All right, now, just time for another episode of Jeff. We're gonna
start off so so aggressive here it was endearing. I'm in an endearing away.
You know. We are here for another episode of Jeff tes Bisire Adventure
the Cowboy Bebop Arc Cowboy Bebop Guide in I'm joined. I'm Tomortan, joined
as always by John aka sweep a Patchworf are you doing. I'm good tomorrow.
Just back from a a whirlwind trip of the US, and it's great
to be here. You've had a hell of a time. You've put a
bang of Roman Brains video, then you just took off to the US,
and you know, I had some time in the US. Now you're back
in black and white. After introductions, can I tell you a story?
There's a story with that Room Brains video. Jeff Bacala is also here.
How are you doing, Jeff. I'm doing quite well, my attractive friends.
I'm so excited to talk about these two episodes of Cowboy Beave Up,
my new favorite anime. And we're also joined by the one and only Lucy
James Games. Hello everyone, Oh dear, you've got that vocal fry,
the California Vocal fry's coming in way. It's called the I don't think I
reheated my dinner probably, and I've been awake most of the night that I'm
going on, Oh geez, are you willing to reveal what the dinner was?
It was but a chicken. It was curry. Oh may but chicken
brutal been absolutely betrayed boys and I have. So you say it's a reheating
mistake, Like, so it wasn't. No, it's on me. But
like sometimes if you're not careful with rice, rice can mess you up.
Yeah yeah it can. Yeah, yeah, rice can make you sick.
Oh yeah, yeah, all right, I'm learning something new today. Why
but yeah rice can rice can make you sick? Yeah? Because I don't
think it was the grains, just normal grains, just innocent grains, just
innocent cranes. I think I think if it was the I would definitely know
if it was the chicken. Yeah, I mean, chicken's fine, like
it's quick one time through. Yeah. I did that the other day where
I got rid of my microwave and then later that night I was like,
oh, I'm just gonna eat this food up with no micro way. I
was like, dath I forgot. I have no fils by my own action
gone, Jeff, Jeff, John want to tell a story, it talks
about the story. Okay, real quick, real quick. So Tim,
you mentioned I posted the Roman Reigns video about three weeks ago, and that
video came in hot, And what I mean by that is that I was
literally uploading it as I was packing my shit to get on a plane,
and I was I was like tense about it because there was a lot about
that upload, with WWE being copyright monsters and all that kind of stuff.
But I felt like I finally got to a place where it's like, okay,
I'll be okay. And I was actually really delighted about getting on the
plane because I was like, Okay, I'm gonna sit on that plane and
for seven hours, I can't get to the internet. I can't look at
shit. I'm not going to see anyone's feedback on this video. I can
just fucking zone out. And I was so happy about that. Then you
got a plane and Roman Reins was there. I'm in the departure lounge and
this guy comes up to me and it kind of stands beside me and started
looking at me, and I can't take off my headphones and he's like,
oh, you know, it's how do you know which lounge to get on?
And I'm like yeah, man, and then I put my headphones back
on, and then he keeps standing there looking at me, and I was
like, okay, I know what this is. And I take off my
headphones and I'm like, hey, how's it going? And he goes good,
just going to a con in Philadelphia and I was like, oh,
yeah, me too, and he goes, oh, no way, which
one? And I'm like, too many games? Which one? And then
he and then he just starts going no, now wait, now hang on
him. I just realized who you are. And I'm like okay, and
you know, he was looking here, you are you an actresser? Because
you really like Matt Damon. So like it was fine, like a very
very normal, typical encounter and a perfectly pleasant man aside from perhaps some slight
awkwardness, which is understandable. Sure. So I'm sitting on the plane and
like I'm sitting on the aisle seat next to like the I'm there's like three
rows and I'm sitting on the i'll see on the left side, and this
this young gentleman is sitting on the i'll see opposite me about four seats up,
and the plane takes off, and the first fucking thing he does is
he opens his laptop and starts watching the video fucking storious. This is just
no, I can't. It's it's like it's like the worst episode of the
Twilight Zone ever. Oh and you know he did that on purpose. You
know he had to have had it already downloaded for that to happen. You
might have, know what. Yeah, and when you're tax seeing, like,
you have tons of time to download a YouTube, even the videos that
are like inn at ninety minutes, you can still do it. Yeah,
you can do it. I download a movie, like from the time I
taxi to taking off, it's it's no problem. Yeah, I would love
if you're like oh, and then he started reading the comments loudly, John,
Like, you know what upsets me the most about this type of behavior
is that there is this morsel in the person's mind of them being like,
I'm normal and there's nothing weird about what I'm doing. I know I'm doing
it on purpose, but whatever, Like, it's just it's I can't that
I think I understand, Like I would be like that with people I like
as well, Like I get like I cannot blame anyone for being awesome,
and like, I don't think I genuinely don't think he knew I was sitting
that close behind him. I think I think he knew. I think he
opened it and hit playing, going there's a decent chance that he can see
me watching this if you have with him, there's no way that you saw
that video and think he don't ever seen me watching this. You he knew.
He knew, and like the fact that you could see it. He
had the awareness that you could see it. Like I'm telling you, dude,
it sounds there's layers. There's layers. Sounds like a sitcom moment,
much like there's layers to one. It will be talking about episode two and
episode three. Let's get straight into it. But before we do this episode,
these episodes recaps were pulled from the fandom Cowboy be bob WICKI. Thank
you to those that maintain and fill out the content on that excellent work.
