Hello, and welcome to another episode of Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure, where Jeff
Bakola is going to explain why he doesn't think memes are funny. Yeah,
I feel like we jumped down Jeff Bachla's throat a lot, and I think
it's just time to let him defend himself. Take it away, Jeff.
So it's less of defense and more of just like something I've noticed the last
like maybe five years or so, I just don't think many memes on the
Internet are as funny as they used to be. Can I can I just
say? Can I just say this is that this is in response to me
sending a meme to the group chat. This was a response to a meme.
So this feels you didn't make this, but I sent this. I
curated this meme for this audience, her best. She was doing her best
to bring a little joy into our inter her friends. And it's and I
turned around on it, which I am finding that, like sometimes I think
it's the joke has been lost on me and I need to like stare at
it for like a good seconds before quote you earlier to get it. And
I don't want to get it. Oh, I didn't say I don't want
to get it. John, You're you're you're putting words in mine. This
was a Golfield meme that I sent in response to Jeff telling John how much
he loved his Godfield video. Yes, I'm just so delighted to even know
John, let alone share a podcast there with them. But the longest time,
we say that that is just how I am. Ordanically, you should
know that for the longest time, Lucy and I spent all of our time
efforts an ability to try and make sure Jeff remains reasonably cool on the internet.
We had a show called you know, the very online Show. We
helped him stay in touch with everything. The show stopped, and now this
motherfucker's out here going I don't think memes are funny on the internet. Yeah,
he is like aged himself. Like people who people who who thought that
he he was like cool are now going, oh, this is the switch
Kickstown guy. I see, I see. Yeah, it's me again coming
in on my walker, being like when in my day there was more than
there was just one cable network. Listen, listen. I just think that
I have a tough time sometimes understanding very like specific, very vertical slice meme
things where it's like just taking too much content. And also I just want
to say, like I came out of the very online show on the other
side of that, came out a much better person, Okay, became much
much more rounded, cultured person, well rounded, just like cultural Internet culture
wise. Right, that's a good thing. I just think, I just
think I come into contact with a good amount of memes where I'm like staring
at it and I'm either like I don't get it, or if this is
the joke, I don't think it's funny. Lucy did send one in our
chat with the theme of Garfield. It's an empty Lasagna dish. At the
top says Garfield non believers be like Colon and at the bottom must have been
the win. Even last time, I get it, And it's it's funny
because the point I said, and the reason the thing I said about John's
video is the very lasting sort of thesis of it of being that Garfield is
nowhere but also everywhere at the same time, which is like this magic Houdini
quality about the ipay. So anyway, uh, you're right, Lucy,
I'm wrong. I'm a dumb old. Idiots said that I'm just stupid,
you know. It's you gotta be a bit more introspective and just take Is
that what it is? It's the lack of introspection that really bothers me.
Honestly, Well, I didn't think we'd land there. Guys, Welcome to
the therapy. Okay, maybe I should be laying down. For this podcast
episode, we are going to recap another two episodes of I was gonna say
Jojo, but it's Cowboy Bebop. The episodes we're gonna be recapping our Bohemian
Rhapsody and My Funny Valentine, two of my favorite queen songs. Is My
Funny Valentine and Queen song Nope, well one out of a bad right guy
that means I'm not funny. This is the guy that thinks means I'm not
funny. He's like, that's my favorite song? Is a song? No?
Did you hear Lucy laughing? Because I sure did, Tam Baker,
I've never heard this song before. Cool, she laughed. The episodes Bohemian
Rhapsody, What did ever want to think? I enjoyed both of these.
I really enjoyed My Funny too. I enjoyed both. But although I love
it. I love a chess chess theme. Yeah yeah, I mean I
love how Lucy adjust to her glasses just as she said, chess theme Chess.
I think this episode really came together for me in like the last two
or three. Well, we'll get to it, but there's a moment in
this episode where I was like, oh, it kind of turned into something
a little more and I like that a lot. I think Bohemian Rhapsody is
a very good, like world building kind of episode in a way. I
just think there's a lot of fun. I like getting lost in in all
of the minutia. I like getting lost in all of like the set dressing
and the and the gunk of the world of Cowboy Bebop. And I think
this episode services that very well, and that's why I andoyed my time with
it. Oh Heemian Rhapsody. It begins with Spike Fate and successfully capturing twenty
thugs from an astral Gate hijack attempt, but sadly, they cannot collect a
bounty unless they capture the mastermind behind the robberies too. You need the full
set also. These episode recaps up all from the Cowboy Bebop fandom wiki Thank
you to those who maintained that. Appreciate it. So after that, the
crew returned to the Bebop and they're all having a moan and Ed is listening,
and they Ed is asking like if they got any information, and they
all reach into their pockets and they pull out basically the same clue, an
identical king chest piece, which was cool. It's well the thing the Pink
Panther would leave on a glove. Yeah, that was cool. Pink pant
Was it a glove or was it it's like a calling card? Didn't they
leave a glove? It might it might be you, bitch, Pink Panther.
There's nothing wrong with Pink Panther. Pink Panthers has thirty nine bitch.
I'm sorry if you if you can't take it, you cannot dish it.
Okay, I can leave anything else, Like who else leaves a fucking calling
god, like, unless you're leaving a joker or yeah that's not that's not
that's an invite. What kind of Batman? Batman? Yeah? Yeah,
oh yes, Batman leaving his classic love he leaves a batter angher. I'll
have you know. Jeff the official Pink Panther YouTube account has twenty million subscribers.
What what? And they uploaded a video four days ago? They are,
I add, very much if the Peter Seller's estate refusing to let go.
