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Sonic The Hedgehog's Buddy Tails Mini-Series Part 1
00:00 Intro
13:12 Southern Crossover Part 1
53:49 Sonicgrams
01:04:23 Outro
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Got to talk fast. Got to talk fast.
Got to talk faster, faster, faster.
Got to talk fast. And I don't like Houston.
Well, Houston doesn't like you, buddy.
That's fine. I don't need it to I In fact, I
think I'd prefer it that way. I don't.
I don't want this fucking place to like me.
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Will you go down to Texas for a Sonic convention?
Oh yeah, 1000% that's, that's a different conversation.
But I don't, I don't know why Sonic would have a convention
down here. That's just foolish.
I thought there, I thought last year we looked at a convention.
There was there was there was a convention here last year that I
actually thought about flying down to maybe this year.
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We'll see. I'm not on Twitter anymore.
So all those people that I followed, I don't know.
They're blue skies and I'm nevergoing to know them again.
You could you? Could ensure.
I don't know figure it out. I admire you for deleting it,
but also maybe you could have NoI'm.
I'm too fast. This is what I you, you can edit
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this in. I don't care because we didn't
do the intro yet. I, I am so fast and loose with
my life, but it just with my life and period.
But like I've switched over fromApple to Android to Apple a few
Times Now and each time I'm justlike I'm losing all my contacts.
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I'm only going to keep the people that I know I talk to
regularly and no one else. I didn't have your number when
you texted me. It was before we started doing
the podcast. So what it was that, yeah, you
texted me something Sonic related and I didn't have your
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phone number and I didn't have any past messages because I like
went to a new like phone. Got it, Got it.
OK, I was confused. I'm like, we worked together for
years, no? No, no, yeah.
I get it. Yeah.
And so I just didn't have your number, but I was also like,
well, this is going to be Dominic, because there's no one
else in my life that would text me about Sonic the Hedgehog
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other than Dominic. So yeah.
And then immediately after, I was like, we should do that
podcast. And here we are, like over a
year later. It's crazy.
Sure is, I have a friend I'm so far jealous of him.
He doesn't set up his voicemail,but for the longest time you
couldn't text him. He's, he's just, he's a wild
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card man. Why are you jealous of him?
'Cause he's just, he doesn't. He's not held down by the
machine. Do you know how much pussy he
missed out on? Oh no, he gets.
Trust me, he got way more than. Oh, 'cause he touches grass,
he's one of those he touches grass.
He. Touches grass, that's the thing.
He's outside all the time. He goes to he goes to alcohol
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places. Yeah, yeah, he definitely maybe
too much. Welcome to an oral review of
Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehogreminding you that fascism will
fail and may succeed at winning elections and attaining power.
But it always fails. And there is evidence for this.
Hitler, Mussolini, Paul Potts, Kafro.
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Jesus Christ. Khmer Rouge.
Khmer Rouge. Augusto.
Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet.
Pinochet Chili. This is like, slowly.
Yeah. Is that how you spell chili?
I eat. I eat there, man.
I think I know he wants his. Fascist back, fascist back,
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Fascist back, Fascist back. I feel like it's slowly turning
into a bit of like, let me just throw in a bunch of words.
I know Nick can't say you're making fun of a dude who was in
speech therapy for like 10 years.
So really to go. I never knew this about you.
No, yeah, I couldn't say anything.
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I was a fucking idiot. Wow, I just thought you were
stupid. Not like had a speech.
I was. I was Why do you think I
couldn't talk? The.
I really derailed this intro. I'm sorry.
My mom claims I had my own language for everything, which
is even weirder. She would like, she would be
like, yeah. She would be like, yeah, I'd
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point to a lamp and call it something else.
So I'm just like. There's that one school.
It was like an isolated school 100 years ago in the Caribbean,
11 Caribbean nation, and I thinkit was all orphans.
So they were super isolated and they came up with their own
language just completely from scratch.
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That's all I can say about that because of the story completely
escapes me. But I don't know look up
something about that audience because this.
I would have been leading that school.
I've been like, this is the language.
The self appointed Dean? Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, why is why is this
orphanage fucking teaching themselves how to communicate?
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If it's an orphanage, shouldn't there at least be one adult to
be like no, that's a lamp, don'tcall it something else?
I I think it was an an abusive place.
It was a oppressive place. Now I'm just picturing it was
actually, it was actually some like, really weird guy trying to
create his own language. And he was like texting it on
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these kids. And so when someone got caught
wind of it, he was just like, oh, yeah, they just came up with
that on themselves. Like that wasn't.
I don't know where that came. From it was actually Gene
Roddenberry. And that's, that's how we got
the Klingon language, you know. His proto Klingon.
He field tested that shit. That's how it's so good.
That's how it's like actually usable.
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I've. Seen you, orphans.
I've seen clips of like Hamlet done in Klingon on I think it's
on YouTube. It's incredible.
That's very funny. They all fall one way or
another. The question is how much damage
will they do and how prepared are you to take that damage?
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Find your community, talk to your neighbors and know your
streets. Stay aware.
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 hastily assembled butstill assembled script.
So well done, Nick, we are on week.
What of your of your southern adventures this is like?
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Well, I haven't been home in over a month I think.
Jesus Christ, dude. That's awesome.
I'm trying to think of, 'cause last weekend I was here and the
weekend before that I was in Ohio, then the weekend before
that I was in Pennsylvania. So I haven't been home in five
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weeks. I'm going to go home next
weekend because I was like, I need to go home.
I should I should hold a welcomeparty for.
You. Yeah, well, and I'm pretty sure
I'm going to have to fly immediately back out to Houston,
but I was like, you flying me because this is dumb, mainly
because fucking driving in Houston is disgusting.
It's. I don't stop me if I've said
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this on the podcast before, say it again.
Houston. The highways here are, they
drive me up the fucking wall 'cause it's what they don't tell
you. I mean, you always see those
pictures of like, Oh yeah, that's like the cliche picture
of Houston and it's like 8 lanesof Hwy. right?
They don't tell you is that there's even more highway to the
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side of those highways. And those are the frontage
roads. And they're one way going all
the way along the highway. And so they have like the
highway system is just like a series of waves, right?
And it's mainly elevated, like elevated to the point where
you're like driving above trees and then you're going to go
down. And when you go down, that's
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when you can come off and other people can get on and then it
goes back up. And when you go up, they
developed a system of you go down these frontage roads and
then they're all one way. And so if you want to go the
other way, you need to go under the highway and make AU turn.
So if you miss your turn, you need to drive a mile or two or
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something to get to the next like underpass.
So you can do your U-turn to go all the way back and it's so
fucking insane. I don't know if it's just like
the specific area I'm in, in like N Houston, but everywhere I
go, I'm just like, it's, it's driving me up a fucking wall.
It's at first I was upset at thedrivers here, but then I
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realized you need to cut people off.
And because you're driving and like I come out of a parking lot
and it's like, well, I need to make a left turn.
I need to cut across 4 lanes of this frontage Rd. to get to the
left turn there I was I mean every hour is rush hour here
pretty much. And I needed to make a left turn
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and I was just like, I need to drive down to the other side of
the parking lot and come out because if I try to make a right
here and drive into the left turn, I'm just not going to be
able to do it because it's a parking lot 24/7.
So it's it's that's. I don't need to find.
Anything about Houston? That sounds disgusting because
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yeah, I mean, I, I, I, I had similar issues in California
because I spent a lot of summersin California as a kid.
And obviously I wasn't the one driving, but I spent long
periods of time on those like super highways, like 6 lane
super highways going one way, right?
And that stuff is also really gross, at least at least in
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California, though it has to move with the land to a degree,
kind of. Yeah.
And that's The thing is I feel like would help a lot, yeah.
Texas. It is a straight shot because
it's just wide open Texas. Well, and that's the thing
that's like extremely frustrating to me is like
Houston, like what? Especially like on the East
Coast. Reminder that there is there are
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timestamps on Spotify and YouTube that you can skip to for
the issue. Yes, go ahead.
Is that the highways move along the like tick terrain, right, So
you're not able to see all the traffic and it's not as boring
and like they'll be a bunch of trees and you'll be like, oh,
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look at that like nice forest and behind the trees it's like
hundreds of houses and stuff. But like it's it's all kind of
blocked. But being able to see everywhere
kind of super sucks. And I'm not like as angered as I
am because the the Houston is like built around the car yes,
like that that like half of thisplace is fucking parking lots
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and half of this place is gas stations.
Yes, so that's Houston is highways, gas stations and
fucking. The third thing I said that I
already forgot. Yeah, yeah.
And there are people who live their whole lives thinking that
is normal, or at least that strip malls.
Everything is strip malls too. Yeah, it is the normal, but it's
disgusting and it it can be better.
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It's like, it's like healthcare.It's it's like our prison
industrial complex. It's everything.
It's just we can do so much better in society and we're just
not doing. And like, when I'm in Chicago,
I'm not like I'm upset at traffic, don't get me wrong.
Traffic Stocks. It's not having an earth right
here in Chicago land, it's not. But a lot of times it feels like
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we're shoehorning the car into places where it wasn't
originally designed for, right? Or at least designed for a
society when there's only one car per family and not everyone
had a car. But not every family had a car.
People didn't. Need cars as much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
So I'm not. I mean, it sucks, don't get me
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wrong, but I'm not as upset in Chicago, at the infrastructure
in Houston, everything was designed around the idea of
having a car, and it still fucking sucks.
Yeah, it it makes. Me LA the valley honestly is
like that too, and it's really bad.
I will. Say 1 cool thing about Houston.
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I don't know if it's cool. One interesting thing is, well I
didn't realize it until today, there's like a gas station
literally everywhere. Like every single corner has a
gas station. What's cool about it is every
single one of these gas stationshas like an awesome Mexican
restaurant in it and they all seem family owned and they all
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like, have legit food. It's pretty cool that that is
awesome being able to just like,walk that.
Yeah, it's 11. Shining star in a fucking murky
sea over here. Your toilet is just gone, Yeah.
Pretty much it's just everyday, just explosions.
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All right, We're we're talking about Sonic the Hedgehog, who
would love this highway system 'cause it would just let them
RIP. Specifically, we are talking
about. The Sonic the Hedgehog today,
actually. Yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog's buddy
Tails. That's the official name Sonic
the Hedgehog's Buddy Tails miniseries.
The issue date for this first one is October 5th, 1995
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Southern Crossover Part 1. Tails is sitting on the dock of
the Bay, watching the tide roll away.
His submarine sits mere feet from him, and he has a stack of
amateur drawings which happened to be a comic he's working on
called Tales to Astonish, a comic book series where he is
the main hero called Captain Super Fox Man.
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Mixed in with his drawings are alist of supplies that Tales
found in his last encounter withRobotnik.
The list of supplies is absoluteproof of a satellite operation
happening somewhere on Mobius. Tales has decided not to tell
the other freedom fighters to prove that he can take care of
these issues himself, so that the freedom fighters will give
him more responsibilities and treat him with respect.
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He alone will take on this vaguesatellite issue, which we have
no contacts for. Sally Walk.
It is AI feel like I should justkind of interrupt you.
So normally with these, there's natural breakage points where I
can like kind of interrupt and talk.
This one where you don't really have that because it's just one
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straight through issue. So I'm going to interrupt, but I
don't remember. I was going to say now.
So I apologize for interrupting with just an announcement that
I'm going to interrupt. Sally walks up the tails and
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starts talking about the submarine, which is called the
Sea Fox. Tails.
She apologizes for telling Roeder to not put oil in the
machine, rendering it useless. I'm only trying to look out for
the next generation of Mobians. We're fighting Robotnik for you
youngsters, understand? Tails nods his head reluctantly,
holding back anger. Good, well have fun.
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Sonic and I have an important meeting soon.
Play nice and be home before dark.
Sally starts walking back to notwhole village.
Phooey. That's exactly the kind of
infantile treatment that's driven me to undertake this
mission on my own. Tails opens the Hatch to his one
man submarine and hops in. Little do they know that I
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filled the crank case with oil and have already had two
adventures in this submarine. Tails starts heading out to sea.
Make that 3 adventures starting now.
We cut to Robotnik and his crew of robots loading supplies onto
a Robotnik blimp. The supply blimp is loaded and
ready to go. The SWAT bot tries to hand
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Robotnik a cargo list so he can verify that the shipment is
complete and ready to go. Robotnik refuses, presumably
because he's lazy and doesn't want to do it.
But your orders were very specific.
Oh rotund 1 present list for compare.
Are you questioning me? SWAT bot?
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Robotnik is filled with rage andgrabs the SWAT bot with one hand
around his neck and lifts the SWAT bot.
As my old friend Darth would say, I find your lack of faith
disturbing. Robotnik then compresses the
SWAT bot into a cube and throws him.
