February 3, 2025 • 47 mins
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Remember how much you respected and admired Matt Trakker when you were a kid? If you had known he was secretly funding gain-of-function research on flesh-eating bacteria, would you still respect and admire him? If your answer is "yes", then you're our target demographic. If your answer is "no", you're also our target demographic. All that, plus T-Bob gets dunked in slime, we prove Buddy Hawks is a V.E.N.O.M. agent, and Hurricane Hondo dishes out his signature badassery. It's another episode of the Mobile Armored Podcast Show!
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Adam (00:13):
Welcome to the mobile armored podcast show.
The podcast that transforms intothe blob.
My name is Adam Moore alongsidemy cohost and best friend, PJ
McNerney.
How's it going PJ?
Okay.
PJ (00:26):
I'm doing well.
my family is recovering frombeing a little under the
weather.
which is great because schoolstarts tomorrow again.
it's funny.
It's like, you know, Thereshould be some lessons involved
in not playing around withorganisms And I feel like maybe
we're going to get a lesson onthat one today.
Adam (00:43):
Oh, we sure are, because it's episode 31, Deadly Blue
Slime.
Very on the nose.
Mask goes to Africa, somewherein Africa, to stop a botched
experiment that has created adeadly blue slime that consumes
everything in its path.
Before we dive in here, I justwant to say botched experiment
(01:09):
is a bit of a lie because it'smore like purposeful gain of
function.
Research is what happens here.
PJ (01:17):
100 percent that what's going to be great.
We find out really soon.
Guess who funded it?
Adam (01:23):
I'll give you all two guesses on who it is.
Yeah so, uh, they traveled toquote unquote Africa.
PJ (01:31):
Yeah.
Hold on.
We got to stop right there.
Like off before we even hit thefirst shot, they keep saying the
entire episode in Africa as ifAfrica is a single country.
It's a continent folks.
And it is composed of 54countries, and we're gonna talk
about Mount Kilimanjaro, let'sname it, it's in Tanzia,
(01:53):
Tanzania, which is, I found thisout today because I did a tiny
bit of research, it is the mostpopulous country south of the
equator, fully south of theequator.
But like the equivalent of thisis if we were back in that
England episode with the mysteryof the rings and all that jazz,
and if I were saying we're inEurope, and just called it
(02:13):
Europe the entire time as thislike massive blob,
Adam (02:17):
Yeah, it's a bit like if you're on the small world ride
and you go through the Africasection.
It's just a random nod and ahint of the variety of cultures
on the continent.
PJ (02:32):
there's only one continent that is a single country.
Which you know very well,
Adam (02:37):
I do know very well.
It's Australia Which I pronouncecorrectly.
It's not Australia.
It's Australia.
Now our one Australian fan willnow be tuning out because I just
got a Buddy Hawks nomination.
PJ (02:53):
You mean your wife is not going to listen to this?
Adam (02:56):
she's barely listening as it is.
Hey, so let's start this thing,right?
PJ (03:03):
right.
Adam (03:04):
open on a shot of Mount Kilimanjaro and then we pan to a
research station and inside wefind these two scientists and we
hear these lines of dialogue.
Hey, Joe, you want an anchovy?
And the other guy's like, toosalty for me.
Tastes like one of yourexperiments gone bad.
First of all, possible BuddyHawks nomination for how overly
(03:25):
nerdy these guys sound.
PJ (03:27):
I agree.
I found it more disturbing.
The notion they're implying thatthey eat the experiments that go
bad, that they eat thebiological experiments.
Is this
Adam (03:36):
Yeah.
PJ (03:37):
drunk game that they play?
it's important to also point outthese are the whitest
researchers you will see ever.
Everyone in this facility is thewhitest set of people ever,
Adam (03:47):
Especially for being in Africa.
It turns out one of thesescientists is growing a rare
blue algae.
and the other scientist says, Iheard it's almost as voracious
as that snow leopard cultureI've got.
The other guy says warm it up alittle and it actually attacks
meat and nutrients in the dish.
Wow, can you imagine what wouldhappen if we crossed my white
(04:07):
leopard cells with your bluealgae cells?
Like, I don't know guys, the endof the world?
What are they trying toaccomplish with their research?
PJ (04:16):
This was like, I feel like we have to head to ethics corner
here for a second.
first, what is going on here?
Like why is it okay for thesescientists to be doing these
kinds of experiments in quoteunquote Africa?
Again, we're not going tomention Tanzania.
Like away from some sort ofgoverning research body that has
(04:36):
oversight and they're clearlydoing gain of function research
on naturally occurringorganisms.
Adam (04:42):
Yeah, It's got this blue algae.
That's one thing, but what's upwith the snow leopard culture?
PJ (04:47):
You bring up some really interesting questions here,
because do they get the snowleopard culture from?
Cause snow leopards, I do notthink are native to Tanzania.
Adam (04:57):
well, suddenly a giant explosion rocks the lab, as
typically happens in Mask.
The scientists run outside todiscover The handle of a drawer,
like that's their big discoveryis like the guy picks up the
metal handle of a drawer and Idon't quite understand what that
beat means.
Does it indicate their researchhas been stolen?
PJ (05:17):
I did not get this because they're like, he literally
asked, where's the wooden drawerand shelves?
clearly there's been anexplosion that took out the
concrete
Adam (05:28):
Right.
PJ (05:30):
And I was like, isn't it logical that the wooden drawer
vaporized and the metal is allthat's left here, guys?
Adam (05:38):
Yeah.
What do you think happened toit?
That wood was supposed to beindestructible.
PJ (05:42):
I'm glad we got top notch scientists working on this
biological research material.
Adam (05:46):
Got our top men working on it.
Top men.
PJ (05:49):
men.
Adam (05:51):
Oh, back at the tracker mansion Scott and T Bob are
playing a tabletop space shootervideo game.
T Bob makes a little commentthat robots are not subject to
human error.
And then Scott corrects him bysaying, but I built you.
Remember?
So we better stop right there.
PJ (06:09):
We better stop right there.
I think we did a may a couple onthe a
Adam (06:13):
Last episode.
Yeah.
PJ (06:14):
last episode we had taken the information from the UK
comics column that Matt Trackercommissioned Alex sector to
build T Bob for Scott.
And we have to stop and thinkabout how disturbing this is
now.
That means that he built asentient robot,
Adam (06:31):
Right.
PJ (06:32):
or at least one that has the appearance of sentience, that
passes the Turing test.
Adam (06:36):
Yeah,
PJ (06:36):
That means Scott's a genius, but what would drive a young boy
to be forced to create his ownbest friend out of metal, a
nanny even, whom Matt has taskedin the past of watching over
Scott there is somethingseriously disturbing here,
Adam (06:52):
It's so incredibly sad.
Here's another thing about theprogramming of T Bob.
first of all, he says, I builtyou remember.
So is it possible that T Bobdoesn't remember?
That Scott built him.
And then the next line from TBob's is I must be programmed to
lose.
So the second note of mine isthink of how selfish Scott must
be to program T Bob to losegames against him.
(07:14):
So Scott then is a.
Very disturbed, boy supergenius, narcissist, insecure,
like he is this massive plagueof mental health issues.
I don't know where to go withthis other straight to inpatient
therapy.
Scott,
PJ (07:35):
I would love to be in that therapist office, just trying to
listen to Scott.
Like here is his truth.
This is the reality he hasexperienced.
Built my own robot who now takescare of me.
I go on adventures with my dadand I frequently fall off large
cliffs.
uh, Like the therapist is goingto think this kid's delusional.
(07:57):
Like
Adam (07:58):
He's going to say, look, I'm a mandated reporter.
And unfortunately I do have toreport this to the authorities.
Like I don't have a choice.
Thanks for bearing with us as wedive into Scott's pathology.
He and T Bob walk into Matt'soffice where Alex is sitting on
the couch.
Playing with a globe of theworld, like it's a bouncing
(08:18):
ball.
rolling it around in his hands.
Like what the what?
Meanwhile, Matt is on the phoneand he says, That's amazing.
All the high altitudeexperiments are missing.
So what we discovered here isthat it's Matt's lab in Africa
and that he was funding theresearch.
So PJ, I've got to ask you, whyis Matt funding research into
meat eating algae?
PJ (08:40):
am happy to come to grips that Matt may actually be the
billionaire bad guy here andwe've got.
so many examples he fundedBrian, the brain, the sub,
Adam (08:51):
Yeah.
PJ (08:52):
the high speed jet.
He funded the electrical trainthat the scientists then used to
build blackout he's fundedfactories in Hong Kong.
do we have to look back at allthese quote unquote hospitals
he's funded in other places andwonder if they're actually just
like performing experiments inthe Amazon or
Adam (09:10):
Right.
PJ (09:11):
he's literally like this, there's a direct connection
here.
Adam (09:14):
Yeah.
No, he's not building hospitalsin, poverty stricken, rural
regions in America or thingslike that.
It's in the Amazon, far from thehands of the American
authorities.
PJ (09:26):
if you needed to do high altitude experiments, guess what
has high altitude?
The state you live in, Matt,Colorado.
Adam (09:35):
it's true.
And then the scientist he says,just get here at once before the
authorities and the whole worldlearns about it.
PJ (09:42):
Whoa! we have theorized about this in the past, that
Matt requires them
Adam (09:48):
Mm hmm.
PJ (09:48):
Him first.
And they do.
Adam (09:51):
They literally do here.
Yeah,
PJ (09:53):
of any authority is we have joked about this, but guess
what?
Here's our smoking gun.
Are we prepping for a cover up?
Adam (10:02):
100%.
Matt's thinking, great.
Not only am I going to have tocover this up, but I've got a
lot of scientists I have to killnow.
Where am I going to put themall?
I got to bring them back toColorado and toss them in a
ravine.
Like, how is this going to work?
Maybe there's a ravine inTanzania.
PJ (10:18):
wonder if the mask jet refrigerators are cleaned out
yet.
Adam (10:23):
well, Matt then turns to Alex, Scott and T Bob and says,
Hey, you three, how would youlike to come along to a
whirlwind trip to Africa?
somewhere in Africa.
PJ (10:32):
somewhere in Africa, a giant continent.
Adam (10:36):
And now we cut to some thatch roofed huts in Africa.
It's a hotel, but apparently inMask World, they don't have real
buildings in Africa.
They have thatched roofed huts.
And Matt and Alex are gonna goinvestigating, while Scott and T
Bob are instructed to, quoteunquote, observe whatever is
around the hotel.
(10:56):
And in Matt's language, thatmeans, Stay at the hotel.
PJ (11:00):
Yeah, he specifically says the patrolled area
Adam (11:03):
Yeah
PJ (11:04):
So, I mean, I guess it's some degree of safety?
Adam (11:08):
Okay.
Alex has an awful dad joke inhere.
He says, you might even see anew and T Bob asks, what's a
new?
And Alex says, Oh, not much,what's anew with you?
And he really busts out laughingthere.
PJ (11:22):
He does, he's like, I haven't used that joke in a long
time.
And, What's great is it's both abad dad joke, as well as
fundamentally stereotyping howItalians speak English.
Because that's the
Adam (11:34):
Hey, what's anew with you?
PJ (11:35):
new with you?
So I feel like Alex is likereally digging in his grave
here.
Adam (11:41):
Yeah.
PJ (11:42):
Buddy Hawks award nomination for him on this one.
Adam (11:45):
Yeah, on top of that, a Buddy Hawks nomination for the
writers for the Thatched RoofHotel in Africa.
PJ (11:51):
look, they are piling on their lifetime achievement award
with this episode.