Yeah, it's the animation. Yeah, the cartoon. Okay, so
there's that. Yeah, there's new Pink Panther cartoons. I caught my kid
watching one the other day. Something. You caught him red handed. It
was like turn off and put on some hockey. Not often real things.
Too quickly we're talking about the pink. How the fuck does the pink in
twenty twenty three? How does the Pink Panther have twenty million followers? I
don't know, but I found the next subject to your video? Why is
every single video a thirty five minute compilation of Pink Panther? Pink? Okay,
if the Pink Panther loses his color enough that you can make a thirty
five minute compilation, maybe the bit has been running into the ground. Pink
Panther goes bowling at thirty five minutes. Guys, without without checking anything,
They're clicking on anything. What how many views do you think the most viewed
video in this channel has, oh like seventeen million? Okay, let's get
it let's get some guesses. Jeff, I think one hundred millions. Tam,
I think it's like fifty million, Lucy, I'm going to hit in
the middle. Seventy five, three hundred and eighty million views. There you
go on one video? How what is happening on one video? Tap you
one video? John, you need to do it's on the wrong cat.
I just said you you need to do a documentary on Like, is Pink
Panther still like the most relevant cartoon Panther garth? I just I don't understand
it, Like I have never heard anyone. I haven't had had a conversation
with Pink Panthers since I was like five. How is it alive on the
internet. It's not even a good thumbnail for the three hundred and eighty million
one. It's just it's it's just living based off the she you know,
popularity of Pink Panthers, A musical it's very relevant now called Pink Panthers.
She's Pink Panther is very much in the zeit guy. Still it's like twenty
videos on here with one hundred million views. Yeah, I think there's also
I think we're underestimating the attraction that young children might have to this franchise.
I think that. I think it plays well for kids perhaps, and once
you know something happens with kids, forget it. Oh you have a blue
situation on your hands. Put pink on that. That was my favorite episode.
So yeah, this isn't surprising. I think it's a little higher than
I would have guessed, but I don't think it's ultimately surprised. Jeff.
I think I think it's a kids thing because there turned off and usually they
do that for kids channels. There you go, pink flea. Oh,
I remember that one. He got a flea and he had to like shave
himself and you listen and get rid of the flea. I do. I'm
watching a pig panther fuck cowboy. Yeah you know what pink panther is in
YouTube kids, which is like a cut off platform. Mystery solved. That
doesn't count. Well, there you go. Your video is going to be
short. Then yeahn done, done, like and subscribe. There we go.
That's what I say at the end of every video. I know.
I never say that at the end of any video ever. Look, I
know, don't you try and fucking bullshit me? I know, I know,
very good uh, cowboy bebop. Wait, Jet Jet has a weird
beard that I never realized, and I wanted to say it before I forgot.
No, of course I realized he had a beard, but he has
two sort of like little straps that come around and almost enter below his eyes,
like those little thorny boys get real close to the nose. If you
even noticed the episodes of this, yeah, yeah, but we haven't talked
about the shape of jets beard. You haven't talked about it because you haven't.
You haven't noticed it over sixteen episodes. Well, today is the day
I chose to really pay attention to it. I don't know, I'm talking
just kind of. I'm kind of bothered by this. You you know,
It's okay. It's a good beard, I would say. The only thing
is like it's pretty high up on his cheek, which is which is interesting.
But as someone who has had hair that high on my cheek, I
understand it. It's shaped in a really interesting in an interesting way, but
way too high. Mm hmm, yeah, it does tie. It's it's
a bit tiger, which is cool. What was that I was wondering if
we rolled past that? Yeah, let's just keep going he's also doing like
a little just how a tiger does. Tiger stands up and just goes rank,
Jeff, you're now you need to turn down the bedroom energy and turne
up the work energy. Okay, okay, got it, Thank you.
The Gate Corporation is being flooded with complaints from people who've lost their savings in
these gate robberies, and so the Gate Corporation has put out a bounty of
twelve million woolong on capturing the mastermind, but so far, no one's been
successful. Fay at one point suggested that everyone works separately and then collect all
the money for themselves, but now she decides that they should pull their resources
and work together to find the mastermind. The others obviously take their personal like
and I'm like, oh you you want it to work alone? Now,
you flip flopping on that, But eventually they agree and Jet then lays out
what he knows, which is the important part of it is the hijacks were
all done in the exact same way. Everyone infiltrated. The toll booth attached
to hacking unit that stole a passing ship's balance when it paid the gate toll,
which is pretty clever. Me playing Cyberpunk twenty seven done the same way.
Yeah, that's up, girl, a creature of habit. The unit
immediately sent the cash credits over to a secure link to a bank on Europa,
and there the money was electronically launded in a way that can't be traced.
And then all of the hijackers were caught in the act, but none
of them actually had anything in common. That's everything he knows. Fay says
that one of the hijackers she caught was following the instructions from a manual he'd
found on a website that's no longer around, so basically the how to rob
a bank's style menu. Spike learns that the hacking units were designed by a
Pika who knew precisely how the gate system worked, and then Spike thought the
Gate Corporation knew what was going on but didn't want to talk about it.
Meanwhile, Edie is just kind of like pissing about with some cables and electrocutes
herself and it's like, shit, I'm electrocutes just flopping around there. Can
we take the temperature on how we all feeling a lot of noises? I'm
a fan, I I like it. She's great, Lucy tim I like
it a lot more. In this episode, I like Japanese said, I
don't like English head. Okay, yeah I should. Okay, that's interesting.
I need to go hear what Japanese head sounds like. Yeah, there's
a little more tonal variety in Japanese head. Ed is playing with some cables
electrocutes herself. She's not dead though, thankfully. She She's just been hooking
up her e chessboard, which is pretty dangerous. It seems she grabs all
the chest pieces from them and uses it to connect to an opponent who date
I was stored on the chip. This opponent is called chess Master Hex,
which is a pretty good name. Have you got any call nicknames anyone?
