Hello, want to welcome to another episode of the Fuck Is This Podcast?
Call again? Jeffres bizarre adventure. My brain, my brain. I just
woke up. I literally just got up. I was sleep at nine o'clock.
Yees, good morning, good morning. Was it a continuous sleep time
or no? It was I was up every two hours? It was somehow
I woke up feeling even worse than when I went to sleep. I get
the four a MS or I just wake up four am? Hey. Yeah.
If I wake up between five and seven, I'm cooked. I can't
I can't go back. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. We are
joined as always by John Okay, your firepatchbor to more. It's fantastic to
be here, Thank you for being here. We're joined by the sleep Queen
Lucy. Hello, Hello, woke up this morning? Oh look looking extremely
extremely rested. In fairness, I'm actually really not because of the aforementioned tummy
troubles that he was talking to you guys about. Don't have dairy kids.
It's not worth it in America. We're also joined by Jeff Backlaw. Hey,
I'm doing great. Thanks for asking, Tam. It's a lovely day.
It's a lovely podcast. Lovely to be around lovely friends. What's with
the attitude? Yeah, it's weird. That feels weird. You know,
you've really painted yourself into a corner in life. When you're a genuine nice
these are met with disbelief. Friends. I just felt presonally that there was
perhaps a scornful undertone to the whole thing. Well, the podcast isn't over
yet, Bud, so we're just beginning. Who knows what lies before us?
What lies before us is a manga artist house. Oh, John,
you about to say something. I can't remember if this is on the podcast,
but Discord last week. But this Chord has changed and you can now
have Discord like little emojis next to your name Mine, you guys see mine?
Can you guys see mine? No? We still we did this.
We can't see yours? Yeah, can you send a screenshot of what yours
is? Because I can only see I can see tam is chilling. Jeff
doesn't have one. I'm podcast in with a little microphone and you've got is
that a picture of your own face? It's a picture of my face?
And the emotion is John, oh j I want to be well one day
when Ireland is allowed to be united with America because everyone wants that, I
don't know, come here and enjoy. Oh that's what you meant, Okay,
I thought I thought you meant on like a national level. I did,
but I also and I also mean like you need some kind of up
situation where a lot of balloons and you left Ireland and you kind of bring
it over, bring it over to the West Coast. I don't think the
East Coast deserves Ireland. I think we have it what We're so much better
and you don't even get to claim a coast. Get out of here.
The problem with East Coast is everyone in the East Coast, especially New York,
claims or Boston claims the Irish. Everyone's like, I'm Irish, I'm
Irish. Everyone thinks I'm Irish. The most to me that you're not people
pretending to be Irish. Leave the Irish pretends to be Irish, so oh
my boy. Yeah, like when when I go to America and there people
are like where are you from, and I'm like, I'm just Smartland and
they're like I'm Irish, and it's like yeah, but I know a lot
of Irish people. So maybe that's why I just like, don't see the
LARPing as Irish, right, But I've got Irish friends, I mean all
my most A lot of my friends in New Jersey are like, you know,
cops and firefighters. And guess what, they're all Irish from you know,
we we did this, they're they're from. Jeff, you just did
the thing that the rest of us are criticizing. I'm not this is not
me. I come back to Ireland all the time, and they don't.
They talk about they have family there. Still, I don't know what do
you want from me? Everyone from here is Italian or Irish. I don't
know what to tell you. That is what happened, That's how it netted
out. What part of from part of Italy? I don't know if I
don't know, wait so hang on what so what? You you're Italian?
Me? I don't know what do you I'm I'm I'm like a little Turkish,
a little Austrian and like. But also many generations did you learn this
from doing twenty three? And me? No? Learn this from family family
members by asking them before they died, okay, like right as they were
dying, hold on, hold on my Turkish I've got I've got a family
tree We've got family tree done. That's cool. Yeah, it goes by
to the sixteen hundreds, which is cool. Whoa see that doush. Yeah,
that Dutch on my dad's side. All Dutch, the Dutch. You
cool. I like the Dutch. Love. I'm a fan of the Dutch.
What can I say? Got some great food, got your own marshal
art, It's great. Yep, let's go to the manga artist house.
Pot two begins with a under koachure going back to Rohan's house, Rohan being
the manga artist, and he is still if you forgot, currently under the
influence of Heaven's Door, and he's visiting. Thanks Axel. I was going
to say, just because because we mentioned Rohan here, I just want to
give a shout out to Burns Rest big man. He's there. He's visiting
Rohan rest in peace. Ko decides a Rohan rest in Peace is he sees
him finishing a drawing of a page, and he's very, very shocked at
how quickly Rohan rest in Peace claims he's going to do this. I'm still
saying rest in peace now just too much so. Also the state too soon,
too soon, And Rohan says that he's able to finish basically, or
the is should take a mangoca much longer than he's able to do it to
finish these pages. And he says it's because he's he's been inspired by Koichi's
life, which, if you forgot from last episode, he read by using
his stand on Koichi and then opening him up like a book and ripping pages
out. That's right, folks, that's exactly right. That's exactly what happened.
