And I'm Gary Butterfield. And this is Days of Future Cast, the podcast that is back. we have rebooted ourselves, Gary. To us, our listeners. To us, X-Men listeners. Yeah, we're back, everybody. Thank you for the large amount of patience that you have shown. I think... I think most people know about my weird health stuff that I've had over the last year that is called. crazy issues in my life uh gary's also going through
a bunch of crazy stuff. Um, and our normal schedule just was, just happens to fall in a day where like both of us usually have shit pop up. It's basically the in and out. So thank you for being so patient with us. We really appreciate it. We've been looking forward to getting on the mic for a long time.
I think for the last, what, like six weeks, we've tried to do this. And it's like at the last minute, one of us have had something happen. It keeps happening. It's a cursed kind of thing. And it's okay. You know, at the end of the day, like real life and health. is more important than the show. But fuck, I miss doing the show. You know, really happy to be back. Same here. Absolutely same here. What a good reason to come back.
You know, like imagine if we were coming back for like the adventures of Cyclops and Jean Grey, the 1996 miniseries about the Ascani, you know, for some shit. Like not that, you know, we'll never do a comic again or anything like that, but this, this is the closest thing to an X-Men emergency.
that i can think of for the show it's it's amazing that it's taken us this long because uh this is so much our shit this is the reason we started the podcast to begin with this is the thing that you and i i think
Over Dark Souls, this was one of the first things you and I connected on of shared interest, right? Just like, oh, X-Men, comic books, animated series. We were into it. And then, yeah, eventually started the podcast to cover the original series. And then, of course, the announcement that this was being made was...
kind of a surprise to everybody i think like it's not something that it was going to fit into canon it doesn't like explain stuff like the the spider-man cartoon is going to do uh or anything like that so like just This kind of being just a complete continuation and absolutely like literally like a sequel to X-Men, the animated series was wild to me. I had no idea.
multiple surprises right so like both on the level of the animated series but also you and i being uh you know marvel mcu and kind of marvel property defenders even though we'll admit like it's not at the height of where it was no one expected this to be good And then everyone thought it's good. And when I say everyone, I mean like normies, people who are not doing any Marvel rounding, like people like this is the year of Gary in a lot of ways between this and the fallout TV.
Yeah. This is where everything I like is coming home to roost. And then next year, of course, there's going to be a Death Note resurgence or something just to kick me in the balls. But for right now, I'm on top. Are you excited about the Baldur's Gate 3 anime, Gary? Is that something that's got your wind up? Are you ready for it? I might watch it. We'll see. It's really the two wolves of my nature fighting.
Yeah, it's amazing how many people I've seen online start this conversation about the show and say, like, oh, I thought this was just, like, a cheap cash-in from Disney. And then, you know, four posts down the line, like, after they watched the first episode, like, oh, my fucking God, this is so good. Yeah. And just continue.
yeah you know and it gets better like it's it's a really great cartoon will has um my friend will who writes for the av club is like we're calling it this is the best adaptation of the x-men name dropping yeah yeah well the will name drops me It's the AV club, Will. Excuse me. Which one is the Ryan Reynolds and which one is the Rob McElhinney of owning a soccer team when it comes to everything to Guppy? We don't need to take the AV club seriously anymore.
um but the the actually we take it more seriously now because it's got better ownership and stuff um and of course i'm kidding but the uh in terms of like pure adaptation of just the x-men you know, like Logan's probably a better, better movie than this. If you have to start, if you have to pit two bad bees against each other, but like in terms of just purely adapting the X-Men, I think this is probably the best X-Men adaptation.
I think it's how you asked that question, right? Because if you said, like, what is the best X-Men adaptation, I think this wins. Because this is far more X-Men shit than Logan is. What is the best overall X-Men adaptation ever? The thing with X-Men in the title or whatever. Exactly. Yeah, like X-Men adjacent or whatever. Like you put up Legion and you put up Logan. Absolutely. And I think maybe in that battle, Logan might win just because it's a little bit more concise and it's like...
doing exactly what it set out to do. And this does sprawl out. We do have to talk about the Shi'ar at some point in this podcast, and that's going to be a bummer. But they do it in a hilarious way. They do the best Shi'ar adaptation we've ever seen. So I guess I've got to give them points for it. Yeah, they do a lot of the shit really well. But yeah, it's so good. I was excited for it the moment the trailer came out and you saw Gambit.
jumping on wolverine's back and charging up his claws to go jump into sentinel i was like okay these guys get it like whatever what whoever is in charge of this creative project these people get it that that is fucking phenomenal and how have we never seen that before i love this i want to put every second of this in my bones
Yeah. It's, it's a, I think in the comics, it would blow Wolverine up in the cartoon. You can kind of skip that. And it's, and it makes it cool. It's an example of the, excuse me, example, a thing that happens all the time in this, which we like. which is action scenes that involve cool and creative use of superpowers, which is not something the X-Men is good at in adaptation.
Like even the movies, even the good ones, um, this is a rare thing. It happens, but it's not as cool. It doesn't happen as often as you. Yeah. You know, like maybe the height of this is like the, um, the Sentinel fight and days of future past in the future.
throwing people around with teleporter portals and shit. Everybody, everybody charging up Bishop and, you know, uh, like melting uh like i think colossus gets like super hot at one point from from pyro so he can and then he has gets super cold again or something yeah all of that stuff is phenomenal like that's probably doesn't happen that often though it doesn't a lot of adaptations it's just being You know, they just throw it through it. Like every, the X-Men all turned into walking gun.
Well, there's a lot of good, like, solo stuff, right? Like, if you think about the Nightcrawler scene in X-Men 2, and you think about, but yeah, a lot of it turns into, like, Cyclops is a gun now, which literally happens in, I think, Dark Phoenix. hysterical when we think about it um but yeah this is this is a lot of like mixture of powers there's a lot of like really like the x-men are have like really cool dialogue uh everything is so quick it's they're very dense
And obviously, I think from the very moment that you watched the first episode, you realize this has the forethought that you want in a TV show. They know what they're doing. They're planting a bunch of seeds for stuff. And you kind of get the feeling that all of this shit's going to pay off.
we're watching this week to week and we didn't know if everything was going to pay off. And then every single week stuff continually paid off and I was blown away. There's hardly a plot line in this that I think is really like a quote unquote waste, right? Like there's hardly even a subplot. I think is not worth spending time on it. We're not worth talking and not worth showing to us as consumers. And I'm, man, I'm just, I'm absolutely.
