Episode 38 | Airbnb Is Badfrfr

Shortly before midnight on 10 May 1941, Hess landed at Floors Farm, by Waterfoot, south of Glasgow, where he was discovered still struggling with his parachute by local ploughman David McLean. Identifying himself as "Hauptmann Alfred Horn", Hess said he had an important message for the Duke of Hamilton. McLean helped Hess to his nearby cottage and contacted the local Home Guard unit.

Archie Comics Sonic The Hedgehog #29

00:00 Intro

15:37 Steel-Belted Sally Part One

35:43 Steel-Belted Sally Part Two

47:28 Steel-Belted Sally Part Three

56:05 Growing Pains! Part 2 of 2

-----Gotta Talk Fast is an oral review of Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog. Way past cool.LINKS: https://gottatalkfast.com/

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Gotta talk fast, gotta talk fast.
Gotta talk faster, faster, faster.
Gotta talk fast. Welcome to an oral review of
Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog.
Hitler would have loved America's tiered healthcare
system. Hitler sucks.

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If you agree, support universal healthcare.
Slash Medicare for all. I'm Nick and except for this
intro, I wrote the script. And I'm Dominic, and except for
this intro, I haven't read any of today's script.
Before we go into this, I have arant.
I'm fucking pissed. You know what?
Sucks. He froze.
He froze. He fucking froze.

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Can you hear me? Oh no.
Can he at my back? Yeah, you, you, you literally
cut. It was so funny from my end.
It was like, I have a fucking rant.
Big, big Airbnb knows what I'm about to rant about.

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It's saying I don't have an Internet connection.
So this is gonna be welcome to hotels in America, baby.
And maybe it'll Google. Can you Can you talk?
Check 1-2 Hello hello. Check.
Check 121212. All right.
I still don't see you, but you see me.

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So my upstream seems to be fine.I think it's my downstream OK.
Oh, I fucking I I lost. I lost the groove.
I was gonna go on a rant about how much Airbnb sucks, but I
don't. I don't.
Know how does it? How does it?
I don't have to choose what's what's so.
OK, I've had nothing but bad experiences with Airbnb.

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I'm gonna start with my trip to West Hazleton.
Should I? I mean, I'm not there now, I can
dox it, right? West Hazleton, PA if you're
ever, if you ever find yourself in that town, they've actually a
pretty good bagel shop in there called Bagel Buddies.
I recommend it. Shout out to bagel buddies.
Airbnb I got there was like 40 minutes north in the ski

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mountains. It was clearly just someone's
like ski lodge for that they useover the winter and they tried
to make some extra money on it by doing Airbnb.
So it's like a bunch of picturesof this dude's family.
Like I I was sleeping next to a giant picture of one of the kids

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when they were like 2 years old just sitting on the night
stands. Real creepy, real weird vibes.
Yeah. I got there mold in the
refrigerator from whoever was there last bunch of used like
soap and razors and stuff in thebathroom, a used condom wrapper

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in the bed. They didn't.
They didn't provide sheets, so Ihad to go out and buy my own
sheets for the beds at that Air NB.
How much was this? How much was this?
It was a lot. I mean, I don't know offhand,
'cause I don't do the I don't book them.
I just tell my boss, hey, book them chief.

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Book of Dono. Yeah, bake them away toys
anyway, but I mean that that one, it sucked.
It wasn't great, it was annoying.
No real issues outside of clearly no one cleaned it before
getting there, but annoying. Last day Airbnb I stayed at in
Ohio was fine ish but there's literally no table.

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Like in the whole house there was no table I and work I needed
it to. I was like sitting on the floor
trying to work and at a coffee table it's staring.
In the bed, breakfast in bed. I I did actually, I, I ended up
doing it on they had like a recliner couch that I like kind
of new version away where it waslike a bed.

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And then this is, this is the lead up to the Airbnb I was at
in Houston, TX. So where I'm at now.
And as you can see, I am in, in a hotel, not in Airbnb.
So I get there and there's this like weird smell, right?

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And it's, it's like a weird, I, I wanna say like decaying smell.
Like if like rotting. Yeah, I, I, if that's, that's
probably the right way to describe it.
Couldn't identify it. I walk around the house and I
find mold in the washing machine.
So I just kind of assumed it wasthat.

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Let the Airbnb people know and they're like, yeah, we'll get
someone out there. And I was like, cool, I don't
want to be around because I don't like talking to people.
So I went for a walk and had a long dinner, got back, still
mold there, but whatever, go to sleep, wake up the next morning,

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I feel fine. Go do my job, whatever.
Come back and this like weird smell is there and it feels like
more intense. I ignore it.
I go to bed and then like at I'mgonna say 11 PMI get like
there's a really like really badheadache and I can I can really,

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really smell that smell now. And I start looking around and I
find these like little white balls all over the place.
They're called mothballs, for those who don't know.
I was like, are you gonna talk about mothballs?
Just mothballs are. Otherwise, this sounds really
terrifying. Well, I've, I've, I've never
seen mothballs before. I had no clue what they were.

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I mean, I knew, I know what mothballs are, but like, I've
never been around them. I, I never had moths.
And they're all over this house.I had three underneath my bed, 2
in the closet. And this was like a master
bedroom that had two closets. And so there's another one in,

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in that closet. They're at every single window
seal and in the bathroom and whatnot.
And I just have this like pounding headache.
I go outside, get some fresh airand I start feeling a little bit
better and I'm like, oh, you know what?
It's probably whatever these like white balls things are like
giving me a headache. And I clear up, try to go back

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inside, open up windows, turn onfan, put the white, the
mothballs like, like I stuff them all into a single closet
and I can still smell them like even like opening up windows,
turning on fans and stuff. And I just have like this
headache that just doesn't go away.

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It only comes back, I should say.
So like 4:00 in the morning, I leave, go to a Waffle House and
and I text my boss. I'm like, yeah, they've got a
bunch of mothballs here. I don't that are like making me
sick. I don't know if I'm like just
hypersensitive to it. I, I asked the I I left, I took

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all my clothes in the suitcase and left and then got this hotel
and whatnot and I opened up the suitcase and they still smelled
like mothballs. Like the clothes still smelled
like mothballs. Like 24.
Hours later and I I was like I Iliterally took the one of my
sweaters. I brought it up to a Co worker

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and I'm like, he's a smoker so Idon't know if I can trust his
opinion or not. But I was like, do you smell
this? Seems like the smells like
nothing to me. I'm like, OK, well maybe maybe
I'm hypersensitive to this one specific smell.
I have an uncle who's like really allergic to or sensitive
to like perfume smells like if you start spraying Windex next

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to him, he needs to leave the room.
He's like that sensitive to it. So I'm like, maybe I've got like
a, a version of something like that, not as sensitive as him,
but every now and then maybe there's like a few smells that
are like that. I literally, I had to wash my
clothes twice to get the smell of mothballs out.
Yeah. I'll be honest, I've never had

