 It's Wednesday July 22nd 2020 I'm rim. I'm Scott and this is Geek Nights tonight We are talking about the post-adventure time Continuing adventure time adventure time distant lands episode one Beemo Yeah, there's four people watching Boy people got a got a thing of the day or not a thing of the day an opening bit of some kind. I Don't want to talk about biking again talk about Fruit we got some fruit. I guess I got a little bit of fruit if you start with fruit I got some fruit follow-up. That's what got some fruit Because I also got some fruit. All right. All right, you can start anytime start with your fruit bit All right So, you know, it's it's that time of the year when certain fruits are in season Oh, the stone fruits the melons That's right So we've been getting so so the last time we ordered some fruit to be delivered right because first of all in New York City You know, you can get any kind of fruit, but most of the if you go to the grocery to buy fruit Usually it's not the highest quality perfect timed fruit. It's usually like unripe to rye. Yeah, not local, right? You can get some good stuff at the farmers market You can get some good stuff actually in Chinatown or really fresh direct is usually really good about that Because they actually tell you how good the fruit is and they're they're crazy stingy with that five-star Kinda but you know, so we got some we got some fresh direct fruits, right? So last time our fresh direct fruits We got we're like, we don't know which fruit's gonna be good Let's get a couple yellow peach and also some doughnut. Well, how many stars were on that website? That's the key Whatever we got so we got two regular peach and four doughnut peach and they all showed up and they were all Kind of hard, right? Yeah, and so we waited a little bit till they were perfect and we ate them right away Oh, they became perfect. This was not the story of they went from hard to blackened No And then the doughnut ones what got perfect to be ate those right away Yeah, we decided the yellow ones were a little bit better than the doughnut ones We also got a tiny watermelon and we got a really good tiny watermelon the other day So the tiny watermelon was okay But then after it was is better like an after cutting it open and letting it be in the fridge for a day or two We left ours in the fridge for a couple weeks and when we finally cracked it open It was just it was one of the better watermelons I've had like not top 10, but definitely We only had our sit around for maybe less than a one week before we opened it. Anyway, so so we order some more We're like, okay, we like the yellow peach better Let's order four yellow peach instead of two and no doughnut peach and let's order some You know cut up watermelon because you're lazy. That's fair. So the Cut up watermelon comes in four separate plastic containers. It's like why is it? We ordered the minimum amount so it's like you what should the minimum amount be one of these containers Because I can order like a quarter pound of deli meat from them And they will send me this tiny package with like two slices of meat Right exactly and then so the peaches right so we had ordered yellow peaches and we got two normal-sized ones Right and that was the right so we ordered four and we ordered the exact same thing on the website We checked it was like a reorder. It was the exact same item, right yellow peach, whatever, right? They sent us four enormous ones Bigger than an orange like huge peaches so big I couldn't even eat a whole one I had to like let's like cut it in half and like split it up when it finally got soft, right? So we've eaten three of the four, but it's like if I knew that they were gonna be this big You should have cobbled made some cobbler But yeah, we had to basically you know again though They sent them to us hard and we I basically every day I would wake up and poke them No, and then it's it that I think it was two days ago. It was like oh eat them now You know, we did that we got a bunch of black plums in a Food today and every day in the morning. I'd open the fridge I'd poke every black plum and as soon as one of them was squishy. I ate it instantly Okay, but the weird thing is they came in a group of four and they like ripened on like four different non-consecutive days Oh, that's raining a whole bunch of suddenly. Oh, yeah, there's a big storm coming It's gonna be storms and crap all weekend looks like okay. Oh, I wanted a bike this week I might just bike anyway. It's scattered storms. You can get away with it The thing is that he waves still going it's not gonna cool off at night. It's it's like 95 during the day and like 79 No, no, no, it says here Saturday 75 to 89 clear and Sunday 79 to 94 That is a radical change from what I was looking at literally a little while ago trying to plan a bike ride It also says rain through Friday though It's a Friday or super early on Friday like 2 a.m. This the rain will stop I see Friday scattered thunderstorms in the morning. All right. Yeah, and then Friday evening Saturday Sunday looks good All right, so I'm gonna do some biking for anyway Yeah, but Sunday is gonna be 95 degrees heat at the index of 104 So the point is right as shitty as Florida is for just about everything I still remember when I went to Florida and we went to this place near my grandma's house called the boys Market you told me this story like ten times, but it's like the fruit It's like the mango story every fruit there was so cheap and and always just like perfect and incredibly delicious It's like well like when I was in Thailand and I grabbed a banana I've been into it and my mouth just said whatever this is. You've never had a banana like this. This is the god banana It's like every but like they didn't have we I guess they did have weird fruits there But I what we were just buying normal fruits cantaloupe Yeah, well, I go to Costa Rica like I remember like