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Matt Trakker, Arms Dealer

• Adam Moore and PJ McNerney • Season 1 • Episode 23

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Another one of Matt Trakker's billion-dollar military boondoggles goes missing. Are we more worried that Matt is clearly an arms dealer, or the fact that these weapons systems go missing so often? Plus, Scott is nearly killed by a Rube Goldberg device, Dusty's IQ drops several points, and... could it be... the BEST M.A.S.K. battle of the series so far? Find out on this week's Mobile Armored Podcast Show!

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squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Welcome to the mobile armored podcast show. The podcast that transforms into a dumpster. I am Adam Moore alongside my co host and best friend, PJ McNerney, who's coming to us from the mobile armored podcast studio. PJ, how are you?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I'm doing well today. Yes. I had to go to my orthodontist appointment because what men in our forties do, we go and get braces put on.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

I'm happy that you're getting into the the mindset of the age we were when we were watching the show. So that's what I am chalking it up to.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

you know, I Think it's really important that we dial ourselves back to that point in time.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Look. We have got a doozy for you all. Ladies and gentlemen. We have episode 23, Vanishing Point. Venom hijacks planes by setting up a fake airport. Jamming radars and confusing pilots to land there in order to capture an experimental supersonic jet. Lot of effort just to capture that jet

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

There is a lot of construction that is involved in this episode. A lot of high technology, which I will comment on later on.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

All right, let's dive right in, shall we? We are inside a super secret jet I thought. When we opened, this was the jet they were talking about. Turns out it's not so spoiler alert there, but this thing is huge. It's a, it's flight one Oh two. And we cut to the control tower where one of the controllers has talked to his boss and says, you can always depend on Ross to be right on time. Best pilot we've got they land, but uh, some psychedelic effects happen and it appears they aren't. think they are. Let's start by talking about how big this jet is.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

If the cockpit is that little bit way at the top, this thing is gargantuan. I feel like It's like four stories tall It's a transport jet ultimately, but what the hell is it supposed to be transporting?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

the world's largest cargo jet and I'm a nerd about this stuff. It was actually destroyed during the Russian Ukraine conflict actually, but it's the Antonov an two to five Mira. Jet look it up or I'll post it online. Uh, it's got a 250 ton payload and 1, 100 cubic meters cargo hold capacity. but I believe it was actually designed to be carrying some pieces of the Buran spacecraft. So the Russian space shuttle copycat back in the eighties. And since then it was used by the Russians and others to just, transport stuff around. This definitely rivals that, If not bigger.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah, I mean, it's, there's, and it definitely has this anime feel to the whole thing. Like it's like, I and I'm going to make a comment about those later on this felt like they were like heavily influenced by Robotech at this point in time. The design of this in terms of those giant, like the curves, like the giant size, the way it's like colored, it felt very Robotech to me. And in fact, if you put this in Robotech, I wouldn't have known the difference.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

I totally agree. And by the way, the the Hermes jet, which we'll introduce soon also has that feel to it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

100%. 100%. going to comment, what's interesting about the jamming effects, which I thought was interesting was that it's not just that they're jamming the radar for the pilots of the plane. They're actually like fooling the control tower as well, picking one or the other is tough enough as it is, but to do both actually is a pretty technologically complex thing. Yeah.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

I agree. What I am confused about though, is the super psychedelic effect that hits the pilot when he lands at the fake location Cause there's no psychedelics involved in this radar scheme of Venoms. What's going on?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

This is the only time we see this during the episode. So I'm actually curious if it's actually this pilot took something from Brad Turner and is completely stoned out of his mind at this point in time. Like it hit him way too late

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah. The hallucination has nothing to do with the radar jamming. This is just a side plot for this one pilot who's tripping out. So look, the actual airbase is called McKenna airfield. And the. Lead of this project is named Mr. McKenna. So Mr. McKenna, I guess has named the airfield after himself. don't quite know if there's like private sector, military, it's all very confusing, but anyways, Mr. McKenna, the project's leader, who by the way, has a little bit of miles mayhem in him. he walks outside. He doesn't see this giant jet anywhere. And that's when one of his lackeys runs out and says the plane vanished. It can't be.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

100 percent right though. And this guy looking like some long lost mayhem cousin, maybe that's how Miles found out about it. They were all at Thanksgiving together, and McKenna is like, uh, he had a little bit too much to drink, and just started mouthing off about his super secret jet. And Miles was like, huh, filing this one away.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Cut to the tracker mansion finally uh, after. Months and months away from home. Mr. McKenna is talking to Matt in his computer room and says since you're the principal investor in project Hermes, you should be aware of some strange going on and Matt says, what's wrong? Dutch, not more reports of gremlins in the cockpits. So there's a lot of things I want to unpack here. One, this is further confirmation that Matt tracker. Is an arms dealer.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

100%. yeah, but

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

He's got on Dutch.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

his name then is Dutch McKenna. That's his name.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Unless that's his nickname.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

So does Matt basically like give nicknames to the people whose projects he's invested in? I'm gonna call you Dutch, but my name's Carl. No, you're Dutch now.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Or it comes from what countries he launders the money through to fund these.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

