5.03 /// Superpower Fantasies...

Stephen , listen , like , share , subscribe and enjoy the show . Ah , beautiful , beautiful , beautiful . Thank you very much for joining me . On episode number three of series five uh , 5.03 . You may have noticed the new naming convention . I can't remember if I've mentioned this already . I probably should like pay more attention to what I do .

But yes , I've scrapped the moment numerals , scrapped the previous convention , and I'm slowly renaming all the episodes thusly um , so series one will be one point and then whatever episode it is will follow . So one will be zero , one up to ten . That'll just be normal digits without the zero , because that'd be silly .

Uh , in other news , um , I'm very , very happy this week , um , possibly because the fact I've purchased a new motorcycle and it it's making me very pleased and I'm picking it up . I'm recording this early for once , so I'm recording this on the Thursday prior to the Sunday release and I'm picking the motorbike up on the Friday .

So super , super happy , super super excited , cannot wait . Yeah , I'm just really looking forward to being on a motorcycle again , to be honest , and being out and about and just having that freedom of being on a bike . There's nothing like it , genuinely there's nothing like it , and any bikers listening will know exactly what I'm talking about .

So , anyway , that's not about that today . Another announcement as well , again before I get into the mix of the episode . In fact , no , I'll leave it and I'll come back to that if I remember . Yeah , so , superpowers , I'll say keep you hanging now . So you've got to try and listen a little bit longer . So , yeah , so I'll announce that in a bit .

Anyway , superpowers , you know , comic books have been around for a long time , superheroes have been around for a long time , and then the last 10 years , 15 years or so , we've had the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe I think theirs is called . Never really been into the DC too much .

I love Superman , love Batman , but I think Marvel's do it better . They just do the films a lot better anyway . Um , well , not just the films . I actually think prefer the majority of Marvel superheroes , to be honest , but you always think to yourself , like all I do , being a large , overgrown child , what superpowers would I want ?

And I think that I'd want to be greedy . If I'm honest with you , I'm not going to lie I'd probably want several . I'd probably want to be kind of like the ultimate superhero and have multiple , multiple stuff .

Let's see if I can narrow that down towards the end of the episode and let's see if I can actually narrow it down to the one superhero power that I would actually want . There's so many good ones , isn't there ?

Because I think this one probably stands out as being the one that seems a bit dodgy and that's invisibility , like if you're turning yourself invisible or be able to cloak yourself or even camouflage yourself to a degree enters the realms of you could use that for something dodgy .

I suppose if you had like laser beam eyes or you could fly , you could still have superhuman strength and that could be used for dodgy stuff . But , like in the film , the hollow man kind of shows it , doesn't it like a bit of a spoof ? Take on HG Wells' Invisible man book , which why have they never made a proper film about that book ?

Because that is well . Hg Wells is , hands down , my favourite science , like author , especially from the time that he lived , like if you read any of his books and you think that they were written in like the 19th century mind-blowing um . But the invisible man was was quite a harrowing book and he kind of got drunk on the power of invisibility .

I don't think I don't recall he used it for like perverse nature , like spying on naked women or anything like that , which in the hollow man film he did . I think he watched someone get changed and stuff . But I've always thought that being invisible would be cool , I think , because , like , even though I'm an extrovert , I'm quite an introvert as well .

So I think just to be able to walk around invisible and only be visible when you felt like it , I think is the reason it appeals to me . And also I always thought you could get in like cinemas and museums and stuff for free and that'd be super cool . That's just like save loads of money and that would be . I think that would be the biggest thing .

Yeah , I think that would be super cool . When I was a kid , that was the one that I wanted , as well as the power of flight , because I say I am pretty greedy and I would want multiple superpowers . I think Spiderman weirdly , spiderman and Wolverine are probably my two multiple superpowers .

I think Spider-Man weirdly , spider-man and Wolverine are probably my two favourite , as well as Batman . But Batman doesn't really have a superpower . His superpower is being rich . Really , isn't it A bit like Tony Stark in Iron man , wolverine ?

He has his X-Man power power , but he also has the adamantium skeleton which makes him super strong and undefeatable and he has super healing powers .

And Spider-Man bit by a radioactive spider shooting webs , sticks and things slime , spidey , sense , pretty cool , pretty cool , pretty cool athletic guy as we saw in the Tobey Maguire one overnight six pack , which would be quite nice . Mine's a barrel , so a six pack would be nice . I've never had a six pack .

I've been slim in my days but I've never really had a six pack . I feel like it's something I should try to achieve before I I reach an age where I'm just gonna demise and die . Um , cheery , um , focus , focus on something steven , thank you . Um , yeah , so I ? I really find it difficult to narrow it down .

