Speaker 1: Welcome to Part Time Genius, the production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: I guess what, Mango? What's that? Well? All right, So
Speaker 1: one thing I love about comics is all the captains.
Speaker 1: What do you mean captain's you know, like Captain America,
Speaker 1: Captain Marvel, Captain Planet, And of course I have to
Speaker 1: save the best for last, Captain Caveman of Captain Caveman.
Speaker 1: But this week I came across one that I bet
Speaker 1: you've actually never heard of, Captain Tutsie. If you heard
Speaker 1: of Captain Tutsie before, I have no idea who Captain
Speaker 1: Tutsi is. Alright, So Captain Tutsie was a superhero debuted
Speaker 1: in nineteen forty three during what's known as the Golden
Speaker 1: Age of comics. But Captain Tutsie does not feel like
Speaker 1: he should have come from this Golden age. Actually, why
Speaker 1: is that? Well? For starters, Captain Tutsie was created explicitly
Speaker 1: to sell Tutsie rolls. So chances are if you bought
Speaker 1: a comic between nineteen forty three and the early nineteen fifties,
Speaker 1: it probably included a one page comic ad in which
Speaker 1: Captain Tutsie would perform all kinds of daring deeds like
Speaker 1: rescuing a pilot of a crashing plane or taking down
Speaker 1: a bear with a sniper rifle, you know, all those
Speaker 1: amazing things. But the Captain didn't go on these missions alone.
Speaker 1: He always brought his secret legion with him. So who's
Speaker 1: in the secret legion? You know, it's it's an intimidating crew.
Speaker 1: It's three eight year old boys named Rollo, fats So,
Speaker 1: and Fisty, and all of them ate a lot of
Speaker 1: Tutsie rolls, you know, to kind of help them get
Speaker 1: the job done. It just makes sense, and so anytime
Speaker 1: danger reared its ugly head, the Captain would just reach
Speaker 1: into his bag, pull out some energy packed tutsie rolls,
Speaker 1: and they'd all power up for the challenge, you know,
Speaker 1: which sounds like a delicious way to deal with the situation.
Speaker 1: So what happened to Captain Tutsie Well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. You would you would imagine that
Speaker 1: this sugar fueled bear fighting superhero would just stick around
Speaker 1: for ages. But by nineteen fifty, for some reason, the
Speaker 1: company this idea he should hang up his shoulder bag
Speaker 1: of candy for good. And by that time, other genres
Speaker 1: like science fiction and Western's had all really taken off.
Speaker 1: So I love the idea that people used to love
Speaker 1: to read about adults fighting crime with eight year olds.
Speaker 1: But then, but then science fiction put that genre out
Speaker 1: of business. Yeah, it's it's weird, but if nothing else,
Speaker 1: the Captain is a good reminder that not all superheroes
Speaker 1: are created equal. There are plenty of duds in the mix,
Speaker 1: and those are the ones we want to shine a
Speaker 1: spotlight on today. All the characters who have been saddled
Speaker 1: with useless superpowers silly motivations are just unfortunate fashion choices
Speaker 1: over the years. In other words, nine oddball comic book
Speaker 1: characters they'll probably never make a movie about, So let's
Speaker 1: dive ina. Hey there, podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius.
Speaker 1: I'm Will Pearson, and as always I'm joined by my
Speaker 1: good friend Manges Ticketer and on the other side of
Speaker 1: the soundproof glass delicately working the knobs with these giant
Speaker 1: green whole cans. It's been a while since I've seen
Speaker 1: these things, but our producer Lowell has dusted them off
Speaker 1: and he is going at it. I imagine it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to get the volumes just right when you're
Speaker 1: smashing the boards with those whole cans. But we do
Speaker 1: appreciate the effort Lole, you know. And after a long hiatus,
Speaker 1: joining us once again on the phone, our researcher Gabe Bluesier. Hey,
Speaker 1: they're Gabe. Hey, guys, it's great to be back behind
Speaker 1: the mike. Thanks for having me, Gab. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to have you here because I know it is your
Speaker 1: birthday this weekend. So normally when I washed my hands
Speaker 1: now for twenty seconds, I I sing that outcast song
Speaker 1: I'm Sorry Miss Jackson to myself, just the chorus. If
Speaker 1: you do it twice, you're good. But this weekend I
Speaker 1: sang just for you, happy birthday to Gabe when I
Speaker 1: was washing my hands, So I like you should feel honored.