Adam (11:56):
Oh, for sure.
But Scott is super sad abouthaving to walk around and look
at nice things in Africa, huh?
PJ (12:06):
He's gonna go on the savannah and see like all the
wonderful creatures that arethere and the wonderful animals
and he's so indignant
Adam (12:13):
Yeah,
PJ (12:14):
the fact he's got new clothes.
Adam (12:15):
he actually he has a little safari outfit, which is
very nice But he's just sospoiled and just over it.
He's like he's been every likewhatever.
Yeah Animals in the savannah.
That's cool.
Whatever
PJ (12:27):
world, dad, but I've never been home.
Adam (12:30):
We live in a house, but it's not a home.
I want a home dad.
We cut to the destroyed labwhere Matt and Alex are
investigating with Matt's lackeywhoever sees the lab and they
discovered that somethingorganic ate its way out of the
lab and towards the mountain andthey actually go into a
cafeteria like Matt pushes thedoor down, like now the door is
(12:54):
off its hinges, but it's a bigmetal door.
And this dude is strong enoughto just stub the door down.
PJ (12:59):
He is beefy,
Adam (13:00):
Yeah.
PJ (13:01):
no one was behind that door,
Adam (13:03):
Yep.
PJ (13:03):
I want to really point something out, we're about to be
on the precipice of a realdanger that's here, I think it's
worthwhile to state that Venomis not involved at all at this
point.
Adam (13:14):
At all.
PJ (13:15):
This is entirely Matt's doing.
Adam (13:18):
Matt funded the research.
The research got out of control.
What caused the giant explosion?
PJ (13:23):
I don't know, cause they, we're going to find out that
Venom only found out about thiskind of through a technician
after the fact, so
Adam (13:31):
That's a great point.
PJ (13:33):
shoddy safety standards at the lab is what caused the
explosion.
Adam (13:38):
Yeah, that's right.
I'm just realizing this now.
Cause I thought it, I assumedwhen I saw the explosion that it
all led back to venom, butyou're right.
It doesn't.
This is completely Matt's fault.
PJ (13:50):
And I had one question since we're going to know that there's
biological material being eaten,you think it's fair to believe
there was at least one death ofthe staff there, either in the
explosion or like in theaftermath of the giant slime
eating that person?
Adam (14:04):
Yeah, I would imagine So on the floor of the cafeteria,
Matt discovers an anchovy and hesays the thing, whatever it is,
does not have a taste foranchovies.
And I can't say I blame it.
PJ (14:16):
anchovy jokes here.
And I was wondering, do youthink big pepperoni was behind
paying for like this placementto really shit on
Adam (14:23):
Yeah, totally.
PJ (14:25):
pizza?
Topping
Adam (14:27):
Yeah, I feel like there were a lot of anchovy jokes when
we were a kid.
PJ (14:29):
there were,
Adam (14:30):
I don't even know what a an anchovy was.
Meanwhile, Scott and T Bob arewalking around the grounds
around the hotel, seeing whatanimals are out there.
And there's a shot.
Did you notice this?
We're Scott and T Bob.
are walking past giraffes
PJ (14:45):
Yes.
Adam (14:46):
are about their size or smaller.
Have Scott and T Bob suddenlygrown to super size?
PJ (14:52):
The reality is this is like an animation era where they
should have been further in theforeground.
The draft should have beenfurther in the background to get
those, the perspective, theytotally botched it.
It's like reversed where
Adam (15:04):
Yeah.
PJ (15:04):
But if we accept this as Canon, I assume these were
results of experimentation fromthe lab creating miniature
giraffes, because why
Adam (15:14):
Yeah.
Sure.
PJ (15:16):
Doing everything else.
Adam (15:17):
Surely there's some function that Matt could find
with miniaturizing giraffes.
This is an Alex thing.
I can't fit giraffes in myexotic pet shop, but if you
shrink them down, Matt, imaginethe things I could do with them.
PJ (15:35):
Stop right there.
I don't want to imagine thethings you will do to them,
Alex.
Adam (15:39):
yeah.
Matt really is a super villainand Alex, what a henchman,
PJ (15:44):
He does look like Dr.
Mindbender from GI Joe,
Adam (15:48):
right?
PJ (15:49):
like same beard, same bald head.
All you need is a monocle.
Adam (15:53):
Well, we cut to The actual bad guys in the show who may
actually be the heroes.
But it's venom they're in theirhideout.
It's not as busted up as theirtypical hideouts are.
But we opened the scene and Slyis talking about how he doesn't
like smuggling illegal ivory outof Africa.
And I was like, really, has thisguy suddenly grown a conscience?
(16:14):
This is the guy who laughs whenhe's opening fire on civilians,
PJ (16:18):
I want to double down on what you're saying.
Cause we've seen him show a highconcern for nature and the
natural order of things with theRotex, he had a whole thing.
It was like, it's not natural.
Adam (16:30):
right?
PJ (16:31):
and he's had, I feel like this bent where it's like, he
has a high concern for.
For animals and nature and a lowone for humans.
So I'm now wondering if he'ssome sort of eco terrorist that
thinks humanity should bethinned out, like he's in it
basically because, for thedrugs, but then also because
he's got this like real, likeextreme, conservationist, eco
(16:55):
terrorism streak to him.
Adam (16:57):
let's a check for him in the hero column even though it's
not the way we would want it tohappen Sure, okay
PJ (17:02):
I want to re point out smuggling ivory is an awful
crime.
Like it's awful because itinvolves the death of elephants
I want to still, how do we placeit against doing biological
experiments that create worldkilling organisms that run amok,
Adam (17:16):
Yeah, clearly much lower on the scale of evil, but also,
look at again at what miles hasthem doing for money.
They're smuggling ivory out ofAfrica.
PJ (17:28):
Yeah.
Adam (17:29):
the best you got up your sleeve right now, man, is we're
going to go smuggle ivory out ofAfrica.
How much could that actuallyearn them?
Really?
In 1980s money?
Assuming they don't have a jetfull of all the ivory from
Tanzania.
I don't know, several hundredthousands of dollars?
Maybe a million at most?
Come on, Miles.
(17:50):
Get it together.
PJ (17:51):
again, like he's not desecrating statues on Easter
Island anymore.
Adam (17:55):
True.
PJ (17:56):
he's trying to claw his way out.
Okay.
And this is the best he's got.
Adam (18:01):
Ugh.
PJ (18:02):
Topical for the eighties.
I'll say that much.
It
Adam (18:04):
sure.
Yeah.
PJ (18:05):
point but again, misses the point in the larger evil of the
episode.
Yeah.
Adam (18:11):
Oh, completely.
Because anyways, Miles saysforget about the ivory.
He's been tipped off by a labtechnician at Mount Kilimanjaro
that there's something deadlythat eats everything alive on
top of the mountain.
So Miles new plan is to getcontrol of this substance and
blackmail every country in theworld for billions.
(18:31):
Now, I think there's a solidplan.
Plan.
It's a good high value ask onvenom parts of miles is back on
track here.
PJ (18:38):
So again, the lab is clearly within the tracker organization
we do take it that Venom's gotspies or at least, informants
inside of said organization.
Adam (18:48):
not in Mask itself, obviously, but within Tracker
Industries.
PJ (18:53):
I do want to point out again, this was a slight
annoyance is that I can actuallybuy the fact that given the size
of Africa venom and mask arethere at the same time.
It's just a big.
Big continent.
It is a little coincidental thatthey happen to be in the same
country.
So I did a tiny bit of researchthat
Adam (19:10):
Mm hmm.
PJ (19:11):
Of ivory smuggling did happen in Tanzania Burundi.
So it would have been actually afairly simple and logical thing
to establish this line ofdialogue that, Oh yeah, we're in
Tanzania because of this ivorysmuggling.
So it's I, again, I want to kickit back to the writers for just
being so.
(19:31):
with the whole we're in Africa.
Adam (19:33):
Can I just go back to the mole in the tracker
organization?
PJ (19:37):
Yeah,
Adam (19:38):
I have a guess for who I think is the obvious mole who we
know as a character in mask whomight be disgruntled enough to
want to feed information tovenom, who is also known as a
bit of a master of disguise.
PJ (19:56):
oh, you mean someone who might have underground contacts?
Adam (19:59):
You have contacts in the underworld.
Yeah.
PJ (20:01):
Could it be the man for whom we have named our racism award?
Adam (20:05):
It is indeed Buddy Hawks.
So I pause it now and we willsee how it pans out throughout
the rest of the series thatBuddy Hawks is an informant for
Venom.
PJ (20:15):
Although in this particular case, just to be fair, Miles
says it's a technician workingat the lab,
Adam (20:22):
Huh.
PJ (20:23):
I will say that there's no way that Matt would let Buddy
Hawks out of his job at BoulderHill to be a technician out of a
lab in Africa.
Adam (20:32):
No but he spent so much time alone at Boulder Hill that
surely he's dived into thecomputer extensively, knows
everything that's happeningwithin Tracker Industries, and
he can quite easily point milesto,
PJ (20:44):
So,
Adam (20:44):
Hey, Matt's got a lab.
PJ (20:56):
and how did he disguise himself?
Africa, Adam, given what we'veseen from him before.
Cause that fucker is, has nobounds.
He earns his award almost everytime.
Adam (21:12):
Yeah, no, exactly.
He would definitely be a locallab technician.
From Tanzania and we'll leave itat that folks.
So there we go.
Another door blown wide open.
You heard it here first, butback to the episode itself.
Meanwhile, Matt and Alex areflying along in Thunderhawk and
they're following the trail ofthis organic eating material and
(21:35):
they finally catch up to it.
And it's like this big, giantblue wave.
Rolling across the land and Mattidentifies it as quote unquote
blue protoplasm and Alexsurmises that the algae and
leopard cells combined to createa new life form and Alex is
already thinking of ways toeither kill it or break its
(21:57):
spirit or both
PJ (22:00):
is the right man for this mission, okay?
Adam (22:03):
oh yeah
PJ (22:03):
Matt, I have a proven record of breaking or killing animals,
or both I deserve to be here.
This thing's massive!
Adam (22:12):
It's huge.
PJ (22:13):
It's massive.
Do you think Cloverfield wasinspired by this?
Adam (22:16):
I'm sure JJ probably watched Mask.
PJ (22:18):
Probably.
Adam (22:20):
Matt declares it's time to call in the team and we go into
the agent selection scene and heasks the computer to select
agents.
Best suited to combat a deadlynew life form in East Africa.
Alex sector preselected.
As we pointed out, who else dothey need to kill life forms?
He's got Alex, the computercould just say, nah, you're
(22:41):
good, man.
All done, so the other, onlyother agent that's selected is
Hondo McClain, and he's chosenbecause he's an expert on
African geography along withbeing a weapons expert, but a
couple things here.
First, is the computer getting aBuddy Hawks nomination for
choosing the black guy forAfrican geography?
PJ (23:01):
Yeah, 100%.
Like what exactly of geographycomes into play here?
Other than the fact that thewriters apparently don't care
about it because they keepcalling it Africa
Adam (23:15):
Hondo just knows a All African geography from Morocco
to South Africa, to Nigeria, toKenya, to Tanzania.
He just knows it all.
And also a weapons expert.
PJ (23:27):
That's legit.
Here's my thing.
call in Hondo for every mission.
Cause he's proven just to kickass you can just be like select
Hondo just because that's it.
That's all you need.
Adam (23:39):
Yeah.
Why not?
PJ (23:39):
all this other stuff, it just, it never comes into play.
Adam (23:43):
gets the call.
He's in the classroom justteaching.
