October 7, 2024 • 45 mins
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After a rock show, Brad finds some weed(s), grabs a mysterious briefcase, and sets out on a madcap 24 hours in Los Angeles. Now THAT'S an episode of M.A.S.K. we could get behind. Instead, we get a lazy V.E.N.O.M. plot, even lazier M.A.S.K. agents, and Scott's quest for diabetes. Join us for laughter - and groaning - on another episode of the Mobile Armored Podcast Show!
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squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (00:12):
Welcome to the mobile armored podcast
show.
The podcast that transforms intoa hydroponic garden.
My name is Adam Moore alongsidemy cohost and best friend, PJ
McNerney.
How's it going PJ?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:26):
I'm doing well today.
I think this episode is.
Questionable.
this is episode 25.
There's only 75 episodes.
We are one third of our waythrough,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (00:37):
and we're also that means a third of
the way through our podcast, atleast in as much as it covers
mask
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:43):
Correct.
Correct.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (00:45):
Happy anniversary
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:46):
Happy anniversary, Adam.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (00:48):
I got you the plant show.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:51):
wow.
That's a very questionable gift.
I'll say that much right here.
And for our audience, you know,congratulations to all of you.
If you like us, there's stillmore to come! And if you hate
us, why are you listening to us?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (01:04):
Look, you've made it this far.
You might as well keeplistening.
like, uh, My, my old friend uh,Modi from undergrad who uh, used
the handy dandy feature tocontact us via mask HQ.
You can click on that link andsend us a top secret message and
Modi did that.
So what's up my brother fromHollywood.
Hope you're doing well.
(01:25):
Thanks for listening.
But yes, the plant show, which Ifind interesting as a title for
an episode, cause it's notreally a like Yes, there's
vines, but it's not like a plantshow.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (01:34):
I mean, There's a show.
There's plants, and so someonedecided, let's mush these two
words together.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (01:42):
Sure.
Okay.
Thanks for defending the writer.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (01:46):
the writer.
Defense Award goes to PJMcNerney this episode.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (01:50):
see how it goes the rest of the
episode.
But um, it is episode 25, ThePlant Show, in which Venom
threatens to cover Los Angeleswith mutated kudzu vines.
Unless California pays a heftyransom.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (02:02):
Yeah it's funny, kudzu is not
mentioned in the entirety of theepisode, as far as I can tell.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (02:08):
No, it's not.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (02:09):
It's just in the taglines, and from a
historical standpoint, this waslike a plant that was
introduced.
For like preventing erosion.
I think it was maintaining thelandscape and the problem was it
was an invasive species thatjust started taking over a
place.
So I think it became illegal toactually plant these things
anywhere.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (02:28):
I can think of another plant that
was illegal at the time inCalifornia.
That no longer is illegal.
I'm thinking the writer of theepisode was maybe enjoying a
little bit Of the kudzu vines.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (02:40):
he was enjoying at least.
That, if not some other plantbased powders.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (02:45):
Here we go.
We open on a concert at theHollywood bowl and will you
believe it?
It's Brad Turner's band, there'sa huge crowd, amazingly, and
they're all standing up andthey're rockin out.
And meanwhile, Matt, Scott, andT Bob are seated in the front
row.
There's only two seats in thewhole place, and it's for them.
(03:06):
And Scott says, I can't believeBrad is actually playing the
Hollywood Bowl.
And I thought, I can't believeit either, Scott.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (03:14):
To be fair, Brad can't believe it
either, and I had to imaginethat this was like his big
break.
Capitol Records wanted to meetwith him right after the show He
was going to be, like, meteoriclike, it's like, hey, I want you
to work with Madonna's producer.
It's going to be amazing.
And it's going to be a lifefilled with babes and money and
power and blow.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (03:34):
there's a lot of pyrotechnics too.
It is uh, it's off the charts.
This is a big concert.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (03:38):
it's huge.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (03:39):
So Matt's sitting there staring at
something.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (03:43):
I did an eyeline check on this one.
So, As he's sitting down, and weshould remind the audience.
He just got married lastepisode.
In his eyeline there's afetching young woman.
You never see her face, but youbasically just see from her hips
to her neck.
And where do you think hiseyeline, basically, is like,
(04:04):
focused on right now?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (04:05):
I'm not going to touch that.
No idea.
No idea, BJ.
Nope.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (04:09):
I'm like, Matt, you're a newlywed.
Stop staring at someone else'sbosom.
What would Gloria say?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (04:15):
Why didn't he bring Gloria to the
concert?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (04:16):
I'm not going to watch
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (04:17):
to Brad's stupid concert.
Just because you bought out theHollywood ball, Matt doesn't
mean he's a good musician.
Scott says to Matt that he wantsto be a rock musician when he
grows up.
And that is the least rock androll thing I've ever heard
anyone say.
When I grow up, I want to be a arock musician.
(04:39):
Suddenly, giant vines begingrowing behind the Hollywood
Bowl.
And Scott says, How do they dothat?
And Matt says, I don't know.
Maybe rock music is goodfertilizer?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (04:49):
I had a question.
So is Matt making some kind ofsubtle insult about rock music?
Basically calling it shit.
Like, Cause that's, that kind ofwhat I was like, Oh wait, good
fertilizer.
Wait a minute,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (05:00):
or it's an insult to Brad's music.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (05:02):
that's fair.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (05:04):
ha.
well, We are in the green roomafter the show.
And they ask Brad about theplants, and he doesn't know
anything about it.
Because it wasn't part of theshow.
And then suddenly, vines invadethe room.
T Bob gets completely knockedover by a door.
And then His logic circuits arescrambled.
He's saying all these weirdwords and things like that.
I guess my question is, did hislogic circuits ever actually
(05:25):
work in the first place?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (05:27):
so, So what we have to do is baseline
the idea that Scott thinks thatT Bob was A OK up until this
point.
So yeah, Scott is able to noticethe difference between like,
paranoid ramblings and justlike, scrambled parano I don't
know, I mean, you're right,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (05:43):
well, uh, They've got to escape before
the vines catch them.
but Brad is able to, uh, to packup though.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (05:49):
He is really concerned about his
briefcase.
So what Adam is so importantabout that briefcase that Brad
does not want it left behind andfound.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (05:58):
I'm sure it's some dried up and
powdered kudzu vines, my friend.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (06:01):
It's why Brad wears sunglasses at night.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10- (06:04):
Exactly.
Outside the bowl, there is a bigtraffic jam, and giant vines are
everywhere, but I'd like to beclear that there would be a
traffic jam no matter what.
So, So far, the vines, nothaving much of an impact on Los
Angeles.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (06:19):
We should uh, call out the fact,
Adam, that you are an LAresident and are the resident
expert on this.
So
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (06:25):
Yeah, on Coanga Boulevard there, by
the bowl, there is alwaystraffic.
So.
so far Los Angeles one vineszero.
Let's keep score So we seeThunderhawk and Scott's like
come on dad.
Hurry up like he's gettingpretty pushy Anyways somehow
Matt finds enough space to getsome runway to transform to jet
(06:46):
mode which just make any sensebecause a moment ago There was
no space And, being an LAresident if there was even
enough space ahead of Matt toget a little bit of runway, A,
someone would have swerved intothat lane right off the bat, and
B, everyone would be honking athim to move forward.
That is completely illogical.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (07:07):
I, it begged a question for me cause
you're a hundred percent right.
Like the situation is impossiblejust based on the mechanics, but
let's pause it for a second.
It exists even without thevines.
Would Matt have waited?
Or would he have said fuck thisshit and just like, transformed
T hawk anyway and took off.
Hahahahahaha
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (07:29):
out of the way all of the dark night
Well, they're flying over thecity and they see giant vines
all over the place.
It's you know, potentially animprovement over Los Angeles
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (07:41):
Mmhm.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (07:42):
the 80s.
So so far we're doing all rightin the last episode It took
forever to get to the agentselection scene.
In this episode, we're aboutthree minutes in when Brad says,
you're going to call in thecavalry.
And so we go right into theagent selection scene.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (07:59):
Yeah, this was the qu You're right,
this was like the quickest timewe've seen.
It's also, for me, it was a nicereminder that Matt will call in
people even without knowing it'sVenom.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (08:09):
So he says select the best agents
for mission in Los Angeles, BradTurner, preselected, which we've
never heard him do before, whichBegs the question,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:21):
Ha
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (08:21):
How many times has Gloria not been
selected, but she's been there?
How many times has Alex not beenselected or Bruce when they've
already been there?
So it's interesting And whatwould have happened if he said
Brad Turner not selected or justnot said anything,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:35):
Eject Brad Turner from T Hawk.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (08:37):
Brad Turner, too stoned to
participate.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:41):
I think that was the New Orleans
episode.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (08:43):
our agents are Bruce Sato.
It's a repeat of one of hisexits.
He just drops a bunch of boxesand he runs out.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:50):
I kind of liked the idea that actually
he had finally gotten around tolike picking those boxes up.
And then it was just like, Oh,fuck it.
I'm out of here again.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (08:58):
And of course, Alex Sector, the
other member of the codependentteam.
Uh, He's putting a bird in acage and then he kind of
accidentally lets a few of themfly out.
And then he gets the call andshrugs and He lets them all fly
away.
It's like, they seem prettyexpensive and exotic and now
doomed.
We cut to Boulder Hill HQ andMatt is giving a video briefing
(09:20):
to Bruce and Alex.
And he says, Los Angeles isturning into a home for monkeys.
And Bruce says, then Brad oughtto feel right at home.
Whoa, Bruce, sick burn.
What is going on?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (09:35):
This can't be put down.
I don't think as a buddy Hawksaward nomination, but I was just
like, fuck man, that was a dickmove.
Like what the hell?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (09:43):
really?
What does he have against
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (09:44):
I don't, I like, the only thing I could
think about is like back inJapan, like Brad was like, Hey,
you remember you just came tothe earthquake lab and your
stupid little tie and didnothing.
Yeah.
Fuck yourself.
How about that?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (09:56):
I love that Bruce and Brad have a
rivalry though.
This is good.
I want to continue to track thisthroughout the series.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (10:01):
I would too.
But especially because it'slike, It seems like it's more on
Bruce's side than Brad's becauseBrad doesn't respond at all.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (10:08):
Brad doesn't care or he doesn't hear
or is otherwise indisposed.
So Matt says they've tried fire,chainsaws, and strong poisons.
Nothing works.
You might say we have to get tothe.
Root of it.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (10:22):
So many dad jokes in this episode.
Like they really leaned into it.
Also Adam, would you consider LAa dry environment or a wet
environment?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (10:32):
Yeah, it's a dry environment and
gender reveals gone wrong havestarted massive wildfires here
So yeah, flamethrowers.
probably not a great idea
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (10:44):
Also what kind of poisons are they
using and where did those getdumped?
Is it just being dumped into theLA river?
Where does that come from?
Don't dump too, Adam.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (10:53):
It goes right into the Pacific
Ocean, but a little poison.
That's fine.