Speaker 1: But but how is your quarantine going? So far? So good?
Speaker 1: You know, staying indoors quite a lot. I'm thankful for
Speaker 1: this opportunity to talk to people outside of the house
Speaker 1: for a change. And well, how's life in in Birmingham.
Speaker 1: You know, we're we're hanging in there day week two
Speaker 1: of of home schooling slash trying to get some work done.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is, like Gabe said, it's really nice
Speaker 1: to connect with the outside world. And since Gabe is
Speaker 1: the guest and it was his birthday, I feel like
Speaker 1: he should kick this off. And and actually, Gabe, you
Speaker 1: actually know a lot about comics. No, no offense, Mango,
Speaker 1: but I feel like we're just kind of kind of
Speaker 1: pretending here. Absolutely all right, So here's my first pick.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a nineteen forties crime fighter
Speaker 1: known as the Red Bee. So the Red b is
Speaker 1: actually don't tell anyone, but his secret identity is Rick Raley.
Speaker 1: He's an assistant district attorney who kind of got tired
Speaker 1: of seeing criminals, you know, set free on technic plities,
Speaker 1: so he decided to take justice into his own hands.
Speaker 1: Of course, the way he chose to do this is
Speaker 1: a little bit strange. He put on a yellow and
Speaker 1: red stripey costume, of course, and he charged into battle
Speaker 1: with an actual b as his side. And I mean,
Speaker 1: you you gotta remember this was back in the early
Speaker 1: days of superhero comics. The characters they, you know, mostly
Speaker 1: took the form of kind of like pulp vigilantes, like
Speaker 1: the Shadow or something like that. So they may have
Speaker 1: worn colorful costumes, but they fought largely with their wits
Speaker 1: and their fists, and uh, you know, they only had
Speaker 1: a slight edge over the mob bosses and the crooked
Speaker 1: politicians that they were squaring off against. There were no
Speaker 1: you know, superpowered supervillains. And in the Red Bees case,
Speaker 1: his special edge was Michael. And Michael was a trained
Speaker 1: be that lived in a secret compartment inside of his
Speaker 1: owner's belt buckle, and uh, you know, he could be
Speaker 1: unleashed on unsuspecting foes, you know, whenever he was needed.
Speaker 1: So first off, I just love that this killer bee
Speaker 1: is named Michael, Like it is so vanilla and killer
Speaker 1: Mike was right there for the taking. But also bees
Speaker 1: can only sting once before they die, right, so Michael
Speaker 1: can't be that much of a help. Well to that,
Speaker 1: I say, how dare you? You have obviously never met
Speaker 1: a b like Michael, because unlike your average be, Michael
Speaker 1: could sting really as much as he wanted without dying.
Speaker 1: But that said, you know, you're right, a single bee
Speaker 1: isn't all that much of a threat, even one that
Speaker 1: can kind of sting with impunity. That is, you know,
Speaker 1: unless the criminal is allergic to be stings. But uh,
Speaker 1: in later stories the Red Bee he actually upped his
Speaker 1: game by stuffing an entire swarm of specially trained bees
Speaker 1: into his belt buckle to kind of keep Michael company.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, guys, but that's my
Speaker 1: kind of hero. I love that. It's so ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: there have been a few different superheroes named Black Condor
Speaker 1: over the years, but the original character from is the best,
Speaker 1: and it's all because of his backstory. So here's how
Speaker 1: it goes. Uh, there's this archaeologist named Richard Gray. He
Speaker 1: goes on this dangerous expedition to Mongolia, and uh he
Speaker 1: decides to bring his wife an infant along, and sometime later,
Speaker 1: tragedy strikes. The couple is attacked and killed by a
Speaker 1: group of raiders. Uh and the baby, Richard Gray Jr. Survives,
Speaker 1: but he obviously has no way offending for himself. But
Speaker 1: as luck would have it, a flock of highly intelligent
Speaker 1: Condors comes along at just the right time, and they
Speaker 1: take pity on the boy and decide to adopt him
Speaker 1: and raise him as one of their own. So, you know,
Speaker 1: Gray doesn't fit nicely into this avian family at first,
Speaker 1: but over the years, he actually teaches himself to fly
Speaker 1: like the condors who raised him, and that's the origin.