That feel good he was And he says like he lost like twenty kilograms
or something, didn't He like every time he takes pages out of his book,
he loses weight. And I'm just like, hey, I've got some
I've got some lore. I'm not using. It's just animeo zampic is what
that is. It's just high high stock paper. So is it implied that
is it implied that this is like Rohan's stands or is it like he's just
really good at drawing mag Yeah, so I think his stand is intimately tied
to his mang his manga artistry. Suppose it shows itself in the way that
he can read people like books and literally turn their skin into pages. I
think that I can do And now now we're learning that he can like write
stories that change people's behaviors, and he can also like really just use a
fountain pen real efficiently and quickly, like really just no, kind of like
that's kind of my question is like is a nib master is but is the
nibbing is that a stand or is he just no? I think the manual
labor part of it is just him. Yeah, No, he doesn't have
like a green aura around it. Is that? Why? No? I
don't I would agree with that, yeah, kind of, but also like
it doesn't. He specifically says he uses his stand to read people, and
I don't think most other stands have like a secondary like passive boost on it
he uses. That's true. Chi like watches him draw and he's like two
feet away from him, and he's just screaming at him. He's just like,
how are you doing this? You're so talented. I found out to
be a bit weird, a bit a bit of a weird way to compliment
an artist, is what I mean. I mean, like, you know,
I've been to fighting game tournaments where you know, people are losing their
minds with someone playing really well. Yeah, I guess that's fair, but
scream, I guess the solution there, Jeff would maybe like to just maybe
get out a little more and just kind of sort of, you know,
experience life and stuff like that. Okay, I'll make that a priority.
Yeah. Good. So he's he's shocked at how quickly he's able to put
this new chapter of A Mango together, and then realizes that he's using a
stand to do it again. And Rohan is planning to just keep pulling from
Koichi to to fuel the inspiration behind his manga. Has basically become his muse
in a lot of ways. And then there's a doorbell ring and Koch goes
downstairs to to find out who's there, and it's Joski Onsu, and Koichi
is basically going to use this opportunity to ask for their help. When he
tries to do that, we learned that there's Rohan has written in a safety
feature almost to ensure that Koichi is unable to warn them about him being in
danger, which which means that they kind of he's very pleasant to them,
and they're very pleasant back, and then they part ways and they're like,
okay, we're just checking to make sure you're not in trouble. Well,
is like, I was just checking to make sure you're not with all girl,
which is kind of weird. Yeah, He's like we can't be having
that, you know. And then and then they're like okay, by I
see you at school and then they leave, which is like one of those
horror movie moments where it's like someone is almost close to saving the victim and
you're like, you're almost there, and then they befit this entire sequence.
I fucking love I think, yeah, so great, this whole thing's great
until one part like shoots the pen out of the ink and it just slashes
in the perfect shape. Great, what dear God, like just just insane.
I love it. Yeah, No, Rohan's awesome. I really so
good. And I love how like Cooch just goes downstairs to answer the door
and he's just like whatever, I'm just gonna sit up here in my study,
keep doing what I'm doing because I got you. No. I love
that every time Kuchi's little face flaps open. Yeah, that that's not the
best, but yes it's gross. Coach Is goes back upstairs for the studio
and he's lamenting the fact that he's he tried to tell them that he was
he needed help but was unable to so he's not completely clear on what's going
on. And he's back in the studio. And then the at the window
above Rohan's drawing table his work work desk. Okay, who just appears.
He's like climbed up the side of the house and and appears and normal behavior
by the way, I'm just gonna climb up like hello. Yeah, just
like a like the neighbor on a sitcom nineties move. Yeah, yeah,
Sam, you know, like from Clarissa, Yeah, trying, Yeah,
wed weird Clarissa, but we knew him more from a Sabrina after Yeah.
Yeah, that was the big one. Yeah, that was so they noticed
that he was in trouble or realized he was in trouble because they noticed that
he had a cut on his hand and it was kind of not treated.
Well, that's that's convenient. Yeah, we we noticed that too when he
went downstairs to visit him at the door, right, that was there?
Yeah, continuity, You mean you didn't notice that. I noticed the bow
and arrow, Jeff notice that the Yeah, yeah, me and Lucy had
regular conversations about we're keeping that pretty quiet. We were making we will make
it Reddit post to be like, Yo, she saw this bow and arrow.
I think this is going to be something big. Yo. I saw
half a frame of a bow and arrow interlaced. There's a separate discord server
for talking abouts. You don't notice. Oh shit, crow Brows, bring
it back, crow Rows. Yeah. So Rohan manages to transform Oksu into
a book because he's like super far and then but he just kind of gets
the slinky treatment, doesn't he yea a very different book, slinky book.
I love that. I was like, why is Okay said just not a
book? He's just sort of like, you know, paper that's been rolled
up. Yeah, he's like a newspaper. I thought that was so funny.
I was like, what's happening. You're just a streamer, you know,
You're just like this like paper streamer. It was like a twitch streamer.
