made when a puck is hit. 809 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:42,320 He shoots, he scores, the puck bounces off Rotor and slides 810 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:48,160 into a pair of metallic hands. Not quite Sonic, although I 811 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,240 admit it was a nice save on Rotor's part. 812 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:55,880 Rotor is dumbfounded by the compliment, seeing as he never 813 00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:01,320 gets any from his comrade. Sonic identifies the voice as 814 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,000 Snively. It's not what you think, 815 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,160 hedgehog. Even assistance to the great and 816 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,360 powerful robotic need a break now and then. 817 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,200 What do you mean? This better be good. 818 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,240 You think it's fun fighting against your freedom fighters 819 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:22,440 all the time? Think of it, no TV over video 820 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:29,000 games, long hours, bad food, and worst of all, no football or 821 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:33,360 hockey. Despite having the the frame and 822 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,840 appearance of a tuberculosis stricken orphan, Snively reveals 823 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,440 that he is a sports freak and that when he is checking 824 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:46,480 monitors, he saw them playing and is now itching to join in on 825 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,880 the game. Rather than just come alone and 826 00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,760 play alongside the Freedom Fighters, however, he has 827 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,120 brought a posse of SWAT bots to challenge the heroes. 828 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,880 Sonic grows multiple sets of eyes in response. 829 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,840 What? You're right. 830 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,360 Yeah, he does on that frame in that panel. 831 00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,120 For the record, the panel is him looking back and forth between 832 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:13,240 Tails and and Antoine. But it does look like he has a 833 00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:19,000 lot of eyes. This is Sonic speaking this on 834 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,040 the level strictly on the up and up. 835 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:33,280 No tricks, no tricks. Well, well, I guess games on. 836 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,120 I just want to compliment strictly on the up and up. 837 00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,400 That's that's some good slang there, man. 838 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,720 All right, the puck is dropped and the game begins. 839 00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,600 Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik stumbles upon the monitors that Snively 840 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,320 left running, and he sees them all playing hockey. 841 00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,320 He is momentarily enraged, but logic takes over and he senses 842 00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:01,360 an opportunity to strike. Robotnik pilots his ship to the 843 00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:06,000 ice rink, announces himself, and Snively bemoans his boss's 844 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,720 arrival. Robotnik has come with a 845 00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:13,680 proposal for a hockey match. My team against your team. 846 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,360 Winner take all. Winner take all. 847 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,880 What? What's the prize if we beat you? 848 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:26,080 Exactly what I said, hedgehog. If you win, you and your friends 849 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,840 win. Your freedom and eternal peace, 850 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:34,720 love and tranquility. And if you win, this is the part 851 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:38,480 I really like. You and your entire band of 852 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:44,120 freedom fighters submit to the roboticization process, becoming 853 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:49,440 my personal slaves. Sonic, despite having no prior 854 00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:53,320 evidence that Robotnik would honor such a deal, accepts one 855 00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:57,400 final rule is established. In the event of a tie, the game 856 00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:02,640 goes to sudden death. Overtime, this will have no 857 00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,000 bearing on the match. The puck is dropped and play 858 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,880 begins. The SWAT bots, perhaps in a nod 859 00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,360 to the contemporary style of the NHL in the 90s, all begin 860 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:16,240 playing the enforcer role, elbowing, checking and tripping 861 00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:20,400 the Freedom Fighters, knocking them down to the ice. 862 00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:25,080 Tails attempts to retaliate by tripping a SWAT bot, a perfectly 863 00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,560 acceptable style of play, but Sally scolds scolds him, 864 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,480 reminding him that they are the good guys once again harkening 865 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,040 to the timeless Space Wall quote. 