Speaker 1: But what's weird about it is he doesn't get packed
Speaker 1: by a magic condor. He he isn't struck by a meteor. Right,
Speaker 1: He doesn't do anything supernatural. He doesn't wear a jet
Speaker 1: pack or a wingsuit. He just straight up flies around
Speaker 1: like a bird. And it's all because he just decides
Speaker 1: to And that I think what makes this so stupid.
Speaker 1: As the first issue explains, like, he simply quote puts
Speaker 1: his keen mind to the task of studying the movements
Speaker 1: of wings, the body motions, air currents, balance, and levitation,
Speaker 1: and after some studying, quote, his determination was rewarded by success.
Speaker 1: So he's probably wondering, like, how does an orphan who
Speaker 1: learns to fly from condors get the name Black Condor? Right,
Speaker 1: human who later takes him in He teaches him to
Speaker 1: become human and read and speak and all that, and
Speaker 1: he gives him the name Condor because he was raised
Speaker 1: by birds and Black Condor because he has black hair. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not quite where I thought that was going. But also,
Speaker 1: I mean, does this guy even count as a superhero?
Speaker 1: Like it sounds like he's just flying around doing bird stuff.
Speaker 1: Once Black Condor gets up to speed, like on the
Speaker 1: human world. He eventually migrates to America, where I guess
Speaker 1: all the crime is assumes the identity of a U. S.
Speaker 1: Senator who has just died, which is such an elaborate story.
Speaker 1: But from that point on he starts leading a new
Speaker 1: double life politician by day and bird vigilante by night,
Speaker 1: which is pretty great. God, that's just so so amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, here's another weird Golden Age comic character.
Speaker 1: This is Victoria Murdoch. But unlike the Red Bee and
Speaker 1: the Black Condor whatever, Victoria was a supervillain who went
Speaker 1: by the name Asbestos Lady, and that just sounds so scary.
Speaker 1: But Victoria was a brilliant chemist gone mad, and she
Speaker 1: used her knowledge of asbestos to create this fireproof suit
Speaker 1: for herself, which she then used to carry out a
Speaker 1: series of arson based robberies. I mean, it's a dated
Speaker 1: idea now, because asbestos will get you crazy sick, obviously,
Speaker 1: but her m O was to use a flamethrower to
Speaker 1: create this wall of fire around the bank, and then
Speaker 1: with the police held at bay, she would rob the
Speaker 1: place inside her asbestos lined suit. So she eventually became
Speaker 1: a recurring arch nemesis for the human Torch, whom she
Speaker 1: fought using the special asbestos bullets that she designed just
Speaker 1: for him. I mean, she must have been like super smart,
Speaker 1: knowing how to do all this stuff. But of course,
Speaker 1: if you know anything about asbestos, you know that draping
Speaker 1: your body and the stuff is not particularly safe. But
Speaker 1: in ninety seven, asbestos was viewed as this miracle material
Speaker 1: and it was the go to choice for fireproofing, popping
Speaker 1: up in everything from roof insilation to firefighter uniforms. So
Speaker 1: Victoria Murdoch spent nearly two decades in this asbestos suit
Speaker 1: when weirdly, science caught up with the storyline, and it
Speaker 1: is sad to say that it's a case of art
Speaker 1: mirroring science. It was later revealed that she had succumbed
Speaker 1: to mesothelioma. Dark dark, Oh my gosh. All right, well,
Speaker 1: here's something I never would have guessed before this week.
Speaker 1: The first ever cross dressing superhero was a character named
Speaker 1: Madam Fatal, and they were created way back in ninett
Speaker 1: of course, you know that said the depiction is about
Speaker 1: his nuanced and thoughtful, as you might expect given that era,
Speaker 1: and you know, the character was never meant to explore
Speaker 1: gender expression or anything weighty like that, but it's it's
Speaker 1: still pretty amazing that this happened at all, right, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, for all kinds of reasons. And you know,
Speaker 1: once I explained this, you're you're gonna see what I mean.