You're Dutch. You're Nairobi now, that's your new name, sir. So what is it Matt invested in? And I have to ask you a question because like, if you remember back in the, the whole robot sub affair, he was super pissed, Bye bye. When he found out the sub was like missing and no one talked to him So do you think he actually gave all of his investments of talking to after that one?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

For sure.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Like he gets them all together. Listen you fucks. I own you if Anything happens to what you're working on. I am to be your first call. Do you understand?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Absolutely. This guy definitely heard the message loud and clear and he is sweating it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

He is! How nervous is this man? Do you see him with a handkerchief?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah. He's like dabbing sweat off his brow. He's so nervous to be telling Matt this.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

And then the final bit is Matt is asking him about gremlins in the cockpit, so I was, I wanted to ask you, do you think this implied that a formal report was given to Matt at some point in time, and they literally used the phrase, we have gremlins in the cockpit?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Look, to the masqueraders defense gremlins in the cockpit is what they said. At least I know during World War II, when there were issues with the flying fortresses and stuff like that. So I will give them that. However, I think it would be hilarious if Matt didn't know that what do you mean? Gremlins, like little green pointy ear

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

ha ha ha Ha.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

I loved that movie.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I, I want To give you an award right now for the Writers Defense Fund. Um, Because I think this is the first time you've ever gone to bat for the writers of this show.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

I want to thank you so much. I do believe that we have trashed these writers so much. That I'm proud to, to give what I can to help these writers. These men and potential woman out.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

applause.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

So it turns out this big giant cargo jet was supposed to be carrying the real investment, which is the Hermes jet, or as I like to call it, the Hermes jet. And uh, Matt learns it is gone. It's just disappeared. He says disappeared a 10 ton cargo plane. Come on Dutch So the I loved Matt's line, but the 10 ton cargo plane That threw me off a little bit. Can we do a little math on how heavy a cargo plane weighs?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah. So I was like, when I think of a military cargo jet or a plane, I should say the first one that always comes to mind is the C 130 Hercules, because that's your typical one. And that weighs in just about 38 tons. And then I was like the C 5 Galaxy, which is the Lockheed one is 187 tons. And you pointed out the Antonov. That weighs in at 285 tons, and I want to say all of these are presumed to be empty. no fuel, And my, I have a Ford Transit F 350 that weighs 5 tons,

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

right

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

and a typical school bus weighs 10 tons. So someone did not do their research here

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

that Matt has also been You Funding that also allows a Camaro to fly. So it could be that.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Touche, sir. I guess

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

you've turned to the other side, Adam,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

up. Indeed.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

all love to our peers in the mask podcasting community. I joke because I love uh, well, we find out that if they don't get this plane back before it's scheduled to be shown to the army brass tomorrow and Matt responds, I get it. The entire project could take a tail dive So matt you mean nose dive that the line is nose dive clearly I don't know what a tail dive is, but you're better than that matt. Anyways, matt says he'll look into it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I want to ask you a question. In our lifetime, we've had one major. Head to head competition I guess two technically, but really like really more like one, which was the YF 22 versus the YF 23, right? these were military jets being developed by private entities. If one of those jets had gone missing, which contains dramatically classified material within it Would you expect the military should be told?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

probably

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Because in this case, they're not. In fact, the company is going to great lengths to hide this fact from the military and instead the company went to their chief investor.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

right

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Okay, so they're like really keeping this on the hush hush. And then one last technical point, which bugged me, wouldn't they be showing this to the air force, not the army?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, it would make sense. But I will point out that when they eventually do show the military brass, they are wearing the blue uniform that is typical of the air force. or whatever branch of the military miles mayhem is a part of.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Okay, so Dutch is just an idiot then.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Even know which branch of the military he's selling. Great. Okay.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

yeah, exactly. Oh boy, what has happened? Oh no. Uh, well, I'm going to use this opportunity to formally retire. And I will be joining MassCast for the next episode. We cut to Thunderhawk driving in the desert. Of course, Matt brings Scott and T Bob along cause that's what you do. Turns out they've been to McKenna Flats before. And once again, confirming that this entire place, I guess, is named after Mr. McKenna.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

wondering if it's a family property. This is like Yellowstone like the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch,

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

yes, if Yellowstone developed top secret aerospace vehicles for the military. Sure. In the Car, Scott says, Remember the last time that cowboy taught me to ride his horse? Matt says he doesn't expect to see many cowboys or anyone in this town again. Quote, After the factory closed, Almost everyone moved out. It's probably a ghost town by now. So another victim of Tracker Industries shipping jobs overseas.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Look man, he's got to fill that office building in Hong Kong somehow. But you see the self, self satisfied look on his face when he tells Scott this?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

It's like he knows what he did to this town.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

He single handedly destroyed a town. Because he even says he's like the factory.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I know!