Not as code names? Super? There you go. That's a handle you've
had since before your rise the internet? Do you give you it was expressed?
It was created purely for the YouTube channel? Did you give yourself that
to? Just? Sure? Not really a nickname? I got given a
nickname the other day. Actually it was not good. Well, now we
must know it must no longer be a secret. You cannot just put that
information out there and not follow up. What is it? We were flying
back from l A and we're going through uh, you know, the little
security line before you go and put your Yes, we've all been on planes.
What do you mean you entered? You and see Lucy's laughing because she
gets it. She gets it. Great podcasting, It is this funny.
I would love to see Jeff at like a stand up show. Just set
up aloud, get to the punchline, say the punchline. You had entered.
You had entered a part of that story where you were about to explain
what a TSA security line was. And I was just like, we have
Jeff here to edit our conversations for us. I couldn't. Lucy, that's
the hardest you're gonna laugh to that? Okay, Yeah, anyway, I'm
glad. I So we're about to go through TSA security. They look at
my boarding pass, wave me through as in the world just goes what did
she say? All right? Jet Blue? Yeah? What what She's like?
Move along? Jet Blue? And I was like, what the fuck?
What does that mean? I have no idea? Yeah, we were
flying jet Blue, but like I was the only one she said that to
no one else, And Lucy was on the same flight with the same airline
a second before me. You know what the difference was. No, you
were wearing a blue shirt. You're wearing the blue Jump. Okay, so
weird Jet Blue? Did I ever tell you guys? I find it funny
enough the character in this show is called Jet Black, So yeah, there
is that connection because every tell you guys about how I got the nickname Joho,
and that was a nickname given to me by the country of Japan.
Joo. No, because you like Japanese the Japanese dentist Japanese DS story story
for another day, but let's just you can't just put that out there and
then just yeah, it's a long one. Lucy, it's a long one.
And crazy here we'll call you Joho. Is that what you want to
jo? People do? My dad does, oh, oh wow, this
is a family nickname. Learning a lot interesting. She doesn't believe that.
Ed doesn't believe that is related to what they're talking about. But Jet is
like, yeah, just play the opponent, let's see what happens. Meanwhile,
on the other end, an old man receives a new game invite and
is now interested in playing. Jet goes to the Gate Corporation headquarters and asked
us to see the CEO. But on the way and he meets Jonathan,
an old friend and a fellow bounty hunter. As he's leaving, Jet kind
of gives him a bit of grief for not being successful in his bounty hunting,
and Jonathan wants Jet that the bounty is way more difficult than it appears.
While he's meeting with the CEO, Jet starts to light a cigarette and
he's like, and the persons like smoking here, so he puts it out.
He doesn't put it out, does carry on smoking smoking? Round?
No? He puts it out in a planter. Oh yeah, yeah,
but yeah, And then he basically says that he knows that the Gate Corporation
is hiding something, and then he chucks the chess piece at the CEO and
said that these attacks were planned in advance. The CEO refuses to respond to
his questions and he just says that you should focus on catching the bounty and
basically hasn't been squirted out. While they're waiting for the ship to be returned,
Jet turns on a listening device that it connects to a micro that connects
to a microphone cigarette that he put in the CEO's office. Which is some
of the most clever bug placement I've ever like, that's great. I've never
seen that before. Yeah, I've never seen a single James Bond movie.
I was just gonna say, that is some James Bond shit that I like.
I don't think everything in a cigarette, but they hold on the cigarette
just long enough that you're like, like, I thought, oh, Jet's
like kind of he's giving a little sas to this guy, and I didn't
think any more about it than that, and then it's like, shit,
that's so good, so smart. I loved it. Oh my gosh,
Yeah, it's very clever. So sorry, that's my space. Okay.
So he learns that the Mastermind is named Chess Master. Hectx this is the
first instance of them saying the name, and so does Jonathan because Jonathan is
hiding nearby and listening. Hex continues to play with Ed in that chess match,
and Spike and Fay are taking a look at the chess pieces and only
can find chess data in there. Jet radios in with the information that he's
gathered on the Mastermind, and Ed is still playing the chess game. At
one point, she thinks that she's got checkmate and instead takes Hext's rook,
which is which is very exciting for chess Master. Hexts he's just having a
great time and where He's like, this person is either a genie total idiot.
Yeah yeah, Spikes begins to read the bi on chess Master Hex,
which goes Chess Master. Heck's estimated to be ninety eight years old, a
programmer that had been dubbed a genius from his teens. In the Cosmos Net
chess tournaments, he held the champions seat for decades. He applied his intellect
Hyperspace Gate project, joining the program at thirty years of age. He eventually
developed the central control system that all gates used to this day. But after
that he started to have doubts. He said that the design had defects and
the gates shouldn't be built yet, and he's as he wanted to run more
tests, but they fired him and built the gates anywhere anyway, and he's
been missing for fifty years. Yeah. I love that. I love the
little trip that memory lane, like you learn everything you need to know.
I just like And it's funny because I don't like reading the little journal notes
in video games. I don't, but this is exactly what that is.
So I don't know. I can't explain why, but I really love these
little tidbits, you know, narration, you get to like little folk those
of them as well, which are really well drawn and expressive. Yeah.
To experience more of this kind of information if you read the stuff in video
games and listen to audio logs. Mm hmm, that's true. I prefer
audio lot. Read the I am descriptions. Thank you for making that.