I always had like mangos But the first time I was in Costa Rica and I ate a mango that had been like recently just picked That was a transcendent experience. I think back to that mango Right, why can't we just fucking ship it faster? Well if climate change gets bad novel just grow them here Well, but sure that'd be good, but I'm good in some way That is definitely a silver lining on a on a fire That's a fire cloud the thing is we have Apple here Apples are thing and we go and a lot of times you go eat apple right off a tree And it's sometimes it's not that good. Yeah apples are pretty variable unless you get like particularly good apples But the particularly good apples that the truth of the universe that I've learned as I became older is that? The better the product of a plant tastes the more fiddly that plant is and the more care and effort in nonsense You have to do to make it not die and to make it produce the thing you want I just want to remind everybody though that also in addition to fruit right now is the time of corn So the thing about corn is like you can make Incredibly delicious meal that is like easier than like some crappy microwave food Just get yourself a fucking ira corn right take the ira corn remove the husk husk that shit Yeah, right cut that shit in half if you need to because in case it's too long and don't fit in your pot Right boy a little bit put some salty ass water in the pot Not so potato level but like put a bunch of salt in there put a bunch of salt in that water boil that shit Put the corn in that boiling water for literally five minute like exactly five minute Then just take the corn out put butter on and eat it That's all you got to do and is fucking delicious corn and you feel like you cooked Yeah, and now is the only time you can do that because if you wait too long it won't be good corn There'll be shitty a corn. Yeah, I mean you can even eat that corner raw and it's pretty good I've eaten raw corn off the cob Sweet corn I do like it wrong with that corn raw corn cop Old dirty rim like Wow that just evoked Adam Sandler ask high school memories That was a very Adam. We that was a very Listening to Adam Sandler when you're like 14 and a freshman in high school So there is a bunch of anime news actually but the one you're probably all gonna be interested in is a Gretsuko Yeah, so a Gretsuko for some reason Netflix had a season one And then they had a season two and it's like oh look at that one and season two was just like better done like they just I didn't watch it, but I was planning to watch it. It's so it's got an Elon Musk character in it Oh, are they the bad guy? It's complicated watch your show great The point is Surprise this actually was a surprise. I thought a Gretsuko was done for nope season three. It's coming Well, I heard it's gotten a lot like it's a pretty good show like it's not great, but I like it I watched all of it. I'll keep watching it But and and generally like anime fans like like it to a degree, but they're not like going crazy over it They're not like getting tattoos of it like they do attack on titan or whatever the flavor I do somewhere. I'm sure but not not the weeb level more like I see a lot of people who don't watch a lot of anime But just watch Netflix like people who don't even really think about anime Getting really into this show because it's got a perfectly good dub It's just on Netflix and a lot of what goes on in the show really speaks to The kinds of problems that a lot of people run into in their actual offices It is a combo there, right? So no, you know, it's not like Detroit Metal City, which is you know, the the The unexpected characters into is as a death metal person, right? But it's you know, it's office humor plus Right, it gets all the layers in a great to go. We did a show on a great to go You can go do it. Yeah, we did it I don't know if anything in that show and if anything in that episode. I said it was any good You are not into that show and that review like you were really down on a great to go I don't remember at all Because I may I took the review itself out of the whole Geek Nights episodes and made a YouTube video that I Haven't published yet as part of that pipeline with the standalone reviews and I noticed the review was only like nine and a half minutes long So I went to listen and it's basically you being like, yeah, great to go in that good I don't know if I'll even watch the rest of it. Why have the end I can review it from one episode Okay, that's also true is that Anyway, I There is something else that I want to say about some Netflix anime, right? So we did an episode on the not so great ghost in the shell 2045 Yep, so one person tried to come at me and say that the writing is just as good as standalone complex And we're just hating on it because of the animation Whatever that person said is wrong. I disagree with that. That I did watch all of the show. Whoa. Whoa. Wait wait. Why? Because I had I was like I was I was thinking there and I was like, you know what this thing really isn't that long All right, it's only 12 episodes true Maybe something out of it like I've already watched a third of it I bet no one else has watched a third of it as it has watched all of it, right? I can see there's a point you make there too The show even if it's bad if it has even like the bareest glimmer of some of the parts I like from standalone complex the juice might be worth the squeeze. Oh It's not no So, you know, I was like, hey, maybe if I watched to the later episodes, right? I was thinking maybe there'll be something so ridiculous there that I could post it on the internet and because no one else has seen it Cuz no one's posted anything but the naked guy back flipping backwards up the stairs. So yeah, that's in an early episode That's be crazier than that So here's so I can tell you that basically the rest of the show is, you know, basically once they