Welcome to another episode of Jeff Jeffs Bizarre Adventure the Cowboy Bebop side Story.
I am your host tomorrow Saint, joined by John aka a superirepatual Tomorrow.
It's fantastic to be here. Damn, that's a lot of energy, Lucy.
What level of energy are you at? Well, I'm back in the
UK right now. I'm in the Northeast. I'm at my mum's place,
so my energy levels are mid to high, mid to high. I'm not
an energetic stole it yet, but I might get there. That's okay,
Lucy, because I am stuck at this the entire episode. John has me
covered. Nice Jeff Bacolo, what's your energy level up? It's pretty good,
and I'll explain why. I'm not sure I match the intensity in which
I look forward to watching new episodes of Cowboy Bebop in the way that I
sort of look forward to watching JoJo's Bizarre Venture. Now, I'm not saying
that we should never go back to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but what I'm saying
is we should never go back to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure to rewatch Bebop over and
over. Yeah, if like we could just sort of go down another rabbit
hole of like other Cowboy Bebop content, Like if we could just maybe watch
it like the next time in reverse order, or just do something. What
I like about that idea is that I don't think it would make the audience
angry at all. No, I mean, come on, what are we
doing? Who are we doing this for? For being honest the audience?
Clear? Yes, I'm gonna be honest. I'm just going to hang about
you guys, I mean honestly same. I don't even know what you pay
me. Okay. We are recapping two episodes this week. Both episode recaps
were pulled from the Cowboy Bebop fandom. Wick you. Thank you to everyone
who maintains that the two episodes are called Black Dog Serenade and Mushroom Mumba.
They are an interesting pairing of of episodes. Uh, Jeff, the sommelier
of anime episodes, can you tell us a bit about this pairing about it?
Well? Like, is it tasty? Or is that? Is that
the kind of a question you're asking. I don't know, you're the solia,
Just tell me about it. I I think these two episodes are like
a delightful further exploration of like the world that is Cowboy Bebop. I think
it's very interesting that Spike is barely even a presence in Black in Black Door,
Black Dog Serenade. I find I found that be refreshing and cool and
really getting a good understanding of Jet and his sort of backstory, specifically the
weird arm situation and where that all goes. You know, I do think
I think it was the most it was like, it was definitely like an
interludy sort of thing, which I know this series does a lot, and
I think it kind of followed that interlude formula to a t, which it
does so well. Which let's say that the majority of Kebboy Bebup is interludes.
Yeah, yeah, you're You're totally right. It's inter It's interlude.
Uh, it's there, interludes peppered with like main story arc right, like
intellect. Yeah, I love it. That's what this podcast should be renamed
renamed to. But yeah, and then I found the Mushroom episode to be
yet again a bit of like the Wild Goose Chase of the week. But
I think that's what I love so much about out this series is that it
does allow you to just get lost in this world, and the storytelling within
these little episodes is so strong and so compelling that you kind of don't care
really what is happening. Like if you explain the episode to somebody who doesn't
know what it is, they're like, what they were chasing like a mushroom
dealer and on a train, Like that's the that's the thing, and you're
like, yes, But there's something about how the execution prowess of this of
the show that is just like it's just so good, it's just so watchable.
And again, as you can tell, I found the tandem to be
just delightful cool. Thank you very much, John, This has been Jeff,
Jeff Storry. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I completely agree.
I think these are two really really great episodes. I'm a big Jet
fan. I like him a lot, and I think you definitely get a
glimpse of like the kind of person he is in that first kind of Jet
centric episode, and then you get more in this and I guess you get
to see like a bit more of his damage and we'll kind of we can
we can kind of get into it in a little bit, but I really
really like it. And then the mushroom chasing episode is just I just have
a great time with that episode as a big ED fan. Yeah, I'm
just having good that entire entire time. What do you make of it,
Lucy, Well, it doesn't care what I think. It doesn't matter what
I think because I'm staying at my mom's as I mentioned, and I watched
both episodes with my mom. Ever exposure Lynn think of anime. Lynn is
a big anime and joy. She's a big Ghibli fan. Look oh oh
oh proof in the pudding. She panned up to show a painting painting of
Yes, which is pretty much exclusively the only one she likes. Downstairs in
the living room, next to the TV, she has like a total figure.
Admittedly, it's my figure. I brought it back from the Ghibli Museum
when I went to Japan, regifted. I made her for Christmas one year.
I made her crochet totorah that's got that's pride on display, and I've
got her a couple other little totro things. She sings the song a lot,
so I kind of gave her the rundown on Bebop and she was very
into it. She was gasping at all the right places she laughed. She
was like, oh oh. She went like oh and oh wait, hang
on. I showed her the Netflix intro. She was like, I see
how this doesn't really work. And then I showed her the ED intro and
she just went absolutely not. She was not about the way that Netflix did
ED. So yeah, Lynn, yeah, it sounded like for a second,
you had just you know, installed some of your leftover crap at your
mom's place. I have. I mean, have you seen this bedroom that
I'm in right now, Like this is all my leftover crap? My guys,
Yeah, okay, fair enough, but no, she is legit and
we respect Lynn on the show. And did Lynn I think Spike was hot?
She did, But obviously Spike is not really in these two episodes that
much specifically, and I was like kind of saying to I was like,
oh, I mean, sorry, you're not getting the primo Spike experience.
That is. That is a really good feeling, though, when you introduce
something to someone and you start hearing the like oh yeah. Well. The
thing is, I was worried in the beginning because at the beginning of the
first episode, she went, oh, that looks like Star Trek, and
I was like, I mean kind of. And then and then we go,
that's ships for nerds, this is for cool people. Well that's the
name. My mom is a big, big star Trek fan. Original.