Speaker 1: So here's how the story went down. A young girl
Speaker 1: in Manhattan gets kidnapped from her father, who's a wealthy
Speaker 1: actor named Richard Stanton. Stanton decides to kind of put
Speaker 1: his talents as an actor to use in order to
Speaker 1: get his daughter back. So he goes undercover and he
Speaker 1: infiltrates the gang that took her. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Stanton decides that, for some unknown reason, the best way
Speaker 1: for him to gain access to this shady criminal underworld
Speaker 1: is by dressing up as an elderly woman with a
Speaker 1: cane and introducing himself as Madam Fatal. It's, you know,
Speaker 1: an unusual choice that's never really explained in the story. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Stanton is a good fighter, he's a master
Speaker 1: of disguise, so it didn't really have to be the
Speaker 1: old lady. You know, he didn't have to go that route.
Speaker 1: But you know, whatever works, I guess, and h in
Speaker 1: the end, it helped Stanton get his daughter back. So
Speaker 1: you know, that basically means that Adam Fatal is kind
Speaker 1: of like the Mrs doubt Fire of superheroes, and no question,
Speaker 1: you can't beat that. So now I want to talk
Speaker 1: about some characters with questionable superpowers, and uh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that with this DC character known as Matter Eater Lad.
Speaker 1: I've actually talked about matter Eater Lad before because he's
Speaker 1: kind of a favorite of mine. And the thing he
Speaker 1: does is eat matter, like that's all he does, but
Speaker 1: it's all types of matter, and uh, you name it,
Speaker 1: he can eat it, no problem. And while that ability
Speaker 1: isn't all that helpful on the battlefield, it does come
Speaker 1: in handy if he's trapped somewhere because he can just
Speaker 1: eat his way out, or if he needs to dispose
Speaker 1: of a dangerous object, again he can just eat it.
Speaker 1: The last powers were deemed useful enough to earn him
Speaker 1: a spot on the Legion of Superheroes, and this was
Speaker 1: back in the nine sixties. I think the most modern
Speaker 1: aspect of matter eat the Lad's powers is that he
Speaker 1: is a supertaster, so not only can he eat anything,
Speaker 1: but he can also analyze the composition of anything he
Speaker 1: puts in his mouth, which makes me wonder if normal
Speaker 1: supertasters don't like grapefruit or cilantro or super spicy foods.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's like his kryptonite could be. I
Speaker 1: think the question it raises for me. The thing I'm
Speaker 1: more confused about is why do they call him a
Speaker 1: lad when he is clearly an adult man. That's a
Speaker 1: good question. Maybe he's got like a growing boys appetite.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but we do have more characters
Speaker 1: to dig into right after this break, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Part Time Genius. We're talking about the strangest characters in
Speaker 1: comic book history. So just before the break, Mango introduced
Speaker 1: us to maybe my favorite name of superheroes today, matter
Speaker 1: Eater Lad, which is such a weird name, and it's
Speaker 1: something we're all very thankful for, I'm sure. And and
Speaker 1: speaking of descriptively named superheroes with absurd powers, there's no
Speaker 1: way to get through this episode without talking about the
Speaker 1: next one. It's another classic DC hero arm fall off
Speaker 1: boy that that is exactly what his name is. The
Speaker 1: character made his debut in nineteen eighty nine, when he
Speaker 1: auditioned for a spot on the Legion of Superheroes and
Speaker 1: promptly got rejected for having a power that was even
Speaker 1: weirder and less useful than Matter Eater Lad, whom you'll
Speaker 1: recall did earn a spot on the team. So once again,
Speaker 1: it's all right there in the name, arm fall Off
Speaker 1: Boy has the ability to remove his arms without being harmed, so,
Speaker 1: for instance, any issue where he tries out for the team,
Speaker 1: he demonstrates his skill by pulling off his arm and
Speaker 1: wielding it like a makeshift club. Now, needless to say,
Speaker 1: this fails to impress the legionnaires, who quickly brush him
Speaker 1: off with a polite no thank you. But apparently the
Speaker 1: arm fall Off Boy was deterred by the rejection because
Speaker 1: he actually returns a few years later, this time going
Speaker 1: by the decidedly cooler name Splitter. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: kind of like arm fall Off Boy, but unfortunately the
Speaker 1: Legions sees through the rebranding and rejects the poor guy
Speaker 1: for a second time. Yeah, that's rough. I think we
Speaker 1: can all agree the new name was a big improvement, though, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I guess, if we're being honest,
Speaker 1: it was just so stupid before that. It it almost
Speaker 1: seemed worth it, and arm fall off Boy is just
Speaker 1: inaccurate on all counts. I mean, first off, according to
Speaker 1: the comic, all of his limbs can be removed, legs included. Secondly,
Speaker 1: his limbs don't just fall off on their own. He
Speaker 1: actually has to pull them off if he needs to
Speaker 1: improvise a weapon. And Lastly, I mean, this is how
Speaker 1: much I've analyzed this game. Judging from how beefy he
Speaker 1: looks in the artwork, this guy is no more a
Speaker 1: boy than you know, Mad Eater Lad was a lad.