866 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,120 Evil will always triumph because good is dumb. 867 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,800 The SWAT bot is on a breakaway, one-on-one with Rotor in the 868 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,200 net. At the last possible moment, 869 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:50,360 Sonic swoops in, steals the puck, drives to the opponent's 870 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:55,200 net, and nutmegs the defender, an easy task since the bot opted 871 00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,680 to play goalie without a stick. The Freedom Fighters rejoice 872 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,960 because they've won somehow. Typical hockey games last for 873 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:07,840 three periods and often feature multiple goals, but evidently 874 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,440 everyone is on the same page because Robotic acknowledges the 875 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,640 win. Predictably, he does not honor 876 00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,440 the bet, though he allows his enemies to live another day. 877 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:22,680 Snively smiles on, comforted by getting to watch his boss get 878 00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:26,040 pucked. And I refuse. 879 00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,040 To believe that Snively is like low key a sports nerd. 880 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,120 Yeah, I'm same. Here also, why is he dressed so 881 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,040 cool? Yeah, I was I. 882 00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,480 Was going to bring that up but Snively 100% seemed like the 883 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:43,200 type that would be like I would never bring myself down to the 884 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:48,120 level of brutes that use athleticism to try to like. 885 00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,000 You know. One up other people. 886 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,320 So that's why I'm like, I I this whole fucking but like. 887 00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,360 He is when he is first introduced. 888 00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:02,880 He is an egor like henchman. Sniveling. 889 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:06,760 Literally sniveling. And here he's wearing a cool 890 00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:11,520 leather jacket and playing hockey. 891 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,360 Like bro dude I I'm inclined to think this is like alternate 892 00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,960 universe Snively. This is cool Snively. 893 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,600 But from like cool Sonics universe from cool Sonic. 894 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:28,120 Yeah, I don't get it. I I that was a complete like 895 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:32,160 wow. Do you think someone, do you 896 00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,720 think like another group of people should have been the ones 897 00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:36,120 playing hockey with the freedom fighters? 898 00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,120 Who could? Do you think of the chaotics? 899 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,760 I honestly, yeah. Anybody the chaotics are I? 900 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,920 Know the technical the chaotics are preoccupied with their story 901 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,840 right now, but I don't think we care about continuity right now 902 00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,200 we we have. Well I mean this is just fun 903 00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:51,840 side thing so it could have happened whenever. 904 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:57,760 I personally would want to see Hamlin on the ice rink, yes. 905 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,160 There would be no steaks because it's it's pork. 906 00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:05,760 But no, there would be no steaks because it's it's Robotnik would 907 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:07,840 would providing the the, the the bet. 908 00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,040 But yeah, it could have been. It could have been anyone. 909 00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:12,760 I, I mean, I don't, I don't have much to say. 910 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:17,120 I've already it was kind of nothing, nothing issue nothing. 911 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:18,520 Issue. Well, I mean no. 912 00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,840 Nothing. Well, yeah, actually in terms of 913 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:22,920 in. Terms of the main plot, you're 914 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,640 right, I meant. I meant the hockey one. 915 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,120 The story shout out to. Mike for the Spaceball quote, 916 00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,800 which feels very much an attack on neoliberalism. 917 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,200 I forget the context of the Spaceballs quote. 918 00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:38,880 I don't know if they're I, I feel like they it could be 919 00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:42,680 attacking the neoliberal order and just being like cool with 920 00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:48,560 whatever, but that could just be a joke on on on Star Wars in 921 00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:52,320 general. But yeah, for the most part, the 922 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:56,000 the do you think they would have honored the bet the freedom 923 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,280 fighters? I mean, yeah, I don't. 924 00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,080 Know Sonic's pretty fucking dumb, yeah. 925 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:02,880 Sonic. Dom. 926 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:07,680 And Sally was like, hey, don't, don't, don't do that. 927 00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:14,320 Tales play nice, play nice. Yeah, that's me trying to. 928 00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,600 Extrapolate something from here, I know. 929 00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,880 Let's go. To emails, but I'll let's shout 930 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:25,480 out to Mike F for this kick ass script that was that's pretty 931 00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:29,000 good. Very much written like Nick 932 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,320 would very closely, very closely. 