Yeah, she grew up with that. She loved it, still loves it,
like genuinely. We were trying to find something to watch on Monday and
Enterprises on and she was like oh, and I was like, no,
we're not watching Trek Enterprise. Put only Connect on, please. But yeah,
yeah, so it got the Lindsey a little proof. It's nice to
know that that is a thing that can actually happen, Like you can introduce
a thing to someone you love and they can really enjoy it, and then
you take joy in being the one to do it and you can share those
moments. I don't know what that's like, I was going to say.
I mean, Stacy infamously loves JoJo's. Yeah, if you have a child
with this person, Yeah, like you've both got something that you have introduced
to each other and can intimately love. Yeah, but like we've got in
on at the ground level together. It wasn't like a thing like I have
a surprise for you. It wasn't like that tam started that way. Does
she like pinball and or hockey. Yes, my original statements stand everything otherwise
you know, then you're dating the same person. It's weird. Yeah,
but she would have had she would have had like either pinball or hockey.
Yeah, because like I feel like if you yeah, not to go to
in on you here, Jeff, but like if you take them away,
like what left is keyboards and flimsy switch, thence that's just like thanks to
him and a lot of hats I suppose inside right now, I'm not the
only West hats inside when other people can admonish him, because he loves to
be admonished by people. It's just kink. It's very true. I'm a
glutton for it. What can I say? Yeah, well not sure,
but let's go. We'll begin with kaaking fun of Jeff just got like way
less fun. Yeah, I guess realize that he likes it. No,
No, everything makes sense. Black Dog Serenade, Fire, I am Black
Dog Serenade. We begin this episode in a dark hallway full of bodies,
and there's a prisoner named Toucan who is complimenting another prisoner named Udai Taxim for
escaping confinement on the prison transport ship and killing all the gods. He's a
great job, you kill the gods. Nice one. He thros this point,
my mom went she was not she wasn't a fan of the violence.
I don't think. He goes through a doorway. He comes through a doorway
with a bottle of don Perignon and offers him some of it, some of
the champagne tax and grabs the hat the bottle and just pours it into the
mouth of a dead god instead. And he's just like smiling, Yeah,
as a champagne enjoy That was that was difficult to watch. I love,
I loved. I was like, yes, get rid of that ship.
No one needs it. Everyone's life her arm. Meanwhile, so so the
the other prisoner two cat is like a bit creeped out by Udai. On
the Bebop, Spike is trying to take a nap, but is interrupting.
Is it Spike or is it jets Chet? Isn't it jet is trying to
take a nap. Spike is napping, yeaes, Spike is napping, And
then Fate interrupts and and it starts nagging everyone about the shower being broken.
I would too. I there is nothing I hate less than I'm not an
on good shower staying in my mom's she's got she's got a shower that like
if you turn on a tap in any other you know, any other water
appliance, the shower gets really hot. And earlier today I got scolded.
So wait, if they turn on the tap, it gets hotter. Yes,
but it goes like there is no gap? Is it like there is
instant it is in like someone's pour the kettle on you. That's how does
that? You want to work? That's but the thing is as well.
It's also because it's an electric I don't know. We actually had someone come
out and fix it yesterday. But it's also because the house is old and
very well insulated. You can't actually hear when someone is in the shower.
And I thought my mom was out and she thought I was out, and
it was unfortunate. Oh dear Fay then begins yelling at Jet. Who Jet
is at that time, he's pruning his bons eye trees euphism No not no,
he loves a lot of them. Yeah, he likes to fiddle with
bonds trees. Then the comms link rings and Jet is just like he's like,
Jet is busy face and grabs the phone and then just tells the caller
that he's he's not around and he's busy and hangs up. Coller. Yeah,
well, I was gonna say, Jet not too phased by that was
sort of just like, please don't do that. Yeah, I feel like
if someone did that, I'd be a little a little bit more upset.
Yeah, I would have. I would have thrown around it sensitive moment,
you know. Yeah. When the caller calls again, Jet says that he
will fix the shower he finds out if he finds out that the caller is
a man named Fad, which makes Jet kind of space out for a second
cigarette in his hand kind of like burns down to its finger, which is
nice, but of imagery kind of focusing in on one of the main kind
of images of the episode with his hand, and then Fay says like,
can you feel that the burning? And there's no response there. I don't
know why. That little bit, like since I first watched Bebop always always
stuck with me. Yeah, and like even when I had no idea about
like the larger things the show is trying to say and stuff, that little
bit is just like, oh fuck, yeah, that's I think in there,
I think it's Faye being normal. I think Fay is just like that.
I agree with you, John, I don't know what it is.
It's like this unspoken authenticity or whatever it is about that moment where Fay just
seems so real. They're just like, don't you feel that? Like maybe
it's the dub performance too, because it's really good, Like it's just very
believable and genuine, and I don't know, there's something there's just some sort
of electric moment about that thing. And like I think in the conversation that
follows, like it's weird because like with Caro, with kebebu up, you
never really get any scene that's intended to be like these people are closer than
they used to be. But in the last pair of episodes, it's like
you had the thing maybe with a pair of poor where the guys don't want
to claim the bounty on the old man because because Ed likes playing chess with
it and now here like Faye actually shows like genuine concern for something that has
nothing to do with her, to do with Jet and then like his response
of like this is my arm in the same way this is my ship.
It's like kind of sad nearly because it's like, man, dude's really going
through it. He's kind of stuck right, Like he's kind of he doesn't
want to update his arm. Yeah, he's more closed off than he realized.
Phase like you need to get it repaired, which Jet thinks she's talking
about the shower again, but Fay is actually talking about his prosthetic arm,
which is again that showing of concern for him, which is not familiar.
The inmates on the transport ship are gathering in the cockpit where they're holding the
pilot hostage. The pilot tells him to give up, and one of the
inmates named Dig, shoots him in the back of the head for trying to
convince him to give up. The others meanwhile kind of admonish him for being
hasty, and then Dick kind of turns on Tucan, who says that the
pilot, who points out the pilot was their last hostage and now they're in
a weird spot. Udai appears to diffuse the situation, and he does it
by very quickly slashing Dig's throat with a knife, which leaves everyone a bit
stunned. He's very quick with it. Can we just say that, motherfucker,
he's very cool. There's yeah, I don't know why. I like,
I just like painted him to be this like Jeff Goblue assassin type.