Speaker 1: So it's a stunningly off based name. And now now
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this, I'm actually starting to get worked
Speaker 1: up about his eye. Sound angry, Yeah, that's wrong. I
Speaker 1: mean the weirdest part to me is that the whole
Speaker 1: limb removing power is just so underwhelming, right, Like, why
Speaker 1: would you want that power at least with matterader Lad,
Speaker 1: Like maybe you can win the Coney Island Hot Dog
Speaker 1: Eating contest or you know, something like that, But if
Speaker 1: you're going to rip off your arm to use it
Speaker 1: like a club, why not just carry a club? Yet,
Speaker 1: It's like this guy has absolutely no access to anything else,
Speaker 1: and it's almost it's like would an arm really be
Speaker 1: that great of a club to use, just like Fleshy
Speaker 1: and everything, not even all that horror. But I guess
Speaker 1: it sounds like we all agree the Legion of Superheroes
Speaker 1: probably made the right call on rejecting him. Yeah both times. Actually,
Speaker 1: all right, So my next pick is a Marvel character
Speaker 1: from the nineteen seventies named three D Man, and he's
Speaker 1: another case where the concept itself is interesting, like it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool, but the usefulness of his powers, that's that's
Speaker 1: the part that's lacking. So for starters, his powers really
Speaker 1: don't have anything to do with three D at all,
Speaker 1: which makes sense because you know humans already see in
Speaker 1: three D. Anyway, that part didn't stop the character from
Speaker 1: sporting a red and green costume, complete with his own
Speaker 1: pair of three D glasses, which are actually very bad
Speaker 1: for your eyes. And when it comes to his origin story, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's honestly just as out there as his
Speaker 1: name in costume. So here's how it went down. Before
Speaker 1: becoming three D Man, Chuck Handler was a test pilot
Speaker 1: for NASA who was abducted by an alien race called
Speaker 1: the Scrolls. And while Chuck did manage to escape his captors,
Speaker 1: he was caught in an explosion in the process, and
Speaker 1: the resulting radiation vaporized him instantly. It sounds like that's
Speaker 1: the end of the story, but this is actually where
Speaker 1: things get weird. Because Chuck's brother, How he watched this
Speaker 1: whole event unfold and his Chuck was being vaporized, two
Speaker 1: images of him were imprinted on his brother's glasses, you
Speaker 1: follow it. So, as it turned out, when How concentrated
Speaker 1: really hard on those two D images of his brother,
Speaker 1: he could trigger a dimensional shift that would cause How
Speaker 1: to reappear as three D Manah, And that is, of
Speaker 1: course a superhero with strength, speed, and reflexes equal to
Speaker 1: that of you guessed it, three human beings in peak
Speaker 1: physical shape like the three of us basically. But there
Speaker 1: was a catch to all this. Whenever three D Man
Speaker 1: was summoned, How Handler's body would just kind of slip
Speaker 1: into a comatose state, you know, even as his mind
Speaker 1: remained aware of his brother's actions due to this uh
Speaker 1: psychic link between them. So it was kind of a
Speaker 1: raw deal for How He's just sort of laying there
Speaker 1: on the ground while all this is happening. But I
Speaker 1: guess at least he got to see his brother again,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, so long as he never lost
Speaker 1: those classes. I feel like I honestly heard everything you said,
Speaker 1: and I have no idea how his words go together
Speaker 1: to make a story. But uh, but I have a
Speaker 1: pretty good character to close this out. So first though,
Speaker 1: I thought it might help to give our listeners a
Speaker 1: quick refresher on the nature of superpowers. So in the
Speaker 1: Marvel universe, for example, like superpowers can come from just
Speaker 1: about anywhere, right Like, it could be like a spider bite,
Speaker 1: a seramon lab, a gift from the gods, or, in
Speaker 1: the case of the X Men, just this randomly occurring
Speaker 1: genetic mutation. These mutations can manifest in all kinds of
Speaker 1: different ways, you know. It could be like telekinesis, ice powers,
Speaker 1: healing abilities, whatever, and no one really has a say
Speaker 1: in what they get. So the best example of what
Speaker 1: a crapshoot these mutant powers can be is this villainous
Speaker 1: character known as I Scream, And that's spelled like I
Speaker 1: as in the organ and scream like the sound. So
Speaker 1: I'm kind of curious, like, what kind of mutant power
Speaker 1: do you think I Scream wound up with? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: based on his name, maybe he can shoot like a
Speaker 1: concussive sound waves from his eye is or something like that.