Episode two, Session two, as they're called in this series, is called
Stray Dog Struck, and it begins with a man named Abdulla Hakim. Let's
go for that representation. He is unwrapping some bandages. He has done something
to his face, it seems like. And he's in just like a gross
looking restroom and there's like dudes with guns in a corner, and they appear
and they try and take him on, and Abdullah Kim very handily like beats
him up and then leaves carrying a large briefcase. Good start to an episode.
Mysterious Who is this lady? I'm noticing? They just they're such strong
starts. Everything is always a super engaging Before you know it, you're already
seven minutes in kind of start to every one of these episodes. Can I
just say how much I'm loving hearing Jeff fanboy about this. Yes, I
don't understand. I like the one I watched this morning, episode three,
which we'll get to, like, I just want to I just wanted to
like wash over me. The sort of vibe that was coming out of this
It's yeah, I'm intergent, it's a pitching a tent. I thought that
fame after his reaction to the girl from the first episode. I was like,
oh, buddy, Faye is gone. Yeah, well I'm still I've
still had my heart is still with our character. From the first name,
but tell me her name. I don't know, Lisa, Lisa, no
idea, Jeff. It's like really encouraging to hear you're enjoying it so much,
because I would not even say that, like the first episode. With
the exception of the first episode, these two episodes, I don't think of
the strongest, not at all. Like there is something about this casino world
that really like got me. That was cool, that was cool, very
cool. Yeah, he will get there. He loves casinos own in Sonic
as well. He's just a big casino fan. He loves true it's all
pinball adjacent. Meanwhile, in hyper space near Mars Spikes, Piege is chilling
out, yawning, doing his lazy bumb stuff, and he's watching Big Shot
the Bounty Hunter show. And here's about a serial pet thief named Abdul Hakim.
And they show a picture of Abdul Hakim, and he doesn't look like
the person that we saw at the start being referenced as Abdul Hakim, so
he's clearly had some work done to change his face. Abduha Kim has said
to have stolen a lab animal from a research facility, and he is worth
eight million woolongs. Jet walks by and he's got like some busted piece of
technics like ships, broken man and spokes like damn everything is broken. And
then a friend, a scientist friend, calls the Beebop and offers Spike some
info on Hakim, specifically his post surgery face, what he looks like,
and asked for three hundred wolongs, but I think he gets taken down to
two hundred and eighty. And then he's told like, oh, he's got
a suspicious briefcase and they don't we don't really know what's inside Jaquim. Meanwhile,
he's also on Mars and he's like talking someone on his phone, and
then he goes to a juice bar where an old man is like chatting to
him long enoughter they do a little bait. A younger man kind of grabs
the suitcase and legs it and then runs onto jumps onto a truck and then
gets out there. The Beebop lands in, there's water landing, and Spy
flies off in his I love his little extra ship, the Swordfish. It's
so it's so so cool awesome. Yeah, it's it's the second Swordfish.
The Swordfish too, like Snowball too, Yes, Snowball too. Yeah.
I had a ship called Swordfish. It died mostly he was sleeping, she
lied. I do remember that song. That's crazy. Okay, never understate
how Simpsons brain. Yeah I knew me. I could could have sang along
with that. Yeah. Yeah, we've got We've got Simpson's brain and future
on my brain. That's what That's what I would, he would. Maybe
we had this conversation last time. But did you guys hear the Simpsons good
again? Oh yeah, we did. I read a story somewhere that said
you're sleeping on the Simpsons. I'll be the judge of that. Tim told
me, Yeah, you've got a follow up video to do, John,
Remember I have a Simpsons related follow up video in the works. Let me
tell you. Oh yeah, back Simpson's porno, because there's a lot out
there. Man, I've already I've already ended up on a search of Simpsons
porno one day. Yeah, it was to see if other animated things had
But this is a relation to Sonic that, you know what. The more
the more the more I try and explain this, the worst it sounds.
Do you want like an interesting factoid about like Marge porn, not not marge
porn, it's video game porn. But BioShock Infinite is basically part of the
reason why so much video game porn is as good as it is. And
I use the word good liberally. I get to the lucy like it is
shockingly high quality. How good some of the ship out there is. Why
because of Elizabeth? Yes, yeah, literally because of Elizabeth and like they
just took that game and read she's a babe or like what like she's a
babe? Did you play what was? Of course I did, but I
wasn't like horny for Azabeth Jeff because it's a girl from the first episode and
she does it, but Elizabeth does not. Like I'm just confused here.
Yeah, yeah, that's my Yeah, I need like Carmen san Diego style,
Like that doesn't for me, you know, interesting women women that vanish
that's what. Yeah, it's just total, huge, gigantic red trench coat
is really what I need. Going. So Spike is off to get his
bounty and this lad who stole the briefcase from Abdulhakim goes to a pawn shop
and he's like chatting to the clock about nun chucks or something like that really
weird, and they talk about I think there's a there's a reference to a
Bruce Lee what they say Way of the Dragon, which I assume is like
a reference to Bruce Lee Styffing. It's like, this is that model.