933 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,040 It's like you guys share some kind of humor here. 934 00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:35,320 It's it's awesome. I I. 935 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:41,920 He's just some guy I met once. Grab my grab your guitar. 936 00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:43,880 Oh, grab your. Grab your guitar. 937 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:48,920 OK, now it's time for Sonic Grams. 938 00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:54,880 You can right to sonograms. Oh yeah, it's a legally distinct 939 00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:59,160 sonograms. It's an unaffiliated sonograms. 940 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:07,200 We made our own sonograms, OK. All right. 941 00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:11,640 We have some emails, but I'm going to, I normally try to do 942 00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,880 them in the order we receive them. 943 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,720 But concerning the fact that this has been a Mike F centric 944 00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:21,640 episode, I figured I would jump to the e-mail Mike F wrote this 945 00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:27,600 morning at 2:15 AM, which I could only which I'll prelude. 946 00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,520 It's a prelude to maybe the state of the e-mail state that 947 00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,040 he was in when he sent this e-mail. 948 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:41,000 I don't know. Years ago, an infamous debate 949 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,240 took hold of the Internet surrounding Ant Man and Thanos. 950 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:49,560 Fans questioned why couldn't Ant Man shrink himself, enter Thanos 951 00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:53,080 ass, and then enlarge himself ripping Thanos apart from the 952 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,240 inside you're talking about. Thanos, right? 953 00:57:55,440 --> 00:58:01,480 Yeah, Thanos, I I thought. Thanos was also acceptable, so 954 00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,320 no. One in the entirety of the whole 955 00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,520 franchise or in popular culture, says Thanos. 956 00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:14,000 Well, from my universe. You can't even. 957 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,360 Blame your reading comprehension skills on that one. 958 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,640 I've. I've always said Thanos. 959 00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,960 OK. And I'm not going. 960 00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:25,640 To stop now. OK, OK, Regardless of the 961 00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:30,120 answer, I bring that up because in issue #33 the one we just 962 00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:34,840 read, Sonic shrinks himself down and enters Rotor's internal 963 00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,600 organs. With all that in mind, what is 964 00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:41,040 stopping Sonic from shrinking himself and entering Robotnik's 965 00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,880 asshole and then spin dashing his way through his innards? 966 00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,760 Lead. Underwear you think? 967 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,280 Just 24/7 he's wearing lead underwear probably. 968 00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,960 Considering how much radiation he's probably around, you think 969 00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,880 you think the only thing he's. Protecting is just his balls. 970 00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,520 What if? What if his whole lower half 971 00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:09,120 from his waist down is completely roboticized except 972 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:13,480 for his Dick and balls? That was actually going to be my 973 00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:18,840 answer, but ironically that was my answer was his entire bottom 974 00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,280 half. He has no asshole. 975 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:22,920 That's why. That's why Sonic hasn't done 976 00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,400 this. Otherwise that's like game plan 977 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:29,880 number like 1. Well. 978 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,560 You don't jump straight to the asshole plan. 979 00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,600 Excuse me, what's your first plan? 980 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,920 I think I. Think I'm out to dinner first, 981 00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,920 Nick? And then throat goat. 982 00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,240 So do you think instead of an do you think he still has to? 983 00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,120 Do you think he still has to expel waste or has he completely 984 00:59:53,120 --> 01:00:00,200 removed that from his process? I think he has designed his body 985 01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:04,240 in a way where he is very efficient and doesn't need to 986 01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:09,320 expel waste because it is fueling his roboticness, robotic 987 01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,160 innards. Because it was either that. 988 01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:13,920 Or some kind of compromise where his asshole opens and closes 989 01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:17,400 like an airlock do. You think he has like a button 990 01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:20,520 that he pushes or does he have? Oh, he can just. 991 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:22,080 He can just, he can just think it. 992 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,840 Yeah, OK. How big of a? 993 01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,240 OK, OK, buddy. All right. 