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

As if Scott knows. Like Scott knows exactly what he's talking about. How

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Oh yeah, I remembered that. I remember the tears.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

weren't there. We were in Paris. But the twist is we cut to Thunderhawk driving into town and it's a bustling town. I mean, There's a rock and roll soundtrack and the whole town is booming. It's like the Truman show in there. And uh, they parked the car, Matt goes inside somewhere. And meanwhile, Scott and T Bob are approached by a little girl who thinks that T Bob is one of those coin operated rides and she's like, can I ride him? And the mom says, sure, he looks safe. And so the mother shoves a quarter into T Bob's face and then the girl climbs on board and Scott tells T Bob to play along. And I'm concerned about the quarter being shoved into the T Bob's face and causing some kind of a short circuit.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

The counterpoint to this is Scott's done so much damage to T Bob. I don't know if a quarter's actually gonna do anything at this point in time. So much has been done to T Bob. He's been put in the dunks so many times, it's like what more damage do you think is going to occur?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Very true.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I did find it funny, the girl, when she like gets on, like starts banging on T Bob's head to get going. And this is for me, his Roy Batty moment. Cause then he just starts scooting around like crazy.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

For sure. Uh, yeah, one wrong turn and he could have. Injured or killed that girl. he's not at his Roy Batty moment yet, but he's inching close to it. Meanwhile, we find out the building Matt went into is a bakery and it turns out business in town has been booming ever since Cal gyps gypsum moved in from out of state. the baker says they're kind of strange. They just come in to get what they need and they leave. The owner points out a check on the wall, which was the first big Order he got from Cal chips, which I just, I just need to say, how many baked goods is this company ordering that the guy for a, they'd pay in a check and be that the guy would want to put the check on the wall and not. If they're struggling, wouldn't he want to cash the check?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

It's a good, it's a good point. Maybe he asked for the canceled check back after or something like that. But yes,

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Now you too are defending the writers,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I haven't, I have an answer later on for why the order is so big. So I can actually justify that one.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

All right.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I was curious Matt is so fucking concerned that this town is getting back on its feet. He's just got these looks that are not happy. He's just really suspicious because he expected this to be a shithole and it's not. And so I'm like, Matt, did you move the jobs overseas? And now you're upset that someone else has stepped in to help these people out.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

No one rebuilds a town that I destroyed. After the baker walks away, I guess into the back room, Matt does this really suspicious backwards walk and then whispers to T Bob to take a picture of the check on the wall. And he says, I'll explain later.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

okay. One little world building bit here. It's more like world continuing is that this is confirmation that Scott's installation of the camera stayed in, right?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

so they leave the bakery, they get back to Thunderhawk, and Matt has the computer analyze the photograph that T Bob took. And it turns out the handwriting on the check matches Miles Mayhem. And I Love that Miles signs his own checks.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Miles is a man of great detail. He also believes in shopping local and small town America. But you're right. I mean, This being the clue is pretty hilarious.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Look, he may be a supervillain, he is an America First supervillain.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

That he is. That he is. He saved this small town.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Once Scott realizes it's Venom, he's super psyched. Oh wow, Venom, this is gonna be exciting. And Matt says, what do you think? Sorry, Scott, you're staying in town. There could be trouble. How does Scott not know this is what's going to happen? Like he's super excited. every time he gets excited and then it gets shot down and gets very forlorn. It's like, you know, this is coming.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

He's a boy of eternal hope, man. Matt has not yet broken his spirits. I will point out, so Matt's gonna have Scott staying in a town that's been bought by Miles Mayhem. Does Matt have any idea that this isn't some kind of Potemkin village? It's maybe this is actually Venom's training ground and everyone's a Venom agent

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yep well, Father of the Year nominee right here.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

right here.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

We go into the agent selection scene. Here we go. We've got a classic on our hands. Bruce Sato, he is demonstrating a toy car that is controlled by a flashlight. So wherever the light goes, the car goes. He gets the call, runs out of the room, and then turns on the lights. And the car goes completely haywire crashing into the three execs who are watching the demo.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah, did you notice this was actually kind of a longer scene? This was a straight up mini scene rather than the typical vignette we get.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

love that Bruce purposefully turns on the lights as he's leaving.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

know! A lot of A lot of purpose in this set of vignettes.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, a hundred percent because Dusty Hayes is next and he's using some crazy high tech pizza dough making machine. It looks like it comes out of like the mask computer. And then his watch goes off and he runs out, but not before he quite obviously. Turns the machine into high gear, which sends dough flying everywhere.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

This was an amazing fuck you moment. there's a certain degree of like, yeah, it's not clumsy. He intentionally turned these things on and it's go to hell everybody. Did you notice? I think he was the same dude that nearly died with the stacked plates.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah. So this is a posthumous rag, Slyrax rag doll award, right? That this guy died maybe twice. He might've died with the plates. He might've also died when he fell off the ladder. In a few episodes earlier and now he's back again. So this is the uh, Ragdoll award. Congratulations. Unnamed long suffering employee.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Why does Dusty hate him so much?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Maybe he's tried to make a pizza once and Dusty got really pissed off and is like, no, make pizza. You do everything else. The third member of the team is. Gloria Baker, champion race driver, black belt in Kung Fu, Team Hottie. She is teaching a lesson in a park, and she gets the call, and she runs off. And these guys that she's training, they stay in place as long as they can, like they hold the pose she was showing them, until they all fall down. And my question was, how scared of Gloria are they, that they don't want to move, even after she's clearly run away?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I mean, Let's look at the evidence she has disintegrated rock before their eyes, Is She has tossed a man twice her size with ease. I'm pretty sure that Gloria comes from the Cobra Kai school of thought. We never see her, what she says, but I'm pretty sure it goes something like, Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

no sensei.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Gloria just knows how to run a tight ship.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