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mothballs either in any place I've been to.
But I thought I'm, I, I remembergoing to like a science virtual,
like a forest preserve educational program in grade
school. I was like, hey, these are
moths. I'm like oh OK cool.
And yeah that's that freaking sucks dude.
Like you should. Did you or your boss report that

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like? Well, and so I, I, I was like, I
can't, I mean, I, I don't know what to do here.
And she's like, well, we're not gonna get a refund for
mothballs. And I'm like, I don't know.
I feel like we should because that whole place smelled like
death. Yeah, between the mothballs, the

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the the moldy. Washing machine, Yeah.
The razors left. It wasn't just in the trash.
It was left. Out that that that this was the
the razor stuff was a different OK, that one was Wes Hazleton.
This is this is Houston, baby. It'd be really funny if there
was like a dead body rotting just underneath the floorboards
and that's what. You were.
I had that thought at a certain point where I was just like

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there. I think there's a basement here
that I like. It's locked.
I can't go into. There's like a serial killer
down there. There's.
Like a serial killer, like like sweating balls is like, oh, he
just thinks it's mothball. Oh, thank God he's an idiot.
Thank God. Yeah, right.
Or like you go in the basement, there's like 100 mothballs all

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over this, like dead body to make it seem like it's mothballs
that you're smelling. He's the moth man.
No, that would have been in Pennsylvania.
He was. There, I'm just going to do
something real quick. I'm on the Airbnb Wikipedia and
there's a whole section called Criticisms and Controversies and
I'm going to read off every single topic.

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Effects on how 10 hours? Effects on housing
affordability. Inclusion of listings in Israeli
settlements. Criticism by the hotel industry.
Lack of loyalty program. Objectivity of guest reviews.
Joe Gebbia, a founder work. Joe Gebbia's work for Doge,
response to activities of far right extremists, sponsorship of

(10:42):
the 22 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the length of terms
of service agreements. That last one's small, but it
does say it has 5855 thousand words, or about the size of a
short novel. I I legitimately I I've never
used Airbnb. I I I don't even have an

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account. I, I've, I've always been the
guy that's like, hey, you guys should book whatever this is and
I'll pay you. So it makes me feel better that
I've taken that stance because that sucks.
It's it's genuinely a terrible business.
Just the mere concept of it is just so exploitative on so many

(11:23):
levels. You know, a lot of it for the
reasons I just read off without going into much detail, of
course, But still, I I would hope a lot of that would be
self-evident that this is you just think of the worst excesses
such as what Nick's story is, and it's it's pretty bad.
I have, I have you like this waslike a what, 5-6, seven years
ago? I did use air and BA number of
times and I've had good experiences, but I've known and

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heard so many bad experiences and just like the economics of
it and how bad it is. I'm like, maybe we should just
stick to hotels. I think.
I think hotels need a need a renaissance, you know?
Yeah, I mean, say what you will,when something goes wrong in the
hotel room, I can at least complain and they fix it right

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away, or they'll move me to another room.
With Airbnb I have to wait for someone to come out and it might
not even that be that day. And a cleaning fee.
Did you have a cleaning fee? So, yeah, I, I, I have not paid
attention to like any of the Airbnb requirements, but I do
know that there are some that have cleaning fees and stuff.

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I mean, I just think back to theWes Hazleton one where I was
just like, they required me to bring my own like mattress
sheets. It's like.
That's I don't know if that's the standard.
If it is, that's insane. I've I've.
I've talked to a lot of people. No one has ever heard of that
before. What what I'll say is, So what
my company ends up doing to savemoney is they'll do an Airbnb

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and I'll be in it and like I'll be sitting there with a Co
worker or contractors or something.
I don't know if that's legal or not.
I've never thought about it 'cause it seems kind of weird to
be putting all these whatever. But for the West Hazel 21, I was
like, people are flying in from another state.

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They they're not bringing their sheets.
Like that's fucking insane. I mean we just bought sheets and
expensed it to the company but Iwas still like this is dumb.
According to the According to the West Hazleton, PA Wikipedia
page, in the year 2000, there were 79 Hispanic people in West

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Hazleton. West Hazleton is I don't.
You don't go there if you don't have to.
OK, that's real. But in 2020, they now make up a
majority of the of the population.
Well, that's good. I was going to say I thought I
saw at least some but. But it's still a decaying like

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Rust Belt town, right it? It it has real mafia vibes.
What I'll say is that there is that I'm not going to say too
much, actually, I'll tell you personally, but.
You get whacked. Yeah.
No, there is only like one or two building companies in the
area and it seems like they havelike a real monopoly on

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everything. That sounds right.
Yeah. And from what I understand,
maybe one of the people used to have mafia ties.
I don't know, I was just talkingto local contractors in the
area. You know how you start talking
to people and they're just like,oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been
working here for a while and letme tell you this fuck shit and

(14:44):
this fuck shit. I'm like, yeah, that sounds
fucked. Keeping it vague.
Don't want to get sued. Yeah, but.
Speaking of shitty towns, let's talk about a shitty Sonic story.
Unless you have something else. I don't think this is shitty.

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We're. Going to have some disagreements
here today, but anyway, that's the episode if you want to
contact us. Come back next week when we
actually do Sonic issue #29. We have 500 something odd issues

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to go through and we're still doing filler episodes.
That'd be so funny. Oh, man.
All right, I'm just getting right into it.
Here we go. We are reading Archie Comics.
Sonic the Hedgehog #29 released in September of 1995 and
published in December of 1995. Steel belted Sally.

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Once Upon a time, majestic Dragons roamed the skies of
Mobius, flying and living free until Robotnik cast his evil
shadow upon the planet and the Dragons vanished.
All roboticized, including one named Sabrina, but.
Sabrina, thank you. Not Sabrina.

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OK, well then fucking put it on the goddamn script.
Does it say Sabrina? It might have autocorrected.
Sabrina. OK, including one named Sabina.
Are you looking it up? Don't look it up.
Was I right? Was it?
Yeah. I had a feeling that you misread

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that one 'cause I went back and fixed it.
All roboticized, including one named Sabina, but Sabina's
daughter survived the last of the Dragons.
Now she has joined with Sonic and the Freedom Fighters in
their battle to make Mobian Skies free once again.
Dulce is a grayish bluish dragonwith a salmon colored accent

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color coloring her chest and wings.
She has. I'm thinking about writing a
novel. She had that's that's a whole
Airbnb agreement. She has a kangaroo pouch, which
one can only assume will be usedto store an infant in a number

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of items. Her hair is the same salmon
color in the shape of a Mohawk and she has a nose ring like a
bull. Having been in Texas for the
last week, I feel I can talk on this nose ring definitively
since the cowboy lifestyle has seemed to have taken root.
I say ma'am now and I tip my hatas a sound of respect.