We should probably take a moment to talk about the big brain behind this, which is Bo DiMaio and kind of the weird controversy. So nobody knows what happened, but right before the series aired, like after episodes were given to... um our good my good friend will graham that works at the av club i don't know if you know will um like episodes were out there to critics early episodes were out there and then they announced that botamayo was like off the project and out of marvel
And it's so strange. Obviously, there's got to be some NDA signs because there's like nothing out there officially. Like nobody has said anything besides that dude. The only thing you can find on the internet is speculation about his relationship. his communication skills, his relationship with his employees at Marvel. This is backed up, quote unquote, backed up by rumors of the way that he comported himself when he worked.
three there's like some tweets out there that said like he was kind of vicious to employees but also it's very it's very suspicious to me that like Disney slash Marvel did this to a black very openly homosexual man Um, who happened to have an only fans too. And yeah, we don't know. We don't know. Yeah. Yeah. You get caught between kind of two poles here where it's like, My instinct lacking all evidence is to give the benefit of the doubt to a gay black sex worker.
At the same time, I also think it's kind of dehumanizing to say, like, gay black dudes can't be toxic. Of course they can, right? The broad swath of humanity belongs to everyone. You know, there are good people in any orientation or classification. The tricky part, the thing that makes it hard is we don't know. Like these NDAs are strong, right? Like we just like toxic to work.
No details, no nothing. No one is spilling the tea. And it's been a while specifically for this kind of thing. Right. Like I feel like when we find out about these controversies, it's out like almost day and day. So somebody leaks details of it and it hasn't happened here. Part of me wonders if it will happen after his last work is released was he also wrote season two of this, which is confirmed was, was made around the same. Part of me wonders if that was.
Like when he feels like he has less to lose or something like that. I'm real curious because I want to enjoy this without feeling conflicted about it. And. I don't know if that's going to be a thing. Yeah, absolutely. Um, you don't want to get Dr.
Is what you're saying. You don't want to, you know, it's, uh, it's, we should be clear. I don't think, I don't think there's a situation where Bodo bio is, is recruiting young children or something. And that's being an indicator. Like I'm just making a doctor disrespect joke, but, um, yeah, the thing that really bothers. it i think is um just the way that the rumors work like
It's kind of shitty for there to be no knowledge out there. And like one tweet from one guy saying that this dude was like. vaguely mean to employees and the people are extrapolating that from like oh well he's been shitty to employ like the rumor mill on this thing like with due to due to the lack of any kind of confirmation has been crazy And it's just real shitty. Like, who knows what happened? They could have had severe creative differences. This dude could have accidentally, you know.
run over someone's wife with their car you know what i'm saying he could have hit kevin wise wife with his car and didn't realize it so he gets fired who knows i don't know but it's just it's just really weird and strange that this happened and it happened when it did And we're still like, they're not like excommunicating his material. Like you mentioned that he's written all of everything for season two and they're going through and editing and like going to use that material.
And during this whole thing, as this was airing, Bo DeMaio was extremely active on Twitter promoting it. He was talking about it. He was answering questions. He was hinting at things. Very, very proud of the work that he did, which is... I can't imagine if there was a huge amount of negative feelings back towards that group that he would want to do that. But I don't know. As a creative person, it's very, very strange to be in that situation.
I don't know. We don't know, I guess, is the ultimate thing. The question mark of it is frustrating, and it causes a weird tension, and this is the tension that fandoms have with stuff, is this is the best thing Marvel's made.
Uh, I think, um, you know, with, as, as a Marvel liker, you know, like I watched Marvels and everyone's crazy. That's actually a pretty fun, good movie, you know? Um, the, uh, but this is the best thing they've made in years. It's somebody who I'd want to see taken into the fold. I would feel very comfortable if this guy, you know, without knowing any of the controversy stuff.
If this guy was in charge, like the X-Men showrunner for the MCU Marvel. A hundred percent. So such a deep understanding of what the X-Men is and does and needs like such a. It'd be so sick. Oh, dude. I mean, it's just.
the through lines through this and resurrecting that idea of it being a metaphor for homosexuality and like actually making that work in a way that i don't think marvel comics has really done in the last 20 years like it's been it's not done for a long time you know and varies per writer the thing is though it's like a schrodinger's cat thing because if uh
I want that. If I'm mourning the loss of that and Bo DiMaio is an absolute piece of shit, then I'm like those people who are like, man, I wish Louis C.K. was still around because I like his work. If I'm mourning that loss and Disney is a piece of shit, I'm righteously angry and I'm in the right. It is literally a Schrodinger's cat thing. And you can't know.
you know exactly what happened and it's a frustrating thing and a missed opportunity like the best possible thing that could come from this i think since we're going to have other people do that is that they learn from this and there are incentives for them to learn from it not just because of quality but because of financial
Yes. Like everyone loved this. Anybody who is taking the X-Men under their wing in the MCU would be stupid not to look to what this did right. And even if you don't care about the art, they'd be stupid financially.
not to do it i hope this absolutely sent um every single i hope i hope feige looked at this and sent every single script for the x-men that he had like back to the block and been like no no no you gotta none of this is working like you we want we want something like this we want we want something that can do this
pathos and this kind of work and this kind of emotional vulnerability for characters that we have. That's the X-Men shit, dude. This kind of romantic relationships and these complicated romantic relationships.
there's so many triangles there's so many there's so many little triangles and it's just so good um and i feel like something you said at the very beginning like in the absence of any kind of evidence like i'm going to support the gay over over the giant faceless corporation and in the meantime i'm going to have a really good time because
Every single thing that I've seen online shows that this dude wants us to have a really good time watching this show. So I'm going to have a great time watching the show until I don't, basically. And then insert, you know, Gary Butterfield dot text that like shows are made by lots of people, even if it has a head writer. I don't want to throw out everyone's work. Yes. You know, because even if this dude ends up being a shit, it's, you know, the work already exists.
It is not good behavior to just say like, well, fuck it. It's just one guy. Like nothing comes out that way. Um, yeah, let's, uh, let's get into it. Um, there, you know, uh, we're talking about the first episode. This we're gonna do one episode per episode of this.