So , like , invisibility , flying superman's power of flight would be awesome , absolutely amazing , just to be able to , you know , just fly anywhere at super speed , like , and have that strength as well , have the super strength as well , to be able to carry things as well , so you could literally just like load all your family into the car or the luggage , then fly

the car to somewhere and you'd be there on holiday with the car or your luggage . Right , practicality of that is , and the money savings as well , um , I think that'd be so cool . But again , it's superpowers . It's this super flight , it's super flight , super flat , it's the this , the having the power of flight and strength at the same time .

Well , all the powers that Superman have oh , x-ray vision again could be used for dodgy shit , couldn't it ? Like bank vaults and , you know , stealing stuff . And also the old perverse thing as well we've all seen the gags of x-ray glasses . Who was it that did that ? Someone did the gag of x-ray glasses . Who was it did that ?

This one did the gag of x-ray glasses and I feel like it was benny hill or something . It seems like a benny hill thing . Um , and then he had , he had laser , like laser vision , a bit like cyclops , and he had like , oh , he could like cool things down with his breath . He had super breath . Um , well , is that it ? He'd jump , couldn't he ?

But it's kind of like flying . I may be wrong here and it's probably people shout at me , but I'm pretty sure in the original comics he couldn't fly . It was because he could jump a long way , which was like flight , and then eventually he just flew . I believe that's a thing .

I may be wrong , so apologies , but I'm pretty sure he was like able to leave a building in a single bound and all that sort of stuff from the original comics . I mean , superman's been around for a long time , um , nightcrawler .

Now he can like , he has the ability to like just teleport , which is kind of like it's almost as good as flying , but he can only take himself , I believe , or something he's touching or a person , if he's touching someone very close to him .

Now , if he could touch a car , if he could touch a car and teleport the car with all his belongings , that's better than Superman flying , because then there's no effort . There's literally super reduced effort there . So basically , what I'm discovering here is I'm greedy , want all the superpowers and I'd be really lazy .

But you know , as Peter Parker's uncle said , great power comes , great responsibility . And if I did have superpowers , would I have to fight crime ? I suppose you would have to , wouldn't you ?

I suppose it's like I'm quite a morally strong person would like to help people , like if I had the ability , if I did have the ability to fight crime , would I I suppose you would have to . You would , if I could fly , have laser vision , super cold breath , flight , super strength , all that malarkey . Or if I was like Wolverine spikes in the hand .

The spikes in the hand are the coolest bit , aren't they ? I've never mentioned that before . I'm pretty sure most men . If you said to them , would you like spikes that come out of your hands like wolverine ? Um , they'd just be like fuck , yes , please can I install them now ? Um , yeah , so I think it comes down to that .

I would want , maybe , maybe I mean , if I choose one superhero's powers have . So if I chose Superman , I would get multiple powers rather than just choose one power , and Superman does have a couple of good ones . He's super strong . He's invulnerable , pretty much apart from Kryptonite and all these other different versions of Kryptonite . What's that about's ?

What is that about ? There's like red kryptonite , green kryptonite , yellow kryptonite , I feel like there's black kryptonite , and they all have like a different weird effects on him . You're completely invulnerable , apart from this little tiny rock . Um , flying would be super cool .

Though flying would be super cool , I think flying is would be , would be like one of the best things , just just to travel around and be super quick . But would you ? Would you have to have the like , the invulnerability , because flying that fast would your skin just rip off your bones ?

That's the thing , because if you chose one superpower but didn't have the other one to complement it , would you just die like . If you chose to be Wolverine with the adamantium like skeleton , would it be that heavy that you couldn't stand up because Wolverine's strong and heals quick ?

Would it be that heavy that you couldn't stand up because Wolverine's strong and heals quick ? Would it just kill you ? Hmm , see , these are the questions that need answering in the world . These are the things that need questioning , because I think they chose Logan because of his healing ability to put the adamantium in the first place .

So you would have to have the healing ability to have the adamantium in the first place . So you would have to have the healing ability to have the adamantium installed . And then I'm cheating again and I've got two superpowers . So maybe multiple is the way to go , maybe multiple is the only way to gain superpowers ? I don't know anyway .

Anyway , we'll just interrupt that thought process . Recover your mind a bit from that meander of mentalness . And the little bit of announcement is I am going to be starting video podcasting . I hear you say should I have some applause ? I feel like I should have some sort of applause . Ah , yes , yes , yes , video podcasting . It's about time . Stephen , I hear you

cry . Um , I've always like veered away from doing the video things too early in the podcast , mainly because I'm lazy and didn't really want to have something else to edit as well as know my full-time job and stuff like that . But I recently just I've got a DSLR camera , basically , and I realized I could just use that . You know , set it up . I didn't .

I'm not going to go for more multiple angles and all this stuff that YouTubers do . I'm going to get my DSLR camera , put the lens on it and set it up . So I've got a camera , I've got a capture , a capture cable so I can capture the , the video now for the dslr , a power cable for it .

So you know , it can , it can record stuff , uh , without removing our battery , which is always good . That's what you need , uh . So yeah , I'm gonna try it . I'm gonna try . I don't know when I don't know , when I don't know . It might , might be the next episode , it might be the one after , I'm not sure .