And then he gets sent to another shop called Animal Treasures. He tries to
sell the suitcase to the store owner there, but as he's doing so,
we heard the click of a gun and Spike is standing there and he's like
open the case, and inside the case comes out a Pembroke Welsh Corgi puppy,
the little dog. This is the dog apparently worth two hundred wolongs,
so it's not really that kind of valuable, but everyone seems to be after
it. I think do they name it in this scene as well? I
think they do. I don't remember, yeah, but torgl No, the
dog's name is I'm the dog's name is Iron, and henceforth will be known
as iron e I n uh here. So at the same time, there's
like a misconnections moment where Hakim walks by and they don't really notice each other,
which I love it when this stuff happens, because it's like, yeah,
yeah, I love that stuff's fun. But Hakim manages to catch the
dude who stole the brief. This is a very like Ocean's eleven style,
kind of like weird circular. Do you know the misconnections moments in JoJo's part
four, and we won't get specific about it. Whoa whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa whoa. It's very slight. It's very slight. It's not
a big deal, but it's can't remember it. I think I'll probably remember
it in the lead up top and be like, oh, yeah, I
don't remember. This is going yeah, So Jakim grabs the lad who tries
to who robbed him at gunpoint, and then tries to grab Iron, but
Iron is a growl. It just like kind of growls at him and then
legs it. There's a gunshot that goes off, which alerts Spike that something's
going down, so he comes running back and sees Hakim, and then the
scientists in the van who are looking for the dog or looking for Hakim also
passed by and see Iron. But now we've got a real looney tune situation
where everyone's kind of like running back and forth. Did you guys like find
this all easy? To follow. Was it like fun to watch this stuff
go down and where you're like, oh, this feels hacky. No,
Well, I thought it was executed fairly well for like what they were sort
of trying to do with like you know, the goose chase of it all.
You know, I there's a look, there are definitely moments in these
first three episodes where I'm just sort of like unable to follow exactly what they're
trying to convey narratively and visually. But I thought this part was relatively good
well executed. Yeah, it's always it's always interests interesting that there's always some
sort of object that everyone is trying, a thing that they're trying to get,
and it's just like a mess around it. Like in the first one
it was you know, obviously that's how bounty hunts work. But and this
one is the dog. The first one it was that lad of a guy's
name now, and the next it's it's yeah, it's it's tough to place.
Uh, you know, You're right, like there's always this bounty object
and then there's like two or more interested stakeholder parties that are like, oh,
this is the thing I need this dog or this chip, yeah,
and like it's the exact same in the next episode as well. Yeah,
exactly. I think carries on like one is, like it does carry on
like that, and then there's episodes that break it completely and they're kind of
surprising because of that. Yeah, And there's also an undercurrent of like you
start to see more of their lives around that, yeah, and their histories
around that, and like I think like a big part of these three episodes
is just trying to establish the day to day rhetoric of what these guys lives
are, and it's really cool how they start to play with that. Yeah.
So as it stands, we've got a multi party chase going on.
Hakim's trying to get Iron and the two sides, and Spiker after Hakim as
well, and then Iron reaches like this bridge where Spike and Hakim are like
on either sides of it, so they're like, oh shit, he's in
the middle. Spiker tells reveals that he's a bounty hunter and they have a
little fight, which is a Every fight in this series is just like animated
beautifully and this is no exception. So they're like fighting hand to hand and
stuff, and then Iron jumps over jumps off the bridge and onto a boat,
which is very brave for a Welsh Corgi very small legs. I've seen
those dogs barely get up onto like elevated platforms, and this is this dog's
just like jumping fair play. Uh, Spike then waiting on, Hakim jumps
in after him. Is that right? M hmm? Yeah, they both
They both jump in after onto the boat, and I think they land on
top of each other. And then Hakim falls into a barrel of crabs and
and then the boat. In the boat, Spike is no in the water.
Spike is in there like holding the dog, and he's like a wet
and dog looks like it's just about to make even more mischief. I love
Iron. Iron's a great little character. Certainly, yea the most normal dog
drawn so in our podcast. I mean like, yeah, I mean Iggy
is a freak of nature compared to the overwhelming adorableness and normalness of our buddy
Iron here. So I'm a pro Iron anti Iggy. And after he sacrificed
everything, Jeff, yeah, yeah, its face. Okay, look you
know I'm still not over it at this point, Jeff, did you obviously
you know now because of the next episode. But did you think that Iron
would be a recurring character. Not until they brought back to the ship,
and uh, you know sort of. I was just like, up,
they got a dog, now, you know, like I But that's great
because you know dogs are the best, and why not have one in what
I am quickly learning is my new favorite anime. Yeah, whoa whoa?
Of the three that he's watched, Yeah, yeah, I mean it had
a thirty three percent chance. That is not odds right, not bad,
not bad. Back on the Bebop, Jet gets Iron a collar and it's
got like tracking on it. Back to his computer, Spike is very pissed
off the Iron is not worth very much money and he's like wagging his finger.
I him and gets bit, which is classic dog behavior. They decide
to try and use Iron to bait out Hakim so they can collect on that
bounty instead, and Spike to do this. Spike is walking a dog on
the streets of Mars, while Jet is kind of using the tracking to monitor
where they are. The scientists. Meanwhile, the other party in this chase
are still driving around looking for their quarry and they call it a data dog,
which is interesting. Hakim escapes the river and then he kind of contacts
his buyer and is like reassuring the buyer that he will get the dog,
and it's like there's a minor setback, but the contact refuses to give Hakim
extra time, so desperation is starting to set in. He walks down the
street and an old man on the street stops him and acts luck. He
knows Hakim is searching for something and that his bird Pico can find this this
thing that he's searching for. Hakim does stop and and like listen, just
want to call it like the the incidental character designer, like the like really
minor supporting characters in this all looks so fucking cool. Yep, yeah,
yeah, like they just they all have such like weird interesting outfits that speaks
to like a weird history that you will never find out. And it's I
especially love the woman who runs the pet shop. Yeah, pet shop lady
is real good. Everyone looks like a bit of a freak as well,
like especially the old people. Anyone all looks a bit of like a bit
of a freak. My favorite character is the one that have one one eye
bigger than the other. They always have My favorite characters. I love them.