You welcome. The tries to get adds attention, but it is too busy
playing the game, and at one point even does like a cat like kiss
at her as she tries to grab Jeff. Jeff, can we get like
a can we get the cat noise? I was good? Yeah, and
then for folks at home he did the little cat poor thing too, So
yeah, of course the same part as the tiger. Can we get the
other? Can we get the other cat noise that you did the I did
a gentle tiger. It doesn't get very bad, yeah, because fucking I,
because you know how I feel about cats, and you know, like,
yeah, I love them. There's nothing to death. Uh. Spike
mentions his name, and surprisingly Ed says that she's playing with chess master Hex
in her e chess game. I'm playing that fool, that fool right here.
This lets Jet track Hex to his location through the game, and it's
a large junk yard full of red ships and spare parts from astral gates.
That's good consistency there. Yeah. Yeah. Spike and Fay suit up and
they take their ships out to explore, and eventually they pick a spot and
enter on foot into that area, which surprisingly has oxygen, which means there's
people about. Meanwhile, Jonathan has been following behind the Bebop discreetly, fucking
Jonathan. Oh, this guy. Never trust anyone named Jonathan. Well that's
my no one here names I agree. No, we got John. My
brother is a John. Don't trust that. I don't. He's video links
to Jet and tells him that he's got a good he's got a score to
settle with Hex, which is why he's muscling in on this. Jonathan blasts
the Bebop and disables it and then flies off towards the Bohemian junk Keep.
In the junk Keep, Spike and Fay used locating devices to track the signal
of Hex's E chess connection. They find a surprising environment of cats, dogs,
plants, flowers, sleeping bums, and flock of birds in a community
of bohemians living among the wretches. One of them says something that I found
really funny. I can't remember the exact word, but he's like, yes,
it's like a hippie ye, Like it's like a chill out dude,
or like it's going to be a chill or At the end he's like,
and it's cool for my wallet too, and what Yeah, it was.
It was. It was strange, very weird. He's like high as fuck.
Spike and Fay finally find HETX and they blast their way into Hext's room
and confront him, only to learn that he is a snow old man.
How is that as a twist? I don't think there's really a twist.
That kind of assumed that a little bit. He thought he was a senile
old man when he's like playing chess at such a high level. Yeah,
time, Like, I think it is a bit of a twist because like
you don't know what his deal is and then it's like, oh wow,
like he's he's not really there anymore. He's not the person that instigated this
crime. I think when they first introduce him as he's playing the game of
chess, you are led to believe that he is this sort of like lucid
chess master, shadowy figure guy. I don't know what it is, but
I think when the reveal that he is senile occurs, something else has happened
in the narrative pacing of this episode, where like I believed it very easily
and was not shocked by it. So I can't really explain. I just
don't think the reveal was that much of a reveal rather or twist, rather
than just they sort of like, you know, a continuation of of where
things were going. I kind of don't. I kind of wish he wasn't,
I think, But again, obviously the way they've written this story,
he has to be. You wanted an evil mastermind. I wanted some sort
of more you know, interesting lore to follow up the fact that there was
something cool about someone who's ninety eight and is still like a nefarious, you
know, bad actor kind of person, Like I really like where it goes.
Well, yeah, I get your point. I kind of like it.
I like it. A bad guy isn't you know, evil? Everything's
all thought through evil scheme. Shit, I just like a little little one
off, you know. Yeah. I think the cool part of this in
which we'll discover is how his uh him going senile has led to this sort
of like unresolved thing, which I think is interesting. Yeah. Yeah,
So Jonathan burst into a room to and points a gun at Hex and demands
for the money that he lost in the Astro gate. Heck. Hex greets
them by asking him to quiet down so that he can finish the game,
and the three old men Antonio, Carlos and Job Him then jump down from
the ceiling and great Hex. Hex is excitedly tells them about his new opponent.
They seem to basically he seems to basically ignore Spike, Fey and Jonathan,
and they have a conversation that basically reveals to them that Hex is seen.
Now. Hex wants to have lunch, but the three old men tell
him that he they already He's already had lunch, and He's like, did
I enjoy it? What's going on? I was really caught off guard by
the appearance of these characters. Yeah, these three have been around, haven't
they? These episode one, and I think in the Casino episode as well.
Yeah, in episode one, they talk about working on the gates,
so it makes sense that he they'd be so fucking cool. Oh wow,
that is cool. Yeah, Jonathan is sad over the money he's lost,
and then he gets angry and starts like blasting ship with his gun like a
fucking asshole. This guy behavior, you're taking it just like this one character.
Everything his the faces, he's making this whole time, like he's doing
this like the strange. He's such a baby. He's a big fucking adult.
Relate to this unchecked aggression at all. I'm canning slightly. Yes,
I think like I'm actually quite uncomfortable right now. All right, we'll get
used to it. Listen. I think he also is needless in this episode.
We don't need Jonathan's story. I don't need to. It's inconsequential.
It's only a matter of time before this brother was one of us. Unrelated
to the name that he's had nothing to do with. This feels yeah,
it feels like there's some stuff here. Therapy Part two, Well, I
have been lying down the time. This is helpful. Jonathan needs to stop
taking his toys. Yeah toys in this episode, Yeah, toys in the
attic was previous episode, uh Fay wonders what to do about Hex, as
he's obviously not a dangerous villain. He's just a seen old man enjoying some
chests and forgetting that he's had dinner. Spike says that Hex is basically no
longer there and it's just an old man who likes to play games. Cut
back to the Gate Corporation headquarters and Jets like, this is what happened.
Hex set up an elaborate plan to kick in that year during the first automatic
tech upgrade of the Gates. However, he became seenw and completely forgot about
it. He laid a bunch of traps and even like set up people to
behave in certain ways, and then just completely forgot. I love that,
I love Yeah, that's great, it's great. Yeah, Jet is dense.