But I'll put them up on YouTube and I think one of the reasons to do it is going to make my kind of reels and social media posts a bit more interesting as well , because , rather than just posting pictures and sound clips , I can then post the sound clips as well as some videos as well .

So I'm hoping that will capture people and bring more listeners and maybe make it more inviting for people to share . So yeah , so that's the news , maybe , maybe not as grandiose as you were expecting , but for me that's a bit . It's a big step . That's a big step . It's . It's something to edit .

And well , not edit , but basically put a title on and put a title on the end and sync some audio , so kind of editing . But not , it will still be the unedited prattle . There'll still be an audio version .

So the audio version will still be available and there'll just be , hand-in-hand with it , a video accompaniment so you can either watch the video or not , and I'm going to try and make them so that I'm not leaving anyone out .

So , from doing a video on , I will , um , think about the people that are only listening to it , or think about the people that are only listening to it via the audio . So I won't be going oh look at this , look , we're gonna watch this video together , blah , blah . I'm not gonna do stuff like that .

I may , it may , every so often point to something in the room , but I will try to remember to then upload said picture or whatever , or screen capture that and add it to the mix . I recently discovered that you can actually add pictures to chapters , so I'm going to try and be less lazy on my episodes and actually make chapters .

I realized recently you can actually add chapters . You actually had chapters to it , so that's that's . Uh , pictures to the chapters . So that's what I might do as well . Uh , going forward anyway . Back to superpowers um , I don't know what that voice was . Yeah , so what would I want to be ?

So I think , I think so far an invisible , flying , super strong , adamantium encased skeleton , Claude Wolverine . Is that just lazy ? Is that just me being lazy and just picking them all , or is that just the ultimate badass ? I feel like that's the ultimate badass .

Okay , so we've got Wolverine and he can fly and he has laser vision like Cyclops or Superman and he , he , laser vision like cyclops or superman and he , oh , he's pretty strong , but he has like superman strength and , yeah , and he can be invisible as well . I mean that's like the ultimate .

That is like the ultimate invisible , strong adamantium , indestructible , can fly . Did I say invisible ? Hang on , invisible can fly , super strong adamantium . Can heal , close for hands , mic drop . Is you know ? That is . That is , uh , the ultimate Wolverine Airhorn . Just to bring home that fact .

I've got all these sounds on this thing and I never use any of them and I always forget . So , ultimate Wolverine . See , I never use any of them . Nearly said Wolverine , wrong as well . Yeah , what would your superpowers be ? Would you want to invent a new one ? Is there any new ones we can invent ? Have we exhausted every single line of superhero ability ?

Because you never really get a superhero . That's like the power of math Added the S for the british people , um . Or the power to be able to , like , wash up quickly and do the dishes quickly , or the ability to fold clothes fast , when they're not really superpowers , are they ? I mean , I suppose , if that's your business . I suppose .

If , like , you're a lawn like a dry cleaners or something and you can then launder clothes really quickly , superhero power for you . It's not really . It's not really groundbreaking though , is it ? It's not really exciting . But if I was the Ultima Wolverine , firstly I'd be ripped as frig , wouldn't I ?

Let's face it like have you seen Deadpool 3 , christ Hugh Jackman ? That film just made me feel bad for myself . To be fair , he's at least 15 years older than me and the guy was ripped man . Anyway , I don't care if I'm greedy , I really don't care if I'm greedy anyway . Yeah , I think that's about it .

I don't care if I'm greedy , I really don't care if I'm greedy . I want all the superpowers and I want them now , and I won't be completely selfish . I may fight a bit of crime , and I would . And when I want to hide , I can just go invisible . So , invisible flying wolverine ? Yeah , there you go . Invisible flying Wolverine ? Yeah , there you go .

Invisible flying Wolverine , there you go . The ultimate , the absolute ultimate embarrassery . But it would have to mix DC and Marvel , so I don't think that crossover is ever happening .

Yeah , another thing let me know you can send me a text message If you look in the description of this episode and click on send us a text message , you can send me a text and let me know what you thought directly . Yeah , that would be fantastic if you could do that .

If you would like to share this episode , I would be also very , very , very , very happy . I hope you enjoyed it . Let me know what your thoughts are . Let me know what superpowers you would have . Let me know if you'd even want superpowers . Maybe it would be too much power for you and you would want to get rid of them .

I don't know , maybe that would be too much . Maybe I would get bored of being able to fly and maybe the responsibility would be too much . Maybe I would get bored of being able to fly and maybe the responsibility would be too much

. Like Uncle Ben said , was it Uncle Ben ? I know he made rice . I want to say it's Uncle Ben . It's Peter Parker's uncle called Uncle Ben . Oh , my god , it is , isn't it ? Anyway , what would you do ? Thanks very much for listening and I'll catch you next time . Yeah , speak soon . You've been listening to Infinite Dreadful . Thanks for listening .

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