get back to You know Japan they make section 9 and it becomes much more episodic, you know, trying to find the whatever They are called. I don't even remember, you know the fortnight players and what I that show Yeah, the people with the super the super strong, you know transhuman people, right? Oh, yeah The ones they find like aren't nearly as strong as that first one that like that first one They found the naked guy was like super dangerous, right? The ones they go after after they get back to Japan are like not even remotely is that doesn't work standalone complex Part of why it was good was that the threat they were facing was like an entire government and military they introduce a character who is basically like a very anime like Character who like state in the in the office and like works the Tajikomas and does computer stuff and makes mischief and whatever It's an annoying character. Yeah What I do want to tell you is that the episode Someone told me. Oh, you got it episode 7 episode something about episode 7 so episode 7 is basically the only episode with any glimmer of Ghost in the Shell standalone complex quality, right? So here's what happens in episode 7 is that it's basically Bato is going back to Japan on a plane alone ahead of everyone else He's going back first, right? All right, and it's a little helicopter ride and in the helicopter ride is the introduction of that annoying characters But it's brief so you can see what that annoying character is, right? Get a little bit of anoculate yourself Right get a little taste so you know what they're that that character is going to be a prominent character in the show going forward And then they leave and they're not in the rest of the episode So you you can just get that information and the rest of the episode is Bato goes to the bank to deposit slash launder his illicit games Other people have told me about this episode from mercenary work, right? And someone else Tries to rob the bank and the whole episode is Bato trapped in the bank With the old people who are the only ones who go to the bank anymore And the bank robbers that feels a lot like Aramaki's seller kind of episode It is a very or the Pachinko parlor episodes It is exactly like that kind of episode, but only Bato's in it. So I'm not sure that episode right if you have not watched goes in the shell 2045 all you need to know is that all the characters were in the US doing mercenary work and they're now on their way back to make section 9 again and Bato is going to the bank with his money that he made being a mercenary And you don't need any other information to understand this episode And you don't need in this episode will also not make you curious about any of the overall plot of this whole 12 episode thing because it's a standalone episode. Oh standalone you say so Indeed is the annoying character that pink haired Purin is a key Yes, okay because when I googled for SAC 2045 episode 7 just to see some screenshots while having this conversation What immediately comes up is this meme that shows that character with an X through their face And it just says no more Purin is a key society has progressed past the need for Purin is a key I Feel like anime has progressed past the need for this kind of character in a show It is a very it feels like a very 90s anime Annoying cute sidekick that gets a bunch of over sexualized merch character Uh, she's not sexualized in the show. She'll be sexualized in the merch. I guarantee I'm sure she will be but It's basically like yeah, she's this super smart girl But she has a very you know anime personality stereotypical anime. Yay personality, right? Yeah, I think anime has progressed past the need for that. Yes So there you go. So speaking of a show that I watched I mentioned this a couple times So I was watching it with Emily but Kipo and the age of Wonder Beasts The it's not just on Netflix like we're just kind of watching it between all the other shows we're watching But we finished it. There's two seasons out. We watched them both all the way to the end and the show is Definitely worth watching. It's a DreamWorks television animation. It's aimed at kids It starts out kind of like Shiraz a like super kids show But it actually does a much more complex plot than I expected like What's the deal with the burrows and the humans underground and like But all I'm not gonna spoil anything but for a kid's show This went way further and way darker than I would have ever expected and also the vast majority of the human characters That get any screen time are not white There's like no white people in this show that's nice and Otherwise like if you haven't checked this show out This is the last I'm gonna speak about it because I've mentioned it several times along the way Having seen the end of season two. They have definitely set up a season three But they have also answered all the questions you had from season one and two So if there never was a season three, you're not gonna be tearing your hair out trying to figure out what the deal was with anything I notice a lot of Netflix shows are following that pattern of Wrap up your plot and leave room for another season But don't guarantee another season most recently B&A did that yep dragon prince did that the dragon prince seems to always do that Yeah, with one exception dragon prince did not answer shit about what's the deal with their dad in that bird that escaped They just like drop that thread Really, I mean it was so obvious that the dad is in the bird Yep, and they just drop that it's so heavily It's like Chekhov's gun and then like someone sneaks on stage and steals the gun and then the play ends I'm mad. I just want all I want it was dad bird Yeah, because also that dad is pretty hot and probably my foreshadowed it just let it let it go Yeah, let them learn magic and take the dad out of the bird and put him in a new body Come on. Yep, or does that come