Writing stuff on the board andonce the watch rings, he just
walks out of the classroom tothe surprise of the students.
First of all, why are theysurprised?
It happens all the time.
But two, another guy who hasalready given up on his New
Year's resolution to really justbuckle down and become a better
teacher.
(24:03):
He's like, Nevermind.
I'm out, but that's the team,man.
The entire team is Matt, Hondoand Alex.
PJ (24:09):
Honda is awesome.
We've got Thunderhawk.
We'll have hurricane.
We've got two mass vehicles.
I do want to point out, this isanother world ending event.
Adam (24:19):
Yeah.
PJ (24:20):
call in maybe a few more people?
Adam (24:22):
You'd think,
PJ (24:23):
we had close to the entire team on the Rotex episode.
We had close to the entire teamon Assault on Liberty.
I think we had close to theentire team when they were
landing the comet down on Oslo.
I think this rises to theoccasion of all hands on deck or
the world is fucked.
The only allowance maybe wouldbe Brad, who might try to get
high off the slime,
Adam (24:43):
Yes.
PJ (24:44):
you put him home, but like everybody else, it's let's do
this, folks.
Adam (24:49):
Agreed.
They also hardly use maskabilities in this episode.
PJ (24:53):
Oh, yeah,
Adam (24:54):
Some lasers a jackrabbit is used, but not real.
I mean, It's used,
PJ (25:00):
it's
Adam (25:00):
it's, It's pretty silly.
Cut to.
Scott and T Bob, they arrive ata lake which Scott points out is
a salt lake which will be paidoff later.
And uh, sort of take, a seat torelax.
And then suddenly, the bluealgae appears in the background.
They run, but we end with afreeze frame of them, which I
haven't seen yet in Mask.
(25:20):
They're running, what's gonnahappen?
Freeze frame.
They're doomed.
what's going to happen PJ?
He's going to be
PJ (25:28):
I don't know.
I don't know.
Adam (25:30):
We'll find out after these messages.
Come on, Jeebop.
Mask will be right back.
Oh, boy.
Back to mask.
We are back.
When we left you, Scott and TBob were about to be devoured by
the deadly blue slime.
Scott was anyway, but T Bobwouldn't be touched because he's
not organic, right?
PJ (25:50):
Yeah, we're going to find that out momentarily, but you
don't know that in the moment.
Adam (25:53):
Yeah, and then realizing that they're not going to be
able to escape in time, T Bobgrabs Scott and then extends his
extendo arms and plops Scott inthe lake moments before the blue
algae overtakes T Bob.
I was wondering why he didn'tjust transform it to scooter
mode and send them both into thelake, but that's fine.
PJ (26:13):
seen him transform into scooter mode and accidentally
leave Scott behind.
Adam (26:17):
True.
PJ (26:17):
Maybe this was like the one way he could guarantee that
Scott would be in the lake.
Which he was hoping was going tosave Scott.
Adam (26:25):
There's no guarantee at all.
PJ (26:27):
They do an interesting like shot though.
Like they've got one shot whereit's like the slime coming down
the screen and pushing Scott outwith the arms.
And then the other shot fromScott's point of view, where the
focus, but T Bob is not.
It's kind of a cool like moment.
Adam (26:44):
it's cool.
Wish they had put the samethought into the tiny giraffes
shot But that's okay.
I'm noticing this trend though,where in the previous episode
two, like T Ball was reallystepping up when the day needs
to be saved.
PJ (26:57):
I think it's the third episode in a row.
Cause he did it here.
He saved them, after Mattrandomly shot at the cable to
melt it.
Adam (27:06):
Right.
PJ (27:07):
T Bob was like, fuck this shit.
I'm not going to deal with thisanymore.
I'm going to just save the day.
And then before that he blowsaway Blackout.
So T Bob's quickly becoming likethe hero of the show.
Adam (27:18):
He absolutely is.
PJ (27:20):
To note.
Scott actually is, again, notplacing himself in danger.
He was actually just followingthe instructions he was given.
Adam (27:29):
Matt.
Again, putting his own son indanger.
He maybe didn't know.
He knew there was something outthere.
PJ (27:36):
He brought Scott to Africa
Adam (27:38):
just got to Africa,
PJ (27:39):
experiment gone
Adam (27:40):
wrong.
Yeah, father of the year.
Right there.
At any rate, the deadly blueslime stops short of the lake
and then retreats.
But T Bob is gone.
Moments later, Matt and Alexland in Thunderhawk.
They pick up Scott and they flyoff to save T Bob.
Matt shoots spectrum laser, butit doesn't do anything to the
(28:02):
algae and the Thunderhawk wingcannons don't do much either,
create a big hole, but then thealgae just regenerates.
And Alex says, selfregenerating, incredible.
And he's getting really excitednow.
PJ (28:16):
I felt like you wanted to follow that up with, I haven't
found anything this hard to killin a long time.
Adam (28:22):
And meanwhile Venom is racing to catch up to the slime.
Sly says, only we would be dumbenough to try to go meet this
thing.
they look ahead and they seeAlex flying overhead using
Jackrabbit.
He's looking for T Bob.
But the animation is so bad,it's funny.
It's what we would do when wewere kids, having Alex Fly in
jackrabbit, just like movinglike a still figure around in
(28:46):
the sky.
PJ (28:48):
The animation was amazing, in terms of how bad it was.
I officially just had some soundeffects like Woo, woo, woo! Like
we would have done as kids.
Adam (28:57):
Yeah, totally.
Miles's plan is actually to notengage with mask directly, but
just collect the slime and getout.
PJ (29:05):
I thought that was pretty smart on his part.
Adam (29:07):
Matt, Alex, and Scott discover T Bob left behind by
the slime.
And t Bobb is holding a bag ofpotato chips that Scott was
eating earlier.
So here we go with the the salttheme again.
Alex realizes that anchovies andpotato chips both have salt and
salt, pulls water out ofprotoplasm, and makes it dry up.
And that's why the deadly blueslime avoid salty things.
(29:31):
And actually this is not badthinking.
This is pretty smart unlessyou've got a science corner to
disprove it.
Yeah,
PJ (29:42):
got some sort of biological organic material that's got some
sort of organic acid thatdoesn't affect metals and those
exist.
I feel like I've read likeacetic acidic and maybe formic
acid are fall into this, butyou, the rate at which it tends
to dissolve the biologicalmaterial, would imply it has a
higher pH, but honestly, likewhatever it does imply that it
(30:04):
would leave behind some sort ofwaste product.
Of whatever metals, because likeit's consuming stuff and there's
trace elements of like iron andchromium and biological
materials.
that means that would get leftbehind.
So I don't know if Matt's tryingto, leverage that after the
fact, but it works at the saltwould break down the cell walls
(30:26):
of the organism.
So I'm game.
Adam (30:29):
good thinking, like actually good thinking writers.
meanwhile, Miles orders afrightened cliff and sly out to
capture a sample of the blueslime.
And also Matt sets up T Bob asbait for the deadly blue slime.
And my, I was just realizingthat both of these leaders have
very little regard for thesafety of their team.
PJ (30:50):
Cliff's arms are clearly like exposed now.
Sly has a full bodysuit on.
and maybe I was like, there'sprobably rubber or leather
gloves.
So those may not protect them atall.
But yeah, they have very littlelike concern.
Scott has to watch his quoteunquote son T Bob, or at least
(31:14):
the thing he created be dunkedinto the protoplasm.
Adam (31:17):
Speaking of that, Matt lowers T Bob into the algae and
tells him to wait until he'snear the bottom before extending
his arms and legs.
Here's a horrific moment where,from a rope, mind you, T Bob is
slowly lowered from beneathThunderhawk into the deadly blue
slime.
Now, Mile sees this, he getsupset, Transform switchblade
(31:40):
into jet mode and goes aftermask.
PJ (31:43):
Yeah, really interesting.
This is actually the first timein the episode that mask knows
that venom is there,
Adam (31:50):
Yeah,
PJ (31:51):
is actually had the drop on them.
Honestly, like would probablyhave been a smart move in
retrospect to actually shootThunderhawk down.
Adam (31:59):
right.
PJ (32:00):
but you know, miles actually is trying to do the clandestine
thing, decides it's not going towork.
And then.
Maybe reveals themselves, butit's actually interesting
because it happens fairly latein the episode.
Adam (32:10):
Very late in the episode, the theme song promises us that
Mask is always riding hot onVenom's trail.
And this episode, like someother ones, but this one is the
biggest example of an episodewhere Venom could actually not
be in it at all.
PJ (32:24):
Yeah.
Adam (32:25):
And you would still have the same exact episode.
PJ (32:27):
Yeah.
Basically.
It's really only this like Endbattle.
That's not much.
the threat really has been selfgenerated and it remains the
major threat.
It's not venom.
It's the blue slime.
Adam (32:40):
And all you needed to do to make this a typical episode
of Mask is to have Miles is theone who stole the deadly blue
slime in the first place.
Just do a Rotex.
This is, this could be Rotexonly with the deadly blue slime.
PJ (32:56):
it's true.
Although I find it moreinteresting this way.
Adam (33:01):
Oh, a hundred percent.
I agree a hundred percent.
It's just, if the promise of thepremise of the episode of Mask
is Mask fighting Venom to savethe world, This is not an
episode of Mask.
PJ (33:13):
Oh, that's true.
No.
I mean, This is a, as we pointedout earlier, this is covering up
Matt's tracks basically.
Adam (33:19):
Oh yeah.
Oh, also, vehicles and Maskpowers are barely needed So we
could not necessarily play thisepisode as kids with our toys.
PJ (33:29):
Yes.
Unless we use the He Man slime,
Adam (33:31):
Yeah, that got stuck in the it got stuck in the carpet
and Mom gets super mad about it.
PJ (33:36):
Yes.
Yes.
Adam (33:38):
Hondo finally shows up in Hurricane and we see it
transform for the first time andhe does a great job disabling
switchblade.
Hurricane is an absolute beastof a machine.
It is so cool.
PJ (33:49):
yeah.
It is fucking rocking this wholething.
I just wished it was around more
Adam (33:53):
Yeah.
PJ (33:54):
episode, but like it takes out both switchblade.
Demonstrating how much of acrack shot he is.
We'll get to see what he does ina moment, because he's going to
keep kicking ass.
Adam (34:09):
And do you notice he's wearing his new mask for the
first time and he only had thehalf mask before like the
Cyclops mask.
So his entire lower face was andback of his head was revealed,
but his new mask.
Is really intense.
I feel like they over correctedwith like multiple layers.
And it goes down a little bitdown to the, his V neck, he's
(34:30):
got two things over hisshoulders.
They're like okay.
I heard your criticism.
Hondo.
We're going to fix it this time.
PJ (34:35):
they definitely jam in the other direction, pretty
hardcore.
Adam (34:38):
Yeah.
PJ (34:39):
From what I've read, it's supposed to be twice as powerful
as the old blaster, which mademe wonder if it's now more
powerful than spectrum laser.
Adam (34:48):
old blaster could vaporize steel.
So what on earth could thisthing do?
I mean, You don't want to bearound it when Hondo is using
it.
That's all I got to say.
Meanwhile, T Bob gets to thebottom of the blue slime and he
shoots out some never beforeseen grappling like hook things
(35:08):
from inside his body.
And somehow Matt is able to usethis trick to pull the entire
deadly blue slime creature offthe ground.
And I'm not sure how a liquidsolid is able to be picked up in
this fashion.
PJ (35:24):
Throw an idea that came to me.
So let's, so first off with thegrappling hooks, I thought,
okay, in the universe of it,we've seen them fall to their
dooms a lot of times.