Would anyone else like to contradict the Great Dictator
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Ivo Robotnik? The SWAT bots all reply in
unison saying no Sir. I'm going to interrupt here.
This dude Robotnik picks up a SWAT bot with literally 1R
chokes it, which I don't know what that means in terms of
these robots. Like it's not breathing so I
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don't know why it chokes it and then literally compresses the
robot into like a perfect cube with his hands.
I just wanted to stress like this is the first time we've
ever seen like how strong Robotnik truly is.
That's I. Really enjoy it.
Yeah, I really, really enjoy that aspect.
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It seems overpowered, but honestly this is like a Titanic
character that has to carry the weight of antagonism throughout
this whole series. Yeah sure, give him, give him,
give him full-fledged so many times in so many times he has
proven he has made himself out to be weak, probably due to
Sonic speed, but honestly he canbe.
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He is extremely strong when whenhe can put his mind to it, when
he when he just lets raw anger. I do I honestly, the fact that
he chokes out the swap bot, eventhough it doesn't have lungs
right, I think that's still coolbecause it's like, well, I made
I Robotnik made you in the humanimage and I chose to compress
the air, just crush the Airways.Even though there are no
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Airways, just that instinct to to do it is still brutal.
Absolutely killer. And combine that with his
strength, he does have a robot what is effectively A cybernetic
arm 'cause I, he's, he is picking it up with a cybernetic
arm. I, I will, I will mention that.
Well, yeah, but then he compresses it with his other
arm. That's true.
So. But you just said something that
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I haven't thought about yet. Do you think it was on purpose
that Robotnik made the swap botstake a humanoid form?
Do you think there's something to that where like, 'cause he
could have made him look like anything, right, he chose to
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make him kind of look like humans?
That's a good thought. That's a good that's a good
observation. I I'll I'll run.
We don't we don't have any back story whatsoever for the SWAT
bots. So I will I will theorize that
it is he he is a human, he has aRobotnik is a human and he has
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total domain. He is superior, right?
He's a fascist, right? So he is clearly superior.
So if my #1 foot soldier more than any other foot soldier is
going to is going to mirror me, I'm going to make these things
in my image because I am superior.
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I am the the best human do. You think this is his God
moment? I meet them and OK.
Yes, actually, I honestly, I wasn't even thinking in that
sense exactly, but what that absolutely ties into it.
He is a human supremacist. OK.
At least I believe he is. I don't know if that checks out
100%, but that would make the most sense.
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Yeah, no, it was just. Yeah, you said it in my mind
instantly. It was like.
I like it, I like it. The SWAT bots all reply in
unison saying no Sir. Good now you tin horns get on
board and prepare for take off. Robotic pulls out a globe and
starts monologuing like a true villain.
At last my long range plan for global domination is under way.
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My new regional robo underboss will be fully supplied and
capable of dominating Mobius's southern hemisphere.
Robotic christens the blimp witha bottle of WD40.
He then moves towards a computer.
Just in case those accursed freedom fighters are monitoring
the skies, I'll engage the zeppelin's umbrella cloak in
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visibility hardware, making it impossible to see unless one was
directly beneath the blimp. And since its journey is totally
over the ocean, no one will detect my scheme.
We cut back the tails patrollingthe sea lanes that he thinks
Robotic would be using. He looks around and sees a giant
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shadow on the ocean surface, butthere's nothing below or above
the shadow. Tails leaves the safety of his
sub and flies over the shadow toget a closer look and notices
the underside of a blimp. He immediately flies up to the
cockpit of the blimp and sees the navigation route the blimp
is going. Immediately after seeing the
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information, he is blasted by a SWAT bot flying around with a
jet pack. Tails is stunned and starts
falling towards the ocean. He recovers right before he hits
it. He's now hovering with his
tails. A few SWAT bots fly down to
attack. Tails dips his tails into the
ocean, spitting them so incredibly fast that a water
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spout formed which he is able tocontrol and aim in the direction
of the SWAT bots. I am not a man of science,
however, I do believe this meansthat Tails can spin his tails at
the speed of a tornado. The SWAT bots have been defeated
and are now sinking to the bottom of the ocean floor.
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Tails fly. I mean, interrupts, Yeah.
I just want to point out, can I just quickly send this to you in
Discord? Yeah, Yeah, sure.
Look at that. Look at that picture.
It's a great picture. That's actually the one I chose
for the intro. Oh, did you nice.
His face is just so funny. And for those listening and not
watching, there's just a very, we'll just say interesting draw
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on tales when he's like kind of stunned, passed out, falling
towards the ocean. They made his face like weirdly,
I don't know what I'm looking for.
It's like he's super. High but like like he's got the
squinty eyes and all that stuff and his mouth is a gape and also
it's it's from under upside downand under.
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So it's super awkward and it's really funny.
The SWAT bots have been defeatedand are now sinking to the
bottom of the ocean floor. Tails flies back to his
submarine when he is attacked bythe same robotic octopus from
issue Triple Trouble Special. The robotic octopus grabs Tails
and instantly starts drowning him.
The octopus let's go. Tails has stopped putting up a
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fight. He gasped for air but only
inhales water. He starts sinking and his eyes
close. We got the Robotnik watching
everything from his blimp Cam. He immediately calls his new
underboss. Priority call from Robotnik to
my new underboss. Are you there Crocbot?
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OK, Crocbot. So I can go.
I can go very standard like monotone robot voice or what do
you think we can do we do something special with those do.
Do no, no. Well, a he's gonna have an
Australian accent. OK, OK.
Oh, that's right, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I pictured, I, I, I, I think kind of grave.
Gravely, gravely. Gravely, gravely.
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That's what I'm like. Gravely.
Not groveling, but rather gravely.
Yeah, like a, like a. Like, gravely sure.
Yeah, right. Like in the front?
Monotone gravel. Can you do that?
With an Australian accent, yeah.That's not a big ask, right?
OK, let's start with your. As someone who can't do
literally any voice. Hugh Jackman, Hugh.
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Hugh. Jackman.
Holy shit. That is like 3 dimensions right
there. I'm pushing you to your limits,
man. You are monotone or.
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For the record, I don't think he's monotone.
I think he's got a lot of pizzazz in his He's, he's very,
what's the word I want he he emotes a lot.
So. I I agree just for this one
line, I just want to try it, butyou're right.
I I will, I will emote. Oh sure I am.
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And you can call me by my propername, Crockbot.
That's. Pretty fucking good dude, he.
Kind of crushed it. That kind of hurt shit.
Oh yeah, I don't want you to hurt your that's OK.
So your money maker can't can't hurt that.
Very well, your supplies are on the way.
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Soon you'll have everything you need to change down under, from
a pristine paradise to a polluted wasteland.
Glad to hear it mate. Over and out just to ensure a
safe delivery. Oh oh sorry so this is him
monologuing so the the the call has ended and he's OK?
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Oh, I apologize. Yeah, that's what I wrote in
that, yeah. Just to ensure safe delivery,
I'll send the packet to meet theblimp.
Crocbot whistle. So a robotic flying dingo flies
to him. Flies to Crocbot.
Off you go. My loyal wing dingoes patrol the
airstrip where the blimp will land.
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If you see anything unusual, eatfast, ask questions.
Later, the flying dingoes fly tothe landing site.
Crockbot starts reviewing the inventory that is coming to him.
It is. It is spelled Haw.
You're correct. Yeah.
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These stuff were born. Extended me will quadruple my
power base and make me invincible.
Crockbot Snickers. OK, what?
What Blubber Boat doesn't know is that I'll be rewiring that.
Swap our crew so they'll become our slaves.
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I'll not only take over Down Under, but I'll dub across the
Fat Man and eventually conquer his beloved Robotropolis.
And then OK, all of Mobius. All right, this is a good place
to interrupt. OK, So what the fuck is Robotnik
doing? Why, Why?
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Why would he send all that to a dude?
You would make him so strong. Let, let, let's go, let's go and
level up. What?
Why does this thing have any autonomy whatsoever?
Yeah. Why is it so?
So this implies what? Like let's think about how what
this is implying because there'sa robot out here.
Well, it seems like he has. Well, let's we got to go even
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further back, OK? Big picture, Robotnik hasn't
conquered Mobius. Yeah, OK, yes, thank you.
That was the big thing I was going to make with this whole
issue. Yes.
He has not conquered all of Mobius there.
We had talked way like a year ago about like, oh, are there
different continents? Are there different societies?
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We kind of got that with the nerves and the underground thing
and of course space. But now we have like a like a
fleshed, a more fleshed out planet Mobius.
So now there's a whole continenthere.
There we have not seen, at leastI don't think it's implied in
this issue or or shown in this issue that there was a whole,
that there is a concerted society, but there is a
landmass, a whole other continent on Mobius.
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Well, and it it is assumed that there's a colony or something
here because what else would there be to conquer other than
just nature? I suppose it could just, it was
just nature. Like we're not going to send
this croc robot dude. And that is the reasonable.
More powerful. Yeah, yeah.
That's a reasonable assumption to make that there is a
civilization. It could also just be nature,
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but or maybe a hybrid thing likea freedom fighters ask situation
without the whole, you know, oppressive government.
It's like small tribal stuff. We don't know yet.
But in terms of what this implies is that it's very
interesting. So I so it's making out here to
be that Donald Trump that DoctorRobotnik has, he cannot control
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all of Mobius, it seems He needsan independent, I'm assuming AI
robot to, to run a whole continent on his behalf.
So this is a classic overlord situation where there is an
independent. It's it's like had or not had,
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but rather after the Nazis had taken over large swaths of the
Soviet Union, there were, there were these small like not
independent nations, but kind oflike sectors that they were
being cleared out and made way for the Liebenthrum situation.
And they had their own. They're like a mini fiefdom
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under Germany proper. So that's that's kind of what's
being implied here. Do you think that Lai don't like
the fact that they just call it Down Under?
I think it's just fucking weird.Down undone.
But it is, it is a silly name. Yeah, I get it.
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It's supposed to be like funny and Australian and all that
stuff. But it's you can do a little
better than that. Yeah.
Do you think I well, OK, maybe not.
I feel like Angel Island had a lot of Australia vibes.
The vibes, yes. Not well.
There was that kangaroo. Yeah, well, there's the
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kangaroo. And then they had the bounty
hunter whose name I'm forgetting.
Knack. Knack the weasel, right?
Knack. Yeah.
Thank you. Later we all very Australian.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think Angel Island at one
point in time was a part of DownUnder 'cause like I assume at
one point in time Angel Island was a real landmass that like
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lifted up? Yeah, that's that's what I'm
assuming. If it did, do you think?
Yeah. Do you think the echidna came
from Down Under? I I don't know the actual
enchidna, what their actual, youknow, Biome is or their point of
origin, but it seems reasonable that I OK, I can see that if if
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Angel Island came from down under, it would have to be like
millennia, right? Well, not necessarily.
Well, no, you'll yes, because the master Emerald, which I'm
assuming is the OR the chaos emeralds.
I don't know. I don't think there's no Master
Emerald established yet, but theChaos Emeralds, they, they've
been around for a long, long long long time.
So then it it's reasonable that at least Angel Island has to be
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independent of them? Do they?
We don't know if they come from each other or one comes from the
other, but reasonable assumptionI get it.
OK, OK. I also like how the swap bot his
plan for swap bots or just puts the Australian hat on these swap
bots. I think that's that's pretty
good. It's cute.
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I think they should just. Always have those.
We didn't do the credits. We forgot to do the credits
again, sorry. Oh well, it was what's his face?
The respect you have for our benefactors.
Well, if it's not kind of kinders, I don't remember.
Let's be real here. Let's see.
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So Script by Mike Gallagher and penciled by the splash page was
on by Mike Gallagher and the Southern crossover was Dave
Monach. OK, so I think Dave Monach, when
he draws outer space, he's the one that draws the, like, fun
little purple lines through it and stuff.
Because we're back to seeing there is an image of outer space
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Mobius, and it had a few moons and it had the like the purple
thing that I really liked the last time we went to space.
So I think it really just depends on who's drawing it.
And they're all kind of making their own lore.
We cut the tails. He is alive and on an extremely
tiny island. Ow my aching head.
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I huh. I'm alive.
Oh Ray. Ray.
OK, who's Ray? Not know who's Ray, but what
does Ray but Azeri sound like? What does a What does a Stingray
sound like? I mean, let's think about the
word Stingray, right? Very sting.
Punctual, staccato. Go go.
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Like emphasize every word. You hate me so fucking much.
I know I'm I'm actually impressed with the creativity
because I'm, I'm, I have no, I have no like grounding of where
do we even start with that? So so do like short punctual
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words like very like quick, right?