Would a pet shop lady have on her head like a turtle? Boys?
Oh that was awful. Jesus, that's that's where I'm at today.
Guys. You're right good. Reference back to Iggy and Jojo though, Yeah,
I like you literally back to you in the studio. That's weird.
Some creature on her head. Okay, yeah, creature on her head.
So Hakim is into this bird. Apparently scientists decide to use this dog whistle
in their van. It's like super high pitched, and when they hit it,
like all the dogs in the city just appear, and they're like,
oh shit, this sound. Yeah a load of I love that they draw
like so many different dogs instead of just being like, let's just copy and
paste all these dogs. But I feel like that's the entire show. It's
always like, yeah, let's just let's dress something weird, like, let's
not do it normal, very lavishly produced for its era. Iron also hears
the sound and is like, oh shit, I gotta go find that,
and like runs away from Spike. The van, followed by a pack of
dogs and including Iron, drive past Hakim, who sees them and goes like,
oh, I'm gonna chase these guys, Achim steals a again fun incidental
characters and newly wed couple's car just out of nowhere. Oh god, so
good. Yeah, it could have been anyone, could be a generic car,
but they went for a newly wed couple, which is fun, and
he's a flavor but a texture. Yeah, it makes everything. It makes
every scene a little more memorable, right, like you that's yeah, Like
that's one of the things I love about the show. It does just feel
like they're just trying to fit in little bits like wherever they can, and
like it's everything from like like little kind of setups like that, to like
how the characters are drawn, you know, like no pose ever feels like
trace from a model sheet or anything like that. It's always interesting and it's
always expressive of like who these people are. Yeah. Yeah, he steals
a car and then he's basically able to knock Spike over and grab Iron and
he sprays him with a sleeping agent and for some reason when he sprays Iron
and Iron goes to sleep. I found that very cute, Like the way
I thought I was hilarious. Yeah, I was like, look at that.
I thought it was great. Spike goes back to his ship and then
he finds Hekim like driving out onto a causeway. He tries to crash a
chem's car by hitting the roof, but the scientist Van catches up and then
fires on Spike and harpoons Hakim, so these scientists are doing the work.
Iron wakes up at that point and he pushes a very smart dog pushes a
button to open the doors and just jumps out. This is danger dog as
well, very very brave. Spike does go after Iron, despite his dislike
of dogs and Iron specifically, and saves him from falling into the water.
He as a result of doing this, he's forced to land and watches the
harpoon Hakim crash into like an I s P precinct along with a scientist Van.
So they're basically done and they're court and then later on the Big Short
Show reports on the crash and says that the dog Iron is a data dog
and was engineered in an illegal research for sicility, which is why loads of
people are often this is a modified dog. Yeah, this dog's real fucked
up. I love it? Yeah, wow, now you love the fucked
up dogs? What is going on? Hell? Yeah, I understand the
story, did he Yeah, story pa crimea river, Okay, he was
haunted by a ghost that could shoot sand Yeah. That. The best part
of Iggy was his stand without a doubt, his like weird sand stand.
I'm a big fan of that. Why did you say that, like father
of a murdered son, husband to a wife, haunted by a sand stand.
Yeah, just that's the way it comes out, you know, scientists
and Hakima arrested by the police, and Spike once again recurring theme is no
richer than when he started on this giant escapade. Yeah, he's so that's
the thing that you know, I guess, Look, it's part of the
thing. But we're already at the end of episode two learning that like looks
like Spike and Jack can really never close the deal and they're always left with
like some bullshit consolation prize. Wow, this is a cute dog. You
like Iron or not? I do like i'n to be clear, let it
be known full stop. Iron is great. I think Jeff does this thing
where he's like, I hate cats and I love dogs, But in actuality,
I think what he's saying is that he dislikes all animals, but he
knows how socially unacceptable, that is, so he tries to couch it in
this like sort of centrism, you know what I mean. I love the
idea that he tried it with a bunch of animals before getting to dogs.
That one when he was like, man, I love pigeons, and people
are like, what the fuck crosses pigeons off a list? And the next
like social gathering, Hey, how do you guys feel about cows? They're
great? Everyone's like, what the fuck crosses it off? I love dogs.
Look at my darling little sleeping puppy right here, like every I love.
Yeah, well he Marty does look like a rug a lot because all
he does is lay around. But yes, I love dogs. I look
like, you know, that's that's me. That's that's how I feel about
animals. Dogs in anime. Okay, you know, I guess the whole
theme of them ending each escapade with like, you know, sort of just
mouths coming out of their pockets is like kind of just like all right,
mass like the Quick Time File a moth. So you know, like I
I do, like, I don't know, I don't know where they get
their money from. I don't know where the woolongs are coming in, like
where's this money? Like how are you paying for fuel? How are you
able to eat? I know it's like all peppers and onions and whatever the
fuck. But like sooner or later the bills start come and do and I
don't know, but they might not be up a lot of money, but
they are up another companion because Iron joins them and becomes a member of the
team. You don't know, Jeff. Maybe this is like a really kind
of hopeful ride to richest story of two young men who just kind of make
it. M h, I guess. So how old is Jet? Because
Jet looks like an old twenty two? Got it, it's been it's been
out there. And Spike is like very good space space ages you quickly.