back and like show up again to the show right? They go to the dragons the dragons, you know, they make friends with them Then the dragons help them get dad out of the bird. Yeah, come on That's what I want anyone keep us worth watching and all I gotta say is you think you know what the deal is with these humans And it is not what you think and it's pretty good what the actual story is All right, that's nice some other news I think we mentioned this before too, but the virtual crunchy roll expo is coming up September 4th through 6th We will be doing a panel at it probably a like highly evolved new form of our judge anime panel Not aimed at like you the listener who know the deal with us But at people who don't necessarily know about us because we haven't really been going to anime cons for So many years now for a lot of reasons this will actually be our first anime con since I think 2014 Maybe 2015 at the latest Maybe yeah, I had to go like dust off anime Actually, I find that I just the thing of the day I said you will be used as a thing of the day, but I just remembered a better thing of the day Oh, yeah, yeah, that's got a better thing of the day sneaking it in right before it's time for The things of the day. All right, Scott. I'm not even gonna look at the link until after we record the show All right, so, you know you go to anime con when we did that Yeah back in the day and you go to everyone's favorite place the dealership Yep, and there's certain kinds of dealers than the dealers there's the one booth selling just a pile of cells And there's a bunch of old people looking at those cells that are all like $500 each, right? There's the booth. It's just selling manga walls of manga Yeah, there's the booth that has like old broken crap and then discount bins full of VHS tapes under it Yep DVD guy right nothing, you know, there's the sword the sword booth just your sword booth, right? And you know, there's a certain kind of booth, right? That sometimes is not even a booth usually it's more often it go to a standalone anime store That's been around a long time, right where they've got the old stuff, right? We're talking like, you know old dusty Godzilla figurines You know that kind of booth the kind that's the kind of booth where you won't buy anything But you'll spend a lot of time looking at that booth and they'll have like an actual Akira t-shirt from the 80s for a hundred bucks Yeah, and shit like that, right that kind of booth well, it's more like a museum Exactly, but I found I'm sure this has been around for a long time and I just didn't know about it There is a store called kimono my house toys They're and I guess their Instagram and their eBay site are basically their website and Basically, that's what they are is they are the Super old dusty anime merch lots of Gundam lots of Ultraman lots of Godzilla lots of You know lots of galaxy express Yamato Captain Harlock's Astro Boy all you know the old stuff, right? That's the kind of stuff that they got at that store. That's my kind of stuff, right, you know Don't buy any of that stuff No, no, no Well, you can go to their eBay and buy it because I presume their store is not open to that many customers these days But just follow them, you know peruse their Instagram account to get that experience of Going to one of those booths add an anime con since you can't go to anime con right now, right? You can get that experience of the old dusty booth and you can maybe even buy stuff if you really want to But you can also just follow them on Instagram and you'll constantly get posts from them as they post photos of their stuff For example, Mr. T wearing an Akira t-shirt Or a whole bunch of pin Akira pins and lendsman pins on a board You know or the San Diego Comic-Con 1992 You know t-shirt or this giant pile of old Disney stickers Who knows if they're still sticky, but I kind of want one All kinds of great stuff on this Instagram from this store. So there you go So this is a Twitter thread, but it's a pretty dense Twitter thread of exactly what you want to see without Any text or anything in the way. It's just a long thread. You can just scroll down and enjoy it is just a whole bunch of photos of Soviet bus stops from all over the Soviet Union and The reason why these are so cool is something I only learned about recently I feel like I've seen these before talked about them on the show before I think we've seen before as they see I've definitely seen some of these before in my life They are familiar to my eyeball. Yeah, I hope I didn't reuse that I did a search and didn't find a thing of the day There was a Kickstarter for a Soviet bus stop book If we talk about we might have talked about that book But basically this is just a archive of all these photos But what I learned from this thread is why Specifically Soviet bus stops are so crazy compared to a lot of other Soviet architecture That's so utilitarian and samey What it came down to is the central government didn't give a shit what bus stops looked like like they didn't care at all So when they told a local area to make bus stops the local area had complete discretion to do whatever they wanted and They tended to get architects who wanted to just go crazy and do something cool And as a result they are so radically different like every area of the Soviet Union has Radically different styles of the things that the central government didn't care about So if you want to find cool stuff on the internet try to find more examples of things that were very important to the Soviet Union But where the government of the Soviet Union did not have any particular? Ideological concerns about the nature of said thing what I find really interesting is that you know you look Historically right and the you know the very Milton Friedman capitalism is freedom people right are always like oh You know if the government is is paying for the art and control in the art