So maybe these have beeninstalled after the fact to try
to correct for that.
It's not a parachute, like wetalked to that last time, but
it's oh, it's grappling hooks.
I could imagine again, thiscould be corrected with a line
(35:47):
of dialogue they need to do itthis way is that they're running
a current from T Bob through tocreate an electrostatic field
that is what's actually used tolike effectively attract the
Adam (36:00):
Yeah.
No, you're
PJ (36:01):
fund award now, but.
Adam (36:02):
yeah, for sure.
PJ (36:03):
It's basically like how I would think about it is just
Hey, like you throw up like the,some kind of electromagnetic
field to attract the slime toit, to hold it together enough
to actually move it someplace.
Adam (36:16):
That is the most writer's defense award nomination I've
heard in this episode becauseI'm just I'm thinking this thing
is like jello
PJ (36:23):
Yeah.
I thought the same thing.
Adam (36:24):
yeah, now we have this moment where Scott sees like a
little fawn and I think it's a,is that an onyx or an oryx or,
I'm not sure what animal it is,but he uh, attempts to save an
animal that's in the way of thedeadly blue slime.
PJ (36:39):
Yeah.
It's just sitting there andwatching it.
And it clearly has no survivalinstinct
Adam (36:45):
Right.
PJ (36:45):
because it should run away.
So Scott decides that it's goingto go and comfort the animal, as
opposed to shooing it away.
Adam (36:53):
Or like trying to pick it up or shove it out of the way.
PJ (36:56):
right
Adam (36:56):
I will die with you.
PJ (36:58):
Yeah.
It's proves that Scott has nosurvival instinct either.
Adam (37:02):
Yeah, for a boy genius, he's pretty darn dumb.
PJ (37:05):
He is, maybe he has gotten tired of life with Matt.
Adam (37:09):
Buddy.
Hondo, meanwhile, goes afterClip and Sly, who are forced to
run away.
PJ (37:15):
Like, Hondo rides this thing underneath the blue slime that's
being picked up.
Matt has no fear, and
Adam (37:21):
No fear at all.
Yeah.
PJ (37:23):
out, I mean, like, everybody by himself.
Adam (37:26):
No, I know.
You probably could have justdropped Hondo into this case and
left Matt and Alex out of it andit would have been just fine.
Nevertheless, Matt drops theblue algae into a salt lake
nearby and we watch it.
Horrified, by the way, as thiscreature writhes in pain It is
horrifying!
PJ (37:46):
It really is.
It, like, it feels pain, andit's like, it didn't ask to be
created.
created it, and now Mattdestroys it.
See?
Adam (37:55):
it's like the same as when, T Bob was getting smushed
by the gravity waves.
Like as uncomfortable to watchthis thing, this huge thing die.
It's a child.
It's a baby really.
It's just been born.
PJ (38:07):
Yeah.
Adam (38:07):
And it's crying out to its creator, and the creator says
nothing, just watches it go.
well, Matt, Points out that thefuel is almost gone in
Thunderhawk, and so we're gonnahave to let mayhem get away.
Okay I guess Thunderhawk hassome sort of fuel, the radiation
is gone, he hasn't put anyplutonium in it recently, but
anyways.
PJ (38:28):
I mean, He did just haul a really huge biological creature.
So I was kind of willing to giveit a bit of a pass for what
Adam (38:34):
Alright, alright, so we'll give him a pass there.
Yeah.
PJ (38:38):
fresh and obviously able to destroy all of the vehicles.
So I'd probably be like, Hondo,can you take them all out?
Adam (38:45):
Yeah, totally.
But what Matt is able to do isfire one of his famous magnetic
pucks that attaches toSwitchblade.
It's like a homing beacon slashbugging device.
he says this bugging device willlead us to him later.
And do you think that Matt everuses that device to, Follow up
on the lead.
PJ (39:04):
In my watching of the episode, I was like, no, this is
not going to be used.
This is going to be a end.
Adam (39:09):
I thought they were pretty much wrapping things up here,
PJ (39:12):
Right.
Adam (39:13):
course they actually ended up doing because next thing that
happens is the team gatherstogether and listens in on
miles's conversation with theslime cliff who revealed to
miles that they weren't able toget a sample of the slime and
while miles is having a totalconniption fit, Matt, Alex,
Hondo, Scott, and T Bob, Allbreak out laughing.
PJ (39:32):
This is how they react towards world ending events.
All the time.
So I'll admit I was wrong.
It was useful to get thisinformation.
There's some fun dialogue inthere where Sly's like, I didn't
want to be known as lefty forthe rest of my life.
Adam (39:48):
Right.
PJ (39:49):
But I do have a question for you.
So, um, I mean, Obviously like,you know, miles is.
On the loose.
He knows about the slime, butwho else knows about the slime
Adam (39:59):
The scientist who worked on it?
PJ (40:00):
and uh, what's gonna happen to them?
Adam (40:04):
We talked about the ravine earlier in the episode.
Matt can't have these loose endsjust floating around there out
in the world.
They're gonna be disappeared.
And that's all there is to sayon that, as far as Matt's
concerned.
There's another reason whyHondo's here.
PJ (40:20):
Blaster?
Adam (40:22):
absolutely.
Uh, That's it.
They laugh and uh, we cut to themore, you know, we're at a lake
somewhere.
It doesn't feel like Africa, butit's a big continent.
So who knows?
I will point out it's prettymuch all white people who are
there at the lake.
So
PJ (40:38):
to be fair for better or for worse, and, you know, you can go
either way on this one.
we don't see any natives ofTanzania
Adam (40:45):
Right.
Any local people are right.
There are no local Tanzanianscene anywhere.
So anyways Scott's about to goswimming in this lake and T Bob
says he'll go with him and behis buddy.
And uh, Matt, who's lying therekind of sits up and says uh,
it's always good to have abuddy.
And T Bob says everybody shouldhave a buddy, even buddy Hawks,
(41:05):
what I like here is that, okay,first of all, the lesson is When
you go swimming, have a buddy.
PJ (41:10):
Yes.
Adam (41:11):
But also I like how Matt didn't say that Scott should
have a buddy.
It was actually T Bob whosuggested it.
And Matt was like, Oh yeah, goodidea.
Then pops open a Zima
PJ (41:22):
It would have been a Bartles and James in the 80s.
So yeah, I agree.
He was day drinking and waslike, Oh yeah! Good idea.
Adam (41:29):
Yeah.
So we end with a father of theyear moment.
So, uh, Episode, is it pandapoo?
Yeah.
PJ (41:36):
It's funny, when we talk about panda poo, We're often
judging by kind of the actionsof venom, I think of, do they
seem like they have a viableplan?
And honestly like, I actuallythought venom did some very
smart moves here.
They didn't cause the situation,we do see them getting informed
of it and taking advantage ofthe situation
Adam (41:59):
Yeah.
PJ (42:00):
you know, the idea of of threatening the world.
I'll be at, you know, the saltthing becomes it would become a
problem all right, biologicalwarfare.
That's a terrorist plan, andit's worth billions of dollars.
I, again, it's not panda poo,but it's not, it's also, I'm
really disturbed.
Adam (42:14):
Yeah.
PJ (42:15):
straight up disturbed about what we learned about tracker
research here.
Adam (42:18):
Mhm.
PJ (42:19):
they, they're clearly incompetent at their jobs
Adam (42:23):
Yeah.
PJ (42:23):
explosion happen,
Adam (42:25):
hmm.
Right.
PJ (42:28):
Dangerous biological material it's funded by Matt and
Matt's willing to participate ina coverup.
make sure the word doesn't getout that they created this giant
thing.
So I'm really like unhappy abouthow much it's confirmed for us.
Adam (42:45):
Mm hmm.
PJ (42:46):
Panda poo, but like certainly places everything into
a light is what we
Adam (42:52):
Yeah.
Yeah.
From a world building standpointis backing up everything we
thought about Matt that thathe's an arms dealeR.
another childhood bubble hasbeen burst.
PJ (43:02):
Panda poo for you?
Adam (43:03):
no, only in that it was not really a mask episode, but
it was about a wealthybillionaire trying to cover up a
world destroying horror that wasaccidentally unleashed by his
own people.
Let's move on to our awards.
A Slyrax Ragdoll Award.
PJ (43:24):
I did not have one this
Adam (43:26):
No, T Bob survives being dunked in the deadly blue slime,
but,
PJ (43:30):
Yeah.
Adam (43:31):
no one crashes and is killed, but somehow doesn't die,
so.
No Slyrax Ragdoll award thisepisode.
What about a Roy Batty award forT Bob?
Yeah, and
PJ (43:41):
the slime to stop it like what is going through T Bob's
head at that point in time justsaved Scott.
Adam (43:48):
now he's being dunked into it.
No, I agree 100%.
Father of the Year?
PJ (43:54):
There's probably a few, it occurred to me, one could just
be the very inception ofbringing Scott to an area that
has a known biological hazard
Adam (44:03):
Yeah, that goes without saying for pretty much every
single
PJ (44:07):
fair.
Adam (44:08):
episode.
PJ (44:09):
leaving Scott behind in the savannah by himself, despite the
fact being patrolled, he's stilla 10 or 11 year old boy.
Adam (44:16):
Right.
PJ (44:16):
Out with wild animals.
Adam (44:18):
Yeah, are lions.
Out there at the very least.
So yeah, I'd agree with you onthat one.
And also, drunk dad, sunbathing,forgetting to tell his son to go
swimming with a buddy,
PJ (44:29):
Yeah.
Adam (44:30):
job, Matt.
Good job.
Finally the buddy Hawks award.
What do we got for ournominations?
PJ (44:36):
All right.
So the computer certainly gets anomination because Hondo's
knowledge of African geographydid not come into play.
And it really is just suspect ofjust having the one black guy on
the team go
Adam (44:48):
Yeah.
PJ (44:48):
in quote unquote Africa.
Adam (44:50):
Yep.
PJ (44:51):
So there's that.
And then we tag onto that thewriters get to add to their
lifetime achievement award byreferring to Africa as if it's a
country the entire fucking time.
Adam (45:02):
Yeah.
Congrats writers.
You are earning more and morelaurels.
PJ (45:05):
I'll tell you, this is a slight oddball curve ball for
me.
My nomination actually goes tosomething a little understated
which is Matt Tracker putting abiological research facility.
a country with apparently noregulatory oversight, and it
just felt a little bit racist tobe like, ah, we'll just put it
somewhere in Africa.
(45:26):
are they going to do?
I'm actually going to give it toMatt for whatever process he did
to end up with just a,biological research facility in
Tanzania.
Adam (45:38):
Yeah.
Reeks of colonialism.
I agree.
A hundred percent with that,man.
That's a very good one.
So congrats, Matt.
Buddy Hawks award goes to youfor this episode.
That's it for episode 31, 32.
The Currency Conspiracy.
In the Swiss Alps, masks muststop venom from using an
organism that eats the ink offprinted money, rendering the
(46:01):
bills worthless at the behest ofa corrupt finance minister.
Wow.
PJ (46:09):
Hey, Adam, guess where that corrupt finance minister is
Adam (46:12):
Oh no.
PJ (46:14):
West Germany.
And we'll also dive into somediscussion of how we ended up
with fiat currency uh, and howit impacts this particular
episode and why crypto might'vecome out of the response.
For this incident happening,
Adam (46:32):
Wow, man.
This is, and again, more linksto Nazis and their financing.
PJ (46:39):
it's crazy
Adam (46:40):
All right.
Mask never fails to disappoint.