Also how do you rate Matt's dadjoke there?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (11:02):
It's Cosby licious at that point in
time.
I mean, He's really leaned intoit.
It's not the last time we'regoing to hear a dad joke from
many people in this episode.
A
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (11:11):
Very true.
We find out that basically theplant is indestructible and
Bruce apropos of nothing.
There is no journey unless thefirst step is taken.
And Alex, so patronizing saysuh, right.
and even Bruce looks sad atAlex's dismissiveness of what he
(11:32):
said.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (11:33):
hundred percent.
there's a clear Buddy Hawks nomhere.
And uh, it also wasn't like,like that deep a sadism either.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (11:42):
It's kind of obvious.
Like, Yeah, Bruce, we knowwe're, if you'd stop talking,
we'd get on the jet and get outto LA, but okay.
we do finally get to LA andthey're going on a 24 hour
patrol.
And Matt leaves Scott behind at,I'll get, I'll give you three
guesses, PJ.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:02):
is it the middle of the desert?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (12:05):
No, it is not.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:06):
Is it a Potemkin village?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (12:07):
Not this time, though.
It depends on how you define LosAngeles.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:11):
Is It in a hotel?
Yay!
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (12:17):
the hotel.
He says, stay on the ground atthe hotel.
Of course, T Bob, by the way, isstill malfunctioning.
Which is kind of hard to tellthe difference between a
functioning and non functioningT Bob, if I'm being honest.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:29):
Um, Going on 24 hour patrol?
How the fuck is everyonesupposed to stay awake?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (12:34):
Because Brad has his briefcase.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:36):
Oh, I see.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (12:38):
I mean, Gather around, everybody.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:41):
It goes down smooth.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (12:43):
What, can we do a travel time check,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:45):
yeah, we should.
So Denver to LA, it's a two hourflight time.
It's a 30 hour drive time.
And we do know the team gotcalled right after Brad show,
which we know is at night, whichalso would have been an hour
later because of mountain time.
So Alex and Bruce, we know we'reat Boulder Hill late.
The team is meeting early thenext morning.
(13:06):
So I kind of figured one of twothings had to be true.
They either got to LA the nightearlier and then went to sleep
and did nothing.
Or Matt made them drive and it'salmost two days later.
They're exhausted and Matt stilldid nothing.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (13:22):
Either way, Alex and Bruce have not
slept.
Heh.
Nor will they for some time.
uh, Matt is up in the air inTeahawk and he's trying
Teahawk's lasers, but the vinesjust keep regrowing.
Brad tries the antimatter ray,the same thing happens.
Bruce and Alex drive by.
The Chinese theater uh, which iskind of covered in vines.
(13:44):
And Bruce says, no movie today,kind of Broken English there,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (13:49):
was, It was kinda, and it's, and this is
going to be a comment about thewhole episode later on.
They didn't really lean into it.
Like they glance at the brokenEnglish, which is kind of what I
kind of feel about this entireepisode.
We're sort of glancing.
At the entirety of a mask plothere, like it's there, but it's
mask light.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (14:08):
Yeah, very much.
So, Alex has a sample of theplant and it turns out it is a
combination of rare varietiesknown only in Brazil, which
means someone is doing thisdeliberately.
And Matt says that venom agentswere seen in Brazil just two
months ago.
But here's my question.
If Venom was seen in Brazil twomonths ago, how come that didn't
go back then?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (14:28):
Yeah, it's a really good point.
I, hear here's the only sort ofin universe explanation I've
got, you've got other agentslike we'll see Julio Lopez like
later on And you can imaginelike they went down or something
like that and Matt basically wasbusy marrying Gloria or
something like that.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (14:47):
Yeah, he gets a call from the PNA.
Saying, hey, you know, Venom'sdown in Brazil.
Miles is like uh, I'm in MardiGras right now, I'm sure it's
fine.
Meanwhile, back to Venom.
Miles has this ultra UV ray onSwitchblade, and Vanessa has the
engine on the top of Manta,designed to spit seeds out,
(15:07):
right?
So Manta will drive around, orfly around, spit out seeds,
Miles will spray this ultra UVbeam, and suddenly the vines
grow really fast.
Sly Asks, I don't get it.
When do we get some loot for allthis work?
And I think that's alegitimately great question.
Sly.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (15:25):
It is.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (15:26):
Mile says as soon as California is
impressed with our friendlylittle weed, once again, I think
this is about more than kudzuvines and they didn't know it
back then, but it's a billiondollar industry now.
And They could have made a tonif they were just growing
different weeds.
Maybe up in the mountains awayfrom the city?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (15:49):
Just go a little bit North of San
Francisco.
There's a nice little County upthere.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (15:53):
Yeah, you could have done that, but
okay.
Yeah, let's overrun LA withgiant vines.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (15:58):
I was wondering, Miles, do you know
how hard it is to grow shit inLA?
Like you had to like go througha lot of work to engineer this
thing.
And I wasn't sure if his likeangle, cause we never get to it.
his angle affects me to get somekind of big agriculture contract
and kind of the tax benefitsthereof.
Otherwise, you're just helpingto clean up the smog of LA in
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the 80s.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (16:22):
Here's another multibillion dollar idea
that miles has that he justwastes because he could solve
world hunger, throw some cornseeds, the UV beam, would make
it the corn grow immediately youharvest it the next day you do
the same thing over and over andover again and endless and
abundant supply of whatevervegetables you need.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (16:44):
Yeah, absolutely.
Look, if you can grow this shitin LA, which is a desert, you
can go to anywhere in the worldand grow stuff.
squadcaster-0aif_1_1 (16:53):
Meanwhile, we are on the set of the
blockbuster film, Grandson ofTarzan.
Sounds awesome.
Vanessa drops the seeds, Milesfires the UV ray, and the vines
start to grow.
And it's hilarious.
This very stereotypical directorscreams, Cut! This is all wrong!
I didn't tell these plants tomove.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (17:14):
I couldn't figure out from this
shot if they were trying to likereference an actual director or
they're just like puttinggeneric parts of a director
together.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (17:23):
It's a little um, like a little Joel
Silver, a little JerryBruckheimer, actually some more
producers than directors.
yeah, I don't know.
Honestly, at this point, I waslike Keep me here.
Mask can go off and have therest of its episode.
What's grandson of Tarzan about,but I digress back at the hotel.
Scott is fixing T Bobs logiccircuit.
How does he fix the circuit PJ?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (17:45):
I want to call out the fact that Scott
is welding, okay?
He's got welding glasses on,albeit the smallest and
seemingly least protectivewelding glasses you can imagine.
And there's a huge arc, like itlights up Scott's face.
It's, As he's working on T Boband he's doing this in a hotel
room.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (18:05):
So the, the fire alarms don't even
go off, but my question is ifhe's fixing, fixing the logic
circuit, you're an engineer,shouldn't it just be like a
soldering?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:13):
Yeah, that's the other.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (18:15):
an arc welder?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:15):
Yes.
Yeah.
There's a lot of problems here.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (18:19):
Oh, come on, mask.
Get a little better.
Why do I even, why?
Why do I even ask that?
What do I expect?
We've been doing this for 25episodes.
I should just give up onexpecting any kind of logic.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:32):
maybe Matt bought him a portable
welding kit
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (18:35):
Gee, dad, I'd love to learn how to do
some welding.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:38):
Here you go, son
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (18:39):
So once T Bob is fixed, Scott hears
that Mask is going to GriffithPark and he plays the
technicalities that Matt saidyou got to stay on the ground.
To get T Bop to transform andtake him to to Griffith Park.
And then we're gonna have agreat set piece here at Griffith
Park Observatory.
So they're definitely using L.
A.
locations condor's flying above,sees Manta, and they have a cool
(19:00):
fight in the air.
And Brad says, Vanessa Warfield,may I have this dance?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:05):
It just occurred to me, because I had
the question, What does Brucethink about Brad asking Vanessa
for a dance?
This is why Bruce is acting likea dick to Brad.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (19:13):
Nuh uh.
Uh
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:14):
Aha! We've connected the dots.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (19:16):
Well done, sir.
Well done.
Two gold stars for you.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:20):
I'm sure this is what the writers
intended.
This love triangle.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (19:24):
I would love it if the writers
were actually sitting therediving deep into these
characters when we both know.
That's not what they were doing.
well, Scott and T Bob show up atthe observatory.
Matt appears in T Hawk andrecords a sample of the UV beam
from Switchblade using spectrum,which seems like a pretty useful
power.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:44):
Yeah.
I mean, I think it was like anice use of a core.
Capability of spectrum.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (19:49):
Mac gets fired at by stiletto But
Matt to to get rid of Slyplummets to the ground.
And then at the last secondturns the jets on pointed
directly at Sly, putting himdirectly in the jet wash of
Thunderhawk.
Um, Ragdoll award,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (20:04):
A hundred percent right.
Dollar ward.
Let's think about howsuperheated those jets have to
be to make the Camaro flythrough the air.
Like that's cooking.
Sly right now, not only likepushing him back, but actually
cooking him.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (20:17):
Sly is a charred piece of flesh.
R.
I.
P.
Sly, we will see you later on inthe episode.
so, vines are growing everywhereat the observatory.
T Bob and Scott are trying torun away.
T Bob trips and falls, and hegets caught by a vine.
Scott like, goes to save him,grabbing onto his legs, and they
both get pulled into the They'rehanging there, T Bob's hands
(20:38):
are, can't hold on to the vinetoo much longer, they're gonna
fall to their death.
What's gonna happen
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (20:44):
I don't know.
I don't know.
I was so scared for Scott inthis moment.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (20:48):
let's find out what happens after
these messages.
Come on, Jeebop.
Mask will be right back.
Oh, boy.
Back to mask.
We're back.
When we left you, Scott and TBob were dangling from a vine
hundreds of feet up, momentsaway from dying once again.
Because of Matt's negligence.
(21:08):
T Bob can't even use the radio,because he needs his hands to
turn it on, which, if I can makean aside, seems like a pretty
bad design choice.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (21:17):
design choice.
This is so dumb.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (21:19):
Scott actually climbs up T Bob to turn
on the radio calling for help.
Matt realizes Scott's there.
He he puts T Hawk into automaticmode, then jumps down in glider
mode to save Scott and T Bob.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (21:36):
So my question to you, Adam, how many
people couldn't be saved becauseMatt has to deal with Scott and
T Bob?
A
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (21:44):
many here.
anyways.
Scott and T Bob are alive, andother civilians, maybe not so
much.
Meanwhile, Rhino is chasingPiranha, but the vines catch
Rhino, and Bruce says, He wholaughs at quicksand should be
sure of his own feet.
(22:04):
Thanks a lot, Bruce.
You're not helping thesituation.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:08):
This begs the question.
Okay.
How many times has Alex had toput up with Bruce saying stuff
that's useless?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (22:16):
Why does Alex abuse animals so much?
Is it because he's just gottenso frustrated with his partner
that it's all he can do?
Is take it out on thesedefenseless animals.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:28):
Good question.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (22:29):
We've blown this wide open, PJ.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:33):
of all the mask agents now.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (22:35):
While Alex is abusing an orangutan.