No, no, no, he just knows that he has no interest
in learning from Okay. It's like, I don't need it to be a
page book. Yeah, you're you're just the flyer. Yeah, you're just
the pamphlet. And then Rohan also draws attention to the fact that he knows
that Joe Skit is waiting behind the door to the room and he's like goading
him. He talks to it, then turns his attention to suit and starts
doing this weird monologue about what Joska could do next to try and like psych
him out, and his whole thing is like, you could try this,
but then I would do this, So he's like he's he's goulding him,
but he's also like taking the piss out of him. And then joe Ski
eventually decides to act when Rohan threatens to set on fire or make set himself
on fire, so Josk decides the only option is to just do a direct
attack, but do it with his eyes closed. Ye. The reasoning,
Yeah, the reasoning being if if he doesn't see the stand and Rohan,
he can't be impacted by it, So he's he's running around with his eyes
closed towards Rohan, and Rohan uses Koichi's knowledge of Joski and taught him about
what else what his hair? Can We talk about this moment and how there's
like a clock timer and how it just takes forever h and it's meant to
be like a split second. There's a couple of choices at the climax of
this where I'm just like, Okay, that's that's weird. What you expecting
a hair origin story. I was not expecting the hair origins. I know
I have a lot, I have a lot to say about the hair origin
story, but I just want to make sure that we're there. I I
was talking. I was talking about the marathon to running across the marathon,
sprint across the room that seemed to take half an hour, and they try
and make it out like it's two seconds, but then they stopped the two
second timer and it's still going. And then after the two seconds are up,
he's like, I gotta read something. I gotta read this, I
gotta read something. Now is like, he's not the most athletic the same
now, Yeah, so we're not. The hair origin story is coming up.
But at this point, he he's using the hair taking the piss out
of his hair to try and make him open his eyes. And we've seen
in the past that jos It gets very upset when people take the piss out
of his hair. And the plan for Rohan backfires pretty badly because instead of
opening his eyes, Joska goes into that blind rage he goes into when people
take the piss out of his hair, and he just starts destroying everything and
he punches Rohan and knocks him into a bookshelf. I think it is behind
him. Yep, Okay, this is all really dumb. But that punched
through the paper. Oh yeah, that's cool. Yeah, but we're but
you're right, we're in dumb town now. It's gmorial, right, well
played Rohan asks after and beating up, He's like, you know, he's
looking at his wounds and he's like, why you're so mad about this?
Well, you have to be mad. And uh Koichi for some reason decides
to tell the story about his hair, and do they explain why he knows
about this? This kind of like, yeah, I've heard things, and
I'm adding my own flavor to the story. Yeah, but I feel like
we're also glossing a little bit over the fact that like the whole thing,
right with Rohan is is people like reading the comic, right, like reading
the manga. And then Jo's eyes obviously open up right at the end there,
and then there're just but he still lands the paunch, right, and
then we're all just like he's so mad, I know, Yeah, it's
just and now we've met the mayor of Dumtown. And now we've and now
we just did you just call me the mayor of dumbtown? Jeff, No,
you're not the mayor. Maybe a constituent, but you're not the mayor.
Okay, anyway, it's really hurtful. Yeah, I would never I
would never say something hurtful to you, Jeff. That's accept in the Crowbro
Slack. That's oh but yeah, but Jeff's never going to see that.
It's so mean. I hate that more than anything. So it's not like
it's not like it it's just for me time and Lucy, Like, it's
not about excluding you. If you wanted, you could come into the Crowbro
Slack and we can just go make another one. It's on slack. It's
you know, it's a it's a it's a Twitter space, it's a discord
group. It's it's just a little reddit. We have a little community.
Actually, you know what, none of this is important. It's a multinational
company. Okay, feel better. It sounds like genuinely upset. No,
not upset. This is not me upset. I'm just you know, thinking
about stuff, very red. I'm always red. What do you mean?
So when Josk was four years old. He got sick on the and he
got sick, and then on the way to the hospital, his he and
his mom who's driving him to the hospital gets stuck in a blizzard. So
Joe k is on death story. It seems like and they can't get to
the hospital because of the blizzard. But as it seems like the all I
hope has lost a mysterious student with the pompadoor style hairstyle that we know,
Joe Rocks rocks up and he looks like he's is at his ass beat,
he's been in a fight. He's like bleeding, he's not looking in good
shape. And he's like, I hope you push this car, just don't
stop once you get a little bit of traction, just go book it and
don't you know, don't come back for me. So's he's martyring himself to
get this woman and child to the to the hospital. That the implication that
this guy is going to die. I don't know if he's going to die,
but it's just like, you know, he makes it seem like leave
me out here in this blizzard, Yeah, save yourself. So that's jos
right, like he's been sent back in time by the world different, he's
a different guy. Yeah, to save these if we call that a paradox,
and we can't be having that too much sense. This show is air
tight when it comes to time travel problems and allegations and whatnot. We cannot
be having Jo going back. Oh okay, I'm looking at John, but
John's mute himself. So John's hands to just not okay, talk okay,
just don't don't say okay, but no, we we have I have to
talk about this. The world will because the world's in because he remembers that
the world at some time. Oh my god, the world this whole time,
the world. Okay, but like Joe gets sent back in time by
Joe Trow, there's something in the town. Because Jeff, did you watch
the new intro? This new intro? I did. It's a good song.