But then it needs to be underwater.
My aching, my aching head. I Huh, I'm alive.
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You sure are, is what he said. I splashed myself hard with
water. You can't see it on camera, but
I didn't. You should you should do it each
time and then translate every single.
Time you do let's not because I have electronics around me, but
yes, that would be great. It's for, it's for the good of
the podcast, Dominic. Some things are worth it.
You sure are so. Yeah.
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Huh. Who said the yow A Stingray?
Actually, I'm a non poisonous manta, but you got my name
right, Ray. What the fuck was that?
Ray looks like a manta ray, which makes sense because that's
what he is. Let me tell you what happened.
That underwater underworlder didindeed have you in his clutches.
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You were about to drown. But the But the seas of Mobius
are not without a determined band of rebels dedicated to
keeping our waters robo free. We're called the 40 Fathoms
Freedom Fighters. Members include a dolphin, a
jellyfish, a clam and of course,a manta ray.
I'm glad this is a monologue he has to do.
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Yeah, Is this, is this obnoxious?
Is this? I mean, it's obnoxious, but
like, is it? It's.
Very obnoxious. We'll figure something out after
this episode you're sticking with it for.
This our stinging jellyfish. I'll lower it.
Our stinging jellyfish named PB zapped Octobot.
Good. Making him drop you so I could
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get you back to the surface. Octobot might have caught me,
but he never took a major hit from Bottlenose.
It looked like Octobot was goingto get clean away, but then the
big guy showed up. That's the last we'll see of
Octobot for a while. While you were reviving topside
you, we check out your submarine.
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We checked out your submarine. It's totaled.
You know what, it's not as bad when you like toned it down just
a little bit. That's actually you should keep
it. It's harkening back to like that
salesman pitch that you had me do with the with the ice, with
The Cave people. Yeah.
What, you mean I'm stuck out on this little island in the middle
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of the ocean? Well, not exactly.
Ray moves aside and the ground starts moving.
Turns out Tails is not on an island at all, but instead on
the back of a giant blue whale named Fluke.
He asks if he can get a lift to Down Under.
He's agreed, and we end this issue on Tails surfing on the
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back of a blue whale heading towards Down Under.
End of Part 1. I fucked up, I should have said.
Tails is now surfing on the black on the back of the whale
tail, you know. Aquaman couldn't do this shit.
He does like in every single episode of the Super Friends.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
He literally serves on 2 dolphins that is.
One power, yeah. Yeah, all right.
It's kind of enough in the issuejust because it's all kind of
set up for what's going on. We get some cool, interesting
lore. I like the fact that Robotnik
isn't we were to kind of have the discussion, but isn't in
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control of all of Mobius and there's definitely.
Massive implications. Massive implication that I hope
the writers like could like, fully play with or play with and
adhere to. I wonder.
So this is something I haven't brought up yet, but I guess they
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kind of use, and I didn't realize this, they kind of use
Mobius interchangeably where it's like planet Mobius and then
it feels like the continent they're on is called Mobius
because I, I didn't realize it until just now because I'm like,
well, what's the continent called that they're on now
because. It's.
Not Robotropolis because that's the actual city.
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I mean, I would accept it. Like if there's a one off like
yeah, it's Robotnik Land. Like that's what he claims it's
called or something. Well, then, we know.
Not whole village in over a metropolis.
And then the great. We've always just kind of
referred to it as Mobius. Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah. Interesting.
I it could just be and. Then there's the Forbidden zone.
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Yes, it could be like an Australia situation.
I I know it's not a planet, but where it's like the country of
Australia and also the continentof Australia, but it's kind of
like where it just shares the same name.
So since this is going to be based on Australia, how how
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based on Australia do you think it's going to go, do you think?
Do you think this is where King Acorn used to send his political
prisoners? Yeah.
And just like it's like that's what the echidna were.
Yeah, if they don't address the penal colony origin of this
place, then I am very disappointed.
I'm just, I'm just don't. It's comic, man.
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No, I mean, this is that's the one thing that I actually care
about in this is this whole implication Crockbot.
I'm neutral on Crockbot, the actual character, but what
Crockbot's character implies andwhat his function will be, what
the the robot's function will beis potential is grounds for a
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really good story that I hope gets it won't be, but I I hope
gets stretched out throughout the whole miniseries.
I'm upset at the design of Crocbot because he looks really
cool, but he definitely needs either a cowboy hat or the
Australian hat. He definitely needs a hat and
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the fact that he doesn't is a huge missed opportunity for.
For the record, the the hat is called a slouch hat.
That's the name. A slouch.
A slouch hat, yes. Do you know the origins of the
name Slouch? I, I'm looking it up now for
that's, that's how I found out, but it is, it was made, it's
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been around for a while, including the, it goes back to
the English Civil War. So it obviously started up in,
in England and then it made its way down to Australia and New
Zealand. And then it became, it kind of
stuck around there. Whereas the rest of the
Empire's, the British Empire's fashion kind of moved on for the
most part, but it stuck with theAussies and the Kiwis.
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And then it was, it was immortalized in, you know, with
the ANZAC forces who fought in World War One.
And that that became their signature.
Look, OK, little little fun, little fun little tidbit of
history here that I assume was on the Wikipedia page.
Yeah, I mean, I I knew just in general, but I didn't know like
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that it's what the name of it was.
Apparently it's also used by theGurkas.
OK, so it also has like Southeast Asian origins or not
maybe the origins, but maybe still use their man.
The Gurkas are mean motherfuckers.
But either way, it's it's definitely a Commonwealth thing,
particularly in in Oceana and Asia.
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How do you like, I mean, we haven't really seen them, but
how do you like the idea of the the Ocean Freedom Fighters?
As like a superpower team, it's very gimmicky that I've I'm I'm
over to be frank, I'm I'm whatever on it.
That's probably a bleed from like Marvel fatigue just in
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general. So it's it's fine.
So I can't knock the 90s comic for doing it.
Now that you've said that it even like a register in my mind,
it is starting to feel kind of like it may be I, I don't know
it in the context of Marvel, butI do in DC where it's like, oh,
you've got the like Gotham people and then you got Star
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City people and then you got theMetropolis people.
And then it's like, yeah, OK. It's it's just like the The Cave
people in that one during that one ice storm that the winter
storm that Robotnik hooked up from a few issues ago.
It's you now already the 40 Fathoms Freedom Fighters, which
is an obnoxious name. They, they've already proven
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themselves to be more, not more effective, but rather seem to
have more character than the icepeople, than the wind The Cave
people, I should say. Yeah, 'cause then, and hopefully
they'll do even more. The, the fluke the whale is, is
kind of cool. I'm just, I, I, I'm already over
the character bloat. It's just fascinating to me.
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I I'll say this, character bloathas been a staple part of Sonic
the Hedgehog for the longest time.
It really has been. That is like a core tenet of
Sonic the Hedgehog is that you shove in new characters.
It's not unique to Sonic, but it's very apparent in Sonic just
as a brand. In in the games though, I don't
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really. It builds up a lot slower.
It builds up a lot slower. But notice how every single game
needs a new character to the Yeah, I think literally every
single game has spawned a new character, right.
Like I like I I understand that,you know, you there are like
side characters and incidental characters.
I get that. But I'm talking like we are
like, this is a new branded character that we can, you know,
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make plushies out of or whatever.
Does the werewolf game have a new?
Yes, yes, there's there's Sidekick in Sonic Unleashed.
Oh, if we're calling sidekicks, I, I, I mean, he's with you in
every game. He's going to introduce a
character like that's. I think that's a bullshit
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criticism. I'm sorry, it's expected.
What, you want the same? I only want Sonic Tales and
Knuckles at every game of no oneelse.
No, no, no, I just no, no, no. I'm saying you can have an
expansive roster do shit with them as as opposed to like, you
know, flinging in a new character that barely does
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anything. I mean, granted Chip was your
sidekick, but still it it doesn't feel well earned enough
to me. It doesn't feel well enough.
I guess I haven't I haven't played enough Sonic games.
It's been a moment. With that.
Yeah, it's been a moment for me,too.
But based based on the games I've played, which is like Sonic
Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, that's a good.
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One good one. All the characters have like,
you know, they, they all matter.They, they all, they all.
I'll give. Kudos to Adventure because for
how expansive and grandiose of an adventure that was, the
character list is rather small. Not small, but you know what I
mean. It's not as like, like, who's
the what's the giant robot in the first adventure game?
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E1O2. E1O2 yes, that's like the big
character in that game. Like like sorry new character
that's unique to adventure. Also, is Big the cat?
Oh, he was in one. OK, you're right then.
OK, big and E1E1O2. Who else Unique to 1?
In terms of introduced in one introduced, I mean chaos if
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we're going everything. OK, sure, if you need a villain.
Call. Yeah.
Trying to think. A lot of characters.
The old guy that was to Call's grandfather.
OK, sure. All the side to call's
character. The flashback scene.
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That one I can even just I can excuse.
Look, I think this comes down toa matter of taste, because for,
for, for you, clearly as someonewho's a big, big fan of
adventure, of the adventure games, that's your grounding
you, you, you don't seem to mindit too much.
I know. I think I, I think I was just
maybe playing a little devil's advocate.
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I don't mind. I like that.
New new characters being introduced or not, I think it's
a little much what they're doingin the context of these comics,
which is like, hey, there's here's a ragtag group, here's
another ragtag group, here's another ragtag group.
And we haven't fleshed out anyone else.
And so it just seems like it's very surface level.
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Everything that they're doing isjust, yeah, I agree.
Go ahead. 100% I think here's what here's the pivotal detail
that does it for me. You can you can show a ragtag
team of uniquely designed like, I don't want the same copy paste
Stingray 50 times, right? You can have this unique 40
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fathoms team. But if you're going to have a
whole panel or a whole page dedicate like a whole monologue
being like, and here's so and soand then here's so and so their
power. Is this similar to The Cave
people? It's the same exact template.
If you're going to have a whole thing dedicated to that, then
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you really need to do something with them.
What I think is better is that if you're not going to do
something with them, then just show them in the background and
just have the implication. I think that's what does it for
me, because every time there's that one bubble where it's and
this is Bob and this is, you know, Jimmy, it's so and so and
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so forth. These are their powers.
This is the team. As if they're like going to go
on a heist, a grandiose 2 hour adventure film heist together
like oceans. Then it's that.
Then you set up the expectation.But if you just have them be
incidental characters, then I can forgive it more because, OK,
you're implying a whole underwater society.
That's cool. Again, this is very, very deep,
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the small detail, but I think that's what's doing it for me
do. You get where they're.
Coming from, do you get where they're?
Coming from no, no, yeah. I mean, they're, they're
spending too much time on a character that's not going to be
around. Yeah, the the this issue
particularly doesn't seem to be doing it as much.
And because this is a three-partmini series, there's way more
room I have. I am giving it the benefit of
the doubt because there's more room for this team to do
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something in the other in the next two parts of the
miniseries. The the most egregious one was
that those cave folks that wherethere were all unique designs
and just each one had like a panel.
Voices. Unique designs.
And it was. That's why you're upset, because
you have to do a new fucking voice for each of these guys.
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He was like, they don't need to talk, why are they talking?
That's a fun challenge at least,yeah.
OK, cool. Is there any other call outs we
have about this? Any anything you want to.
No, the, the big thing for me iswhere does this underboss
dynamic, Robotnik underboss dynamic go?
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And I'm curious to see what happens.
I hope they do something cool and interesting with it.
I obviously they're setting it up as a betrayal.
I think they, I think they pulled the pulled the rug, but
rather they revealed the intentions of Crockbot way too
early. Oh no.
I love that. That's my favorite thing.
Oh, yeah. They just, they were just like,
this is what he's about. No, no surprise.
This is just, you know, he's just a good old fashioned bad
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guy. He's in.
Australia for everyone. He's a dirty Aussie.
Like this is what you can expect, so let's let's
rock'n'roll with it. I'm I'm fine with that.
I'm I'm happy with a mixture of hey, surprise, betrayal.
I would rather this than the bullshit that they tried pulling
in that Sally miniseries with that fucking badger dude or
(49:50):
whatever with Saint Clair or. Jeffrey Saint John.
Joffrey. Yeah.
Where they're like, oh, he's good, he's bad.
No, he's good. Like, no, fuck off, no, just
declare your intentions. All right, We got a dude who's
like technically a bad guy, but like probably cooler than
Robotnik. He could be, he could be
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definitively cooler if he had a cowboy hat or a a slouch.
What was it? Slouch?
But you know, you know, I'll take what I can get.
I'll take what I can get. If there's nothing else, I want
to make a quick call out. So most of the time when we read
these issues, I'm reading from awebsite that I will not name but
(50:32):
very easy to find. And there's, there's a part of
me that really hates this. In fact, I no, I just hate it.