This is all your fault, Bruce.
Not mine.
Yours.
Look what you made me do.
Anyways.
Matt brings Scott back to thehotel and orders him to stay
inside this time.
He says, I'll make myinstructions more specific.
You can do whatever you want, aslong as it stays inside the
hotel room.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:55):
you want to weld something there, go
ahead.
That's okay.
As long as it's inside the hotelroom.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (23:01):
There's a lot that a 10 year old kid
could do in a hotel room.
That is not a good idea.
Welding being Just one of.
Many of them.
Another question could be,Where's Brad's briefcase?
Is it in the hotel room?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (23:15):
Wow, this Is magic dust.
Let's play with the magic dust.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (23:20):
Brad catches up to Bruce and Alex,
Rhino suspended in the air, andBrad says, You guys are really,
and then gets cut off by Alex,who says, And Brad okay, But
you're really up a tree.
guys, can we get a littlefocused here?
We're trying to save the cityand instead you're making dad
jokes?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (23:38):
we've seen it in other instances.
Like we've had, Buddy and Dustyhave like humorous exchange,
like an assault on Liberty,which seemed almost like
nervously dealing with their owndeaths.
This time it's just kind oflike.
these guys are kind of fuckingaround, huh?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (23:53):
Yeah.
Because also Bruce and Alex,they're just hanging there.
They both have masks.
Are you telling me they couldn'thave, jackrabbit it up into
Rhino and started, messingaround with whatever they got to
try to cut the thing downthemselves?
I mean, Bruce has Lifter and aswe're about to see what happens
is Brad flies up in Condor,shoots all the vines away, and
then Bruce uses Lifter to bringRhino gently back down to the
ground, which is a good use ofvehicles and masks.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (24:15):
I like that.
I like the way they did that.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (24:19):
But they could have done something
while, instead of just sittingaround, playing solitaire,
waiting for Brad to show up But,no.
Now that Rhino is taken care of,they start looking for Sly,
because they know he's aroundhere, caught in the vines
somewhere.
And they look to where theythink he is and it turns out
he's gone and the vines are alldead and dried up.
(24:40):
So we now know that Venom has away to destroy the vines.
Speaking of Venom, we cut backto them.
And when Miles finds out thatSly used the antidote, He is
pissed off, but Sly explains, ifI get caught, I get nothing
except jail.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (24:56):
It's a really good point, Sly.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (24:58):
quite logical.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (24:59):
yeah, I, do you get the impression that
Sly and, I mean, always Vanessaare kind of getting a little bit
pissed off at kind of thesereally shitty plans that are
going on?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (25:11):
Yeah.
let's imagine Sly and Vanessakicking back, having a few
drinks, and just looking throughthe past 25, What's I don't
know, weeks, months, let's callit months, past year or two of
their life saying, Hey, this guyrecruited us in with this really
cool tech.
And he said, we were going tomake billions of dollars doing
all sorts of cool and crazythings.
(25:33):
Instead we're like growing giantvines over LA and we're going to
ransom the state of Californiafor money.
I'm not buying this.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (25:43):
100%.
Am I right in thinking there'sno Cliff Dagger this episode?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (25:47):
There is no Cliff dagger in this
episode.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (25:49):
Do you think he just got tired of being
insulted?
He's like, look, I need a fewdays to myself.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (25:53):
Could be that.
Could be when he heard thatMiles was going to be using weed
to destroy Los Angeles.
He went looking for Weed.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:02):
It's strange that you'd figure that'd
be Sly's jam.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (26:05):
Hey Cliff, get me some of that Maui
Waui.
Um, Back at the hotel, Scottcalls room service.
He asks, what's the biggest icecream sundae you've got?
And then says I want one bigger.
What an entitled little rich boyhe is.
Like you and I traveled when wewere kids raised by a single
(26:27):
mom.
Um,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:28):
Yeah,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (26:28):
I never got to order room service.
Period.
There was no room service.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:32):
neither.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (26:33):
And now this kid's like, just give
me the biggest sundae.
No, make me something bigger.
And they do it.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:39):
Think about like who his dad is, man.
This is what he's learned.
worries.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (26:43):
your way out of any emotional
problem.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:46):
Well, That's what he's trying to do.
He's trying to deal with thetrauma of neglect using food.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (26:50):
Yeah, Scott's gonna either become a
drug addict or he's gonnaballoon to like 350 pounds.
He's just going to eat all histrauma or both.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (27:02):
You know, He's got this briefcase in
there and now he's getting theice cream.
Why can't it be both?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (27:07):
I wonder why he's so hungry.
Back with mask, Alex is tryingto analyze the dead branches,
but he can't find the antidote.
Okay.
So that's interesting.
Let's keep that in the back ofour minds as we go forward here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (27:20):
should.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (27:21):
Back to Venom.
They're throwing seeds andgrowing vines and Miles wants to
grow these vines from here toSan Francisco trip the five I
guess At what point is he gonnaactually call the governor?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (27:32):
I don't know, why isn't he talking
ransom?
Like it's just so ponderous interms of just like, all right,
let's just keep growing shit.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (27:40):
Maybe he's forgotten What they were
doing.
Generally, yeah You show off theweapon, and the damage it can
cause, and then he asks for aransom, and you say you got 24
hours.
Assault on Liberty, for example.
He was doing great.
Maybe Miles is having cognitivedecline over the course of the
series.
He was relatively sharp, butsometimes misguided in the first
(28:02):
24 episodes.
Now we're starting to see a realdrop off in his thought
processes here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (28:09):
It is a good point.
Do you think his flair for thedramatic may be contributing to
this?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (28:14):
It could also be like his flair for
the dramatic is trying tocompensate for The fact that
he's slipping, right?
He can't quite put all thepuzzle pieces together anymore.
So he's just going, And we'llgrow the vines all over
California.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (28:29):
do you feel like mask is also being a
bit ponderous here as well?
Do you feel their urgency?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (28:34):
Not particularly.
that's because the vines aren'treally causing much.
It's like clogging up the worksand stuff like that, but it
doesn't seem like people aren'tscreaming.
In the streets, buildings aren'tfalling down.
It's just a bunch of giant vinesgrowing inconvenient to be sure.
But, I think we'll be all right.
the hotel, a giant Sundayarrives in the room.
(28:56):
And I mean, a Sunday, so giantthat the dish it's being served
in just doesn't, no one makes adish that big.
It's the size of nearly twooutstretched adult arms, right?
So it is a giant Sunday.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:10):
We should point out that diabetes
was a rampant problem in the80s, and today.
And Scott's well on his way,just with his ice cream alone.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (29:18):
Yeah, they should take this and make
it the more, you know, at theend of the episode.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:22):
They ought to! That's a brilliant
idea.
That wasn't the zeitgeistthough, man.
The 80s was the war on fat.
It's like, eat sugar instead offat,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (29:32):
ten times more sugar,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:33):
Ten times more sugar! and hence the
rapid increase in diabetes.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (29:37):
That's the more you know, folks.
Glad you learned something fromour podcast for the first time
ever.
Um, Alex picks up a policereport vines growing.
So, Thunderhawk and Condor headto the front of like the line of
the growth because that's whereVenom will be.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:53):
they're plotting a line to the northwest
of Hollywood.
Adam, what is to the northwestof Hollywood?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (29:59):
The San Fernando Valley.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (30:01):
so what am I to believe about Venom's
plan and taking on?
The San Fernando Valley in theeighties
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (30:10):
Yeah, it sounds like he's just trying
to hit the one oh one he's goingto take the he's taken like the
one ten to the one oh one to thefive over the grapevine into San
Francisco seems like that'swhere he's he's headed.
Unless there's like a lot oftraffic buildup that he's
probably going to loop around,probably like.
take the, the two to the 134, tothe, maybe the, go up to 118.
It's really hard to map outexactly which way he's going
(30:32):
here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (30:35):
um,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (30:35):
Not on the 405.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (30:37):
that, oh yeah, the four or five is a mess
always.
What more damage could he do onthe four or five
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (30:43):
Back at the hotel.
Scott is eating the giant sundaenow.
But he's not using a spoon.
He's eating it like a dog.
Like an animal face first intothe Sunday, which takes me back
to the episode where T Bob wascovered in ice cream.
And we find out that Scott ateall the ice cream off T Bob.
(31:03):
I did assume he used a spoon,but now I realized Scott was
licking ice cream.
Off of T Bob, if this is the wayhe eats ice cream.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (31:12):
wonder T Bob is the way he is.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10- (31:15):
suddenly a vine bursts through the window
and T Bob falls into the icecream, which kind of shorts out
his circuits.
He turns into scooter mode,bumps into Scott and they both
go falling out the window andit, but they're caught by a bit
of vine.
So nothing happens.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (31:30):
I did find myself taken out a bit
because T Bob getting fried bythe ice cream doesn't match up
with what we've seen with T Bobgoing into water repeatedly.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (31:39):
I agree.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (31:40):
Unless Scott constantly messing with T
Bob has destroyed his IPX8rating.
he was waterproof before, butnot anymore.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (31:49):
Now, when Scott and T Bob do land on
the vines, the vines startdying, and Scott realizes that
it's cold that kills the vines.
There's a lot I need to kind ofpause and talk about here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (32:01):
let's do that.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (32:02):
So LA does get cold, especially in
the winter.
And there are times when thereis a frost, Not every day, but
it Miles's plan to solve the badis fundamentally flawed because
eventually if cold is the quoteunquote antidote to the vines
the vines are going toeventually take care of
themselves.
(32:22):
The other thing is, and what.
Antidote did Sly have?
Did he just have some sort ofcold compress or something that
he rubbed over the vines to getout of them?
That's my first issue with withthe vines there.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (32:36):
He keeps a, a, a thing of Freon in his
back pocket, mainly to huff, butoccasionally it becomes useful.
Ha ha ha ha, occasionally it'suseful.
What about Alex, man?
He was studying these things.
He never thought to expose themto extreme temperatures.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10- (32:56):
Exactly.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (32:57):
And, isn't Alex supposed to be our
expert at killing live things?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (33:02):
Only things with like, you know,
heartbeats.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (33:05):
I see.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (33:06):
Only things that experience pain.
Scott of course wants to tellMatt about this, but the ice
cream has shorted out the radio.
And the logic circuit.
So yet again, Scott's dealingwith this nonsense.
So we'll check back on that alittle later.
We're back with Mask now.
They catch up to Venom.
We've got Condor taking onPiranha.
Matt takes on Switchblade andManta.
Vanessa fires Black Paint.
(33:27):
At Thunderhawk, kind of likeinking over the window as if
he's in Mario Kart.
Brad uses Hocus Pocus to make agiant like Venus Flytrap appear
in front of Sly, Causing him togo flying off the road and into
a truck of tomatoes.
Could be a ragdoll award, excepthe does land in the truck of
tomatoes, which may, mightcushion his fall.
(33:47):
Vanessa Accidentally flies underthe ultra beam, causing all the
seeds in her car to startgrowing, which destroys Manta.