I like that, it's real good. I didn't watch it the second
time because you know, time's money, but I watched it the first time
and it was good. It's a good song. Okay, Okay. Look,
here's the thing. So the thing you guys are wondering is what is
the explanation for this scene. There's so many weird specific details. Why does
the guy in it look exactly like Joe's? Why? Why does? Why
does it matter that it takes place at the exact time that the STARTUS Crusaders
are fighting Deo in Egypt? They get so specific, They're just like,
remember the thing, remember all that? Anyway, So I am going to
reveal what it means. I just okay, no, no, no,
because it probably means nothing, right, No, no, no, no,
no, no, Lucy, have you been paying attention? I feel
like more often than that, John is guilty of ruining things for you and
I. I don't get I don't feel ruined, though, Oh I feel
ruined by him? What did What did I do? Jeff? What I
do? What I ruined? I don't know. I just want to say
that's okay, okay, Jeff, just trust me here. I'm not doing
no choice. I have no choice but to There is no further explanations for
the entire Jojo I wouldn't want any other way. I was like, fuck,
it's either gonna be an amazing time travel thing and they send Joe's game
back in time to save himself. But no, it means nothing. They
they literally show you like a postcard from that season they're like, remember all
this shit. Remember I remember this when you were doing the podcast a couple
of months ago, and all that was happening. That's this scene drives me
fucking insane. It is one of the most weird, weirdly specific things of
Joe. We never receive another like hint of explanation as to what was going
on there that guy. So for me, I first read this scene in
like twenty fifteen, right, and I am formed. I'm sure other people
had had this theory about what was happening, but I formed this big theory
that had to do with the timeline of JoJo's across like multiple multiple different parts,
and I could see that is just a time at the current part eight.
I could see the stories intersecting. I could see after fucking twenty years
a Raki had basically done this giant fucking plants and payoff. And I was
it's gonna come. I can see what he's doing. I see the matrix.
This is gonna be like one of the greatest, Like he planted this
story seed twenty years ago and now he's gonna pay it off hard, finishes
fucking thing. And I was just like, are you are you serious?
Like I love this, are he obsessed with this energy? He m night
shyamalan you. He basically he M night shamal on you. But like rather
than the twist at the end, he just kind of turns around and goes,
yeah, no exactly. That's my point. My point is that like
after sixth Sense, all of his twists were sort of like, you know,
not great and the Visit's a good movie? The what the visit?
The one where the parents the grandchildren visit, the oh no, no,
no don't, I don't know, well whatever you can, you can say
what it is, but I Visit's a good movie. That's all. Apparently
he's like maybe back and form, but like the joke being like he just
was getting back at people who wronged him over the years and just that it's
very underwhelming twist. That's deemply upsetting to hear that about Iraqi, But I'm
glad to go okay, not only that in some of the side stories which
are not written by Iraqi, but our official JoJo's prodooks, I guess,
I mean canon, what the folk does Kadon mean? In twenty twenty four,
but he someone asks Tomaco his mom about this and She's like, no,
I don't remember any any boy. Oh cool. I like that a
lot. And if you think that's leading to an interesting like plot revelation,
now it's not. Nope, cool, great, Look I love all this.
I genuinely like this because to me, it implies intention to be annoying,
and I think that's cool. But intention to what ends like exactly to
just piss people off. I think that's kind of funny. Oh well,
mission complete. I love it. I love it. I love it.
I just I don't know this bit, this bit, this bit's still like
yeah, it reaches inside me and just it just dishovels me in a way
that I I'm not happy about. Well, John, how how often do
I complain about stuff with this program? And I love it? I do
famously, never complain famously never Like that is my bizarre adventure, is how
much I complain about this? And I feel like you just have to live
with some stuff, and I'm glad that some of that exists inside you as
well with this with this part of the show, because it's just okay,
look, I'm talking to the to the hardcore Joji of people. Now think
about part eight and think about who stars in part eight and think about what
that could mean. It doesn't make sense. Why didn't he Okay, make
it makes sense, makes makes sense. This is the reason. Just imagine
imagine someone watching, imagine someone watching like them build like a lego, a
massive the world's most elaborate piece of lego for like twenty years, and they're
just about to put the final piece into place, and they turn around just
go, no, I love it. Oh, that's awesome. This is
the reason why Joe s ke gets a very upset when people take the piss
out of his hair, because it represents this student that may or not may
not be him from the future, saving him and his mom. So Rohan
hears this and is inspired by the story. Again, Rohan is just stealing
everyone's ideas well. Ideas have to come from somewhere. Is it him?
He's the James Summitton or the Jojo verse. It's pretty good, he demons.
He He decides that he's going to and straight his commitment to his work
by writing it all down. So he's got his ass beat and he's still
writing down people's lives and details to use in in his stories. And as
he's doing that, Joe Ski reappears and is like, I'm not done beating
the ship out of you. So he carries on beating Rohan and then we
get a little message that says a pink dark boy Rohan's manga is to be
put on a hiatus for personal matters. So they didn't kill him, No,
No, our crew never kills anyone, right, So yeah, that's
not true. They killed that that that gorilla ship, did they not?
You mean the orangutan whatever? Also, like, how do they kill that
play badly as well? Yeah? They kill it? Yeah a lot.
How do they like square the whole? Like all right, well, Rohan's
stand is still a thing though, Like the stand is still there if they're
gonna let him live and just right, but also well clearly but free he
didn't watch the bloody intro well enough because he's in that. Well you learned
his lesson. Yeah, I feel like you beat someone up well enough if
they're not going to misbehave, right, they're not gonna Yeah, a lot
of people in Moroa, yeah, I think especially, but also like it's
a small enough town they're just going to be around and so that's why I
like it. They're all in the thing, Like why is the baby and
why is the baby in? That's the little census with a lot of these
fights is that, uh, they're waiting for Joe Joe Taro to get there
and solve the problem right right now that Jotaro knows these people are threats,
he's basically being like, if you fuck around again, I'm going to kill
you right now. We we have to take a secon can to just sort
of unpack the end there where I think my my problem with the end of
this two parter is like they tell this very interesting and detailed story about Pompadour
origins to disguise the fact, to disguise the fact that the way they defeat
Rohannes. It's pretty stupid. It's pretty dumb, but it's wrong that he
was blinded with rage therefore couldn't read the manga. Come on, read have
you ever been blinded with rage? I'm sure. Well, I just think
it's like a I just for me, It's like a bad out, that's
all. It's not a great out. The story, the the hair origin
story is stronger than the out and well, clearly Jeff doesn't understand the ending.