I'm a firm believer of uploadingthings as is and not editing
things out. So when you upload a comic, I'm
(50:54):
a firm believer of like keeping all the old ads in it and the
Q&A sections and like whatever forward or introductions they
have. I'm a firm believer of keeping
everything like that in the sitewe go to.
Well, I go to personally cuts all that out, but for some
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reason these miniseries. The miniseries and the specials,
yeah. Can they keep them in?
And so I had AI was like, well, I'm going to read the Q&A that
they normally cut out here. And reading it, there was an
interesting question that poppedup, which was because this is a
Tales issue, I guess they prompted the Sonic fans to ask a
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bunch of Tales related questions.
And one of them was, how old areyou Tales?
And in here they say 10 years old.
OK, which that that's the basis.That changes a lot.
That changes a lot. So that means Sonic and the gang
are around 16/17/18 give or takebetween 14 and 18.
(52:05):
Yep. So I, I hate me 'cause there's
like a part of me that's like, Ishould go back and see if I can
find the original stuff so I canread the other Q&A's because
they're actually asking some interesting questions in here.
One of the questions was how come your colors in the comic is
brown while in the video games it's closer to like a golden
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yellow. And they just straight up say
Sega wanted the colors to be closer to the Sonic TV show than
the video game. I was like, oh, that's a very
direct answer that I wasn't expecting.
So, Nick, going forward, do you want to go over the Sonic grams,
the DEET, the the all all the after issue stuff because only.
(52:48):
If they're interesting like I know because I only if they're
interesting in the context of like answering questions and
stuff of like how old is Tales or maybe they'll like say
something that's like behind thescenes.
I don't need to be like, hey, what does Sonic think of Sally?
(53:09):
What does Sally think of Tales? I don't give a shit about that.
Like, that's just weird. I don't.
You should be writing that into the story.
Yeah, no, that. Yeah, exactly.
If your users have to ask what is it like being a freedom
fighter or what do you think of Sally?
Maybe the writers aren't doing agood job of explaining these
(53:30):
characters, but I don't know, itcould be just 10 year olds also
writing and and. Maybe missing some of the kind?
Of sub context. Exactly what it is, yeah.
Well, I expect more from my readers.
Sorry. Yeah, you should grab your
guitar. Now it's time for Sonic Grams.
(53:52):
You can write to Sonic Grams. Oh, yeah.
It's a legally distinct Sonic Grams.
It's an unaffiliated Sonic Grams.
We made our own Sonic Grams. All right, there we go.
Good job. Classic as always, always a good
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bit we we have a e-mail from someone who hasn't written in
for a while. Good old Mike AF.
Mike AF, thank you. Thank you.
I thought maybe he just stopped listening because he just
stopped writing in, but. He stopped hanging out.
(54:37):
We were stuck in Texas for a month.
So. I keep on feeling bad because I
keep on doing these Discord episodes and like an hour before
we go on like do the thing, I'm like, oh, I could probably
invite him because it's just a Discord.
And every single time it's like,no, it's too late.
I I am not giving him enough notice because he's got kids and
(54:58):
he's got to like put them down and whatnot to.
Sleep like putting them to bed? No.
He keeps on making children and then killing them.
I don't get it. But I mean, I don't know him
that well. I don't.
I don't judge. That's my thing.
I just don't judge. What animal would you be if you
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were a resident of that whole village?
This doesn't have to be your persona, but it can be if you
want. Fox is pretty good.
Like just the way a fox is. Very elegant, I mean.
Do you think? I think I'm outing myself there,
(55:44):
to be frank. I I haven't really thought about
this question much. I wouldn't want to be.
It would have to be mammalian. I don't.
I kind of like being a human. But if I had to choose, yeah, I
think let's say Fox. That's a bit of a boring answer,
I know, but that's, that's how Ifeel.
I I, I think having a tail wouldbe cool.
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I'm down for. It anything other than something
that can fly is a dumb answer because you're an animal and you
can choose to fly fucking. Give me, give me a second tail.
I guess that's. A good question is can we get
superpowers with these? No, let's say no.
(56:26):
Let's say we're regular. Just for the sake of the
question, let's. Then I'm being a fucking bird.
I want to be able to fly. That's.
Come on man, get those. Tiny, tiny legs.
That's fine. I don't.
I don't need them. I'm flying.
What kind of dumb animal has wings and walks?
Only the dumbest Penguins suck. The dodo bird sucked.
(56:54):
I got nothing else. OK.
I'd be specifically that bird that can like dive into the
water back up. That fish is like that.
Is it a Sparrow? No.
I don't know. I'm not an animal guy or a bird
guy. I'm a human guy.
Yeah, OK. So I'm sticking with yeah, I
want to be a bird. I just want to be able to fly or
or what's a? Kangaroo, you can jump really
(57:17):
high I. Was going, I was going to try to
say like what's an animal that jumps really high?
I feel like Kangaroos aren't high enough.
I feel like feel like I can jumphigher.
Cats can jump pretty high. Cats can jump pretty high, and
they're weird birds. What if I if I'm choosing to be
a sexier animal, Yeah. I think you were projecting.
(57:39):
I think you were projecting withthat furry accusation I.
I mean, have you ever seen the musical Cats?
Cats. Yeah.
I'm scared to answer but no I haven't.
I'm just saying how how can you not watch the movie adaptation
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and not be like those are that'sthe.
One I was scared to watch specifically because.
Did you know that the original cut of that movie The cats had
butt holes? I did hear about this, yes.
Yeah, and then some guy had to go in and edit out all the butt
holes in that fucking movie. I want an interview with that
(58:23):
guy. I just want them to release the
butt hole cut. Follow up What would your role
be in the Freedom Fighters? Well, if it's anything like I'm
doing now, I guess it would be propagandist.
But that that's not really because if you if you follow my.
Press Yeah. Yeah, if you follow my
(58:43):
Instagram, I am putting out, I am putting out content.
I just interviewed a guy with a Luigi sign at the hands off
protest at Daily Plaza. It was really funny.
Dude had an aura, I swear, but no, for real, I guess he would
be journalist. Just live my journalist dreams
in in the in the world of the freedom fighters, which at that
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when when things are as bad likesocietally, when they're as bad
as they are in the Sonic in Sonic comic world.
It is it it you you actually can't do much news and it all
just kind of has to be propaganda just just because
that's how bad. There is no middle ground.
It is literally an underground society trying to fight back an
(59:29):
oppressive government kill on site rules.
I would I want to be some sort of scout.
OK. You know, I don't want to be
like, fighting. Yeah, yeah.
Honestly, either bird or cat. Bird would be ideal.
But yeah, some sort of scout I think would be, you know, I just
(59:49):
like going out there and like being on my own and being like,
oh, look at me camping in the middle of nowhere.
Gov report this troop movement. Time to take a hike back.
Are you good with your directions?
I'm cardinal direction. Yeah, yeah.
You are actually. You are actually when we're
walking about, yeah. Well, I, I wouldn't say I'm good
at like my cardinal directions, but I'm very good at knowing
(01:00:12):
where I came from, where I'm going and like where I've been.
I I don't need to know I mean where?
You come from, where'd you go? Yeah, yeah, I know for sure.
A lot of people call me Cotton Eye Joe for some reason.
There it is. There it is.
I mean, Chicago is really easy because you just need to know
where the lake is and that's thecost, so.
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And once you. Know where that lake is.
And once you learn where 00 is and the Chicago grid system,
everything, everything else is alot easier.
It's like, oh, we're if it's if the street says N, then that
means we're north of the of 00 or east and West or South.
Yeah, it's cool. Chicago's a nice place.
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Yeah, I like it. I.
You like it more than Houston? Yeah, quick, quick question for
the audience. I received a complaint recently
and I'm going to I won't change up until after the Tales
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miniseries. But if it's I guess my question
is, is it confusing when I use first person and make Dominic
read it? So for example, in the last
issue I was just like I'm down here in Houston and Dominic fix
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reading it. This is a question for the
audience. I guess for Dominic too, we
haven't had this discussion. I think I, I've thought about
this as well, just without conversing with you, but I
thought it was, oh, it's not much of a problem because you
wrote with the context, not direct content.
And I like directly. Actually, you have done that
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before when it's like a back andforth with dialogue, but you
usually describe it with enough in.
From what I've read, you've described with enough contacts
that you can deduce it along with my voice.
If I wasn't doing voices, then we would have an issue that.
'D be different, yeah. For sure.
Or like we would have a major, major issue.
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But if that's what the people are saying, we can consider it,
yeah. This isn't what the people are
saying. This is what one person is
saying. OK, that's 100% criticism.
That's yeah, that's what I'm. Saying 100% of the people who've
and I know we have at least three listeners, so.
Yeah, look, maybe our maybe Nick's prose isn't the best or
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most varied, but is it clear? Does it have a degree of
clarity, not not counting all the tangents we go on?
That's an us problem. We we recognize that one.
But in terms of the writing, is it clear who's talking at any
given moment? Yeah, 'cause I can, I can, I can
adjust that, I can fix it. Oh and also if you're watching
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that can help too because I havethe panels up but so maybe
before I listen to it. Specifically when I was
describing personal things happening to me in the script.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's whatI was trying to say.
Well, I don't care about that. There's two of us.
They can. They can.
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No. I don't mean to dismiss them.
Sure. I can write in if but.
Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
Yeah, no, I that's why I'm bringing it to the audience.
Write, write in either Sonic Rams or post on YouTube or
wherever. And we'll we'll take it into
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criticism and then we'll either tell this guy to fuck off and he
can go do his own thing if he has problems with our Sonic
podcast, or we'll be like, yeah,we fucked up.
That's a just our podcast. So there's no in between. 00
point in Chicago, IL is the intersection of State and
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Madison. I forgot it, I had to look it
up. That bothered me exclusively.
Yeah, I could tell. Yeah.
All right. Oh, right.
I'm doing an outro. That's the issue.
Only 387 left to go. I'm Nick.
I stream at twitch.tv/mojo Source and my personal blue
skies at Mojo Source. And I'm Dominic, you can follow
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my jazz and people power adventures in Chicago at Blue
Collar Jazz on Instagram, uploading a crap ton of stuff
lately. Things are heating up in the
world and particularly in Chicagoland, and you can check
out some of them. I'm in.
Houston, it's heating up. It's like 90.
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Here in Texas. What I say?
You said Chicago again. I was like.
I thought I said Houston. That was my joke.
Oh no. I was, I was confused.
I'm like, I think that's the joke he's trying to make, all
right. That was the joke.
Regardless, I'm going all out onInstagram, baby.
Edit that so I'm funny. Okay, follow me on Instagram at
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Blue Collar Jazz and then on Blue Sky as well.
Blue Sky is kind of being sacrificed for Instagram.
That's fine. It's a back and forth.
Just follow both at Dom Guan or just look up Blue Collar Jazz.
We you can follow us on socials.They got to talk fast.
TikTok has got to talk faster. We also have a video version of
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Don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel and
remember when life keeps going fast.
You got to talk fast and just get through it.
I need to do my taxes. I have you seriously not.
I've done most of it. What are you doing?
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It's due on Tuesday. I literally did mine in January
dude. Yeah, that's fine.
What what how how much taxes do you need to do all of them?
But like how much is? It honestly, my, my, my, my, my
thought process. It was I don't know what the
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government's going to look like in April.
I need to do this now. Let me let me be clear, I
applaud you for doing your taxesin January.
You're responsible and a good person.
But me, I get overwhelmed by bignumber and it's it's scary,
especially how. You used.
To OK, we're doing the whole thing now.
Yes, go ahead. This should have been the
opening. I'm sorry, this should have been
the opener. I used to do that a lot where I
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I waited till like the last seconds to the my taxes.
I'm doing it through Free Tax USA which is free federal and
then $15 per state. That's how I did it.
Yeah, so fuck TurboTax, fuck anything that cost like $60.00
or whatever. Use free tax USA.
They also, I didn't do it because, but they also as part
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of their payment plan or not payplan, but like things you can
pay to you can like literally you can literally pay into like
a campaign fund for their lobbying to make taxes not not
free, but you know what I mean? Like make the actual IRS system
like Free Tax USA where it's just free.
Didn't they? Federal file.
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Trump killed it. Yeah, that's what I was thinking
of. Thank you.
Yes, no Free Tax USA is his own independent thing.
And then there was a thing called Federal File that Biden
had begun to roll out. It was.
The trial of last year. And and then just axed by by by
DJT. Oh don't call him DJT, that's
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actually like a cool name. Gotta Talk, Gotta Talk Gonna
Talk Fast was written by Nick Folkerts and edited by Dominic
Guanzon. Intro and outro themes recorded
by Dominic Guanzon Gotta go fast.