Hopefully you weren'tdisappointed by this episode
either, but whether you liked itor not, we've got to transform
and head back to HQ.
I am Adam Moore.
PJ (46:53):
and I am PJ McNerney,
Adam (46:54):
Bye bye.
PJ (46:56):
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 intothe blob.
My name is Adam Moore alongsidemy cohost and best friend, PJ
McNerney.
How's it going PJ?
Okay.
PJ (00:26):
I'm doing well.
my family is recovering frombeing a little under the
weather.
which is great because schoolstarts tomorrow again.
it's funny.
It's like, you know, Thereshould be some lessons involved
in not playing around withorganisms And I feel like maybe
we're going to get a lesson onthat one today.
Adam (00:43):
Oh, we sure are, because it's episode 31, Deadly Blue
Slime.
Very on the nose.
Mask goes to Africa, somewherein Africa, to stop a botched
experiment that has created adeadly blue slime that consumes
everything in its path.
Before we dive in here, I justwant to say botched experiment
(01:09):
is a bit of a lie because it'smore like purposeful gain of
function.
Research is what happens here.
PJ (01:17):
100 percent that what's going to be great.
We find out really soon.
Guess who funded it?
Adam (01:23):
I'll give you all two guesses on who it is.
Yeah so, uh, they traveled toquote unquote Africa.
PJ (01:31):
Yeah.
Hold on.
We got to stop right there.
Like off before we even hit thefirst shot, they keep saying the
entire episode in Africa as ifAfrica is a single country.
It's a continent folks.
And it is composed of 54countries, and we're gonna talk
about Mount Kilimanjaro, let'sname it, it's in Tanzia,
(01:53):
Tanzania, which is, I found thisout today because I did a tiny
bit of research, it is the mostpopulous country south of the
equator, fully south of theequator.
But like the equivalent of thisis if we were back in that
England episode with the mysteryof the rings and all that jazz,
and if I were saying we're inEurope, and just called it
(02:13):
Europe the entire time as thislike massive blob,
Adam (02:17):
Yeah, it's a bit like if you're on the small world ride
and you go through the Africasection.
It's just a random nod and ahint of the variety of cultures
on the continent.
PJ (02:32):
there's only one continent that is a single country.
Which you know very well,
Adam (02:37):
I do know very well.
It's Australia Which I pronouncecorrectly.
It's not Australia.
It's Australia.
Now our one Australian fan willnow be tuning out because I just
got a Buddy Hawks nomination.
PJ (02:53):
You mean your wife is not going to listen to this?
Adam (02:56):
she's barely listening as it is.
Hey, so let's start this thing,right?
PJ (03:03):
right.
Adam (03:04):
open on a shot of Mount Kilimanjaro and then we pan to a
research station and inside wefind these two scientists and we
hear these lines of dialogue.
Hey, Joe, you want an anchovy?
And the other guy's like, toosalty for me.
Tastes like one of yourexperiments gone bad.
First of all, possible BuddyHawks nomination for how overly
(03:25):
nerdy these guys sound.
PJ (03:27):
I agree.
I found it more disturbing.
The notion they're implying thatthey eat the experiments that go
bad, that they eat thebiological experiments.
Is this
Adam (03:36):
Yeah.
PJ (03:37):
drunk game that they play?
it's important to also point outthese are the whitest
researchers you will see ever.
Everyone in this facility is thewhitest set of people ever,
Adam (03:47):
Especially for being in Africa.
It turns out one of thesescientists is growing a rare
blue algae.
and the other scientist says, Iheard it's almost as voracious
as that snow leopard cultureI've got.
The other guy says warm it up alittle and it actually attacks
meat and nutrients in the dish.
Wow, can you imagine what wouldhappen if we crossed my white
(04:07):
leopard cells with your bluealgae cells?
Like, I don't know guys, the endof the world?
What are they trying toaccomplish with their research?
PJ (04:16):
This was like, I feel like we have to head to ethics corner
here for a second.
first, what is going on here?
Like why is it okay for thesescientists to be doing these
kinds of experiments in quoteunquote Africa?
Again, we're not going tomention Tanzania.
Like away from some sort ofgoverning research body that has
(04:36):
oversight and they're clearlydoing gain of function research
on naturally occurringorganisms.
Adam (04:42):
Yeah, It's got this blue algae.
That's one thing, but what's upwith the snow leopard culture?
PJ (04:47):
You bring up some really interesting questions here,
because do they get the snowleopard culture from?
Cause snow leopards, I do notthink are native to Tanzania.
Adam (04:57):
well, suddenly a giant explosion rocks the lab, as
typically happens in Mask.
The scientists run outside todiscover The handle of a drawer,
like that's their big discoveryis like the guy picks up the
metal handle of a drawer and Idon't quite understand what that
beat means.
Does it indicate their researchhas been stolen?
PJ (05:17):
I did not get this because they're like, he literally
asked, where's the wooden drawerand shelves?
clearly there's been anexplosion that took out the
concrete
Adam (05:28):
Right.
PJ (05:30):
And I was like, isn't it logical that the wooden drawer
vaporized and the metal is allthat's left here, guys?
Adam (05:38):
Yeah.
What do you think happened toit?
That wood was supposed to beindestructible.
PJ (05:42):
I'm glad we got top notch scientists working on this
biological research material.
Adam (05:46):
Got our top men working on it.
Top men.
PJ (05:49):
men.
Adam (05:51):
Oh, back at the tracker mansion Scott and T Bob are
playing a tabletop space shootervideo game.
T Bob makes a little commentthat robots are not subject to
human error.
And then Scott corrects him bysaying, but I built you.
Remember?
So we better stop right there.
PJ (06:09):
We better stop right there.
I think we did a may a couple onthe a
Adam (06:13):
Last episode.
Yeah.
PJ (06:14):
last episode we had taken the information from the UK
comics column that Matt Trackercommissioned Alex sector to
build T Bob for Scott.
And we have to stop and thinkabout how disturbing this is
now.
That means that he built asentient robot,
Adam (06:31):
Right.
PJ (06:32):
or at least one that has the appearance of sentience, that
passes the Turing test.
Adam (06:36):
Yeah,
PJ (06:36):
That means Scott's a genius, but what would drive a young boy
to be forced to create his ownbest friend out of metal, a
nanny even, whom Matt has taskedin the past of watching over
Scott there is somethingseriously disturbing here,
Adam (06:52):
It's so incredibly sad.
Here's another thing about theprogramming of T Bob.
first of all, he says, I builtyou remember.
So is it possible that T Bobdoesn't remember?
That Scott built him.
And then the next line from TBob's is I must be programmed to
lose.
So the second note of mine isthink of how selfish Scott must
be to program T Bob to losegames against him.
(07:14):
So Scott then is a.
Very disturbed, boy supergenius, narcissist, insecure,
like he is this massive plagueof mental health issues.
I don't know where to go withthis other straight to inpatient
therapy.
Scott,
PJ (07:35):
I would love to be in that therapist office, just trying to
listen to Scott.
Like here is his truth.
This is the reality he hasexperienced.
Built my own robot who now takescare of me.
I go on adventures with my dadand I frequently fall off large
cliffs.
uh, Like the therapist is goingto think this kid's delusional.
(07:57):
Like
Adam (07:58):
He's going to say, look, I'm a mandated reporter.
And unfortunately I do have toreport this to the authorities.
Like I don't have a choice.
Thanks for bearing with us as wedive into Scott's pathology.
He and T Bob walk into Matt'soffice where Alex is sitting on
the couch.
Playing with a globe of theworld, like it's a bouncing
(08:18):
ball.
rolling it around in his hands.
Like what the what?
Meanwhile, Matt is on the phoneand he says, That's amazing.
All the high altitudeexperiments are missing.
So what we discovered here isthat it's Matt's lab in Africa
and that he was funding theresearch.
So PJ, I've got to ask you, whyis Matt funding research into
meat eating algae?
PJ (08:40):
am happy to come to grips that Matt may actually be the
billionaire bad guy here andwe've got.
so many examples he fundedBrian, the brain, the sub,
Adam (08:51):
Yeah.
PJ (08:52):
the high speed jet.
He funded the electrical trainthat the scientists then used to
build blackout he's fundedfactories in Hong Kong.
do we have to look back at allthese quote unquote hospitals
he's funded in other places andwonder if they're actually just
like performing experiments inthe Amazon or
Adam (09:10):
Right.
PJ (09:11):
he's literally like this, there's a direct connection
here.
Adam (09:14):
Yeah.
No, he's not building hospitalsin, poverty stricken, rural
regions in America or thingslike that.
It's in the Amazon, far from thehands of the American
authorities.
PJ (09:26):
if you needed to do high altitude experiments, guess what
has high altitude?
The state you live in, Matt,Colorado.
Adam (09:35):
it's true.
And then the scientist he says,just get here at once before the
authorities and the whole worldlearns about it.
PJ (09:42):
Whoa! we have theorized about this in the past, that
Matt requires them
Adam (09:48):
Mm hmm.
PJ (09:48):
Him first.
And they do.
Adam (09:51):
They literally do here.
Yeah,
PJ (09:53):
of any authority is we have joked about this, but guess
what?
Here's our smoking gun.
Are we prepping for a cover up?
Adam (10:02):
100%.
Matt's thinking, great.
Not only am I going to have tocover this up, but I've got a
lot of scientists I have to killnow.
Where am I going to put themall?
I got to bring them back toColorado and toss them in a
ravine.
Like, how is this going to work?
Maybe there's a ravine inTanzania.
PJ (10:18):
wonder if the mask jet refrigerators are cleaned out
yet.
Adam (10:23):
well, Matt then turns to Alex, Scott and T Bob and says,
Hey, you three, how would youlike to come along to a
whirlwind trip to Africa?
somewhere in Africa.
PJ (10:32):
somewhere in Africa, a giant continent.
Adam (10:36):
And now we cut to some thatch roofed huts in Africa.
It's a hotel, but apparently inMask World, they don't have real
buildings in Africa.
They have thatched roofed huts.
And Matt and Alex are gonna goinvestigating, while Scott and T
Bob are instructed to, quoteunquote, observe whatever is
around the hotel.
(10:56):
And in Matt's language, thatmeans, Stay at the hotel.
PJ (11:00):
Yeah, he specifically says the patrolled area
Adam (11:03):
Yeah
PJ (11:04):
So, I mean, I guess it's some degree of safety?
Adam (11:08):
Okay.
Alex has an awful dad joke inhere.
He says, you might even see anew and T Bob asks, what's a
new?
And Alex says, Oh, not much,what's anew with you?
And he really busts out laughingthere.
PJ (11:22):
He does, he's like, I haven't used that joke in a long
time.
And, What's great is it's both abad dad joke, as well as
fundamentally stereotyping howItalians speak English.
Because that's the
Adam (11:34):
Hey, what's anew with you?
PJ (11:35):
new with you?
So I feel like Alex is likereally digging in his grave
here.
Adam (11:41):
Yeah.
PJ (11:42):
Buddy Hawks award nomination for him on this one.
Adam (11:45):
Yeah, on top of that, a Buddy Hawks nomination for the
writers for the Thatched RoofHotel in Africa.
PJ (11:51):
look, they are piling on their lifetime achievement award
with this episode.
Adam (11:56):
Oh, for sure.
But Scott is super sad abouthaving to walk around and look
at nice things in Africa, huh?
PJ (12:06):
He's gonna go on the savannah and see like all the
wonderful creatures that arethere and the wonderful animals
and he's so indignant
Adam (12:13):
Yeah,
PJ (12:14):
the fact he's got new clothes.