She crash lands and yet somehowsurvives.
So I think Vanessa is getting aragdoll nominee here, for sure.
Sly picks her up, Matt blows upthe ultra beam, Miles transforms
into jet mode, and goodbyeVenom.
(34:08):
As simple as that.
And in fact they have to letVenom get away so they can deal
with the plants.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:13):
right, stop right here.
Do they For God's sakes, it's ina farmer's field in Ventura
County at this point in time.
They've already done the damageand they don't seem to be like
causing any more damage.
So.
know, maybe Make a call to stopvenom at this point in time.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (34:31):
Yeah, the planes aren't going
anywhere.
It'll be fine.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:34):
Yeah, it's been there for maybe days
at this point.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (34:37):
Scott fixes T Bob, calls Matt on the
radio, tells him that cold killsthe plants.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:42):
Scott becoming a diabetic saved the
day.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (34:45):
there's another more you know.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:47):
Maybe if you do order the ice cream, you
can save the day.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (34:51):
makes a freeze bomb.
He takes one of those bigrockets that Rhino can launch
and turns it into a freeze bomb.
Did you notice that Bruce isjust carrying that thing?
It's a sizable rocket.
It's not a mortar, this is big.
This is something that you havea couple of guys in a crane load
onto a
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:08):
Mm hmm.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (35:08):
That's impressive.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:09):
Bruce is big dogging it in front of Brad
to be like, Look man,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (35:13):
Yeah.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:13):
mine.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (35:14):
Yeah.
This freeze bomb fires fromRhino and it creates a, like a
snow storm over this littlegroup of plants and, kills them
all.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:21):
Hooray! I wanted to point out you're
right, LA does get frost, itdoes get rain, it does not
typically get snow.
So this solution's going to killthousands of LA drivers who are
not used to driving in the snow.
That snowstorm would alsodestroy those farmers crops.
Do you think that Matt went longon vegetable futures right
(35:45):
before he decided to like,unleash this bomb?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (35:48):
Yeah, Bruce probably said hey I'll use
lifter to load the bomb into thelauncher he says actually Do it
by hand.
I gotta go use the Thunderhawkcomputer.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:57):
Another thing.
Okay, so freezing turns out tobe the thing that we need to do
here.
What would have been useful inthis scenario?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (36:06):
Well, I know Gator has a freeze ray.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:07):
And
squadcaster-0aif_1_ (36:09):
Firecracker also has a freeze ray.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:10):
yeah,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (36:11):
It makes you wonder, were they
assigned certain toys to put inindividual episodes?
Or did the writers really havefree reign to put whatever
vehicles they wanted in there?
Because I will say we're seeinga lot of Manta right now, in the
past episodes we've seen.
And we're always seeing Rhinoand Thunderhawk, of course, and
Switchblade's always there.
Are they told like, here's thetoys you can use in this
(36:31):
episode?
Cause you're right.
Gator and firecracker would beperfect.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:35):
again, these are coming out like every
day of the week.
they must've had these scriptsdone a little in advance.
And so maybe they're gettingearly toy numbers back and
that's, what's being used toguide who's in where.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (36:46):
But they're being, they're probably
produced though.
Well In advance, like a year inadvance of airtime anyways.
So guess we'll Never know.
PJ
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:56):
never know
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (36:57):
that would take some research.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:58):
Yeah.
we'd have to break into somelike filing cabinets somewhere
to actually like find theanswers to this stuff because
none of it got digitized.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (37:06):
I'm game.
If you are.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (37:07):
Let's do it.
There's an abandoned warehousesomewhere in L.
A.
Do you think Brad took a sampleof the vines so he could see if
it could be smoked and or crossbred with cannabis to make it
more effective grow?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (37:20):
I'm sure he did.
I'm sure he is.
he's grabbing that file of Mattscan of the the UV beam.
Oh, this would be great forhydroponic guard gardening.
but that's it.
I think before we get into themore, you know, uh, we got to
kind of.
talk generally about theepisode.
This one was a piece of junk asan episode.
(37:42):
I mean, I was excited for themto go to LA.
It started out semi cool.
Oh, the Hollywood ball.
That's fun.
But just, it was hard for me toeven find the energy to go
through the rundown here,because it's just like.
what this happened and then thishappens like there's no real
causality.
It's just stuff and the end.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:02):
Yeah.
No one's really committed to anyof the stakes it's like I said
earlier like, it feels very masklight, like the core elements
are all there.
We have the battle in themiddle.
We have the battle at the end.
We've got the massive scientificthing that's like miles is put
together, but
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (38:19):
Mm hmm.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:20):
Feel like they're really like.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (38:23):
No.
And even with Scott and T Bobhanging on for dear life, the
stakes feel low there too.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:28):
It's weird, right?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (38:30):
Yeah.
I've, they have been in lessdanger, like at the Hoover dam
in just the last episode where Ifelt more concerned for them
than I did here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:39):
Yeah.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (38:40):
And I think it's just because just
Overall, no one was really intowhat was going on.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:46):
Which is sad because like, honestly, like
I was thinking about this betteruse.
Like we saw the earthquakemachine way, you know, 20
episodes ago.
That would have been a kind of acool thing and it would have
been topical and it would kindof be on point for LA and you
could have done something thatactually like really works well.
Like it's a major metropolisthat could be destroyed by an
(39:08):
earthquake.
It's a real thing.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (39:10):
Agreed.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:11):
I didn't feel like they used the locale
very well,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (39:14):
No, they did a drive by of the
landmarks.
Hey, there's the bowl.
There's the observatory.
A movie set.
The Chinese theater.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:21):
Yeah,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (39:22):
That sort of thing.
It was really just asightseeing.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:24):
I felt like they leaned into it in
other spots.
Like, Like we had New York City.
In Assault on Liberty, NewOrleans, actually, they even
that had a lot more color to it.
My last question to you, becauseit is the 80s, is this actually
an anti drug message?
If you let marijuana into thestreets, it will take over?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (39:42):
yeah, I don't know what the message of
this episode is other than buythese toys.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:48):
They are cool.
I
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (39:50):
We go to the more you know.
Scott and T Bob are doing somegardening.
Matt doesn't have someone whodoes this for him.
He's got Scott and T Bob out.
Trimming the hedges
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:59):
I was like, what did he do to have to
get this chore?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (40:03):
and also, T Bob is using like an
electric razor it's not the toolyou should be using to trim
hedges.
And Scott decides Hey, let'strade tools.
I'll give you the shears andI'll take the electric thing or
whatever.
And T Bob inexplicably turns andputs the electric thing he's
(40:23):
holding into a bird bath, whichelectrocutes him.
And so the lesson is the lessonstated lesson is don't get
electrical things near water,which is fine.
That's okay.
Don't put a toaster in the sinkwhen it's plugged in.
Oh yeah.
Cool.
Got it.
One, we've already done thisbefore because we had T Bob
stick a fork into a toaster andget electrocuted.
(40:45):
But two, how many kids in this.
Era in the eighties are trimmingthe hedges with a plug in
electrical device next to abirdbath Like if this is the
lesson you want to tell there'sa lot more common in touch with
the common man
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:03):
Yes.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (41:04):
to show this
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:05):
It's so bizarre, especially because.
In this episode, we've seen alot of times where T Bob got
shocked by ice cream orsomething or other.
But we've seen him be put in thewater a lot of times.
So, The consistency here is justnot there.
It's just, it's a bizarre assmessage.
A
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (41:24):
it is a Dumb message to cap off an
equally dumb episode
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:29):
hundred percent.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (41:31):
episode 25 third of the way through the
show You And we are just notimpressed.
We've had two out of 25 episodesthat have been excellent and the
rest have been, some have beenfunnier than others from our
point of view.
But much of it has been middlingto poor,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:50):
I think we could say.
three.
I mean, we loved Rotex, we loved
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (41:53):
Yes.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:54):
I think we thought very fondly of Cold
Fever.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (41:56):
Yes.
Okay.
Three.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:58):
Three.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (41:59):
Three out of 25.
So
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:01):
Chuck Lorre, start writing episodes
again, please.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:04):
three out of 25.
That's a bad batting average forany major league hitter.
All right, let's take a look atour awards.
Father of the Year.
What do you think?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:12):
Man, I don't know, I mean, like,
There's the typical like, justdumping Scott off at the ho the
hotel, but I also thought Matttaking Scott to the concert
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:21):
Yeah.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:21):
was a questionable decision.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:23):
Yeah, you see parents doing that more
and more.
Like Taking their kids to likeTaylor Swift or things like
that.
But this was not a Taylor Swiftconcert.
This is a rock and roll, druginfested, alcohol doused rock
and roll show.
This is not where a ten year oldshould be.
Sly Rax Ragdoll Award.
What do you think?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:42):
I kind of was going to give, I mean,
there's, there is the, the jetwash incident, which clearly
would have killed Sly,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:48):
Yeah.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:48):
And then there's Vanessa's crash landing.
Parby wants to give it toVanessa because she hasn't
received it before.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:54):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with Vanessa here.
Manta crash landed and she justwalked out and hopped into
Piranha.
The Buddy Hawks Award.
What do we got?
Anything?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (43:04):
It's tough because like we've got?
kind of Might be the obvious oneof Alex dismissing Bruce but
then we dissected it and itmight just be, Alex is just kind
of sick of Bruce's bullshit.
and Bruce calling Brad a monkeyisn't necessarily like worthy of
the category, but it is a dickmove.
So I don't really have a goodone for this one.
(43:25):
How about you?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (43:26):
Nope.
I agree with you a hundredpercent.
I do think that Bruce callingBrad a monkey is
Uncharacteristic it opens up anew dimension into the Bruce
Brad relationship that we willcontinue to track throughout the
episode Last but not least theRoy Batty moment of the episode
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (43:43):
T Bob getting covered in ice cream
like, he was fairly benign, butlike, he could have easily have
murdered Scott.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (43:48):
Yeah, I'm feeling more Scott using an
arc welder On T Bob.
Probably going to piss him off alittle bit.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (43:55):
Good call.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (43:56):
You tooled around with my brain a
bit too much Scott
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (44:00):
ha ha Ha!
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (44:01):
Well, That is it for episode 25.
Episode 26, moving into thesecond third of the series.
Secret of the Andes.
Mask must protect a revivedIncan priest, who has been found
frozen in ice in the Andes, fromvenom, who may know the secret
location of El Dorado.
(44:21):
Have this one yet,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (44:23):
I Have seen this one I'm very excited
for us to talk about theparticular name of the Incan
priest.
It threw me for a loop when Iheard and I'm curious now of the
cause and effect.
I'm going to have to do a littlebit of research about a
particular musician who may havetaken on this name.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (44:41):
Sounds good.
I am concerned about the numberof Buddy Hawks nominations we
might get out of this episode.
So let us see next time.
But for now, this podcast has totransform And head back to HQ.
I am Adam Moore.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (44:57):
And I am PJ
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (44:58):
Bye bye.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (45:00):
Bye bye.