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I tend to always have wheat in my mouth being chewed on and I
say there's a snake in my boot at least once a week now.
Though to be fair, I've said it once and I've only been here for
a week. Cattle have the nose ring
installed at a young age to makethem easier to control.
A rope is tied to the nose ring and when the cattle need to be
LED in a certain direction, theyare used to control misbehaving

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cattle. But then who we The nose is an
incredibly sensitive part of thenose.
And as it turns out, cattle do not like sensitive parts of
their body being yanked on. I I should point out there are
other types of non permanent nose errands, but for the
purpose of today's discussion, we'll leave the conversation
there. I should say that was not Texas.

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That was not Texan. That was.
More like I liked whatever that was.
That was. More like, you know some.
That was more like sometimes there's about, yeah.
Oh yeah, kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What did you say? I'm sorry, what did?
You say I said sometimes it's more about what feels right, not
what is right. It's true.
I also I'm not. I feel like I might have missed
a sentence in there, but it's fine, keep up.

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This leads to my first question about the race of Dragons, the
opening panels on this comic show of robotics invasion.
The first panel, Dragons roam the sky peacefully, however they
all have the nose rings. The next panel shows the
invasion. Hovercrafts are shooting lasers
at the Dragons and destroying everyone.
Sabina flying off with Dulce in her kangaroo pouch, both with

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nose rings. What does this say about
Dragons? Do they use the nose rings as a
source of control within their own race?
Or is there another subspecies of dragon or animal?
I suppose it doesn't have to be a dragon that is controlling the
Dragons. What are their cultural rituals
that have led to the nose ring to be put on every dragon?

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My second question about the Dragons is how did they lose to
Robotnik? They all can literally breathe
fire. This leads me to believe that
this was once a pacifist race, but not always.
I believe the Dragons once ruledthe skies with an iron fist,
only to have a group of warriors, perhaps the Enchidnas

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since they seem pretty extinct, conquer them and made them
coexist with the world. However, as punishment, all
Dragons must have the nose ringsinstalled to control them in
case they ever get out of line again.
This is, of course, just a theory.
We open on Sonic riding Dulce flying through the sky, dodging

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attacks from a hovercraft. That hovercraft is a plane in
the neck, huh Dulce? Oh yeah.
What, what? What is?
She doing oh, oh, I see what you're thinking I.
First of all, it is every, everysingle name.
But also, what would you, what'sthe what's the vibe here?

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My I I don't like. I don't like what I originally
thought. What did you what did you
originally think? My mind instantly went to like a
goofy esque. I will.
I would just object because the boomer's here.
Oh yeah, that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry, that's a dead name. Rotor.
Rotor. Oh, can't see.

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Gross. This is probably just because I
came back from the trans visibility day of visibility in
Chicago, but she's kind of givenlike like a 47 year old woke mob
vibes. Yeah, OK.
No, I don't know what that well,I don't even know what that

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accent is. She's she's a smoker.
She's a smoker. No, no, no.
What else we got? What else we got?
I don't know. I kind of like Smoker, she
breathes. Fire, you know.
That's true. That's true.
That's a smoker. Sound good?
For her lungs. Oh, that's a great point.

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That's a great point. Hold on.
OK, so I was that hovercraft is a plane in the neck Dulce.
Oh, fuck. I know what to do, Sonic.

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Hang on. All right, All right.
I see it. I see the vision.
I really hope this is not a recurring character.
She's a freedom fighter now. Dude, I talked.
Her to be in every issue. Dulce flies straight towards the

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Cliff and dives at the last second, leading to the
hovercraft crashing into the side of the Cliff.
Dulce lands and Sonic moves to check out the crashed
hovercraft, where he finds what looks to be a remote control.
Meanwhile, in the heart of Robotropolis, we see Robotnik
yelling at Snively in his control room.
Snively. What's keeping hovercraft number

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4069? Nice.
It should have returned 10 minutes ago.
It it appears to have crashed Doctor Robotnik.
What? That craft was carrying a
portable de Roboticizer. Not to mention my supply of
Super Shine head Polish if that.If that device falls into the

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wrong hands, it could have graveconsequences, especially for
you. Stively activates the self
destruct sequence on the hovercraft with Sonic barely
escaping at the last second. Dolce and Sonic head over to not
whole village to give Roeder thede Roboticizer device.
All the Freedom Fighters are nowstanding in a circle talking

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about said device. Rotor declares that there's just
enough power left to use the DE Roboticizer one more time.
An interesting turn of events. You would think someone that was
the mechanical genius like Rotorwas, he'd be able to reverse
engineer what could be the greatest device the Freedom
Fighters have ever found, or figure out how to recharge the

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device. Really, anything other than we
can only use this once. Ignoring Roeder's laziness will
move forward with the premise these writers have come up with.
Sally says that the team should de roboticize Buns, arguably the
dumbest move that she has ever suggested.
Let's debuff our strongest member.

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Buns, not being an idiot, declined.
She then suggests something evenDumber, which is let's turn one
of us into a robot. A plan that I'm sure cannot
backfire in any way. Sally, who was apparently lost
to 50 IQ points, thinks this is a great idea and volunteers for
the task. We cut to a few days later on a
hill near Robitropolis. Sonic and Antoine are actually

(24:33):
in agreement that this was a really bad idea, which should
signify how dumb of an idea thisis.
I'm touched by your concern, guys, but this is the But this
is our best chance yet to sabotage Robotnik's headquarters
and finally close the book on his reign of terror.

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Rotor walks up the Sally and puts a small device on her head
behind her ear. It'll give you control of your
mind even after you've roboticized, and you'll be able
to damage Robotnik's power base big time.
Sonic wishes Sally good luck, and she rushes out into a giant
field where she is immediately captured by SWAT bots.

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End of Part 1. OK, so this is dumb.
Yeah, no. So we're gonna, we're gonna step
back for a second before we evenaddress a lot of things here.
Let's let's open with why on earth would Robotnik ever make a

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de Roboticizer? Yes, correct.
It just it just no sense whatsoever.
He has one goal, one goal. It's to roboticize everyone.
There's no there's nothing anywhere anyway.
Anyhow, is there any situation where he needs to de roboticize
anyone? I don't understand.

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It's literally that was not the Dragons, not not the fucking
dumb. I got a dragon.
Ranch. I got a dragon ranch.
Yeah, I well, I wish you had a dragon ranch.
The yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, all
of those things were pretty fucking dumb, but the thing that
made me the angriest was the mere fact that he would be like,

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you know what, I need to make a de roboticizer.
And on top of that derubicizer. That's really funny.
How do you how do you do you make it so they no longer a

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vacuum? There's just a comb then.
It if you if you Deroba size a Roomba, it sprouts legs and
blows. That's what it does.
Yeah, right. Yeah, so So the mere fact that
this device exists, fucking bonkers.