Originally composed by Norman J Grossfeld, Joseph Garrity and
Russell Velasquez. Gotta talk, gotta talk fast.
Got to talk fast. Got to talk fast.
Got to talk faster, faster, faster.
Got to talk fast. And I don't like Houston.
Well, Houston doesn't like you, buddy.
That's fine. I don't need it to I In fact, I
think I'd prefer it that way. I don't.
I don't want this fucking place to like me.
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Will you go down to Texas for a Sonic convention?
Oh yeah, 1000% that's, that's a different conversation.
But I don't, I don't know why Sonic would have a convention
down here. That's just foolish.
I thought there, I thought last year we looked at a convention.
There was there was there was a convention here last year that I
actually thought about flying down to maybe this year.
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We'll see. I'm not on Twitter anymore.
So all those people that I followed, I don't know.
They're blue skies and I'm nevergoing to know them again.
You could you? Could ensure.
I don't know figure it out. I admire you for deleting it,
but also maybe you could have NoI'm.
I'm too fast. This is what I you, you can edit
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this in. I don't care because we didn't
do the intro yet. I, I am so fast and loose with
my life, but it just with my life and period.
But like I've switched over fromApple to Android to Apple a few
Times Now and each time I'm justlike I'm losing all my contacts.
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I'm only going to keep the people that I know I talk to
regularly and no one else. I didn't have your number when
you texted me. It was before we started doing
the podcast. So what it was that, yeah, you
texted me something Sonic related and I didn't have your
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phone number and I didn't have any past messages because I like
went to a new like phone. Got it, Got it.
OK, I was confused. I'm like, we worked together for
years, no? No, no, yeah.
I get it. Yeah.
And so I just didn't have your number, but I was also like,
well, this is going to be Dominic, because there's no one
else in my life that would text me about Sonic the Hedgehog
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other than Dominic. So yeah.
And then immediately after, I was like, we should do that
podcast. And here we are, like over a
year later. It's crazy.
Sure is, I have a friend I'm so far jealous of him.
He doesn't set up his voicemail,but for the longest time you
couldn't text him. He's, he's just, he's a wild
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card man. Why are you jealous of him?
'Cause he's just, he doesn't. He's not held down by the
machine. Do you know how much pussy he
missed out on? Oh no, he gets.
Trust me, he got way more than. Oh, 'cause he touches grass,
he's one of those he touches grass.
He. Touches grass, that's the thing.
He's outside all the time. He goes to he goes to alcohol
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places. Yeah, yeah, he definitely maybe
too much. Welcome to an oral review of
Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehogreminding you that fascism will
fail and may succeed at winning elections and attaining power.
But it always fails. And there is evidence for this.
Hitler, Mussolini, Paul Potts, Kafro.
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Jesus Christ. Khmer Rouge.
Khmer Rouge. Augusto.
Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet.
Pinochet Chili. This is like, slowly.
Yeah. Is that how you spell chili?
I eat. I eat there, man.
I think I know he wants his. Fascist back, fascist back,
(03:34):
Fascist back, Fascist back. I feel like it's slowly turning
into a bit of like, let me just throw in a bunch of words.
I know Nick can't say you're making fun of a dude who was in
speech therapy for like 10 years.
So really to go. I never knew this about you.
No, yeah, I couldn't say anything.
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I was a fucking idiot. Wow, I just thought you were
stupid. Not like had a speech.
I was. I was Why do you think I
couldn't talk? The.
I really derailed this intro. I'm sorry.
My mom claims I had my own language for everything, which
is even weirder. She would like, she would be
like, yeah. She would be like, yeah, I'd
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point to a lamp and call it something else.
So I'm just like. There's that one school.
It was like an isolated school 100 years ago in the Caribbean,
11 Caribbean nation, and I thinkit was all orphans.
So they were super isolated and they came up with their own
language just completely from scratch.
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That's all I can say about that because of the story completely
escapes me. But I don't know look up
something about that audience because this.
I would have been leading that school.
I've been like, this is the language.
The self appointed Dean? Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, why is why is this
orphanage fucking teaching themselves how to communicate?
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If it's an orphanage, shouldn't there at least be one adult to
be like no, that's a lamp, don'tcall it something else?
I I think it was an an abusive place.
It was a oppressive place. Now I'm just picturing it was
actually, it was actually some like, really weird guy trying to
create his own language. And he was like texting it on
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these kids. And so when someone got caught
wind of it, he was just like, oh, yeah, they just came up with
that on themselves. Like that wasn't.
I don't know where that came. From it was actually Gene
Roddenberry. And that's, that's how we got
the Klingon language, you know. His proto Klingon.
He field tested that shit. That's how it's so good.
That's how it's like actually usable.
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I've. Seen you, orphans.
I've seen clips of like Hamlet done in Klingon on I think it's
on YouTube. It's incredible.
That's very funny. They all fall one way or
another. The question is how much damage
will they do and how prepared are you to take that damage?
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Find your community, talk to your neighbors and know your
streets. Stay aware.
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 hastily assembled butstill assembled script.
So well done, Nick, we are on week.
What of your of your southern adventures this is like?
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Well, I haven't been home in over a month I think.
Jesus Christ, dude. That's awesome.
I'm trying to think of, 'cause last weekend I was here and the
weekend before that I was in Ohio, then the weekend before
that I was in Pennsylvania. So I haven't been home in five
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weeks. I'm going to go home next
weekend because I was like, I need to go home.
I should I should hold a welcomeparty for.
You. Yeah, well, and I'm pretty sure
I'm going to have to fly immediately back out to Houston,
but I was like, you flying me because this is dumb, mainly
because fucking driving in Houston is disgusting.
It's. I don't stop me if I've said
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this on the podcast before, say it again.
Houston. The highways here are, they
drive me up the fucking wall 'cause it's what they don't tell
you. I mean, you always see those
pictures of like, Oh yeah, that's like the cliche picture
of Houston and it's like 8 lanesof Hwy. right?
They don't tell you is that there's even more highway to the
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side of those highways. And those are the frontage
roads. And they're one way going all
the way along the highway. And so they have like the
highway system is just like a series of waves, right?
And it's mainly elevated, like elevated to the point where
you're like driving above trees and then you're going to go
down. And when you go down, that's
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when you can come off and other people can get on and then it
goes back up. And when you go up, they
developed a system of you go down these frontage roads and
then they're all one way. And so if you want to go the
other way, you need to go under the highway and make AU turn.
So if you miss your turn, you need to drive a mile or two or
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something to get to the next like underpass.
So you can do your U-turn to go all the way back and it's so
fucking insane. I don't know if it's just like
the specific area I'm in, in like N Houston, but everywhere I
go, I'm just like, it's, it's driving me up a fucking wall.
It's at first I was upset at thedrivers here, but then I
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realized you need to cut people off.
And because you're driving and like I come out of a parking lot
and it's like, well, I need to make a left turn.
I need to cut across 4 lanes of this frontage Rd. to get to the
left turn there I was I mean every hour is rush hour here
pretty much. And I needed to make a left turn
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and I was just like, I need to drive down to the other side of
the parking lot and come out because if I try to make a right
here and drive into the left turn, I'm just not going to be
able to do it because it's a parking lot 24/7.
So it's it's that's. I don't need to find.
Anything about Houston? That sounds disgusting because
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yeah, I mean, I, I, I, I had similar issues in California
because I spent a lot of summersin California as a kid.
And obviously I wasn't the one driving, but I spent long
periods of time on those like super highways, like 6 lane
super highways going one way, right?
And that stuff is also really gross, at least at least in
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California, though it has to move with the land to a degree,
kind of. Yeah.
And that's The thing is I feel like would help a lot, yeah.
Texas. It is a straight shot because
it's just wide open Texas. Well, and that's the thing
that's like extremely frustrating to me is like
Houston, like what? Especially like on the East
Coast. Reminder that there is there are
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timestamps on Spotify and YouTube that you can skip to for
the issue. Yes, go ahead.
Is that the highways move along the like tick terrain, right, So
you're not able to see all the traffic and it's not as boring
and like they'll be a bunch of trees and you'll be like, oh,
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look at that like nice forest and behind the trees it's like
hundreds of houses and stuff. But like it's it's all kind of
blocked. But being able to see everywhere
kind of super sucks. And I'm not like as angered as I
am because the the Houston is like built around the car yes,
like that that like half of thisplace is fucking parking lots
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and half of this place is gas stations.
Yes, so that's Houston is highways, gas stations and
fucking. The third thing I said that I
already forgot. Yeah, yeah.
And there are people who live their whole lives thinking that
is normal, or at least that strip malls.
Everything is strip malls too. Yeah, it is the normal, but it's
disgusting and it it can be better.
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It's like, it's like healthcare.It's it's like our prison
industrial complex. It's everything.
It's just we can do so much better in society and we're just
not doing. And like, when I'm in Chicago,
I'm not like I'm upset at traffic, don't get me wrong.
Traffic Stocks. It's not having an earth right
here in Chicago land, it's not. But a lot of times it feels like
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we're shoehorning the car into places where it wasn't
originally designed for, right? Or at least designed for a
society when there's only one car per family and not everyone
had a car. But not every family had a car.
People didn't. Need cars as much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
So I'm not. I mean, it sucks, don't get me
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wrong, but I'm not as upset in Chicago, at the infrastructure
in Houston, everything was designed around the idea of
having a car, and it still fucking sucks.
Yeah, it it makes. Me LA the valley honestly is
like that too, and it's really bad.
I will. Say 1 cool thing about Houston.
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I don't know if it's cool. One interesting thing is, well I
didn't realize it until today, there's like a gas station
literally everywhere. Like every single corner has a
gas station. What's cool about it is every
single one of these gas stationshas like an awesome Mexican
restaurant in it and they all seem family owned and they all
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like, have legit food. It's pretty cool that that is
awesome being able to just like,walk that.
Yeah, it's 11. Shining star in a fucking murky
sea over here. Your toilet is just gone, Yeah.
Pretty much it's just everyday, just explosions.
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All right, We're we're talking about Sonic the Hedgehog, who
would love this highway system 'cause it would just let them
RIP. Specifically, we are talking
about. The Sonic the Hedgehog today,
actually. Yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog's buddy
Tails. That's the official name Sonic
the Hedgehog's Buddy Tails miniseries.
The issue date for this first one is October 5th, 1995
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Southern Crossover Part 1. Tails is sitting on the dock of
the Bay, watching the tide roll away.
His submarine sits mere feet from him, and he has a stack of
amateur drawings which happened to be a comic he's working on
called Tales to Astonish, a comic book series where he is
the main hero called Captain Super Fox Man.
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Mixed in with his drawings are alist of supplies that Tales
found in his last encounter withRobotnik.
The list of supplies is absoluteproof of a satellite operation
happening somewhere on Mobius. Tales has decided not to tell
the other freedom fighters to prove that he can take care of
these issues himself, so that the freedom fighters will give
him more responsibilities and treat him with respect.
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He alone will take on this vaguesatellite issue, which we have
no contacts for. Sally Walk.
It is AI feel like I should justkind of interrupt you.
So normally with these, there's natural breakage points where I
can like kind of interrupt and talk.
This one where you don't really have that because it's just one
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straight through issue. So I'm going to interrupt, but I
don't remember. I was going to say now.
So I apologize for interrupting with just an announcement that
I'm going to interrupt. Sally walks up the tails and
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starts talking about the submarine, which is called the
Sea Fox. Tails.
She apologizes for telling Roeder to not put oil in the
machine, rendering it useless. I'm only trying to look out for
the next generation of Mobians. We're fighting Robotnik for you
youngsters, understand? Tails nods his head reluctantly,
holding back anger. Good, well have fun.
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Sonic and I have an important meeting soon.
Play nice and be home before dark.
Sally starts walking back to notwhole village.
Phooey. That's exactly the kind of
infantile treatment that's driven me to undertake this
mission on my own. Tails opens the Hatch to his one
man submarine and hops in. Little do they know that I
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filled the crank case with oil and have already had two
adventures in this submarine. Tails starts heading out to sea.
Make that 3 adventures starting now.
We cut to Robotnik and his crew of robots loading supplies onto
a Robotnik blimp. The supply blimp is loaded and
ready to go. The SWAT bot tries to hand
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Robotnik a cargo list so he can verify that the shipment is
complete and ready to go. Robotnik refuses, presumably
because he's lazy and doesn't want to do it.
But your orders were very specific.
Oh rotund 1 present list for compare.
Are you questioning me? SWAT bot?
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Robotnik is filled with rage andgrabs the SWAT bot with one hand
around his neck and lifts the SWAT bot.
As my old friend Darth would say, I find your lack of faith
disturbing. Robotnik then compresses the
SWAT bot into a cube and throws him.