I will explain it to you off podcast because I don't want to just
keep going over with Okay, that's fair. I'll wait for that. We
can move on to rat cubes. How would you have ended it? Yeah?
How would you? Damn? What kind of a fucking question is then?
I mean, you just spent five minutes complaining about the ending. You
go, all right, give me, give me, gimme a week,
and I'll come up with something you can get spot on Jeff Jeff's no,
Lucy, let him. Let him next time. Jeff Jeff's bizarre adventure.
Jeff is going to rewrite the ending of the road. I'm going to make
a note. I'm gonna make a well, though this is not we can't
do anything's on the table. We will let you go away and no,
we'll let you go way and do this. But I just want to say
that if you were in any kind of legitimate crisis, I need you to
know that you can't just say, hey, yo, give me a week,
I'll come back and figure this out. What kind of legitimate crisis is
like writing a story like if you, if you? Jeff, even though
he had to publish a chapter of this every week, but also he agreed
to that cadence. That's not my problem. I'm talking about Joe Ska,
who's like he's in that moment he has to figure out something to do,
and he's just gonna run blinded by rage. Like he had a split second
that took fifteen minutes. Got it. I know. I'm you used crazy
Diamond to put all the ink back in the pens, right, And he's
just like, oh you, I've undone the story. I'm looking at your
page. Pop, don't do that shit, man, what's bad? For
sixty seconds? Shining Devin fixes things that are broken using a pen and having
the income out doesn't mean it's broken. He deconstructed like him cree. I
hate to say it. I don't. I don't hate that. Yeah,
its pretty shut up. No, don't don't give it this guys, love
you guys, Lucy. We're gonna need it. Just embrace the chaos.
We're gonna need a full like I want to see a script next week.
Yeah, oh, I don't know how to write anime scripts. It's the
same as writing and normal script learning here all right, I can I got
a final draft that can fucking final on it, and we will, we
will act out the scene. Yes, can I be Rohan fine, yeah,
obviously, obviously I'll be Joe's then I guess next episode, Let's go
hunting. This is another normal episode in the We've Arrived, another another entry
in the Let's Go series that seems to be happening in this part of Jojo
for some reason, Uh Joe. Joe too basically hits up Joe's and like,
I kill a rat and so what he's figured out is or learned is
auto issue from a few episodes back. Confess that he used the bow and
arrow to shoot a rat and the rat survived and legged it. Thus the
rat has a stand. Now, that's that's real. But somehow Palpatine has
returned. Somehow the rat has a stand energy. They show a frame of
the rat with like a huge arrow through its tiny little bot. It's pretty
great. It's pretty much to say the drip on Joe row this episode.
Yeah, it looks literally and figuratively, he's he's a drippy boy. No
oh no, a drippy boy challenges This entire episode is absolutely fucking beautiful.
Like I think this is the beautiful as I think the drawings in this episode
are incredible, Like I think this is. Up till this point, I
would argue that this is the best JoJo's has ever looked in animate for him.
Okay, I find like rats that are more capable than they should be
to be quite scary, sure, splinter terrifying. Yeah. I mean,
in pretty much every Souls game there's a giant rat and it's always the enemy
that makes me like freak out the most because they're smart. Man, you
know, yeah, it's just it shouldn't. Rats shouldn't be that big.
Why they why are they so big? Do the thing where they can collapse
their lungs to get through stuff. So rats can basically slide underdoors by just
collapsing their ribcage. That's cool, It's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah,
I mean, look, one day they will rise up. We've been experimenting
on them more than anyone. I feel like, you know, they got
they got to be picking up something during those experiments, Like they're there,
they're absorbents and knowledge. They have to be discussing it. At the meeting
before the rat hunt begins. Yo, Toro shows Joe how he intends or
they int and to kill this rat being the rat is probably very quick and
the method they use is they use a ball bearing and they enhance it using
their stand and then flick it so it's a high speed projectile capable of destroying
anything it connects with. They're shooting cans with it to practice. Joe's care
is pretty confused and not super confident about doing this, and Joe too makes
it worse by saying, if you do this and you don't hit the rat,
if you don't kill the rat immediately, it's going to be very,
very difficult because that rat will now know that we're trying to kill it and
will probably stay a safe distance away from us, So not helping. Joe's
cares anxiety about using a ball bearing to kill a rat from a distance.
Then they decided to go to this kind of it's like an irrigation canal,
and that is where Joe Tara was told auto she shot the first rat,
and they decided to like have an investigation to do some CSI in the area
to figure out what the what the rat do And it turns out the rat
well, Joe Skid is walking around and Joe Tarras set up like a trap
and cameras and he's like, this is one of those cameras that lets you
see what's being recorded. Okay, and then they spread out to try and
find the rat and Joe finds Jeff, I believe you have a problem.