Adam (12:15):
he actually he has a little safari outfit, which is
very nice But he's just sospoiled and just over it.
He's like he's been every likewhatever.
Yeah Animals in the savannah.
That's cool.
Whatever
PJ (12:27):
world, dad, but I've never been home.
Adam (12:30):
We live in a house, but it's not a home.
I want a home dad.
We cut to the destroyed labwhere Matt and Alex are
investigating with Matt's lackeywhoever sees the lab and they
discovered that somethingorganic ate its way out of the
lab and towards the mountain andthey actually go into a
cafeteria like Matt pushes thedoor down, like now the door is
(12:54):
off its hinges, but it's a bigmetal door.
And this dude is strong enoughto just stub the door down.
PJ (12:59):
He is beefy,
Adam (13:00):
Yeah.
PJ (13:01):
no one was behind that door,
Adam (13:03):
Yep.
PJ (13:03):
I want to really point something out, we're about to be
on the precipice of a realdanger that's here, I think it's
worthwhile to state that Venomis not involved at all at this
point.
Adam (13:14):
At all.
PJ (13:15):
This is entirely Matt's doing.
Adam (13:18):
Matt funded the research.
The research got out of control.
What caused the giant explosion?
PJ (13:23):
I don't know, cause they, we're going to find out that
Venom only found out about thiskind of through a technician
after the fact, so
Adam (13:31):
That's a great point.
PJ (13:33):
shoddy safety standards at the lab is what caused the
explosion.
Adam (13:38):
Yeah, that's right.
I'm just realizing this now.
Cause I thought it, I assumedwhen I saw the explosion that it
all led back to venom, butyou're right.
It doesn't.
This is completely Matt's fault.
PJ (13:50):
And I had one question since we're going to know that there's
biological material being eaten,you think it's fair to believe
there was at least one death ofthe staff there, either in the
explosion or like in theaftermath of the giant slime
eating that person?
Adam (14:04):
Yeah, I would imagine So on the floor of the cafeteria,
Matt discovers an anchovy and hesays the thing, whatever it is,
does not have a taste foranchovies.
And I can't say I blame it.
PJ (14:16):
anchovy jokes here.
And I was wondering, do youthink big pepperoni was behind
paying for like this placementto really shit on
Adam (14:23):
Yeah, totally.
PJ (14:25):
pizza?
Topping
Adam (14:27):
Yeah, I feel like there were a lot of anchovy jokes when
we were a kid.
PJ (14:29):
there were,
Adam (14:30):
I don't even know what a an anchovy was.
Meanwhile, Scott and T Bob arewalking around the grounds
around the hotel, seeing whatanimals are out there.
And there's a shot.
Did you notice this?
We're Scott and T Bob.
are walking past giraffes
PJ (14:45):
Yes.
Adam (14:46):
are about their size or smaller.
Have Scott and T Bob suddenlygrown to super size?
PJ (14:52):
The reality is this is like an animation era where they
should have been further in theforeground.
The draft should have beenfurther in the background to get
those, the perspective, theytotally botched it.
It's like reversed where
Adam (15:04):
Yeah.
PJ (15:04):
But if we accept this as Canon, I assume these were
results of experimentation fromthe lab creating miniature
giraffes, because why
Adam (15:14):
Yeah.
Sure.
PJ (15:16):
Doing everything else.
Adam (15:17):
Surely there's some function that Matt could find
with miniaturizing giraffes.
This is an Alex thing.
I can't fit giraffes in myexotic pet shop, but if you
shrink them down, Matt, imaginethe things I could do with them.
PJ (15:35):
Stop right there.
I don't want to imagine thethings you will do to them,
Alex.
Adam (15:39):
yeah.
Matt really is a super villainand Alex, what a henchman,
PJ (15:44):
He does look like Dr.
Mindbender from GI Joe,
Adam (15:48):
right?
PJ (15:49):
like same beard, same bald head.
All you need is a monocle.
Adam (15:53):
Well, we cut to The actual bad guys in the show who may
actually be the heroes.
But it's venom they're in theirhideout.
It's not as busted up as theirtypical hideouts are.
But we opened the scene and Slyis talking about how he doesn't
like smuggling illegal ivory outof Africa.
And I was like, really, has thisguy suddenly grown a conscience?
(16:14):
This is the guy who laughs whenhe's opening fire on civilians,
PJ (16:18):
I want to double down on what you're saying.
Cause we've seen him show a highconcern for nature and the
natural order of things with theRotex, he had a whole thing.
It was like, it's not natural.
Adam (16:30):
right?
PJ (16:31):
and he's had, I feel like this bent where it's like, he
has a high concern for.
For animals and nature and a lowone for humans.
So I'm now wondering if he'ssome sort of eco terrorist that
thinks humanity should bethinned out, like he's in it
basically because, for thedrugs, but then also because
he's got this like real, likeextreme, conservationist, eco
(16:55):
terrorism streak to him.
Adam (16:57):
let's a check for him in the hero column even though it's
not the way we would want it tohappen Sure, okay
PJ (17:02):
I want to re point out smuggling ivory is an awful
crime.
Like it's awful because itinvolves the death of elephants
I want to still, how do we placeit against doing biological
experiments that create worldkilling organisms that run amok,
Adam (17:16):
Yeah, clearly much lower on the scale of evil, but also,
look at again at what miles hasthem doing for money.
They're smuggling ivory out ofAfrica.
PJ (17:28):
Yeah.
Adam (17:29):
the best you got up your sleeve right now, man, is we're
going to go smuggle ivory out ofAfrica.
How much could that actuallyearn them?
Really?
In 1980s money?
Assuming they don't have a jetfull of all the ivory from
Tanzania.
I don't know, several hundredthousands of dollars?
Maybe a million at most?
Come on, Miles.
(17:50):
Get it together.
PJ (17:51):
again, like he's not desecrating statues on Easter
Island anymore.
Adam (17:55):
True.
PJ (17:56):
he's trying to claw his way out.
Okay.
And this is the best he's got.
Adam (18:01):
Ugh.
PJ (18:02):
Topical for the eighties.
I'll say that much.
It
Adam (18:04):
sure.
Yeah.
PJ (18:05):
point but again, misses the point in the larger evil of the
episode.
Yeah.
Adam (18:11):
Oh, completely.
Because anyways, Miles saysforget about the ivory.
He's been tipped off by a labtechnician at Mount Kilimanjaro
that there's something deadlythat eats everything alive on
top of the mountain.
So Miles new plan is to getcontrol of this substance and
blackmail every country in theworld for billions.
(18:31):
Now, I think there's a solidplan.
Plan.
It's a good high value ask onvenom parts of miles is back on
track here.
PJ (18:38):
So again, the lab is clearly within the tracker organization
we do take it that Venom's gotspies or at least, informants
inside of said organization.
Adam (18:48):
not in Mask itself, obviously, but within Tracker
Industries.
PJ (18:53):
I do want to point out again, this was a slight
annoyance is that I can actuallybuy the fact that given the size
of Africa venom and mask arethere at the same time.
It's just a big.
Big continent.
It is a little coincidental thatthey happen to be in the same
country.
So I did a tiny bit of researchthat
Adam (19:10):
Mm hmm.
PJ (19:11):
Of ivory smuggling did happen in Tanzania Burundi.
So it would have been actually afairly simple and logical thing
to establish this line ofdialogue that, Oh yeah, we're in
Tanzania because of this ivorysmuggling.
So it's I, again, I want to kickit back to the writers for just
being so.
(19:31):
with the whole we're in Africa.
Adam (19:33):
Can I just go back to the mole in the tracker
organization?
PJ (19:37):
Yeah,
Adam (19:38):
I have a guess for who I think is the obvious mole who we
know as a character in mask whomight be disgruntled enough to
want to feed information tovenom, who is also known as a
bit of a master of disguise.
PJ (19:56):
oh, you mean someone who might have underground contacts?
Adam (19:59):
You have contacts in the underworld.
Yeah.
PJ (20:01):
Could it be the man for whom we have named our racism award?
Adam (20:05):
It is indeed Buddy Hawks.
So I pause it now and we willsee how it pans out throughout
the rest of the series thatBuddy Hawks is an informant for
Venom.
PJ (20:15):
Although in this particular case, just to be fair, Miles
says it's a technician workingat the lab,
Adam (20:22):
Huh.
PJ (20:23):
I will say that there's no way that Matt would let Buddy
Hawks out of his job at BoulderHill to be a technician out of a
lab in Africa.
Adam (20:32):
No but he spent so much time alone at Boulder Hill that
surely he's dived into thecomputer extensively, knows
everything that's happeningwithin Tracker Industries, and
he can quite easily point milesto,
PJ (20:44):
So,
Adam (20:44):
Hey, Matt's got a lab.
PJ (20:56):
and how did he disguise himself?
Africa, Adam, given what we'veseen from him before.
Cause that fucker is, has nobounds.
He earns his award almost everytime.
Adam (21:12):
Yeah, no, exactly.
He would definitely be a locallab technician.
From Tanzania and we'll leave itat that folks.
So there we go.
Another door blown wide open.
You heard it here first, butback to the episode itself.
Meanwhile, Matt and Alex areflying along in Thunderhawk and
they're following the trail ofthis organic eating material and
(21:35):
they finally catch up to it.
And it's like this big, giantblue wave.
Rolling across the land and Mattidentifies it as quote unquote
blue protoplasm and Alexsurmises that the algae and
leopard cells combined to createa new life form and Alex is
already thinking of ways toeither kill it or break its
(21:57):
spirit or both
PJ (22:00):
is the right man for this mission, okay?
Adam (22:03):
oh yeah
PJ (22:03):
Matt, I have a proven record of breaking or killing animals,
or both I deserve to be here.
This thing's massive!
Adam (22:12):
It's huge.
PJ (22:13):
It's massive.
Do you think Cloverfield wasinspired by this?
Adam (22:16):
I'm sure JJ probably watched Mask.
PJ (22:18):
Probably.
Adam (22:20):
Matt declares it's time to call in the team and we go into
the agent selection scene and heasks the computer to select
agents.
Best suited to combat a deadlynew life form in East Africa.
Alex sector preselected.
As we pointed out, who else dothey need to kill life forms?
He's got Alex, the computercould just say, nah, you're
(22:41):
good, man.
All done, so the other, onlyother agent that's selected is
Hondo McClain, and he's chosenbecause he's an expert on
African geography along withbeing a weapons expert, but a
couple things here.
First, is the computer getting aBuddy Hawks nomination for
choosing the black guy forAfrican geography?
PJ (23:01):
Yeah, 100%.
Like what exactly of geographycomes into play here?
Other than the fact that thewriters apparently don't care
about it because they keepcalling it Africa
Adam (23:15):
Hondo just knows a All African geography from Morocco
to South Africa, to Nigeria, toKenya, to Tanzania.
He just knows it all.
And also a weapons expert.
PJ (23:27):
That's legit.
Here's my thing.
call in Hondo for every mission.
Cause he's proven just to kickass you can just be like select
Hondo just because that's it.
That's all you need.
Adam (23:39):
Yeah.
Why not?
PJ (23:39):
all this other stuff, it just, it never comes into play.
Adam (23:43):
gets the call.
He's in the classroom justteaching.
Writing stuff on the board andonce the watch rings, he just
walks out of the classroom tothe surprise of the students.
First of all, why are theysurprised?
It happens all the time.
But two, another guy who hasalready given up on his New
Year's resolution to really justbuckle down and become a better
teacher.
(24:03):
He's like, Nevermind.
I'm out, but that's the team,man.
The entire team is Matt, Hondoand Alex.