Current plan to come out once per week. We're going to try to bank some episodes. So scheduling stuff doesn't fuck up with us. One of my real life things that I've not talked about on the shows yet is still developing, but hopefully we'll wrap up soon. Um, so the, uh, we can get more into a regular schedule, but we want to make sure we don't get interrupted. Gary's getting a pedaguana and it's affecting his ability to record. So yeah, it's a job. Fantastic.
Yeah. So yeah, as we mentioned, written by Bo DiMaio, directed by Jake Castorina. Episode one of season one is called To Me, My Echo. And yeah, so we mentioned this very briefly, but this is a direct continuation of... the original animated series so at the end of that series um everybody thinks that xavier is dead but he's just fucked up fucked off to the sky to be with his uh bird girlfriend uh bird friend bird girlfriend girl bird friend whatever um and we're gonna pick that up here
And we start out in New York City. There's all these posters on like telephone poles talking about like, you know, there's news reports of Xavier's death. One thing that I think is going to be fun about this show is that they're packed full of little hints to future episodes. They're also packed full of just brief cameos.
Thank you. That cameos. We're going to miss those. We're going to miss some of those because they are filled to the brim. TikTok people were having such a great time dissecting frame by frame every time these episodes came out. Um, even in the, um, you know, this kind of stuff, we, we kind of skipped over the intro, but the intro has been changed, uh, like reanimated. Oh, same things happen with some new scenes. Um, even within that.
There are new details. That was a real joy figuring out that changes most episodes. Yeah. That's great. House of the Dragon is doing that this season and it's real good. It's real spicy. You know, so we get the news reports. Xavier is dead. And we see Roberto, one of our new characters here, Sunspot. We know this because we're a comics fan, but we don't know it yet. um, bring being brought into the friends of humanity.
I love their headquarters. It's just this shitty warehouse with a tarp. They've rented the back of a bowling alley. Falling on hard times. And they need money because they're planning on selling these mutants for like $10,000 each. Notably, Roberto is wearing like a power. And as he's talking to these people, he's like trying to do his Roberto thing where like, hey, I can give you money. I'm one of the good ones. Like I was just born this way, that kind of thing. Yeah.
And one of my minor, you know, so like there are a couple of things. I love this show. It's not perfect to me. One of my nitpicks in this, and I'd be curious to hear what you say about this. Roberto's voice actor, I don't think the voice actor is bad. It's great that they got an Afro-Brazilian person to voice an Afro-Brazilian character. Some of the direction, I think, is not great. Some lines are too fat.
I just watched it, and I wanted to make sure it wasn't just the first time. He says things like the second sentence of a line a lot of times way too quickly. Interesting. It's real weird. It's not something I picked up on, but you've probably ruined the show for me from now on.
The next time he gets a highlight episode, because it'll be a little bit, pay attention to his deliveries. I think they're real strange. He's my least favorite voice actor on the show. And most people are doing a great job. It's a show, I think, with excellent voice acting. I just, the Roberto guy, cool voice. I just don't like, I don't like the delivery very much. I will say it's like one of two nitpicks I have really for the whole show.
you mentioned like the fastness I think that is a good thing and a bad thing about this show is that like it's it moves so quickly through plot it does um and like lots of plot and like there's a couple times where i'm like can we just can this be two episodes like i need i need i need extra space here um
We start seeing the wind pick up. All of these goons pick up their little Sentinel blaster things. They're Mega Man arms. They're Mega Man arms. Yeah, they're Mega Blasters. They have Mega Busters. Yeah, it's crazy. I love it. And here comes Storm. who looks amazing, who sounds awesome. She starts frying them, starts shooting things of lightning. Bishop jumps in, he starts shooting. All of this animation is super good. I saw some people have a problem with the animation.
I feel like, to me, it's aping the 1990s style quite a bit. And to me, it's super successful. I enjoyed it throughout. There was never a time where I was like, oh, that looks weird. To me, it's great throughout. But I know some people have... I understand what people are seeing in it. Like, I like it a lot, but I think that what they're seeing is the 1990s style being reproduced digitally. You know, it's digital animation, which has a lot.
To me, cel-shaded animation will almost always look better, even if it results in more inconsistent models. You can go on eBay and buy animation cells from the animated series for not very much. And real off model. Like if you're looking for an off model Fabian Cortez, eBay is made of them.
I spent a whole day on that eBay page looking – because this was years ago when we first started the podcast. I was going to get you one for Christmas one year because I thought that would be a pretty dope gift. That is a dope Christmas. And like – Didn't find a single one that I was like, Gary would put this on his wall. Like, not a single one. It'd be like, Gary's going to file this in the filing cabinet and lift it out for Joe.
Like it was just a lot of weird off model stuff. So I did get Derek of Fabian Cortez, because it was one of the cheaper ones you could get. Yeah. Great monster. Remember this guy? Well, I said, I just went for it. I was like, this was, you know, this was 10 bucks. Um,
But that digitalness can be a little bit off-putting, but it still looks really good. And the action is really well choreographed, which is the more important part to me. The blocking is really good. You can see it's got a little bit of that over-the-top anime style to how things work, but nothing is... so wild or so like quick that you can't really tell where things are in relation to each other. Yeah. You know, it's not doing like squash and stretch and like selective slow-mo.
There are a bunch of little pet peeves I have with action animation. This doesn't do. It's much more like... to me yeah um the uh the friends of humanity they blast the terminal next to them knocking them off the side and one of them says you know the x-men are like roaches where there's one there's more Um, you know, Roberto manages to get, uh, get out of his collar or his captor rather in this confusion. And then the wall blast open. There are more X-Men here.
Roberto was like, are you a good guy or a bad guy? He's like, no, my name's Cyclops. I'm definitely the good guy. Love it. And he... Making Cyclops cool. It's worth talking... We forgot to mention this early on. Most of the voice actors for the original series are back. Yes. The ones that are not tend to be pretty good impersonations. I think the Cyclops is one of the impersonations, but it's a really good impersonation. I'm not 100% sure of that, but I think that him and maybe Magneto...
And Jean Grey, right? Yeah, Jean Grey. All of them sound great to me. I had no problem throughout. I'm not going to be precious about that kind of stuff. No, no, no. I don't really care that much. As long as the voice acting is good, I'm kind of down for it. The notable change with Wolverine is that he doesn't have an Australian accent anymore, which is hilarious. Somebody knocked him on the head and he just changed.