Well, he just reminds me of, like, you know, he's just
a little lanky and kind of like has like a chiseled face like him in
a weird way. I don't know Gobloom because he's like, you know,
glasses who just like if I'm not lanky. Yeah, yeah, I don't
know. I don't know why. I just like assumed, like, oh,
this is what it. Jeff Goldman was like a weird villain on a
spaceship. That's all, okay, I'm sorry Tammy didn't like that. I'm
sorry. It's very very weird. Can two Can realizes who Whoda is and
points out that he's the assassin from the Red Dragon crime Syndicate, And in
the parking garage overlooking a harbor, we get Jet meeting up with Fad and
they kind of exchanged some some friendly jabs about their history together as partners in
the I S SP. It's kind of like the police force. What'd you
guys make a Fad got the fat in it? I didn't. I didn't
trust him. I was like, I think I do think that leans into
a little bit of my formulaic sort of criticism, is that, like you
sort of are We're trained now to just be like, hmm, this guy
is probably not going to survive this episode, is he? You know that
kind of thing, something about a pink pink shirt with a popped collar that
makes me like, mmmm, it's just a red exploding barrel. You know,
you know, you know what you're you know what you're going to get
there. I'm trying to think, you know who he reminded me of.
Okay, so I mean obviously the episode begins with a prison break, and
so I was thinking about the prison break episode of Battle Star Glactica. But
he reminded me of what's his face? Tom? Would you call him?
Ship Ah? The guy who played the original Starbuck. Oh, you know
what I mean. I'm searching for Tom Zark. He's kind of like the
charism guy who leads all the prison and that's what he Why want to watch
Tom Ark was a good little arc. Yeah, and he was the original
Starbuck, which is very cool. Yeah, I M I want to rewatch
that as well. Jeff offers for Jeff. Jeff, you wish, I
do wish. Let's be honest. You get one episode and bebop Jeff,
what do you do? What do I do? In the episode? Try
and bring trying to introduce hockey. He's he's being a creep to Fae in
the episode. That's Katerina. Come on, she's dead, Jeff, I'm
going on, Jeff, you think shin Shira Watsonabe is going to put you
in episode one? No, but perhaps I'm inserted into a storyline that is
able to reanimate her in a very real, satisfying way. Satisfying, satisfying
No like satis No, wait, he enjoys this. We have to stop.
Yeah, there you go. My powers are becoming too clear for you.
I think I think it was like such a good like bad film line,
my powers ever coming too real for you? I think that's that's some
real trolls. That's a little like Matt Berry. Like I love how much
I've embraced Matt Berry recently, by the way, like the last few months,
there have been oh last few years, Lucy, Oh my god,
it's more noticeable in the last couple of months, like the references. Yeah,
like I posted something on Instagram and you your Your comment was, I
can hear you clean? This man is Matt Studio? What else you're intercording
studio? Of course, I'm gonna say that he did softball at a parking
garage overlooking the harbor. They meet up and Jet office Fad a cigarette,
and but Fad says he's quit. He's saying like, this isn't the word
for smokers anymore, which I'm not sure what that means, because it's funny
that they said it's not true, it's true. It's funny how they said
world like, this isn't a world to stop planet fuckers. You're all you
are are, all you do is planet hop. What does that mean?
Like if you planet hop, you wouldn't say this isn't a world. You
would say like this isn't a system or this isn't a universe, right,
I don't know. Maybe I'm a this is you, Yeah, this is
exactly. I like my story continuity. I like my world continuity. That's
all you know. I'm you know, gonna pick some knits. That's it.
Either you understand a single phone. He's basically saying, why why why
don't you speak like a freak and say, like universe and it's so weird
about language, you know, I remember, I remember I asked Jeff before
what languages you speak? And he just goes, just American. It's up.
That's that thing that it's a weird thing to say. I didn't want
to like drill down on it because then you know, he'd start getting into
like yet here we are. Okay, okay, that's all right, tam
please uh, Fad says. Fad tells Jet about a prisoner transport ship,
the prisoner transport ship, and points points out that on that ship is Hudai.
They only know that they got through the Ganymede Gate and that's it.
Suspects a plan that he doesn't want to be part of, and a Fad
basically is like, yep, I'm going to try and catch this dude,
And then he's like, you want to help me out, and he's kind
of alluding to when Jet lost his arm as being a connection between them and
Hudai. Jet decides that he doesn't want any of it and walks away,
and then we see a flashback where a younger Fad and a younger Jet are
in plank clothes that look like cops break into the flashback. Looks like it's
like like three hundred years ago. It was this wearing like like suits.
Well, I say, my mom was like, if you ever write any
Raymond Chandler And I was like, no, I haven't, and she was
like a lot of it is, you know, kind of nineteen y a
lin comment. It feels like they're in a different universe, and uh so
that's what we get to see the flashback happening, and it's Ali and they
they're chasing someone. They split up, and Jet corners Young Udai, telling
him that he's under arrest, turns and smiles, and a spotlight comes on
from a rooftop and it blinds Yet who suddenly realized that he's been set up.
There's a gunshot, and then the flashback fades to white. So that's
all we get. What is What does Jet say when the spotlight like comes
on him? Does he say something? It was something I could make out,
Oh my eye? Is that what it is? Is you say something
like that? Or is it like a word or something? I guess I
bifocals some of that. Is this is this your whole planet word bit?
Again? Oh no, John, We're something wrong. No, it's it's
not that. I just I just couldn't end the way I was watching.