The mobile armored podcast showis written, produced and edited.
Bye Adam Moore.
And PJ McNerney.
Welcome to the mobile armored podcast
show.
The podcast that transforms intoa hydroponic garden.
My name is Adam Moore alongsidemy cohost and best friend, PJ
McNerney.
How's it going PJ?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:26):
I'm doing well today.
I think this episode is.
Questionable.
this is episode 25.
There's only 75 episodes.
We are one third of our waythrough,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (00:37):
and we're also that means a third of
the way through our podcast, atleast in as much as it covers
mask
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:43):
Correct.
Correct.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (00:45):
Happy anniversary
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:46):
Happy anniversary, Adam.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (00:48):
I got you the plant show.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (00:51):
wow.
That's a very questionable gift.
I'll say that much right here.
And for our audience, you know,congratulations to all of you.
If you like us, there's stillmore to come! And if you hate
us, why are you listening to us?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (01:04):
Look, you've made it this far.
You might as well keeplistening.
like, uh, My, my old friend uh,Modi from undergrad who uh, used
the handy dandy feature tocontact us via mask HQ.
You can click on that link andsend us a top secret message and
Modi did that.
So what's up my brother fromHollywood.
Hope you're doing well.
(01:25):
Thanks for listening.
But yes, the plant show, which Ifind interesting as a title for
an episode, cause it's notreally a like Yes, there's
vines, but it's not like a plantshow.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (01:34):
I mean, There's a show.
There's plants, and so someonedecided, let's mush these two
words together.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (01:42):
Sure.
Okay.
Thanks for defending the writer.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (01:46):
the writer.
Defense Award goes to PJMcNerney this episode.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (01:50):
see how it goes the rest of the
episode.
But um, it is episode 25, ThePlant Show, in which Venom
threatens to cover Los Angeleswith mutated kudzu vines.
Unless California pays a heftyransom.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (02:02):
Yeah it's funny, kudzu is not
mentioned in the entirety of theepisode, as far as I can tell.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (02:08):
No, it's not.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (02:09):
It's just in the taglines, and from a
historical standpoint, this waslike a plant that was
introduced.
For like preventing erosion.
I think it was maintaining thelandscape and the problem was it
was an invasive species thatjust started taking over a
place.
So I think it became illegal toactually plant these things
anywhere.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (02:28):
I can think of another plant that
was illegal at the time inCalifornia.
That no longer is illegal.
I'm thinking the writer of theepisode was maybe enjoying a
little bit Of the kudzu vines.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (02:40):
he was enjoying at least.
That, if not some other plantbased powders.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (02:45):
Here we go.
We open on a concert at theHollywood bowl and will you
believe it?
It's Brad Turner's band, there'sa huge crowd, amazingly, and
they're all standing up andthey're rockin out.
And meanwhile, Matt, Scott, andT Bob are seated in the front
row.
There's only two seats in thewhole place, and it's for them.
(03:06):
And Scott says, I can't believeBrad is actually playing the
Hollywood Bowl.
And I thought, I can't believeit either, Scott.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (03:14):
To be fair, Brad can't believe it
either, and I had to imaginethat this was like his big
break.
Capitol Records wanted to meetwith him right after the show He
was going to be, like, meteoriclike, it's like, hey, I want you
to work with Madonna's producer.
It's going to be amazing.
And it's going to be a lifefilled with babes and money and
power and blow.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (03:34):
there's a lot of pyrotechnics too.
It is uh, it's off the charts.
This is a big concert.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (03:38):
it's huge.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (03:39):
So Matt's sitting there staring at
something.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (03:43):
I did an eyeline check on this one.
So, As he's sitting down, and weshould remind the audience.
He just got married lastepisode.
In his eyeline there's afetching young woman.
You never see her face, but youbasically just see from her hips
to her neck.
And where do you think hiseyeline, basically, is like,
(04:04):
focused on right now?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (04:05):
I'm not going to touch that.
No idea.
No idea, BJ.
Nope.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (04:09):
I'm like, Matt, you're a newlywed.
Stop staring at someone else'sbosom.
What would Gloria say?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (04:15):
Why didn't he bring Gloria to the
concert?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (04:16):
I'm not going to watch
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (04:17):
to Brad's stupid concert.
Just because you bought out theHollywood ball, Matt doesn't
mean he's a good musician.
Scott says to Matt that he wantsto be a rock musician when he
grows up.
And that is the least rock androll thing I've ever heard
anyone say.
When I grow up, I want to be a arock musician.
(04:39):
Suddenly, giant vines begingrowing behind the Hollywood
Bowl.
And Scott says, How do they dothat?
And Matt says, I don't know.
Maybe rock music is goodfertilizer?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (04:49):
I had a question.
So is Matt making some kind ofsubtle insult about rock music?
Basically calling it shit.
Like, Cause that's, that kind ofwhat I was like, Oh wait, good
fertilizer.
Wait a minute,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (05:00):
or it's an insult to Brad's music.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (05:02):
that's fair.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (05:04):
ha.
well, We are in the green roomafter the show.
And they ask Brad about theplants, and he doesn't know
anything about it.
Because it wasn't part of theshow.
And then suddenly, vines invadethe room.
T Bob gets completely knockedover by a door.
And then His logic circuits arescrambled.
He's saying all these weirdwords and things like that.
I guess my question is, did hislogic circuits ever actually
(05:25):
work in the first place?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (05:27):
so, So what we have to do is baseline
the idea that Scott thinks thatT Bob was A OK up until this
point.
So yeah, Scott is able to noticethe difference between like,
paranoid ramblings and justlike, scrambled parano I don't
know, I mean, you're right,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (05:43):
well, uh, They've got to escape before
the vines catch them.
but Brad is able to, uh, to packup though.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (05:49):
He is really concerned about his
briefcase.
So what Adam is so importantabout that briefcase that Brad
does not want it left behind andfound.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (05:58):
I'm sure it's some dried up and
powdered kudzu vines, my friend.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (06:01):
It's why Brad wears sunglasses at night.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10- (06:04):
Exactly.
Outside the bowl, there is a bigtraffic jam, and giant vines are
everywhere, but I'd like to beclear that there would be a
traffic jam no matter what.
So, So far, the vines, nothaving much of an impact on Los
Angeles.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (06:19):
We should uh, call out the fact,
Adam, that you are an LAresident and are the resident
expert on this.
So
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (06:25):
Yeah, on Coanga Boulevard there, by
the bowl, there is alwaystraffic.
So.
so far Los Angeles one vineszero.
Let's keep score So we seeThunderhawk and Scott's like
come on dad.
Hurry up like he's gettingpretty pushy Anyways somehow
Matt finds enough space to getsome runway to transform to jet
(06:46):
mode which just make any sensebecause a moment ago There was
no space And, being an LAresident if there was even
enough space ahead of Matt toget a little bit of runway, A,
someone would have swerved intothat lane right off the bat, and
B, everyone would be honking athim to move forward.
That is completely illogical.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (07:07):
I, it begged a question for me cause
you're a hundred percent right.
Like the situation is impossiblejust based on the mechanics, but
let's pause it for a second.
It exists even without thevines.
Would Matt have waited?
Or would he have said fuck thisshit and just like, transformed
T hawk anyway and took off.
Hahahahahaha
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (07:29):
out of the way all of the dark night
Well, they're flying over thecity and they see giant vines
all over the place.
It's you know, potentially animprovement over Los Angeles
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (07:41):
Mmhm.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (07:42):
the 80s.
So so far we're doing all rightin the last episode It took
forever to get to the agentselection scene.
In this episode, we're aboutthree minutes in when Brad says,
you're going to call in thecavalry.
And so we go right into theagent selection scene.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (07:59):
Yeah, this was the qu You're right,
this was like the quickest timewe've seen.
It's also, for me, it was a nicereminder that Matt will call in
people even without knowing it'sVenom.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (08:09):
So he says select the best agents
for mission in Los Angeles, BradTurner, preselected, which we've
never heard him do before, whichBegs the question,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:21):
Ha
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (08:21):
How many times has Gloria not been
selected, but she's been there?
How many times has Alex not beenselected or Bruce when they've
already been there?
So it's interesting And whatwould have happened if he said
Brad Turner not selected or justnot said anything,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:35):
Eject Brad Turner from T Hawk.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (08:37):
Brad Turner, too stoned to
participate.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:41):
I think that was the New Orleans
episode.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (08:43):
our agents are Bruce Sato.
It's a repeat of one of hisexits.
He just drops a bunch of boxesand he runs out.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (08:50):
I kind of liked the idea that actually
he had finally gotten around tolike picking those boxes up.
And then it was just like, Oh,fuck it.
I'm out of here again.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (08:58):
And of course, Alex Sector, the
other member of the codependentteam.
Uh, He's putting a bird in acage and then he kind of
accidentally lets a few of themfly out.
And then he gets the call andshrugs and He lets them all fly
away.
It's like, they seem prettyexpensive and exotic and now
doomed.
We cut to Boulder Hill HQ andMatt is giving a video briefing
(09:20):
to Bruce and Alex.
And he says, Los Angeles isturning into a home for monkeys.
And Bruce says, then Brad oughtto feel right at home.
Whoa, Bruce, sick burn.
What is going on?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (09:35):
This can't be put down.
I don't think as a buddy Hawksaward nomination, but I was just
like, fuck man, that was a dickmove.
Like what the hell?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (09:43):
really?
What does he have against
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (09:44):
I don't, I like, the only thing I could
think about is like back inJapan, like Brad was like, Hey,
you remember you just came tothe earthquake lab and your
stupid little tie and didnothing.
Yeah.
Fuck yourself.
How about that?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (09:56):
I love that Bruce and Brad have a
rivalry though.
This is good.
I want to continue to track thisthroughout the series.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (10:01):
I would too.
But especially because it'slike, It seems like it's more on
Bruce's side than Brad's becauseBrad doesn't respond at all.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (10:08):
Brad doesn't care or he doesn't hear
or is otherwise indisposed.
So Matt says they've tried fire,chainsaws, and strong poisons.
Nothing works.
You might say we have to get tothe.
Root of it.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (10:22):
So many dad jokes in this episode.
Like they really leaned into it.
Also Adam, would you consider LAa dry environment or a wet
environment?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (10:32):
Yeah, it's a dry environment and
gender reveals gone wrong havestarted massive wildfires here
So yeah, flamethrowers.
probably not a great idea
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (10:44):
Also what kind of poisons are they
using and where did those getdumped?
Is it just being dumped into theLA river?
Where does that come from?
Don't dump too, Adam.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (10:53):
It goes right into the Pacific
Ocean, but a little poison.
That's fine.
Also how do you rate Matt's dadjoke there?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (11:02):
It's Cosby licious at that point in
time.
I mean, He's really leaned intoit.
It's not the last time we'regoing to hear a dad joke from
many people in this episode.
A
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (11:11):
Very true.
We find out that basically theplant is indestructible and
Bruce apropos of nothing.
There is no journey unless thefirst step is taken.