PJ (24:09):
Honda is awesome.
We've got Thunderhawk.
We'll have hurricane.
We've got two mass vehicles.
I do want to point out, this isanother world ending event.
Adam (24:19):
Yeah.
PJ (24:20):
call in maybe a few more people?
Adam (24:22):
You'd think,
PJ (24:23):
we had close to the entire team on the Rotex episode.
We had close to the entire teamon Assault on Liberty.
I think we had close to theentire team when they were
landing the comet down on Oslo.
I think this rises to theoccasion of all hands on deck or
the world is fucked.
The only allowance maybe wouldbe Brad, who might try to get
high off the slime,
Adam (24:43):
Yes.
PJ (24:44):
you put him home, but like everybody else, it's let's do
this, folks.
Adam (24:49):
Agreed.
They also hardly use maskabilities in this episode.
PJ (24:53):
Oh, yeah,
Adam (24:54):
Some lasers a jackrabbit is used, but not real.
I mean, It's used,
PJ (25:00):
it's
Adam (25:00):
it's, It's pretty silly.
Cut to.
Scott and T Bob, they arrive ata lake which Scott points out is
a salt lake which will be paidoff later.
And uh, sort of take, a seat torelax.
And then suddenly, the bluealgae appears in the background.
They run, but we end with afreeze frame of them, which I
haven't seen yet in Mask.
(25:20):
They're running, what's gonnahappen?
Freeze frame.
They're doomed.
what's going to happen PJ?
He's going to be
PJ (25:28):
I don't know.
I don't know.
Adam (25:30):
We'll find out after these messages.
Come on, Jeebop.
Mask will be right back.
Oh, boy.
Back to mask.
We are back.
When we left you, Scott and TBob were about to be devoured by
the deadly blue slime.
Scott was anyway, but T Bobwouldn't be touched because he's
not organic, right?
PJ (25:50):
Yeah, we're going to find that out momentarily, but you
don't know that in the moment.
Adam (25:53):
Yeah, and then realizing that they're not going to be
able to escape in time, T Bobgrabs Scott and then extends his
extendo arms and plops Scott inthe lake moments before the blue
algae overtakes T Bob.
I was wondering why he didn'tjust transform it to scooter
mode and send them both into thelake, but that's fine.
PJ (26:13):
seen him transform into scooter mode and accidentally
leave Scott behind.
Adam (26:17):
True.
PJ (26:17):
Maybe this was like the one way he could guarantee that
Scott would be in the lake.
Which he was hoping was going tosave Scott.
Adam (26:25):
There's no guarantee at all.
PJ (26:27):
They do an interesting like shot though.
Like they've got one shot whereit's like the slime coming down
the screen and pushing Scott outwith the arms.
And then the other shot fromScott's point of view, where the
focus, but T Bob is not.
It's kind of a cool like moment.
Adam (26:44):
it's cool.
Wish they had put the samethought into the tiny giraffes
shot But that's okay.
I'm noticing this trend though,where in the previous episode
two, like T Ball was reallystepping up when the day needs
to be saved.
PJ (26:57):
I think it's the third episode in a row.
Cause he did it here.
He saved them, after Mattrandomly shot at the cable to
melt it.
Adam (27:06):
Right.
PJ (27:07):
T Bob was like, fuck this shit.
I'm not going to deal with thisanymore.
I'm going to just save the day.
And then before that he blowsaway Blackout.
So T Bob's quickly becoming likethe hero of the show.
Adam (27:18):
He absolutely is.
PJ (27:20):
To note.
Scott actually is, again, notplacing himself in danger.
He was actually just followingthe instructions he was given.
Adam (27:29):
Matt.
Again, putting his own son indanger.
He maybe didn't know.
He knew there was something outthere.
PJ (27:36):
He brought Scott to Africa
Adam (27:38):
just got to Africa,
PJ (27:39):
experiment gone
Adam (27:40):
wrong.
Yeah, father of the year.
Right there.
At any rate, the deadly blueslime stops short of the lake
and then retreats.
But T Bob is gone.
Moments later, Matt and Alexland in Thunderhawk.
They pick up Scott and they flyoff to save T Bob.
Matt shoots spectrum laser, butit doesn't do anything to the
(28:02):
algae and the Thunderhawk wingcannons don't do much either,
create a big hole, but then thealgae just regenerates.
And Alex says, selfregenerating, incredible.
And he's getting really excitednow.
PJ (28:16):
I felt like you wanted to follow that up with, I haven't
found anything this hard to killin a long time.
Adam (28:22):
And meanwhile Venom is racing to catch up to the slime.
Sly says, only we would be dumbenough to try to go meet this
thing.
they look ahead and they seeAlex flying overhead using
Jackrabbit.
He's looking for T Bob.
But the animation is so bad,it's funny.
It's what we would do when wewere kids, having Alex Fly in
jackrabbit, just like movinglike a still figure around in
(28:46):
the sky.
PJ (28:48):
The animation was amazing, in terms of how bad it was.
I officially just had some soundeffects like Woo, woo, woo! Like
we would have done as kids.
Adam (28:57):
Yeah, totally.
Miles's plan is actually to notengage with mask directly, but
just collect the slime and getout.
PJ (29:05):
I thought that was pretty smart on his part.
Adam (29:07):
Matt, Alex, and Scott discover T Bob left behind by
the slime.
And t Bobb is holding a bag ofpotato chips that Scott was
eating earlier.
So here we go with the the salttheme again.
Alex realizes that anchovies andpotato chips both have salt and
salt, pulls water out ofprotoplasm, and makes it dry up.
And that's why the deadly blueslime avoid salty things.
(29:31):
And actually this is not badthinking.
This is pretty smart unlessyou've got a science corner to
disprove it.
Yeah,
PJ (29:42):
got some sort of biological organic material that's got some
sort of organic acid thatdoesn't affect metals and those
exist.
I feel like I've read likeacetic acidic and maybe formic
acid are fall into this, butyou, the rate at which it tends
to dissolve the biologicalmaterial, would imply it has a
higher pH, but honestly, likewhatever it does imply that it
(30:04):
would leave behind some sort ofwaste product.
Of whatever metals, because likeit's consuming stuff and there's
trace elements of like iron andchromium and biological
materials.
that means that would get leftbehind.
So I don't know if Matt's tryingto, leverage that after the
fact, but it works at the saltwould break down the cell walls
(30:26):
of the organism.
So I'm game.
Adam (30:29):
good thinking, like actually good thinking writers.
meanwhile, Miles orders afrightened cliff and sly out to
capture a sample of the blueslime.
And also Matt sets up T Bob asbait for the deadly blue slime.
And my, I was just realizingthat both of these leaders have
very little regard for thesafety of their team.
PJ (30:50):
Cliff's arms are clearly like exposed now.
Sly has a full bodysuit on.
and maybe I was like, there'sprobably rubber or leather
gloves.
So those may not protect them atall.
But yeah, they have very littlelike concern.
Scott has to watch his quoteunquote son T Bob, or at least
(31:14):
the thing he created be dunkedinto the protoplasm.
Adam (31:17):
Speaking of that, Matt lowers T Bob into the algae and
tells him to wait until he'snear the bottom before extending
his arms and legs.
Here's a horrific moment where,from a rope, mind you, T Bob is
slowly lowered from beneathThunderhawk into the deadly blue
slime.
Now, Mile sees this, he getsupset, Transform switchblade
(31:40):
into jet mode and goes aftermask.
PJ (31:43):
Yeah, really interesting.
This is actually the first timein the episode that mask knows
that venom is there,
Adam (31:50):
Yeah,
PJ (31:51):
is actually had the drop on them.
Honestly, like would probablyhave been a smart move in
retrospect to actually shootThunderhawk down.
Adam (31:59):
right.
PJ (32:00):
but you know, miles actually is trying to do the clandestine
thing, decides it's not going towork.
And then.
Maybe reveals themselves, butit's actually interesting
because it happens fairly latein the episode.
Adam (32:10):
Very late in the episode, the theme song promises us that
Mask is always riding hot onVenom's trail.
And this episode, like someother ones, but this one is the
biggest example of an episodewhere Venom could actually not
be in it at all.
PJ (32:24):
Yeah.
Adam (32:25):
And you would still have the same exact episode.
PJ (32:27):
Yeah.
Basically.
It's really only this like Endbattle.
That's not much.
the threat really has been selfgenerated and it remains the
major threat.
It's not venom.
It's the blue slime.
Adam (32:40):
And all you needed to do to make this a typical episode
of Mask is to have Miles is theone who stole the deadly blue
slime in the first place.
Just do a Rotex.
This is, this could be Rotexonly with the deadly blue slime.
PJ (32:56):
it's true.
Although I find it moreinteresting this way.
Adam (33:01):
Oh, a hundred percent.
I agree a hundred percent.
It's just, if the promise of thepremise of the episode of Mask
is Mask fighting Venom to savethe world, This is not an
episode of Mask.
PJ (33:13):
Oh, that's true.
No.
I mean, This is a, as we pointedout earlier, this is covering up
Matt's tracks basically.
Adam (33:19):
Oh yeah.
Oh, also, vehicles and Maskpowers are barely needed So we
could not necessarily play thisepisode as kids with our toys.
PJ (33:29):
Yes.
Unless we use the He Man slime,
Adam (33:31):
Yeah, that got stuck in the it got stuck in the carpet
and Mom gets super mad about it.
PJ (33:36):
Yes.
Yes.
Adam (33:38):
Hondo finally shows up in Hurricane and we see it
transform for the first time andhe does a great job disabling
switchblade.
Hurricane is an absolute beastof a machine.
It is so cool.
PJ (33:49):
yeah.
It is fucking rocking this wholething.
I just wished it was around more
Adam (33:53):
Yeah.
PJ (33:54):
episode, but like it takes out both switchblade.
Demonstrating how much of acrack shot he is.
We'll get to see what he does ina moment, because he's going to
keep kicking ass.
Adam (34:09):
And do you notice he's wearing his new mask for the
first time and he only had thehalf mask before like the
Cyclops mask.
So his entire lower face was andback of his head was revealed,
but his new mask.
Is really intense.
I feel like they over correctedwith like multiple layers.
And it goes down a little bitdown to the, his V neck, he's
(34:30):
got two things over hisshoulders.
They're like okay.
I heard your criticism.
Hondo.
We're going to fix it this time.
PJ (34:35):
they definitely jam in the other direction, pretty
hardcore.
Adam (34:38):
Yeah.
PJ (34:39):
From what I've read, it's supposed to be twice as powerful
as the old blaster, which mademe wonder if it's now more
powerful than spectrum laser.
Adam (34:48):
old blaster could vaporize steel.
So what on earth could thisthing do?
I mean, You don't want to bearound it when Hondo is using
it.
That's all I got to say.
Meanwhile, T Bob gets to thebottom of the blue slime and he
shoots out some never beforeseen grappling like hook things
(35:08):
from inside his body.
And somehow Matt is able to usethis trick to pull the entire
deadly blue slime creature offthe ground.
And I'm not sure how a liquidsolid is able to be picked up in
this fashion.
PJ (35:24):
Throw an idea that came to me.
So let's, so first off with thegrappling hooks, I thought,
okay, in the universe of it,we've seen them fall to their
dooms a lot of times.
So maybe these have beeninstalled after the fact to try
to correct for that.
It's not a parachute, like wetalked to that last time, but
it's oh, it's grappling hooks.
I could imagine again, thiscould be corrected with a line
(35:47):
of dialogue they need to do itthis way is that they're running
a current from T Bob through tocreate an electrostatic field
that is what's actually used tolike effectively attract the
Adam (36:00):
Yeah.