I couldn't. I couldn't put on subtitles, and I was wondering, like
what that was. I thought maybe it was important that he does say it
again in the in the flashback. They run again later in the episode,
but all right, I guess we could let that one go. I was
curious more than anything else. I didn't pick up on anything. Okay,
so I hes been set up and there's a gunshot of fatal Why the inmates?
Then the custody inmates again, and they're talking about their plan. Uda
is pretty confident that they can escape by breaking the ice sp blockade, but
the others are like, not sure about that. Seems like a bad move.
As a former police captain who says that he'll pilot the ship, so
he just like it is like I've been doing this show for ages. And
then we were he was like, wow, what are you doing here?
Wow? The reason I'm laughing is it did not come through on discord,
but I saw the wave for him, so definitly did recording. My stomach
just went, wow, I came through on the mic. Yeah, it
will be there, John Luke. I saw John lu will keep that if
you can keep that and raise volume when you have dinner. Yet, what
time is there? It's four point thirty seven pm. All right, yeah,
I've got dinner after my family coming around. Okay, that's going to
be exciting the chat. And you wrote back immediately because like, oh,
that's right, me and you're in the same time zone normally, Normally I
can just I can just drop whatever I want in the discord and be safe
in the fact that I'm alone. But not always. Yeah, I've I've
infiltrated John's mobile phone. That guy and the other day I was texting him
on his phone out of out of slack was very full. That was spooky.
It's like John, I just messaged him saying hello, and then like
literally an hour later, I've got tam question mark. I'm sorry you showing
off the moment, are you guys? Yea happening. Yeah, we're close
friends now, okay, okay, the implication that we I'm sorry, I
can't kill the bit, but the implication we were not close friends before this
time. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, doesn't close friends and everyone on this
PODCASTPT. Jeff obviously, I'm going to text all my friends equally, although
Jeff, You're on an Android, so I'm not going to text you on
every time I text Jeff, I feel like a little dirty, Like I'm
like I hit enter and I'm like, I don't know if he's ever going
to see that, Like I don't know how hang on, Jeff, You're
an Android. I am John. Hey, I'm with you. I'm with
you. Apple is ridiculous. It's kind of protest. It's just a better
I like good products. I like better. You know, that's all.
You know. That's that's a fact. So look, I've got a way
to text people on I Message now too, So I'm going to DM you
all on Discord. Yeah great, Sure, that's fine. I mean Discord
is better than both of those texting platforms. So yeah, yeah, speaking
of Discord, we cut to the Bebop and Edward is trying to stop Jet
as he's leaving insational segue there, Tom, thank you. I appreciate that
ed asked for souvenirs from wherever Jet is going and just like a if I
don't come back, please Walter my bondside trees. This is Edward, you
dumb dumb dummy. Yeah, I was so mad. I was like,
what are you doing Edward. Yeah. Jet meets up with Fad and there's
an offer of a cigarette again, and Jet accepts the job. As I
s P cruisers fly to the prison, transport ship gets on the radio and
pretending to be a guard, he says that they're releasing one emergency shottle with
the hostages. When the shuttle reaches the IS s SP cruiser, it explodes
and gun turrets on the transport shoot down the remaining police ships. It's a
pretty good plan, to be fair, Yeah, it is fat and Jet
off flying towards the spot where the transport ship was last seen inside fads transport
ship Mono Transport, which is holding jets Hammerhead and a standard IS Cruiser.
The police radio tells them that the prisoners have gone missing, and Jet thinks
that Udai would go to Europe because he's an old fashioned kind of person and
we'll try and get back into the European syndica, even if he hasn't worked
with him front in a while. They they do this a lot. They
do this like thing which is fine where they're always just like I know where
this person's going and slow and behold the endlessness of space. They've found the
needle in the haystack and to that moon. This guy is going. I
just you know, that's it's fine. I like that, Jeff. For
the Wastes episode to be fourteen minutes long. Yeah, look, either fourteen
minutes or like many years long if they have to search every part of space
totally, and it's great, unreasonable. I don't care. You understand how
stories work. I most certainly do. I think it's fun to point these
out and just have a have a laugh at them. It doesn't make them
bad. Do you see anyone laughing trying? No? And I, you
know us would wonder with the animators who worked on this episode think that was
funny, Jeff, Like, would they find the same amusement in it to
you? Those people who gave their blood, sweat and tears to bring this
product to you? And what you're watching? What are you watching it on?
Jeff? You watched it on Netflix. It's not on Netflix anymore?
So interesting? Interesting? So paid for it. It's just just didn't didn't
pay a single thing. And okay, just these people and there they recorded.
I dubbed it off my TV. Uh, right, Yeah, that's
what I did. No, no, no, no, that's not what
I did. I downloaded it, uh while it was still on Netflix,
not my iPad, and I've yet to connect my iPad back to the internet.
Well you know that's still going to expire. Yeah, look, all
good things must come to an end. I'm aware. So I mean we're
not going to finish the series by the time that expires, so yeah,
yeah, yeah, I'll use a count roll. If we could get a
subscription for that'd be great. I think those animators John would find it refreshing
that someone could watch their program and find little things that perhaps we're not intentionally
made to be funny in the create in their inception, but after the fact,
it's all in the name of enjoying the content. It's all in the
name of enjoying the art. But I guess that's not okay for this podcast,
and I'll just shut up for the next forty minutes. I want to
give you a a weggie Lucy American next month, next month, give me
away live on Giant La show that show is he No, Lucy's all that
I have to allow Lucy to give me a weggie. Proceed Lucy let's get
this over with. There's a big button the entire time on the stage that
says Weggie. At some point someone hits it and they get Weggie. Let's
see it. Have to bring extra underwear, I guess. Yeah, gross.
Oh real quick, Jeff, I might be influent in for a Game
of the year. Oh weh oh you know. Let me just go through
my notes here, like, no, you're not okay. That would be
a million dollars. That would be a little million dollars. But no,
Michael, how much can it cost? How much? I wish? John?
Nothing would bring me more joy, but you're just so goddamn far away.