I was doing his like vaguely threatening routine, and he promised, and
they are like, how much money do you want to keep this a secret?
And Jet says that he promises that he won't go public public with the
information and the Gate defect stuff, on the condition that they just leave Hex
alone and call off the bounty hunters, as Ed would be very unhappy if
she lost her favorite chest partner, which is very cute. So I really
love that line because I feel like it's the first time any of these characters
have really put a bounty before anything, like even even jet like, even
though he kind of did it for her sake, when he arrests his old
Flames partner in it's like, you know, he got the bounty, and
it's like, there's this this is the first time that any of them have
been like they're all just in agreements. Hey, this guy makes Ed happy.
We could cash him in for a bunch of money, but maybe it's
more important that Ed's happy. And it's just I find it very sweet.
Yep, yeah, yep, it's very nice. The question the Gates explain
the Gates, Man, I know what they are on the show, but
like, are they just sort of like toll booths? Are they likeyper space
gates? Right, Yeah, it's just sort of like an on ramp for
very fast travel. I think they're both. They're like a toll booth and
also you can mass affect them. Cool, got it? Yeah, okay,
and it just like takes the money as you go through. Sure,
I'm a little easy past this might get it multipas mhm, Jonathan hasn't left
the junk keep kind a bit crazy and it starts smoke like he's smoking now
and he's a full on hippie with everyone else. He's a bohemian lad.
He's actually quite friendly now and he waves at a pretty good guy. Yeah,
I feel like I like him quite a bit now, Yes, cool.
What do you think Lucy just charmed to him? Yeah? I think
so. Yeah, Yeah, he earned it. What do you think,
Jeff? I personally, no, I actually disagree with the three of you.
I think he's just like an angry, annoying, inconsequential character who shoots
up the room like a crazy person and really adds nothing of value to the
expositional integrity of the episode. What is what is going on with Jeff?
Jeff? What happened to you? I wonder something about it? I'd like
I was watching him just like funck this guy so hard? Do you want
to? I don't want to? Did you get that? No? Did
not like did not like him? You know that's all? That's all?
Good? Good episode? Okay. Meanwhile, Ed is still playing the same
game of chess with Hex and it's been a week. She finally loses and
uh to to chess Master. Hectx and hext closes his eyes, implying that
he has died of old age as his pet bird flies away and drops a
feather next to a chess piece. Oh right, I forgot he's dead.
Yeah, he dies, He dies after beating Edward. Yeah, just closes
his eyes. Little chess bird flies away. Yeah, that was very dramatic.
It's like, you know, it's like it's like check me. King
kings down, Man kings down. It's one more win before departing this existence.
Chalk will not for chess master. Hects again. Good episode, I
think overall, Yes, but I prefer the second one. Yes, nothing
can prepare us for what we're about to. Oh okay, yeah, just
because there's a shot of down some cleeve. Oh there's boxing that immediately that
that was my voice, just now, that was my voice. Just now,
what's all right? Not exactly a recording of me, but getting close.
Yeah, there's there's there's abundance and an abundance of cleave and my Jeff
impression. Yeah, okay, kind of like that. Come on, come
on, that was good. Come on, Tam, you want to have
a crack attitude? No, I'm good. I'm good. I think they've
nailed it, so I don't think I need to add to it in any
way. I mean, just so you can't do it, that's fine,
just say I I can't do it. I can do it. Jeffler.
Oh, I'm Joffler. I fucking love hockey and and pinball and sorry,
Jeff, we're talking so to his Oh my god inside for some reason,
I don't know what's going on as someone who's wearing a hat inside, you
cannot do that. Ship Well, I am not wearing a hat. God,
damn you tomorrow. Yeah, I think I think that's fairly dead on,
which is no, you got the accent down, Pat for sure.
I don't like doing it. Who is damn Dawn? Patrick? Are you
down bad? Patrick? Yeah? Patrick Kappik. That's what we're talking about.
This episode rules in so many ways. Cleavage is just the icing on
the cake, is it not? Um? This made me fall in love
with Faye for sure. There are so many absolutely stunning drawings of faith in
this episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the episode designed to
make her as hot as possible. I've got my my Fay print that I
haven't put up yet. I don't know. I say that like every two
fucking weeks we record, But are you I need to just reminded me.
I've got like five or eight different princes. Hup. They need to find
somewhere for my funny Valentine in the early twenty fifth century, Faye Valentine is
being put into cryogenic sleep. You know, I don't think I would go
into cryogenic sleep. Yeah, you can show how To with John Wilson.
Yes, yes, love it. So he's not going to talk about the
circumcision. Okay, no, no he did episode No you would know.
I'm like a cryogenic sleep convention. Oh I haven't seen that? Is that
from the new series? I haven't seen that yet. It's what wild people?
Oh sure, I mean if you haven't seen Folks at Home how To
with John Wilson. When the episode I think it's season one or two,
starts with plastic furniture, keeping plastic on your furniture, You're gonna go on
a ride. I was in a meeting at work, but I was pitching.
We were talking about a series, and I was like, oh,
what if we made it feel like how Too? With John Wilson? And
people are like, oh, I'm not familiar. I'll go home. I'll
watch a couple of episodes, and I was like, Okay, in my
managerial capacity, I have to warn you about one episode. Kurt texted me
that night with oh, my fucking god, and I was like, I
did try money. I tried to warn you. There's nothing like it.
There's nothing like that show. That's very good. I hope his landlady or
his ex land lady is still alive, because she was so sweet. She
is in season three, Yes the God, okay good. She would make
him food and leave it outside. You're right there. You just smacked.
I smacked the camera the microphone. I was too excited. Oh it's a
great show. Several doctors and staff are lowering her into a storage unit with
other spaces in there. Then in the present day, Jet and Ed take
out some fish to eat, only to find that the fish is very frozen.