And Alex, so patronizing saysuh, right.
and even Bruce looks sad atAlex's dismissiveness of what he
(11:32):
said.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (11:33):
hundred percent.
there's a clear Buddy Hawks nomhere.
And uh, it also wasn't like,like that deep a sadism either.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (11:42):
It's kind of obvious.
Like, Yeah, Bruce, we knowwe're, if you'd stop talking,
we'd get on the jet and get outto LA, but okay.
we do finally get to LA andthey're going on a 24 hour
patrol.
And Matt leaves Scott behind at,I'll get, I'll give you three
guesses, PJ.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:02):
is it the middle of the desert?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (12:05):
No, it is not.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:06):
Is it a Potemkin village?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (12:07):
Not this time, though.
It depends on how you define LosAngeles.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:11):
Is It in a hotel?
Yay!
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (12:17):
the hotel.
He says, stay on the ground atthe hotel.
Of course, T Bob, by the way, isstill malfunctioning.
Which is kind of hard to tellthe difference between a
functioning and non functioningT Bob, if I'm being honest.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:29):
Um, Going on 24 hour patrol?
How the fuck is everyonesupposed to stay awake?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (12:34):
Because Brad has his briefcase.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:36):
Oh, I see.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (12:38):
I mean, Gather around, everybody.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:41):
It goes down smooth.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (12:43):
What, can we do a travel time check,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (12:45):
yeah, we should.
So Denver to LA, it's a two hourflight time.
It's a 30 hour drive time.
And we do know the team gotcalled right after Brad show,
which we know is at night, whichalso would have been an hour
later because of mountain time.
So Alex and Bruce, we know we'reat Boulder Hill late.
The team is meeting early thenext morning.
(13:06):
So I kind of figured one of twothings had to be true.
They either got to LA the nightearlier and then went to sleep
and did nothing.
Or Matt made them drive and it'salmost two days later.
They're exhausted and Matt stilldid nothing.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (13:22):
Either way, Alex and Bruce have not
slept.
Heh.
Nor will they for some time.
uh, Matt is up in the air inTeahawk and he's trying
Teahawk's lasers, but the vinesjust keep regrowing.
Brad tries the antimatter ray,the same thing happens.
Bruce and Alex drive by.
The Chinese theater uh, which iskind of covered in vines.
(13:44):
And Bruce says, no movie today,kind of Broken English there,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (13:49):
was, It was kinda, and it's, and this is
going to be a comment about thewhole episode later on.
They didn't really lean into it.
Like they glance at the brokenEnglish, which is kind of what I
kind of feel about this entireepisode.
We're sort of glancing.
At the entirety of a mask plothere, like it's there, but it's
mask light.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (14:08):
Yeah, very much.
So, Alex has a sample of theplant and it turns out it is a
combination of rare varietiesknown only in Brazil, which
means someone is doing thisdeliberately.
And Matt says that venom agentswere seen in Brazil just two
months ago.
But here's my question.
If Venom was seen in Brazil twomonths ago, how come that didn't
go back then?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (14:28):
Yeah, it's a really good point.
I, hear here's the only sort ofin universe explanation I've
got, you've got other agentslike we'll see Julio Lopez like
later on And you can imaginelike they went down or something
like that and Matt basically wasbusy marrying Gloria or
something like that.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (14:47):
Yeah, he gets a call from the PNA.
Saying, hey, you know, Venom'sdown in Brazil.
Miles is like uh, I'm in MardiGras right now, I'm sure it's
fine.
Meanwhile, back to Venom.
Miles has this ultra UV ray onSwitchblade, and Vanessa has the
engine on the top of Manta,designed to spit seeds out,
(15:07):
right?
So Manta will drive around, orfly around, spit out seeds,
Miles will spray this ultra UVbeam, and suddenly the vines
grow really fast.
Sly Asks, I don't get it.
When do we get some loot for allthis work?
And I think that's alegitimately great question.
Sly.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (15:25):
It is.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (15:26):
Mile says as soon as California is
impressed with our friendlylittle weed, once again, I think
this is about more than kudzuvines and they didn't know it
back then, but it's a billiondollar industry now.
And They could have made a tonif they were just growing
different weeds.
Maybe up in the mountains awayfrom the city?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (15:49):
Just go a little bit North of San
Francisco.
There's a nice little County upthere.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (15:53):
Yeah, you could have done that, but
okay.
Yeah, let's overrun LA withgiant vines.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (15:58):
I was wondering, Miles, do you know
how hard it is to grow shit inLA?
Like you had to like go througha lot of work to engineer this
thing.
And I wasn't sure if his likeangle, cause we never get to it.
his angle affects me to get somekind of big agriculture contract
and kind of the tax benefitsthereof.
Otherwise, you're just helpingto clean up the smog of LA in
(16:21):
the 80s.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (16:22):
Here's another multibillion dollar idea
that miles has that he justwastes because he could solve
world hunger, throw some cornseeds, the UV beam, would make
it the corn grow immediately youharvest it the next day you do
the same thing over and over andover again and endless and
abundant supply of whatevervegetables you need.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (16:44):
Yeah, absolutely.
Look, if you can grow this shitin LA, which is a desert, you
can go to anywhere in the worldand grow stuff.
squadcaster-0aif_1_1 (16:53):
Meanwhile, we are on the set of the
blockbuster film, Grandson ofTarzan.
Sounds awesome.
Vanessa drops the seeds, Milesfires the UV ray, and the vines
start to grow.
And it's hilarious.
This very stereotypical directorscreams, Cut! This is all wrong!
I didn't tell these plants tomove.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (17:14):
I couldn't figure out from this
shot if they were trying to likereference an actual director or
they're just like puttinggeneric parts of a director
together.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (17:23):
It's a little um, like a little Joel
Silver, a little JerryBruckheimer, actually some more
producers than directors.
yeah, I don't know.
Honestly, at this point, I waslike Keep me here.
Mask can go off and have therest of its episode.
What's grandson of Tarzan about,but I digress back at the hotel.
Scott is fixing T Bobs logiccircuit.
How does he fix the circuit PJ?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (17:45):
I want to call out the fact that Scott
is welding, okay?
He's got welding glasses on,albeit the smallest and
seemingly least protectivewelding glasses you can imagine.
And there's a huge arc, like itlights up Scott's face.
It's, As he's working on T Boband he's doing this in a hotel
room.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (18:05):
So the, the fire alarms don't even
go off, but my question is ifhe's fixing, fixing the logic
circuit, you're an engineer,shouldn't it just be like a
soldering?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:13):
Yeah, that's the other.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (18:15):
an arc welder?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:15):
Yes.
Yeah.
There's a lot of problems here.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (18:19):
Oh, come on, mask.
Get a little better.
Why do I even, why?
Why do I even ask that?
What do I expect?
We've been doing this for 25episodes.
I should just give up onexpecting any kind of logic.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:32):
maybe Matt bought him a portable
welding kit
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (18:35):
Gee, dad, I'd love to learn how to do
some welding.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (18:38):
Here you go, son
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (18:39):
So once T Bob is fixed, Scott hears
that Mask is going to GriffithPark and he plays the
technicalities that Matt saidyou got to stay on the ground.
To get T Bop to transform andtake him to to Griffith Park.
And then we're gonna have agreat set piece here at Griffith
Park Observatory.
So they're definitely using L.
A.
locations condor's flying above,sees Manta, and they have a cool
(19:00):
fight in the air.
And Brad says, Vanessa Warfield,may I have this dance?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:05):
It just occurred to me, because I had
the question, What does Brucethink about Brad asking Vanessa
for a dance?
This is why Bruce is acting likea dick to Brad.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (19:13):
Nuh uh.
Uh
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:14):
Aha! We've connected the dots.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (19:16):
Well done, sir.
Well done.
Two gold stars for you.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:20):
I'm sure this is what the writers
intended.
This love triangle.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (19:24):
I would love it if the writers
were actually sitting therediving deep into these
characters when we both know.
That's not what they were doing.
well, Scott and T Bob show up atthe observatory.
Matt appears in T Hawk andrecords a sample of the UV beam
from Switchblade using spectrum,which seems like a pretty useful
power.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (19:44):
Yeah.
I mean, I think it was like anice use of a core.
Capability of spectrum.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (19:49):
Mac gets fired at by stiletto But
Matt to to get rid of Slyplummets to the ground.
And then at the last secondturns the jets on pointed
directly at Sly, putting himdirectly in the jet wash of
Thunderhawk.
Um, Ragdoll award,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (20:04):
A hundred percent right.
Dollar ward.
Let's think about howsuperheated those jets have to
be to make the Camaro flythrough the air.
Like that's cooking.
Sly right now, not only likepushing him back, but actually
cooking him.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (20:17):
Sly is a charred piece of flesh.
R.
I.
P.
Sly, we will see you later on inthe episode.
so, vines are growing everywhereat the observatory.
T Bob and Scott are trying torun away.
T Bob trips and falls, and hegets caught by a vine.
Scott like, goes to save him,grabbing onto his legs, and they
both get pulled into the They'rehanging there, T Bob's hands
(20:38):
are, can't hold on to the vinetoo much longer, they're gonna
fall to their death.
What's gonna happen
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (20:44):
I don't know.
I don't know.
I was so scared for Scott inthis moment.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (20:48):
let's find out what happens after
these messages.
Come on, Jeebop.
Mask will be right back.
Oh, boy.
Back to mask.
We're back.
When we left you, Scott and TBob were dangling from a vine
hundreds of feet up, momentsaway from dying once again.
Because of Matt's negligence.
(21:08):
T Bob can't even use the radio,because he needs his hands to
turn it on, which, if I can makean aside, seems like a pretty
bad design choice.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (21:17):
design choice.
This is so dumb.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (21:19):
Scott actually climbs up T Bob to turn
on the radio calling for help.
Matt realizes Scott's there.
He he puts T Hawk into automaticmode, then jumps down in glider
mode to save Scott and T Bob.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (21:36):
So my question to you, Adam, how many
people couldn't be saved becauseMatt has to deal with Scott and
T Bob?
A
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (21:44):
many here.
anyways.
Scott and T Bob are alive, andother civilians, maybe not so
much.
Meanwhile, Rhino is chasingPiranha, but the vines catch
Rhino, and Bruce says, He wholaughs at quicksand should be
sure of his own feet.
(22:04):
Thanks a lot, Bruce.
You're not helping thesituation.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:08):
This begs the question.
Okay.
How many times has Alex had toput up with Bruce saying stuff
that's useless?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (22:16):
Why does Alex abuse animals so much?
Is it because he's just gottenso frustrated with his partner
that it's all he can do?
Is take it out on thesedefenseless animals.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:28):
Good question.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (22:29):
We've blown this wide open, PJ.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:33):
of all the mask agents now.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (22:35):
While Alex is abusing an orangutan.
This is all your fault, Bruce.
Not mine.
Yours.
Look what you made me do.
Anyways.
Matt brings Scott back to thehotel and orders him to stay
inside this time.
He says, I'll make myinstructions more specific.