Bub, hey. This Cyclops action is incredible because he grabs... roberto and he does a thing that is lifted directly from the marvel versus capcom video games which is which is a nutty pole and they do this a bunch during the series where he uses the beams to push himself around like a thing to that bad X-Men creators forget is that Cyclops' beams aren't just like, you know, lasers. It's push. It's force. You know, he punches things with his eyes.
It's what Cyclops does. So he uses this to push himself around and get around really quickly. And it looks great and it's a cool application and it's something that I wish he did more in the comments. hooting and hollering when i saw this like we're in the first five minutes of this like i woke up super early like That's another aspect of this that I want to talk about a little bit. These coming out weekly and literally me waking up and eating a bowl of cereal as these were coming out.
I was in the midst of chemo. So like Wednesdays, I was usually feeling like shit because that's when I would be. We don't have to get into all that, but like Wednesday mornings, I would be feeling like shit and like having a bowl of cereal and like watching the X-Men and then like seeing this for the first time. Just so excited. Like it was just such a return to my childhood. I just, I loved it so much. X-Men are great.
Yeah. The Friends of Humanity dude pulls a sheet off of a giant Sentinel arm and starts blasting it. They managed to strap up Cyclops with Ebola and they're like taking his visor off and he's like, no, no, no, stop. They're trying to stop. They're like, neutralize him. Take off his visor before he can do anything. And this was a lot in the trailer where he says, I surrender.
not he just blasts the whole fucking thing uh i love i just love it dude it's so it's so corny and so good and it feels it feels just like what i in my head that cyclops should be a capture so far. It's also very 90s. Yes. It hits that as well. Outside, we see a Daily Bugle. So we know that we're in, you know, in the Marvel Universe of the cartoons. And the Daily Bugle with, you know, photos by Peter Parker, writing by Eddie Brock, is about a fashion show and a hellfire gal.
super cool really cool like one of the things this does is it takes future x-men stuff And like, this is, this is late game revelation stuff, but you get hints of it here, which is what's so cool is it's taking a lot of 90 storylines. And things from the 2000s and future and synthesizing them really well. And that's not uncommon for X-Men adaptations to kind of take bits and pieces.
You look at X-Men 3, X-Men United, not a very good movie, but that is synthesizing Dark Phoenix and the Gifted storyline from the first Joss Whedon. It's about Dark Phoenix, but it's also about a cure for immunity. You know, it has Kavita Rao. It's adding those things together. This does that very successfully.
And this is it hinting to us that it's going to be pulling things from the past and future because Hellfire Gala, even though canonically it was part of the comics kind of behind the scenes, it wasn't really a thing until the Krakow. That was a wild thing to see. I genuinely thought they were like, are they going to start doing Hox Pox stuff in this fucking 90s X-Men cartoon? I thought it was going to go... It could have gone in any direction at this point, and I was very excited.
Absolutely wild. And you mentioned, not to take us off on another tangent, but you mentioned Joss Whedon. Something just came out about Kevin Feige, and he was talking about how he's... Pulling in basically all of the actors from the history of MCU movies and TV shows. And then apparently there's two on his no-go list. And it's Edward Norton and Joss Whedon. I just thought that was really funny. I just thought that was really amazing.
We cut over to the X-Men mansion. Gambit is in the kitchen with his belly shirt. I love Gambit in the belly shirt so much. He's making beignets. He's making beignets. Never forget that time that Jean Grey was like, stop cooking in the kitchen. And Kambit's like, are you fucking serious, white lady? Yeah. It's a little bit of Kion Pebble. Cyclops is a little mad because him and Rogue weren't at the fight. They weren't there. And Gambit is pretty chill. He's like, just simmer down.
You're too stressed out trying to keep Xavier's dream alive. And that's the cue for... surprise xavier to walk in uh and he begins to very like jokingly uh chide scott for not having fun uh and he's so over the top and ridiculous you're kind of left like what is going on and of course this is not xavier but the funny man morph doing a whole bit
The interesting thing, so worth addressing here too, because this had its share of controversy when it came out. Morph typically does not use his human form or their human form rather, pardon me, during this and is non-binary.
This caused Chuds to freak out during this. It turns out to be an absolute... non-issue of course it does um he's you know uh morph is not uh and i apologies for misgendering morph i'm just going by old animated series i'm getting used to it so not uh sorry for that but they just keep you know they're not like listen i have an announcement x-men they're real chill about it. Sure. And it, it makes sense. It's somebody who can just change forms and be any gender they choose.
you know, it, it, it makes perfect sense. If you think about it, all shapeshifters should be they, them, right? Like if they, if they prefer, if they prefer those pronouns, like that just, just make, we've talked about that on the podcast before too, like not having any kind of actual gender. So this whole scene here with Cyclops chiding everybody, people not showing up and everything, is introducing one of the themes of this, is that the X-Men are struggling under Cyclops' leadership.
You know, he wants to do it. He's capable of doing it. But, you know, it is. To Cyclops' point, it is weird that Gammon Rogue just didn't come to go fight some Sentinels. You know? Yeah, we're saving mutants. Like, what were you guys doing in the meantime? Like, were you just making beignets? Yeah, like, that's ridiculous. It's literally that. You know, the X-Men are rudder.
And I love that, you know, they do tell us that. It's a cartoon. It still spells things out, but it's also showing us before it tells us. You know, it's deft story. Inwalks, well, I think Gambit throws a charged up beignet at Cyclops. And luckily, Jean Grey shows up to grab it with her telekinesis. She flew harmlessly outside. Yeah, she is extremely pregnant.
which was also in the trailer, which I think got a lot of X fans excited because prego Jean Grey means like all kinds of different things in terms of. time travel and universes and clones. How much boner are you? And how much boner gear gets. I wasn't going to talk about that specifically, but we can talk about that if we need to. Did you get that poison out on the podcast? I got the poison out before the podcast so I could relax. So I could have some post-poison clarity.
They decide they're going to go interview Roberto, who was knocked out during the fight and was placed in Beast Care. Roberto wakes up in the, I guess, what do you call the not danger room in the X-Mansion? It's the med lab, I think is what this is supposed to be. I like the idea of a danger room and a not danger room. This is the danger room and these are all the safety rooms.
Every room is a danger room if you think about it, Cher. God damn it. I love this. Introducing all the characters, of course. Beast is listening to classical music. uh and we get the reveal you know he's there there's a pan across his bookshelf Where he has one book that's called like science and one that's called DNA. Oh, that's all you do.