It's like you know it's like you won't be able to print any sign you want if the government owns the printing press Right to get the government's paying for the art. You're gonna get A cool bus stop in America like If you look at you know the art that is produced by you know government's paying for it Even if that art is propaganda like Soviet stuff often was yeah, it's often fucking cool The end no matter what country it's an evil country or a good country or anywhere in between right? It's like an artist is paid a living wage to make something. They'll try to do a good job Look at the mosaics you get in like New York City subway stations, right? You know even North Korean shit, which is it at least you know all those propaganda posters look cool Even though they're all you know, it's awful, but it's right. It's like when government pays money You know look at all the Canadian animation the government pays people to make art K-pop is the government paying people to make art, right? They get all k-pop people are getting government money Do you understand how good Geek Nights would be if the government just paid us to make it right? I'm mad if the government was paying Podcasters because they felt that podcasts were an important thing to have and we were getting we like applied for a government thing And they were sending us cash. It's like oh man You would be killing it. Yeah, we were I would start doing a lot of things that I do not do today right, so it's you know any kind of government funded art Is like you know government funding for the arts PVS right come on. It's all good shit Sorry for a little distracted the thunder outside is actually getting pretty intense. I'm watching lightning like hit the buildings in Manhattan Yeah, so it's a good time Good time for a storm. Hopefully doesn't interrupt the stream suddenly All right met a moment. We're stuck at home Can't go anywhere like I said, so stay tuned You'll see us at packs online the magfest online stuff You're gonna see us at the country roll online expo you can see our stuff on the internet We're working on pipelines to make the kind of stuff That's hard to make when we can't get together in person. So stay tuned for all that we are currently not reading the tale of Genji because Don't have a lot of free time don't have a lot of travel time like normally I'd read that book on the bus or the train or the subway, but not going anywhere I'm not gonna read it while I'm biking, you know the excuse is stronger Would you say the same excuse every episode every time? It's just like it works better. Yeah, it's like you keep making a different excuse It's like ah, these are excuses, but then you're just jake There was an earthquake Of geek nights for a year You just keep saying the same reason we haven't read the book club book While we're encouraging other people to read the book club That was a big thunder. I saw the big lightning hit building in L. I see yeah shook our windows a little bit It was a big boy. Yep. I could feel it All right, so yeah all that aside met a moment But one thing I want to bring up because the news I just caught this while I was looking at my thing of the day The federal government in the United States is sending more of those Gestapo stormtrooper things to Chicago like right now So good luck. Good luck Chicago. Yep Chicago. Good luck When they come here, we'll be ready for them. So I hope you guys are ready stay safe out there but I'm gonna link to this news in the episode too because this is escalating rapidly and this is way more important than the nerdy stuff We're about to talk about So the nerdy stuff we're about to talk about Adventure time ended and ended a while ago and ended perfectly like adventure time was a fantastic transformative show that probably will be a cornerstone of like the history of animation in America There's a lot. We've said a lot about adventure time over the years, but it ended it was done No, you know, there's still other adventure time stuff There is technically and yeah, the comics are actually doing that shtick where they're like adventure time season whatever, right? A little bit even though it's a bit corny, but I think they basically gave up on that, right? It's like I think that was a news if I remember like they started it and they're just like yeah, no Yeah, no one bought it. All right But Adventure time continued with there are four episodes HVO max we talked about this being announced a while ago They're four like hourish long brand new episodes longer than a regular episode, but they're not that long They're not even 90 minutes. Yeah, they're like they're like take three or four adventure time episodes that have a continuous plot And just ram them all together They're almost the equivalent of like the island episodes or like all the elemental episodes like those mini series that they did Along the way just condensed into one long episode So it has been revealed that episode one which we find is out. You can watch it as we're gonna talk about It's about BMO the next episode who knows when it's gonna come out It's on it's unannounced is gonna be about princess bubble gum and Marceline. Yeah, it's called obsidian The glass kingdom or something well they on their relationship wall on a mission to the glass kingdom It's basically what you all want what the show didn't get to get to until the very end The third one will what I want the most is peppermint, but oh, yeah school to learn to relearn evil magic In Wizard City Wizard City is my favorite part of adventure time. Oh, yeah, and then the last one is Finn and Jake doing something again, right? So together again as they know what's interesting is this has rediscovered their brotherly bond Implying that something might have broken that bond At some point who knows when in the adventure time time timeline the episode takes place Yes, because not to spoil anything but BMO does not