I get it. Episode three is called Honky Tonk Women, and we begin
with a lady walking into a shop on Mars and she is tracked down by
a group of thugs. As every episode begins, yea so much, Yeah,
she's the best. She she reveals that the key to battle is just
shooting them before they shoot you. So she she shoots first with her Heckler
and Carch MP five shop machine gun. The dub version of this that lion
became a very popular sample in a lot of music. It really yep,
yeah, that's interesting if you watching it. As I watched the I watched
the dubs again, so I just I think they're good, Like I mean,
they all go. I watched dub as well, but like I I
every now and then we'll switch it when I see, like when I see
something weird, voice is extremely good. When I see something weird in the
translation or like the movements, I just like switched the Japanese just to see
what it was the original line was, And I'm like, okay, four
episode two because I we watched it so much earlier when I I sort of
like skimmed through it, and I skimmed through it with the subs, and
I was like, oh, okay, this is fine. I don't think
I'm I think I'm going to continue with dubs, but I'll check back in.
I'm not going to completely turn my you did you did you manage to
convince Stacy's watch it with you? No? But I think after Honky Tonk
woman, I think this is the one I'm going to show her. I
think, like I just I would say episode five and Fallen Angels is like
it's one of the best episodes I've ever seen of anything ever, and that's
a wow to watch. All right, I mean will be the second one.
This could be the one that you used to get her in and then
episode five is the one that you used for ye I think that's the best
way to do it. See how normal it is and then let her see.
Yeah, yeah, I think she'll appreciate this. She is like a
big casino freak, and I think, like everything all right over there,
I love women. That just spears. My wife isn't casinos. She's got
a budget, she's she's a casino enthusiasts, not a gambling enthusiast. Is
a big important she likes. Oh just look at the line. So I
got a Vegas every year. So what am I talking about. I've never
been. I mean I never I've never gambled. Oh I don't gamble.
No, you don't know. So this is the thing, This is the
trick. This is what casinos don't want you to know. Basically, casinos,
if you want free drinks at a casino, you just sit and you
pat you sit at a table and you gamble like five dollars, or you
just sit at a machine and just spend five dollars and then they just keep
pumping you drinks because they want to get drunk. And then all you have
to know everyone knows that, everyone knows that. I don't know. I
didn't know that. Thank you for the information, Lucy, I appreciate it.
No, but Lucy, I've seen people. Okay, that's the thing,
right, right, have you know I've definitely, I've definitely seen people,
if they're not gambling, been asked to like, can you please get
up if you're not gam I've seen that happen numerous times. But yes,
of course they want you to get drunk because your inhibitions and you'd like timeless,
like no daylight, no clocks, site of casino. Yeah, I
think i'd fall real easy. Yeah, it's fucked up what you call it,
like the path thing, the path thing, like there is no one
way to get from one side of a casino to another. Purpose Its great,
it's I mean the best thing is I am impervious to all of this,
So I should just go to the casino and just sit there and then
be like, would you left Campbell? No? Would you like to drink?
No? Who the fuck is this freak? Then sitting here, then
what do you want? Why are you here? I'll just be like,
oh, you'll find out. You look at your watch and you're like,
any minute now. Just do that For about thirteen already, it keeps saying
any minute now, but nothing happens. What's going on? So she shoots
first, but despite her absolute pop off, they do capture because there's way
more of him. She's taking shooting the machine going with a cigarette in her
mouth. Yea, so fucking cool. Oh cool, let's just say it.
She's hot, Okay, she's widely she's smart. No, like,
she's just not my She's not it's not my type. She's French coat.
What was the name of the first character in the first episode? Who's that?
Maria? Maria? I don't know how boy bebop uh No, that's
not no, No, I don't know my name is Yeah. Like I
was, yeah that I was into you're into her? I was into her.
I think you just need to see more faith. It just she's just
I get it. I like, you know, it's just look, that's
it takes all kinds right, Like, you know, I don't understand this.
Karina is her name? Kind Asimov? Yeah, Jeff in an alternate
timeline were you were you a single fella and Faye walks up to you in
some kind of alternate universe spar where people can hang out with anime characters,
you you would be fumbling, you would you would not know what to say.
Mmm. Look, I'm going to post you a picture of Katarina.
Listen, I think I think you Yeah, it's not clearly. We figured
it out. We figured it out. She's like babies made of bullets.
Do you remember the last episode when we when like, you know, we
we we finished up the podcast and afterwards Jeff was like, I kind of
I stopped feeling it in like the last two minutes of that episode. I
don't know what changed. Look I like, I like likes like okay,
my man, my man. Uh think maybe sometimes we should do like like
a big long smasher pass of anime people for Jeff. Yes, gladly,
like just so many. There's so many. Do not google Fay Valentine.
Stop. You will get spoiled, and you will also see some extremely horny
ship. I just hit control. W We're done. Yeah. She gets
taken to a ship of Gordon, a criminal casino owner owner who who talks
to this lady about who will become known as Favorine. They don't say her
name for a really long time as far as I Yeah, it's way point
with the show. He thinks that she's some other like legend gambling lady.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it's unclear if he thinks that she is
Polk Alex always like you are like the reincarnation of the spirit of Poker.