No, it's not not of it, buddy, It's okay. No,
like especially because the payoff never comes either with the camera right and never use
that camera like they do. I mean they do look at footage later,
but it's just sort of like what wait, wait, okay, we're like
a radio shack now. No, it's like it's like the speed Wagon Foundation
has a budget and if they don't hiss it, they don't get it next
year. It's like they're their their their hs A right, Like, oh
so well. I loved a little bit where he's like, why there cheese
in these mouse traps? Yeah, it's Hippa. She's too fancy for us,
Jesuys like Jesus is too good for them. We also skipped over my
favorite line in the entire episode. We all know what that is. I'm
no good with anything that involves balls. No, no, you're all podcast
listener. They're all smiling, and none of them refuse to make a door
laughters out. That's what's happening right now. They're I'm they're lucy just horror
now that we're passing the immatur of this podcast. Oh my god. Yeah,
I'm not sure. I'm sure. I'm sure the the the second graders
in our audience are are gonna love that one. Jeff, Yeah, they
will because it's funny. Okay, balls are always funny. Is that I
don't make the rules? Make the rules? Huh that dealing behind you?
No, he's not here, Okay, he's in school. I just thought
balls are funny. Sorry, I definitely. I just I just don't find
for it's funny. I just I just never have and I never will.
There's a man, there's a man who's never you know. I told a
joke and then a really good fart, you know, and then like makes
a joke funny. When we finally meet in person, I will show you
some thoughts that are funny, I promise. No, honestly, do you
want to tell the Airbnb story? You can? You can tell. So
every year before E three, we all used to come over from the UK
team and we would all get in an Airbnb together and it was such a
it was such a great week if one would hang out. My bedroom in
one one year was right next to the living room, and I went into
my bedroom to like go to bed or get ready or something, and I
just this is a different part story. Oh no, I'll tell I'll tell
my one. Yeah, I hear this enormous noise and I just text the
group chat like was that far I heard through the wall? It was tam
It was like I thought it was an earthquake. It's the loudest fart I've
ever produced, and it shook the war. That's not funny. My favorite,
My favorite is the one where we were again and it was the same
ab B. It was the same Airbnb, and we were sat at the
breakfast table. This person had, whoever owned the BnB, had put in
a lot of effort into try and preserving it. The person who by this
Airbnb had a fucking talk shop. Remember you had like micro transactions in his
Airbnb, and one of them was like a burner phone you could buy,
yeah, anyway. But he was also like the kind of person that leaves
the plastic on the remote, that kind of thing. So there's various like
there's various like pieces of furniture that still have plastic on it and stuff.
And then we're sitting at the breakfast table. It's like me, Lucy,
and I think, like Dave's walking around and stuff, and suddenly I hear
the loudest fart I have ever heard come from right next to me. And
I turned to look at Lucy, and she suddenly realized that she tried to
do a quiet far but didn't realize that the chair cushion still had plastic on
it, and it just the fart was the sound of it was amplified and
it read okay, okay, that's pretty like. It was one of those
thoughts where you could hear it in the furniture, like the table, if
you had your hand on the table, you could like somehow hear it louder.
And I just like looked at her, and she just looked at me
and just moved on, just moved on. The floodgates were But that week,
what could I say? Can I share something with the podcast? Yeah,
you've never farted? No, of course I've heard of Jeff, I
do at least, I do at least and of course, okay, look
the bodily function that I find really hilarious. And I feel like, I
don't know how common this is. Sneeze. It's not sneeze. Seizing is
funny, but yeah, it's it's seizing to be kind of funny. Vomiting
makes me laugh so much. What I don't know, we've throwing up a
little, a little. It's just it's it's just a complete loss of dignity.
I don't know what it is. But like I always remember one time
I was walking, but I was like I was we were drinking really heavily,
as people do in their early twenties, and I was walking beside my
friend and he was he was like talking, and next thing like he kind
of just tilts his head at like a forty five degree angle away from me,
and a stream of vomit shoots and he looks back at me, keeps
talking, and I don't think I've ever left so much. I was like,
what the fuck was that? And sometimes like I don't know, I
don't know, I don't know, but I think I think fake vomited is
very funny. Fake vomit, Yeah, like fake vomiting. Like there's this
sketch on this show where like there's this guy who just interview random, like
eleven random people, and the second he puts their their the microphone in there
in their face, they just throw up and it's just doing it over and
over and over again. Just like I just I thought that was so funny
because it's like very obviously fake puke, but but you like real puke very
especially when people are like, Okay, okay, fine, I'm with you,
man, I think it's pretty good. I hate puking too, but
that's pretty funny. Like sometimes sometimes, like you know, when someone's vomiting,
they're in a bad way and it's not a good thing, and I'm
not like taking joy in their suffering, but I just think there's something I
mean, maybe, but there's just something ridiculous about it. And like sometimes
I'm in situations where someone's vomiting, Like we were, like, oh god,
a couple of weeks ago, we were in a taxi getting going back
from somewhere and one of my dear friends started hurling her little guts out.
Oh no, and I was just sitting there like everyone was lacking. Yeah,
and like, you know, it was a bad situation because we were
like out in the middle of nowhere the taxi drive, we're trying to hide
from the taxi driver was happening. But I was just being like and she
kept vomiting, and a part of it was like this person is so small,
but they keep producing more vomit. And I was just sitting there being
like, I like that, that is funny. I'm with you there.