That's fucking classic. And Jubilee is here as well. Reminds me of that everything they taught you about science and then everything they didn't tell you about science kind of thing. I got the two books. It covers everything. Jubilee is also recast, the voice here. And again... Having an Asian American actress for an Asian American character. They've also drawn her model.
If you had asked me if the 1990s animated series, what Race Jubilee was, I would say white every time, just because that's how she was portrayed. They've corrected for this as well, which is great. Beast has been working on something he's called Bishop's Bling, which is Bishop's time travel band. Again, planting little seeds for things.
Cyclops and Storm show up and Roberto... we know who sunspot is uh obviously because we're x-men fans but like roberto here is like hey i'm rich i'll just give you a bunch of money so that i can walk out of here yeah what is what is the bill for the safety room and i will leave immediately i do not like it here
But, of course, the X-Men are there for information on the Friends of Humanity, and also they want to protect this young mutant, even though he hasn't shown his powers. And, of course, to Roberto, he's like, y'all are kidnapping me. What is there even to do?
for a kid to do around here like what what could i possibly do and this is when jubilee smiles um and then we cut to just like a smash cut to roberto like on top of a huge pile of rubble watching magneto like float down and like just have this huge talk like just immediately into a magneto like huge like segment and it's so good like you know it's the danger room immediately
But it's just so, like, over the top. You're like, what is Roberto even thinking about this, right? Like, what could he possibly be doing? It's very good. You know, and Wolverine is saying, what can you do? And Roberto's dodging the question. Yes. She starts saying, you know, can you fly? Are you strong? Can you shoot gold balls from your body? That'd be weird. Little, again, Krakoa era Easter egg. Even though in the Krakoa era, we find out those are eggs.
Which is even weirder. Oh, much weirder. Like you can make eggs. You can make eggs, my friend. Yeah. Infinite Scrambled? Come on. Once he realizes... Can you imagine what Waffle House would pay this man? I mean, just come on. That'd be incredible. Gold balls at Waffle House. And all of those eggs could be a mutant. Yeah. Like, I think that they're implied to be semi-fertilized. I don't know where Proteus comes into the process, but like...
I don't know. You could just be eating a tiny Cyclops that died on a mission to Orcus or whatever. I went to Italy and I became a fine dining expert. So I am ready to eat a little tiny Cyclops, just bones and all. One of those meals that you have to like put a... Hide your face from God. Hide your face from God and just eat a tiny Cyclops. Or the lawns. Bones and everything. Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. Oh, that's the visor.
You pull the visor out like a cartoon cat pulling a fishbone. Exactly. Just spit out like some blue spandex with the visor attached. Um, there's a bucket on the table for everyone. Does it, does it, um, But Roberto's not impressed by this holodeck, you know, and he runs away from Magneto's attack and runs into Wolverine, who tackles him. He says, you know, hey, cool trick. And then Wolverine says, you know, computer and program. And he's still there threatening to slice this kid's face.
Yeah, because Wolverine, because if you're not a young teenage girl, Wolverine will basically just threaten to kill you. I'm not going to raise this boy. I'm not going to raise this child. Meanwhile, Cyclops and Gene are talking to Val Cooper. who is in this universe, I guess, like their liaison to the government. I can't remember if this was directly from the animated series. I get real confused with some of the side characters.
It never happened, I don't think, in the 90s animated series, but it's part of the 90s comics. She was the human liaison to X. Cyclops is just pretty frustrated in general about their response or lack of response of like, where are we getting the signal tech? Like, where is Trask? Like, what can you give us anything? Like, and they just seem, Val Cooper just seems like, I don't know. I'm just, you know, I'm just running on this trade.
like i don't really have any information i'm helping you know you guys killed the only master mold what can we do uh he says you'll find out where trask is uh and she's like we don't know and cyclops And he's frustrated because Xavier's death certificate just came. Fair sad moment. Fair sad moment. I like it when TV shows have to tell you that a certain amount of time has passed. Recently I was watching an X-Files episode.
and uh like it's where the scully had to like go have a baby like in real life jillian anderson had to go have a baby so in the show she was that the vampire one that's the vampire one where she oh my god i love the vampire our episode of uh non-human biologics on that one came out yesterday um it's so good uh it's so amazing but like he gets scully's actually i'm sorry no it's the one after the vampire episode where they literally get the tombstone
Okay. And I'm like, she's been gone for two weeks. How did you get a tombstone? You don't even have a body. What is happening right now? But very funny when they get the death certificate. And they start kind of reminiscing on the old days about skipping out on the danger room. I love this. There's a direct reference to the comic.
Cyclops is mad because all the X-Men want to do is play basketball. Yes. It's huge. They just want to be on the zipline energy. I love it. Yes, absolutely. And she's like, don't be so hard on them. Remember when we used to sneak off? And he was like, yeah. And then Xavier would say. That tomfoolery cost you five demerits. That's literally X-Men one through five bullshit. That's great.
And this gets Jean thinking like, hey, like, you know, we should think about our own life outside of the X-Men. She basically wants to like she's done this for since she was a teenager. She thinks if they leave and go raise their son, which will need them more, the team can survive without them. This is a moment of change, of metamorphosis for this team, and Jean wants to take advantage of that and live her life. Who says the X-Men have to save mutants? They could be a Bethlehem.
That could be a basketball team. Open your imagination. Yeah, yeah. The Rochester, New York Globetrotters, right? Against the Harlem Globetrotters. Doesn't seem fair. The gifted youngsters. The gifted youngsters. Absolutely.
the gray milk and gifted youngsters. I've always, I've always said that this crackdown to professional sports on performance enhancing drugs is the opposite way. Like I think if these men want to ruin their bodies and take as many perform enhancing drugs as possible, like I think they should. And that would make the sports way better to watch for me personally. Jackass. Why can't we let that happen? If we let jackass happen, why can't a man inject?
steroids into his balls and hit a ball. I don't understand. We set multiple dudes on fire in Jackass. Why can't we do this? Steve-O is just writing letter after letter to Congress. she closes out this with a kind of a plea saying, our son will need us more. And then, Justin, as this is happening... And what has to be a pretty heavy handed metaphor, the basketball from outside.
breaks the window and then like bounces and breaks the picture of the OG X-Men team. Hoops is tearing the X-Men apart. Ball is not life. These are not the basketball diaries I wanted to read. We have to go into the future and find the basketball diaries in Extreme X-Men. And then outside the X-Men are... Definitely not surviving without them, right? Like, Jubilee is hitting Logan with her powers.