994 01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:43,720 We we have. Fun here. 995 01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,120 And that's the issue. Only 300? 996 01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:50,640 No, no, there's got to be another. 997 01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:57,280 E-mail from someone, right? I mean, there is, but OK, we've 998 01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,200 been we've. Been holding them back our next. 999 01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:05,560 E-mail is from Plasma K Dear Dom and Rick Diaz. 1000 01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:10,160 That's a that's it's a good little Gundam joke. 1001 01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:12,160 Oh, OK. Yeah. 1002 01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:16,880 Dom is one of the major suits in Gundam, and Rick Diaz is just 1003 01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,680 one of them. I want, I want, I want. 1004 01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:23,120 The jazz. The jazz soundtrack to that one 1005 01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:26,120 Gundam. You should watch Thunderbolt. 1006 01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,840 Yeah, Thunderbolt's good 'cause they, apparently. 1007 01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,640 Like it's not just a random. It's not just a random jazz 1008 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:32,920 soundtrack. They are like the characters are 1009 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,080 listening to free jazz while the fighting. 1010 01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,000 It's great. That's awesome. 1011 01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,720 It's yeah. I honestly, I don't know why I 1012 01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,880 didn't even think of yeah, you need to watch Thunderbolt. 1013 01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:44,400 What am I doing? We'll record. 1014 01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:49,200 That shit? That's Patreon content baby. 1015 01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:55,240 I've caught up to your podcast and question in episode 44 1016 01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:59,240 inspired one of my own. How would you integrate freedom? 1017 01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:02,080 Sorry, how would you like to integrate Freedom Fighters, 1018 01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:08,360 possibly sans sans Sonic entails into modern slash IDW continuity 1019 01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,960 pie in the sky version or somewhat realistic version? 1020 01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,680 I asked this question right now while they are still in their 1021 01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:16,800 plane state before they are developed by penders and 1022 01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:18,560 bowlers. That's. 1023 01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:25,080 From Plasma K So I I want to clarify in case we are reading 1024 01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,840 this question incorrectly, but here's how we're reading this is 1025 01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:34,160 that you're asking about the the current IDW run, which we have 1026 01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:37,720 not read, right? Nick and I have not read. 1027 01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,160 Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think you're right. 1028 01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,640 I think that's how I'm interpreting the question too, 1029 01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:45,360 which we haven't read that at all. 1030 01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:47,720 Yes. So I don't think we can answer 1031 01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:52,080 this question and although I did do think it's interesting I 1032 01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,520 asked this question right now, I'm quoting them while they are 1033 01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,880 still in their plain state before they are developed by 1034 01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,960 penders and bowlers. So the premise, again, we could 1035 01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,720 be reading this question wrong, apologies. 1036 01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:09,160 But for those who are just jumping in as well, the basis of 1037 01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:13,240 this show got to talk fast is that we haven't read any of this 1038 01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:17,760 shit at all. So literally we are reading it 1039 01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:23,360 comic by comic, issue by issue. I should say, like from the very 1040 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:27,360 beginning. So we don't know how Penders and 1041 01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,400 Ballers are going to develop the Sonic crew. 1042 01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:35,000 We don't know how they could be. We don't know their modern IDW 1043 01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:36,160 continuity. Go ahead. 1044 01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:40,480 So I rewrite. It, yeah, you can interpret it 1045 01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,560 with the IDW continuity. I think he's asking how do we 1046 01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:50,000 interpret the Freedom Fighters into both IDW or the Sonic games 1047 01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:51,360 themselves. OK, we can. 1048 01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:53,400 Answer that, we can answer that Frontiers stuff. 1049 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,200 Like that. OK, well, we haven't played. 1050 01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,920 Frontiers well. I I played the first like, yeah, 1051 01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:00,840 hour of it or so. OK. 1052 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:07,360 We do you do you want to answer first so. 1053 01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:18,520 In my mind, the how I interpret the Freedom Fighters is they 1054 01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:23,440 only come together under the context of a world under control 1055 01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:27,960 of Robotnik, right? And so most of the games and 1056 01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:34,400 everything is Robotnik trying to take over the world. 