Job back to the rat hunt, Ye, like a stinky area of grass
nearby and there's like flies gathering there. So he goes to investigate and discovered
discovers just like jellified rats. But the thing is is that I did wonder
when they said it was going to be about rats. I was like,
Oh, is there going to be a rat king in some capacity? And
I guess we got one one better. We've got a cube. I could
totally see a Raki reading an article about rat kings and being like, well,
how do I make this? No, there is one very clear moment
where you can tell the exact like tidbit, the piece of trivia he learned
to that inspired this whole episode, and we'll get to it soon. So
now that that makes them confident that the rat is in the grainish tunnel or
nest is there, and decide they see nearby there's like an empty farm,
dishevel looking farm. So I just had to go in the gate. And
they split up and Joe Taro goes into one room and Josa goes into the
kitchen area and he's like looking around and then finds this room where there's like
a fridge. Yeah, and it's the kitchen. Yeah, the kitchen area.
Now it's like separated, isn't it. It's like a different part of
the Like they found this room with a fridge. It's like those are usually
called kitchen, the kitchen room, the kitchen room. And uh, he
sees the rat there and it's like half in half out of the fridge.
The fridge door is open, and it looks like he's like nibbling away at
something, and when it's also seemingly jacked. Yeah, like it's a jacked
rat, you know, like muscular as hell. Joe Taro gets closer and
then we see that the rat is eating an old man and woman that have
been encased in that same weird flesh jelly, and he's like ripping stick seed.
Yeah. It's gross. So on Netflix, it's it's censor Yeah,
yeah, well so it is abhorrent, Like I think the Blu ray will
have the uncensored. Just show me a still of it? Can you show
me a still of it? I would like that. Can you show them
the let me, let me mute myself for a second. He's muted himself.
That's how serious he is. He censored himself. The rat cube is
not censored. The rat cube remains uncensored. Looks like strawberry jello. Yeah,
questions with the human people like a rat turene. The rat then reveals
its stand, which is I think it's called rat. Oh what is it
called? Because I've never seen it just looks like a little R two D
two in the in the notes that I've grabbed from the Jojo wiki. Thank
you're getting to the people that maintain that it's called rat with two te's.
So I assume it's like rat tat tat. Yeah, And it's basically a
drone that hovers about and it shoots a art that can melt pretty much anything
it comes into contact with. Yeah, Joe gets in position and he uses
his ball bearing method and flicks it at the rat and kills it basically pretty
much. He injures it, injures it, and then yeah, it takes
it out, and then jo Tara comes back to Joe and his Well,
don't for I'm sorry, I'm sorry to interrupt. Don't forget the rat drone
does spit a dart out at Joe Ska, who defends it off with the
frying pan. Yeah. Oh there's two rats. Yes, there is a
pair of I'm on the I'm on the the Jojo wiki. There's also a
band called Rat, which I'm sure that's what I was looking for. I
was like, do you have so Then Joe Tara reappears and one of his
hands is just super melted. Not great. Yeah, so they called the
Speedwagon Foundation and they confirmed that there are two rats, not one rat with
this. This interrogations happened completely offscreen. Yeah so so and John just did
send some gory photos stills if you will. Oh shit, okay, never
mind, I don't want to know what I why. That's fine. Hello,
it's me, I'm back. I'm unmuted. If you have not seen
the uncensored of these, they are fucking bad, immediately replied, he'll be
fine, you know what. You know. What upsets me though, like
I don't think this is worth censoring, Like why censor this in the cartoon?
I don't get it. I don't know. Okay, so the first
one in the fridge, I don't I think it's fine. It's fine.
I think the two of Jataro's havens are absolutely horrifying. If I notice,
they don't censor the puss. They only censor the flesh, which I thought
was interesting. That final one, the handle one that happened to me on
my thumb. Okay, it's okay, okay, damn, what are we
doing? Why are you doing this to me? Why are you saying that?
Because you mean that happened to you. A carr a car door close
on my thumb okay, and basically squished it and it ended up looking exactly
like that that middle finger where it's like it was like weirdly pasture red and
the nail was hanging on by a thread. Okay, I'm glad you're better.
Anyways, so there's a second rat, and a speedwagon foundation confirms it,
and so they get to tracking the second one and they go back about
yeah, yeah, how many Yeah, because then he's like, okay,
I actually shot two rats. Yeah. It's like, I like, we're
positive of the number of rats over on that island that you're right that we're
not at They probably through torture, confirmed that there's only two rats. Okay,
Look, I love both these episodes. I think both these episodes are
fantastic. Yeah, they're I think I think maybe Iraqi was just having a
bit of a sleepy some of the writing. But I feel like you've said
that, Yeah. I feel like you have said that quite a few times,
Lucy buddy. No, you've I mean from jet Yeah, because then
you expect the truth, which Lucy is confirming. They carry such weight,
you know. Thank you, guys. I think I think I think writing
writing mind is really hard. I think so too. More respect for such
a I think I just did in sixty seconds and everyone thought it was cool.
I never said that. We'll see hang on ja. When did everyone
say it was cool? It was like thirty years ago. You were there.
I remember thinking, Okay, I'll toss the guy a bone. Okay,
we are remembering. Do they if the ink falls off the pa,
how does it come off the page? Jeff, it's not I don't even
understand how that was. That's fair, that's fair. Yeah, I keep
going with her with their droppy hands. Let's suck droppy hands. They go
back to the canal where the rat. Second rat was caught on tape.