She sure does in more ways than one. Well, We cut to Boulder Hill and we see all the vehicles roll out.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

this, so here's an interesting point on this. This is not stock footage because Thunderhawk's not a part of it. Like they actually animate only the vehicles in the mission, which I thought was kind of interesting. It's like they had to actually spend the time with it.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, I noticed that too. I was like, oh cool.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

in general, the animation, especially when it comes to the action stuff is pretty high bar in this episode.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, you know, it does have a bit of an anime feel to it throughout. I noticed so whatever group was animating this episode. I think it's the same one that did video venom. Which also has a similar anime look to it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

the mask team is gathered together and I don't think we have to worry too much about the the time change because it seems like they're all basically in the area. and uh, they're all gathered around the computer in Rhino watching the Hermes jet fly. And Gloria says, I've never seen a Mach five handle like that. Turns out this is a portable jet. That can be taken apart and reassembled anywhere. And that's quite the weapon of mass destruction you've created there, Matt.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

funny, for a man dedicated to peace, his his money ends up going to a lot of weapons of war, doesn't it?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, a hundred percent. Yeah,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

some salt flats, and did you notice that besides that everyone else are drivers, not flyers? And in fact, gator and shark in particular are more geared for water.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

totally.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

So I would have thought you'd want someone like Brad around just to like, you know, have another aid in the air since most of the action is in the air.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, for sure. I mean, Rhino is definitely a surface to air weapon, right? Um, So it's always a good one to, and it's, it's tough, so it's always a good one to have around. It's got the computer lab in the back. Always good to have around. Yeah. Brad for sure would have been an obvious choice. Gloria. I don't think we need to ask why she's around. She,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I mean, We'll never say no for a Gloria mission because, you know, generally speaking, she's, you know, one of the most competent agents that's there. It's just kind of a question of like, you know, would she be better off as a side pilot for, like someone else?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

well, They gotta find this thing, and they don't even know where, where to look. And Bruce says, the haystack is a large place to search for the needle. And no one says anything. no one swings at that. They just all kind of pause and look at him. And wait to see if anyone's gonna say anything and no one does no one swings at the pitch They just let it slide right by

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah, I'll say it's barely a sadduism in time. He's pretty much just reshuffled a really common saying.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

yeah

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

So I mean, if, if Dusty didn't get that one, I'm going to pick on Dusty because he's the obvious one. I think the world is in trouble. You don't get to have Gator anymore, Dusty.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

As if on cue a big purple big rig comes rolling through town the most conspicuous looking big rig I've ever seen next to Rhino Mask spots sly and cliff inside the cabin as they drive by and Matt says let's nail him and so off they, they ride to chase after the Venom big rig truck. Scott convinces T Bob to transform into motor scooter mode and follow after mask, and he kind of plays the technicality that dad said to stay in town. And whatever is about to go down is technically going to happen within the limits of the town.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I will comment on this in a second because like Scott is putting himself in trouble.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

He is, So they arrive at a bunch of warehouses, like the warehouse district outside of town, and Mask is spying on Sly and Cliff, Who are using forklifts to move these big wooden crates around. then we see Scott and T Bob watching from the seat of an unused forklift. Scott decides to hop out and get a better look. T Bob gets really concerned. He starts flailing his arms, which causes the forklift to start moving. Matt sees Scott and T Bob, he yells, Scott, and this alerts Venom to the fact that Mask is there.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah, a few things on this one. One, can we call out the clear OSHA violation that leaving your keys in an unused forklift like entails? that's that's a big problem right there. But, more to the point, this is definitely Scott's fault. And, it doesn't happen as often as we thought it was going to happen, but definitely this time Scott put himself into mortal danger. And you know, T Bob is just an idiot.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

for sure. Matt did leave him on his own. I'm, I am gonna put the blame back on the parent here. He could've put him in Rhino's computer room. Uh, And said, stay here, it's the safest place. You can be because it's like the most heavily armored mask vehicle rather than wander around a town for as long as it takes for me to solve this case,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

That is a really good point.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

but it's okay. I think it's a draw. It's really a wash here. Cliff Tells Sly to keep him busy while I get the truck out of here. So Sly hops into Piranha and starts firing on Mask. uses Lifter. To lift Piranha into the air, dropping it and Sly into a vat of chemicals. So Sly drowns. So let's keep track of this. Sly drowns in the vat of chemicals, because we see him sink in his hand reaching up as he goes under. Then Sly somehow drives Piranha out of the vat, but comes crashing to the ground below. So Sly I'm gonna say dies three times here. He dies when he drowns, he dies from massive chemical burns from whatever he fell into, and then he dies of blunt force trauma when he crashes along with Piranha several stories down to the ground. So I guess we have three Ragdoll nominations here, yeah?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

It's amazing in this scene, like, how many ragdolls you get for poor Sly. I felt bad for him. Can we talk about, for a second, that Bruce, for all intents and purposes, is killing Sly? He doesn't know what's in those chemicals, as far as I know. It could be acid, for all we know. And you're right, he's gonna drown. He's wearing his big leather jacket and like, that stuff, he's probably not gonna float in.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