He used to be evidence and it's full of poison. Now I kind
of like Jet, Jet and Ed. I think they're kind of fun fundies.
Little tandem there. Yeah, fun tandem for sure. Hm. Nope,
not like that commentary. We're doing podcasts wrong. I'm not sure about
I'm not sure about Now that I think about it, I'm not sure.
I like them as a pairing. They are fun. It sounds like you
know something we don't, but go ahead, I don't. I don't know
anything. Forced to get any bounty he can, Jet decides to go after
a con man who's seducing and defrauding women just so they can have a little
bit of money for food, and he knows that Spike is probably not going
to be up for this kind of bounty, so he's going to go on
his own. I like that little take that like Spike really only wants like
dangerous ship. He doesn't want to just like catch a con man exactly.
He's going to go take a seventy eight minute shower instead, is what he's
going to do. Yeah, So off he goes on his own to do
that stuff. Phase waking up from her nightmare where she's being cryogenically frozen to
the sound of Iron barking at her. She smells Iron's shit and realizes that
she needs to clean his little box. During this, she tells Iin that
he reminds her of someone and asks if he wants to know about her past.
She's doing a thing where she's just talking to the dog for a little
while, which is you know, fine, you can do that. Yeah,
iin is uninterested, and then Fay starts her story. In twenty sixty
eight, Fay is pulled out of water in her hospital walking from a long
sleep. A doctor introducing himself as Bacchus confirms with assistant that she is reviving
and happily talking to her about her condition. Yeah. I don't know about
this backus guy. Yeah, I don't like him. It seems he seems
like a rented doc, right, Yeah. Then he makes a joke about
Bacchus and Bacchus and just Lucy. He also gets he gets all up in
that cleave too. I don't know if you guys notice, Yeah, that
was inappropriate. He gets his chin up in that cleve. He's like,
oh this this half conscious. Are you upset because it's creepy or are you
jealous? You have to make your own interpretation about that question. Cam Jeff
got the most curious like facial expression I've ever seen him have when he said
that sentence. He's kind of he went real low and then like looked up
with his pew. It was very strange. Deliberately strange. No, of
course I wasn't jealous of of a of a man getting too close for comfort.
Okay, but there was a lot of cleave drawn there, and they
went through that camera angle a bunch. I'm just saying, man might notice
the cleve in the scene. True. I guess I was just paying attention
to the story and not just like ogling anime women. Yep, whatever,
we all have our hobbies. Okay, I mean it's almost He casually,
uh gets to the matter of payment and ask his assistant, miss men Menley
Manleys like that, Yeah, Madley, Miss Manley. I like that name.
Miss Manley is pretty cool. You like another woman. You're great,
Uh to figure out the amounts she's asked to do that the charges are brought
up. She's she's pretty cool. Yeah, she seems awesome. She's great
over computers, go with numbers. Perfect that, Jeff, now just waiting
to get to the next bit here. The toll is like three hundred one
thousand woolongs a million, a million, or three hundred million woolongs. Yeah,
which also leads me to declare that I don't understand the conversion rate of
a woo law. I thought this was a lot. It is a lot,
but also it's not a lot, so it is a lot. Oh,
I think it's I think it's just a lot. Like this is more
than they've ever gotten, right, But like are like, what what do
you think of one wulong being equal to a dollar? Yeah? I do
you think it's one to one? I mean it's basically what a euro is
now to a dollar more or less? Why can it is like nineteen thousand
wulong and then split between three people? It's not a lot, but then
at some point jets like I added a zero on there, so it's something
like one thousand, nine hundred. Yeah, yeah, okay. Fay is
very disorientated and asks the doctor who and where she is. Miss Manley confirms
that phase not acting and has truly lost all her memory of who she is.
But it shocks mister doctor backus this scene. Also, remember I said
at the start of our show here that it did appear that Cowboy Beatbob perhaps
took a little bit of inspiration from the fifth Element. I think this this
scene in a lot of ways, almost the you know, the the sort
of machine design and stuff like that. I know it's not solely unique to
any of these pieces of art, but like this really did feel like a
fifth element moment of like Leelu coming out of the whatever that machine is where
they recreate her. It could be there is a very similar machine in a
Kira, which is which predates fifth em and I'm sure so yeah, anyway,
but there's probably a lot of machines like this. Totally, totally,
yeah, there's there. There is a bit of that of I do think
of fifth elements peppered around all of these episodes, which is probably one of
the reasons I love it so much. Later in the hospital bed, Faye
is a push by a lawyer named Whitney Hagis Matsumoto, which is the weirdest
name I've ever seen. Yeah, that's that's like Hagis isn't hag hagis an
Irish Scottish Scottish. Let him have it. Let him have it, John,
John, but I've got close ish you have there are part of the
different race of people, Jeff. It's not it's not a race of people,
is it is? It was? It was it ethnicity. We're like
a nationality nationality, so we're just all the same. Is that what I'm
hearing? White people are the same to you, Jeff Yes, Whitney Hagness.
Masato says that he'll look right now so that he'll help her, as
he's done some research in the case and reckons that he can help out.
He informs her that she was in an accident fifty four years ago, no
way, fifty four years ago, and at twenty years old, she was
frozen. She can't believe it, and he tries to prove to her as
he tries to prove to her what's happening, because she's like, oh,
this is a I know what's going on. This is a TV. Yeah,
this is so funny. It's great. Oi'll pass yeah, yeah,
which is real fun Yeah. That night, Faye tries to escape the hospital,
but she trips an alarm. She makes the highway, but it doesn't
get that far. Eventually, Masmato finds her and assures her that he'll help
her make the payment little by little, and she goes with him and he
buys her elaborate meals. He's getting her new clothing. He sweeps her off
her feet and calls her his sleeping beauty. I really wish we didn't have
a song here. This song song was a bit weird. We don't do
this song. It is completely out of character for Cowboy Bebop in every possible
way. All of a sudden, this breaks into some weird ass saccharine montage
song, and I'm just like, what the fuck is this? This man?