Would anyone else like to contradict the Great Dictator
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Ivo Robotnik? The SWAT bots all reply in
unison saying no Sir. I'm going to interrupt here.
This dude Robotnik picks up a SWAT bot with literally 1R
chokes it, which I don't know what that means in terms of
these robots. Like it's not breathing so I
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don't know why it chokes it and then literally compresses the
robot into like a perfect cube with his hands.
I just wanted to stress like this is the first time we've
ever seen like how strong Robotnik truly is.
That's I. Really enjoy it.
Yeah, I really, really enjoy that aspect.
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It seems overpowered, but honestly this is like a Titanic
character that has to carry the weight of antagonism throughout
this whole series. Yeah sure, give him, give him,
give him full-fledged so many times in so many times he has
proven he has made himself out to be weak, probably due to
Sonic speed, but honestly he canbe.
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He is extremely strong when whenhe can put his mind to it, when
he when he just lets raw anger. I do I honestly, the fact that
he chokes out the swap bot, eventhough it doesn't have lungs
right, I think that's still coolbecause it's like, well, I made
I Robotnik made you in the humanimage and I chose to compress
the air, just crush the Airways.Even though there are no
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Airways, just that instinct to to do it is still brutal.
Absolutely killer. And combine that with his
strength, he does have a robot what is effectively A cybernetic
arm 'cause I, he's, he is picking it up with a cybernetic
arm. I, I will, I will mention that.
Well, yeah, but then he compresses it with his other
arm. That's true.
So. But you just said something that
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I haven't thought about yet. Do you think it was on purpose
that Robotnik made the swap botstake a humanoid form?
Do you think there's something to that where like, 'cause he
could have made him look like anything, right, he chose to
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make him kind of look like humans?
That's a good thought. That's a good that's a good
observation. I I'll I'll run.
We don't we don't have any back story whatsoever for the SWAT
bots. So I will I will theorize that
it is he he is a human, he has aRobotnik is a human and he has
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total domain. He is superior, right?
He's a fascist, right? So he is clearly superior.
So if my #1 foot soldier more than any other foot soldier is
going to is going to mirror me, I'm going to make these things
in my image because I am superior.
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I am the the best human do. You think this is his God
moment? I meet them and OK.
Yes, actually, I honestly, I wasn't even thinking in that
sense exactly, but what that absolutely ties into it.
He is a human supremacist. OK.
At least I believe he is. I don't know if that checks out
100%, but that would make the most sense.
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Yeah, no, it was just. Yeah, you said it in my mind
instantly. It was like.
I like it, I like it. The SWAT bots all reply in
unison saying no Sir. Good now you tin horns get on
board and prepare for take off. Robotic pulls out a globe and
starts monologuing like a true villain.
At last my long range plan for global domination is under way.
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My new regional robo underboss will be fully supplied and
capable of dominating Mobius's southern hemisphere.
Robotic christens the blimp witha bottle of WD40.
He then moves towards a computer.
Just in case those accursed freedom fighters are monitoring
the skies, I'll engage the zeppelin's umbrella cloak in
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visibility hardware, making it impossible to see unless one was
directly beneath the blimp. And since its journey is totally
over the ocean, no one will detect my scheme.
We cut back the tails patrollingthe sea lanes that he thinks
Robotic would be using. He looks around and sees a giant
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shadow on the ocean surface, butthere's nothing below or above
the shadow. Tails leaves the safety of his
sub and flies over the shadow toget a closer look and notices
the underside of a blimp. He immediately flies up to the
cockpit of the blimp and sees the navigation route the blimp
is going. Immediately after seeing the
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information, he is blasted by a SWAT bot flying around with a
jet pack. Tails is stunned and starts
falling towards the ocean. He recovers right before he hits
it. He's now hovering with his
tails. A few SWAT bots fly down to
attack. Tails dips his tails into the
ocean, spitting them so incredibly fast that a water
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spout formed which he is able tocontrol and aim in the direction
of the SWAT bots. I am not a man of science,
however, I do believe this meansthat Tails can spin his tails at
the speed of a tornado. The SWAT bots have been defeated
and are now sinking to the bottom of the ocean floor.
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Tails fly. I mean, interrupts, Yeah.
I just want to point out, can I just quickly send this to you in
Discord? Yeah, Yeah, sure.
Look at that. Look at that picture.
It's a great picture. That's actually the one I chose
for the intro. Oh, did you nice.
His face is just so funny. And for those listening and not
watching, there's just a very, we'll just say interesting draw
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on tales when he's like kind of stunned, passed out, falling
towards the ocean. They made his face like weirdly,
I don't know what I'm looking for.
It's like he's super. High but like like he's got the
squinty eyes and all that stuff and his mouth is a gape and also
it's it's from under upside downand under.
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So it's super awkward and it's really funny.
The SWAT bots have been defeatedand are now sinking to the
bottom of the ocean floor. Tails flies back to his
submarine when he is attacked bythe same robotic octopus from
issue Triple Trouble Special. The robotic octopus grabs Tails
and instantly starts drowning him.
The octopus let's go. Tails has stopped putting up a
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fight. He gasped for air but only
inhales water. He starts sinking and his eyes
close. We got the Robotnik watching
everything from his blimp Cam. He immediately calls his new
underboss. Priority call from Robotnik to
my new underboss. Are you there Crocbot?
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OK, Crocbot. So I can go.
I can go very standard like monotone robot voice or what do
you think we can do we do something special with those do.
Do no, no. Well, a he's gonna have an
Australian accent. OK, OK.
Oh, that's right, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I pictured, I, I, I, I think kind of grave.
Gravely, gravely. Gravely, gravely.
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That's what I'm like. Gravely.
Not groveling, but rather gravely.
Yeah, like a, like a. Like, gravely sure.
Yeah, right. Like in the front?
Monotone gravel. Can you do that?
With an Australian accent, yeah.That's not a big ask, right?
OK, let's start with your. As someone who can't do
literally any voice. Hugh Jackman, Hugh.
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Hugh. Jackman.
Holy shit. That is like 3 dimensions right
there. I'm pushing you to your limits,
man. You are monotone or.
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For the record, I don't think he's monotone.
I think he's got a lot of pizzazz in his He's, he's very,
what's the word I want he he emotes a lot.
So. I I agree just for this one
line, I just want to try it, butyou're right.
I I will, I will emote. Oh sure I am.
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And you can call me by my propername, Crockbot.
That's. Pretty fucking good dude, he.
Kind of crushed it. That kind of hurt shit.
Oh yeah, I don't want you to hurt your that's OK.
So your money maker can't can't hurt that.
Very well, your supplies are on the way.
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Soon you'll have everything you need to change down under, from
a pristine paradise to a polluted wasteland.
Glad to hear it mate. Over and out just to ensure a
safe delivery. Oh oh sorry so this is him
monologuing so the the the call has ended and he's OK?
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Oh, I apologize. Yeah, that's what I wrote in
that, yeah. Just to ensure safe delivery,
I'll send the packet to meet theblimp.
Crocbot whistle. So a robotic flying dingo flies
to him. Flies to Crocbot.
Off you go. My loyal wing dingoes patrol the
airstrip where the blimp will land.
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If you see anything unusual, eatfast, ask questions.
Later, the flying dingoes fly tothe landing site.
Crockbot starts reviewing the inventory that is coming to him.
It is. It is spelled Haw.
You're correct. Yeah.
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These stuff were born. Extended me will quadruple my
power base and make me invincible.
Crockbot Snickers. OK, what?
What Blubber Boat doesn't know is that I'll be rewiring that.
Swap our crew so they'll become our slaves.
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I'll not only take over Down Under, but I'll dub across the
Fat Man and eventually conquer his beloved Robotropolis.
And then OK, all of Mobius. All right, this is a good place
to interrupt. OK, So what the fuck is Robotnik
doing? Why, Why?
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Why would he send all that to a dude?
You would make him so strong. Let, let, let's go, let's go and
level up. What?
Why does this thing have any autonomy whatsoever?
Yeah. Why is it so?
So this implies what? Like let's think about how what
this is implying because there'sa robot out here.
Well, it seems like he has. Well, let's we got to go even
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further back, OK? Big picture, Robotnik hasn't
conquered Mobius. Yeah, OK, yes, thank you.
That was the big thing I was going to make with this whole
issue. Yes.
He has not conquered all of Mobius there.
We had talked way like a year ago about like, oh, are there
different continents? Are there different societies?
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We kind of got that with the nerves and the underground thing
and of course space. But now we have like a like a
fleshed, a more fleshed out planet Mobius.
So now there's a whole continenthere.
There we have not seen, at leastI don't think it's implied in
this issue or or shown in this issue that there was a whole,
that there is a concerted society, but there is a
landmass, a whole other continent on Mobius.
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Well, and it it is assumed that there's a colony or something
here because what else would there be to conquer other than
just nature? I suppose it could just, it was
just nature. Like we're not going to send
this croc robot dude. And that is the reasonable.
More powerful. Yeah, yeah.
That's a reasonable assumption to make that there is a
civilization. It could also just be nature,
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but or maybe a hybrid thing likea freedom fighters ask situation
without the whole, you know, oppressive government.
It's like small tribal stuff. We don't know yet.
But in terms of what this implies is that it's very
interesting. So I so it's making out here to
be that Donald Trump that DoctorRobotnik has, he cannot control
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all of Mobius, it seems He needsan independent, I'm assuming AI
robot to, to run a whole continent on his behalf.
So this is a classic overlord situation where there is an
independent. It's it's like had or not had,
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but rather after the Nazis had taken over large swaths of the
Soviet Union, there were, there were these small like not
independent nations, but kind oflike sectors that they were
being cleared out and made way for the Liebenthrum situation.
And they had their own. They're like a mini fiefdom
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under Germany proper. So that's that's kind of what's
being implied here. Do you think that Lai don't like
the fact that they just call it Down Under?
I think it's just fucking weird.Down undone.
But it is, it is a silly name. Yeah, I get it.
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It's supposed to be like funny and Australian and all that
stuff. But it's you can do a little
better than that. Yeah.
Do you think I well, OK, maybe not.
I feel like Angel Island had a lot of Australia vibes.
The vibes, yes. Not well.
There was that kangaroo. Yeah, well, there's the
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kangaroo. And then they had the bounty
hunter whose name I'm forgetting.
Knack. Knack the weasel, right?
Knack. Yeah.
Thank you. Later we all very Australian.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think Angel Island at one
point in time was a part of DownUnder 'cause like I assume at
one point in time Angel Island was a real landmass that like
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lifted up? Yeah, that's that's what I'm
assuming. If it did, do you think?
Yeah. Do you think the echidna came
from Down Under? I I don't know the actual
enchidna, what their actual, youknow, Biome is or their point of
origin, but it seems reasonable that I OK, I can see that if if
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Angel Island came from down under, it would have to be like
millennia, right? Well, not necessarily.
Well, no, you'll yes, because the master Emerald, which I'm
assuming is the OR the chaos emeralds.
I don't know. I don't think there's no Master
Emerald established yet, but theChaos Emeralds, they, they've
been around for a long, long long long time.
So then it it's reasonable that at least Angel Island has to be
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independent of them? Do they?
We don't know if they come from each other or one comes from the
other, but reasonable assumptionI get it.
OK, OK. I also like how the swap bot his
plan for swap bots or just puts the Australian hat on these swap
bots. I think that's that's pretty
good. It's cute.
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I think they should just. Always have those.
We didn't do the credits. We forgot to do the credits
again, sorry. Oh well, it was what's his face?
The respect you have for our benefactors.
Well, if it's not kind of kinders, I don't remember.
Let's be real here. Let's see.
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So Script by Mike Gallagher and penciled by the splash page was
on by Mike Gallagher and the Southern crossover was Dave
Monach. OK, so I think Dave Monach, when
he draws outer space, he's the one that draws the, like, fun
little purple lines through it and stuff.
Because we're back to seeing there is an image of outer space
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Mobius, and it had a few moons and it had the like the purple
thing that I really liked the last time we went to space.
So I think it really just depends on who's drawing it.
And they're all kind of making their own lore.
We cut the tails. He is alive and on an extremely
tiny island. Ow my aching head.
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I huh. I'm alive.
Oh Ray. Ray.
OK, who's Ray? Not know who's Ray, but what
does Ray but Azeri sound like? What does a What does a Stingray
sound like? I mean, let's think about the
word Stingray, right? Very sting.
Punctual, staccato. Go go.
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Like emphasize every word. You hate me so fucking much.
I know I'm I'm actually impressed with the creativity
because I'm, I'm, I have no, I have no like grounding of where
do we even start with that? So so do like short punctual
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words like very like quick, right?
But then it needs to be underwater.