Everyone tweets at fandom and say that you want to see Jeff Jasper Adventure
alive. Honestly, if you did that, I'm sure it would not change
anything, but it would be fun. It would be pretty funny. It
would be funny various anime conventions that you want us there. Yeah, dude,
that's a good idea at work, yeah, or like or whatever,
like, just I still have not met Lucian some more. We were so
close. We're so close. Yeah, yeah, John, all kidding aside,
Nothing would bring me greater joy than to have you out there with us?
Oh, all kidding aside, Jeff, I think if you were like,
do you want to come, I'd be like, no, that's too
far. Okay, So then we're then we're at some would say someone absolutely,
But I do look forward to watching it. Hell yeah, it's gonna
be GREATA is trying to contact the European Syndicate. Wait, no, actually
the the he thinks that they're going to go to the European Syndicate because he
wants to. Yeah. Yeah. Fad tries decides to follow jets advice,
and he's like he mentions that he's still a black dog who wants bites,
never lets go. So as that's the second time we've had a reference to
like Jet being a very persistent cop. Yeah, okay, is there a
way to mute her? Yes? Really? Between the Wedgies and Tenacious Sea
and Losing hope, Losing hope, Uda tries to contact the European Syndicate,
but they are like who never heard of you? No, and don't want
nothing to do with you, and they put the phone down and then Jet
takes off in his ship just as the inmates basically spot a heat source coming
out from Jets and Fads ship, and a firefight begins. Jet draws Tusk
Tucan's fire and uses the grappling hook to guide his pod to a door.
Another inmate gets in a spacesuit and fires a rocket launcher from an open airlock
to hit to aiming at fad ship, but he's this person is hit by
a ship crashing into him basically, which is like, sucks to be my
friend. Tucan decides that he needs to leg it, but he can't get
out because the ship that crashed in it's just like in the way. Jet
and would I meet in a dark hallway and begin exchanging gunfire. I don't
really like this fight. Yeah, it feels feels kind of nasty. Yeah,
desperation to it. Fad manages to reach the ship's cockpit and kills the
and the killed ex police captain. He loads his revolver with one bullet.
Jet and are fighting hand to hand with would I, speed and skill,
giving him the upper hand of the Jet. He shoots that Jet, who
stops a bullet with his prosthetic arm, And then I didn't know you could
do that. I didn't know the arm could do that. Yeah you can.
You should give it a try je. It's cool because the way they
frame it, you really think, like, oh fuck, Jet just got
nailed. Then the reveal of the so good very Coola throws a knife into
Jet's leg and realizes that a Jet wasn't aware of what happened all those years
ago, seven years ago. He starts to talk about the night and he
explains that this is a night in the flashback. He explains that he's he
wasn't the shooter. He says that the whole thing, the sting, was
a setup to get rid of Jet because he was a threat to syndicate and
his friend Fad was on the payroll. Can I what was Lind's reaction at
this point? She went his friend? The reaction, Yeah, I guess
it was a little a little mixed up with like motives here at this point,
right because I'm like, no, I mean, I know they explain
it, but I was just sort of like, well, okay, so
this whole thing that Fad was doing was like Fad was like trying to like
snuff out Jet once and for all, like like was that, like I
know, they kind of touch on that a little bit and then Das just
like caught up in it. Yeah, I think it's just like tying up,
right, So do you get the feeling? So you think it was
fads, So modern day fads idea to tie up Jet and all this.
I just think, like all these circumstances they are very separate but intertwined,
and it's like, no, I I kind of with you, Like there
is a amount of like, Okay, what was what was Fad trying to
achieve by getting in contact with Jet for this bounty case? Well maybe it
was like guilt though, you know, or or well, so what happens.
First ud I escapes the prison ship first, Yeah, and that's what
that. And then Fed is triggered by that sees an opportunity to recruit Jet
to attempt to quote unquote put Udai back in jail, but is going to
use this moment they have a phone call and he's like, yeah, the
rules have changed. So yeah, yeah, I guess, Okay, I
guess that's I guess from FAD's perspective. If Udai is running loose and knows
the truth, that's risky, okay, Right, So he's trying to kill
two birds one still a little bit here. Oh there you go, you're
back in how do I unmute her? Yeah, it's right, click,
same way. Then, as as he reveals that it was a Fad who's
showne the flashlight or flood light at Jet and then fire the shot, Udai
is shot and killed instantly and by Fad, who manages to arrive just in
the nicke of time. Jet's furious and demands to know if Uda was telling
the truth. Fad explains that people who go against the syndicate usually lose.
He then points his gun at Jet and cocks it, but as he pulls
the trigger, Jet dives for his own gun and fires at Fad. After
a moment frozen in time, Fad falls to the ground. Jet checks FAD's
gun and finds it to be empty except for one spent round, the one
that he used to shoot Udai. As Fad as dying, he asked Jet
for a cigarette, saying they couldn't quite quit after all, and then the
is sp reinforcements around the ship as Jet places FAD's gone in his hand and
limps away, making it look like he killed Udai and Udai killed him.
Yes, there are no fingerprints in the future. Also for them, it's
true. Were there beneath future people. Yeah, one bullet in the chamber.
Humph fad, Like you really were just sort of like that's okay,
Like I guess everything is very dramatic, Like he didn't intend to kill him,
that's the point. But he intended to kill you die. Yeah,
so that was his goal. Yes, he wanted to be confused out the
one bullet thing. Yeah, like what like exactly if we just finished understanding
would he plan to accomplish here? That doesn't really explain why he would then
load his rev one bullet, yeah, Gill. Yeah, so it's a
he went into a murder suicide situation. He wanted to get rid of Udai
obviously because either his own reasons or like the Syndicate ship whatever. But then
his idea of atonement was letting Jet have his revenge or yeah maybe yeah,
or maybe he went into it thinking that he could fuck Jet over again.