You can do whatever you want, aslong as it stays inside the
hotel room.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (22:55):
you want to weld something there, go
ahead.
That's okay.
As long as it's inside the hotelroom.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (23:01):
There's a lot that a 10 year old kid
could do in a hotel room.
That is not a good idea.
Welding being Just one of.
Many of them.
Another question could be,Where's Brad's briefcase?
Is it in the hotel room?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (23:15):
Wow, this Is magic dust.
Let's play with the magic dust.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (23:20):
Brad catches up to Bruce and Alex,
Rhino suspended in the air, andBrad says, You guys are really,
and then gets cut off by Alex,who says, And Brad okay, But
you're really up a tree.
guys, can we get a littlefocused here?
We're trying to save the cityand instead you're making dad
jokes?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (23:38):
we've seen it in other instances.
Like we've had, Buddy and Dustyhave like humorous exchange,
like an assault on Liberty,which seemed almost like
nervously dealing with their owndeaths.
This time it's just kind oflike.
these guys are kind of fuckingaround, huh?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (23:53):
Yeah.
Because also Bruce and Alex,they're just hanging there.
They both have masks.
Are you telling me they couldn'thave, jackrabbit it up into
Rhino and started, messingaround with whatever they got to
try to cut the thing downthemselves?
I mean, Bruce has Lifter and aswe're about to see what happens
is Brad flies up in Condor,shoots all the vines away, and
then Bruce uses Lifter to bringRhino gently back down to the
ground, which is a good use ofvehicles and masks.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (24:15):
I like that.
I like the way they did that.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (24:19):
But they could have done something
while, instead of just sittingaround, playing solitaire,
waiting for Brad to show up But,no.
Now that Rhino is taken care of,they start looking for Sly,
because they know he's aroundhere, caught in the vines
somewhere.
And they look to where theythink he is and it turns out
he's gone and the vines are alldead and dried up.
(24:40):
So we now know that Venom has away to destroy the vines.
Speaking of Venom, we cut backto them.
And when Miles finds out thatSly used the antidote, He is
pissed off, but Sly explains, ifI get caught, I get nothing
except jail.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (24:56):
It's a really good point, Sly.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (24:58):
quite logical.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (24:59):
yeah, I, do you get the impression that
Sly and, I mean, always Vanessaare kind of getting a little bit
pissed off at kind of thesereally shitty plans that are
going on?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (25:11):
Yeah.
let's imagine Sly and Vanessakicking back, having a few
drinks, and just looking throughthe past 25, What's I don't
know, weeks, months, let's callit months, past year or two of
their life saying, Hey, this guyrecruited us in with this really
cool tech.
And he said, we were going tomake billions of dollars doing
all sorts of cool and crazythings.
(25:33):
Instead we're like growing giantvines over LA and we're going to
ransom the state of Californiafor money.
I'm not buying this.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (25:43):
100%.
Am I right in thinking there'sno Cliff Dagger this episode?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (25:47):
There is no Cliff dagger in this
episode.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (25:49):
Do you think he just got tired of being
insulted?
He's like, look, I need a fewdays to myself.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (25:53):
Could be that.
Could be when he heard thatMiles was going to be using weed
to destroy Los Angeles.
He went looking for Weed.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:02):
It's strange that you'd figure that'd
be Sly's jam.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (26:05):
Hey Cliff, get me some of that Maui
Waui.
Um, Back at the hotel, Scottcalls room service.
He asks, what's the biggest icecream sundae you've got?
And then says I want one bigger.
What an entitled little rich boyhe is.
Like you and I traveled when wewere kids raised by a single
(26:27):
mom.
Um,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:28):
Yeah,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (26:28):
I never got to order room service.
Period.
There was no room service.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:32):
neither.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (26:33):
And now this kid's like, just give
me the biggest sundae.
No, make me something bigger.
And they do it.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:39):
Think about like who his dad is, man.
This is what he's learned.
worries.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (26:43):
your way out of any emotional
problem.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (26:46):
Well, That's what he's trying to do.
He's trying to deal with thetrauma of neglect using food.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (26:50):
Yeah, Scott's gonna either become a
drug addict or he's gonnaballoon to like 350 pounds.
He's just going to eat all histrauma or both.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (27:02):
You know, He's got this briefcase in
there and now he's getting theice cream.
Why can't it be both?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (27:07):
I wonder why he's so hungry.
Back with mask, Alex is tryingto analyze the dead branches,
but he can't find the antidote.
Okay.
So that's interesting.
Let's keep that in the back ofour minds as we go forward here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (27:20):
should.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (27:21):
Back to Venom.
They're throwing seeds andgrowing vines and Miles wants to
grow these vines from here toSan Francisco trip the five I
guess At what point is he gonnaactually call the governor?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (27:32):
I don't know, why isn't he talking
ransom?
Like it's just so ponderous interms of just like, all right,
let's just keep growing shit.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (27:40):
Maybe he's forgotten What they were
doing.
Generally, yeah You show off theweapon, and the damage it can
cause, and then he asks for aransom, and you say you got 24
hours.
Assault on Liberty, for example.
He was doing great.
Maybe Miles is having cognitivedecline over the course of the
series.
He was relatively sharp, butsometimes misguided in the first
(28:02):
24 episodes.
Now we're starting to see a realdrop off in his thought
processes here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (28:09):
It is a good point.
Do you think his flair for thedramatic may be contributing to
this?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (28:14):
It could also be like his flair for
the dramatic is trying tocompensate for The fact that
he's slipping, right?
He can't quite put all thepuzzle pieces together anymore.
So he's just going, And we'llgrow the vines all over
California.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (28:29):
do you feel like mask is also being a
bit ponderous here as well?
Do you feel their urgency?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (28:34):
Not particularly.
that's because the vines aren'treally causing much.
It's like clogging up the worksand stuff like that, but it
doesn't seem like people aren'tscreaming.
In the streets, buildings aren'tfalling down.
It's just a bunch of giant vinesgrowing inconvenient to be sure.
But, I think we'll be all right.
the hotel, a giant Sundayarrives in the room.
(28:56):
And I mean, a Sunday, so giantthat the dish it's being served
in just doesn't, no one makes adish that big.
It's the size of nearly twooutstretched adult arms, right?
So it is a giant Sunday.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:10):
We should point out that diabetes
was a rampant problem in the80s, and today.
And Scott's well on his way,just with his ice cream alone.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (29:18):
Yeah, they should take this and make
it the more, you know, at theend of the episode.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:22):
They ought to! That's a brilliant
idea.
That wasn't the zeitgeistthough, man.
The 80s was the war on fat.
It's like, eat sugar instead offat,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (29:32):
ten times more sugar,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:33):
Ten times more sugar! and hence the
rapid increase in diabetes.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (29:37):
That's the more you know, folks.
Glad you learned something fromour podcast for the first time
ever.
Um, Alex picks up a policereport vines growing.
So, Thunderhawk and Condor headto the front of like the line of
the growth because that's whereVenom will be.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (29:53):
they're plotting a line to the northwest
of Hollywood.
Adam, what is to the northwestof Hollywood?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (29:59):
The San Fernando Valley.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (30:01):
so what am I to believe about Venom's
plan and taking on?
The San Fernando Valley in theeighties
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (30:10):
Yeah, it sounds like he's just trying
to hit the one oh one he's goingto take the he's taken like the
one ten to the one oh one to thefive over the grapevine into San
Francisco seems like that'swhere he's he's headed.
Unless there's like a lot oftraffic buildup that he's
probably going to loop around,probably like.
take the, the two to the 134, tothe, maybe the, go up to 118.
It's really hard to map outexactly which way he's going
(30:32):
here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (30:35):
um,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (30:35):
Not on the 405.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (30:37):
that, oh yeah, the four or five is a mess
always.
What more damage could he do onthe four or five
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (30:43):
Back at the hotel.
Scott is eating the giant sundaenow.
But he's not using a spoon.
He's eating it like a dog.
Like an animal face first intothe Sunday, which takes me back
to the episode where T Bob wascovered in ice cream.
And we find out that Scott ateall the ice cream off T Bob.
(31:03):
I did assume he used a spoon,but now I realized Scott was
licking ice cream.
Off of T Bob, if this is the wayhe eats ice cream.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (31:12):
wonder T Bob is the way he is.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10- (31:15):
suddenly a vine bursts through the window
and T Bob falls into the icecream, which kind of shorts out
his circuits.
He turns into scooter mode,bumps into Scott and they both
go falling out the window andit, but they're caught by a bit
of vine.
So nothing happens.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (31:30):
I did find myself taken out a bit
because T Bob getting fried bythe ice cream doesn't match up
with what we've seen with T Bobgoing into water repeatedly.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2024 (31:39):
I agree.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (31:40):
Unless Scott constantly messing with T
Bob has destroyed his IPX8rating.
he was waterproof before, butnot anymore.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (31:49):
Now, when Scott and T Bob do land on
the vines, the vines startdying, and Scott realizes that
it's cold that kills the vines.
There's a lot I need to kind ofpause and talk about here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (32:01):
let's do that.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (32:02):
So LA does get cold, especially in
the winter.
And there are times when thereis a frost, Not every day, but
it Miles's plan to solve the badis fundamentally flawed because
eventually if cold is the quoteunquote antidote to the vines
the vines are going toeventually take care of
themselves.
(32:22):
The other thing is, and what.
Antidote did Sly have?
Did he just have some sort ofcold compress or something that
he rubbed over the vines to getout of them?
That's my first issue with withthe vines there.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (32:36):
He keeps a, a, a thing of Freon in his
back pocket, mainly to huff, butoccasionally it becomes useful.
Ha ha ha ha, occasionally it'suseful.
What about Alex, man?
He was studying these things.
He never thought to expose themto extreme temperatures.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10- (32:56):
Exactly.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (32:57):
And, isn't Alex supposed to be our
expert at killing live things?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (33:02):
Only things with like, you know,
heartbeats.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (33:05):
I see.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (33:06):
Only things that experience pain.
Scott of course wants to tellMatt about this, but the ice
cream has shorted out the radio.
And the logic circuit.
So yet again, Scott's dealingwith this nonsense.
So we'll check back on that alittle later.
We're back with Mask now.
They catch up to Venom.
We've got Condor taking onPiranha.
Matt takes on Switchblade andManta.
Vanessa fires Black Paint.
(33:27):
At Thunderhawk, kind of likeinking over the window as if
he's in Mario Kart.
Brad uses Hocus Pocus to make agiant like Venus Flytrap appear
in front of Sly, Causing him togo flying off the road and into
a truck of tomatoes.
Could be a ragdoll award, excepthe does land in the truck of
tomatoes, which may, mightcushion his fall.
(33:47):
Vanessa Accidentally flies underthe ultra beam, causing all the
seeds in her car to startgrowing, which destroys Manta.
She crash lands and yet somehowsurvives.
So I think Vanessa is getting aragdoll nominee here, for sure.
Sly picks her up, Matt blows upthe ultra beam, Miles transforms
into jet mode, and goodbyeVenom.