She's mad at him for scaring Roberto off. And then Cyclops shows up and just basically starts barking orders. And Logan just kind of bristles at this. And out of everybody, he's the least happy that Cyclops is in charge. And they kind of verbally spar back and forth. I have a note that says, Fry me a river, Wolverine. And I'm pretty sure I just typed that wrong. She's got to be cry me a river, right? I don't remember quite that line. If it was cry me a river, it would be a real weird pun.
He's putting him off his game. Cyclops is commanding everyone to go find Robert. while the rest of them go talk to Trask. But Logan says, you know, the worst thing about Charles being dead is leaving you in charge. Cyclops wants to go talk to Gyrick to go find Trev. And the rest of the team tracks down Roberto to a club.
And it's time to dance. There's going to be two notable dance numbers in this series, which if you would just ask me, I'd have been not in favor of, but love them both. I think they're both amazing. The songs are bop. The soundtrack to this is very good I can't wait to get into the second one Because the source on that song is so bonkers It's super good It's really wild
Rogue is watching the crowd. This is a 90s rave, basically, so there's a lot of touching. You can tell she's just having that classic Rogue thing of, like, I can't touch anybody. and when we were watching this happened in the 90s series a lot and it eventually got a little bit eye-rolly because we know but you know keep in mind we're reintroducing everyone yes um there are people and as is right and proper people who watch this without watching the old animated series
Because this is better. Instead, listen to Days of Futurecast. Yes. But we have to reintroduce these ideas. And a dance club is as good a place to do it. Meanwhile, Morphe is talking to Logan, trying to cheer Logan up a little bit, turning into Jean Grey. making jean gray's belly bump like expand way out which is extremely and like remember if you if you're familiar with days of future cast uh we know that morph is probably wolverine's favorite person in the world um easily like
He loves when Morf makes a goof. And Logan... kind of sees through this a little bit like it's not really cheered him up but he also realizes like this like being on the x-men is no place for a baby and he kind of thinks that gene and cyclops are going to the team. So he's right there with Gene. He's smelling what Gene is putting down. Probably quite literally.
unfortunately she's releasing x-men quitting pheromones um you know a bunch of women live in a house and they all want to quit the x-men at the same time they actually sync up Is that what happens? That makes sense. And that's how X Factor is born. uh friends of humanity walk in uh i really wish they just cut to them dancing but it doesn't um jubilee finds roberto and you know say we have to go and he says okay one day
And the little dance. And in the kind of world setting of where we're at now, because of the sympathy that the X-Men received, you know, for saving the world so many times and because Xavier was shot. Mutants are public, more public now. So Jubilee's using her powers in dancing, something that would be unheard of when she joined the army. This whole series is going to deal with that status quo and how it is a little bit of a smokescreen and very fragile in the same way that...
you know, even during this episode a little bit later, someone already expresses it, it mirrors the metaphor really well. The bigots are saying, you know, this acceptance that we have right now is trendy. You're in. And that's the same thing that conservatives right now say about LGBTQ people as a thing. And they're showing, you know, right now in some parts of the country, regrettably few, like.
You, and not really right now. I mean, a couple of years ago, like the environment's not really super great right now, but they're, they're. It's mirroring that idea that like you could be, you know, we have drag queen performances in public.
You know, things like that. Like we have more public queerness now than we did in the past. I'm not trying to say problems are over and neither is the show. In the place in the timeline where we're at, there have been advancements. And one of the missions of the show is to show us how fragile.
Well, just like with segregation, right? Just like with the race issue, this is showing like, hey, we're accepting of who you are up to a point. We'll take your TV shows. We'll take your dances. We'll give you your clubs. But you're not going to come to things. Right. Like there's a line of acceptance. Exactly. And if you come across that line.
Which I think is, like you said, it's a mirror to the actual metaphor that people of color, homosexual people, LGBTQA, like all of those people face that every single day. And the X-Men has long been held up as a metaphor for that. You know, they're feared. They're, you know, they're feared and hunted.
And I don't think it's really been good for that for a while. But this show really manages to capture it, especially as we deal with Roberto's story throughout the next 10 episodes. It's a really great introduction of the thing. Like when we say, you know, I... I agree with you. It hasn't been good for it for a little while. I think that if you just hammer that point continuously in the comic for.
60 or 70 years sure yeah it would be hard to do i like that the x-men is about other stuff from time to time you know is a thing um but in terms of something that is going to be a concentrated dose of x-men Like this is one of the main things the X-Men can and should be.
But it makes sense for this thing that it will probably be many people's, the 10 episodes of X-Men they've ever seen in their life. This is probably a lot of people's introduction to the idea. And it's taking one of the central themes and killing it. Just like the animated series.
Yes. this time um but like this is just a a small supply in the overall in the overall part of the show like we're also dealing with these relationship issues that come from having superpowers we're dealing with all of this other stuff and it's and we're also dealing with this on like a government level of like having the government accept So it's working on a lot of different levels, and I think it's really good.
Wolverine managed to run the Friends of Humanity off, but they dropped their hats, which is very funny to me. And he uses this to, like, kind of scare Roberto. Like, hey, if we weren't here, like, they would have gotten you again. Yeah. Meanwhile, we switch over to Cyclops and his crew. Cyclops and Storm. Cyclops and Storm. They're questioning. And they basically just offer him a deal. Like if you tell us where Trask is.
They, you know, we'll help your sentence. Like, we'll reduce the amount of time that you spend in jail. And Gyrick pulls the mask off of the exact thing that we were just talking about, right? Like, he literally says that they are a fad. Like, look here at my mutant friend kind of thing.