take place when I assumed it took place, right? We assumed okay These episodes are going to take place after the end of the TV show But before the end end of the TV show right because the basically the TV show has epilogues at the end That take place far in the future from the actual like end of the plot of the main characters And you would assume like all four of these episodes are going to take place after the end of the TV show But before the epilogue end of the TV show Especially because we know for a fact obsidian takes play or not obsidian wizard city takes place after Because it is reacting to events from the show sure but anyway That is not necessarily the case as we learned watching this it could take place any time in the adventure time timeline prequel in the middle of the show Anywhere, right? But they are canon adventure time animations That are not ever before seen and that is awesome that they're continuing to make these and they're on HBO Max Yep, I definitely watched it on HBO Max and did not sail a high-sea anywhere I didn't that pain Yeah, all I will say is if if you are not technologically savvy and you Find this show somewhere and your media player tries to tell you to buy a codec Do not do that. Just find a different file. That's all I'm gonna say about that Anyway, but a point is HBO Max does have some good contents on it like it's actually like You know like worth watching maybe if that's if that is the content you like the most, you know It's got studio Ghibli stuff. It's got crunchy network stuff. Obviously, right? It's got it's got bits of the criterion collection. It's got a little stuff It's all kinds of stuff on HBO Max a Barbera Warner Brothers It is not a bad thing to subscribe to if that's the one you're gonna subscribe to but I'm on Netflix right now And I don't do two at a time. Well, dude, I'm on Netflix crunchy roll I just haven't watched any crunchy roll in a long time I should turn it off and turn it out again The problem is they always get this annual crunchy roll to save money and I do use it every year I just don't use it every month every month. I actually use it recently to get screencaps of Anime we've reviewed to make those YouTube videos So it actually is working out so yeah, but you know if you if you want to watch this legally you can pay for HBO Max, I don't know if it's available anywhere else at all HBO Max exclusive if you have television, can you even watch this? No, just cable TV and you watch HBO. No, like will it be on demand on your cable box or I don't think so I think it's only on HBO Max. That's interesting. Anyway, the point is it's adventure time. We watched it Let's talk about what we watch. Yep. We'll avoid spoilers at the very end We can talk a little bit about like our thoughts on what it revealed about the universe, but it is Really really cute because they introduced this rabbit girl character And it's basically this rabbit girl and BMO going around on a space station. That's fallen apart while Tries to destroy it. BMO is out in space on a mission BMO ends up in a different world the world is basically not a planet but a space station sort of platform that has different domes that are connected and the different domes of different habitats in them and Clearly the people on the dome. So there's like crab people and robot people And there's crab people robot people on a people and bunny people and then a whole bunch of like minor races that are also hanging out There all it's definitely like a cosmopolitan space city. Yeah, there's some you know, there's some like Guys monsters. I love the little bug guys. Yeah, all kinds of space shit is going on there, right? And so, you know BMO ends up there Via circumstances and the shenanigans there that he BMO discovers that the people there are like fighting over like You know resources because they're stuck on the station and there's certain rare resources that they're fighting over and BMO gets involved and save in the day because it seems like most of the people there are sort of just Content or compliant with their situation and BMO is like, you know being BMO seeing the injustice and being like yeah For adventure and but it's very interesting to show because usually in adventure time It's fit and Jake or some other characters are the driving powerful forces and BMO is either a cute sidekick or BMO is a catalyst, but they save the day. Obviously there's exceptions to that, but in this case BMO is the catalyst But is also like the mentor driving forward the plot and dragging this other character along It's a different. It's like an inversion of what often happens in adventure time episodes when BMO is involved Yeah, it's like BMO basically, you know C's like, hey, there's some BS going on. Let's fix it. Yeah. Yeah, Pika Kind of literally. Yep Yeah, so you see like this is Sheriff BMO BMO literally was like well I'm the sheriff of this town and I love how a lot of the people BMO meets are just like all right I guess you're the sheriff sure. Yeah, and in typical BMO fashion BMO is simultaneously like playing while also You know not playing, right? Yep I love that duality of BMO all the time BMO is playing games Because BMO is a toy, right? So BMO is about playing. Yep, but BMO is also special for the reasons We know from the show. Yeah, and thus BMO is a literal catalyst for good Yeah, I think if you haven't watched adventure time, I don't know This would I guess you can watch this but you just some things would be lost on you one big one in particular Well, I can think of a couple of big ones that would be lost one I think that is vastly bigger. Yeah. Yeah, but there's also little things like football like That yeah, it's portrayed very well in this and I really like how that played out I think it would still work if you'd never seen adventure time, but it would make you wouldn't you would be like Oh, I guess BMO has an imaginary friend