Yeah, there's there's a couple of plot lines here that I think fell a
little through the holes of the story here. I kind of I kind of
read it as he knew she's not, but he's like, you remind me
of her, so I'm going to use you. Yeah, there's a couple
of different ways you could interpret it, but I think some of them get
ahead of ourselves. Yeah. She she she wants he wants to use her
for a job. She's like, and then he's like, all you have
to do is this job, and then I will pay for all of your
accrued debts. So we learned that Fait is in deep with debts and she's
like, okay, And the plan is a very elaborate, like illegal business
transaction in which she will play the part of a dealer and B and regg
It. Spike and Jet meanwhile also enter the casino. We've once again got
these all these players in one place to get some quick quick cash since they
are down to their last five thousand wolongs. Jet comments that he Spike shouldn't
gamble because his eyes are too good and he'll get thrown out if he wins
too much. I mean, they're on their last five thousand woolongs. Okay,
money is a problem. Incredibly flawless gambler like you could figure it out,
Spike, Like, spread it out. This can't be the only casino
in the galaxy. Jeff, It's it's a problem, wouldn't you wouldn't understand?
Yeah? Yeah, well I'm tragically uncool. I get it. But
either way, figure it out, Spike, I mean, come on,
Spike, despite this, sits down at the blackjack table where this lady Faye
is dealing. Faye meanwhile, was told that earlier that part of the plan
is a dude that looks like Spike will appear, sit down at a table,
lose all of his money, and then give his last chip to her
as a tip. She needs to give that chip to Gordon and then the
debt goes away. That's that's the plan. That's the illegal kind of act
that is happening here. But did you understand what this sets up and why
I have such a problem with the story of line of this thing. What
does this happen? Well, I don't want to get too far ahead of
ourselves. Something about this last chip, right, yeah, we'll come we'll
circle back. Yeah. Uh. So Spike sits down and starts playing,
And I love when he sits down because this immediately gives off cool guy vibes
instantly, cool guy vibes. You sit down and everyone's like, this guy's
cool. Yeah, it's cool. Fourteen year old gambling yeah cool check yeah
and face when he sits down, phase like this is the guy, he's
cool. So, uh, Spike gets done to his last chip and he's
like, you know what, I'm gonna keep this chip and head out,
which phase also like what the hell come back and chases after him. On
his way out, he collides with a man that looks like him if in
the face by a two by four many times, like he's budget. Yeah,
we've got dollar store Spike, who like runs into him, and then
that's where learned like, oh, this is the guy who was supposed to
be losing the money and getting the chip. They accidentally and he accidentally ends
up with the other man's chip, and that's the one that Gordon wanted.
The man hurriedly picks up what he believes was his chip and Faye catches up
to a spike and demands the chip. A lot of chip demanding happening here,
So so okay, maybe it is time to bring this up. So
the budget spike, like that guy was basically on purpose delivering this chip.
Yes, okay, okay, okay, So this was like a handoff,
transactional kind of thing under the guise of gambling. Yeah, got it,
Never mind, good job everybody. Boy, What was your problem? Jeff?
But I was just sort of like I didn't I guess I didn't understand
like how they all knew this chip was going to find its way to the
table. But he that I think about it, it's like, oh,
this was supposed to happen. This is transactional thing. Yeah, okay,
yeah, it was very obvious. I'm not sure how you come. Yeah,
it's cool now when I think about it, it's kind of like the
plot of the episode. But how could anyone with the basic media comprehension even
come close to misunderstanding? So you're telling me these carts turned into the robots.
I don't understand it. Look I figured it out. You know what,
I'll just keep my mouth shut now for for the duration of the series.
Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's good. Spike, meanwhile, is
completely oblivious to everything that's happening. He has no idea. He's in the
middle of the He realized, is that like when we were when we were
doing JoJo's we constantly had to cut out these sections where Jeff would ask,
yeah, but how do you stands work? Yeah? We must have spend
nine every episode. He's like, crazy, I understand the fighting, but
why is the deal with those weird characters that appeared behind? Why is that
never explained? He's explaining it. Anyone notice the ghosts this episode? Yeah,
exactly, So you're telling me fighting the fighting? Why is he a
vampire? When did they explain that? Explain the sun issue? So if
they if they play enough drawings one after the other, it looks like they're
moving, they look like they're moving. No, yes, yes, who's
moving them? Who's moving these drawings? So Spike, Dore's no, what's
going on and like Phase like give me the chip and she's Spike is like,
you need to chill out, man, I saw you were cheating the
entire time. I didn't say anything. You need to chill and everyone's like
what the fuck? She's she love that? Yeah, I love the entire
like crowd at the casinos like what what what? And then something. Then
there's one like floating vio Bye where it's like, hey, that's why I've
got no money. It's really good. She like looks around when she's been
rumbled and just legs it. And some casino thugs approached Spike and they ask
him to come with them. They punch the Spikes like for what, and
one of them punches Spike and he like, no, sells it. He
like looks at them and he's like big mistake and just lays them out like
it's so good. It does eventually take a rather large group of men to
bring him down. Just cool guy stuff, you know, one of him
in the Lords of the Other Guys the game Jet. Meanwhile, HiT's the
jackpot. He's playing slots and he's won over two hundred thousand wolong Jet yeah,
Jack, it was great. I love jetting this outfit. They uses
her bracelet to remotely fly her her craft, the Red Tail to her so
she can make a quick exit. She shoots out the wall of casino,
which is cool as fuck. Spike and Jet escape from the normal ship.