This almost ruined this episode for me. I think I love the visuals
of this scene so much that I shud it. Like there's one shot and
it's Fay just like sitting in the car and like her hair is blowing in
the wind, and it is just one of those fucking perfect nineties anime aesthetic
shots and it's only on screen for like a second and a half, but
god damn, it's just wah beautiful. Yes, I think the exposition is
successful, the music not so much. Oof. Also, I wanted to
bring up I think it's really cool that we have a good understanding, well
at least selfishly for me being someone who always wants to know exactly where we
are in time and whatnot, this episode does give you a very specific calculation
of where in time Boy Bebop exists, Like you mean you mean yeah yeah,
Like the year, which which I believe to be is now twenty seventy
one, Okay, I need that, you need? Yeah, but does
that know what I mean? Are you going to get what did you call
it? Like, disappointed in the future if we're not? Yeah, do
you think we're gonna get there? I'm disappointed in the future because from my
childhood perspective, we're all in it, and let me tell you, fucking
sucks. Okay, it's all broken, nothing works. Okay, it's just
a bunch of robots who can't talk to each other. That's the future we're
living in. And I wish, uh we had I had the foresight to
not look towards the future future with such hope and fondness. You're really missing
you? Is your root broken? Is that? Is that what happened?
I feel like you're having a having some sort of melt I'm based on.
Like, no, it's an internet issue. I just I'm disappointed with the
future that I think the future does in fact suck. Okay, cool,
okay, but yeah, I just you guys aren't disappointed by by modern techniques.
I'm just so present, you know. Yeah, I mean like we've
got but we've got personal computers in our pockets, you know. Yeah,
electric cars, Yeah, there's cool. Just the fact that we can even
do this podcast is a miracle of modern science. Basically basically on three three
different corners of the world here and we're just yeah, which is you know,
it's it's a beautiful thing. Like, isn't it something like one in
four kids born these days will live to see a hundred There's no way to
know that. I heard about it on a podcasting. I think that's an
insane thing to assign to a child right now, do you guys know the
who had it? Right? I hope I die before I get old,
but also the who is still fucking touring? So yeah, because I I
always thought like, if you have a problem with someone, the way you
win is get real healthy, outlive them, and then talk ship at their
funeral. Is so demonic? Kids? Oh wait, I'm sorr. Who
are we talking about? Just your enemies? Oh okay, yeah, this
fine? My kids and my enemies. That's a sort of like revenge.
That oh man, that is a it's just dark and there's so much effort.
But like you're also getting back at someone who is now dead. That
wies it matter because you win? Yep? What could you outlive them?
Yeah? Well you live them and you ruin their funeral and they can do
nothing the ultimate and like, but you have the thing is like, if
you decide to do it to one person, you can just fold other people
into it because you're already going to live a long time. It's just it's
a beautiful plan. Yeah, it's beautifully psychotic. I think we Lucy,
back me up here. This is yeah. I'm with John. Is good.
We're we're all are principle. I love it, But I'm too nice.
I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. Seems like a lot
of effort living living well is the best revenge about people over glass of wine
is even better at their funeral. Though, you have to be really wronged
to put this kind of determination into a revenge plan. I just gotta say,
Okay, something truly horrific must have happened to you to do to want
to do this to a person. Maybe someone just confuses your nationality. Very
good, very very good. Well played play. One day that driving from
being out when they're pursued by the insurance agency. Apparently the hospital and the
doctor have had enough. Matsmato says is a collection agency, and he drives
the other way. He trives off. The writing tells her to run for
it so she can escape. At least as runs, she sees the car
explode, or she sees an explosion in the distance and realizes that Masamoto has
died. Sadly at the hospital, finds that Masumoto named her his soul air
and benefactor, and has left all his assets to her. I find that
scene like upsetting, like insane, Like she doesn't even go to look at
it before accepting. Yeah. She She's like, she's like, wow,
he ready to care about me. She accepts the assets by basically signing on
the diadeline using her think of fingerprint doctor. Really yeah, And so what
happens if you die? Does your debt get passed on to your kids?
I don't. I'm not aware. I don't have kids. I don't have
does get I think there's a statute of limitations that I do believe that you
can inherit debt. I feel like if that was a common thing, we'd
see way more movies about it. It's hard to do, but it's still
doable. Well, you know you have to. You have to in the
in the sense of well, I don't want to ruin the story here but
like, it's not. It's not just like a thumb print, right,
Like, there's a lot of things that have to happen for it to be
trained. Debt is inherited by someone else. Instead, it passes to the
estate during probate to the executive. The state typically pays off debts using the
state's assets first, So like selling houses, okay, credit card debt cannot
be inherited. However, shared debt will likely still need to be paid.
Have we had a con No, I don't think so. My mom used
to do a like probate and wills and deeds and stuff, so you'd think
I would have known any of that. I also used to work in that
field. Was like, I worked in various legal firms for like five years,
so I should have known something some time. You have a legal education,
Yeah, yeah, he's a lawyer, right, aren't you like a
lawyer. I'm not a lawyer. No, but I do have a law
degree, got it? Yeah? Anything else? Any other questions? Objection?
Thank you? Back in the present day? Well, sorry, she
she accepts the debt, and then she is shown that the only assets he
has is debt. Sorry, she accepts the assets and all he has is
Debt in the present day wraps up the story, and just as she does,
she has the toilet in the bathroom right next to her flush and then
a Spike walks out and she's like, how long have you been there?