whenever they look in a reflection This is yeah BMO's reflection is named football and BMO talks to it it's like but yeah BMO does that a lot in adventure time football is like a whole character and here they just they don't bother to Introduce football. It's just like there's football. It's like you're it's expect it's written in a way where you're expected to know Football and so I think it's just the fact that she's thrown there It would be might be a little if you didn't know adventure time possibly or maybe not It's not that big a deal to the plot I think what would happen is especially like not a few times or like the things with the lards and all that like There's a lot of things that's true the lards. Yep The this would feel a lot weirder and more Abstract and crazy if you hadn't seen adventure time But if you see an adventure time a lot of the more crazy things that happen are pretty mundane features of the adventure time universe Right, so lards are like these basically heads with big noses that float around That come in different shapes and sizes and they're kind of like mystical and immortal in regular adventure time like yeah It's like they have I got they're like, you know, they don't play a large part But there is still significant a significant and important presence and they sort of have a meaning to them and they show up at certain times and places Yeah, but here it's like, you know BMO lands and there's a guy like lard farming if they're gonna eat lards or whatever Yeah, and it's like if you haven't seen any adventure time, you're like it that that means nothing to you But if you have it's like oh shit those are lards. Yep Like now I kind of know the deal with lards like more so Yeah, but it's like so that the impact of that same scene would be completely different for it Wouldn't make it this a meaningless watch to a non-adventure time knower But that the impact of that is like those are lards versus. Okay, this guy's farming some space creatures. All right. I get it So before we get into some spoiler territory, the other notes I could point out is that there's a character another robot Kind of a broken robot sego. You know voice sego No Simone Gertz the woman who makes the terrifying bad robots. Oh, okay they reach out she was a huge fan of well is a huge fan of adventure time and The creators of venture time were like we should get that person who makes bad robots to play our bad robot And the bad robot person was like I've always wanted to be an adventure time voice actor Oh my god, so they made it time to do that a lot, right? I think you know John Hodgson's been an adventure time voice actor And I think he voiced something in this because I heard his voice I think I think he might have been one of the people fighting against the crab people in that scene Maybe I don't remember but I definitely heard John Hodgman's voice in the end the show And also who's the person who's the voice of? Mabel and oh god, I always forget their name. I always forget her name. I Don't know what their name isn't an adventure time. Yeah, I can look it up But yeah, please what I forget their names to one of Jake's kids Yes, exactly that person but one thing I can say is that the voice acting in this all that's the person this The voice I don't think I heard Kristen Shaw in this beam of thing But I definitely heard John Hodgman the voice acting in this is really good like the writing is good like everything about it's good It's a hundred percent worth watching it does a little bit of Explain the plot at the very end, but it's so short That part that well that was a big thunder that it doesn't really matter like it's not a flaw I would say It just wraps up like it could have it could have had ten more minutes to wrap up its plot like a little more smoothly Instead it sort of accelerates toward the end and a few characters have their big Moments pretty suddenly but other than that like it's just fantastic. It was laugh out loud funny at multiple points Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's what you expect from adventure time. It's more adventure time It gives you a lot of BMO if BMO is your favorite Yep, and it does nothing to undermine the perfect ending of adventure time Like it's not like if they just made more cowboy bebop No, no, no, it's it's more good adventure time But it's not, you know that the lack of length it could have you know it's like they they introduce a bunch of stuff they wrap up all the stuff they introduce and It's like It's more like okay. You love adventure time so much. You haven't had any in a while. You want more Here's an adventure time snack and you're like wow that tastes just like adventure time But I wanted an adventure time meal. Yep. I just want more of this if they can make these forever I just keep watching them well They're gonna make three more at least like it's like you're getting four snacks Where what you when you want a meal the snacks taste exactly what you expect them to taste like, right? They're good. You're not turning them down, right? You should eat them, but you still want meal, right? That's what that's what this is. Alright, so spoilers spoilers spoilers because I want to talk about this assuming you've seen it That was definitely Finn's dad's dad hundred percent. That is why he was in fucking space prison It is the voice acting of the same voice as soon as I knew I heard the same voice actor I was like that's Finn's dad. Yeah, plus it was like it was like mr. M And isn't Finn's dad named like Mert Mardi or something? Well balls of last name muttons Mertens, that's it, right? Yeah, plus I knew I knew it was as soon as he gets out of that car And you see he's wearing those short shorts and like his like the man's spread like Soon as he spoke a line of dialogue I was like that's Finn's dad's voice and I was like wait a minute. No, it's Finn's dad That's yeah immediately. I knew it and