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The fact that he gave it to a swap bot even more insane.
If he if he's, if he's making this, sure, OK, maybe he just
made it to see if he could and congratulations, you can.
Why does a swap bot have it? Do do one.
It makes it feel like every single rank and file swap bot

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has this device. Second if if that.
If that's not the case, let's say this is a special ship
holding special cargo, right? Which I don't they never
established. We're we're in medius res here.
They're just in the middle of a chase.
If this ship has special cargo, which is like the antidote to
the sickness that is roboticization, why is the

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hovercraft chasing Sonic and a Dragon?
All right, this is. This is my.
This is my. It should be the other way it
works right 'cause they're trying to intercept.
No, this is what happened. This is what happened.
We we've established that swap bots have at least some degree

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of free will, right? And maybe this was a depressed
swap bot that he he needed, he was just like, I'm done.
I can't I can't do it anymore. And because of how he's
programming is he's not allowed to like, you know, commit
suicide. And so he gets this de

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roboticizer and he's going off flying into the sunset to, you
know, do the deed because for because he never programmed the
de roboticizer into the programming because why would
they ever have 1? So it's like a weird loophole so
that he can finally rid himself of the curse that is living and

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so. He so he he you thought he was
going to use the Derebotifizer. Go use it.
Until he just happened to see Sonic flying by and then the
programming from the swap bot took over.
He no longer has the free will. The moment there's Sonic no
longer free will. And obviously everything that

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happened, happened and he chasedSonic and Dolce.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind a sidebecause we've already broken so
many rules of this world so veryearly and a great I know we say,
I will admit we are saying earlyas if the writers of the time
like had perspective that they were this thing was going to go

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on for 500 issues. I still think this is wait, you
have so much opportunity to playwith things.
Why do you need to break all of these rules?
You know, with the robots havingsuch advanced sentience and that
they can, they can turn tail. You have the another one that
really pisses me off that we talked about extensively is we

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have mimics. We have freaking what do you,
what could you call them? You know Android.
Realistic looking androids that can fool people.
Replicants. Thank you.
That's the the word. I was like the replicants,
etcetera. And it's like this thing is the
most is the worst thing yet it it is the most egregious, least
sensical it it I don't know. They never explain it in this
issue. It is profoundly a really bad

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idea. And I I actually thought this
was Ken Penders at first. This you didn't put the credits
in. This is.
So bad this. Script Script by Angelo De
Cesare and penciled by Art Mcwhinney I.
Forgot to do it for the first one, I I definitely did for the
second one. That's that's fine, that's fine.
Angela de Sasari, dude, what thehell the like the I?

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I do wonder if Ken was involved with that decision at all.
He was, he was. What happened was he was, he was
watching Ken Penders do all these crazy stories.
It's like, I can fucking do that.
Watch, watch me. I can make a Ken Penders story.
And that's what we have. Even like your idea where it's
like focusing on a singular rankand file swap bot that gets

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killed by the freedom fighters at the end.
That's already a cool thing honestly, but what you just
spouted off as fanfiction reminded me of a Star Wars short
story. Assuming it's fanfiction, keep
on going. That's a Star Wars short story
that is official, or at least, you know, it was like expanded
universe comic, so nebulous on whether it's official or not,

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but especially now. But you remember in the scene in
Episode 4 where they're about tofire the Death Star at Yavin,
right? So this is like the clock is
ticking to 0 and Luke has to destroy the Death Star just in
time. And the lasers going charging
up. You see the engineers.

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It cuts to the engineers in the controller of the Death Star
doing controls and computer stuff.
And then there's a guy saying stand by, stand by.
And then like, it's like building the tension.
You remember what I'm talking about, that scene.
Well, I'm sure everyone listening does so and.
I'm sure you just can't think ofit off offhand.

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I'm sure you do. But they made a short story
about that guy who just says stand by and he's out of the
controls and it's good. It's really good because when
he, he's the guy that presses the button that blows up
Alderon, he's like the guy, he'slike the guy who drops the A
bomb on Hiroshima, right? And he goes through that same

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thing where it's like, Oh my God, he like goes through guilt
and he has like he, he just, he questions what he's doing, but
he can't escape a situation. So that when it when it shows
him in the context of the movie now and he's saying stand by,
stand by, what he's doing is just delaying for as long as
possible and praying for a miracle that someone will stop

(32:58):
him from committing another genocide on a planet wide scale.
And then the story ends with himgetting blown up with the Death
Star, which fulfills his wishes.And I think that's just, that's
really cool and interesting, right?
I, it's like you just cool things you can explore without
constantly breaking the world that you have this really cool

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world that you're, you know, building for yourself.
I I do not understand it funny enough.
I'm sorry. Go ahead.
Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no no no Gauss dumb
joke. Keep on going.
Funny enough, De Sasari did comeup with a side character here
and they give her. I'm assuming it's a her right?

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It is a serve. They they they confirm it.
Yeah, they give her 2 pages of back story and they like assume
the whole relationship between her and the Freedom fighters.
She is a fan fiction character written by an official author.
This is incredible. This is astounding.
It, it does, it brings into question the nature of the world

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even more because now we're introducing fantasy elements.
And I mean, I mean, it's all fantasy, right?
But the every single thing that we've seen has been based on
something that was real. And now we're seeing something
that's real, that's based on something that's imaginary,

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that's. Why it doesn't vibe?
That's a really good point. I didn't think about that, but
you're right, it did feel off. Yeah, it's, it's definitely it.
It threw me for a loop, like right off the bat.
Unless if this Dragon's name wasFig, I'm done because what the
fuck, man. Half of a page, half of a page
of the whole race is back story,right, That whole the whole
Dragon's back story. And then literally the bottom

(34:44):
half of that page is and then everyone liked her, right?
That's it's, it's so annoying, right.
I understand this is giving likethe the argument is like Mary
Sue. Whatever.
I hate the term Mary Sue and I think anyone who employs that is
gives off is very suspicious. So don't don't think I'm using

(35:08):
the term Mary Sue. I'm just saying this is a really
poorly written character. I I I just not done well at all
in this issue? I mean, I wouldn't use Mary Sue
only because like she Mary. 'S is a dumb fucking term
anyway, I hate it. Yeah.
Yeah, that yes, you're not wrong, but the description that

(35:30):
it describes is a real issue. It's just not with this issue
because nothing happens in this issue.
No, I gave up on that a while ago.
Yeah, I don't blame you. Steel Belted Sally Part 2
Everything is going according toplan.
Sally has been captured by the SWAT bots and is now in

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Robotropolis being roboticized. Congratulations Sir, the
roboticization process has been completed.
I'd be overjoyed snively if Joy wasn't my against my laws.
There is one other thing Sir. This little gizmo fell from the
prisoner while she was being transformed.