And he's like a long time. Your story needs editing, which is I
love that line, which is a great line. Spike is then like give
her some grief that she might have made up the story since she's done it
so many times. But then Jet returns with a bounty and it turns out
this bounty is Matsumoto himself. Three years Yeah, three years later he's put
on a bit away the three year thing. So that puts Faye at twenty
three. Yeah, so no one likes to meet to me, that's insane.
That that's like Fay is like late twenties at least. That is that
is a worldly woman who has learned some tricks. Technically she is older than
she true is yeah, true, but not in experience, I mean just
in existence in the in the world. She's frozen for fifty years, right,
yeah, And that is a callback to when we first meet her.
There is like she is like the she's like a lucky woman, like a
figure of legend, and at some point they miss it. They mentioned that
she might be way older than anyone knows, and I think it's kind of
interesting that. No, you get the kind of second part of that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you're you're saying you wish not that you
wish she was older, that she appears like she is in her late twenties.
Yeah. The way she actually stuff would lead me to, like,
would lead me to believe that this is not a twenty three year old three
years on the run though probably ages. Yeah, I'm going to say,
because sometimes she does shit and I'm like, oh, she's nineteen, yeah,
faye, keep her above twenty one if we could nineteen White General,
Wrong Village. Ohay, she is portrayed and the sexualization of her in this
show. Let's let's not have her be a teenager. I mean, you
know, some might say, I'm sorry if my colls can't get on board
with that, I'm beholder, Jeff, So, oh, you're right,
what a weird and unique opinion of mine that she is sexualizing this? Okay,
Yeah, no, I have to called that out because whenever you say
anything in anime is like over sexualized or inappropriate the immediate Twitter avatar responses,
well, maybe only you're seeing that, and it's like I Fay realizes that
she was just another one of Matsumoto's marks. At this point, since he
is a his bounty was he's been tricking women. He says. The doctor
who's now supposedly dead was protecting him and he had to cooperate with him,
and now he's he regrets everything that happened. The police arrived to make the
exchange for the bounty, but Faye decides that she's got on finished business with
him and abducts him in the Red Tail. I love that, Yeah,
I love how she like put stuffs that guy into the space Shift and like
you know, gives gives Spike and Jet like the finger on our way out
the fuck up this guy's mind. That's awesome, yea. So she wants
to get answers about him about what was real and what was part of the
scam. Spike in the Swordfish to pursue her and eventually Like hits her,
shoots her, and then she pleaded with Masima to tell her the truth,
but before he can the police communicate with her. Faye recognizes the voice of
the cop and it turns out it's Bacchus and Manly. I kind of like
Bacchus. I think like he's just the bumbling kind of idiot. Wherever did
the English voice acting? Pretty good performance, you know, like I enjoyed
that. Fay is frustrated with the lies, and she starts to realize that
he she doesn't really know what's going Oh, he doesn't really know what's going
on. Bachus says that he gave her the name Valentine and he doesn't know
who she is either. Then the real police arrive and demand their patrol ship
back because Bachus apparently stole it. So Bacchus and Manley decide to flee and
leave Matsumoto behind, where Faye is now determined to claim the bounty on him.
It sounds like, mister Pagets, are you even a doctor? Yeah?
Look what's exactly going on here? Well, what's happening once, sir?
Once math Somoto is in custody, he tells Faye that he knows one
true thing. He fell in love with her while she was in cry of
sleep. But immediately he follows up I saying just kidding, I was lying.
Also, Matsumoto is Bacchus's nephew, which is weird. Yes, should
find out it's your uncle, she says. Yeah. As I leave the
police headquarters, Jet gives Faye her third of the bounty, which is nineteen
eight hundred woolongs, but we lay alone that is actually one nine hundred and
eighty. She's dismayed out how little it is. And yeah, we learned
that Jet actually added a zero to the toll and that is the end.
Does that mean the episode Jet donated more money, like that's what he did?
Okay, I just want to make sure accidentally. Yeah, but yeah,
this episode's great. This episode is I just think, uh, really
upper echelon of quality and kind face character. Jeff, Yeah, I think
it's I think I needed some of that background for her. What I will
say is we have some more of that coming. Like there are some fucking
fantastic Fay episodes. It's great. Yeah, I really enjoy it, and
I enjoy that like there's no you know, as much as I say I
need things answered, I like the fact that, like you know what we
we just don't know who you are depending on you know, as it goes
to your reanimation story. I love it. I love it. I you
know, uh, I was this episode flew by? Yeah, and like
it really I think like it's not just giving you like this backstory of Faye
and like, oh, this is who she was. It really informs why
she is the way she is and how she's kind of like you know it.
It implies a lot about how she's had to learn and scam and navigate
the world and why she's in this line of work. It's really great.
Yeah, it explains It perfectly explains her entire character profile. And it's you
know, no notes, what great. Thank you. Yeah, we'll let
him know that you liked it. Is he alive? I don't know if
he's still alive. I think it still he is. He actually a new
series that's either coming out or I think it's coming up. Well, I'm
not to look into that. They have another episode of Jeff Chess Bizarre Adventure.
Thank you everyone for listening. We'll be back next time with two more
episodes of the show recapped. We're reaching the final phase of this series,
which is exciting. In the meantime, John, where can people find you?
You can find them by googling super patual Bypatuol and also do Twitch dot
Tv, Forward Slash, super Efetual Forego live every Friday. M hm uh
Lucy, Hello, you can find me everywhere at Lucy James Games, Jeff.
I'm online at Jeff Backlar, so find me there. I suppose looking
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Have you seen this? At the end, and then the oh really
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