And then I just I just have that line where Jets like you knew I'd
something something, but yeah, like Jeff, I'm with you a little bit,
like I do think like, no, I do love this episode.
Yeah, there's a certain amount of like chaff around the edges with some of
that stuff that I kind of find it a little difficult to parse. You
just want to get that sweet, sweet sweet, none of that chaff.
Yeah. So when I say when I say chaff, I always I didn't
know it was from we I was talking about the grenades from I was,
yeah, I was gonna say. I didn't realize they were grenade and mel
giar solid until I played it last year, and then yeah, chaff grenade.
Yeah, that was one the first exposure to a chaff grenade, just
like a Mandela effect. Once I saw chaff grenade in metal gear, started
seeing chaff grenades everywhere. That's bottom line half. That's not Oh no,
Mandela effect is when you have like Berenstein Barns. Yeah, yeah, Nelson
Mandela died in prison. Yeah yeah, Bazre. The next episode is h
Mushroom Samba, which is mushroom Samba. We come, I will, Okay,
I get My mom missed the real folk Blues because the washing machine finished
and she went and hung up my my stuff because I'm sick thirty two years
old. That's cool, and so she made Did she catch it at the
end of this one? She did, but I did. I did give
her the rundown of what to expect and she was very excited for it.
Is it weird? I have this as my wake up alarm? Yes,
a little bit. Yeah, it's a full song, that's the problem.
So like most of the time, if her alarm is working properly, all
your hairs and then you're hitting it. Yep, yep, that's all.
It's all I need, That's all I need. It was for a while
Green Hills Pinballs House, m m m me, Green Hill Zone by John
Batiste off version. Okay, yes, but at the piano soothing version,
which is like a loved like a song is a wake up call? Yeah?
Mine used to be sex Laws by Beck Yeah. If you, if
you have an Android phone, this is not just for you. It's for
the world to know. You can set a Spotify song as your wake up
along. I know that sounds what I'm doing tonight. Most on Earth for
separate platforms to work together in harmony. But this is a thing we are
all doing and have been doing for over a decade. I have I have
an Amazon device, and so yeah I can, I said, just like
a regular alarm. But then I have like a little routine where I'll say
good morning and then it goes good morning, Lucy. Here's your daily news
briefing, and here's the weather, and here's your playlist. It's like,
great, it's my little morning lovely. Yeah, I mean, you don't
care about you do a good like robot assistant voice. Put it, you
do a good robot assistant. She does the TikTok voice really well, right,
or you made it sound like you've got an Amazon phone. She no,
I just didn't want to. I didn't want to say her name lest
some of our listeners be activated. Remember the time when Aaron Paul was turning
everyone's xboxes off? Yeah right, I could have sworn you had a good
TikTok robot voice. Maybe five things I do every morning to glow up.
Yeah, that's very good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I
mean, all women sound the same, so I'm not surprised. Well,
that's not what we're saying here, that's what you said. But you know,
the thoughts and opinions of one to more that of Jeff Jasper's our adventure
dude, Twitter. I mean, I know we have nineteen minutes to finish,
but Twitter this week has basically literally been name a woman on games,
and so you know, name, name a woman, name a woman.
As if you could name one woman from they'd be able to find herself without
any fool or food at preparing things. I mean, I feel like if
you don't have anything to begin with, it's hard to prepare for emergencies.
Yeah, the four people who already have their ship together and anything, I
mean, we haven't seen her alive. We haven't seen them have a single
windfall this entire time. So I don't know. I think I think they've
cashed in one bounty. It was like four Yeah, it was like three
thousand dollars. They did give them like a good two in a row,
where like it seemed like a couple of million woolongs. Yeah, but like
didn't they spend it immediately on something else? She's like, I wanted in
cash. I don't care if I have to to take half of it pay
for that. Like she's like, I just need to gamble. Actually,
if you remember correctly, it was because she needed to pay off her her
gambling debt, the debt that she inherited from being swindled and grifted. Oh
that's right. You feel bad for your words and deeds now, huh so
much? But I understand that I can be wrong, so it's okay,
Well you scared my cowaway, so you're in trouble forever. I feel good
about that. Every member of the crew is hungry, and they're blaming each
other for a special box that was hidden away that someone ate. Jet was
like, I put this away for very very emergency moments and someone ate this?
Who ate this? And they were were playing dumb. I love what
they forced Jet to be a dad, you know, yeah, yeah,
yeah, And then Jets like, we just need to hold out and they've
got no field, but the trajectory there on will carry their ship into Europe,
but just by drifting there. Spike is like, maybe I'll just eat
Iron, but Phase like I didn't like that. I didn't like that at
all. No, and Phase like, you should watch your ass because Iron
is probably thinking the same thing about you, which is quite funny. Edward
remembers that there's a peanut in a pocket, so it's like, I want
to eat this instead the others catch the I see the peanut coming out of
the pocket and there's like a At that exact moment, the Bebop's hit by
a ship, causing them to drop the peanut, and Iron just munches the
peanut and gets on with life. The Jet tries to yeah, one peanut,
that's good. Jet tries to contact the ship to figure out what happened,
but the driver flies away without saying anything. So that's a bit of
a hit and run in space, and they realize that after being hit,
their ship is now drifting off course. But they come crashing down on a
planet the surface of is it ile? I don't know, just pronounce it.
I think it's how you pronounce it. Yeah, yeah, every all
the members are a bit like what the hell's going on? Everything is a
mess on the ship because of the crash landing, but everyone's fine. Jet
wants Fae to cook some food, but as she he's like, you go
find some food, and as she says that, as he says that,
she suddenly has an extreme pain in her stomach and has to run away.