And he has this big speech, and I think it's an incredible speech. As I was watching it, I was like, I can't believe this is happening on Disney+. I was like, oh, my God. And it literally says, we wear our tolerance on our sleeve, but tolerance is extinct.
referring to like, if we tolerate these mutant people, then they will literally be our extinction. Like that's his view, which is terrifying if you're a mutant, right? Like that means that you were making this a us versus them. We have to die for you to live. And it's the way that bigots think of things as a zero sum game. Exactly. You know, the question I always have whenever I think about the conservative mind is like, what the fuck are you actually afraid of?
you know, all this great replacement stuff is, is just fan fiction for bigots, but it is what they're, even the ones who are true believers who are actually afraid of, that is what they're afraid of. And when you say you're seeing this on Disney plus, like I had the same reaction, like. this is the wokest thing I've ever seen on Disney plus, right? Like it's fucking incredible. Like,
It's only slightly beaten out by Porky's 2. Porky's 2 is a surprisingly woke movie, but yeah, absolutely. There was a lot of joy when this had its breakthrough hit of Chuds, who just wanted to watch... Like a worse adaptation of the X-Men that wasn't political being like, fuck man, they turned the X-Men woke. And like one, you know, what comic have you been reading? But at the same time, you can kind of understand that they weren't necessarily reading the comics. They were getting the Gestalt.
of like the movies and things like that that don't handle the themes very well you know like the early x-men movies do try to kind of bring this in a little bit they're just not very like brave about it And that's the difference with this is it's really on front street. It's using actual rhetoric from the metaphor, actual rhetoric from real things. So the connection is impossible not to.
And that's what they were reacting to. Guy Rick follows up saying, like, I won the day. I shot the man you freaks look up to, referring to Xavier, which is the reason he's in. And then he pushes Scott a little bit, saying, like, you're no Xavier. You couldn't be.
uh professor x and scott agrees he's like xavier would have a lot more patience let me introduce you to my wife uh and gene rolls in and basically is using cerebro uh to probe gyric's brain uh this is an incredible incredibly animated montage uh we get a ton of information, like a bunch of like flashing stuff. We see like...
her baby being born. We see an enormous like skull monster master mold, like wiping out a complete city. We see brief vision of cable, just the way we'll see him in just a few episodes. Like there's a lot of going off of here and it overwhelms her. So she has to throw off.
It's really interesting. She's seeing the future through this. It's like a vision, which I did not know was a thing that could happen from this. I don't know if it's supposed to be Gyrick's fantasies of this thing, but she's literally getting a premonition. I will say this does play fast and loose with Jean stuff. Um, also Mr. Sinister stuff in general. Uh, like there's a bunch of like Mr. Sinister stuff that I'm like, wait, I, oh, how, okay. When did, okay, sure. But I'm.
In the moment, you just roll with it, but if you start to think about it. Yeah, exactly. We're not fucking dorks. I would have killed if Jean Grey had Cerebron, and then she had a tiny Cerebron or pregnant belly. um which made me very happy like like like like like headphones like you're like maybe listening to classical music kind of thing but yeah yeah perfect absolutely perfect um
They get the information from Gyrix of where Trask is. And so they're heading to the desert to shut down him and the master. I don't think we specifically called it out, but like Val Cooper said, he would need a master mole to create a new Sentinel tech, and he doesn't have one of those. You guys destroyed that. Cyclops and Wolverine on the way there are kind of bickering like in their usual way. And this is interrupted when a Sentinel just completely blows up the plane.
And now all of the team is in free fall. This is probably my favorite thing that's happened in five years. my entire life, including renewing my vows on the coast of Italy with my wife of 20 years. Sorry, honey. It's the coolest action scene I've seen on a visual medium in a while.
It's the coolest action on Disney Plus besides Porky's 2. At least in an animated thing, right? There's some absolutely mind-blowing action shit, like Furiosa and stuff. But in terms of animated action, this is my favorite. Um, so we, we get, uh, all the experts are in free fall, uh, here and the team have to, you know, they have protocols for this. So like, you know, flyers grab the non-flyers storm grabs gambit. Another thing that is fast and loose with powers, uh, morph turns into arch arch.
And now Morph can use the powers of the people they take. That wasn't the case before or if you should just be a shape shifter, but this is better. It's so much more fun. I want to mention this too, because this was a big question on Twitter and Bo DeMio specifically said that their rule for this was it had to be physical power. So they can shapeshift into, you know, a flying creature and fly, but they can't, you know, shapeshift into Magneto and then do Magneto.
which is a weird line to draw. Like when you consider what a physical power is, but I just, I wanted to mention it because it did come up and that was, that was the answer. It's a good answer, but then later they turned to the whole. and do Hulk shit. And it's like, spoiler, it's kind of, you know, why wouldn't you just always be the Hulk? In that case, the Hulk could take care of this, I bet.
Um, it's fine. It doesn't matter. Yes. Um, your rogue, uh, grabs beasts, uh, and, um, the other one in gambit, uh, here or somebody, I can't remember who the bishop. Cyclops, though, just says, good job, team. And instead of getting rescued, he uses his beam to slow his momentum. This is amazing. This is something I've thought of for Cyclops my entire life. Why aren't you doing this constantly? Yeah. Yeah. doing this and then lands we get a whole team shot and cyclops says to me my x-men
Fucking awesome. Fucking amazing. We can't, like, we say, like, he uses his beams to slow his momentum. The shot of this is him like with a huge laser beam hitting the earth and the earth like spewing up dirt and rock and everything as he's like slowly drifts in the sky and just lands in the perfect superhero pose to me by X-Men. It is the most baller X-Men thing that has ever been. It is so fucking cool. Absolutely hype.
Um, so, uh, everyone's okay. And they're in front of Trask who is in front of master. You know, and Trask says, you know, did you think we're going to take this lying down? Activates all the sentinels and all the sentinels are like old and decoded. It looks really, really cool. And we get a big X-Men versus Sentinel fight that is, again, one of the best.
animated action scenes i've ever seen yes this is great uh everyone's doing incredible shit beast like takes over one um and then is like but unfortunately quickly knocked out of one uh And Cyclops tells her to give them the forecast. And she just like fucking rains terror down upon him. And the music swells and it is amazing. She's very specifically just in terms of things I've always thought of for Storm.
She's making lightning strike a desert, which is turning the desert into glass and then whipping up a glass tornado. So fucking cool, dude. Like, what the hell? It's just incredible. My wife, Liv, is, you know, Storm is her favorite.
x-men and the entire time we're watching this like everything should be like storm is so fucking cool yeah um like and i'm like yeah no storm is so fucking cool and there's a moment like right before she shows up where one of the sentinels is like omega mutant detected and you're like fuck yeah it is i can't wait And it just kind of goes to show how this is taking that kind of stuff a little bit more seriously than the old ones.