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I analyzed it and found that it's a type of neuro overrider.
It would have allowed the Princess to regain her freedom
of will even after we roboticized her.
I want this to be clear. The chip that this whole plan
hinged on has literally just fallen off.

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No stitching of the chip into the skin or implanting in the
brain. No, this was literally held with
double sided tape and the chip just fell off.
So the freedom fighters almost tricked me again snively and all
because I'm so trusting and innocent like a shark.

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What was that? I said I like the dark Sir.
It's much easier to be sneakery in the dark.
You spelled it sneakery. And you know what?
It's a funnier line. Never mind I'm.
Fixing the comic. Never mind, I think I'll give my

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first command to Princess Sally.Or shall I call you bot number
3390? How may I serve you, Master?
Meanwhile, outside a supposedly secret entrance to Robotnik's
lair, the Freedom Fighters are waiting impatiently for Sonic.

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Sonic says we have to assume that everything is going
according to plan and continues at plan.
Sonic is going to go and distract the SWAT bots, and the
rest of the Freedom Fighters aregoing to bring Sally back to
Knothole and de roboticize her. Sonic zooms off into the tunnels
on the Robotropolis. We hang back on the Freedom
Fighters. Tales says.

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I can't wait to see Sally again.I really miss her.
Just don't be scared when you see her robot body sugar Tails.
It'll still be good old Sally girl underneath.
Of course, based on what we knowfrom last issue, Tails will, if
anything, be more into Sally. Am that's.
Really good, but no, I didn't think of that aspect at all.

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That's really funny and really tragic.
Just then, Robot Sally walks up.We cut to Sonic dashing around
Robotnik's secret layer, distracting all the SWAT bots.
He decides that he's distracted long enough and starts to leave
the way he came. As he runs through the tunnels,
he's cut off by Sally, Robotnik,Snively, and the now captured

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Freedom Fighters. Surrender.
Hedgehog or your fellow Freedom Fighters will be roboticized
immediately. Surprised Princess Sally is now
finally working for me. End of Part 2.
Yeah, so my, my whole thing is just the mere fact that like she

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fucking she the chip just falls off.
It just falls off. There's there's a there's
actually an unintended hilarity to this.
And I, I'm this is a lot of credit, a lot of credit, but I,
I kind of want to believe that Angelo Desasare is like poking
fun at Ken Penders for how stupid and convoluted these

(39:36):
plots can get. And so he writes a story where
it's like, Oh yeah, the freedom Fighters plot just changes on
this. And then it immediately doesn't
work because of the most like obvious, like thought process
ever, right? Like.
That there's, I kind of wish youdidn't say this because I'm kind
of like super fucking into that idea.

(39:57):
Like. Like that's great.
Incred. Like an incredible amount of
credit, like like leeway given to to the Dasasari.
But man, I'm I, for my sanity sake, I'm going to read it that
way. I'm going to read it that way.
But anyway, yeah, this was they're fucking stupid.
Like the freedom fighters are fucking dumb.

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Like, yeah, like this is this isa pretty bad idea all like
everything, everything has just been like bad idea after bad
idea after bad idea the. We haven't touched on this yet.
The the the sovereign monarch ofour nation.
Let's just give her up to be effectively killed.
Right. Like, well, I I didn't bring

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this up yet, but like. Imagine, but like like imagine
Winston Churchill is like they will fight us on the beaches.
Actually, King George, just go, just just go to Germany.
Which actually funny enough, do you do you know about Rudolf has
his famous flight? No.

(41:02):
OK, so. I I know Rudolf the Red Nose
Reindeer's famous flight. So Rudolf has different.
Is it similar? He you know what kind of Rudolf
Hess was effectively the number 2 Nazi for a long time, from the
Nazi's rise to power through thevery early part of the war.

(41:25):
Right to Tiwano, who the third Nazi is Rudolf the Red Nose,
Right, dear? Or I could do a callback.
I was debating whether or not todo a callback.
I was gonna say Walt Disney. One of my favorite clips, but
Rudolf Hess, he was effectively the number 2 Nazi during the

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early parts of the war. This is pre America being
involved and it's a France has fallen and now it's just the UK.
It's the UK standing alone in the West versus the Nazis.
And Rudolf Hess thinks to himself as the in many ways vice
president of of the Reich. He goes, I can fix this.

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So he requisitions a single seatplane, flies in the dead of
night over enemy skies into the United Kingdom, crash lands,
gets out, goes to this random farmer, 'cause he didn't doesn't

(42:32):
know where he's going, right? He goes to this random farmer
and he's like, I need to see this Duke, this British Duke.
And the farmer's like, OK, immediately reports him to the
authorities, which he should. And the authorities are like,
there's no fucking way this is Rudolf Hess.
Are you fucking kidding me? There's no fucking way this is

(42:52):
Rudolf Hess. And then he, the next time any
of the Nazis see Rudolf Hess is at Nuremberg.
And they're all like, what the fuck were you think of this
fucking guy? Or like, are you fucking?
What the fuck were you? Thinking I I fucking love this.
Oh my God, what a cool. I mean, he's not.
He's a Nazi so he's not cool of course, but this is about as

(43:16):
cool as you can be while sucking.
I know, I say, I know, you know,it's a podcast guy, you know,
telling funny history stories ona podcast.
I want to be clear, that is about as close to the truth as I
can possibly put it. He genuinely believed he could
just meet up with this German sympathizing Duke in the UK and

(43:40):
make peace on his own. Well, so this is the thing with
fascists is they're all really fucking dumb and they all think
they can just be like, Oh, I canit obviously that has such like
fucking well, no, Vance wouldn'tgo and fly a plane, but like.

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The poor idea? Yeah, yeah, the mentality is
still a Musk. Where it's like I can I can fix.
It Musk is a better yeah. I mean, look, arguably Doge was
never really about fixing anything, and never really.
Was. But the, the just the mentality
of like conservatives and like high up administration officials
who think they can do what otherpeople have been training their
whole lives to do and are problematic in and of

(44:24):
themselves. But at least they have like the
career experience to make this fucked up American system, which
is still a system work. But we're not there anymore.
We have full on fascism, right? It's that famous saying, I
forget what it's like. You could like you can, you can
fool as a fascist. You can fool people into
thinking that 2 + 2 = 5 in orderto win an election.