Speaker 1: I'm imagining this is like this super intense there, like
Speaker 1: he can stare so intensely that his foes just run
Speaker 1: away screaming and tear. That's got to be what it is, right,
Speaker 1: So I didn't tell you there was gonna be a quiz.
Speaker 1: I think you both provided excellent answers, but but you're
Speaker 1: both wrong. What this guy can actually do is turn
Speaker 1: his body into ice cream. It honestly makes no sense because,
Speaker 1: like I, Scream is a mutant who discovered an early
Speaker 1: age that he was gifted with the power to turn
Speaker 1: into any flavor of ice cream that he wanted. And
Speaker 1: as you might imagine, that was pretty underwhelming, especially compared
Speaker 1: to like all the things that other mutants could do.
Speaker 1: So ice Cream kind of grew up with this chip
Speaker 1: on his shoulder and and one day he wanted to
Speaker 1: get revenge on, you know, more of the high profile
Speaker 1: show off mutants in the X Men world. So this
Speaker 1: is what he did. He waited until one of the
Speaker 1: X Men had a birthday, and then on the day
Speaker 1: of the party, he managed to sneak into the mansion
Speaker 1: where they lived by disguising himself as a massive tub
Speaker 1: of banana split ice scream. I mean, it's a truly
Speaker 1: full proof plan. I feel like, yeah, that's what That's
Speaker 1: what ice Cream thought too, except that the X Men's
Speaker 1: telepaths caught onto the scheme pretty quickly and the team
Speaker 1: was able to shut the intruder down without much of
Speaker 1: a fuss. And you might be wondering, like how they
Speaker 1: do it. They just lowered the temperature in the room
Speaker 1: where ice Cream was hiding, and pretty pretty soon the
Speaker 1: villain was frozen into a solid block of ice cream
Speaker 1: and couldn't change back into his human form. That seriously
Speaker 1: might be the most humiliating defeat in comic history. And
Speaker 1: that's saying something. Yeah, I mean, the weird thing is
Speaker 1: like things actually get worse from for for ice cream
Speaker 1: from there, like, the X Men hired a clown for
Speaker 1: the birthday party that day, and after helping the team
Speaker 1: defeat their intruder, the clown actually got to keep the
Speaker 1: frozen ice cream as payment. And since ice Cream hasn't
Speaker 1: been seen or heard from since, you can probably imagine
Speaker 1: what happened to him next. Wow, this is kind of
Speaker 1: a hot take, but I'm just gonna say it. He
Speaker 1: had it coming, if for no other reason than he
Speaker 1: spells his name in such deliberately misleading way. Being eaten
Speaker 1: by a clown, it seems like a just punishment for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're not a judge, although I do
Speaker 1: guess you have a say. And who wins the trophy today?
Speaker 1: And and and I'm leaning towards Mango taking it? But
Speaker 1: but what do you think, Gabe? Yeah, it's got to
Speaker 1: be him. I mean, Black Condor, Matter Eater Lad and
Speaker 1: now ice Cream. That that is a trifecta of truly
Speaker 1: terrible superheroes. I badly want to see a team up
Speaker 1: movie with those three, and for that, I think the
Speaker 1: trophy is yours, Mango. I don't think anyone wants to
Speaker 1: see a movie of the three. But thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and it's an honor um I will say. That's it
Speaker 1: for today's Part Time Genius from Will gave Lola myself.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening, and take care of
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