And he doesn't, he drowns. So Bruce is ready to go. Not the, there will be more ragdoll award nominations for Sly later on in this episode but, despite dying three times, Sly stands up and he fires stiletto at Mask, accidentally hitting an electrical box that causes a saw blade. To go moving towards a bunch of stacked up logs, which will fall on top of Scott and T Bob if allowed to keep going. So, Here are the things that have to go right here in order for Scott to be put in mortal danger. Number one, the destruction of the fuse box needs to cause the machine to turn on and not off. Number two, the saw blade has to be inexplicably mounted above a door and then move laterally towards a stack of logs. Number three, the stack of logs must be propped perpendicular to the ground, which is rarely how you stack a giant chunk of logs. And number four, Scott and T Bob have to be in the path of the falling logs. So that's a lot of things that have to go right in order for this to happen.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

So here's my explanation for it. Remember that game mouse trap

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yes,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

where it was like the Rube Goldberg set up that you had to like collect all the pieces and then trap the mouse at the end. And even if you got it all right, it never worked. Scott and T Bob are the mice in this case. And. And uh, way to go, Sly just finally killed a kid.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

he hasn't killed Scott yet, because we cut to black, so what's gonna happen, PJ?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I don't know, it's so scary. I mean, He's in mortal danger. Again.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

We'll find out, after these messages.

Come on, Jeebop. Mask will be right back. Oh, boy. Back to mask.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

And we're back! When we left you, Scott and T Bob were about to be killed by a Rube Goldberg device of death. But don't worry, Matt flexes his spectrum laser, and cuts all the logs in half. Aura, Lifter, and Backlash would have been much more effective than Spectrum Laser here, considering that Matt had to count on pure luck that the sliced logs would fall to either side of Scott, and that the shards wouldn't also impale him.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah. honestly like, this was a wasted opportunity for any other mask. And actually, I think it would have been cool to see a combination of masks, because We've seen Aura as a shield and so like, shielding Scott and T Bob, and then use Backlash to blast the stuff out of the way, because it's more of a force rather than a laser, but then you could also then use Lifter to clear it at the same time, so that would have actually been, that would have been a very cool scene to have all three of those. Spectrum laser is the worst choice in this situation.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

we're in agreement on that one it was just a flex on Matt's part and he almost lost his son as a result. So I'm actually going to nominate that for another Father of the Year but Matt does run over to Scott and he shows actual concern for his son. So that was nice. Matt scrolls out chasing after the Venom truck and Matt makes good use of Spectrum to pick up Venom's trail through the desert.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah. I mean, Again, just to reiterate, like we're having spectrum be used here again.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Well, It's weird that in a show called Mask, PJ, that you would expect to see All the masks being used in an episode.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

It's my fault. I'm asking for too much.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Uh, As they're rolling through the desert, they see the Hermes jet or the Hermes jet flying above them. Matt transformed Thunderhawk into jet mode to follow. And are we to believe that Thunderhawk can go Mach five?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Okay, man. This would have been a great time to have a line in there, like I can only maintain it for like X number of minutes. And so I did a little research on this one. And so like the fastest jet, the X 15 flew something a little bit north of Mach 6. The SR 71, which is the spy jet, could fly around Mach 3. 4. And the MiG 25 Foxbat could do, I mean that was, and this was a fighter jet from the Soviets, it could do about Mach 3. 2. We're definitely in the Space Magic territory with Thunderhawk going Mach 5.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

That's great. Space magic. That's what they're putting into the masks at mask headquarters. It's not radiation. It's space magic.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Space Magic!

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

There's a lot of confusion here because Bruce can't pick up the jet on radar, even though Matt can see it right in front of him.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Alright, so this is where I want to again, reiterate what I said earlier. This is a crazy bit of technology. Because Venom's able to fool both the jet itself and anyone tracking it. Stop for a second. This alone is worth billions to the military.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah. The only thing better would be cloaking technology, right? So even if you're looking at it, you can't see it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah, but I mean, like, you know, this basically means that you would be invisible to any, or you'd be misled to any surface to air missile, at the very least.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah. So once again, Miles leaving a multi billion dollar Weapon technology on the table there Just to go after a jet Bruce says even the wolf circles back leaving two sets of tracks to confuse its pursuers, which I'm not sure is true But anyways, Dusty responds, huh? I don't see no wolves must be watching a different channel So I think we've nominations here the obvious one for Dusty That's a layup. You know, Bruce says something, Dusty doesn't understand it, so that's easy. The other one, though, is when Dusty says that he don't see no wolves. I Think it's really taking his southern hick persona to another level. So I'm going to go ahead and give a nomination to the writer or writers of the episode.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Well, I mean, That just adds to their Lifetime Achievement Award. That's their permanent record. And so, yeah, just add another notch to that belt. Ha