how he's kind of just a piece of shit the whole time It acted like he acted the way Finn's dad would act Treated people the way Finn's dad treats people. I like how it brought the crazy As soon as there was trouble he got out of dodge just like Finn's dad does yep I love how the plot was actually these were humans who escape Earth Yep, like that little bit was fun, too Especially because the villain literally it's just like an Elon Musk who sent himself into space and is now just fucking shit up with capitalism So the interesting thing that's that's not quite completely answered Right, we're going spoilers as you start out BMOs on this mission to plant potatoes on Mars and gets pulled away by the Maintenance robot that you do learn about why yeah, but the deal was with that But they don't explain BMOs potato mission to who sent him on where did BMO get those potatoes or that Was BMO still with all the other Mo's right did like Mo's send BMO on a mission to plant potatoes on Mars Who would send BMO on a mission to plant potatoes on Mars magic man because this is coming. This is before Magic man's transformation. This is before Finn and Jake. They're still babies. Who would have sent BMO into space, right? It's like banana man. It's like what's the deal there? It was a pretty good spaceship, too Like it was it was it was working BMOs clearly on a mission the mission was functioning He had the potatoes. He was specifically. He knew he was going to be Mo I guess BMOs not here or she BMO, you know knew they were supposed to be going to Mars. Yeah, right was Headed towards it successfully was into it was like the mission was totally cool You know nothing about that setup was revealed. That was the only unanswered Question, which I like because it parallels at the end of real adventure time where you get the final denim on other than BMO being the king of boo is you get BMO clearly launching that rocket into space With their creator. Yep Anyway, yeah, but I any other any other spoiler talk hmm the graze in was interesting in the sense that when Tree trunks is interacting with the graze later and they're like trying to find a new home world It is very clearly clear that Elon Musk made the graze turn him into an elf and then he basically fucked up their planet and left Like he there's a lot of catalyzing incidents that occurred in this. Yeah So yeah, I mean if you're if you're writing for adventure time and you're a good writer Right there's so many episodes and so much content you can easily find a thing that happened in adventure time episode, right? And then leave it in right and don't even need to shine a spotlight on it Just weave it in and let it be and you can treat it if it hasn't been used already It's like you can treat it as a starting point for whatever you're gonna do It's like oh that time that You know, it's like okay that the infinity train episode, right? Well, you can write something about how that train got there or you know Someone escaped the infinity train. It's like it's like, you know, just like every episode is just like a fountain of ideas that you could go off into So that's what they a lot of these side characters in this definitely are echoes of Unexplained characters from adventure time that showed up in a few episodes like you and that's you could take a parallel like draw them But like put them both side-by-side for every character you see in this thing Well, and that's how you do the quality world building and the quality continuity You don't do it the way that you know Marvel DC comics did or do or still do I don't even know anymore I haven't read a new one in a long time Where it's like y'all if you didn't read all these different If you didn't read cats in America and spider-man and this and that and the other thing you won't understand What's going on in secret ores, right? It's instead just a world-building thing where it's like you can watch any random adventure time episode or movie or whatever Comic and totally be entertained But if you understand the whole world, right? There's just hints and things that will enrich any particular thing that you consume You know with your additional knowledge, right and each thing that they make While simultaneously building on what already exists also is creating more For future things to go on right. It's like you watch as BMO thing and now we've learned about this place Right well now think about how many more stories you could write with all the new things that have been created here, right? You could write about those crab people you could write about or when did those humans leave earth and Like what happened to them specifically? Did they become the bunny people or the bunny people like the original hat like we don't know any of that? Right you can write about what Finn's dad was doing after this and before the other thing you can write about What happened to the evil guy the well the evil bunny guy? What's what's his deal? I want to say that this is literally the specific reason Finn's dad was in space jail Yeah, probably I feel like that is the exact sequence of events is he was taken to space jail shortly after the incidents of the show quite possibly you could write about you know, there's the The the non-mo that was in the garbage area. Oh, you go right you could write about that Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff going on there It's just like while taking the existing material, they've also created new fertile ground, right which Mayor may not be explored in the remaining three Movies, I feel like the three movies will not intersect with each other at all. I also feel that way I feel like they will all be stand alone dealies stand alone It's it's it that's the Gravel of this episode of Geek Knights. Did you see the Gravels that were on the yes I saw those I was like those are fucking Gravel people. Yeah Anyway, all right, I think that was a fine show