You know, growing up watching the show, like Storm is great in the comics, in the cartoon, she mostly like... did speeches and then got trapped in things and got sad about having claustrophobia. Like they just didn't, you know, in the same way that Jean Grey always fainted, right? It was a low-key sexism that pervaded everything in the 90s.
this uh you know the the chuds are gonna be like oh they're making the ladies on this team really powerful that's always been the x-men ladies are really powerful they're also making everybody they're gassing everybody up yeah and everybody fucking rocks yeah in a really really good way and it's like why wouldn't you want
Like, I just want to grab these fucking chuds by the neck and be like, why is that cool to you? This is the fun stuff. What's wrong in your soul? Everybody's getting this. Did you not just see Cyclops? do the super perfect superhero landing using his, his I beams. Like he's not going to get ignored in favor of this just because he doesn't make a glass tornado. Everybody fucking plays this club cranium. Yeah. It's great.
I also want to, since we're talking about Storm, this is the first time I feel like she's felt godlike in almost any adaptation ever. She was known to be a goddess in the comics. She presented herself as a goddess in the comics. this is the first adaptation where I felt we really got a grasp of her power and that kind of goddess level, right? She is an Omega mutant specifically. She's not just calling up fog to hide a plane. Like she can fuck shit up. She is ready to rock.
Master mold begins to get up and Wolverine starts running. And of course I mentioned this, the scene was in the trailer. Gambit jumps on his back, charges up his claws, jumps off. We cut over to Borf and they're using their shapeshift powers to turn in a blob to smash.
mastermold's head all this is all just so fucking good dude this is all just great they're they're just knocking everything out and of course right at the end of the fight who shows up but val cooper in the un yeah um and they're there to clean up they're thinking
You know, they're not here to be an asshole. They're arresting Trask. You know, and Trask says, you have no idea what it feels like to be left behind by the future. Great line. You know, and Val Cooper says to Scott, you know, Xavier would be proud. Yes. You know, this is going to motivate his decision. He was feeling unsure about leaving.
We're in our little denouement. Jubilee is talking to Roberto and says like, hey, you should stay. You know, I was in a similar situation to you. I was captured by Sentinels. I eventually got taken in. It seems like it's just this weird school, but it's actually a family. you know and roberto you know says like family you know his he's not really accepted by his family shows off his power um just makes his arm
I kind of explained to get strong, explained for the audience, you know, and just says, I don't even know how to, I haven't told my family. I don't even know how to do this. i can't i can't be part of a family i can't be my And then he hands her a business card, which is very funny. A party business card. Can you imagine having a personal business card, my man? I've had business cards for most of my professional career, obviously, but a personal one?
very funny as a teen yeah yeah just super super super hilarious um now the x-men hate fighting sentinels what they love is the court and they this has given them a real powerful appetite for ball yes they are they love ball Yep. So they're all getting ready to pick teams and stuff. And because they're X-Men and they're dorks, they're like, you know, team leader gets to choose team captain.
which gives Cyclops a reason to say. And he's like, listen, I've been meaning to say something. I'm very proud of you. You know, he's kind of stalling. And Logan says, you're leaving. Yeah. You know, that's what. And Jean Grey's like, no, we're not leaving. We're just, and everyone's asking these questions like without you, what is the X-Men? But they get interrupted because there's an intruder in Xavier's office. They rush in to find who else but Magneto.
looking through Savior's Will, which is printed out and fucking hardback bound. Somebody self-published. I cannot tell you the excitement I had when I saw that this will was actually published. This is such a Xavier thing to do. How fucking pretentious do you have to be? Number one, have a 400-page will. That you would need, you know what I'm saying? Like that you would need to be bound. And then also to. One building and thousands of cars.
It's so good. It's also, they imply, so like, you know, they're like, Magneto, you have a lot of, you know, a lot of touch about being here. And he goes, well, it turns out, you know, my dear friend, the old fool still believed in me, which is probably why he left everything. And it implies that he left the X-Men to him. Yes. Yes. That's incredible. If you could leave somebody to somebody else at a will. Oh, my God.
Like, outside of slave times, I guess. Yeah, well, yeah, I didn't know. We got a little excited about that premise, I guess. Yeah, same. Oh my god, we accidentally invaded slavery, Gary. We gotta back up. Fuck, fuck, fuck. But then he goes... I'm trying to take it down. I'm trying to take it down. This is all me. And then he repeats the line. He goes, to me, my X-Men. Perfect. You know, clever use of the title and recontextualizing the...
Yeah. And this is also like from the comics, right? Like there's times that Magneto has run the X-Men. And I love this tension because now all of a sudden, like... If you think about this, Cyclops worries about whether he should stay or not.
are now magnified even further because like now there's a leader for the team to replace him, but it's this untrustworthy individual that they fought their entire lives against. But also the untrustworthy individual has now been completely entrusted by my mentor. who entrusted me to do this job. So now if I don't believe in that trust, like it's, it's, this is just made to fuck up Cyclops's day. Like this is all this is. This is just a complicated way to make Cyclops have a bad day.
It's really rich. I really love it. And keeps them in for a while. You know, keeps them in the game. Yes. So because we're not going to have not everybody who's on the team is going to be on the team like near at the end of this. We get hints that the next team in season two will be different, which is great. You know, it's just, it's really good. Dynamic.
character conflicts yes absolutely uh i mean like actual doing the character work actually having the animation good actually having the fight scenes like complicated and cool making characters do cool shit not just shoot beams at each other And also like having that underpinning of emotional work throughout the whole entire thing. Like just absolutely. Yeah. Excuse me. Absolutely amazing. Yeah.
Excellent. And just set my appetite for this so much that I was literally in Italy waiting for this to refresh so I could watch it. I was like, I got to take a break, honey. We got to stop looking at Rome so I can look at the animated X-Men cartoon. Yeah, it's phenomenal. It's really good. I'm excited to talk about it. I'm super excited for season two.
And give me as much as they'll give me. I missed it. Yeah. We'll be back with more of these episodes. We just, again, want to thank people for their patience. after this we'll probably need to do some MCU catch up because we've got
A bunch of MCU stuff that we haven't talked about. We have some Deadpool versus Wolverine coming out soon that we're both excited about. Trailers dropping for new Captain America movies that are like, I don't know, just look like Tom Clancy novels to me. I don't know what we're doing anymore, but whatever. If you watch the trailer for Winter Soldier again.
It also has that kind of vibe. Sure. You know, I was thinking about that. Not saying this is going to be as good. I don't, I don't think it will. Cause that's a great movie. IMO, but the, I think it looks pretty. Have you seen that Bakun tweet? I can't remember the exact terminology. The MCU has two types of movies, ones that you can zone out and get high to, and then other ones where it's just dudes and cats.
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