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

and you said I was standing up for

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

ha Ha! Ah, redeemed, sir, redeemed.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Thank you. Thank you. Matt realizes that Venom must be sending out a false radar signal to confuse the control tower, and they do a cool three way intercut of Matt, Gloria, and Bruce unwrapping Venom's plot, and I'd like to note that Dusty isn't involved. Because I guess he doesn't have anything intelligent to add.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah, I noticed that, too.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Meanwhile, Miles and Vanessa are watching the Hermes jet on a computer screen and he activates the landing field. And this involves a huge swath of the land flipping around to reveal a runway. And then all these like. Holographic buildings and hangers materialize out of thin air. And uh, that is a lot of effort.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

It is a lot of effort and I know I've, I mentioned this earlier, but this felt on the order of the SDF 1 from Robotech transforming,

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Well, it's, it's huge. And I just wonder if the investment and the power consumption is equal to what they're going to be getting in return. They're gonna get one advanced jet that transformation, it's not like it transforms into a robot or anything. It transforms into a smaller package. So it can be, put on a jet and taken somewhere, which, look at aircraft carrier carriers and what they're able to do. I don't think it's that big a technology. I guess it goes Mach five, but nonetheless, the investment in everything miles had to do to get his hands on this prototype jet just does not seem to add up the math ain't mathen as they say, but none of miles Plans rarely add up. Meanwhile, back at the real McKenna airfield, Mr. McKenna himself is standing behind the military brass. Mr. McKenna says, here she comes gentlemen. And the jet lands and suddenly disappears from their radar screens. And the lackey says it disappeared. And Mr. McKenna says, I knew it. I'm gonna be sick.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

a couple things here. Like this is not the way to run a presentation. he's like really relying on hope that things are like come in. And, he's still like hiding the fact that this thing may have been stolen. So like

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

the military.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

military and on top of that, when he's like, I knew it, it's like, why would you say that? Like, why wouldn't someone come up to me? Like, Look, if you knew it, why wouldn't you say something to us?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Also, he could probably play it out for a little bit and say, no it didn't disappear, just seems like it disappeared because the one thing we didn't tell you about is that it's completely undetectable to radar. In fact, if you go out there right now, you won't even see it on the runway. That's how I would do it if I was trying to protect my multi billion dollar investment. But I guess Mr. McKenna rolls a different way. We're back with Venom, the plane lands, the pilot opens the cockpit canopy and kind of looks around and he says, looks like no one's here to meet me. And then hilariously, like a dozen laser cannons pop out of the runway and all point at the pilot.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah. So a couple of things, he didn't experience the psychedelic effects. Cause I'm going to, and I'm going to double down on that guy earlier was on drugs. And if you really look at this, the jet and those guns really look like they're just ripped out of Robotech. I mean, I mean, It's gorgeous. It's a gorgeous jet. And uh, the guns, again if you told me this is from Southern Cross, I wouldn't have blinked an eye.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, this is definitely the um, the Japanese animation house doing this episode. And we've seen at least two other animation houses. I think if you look at the episodes we've watched so far three distinct styles. And I would say the anime style is the strongest of all three.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah, 100%.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Miles, Cliff, and Sly, they've rise to the surface in an elevator. And it's like, this runway has so many hidden trap doors. It's like amazing. Anything can actually physically rest on top of it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Okay. Here's the thing. Say what you will about Venom, but between their earlier stunt in the desert where they stole that tanker from the military, their heist of the Statue of Liberty, and this, these guys know structural engineering.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

They sure do. miles says well, it appears 1 billion has been airmailed right into my hands off that offhand PJ. What was the cost of like the F 35 program?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Oh, don't use the F 35.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Okay. Let's go back to the eighties and talk about,

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

go like the F 22 development costs because that's more in line. the program cost was 67 billion. So that means that basically each jet was about 350 million per aircraft. but figure, I mean, actually like, the development costs probably would be a couple billion dollars for this guy,

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

point being once again, I think miles. Is undercutting it by several orders of magnitude here. well, Matt spots the fake airbase from above. And meanwhile, we're back inside that airbase and a bunch of random venom henchmen are transforming the Hermes jet and getting it ready for transport. And they've got the pilots held prisoner. And Vanessa uses whip on one of them, knocking him out. And she is really the most evil venom character. Like we've talked about her being a boar dilettante, but I'm starting to think that she's a psychopath as well. And Miles, by the way, gets a great laugh out of it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I Love what she says. She's like, don't try anything smart, or I'll give you a taste of this. And then she says, whip on. And she fucks that guy up. He is on his ass. And it's like, what would have been really like if you was trying to hurt him? So you're right. She's kind of a psychopath.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

she's so much of a psychopath, I'm surprised she's not part of Mask. Hehehehehehehehe matt, flying overhead says when Venom moves in, real estate goes down.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Alright, I want to, I want to counter this. Strictly speaking, this is not true. Because Venom saved this town from economic ruin? And what Mask is about to do likely destroys that town again.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

That's so true.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

There's been one economic font, which has been Venom, supplying money to this town, and Mask is cutting that off.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