(44:49):
You can do that, but you can't fool people into thinking 2 + 2
is five to calibrate a machine gun to win a war.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, for sure.
Where it's like, oh, no, the reality of the situation is we
actually need to win this war, and we can't do it.
So what we're going to do is we're going to spend monstrous
amounts of resources on killing our own citizens that could have

(45:12):
been useful in concentration camps instead of, you know, the
war effort and a variety of other things.
But yeah. Yeah, fascists are gonna
fascists. They're gonna fascists.
There's something I forgot to bring up earlier to bring it
back to Sonic. The thing I found really funny
about this is they have a way tosave Uncle Chuck and they

(45:39):
completely ignore it. Like isn't this like part of the
the whole thing? Like whole his whole Sonic's
whole thing is he wants to save his uncle.
The device to do that literally falls in his hand and they're
they're like, what if we just roboticize the queen?
What if it almost feels like someone said it as a bit and

(46:02):
someone was like, that's a good idea?
The entire purpose of Uncle Chuck as a character and Mutsky
right? We've we've not seen in a hot
minute, which is I guess OK, whatever we don't need, we've
never. Seen him in like a flashback.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, not even a flashback.
It was A dream of A Christmas Carol.

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And like, that was it I guess, in the prequel.
But I still stand by the fact that the prequels don't count.
Don't count, right? Sure, sure.
The whole like purpose of Uncle Chuck as a character is to give
Sonic the Hedgehog hard motivation.
A living, breathing motivation to to cure roboticization and

(46:45):
Eureka, it's right there in front of them.
And you're right, he never. He doesn't bat an eyelash.
He doesn't think about it at all.
He doesn't. Even say the name Uncle Chuck.
No, it's a it's pure. This is a lazy and hastily
thrown together plot device for this dumbass story that so many

(47:07):
implications but none of them come to any there.
There's no thought given to it at all, and then no implication.
No, none of it plays out effectively.
This is a nothing burger, despite introducing this the
extremely important thing. Yep.
Shall we move on? Ready.
For part three, yeah, Steel Beltgave an e-mail, but I don't

(47:30):
think we're getting to it today.I don't know what to think so
either. Steel Belted Sally Part 3, Sonic
and the Freedom Fighters are nowcaptured.
We see robotics stomping on a device.
Crunch there, the device you areattempted to use to keep the
princess's mind free is crushed,and so is your rebellion.

(47:52):
The only reason we haven't roboticized a lot of you is that
we know you have one of our DE roboticizers.
So where is it? I traded it in for a picture of
Robotnik. Never know when I'll have to
blow my nose. I mean, you fool tell you'll

(48:15):
tell me what I want to know and when you're standing inside a
Roboticizer. An admittedly strange plan by
Snobby and Robotnik. After all, they have admitted
the only reason why they haven'tbeen roboticized yet is because
they know the location of the Roboticizer.
Am I wrong? Nope.
Leverage. The whole concept of leverage.

(48:38):
And there's this. This is, this is a style of
writing that I this is a, this is a mechanic of writing that
convinced me or showed me that. Oh yeah, I'm not a fiction
writer. This is This is why I can't do

(48:58):
anything like that. Because there is a intricate way
of like cross character, cross factional motivation, right?
Motivation and purpose to everything and every moment
embodying every character, right?
That is not on display here at all, right?

(49:19):
It's just not there. OK Anyway, sorry let's keep
reading and find out if this is a bad writing or if Robonic has
something up his sleeve. That night as the Gloomy
darkness I'm I'm going to be honest, I don't remember how
this story ends at all except Dragon comes in that's I don't
remember. That night as the Gloomy
Darkness covers Robotropolis, wesee Dulce flying around the red

(49:42):
polluted skies. That's right.
Oh, fuck, I'm so worried. The others never pretend the
knot hole and there are no bot planes got in the skies.
Oh, shit. Something weird's going on.
All right, I'm gonna Snoop around Robotic's headquarters.
There's a light coming from thatwindow.

(50:02):
Oh, boy. Here we go.
Dulce peers through the window and she and and sees the freedom
fighters all captured and placedin glass tubes that they are
unable to break out of. Robotics starts speaking.
I've decided to forget about thedeer robot.

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It's so bad, I've decided to forget about the Deer
Roboticizer. After all, once you've all been
roboticized, no one will be ableto stop me.
That's right. And as a symbol of Doctor
Robotnik's victory, the Roboticizer will be activated by
your former colleague, Robot 3390.

(50:48):
I am ready, Master. It seems if Robotnik and
Snively's plan was just bad writing.
We cut to outside the room with Dulcie watching.
Oh, shit. All right, I bought.
I bought the deal Roboticizer just in case that plan failed.
That. But.
But I'm not sure how. But I'm not sure how to use this

(51:10):
shit. All right, all right, Well don't
see well, fuck, you'll just haveto.
I am thinking like full on Midwest like trailer.
Trash crushing it. She's got to be drinking old
style. And yeah.
I, I have seen like, I'm not going to say full on meth heads,
but I've seen some trashy people.
I have my, my sympathies to them, but admittedly they, they

(51:33):
are going through some shit, right?
I have seen them and The funny thing is they weren't even like
homeless too, but like the the they, they're going through some
shit and when they get excited, it's honestly a really special,
special kind of excited. I don't know how to put it in.
I'm trying to put it in right now.
They just lose their English. All right, here we go.
All right, all right. Well, they'll see.

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You'll just have to do the best you can.
Nobody's going to turn my friends on the robots.
All right, here we go, motherfuckers.
Tulsi flies nose first into the secret lair Robotic, which I'm
pretty sure is the tallest building in Robotropolis.
Quick, roboticize the Freedom Fighters bot 3390I command you.
There's a fucking dragon here I just pictured.

(52:18):
Like, has Robotic seen? Actually, I think probably he
did see the dragon. He did see the dragon.
Because there's the whole war, so he know, he knows of them.
But I like to think they're likefucking dragon just comes out of
nowhere. And I was like what the fuck?
OK, here we go. He also made the bio dragon from
Sally's. That's true.
That's true. I'm I'm I'm slowly turning into

(52:40):
that guy on time. Just then, so OK Sonic.
Sonic screams out to not do it, roboticize them, meaning Sally
seems to be having an internal struggle.
Unfortunately, the programming seems to be winning as she goes
to push the button. Just then she is zapped and

(53:01):
turned back into her furry self.Robotnik quickly runs to the
Roboticizer to turn the Freedom Fighters himself, but Dulce
blocks his path with a wall of fire.
Snively and Robotnik run out of the room while Sally frees the
rest of the Freedom Fighters. We cut back to Knothole.
Just we cut back to Knothole. Sorry I didn't.