My aching, my aching head. I Huh, I'm alive.
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You sure are, is what he said. I splashed myself hard with
water. You can't see it on camera, but
I didn't. You should you should do it each
time and then translate every single.
Time you do let's not because I have electronics around me, but
yes, that would be great. It's for, it's for the good of
the podcast, Dominic. Some things are worth it.
You sure are so. Yeah.
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Huh. Who said the yow A Stingray?
Actually, I'm a non poisonous manta, but you got my name
right, Ray. What the fuck was that?
Ray looks like a manta ray, which makes sense because that's
what he is. Let me tell you what happened.
That underwater underworlder didindeed have you in his clutches.
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You were about to drown. But the But the seas of Mobius
are not without a determined band of rebels dedicated to
keeping our waters robo free. We're called the 40 Fathoms
Freedom Fighters. Members include a dolphin, a
jellyfish, a clam and of course,a manta ray.
I'm glad this is a monologue he has to do.
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Yeah, Is this, is this obnoxious?
Is this? I mean, it's obnoxious, but
like, is it? It's.
Very obnoxious. We'll figure something out after
this episode you're sticking with it for.
This our stinging jellyfish. I'll lower it.
Our stinging jellyfish named PB zapped Octobot.
Good. Making him drop you so I could
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get you back to the surface. Octobot might have caught me,
but he never took a major hit from Bottlenose.
It looked like Octobot was goingto get clean away, but then the
big guy showed up. That's the last we'll see of
Octobot for a while. While you were reviving topside
you, we check out your submarine.
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We checked out your submarine. It's totaled.
You know what, it's not as bad when you like toned it down just
a little bit. That's actually you should keep
it. It's harkening back to like that
salesman pitch that you had me do with the with the ice, with
The Cave people. Yeah.
What, you mean I'm stuck out on this little island in the middle
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of the ocean? Well, not exactly.
Ray moves aside and the ground starts moving.
Turns out Tails is not on an island at all, but instead on
the back of a giant blue whale named Fluke.
He asks if he can get a lift to Down Under.
He's agreed, and we end this issue on Tails surfing on the
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back of a blue whale heading towards Down Under.
End of Part 1. I fucked up, I should have said.
Tails is now surfing on the black on the back of the whale
tail, you know. Aquaman couldn't do this shit.
He does like in every single episode of the Super Friends.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
He literally serves on 2 dolphins that is.
One power, yeah. Yeah, all right.
It's kind of enough in the issuejust because it's all kind of
set up for what's going on. We get some cool, interesting
lore. I like the fact that Robotnik
isn't we were to kind of have the discussion, but isn't in
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control of all of Mobius and there's definitely.
Massive implications. Massive implication that I hope
the writers like could like, fully play with or play with and
adhere to. I wonder.
So this is something I haven't brought up yet, but I guess they
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kind of use, and I didn't realize this, they kind of use
Mobius interchangeably where it's like planet Mobius and then
it feels like the continent they're on is called Mobius
because I, I didn't realize it until just now because I'm like,
well, what's the continent called that they're on now
because. It's.
Not Robotropolis because that's the actual city.
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I mean, I would accept it. Like if there's a one off like
yeah, it's Robotnik Land. Like that's what he claims it's
called or something. Well, then, we know.
Not whole village in over a metropolis.
And then the great. We've always just kind of
referred to it as Mobius. Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah. Interesting.
I it could just be and. Then there's the Forbidden zone.
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Yes, it could be like an Australia situation.
I I know it's not a planet, but where it's like the country of
Australia and also the continentof Australia, but it's kind of
like where it just shares the same name.
So since this is going to be based on Australia, how how
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based on Australia do you think it's going to go, do you think?
Do you think this is where King Acorn used to send his political
prisoners? Yeah.
And just like it's like that's what the echidna were.
Yeah, if they don't address the penal colony origin of this
place, then I am very disappointed.
I'm just, I'm just don't. It's comic, man.
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No, I mean, this is that's the one thing that I actually care
about in this is this whole implication Crockbot.
I'm neutral on Crockbot, the actual character, but what
Crockbot's character implies andwhat his function will be, what
the the robot's function will beis potential is grounds for a
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really good story that I hope gets it won't be, but I I hope
gets stretched out throughout the whole miniseries.
I'm upset at the design of Crocbot because he looks really
cool, but he definitely needs either a cowboy hat or the
Australian hat. He definitely needs a hat and
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the fact that he doesn't is a huge missed opportunity for.
For the record, the the hat is called a slouch hat.
That's the name. A slouch.
A slouch hat, yes. Do you know the origins of the
name Slouch? I, I'm looking it up now for
that's, that's how I found out, but it is, it was made, it's
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been around for a while, including the, it goes back to
the English Civil War. So it obviously started up in,
in England and then it made its way down to Australia and New
Zealand. And then it became, it kind of
stuck around there. Whereas the rest of the
Empire's, the British Empire's fashion kind of moved on for the
most part, but it stuck with theAussies and the Kiwis.
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And then it was, it was immortalized in, you know, with
the ANZAC forces who fought in World War One.
And that that became their signature.
Look, OK, little little fun, little fun little tidbit of
history here that I assume was on the Wikipedia page.
Yeah, I mean, I I knew just in general, but I didn't know like
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that it's what the name of it was.
Apparently it's also used by theGurkas.
OK, so it also has like Southeast Asian origins or not
maybe the origins, but maybe still use their man.
The Gurkas are mean motherfuckers.
But either way, it's it's definitely a Commonwealth thing,
particularly in in Oceana and Asia.
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How do you like, I mean, we haven't really seen them, but
how do you like the idea of the the Ocean Freedom Fighters?
As like a superpower team, it's very gimmicky that I've I'm I'm
over to be frank, I'm I'm whatever on it.
That's probably a bleed from like Marvel fatigue just in
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general. So it's it's fine.
So I can't knock the 90s comic for doing it.
Now that you've said that it even like a register in my mind,
it is starting to feel kind of like it may be I, I don't know
it in the context of Marvel, butI do in DC where it's like, oh,
you've got the like Gotham people and then you got Star
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City people and then you got theMetropolis people.
And then it's like, yeah, OK. It's it's just like the The Cave
people in that one during that one ice storm that the winter
storm that Robotnik hooked up from a few issues ago.
It's you now already the 40 Fathoms Freedom Fighters, which
is an obnoxious name. They, they've already proven
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themselves to be more, not more effective, but rather seem to
have more character than the icepeople, than the wind The Cave
people, I should say. Yeah, 'cause then, and hopefully
they'll do even more. The, the fluke the whale is, is
kind of cool. I'm just, I, I, I'm already over
the character bloat. It's just fascinating to me.
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I I'll say this, character bloathas been a staple part of Sonic
the Hedgehog for the longest time.
It really has been. That is like a core tenet of
Sonic the Hedgehog is that you shove in new characters.
It's not unique to Sonic, but it's very apparent in Sonic just
as a brand. In in the games though, I don't
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really. It builds up a lot slower.
It builds up a lot slower. But notice how every single game
needs a new character to the Yeah, I think literally every
single game has spawned a new character, right.
Like I like I I understand that,you know, you there are like
side characters and incidental characters.
I get that. But I'm talking like we are
like, this is a new branded character that we can, you know,
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make plushies out of or whatever.
Does the werewolf game have a new?
Yes, yes, there's there's Sidekick in Sonic Unleashed.
Oh, if we're calling sidekicks, I, I, I mean, he's with you in
every game. He's going to introduce a
character like that's. I think that's a bullshit
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criticism. I'm sorry, it's expected.
What, you want the same? I only want Sonic Tales and
Knuckles at every game of no oneelse.
No, no, no, I just no, no, no. I'm saying you can have an
expansive roster do shit with them as as opposed to like, you
know, flinging in a new character that barely does
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anything. I mean, granted Chip was your
sidekick, but still it it doesn't feel well earned enough
to me. It doesn't feel well enough.
I guess I haven't I haven't played enough Sonic games.
It's been a moment. With that.
Yeah, it's been a moment for me,too.
But based based on the games I've played, which is like Sonic
Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, that's a good.
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One good one. All the characters have like,
you know, they, they all matter.They, they all, they all.
I'll give. Kudos to Adventure because for
how expansive and grandiose of an adventure that was, the
character list is rather small. Not small, but you know what I
mean. It's not as like, like, who's
the what's the giant robot in the first adventure game?
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E1O2. E1O2 yes, that's like the big
character in that game. Like like sorry new character
that's unique to adventure. Also, is Big the cat?
Oh, he was in one. OK, you're right then.
OK, big and E1E1O2. Who else Unique to 1?
In terms of introduced in one introduced, I mean chaos if
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we're going everything. OK, sure, if you need a villain.
Call. Yeah.
Trying to think. A lot of characters.
The old guy that was to Call's grandfather.
OK, sure. All the side to call's
character. The flashback scene.
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That one I can even just I can excuse.
Look, I think this comes down toa matter of taste, because for,
for, for you, clearly as someonewho's a big, big fan of
adventure, of the adventure games, that's your grounding
you, you, you don't seem to mindit too much.
I know. I think I, I think I was just
maybe playing a little devil's advocate.
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I don't mind. I like that.
New new characters being introduced or not, I think it's
a little much what they're doingin the context of these comics,
which is like, hey, there's here's a ragtag group, here's
another ragtag group, here's another ragtag group.
And we haven't fleshed out anyone else.
And so it just seems like it's very surface level.
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Everything that they're doing isjust, yeah, I agree.
Go ahead. 100% I think here's what here's the pivotal detail
that does it for me. You can you can show a ragtag
team of uniquely designed like, I don't want the same copy paste
Stingray 50 times, right? You can have this unique 40
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fathoms team. But if you're going to have a
whole panel or a whole page dedicate like a whole monologue
being like, and here's so and soand then here's so and so their
power. Is this similar to The Cave
people? It's the same exact template.
If you're going to have a whole thing dedicated to that, then
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you really need to do something with them.
What I think is better is that if you're not going to do
something with them, then just show them in the background and
just have the implication. I think that's what does it for
me, because every time there's that one bubble where it's and
this is Bob and this is, you know, Jimmy, it's so and so and
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so forth. These are their powers.
This is the team. As if they're like going to go
on a heist, a grandiose 2 hour adventure film heist together
like oceans. Then it's that.
Then you set up the expectation.But if you just have them be
incidental characters, then I can forgive it more because, OK,
you're implying a whole underwater society.
That's cool. Again, this is very, very deep,
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the small detail, but I think that's what's doing it for me
do. You get where they're.
Coming from, do you get where they're?
Coming from no, no, yeah. I mean, they're, they're
spending too much time on a character that's not going to be
around. Yeah, the the this issue
particularly doesn't seem to be doing it as much.
And because this is a three-partmini series, there's way more
room I have. I am giving it the benefit of
the doubt because there's more room for this team to do
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something in the other in the next two parts of the
miniseries. The the most egregious one was
that those cave folks that wherethere were all unique designs
and just each one had like a panel.
Voices. Unique designs.
And it was. That's why you're upset, because
you have to do a new fucking voice for each of these guys.
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He was like, they don't need to talk, why are they talking?
That's a fun challenge at least,yeah.
OK, cool. Is there any other call outs we
have about this? Any anything you want to.
No, the, the big thing for me iswhere does this underboss
dynamic, Robotnik underboss dynamic go?
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And I'm curious to see what happens.
I hope they do something cool and interesting with it.
I obviously they're setting it up as a betrayal.
I think they, I think they pulled the pulled the rug, but
rather they revealed the intentions of Crockbot way too
early. Oh no.
I love that. That's my favorite thing.
Oh, yeah. They just, they were just like,
this is what he's about. No, no surprise.
This is just, you know, he's just a good old fashioned bad
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guy. He's in.
Australia for everyone. He's a dirty Aussie.
Like this is what you can expect, so let's let's
rock'n'roll with it. I'm I'm fine with that.
I'm I'm happy with a mixture of hey, surprise, betrayal.
I would rather this than the bullshit that they tried pulling
in that Sally miniseries with that fucking badger dude or
(49:50):
whatever with Saint Clair or. Jeffrey Saint John.
Joffrey. Yeah.
Where they're like, oh, he's good, he's bad.
No, he's good. Like, no, fuck off, no, just
declare your intentions. All right, We got a dude who's
like technically a bad guy, but like probably cooler than
Robotnik. He could be, he could be
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definitively cooler if he had a cowboy hat or a a slouch.
What was it? Slouch?
But you know, you know, I'll take what I can get.
I'll take what I can get. If there's nothing else, I want
to make a quick call out. So most of the time when we read
these issues, I'm reading from awebsite that I will not name but
(50:32):
very easy to find. And there's, there's a part of
me that really hates this. In fact, I no, I just hate it.