That's one thing we don't follow up on. Is what happens to the town after this mission. Matt drives through a few months later with a self satisfied look on his face as he sees all the storefront shuttered and now the mom and the little girl, like begging for change on the side of the road uh, Matt well, we're finally here. The final mask venom battle of the episode. And what's cool is I actually got a four on four battle. We've got Thunderhawk shark, Rhino, and Gator versus switchblade, Manta, Piranha, and Jack hammer. And I'm not sure we've had anything this. Big before because Manta isn't traditionally up to this point, hasn't necessarily been in all the battles before. So this might be our, our, our biggest one before, but we got laser rays, everywhere, missiles being fired. one of them hits Piranha and sends Sly flying into the air, and he lands on a cactus. So we got a ragdoll award again, for sure.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah. So generally speaking, this is a very cool battle. And you're right. This is the biggest battle for vehicles we've ever seen. Definitely had more agents in the past, like Rotex, Salt and Liberty, but we've never had this many vehicles on vehicles. And again, like this animation house is doing some awesome stuff. Like you get this like cool rack focus when Miles is about to fire his missile. Venom vehicles jump out of the hangar. This is legit Threats where all these laser things are like firing at Matt through the air, and Gloria basically, you're right, she does not do very much this episode, but her stunt skills as a driver are on full display, because she drives through this, the field of all the lasers firing at her, and she basically dodges

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

It's very cool. Hey, look, the theme song promises Come see the laser rays and they delivered in spades this

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yes, they did. They did. There's lots of laser rays. There is this one cool shot where like when Gloria goes into the base where you see these henchmen at either side of the door, like about to try and, I don't know, stop her. And she just blows through them. And the doors land, these are metal doors that land on these guys.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

well done, Gloria. You increased the body count of this episode. Speaking of, as you point out, Gloria, she rides into the hangar and she finds the Hermes jet already transformed and on the plane. Plus she sees the pilots held captive. But back on the surface, Bruce uses Rhino to cause a giant boulder to fall on top of Jackhammer. So that boulder is so big that it crushes Jackhammer, like flattens Jackhammer. So Cliff is definitely dead uh, after this. And so we have yet another Ragdoll nominee in this episode.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

So many ragdolls. Can we again, take a moment that Bruce has successfully killed not one, but two Venom agents this episode.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

and Gloria said I'll, I'll see you, and she kills two henchmen.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Ragdoll is all over the place this time.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Matt, by the way. The way he has this great maneuver where he's being followed by a missile from switchblade and he heads like down into a canyon and then flies straight up the canyon wall flips upside down and lands a shot on switchblade. This battle, as you pointed out, is what we come to mask for. This may be. The best battle we've seen the whole series so far.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I agree. Again, the animation's top notch, the maneuvers are really cool. It's almost a Cool stuff from Thunderhawk. We get to see cool stuff from Switchblade. We get to see cool stuff from Gloria driving. We even get to see cool stuff from Rhino destroying Not much from Gator or Manta. Those are kind of unfortunately like, whatever battles happening is happening off screen and It's too bad because, we really don't see enough of Vanessa doing cool vehicle stuff.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Agreed. well, Switchblade crash lands miles says, if I can't have the jet, no one will. So miles triggers a bomb with a 60 second timer. Now all of mask is inside the underground base and Bruce is working on diffusing the bomb, but he needs a Bobby pin. And so Gloria takes off her helmet. And gives him one. one Thing I want to point out is that the timer hits zero before Bruce puts the Bobby pin in to do whatever it is he's going to do, like it clearly hits zero before he even puts it in. So maybe if they just didn't do anything, the bomb wouldn't have gone off. Maybe Cliff put it together and it, it wasn't going to go off anyways, but there you have it. Matt says, Gloria, we owe you our lives. And Gloria says, and you owe me a trip to the beauty shop and everyone busts out laughing. It's not really that funny guys.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

No,

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

I Do want to nominate this for the misogyny subcategory, prior to our discussion, I really felt that this was Gloria's only use in the entire episode is to give Bruce a bobby pin. On second thought, she has some pretty awesome driving. She does alert people to the fact that there's a bomb there, but that is kind of all she does in the episode. So I'm on the fence. I don't know what you think.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

This is like the chronic problem is like we have seen her badassery before and she's chronically underutilized and You know, it really speaks to this constipated issue that the execs had in the 80s with this belief that they couldn't have women do badass shit. And because it's like, Oh, it has to appeal to the boys. And it's kind of like, you know what, it would have been awesome to have Gloria do more awesome stuff. I mean, She saves the day in Assault on Liberty with what she did with Aura she is immensely capable, but again, they just, they give her the short trip so often and I, let's be frank, like they never produced shark as a toy. And this is a huge slap in the face, and it is the most desired toy of any mask fan that's out there. I think the point stands, frankly, that, even though she did more than just give over the bobby pin I think her, like so many other agents, we'll comment on this on Hondo all the time, critically underused and criminally underused to be frank. So I think your point stands. So let's nominate the writers for misogyny subcategory here.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Thank you, sir. Okay, nomination accepted Well, we now cut to you know the next day. Everything's fine The Hermes jet is flying overhead for the army brass mask and a bunch of onlookers just random folks who have somehow gotten on to a Military base and Bruce says Matt looks like your investment is going to pay off Rad. Did he really say rad?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