(53:23):
Sorry I didn't get the job done guys.
Hey, we're way past proud of youfor even trying, Sal.
Besides, it was robotic. We didn't get the job done.
That's why I fired him. The Freedom Fighters laugh in
unison. I can only assume a freeze frame

(53:45):
would happen when credits would roll as if this were a sitcom
VN. You know, as soon as you said
the Ken Pender's thing, I can't get it.
I it does this. This is so bad in a way that
none of his other stories were. It kind of does feel like it's
digging at him. Yeah.
It like I can't, I mean, obviously it's, it's

(54:08):
speculative, but man, man. We don't believe that, but
there's an angle there that I just really enjoy imagining and
I guess we can keep an eye on. But man.
Cuz yeah, fucking hey, man. Yeah, None, none of this.
There's no, there's, there's really hardly any

(54:31):
characterization given to this, to Dulcie.
It's a shame. What a waste.
Well, it's also like, why use Dulcie?
Why, why, Why are you introducing this dragon if we
have all these other freedom fighters that are barely being
used? You've got the junior freedom
fighters, you've got the secret,the Her His Majesty's Secret
Service or whatever it's called.Fucking Jeffrey, right?

(54:53):
Saint John? I feel like only Ken is allowed
to write him. Stipulated in his contract.
Yeah, right. But yeah, I don't.
I don't it's really it's atrocious.
It is this is I I actually genuinely believe this is the
worst issue yet. This at least this story.

(55:14):
This is the worst self-containedstory I've seen yet.
Nothing cool. Happens.
I was gonna say story correct but I'm actually I'm super into
the next one details thing. OK, yes, this this story saves
the issue from being one of the worst.
I know because this tales one I was low key like wait this might

(55:36):
be one of my favorites. I was dreading I was it's so
funny. The tales are flipped.
I was dreading the the tale story growing pains going into
this issue. And I was like, well, at least
maybe something interesting willhappen at the start of the, you
know, the regular storyline and then complete, complete 180 here
and and our our audience will find out why.

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I'm gonna go into it. Did you have anything else to
say? No, it's it's all more just
repeats of like what the fuck isthis so.
Growing Pains Part 2 Script by Mike Gallagher Pencil by Dave
Monoch A recap of events from Sonic #28.
Angered by the juvenile treatment he was getting from
his fellow freedom fighters, Tales took off on his own aboard

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a submarine, the The Sea Fox. Sea Fox.
Yep, I'm I'm just glad you didn't write Sex Fox.
Hey man, you you don't know how many times I have to auto
correct hedgehog to hedgehog to hedgehog.
That's so funny, I. I, I, I type it like I'm gonna

(56:40):
miss it one time. I I know I am so.
Tales takes Tales took off on his own aboard as submarine the
Sea Fox. Tales journeyed to an unexplored
island where he rescued a beautiful young female fox named
Fiona. It was love at first sight.
Unfortunately, it was also a trap.
Fiona was one of Robotnik's automatons robots disguised to

(57:01):
be indistinguishable from live animals until it was too late.
We open on Robotnik and Fiona, standing outside the trap that
they made for Tails. Loud noises are coming from
inside said trap, which implies that Tail is being roboticized
as we speak. Well done Fiona, you lured Tails
into the feed tube of my camouflage roboticizer.

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Let's listen to his agonized screams, eh?
What's this? The shrieks have stopped.
Yeah, no shit, dude, because he's probably dead.
Robotic leans in towards his trap to investigate when an
explosion happens, blasting openthe cage that he was caging
Tails in. He lives.
Tails jumps out of the trap. That's right, Lord Bottom, I

(57:50):
quad your machine's filters withfur from my tails.
I forgot that line of reasoning.I accepted it.
I was like I. Didn't, because the whole
purpose of this machine is to put a furry animal through, OK?
It built up. Maybe there was a gear that was
exposed that he was able to. Got it, got it, got it.

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It built up an overload and exploded in your face.
And Speaking of your face, I think I'll color it black and
blue. Fucking raw Tails, get it?
Tails flies at Robotnik, fist out when Fiona's fist comes out
of frame and decks Tails in the face.
Tails is now on the ground, dazed.

(58:35):
Fiona, you slugged me. You always hurt the one you
love, Tails. Fiona picks a club off of the
ground. My automaton is programmed to
defend me to the death. Your Death Freedom fighter Fiona
jumps up and attempts to do an overhead smash on Tail's head.

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Tails dodges at the last second.As he's flying away, he gets
grabbed by a robotic coconut tree.
Luckily, the tree grabbed onto his body, not his tails.
He starts spitting his tails andis able to uproot the tree and
swing the tree like a bat, knocking Robotnik out into the
ocean. You're done for, Robotnik.

(59:18):
Bad enough you've polluted this planet and riven a wedge between
me and my friends, but you? Now you've robbed me of my
innocence. Robotnik calls back from the
ocean. Careful boy, Women will not only
break your heart, but your back as well.
Well, he was going to get to that, but you interrupted them.

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Yeah, right. Fiona tackles Tales and the two
of them start fighting. Robotnik runs off, letting his
automaton finish the job. Fiona and Tails are in shallow
knee high water fighting. Tail starts making a run for his
submarine, but Fiona grabs his head.
Not in this lifetime. Tails, you're going down.

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Fiona dunks Tails his head underwater.
She brings him back up. Fiona, don't, don't do this.
But remember our moonlit walks holding hands.
Fiona dunks Tails again. Tails is exhausted, barely

(01:00:29):
hanging on once more, and I'll drown.
Please, Fiona. I, I love, I love.
Fiona begins to dunk Tails again, but freezes.
She is now stiff. Hey, I knew you couldn't do it.

(01:00:52):
You love me too. For Fiona.
Fiona. Oh my gosh, she's rusted.
Tails begins crying as he lifts the frozen body and starts
bringing her to the beach. Robotnik created the perfect

(01:01:14):
woman, but I forgot. But forgot.
But I forgot. He was gonna waterproof her.
Am I right? No.
Robotnik created the perfect woman.
You, you. You put women by the way you
wrote women. All of them would have been

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perfect, whatever he made. Robotnik created the perfect
woman but forgot to waterproof her.
Oh, what a cruel world. Tails leans Fiona's lifeless,
frozen body on a rock overlooking the ocean.
I'll put you here as a monument to my lost youth, but I'll make

(01:01:58):
him repair you and we'll be together again, my love.
Robotnik comically was able to hear this as he flies off in his
egg ship. Ha ha ha, extremely fat chance
you snaps you sappy little 2 tailed freak.
Robotnik flies. That was uncharacteristically
mean of him. Like that was aggressive.

(01:02:20):
OK, Loki, I was gonna bring thisup later, but since we like
interrupted the flow, I'm gonna do it now.
This is one of my favorite things Robotnik has ever done
because it like tales heart is broken.
He's talking about his loss of innocence and in the background
it's it's he's Eggman is I'm sorry.
Robotnik is flying away in his like egg like ship from like

(01:02:41):
Sonic 2 full with the ball and chain like flying behind him as
he's flying away and he's just like get fucked loser.
It's just. The way he says it to extremely
fat champs you sappy little 2 tailed freak like that is an
insult that usually comes with like the from the freedom
fighters right? Yeah, well, it's like, you know,

(01:03:05):
he's only holding back because achild is reading this.
If he was allowed to say what hetruly wanted to say.
He would be like fat chance you dumb fuck.
Like he'd be like fucking nerd. Is he like, flying off?
OK, OK, so fucking good. Let's let's do the monologue.
Here we go. Robotnik flies off.
Tails starts looking around and sees the mess robotic made on

(01:03:27):
the island and begins cleaning up so it doesn't pollute the
ocean. Look at all this junk.
Oil cans, bolts, springs, candy wrappers, a list of supplies
destined for his underboss holy abalone.
This is absolute proof that Robotnik's got a satellite
operation functioning on the other side of Mobius.