This rat is apparently very very smart. They called it a bug eating like
it's got a cue air and ignored the traps, and it also has learned
about the ball bearing method that they have got going on. Somehow they went
to college, so they have to switch to bullets. They choose bullets,
but not like from a gun from their fingers still, so they just replace
it and they're like, oh, because the bull bearing has a drop off,
this has got seventy meters and so you gotta use it. And then
Joe just goes like, oh, man, I was I was barely confident
with the ball bearing. I don't know what I'm gonna I don't know if
I'm capable of doing it over bullet. And then Jorr I was like,
well, I guess you're shitty. I wouldn't you know, trust you with
anything. If you think you suck then fair enough, and then just goes
like, hold on, I didn't say that, let me do it.
So so yeah, maybe they explained this and I didn't pick up on it.
But like his hand's fine now, like no, that's that's why he
can't do it. No, but like they definitely show his hand perfectly fine
because diamond can fix stuff too. Oh did did that? Is that what
he did. He just did that for him. I know that sound likelication,
but I also thought like he was, like, I can't do this
alone. But he did happen in his pocket for a little bit too.
Anyway, I was just watching that a little bit. They follow the tracks
of this rat, and this is the exact moment where it's like, oh,
this is why he wrote this episode, because they spend a lot of
time talking about how some animals have a backtracking method where they walk, yeah,
and walk backwards to cover their own tracks. So this whole rat thing
is, this whole rat incident is purely from that piece of trivia. Yeah,
he watched. He watched like a David Attenbrown was like, yeah,
I mean they keep saying back tracks. It's so good too. It's like,
so they follow the tracks and they realize that they eventually reached the end
of it and they are in effectively a kill zone that the rat has lured
them into. Joe Ski gets hit by a dart, but Star Platinum uses
the world to quickly slow down time and Joek like knocks it out of him
before any real damage can be done, which is pretty He says the poison
like I did it fast enough. I just know the little bobbed penises like
cats do. Is that why the dart is shaped like that? Maybe?
Well you've opened up a whole other category to this episode cats. However,
is it orphins cats? Was? I thought it was ducks? Ducks have
the corkscrew? The corkscrew cats? Is the your cat's got? Oh?
You my female cats? Yeah? So this this whole getting hit by,
almost getting poisoned by or like melted by this dot helps them approximate where the
rat is. And Joe Torris says, I'll act as bait while you shoot
the rat. This rat is basically set up behind a rock and as a
master strategist like or something. It's got like a little weird helmet going on,
and it's it's got like a turret that it's manning two grown ass men
at war with a tiny rat. It is so awesome. Yeah, and
I also love the like, I actually think this this scene kind of has
something that's so cool about stand battles. It's like Guitaro can literally defeat a
thousand year old vampire who has a time stopping ghost, but he gets his
ass kicked by this rap. Yes, and and they just all like scream
and talk about it in the open, like we're talking like this entire battle
is like bullet and like pellet, you know, poison dart based, and
Jodro is like, yo, did you did you shoot yet? Did you
miss that? Like they are screaming at each other in broad daylight. Clears
can be yep, but that's just how standbats work, and I love it.
As Joski is gaining upon advancing on this rat, the rat pulls off
a pretty sneaky move where fires the the dots but ricochets them off a rock
to hit Joe's Ki, which is pretty smart, and Joe Toro basically begins
to is it hit? And it hits? It hits Joe Toro and yeah,
he gets shot a lot. Yeah, he begins to melt because he's
using the well to quickly dodge, and he like dodges too. But then
we'll get hit by a third or something like that. I think that little
piece of animation or he does that really fucking awesome. So then the buggy
and meanwhile jos is kind of getting into position and reflexively the rat turns looking
at the danger and thus by turning increases his like visible surface area of his
body, which means Josk now has a much bigger target, so he's less
worried about missing and he uses crazy Diamond to flick the bullet and it goes
straight through the rat and kills it. And the episode ends with Jogan,
I guess you were reliable after all. I love this episode so nice.
It's a folish episode, yes, and like Josk gets bonded little or at
least understand each other a little better, sealed up real nice because it's except
the old couple in the fridge. I'm sure he diamond diamond the crazy diamond
then, and we didn't see that either. Didn't see that when that happened.
But Joe Ski is Joe to Rose. Yeah okay, yeah, Thank
you Joseph Uncle. Thank you everyone for listening to another episode of Jeff jess
Bizarre Adventure. Each episode is more bizarre than the last. Thank you John
for joining us as always. Oh my pleasure. Tom. I mean that
sounded like you're like a guest or something, but you're You're just on this
podcast, so I guess thank thank you for showing up because special guests for
however many episodes. Thank you Lucy John. Where you're at and what you're
up to? Oh? People can find me on over at Twitter TV for
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Silent Hill Ascension. Oh boy. Yeah, what would you guys say if
I told you there was a straight up orgy in that game orgy? Remember?
Yep, I feel like I've played it. I don't remember it.
I don't think you have. It's the interactive TV show that came last year
and this year. Oh oh no, I did not wow a full orgy
like like, uh no one of those. I'm not being like or like
pretending that. No, all the characters are just like, we need to
find dismissing child. So let's all fook each other very Stephen King Codd,
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