Spike and Jet escape from the casino thugs, but sadly they do it without
Jets winnings and they catch on to face ship before she escapes the casino,
and this freaks her out a bit great. Gordon has the man is it
dollar Store Spike brought to him. Yeah, and yeah, he's very upset
that the chip is not the one day he was after. I just want
to I just want to say it because it's so loud that it registered away
from my stuff, just scrumpled so loudly. Yeah, you were look you
can get in the edit. Yeah, and Craig that way up. I
thought, Lucy, that was you going like like a Yoda thing. Lucy's
doing a Yoda impression down there. I feel like it's less Yoda and more
Marge Sims because I heard it and I was like, Okay, where's Lucy
going with this? Where's the bit? Hair? What's the bit? The
best part is now we've talked about it. We've just talked about it,
so long day won't get cut out now it's part of the does I want
to own it? Own your hot girl summer with Tommy achs? Is that?
What is that? Want to say? Like all the hot girls have
Tommy as that? Ye, let's go. Where are we? So Gordon
kills this lad off, which is the end of dollar Store, Spike sadly.
Then back on the Beebop, Faye is handcuffed to the toilet and they
like get some answers out of her. Iron is very interested in Faye the
way she smells specifically, and Spike says that they plan to sell her to
cover the loss of Jets winnings, and she suggests to give up the chip
to Gordon insteady he'll pay for it handsomely. They don't believe her and they
bounce and she secretly contacts Gordon. She's very widely managed to get away in
and do some sphere and tells her where she is, and then Jet and
Spike later on they're watching the Big Shot Show again and they learn that Faye
is wanted, and is wanted for six million woolongs I kind of like face
or bullshits them this scene. Yeah yeah, yeah, but like with the
whole Couch Show stuff, it's just very good. This is kind of where
you learn that she's a almost like serial liar or like she's she like will
say anything to get her way. Yeah, she's like a yeah, she's
a very good con hist. So Jet and Spike decide they're going to turn
her over to the police because she's worth a lot of money. Jet takes
a look at the poker chip that Spike picked up and learns that there's a
computer chip inside, and then when Faye learns of the bounty, she's like
on her she's a bit pissed off that it's not that much. But then
she asked them not to turn her in, which is like a weird moment
for her, and they ignore her and eventually though, the ship is collided
with by Jordan's Gordon Jordan Jordan Gordon, Gordon's ship Jordan Freeman. So Gordon's
ship appears and rams in terms like gimme the chip, Spikes like nope,
keeping this ship refuse, and Jet explains that they know what the ship is
and about it, and what it is is three years prior, a group
S I T created a master decryption program called crypt Breaker, which basically decrypts
any security code, and that is what that chip is. And after it
was completed, the programmer turned up dead and then disappeared. The problem is
the program itself is encoded and the computer chip is the key to unlocking that.
So it's labor but basically they need that chip as a key to unlock
a thing that will unlock everything. The ISSP has been searching everywhere for it,
but they couldn't find it because it was hidden in a casino chip.
Bit bit dumb there, Like, how can you not? How does that
change? Where it is? This is where Jet basically reveals that he had
previous involvement with the ISSP, which is an interesting bit of backstory to him.
That's very like casually because the first time we hear anything about jets passed
right, Yeah, unknown till now Yeah. Gordon offers to pay and they
set along thirty million woolongs. Spike takes his space suit out and jumps towards
Gordon's ship to start the transaction, but then a man appears after Spike throws
the chip. The man, while not initially armed, pulls out a gun
from behind the suitcase of woolongs, and they just have this space standoff which
is really cool. And it's like on the hull of golden Chip. Spike
ducks behind the turbine which is rotating and sells into the air and then kind
of like hurtles towards the thug and knocks the gun away and then turns off
the man's boots, just basically throws him out into outer space and grabs the
chip. Very smooth, very cool. I could I could only think of
cars in that picture just floats off into space. What you know, Cars
from Jojo Part two. His I was just thinking if Lightning of Queen showed
up in this scene, how rad would that be? Guys, wouldn't that
be great? Yeah? I was like, what the hell's dealing with this?
Yeah, now that you mentioned it, it does. It's very much
Cars from Jojo. Fay meanwhile, has managed to escape her handcuffs using a
hairpin. Cool girl ship. She eat some of their food, which is
great. I love that bit. It's just like you just see a lot
of food. You see like a two seconds shot of her like looking at
a fridge, and then we go and we do the big action scene and
then we could back and the fridge is gone, like there's just everything eating.
Yeah yeah. She after having a lavish meal, she gets to a
ship and I tries to intercept at one point as well. She blasts through
the beebops hanger and after a quick chat with Spike, takes off with the
suitcase before he can reach it. Gordon's ship retaliates by firing gunshots and rockets
at the Red Tail, which is Face ship, but Face is able to
like reverse the polarity of the rockets and send them back to Gordon's ship.
Again. Cool girls ship, very cool. She blasts the ship away.