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Hell yeah. I'd begin.
I'd better get in touch with Princess Sally on my Ship to
Shore radio. Oh, wait a minute.
If I tell the Freedom Fighters about this mission, they'll take
over the mission and leave me behind again.
On the other hand, if I solve this case by myself, well,
they'll have to admit I'm as capable as they are.
So Lookout World here comes Tails on his own.

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Tails hops onto his submarine and starts sailing out into the
ocean, the lifeless body of Fiona staring at him with a
singular tear rolling down her face.
The end. I man, they they really saved
this issue. I, I thought this was gonna
suck. This is actually low key great

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tales is like slowly becoming one of my favorite characters.
His what's the word? I'm looking for his like gusto.
His his willingness to always just like fly in and punch
someone in the face is great. That is pretty damn.
Yeah, And he keeps like, he keeps doing it to the point

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where I'm like, this is who he is.
This is a character trait. This dude does not fuck around.
And he just flies into the face of danger.
And like, he would probably argue that like, he's young and
he doesn't understand why. Like he shouldn't be doing this,
but he keeps up doing it. And I don't give a shit.
It's a good trait and he shouldn't lose that.

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That's fucking good. He's like, I, I don't care.
I'm just gonna punch you. No.
One else is punching Robotnik. He's the only one that makes
sense. This is such a fundamentally
different take on tails than thegames, because in the games he
is effectively rotor. He he's, he's what he is what we
traditionally know as tails and a rotor because he's a genius,
right? But here he is aggressive, he is

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spunky. He he makes mistakes in in
increasingly cool and tragic ways.
This is the most tragic. This is the most tragic thing
I've seen yet. That whole page where it's just
her dunking him, waterboarding him in the fucking shallow water
it. Was so it's low key like the
most intense thing that's happened in this comic yet.

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Yeah, yeah, 100% it is raw as shit.
Yeah, it's I I fucking I, I loved everything that happened
at this. It's like.
They're they're portraying the emotions that one should feel in
this given moment. And like, they don't even need
to say it. They don't just spell it out for

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us. I can think about it right here
as because he's having the appropriate like emotional
response, which is being heartbroken, his innocence.
It is funny how he says I. Was going to say that that is my
one problem with this is he's just like 180.
He's like, I'm not going to say he's talking like an adult, but
he definitely what he considers to love.

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His life betrayed him and suddenly he's like talking a
little bit more mature and he's like, Oh my, I have lost my
innocence. It's like you don't know what
you what, you're 40 years old. You don't know what you're.
Saying I disagree because you never had an emo phase did you?
No. Neither did I, but I did have a

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Sonic fan fiction like Phase andit's very emo.
It like reading that and like itconsuming that like on new
ground on the new ground, Sonic like shorts, like a like Sonic
shorts, which is a long running series that they're still making
to this day, few and far between, but it's it's there and
it's a constant joke that Sonic had an emo phase, particularly

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with Shadow, but even just Sonichimself.
And it's really just along with the butt rock.
It was, it was just really there.
And so, but like that is the honestly no OK, Tales is he is
he like six years old, four years old, five years old,
right. He is yes, but but but what the
way that the writers treat everyone, you unfortunately need

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to add like another 10 to 15 years on top of their age.
So or, or like 10 years, right. So Tales is he's he's acting
like a teenager and an emo, which you know, or like, not
like emo as in, you know, he's listening to fucking Fall Out
Boy or anything, but he's havingthose emotions that every, every
young person, every teenager hasin the world that, that

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throughout time, throughout all of time, not necessarily emo
phase, but they're they, you know, they felt love for the
first time and it is the literalworst thing that's ever happened
to them emotionally, sure, but it's so funny compared to the
breath of a whole human life that we make fun of it and we
laugh at it. So I, I would say that is a

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strangely appropriate response for someone who had such a
traumatic experience. Like this is his first think
about it. This is his first love, dude,
first ever feeling of love. OK, there were like some crushes
and stuff and like other stories, but this is the first
like genuine one that lasted like a whole six hours.
And, and for, for him, that is such an intense feeling like

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this is, this is how GIS got or actually this is how Marines
like today, you know, get married in like, you know, 48
hours and then go off and then come back and then they get
divorced, right. So that's as, as told to me by
Marines. That is how it happened.

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So I I've I've got. I'm sorry I belabored that
point, but I I think it's it's appropriate response.
OK, I, I, I, I accept your defense.
You're not wrong. I'll say that.
You know, I'm, I'm actually, I'm, I'm, I'm coming around on
it because he comes off as like an artist now, right?

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He's, he. He sees the love of his life.
Frozen. And the first thing he thinks is
I will put her up as a statue, as a monument for like, my
innocence and my love. That Nick, that's a fantastic
point. Like I again, the the subtext

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here that no, I don't know if it's subtext, but the emotional
correspondence here is that likewhen she freezes, when she stops
drowning him, his first instinctis, oh, thank God, you did fall
in love with me. You did love me after all.
But the even deeper tragedy on top of what he's already

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experiencing is that no, it wasn't even her love for him
that never existed. Probably it was simply that she
rusted. She short circuited.
That is like another detail thatis just another nail in the
heart. Well, I mean, for the record, we
know that she rusted, didn't short circuit 'cause she's

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still, she's still there. OK, Sure, sure, sure.
Because the last panel I I didn't did.
Did I say this? I don't know if I wrote it.
You did. You did.
She she she cries. She cries.
Yeah. Which I mean, it could be argued
she's crying because of Tails orbecause of all the pollution

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that was left on the island. Really more.
Well, here's the thing. It's unclear because she she
goes straight from murder tryingto murder to freeze, and then
that's all we get. So.
I mean, I was doing a bit, you know what I'm.
Talking. I know, I know you were.
I know you were, but like, we don't.
The real, the real thing you're trying to say is, was it between
genuine falling in love with Tails, or was she not able to

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complete her mission right? We don't know yet.
I mean, I, I think it's falling in love.
I think that's exactly what it'strying to say.
Yeah, I think so too. I like I said I was I was
impressed with this one. I wasn't expecting to even like
it and Low Key ended up being one of my favorites.

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It, it was convoluted at first, but now that we're here, we're
here and they, they paid it off.So Mike Gallagher, kudos to you.
Well done. And that's the issue.
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