I'm a firm believer of uploadingthings as is and not editing
things out. So when you upload a comic, I'm
(50:54):
a firm believer of like keeping all the old ads in it and the
Q&A sections and like whatever forward or introductions they
have. I'm a firm believer of keeping
everything like that in the sitewe go to.
Well, I go to personally cuts all that out, but for some
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reason these miniseries. The miniseries and the specials,
yeah. Can they keep them in?
And so I had AI was like, well, I'm going to read the Q&A that
they normally cut out here. And reading it, there was an
interesting question that poppedup, which was because this is a
Tales issue, I guess they prompted the Sonic fans to ask a
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bunch of Tales related questions.
And one of them was, how old areyou Tales?
And in here they say 10 years old.
OK, which that that's the basis.That changes a lot.
That changes a lot. So that means Sonic and the gang
are around 16/17/18 give or takebetween 14 and 18.
(52:05):
Yep. So I, I hate me 'cause there's
like a part of me that's like, Ishould go back and see if I can
find the original stuff so I canread the other Q&A's because
they're actually asking some interesting questions in here.
One of the questions was how come your colors in the comic is
brown while in the video games it's closer to like a golden
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yellow. And they just straight up say
Sega wanted the colors to be closer to the Sonic TV show than
the video game. I was like, oh, that's a very
direct answer that I wasn't expecting.
So, Nick, going forward, do you want to go over the Sonic grams,
the DEET, the the all all the after issue stuff because only.
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If they're interesting like I know because I only if they're
interesting in the context of like answering questions and
stuff of like how old is Tales or maybe they'll like say
something that's like behind thescenes.
I don't need to be like, hey, what does Sonic think of Sally?
(53:09):
What does Sally think of Tales? I don't give a shit about that.
Like, that's just weird. I don't.
You should be writing that into the story.
Yeah, no, that. Yeah, exactly.
If your users have to ask what is it like being a freedom
fighter or what do you think of Sally?
Maybe the writers aren't doing agood job of explaining these
(53:30):
characters, but I don't know, itcould be just 10 year olds also
writing and and. Maybe missing some of the kind?
Of sub context. Exactly what it is, yeah.
Well, I expect more from my readers.
Sorry. Yeah, you should grab your
guitar. Now it's time for Sonic Grams.
(53:52):
You can write to Sonic Grams. Oh, yeah.
It's a legally distinct Sonic Grams.
It's an unaffiliated Sonic Grams.
We made our own Sonic Grams. All right, there we go.
Good job. Classic as always, always a good
(54:17):
bit we we have a e-mail from someone who hasn't written in
for a while. Good old Mike AF.
Mike AF, thank you. Thank you.
I thought maybe he just stopped listening because he just
stopped writing in, but. He stopped hanging out.
(54:37):
We were stuck in Texas for a month.
So. I keep on feeling bad because I
keep on doing these Discord episodes and like an hour before
we go on like do the thing, I'm like, oh, I could probably
invite him because it's just a Discord.
And every single time it's like,no, it's too late.
I I am not giving him enough notice because he's got kids and
(54:58):
he's got to like put them down and whatnot to.
Sleep like putting them to bed? No.
He keeps on making children and then killing them.
I don't get it. But I mean, I don't know him
that well. I don't.
I don't judge. That's my thing.
I just don't judge. What animal would you be if you
(55:22):
were a resident of that whole village?
This doesn't have to be your persona, but it can be if you
want. Fox is pretty good.
Like just the way a fox is. Very elegant, I mean.
Do you think? I think I'm outing myself there,
(55:44):
to be frank. I I haven't really thought about
this question much. I wouldn't want to be.
It would have to be mammalian. I don't.
I kind of like being a human. But if I had to choose, yeah, I
think let's say Fox. That's a bit of a boring answer,
I know, but that's, that's how Ifeel.
I I, I think having a tail wouldbe cool.
(56:06):
I'm down for. It anything other than something
that can fly is a dumb answer because you're an animal and you
can choose to fly fucking. Give me, give me a second tail.
I guess that's. A good question is can we get
superpowers with these? No, let's say no.
(56:26):
Let's say we're regular. Just for the sake of the
question, let's. Then I'm being a fucking bird.
I want to be able to fly. That's.
Come on man, get those. Tiny, tiny legs.
That's fine. I don't.
I don't need them. I'm flying.
What kind of dumb animal has wings and walks?
Only the dumbest Penguins suck. The dodo bird sucked.
(56:54):
I got nothing else. OK.
I'd be specifically that bird that can like dive into the
water back up. That fish is like that.
Is it a Sparrow? No.
I don't know. I'm not an animal guy or a bird
guy. I'm a human guy.
Yeah, OK. So I'm sticking with yeah, I
want to be a bird. I just want to be able to fly or
or what's a? Kangaroo, you can jump really
(57:17):
high I. Was going, I was going to try to
say like what's an animal that jumps really high?
I feel like Kangaroos aren't high enough.
I feel like feel like I can jumphigher.
Cats can jump pretty high. Cats can jump pretty high, and
they're weird birds. What if I if I'm choosing to be
a sexier animal, Yeah. I think you were projecting.
(57:39):
I think you were projecting withthat furry accusation I.
I mean, have you ever seen the musical Cats?
Cats. Yeah.
I'm scared to answer but no I haven't.
I'm just saying how how can you not watch the movie adaptation
(58:01):
and not be like those are that'sthe.
One I was scared to watch specifically because.
Did you know that the original cut of that movie The cats had
butt holes? I did hear about this, yes.
Yeah, and then some guy had to go in and edit out all the butt
holes in that fucking movie. I want an interview with that
(58:23):
guy. I just want them to release the
butt hole cut. Follow up What would your role
be in the Freedom Fighters? Well, if it's anything like I'm
doing now, I guess it would be propagandist.
But that that's not really because if you if you follow my.
Press Yeah. Yeah, if you follow my
(58:43):
Instagram, I am putting out, I am putting out content.
I just interviewed a guy with a Luigi sign at the hands off
protest at Daily Plaza. It was really funny.
Dude had an aura, I swear, but no, for real, I guess he would
be journalist. Just live my journalist dreams
in in the in the world of the freedom fighters, which at that
(59:06):
when when things are as bad likesocietally, when they're as bad
as they are in the Sonic in Sonic comic world.
It is it it you you actually can't do much news and it all
just kind of has to be propaganda just just because
that's how bad. There is no middle ground.
It is literally an underground society trying to fight back an
(59:29):
oppressive government kill on site rules.
I would I want to be some sort of scout.
OK. You know, I don't want to be
like, fighting. Yeah, yeah.
Honestly, either bird or cat. Bird would be ideal.
But yeah, some sort of scout I think would be, you know, I just
(59:49):
like going out there and like being on my own and being like,
oh, look at me camping in the middle of nowhere.
Gov report this troop movement. Time to take a hike back.
Are you good with your directions?
I'm cardinal direction. Yeah, yeah.
You are actually. You are actually when we're
walking about, yeah. Well, I, I wouldn't say I'm good
at like my cardinal directions, but I'm very good at knowing
(01:00:12):
where I came from, where I'm going and like where I've been.
I I don't need to know I mean where?
You come from, where'd you go? Yeah, yeah, I know for sure.
A lot of people call me Cotton Eye Joe for some reason.
There it is. There it is.
I mean, Chicago is really easy because you just need to know
where the lake is and that's thecost, so.
(01:00:33):
And once you. Know where that lake is.
And once you learn where 00 is and the Chicago grid system,
everything, everything else is alot easier.
It's like, oh, we're if it's if the street says N, then that
means we're north of the of 00 or east and West or South.
Yeah, it's cool. Chicago's a nice place.
(01:00:58):
Yeah, I like it. I.
You like it more than Houston? Yeah, quick, quick question for
the audience. I received a complaint recently
and I'm going to I won't change up until after the Tales
(01:01:18):
miniseries. But if it's I guess my question
is, is it confusing when I use first person and make Dominic
read it? So for example, in the last
issue I was just like I'm down here in Houston and Dominic fix
(01:01:39):
reading it. This is a question for the
audience. I guess for Dominic too, we
haven't had this discussion. I think I, I've thought about
this as well, just without conversing with you, but I
thought it was, oh, it's not much of a problem because you
wrote with the context, not direct content.
And I like directly. Actually, you have done that
(01:02:00):
before when it's like a back andforth with dialogue, but you
usually describe it with enough in.
From what I've read, you've described with enough contacts
that you can deduce it along with my voice.
If I wasn't doing voices, then we would have an issue that.
'D be different, yeah. For sure.
Or like we would have a major, major issue.
(01:02:20):
But if that's what the people are saying, we can consider it,
yeah. This isn't what the people are
saying. This is what one person is
saying. OK, that's 100% criticism.
That's yeah, that's what I'm. Saying 100% of the people who've
and I know we have at least three listeners, so.
Yeah, look, maybe our maybe Nick's prose isn't the best or
(01:02:44):
most varied, but is it clear? Does it have a degree of
clarity, not not counting all the tangents we go on?
That's an us problem. We we recognize that one.
But in terms of the writing, is it clear who's talking at any
given moment? Yeah, 'cause I can, I can, I can
adjust that, I can fix it. Oh and also if you're watching
(01:03:05):
that can help too because I havethe panels up but so maybe
before I listen to it. Specifically when I was
describing personal things happening to me in the script.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's whatI was trying to say.
Well, I don't care about that. There's two of us.
They can. They can.
(01:03:27):
No. I don't mean to dismiss them.
Sure. I can write in if but.
Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
Yeah, no, I that's why I'm bringing it to the audience.
Write, write in either Sonic Rams or post on YouTube or
wherever. And we'll we'll take it into
(01:03:49):
criticism and then we'll either tell this guy to fuck off and he
can go do his own thing if he has problems with our Sonic
podcast, or we'll be like, yeah,we fucked up.
That's a just our podcast. So there's no in between. 00
point in Chicago, IL is the intersection of State and
(01:04:09):
Madison. I forgot it, I had to look it
up. That bothered me exclusively.
Yeah, I could tell. Yeah.
All right. Oh, right.
I'm doing an outro. That's the issue.
Only 387 left to go. I'm Nick.
I stream at twitch.tv/mojo Source and my personal blue
skies at Mojo Source. And I'm Dominic, you can follow
(01:04:33):
my jazz and people power adventures in Chicago at Blue
Collar Jazz on Instagram, uploading a crap ton of stuff
lately. Things are heating up in the
world and particularly in Chicagoland, and you can check
out some of them. I'm in.
Houston, it's heating up. It's like 90.
(01:04:54):
Here in Texas. What I say?
You said Chicago again. I was like.
I thought I said Houston. That was my joke.
Oh no. I was, I was confused.
I'm like, I think that's the joke he's trying to make, all
right. That was the joke.
Regardless, I'm going all out onInstagram, baby.
Edit that so I'm funny. Okay, follow me on Instagram at
(01:05:17):
Blue Collar Jazz and then on Blue Sky as well.
Blue Sky is kind of being sacrificed for Instagram.
That's fine. It's a back and forth.
Just follow both at Dom Guan or just look up Blue Collar Jazz.
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I need to do my taxes. I have you seriously not.
I've done most of it. What are you doing?
(01:06:03):
It's due on Tuesday. I literally did mine in January
dude. Yeah, that's fine.
What what how how much taxes do you need to do all of them?
But like how much is? It honestly, my, my, my, my, my
thought process. It was I don't know what the
(01:06:23):
government's going to look like in April.
I need to do this now. Let me let me be clear, I
applaud you for doing your taxesin January.
You're responsible and a good person.
But me, I get overwhelmed by bignumber and it's it's scary,
especially how. You used.
To OK, we're doing the whole thing now.
Yes, go ahead. This should have been the
opening. I'm sorry, this should have been
the opener. I used to do that a lot where I
(01:06:45):
I waited till like the last seconds to the my taxes.
I'm doing it through Free Tax USA which is free federal and
then $15 per state. That's how I did it.
Yeah, so fuck TurboTax, fuck anything that cost like $60.00
or whatever. Use free tax USA.
They also, I didn't do it because, but they also as part
(01:07:07):
of their payment plan or not payplan, but like things you can
pay to you can like literally you can literally pay into like
a campaign fund for their lobbying to make taxes not not
free, but you know what I mean? Like make the actual IRS system
like Free Tax USA where it's just free.
Didn't they? Federal file.
(01:07:29):
Trump killed it. Yeah, that's what I was thinking
of. Thank you.
Yes, no Free Tax USA is his own independent thing.
And then there was a thing called Federal File that Biden
had begun to roll out. It was.
The trial of last year. And and then just axed by by by
DJT. Oh don't call him DJT, that's
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