No, you're
PJ (36:01):
fund award now, but.
Adam (36:02):
yeah, for sure.
PJ (36:03):
It's basically like how I would think about it is just
Hey, like you throw up like the,some kind of electromagnetic
field to attract the slime toit, to hold it together enough
to actually move it someplace.
Adam (36:16):
That is the most writer's defense award nomination I've
heard in this episode becauseI'm just I'm thinking this thing
is like jello
PJ (36:23):
Yeah.
I thought the same thing.
Adam (36:24):
yeah, now we have this moment where Scott sees like a
little fawn and I think it's a,is that an onyx or an oryx or,
I'm not sure what animal it is,but he uh, attempts to save an
animal that's in the way of thedeadly blue slime.
PJ (36:39):
Yeah.
It's just sitting there andwatching it.
And it clearly has no survivalinstinct
Adam (36:45):
Right.
PJ (36:45):
because it should run away.
So Scott decides that it's goingto go and comfort the animal, as
opposed to shooing it away.
Adam (36:53):
Or like trying to pick it up or shove it out of the way.
PJ (36:56):
right
Adam (36:56):
I will die with you.
PJ (36:58):
Yeah.
It's proves that Scott has nosurvival instinct either.
Adam (37:02):
Yeah, for a boy genius, he's pretty darn dumb.
PJ (37:05):
He is, maybe he has gotten tired of life with Matt.
Adam (37:09):
Buddy.
Hondo, meanwhile, goes afterClip and Sly, who are forced to
run away.
PJ (37:15):
Like, Hondo rides this thing underneath the blue slime that's
being picked up.
Matt has no fear, and
Adam (37:21):
No fear at all.
Yeah.
PJ (37:23):
out, I mean, like, everybody by himself.
Adam (37:26):
No, I know.
You probably could have justdropped Hondo into this case and
left Matt and Alex out of it andit would have been just fine.
Nevertheless, Matt drops theblue algae into a salt lake
nearby and we watch it.
Horrified, by the way, as thiscreature writhes in pain It is
horrifying!
PJ (37:46):
It really is.
It, like, it feels pain, andit's like, it didn't ask to be
created.
created it, and now Mattdestroys it.
See?
Adam (37:55):
it's like the same as when, T Bob was getting smushed
by the gravity waves.
Like as uncomfortable to watchthis thing, this huge thing die.
It's a child.
It's a baby really.
It's just been born.
PJ (38:07):
Yeah.
Adam (38:07):
And it's crying out to its creator, and the creator says
nothing, just watches it go.
well, Matt, Points out that thefuel is almost gone in
Thunderhawk, and so we're gonnahave to let mayhem get away.
Okay I guess Thunderhawk hassome sort of fuel, the radiation
is gone, he hasn't put anyplutonium in it recently, but
anyways.
PJ (38:28):
I mean, He did just haul a really huge biological creature.
So I was kind of willing to giveit a bit of a pass for what
Adam (38:34):
Alright, alright, so we'll give him a pass there.
Yeah.
PJ (38:38):
fresh and obviously able to destroy all of the vehicles.
So I'd probably be like, Hondo,can you take them all out?
Adam (38:45):
Yeah, totally.
But what Matt is able to do isfire one of his famous magnetic
pucks that attaches toSwitchblade.
It's like a homing beacon slashbugging device.
he says this bugging device willlead us to him later.
And do you think that Matt everuses that device to, Follow up
on the lead.
PJ (39:04):
In my watching of the episode, I was like, no, this is
not going to be used.
This is going to be a end.
Adam (39:09):
I thought they were pretty much wrapping things up here,
PJ (39:12):
Right.
Adam (39:13):
course they actually ended up doing because next thing that
happens is the team gatherstogether and listens in on
miles's conversation with theslime cliff who revealed to
miles that they weren't able toget a sample of the slime and
while miles is having a totalconniption fit, Matt, Alex,
Hondo, Scott, and T Bob, Allbreak out laughing.
PJ (39:32):
This is how they react towards world ending events.
All the time.
So I'll admit I was wrong.
It was useful to get thisinformation.
There's some fun dialogue inthere where Sly's like, I didn't
want to be known as lefty forthe rest of my life.
Adam (39:48):
Right.
PJ (39:49):
But I do have a question for you.
So, um, I mean, Obviously like,you know, miles is.
On the loose.
He knows about the slime, butwho else knows about the slime
Adam (39:59):
The scientist who worked on it?
PJ (40:00):
and uh, what's gonna happen to them?
Adam (40:04):
We talked about the ravine earlier in the episode.
Matt can't have these loose endsjust floating around there out
in the world.
They're gonna be disappeared.
And that's all there is to sayon that, as far as Matt's
concerned.
There's another reason whyHondo's here.
PJ (40:20):
Blaster?
Adam (40:22):
absolutely.
Uh, That's it.
They laugh and uh, we cut to themore, you know, we're at a lake
somewhere.
It doesn't feel like Africa, butit's a big continent.
So who knows?
I will point out it's prettymuch all white people who are
there at the lake.
So
PJ (40:38):
to be fair for better or for worse, and, you know, you can go
either way on this one.
we don't see any natives ofTanzania
Adam (40:45):
Right.
Any local people are right.
There are no local Tanzanianscene anywhere.
So anyways Scott's about to goswimming in this lake and T Bob
says he'll go with him and behis buddy.
And uh, Matt, who's lying therekind of sits up and says uh,
it's always good to have abuddy.
And T Bob says everybody shouldhave a buddy, even buddy Hawks,
(41:05):
what I like here is that, okay,first of all, the lesson is When
you go swimming, have a buddy.
PJ (41:10):
Yes.
Adam (41:11):
But also I like how Matt didn't say that Scott should
have a buddy.
It was actually T Bob whosuggested it.
And Matt was like, Oh yeah, goodidea.
Then pops open a Zima
PJ (41:22):
It would have been a Bartles and James in the 80s.
So yeah, I agree.
He was day drinking and waslike, Oh yeah! Good idea.
Adam (41:29):
Yeah.
So we end with a father of theyear moment.
So, uh, Episode, is it pandapoo?
Yeah.
PJ (41:36):
It's funny, when we talk about panda poo, We're often
judging by kind of the actionsof venom, I think of, do they
seem like they have a viableplan?
And honestly like, I actuallythought venom did some very
smart moves here.
They didn't cause the situation,we do see them getting informed
of it and taking advantage ofthe situation
Adam (41:59):
Yeah.
PJ (42:00):
you know, the idea of of threatening the world.
I'll be at, you know, the saltthing becomes it would become a
problem all right, biologicalwarfare.
That's a terrorist plan, andit's worth billions of dollars.
I, again, it's not panda poo,but it's not, it's also, I'm
really disturbed.
Adam (42:14):
Yeah.
PJ (42:15):
straight up disturbed about what we learned about tracker
research here.
Adam (42:18):
Mhm.
PJ (42:19):
they, they're clearly incompetent at their jobs
Adam (42:23):
Yeah.
PJ (42:23):
explosion happen,
Adam (42:25):
hmm.
Right.
PJ (42:28):
Dangerous biological material it's funded by Matt and
Matt's willing to participate ina coverup.
make sure the word doesn't getout that they created this giant
thing.
So I'm really like unhappy abouthow much it's confirmed for us.
Adam (42:45):
Mm hmm.
PJ (42:46):
Panda poo, but like certainly places everything into
a light is what we
Adam (42:52):
Yeah.
Yeah.
From a world building standpointis backing up everything we
thought about Matt that thathe's an arms dealeR.
another childhood bubble hasbeen burst.
PJ (43:02):
Panda poo for you?
Adam (43:03):
no, only in that it was not really a mask episode, but
it was about a wealthybillionaire trying to cover up a
world destroying horror that wasaccidentally unleashed by his
own people.
Let's move on to our awards.
A Slyrax Ragdoll Award.
PJ (43:24):
I did not have one this
Adam (43:26):
No, T Bob survives being dunked in the deadly blue slime,
but,
PJ (43:30):
Yeah.
Adam (43:31):
no one crashes and is killed, but somehow doesn't die,
so.
No Slyrax Ragdoll award thisepisode.
What about a Roy Batty award forT Bob?
Yeah, and
PJ (43:41):
the slime to stop it like what is going through T Bob's
head at that point in time justsaved Scott.
Adam (43:48):
now he's being dunked into it.
No, I agree 100%.
Father of the Year?
PJ (43:54):
There's probably a few, it occurred to me, one could just
be the very inception ofbringing Scott to an area that
has a known biological hazard
Adam (44:03):
Yeah, that goes without saying for pretty much every
single
PJ (44:07):
fair.
Adam (44:08):
episode.
PJ (44:09):
leaving Scott behind in the savannah by himself, despite the
fact being patrolled, he's stilla 10 or 11 year old boy.
Adam (44:16):
Right.
PJ (44:16):
Out with wild animals.
Adam (44:18):
Yeah, are lions.
Out there at the very least.
So yeah, I'd agree with you onthat one.
And also, drunk dad, sunbathing,forgetting to tell his son to go
swimming with a buddy,
PJ (44:29):
Yeah.
Adam (44:30):
job, Matt.
Good job.
Finally the buddy Hawks award.
What do we got for ournominations?
PJ (44:36):
All right.
So the computer certainly gets anomination because Hondo's
knowledge of African geographydid not come into play.
And it really is just suspect ofjust having the one black guy on
the team go
Adam (44:48):
Yeah.
PJ (44:48):
in quote unquote Africa.
Adam (44:50):
Yep.
PJ (44:51):
So there's that.
And then we tag onto that thewriters get to add to their
lifetime achievement award byreferring to Africa as if it's a
country the entire fucking time.
Adam (45:02):
Yeah.
Congrats writers.
You are earning more and morelaurels.
PJ (45:05):
I'll tell you, this is a slight oddball curve ball for
me.
My nomination actually goes tosomething a little understated
which is Matt Tracker putting abiological research facility.
a country with apparently noregulatory oversight, and it
just felt a little bit racist tobe like, ah, we'll just put it
somewhere in Africa.
(45:26):
are they going to do?
I'm actually going to give it toMatt for whatever process he did
to end up with just a,biological research facility in
Tanzania.
Adam (45:38):
Yeah.
Reeks of colonialism.
I agree.
A hundred percent with that,man.
That's a very good one.
So congrats, Matt.
Buddy Hawks award goes to youfor this episode.
That's it for episode 31, 32.
The Currency Conspiracy.
In the Swiss Alps, masks muststop venom from using an
organism that eats the ink offprinted money, rendering the
(46:01):
bills worthless at the behest ofa corrupt finance minister.
Wow.
PJ (46:09):
Hey, Adam, guess where that corrupt finance minister is
Adam (46:12):
Oh no.
PJ (46:14):
West Germany.
And we'll also dive into somediscussion of how we ended up
with fiat currency uh, and howit impacts this particular
episode and why crypto might'vecome out of the response.
For this incident happening,
Adam (46:32):
Wow, man.
This is, and again, more linksto Nazis and their financing.
PJ (46:39):
it's crazy
Adam (46:40):
All right.
Mask never fails to disappoint.
Hopefully you weren'tdisappointed by this episode
either, but whether you liked itor not, we've got to transform
and head back to HQ.
I am Adam Moore.
PJ (46:53):
and I am PJ McNerney,
Adam (46:54):
Bye bye.
PJ (46:56):
bye.
The mobile armored podcast showis written, produced and edited.
Bye Adam Moore.
And PJ McNerney.
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