So it actually was, spoken by Dusty and what he was saying was right. Okay. But he said it was such a drawl that it sounded like rad. And it's so hard to see Dusty talking because it's such a quick shot.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Well, that's What I get for only watching the episode once the uh, the same girl from earlier is there and she sees t bob and chases after him and then t bob races off and matt says looks like t bob just broke mach 6 And everybody laughs

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I'm very glad they paid off that checker ops gun because otherwise I would have been very upset. Follow up question. What's going to happen to the town now that Venom isn't writing any more checks? And, given the number of henchmen we saw, and there's probably more off screen, we now know that Miles was placing big orders in order to feed them. That actually is the justification.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah, I mean, as I pointed out earlier, I think everyone should start putting their property up for sale and getting out of there as quickly as possible, unless like this military base is not, if they're like, great, you've got the deal and they're going to start churning out these these Hermes jets and then everyone's going to be working at the skunk works. But I don't know if the town's gonna survive. Like I said, we'll see what happens in a few months when Matt rolls through there. We cut to the more you know. Scott and T Bob are carrying firewood from the shed. T Bob says to Scott, Is that all you're gonna carry? And Scott says, Dad said never to carry more than you can safely handle. T Bob thinks he can save a lot of trips, but then he falls down and a log falls on his head. And this is barely a safety message. It's the thinnest of messages we've ever seen.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I'll definitely say it's like, maybe it's not the worst we've ever seen, but it's definitely the least memorable. Cause it's like, all right, Don't carry a lot of stuff.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Right. Right, don't carry a lot of things. Which is what I try to tell my mom all the time. She still made me carry things.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Wait, your mom's Matt Tracker?

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Let's check in with our awards. Shall we? How about the Buddy Hawks award? What are you feeling?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Well, I mean, I think Dusty Hayes definitely wins it as a character for not, I mean, it's a fairly standard, I don't understand the sadduism. But the writer is basically got a few notches for uh, their continuous use of the Southern drawl as well as the misogyny. I that's, that's where I'm placing them.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah. I like at the day. I'm going to go with the writers for their characterization of Dusty throughout the episode I ain't see no I don't see no wolves the fact that he's nothing intelligent to add when they're Breaking down how venom is jamming radar. I just think they exaggerated his southern hickness in this episode And so I'm gonna award the Buddy Hawks award to the writers for that one. So, Congrats, writers! Another for your shelf. The Slyrax Ragdoll award. We've got a lot to choose from.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Oh my God, man, we've got, I don't know, at least four instances maybe there's, he's going into four or five. I mean, He goes into the drink and drowns. He gets burned by acid. He comes out of the drink and falls down. He goes, gets kicked off his bike and goes against the cactus.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

his, he gets

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

yes. Gets blown up.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

and flies, out High into the air.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yes. So there's, I mean, Sly, really owns it this episode. It's maybe worthwhile to call out the other nominees, which is Cliff's dead. Like that boulder, there's zero question that boulder killed him. And then we can just pour one out for the two henchmen that got, the steel doors blast onto them. But

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Yeah. I think Sly Rax runs away with this one.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

I think you're right. It's just, there's too many to go with.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

RIP Sly. We'll see you next episode. Uh, Roy Batty moment?

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

T Bob and little girl. he didn't go full Roy Batty, but he wanted to.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

He wanted to and he definitely is traumatized because at the end he runs away from the little girl which sets up the, the comic moment at the end. That trauma suppressed over time will eventually explode into his real Roy Batty moment.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

It's coming.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

and now let's take a look at our father of the year.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Well, There's something interesting here. Like, I go back and forth on this one, but there's one, it's a little bit off screen. But definitely implied. It's like bringing your kid to a town that has a suspected heist going on, it's not a great look.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

No.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

The only explanation I had is that maybe it was Brad Turner's turn to be a babysitter, and he was stoned the fuck out of his mind. So this was actually the best choice available. In which case I don't know, just leaving your kid alone at the town.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

I mean, I'm going to stay within canon of the show and I'm going to say, hey, leaving your child alone in a town that is probably being supported by venom. That is most certainly actually being supported by venom. With. No friends, no one he knows, and basically no instructions of what to do uh, would be your father. So he abandons Scott, is what he does.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Good

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

quite literally

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

ha ha

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

um, with nowhere to go, nothing to eat, nowhere to sleep, or anything like that, so. for me, that's the father of the year award for the episode. So congrats, Matt. That is it for episode 23. Episode 24 is called counter clockwise caper. Venom conducts heists of Las Vegas casinos. That's all that's written for it.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Yeah I am amazingly excited for this next episode, because I have watched ahead. And we're gonna have a lot of talking points on who Matt is going to Las Vegas with. And I also want to dive into a dissection into the more you know of the next episode of what do we learn in that more you know. it's not about the lesson of the more you know.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Okay. I am very much looking forward to it. PJ, special thanks to you for coming to us from the Mobile Armored Podcast Studio. I want to thank the listeners as always for coming on the journey with us. But this podcast must transform and head back to HQ. I'm Adam Moore.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

And I am PJ McNerney.

squadcaster-a671_1_09-17-2024_090453:

Bye bye.

pj_1_09-17-2024_100453:

Bye bye.

The mobile armored podcast show is written, produced and edited. Bye Adam Moore. And PJ McNerney.