At that moment, Iron a good little reveal, feel like equally convincing in
why didn't eat it? Yeah? And yeah, I love it. At
that moment, Iron comes strolling in and has a box or the box of
rations in his mouth, the empty one, and then Jet takes it and
picks it up and looks at it and realizes that the rations were a year
out of date and says, man, I'm lucky that I didn't eat this,
and then notes that Fee obviously ate the rations and now she's paying the
price for Jet and Spike start to fix up the ship, but they're interrupted
by Edward, who's just being a pest and getting in a way, and
they're like, go and find some food. Edward takes Iron and heads out
of the ship to being in a food finding adventure. They just like kind
of run around in the in the desert for a little while, rolling around
and being weird. They they look at cacti and that kind of shit and
trying to assess up for food and doesn't work out. As they're about to
leave, a ship flies over them and it's the same ship that hit and
run them earlier. So convenient. Yeah. Edward is like, I'm going
to go to this ship and figure out what happened there. Obviously not quick
enough. Edward loses his trailer of the ship and then looks around to find
out where where she is and not if there's a watermelon truck there in the
distance. Ed asks the man who's at the water melon truck to give the
watermelon, but since she hasn't she has no money, he refuses. Then,
justin a woman named Coffee shows up. She looks like she's rolling in
it. She's got a nice car. She hops out. She looks like
she's super well dressed, and she buys a watermelon and then gives it.
Seems like she has her shit together. Yeah, yeah, that a great
voice. Actor. Yeah, She's buys the watermelon for herself and then says
he hands the guy at the stand a picture and says, if you see
this person, let me know and I'll make it worth for you. A
while while that's happening, ed and I'm jump in the truck of her car
secretly, and she doesn't realize. Coffee gets back in her car and goes
on her way, and she pulls up at a gas station where two police
officers are waiting, and they ask her if they've heard of a man named
Domino Walker, who is the exact same person she was looking for, and
she's like, I'm looking for that same person and they're like, oh,
you're a cowboy. The cops then are like, we want to search your
car anyway to see if there's any clues there or any instance that any indication
that she knows Domino. So she's like, yeah, whatever, And they
open the trunk and find ed and Iron in there, which is a problem.
They're sleeping, they've been chilling in there, and they arrest Coffee and
take the police station. And while they're resting Coffee, ed and I just
leg it and sneak away. Edward then stumbles into a town where she sees
Uh, Domino Walker finishing a sandwich is the guy that everyone's looking for.
Edward kind of chases him down to try and get the last bit of his
sandwich, but isn't in time, doesn't make it in time, and then
a man named Shaft appears and he's like dragging a coffin and he tries to
stop Domino. Crazy. This was crazy, Like I just yeah. This
is where like the point of the episode comes into focus where it's like this
shopman Shaft is like, you kill my brother. He died after he ate
some mushrooms that he bought from you. And then Domino's like, that wasn't
my faults A Shaft was that his gun? And Domino runs for it and
as he's running away, he's like dropping mushrooms on the ground. Iron runs
up and eats one of the mushrooms a little bit where the he's like,
I've dragged his coffin around because put you in it. I'd laughing at it.
That's great. Yeah, Ed is like getting mad at Iron saying that
I need to share when I just starts doing this funny like hop back and
forth. Oh my god. This this is the first time I uncontrollably laughed
out loud at this show. I really want that was like a little gift
or something, just a bit like he's just popping around fucked up out of
his mind, like he's just like buying, buying, buying, buying.
I lost it. So he's completely silent as well, he's not like sounds
like just perfect, Like that dog is not even making eye contact with anything.
It's just going through the wormhole and like I fucking loved it. Oh
my god. So the mushrooms are bad and they are making more good prone
trip out. Yeah, and it is still trying to figure out whether they're
edible for humans or not. So goes back to the ship and tests the
effects of the mushroom on everyone on the ship by putting it on a table
outside and just letting them one by one come and be like, oh a
mushroom, I'll take this because they're so hungry. I love the trip out
sequences here. They're actually, yeah, be well done. They are really
good because they're not like psychedelic shit. It's just normal stuff. Everyone on
the ship eats one and they all do like one hiccup and then like do
then start having these hallucinations. Face hallucination starts off in the bathroom where she
flushes a toilet and then the water starts filling up the room, and the
water apparently fills the room so high that she's completely submerged underwater and there's fish
there and there's hundreds of fish swimming around, and it cuts to outside view
and she's just swimming in an empty room, like doing the swimming motion in
an empty room, which is very funny. Spike's hallucination begins as he's walking
up the steps of the ship. Four steps in he sees the steps kind
of like multiply and turn into an endless stairway and he's walking up it slowly
and then stumbles upon a frog, which is very Yeah, the frogs just
like this is the stairway to Heaven? Are you all right with that?
And the Spike is like whatever, yep, I'm gonna walk it. And
then it cuts to what is actually happening, and it's Spike just stepping up
and down on the same step or over and over, so he's not moving
anyway. He's just lifting his legs up and down, which I thought was
really funny. Jets hallucination involves his Bonzie tree talking to him. He's like
having a long conversation with these trees, and he's like laughing and having a
back and forth with them. And he's also like talking about the meaning of
the universe with a Bonzie tree, which is kind of would would like a
yeah, I feel like it's a good thing because people come to Bonzie trees
for like to relax on peace and to understand things. So like asking at
you wouldn't want to talk to like a like a fern or something like that.
No, no, exactly. They just be like, well, you
know, I think if you just try your best, you just like,
oh I have They say that you should talk to your plants, right.
I used to talk to my monster all the time, and it was it's
like it's like a thing for you, not for them. I mean like
it was thriving great. I mean, I mean Lucy has it now,
So I do the plants in my place, I think genuinely. So when
I lived with Greg and Jen Miller, Greg obviously was doing like podcasting the
kind of funny all day every day of the desk, and I was just
list the rubber plants doubled in size, and we genuinely wonder if it was
because it was gregs plants are weird, like they do get like stimulation from
a bunch of things you wouldn't think, and like voice and contact as well.