(34:08):
As simple as that.
And in fact they have to letVenom get away so they can deal
with the plants.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:13):
right, stop right here.
Do they For God's sakes, it's ina farmer's field in Ventura
County at this point in time.
They've already done the damageand they don't seem to be like
causing any more damage.
So.
know, maybe Make a call to stopvenom at this point in time.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (34:31):
Yeah, the planes aren't going
anywhere.
It'll be fine.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:34):
Yeah, it's been there for maybe days
at this point.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (34:37):
Scott fixes T Bob, calls Matt on the
radio, tells him that cold killsthe plants.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:42):
Scott becoming a diabetic saved the
day.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (34:45):
there's another more you know.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (34:47):
Maybe if you do order the ice cream, you
can save the day.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (34:51):
makes a freeze bomb.
He takes one of those bigrockets that Rhino can launch
and turns it into a freeze bomb.
Did you notice that Bruce isjust carrying that thing?
It's a sizable rocket.
It's not a mortar, this is big.
This is something that you havea couple of guys in a crane load
onto a
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:08):
Mm hmm.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (35:08):
That's impressive.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:09):
Bruce is big dogging it in front of Brad
to be like, Look man,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (35:13):
Yeah.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:13):
mine.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (35:14):
Yeah.
This freeze bomb fires fromRhino and it creates a, like a
snow storm over this littlegroup of plants and, kills them
all.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:21):
Hooray! I wanted to point out you're
right, LA does get frost, itdoes get rain, it does not
typically get snow.
So this solution's going to killthousands of LA drivers who are
not used to driving in the snow.
That snowstorm would alsodestroy those farmers crops.
Do you think that Matt went longon vegetable futures right
(35:45):
before he decided to like,unleash this bomb?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (35:48):
Yeah, Bruce probably said hey I'll use
lifter to load the bomb into thelauncher he says actually Do it
by hand.
I gotta go use the Thunderhawkcomputer.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (35:57):
Another thing.
Okay, so freezing turns out tobe the thing that we need to do
here.
What would have been useful inthis scenario?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (36:06):
Well, I know Gator has a freeze ray.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:07):
And
squadcaster-0aif_1_ (36:09):
Firecracker also has a freeze ray.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:10):
yeah,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (36:11):
It makes you wonder, were they
assigned certain toys to put inindividual episodes?
Or did the writers really havefree reign to put whatever
vehicles they wanted in there?
Because I will say we're seeinga lot of Manta right now, in the
past episodes we've seen.
And we're always seeing Rhinoand Thunderhawk, of course, and
Switchblade's always there.
Are they told like, here's thetoys you can use in this
(36:31):
episode?
Cause you're right.
Gator and firecracker would beperfect.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:35):
again, these are coming out like every
day of the week.
they must've had these scriptsdone a little in advance.
And so maybe they're gettingearly toy numbers back and
that's, what's being used toguide who's in where.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (36:46):
But they're being, they're probably
produced though.
Well In advance, like a year inadvance of airtime anyways.
So guess we'll Never know.
PJ
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:56):
never know
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (36:57):
that would take some research.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (36:58):
Yeah.
we'd have to break into somelike filing cabinets somewhere
to actually like find theanswers to this stuff because
none of it got digitized.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (37:06):
I'm game.
If you are.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (37:07):
Let's do it.
There's an abandoned warehousesomewhere in L.
A.
Do you think Brad took a sampleof the vines so he could see if
it could be smoked and or crossbred with cannabis to make it
more effective grow?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (37:20):
I'm sure he did.
I'm sure he is.
he's grabbing that file of Mattscan of the the UV beam.
Oh, this would be great forhydroponic guard gardening.
but that's it.
I think before we get into themore, you know, uh, we got to
kind of.
talk generally about theepisode.
This one was a piece of junk asan episode.
(37:42):
I mean, I was excited for themto go to LA.
It started out semi cool.
Oh, the Hollywood ball.
That's fun.
But just, it was hard for me toeven find the energy to go
through the rundown here,because it's just like.
what this happened and then thishappens like there's no real
causality.
It's just stuff and the end.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:02):
Yeah.
No one's really committed to anyof the stakes it's like I said
earlier like, it feels very masklight, like the core elements
are all there.
We have the battle in themiddle.
We have the battle at the end.
We've got the massive scientificthing that's like miles is put
together, but
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (38:19):
Mm hmm.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:20):
Feel like they're really like.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (38:23):
No.
And even with Scott and T Bobhanging on for dear life, the
stakes feel low there too.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:28):
It's weird, right?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (38:30):
Yeah.
I've, they have been in lessdanger, like at the Hoover dam
in just the last episode where Ifelt more concerned for them
than I did here.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:39):
Yeah.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (38:40):
And I think it's just because just
Overall, no one was really intowhat was going on.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (38:46):
Which is sad because like, honestly, like
I was thinking about this betteruse.
Like we saw the earthquakemachine way, you know, 20
episodes ago.
That would have been a kind of acool thing and it would have
been topical and it would kindof be on point for LA and you
could have done something thatactually like really works well.
Like it's a major metropolisthat could be destroyed by an
(39:08):
earthquake.
It's a real thing.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (39:10):
Agreed.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:11):
I didn't feel like they used the locale
very well,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (39:14):
No, they did a drive by of the
landmarks.
Hey, there's the bowl.
There's the observatory.
A movie set.
The Chinese theater.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:21):
Yeah,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (39:22):
That sort of thing.
It was really just asightseeing.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:24):
I felt like they leaned into it in
other spots.
Like, Like we had New York City.
In Assault on Liberty, NewOrleans, actually, they even
that had a lot more color to it.
My last question to you, becauseit is the 80s, is this actually
an anti drug message?
If you let marijuana into thestreets, it will take over?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (39:42):
yeah, I don't know what the message of
this episode is other than buythese toys.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:48):
They are cool.
I
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (39:50):
We go to the more you know.
Scott and T Bob are doing somegardening.
Matt doesn't have someone whodoes this for him.
He's got Scott and T Bob out.
Trimming the hedges
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (39:59):
I was like, what did he do to have to
get this chore?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (40:03):
and also, T Bob is using like an
electric razor it's not the toolyou should be using to trim
hedges.
And Scott decides Hey, let'strade tools.
I'll give you the shears andI'll take the electric thing or
whatever.
And T Bob inexplicably turns andputs the electric thing he's
(40:23):
holding into a bird bath, whichelectrocutes him.
And so the lesson is the lessonstated lesson is don't get
electrical things near water,which is fine.
That's okay.
Don't put a toaster in the sinkwhen it's plugged in.
Oh yeah.
Cool.
Got it.
One, we've already done thisbefore because we had T Bob
stick a fork into a toaster andget electrocuted.
(40:45):
But two, how many kids in this.
Era in the eighties are trimmingthe hedges with a plug in
electrical device next to abirdbath Like if this is the
lesson you want to tell there'sa lot more common in touch with
the common man
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:03):
Yes.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (41:04):
to show this
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:05):
It's so bizarre, especially because.
In this episode, we've seen alot of times where T Bob got
shocked by ice cream orsomething or other.
But we've seen him be put in thewater a lot of times.
So, The consistency here is justnot there.
It's just, it's a bizarre assmessage.
A
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-202 (41:24):
it is a Dumb message to cap off an
equally dumb episode
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:29):
hundred percent.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-0 (41:31):
episode 25 third of the way through the
show You And we are just notimpressed.
We've had two out of 25 episodesthat have been excellent and the
rest have been, some have beenfunnier than others from our
point of view.
But much of it has been middlingto poor,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:50):
I think we could say.
three.
I mean, we loved Rotex, we loved
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (41:53):
Yes.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:54):
I think we thought very fondly of Cold
Fever.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-2 (41:56):
Yes.
Okay.
Three.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (41:58):
Three.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (41:59):
Three out of 25.
So
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:01):
Chuck Lorre, start writing episodes
again, please.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:04):
three out of 25.
That's a bad batting average forany major league hitter.
All right, let's take a look atour awards.
Father of the Year.
What do you think?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:12):
Man, I don't know, I mean, like,
There's the typical like, justdumping Scott off at the ho the
hotel, but I also thought Matttaking Scott to the concert
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:21):
Yeah.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:21):
was a questionable decision.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:23):
Yeah, you see parents doing that more
and more.
Like Taking their kids to likeTaylor Swift or things like
that.
But this was not a Taylor Swiftconcert.
This is a rock and roll, druginfested, alcohol doused rock
and roll show.
This is not where a ten year oldshould be.
Sly Rax Ragdoll Award.
What do you think?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:42):
I kind of was going to give, I mean,
there's, there is the, the jetwash incident, which clearly
would have killed Sly,
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:48):
Yeah.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (42:48):
And then there's Vanessa's crash landing.
Parby wants to give it toVanessa because she hasn't
received it before.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (42:54):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with Vanessa here.
Manta crash landed and she justwalked out and hopped into
Piranha.
The Buddy Hawks Award.
What do we got?
Anything?
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (43:04):
It's tough because like we've got?
kind of Might be the obvious oneof Alex dismissing Bruce but
then we dissected it and itmight just be, Alex is just kind
of sick of Bruce's bullshit.
and Bruce calling Brad a monkeyisn't necessarily like worthy of
the category, but it is a dickmove.
So I don't really have a goodone for this one.
(43:25):
How about you?
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (43:26):
Nope.
I agree with you a hundredpercent.
I do think that Bruce callingBrad a monkey is
Uncharacteristic it opens up anew dimension into the Bruce
Brad relationship that we willcontinue to track throughout the
episode Last but not least theRoy Batty moment of the episode
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (43:43):
T Bob getting covered in ice cream
like, he was fairly benign, butlike, he could have easily have
murdered Scott.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (43:48):
Yeah, I'm feeling more Scott using an
arc welder On T Bob.
Probably going to piss him off alittle bit.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (43:55):
Good call.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (43:56):
You tooled around with my brain a
bit too much Scott
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (44:00):
ha ha Ha!
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03- (44:01):
Well, That is it for episode 25.
Episode 26, moving into thesecond third of the series.
Secret of the Andes.
Mask must protect a revivedIncan priest, who has been found
frozen in ice in the Andes, fromvenom, who may know the secret
location of El Dorado.
(44:21):
Have this one yet,
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (44:23):
I Have seen this one I'm very excited
for us to talk about theparticular name of the Incan
priest.
It threw me for a loop when Iheard and I'm curious now of the
cause and effect.
I'm going to have to do a littlebit of research about a
particular musician who may havetaken on this name.
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03 (44:41):
Sounds good.
I am concerned about the numberof Buddy Hawks nominations we
might get out of this episode.
So let us see next time.
But for now, this podcast has totransform And head back to HQ.
I am Adam Moore.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (44:57):
And I am PJ
squadcaster-0aif_1_10-03-20 (44:58):
Bye bye.
pj_1_10-03-2024_112948 (45:00):
Bye bye.
The mobile armored podcast showis written, produced and edited.
Bye Adam Moore.
And PJ McNerney.
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