1057 01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:39,280 So I don't think they're like actual like they're a group. 1058 01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:42,840 I think they would be like fun side characters you would run 1059 01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:48,720 into, but they're not part of like the core main team. 1060 01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,560 I think like. Rotor would have. 1061 01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:55,320 A shop, right? And tales would go to that shop 1062 01:04:55,320 --> 01:05:00,560 to buy like tools, gadgets. That he needs to build. 1063 01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:05,480 His new plane and they talk shop while he's there or like Amy 1064 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:09,640 buns just happened to be friends and they go I. 1065 01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:14,320 I hate the fact that I went straight to shopping 'cause I'm 1066 01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:18,680 a old boomer sexist asshole. And don't you forget it, you 1067 01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:19,760 were just talking. Shop. 1068 01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:21,480 Like literally, you said the word talking shop. 1069 01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:23,000 Yeah. Exactly. 1070 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,760 So like that, that's kind of how I interpret it. 1071 01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:31,440 We're like Sally would be, well, there's never been like a 1072 01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:34,400 monarchy in the newer version of the Sonic game, so I don't know 1073 01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:35,680 who. Yeah, clearly. 1074 01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:37,040 The president. I see where you're going. 1075 01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:38,760 Yeah. So you're saying they would have 1076 01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:41,560 to be side characters? I I would say getting into the 1077 01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:43,320 meat of the question, I would integrate them. 1078 01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:48,680 You could just make it a nation. Just make it a nation. 1079 01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:50,200 The freedom. Fighters Nation. 1080 01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:51,640 No, no, no. Just. 1081 01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,960 Like I know the whole separate whole separate country slash, 1082 01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:59,680 nation slash, maybe even continent where it's the same 1083 01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:03,200 dynamic freedom fighters, underground rebels versus some 1084 01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:05,320 dominant power. Maybe not Robotnik. 1085 01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:07,240 I think it would make the most sense with Robotnik. 1086 01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:11,280 You the plot could be right. Sonic Forces too. 1087 01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:14,160 Did you ever play Sonic? No, he didn't play Sonic Forces, 1088 01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:15,800 no. I have. 1089 01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,720 I have watched the plot, most of the plot to Sonic Forces and 1090 01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,200 it's a crazy fucking. I won't even spoil it. 1091 01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:25,000 Yeah, please don't. But. 1092 01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:29,000 You could make their The Freedom Finder's introduction. 1093 01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,600 Hey, Robotic has taken over this country, right? 1094 01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,680 And Sonic is dispatched, not dispatched. 1095 01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:38,880 But maybe just like he sees this 'cause he's a good guy. 1096 01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:43,000 It's like this is wrong. And then he joins forces with 1097 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:47,160 the freedom fighters and that's how you, that's how you connect 1098 01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:48,040 them. And I can't. 1099 01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,360 I do like that. Idea of Sonic and team trying to 1100 01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:54,520 go liberate this like country from robotics rule which. 1101 01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:59,520 Is a little bit of what Sonic Forces is the plot of that. 1102 01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:03,360 That is kind of the plot. I can't spoil anything more 1103 01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:07,200 'cause I do want us to experience this together, but I 1104 01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:09,560 think we should play that soon, honestly, because now that I'm 1105 01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:12,040 thinking about it, it's pretty, pretty awesome. 1106 01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,640 The the plot, the game, not so much. 1107 01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:19,560 But yeah, anyway, OK. That's how I. 1108 01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:23,960 Would do it, yeah. I, I think, I think you're not 1109 01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:24,960 wrong. I think that's. 1110 01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:28,520 Yeah. All right. 1111 01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,280 And that's the issue. Only 382 left to go. 1112 01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:37,160 I'm Nick, I stream at twitch.tv/mojosaurus and my 1113 01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:40,440 personal is Blue Sky is at Mojosaurus and I'm. 1114 01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:44,240 Dominic, you can follow my Jazz and People power adventures in 1115 01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:49,640 Chicago at Blue Collar Jazz. You can also find me on Blue Sky 1116 01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:53,960 at Domguan. 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