How do you feel about that, Jeff All, I just need to
like see more concrete evidence about that. This is all I think. Maybe
there's a correlation between talking to your plants is probably a sign that you give
a shit about them so you take care of them as well. So I
wonder, like how much that's connected, But I'll believe it if they're science
that backs it up. Sure, man didn't almost have the most awful experience
with you, just horrible thing to say. What do you mean, Tamothy,
I mean like he's just out there sucking the funn out of everything.
Like he doesn't even he didn't even get a chance to believe in Father Christmas
because Jeff was right in there, and also because he's Jewish. Number one.
Number two. Uh, it's not even like a thing where like,
oh, my dad won't even let me talk to plants because that's not the
real thing. No, of course not. He's allowed to allowing your son
to talk to plants. Yeah, Jeff kind of like sits there at the
Magicians show, just like whispering to Dylan. Well, no, actually,
you know he's extra cards. All I do is lie to him. Number
one. Okay, that is the way. Okay. He still thinks Santa
is possibly real. He still thinks the tooth Fairy is possible. He thinks,
you know, and like again, you know, I just let him
answer his own questions. He says, that is it can it? Is
it possible that this? I said, Yeah, do you think there's like
some guy who like visits eight billion people? Like do you in one?
Like is that a thing you think could happen? And your son, like,
I guess not. I know. I'm allowing him to, uh,
you know, think critically, and I'm allowing him. One day is going
to find Dylen's diary and read it and just find all the devastating things today
that October first, another idea. I feel my imagination slowly dimming. I
may never be creative ever again. Father hasp daydream Father continues to stifle me.
Yes, yep, that's the goal here. After Jet's hallucination and he
finds that he's like smearing lipstick on his face, just having a nice time,
you know, presumably that facal face lipstick, but I enjoyed that.
Yeah. Ed sees the mushrooms aren't safe for human consumption, having deduced that
everyone's trip in balls. But that's no. They are like, that's why
people want them. Yeah, that's why other people want them, but like
they can't eat them for like nourishment. Yeah. Yeah. They watch Big
Shot and they see Domino Walker featured as the bounty, and Ed's like,
oh that' saw that guy. I'm gonna go out and capture him and then
use the money for food. So they packed up their stuff, jump out,
grab a scooter, and jump out of the ship and go on to
find their bounty. They don't find him immediately. They like attract a lot
of attention from Coffee and Shaft who's like in a in a police station and
theyre like, oh quickly the police officer is distracted and Coffee us this opportunity
to leave. Ed eventually finds hit and run ship and walkers inside growing mushrooms
and immediately use stinky gas on him to subdue him. And then there's a
whole like set piece moment on a train where all three a shaft ed,
Domino, and Coffee are all trying to get each other. This eventually winds
up winning good because Iron bites one of the bags and kind of like makes
him stumble and knocks him off the train a fall down, and there's a
train train comes back to a stop right in front of a cow who's on
the track, which is quite funny, and Domino Walker convinces Ed to take
the bag of mush which are worth a hundred thousand were long each, and
Ed decides to do it. Iron runs up to the cow and says thanks
for the assist, and the cows like anytime, which is rightly so funny.
It wasn't so I was watching on crunchy roll and I didn't have such
on and it didn't have the thing, and so yeah, I pused it.
To read it, and I was like, what was I say?
And yeah, it's just like I used Google Translate, which is included in
every Android. I could take a photo of a thing and it just translates
to jog. You can download on your fucking iPhone to I'm sure you can.
That sounds cute and really a real thing. But I fucking and I
got and I laughed at that and I was like, yes I could.
I was able to appreciate that. That was a great moment. Thank you,
Tam for I wanted the pocket of Google. You know, big Google,
big big alphabet, big Google, big Googi, you know, twenty
years or soth Goog. Back near the ship, the like hanging out,
and then a cop appears and is like looking for Domino Walker and talking about
like mushrooms and stuff like that, and they're like, hmm, can I
take a look at those mushrooms? Just want to check it. And everyone's
like, oh god, what was about to happen here, because obviously they've
had bad experience with mushrooms and so they're like, oh shit, this is
drug mushrooms. And the cop finds that there's nothing wrong with the mushrooms.
They're just very this is just a lot of chittaki mushrooms. Domino gave them
the ringer. Yep, and then that Domino. You got to watch them,
You got to watch them. That night they eat mushrooms, and it
seems like they continue to eat mushrooms for an extending period of time. Everyone
gets super piste off a cod Yeah. I would never get sick of mushrooms
like that. I fucking love mushrooms so much. And then I think I
have a complicated relationship with mushrooms. I can unpack that. Yeah, you
can unpack that. Yeah, Iron at the end eats the mushroom and then
there's a hiccup, like one of them there's clearly some bad ones in there,
or or Iron is just like he's just jones in for another fix of
that psychedelic mushroom. He wants to be back in the sauce there. He's
seen the universe's secrets exactly. He needs to go back. And that brings
that brings another episode of Cowboy Bebup to an end. He's a great He's
a great, delightful, delightful pair of episodes. Yeah, they were fantastic
fun. Next week we'll be doing two more episodes, which are called Speak
Like a Child and Wild Horses, were rapidly in the end of the next
next episode. Sorry, I'm not working next week. I'm in on holiday.
Goodbye. Yeah yeah, I mean yeah. So two weeks time we'll
be back doing another two episodes. In the meantime, John working, people
find you. You can find me a variety of places this week. Let's
say which TV boards slash supercal for his stream most Friday Afternoon, slash nice
fading away into nothing? See where can beep? Foining you on holiday?
So don't find me. I'm gonna be go to the Reichs Museum. Speaking
of mushrooms, go to the Van Hawk Museum. Uh. I think we're
going to the Sex Museum. And we're going to go to a spa.
It's gonna be lovely. Don't find me for you, for you. I
love it so it's amazing. Jeff, what about you. I'm at Jeff
Backlar. Please just hit me up and have a normal conversation with me sometimes.
Please Thank you, And I'm out to more headshow and we will see
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