Spike reaches the Beebop with the poker chip, but it's basically useless to him
in chat, so they just spend it at another casino and that's the end
of the episode. It's uh, it's something else. That whole space walk
fight was pretty cool. You know the shot where like Spike drifts upwards and
then activates and then the camera turns to orient y fucking so good, just
real, real solid. You know, there's a lot of like moments where
they can play with this like centrifugal force, you know, gravity artificial gravity
generator combines and stuff, and they do that in a really cool ways so
simple as well, Like yeah, for sure, and I just you know,
we didn't really touch on it too much, just like the design of
like the casino world, but like that was this that stuff like with the
Roulette wheels sort of like hologram around the little ash tray that like, yeah,
the cigarette. Yeah, just just man, there was something about this
episode that there's certain like settings, certain world building moments in entertainment where I'm
like, I just need this to watch this to feel comfortable. It's like
comfort food, do you know what I mean? That's totally what kateboy beebup
is to me. Yeah, I'm I'm I can already see that generating in
my sort of like head cannon, right, And like this episode for me
was just the thing of like, oh this is I just want to be
inside this. I just want to have this playing whore and damn yeah that's
we're still talking. We still we're still talking about episode one. Maybe I
know I just want to be in this world. I want to be in
this world. Uh, and yeah, I just know that that's Jeff I'm
genuinely reference to the reference to pregnancy faith. I'm genuinely quite jealous that you
have so much of Kaboy beeB Up to go. Yeah yeah, and that
you don't know what's coming. That's fun. That's fun to hear. It's
it's been great. I love the use of the word centrifugal force. By
the way, I was pretty good. Good for you, thank you.
It reminds me of whenever I had that. What it reminds me of?
Beck Have you heard that the back verse about centrifugal forces on the Childish Cambino
song, Like for some reason, it's just like rapping about the centrifugal forces
property. It's cool, Yeah, I mean the bactionary, the rhyming bactionary.
He's he's all yeah, he's on it. He's on it. Yeah.
So those are two, episode two and three of Cowboy be ab Up,
very strong episodes, and I'm glad to say it only gets stronger from
here. That's great to hear. There really is, I guess equally terrible
to hear is is seemingly how badly the live action thing was butchered, right,
because I'm like, because that's what I've also gotten in the in the
back of my mind. Okay, honestly, I think the live action show
it's like I perfectly avery television show, but as an adaptation of Cowboy Beebop,
it misses the mark quite hard in several ways. So yeah, and
again like I'm not I'm not declaring that from a from a position of like
an opinion or knowledge. I just I'm just taking this sort of like net
opinion right of like how people. Yeah, I think the way like I
would think about the live action one is like if I turned that on at
like two am some night back in the days when I still used to watch
television, I would probably watch it and be like, this is pretty all
right, I can watch this, but yeah, liketeresting as a part of
Cowboy Beebop, it is just na got it, got it? Yeah,
but yeah, I'm loving this. I really can't believe I made it this
long without watching it. Quite frankly, I think that's kind of amazing.
Yeah. But then it's nice, Campions we get to get to have this
together. Yeah, it really is special. I'm so glad to share it
with you all. The other thing that is exciting is there are a bunch
of animals that well, maybe not as iconic. There are a bunch of
animals that are equally revered that you can now well after this move on.
Sometimes I think of a certain anime and then I think about what Jeff's opinion
of it might be, and I get like excited. I'm like, oh,
yeah, I'm unlocking all these new skill tree brands. Perhaps would be
good speaking with Jeff and check check see this. But we got got some
machim figure here, a little mac Oh hell yeah, I think like Jeff
would really go on with mob Psycho. Oh yeah, yeah, I think
I feel like that that would be his gem. Yeah. We'll find out
one day, but for now, we're going to stick with Cowboy Bebop and
we will be back very soon with another two episodes on Jeff Jefs Bizarre Adventure.
Thank you John once again joining us. Thank you. Where can people
find you what you're up to? You can search I fatch Wolf and I
will likely be there. And also if you want one a nice summer T
shirt. Got a real nice summer T shirt over eyepatch wolves dot com for
you. Yeah. I have been, like I said previously, fortunate in
that I've been able to test a lot of stuff and it was all wonderful
the other day or a couple a week ago. So I went to my
mail and checked it and they would like some Ipatch Wolf stickers and a notebook
available there, and I was like, this is nice. I like these.
So every every bit of merch from Ipatch Wolves that I've seen so far
has been very good. Lucy, where can people find you what you're up
to? I'm online threading, tweeting, Instagram and at Lucy James Games,
five, Game Spot and of course Giant Bomb. You can't get threads in
Ireland? Yeah, I can't get it in the EU, yes, because
because of the crazy information gathering that Oh yeah yeah, wow. Can see
to yourself protected? John, I feel protected. It's unable to do my
job, Jeff. Where can't people find you? Know what you up to?
I am everywhere as well. You can check me out and oh you
know, I haven't talked about this, but I'm streaming Tears of the Kingdom
a couple times a week with my child for the gameplay and it is incredibly
fun, having a great time. Because is your horse's name farticles or farticles?
No, it's farticles like articles. Okay, yeah, I wasn't sure
if he was like Greek or something, I don't know. No, it's
he. We don't know his origin, but he's without it out, a
gentle sweet boy and we love him very much. We've lost him, though
we don't know where he is. We're still trying to find Farticles. We
also, the more we play, realize how needless horses are in the game.
But nevertheless, Articles is a good sweet boy, and one day he'll
come home. Thanks crossed. Yeah, yes, either that he's gone forever.
Yeah, I have to find a new articles the second. You can
find me everywhere at more h and we will see you next time. Goodbye,
everyone, Bye, good bye Jeff. Jeff's Bizarre Adventure is hosted by
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